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When you think about it Bragg ended up with an army Fort named after him in North Carolina. They have talked now of changing the name because he was a Confederate general but if you think about the way he protected Wilmington maybe he was really a Northern sympathizer.
This is fantastic. I live on the same island as Fort Fisher and see it everyday. Currently a $25 million dollar renovation of the fort/museum is going on and is set to be finished in 2024. Just subscribed to the channel keep them coming!
That’s good to hear! I grew up in Wilmington for 13 years as a kid and went to the reenactment every year! It’s a shame that due to natural erosion, I believe approximately 2/3rds of the fort is under water out in the Atlantic today. Nonetheless glad to hear they are completed a huge and needed renovation! I’ll have to visit next time I come see my sister in Raleigh.
Bragg just stunk. Don’t forget about Hood who destroyed an entire rebel army when he commanded it. Also don’t forget about those who honorably kept their oath that they made at West Point to protect the United States of America, like Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Warren, Hancock, Meade, and many more.
Yet Bragg was the best commander the rebellion had in the west--his invasion of Kentucky gained the rebellion several months on the central line of operations and at his victory at Chickamauga was the only major defeat of a Midwestern army.
Years ago I worked as a volunteer at Ft. Fisher. We used to joke that Bragg was so valuable to the Union, they'd probably name an army base for him some day.
Thanks very much for all the work & dedication put in to create such beautifully presented content. The narration & style is second to none that I'm aware that cover this specific type of content. May blessings be apon you gentlemen for telling history accurately & with conviction!
My family used to go to Long Beach (now Oak Island) every summer for vacation, and one of thr highlights of the trip was always when we'd take the ferry and spend the day going to Fort Fisher and the aquarium.
I've just recently watched several episodes. I'm happy you've done this. I've asked so many questions about this period. You've answered a lot of those. Thank you. Keep up the great work.
My father spent time there during WWII training in a AAA unit. We spent time each summer growing up on Oak Island (then Long Beach) and rode the ferry from Southport several times.
The ground assault by sailors and marines was a hot mess. I don't remember the exact quote correctly, but Porter ordered them to "attack the fort with revolvers and cutlasses, as if boarding an enemy ship."
I recently discovered this series - thank you, these are amazing! I just walked the berms of old Ft. Fisher today - and while it's certainly just a shadow of her former massive size - I can assure you she's still there, standing strong - and well respected by the people of Wilmington.. I encourage everyone to come visit.
Braxton Bragg was the most interesting of all the Southern Generals to me. He was the 1st US Army officer to be "fragged" by his own men. During the Mexican-America war, a soldier, (they never found out who) lit the fuse of a cannon shell and rolled it into his tent. The cannon shell actually exploded, destroying his bed. He was not seriously harmed however. A maniac for discipline, he had more of his own troops flogged than any general, north or south. A failure as a troop commander he actually was very good as a staff officer and when Jefferson Davis removed him from field command of troops and ordered him to Richmond as what we would today call the Chief of the Army Staff, he actually was very good. Few liked him. His soldiers hated him. Even his generals couldn't stand the guy. Yet he became a "full general", the highest rank in the PACS. PACS= Provisional Army of the Confederate States.
The photo you are showing at 12:33 is of Union Army Major General Fitz John Porter, not Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, U.S. Navy. Major General Porter was a cousin of Rear Admiral Porter, and he was court martialed, and found guilty of disobedience of a direct order and misconduct, and dismissed from the U.S Army in January 1863.
Most of us grew up reading of horrible Andersonville but somehow the winners conveniently forgot about hellhole Elmira, Point Lookout & others. Remember: only Southerners are bad guys
What really amazes me is that command officers on both sides, that committed incredible blunders throughout the war, survived until Appomattox without being relieved
at 4;00 the pic of the swiveling battery looked like a raged Chunk was missing from the Muzzle? And again at 25:30 but Shorter! God Bless the USA! "PLEASE?"
Comment: Why do you think the Junior and Senior Reserves were "disbanded" from Ft. Fisher after the first battle? I looked at records of imprisonment, and it seemed that numerous Junior Reserves were imprisoned at a Northern Fort after this. My own Great Great Uncle Caleb was killed Christmas Day 1864...but I don't think they were disbanded. Where, then, did these boys go? Please try to answer this question if you can.
Thank you for your question. After consulting with two fine works on Fort Fisher and the Wilmington campaign, I'm pleased to report what I found. After the initial Federal attack (December 24-27) was unsuccessful, General Braxton Bragg believed the fort and city safe and it was then he, among many suggestions, suggested to North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance that the Junior and Senior Reserves should be disbanded. However, that suggestion was not followed. For the record, Junior Reserves (teenaged boys) at Fort Fisher, Sugar Loaf and Wilmington were in either the 1st Battalion North Carolina Junior Reserves, 4th, 7th or 8th. Senior Reserves (men aged 45-60) were in the 8th North Carolina Senior Reserves under Colonel Allmond McKoy. All Junior and Senior Reserves were brigaded under Colonel John K. Connally. Yes, during that first attack on Fort Fisher, over 200 Junior Reserves from the 4th and 8th Battalions were surrendered to the 117th New York by Confederate Major John M. Reece. On Page 169 of Chris F. Fonvielle, Jr's The Wilmington Campaign, he writes of the Junior Reserves surrender, "The New Yorkers quickly surrounded the boys, and then marched them over to the beach. By now Daggett (Colonel Rufus Daggett in command of the 117th NY) had received Butler's order to withdraw to the landing zone for reembarkation on the transports." I will make a call to the Fort Fisher State Historic Site when they open on Tuesday to see if we can ascertain where they were taken as prisoners of war. As to your great, great uncle, I may be of help if you can supply his last name and, if you know it, his unit. On Christmas Day, several of the Junior Reserves became casualties when, during the Union bombardment, they crossed open ground between Battery Buchanan and Fort Fisher. His last name and unit may assist me in looking further. Finally, I mentioned Fonvielle's The Wilmington Campaign. Another fine source is Rod Gragg's Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher. Thank you for reaching out to us and I hope you will continue to listen and enjoy our episodes. FWK
Wait, does Porter’s work on the Red River campaign, a relatively inconsequential side show, count for a great deal and his effective collaboration with Grant and in particular Sherman that led to the fall of Vicksburg count for nothing? You’ve deliberately ignored Porter’s vital role in the most consequential campaign of the war, Vicksburg and control of the Mississippi, to attempt to portray Porter in a light of your own creation. Poor historical storytelling.
Vicksburg had fallen a year and a half prior to Fort Fisher. The control of the Mississippi had already been lost. This story accurately tells the history of the fall of the last life-line of the confederacy. With the loss of Fort Fisher, the Union controlled the entire east coast.
Well, judgment is an important trait to consider when grading a general, and I’d say that the officers who honorably kept their oaths to protect the United States of America had better judgment than rebels like Bragg. Butler had more victories than Bragg, Butler freed slaves long before the Emancipation Proclamation was made, he had the judgment to back a winning team with a more righteous cause, etc.
Both were equally bad but my age goes to Braxton Bragg because of his reputation. Face it when you have your subordinate generals and your ranking file men hate your guts that says something.
@@williamolenick7798 Wilmington lasted as long as it did because there were bigger fish to fry. Once the United States decided to take the place in fell in pretty short order.
@@tombrennan6312scary that the United States government can come and take whatever they want…kind of like what’s going on today. The next civil war will be a war of rights
Your comparing a fort defended by volunteers and basicly conscripts that are out gunned and classed in artillery vs. one defensed by some of the best trained troops in the world that are well supplied
A valid collorary, present from the, "1794 get go" of the Whiskey rebellion, marks a steep incline in consumption of whiskey in America leading up to secession, statisticaly making the Civil War a knock down, drag em out barroom brawl costing 650,000 American lives.
Hardly sir. In April 1862, all Southern men were drafted. Some were executed and could be shot on sight. A third of a million perished. It was the rich plantation owners originally established pre Revolutionary War waging an economic war using poor largely immigrant dirt farmers mostly non slave owning to fight their battles
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When you think about it Bragg ended up with an army Fort named after him in North Carolina. They have talked now of changing the name because he was a Confederate general but if you think about the way he protected Wilmington maybe he was really a Northern sympathizer.
I have read it was a calculated insult, but I have also read that the name was an attempt to gain favor with the locals.
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This is fantastic. I live on the same island as Fort Fisher and see it everyday. Currently a $25 million dollar renovation of the fort/museum is going on and is set to be finished in 2024. Just subscribed to the channel keep them coming!
Thanks for sharing!
That’s good to hear! I grew up in Wilmington for 13 years as a kid and went to the reenactment every year!
It’s a shame that due to natural erosion, I believe approximately 2/3rds of the fort is under water out in the Atlantic today. Nonetheless glad to hear they are completed a huge and needed renovation! I’ll have to visit next time I come see my sister in Raleigh.
Braxton Bragg The third best Union General he has been called maybe he should have been called the best union general of that war
Bragg just stunk. Don’t forget about Hood who destroyed an entire rebel army when he commanded it. Also don’t forget about those who honorably kept their oath that they made at West Point to protect the United States of America, like Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Warren, Hancock, Meade, and many more.
Yet Bragg was the best commander the rebellion had in the west--his invasion of Kentucky gained the rebellion several months on the central line of operations and at his victory at Chickamauga was the only major defeat of a Midwestern army.
Years ago I worked as a volunteer at Ft. Fisher. We used to joke that Bragg was so valuable to the Union, they'd probably name an army base for him some day.
Nah. Since U. S. Grant was THE BEST General of the Civil War, better than Lee, that would only make Bragg number two.
@@barbiedahlohh, thems fightin words! 😂
Po' Reilly. What an unenviable command. That dramas like these actually happened. Thanks for bringing them back to life and to us.
Thanks very much for all the work & dedication put in to create such beautifully presented content. The narration & style is second to none that I'm aware that cover this specific type of content. May blessings be apon you gentlemen for telling history accurately & with conviction!
Thank you very much!
My family used to go to Long Beach (now Oak Island) every summer for vacation, and one of thr highlights of the trip was always when we'd take the ferry and spend the day going to Fort Fisher and the aquarium.
I've just recently watched several episodes. I'm happy you've done this. I've asked so many questions about this period. You've answered a lot of those.
Thank you. Keep up the great work.
My father spent time there during WWII training in a AAA unit. We spent time each summer growing up on Oak Island (then Long Beach) and rode the ferry from Southport several times.
The ground assault by sailors and marines was a hot mess. I don't remember the exact quote correctly, but Porter ordered them to "attack the fort with revolvers and cutlasses, as if boarding an enemy ship."
Thats put lightly.
I recently discovered this series - thank you, these are amazing!
I just walked the berms of old Ft. Fisher today - and while it's certainly just a shadow of her former massive size - I can assure you she's still there, standing strong - and well respected by the people of Wilmington.. I encourage everyone to come visit.
Teriffic video. Thanks for keeping our history alive.
Our pleasure!
I'm more used to hearing Freddy Kiger pontificating on North Carolina Tar Heel basketball. He's a very polished narrator.
Wait does he really
Can’t believe those guys stumbled into that magazine with lit torches that suuuuuuucks
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What a brilliant closing chapter. Well done
Fort Fisher is my favorite place on earth. Ironically, it is a place of serenity for me.
Great job 👍🏻 I used to live a few minutes from there. Not much left 😢
Just found your channel and Subscribed.Your videos are awesome!Keep them coming please!
Welcome aboard!
"Spoons" Butler. A politician first, a General somewhere down the line...
Freddie is a great speaker.
Braxton Bragg was the most interesting of all the Southern Generals to me. He was the 1st US Army officer to be "fragged" by his own men. During the Mexican-America war, a soldier, (they never found out who) lit the fuse of a cannon shell and rolled it into his tent. The cannon shell actually exploded, destroying his bed. He was not seriously harmed however. A maniac for discipline, he had more of his own troops flogged than any general, north or south. A failure as a troop commander he actually was very good as a staff officer and when Jefferson Davis removed him from field command of troops and ordered him to Richmond as what we would today call the Chief of the Army Staff, he actually was very good. Few liked him. His soldiers hated him. Even his generals couldn't stand the guy. Yet he became a "full general", the highest rank in the PACS. PACS= Provisional Army of the Confederate States.
You really do tell history as a story and it is brilliant
Another great story well told .
Excellent, Really Excellent. Is it me or Can I hear a Hint of that great Historian Ed Bearss in your Voice.. 🙂
The photo you are showing at 12:33 is of Union Army Major General Fitz John Porter, not Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, U.S. Navy. Major General Porter was a cousin of Rear Admiral Porter, and he was court martialed, and found guilty of disobedience of a direct order and misconduct, and dismissed from the U.S Army in January 1863.
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For those that don't know continue reading about the captured Confederate soldiers and their experience at Elmira prison camp New York
Most of us grew up reading of horrible Andersonville but somehow the winners conveniently forgot about hellhole Elmira, Point Lookout & others. Remember: only Southerners are bad guys
It was discovering Confederate Goliath in a antiques store that brought me to this video😅. I never knew of fort fisher until now.
Malakov. A bastion. A redoubt but no tower.
What really amazes me is that command officers on both sides, that committed incredible blunders throughout the war, survived until Appomattox without being relieved
Makes you wonder..
Very well done. I subscribed and look forward to more videos.
Awesome, thank you!
This was just excellent!
Enjoy your presentations!! VERY WELL DONE!!!
Bragg vs. Butler sounds like a literal race to the bottom.
Sounds like Butler got there first.
@@ChristianThePaganonly because Bragg was too busy retreating from the race to concern himself with attempting to win
at 4;00 the pic of the swiveling battery looked like a raged Chunk was missing from the Muzzle?
And again at 25:30 but Shorter!
God Bless the USA! "PLEASE?"
Great video
Bragg is hard to explain really- WTF- I'm a Southerner..proud too, but so glad we didn't win either! Happy we are ALL one big ass country
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Nice Dylan Thomas ref: Bible-black.
As a transplant to Port City this is great.
The image you show at 12:40 is Union Gen. Fitz John Porter not Adm. David Dixon Porter. That'll be 30 lashes😛
Comment: Why do you think the Junior and Senior Reserves were "disbanded" from Ft. Fisher after the first battle? I looked at records of imprisonment, and it seemed that numerous Junior Reserves were imprisoned at a Northern Fort after this. My own Great Great Uncle Caleb was killed Christmas Day 1864...but I don't think they were disbanded. Where, then, did these boys go? Please try to answer this question if you can.
In my digging to address this, might you know the unit your great great uncle was in? 4th, 7th or 8th Battalion NC Junior Reserves?
Thank you for your question. After consulting with two fine works on Fort Fisher and the Wilmington campaign, I'm pleased to report what I found. After the initial Federal attack (December 24-27) was unsuccessful, General Braxton Bragg believed the fort and city safe and it was then he, among many suggestions, suggested to North Carolina Governor Zebulon Vance that the Junior and Senior Reserves should be disbanded. However, that suggestion was not followed. For the record, Junior Reserves (teenaged boys) at Fort Fisher, Sugar Loaf and Wilmington were in either the 1st Battalion North Carolina Junior Reserves, 4th, 7th or 8th. Senior Reserves (men aged 45-60) were in the 8th North Carolina Senior Reserves under Colonel Allmond McKoy. All Junior and Senior Reserves were brigaded under Colonel John K. Connally.
Yes, during that first attack on Fort Fisher, over 200 Junior Reserves from the 4th and 8th Battalions were surrendered to the 117th New York by Confederate Major John M. Reece. On Page 169 of Chris F. Fonvielle, Jr's The Wilmington Campaign, he writes of the Junior Reserves surrender, "The New Yorkers quickly surrounded the boys, and then marched them over to the beach. By now Daggett (Colonel Rufus Daggett in command of the 117th NY) had received Butler's order to withdraw to the landing zone for reembarkation on the transports." I will make a call to the Fort Fisher State Historic Site when they open on Tuesday to see if we can ascertain where they were taken as prisoners of war.
As to your great, great uncle, I may be of help if you can supply his last name and, if you know it, his unit. On Christmas Day, several of the Junior Reserves became casualties when, during the Union bombardment, they crossed open ground between Battery Buchanan and Fort Fisher. His last name and unit may assist me in looking further.
Finally, I mentioned Fonvielle's The Wilmington Campaign. Another fine source is Rod Gragg's Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher.
Thank you for reaching out to us and I hope you will continue to listen and enjoy our episodes.
FWK
This history is not often heard.
Command of a fort at 26 ? I'd shit my pants !
So sad, its final demise. Hope that your USA doesn't find a similar fate.
Thank You! Me too!❤
Wait, does Porter’s work on the Red River campaign, a relatively inconsequential side show, count for a great deal and his effective collaboration with Grant and in particular Sherman that led to the fall of Vicksburg count for nothing? You’ve deliberately ignored Porter’s vital role in the most consequential campaign of the war, Vicksburg and control of the Mississippi, to attempt to portray Porter in a light of your own creation. Poor historical storytelling.
Vicksburg had fallen a year and a half prior to Fort Fisher. The control of the Mississippi had already been lost. This story accurately tells the history of the fall of the last life-line of the confederacy. With the loss of Fort Fisher, the Union controlled the entire east coast.
Iwas there in the 80s and the 90s
Who was a worse general, Butler or Bragg?
Well, judgment is an important trait to consider when grading a general, and I’d say that the officers who honorably kept their oaths to protect the United States of America had better judgment than rebels like Bragg. Butler had more victories than Bragg, Butler freed slaves long before the Emancipation Proclamation was made, he had the judgment to back a winning team with a more righteous cause, etc.
Indoctrinated really well.
Both were equally bad but my age goes to Braxton Bragg because of his reputation. Face it when you have your subordinate generals and your ranking file men hate your guts that says something.
10 minutes in.
Didnt general Sherman pronounce that proclamation about women?
Did they both do it?
Butler definitely did in New Orleans, Sherman possibly did so elsewhere.
Fort Fisher was anything but a Gibraltar---Fort Fisher fell quickly but Gibraltar resisted a siege by France and Spain that lasted well over 3 years.
Considering that the Confederacy existed less 5 years, it's a good comparison.
Wilmington and the fort lasted 4 years, the last seaport city to fall.
@@williamolenick7798 Wilmington lasted as long as it did because there were bigger fish to fry. Once the United States decided to take the place in fell in pretty short order.
@@tombrennan6312scary that the United States government can come and take whatever they want…kind of like what’s going on today. The next civil war will be a war of rights
Your comparing a fort defended by volunteers and basicly conscripts that are out gunned and classed in artillery vs. one defensed by some of the best trained troops in the world that are well supplied
Wonder why they named a fort after Bragg
It was meant to be a slight toward the south.
@@carolinadog8634Then Fort Hood is also a sleight, because he destroyed an entire rebel army.
not really, the south never had enough warm bodies. Imagine if Picketts charge had been on horse back as the Aussies did at Beersheba@@carolinadog8634
The opposite is true. The naming was to placate southerners. @@carolinadog8634
"H.U.G." not "U.S.G."
Hyram Ulysses Grant, Galena Illinois;
but Unconditional Surrender is what it was.
Onor a fort CHABERTON
Tennessee campaigns!????
Braxton Bragg...what a joke
I am convinced the Civil War was a country full of country boys who had crazy ideas 😂
A valid collorary, present from the, "1794 get go" of the Whiskey rebellion, marks a steep incline in consumption of whiskey in America leading up to secession, statisticaly making the Civil War a knock down, drag em out barroom brawl costing 650,000 American lives.
Hardly sir. In April 1862, all Southern men were drafted. Some were executed and could be shot on sight. A third of a million perished. It was the rich plantation owners originally established pre Revolutionary War waging an economic war using poor largely immigrant dirt farmers mostly non slave owning to fight their battles
Damn I fell asleep.
One gets the sense that Atlantic coastal fort command was essentially a demotion for Confederate generals.
The narrator speaks a bit too dramatically
Your grammar is ordinary.
Dramatic adds to the channel.
I take it you never heard a history professor that's really into his subject.
I think fort Fisher was a traitors monument
😂😂😂
Lol I think you funny understand history then
bragg again
That was awesome.Story telling, keep it up with these stories telling.
Thank you! Will do!