Special thank you to the Burklow family of Kentucky and Illinois, whose tireless research allowed us to tell James Burklow's story, and especially for providing access to the restored photo of James. www.burklowfamily.com/pages/james.php facebook.com/BurklowFamily/
who woulda thunk, that a viewer of yours, would wind up with such a wonderful ancestor....keep up the youthfull learning, and teaching us.....' WE the people....." thankyou Mr. Historian.......
I am super happy that the family has that much information about him to be able to share that story with you. I had 23 family members at Gettysburg ( NC ) and the only story I have from all that was one died and yelled "Oh John I am shot" and dropped dead. I so wish I had more stories
I need to send you my 3x great-grandfather's story. He was in the 16th Arkansas, rose to captain, and fought most of the big battles west of the Mississippi before he was captured at Port Hudson south of Vicksburg in 1863. While Grant paroled the enlisted man, the officers were sent north to Camp Johnson in Ohio where he sat out the rest of the war. He left a journal behind and it's a really interesting read into camp life in the Trans-Mississippi theater.
The Battle of Glorietta Pass is always my favorite. Colorado soldiers went south and stopped the rebels in New Mexico, keeping them away from Colorado's rich mines.
They were the Special Forces unit of the day. As a proud U.S. NAVY veteran I salute the brave men of Co. K RIP gentlemen, uou have fulfilled your duties. 👍🏻🇺🇸
What always amazes me about the Civil War are the numbers of great leaders and brilliant tacticians the played such an important role. You speak of the officer who was a music teacher before the war, and Joshua Chamberlain’s role in Gettysburg and so many of the War’s battles is astounding. He was, and returned to be, a professor at university in Maine. Ken Burn’s excellent Civil War series has a good accounting of his exploits. We are lucky in Canada that our country never had any early conflicts of the magnitude in that war.
I'm a very distant relative of Governor Magoffin, and went to high school near a battlefield of the US invasion of Upper Canada. The Battle of Stoney Creek would make a good episode. The British commander knocked himself out, one US General rallied British troops against his own men and the other US General ran away so fast he ended up at the main British camp instead of returning to the US fort. Thanks for another good video.
This is a good example of what makes The History Guy my favorite go-to internet site. Real history that genders understanding of real people in the broad scope of culture in a place and time. Thank you again.
Doing the story of common soldiers as well as being witness to the Great Depression is why I ask that you , please, do a video on Ernie Pyle. Thank You for bringing history to light and making it interesting.
Once again, you tell the stories America needs to know! Thank you! My ancestor (one of many ),was wounded at Fort Fisher and died of his wounds 10 days later. His mother applied for and received 8 dollars a month for the loss of her son.
Excellent episode, been an enthusiastic reader about the Civil War since grade school days, am 66 now and still seeking out more to read. My Great-Grandfather sparked my interest in the early 1960s with his copy of "The American Heritage Picture History Of The Civil War". Still have his copy of that book.
It is such a breadth of fresh air to read families relatives exploits during, in this case, the civil war, and it is fantastic, that you have shared it with us, thank you
I've been to several of the towns you mentioned in this video, including Memphis, Covington, and La Grange, and I'm revisiting the Shiloh battlefield tomorrow, as I haven't been there since I was a young child. Great nugget of forgotten history - as always.
I signed up for Magellan based on your recommendation and I do love it- fascinating and well done documentaries on a huge variety of subjects. I now know why Scrabble tiles are valued the way they are and how a Linotype machine works. Thanks!
The three Alford brothers of Alfordsville Indiana who were prodigious letter writers during their Civil War service and all died. Their compiled letters edited by Richard S Skidmore “WE ALL MUST DYE SOONER OR LATER” were to and from family and possibly a pastor. Fascinating stuff. Alfordsville is a very small town in southern Indiana. I’m somehow related to them. My grandma Grace was an Alford.
Love all your videos, keep up the excellent work and maybe throw in any forgotten history around Mackinac Island if you would. Ive always wondered how much use the canons facing the lake actually saw.
Fascinating! Our family moved from Chicago to Kansas City Missouri June of 1978 when I was 14. It was in Kansas City that I found out about the Civil War in the West including the Battle of Westport October of 1864 around Kansas City. Westport was once a separate city that is now a neighborhood in Kansas City.
Fascinating! Embodies your efforts to bring forgotten history to light and very well done. My grandfather was a history teacher and I'm sorry he didn't live long enough to see this series. He would have loved them.
Great episode! As you brought out, we often hear about the big names "Lee, Grant, Sherman, Stonewall Jackson", it is nice to hear about the everyday soldier and his exploits on managing day to day. This has inspired me to look closer at a couple of my ancestors who fought on the Confederate side. One, Co A, 2 Georgia Infantry. Please keep up this informative and entertaining channel.
Every person is a history book whether they realize it or not. Recently I was following several trails of possible ancestors in both Union and Confederate units. The most documented one was a Lt in the South Carolina cavalry. Little details like pay and what officers correspondence talked about is fascinating. After about 2 years he resigned in protest because he was threatened with court martial for an unnamed alleged offense. He took great offense to the allegation against him but the Confederate brass wanted to fry him anyway. So he wrote them a farewell letter and that's the last document I found. Interestingly none of the available documentation hints at what he was accused of doing. or not doing.
Thank you. I grew up in Natchez, MS and now reside just outside of Memphis. Much of this is local history and I very often visit most of the cities mentioned. Very much enjoyed it.
Admittedly the civil war, or as it should be called, the war of northern aggression, has never been of great interest to me when compared to just about any other American conflict, but when I saw this was about the western campaign I was truly hoping I was going to hear the stories of the battles that took place in what is now the state of New mexico. To me, a United States Westerner through and through, the real West doesn't begin until the Rocky Mountains ha ha ha! Anyway, I bought a book a couple years ago called, "Best little stories from the civil war" which, among other things, talks about those few battles in New mexico and I was amazed having lived my whole life and never knowing any civil war battle took place in New mexico territory. Another fascinating story from that book tells of Ulysses S. Grant's first battle, and the apprehension and fear that he felt going into it, and when he got to the location where the Confederates had been camped, they were gone. And Ulysses S. Grant is quoted as saying after that first non-engagement he never felt the same fear again going into battle. Not that he wasn't apprehensive, but the fear wasn't there, something close to that anyway. Bravo History Guy!
Always love your stories. My g.g. Grand Father was a Private in the California 2nd Volunteer infantry Company B. Spent his enlistment on Alcatraz never seen a shot fired.
Michael that’s awesome! My great grandmother told stories of Jesse James and his gang riding through their farmland. Awesome stories we (the people of this country) have! I guess one time they were being chased and she was a little girl and saw it happening.
Fascinating! I have the extensive records of a great, great grandfather, including his hand-drawn battle maps who served in the Valley Campaign under Phil Sheridan. His diary’s are an interesting glimpse of daily life during the Civil War. He enlisted in the 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Calvary.
I would be happy to share his story in a similar way if you wish. Feel free to email me at thehistoryguyyt@gmail. In any case, it is awesome to have that kind of record of family history.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered thanks! I’ll get back to you later after I go through the documents. He typed out an autobiography before his death in France in the 1930’s. It reveals that later he was a Wall Street lawyer who argued cases before the New York and US Supreme Courts and ran as a minor candidate for New York City mayor. A fascinating figure from the Progressive Era.
Having grown up in Memphis, I have heard many stories about Gettysburg but none about where I lived. There are many places mentioned that I recognize as well as a few people. My great-great-grandfather was stationed at Collierville, TN. As a Boy Scout I hiked a nine mile trail around Shiloh in the 100th anniversary of the battle.
TheHistoryGuy you reminded us of a very important and often overlooked factor of history, in general, when you said "his was just one story of..."; that is that every single person throughout history has a different perspective and unique experience of the time they each lived through. When looking through the window of history, we are only able to see the tiniest of glimpses into the past. Our understanding of the past too often comes from these brief bits knowledge. Unless we look for more information from other points of view from that time and place, our picture will be distorted. TheHistoryGuy, I really appreciate you for bringing these stories from the past to the present so that we may begin to understand that past just a little bit more and a little bit better. Sincerely, Thank You!
My Great Grandfather, Abner Weatherly, also born in 1841, and also served with Company K, but in the South Carolina 8th Infantry, and also died at 65. My Grandfather was the last of his 14 kids.
Your videos are such a gift, thank for your time and efforts, keeps and old house painter occupied on those long boring days, although I fear I’m about to run out of videos after binge watching lol
Great story and a glimpse of a real soldier’s life during a frightful time in American history. I did not realize that so many soldiers got injured in non combat accidents.
I saw John Wayne's yacht on Lake Union, in Seattle, later 1980s It was built on a narrow ex-Navy hull Lots of Hollywood folks, like Johnny Carson, liked to boat around the Salish Sea in the summers
Um.. wow. My Grandfather still lived in paducah till he passed away. I never knew his grandfather fought in the civil war. I knew he himself had served in WW2. Amazing History. TY THG.
Thanks for sharing this story of a regular soldier. While brief, it parallels the spirt of War & Peace by Tolstoy who felt generals and state leaders received too much credit for battles and tactics. One of my great-grandfathers could have easily served with Burklow.
Maybe sometime- it is an interesting, if absurdly small, battle. The California/Arizona/New Mexico engagements are usually called the campaign in the "far West."
Yes Sir . The furthest West Civil War Battle took place in Arizona . The Battle of Picacho Pass or the Battle of Picacho Peak was an engagement of the American Civil War on April 15, 1862. The action occurred around Picacho Peak, 50 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona. They hold Annual Reenactments each April at the Site .
I found this piece especially interesting as I am from Midway, Kentucky, ten miles west of Lexington where my family has resided since my great great great grandfather Patrick Martin settled here after fighting in the Continental army during the Revolution. His son Jesse Martin (whose nephews included Frank and Jesse James) and grandson Henry l Martin, my great grandfather, fought for the south during the Civil War. After being captured and sent to a POW camp in Chicago for a year, both were repatriated after a prisoner exchange which was common during the early parts of the war since dealing with large scale groups of prisoners was something very new. Jesse Martin went back to fight for the south and did so until the end of the war but my great grandfather had had enough. He returned to Midway and being only 15 at the time, had done more than enough military service. Life was very hard in Woodford County during the war as successive bands of Union and Confederate raiders moved through the area stealing and pillaging whatever they could. There are some very interesting stories about a local horse breeder whose prized thoroughbred Stallion was stolen by renegade rebels forcing him to chase them to Danville and ransoming his stallion back. People in my area were reduced to subsistence living, forced to eat roots to survive. A terrible chapter in the history of my town. Also check out the story of “Sue Mundy”, a Confederate spy who in reality was Captain Jerome Clarke, eventually captured and hung near Midway.
Excellent presentation H Guy. It was interesting that Grierson served out west organizing and commanding African American cavalry of the10th Cavalry. His treatment and respect he displayed to the local natives made his superiors wonder about his priorities.
There are so many episodes that could be made about the War Between The States in the West. Stand Waite and the Five Civilized Tribes, The Red River Campaign Port Hudson (longest siege in history on the North American continent), Palmetto Ranch (last battle of the wat)
Videos about the Western theather of the Civil War are always welcome, please consider doing more videos about this topic specially, if possible, about those battles and generals that despite their importance are not well-known like Major General Samuel R. Curtis (Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport) or the Battle of Stones River.
Excuse me sir I spoke too soon I watched video outstanding the presentation was amazing. You should definitely be awarded for your insurmountable efforts. Right on bro!
I loved the way you put it, he was in the war for 4 years and managed to miss every major battle while being in constant action!
Special thank you to the Burklow family of Kentucky and Illinois, whose tireless research allowed us to tell James Burklow's story, and especially for providing access to the restored photo of James. www.burklowfamily.com/pages/james.php facebook.com/BurklowFamily/
This is my great-great grandfather! Thank you SO much for this video! Its amazing!
who woulda thunk, that a viewer of yours, would wind up with such a wonderful ancestor....keep up the youthfull learning, and teaching us.....' WE the people....." thankyou Mr. Historian.......
This was a great story even though it didn't involve any pirates.
Grierson's cavalry raid was pretty piratical.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Agreed!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel You usually expect raids like that from people like JEB Stuart. Just goes to show, the north had its moments as well.
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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel We can hear the battle cry reverberating even today: "Arrr!!"
I am super happy that the family has that much information about him to be able to share that story with you. I had 23 family members at Gettysburg ( NC ) and the only story I have from all that was one died and yelled "Oh John I am shot" and dropped dead. I so wish I had more stories
I need to send you my 3x great-grandfather's story. He was in the 16th Arkansas, rose to captain, and fought most of the big battles west of the Mississippi before he was captured at Port Hudson south of Vicksburg in 1863. While Grant paroled the enlisted man, the officers were sent north to Camp Johnson in Ohio where he sat out the rest of the war. He left a journal behind and it's a really interesting read into camp life in the Trans-Mississippi theater.
I'd be happy to!
Have you published it and if not, will you?
The Battle of Glorietta Pass is always my favorite. Colorado soldiers went south and stopped the rebels in New Mexico, keeping them away from Colorado's rich mines.
They were the Special Forces unit of the day. As a proud U.S. NAVY veteran I salute the brave men of Co. K RIP gentlemen, uou have fulfilled your duties. 👍🏻🇺🇸
When I see you post a new episode I stop if at all possible to watch. Thank you again for a great episode.
What always amazes me about the Civil War are the numbers of great leaders and brilliant tacticians the played such an important role. You speak of the officer who was a music teacher before the war, and Joshua Chamberlain’s role in Gettysburg and so many of the War’s battles is astounding. He was, and returned to be, a professor at university in Maine. Ken Burn’s excellent Civil War series has a good accounting of his exploits. We are lucky in Canada that our country never had any early conflicts of the magnitude in that war.
Makes one Proud to know his story. Another great episode from THG of our past That Deserves To Be Remembered.
I'm a very distant relative of Governor Magoffin, and went to high school near a battlefield of the US invasion of Upper Canada. The Battle of Stoney Creek would make a good episode. The British commander knocked himself out, one US General rallied British troops against his own men and the other US General ran away so fast he ended up at the main British camp instead of returning to the US fort. Thanks for another good video.
This is a good example of what makes The History Guy my favorite go-to internet site. Real history that genders understanding of real people in the broad scope of culture in a place and time. Thank you again.
I'm not kidding. I'm so glad this channel is getting sponsors. This content is on point.
Doing the story of common soldiers as well as being witness to the Great Depression is why I ask that you , please, do a video on Ernie Pyle. Thank You for bringing history to light and making it interesting.
Ernie was a humble man and his death was a tradedy
Fantastic. As you say, the stories of individuals is the real history. Thank you!
Once again, you tell the stories America needs to know! Thank you! My ancestor (one of many ),was wounded at Fort Fisher and died of his wounds 10 days later. His mother applied for and received 8 dollars a month for the loss of her son.
Excellent episode, been an enthusiastic reader about the Civil War since grade school days, am 66 now and still seeking out more to read. My Great-Grandfather sparked my interest in the early 1960s with his copy of "The American Heritage Picture History Of The Civil War". Still have his copy of that book.
He’s my great great grandpa! This is so amazing! My grandmother is Glendora Burkalow!
A very interesting story of a man who really deserves to be remembered !! You make history so interesting !! 👍👍
Thank you for todays lesson.
It is such a breadth of fresh air to read families relatives exploits during, in this case, the civil war, and it is fantastic, that you have shared it with us, thank you
Good morning! You wear that Kepi well, sir. Thank you for more History that should not be forgotten.
I've read many books on the Civil War, and reading books with the perspective of the South are really great reads.
Did they do hat bashing in that war? ....... looks like it to me
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YES THEY ARE!! when we can understand both sides it becomes more clear...
"Company Aytch" by Sam Watkins, is a definitive book on the Confederate perspective.
@@HemlockRidge thanks!!
I've been to several of the towns you mentioned in this video, including Memphis, Covington, and La Grange, and I'm revisiting the Shiloh battlefield tomorrow, as I haven't been there since I was a young child. Great nugget of forgotten history - as always.
Always grateful for your efforts.....thank you!
Ahh, a new history guy video with breakfast. Wholesome way to start the day!
Great history to never forget
So many stories of the common soldiers are untold - thank you for this one.
The Horse Soldiers is one of my favorite movies I forwarded the link to a friend who is an Artillery re-inactor in NM
I signed up for Magellan based on your recommendation and I do love it- fascinating and well done documentaries on a huge variety of subjects. I now know why Scrabble tiles are valued the way they are and how a Linotype machine works. Thanks!
I am glad you like it- we do too.
The three Alford brothers of Alfordsville Indiana who were prodigious letter writers during their Civil War service and all died. Their compiled letters edited by Richard S Skidmore “WE ALL MUST DYE SOONER OR LATER” were to and from family and possibly a pastor. Fascinating stuff. Alfordsville is a very small town in southern Indiana. I’m somehow related to them. My grandma Grace was an Alford.
Love all your videos, keep up the excellent work and maybe throw in any forgotten history around Mackinac Island if you would. Ive always wondered how much use the canons facing the lake actually saw.
History Guy i just want to thank you. I asked for more Civil War episodes an you have delivered. Thank you Sir.
Enjoyed this very much. Thank you!
Thank you that was a very nice personal touch
Fascinating! Our family moved from Chicago to Kansas City Missouri June of 1978 when I was 14. It was in Kansas City that I found out about the Civil War in the West including the Battle of Westport October of 1864 around Kansas City. Westport was once a separate city that is now a neighborhood in Kansas City.
Great story especially given it was about a predecessor of one of your many fans. Made this history connect with us today.
I always enjoy all of your great presentation. Thank you sir.
One of Your Finest Episodes to date. Great Job.
Fascinating! Embodies your efforts to bring forgotten history to light and very well done. My grandfather was a history teacher and I'm sorry he didn't live long enough to see this series. He would have loved them.
Great episode! As you brought out, we often hear about the big names "Lee, Grant, Sherman, Stonewall Jackson", it is nice to hear about the everyday soldier and his exploits on managing day to day.
This has inspired me to look closer at a couple of my ancestors who fought on the Confederate side. One, Co A, 2 Georgia Infantry.
Please keep up this informative and entertaining channel.
Every person is a history book whether they realize it or not. Recently I was following several trails of possible ancestors in both Union and Confederate units. The most documented one was a Lt in the South Carolina cavalry. Little details like pay and what officers correspondence talked about is fascinating. After about 2 years he resigned in protest because he was threatened with court martial for an unnamed alleged offense. He took great offense to the allegation against him but the Confederate brass wanted to fry him anyway. So he wrote them a farewell letter and that's the last document I found. Interestingly none of the available documentation hints at what he was accused of doing. or not doing.
Dude, I love you.
That was a fantastic Civil War story. Tkx
Excellent, as usual - thanks for continuing to share!
Thank you. I grew up in Natchez, MS and now reside just outside of Memphis. Much of this is local history and I very often visit most of the cities mentioned. Very much enjoyed it.
Admittedly the civil war, or as it should be called, the war of northern aggression, has never been of great interest to me when compared to just about any other American conflict, but when I saw this was about the western campaign I was truly hoping I was going to hear the stories of the battles that took place in what is now the state of New mexico. To me, a United States Westerner through and through, the real West doesn't begin until the Rocky Mountains ha ha ha! Anyway, I bought a book a couple years ago called, "Best little stories from the civil war" which, among other things, talks about those few battles in New mexico and I was amazed having lived my whole life and never knowing any civil war battle took place in New mexico territory. Another fascinating story from that book tells of Ulysses S. Grant's first battle, and the apprehension and fear that he felt going into it, and when he got to the location where the Confederates had been camped, they were gone. And Ulysses S. Grant is quoted as saying after that first non-engagement he never felt the same fear again going into battle. Not that he wasn't apprehensive, but the fear wasn't there, something close to that anyway. Bravo History Guy!
The South started the war. The North finished it.
Living in Memphis that was rather interesting hearing about historical incidents in places like Covington and Germantown of all places.
Always love your stories. My g.g. Grand Father was a Private in the California 2nd Volunteer infantry Company B. Spent his enlistment on Alcatraz never seen a shot fired.
Ahh!! Now that sounds like a exciting full life!! I bet he had a few stories for his grandkids!!
Michael that’s awesome! My great grandmother told stories of Jesse James and his gang riding through their farmland. Awesome stories we (the people of this country) have! I guess one time they were being chased and she was a little girl and saw it happening.
Fascinating! I have the extensive records of a great, great grandfather, including his hand-drawn battle maps who served in the Valley Campaign under Phil Sheridan. His diary’s are an interesting glimpse of daily life during the Civil War. He enlisted in the 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Calvary.
I would be happy to share his story in a similar way if you wish. Feel free to email me at thehistoryguyyt@gmail. In any case, it is awesome to have that kind of record of family history.
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered thanks! I’ll get back to you later after I go through the documents. He typed out an autobiography before his death in France in the 1930’s. It reveals that later he was a Wall Street lawyer who argued cases before the New York and US Supreme Courts and ran as a minor candidate for New York City mayor. A fascinating figure from the Progressive Era.
Excellent as always. Thank you.
Your research inspired by a request to review one unknown individual is astounding.
Having grown up in Memphis, I have heard many stories about Gettysburg but none about where I lived. There are many places mentioned that I recognize as well as a few people. My great-great-grandfather was stationed at Collierville, TN. As a Boy Scout I hiked a nine mile trail around Shiloh in the 100th anniversary of the battle.
*A great actual soldier's story* Thx History Guy!
U are the best history channel in the history of history channels. Thank u
This story was really interesting! Great video
outstanding.
You did it again. Thank you.
TheHistoryGuy you reminded us of a very important and often overlooked factor of history, in general, when you said "his was just one story of..."; that is that every single person throughout history has a different perspective and unique experience of the time they each lived through. When looking through the window of history, we are only able to see the tiniest of glimpses into the past. Our understanding of the past too often comes from these brief bits knowledge. Unless we look for more information from other points of view from that time and place, our picture will be distorted. TheHistoryGuy, I really appreciate you for bringing these stories from the past to the present so that we may begin to understand that past just a little bit more and a little bit better. Sincerely, Thank You!
My Great Grandfather, Abner Weatherly, also born in 1841, and also served with Company K, but in the South Carolina 8th Infantry, and also died at 65. My Grandfather was the last of his 14 kids.
I have enjoyed many of the stories, but i think this is such an unique story. fab.
Best episode yet!
That was a fun episode.
Your videos are such a gift, thank for your time and efforts, keeps and old house painter occupied on those long boring days, although I fear I’m about to run out of videos after binge watching lol
Great story and a glimpse of a real soldier’s life during a frightful time in American history. I did not realize that so many soldiers got injured in non combat accidents.
Thank you for another great history lesson !
What a great personal story people are interesting.
Thanks for reigniting my interest in history, I love it and your efforts to do what you do best. Bravo!
I saw John Wayne's yacht on Lake Union, in Seattle, later 1980s
It was built on a narrow ex-Navy hull
Lots of Hollywood folks, like Johnny Carson, liked to boat around the Salish Sea in the summers
I talk about some famous people's yachts in this episode: ua-cam.com/video/i_HCn3hMrAo/v-deo.html
I joined up to fight in Battery K , An eager young lad from Kentucky
Through many a skirmish, I never got shot
I guess you could say I was lucky
Man now I want that station
Great job and great info PS your dad's taste in movies was top notch as well
That's an impeccable kepi you have sir.
You have a wonderful way of presenting a story. This video was over much too soon.
I did enjoy this episode, THG. Fascinating and memorable.
I’d love to see something on Kirby-Smithdom!
The personal stories, even when they don't involve pirates, turn out to be far more interesting than the larger accounts.
Um.. wow. My Grandfather still lived in paducah till he passed away. I never knew his grandfather fought in the civil war. I knew he himself had served in WW2. Amazing History. TY THG.
Great example of “Defeat in detail”
Thanks for sharing this story of a regular soldier. While brief, it parallels the spirt of War & Peace by Tolstoy who felt generals and state leaders received too much credit for battles and tactics. One of my great-grandfathers could have easily served with Burklow.
What a great story!
Great story!
thanks
When you titled this "The Western Campaign" I thought you were REALLY going West as in the Battle of Picacho Pass. Love your History, Thank you.
Maybe sometime- it is an interesting, if absurdly small, battle. The California/Arizona/New Mexico engagements are usually called the campaign in the "far West."
Yes Sir .
The furthest West Civil War Battle took place in Arizona .
The Battle of Picacho Pass or the Battle of Picacho Peak was an engagement of the American Civil War on April 15, 1862. The action occurred around Picacho Peak, 50 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona.
They hold Annual Reenactments each April at the Site .
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I found this piece especially interesting as I am from Midway, Kentucky, ten miles west of Lexington where my family has resided since my great great great grandfather Patrick Martin settled here after fighting in the Continental army during the Revolution. His son Jesse Martin (whose nephews included Frank and Jesse James) and grandson Henry l Martin, my great grandfather, fought for the south during the Civil War. After being captured and sent to a POW camp in Chicago for a year, both were repatriated after a prisoner exchange which was common during the early parts of the war since dealing with large scale groups of prisoners was something very new. Jesse Martin went back to fight for the south and did so until the end of the war but my great grandfather had had enough. He returned to Midway and being only 15 at the time, had done more than enough military service. Life was very hard in Woodford County during the war as successive bands of Union and Confederate raiders moved through the area stealing and pillaging whatever they could. There are some very interesting stories about a local horse breeder whose prized thoroughbred Stallion was stolen by renegade rebels forcing him to chase them to Danville and ransoming his stallion back. People in my area were reduced to subsistence living, forced to eat roots to survive. A terrible chapter in the history of my town. Also check out the story of “Sue Mundy”, a Confederate spy who in reality was Captain Jerome Clarke, eventually captured and hung near Midway.
Any relation to John Martin born 1781 married Jane Agee, warren co.ky?
This was very interesting story because we see what it was like from the soldiers view. Thanks for sharing this great piece of history.
Great story.
Excellent presentation H Guy. It was interesting that Grierson served out west organizing and commanding African American cavalry of the10th Cavalry. His treatment and respect he displayed to the local natives made his superiors wonder about his priorities.
Thanks again
Great video. Thank you.
Snappy and well done, as per usual.
There are so many episodes that could be made about the War Between The States in the West. Stand Waite and the Five Civilized Tribes, The Red River Campaign Port Hudson (longest siege in history on the North American continent), Palmetto Ranch (last battle of the wat)
Love this, as a Marine; there are a lot of unsung heroes in skirmishes that don't make the books.
No kidding. I just found out that my great uncle received 4 bronze stars for action on guadalcanal. Never knew no body did till after his death.
Great as always. One thing that would help me with campaigns like that is an occasional map so I can more easily follow along
Videos about the Western theather of the Civil War are always welcome, please consider doing more videos about this topic specially, if possible, about those battles and generals that despite their importance are not well-known like Major General Samuel R. Curtis (Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport) or the Battle of Stones River.
Excuse me sir I spoke too soon I watched video outstanding the presentation was amazing. You should definitely be awarded for your insurmountable efforts. Right on bro!
One of the best ever. No, definitely the best because it was personal, a tiny but important story out of millions of small stories.
Your team is great