The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 2)

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  • @joshholmes4731
    @joshholmes4731 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5952

    “I didn’t lose, I merely failed to win”
    McClellan 2020

    • @jonaboktr5269
      @jonaboktr5269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +259

      George McClellan *HOW DARE YOU EXIST*

    • @karstenschoenberg9736
      @karstenschoenberg9736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +342

      I'm sure you told everyone "Lincoln didn't fire me, he simply told me I failed to stay hired"

    • @cocowang8568
      @cocowang8568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Your still alive? It says on Wikipedia you died in 1885

    • @jonaboktr5269
      @jonaboktr5269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Coco Wang it’s just fakes

    • @glassbottlemenacesyou8323
      @glassbottlemenacesyou8323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@adawm what does "r/woosh" mean? "im a retard"or someing?

  • @bigstupidjellyfish18
    @bigstupidjellyfish18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7071

    The Confederates: THEY'RE GONNA TAKE OUR SLAVES!
    Joseph, an Intellectual: THEY'RE GONNA TAKE MY BEANS!

    • @mbn1083
      @mbn1083 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      That One Guy On South Park: THEY TOOK ER JERBS!

    • @silencedvoice9104
      @silencedvoice9104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      What if you. wanted to go to heaven.
      But god said.
      *THEY GONA TAKE MEA BEENS*

    • @MrBoogamin
      @MrBoogamin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He's a Joestar

    • @silencedvoice9104
      @silencedvoice9104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MrBoogamin OH MY GOOOD

    • @bensherman103
      @bensherman103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Martha: WE’RE GONNA GET RATS!

  • @elkc4355
    @elkc4355 ปีที่แล้ว +5288

    I didn't cry at the end,I merely failed to stop my tears

    • @sunnybearbuds
      @sunnybearbuds 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      You and me both! LOL!

    • @JusticeForViolas
      @JusticeForViolas 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      McClellan moment

    • @taraashworth2187
      @taraashworth2187 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Same with me bro

    • @halsummers9141
      @halsummers9141 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      LOL WE GOT MCCLELLAND HERE

    • @koolkurza
      @koolkurza 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      i never cry, just that when im sad, WATER COME OUTTA MY EYES

  • @ij1376
    @ij1376 ปีที่แล้ว +5690

    It's cruel how Lincoln was killed right after his victory. He and his wife had a chance to finally regroup and heal, and that was cut short.

    • @cameraman9760
      @cameraman9760 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      HE MASSACRED THOUSANDS OF NATIVE AMERICANS during before and after

    • @aguythatsunguned
      @aguythatsunguned 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      yeah really cruel for john wilkes booth to end lincoln's break from managing an entire war
      what an asshole

    • @MrSlushie6000
      @MrSlushie6000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Really¿?🤨

    • @MrSlushie6000
      @MrSlushie6000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ¡!i

    • @reshuram4353
      @reshuram4353 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +213

      @@MrSlushie6000 Yes, really.

  • @gloriaborger5760
    @gloriaborger5760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5042

    Grant: carried the team
    George: failed to win
    Lee: says gg after losing
    Joseph: has beans

    • @AatiNiiranen
      @AatiNiiranen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +322

      Martha: is cleaning

    • @gloriaborger5760
      @gloriaborger5760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +252

      We can’t forget Sherman tho. Him and grant carried the war

    • @That7mad
      @That7mad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@gloriaborger5760 Exactly

    • @That7mad
      @That7mad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @AUser 009 NO

    • @That7mad
      @That7mad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @AUser 009 Fsr I hate this meme

  • @danieloray5649
    @danieloray5649 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16050

    Me: happy for Lincoln because he is happy
    Oversimplified: he then went to see a play
    Me: Oh shit

    • @thorzide
      @thorzide 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Daniel O’Ray yeah

    • @SnowyElephant
      @SnowyElephant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +735

      Not gonna lie, I teared up because I knew what was gonna happen next :(

    • @alfiegorman2185
      @alfiegorman2185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Daniel O’Ray Same

    • @deadpan904
      @deadpan904 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@SnowyElephant but if you look in conspiracies, he knew in some way that he is going to die

    • @MrDankTM
      @MrDankTM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      hello daniel. btw diesel patches is daddy

  • @Fayrayz
    @Fayrayz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1725

    Fun fact: the word “sideburns” actually originated from General Burnside’s name!

    • @FlyingCaesar316
      @FlyingCaesar316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      What do you think they were called before sideburns?

    • @MinAwY377
      @MinAwY377 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +246

      Peripheral flames

    • @TheeLadyDivine
      @TheeLadyDivine 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      @@FlyingCaesar316or maybe partial side beards?

    • @theodoreroosevelt2154
      @theodoreroosevelt2154 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Mutton chops

    • @SheldonAdama17
      @SheldonAdama17 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Similarly the term “hooker” came from, well, hookers that followed General Hooker’s army

  • @breawycker
    @breawycker 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +348

    The context of Lincoln's death is so upsetting. I can't imagine Reconstruction being easy but i feel like under Lincoln, it would have gone so much better. The more you learn about the assassination, the sadder it gets. Booth, as an actor, knew Our American Cousin by heart so he intentionally choice to shoot during one of the funniest lines in the play and Lincoln was laughing, so at least his final moments were happy. May his memory be a blessing

    • @Dap1ssmonk
      @Dap1ssmonk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      Booth, blinded by his quest for some vengeance and glory in the sputtering final years of his life, doomed his countrymen to over a century of strife. Like you said, I don’t think the job was small enough for one man to accomplish in one presidency, but I hope booth is reminded of the consequences of his action every moment of his time in hell, assuming such a place exists for me to lodge such a request.

    • @yudipbhattarai6904
      @yudipbhattarai6904 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Sad indeed. Just sad :(

    • @ShonPatil-eb3ir
      @ShonPatil-eb3ir 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      its really tragic though as an Indian I found this history very intriguing except for the wars over stupid things like pigs but I was always in the false thought that america gave freedom to the blacks just after their unification it is very great to know this civil war

  • @thedumb1ne568
    @thedumb1ne568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2513

    John Wilkes booth: *gets drunk after two glasses of brandy*
    Grant on his second bottle of whisky: Pathetic

    • @aleembaksh1880
      @aleembaksh1880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      Not even two bottles of Brandy...
      Two glasses

    • @Nmille98
      @Nmille98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Well, he didn't want to get drunk- Lincoln's assassination was a well-planned conspiracy. As Wilkes killed Lincoln, the Secretaries of War, State, and the Treasury were also attacked. Two attackers screwed up, and soldiers discovered and chased down Secretary of War Stanton's attacker after he clubbed Stanton's young son in the head with a pistol.

    • @SirTravis-vn6yp
      @SirTravis-vn6yp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Nmille98 I it's think he was saying something called a joke

    • @kyokyoniizukyo7171
      @kyokyoniizukyo7171 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nealon Miller
      Why though? Why was Wilks so willing to do something so horrible? Something so horrible it would make him the Praeha of the entire country? Is...there any resources on why he did this?

    • @Nmille98
      @Nmille98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@kyokyoniizukyo7171 he was from the South. His co-conspirators were from the South. Small groups of people killing important people for their birthplace and associated ideals are hardly rare throughout history.

  • @walnzell9328
    @walnzell9328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2443

    Starving soldiers, Union or Confederate, would've definitely taken Joseph's beans.

    • @sophienugre4161
      @sophienugre4161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Yeah I'm with Joseph on this one!

    • @zuboy4272
      @zuboy4272 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Would've ? THEY WERE THERE FOR IT !

    • @user-lf9sv8gw7k
      @user-lf9sv8gw7k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Lincoln: Joseph... *Get the gun*

    • @generalsquirrel9548
      @generalsquirrel9548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yup they will take this mr beans

    • @penguinstrophe7067
      @penguinstrophe7067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WALN Zell And nigerundayo

  • @jimmymcgoochie5363
    @jimmymcgoochie5363 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +576

    Fun story: during WW2 Britain bought some M3 “Lee” tanks from America, but didn’t like them very much, so they modified them and named the new version the M3 “Grant”.

    • @DylanJo123
      @DylanJo123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Based limeys

    • @YuriZhevnev
      @YuriZhevnev 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      And some of M3 Lee was imported to USSR and used by the red army. But it was very unpopular due to it's poor performance against German weapons, and it earned the nickname "coffin of 7 brothers" given by the Red army

    • @Woahhh-fw3lx
      @Woahhh-fw3lx หลายเดือนก่อน

      BURN

    • @tonyjoestar2632
      @tonyjoestar2632 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      The Sherman tanks needed more r&d though. Every time one was built it would head toward Atlanta on its own

    • @musc1esman
      @musc1esman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tonyjoestar2632hilarious!😂

  • @foreverunsure
    @foreverunsure ปีที่แล้ว +737

    American or not, the respect I hold for Lincoln and his close ones is unimaginable

    • @jeremyrichey4243
      @jeremyrichey4243 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I feel the same. Washington and Honest Abe are probably the most well liked presidents in the US ... everywhere except the south east that is. The best are always those that lead out of necessity or duty instead of lust for power.

    • @thesymbiotenation.4552
      @thesymbiotenation.4552 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@jeremyrichey4243 Lincoln, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt are the three best Presodents the US has ever seen

  • @greenrockgirl5150
    @greenrockgirl5150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1773

    Literally any major historical event:*exists*
    The price of bread: “I’m gonna do what’s called a pro gamer move”

  • @nesdanziger3741
    @nesdanziger3741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5487

    Fun fact: Grant was supposed to go to the theater with Lincoln, boothe planned to stab him and Grant always blamed himself for Lincoln's death.

    • @TomoyaOkazaki13
      @TomoyaOkazaki13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +813

      damn.... thats actually really sad.

    • @igorpachmelniekzakuskov776
      @igorpachmelniekzakuskov776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +827

      Not just an incedible General. But also an incedible sporting man who wasn't bitter about the war.
      I also found it really sad when he blamed himself for that time so many of his soldirs died.

    • @Firebidden
      @Firebidden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +231

      @Lime Green Dude, wtf are you on about? This isn't a Joker review, it's a bomb-ass history video.

    • @vojtechkorhon4159
      @vojtechkorhon4159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @Lime Green nobody cares

    • @iamacatperson7226
      @iamacatperson7226 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Sarcasms Agent he’s a bot

  • @German_Empire_Enjoyer
    @German_Empire_Enjoyer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +362

    As a native Austrian, that end part hit me hard. I’ve never really read into American history or anything, but it’s easy to tell how much of a good man and leader Lincoln was.

    • @Ethan70779
      @Ethan70779 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      The people who should read most into American history are my fellow Americans. Either way, thanks for the kind words! Cheers from Jersey! (New Jersey, sorry force of habit)

    • @williamhiley6943
      @williamhiley6943 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yo and I'm German seems likes we have a similar interest in the Deutsches Kaiserreich long live the kaiser!

    • @German_Empire_Enjoyer
      @German_Empire_Enjoyer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@williamhiley6943 Es lebe der Kaiser!

    • @olekcholewa8171
      @olekcholewa8171 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@German_Empire_EnjoyerThe Austrian Kaiser, of course. German Empire sucked.

  • @ECWPlays
    @ECWPlays ปีที่แล้ว +1694

    Saying "Long Live the Confederacy" is a slap to the face to the legacy of Lincoln, no matter if it is joking or not. This man fought for our freedom, he should be respected.

    • @Doogalebot12
      @Doogalebot12 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      *Long Live the Confederacy*

    • @ECWPlays
      @ECWPlays ปีที่แล้ว +447

      @@Doogalebot12 wow, look who's an edgelord. you want a golden razorblade or something?

    • @Doogalebot12
      @Doogalebot12 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@ECWPlays It was funny and you made it too easy cmon

    • @chrisberrios5857
      @chrisberrios5857 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He was a good man with good intentions, but the end of the day his actions have only made things worse. A lot of our problems these days stem from the severe cultural differences between the South and the rest of the United States. Besides if he truly fought for freedom, he would have left the Confederacy alone and recognize that it is for the best. I wonder what he would think if he was alive today. Perhaps he would recognize the damage that his actions have caused. I should note that I do not want another Civil War or secession of Southern states again. I want a unified United States. But what I want and what needs to happen are two different things. Lincoln should have recognized that what he wanted and what needed to happen were two different things.

    • @ondrejprasil1958
      @ondrejprasil1958 ปีที่แล้ว +253

      ​@@chrisberrios5857you just redefined the tolerance paradox. Sure, if you're a liberal who cares about the process of tolerance rather than the goal of tolerance, then leaving the slave states alone would seem like the 'good' choice. But if your goal is tolerance, then you should serve to fight against institutions causing inequality.

  • @mal8359
    @mal8359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4249

    Imagine having to tell General Lee that you just shot *Stonewall Jackson*

    • @spiffygonzales5899
      @spiffygonzales5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +482

      He'd probably be like
      "Ya know what, I don't even need to do anything. Just gonna let you think about that. You just fked the war for us. Think about that."

    • @drethethinker6418
      @drethethinker6418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@spiffygonzales5899 I don't think if he were still alive they would have won the war.

    • @spiffygonzales5899
      @spiffygonzales5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      @@drethethinker6418
      I agree, but you gotta admit that Jacksons death greatly hurt the Confederate army as well as the general southern moral. Heck that news even spread throughout Europe.

    • @bradyweather3998
      @bradyweather3998 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Spiffy Gonzales yes I agree but if he was still alive the war might have turned into a peace agreement or perhaps a victory based on how well the generals where stratagy wise

    • @dirtysniper3434
      @dirtysniper3434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@drethethinker6418 mh jackson was basically lee's assistant and helped him think, he probably would have convinvced him not to have fought the union at gettysburg. As well as jackson was a man who knew how to keep his men in line and disciplined so when he was in command his men were basically immune to charges. Lol commanding buff. Gettysburg may have never happend. As for lee's other defeats..... yeah blame the fucker who lost the fucking battle plans

  • @obamabeanlatin
    @obamabeanlatin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27874

    General Grant was in need of back surgery after carrying the entire Union.

    • @cloverapossum9342
      @cloverapossum9342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1806

      Grant was the equivalent to a blue paint brush in MSpaint.

    • @muhammadhashirnisar6888
      @muhammadhashirnisar6888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2237

      Grant was like the Asian player in a Call of Duty Lobby who carries the entire team.

    • @raoshahbakht5679
      @raoshahbakht5679 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1926

      Could say the same thing about Lee, one can't help but wonder what the outcome would've been if Lee had the same resources as Grant

    • @Zzzz-jn1xt
      @Zzzz-jn1xt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +507

      @@raoshahbakht5679 yeah but I don't really wanna respect a confederate general, do you?

    • @serialBLEACHexpert98
      @serialBLEACHexpert98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1850

      @@Zzzz-jn1xt You can respect someone's accomplishments without advocating for their cause.

  • @Joy-TheLazyCatLady
    @Joy-TheLazyCatLady 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +294

    My father grew up in Vicksburg. He used to pick up Civil War bullets and other little things from his backyard. He thought nothing of it at the time. No one told him to save the things he found. We visited Vicksburg when I was 9 years old. We walked on the battlefield and I could just feel the history. Standing on the battlefield that day was the beginning of my love of history. 💙 I've been to Fords theater and then across the street where Lincoln died. I saw the bed. Of course, I am sure many other subscribers have been to these places, too. 😁

    • @azurezzz
      @azurezzz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      He took it for what, now?

    • @nicolec7496
      @nicolec7496 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@azurezzz 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Beljeth
      @Beljeth 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I've been to Gettysburg, and what really struck me was just how small the whole battlefield seemed. Part of that was just my inherent perspective as someone who has lived her entire life on the West Coast, where hills and mountains are on a completely different scale than they are out east; Big Round Top would be considered a pretty small hill out here, and Little Round Top wouldn't even warrant a name as a geological feature. Trying to wrap my mind around them being important strategic points that thousands of men fought and died for was...challenging. Or standing at Devil's Den and seeing just how small of a place it was, and then remembering that 1,800 casualties were suffered between the two sides there; it would be a challenge just to fit 1,800 people there at once. The place is so small and saw so much carnage. It was really sobering.

    • @Joy-TheLazyCatLady
      @Joy-TheLazyCatLady 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Beljeth you couldn't have said it better. I was just a kid so I saw it through the eyes of a kid, when everything looks bigger than when you are an adult, and I don't remember it being as large of an area as you'd think. I never thought about the size and the soldiers before. Puts it into a new perspective. I want to visit Gettysburg but I am not sure that I will ever be able to afford to travel again in this lifetime. I want to visit Boston and Salem, too. I want to visit the UK, which as you know is a very small country, but I won't hold my breath. 😂 Imagine fighting a battle in a country that small. Yikes! 😬

  • @ii8noobl895
    @ii8noobl895 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    Fun fact: It is traditional to put a penny with abe side up on John Wilkes Booth grave when you visit. Even in death he is taking the L for his horrendous act.

    • @darricshhh
      @darricshhh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Sounds like he is still getting paid to me...

    • @Trethan3266
      @Trethan3266 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@darricshhhconsidering that he can’t spend a cent, doesn’t seem like he’s getting paid

    • @Jeff_Biden
      @Jeff_Biden หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@darricshhh what the hell is he gonna buy with it, hes literally dead

    • @darricshhh
      @darricshhh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Jeff_Biden your mom

    • @Notpies
      @Notpies หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@darricshhhyour dad

  • @oscar2234
    @oscar2234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2120

    “That’s just Princess Leia with a mustache”.
    Had me in tears.
    Oof the likes, thx so much!!

    • @samjones7834
      @samjones7834 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      DaShinyJolteonArtist “ET phone the doctor” is the one which got me.

    • @EliStettner
      @EliStettner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Timestamp?

    • @aaanawaleh
      @aaanawaleh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@EliStettner 5:16 onwards.

    • @evne6517
      @evne6517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Skillshare

    • @kayleamity
      @kayleamity 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oversimplified has a way with words lol

  • @michaelrizka
    @michaelrizka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3366

    Lee: Sorry boys, it's my fault that we lost the battle
    McClellan: Congratulations boys, we've retreated successfully from the cowardly enemy yee-haw!

    • @ejnorman8781
      @ejnorman8781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Muhammad Rizka This enraged Lincoln. Who punished him severely.

    • @SanFrancisco49er85
      @SanFrancisco49er85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      LOL

    • @luigi369
      @luigi369 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ethan Jay Norman lol

    • @MrDankTM
      @MrDankTM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      hello riz. btw diesel patches is daddy

    • @Trooper-tr6zi
      @Trooper-tr6zi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He's not texan dude

  • @JasonSteel-hk2tx
    @JasonSteel-hk2tx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Lincoln was a good man. Never deserved to die.
    I truly believe had he lived, he would’ve been opposed to segregation, but been uneasy at first given the hell he went through in the Civil War

    • @SuperAlien51
      @SuperAlien51 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      If Lincoln had lived segregation likely never would’ve happened in the first place.

    • @SawYer-fn6cu
      @SawYer-fn6cu หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah it would, tbings were okay for about 20 years after the civil war, blacks had seates in the house ans stuff, but it fell apart​@camerondisser4390

  • @sapphis_lazuli
    @sapphis_lazuli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    On this channel we do mostly like to poke fun at General Winfield Scott, but he was crazy impressive. He held the position of top general for the longest time yet. He had several honourary degrees. While the Seven Days battles were happening (McClellan's retreat after he attempted to take Richmond from the southeast) Lincoln actually visited Scott, who had retired from service, at the latter's home in New York, to ask for advice on the course of the war. Scott also wrote memoirs in his retirement, and sent them to Grant, with the message "From the oldest general to the greatest."
    Scott died in 1866, just two weeks before his 80th birthday. He was buried in New York, in the town he lived in, and the funeral was attended by several of the top Union generals, including Grant.

  • @spencerwayland4385
    @spencerwayland4385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2493

    Stonewall Jackson getting killed by his own troops:
    "Dude. Uncool"

    • @Gettysburg-cz8hx
      @Gettysburg-cz8hx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Yo boys dun goofed up.

    • @itzjay116
      @itzjay116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I wonder what happened to those soldiers. Like do you think nowadays there’s just some guy like “oh yeah you know, my great great great grandfather actually killed one of the south’s most prominent generals.... by accident”

    • @KeizerSosebee
      @KeizerSosebee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@itzjay116 yes but your missing a few greats in there........................and its me

    • @ice_springtrap8225
      @ice_springtrap8225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He actually died of pneumonia not the gunshots

    • @KeizerSosebee
      @KeizerSosebee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@ice_springtrap8225 yeah thats true but he was put entirely out of commission due to the wounds. Pneumonia was just icing on the cake

  • @MarechalVI
    @MarechalVI 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    For the record, you could argue that Lee's generalship was more deserving of the title of "Butcher" than Grant's ever was. Lee often incurred far greater casualties than he inflicted, especially compared relative to the number of men he could stand to replace, opposed with the Union who could always field far more. He was always quite the romanticist, and he saw poetry in tactical brilliance, which is why he always tried to be good at it and win victories that would look cool and make for good press.
    Grant was a pragmatist more than anything else, and the way he conducted his battles was consistently steak over sizzle (more substantive gains). He always tried to ensure that his battles were a net gain. He never seemed to see the poetry in being good at war, but he tried to conduct the war in terms of cost efficiency. He wanted the battles he fought to be worth something.
    Atun-Shei did a pretty good breakdown of the generalships of Grant and Lee in his Checkmate, Lincolnites video about whether or not the Confederacy had better Generals.
    Also, just as a side note, when you read General Lee's quotes, he'll say some stuff like "Always do the best you can! Always work hard, be honest, and never compromise your principles!" but then after he says "Slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country," he's like "Meh... I'm not gonna do anything about ending slavery because that's in God's hands, not in mine." Just ridiculous. The math doesn't add up, Bobby.

    • @confused.cat.
      @confused.cat. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I 1000% agree with this comment

  • @SolarAeroSpace
    @SolarAeroSpace 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    Not only does Oversimplified have the entertainment levels, he doesn't have an annoying voice. Could watch for hours

    • @revwolfe
      @revwolfe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dig at extra history?

    • @Thepeanutcollector
      @Thepeanutcollector หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@revwolfeheyyyy, extra history does not have an annoying voice. He’s one of my favorites

    • @revwolfe
      @revwolfe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Thepeanutcollector mine too! But the og voice for them def annoyed a lot of people.

    • @Thepeanutcollector
      @Thepeanutcollector หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@revwolfeyeahhh I guess I could see that for some people haha

  • @ThePostalDude2077
    @ThePostalDude2077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +631

    Rebels:*exist*
    Grant: _hippity hoppity, your river is now my property._

    • @Obi-Wan_Kenobi
      @Obi-Wan_Kenobi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This feels so weird, I'm usually on the Rebels' side!

    • @exicutioner161
      @exicutioner161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Obi-Wan Kenobi of course you are.

    • @fireshockgamer6734
      @fireshockgamer6734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Obi-Wan_Kenobi why hello there

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Did he get a grant for that land? Eh? Eh??
      I'll leave

  • @theunitedstatesofamerica3556
    @theunitedstatesofamerica3556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18449

    Grant is the player who carries the whole team

    • @cruizy5955
      @cruizy5955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +531

      Would you argue that he and Washington would have gotten along well?

    • @davewolf6256
      @davewolf6256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1132

      @@cruizy5955 That's an interesting question. On a cultural level, there would be barriers. Grant was born to a family that was only 1-2 generations into the middle class, whereas Washington was from as close to an aristocracy as there was in Virginia colony.
      Grant was a salt of the earth kind of a guy. It's true that he inherited slaves through his wife, but he caused a small scandal by doing manual labor with them in his farm. The video also makes his taste for liquor a thing. But he was also easily led by the hand. (His administration is historically remembered as one of the most corrupt, and the word "lobbyist" was wrongly claimed to have been coined during the Grant administration.)
      Maybe the greatest difference between Washington and Grant is their military record. Grant's successes were the result of his taking chances, which he could afford to do for the resource and people rich Union. Unlike Grant, Washington lost more battles than he won, often due to lack of resources and low morale. What made Washington brilliant was he had a big picture understanding that Pyrrhic victories for the English, and not strategic defeats, would win the war for the colonies.
      As was mentioned in the Revolutionary War video, Washington's strength was he made the most of his advisors--which was a characteristic of the Washington presidency as well. (It also tends to be the characteristic that the most successful blue bloods have in common.) And it also contrasts with Grant--who had the personality of a bold maverick. He was at his best when he stood out of a crowd. Washington was at his best when he brought people together.
      Their ideals may also have been different. Washington was shrewd and cynical, which probably permitted him to do immoral things--slavery, adultery, etc. Washington also famously believed the US would not last 20 years under the 1786 Constitution--he believed Civil War was inevitable. Grant was a kind of lazy idealist and only began to sympathize with Abolition in the late 1850s. But Washington was moved by the occupation of Boston, which was when he began to identify with the Revolutionaries. At that point, he believed the colonies finally had a just cause for rebellion.
      This is why I think Washington would not have sided with the Confederacy. Washington, mind you an elitist, was reserved and conservative with regard to when a people can revolt from their nation. He would have seen the Confederacy, which seceded before Lincoln was sworn in, as merely criminals.
      So I think Washington and Grant's political views would not have separated them, they may have hypothetically brought them together. And I will say that Washington did play favorites in his army, and he favored bolder generals.
      My belief is that Washington could have brought the best out of someone like Grant. But their relationship would never have been equals. Washington had a more continent leadership style, whereas Grant had a sensitivity that could be taken advantage of--and probably was what led him to drink. But it is an unlikely friendship that hypotherically could have lasted a long time, despite some huge differences in the men themselves.

    • @cruizy5955
      @cruizy5955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +593

      @@davewolf6256 Im glad i came to your TED talk

    • @evelynparker6200
      @evelynparker6200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Oh hi USA

    • @shurr3996
      @shurr3996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@cruizy5955 LAMO

  • @brarx0166
    @brarx0166 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    To me the similarities between the kind of fighting seen in the U.S. Civil War and WWI despite being over 40 years apart is kind of scary. Both wars lasted four years, and saw the a major political assassination and the use of:
    Machine guns, barbed wire, artillery, tele-communication sabotage, bayonets attached to almost all rifles, shotguns, prolonged siege tactics, trench warfare, ironclads (primitive submarines in the case of the USS Monitor and CSS Hunley), chemical weapons (only proposed, not used), armored trains, spotter balloons, and total war.

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The Civil War was basically the trailer for what modern warfare would be.

    • @USSFFRU
      @USSFFRU หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Its ironic even considering many of the European Powers that saw the Civil War sent attaches to see the strategy and style of fighting the Confederates and Union practiced and all they saw and thought was they were barbaric or unimpressed with the quality they saw.
      How ironic merely 40 years later, they too would be the ones to do the same fighting on their own continent.

  • @01juniorpen
    @01juniorpen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    lincoln's death at the end actually had my eyes watering a bit

  • @specialism640
    @specialism640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12110

    The real winner of this war is the guy who didn't let them take his beans

  • @Avarice297
    @Avarice297 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I still believe this was the best two videos Oversimplified had done. He wasn't rude with his jokes, he just tried to make a good video, and gave it the best ending out of all his videos in my opinion.

  • @octoling6479
    @octoling6479 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    1:31 “Hey God! Whose side are you on?”
    🎵 And then along came Zeus
    He hurled his thunder bolt!🎵

    • @Aellef
      @Aellef 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I won't say I'm in love with how this comment goes the distance
      Thank you for your service o7

    • @fredericksimbol2645
      @fredericksimbol2645 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Dude, uncool

  • @btyt152
    @btyt152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3650

    I’m now convinced that the only reason Gettysburg was involved at all was for the sole purpose of stealing Joseph’s beans

  • @TungstenArm
    @TungstenArm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1867

    Part one: “Damn we’re really kicking the North’s ass!”
    Part 2: *North Removes Training Weights*

    • @MrDankTM
      @MrDankTM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      hello ren. btw diesel patches is daddy

    • @IvyTheBlindHusky
      @IvyTheBlindHusky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Part 3 rko outta no where by vintage randy orton to mark his entrance.

    • @anderwebb5350
      @anderwebb5350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Or Lincoln fires his soy boy generals

    • @chayot4564
      @chayot4564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      forgive me sensei washington but just this once i must go all out

    • @strange9922
      @strange9922 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JODisHere i knew it was some livestream when i saw the check mark and a random phrase

  • @mattbphotograph8973
    @mattbphotograph8973 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    'Unconditional surrender' Grant would be a badass thing to be able to put on one's business card.

    • @mattbphotograph8973
      @mattbphotograph8973 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16. Jesus of Nazareth, The Messiah, died for the remission of sin, including yours, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day, and whoever believes on him shall live forever, even if they die.

  • @ScattahTheMoron
    @ScattahTheMoron 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Even 3 years later. I rewatch this video a lot because I have such a love for America’s 16th president and his amazing care towards his presidency and the people that helped and followed him along the way. Damn Booth for murdering him, even now. I really wished Lincoln could’ve gone out a better way. Thank you for the stern yet comforting tone at the end. It really shed light on how even the most silliest, could be some of the most caring. Yet again, thank you.

  • @rooksilver
    @rooksilver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5260

    I don’t know why but it makes me feel better when Oversimplified mentions that President Lincoln was enjoying the play

    • @baqcasanke
      @baqcasanke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +324

      Angelica Schuyler i like to think he died happy

    • @FeatKanye
      @FeatKanye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +576

      He died happy, and enjoying himself, surrounded by the people he loved as a President of a Nation he fought tooth and nail for. He may have been shot, yes, but Abraham died a happy man.

    • @avypust8933
      @avypust8933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      @@FeatKanye It's too early to cry today :(

    • @ninetyseven5913
      @ninetyseven5913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      But were you satisfied?

    • @Michelle-dl6qm
      @Michelle-dl6qm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Missing97 of course not! She has never been satisfied

  • @notasovietspytrustme4392
    @notasovietspytrustme4392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11246

    The south lost because they tried to take Joseph’s beans

    • @jessekane6224
      @jessekane6224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +418

      Der gunna taek r beans!

    • @TGNXAR
      @TGNXAR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +321

      To be honest, they looked REALLY tasty...

    • @sfra5490
      @sfra5490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      Nicholas Bender CEO of beans

    • @jacktapman5293
      @jacktapman5293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      If those beans were seized by Confederate forces the Northern economy would have collapsed

    • @1nsta528
      @1nsta528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Nicholas Bender poor Joseph I wouldn’t want my beans to be take I sympathize with him

  • @DarthSironos
    @DarthSironos 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I'm not even american, but Lincoln is a true inspiration. To suffer through the ultimate sorrow of losing a child and still finding the strength to continue the fight to end slavery and win the war... it's simply awe-inspiring.

  • @Bluestone239
    @Bluestone239 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    As an African American I see the American Civil War as an absolute victory.

  • @mr.mystery6429
    @mr.mystery6429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9132

    George McClellan didn’t get fired, he merely couldn’t keep his job.

    • @iminediamonds
      @iminediamonds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +740

      When he died, he didn’t die, he merely failed to continue living.

    • @the_actual_alex
      @the_actual_alex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +402

      I didn't get older, I merely failed to stay young

    • @Omega_thehusky
      @Omega_thehusky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@iminediamonds omg LOL

    • @mr.mystery6429
      @mr.mystery6429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      He didn’t hate the president, he merely looked at him unfavorably.

    • @Skolg3r77
      @Skolg3r77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      I didn't get depressed, I merely got very very sad!

  • @papajonhs3687
    @papajonhs3687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2393

    Lincoln: has a super detailed face
    His wife: a simple smiley face.

    • @nananoah2084
      @nananoah2084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      His cheekbones didn't translate well into basic emojis.

    • @maximevandeneynde7692
      @maximevandeneynde7692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      his wife didn't have then shmexy cheekbones

    • @thiccsketchyyoshi4029
      @thiccsketchyyoshi4029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@maximevandeneynde7692 smacks lips hell yeah those shrexy cheekbones smacks lips again

    • @guestguest4487
      @guestguest4487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      OH YEAH THOSE *C H E E K B O N E S*

    • @ShimmyShakings
      @ShimmyShakings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That means she’s normal

  • @oblivion85
    @oblivion85 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    You forgot mention how Lincoln in his spare time hunted Vampires.

  • @malarucoon
    @malarucoon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    As someone who spent 20+ years of his life learning about and becoming an expert on the civil war chapter of this country- I do appreciate the details and information you gave. You correctly stated areas that are often left out or that people just get plain wrong. Especially in this day in age where giving credit to anyone who's ideals you dont believe in is considered taboo. Before the civil war we were a group of united states... after the civil war we were a nation- ideologically speaking.

  • @DerVolman
    @DerVolman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1483

    Imagine Mcclellans last words being
    "I didn't die, I merely failed to survive!"

    • @shaynebarry5008
      @shaynebarry5008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      "I'm finally winning. Winning at death!" - MajGen John B McClellan...probably

    • @jakeberry2172
      @jakeberry2172 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      😂😂

    • @cplmpcocptcl6306
      @cplmpcocptcl6306 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @mlplarisanable
      @mlplarisanable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@shaynebarry5008 McClellan's first name was George not John.

    • @DonChij
      @DonChij 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      unfunny name I like your Ben Swolo as your profile pic.

  • @brendankyle7309
    @brendankyle7309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9740

    I love how Grant and Lee absolutely carried their respective armies

    • @memecliparchives2254
      @memecliparchives2254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +920

      Sherman and Johnston were no slouch either though.

    • @danly9794
      @danly9794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      True, but Jefferson Davis hated Joseph Johnston

    • @agnieszkaszymendera8803
      @agnieszkaszymendera8803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      But grant was terible president

    • @brendankyle7309
      @brendankyle7309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +512

      @@agnieszkaszymendera8803 that has nothing to do with him being a general

    • @danly9794
      @danly9794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +352

      @@agnieszkaszymendera8803 no he wasn’t, he used troops to protect black people’s voting rights in the South.

  • @JaynaeMarieXIV
    @JaynaeMarieXIV 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    That ending..right in the feels. Awesome. All these should be shown in History class.

  • @Witchofthewoods212
    @Witchofthewoods212 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    In all seriousness Lincoln’s life was cut way too short, and he didn’t didn’t deserve to die way too soon, and I also feel bad for his wife, at the moment she was genuinely happy her husband dies, I feel bad for them both, it had a bad ending..

  • @ravenlord4
    @ravenlord4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2139

    Little known fact: Lincoln was also an accomplished vampire hunter. There is a great documentary about it starring Rufus Sewell and Daniel Day Lewis.

    • @whyudoit4009
      @whyudoit4009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      raven lord
      That was a good documentary.

    • @idkk9013
      @idkk9013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      raven lord hahaha I remember that movie
      Edit: “documentary”

    • @72EEL
      @72EEL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Skipii Clan documentary*

    • @PeruvianPotato
      @PeruvianPotato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      He was also a good wrestler at his youth and even invented some famous moves

    • @idkk9013
      @idkk9013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Sewwfffyhjijui all facts, he indeed killed many vamps

  • @priyamoorthy7775
    @priyamoorthy7775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8434

    I’m not American, but I definitely got sentimental at the end.

    • @gradypytlinski8846
      @gradypytlinski8846 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Gabriel Nadeau I don’t want to be American rn

    • @priyamoorthy7775
      @priyamoorthy7775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Grady Pytlinski wait why not?

    • @brustlesproustle2767
      @brustlesproustle2767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      priya moorthy yeeeea so theres, protests for blm. Trump deployed secret police in organ who are kidnapping said protests. We’ve hit 4 mill in covid cases, and now trump is trying to send us back to school and some states are reopening and there is now a word for people who don’t refuse masks which is anti masks which the fact that there’s a name makes it a problem, we’re basically turning into a parks and rec episode and it’s horrifying

    • @brustlesproustle2767
      @brustlesproustle2767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I ment do refuse to where masks not don’t refuse, sorry

    • @primestopper126
      @primestopper126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

  • @tuiman5212
    @tuiman5212 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Sherman used to have his men bend the rails from railroads and tie them around a tree, wait until they repaired it and then ordered his men To do it again.

  • @karenvega7405
    @karenvega7405 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Why did I cry at the end? lol

    • @daylight3325
      @daylight3325 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😢 same

  • @abrahamlincoln5648
    @abrahamlincoln5648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2703

    This really is proof that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

    • @provocadudes4571
      @provocadudes4571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      bruh i thought you died so what do you think of the new cod warzone

    • @DzikaFizyka
      @DzikaFizyka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      .

    • @nospoopnovember5726
      @nospoopnovember5726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      a house divided against itself cannot party rock - Abraham Lincoln

    • @FlamSalad
      @FlamSalad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Nice Bible quote, Abe. Matthew 12:25

    • @kenzieaureliussubrata6113
      @kenzieaureliussubrata6113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A house divided by a nation?? my friend,look at the border in Belgium and The netherlands,Or Maybe malaysia or indonesia,tho it may not exist in your era,malaca and dutch hindia sound a bell??

  • @TheAlmightyJello
    @TheAlmightyJello 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14012

    Fun fact: Before the assassination, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Lincoln was nearly crushed by a train after he accidentally fell between the platform and the train, but was saved by a man he recognized as a popular actor of the time. The actor was Edwin Booth, John Wilkes older brother.

    • @skeleex
      @skeleex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2270

      One dies so another can live

    • @saltyfrenchfry1025
      @saltyfrenchfry1025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1674

      A soul for a soul

    • @imtheprize
      @imtheprize 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1368

      Idk how lincoln would've made it through the death of another child. I'm sure he would've wished it was himself instead

    • @tributesandamvs
      @tributesandamvs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +989

      In this case the brothers are nothing alike but could you image John hearing his brother say that and just go "you did what!?"

    • @Shack-lion
      @Shack-lion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Tf 🤯🤯🤯

  • @SUPREETH.
    @SUPREETH. ปีที่แล้ว +43

    That last part where u talked about Lincoln, was heart-warming. it was beautiful, how you manage to make your videos both funny and serious is what makes u such a great channel, i'm on a spree to watch all your videos.

  • @luthergk1276
    @luthergk1276 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I love the homage to Lincoln at the end. Truly one of the greatest human beings to ever live 😢

  • @patrickhiggins5970
    @patrickhiggins5970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3043

    Fun fact: they turned Robert E Lee's home into Arlington national cemetery where nearly every american soldier to die in combat has been buried there since the civil war

    • @jesusolguin5896
      @jesusolguin5896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      How... How is that a fun fact

    • @patrickhiggins5970
      @patrickhiggins5970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +251

      @@jesusolguin5896 don't worry about it

    • @ofclown9458
      @ofclown9458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      it was actually his wifes, who was the granddaughter or great granddaughter of some george washington relative

    • @WellingtonLee573
      @WellingtonLee573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Yea the pricks

    • @SpartanX300
      @SpartanX300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@WellingtonLee573 lmao

  • @haxer6174
    @haxer6174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5186

    Never have i heard someone make a president's death so sad. even after hearing it a million times

    • @kade4503
      @kade4503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +443

      I felt the exact same way. He really set the mood for that part.

    • @huhoka.y3163
      @huhoka.y3163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Sameee

    • @mother8106
      @mother8106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Darius Canta agreed

    • @emperoralvis6559
      @emperoralvis6559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He was a tyrant and war criminal.

    • @anonymousperson3023
      @anonymousperson3023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      You know what death was sad? Stonewall Jackson. I knew about him and his fate before the video and that death just ruffles my feather.

  • @minaas444
    @minaas444 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Im not even american but lincoln seems like a rlly good guy this is a rlly sad war

    • @ShonPatil-eb3ir
      @ShonPatil-eb3ir 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      yes but that sidebones and jawline would have got lincoln more fame today if wasnt murdered ofc

    • @minaas444
      @minaas444 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ShonPatil-eb3ir girll lmfaoo

  • @MrWasGehtSieDasAn01
    @MrWasGehtSieDasAn01 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I find it funny how there are always people on Twitter who act as if the Civil War wasn't about slavery, even though the Vice President said they were doing it because they wanted to keep slavery

    • @user-yo5lr5jy2e
      @user-yo5lr5jy2e หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The conferency:this is about slavery! Twiter:NUH UH

  • @ross7205
    @ross7205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2656

    The civil war taught us one thing: don't fuck with Ulysses S Grant when he's been drinking

    • @hellobozo5542
      @hellobozo5542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      you're not wrong

    • @HashknightGaming
      @HashknightGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Makes you have more respect for the town drunk. 🤣

    • @elihouse8669
      @elihouse8669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      correct

    • @bolbol8367
      @bolbol8367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Kalmree 😆

    • @Ilikepie18855
      @Ilikepie18855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The true drunken master , Jackie Chan was inspired by him.

  • @Guydude777
    @Guydude777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4524

    I can totally see Lincoln as the type to relish Dad jokes. Bless his soul.

    • @jobro5112
      @jobro5112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, but he also liked racist and sexist jokes....

    • @Pvsn08
      @Pvsn08 4 ปีที่แล้ว +239

      Jo Bro Don’t be that guy, just don’t

    • @jobro5112
      @jobro5112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You have a point. Either way, it doesn't make him that much worse of a person, since things like that were normal at the time

    • @aimbotarrow5981
      @aimbotarrow5981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Jo Bro that is true, but what was he racist about since he hates slavery? Just like a feeling of it despite his beliefs?

    • @keithkahler1327
      @keithkahler1327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@aimbotarrow5981 actually he believed that white people were superior

  • @Ester_...
    @Ester_... 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Im not even american but i seriously started to cry silent tears for Lincoln as soon as it was shown the theater...
    R.i.p Lincoln

  • @Randumbship37
    @Randumbship37 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    "Sleepy eyes Joe" did this guy predict the future?

  • @tucker.84
    @tucker.84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3166

    *#1 ON TRENDING*
    Finally youtube.

    • @MrDankTM
      @MrDankTM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      hello slant. btw diesel patches is daddy

    • @tucker.84
      @tucker.84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @Fuert Neigt In what way shape or form does any of that have to do with my comment.

    • @phlaxyr
      @phlaxyr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Fuert Neigt That's a bit extreme

    • @xaviertsun5004
      @xaviertsun5004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes...
      *Good.*

    • @chunmunsgoel3633
      @chunmunsgoel3633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Fuert Neigt I understand your hate, I don't have any love for the rebel flag, but for quite a bit of the people who use the flag still, they fly it for Southern Pride. People in the South are a proud traditional people, some don't even know that it is currently a hate symbol.

  • @incognito9277
    @incognito9277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2459

    Lincoln was so tired after the civil war and when he wanted to get some rest he gets shot, that is very depressing

    • @beatdowncentral6986
      @beatdowncentral6986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      At least he got too rest, it's sadly a forever rest but Im sure he's sitting happily on his personal throne in heaven

    • @ateium2409
      @ateium2409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Not really sad for him -he is dead , nothing matters to him anymore
      It is very sad for his family n friends tho .

    • @carolynetter8046
      @carolynetter8046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This video account is rather one sided in favor of the north and has left out a lot of details and events. There are numerous reliable books on the subject. John Wilkes Booth was a confederate soldier who was angry that president Lincoln ignored numerous requests from the Southern side to release the Southern P.O.W. soldiers that were held captive in the North and dying of starvation illness and cold conditions at the hands of the Northern soldiers. Lincoln refused several requests by the South to exchange Northern P.OW. soldiers being held captive in the South for Southern P.O.W. soldiers held captive in the North. In anger John Wilkes Booth that was a confederate soldier shot Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday as a possibility that he was trying to send a message that Lincoln thought of himself as God as Lincoln had also stated that he was a Free Thinker and not religious. Far more lives both soldiers and civilians were lost on the Southern side and the North got help from Europe. Also the South was sabotaged in unexpected ways. Then later came the Carpetbaggers from the North to take whatever they could and raise prices in the South after the war.

    • @jdm3072
      @jdm3072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@carolynetter8046 Perhaps all true, but then again, you have to emphasize this is an "Oversimplified" version of the Civil War. The complexities of this time period cannot reduced to 20+ minutes. History is never so one-sided.

    • @amandarenner8933
      @amandarenner8933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jdm3072 good point.

  • @somechilldude2727
    @somechilldude2727 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    That ending and describing Abraham Lincoln was incredibly beautiful and did just to the life of Lincoln

  • @jarredgoffLover
    @jarredgoffLover 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    9:56 Gettysburg Bad Dress is insane detail that I haven't seen anyone talk about

  • @mal8359
    @mal8359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1711

    Lee: We're gonna invade the north
    His Amry: So we can capture DC?
    Lee: No...
    *I hear they have a man with beans*

  • @justicedunham4088
    @justicedunham4088 ปีที่แล้ว +6093

    They called Grant a butcher, then voted for him to be president in the next election. What winning a war does to your popularity

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales ปีที่แล้ว +367

      He also had to mostly carry the Union during the war

    • @joeljustjazzing
      @joeljustjazzing ปีที่แล้ว +714

      @@The_whales lets be fkin honest grant and sherman did 75% of the work

    • @bag_12
      @bag_12 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      ​@@joeljustjazzing ye

    • @biazacha
      @biazacha ปีที่แล้ว

      Not only winning a war, but Lincoln being cowardly murdered made him into a mártir, so elect a harsher in the edges comrade was the expected outcome cause that’s how usually History repeats itself.

    • @hallamhal
      @hallamhal ปีที่แล้ว +172

      Also Andrew Johnson was impeached and not very popular by the end of his presidency, and Grant and his opposition to Johnson was seen as a link to Lincoln and return to the good old days

  • @VictoryLlama
    @VictoryLlama 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    i have respect for lincoln, as a non-american

  • @rhobeans
    @rhobeans 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I was a soldier during that battle, I was FOR SURE going to take his beans...

  • @darkstar932
    @darkstar932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8125

    This was not OverSimplified, it was *ExpertlyExplained* .

  • @theraginginfernape9496
    @theraginginfernape9496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3244

    White men: I fight for the Union's life
    Black men: I fight for my freedom
    Joseph: They're gonna take my BEANS!

    • @blakeb5297
      @blakeb5297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      You eat all my beans.

    • @patrickmcglonejr8163
      @patrickmcglonejr8163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Billy-Bob: THEY GON TAKE ME BANJER!!

    • @TheCart54321
      @TheCart54321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Sorry for asking but is that a real story?

    • @kairuku8498
      @kairuku8498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TheRagingInfernape Our beans? Our beans?! Protect the beans!

    • @presidentsomethingsomething
      @presidentsomethingsomething 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      God save the beans!

  • @GuardianComplex
    @GuardianComplex 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Sherman shouldn't have stopped until he was knee deep in the ocean.

  • @barbaraanneneale3674
    @barbaraanneneale3674 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This is extremely well done. Surprisingly in-depth, it is better than most high school history books. My hat is off to you.

  • @carlizondo2117
    @carlizondo2117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2392

    I'm not American, but I got weirdly sentimental at the end

    • @kindakyana2372
      @kindakyana2372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      That's the American touch

    • @thom9910
      @thom9910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      Lincoln was an incredible human being. In the States he's more or less a celebrity. It seems like every president is hated by a good portion of people. But not Lincoln. He fought for what was right and sacrificed so much to make the world a better place. Rest in peace you amazing man.

    • @SebastianSilalahi
      @SebastianSilalahi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I feel the same as well. I guess it's because of his compelling narration and well guided sentimental music.

    • @darklegion3693
      @darklegion3693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Yeah me too. Lincoln was a very admirable man.

    • @TheOsamaBahama
      @TheOsamaBahama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's the music.

  • @fastpeanut
    @fastpeanut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3472

    Fun Fact: General Grant originally was going to go to the theatre with Lincoln but his wife (Julia Grant) disliked Lincoln’s wife (Mary Todd) and refused to go

    • @solipsistinen7662
      @solipsistinen7662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      I knew grant was going to go, but didn’t- but not this exact reason. Thanks you for sharing, very interesting!

    • @aglock9193
      @aglock9193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +425

      Did you know Lincoln wrote about a dream of his death weeks before it happened? He dreamed he woke up in the middle of the night and found a crowd clad in black weeping downstairs. He asked “What’s happening?” They said “Haven’t you heard? The President’s been shot.” Hearing this Lincoln walked down the hall to the very wing his body would placed in after his actual death and saw a casket in the exact same place he would be put with his own corpse inside of it.

    • @fastpeanut
      @fastpeanut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      @@aglock9193 if this is true that is very cool and fascinating thanks for sharing this fun fact

    • @erfanedendonata9088
      @erfanedendonata9088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@aglock9193 yeah,im alr know and that interesting

    • @memecliparchives2254
      @memecliparchives2254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@solipsistinen7662 Also I read that Booth given the chance, he would have also attempted to take Grant's life as well. Considering he managed to escape from Rathbone, I can only imagine how it could have gone either way.

  • @danielmaluenda9731
    @danielmaluenda9731 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    “ Never Gave Up on the Darkest of Times. Stands as a symbol of Honesty , Empathy , Humility Perseverance and Courage - a continuous reminder of what has forged America , and what it should strive to be .”

  • @jacquelinebrandon353
    @jacquelinebrandon353 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Every time I rewatch this video I start tearing up at the end. Oversimplified does a great job telling this story of tragedy and progress for the United States.

    • @user-rd6of2uu2v
      @user-rd6of2uu2v 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I laughed at the end

    • @farmerjohnofficial
      @farmerjohnofficial 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@user-rd6of2uu2v looks like we found John Wilkes Booth, so tell me, what were you thinking when you shot Lincoln?

    • @user-rd6of2uu2v
      @user-rd6of2uu2v 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That he was a loser

  • @funmitalabi9607
    @funmitalabi9607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3988

    Robert E Lee carried the confederates so hard it's almost unbelievable.

    • @generalfred9426
      @generalfred9426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +308

      *General Grant has joined the game*

    • @georockstar09
      @georockstar09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +402

      The guy had great military tactic, but he owned and beat about 200 slaves, and was fighting for the state right to own slaves, so that he and his people (the white rich) could continue to benefit off free labor at the cost of jobs for poor white people. Nothing to admire about him. He was certainly a formidable bad guy. That's about it. He was no hero.
      And don't forget that for all his military "heroics", it was US Americans he was killing, and he was part of a foreign enemy nation that attacked the US first.
      -----
      "Lee’s heavy hand on the Arlington, Virginia, plantation, Pryor writes, nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them."
      - The Atlantic
      Lee's words: "The painful discipline they [black people] are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence."
      Lee's words: "that unless some humane course is adopted, based on wisdom and Christian principles, you do a gross wrong and injustice to the whole negro race in setting them free"
      ---
      "Lee worked the slaves for about five years in order to pay off legacies associated with his father-in-law’s estate. “He was utilizing the slave labor in order to pay the legacies,” Reeves explained.
      Lee wanted to work the slaves beyond the five-year limit stated in his father-in-law’s will. Lee fought in court to keep the slaves working because he didn’t know if he would be able to pay off his legacies.
      Wesley Norris was born a slave on the plantation that Lee managed after his father-in-law died. Norris testified during the court fight that Lee beat him when he tried to run away. “Every one of the facts in Wesley Norris’ account has been shown to be true,” John Reeves [historian] noted. " - AP news
      ---
      "Robert E. Lee personally owned slaves that he inherited upon the death of his mother, Ann Lee, in 1829. (His son, Robert E. Lee Jr., gave the number as three or four families.) Following the death of his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis, in 1857, Lee assumed command of 189 enslaved people, working the estates of Arlington, White House, and Romancoke. Custis’ will stipulated that the enslaved people that the Lee family inherited be freed within five years.
      Lee, as executor of Custis’ will and supervisor of Custis’ estates, drove his new-found labor force hard to lift those estates from debt. Concerned that the endeavor might take longer than the five years stipulated, Lee petitioned state courts to extend his control of enslaved people.
      The Custis bondspeople, aware of their former owner’s intent, resisted Lee’s efforts to enforce stricter work discipline. " - the American Civil War Museum

    • @funmitalabi9607
      @funmitalabi9607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      @@georockstar09 This, imagine if Robert E Lee fought with the north. The war would have been over in 6 months. Besides, at the end of the day he was American so he's not exactly the villian. Seems more like misguided rivalry if this was a book.

    • @georockstar09
      @georockstar09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @@funmitalabi9607 Well, the same argument could be said about certain Nazi generals.
      He was a villain. He stood for slavery and disunity. The south had seceded, so he was no longer US American during the war. He was a Confederate. Confederate = /= US American. Misguided rivalry? No. Desire to keep a population enchained to profit off them, more likely. That's all the North really wanted, was to end slavery. Rich white southerners could have given those jobs to poor white people instead of owning black slaves. They chose not to do that.

    • @funmitalabi9607
      @funmitalabi9607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@georockstar09 The war was not about slavery at all until making it about slavery benefitted the North by keeping Britian out of the war. The war was about the North wanting to keep the colonies united and the South wanting to be separated because they fully believed the north was trying to undermine their success by taking away thier biggest source of income. (Which is the slaves who worked for free, so more money. Why would anyone want to pay the poor anything when they can have free labor?) Does that make it right? Absolutely not, but it's far from the absolute evil that was the Nazis.
      This is a time where humans had just discovered their *basic human rights* because human nature is truly evil. Before the colonies, mercantilism was the prime system which is literally the country with the most money is the most powerful. It creates stingy people, and the colonies originated from Britian who fit money hungry to the letter T. Evey country at the time had enslaved people even if slavery was banned. (The Berlin Conference). The North was demanding the South to do something out of the social norms at the time. To be fair, I'd be hesitant too to take up such a deal just cause it's fair when history makes it very clear what European countries like Britian and France do to underdeveloped countries they think they can imperialize and control just cause they have the power to. Especially with the way Britian monitors the colonies despite them gaining independence.

  • @huhh9876
    @huhh9876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +675

    Two troops asked God whos side he was on
    This enraged God who punished them severly.

    • @goldysun4318
      @goldysun4318 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      dude, uncool.

    • @rwarren58
      @rwarren58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How about the side that didn't have slavery?

    • @ramonberrios8118
      @ramonberrios8118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love this joke so much

    • @b.salazar6610
      @b.salazar6610 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @suptanner
      @suptanner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rwarren58 you didnt watch the whole video, did you?

  • @kingnekogon
    @kingnekogon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If this ever gets remade, it needs to have one of the most influential men of the civil war included that has been forgotten for too damn long.
    Cassius Clay. The man who not only used his position as ambassador to Russia at the time to convince Russia to threaten France and the UK with war if they acknowledged the confederacy, but was the man who bullied Lincoln into signing the Emancipation Proclamation before he wanted to.

  • @kyledabearsfan
    @kyledabearsfan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Gettysburg in the early morning is absolutely chilling. It's hauntingly beautiful, its just crazy. Also, i didn't know that the founder of the Klu Klux Klan had a freaking statue.

    • @Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc
      @Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the statue also looked funny

    • @kyledabearsfan
      @kyledabearsfan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmc funny part, is I bet they left the KKK leaders statue up, but they've torn down Thomas Jeffersons lol

  • @lifte.s8757
    @lifte.s8757 ปีที่แล้ว +14505

    McClellan didn’t get fired, he merely got promoted to being unemployed.

    • @omarbaba9892
      @omarbaba9892 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      lol

    • @flanimgo1504
      @flanimgo1504 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      more of a DEmotion... You do know "Demotion" is a word... Right?

    • @flanimgo1504
      @flanimgo1504 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Mega Chad What does that have to do with what I said?

    • @flanimgo1504
      @flanimgo1504 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Mega Chad When did they say "promoted"? Huh?

    • @GG-vl7lh
      @GG-vl7lh ปีที่แล้ว +173

      @@flanimgo1504 you can't be serious

  • @PrototypeClovenhorn
    @PrototypeClovenhorn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8411

    Not-so-fun fact: Until the day he died, Ulysses Grant said that he wondered if Lincoln would have been assassinated if he had gone to the play with Lincoln (he had politely denied the offer.)

    • @Angry5704
      @Angry5704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2032

      And the military leader who did go with him, Major Henry Rathbone, actually went insane because of his perceived failure to save Lincoln. I'm glad that didn't happen to Grant, in all honesty.

    • @Angry5704
      @Angry5704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @Meadowfrost Definitely.

    • @Will-jk6nw
      @Will-jk6nw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Angry5704 I mean he was destined to be a shit president to begin with lol

    • @Angry5704
      @Angry5704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +516

      @@Will-jk6nw He's been getting more favorable historical reviews recently. His administration was scandalous, but Grant himself was dedicated to racial equality, unlike Johnson before him.

    • @Angry5704
      @Angry5704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      @@thekingofracoons He's talking about Grant's presidency, not Lincoln's.

  • @martiniman9430
    @martiniman9430 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    8:21 has got to be the smoothest sponsor segway ever

  • @AltonNelson-kr1qu
    @AltonNelson-kr1qu 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Beautiful ending man

  • @matthews820
    @matthews820 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1159

    "Uh, Mr. Lee...we, uh, we shot Jackson. He's uh. He's dead."
    *This Enraged Lee, who punished him severely*

  • @narutobear9300
    @narutobear9300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1561

    I thought the "unconditional surrender" Grant thing was a joke but he was actually called that.

    • @marcocoronel2098
      @marcocoronel2098 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Really? Lol

    • @lebronthegoat3670
      @lebronthegoat3670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Marco Coronel yes google it

    • @FondantApple
      @FondantApple 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I just searched it up and yes it actually is true! I thought it was a joke lol.

    • @LiamsSportsandEntertainment
      @LiamsSportsandEntertainment 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I had to do a school play during which I was General Grant. We did the surrender and sadly I got this nickname for the rest of the year.

    • @filthyfergus923
      @filthyfergus923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      What a lad

  • @jeburr24
    @jeburr24 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    2:22 “Don’t you love your country?” / “Yes, and I’m trying to get back there as quick as I can” was a real-life exchange (slightly re-worded) between a Union officer and one of his soldiers. Proof that great humor existed even before the Oversimplified channel.

  • @anirudhsakethps4gamer561
    @anirudhsakethps4gamer561 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    America after losing in Vietnam :- I didn't lose I merely failed to win

  • @jeremymeier7192
    @jeremymeier7192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +861

    Even i, not being an American, felt patriotic seeing Lincoln's Memorial in the end. Respected.

    • @takendown6337
      @takendown6337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Jeremy Meier respect. I am from Kansas and knowing the conflict that was in my home state I too feel patriotic for Lincoln.

    • @joshlanier8567
      @joshlanier8567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only if you know the trie story and not the myth behind Lincoln and freeing the slaves

    • @lightningstudios9559
      @lightningstudios9559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@joshlanier8567
      Hey. Could you not?

    • @NDLBE
      @NDLBE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lincoln wanted to send all blacks to africa. It's not as it seems

    • @Eli-jt9yn
      @Eli-jt9yn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Esad Ozdemir get off buzfeed

  • @naotosenpai2789
    @naotosenpai2789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6850

    Really sad how the man died right around the time he could finally start being happy :(

    • @HoangAnh-jk9pl
      @HoangAnh-jk9pl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +590

      At least he didnt die when the war was still raging. You could say that he died a fulfilling death

    • @alnu8355
      @alnu8355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +326

      True, and I have no real clue as to what happens after we die but, I like to think he was reunited with his son.

    • @universalistsnape8584
      @universalistsnape8584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +228

      And for it he is honored with an S tier rank among the presidents, rivaled only by George Washington in greatness and leadership.

    • @universalistsnape8584
      @universalistsnape8584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Jason Bailey nah. They aren’t on the same level as Washington and Lincoln

    • @DeadDogInc
      @DeadDogInc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Jason Bailey
      Well who missing, thats 4

  • @eltonbosch8863
    @eltonbosch8863 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    as a non-american, I learned so much on McClellan in this video. Now I can proudly say I didn't failed my licensure exam, I merely failed on passing it.

  • @tristantristancraped
    @tristantristancraped ปีที่แล้ว

    What an absolutely moving documentary. I was brought to tears. Thank you sir.

  • @obiwankenobi4252
    @obiwankenobi4252 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3083

    Democrats, 1800s: Republicans want to take our slaves!
    Republicans, 2010s: Democrats want to take our guns!
    Joseph, 1860s: THEY WANNA TAKE MY BEANS

  • @JLf01
    @JLf01 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks Oversimplified, in English we had to do a presentation about a famous person so I chose Abraham Lincoln and I went ahead and got top marks + highest mark you can get on the presentation thanks! :)