Thank you! I loved this. My great great grand father lance Corporeal sergeant Wilson Rogers fought for the 2nd texas infantry. Galveston regiment. Taken prisoner by the yanks, he and a few others of the youngest prisoners, were pitied by General Sherman who walked through their prison. He released them, and ordered them to go back home and forget about this here war. Wilson went back to fighting till the war ended.
Thank you for presenting another view of the war and the suffering of its victims. I am a big fan of Patrick Cleburne. His poignant words were truly prophetic.
Cleburne was telling the south to hurry, and start lying about the war. He knew what they were fighting for (slavery), and that history would not be kind. The North had no need to embellish. The south said they were fighting to keep slavery intact. The end. Why so many extra words to cloud the issue?
Many families lost the husband,sons,brothers and uncles.They never returned,burried in shallow graves and scattered everywhere.When money was needed to build a monument they gave what they could as this was the only way to remember the lost men.
This was an aspect of the Civil War that was never mentioned in many of the history books . Has a solid ring of truth .Enlightening....engaging..well done...thank you very very much
Those who fled to Texas suffered from brutal Indian depredations. "A Fate Worse than Death," is an encyclopedia of cases of White captives, much of which occurs in Texas, and, "The Settlers' War" is a history of the settlers' fight against Indian raiders, during the Civil War, when neither the USA nor CSA offered any help, both by Gregory Michno are worth reading. Some of the Southerners brought a slave or two with them. In one case, a female slave defended white women and children with a shotgun when Commanches raided their homestead. They dealt with her brutally as they did with any who resisted (even then, it was often brutal beyond imagination). The famous John Ford film, "The Searchers," starring John Wayne is a combination of several Texas Captive narratives, and although it takes place post-CW, it is a good representation of the vulnerability of settlers in Texas dealt with for decades.
When disaster happens, being in a rural setting then and now is the best place to be. The farm I grew up on was bought by 3 brothers, one of whom was my gggrandfather, after returning from the Civil War, dirt poor but tough. Lots of changes but still intact.
This episode is particularly personal. My southern ancestors were somewhat prosperous. But their cotton warehouses and tannery were burned. This forced them into dirt farming and penury. Thank you, Sir, for this insight into the depths of Southern experience.
Not until I read Nathan Bedford Forrest’s A letter to my son, did I develop an interest and greater understanding of this period of time. And yes, reading Gone with the Wind was the beginning of my education because Margaret Mitchell had the benefit of interviewing civil war veterans and civilians. She used their knowledge to describe the local conditions of soldiers and their families in her book. Her biography is fascinating and I recommend reading it.
He was one of the few sane Southerners of the period who didn’t allow himself to get his emotions swept up into fantasy. His suggestion that the South conscript all eligible slaves and free their families was common sense and would’ve given the South hundreds of thousands of fresh troops motivated by their newfound manumission. The idiots in Richmond simply buried the proposal without any consideration. SMH
@@jeremychilders5369 You know for a little perspective why would black people fight against their own interest? One of the more obvious issues is why wouldn't they in mid battle turn on their confederate commanders? Their only stake in this war was the confederates losing.
@@samkohen4589 that’s hard to fathom seeing as Lee wasn’t smart enough to agree to Grant’s edict that black Union troops be traded for white Confederate troops. Lee would only respect the humanity of white Union troops. Moreover, during Grant’s incursions into Yankee territory, his men took ALL African Americans they came across and sent them South to be put in Slavery regardless if they’d been born free people or not. They took at least 500 such people At Gettysburg alone and sent them into slavery.
I had no idea that the confederate cause was so complicated. My own great great grandfather was with the 3rd Alabama cavalry and was captured at Shelbyville Tennessee. He was just a poor dirt farmer.
Yeah its super complicated it more than just one thing an than what the government is doing it for is different for what the average Southerner is fighting for an than u had more freed states than slave states because when ppl from the south who owned slaves started moving West an the abolitionist like John Brown not emancipationist someone who wants to vote it over time but abolitionist were killing southerners an starting uprising intentionally so it probably felt like tyranny. Like what people think the south should just take it
@@shawnbergmann2638You’re a traitor to King George the 3rd, and Great Britain be glad the British Empire was in debt from protecting you from the French and then you turn your back on the Army that had protected you. Be glad Napoleon existed or else in 1812 you would have been taken back over, and it’s the truth. The Sun never sets on the British empire, because not even God can trust the Englishmen in the Dark.
@@shawnbergmann2638 oh look it's internet thug. The internet made you b****** comfortable with talking s*** without you having to worry about someone punching you in your f****** mouth.
The end of the civil also started the country’s first opioid epidemic…Wounded soldiers had become addicted to the opiates that they were treated with and continued afterwards to get the drugs anyway they could…The hypodermic needle had been improved during the war so receiving the drugs was easier…Causing the same problems we have today with opioid addiction and added more misery to the country after the war…Veterans coming home addicted to drugs is nothing new.
More like an evil man’s war. The prosperity of the south, from the root, was based on criminality. I know drug dealers that remember the good ole days.
The "Lost Cause" of the South was about the unfair, uneven tariffs, which had nearly caused secession in 1928 but was delayed by the Great Compromise. The Northern Industrialists became greedy and dependent upon the tariffs on Southern productions. Lincoln and the Republican Party were financed by the Northern Industrialists and had no constituency in the South, whereas the Democratic Party had them on both sides of the Mason/Dixon Line and the Democrats were divided in both the North and South. When Lincon was elected and the hated Morrill Tariff passed as well, the first three states seceded. After his inauguration, Lincoln offered those states a deal; they could keep their slaves if they returned to the Union and paid the tariff. They refused. Lincoln then sent the flotilla to Fort Sumter, which was by then in CSA waters (technically), and landed troops in Florida. This resulted in the remaining states' secession. The slave issue was made front and center because any new state could vote to be slave or free. This was a major issue in the 18050s when Kansas' statehood was inevitable. If Kansas was a slave state, the tariffs would be voted down in Congress. So radicals began arriving in Kansas to vote. This threatened border areas of Missouri, which was a slave state with mixed support. The radical New England preacher Lyman Beecerh sent his son, to Kansas and in fiery sermons, urged New England's young men to "Go to Kansas and kill Southerners." The Northern Industrialists also financed John Brown, right up to the raid at Harper's Ferry. The particular finances went to Canada for a while after it failed until things cooled off. Simultaneously, Karl Marx's pro-revolutionary, pro-workers articles were being printed in Horace Greeley's New York Times. Marx wanted a world workers revolution and he felt that the South was the perfect place to focus upon because of slavery, which was first on his list. He expected to spread the worker's revolt once the slaves were freed and armed. He had useful allies; the Republican Party, and the Abolitionists, who were represented well by the Beecher family. Harriet Beecher-Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a vivid melodrama that she made up out of thin air. She had never been to the South, met a slave, or even met a runaway slave. She depended upon "visions" which was considered valid in those days of rampant propheting and the prolific rise of new religious sects. In 1848, after the failed revolution in Germany, many Germans fled to the U.S. By 1850, the Communist Club of NYC had been established. Lincoln found them useful. Lincoln's initial call for volunteers saw a large number of Germans join. Lincoln's officer core was full of recently arrived Germans and infantry. Lincoln had a few in his administration. (See - "Lincoln's Marxists," by Benson and Kennedy). When Lincoln published his Emancipation Proclamation, he had 460,000 slaves under his jurisdiction in border states in territories or in conquered states like Louisiana and Florida. He did not free one slave. As the war was coming to a close, Lincoln sought to find solutions for the newly freed slaves. He looked at a scheme for repatriating them to Africa, but the funding was simply not available. He offered them to several South American countries, who all declined the gift. He finally reconciled himself to the idea of a new meaning of freedom and equality inside America. Several proposals were made including the idea of forming an exclusively black state out of parts of former Confederate states that would be supported by the remaining white states (see - "Reconstruction" by Eric Foner). This was quickly rejected. If Lincoln had not been assassinated, the horrid failure of Reconstruction might have seen a better outcome. But Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson kept the Black Codes in place because they did not want the North to be inundated by freedmen, but wished to contain the "problem" in the South, allowing western migration as a pressure release. All of this history and more is knowable and serves as mitigating history to the usual line given regarding the cause and the alleged righteousness of the Union, and Lincoln himself during the war. Lincoln also suspended Habeas Corpus. He shut down newspapers and jailed "Copperheads" who were the peaceniks of the war who favored peace and a compromise over slavery, timing it out of existence rather than using war to do it. And there were draft riots, famously, in New York, where mainly newly arriving Irsih found not freedom but servitude in the Union Army actually forced to fight to liberate others!
lol k. Nice job writing an essay when the guys that seceded disagree with you. If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule - it is a question of political and social existence. - Alfred P. Aldrich Judge and Legislator from South Carolina The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right... - Laurence Massillon Keitt, Congressman SC, Speech to the House (January 1860).
Your facts are hard to dispute, but a true liberal will parrot old arguments until at least one or two of the unread will descend back into the east mental submission of common sheep. The conquering side of any conflict always writes (and rewrites) the historical narrative.
No, the cause of the American Civil War was the question of slavery. The South was happy to stay in the 'Union' as long as the peculiar and insidious institution of slavery wasn't touched. The fear of an assault on slavery caused secession.
Here’s a fun fact I learned….. the union army gathered immigrants as they got off the boats in new York. The immigrants were told if they served one year in the union army, they could become citizens.. but the immigrants were forced. They were not given an option.. Yes, this was the union Army, the north. That’s how the north had so many soldiers.
Thank you for presenting an honest perspective. To the victors goes the writing of history. So much today is focused on slavery. With such a small number of slave owners, how were so many inspired to go fight? The truth is , if you could wake up the dead soldiers who fought and died, they would laugh at the idea that the war was over slavery. I believe this to be true on both sides. I especially liked the way you bring it back to today. Southerners still view Northerners as rude and self serving. I honestly believe that if left alone, slavery would have died a natural death with the coming of the industrial revolution. We would have a more harmonious country today. The truth is, no one wants to be bullied into submission. Why is it a surprise that there is still anger today. If the war was fought over slavery, why did the Emancipation Proclamation not take place until 3 years into a 4 year war? Thank you, Sir for your words of honesty. Keep digging into history with a open mind. Your vids are great. Keep up the good work!
It was a 1% war. The same 1% who owned slaves. The same 1% who seceded from the union. The soldiers didn't fight for slavery for sure. They were sold patriotism through "states right." The part about what states right's was conveniently left out. And the northern soldiers didn't fight to free the slaves. They fought to restore the union. The underbelly of the war was slavery. They had to work around that to get anyone to fight.
My great great grandfather enlisted with the Union with his friend at the age of 40! His friend was listed as missing. He survived, but lost his hearing with the artillery. He died several years after the war, struck by a train whose whistle he didn’t hear. Left his wife with 4 kids.
I learned so much from this! I grew up in NC and hadn't even heard about most of this. I immediately subscribed and will go on a binge of your previous work! 😊 Keep them coming!😊
Scumbags abound everywhere in America, and always have. At the end of the Civil War my great great grandfather was hung by southern scalawags in Obion County, Tennessee because they were certain that as a county official, he knew where the county’s gold reserves were hidden. The supposedly hidden gold had been given in the Confederate cause years earlier. My great great grandmother threatened to cut out the heart of the wife of one of the ringleaders, neighbors she knew, if they didn’t cut down her husband, who was by now dangling by the neck. They did cut him down in time to save his life, but the hanging caused him to have a stroke, which ruined his life and shortened it by years.
You see how this history of your family is handed down. I wonder why so many hate it when black people tell the history that's been handed down in their families.
That last statement that the outcome of the war would be written by the north was true for many decades. There's a lot about the south mentioned in this series that is true. It was a rich man's and politicians war. Much desertion. "The republic of Jones" isn't talked about much. It was a lost cause, and many southerners knew it.
That's how so many American wars are fought. Started by the rich, fought by the poor while the rich kids stay home with fake paid for medical diagnosis like scoliosis or bone spurs.
@@unc1589lol. You're a tear, aren't you? Your old testament god invented slavery. His "good b book' is full of instruction on taking, making slaves & using them. 🤡
Thank you for an enormous amount of research and an objective analysis. Very rare to hear the truth without overlays of 21st century prejudice. Bravo ❤
I firmly believe that there was Black men who served in battle roles in the Civil War I’m not saying that they were very common but they did exist I do personally know of one from my area, he was rewarded with a very large tract of land here and was the largest land owner in this county until about 1900
Dude is now pushing for lost cause propaganda. If you’re under the age of 55 it’s frankly embarrassing. If you’re older than that it’s okay because you’ve been propagandized by your education system
Hello, I wish to make some points. First, “…the very makeup of the Confederate government created turmoil most of the 28 senators and 122 representatives of the first Confederate Congress came from the minority the wealthy professional and planter class…” I’m not sure where you are getting that information. My books like the Confederate Nation by Emory M. Thomas, the Confederate Congress by Wilfred Buck Yearns, the Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics by George C. Rable, The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865 by Kenneth C. Martis and other books I think show that the planters class had a major representation in the first and second congresses but was not at any point a “super-majority” in those congresses. Indeed even in the Provisional Congress, the planters class had a major representation, but not a supermajority. According to Willfred Yearns’ Confederate Congress, “Forty-two were licensed lawyers…Seventeen planters and two editors” in the Provisional Congress. He goes on to point out that there was a collage math professor (William P. Miles), a doctor (Thomas Fearn), a Baptist preacher (James B. Owen), a lumberman (Jackson Morton) former secretary of war (Charles M. Conrad) and even a former president (John Taylor) in the Provisional Congress. From what I read, Yes the planters class had a major representation, but not a supermajority in those congresses and the Confederate Congresses was much more divisive in class and experience than what is popularly believe. Second, on your point of political parties and the Pro- Jeff vs. Anti-Jeff camps in the Confederate Government. With the political parties topic, the Confederate political leaders believe sincerely that the spoil system and a political party system help contribute to political corruption/ineffective, just like the Founding Fathers and others in the early republic period before 1800 believed in. They were able to have some success in curbing political corruption coming from those areas. They reformed the patronage system through their Constitution and other later legislation or acts. Especially after the November 1861 Confederate elections, they developed or fully developing an anti-political party attitude in their political system. Combating political corruption is a key element/attitude in the American political system and experience, developed to be so by the Founding Fathers. That why, although controversial in writing this, I think this one of a number of reasons show that the Confederate political experience was at least in part an American political experience. Also, I wish to make note your seemingly inclinations that there were great fights and violent threats in the halls of the Confederate Congress. According to Willfred Yearns’ Confederate Congress, there were no great fights and violent threats in the halls of the Confederate Congress. For example in the Confederate Senate, the only one Senate altercation happen that was the one between William Yancey of Alabama and Benjamin Hill of Georgia. Hill got angry at Yancey and accused him of disrupting the Confederacy. When Yancy ignored Hill’s accusing comment, Hill picked up a chair and rushed at Yancey. Hill was stopped and disarmed. There were the common political shouting matches, but no common great fights and violent threats in the halls of the Confederate Congress. In an interesting fact, all of Congress, together with other officials of the city of Richmond, organized themselves into a volunteer company captained by William E. Simms of Kentucky in May of 1863. Would a government body that had great fights and violent threats in the halls of their government be able to do that? In one of the general themes in George C. Rable’ The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, he pointed out that the Confederate political spectrum can be divided between “nationalists” and “libertarians” The “nationalists” like Jefferson Davis pushed for more centralized federal power not seemingly to destroy their principle of state sovereignty, although the “libertarians” accused them of that, but to protect this principle. Basically, these more centralized federal power measures in their mind were temporary and necessity to win the war and by winning the war, we will protect their principle of state sovereignty. The “libertarians” like Alexander Stephens believed generally that these more centralized federal power measures in their mind were not temporary and necessity to win the war and threatened their principle of state sovereignty. However, both camps commonly and sincerely believe and seek to protect the ideas of Southern republicanism that included in their minds the true values of federalism, state sovereign, free trade, anti-political party development, white liberty, and the protection of their slave system in its moral, economic and more importantly political aspects. These camps just sometimes disagree with the means of protecting these ideas. These camps are not real political parties. While there was some party spirit, factiousness, and similar practices in the Confederate political system, the Confederate politicians, in both federal and state governments, maintained a strong sense of an antiparty creed. No formal or real political parties formed, no political party conventions, no political party election canvassing, no political parties’ power on ballot process and etc in the Confederate South. Again, this comes from generally the Founding Fathers and others in the early republic period that warn about the problems of the spoil system and a political party system to which Confederate leadership try to bring back. As noted in the end of George C. Rable’s The Confederate Republic: Revolution Against Politics, “Yet like the Confederate government and like the Rebel armies, the political revolution had its moments of triumph. Although signs of party spirit sometimes cropped up along with many of the same political practices that had supposedly destroyed the old Union, both nationalists and libertarians had refused to form political parties and for all their factiousness had been faithful to their antiparty creed. Although historians have deplored the absence of a party system in the Southern nation, many Confederates would have considered this a welcome sign of political health and perhaps a considerable accomplishment at the end of a bloody and unsuccessful war of national independence.” There are some points in your video I agree with. For example, the Confederate industry was nearly self-sustainability in terms of arms. According to Emory M. Thomas' The Confederate Nation, by the end of the war "The Confederates sustained themselves industrially better than they did agriculturally and far better than they had any reason to expect in 1861. Symbolically, in April 1865, when Lee's tired army marched and fought its way to Appomattox, the men exhausted their supply of food before they ran out of ammunition. In fact when Lee surrendered, the remnant Army of Northern Virigina had a sufficient average of seventy-five rounds of ammunition per man and adequate artillery shells...The Confederacy's military-industrial revolution was briefly successful and preeminently Southern." However, there are other additional points of disagreement. Again for example, Jefferson Davis’s suspension of Habeas Corpus did aroused outcry and if I was Confederate Congressman, I would disagreed with Jefferson Davis on this point. However, it is important to note that Jefferson Davis’s suspension of Habeas Corpus was limited and narrow throughout the war. According to the Confederate Congress by Wilfred Buck Yearns, “Unlike Lincoln, Davis applied the law sparingly, singling out the danger spots and leaving the rest of the country unmolested. Even then he attempted to avoid shocking people, and often the civil courts continued limited operations. Nevertheless suspension aroused much hostility.” I am sorry for the long comment for this very interesting subject to me. If you have some good sources on this subject to share, I will be glad to see and read them. Some of my sources are in the comments.
My father was from Alabama. Every summer we would visit and the ENDLESS rethrashing of the Civil War would start. When I had so much I couldn't stand any more, I would simply say "well how smart was it to make Ju-Dah Benjamin your CFO?......" Of course that was the TOTAL END of the conversation......
Thank you for this look at the War from the people’s point of view rather than politicians. I’ve always believed the south was never united in the idea of the Confederacy along with conscription in which they had no choice…which was also hated in the north as you point out. A reason for the large amount of those soldiers who would desert their armies-both north and south.
So half the population of the south was enslaved … people who owned slaves owned, on avg only 5? Can you imagine having 5 slaves living at your residence doing everything for you while being treated less than human? Horrible
Interesting. You covered a broad range of issues, grievances, and undesirable situations from ramifications created by the war. If anybody in the South benefited, I'd like to know who. Everybody had something to complain about.
Lincoln trying to preserve the Union should have read his History about the 13 colonies Seeking independance from Britain as the south wanted the Same from.the.union!
You’ve never heard of the supremacy clause? Also name me one country in world history that voluntarily let half the country leave and start their own country? Stop being stupid and read a book
Your opening sentences imply that somehow the Southern people were misled by misguided politicians. Secession was decided by POPULAR VOTE in every state.
They were misled. It was a war started by the rich to protect their right to own slaves and they had to convince the poor non-slave owners to fight it for them while they passed laws that gave them the ability to sit it out. Win or lose poor Southerners were going to remain poor.
@@johnpenn8444 Because your point on "the popular vote" doesn't matter. It has no bearing whatsoever on whether some voters were misled or not. You seem to forget that the same voting examples include those who did not vote with the majority. The "popular" vote includes both ayes and nays. It simply means the total vote of ALL of a regions electorate (the population), as opposed to the limited (chosen) electorate of the Electoral College.
@@jamesmccrea4871 another dodge with some kind of irrelevant point about total votes. The eligible voters of the south voted to secede from the Union in order to establish an independent nation. Full stop. No argument. Anything else is simply wrong. It was not a unanimous decision made by politicians in state capitols. Maybe I can introduce you to some documentation from the extensive research I’ve done into the Confederate heritage of my county in NC, you know, all of the diaries, letters, journals etc of the NON SLAVE OWNING, NON LAND HOLDING men who VOTED TO SECEDE, and went to war WILLINGLY? Quit parroting your Howard Zinn revisionist crap on me buddy, it won’t work.
I did a research pàper on public education in Texas. There were some schools in the state prior to the Civil War. Post war there wouldn't be public schools in Texas until the 20th century.
"When we think of the Confederacy, the big names that automatically come to mind are the three legends carved into the side of Georgia’s Stone Mountain: President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson. Significant figures for sure, but in the grander power-scheme of things, these men, including President Davis himself, were outranked by Judah P. Benjamin. The fact that Benjamin’s name is so relatively unknown is, ironically, testament to the awesome “behind-the-scenes” power that he wielded. Unfortunately for the South (and the North), Benjamin’s influence served neither of the Americas. His loyalties were elsewhere - in Rothschild’s London!" - Michael Gaddy
@donlittle732, this southerner is quite fond of Sherman, but since you’re tossing out impossibilities, Sherman was lucky Nathan Bedford Forrest didn’t have a command in Georgia with better provisions.
The vast majority of southern soldiers were relatively poor working class, that weirdly were fighting to allow rich people to use slaves on zero wages, could you imagine today a business arguing that they wanted to employee workers on zero wages.
ONLY 25% owned slaves!?! But only that 25% formed the government or had most of the wealth. Pathetic downplaying the exploitation (and misery) of slavery.
Just want to make a reply to the comment about Judah Benjamin. How would a Jewish community or country respond to giving a Protestant power or control?
If there are people that are still raw over the war they need to let it go. Hate that it came down to Civil War and our great nation was ripped apart, but people have to move on. Never forget it, but no reason to continue being bitter over it.
Thank you! I loved this. My great great grand father lance Corporeal sergeant Wilson Rogers fought for the 2nd texas infantry. Galveston regiment. Taken prisoner by the yanks, he and a few others of the youngest prisoners, were pitied by General Sherman who walked through their prison. He released them, and ordered them to go back home and forget about this here war. Wilson went back to fighting till the war ended.
Thank you for presenting another view of the war and the suffering of its victims.
I am a big fan of Patrick Cleburne. His poignant words were truly prophetic.
Cleburne was telling the south to hurry, and start lying about the war. He knew what they were fighting for (slavery), and that history would not be kind. The North had no need to embellish. The south said they were fighting to keep slavery intact. The end. Why so many extra words to cloud the issue?
Many families lost the husband,sons,brothers and uncles.They never returned,burried in shallow graves and scattered everywhere.When money was needed to build a monument they gave what they could as this was the only way to remember the lost men.
Thanks!
This was an aspect of the Civil War that was never mentioned in many of the history books . Has a solid ring of truth .Enlightening....engaging..well done...thank you very very much
Those who fled to Texas suffered from brutal Indian depredations. "A Fate Worse than Death," is an encyclopedia of cases of White captives, much of which occurs in Texas, and, "The Settlers' War" is a history of the settlers' fight against Indian raiders, during the Civil War, when neither the USA nor CSA offered any help, both by Gregory Michno are worth reading. Some of the Southerners brought a slave or two with them. In one case, a female slave defended white women and children with a shotgun when Commanches raided their homestead. They dealt with her brutally as they did with any who resisted (even then, it was often brutal beyond imagination). The famous John Ford film, "The Searchers," starring John Wayne is a combination of several Texas Captive narratives, and although it takes place post-CW, it is a good representation of the vulnerability of settlers in Texas dealt with for decades.
Great episode!! I learned a bunch,please keep it up.
When disaster happens, being in a rural setting then and now is the best place to be. The farm I grew up on was bought by 3 brothers, one of whom was my gggrandfather, after returning from the Civil War, dirt poor but tough. Lots of changes but still intact.
If it wasn’t for that dang war they may have gotten rich from all that slave labor.
@unc1589 Very few were slave owners, mostly poor white farmers.
Thank you all, as always, for your thoughtful presentations.
This episode is particularly personal. My southern ancestors were somewhat prosperous. But their cotton warehouses and tannery were burned. This forced them into dirt farming and penury. Thank you, Sir, for this insight into the depths of Southern experience.
Who worked the warehouse n tannery ?
@@muthaship2992Who gives a fuck?
Amazing how we normalize.
What an insane comment.
thanks for your personal family history. i love to hear true personal history.
Incredibly informative video. Well done.
Finally. A voice that makes sense.
Not until I read Nathan Bedford Forrest’s A letter to my son, did I develop an interest and greater understanding of this period of time. And yes, reading Gone with the Wind was the beginning of my education because Margaret Mitchell had the benefit of interviewing civil war veterans and civilians. She used their knowledge to describe the local conditions of soldiers and their families in her book. Her biography is fascinating and I recommend reading it.
How we normalize inhumanity.
Gone with the wind felt like history to me. Thanks for sharing that.
@@unc1589History. Go cry somewhere else.
@@unc1589(Only in America...smmfh)
Patrick Cleburne was pretty accurate in his prediction for life in the South after they lost the war.
He was one of the few sane Southerners of the period who didn’t allow himself to get his emotions swept up into fantasy. His suggestion that the South conscript all eligible slaves and free their families was common sense and would’ve given the South hundreds of thousands of fresh troops motivated by their newfound manumission. The idiots in Richmond simply buried the proposal without any consideration. SMH
And for suggesting they enlist slaves to fight for freedom for south he was passed over for promotion
@@jeremychilders5369 You know for a little perspective why would black people fight against their own interest?
One of the more obvious issues is why wouldn't they in mid battle turn on their confederate commanders? Their only stake in this war was the confederates losing.
@@desertdetroiter428 Actually General Robert E Lee agreed with him and repeated the suggestion a few months later
@@samkohen4589 that’s hard to fathom seeing as Lee wasn’t smart enough to agree to Grant’s edict that black Union troops be traded for white Confederate troops. Lee would only respect the humanity of white Union troops. Moreover, during Grant’s incursions into Yankee territory, his men took ALL African Americans they came across and sent them South to be put in Slavery regardless if they’d been born free people or not. They took at least 500 such people At Gettysburg alone and sent them into slavery.
I had no idea that the confederate cause was so complicated. My own great great grandfather was with the 3rd Alabama cavalry and was captured at Shelbyville Tennessee. He was just a poor dirt farmer.
Yeah its super complicated it more than just one thing an than what the government is doing it for is different for what the average Southerner is fighting for an than u had more freed states than slave states because when ppl from the south who owned slaves started moving West an the abolitionist like John Brown not emancipationist someone who wants to vote it over time but abolitionist were killing southerners an starting uprising intentionally so it probably felt like tyranny. Like what people think the south should just take it
Traitor
@@shawnbergmann2638yeah the Brit’s called us that too lol
@@shawnbergmann2638You’re a traitor to King George the 3rd, and Great Britain be glad the British Empire was in debt from protecting you from the French and then you turn your back on the Army that had protected you. Be glad Napoleon existed or else in 1812 you would have been taken back over, and it’s the truth. The Sun never sets on the British empire, because not even God can trust the Englishmen in the Dark.
@@shawnbergmann2638 oh look it's internet thug. The internet made you b****** comfortable with talking s*** without you having to worry about someone punching you in your f****** mouth.
Another wonderful presentation Sir!!... Thank you
The end of the civil also started the country’s first opioid epidemic…Wounded soldiers had become addicted to the opiates that they were treated with and continued afterwards to get the drugs anyway they could…The hypodermic needle had been improved during the war so receiving the drugs was easier…Causing the same problems we have today with opioid addiction and added more misery to the country after the war…Veterans coming home addicted to drugs is nothing new.
This is a fascinating film, thank you , greetings from 🇬🇧
My aunt said a relative, John, stayed drunk in Rome GA during the Civil War.
Truly, rich man’s war; poor man’s fight.
More like an evil man’s war. The prosperity of the south, from the root, was based on criminality. I know drug dealers that remember the good ole days.
How we normalize. The south was judged and found guilty.
What war wasn't/isn't?
@@unc1589Judged by whom?
@@Matthew-rr4de The new rich man from Richland. Kind of like the rich man from Delaware.
Thank you for this excellent presentation. I watched this twice in a row and will certainly revisit.
Thank you for a good summary on this aspect of the war.
PEOPLE ARE STILL PICKING ON THE SOUTH,,,,,,,,,, I SAY GOD BLESS THE SOUTH ALWAYS
Lmaooo these comments are filled with the kind of people who haven’t read a single book on the civil war or its causes
Never heard of anyone going north to rest or retire. God bless the South.
The "Lost Cause" of the South was about the unfair, uneven tariffs, which had nearly caused secession in 1928 but was delayed by the Great Compromise. The Northern Industrialists became greedy and dependent upon the tariffs on Southern productions. Lincoln and the Republican Party were financed by the Northern Industrialists and had no constituency in the South, whereas the Democratic Party had them on both sides of the Mason/Dixon Line and the Democrats were divided in both the North and South. When Lincon was elected and the hated Morrill Tariff passed as well, the first three states seceded. After his inauguration, Lincoln offered those states a deal; they could keep their slaves if they returned to the Union and paid the tariff. They refused. Lincoln then sent the flotilla to Fort Sumter, which was by then in CSA waters (technically), and landed troops in Florida. This resulted in the remaining states' secession. The slave issue was made front and center because any new state could vote to be slave or free. This was a major issue in the 18050s when Kansas' statehood was inevitable. If Kansas was a slave state, the tariffs would be voted down in Congress. So radicals began arriving in Kansas to vote. This threatened border areas of Missouri, which was a slave state with mixed support. The radical New England preacher Lyman Beecerh sent his son, to Kansas and in fiery sermons, urged New England's young men to "Go to Kansas and kill Southerners." The Northern Industrialists also financed John Brown, right up to the raid at Harper's Ferry. The particular finances went to Canada for a while after it failed until things cooled off. Simultaneously, Karl Marx's pro-revolutionary, pro-workers articles were being printed in Horace Greeley's New York Times. Marx wanted a world workers revolution and he felt that the South was the perfect place to focus upon because of slavery, which was first on his list. He expected to spread the worker's revolt once the slaves were freed and armed. He had useful allies; the Republican Party, and the Abolitionists, who were represented well by the Beecher family. Harriet Beecher-Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a vivid melodrama that she made up out of thin air. She had never been to the South, met a slave, or even met a runaway slave. She depended upon "visions" which was considered valid in those days of rampant propheting and the prolific rise of new religious sects.
In 1848, after the failed revolution in Germany, many Germans fled to the U.S. By 1850, the Communist Club of NYC had been established. Lincoln found them useful. Lincoln's initial call for volunteers saw a large number of Germans join. Lincoln's officer core was full of recently arrived Germans and infantry. Lincoln had a few in his administration. (See - "Lincoln's Marxists," by Benson and Kennedy).
When Lincoln published his Emancipation Proclamation, he had 460,000 slaves under his jurisdiction in border states in territories or in conquered states like Louisiana and Florida. He did not free one slave. As the war was coming to a close, Lincoln sought to find solutions for the newly freed slaves. He looked at a scheme for repatriating them to Africa, but the funding was simply not available. He offered them to several South American countries, who all declined the gift. He finally reconciled himself to the idea of a new meaning of freedom and equality inside America. Several proposals were made including the idea of forming an exclusively black state out of parts of former Confederate states that would be supported by the remaining white states (see - "Reconstruction" by Eric Foner). This was quickly rejected. If Lincoln had not been assassinated, the horrid failure of Reconstruction might have seen a better outcome. But Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson kept the Black Codes in place because they did not want the North to be inundated by freedmen, but wished to contain the "problem" in the South, allowing western migration as a pressure release.
All of this history and more is knowable and serves as mitigating history to the usual line given regarding the cause and the alleged righteousness of the Union, and Lincoln himself during the war. Lincoln also suspended Habeas Corpus. He shut down newspapers and jailed "Copperheads" who were the peaceniks of the war who favored peace and a compromise over slavery, timing it out of existence rather than using war to do it. And there were draft riots, famously, in New York, where mainly newly arriving Irsih found not freedom but servitude in the Union Army actually forced to fight to liberate others!
lol k. Nice job writing an essay when the guys that seceded disagree with you.
If the Republican party with its platform of principles, the main feature of which is the abolition of slavery and, therefore, the destruction of the South, carries the country at the next Presidential election, shall we remain in the Union, or form a separate Confederacy? This is the great, grave issue. It is not who shall be President, it is not which party shall rule - it is a question of political and social existence.
- Alfred P. Aldrich Judge and Legislator from South Carolina
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right...
- Laurence Massillon Keitt, Congressman SC, Speech to the House (January 1860).
The dude wrote an entire preamble of BS and you dismantled it with two direct quotes lol. Bravo
@@alejandrobetancourt8123 And your contribution to the conversation? Jerking off strangers? Lovely...
Your facts are hard to dispute, but a true liberal will parrot old arguments until at least one or two of the unread will descend back into the east mental submission of common sheep. The conquering side of any conflict always writes (and rewrites) the historical narrative.
No, the cause of the American Civil War was the question of slavery. The South was happy to stay in the 'Union' as long as the peculiar and insidious institution of slavery wasn't touched. The fear of an assault on slavery caused secession.
Thanks for this documentary on the South and its condition during the war.
💯👊👍💕.
We don't get much coverage of your civil war in the UK, this coverage has give me some understanding of the issues. Thank you.
Here’s a fun fact I learned….. the union army gathered immigrants as they got off the boats in new York. The immigrants were told if they served one year in the union army, they could become citizens.. but the immigrants were forced. They were not given an option..
Yes, this was the union Army, the north. That’s how the north had so many soldiers.
Thank you for presenting an honest perspective. To the victors goes the writing of history. So much today is focused on slavery. With such a small number of slave owners, how were so many inspired to go fight? The truth is , if you could wake up the dead soldiers who fought and died, they would laugh at the idea that the war was over slavery. I believe this to be true on both sides. I especially liked the way you bring it back to today. Southerners still view Northerners as rude and self serving. I honestly believe that if left alone, slavery would have died a natural death with the coming of the industrial revolution. We would have a more harmonious country today. The truth is, no one wants to be bullied into submission. Why is it a surprise that there is still anger today. If the war was fought over slavery, why did the Emancipation Proclamation not take place until 3 years into a 4 year war? Thank you, Sir for your words of honesty. Keep digging into history with a open mind. Your vids are great. Keep up the good work!
It was a 1% war. The same 1% who owned slaves. The same 1% who seceded from the union. The soldiers didn't fight for slavery for sure. They were sold patriotism through "states right." The part about what states right's was conveniently left out. And the northern soldiers didn't fight to free the slaves. They fought to restore the union. The underbelly of the war was slavery. They had to work around that to get anyone to fight.
My great great grandfather enlisted with the Union with his friend at the age of 40! His friend was listed as missing. He survived, but lost his hearing with the artillery. He died several years after the war, struck by a train whose whistle he didn’t hear. Left his wife with 4 kids.
AS A CIVIL WAR BUFF ENJOYED THIS PRESENTATION.
As always…excellently done…
Absolutely love what you do, thank you
I agree with your assessment that Gen. Thomas is severely underrated. Looking forward to the video on him!
Very well done in presenting the Southern war experience. Citations to your source material would be very helpful.
Thank you for all your work.
I learned so much from this! I grew up in NC and hadn't even heard about most of this. I immediately subscribed and will go on a binge of your previous work! 😊 Keep them coming!😊
Absolutely love this channel ❤️
Scumbags abound everywhere in America, and always have. At the end of the Civil War my great great grandfather was hung by southern scalawags in Obion County, Tennessee because they were certain that as a county official, he knew where the county’s gold reserves were hidden. The supposedly hidden gold had been given in the Confederate cause years earlier. My great great grandmother threatened to cut out the heart of the wife of one of the ringleaders, neighbors she knew, if they didn’t cut down her husband, who was by now dangling by the neck. They did cut him down in time to save his life, but the hanging caused him to have a stroke, which ruined his life and shortened it by years.
You see how this history of your family is handed down. I wonder why so many hate it when black people tell the history that's been handed down in their families.
It would be interesting to hear a similar video on the changes and problems during the American Revolution.
“You want me to do F@ck!ng what?”
every Civil War soldier
Thank you for mentioning the Shelton Laurel Massacre at the 34:10 mark, I had ancestors in that 😢
That last statement that the outcome of the war would be written by the north was true for many decades. There's a lot about the south mentioned in this series that is true. It was a rich man's and politicians war. Much desertion. "The republic of Jones" isn't talked about much. It was a lost cause, and many southerners knew it.
That's how so many American wars are fought. Started by the rich, fought by the poor while the rich kids stay home with fake paid for medical diagnosis like scoliosis or bone spurs.
The outcome of the war was written by God.
Who writes the outcome for even today’s rationalized evil practices.
Governments don’t do evil. Humans do.
@@unc1589 🤣
@@unc1589lol. You're a tear, aren't you?
Your old testament god invented slavery. His "good b book' is full of instruction on taking, making slaves & using them.
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Thank you for an enormous amount of research and an objective analysis. Very rare to hear the truth without overlays of 21st century prejudice. Bravo ❤
Excellent presentation! Bravo!
Great video!
I firmly believe that there was Black men who served in battle roles in the Civil War
I’m not saying that they were very common but they did exist
I do personally know of one from my area, he was rewarded with a very large tract of land here and was the largest land owner in this county until about 1900
Exactly. do you know if he was a freed black or Enslaved?
@scottbivins4758 take that flag down traitor. You lost.
@@shawnbergmann2638look a Tory
@@shawnbergmann2638 why don't you come force me too you little bitch?
Dude is now pushing for lost cause propaganda. If you’re under the age of 55 it’s frankly embarrassing. If you’re older than that it’s okay because you’ve been propagandized by your education system
Hello, I wish to make some points. First, “…the very makeup of the Confederate government created turmoil most of the 28 senators and 122 representatives of the first Confederate Congress came from the minority the wealthy professional and planter class…” I’m not sure where you are getting that information. My books like the Confederate Nation by Emory M. Thomas, the Confederate Congress by Wilfred Buck Yearns, the Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics by George C. Rable, The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865 by Kenneth C. Martis and other books I think show that the planters class had a major representation in the first and second congresses but was not at any point a “super-majority” in those congresses. Indeed even in the Provisional Congress, the planters class had a major representation, but not a supermajority. According to Willfred Yearns’ Confederate Congress, “Forty-two were licensed lawyers…Seventeen planters and two editors” in the Provisional Congress. He goes on to point out that there was a collage math professor (William P. Miles), a doctor (Thomas Fearn), a Baptist preacher (James B. Owen), a lumberman (Jackson Morton) former secretary of war (Charles M. Conrad) and even a former president (John Taylor) in the Provisional Congress. From what I read, Yes the planters class had a major representation, but not a supermajority in those congresses and the Confederate Congresses was much more divisive in class and experience than what is popularly believe.
Second, on your point of political parties and the Pro- Jeff vs. Anti-Jeff camps in the Confederate Government.
With the political parties topic, the Confederate political leaders believe sincerely that the spoil system and a political party system help contribute to political corruption/ineffective, just like the Founding Fathers and others in the early republic period before 1800 believed in. They were able to have some success in curbing political corruption coming from those areas. They reformed the patronage system through their Constitution and other later legislation or acts. Especially after the November 1861 Confederate elections, they developed or fully developing an anti-political party attitude in their political system. Combating political corruption is a key element/attitude in the American political system and experience, developed to be so by the Founding Fathers. That why, although controversial in writing this, I think this one of a number of reasons show that the Confederate political experience was at least in part an American political experience. Also, I wish to make note your seemingly inclinations that there were great fights and violent threats in the halls of the Confederate Congress. According to Willfred Yearns’ Confederate Congress, there were no great fights and violent threats in the halls of the Confederate Congress. For example in the Confederate Senate, the only one Senate altercation happen that was the one between William Yancey of Alabama and Benjamin Hill of Georgia. Hill got angry at Yancey and accused him of disrupting the Confederacy. When Yancy ignored Hill’s accusing comment, Hill picked up a chair and rushed at Yancey. Hill was stopped and disarmed. There were the common political shouting matches, but no common great fights and violent threats in the halls of the Confederate Congress. In an interesting fact, all of Congress, together with other officials of the city of Richmond, organized themselves into a volunteer company captained by William E. Simms of Kentucky in May of 1863. Would a government body that had great fights and violent threats in the halls of their government be able to do that?
In one of the general themes in George C. Rable’ The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, he pointed out that the Confederate political spectrum can be divided between “nationalists” and “libertarians” The “nationalists” like Jefferson Davis pushed for more centralized federal power not seemingly to destroy their principle of state sovereignty, although the “libertarians” accused them of that, but to protect this principle. Basically, these more centralized federal power measures in their mind were temporary and necessity to win the war and by winning the war, we will protect their principle of state sovereignty. The “libertarians” like Alexander Stephens believed generally that these more centralized federal power measures in their mind were not temporary and necessity to win the war and threatened their principle of state sovereignty. However, both camps commonly and sincerely believe and seek to protect the ideas of Southern republicanism that included in their minds the true values of federalism, state sovereign, free trade, anti-political party development, white liberty, and the protection of their slave system in its moral, economic and more importantly political aspects. These camps just sometimes disagree with the means of protecting these ideas. These camps are not real political parties. While there was some party spirit, factiousness, and similar practices in the Confederate political system, the Confederate politicians, in both federal and state governments, maintained a strong sense of an antiparty creed. No formal or real political parties formed, no political party conventions, no political party election canvassing, no political parties’ power on ballot process and etc in the Confederate South. Again, this comes from generally the Founding Fathers and others in the early republic period that warn about the problems of the spoil system and a political party system to which Confederate leadership try to bring back. As noted in the end of George C. Rable’s The Confederate Republic: Revolution Against Politics, “Yet like the Confederate government and like the Rebel armies, the political revolution had its moments of triumph. Although signs of party spirit sometimes cropped up along with many of the same political practices that had supposedly destroyed the old Union, both nationalists and libertarians had refused to form political parties and for all their factiousness had been faithful to their antiparty creed. Although historians have deplored the absence of a party system in the Southern nation, many Confederates would have considered this a welcome sign of political health and perhaps a considerable accomplishment at the end of a bloody and unsuccessful war of national independence.”
There are some points in your video I agree with. For example, the Confederate industry was nearly self-sustainability in terms of arms. According to Emory M. Thomas' The Confederate Nation, by the end of the war "The Confederates sustained themselves industrially better than they did agriculturally and far better than they had any reason to expect in 1861. Symbolically, in April 1865, when Lee's tired army marched and fought its way to Appomattox, the men exhausted their supply of food before they ran out of ammunition. In fact when Lee surrendered, the remnant Army of Northern Virigina had a sufficient average of seventy-five rounds of ammunition per man and adequate artillery shells...The Confederacy's military-industrial revolution was briefly successful and preeminently Southern." However, there are other additional points of disagreement. Again for example, Jefferson Davis’s suspension of Habeas Corpus did aroused outcry and if I was Confederate Congressman, I would disagreed with Jefferson Davis on this point. However, it is important to note that Jefferson Davis’s suspension of Habeas Corpus was limited and narrow throughout the war. According to the Confederate Congress by Wilfred Buck Yearns, “Unlike Lincoln, Davis applied the law sparingly, singling out the danger spots and leaving the rest of the country unmolested. Even then he attempted to avoid shocking people, and often the civil courts continued limited operations. Nevertheless suspension aroused much hostility.” I am sorry for the long comment for this very interesting subject to me. If you have some good sources on this subject to share, I will be glad to see and read them. Some of my sources are in the comments.
Astonishing how we can normalize the infrastructure and ramifications of a completely inhumane enterprise.
@@unc1589weren’t listening were we…….
This is good history.
The massacre in Madison County in north Carolina happened about 30 minutes from my house. They nicknamed this county “bloody Madison” for this reason
My father was from Alabama. Every summer we would visit and the ENDLESS rethrashing of the Civil War would start. When I had so much I couldn't stand any more, I would simply say
"well how smart was it to make Ju-Dah Benjamin your CFO?......" Of course that was the TOTAL END of the conversation......
Thank you.
Great work Thank you and God bless
Thank you for this look at the War from the people’s point of view rather than politicians.
I’ve always believed the south was never united in the idea of the Confederacy along with conscription in which they had no choice…which was also hated in the north as you point out.
A reason for the large amount of those soldiers who would desert their armies-both north and south.
So half the population of the south was enslaved … people who owned slaves owned, on avg only 5? Can you imagine having 5 slaves living at your residence doing everything for you while being treated less than human? Horrible
Read a book.
This is all very interestingly detailed. The section on the arts and poetry an unusual inclusion in such coverage.
Beautifully done, thank you. Always beneficial that the destructive power of inflation was listed in specific dollar amounts.
I love your show it makes me feel like I was there 😢❤🎉🎉😊
My grandparents owned a tobacco plantation in N.C. They even had sharecropper housing, they were all Caucasian though
Yayayayayayyyy new post
My great grandfather and my husband's great grandfather both fought in Co K NC 36 Troupe. Both, poor farmers.
Judah Benjamin: The Brain of the Confederacy; and Yet, most Amerikans don’t even know his name!!
Malarkey
Interesting. You covered a broad range of issues, grievances, and undesirable situations from ramifications created by the war. If anybody in the South benefited, I'd like to know who. Everybody had something to complain about.
Funny, but it was Southern cities in ruins after the Civil War, but now it’s Northern cities that are in ruins…🤣😂🤣😂
Nope
Birmingham, AL Jackson MS, Chattanooga TN, Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA, I could spend all day on others dumps.
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@@onwardandupward-t1g Yup
@@WLBarton4466 What do they all have in common??? Honesty counts here….
@@autoguy57 They are shite DJT language holes
Boy that industrialist was a very very cleaver man . I shall take great pleasure reading about him in the future .
Absolutely superb!
I’m sure the northern commentary was always benevolent.
Oh well, I don't feel sorry for them. They fought for the worst xause in human history. Yet there are still many who try to shine up that turd.
LBJ was from Texas. He was the first southern president after Andrew Johnson
Woodrow Wilson?
Yes, Woodrow Wilson. And Grover Cleveland was a Democrat and a southern sympathizer who installed ex Cenfederates in his cabinet.
Lincoln trying to preserve the
Union should have read his
History about the 13 colonies
Seeking independance from
Britain as the south wanted the
Same from.the.union!
You’ve never heard of the supremacy clause? Also name me one country in world history that voluntarily let half the country leave and start their own country? Stop being stupid and read a book
Sorry not sorry you're not allowed to own slaves anymore.
Watch out the channel is deleting comments.
I’m going to repeat my deleted comment. Read the supremacy clause, you sound like an idiot
@@alejandrobetancourt8123 Good.
That's right victors writing history and erasing it to this day - they come have avoided the war South was right
what a great voice.....
A pleasure to listen to.
Superb…
The war of NORTHERN AGGRESSION
You stated that after the war there was no southern President unit Jimmy Carter. That is an error, LBJ in Texas.
Very good presentation.
Fascinating!
Your opening sentences imply that somehow the Southern people were misled by misguided politicians. Secession was decided by POPULAR VOTE in every state.
They were misled. It was a war started by the rich to protect their right to own slaves and they had to convince the poor non-slave owners to fight it for them while they passed laws that gave them the ability to sit it out. Win or lose poor Southerners were going to remain poor.
@@brad238899 way to dodge my point about the popular vote.
@@johnpenn8444 Because your point on "the popular vote" doesn't matter. It has no bearing whatsoever on whether some voters were misled or not.
You seem to forget that the same voting examples include those who did not vote with the majority. The "popular" vote includes both ayes and nays. It simply means the total vote of ALL of a regions electorate (the population), as opposed to the limited (chosen) electorate of the Electoral College.
@@jamesmccrea4871 another dodge with some kind of irrelevant point about total votes. The eligible voters of the south voted to secede from the Union in order to establish an independent nation. Full stop. No argument. Anything else is simply wrong. It was not a unanimous decision made by politicians in state capitols. Maybe I can introduce you to some documentation from the extensive research I’ve done into the Confederate heritage of my county in NC, you know, all of the diaries, letters, journals etc of the NON SLAVE OWNING, NON LAND HOLDING men who VOTED TO SECEDE, and went to war WILLINGLY?
Quit parroting your Howard Zinn revisionist crap on me buddy, it won’t work.
Bullshit
22million Yankees and more money plus educated southerners only had 5million rebels 😢🎉❤🎉😢
I'm surprised the Usual Suspects havent lobbied to change the name of USMC Camp Pendleton since Pendleton was a Confederate general.
Be quiet, people will take you serious.
Why do you have Benjamin on screen when you are talking about Davis?
I did a research pàper on public education in Texas. There were some schools in the state prior to the Civil War. Post war there wouldn't be public schools in Texas until the 20th century.
So interesting!
Now of course we have wage-slavery. Different name, same thing.
This all could have been avoided if the south was granted the constitutional right to succeed!
"When we think of the Confederacy, the big names that automatically come to mind are the three legends carved into the side of Georgia’s Stone Mountain: President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson. Significant figures for sure, but in the grander power-scheme of things, these men, including President Davis himself, were outranked by Judah P. Benjamin. The fact that Benjamin’s name is so relatively unknown is, ironically, testament to the awesome “behind-the-scenes” power that he wielded. Unfortunately for the South (and the North), Benjamin’s influence served neither of the Americas. His loyalties were elsewhere - in Rothschild’s London!" - Michael Gaddy
Darn interesting and informative epidode. Amazing the resistance the South put up given all the (foolish) sacrifice.
Foolish sacrifice. Based on maintaining evil practices.
The South is just lucky that Sherman didn’t have a B-52 wing at his disposal.
“War is all hell”
And the North is lucky, there was no use of the Gatlin Gun, and the South didn't hold the hights at Gettysburg with said Gatlin Gun......
The north is lucky the south didn’t have but half the soldiers that the north had.
@donlittle732, this southerner is quite fond of Sherman, but since you’re tossing out impossibilities, Sherman was lucky Nathan Bedford Forrest didn’t have a command in Georgia with better provisions.
LBJ was a Southerner from Texas and a Southerner through and through.
Texas is not regarded as the "Deep South"
The vast majority of southern soldiers were relatively poor working class, that weirdly were fighting to allow rich people to use slaves on zero wages, could you imagine today a business arguing that they wanted to employee workers on zero wages.
I will tell you this. The average southerner hated free people more than they hated slaves. That's a documented fact.
Why do you think Biden & Mayorkas brought in 12 million illegals from the 3rd World 2021-2024?
Strange really very strange.
While the battle tales are interesting, I found this episode and its counterpart about the North very enlightening and fascinating.
Is there a book/title/author used as the basis for this episode? If so, kindly share.
5 Attorneys General
Meh....Nixon had 4
Eustace Mullins is a great author to read on the truth of this subject
The south should have industrialized at least partially but the greed of cotton and tabacco blinded them
You are PROFOUNDLY historically ignorant.
Please refrain from further comments.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Cordially
ONLY 25% owned slaves!?! But only that 25% formed the government or had most of the wealth. Pathetic downplaying the exploitation (and misery) of slavery.
That's actually a lot of people.
Loved it lessons learned. Keep up the good work thank you.
Just want to make a reply to the comment about Judah Benjamin. How would a Jewish community or country respond to giving a Protestant power or control?
But they're EXCEPTIONAL!
LOL
THIS VIDEO WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.....
If there are people that are still raw over the war they need to let it go. Hate that it came down to Civil War and our great nation was ripped apart, but people have to move on. Never forget it, but no reason to continue being bitter over it.
I hate the way the slavers and poiticians drug our people into that war.
You might be disappointed when you find out that the average southerner wanted slavery to continue and expand.