It's more fun when you can decide what to learn on your own. In school you're forced into a specific curriculum and unless you're someone who has the drive (and time) to learn outside of school, that's all you get exposed to. I've been out of school for nearly 20 years now and I've done more self-learning in that time than I spent learning/studying in school.
@@khalilalkarrsifi419b What an absolutely ridiculous generalisation. I could just as easily say most students are lazy, brain dead zombies who would rather play computer games than study... Actually that's accurate.
I’ve been a student of the civil war for about 18 years. It’s more fascinating to me then all the other wars combined. No matter how much I read and learn I can never get enough
It was a dramatic shift in the United States founding principles. Lincoln and the north illegally and treasonously implemented a Federal Nationalized Democracy which is what we live under to this day. The South seceded ideologically to preserve the constitutional Republic under a Confederation of sovereign Nation States that the United States was established as in 1776. There are two United States, Jeffersonian America from 1776 to 1861, and Lincolnian America from 1865 to present.
It's an interesting conflict, no matter what any southern sympathizers claim, they were never going to win, the naval blockade alone pretty much decided it. The confederacy did, militarily speaking, achieve a level of success well worth studying, the ability to maintain a coherent fighting force, more or less competently supplied in the face of economic collapse and a nearly total lack of industrial production capacity was remarkable, even if it was a foregone conclusion from its inception.
As a citizen of Kansas, United States, thank you for not leaving bleeding Kansas out, as a lot of people believe that it should be referred to as the beginning of the civil war.
I'm for world peace, but my not for peace in America..I mean why did the turmoil stop!!!I'm against black America, white America I love world peace, but peace in America us nothing but a joke!!!
55:05 It's worth mentioning that Col. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his troops. It was seen as a sort of insult by the Confederacy, burying him with who they saw as lesser peoples. When the Union recovered that ground, they offered to return his body to his family. They responded with "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers. ... We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company."
This documentary tells the current selective revisionist story of the Mass. 54th and Col. Shaw. You are correct in your comments. But the documentary failed to note that the 54th were used as cannon fodder in a futile frontal assault against well built and well defended Confederate breastworks, and that they were slaughtered. It also fails to mention that on the Confederate side, the amongst the defenders was the son of William Ellison Jr., one of the largest slave owners in South Carolina, and that they were black. Many blacks served in the Confederate military as volunteers like Ellison. And unlike Union "Colored Troops", which were made up of segregated troops, Southern black troops were integrated into the the regular forces. 20% of the Confederate Navy were black freemen.
Forgot to mention the assault those Shaw troops had against black folks just before their assault on Ft Wagner. Great music in Glory, but pious cause narrative once again.
As a Dutch man i'm just an outsider looking in; America's history fascinates me. Thank you very much for sharing, sir. Appreciate it a lot. Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
Hi, Tonny 'Wild' Weasel, I was just scrolling thru the comments, and yours caught my attention. I don't see you at all, as an outsider, per say, because America, has been built by people like you who came here and settled down. In Fact, every Nationality has a stake in America, because of the Constitution that the Founding Father's Quilled, way back in the 17th Century. Everyone who ventured here went thru tremendous struggles to make their place here, for their children, and their children's - children! And all that is in our CULTURE FABRIC. Even Look at Me I was considered an "Outsider" Up until 1950, when the Native Americans got to be Full Citizens!!! Crazy Hanh??? Yeah I'm 4/4! Injun and I just love my toaster, TV, Car & Computer!!! Oh yes and Pizza delivery!!! :D So I don't See anyone in the world a "TOTAL OUTSIDER", Because, Your Culture, and Country, have shaped this Nation!!! And I just Love it, and aalll of you!!! :D Good Luck Out There Mike Talas.
The best thing the British got from the Dutch was William of Orange, who with his wife Mary signed their Bill of Rights to be co-regents of Great Britain. This led to the Virginia Bill of Rights, and later the US Bill of Rights. The idea of the separation of church and state and freedom of religion, and federalism we owe to the Swiss cantons and their Baptists though.
THANK YOU for this comment. For me, it's the "Mary-Land" as opposed to the correct pronunciation of "Mare-uh-lund". You'd think someone interested enough to create a documentary would know at least the correct pronunciation of the states. Lol
There is music even in a child's cry. Nails on a chalk board, Judge Pirro, Looney Loomer, VD Vance😂 Forgive, but you sound Trumpian and politically correct 😂😂😂😂and 🙃 Shy Low🤣
Love the narrator's voice and accent. His pronunciation of some American words is greatly amusing - what?🤔Oh!😄🤓💖 Thank you for this substantial, speedy historical overview video 🙏
I kinda laughed every time he pronounced "Potomac" and "Appomattox" but I guess it's because he's British. This was a very interesting perspective of the War. No matter hoe many times you are taught about these battles in school and see them in docs like this, they are still captivating as ever. Great job!!!
It was general McKellen that got me - who knew Gandalf fought for the union? 😂😂 As a Brit with a reasonable level of interest in the war, I wouldn't have made any of the myriad pronunciation errors here... It's almost as if they've never watched a single documentary?!
Been looking for the comment but no ones mentioned it so far- at 25:38 (could be a little off but around there) he says James Brown instead of John Brown 😂
@@EnglishTMTB Im guessing you missed it? around 25:38 he said James Brown instead of John Brown lol😂 Never knew the Godfather of Soul tried to raid an armory lol
Wow so much knowledge on this documentary you made well done! I believe that everybody has the right to be free and independent in their own life! It's crazy to know that half of our country wanted slavery and the other half wanted free and peace with one another!! Thank God the right people won that crazy War! We won the Civil War and it was amazing! It changed our country forever in a very good way!! We did not just free the🇺🇲 United States🇺🇸 from slavery. we also free the 🌍 from it as well!P.S. why did we have slavery States anyways!?! To be honest with you! to me it just doesn't make no damn sense! how the other side thought it is right to own someone and control their life and their future and their destiny! Everybody and I mean everybody should have the right to be free and independent with their own life!💓🌍🇺🇸💞💕💞🇺🇸🌍💓
The commentator is doing a great job in describing the American Civil war but I'm waiting for President Lincoln to speak the Gettysburg Address, when I was a grammar school student I had to memorized that .
Just a small correction but Texas was actually the 7th state to secede from the Union. Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union and was the first to be readmitted after the war was over. Overall the presentation is solid though 👌
One thing to understand is that although the South continued to advocate the State's Rights to maintain Slavery, the Abolitionists & Industrialists of the North would debate the Institution of Slavery while being clothed in comfortable cotton garments, drinking coffee & tea - rum spirits - while enjoying the sweetness of sugar in baked goods puffing on cigars or pipes full of fresh tobacco. The North also enjoyed the monopoly of US manufacturing and/or refining these goods and controlled the vast majority of US transoceanic shipping by sea. Hugh corporations for insurance also grew out of the need to protect Northern Profits. The North also had control of all US Slave Ships and shipping involved in the "Triangle" of trade from Africa to America to Europe to Africa. It was no coincidence that the North and the South would eventually collide over Slavery. Some would say that Slavery was the backbone to American (USA) Growth & Prosperity. The consequences were a Civil War and another 100 years of Racism in a country that staked its claim on being a God Ordained, Christian Nation founded on the same God & Bible dedicated to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for all Free Men. Families & Religious Denominations would divide. 400 years later and the debate continues over Race. God is currently being rapidly removed from the Equation. Many in the USA believe another Civil War is possible as Regions - some within States - divide socially & politically. Thank you for your Documentary. A History Buff from New England, USA. (04/28/22)
this. this is the comment I was looking for. I'm greatful I'm not alone in the sea of comments that seem to praise the north without realizing how absolutely corrupt and enabling they were by reaping the rewards of the slaves they brought over in the first place and gave to the people who would only be called monsters for using what they were given.
@@feralmagick7177 Thank you for your reply. There was a PBS Documentary done - DVD Library. A woman who is a descendent in a reasonably affluent family today lives in Bristol, Connecticut. She was curious about her heritage and how it connected to her life and her family. She is a direct descendent to the owner of over 10% of the Slave ships. In fact, the majority of Slave Ships were owned by people from Bristol. Almost all the rest originated from Newport, Rhode Island. I actually took Notes from the DVD. This dated Documentary got me going on the connections of many major businesses associated with the Slave Trade in the Northern States. She opened the "Can of Worms". Just recently I recycled my research paper on the DVD. I said to myself: "Who cares what conclusions I have come to believe." Again, Thank you. Another interesting 'Tidbit'. Today when people refer to Northern expansion of Land Acquistion from the Native Tribes, they refer to the "Legal Terms" under the British Land Grant System of the British Crown. Well, when one got an approval for a Land Grant it was called a "Plantation" & a Number. Seldom do you read or hear any reference to "Plantation" history.
Though a part of me somewhat misses the centralization of history programming on television, and the deep piercing voices of narrators from History and Nat Geo documentaries, I really am quite content with such a concise depiction of history through UA-cam channels like yours. I feel videos like these, and the comments that clarify or check information, allow for a greater learning experience overall. Thank you.
@@ralphquinteros7564Bad start using 'industrious' instead of 'industrial' in the first minute. OK documentary which would have benefited from a more professional narrator.
My 2 great-grandfather, 3rd great-grandfather, a 2nd great-uncle and more joined the Union and served in the Civil War. My great-grandmother was 40 years younger than my great-grandfather. She died in 1958. I was almost 8 at the time and had grown up with her. She told me a few things he told her about the War and a few things about him.
I have some ancestors that served in the 3rd Potomac home brigade. My home state of Maryland is rich with civil war history and it was so amazing to find out I had family members listed on the union roster of the 3rd Potomac home brigade. Although Gettysburg and Anteitam get the most recognition the the battle of Monocacy was the closest the Confederate troops ever pushed into Maryland. The Confederate forces were within 30ish miles of overunning the capital Washington DC. They may well have taken the capital if the union forces had not stalled the advance towards Washington at the battle of Monocacy. It's so amazing that some of my ancestors and family served in the battle of Monocacy. According to the rosters of the time I had 4 family members in the 3rd Potomac home brigade and that unit fought at Monocacy. It's just mind blowing to me that my family participated in that battle that could very well have turned the tide of the war if the union had not stalled the Confederate troops. They got within 30 miles of taking over Washington.
I think its hard to tell John Browns story without also reciting his final address to the court. "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood" With in 2 years the nation would be in a state of civil war and union soldiers would find themselves marching into battle singing hymns about his actions. Never before or since in American history have more prophetic words been spoken.
Ive always been very interested with how other countries learn history growing up. I’m from America and just always been fascinated with history here and around the world, and what we are all taught in schools
@@carlsonkearley3727 i'm not sure if this makes a difference, but i was in Catholic school for year 7-10, then a Baptist school for year 11. teachers seemed like they didn't really care for what we learned either. like even now i've only ever head genghis khan as a name, i don't know who he was or what century he belonged to. and the only Napolean i know is my shorthair cat lmao, that's why i like self-teaching myself important events in history.
If the civil war was about slavery why was the emancipate proclamation written in 1863 and not before the war started? The war was about control of cotton and tobacco and the few families that owned very large farms that set the market prices. As was mine was the most powerful. Other than the battles and body count the rest is pure fiction
😂😂😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ old enemies shake hands Confederate veteran Union veteran shake hands 50th anniversary... ("WOW")!!! 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 Lost their lives In the line of duty. Taking as a percentage has risen as high as 6 million souls. The human Of, the civil war was beyond expectations. THE END 😊
There sure are a lot of inconsistencies in this video. One of which is @34:35. Union troops are waving a Confederate battle flag. Also, since when was Robert E. Lee's uniform union blue color?
Potomac: Emphasis on the second syllable, please. Shiloh: The 'i' is long, as in liar. "Shyloh". Your multiple mispronunciations are driving me mad, despite all your preparations and cool paintings. Next time, just ask someone.
Great documentary. The dumbasses who run the history channel should be embarrassed that an amateur...and british, content creator makes better content than they've shit out in a decade or more. Keep it up. Subbed
I like civil war history and found especially interesting hearing how the North evolved differently than the South regarding slavery. In the election of 1860 Missouri a slave owning state voted for a candidate trying to keep things the same by not seceding yet remaining a slave state. Missouri only had cotton in the extreme southeastern part of the state. Slavery was however used on Missouri farms. Missouri was divided more by urban versus rural than by north versus south. St. Louis with its large German immigration was like a Union city in a confederate state, and Missouri supplied soldiers to both sides of the war. I recommend to any civil war buff they visit the Grant national park museum in St. Louis, as he although he was from an abolitionist Ohio family, married the sister of his army buddy in to a slaveowning farm family near St. Louis. Grant had been assigned to a large Union army base called Jefferson Barracks close to St. Louis.
@@successfulexcellent1646 I do not but thanks for the offer. I cannot remember the book title or the author but I read a new book I got from the library this past year where the author came up with a fictional story something to do with arms shipment from North Korea sold over to the black market in Africa to Islamic terrorists in Africa and how through constant one upmanship and China backing North Korea and miscalculations of one upmanship between China and the United States resulted in a nuclear war. The author tried to use world war one history as an inspiration coming up with her story.
@@successfulexcellent1646 Sorry for the confusion by my reply, but I was responding to you thinking I was responding to another conversation on UA-cam of another story involving the Ukraine.
@@larryloveless2967 Before I got to the part about nuclear war, I thought about asking if this was really a fictional story since such weapon trades do actually happen. Lol
@@Nitidus Yes, it was a fictional story. I made a mistake commenting on some UA-cam story about about the war in Ukraine and by mistake did not realize I entered it to a comment I made about this American Civil war story. The author used what happened in world war one as a basis for her book seeing how one incident escalated in to a world war that became nuclear at the end of the book. There was one upmanship that went back and forth and sometimes through error a response back to a country was made even worse by mistake. I read this book I got from the library just a few months before the Ukraine war. Thanks for the info.
This had to be the worst Civil War documentary I've ever seen. Mispronounced names of places and people, like General George McClellan. (How you missed the C-L in the middle of his last name repeatedly has to be some kind of cursed talent.) Repetitious use of scenes from Civil War movies instead of sticking to animated maps and actual pictures from the war. The whole thing came off as you stealing someone else's documentary, but doing so very badly.
The American Civil War sparked my interest in history. I absolutely love learning about the history of it. The politics, the battles, the ideologies of both sides and the commeradery they shared on both sides both during and after a well as before from serving on the same side in the Mexican American War. Also, I liked the movie dark command with John Wayne and Roy rogers, focusing on the bleeding Kansas era, but I've come to realize that it extremely glosses over some of the events... Lawrence itself was one of the bloodiest moments with several dozen, if not hundreds dead and women, well, let's just say these people put bill Cosby and harvry weinstein to shame...
I've noticed too how the history books skimmed over some events and completely left others out. I took a civil war class school and have always been a huge fan of history but only recently discovered the horrible acts enlisted union soldiers did to the civilian population of Missouri. Its pretty easy to understand why Quantrills raiders did what they did in Lawrenceville when you realized how many of them had their wives killed or abused, their families harassed and their homes burned. Not that it made what they did ok but it makes sense that the raiders wanted to exact similar revenge. War is hell. I also find it fascinating that most of the generals on both sides either fought together in the Mexican war or attended west point together.
@@rickeyhall9994 Yeah. I felt the same way about Jesse James after they way his family and others were treated by the railroad company with it making sense he'd become a cowboy version of Robin Hood.
I am a avid history buff, especially on the subject of the US Civil War. It has been interesting to gear an accounting from a non US/CS centric perspective.
I would've enjoyed this more if the narrator hadn't butchered the pronunciation of so many words...what rocket scientist decided hiring him was a good idea? I also could've lived without the race card whine at the end...but such are the times we live in
The southern states refused/neglected to industrialize. Not smart to start a war with an enemy that has many times more factories than you. That is what defeated the Nazis and Japan. The US could build ships, planes, tanks, etc faster than the enemy could destroy them. The southern states had fewer people, fewer factories, fewer resources period. They had built an economy on the backs of slaves. Ironically, slaves had become so expensive the average southerner could not afford one. Those confederate soldiers were dying so that the 1% elite could continue their lavish life style. Those brave rebel boys died for something they could never benefit from. The really sad thing is that slavery had become so expensive eventually it would have to be abandoned in favor of share cropping. Foolish pride got a lot of good people killed.
I am quite impressed with this masterful presentation. The ONE missing piece is the computer generated voice pronunciation of Native American River Names. What a shame the producers couldn't include all America's grandeur
The quality of your content is amazing. But please take responsibility for the many hours you’ve taken from me! These last few days, I thought I’d simply play it as I wind down to sleep and find myself having to go to work in a few hours
Away down South in the land of traitors Rattlesnakes and alligators Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away Where cotton's king and men are chattles Union boys will win the battles Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie I wish I was in Baltimore I'd make secession traitors roar Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away We'll put the traitors all to route I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away (come away) We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie! Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie Oh, may our Stars and Stripes still wave Forever o'er the fee and brave! Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away And let our motto ever be Forever Union and for liberty Right away (right away) Come away (come away) Ride away (ride away) Come away We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie Away (away) Away (away) We'll all go down to Dixie
Please take more care when learning how to pronounce words especially when they are repeated over and over being from Maryland it makes this really well done documentary unwatchable and makes you question the accuracy
At 1.14.08 in this documentary you all of a sudden bring in parts from The Battle of Dybbøl (Danish: Slaget ved Dybbøl; German: Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen), a key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following a siege that began on 2 April. Denmark suffered a severe defeat which - with the Prussian capture of the island of Als - ultimately decided the outcome of the war, forcing Danish cession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Nothing to do with the American Civil War but it happened around the same year. Joav Merrick
@@ariearie3543 they kind of were. A lot of European countries sent observers to see how the war was fought, with the Prussians learning that trains can be used to mobilize their forces quickly.
I am a history nut and the American Civil War is one of the most fascinating to learn about. This documentary does a fantastic job at simplifying the causes of the conflict and the war itself for anyone who is interested in learning about this moment in American history.
It's fascinating because of the difference in what they say happened and what truly happened. All we have to go by is whoever wrote the "story" and the evidence left behind. Next time you get a chance.... take a look at civil war photos. There's not much of a war going on..... they had plenty of high speed cameras back then.....so it really has me confused as to what truly happened. And the Spanish were here so who were we fighting? indians? come on. more like exterminating if anything.... that may be why they telkl this triumphant story. look at those hovels they built. Those people were not to bright.... not even make a straight line. How did they build that stuff at the worlds fair? no way.... I'm not buying it
what exactly r u taking bout the civil war was going between North and South... Americans vs Americans and no they fight have high speed cameras the technology at the time was only bout 20 to 30 years old and still needed alot of equipment to capture photos... and what r u talking bout hovels what is that... And the world's fair didn't happen till the end of the 19th century which was 30 years after the civil war happened and we fought the Mexican American war before the civil war in 1830 so everything u r taking bout either happened before the war or at the war... but pls explain excatly what u r trying to say cause I'm confused
I disagree. The cause of the civil war is absolutely more of a State issue than just slavery alone. Had it not been for States thinking they can cancel laws, secede, and rebel, the civil war would not have occurred in the form that it did. Am I focusing on State's rights? Not specifically, it's larger than that too. Really, the more I learn of it, I see the U.S. Civil War more of a problem with the American Experiment and its version of federalism never having been thoroughly fleshed out in its early years. Slavery is merely a component to it, and I wish more documentaries would treat it that way than recite what revisionists want them to say.
@@platinumuschannel The South themselves said it was about slavery. Here are some of the Declaration Of Secession from the States that rebelled and the reason they gave. South Carolina, the first state to secede, in there Secession Declaration they acknowledged that the trigger was the election of Lincoln and his opposition to slavery: “A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.” Mississippi's reason was the economics of slavery: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin…” Louisiana's reason was again slavery: “The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.” Alabama's reason was a fear of a slave revolt: “Upon the principles then announced by Mr. Lincoln and his leading friends, we are bound to expect his administration to be conducted. Hence it is, that in high places, among the Republican party, the election of Mr. Lincoln is hailed, not simply as it change of Administration, but as the inauguration of new principles, and a new theory of Government, and even as the downfall of slavery. Therefore it is that the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions-nothing less than an open declaration of war-for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and. her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans.” Texas once again slavery:“…in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....” These are the words of the Sothern States that attempted to create their new country. They are written in historic documents that they assumed would be proudly looked on by future generations as the foundation of their new country. All say SLAVERY was the reason. And if that isn't enough to convince you or anyone else then let's see what the “Vice President of the Confederate States” Alexander Stevens had to say was the reason. “ The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew." Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. “ Alexander Stevens March 21, 1862, The Cornerstone Speech. The cause the South fought for is slavery and that is 100% undeniable.
Thank you .I am a ardent student of the American civil war . A war of brother fighting brother .,great loss of life and great savagery .For personal glory his men were slaughtered .
Thank you I'm from Minnesota we where the frist ones to fight to free over 4 million enslaved people I recommend learning about Minnesota civil war history you can find this videos UA-cam as well
You present the civil war as one solely about abolishing slavery but I believe slavery was merely the most salient of a number of issues the north and south were in disagreement over, such as questions of federal government over-reach and the functions of the US Federal Reserve. Are you aware of these other issues? The subsequent portrayal of the war as 'good versus evil' seems a little crude.
@@wendypollock8168 Also, the congressional record in the decades leading up the Ft. Sumter. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska...
Actually it’s George B Crittenden,the man shown in the photo os his brother Thomas Leonidas Crittenden. George was a Confederate general, Thomas was a Union General. it truly was brother against brother. their father was a senator John J Crittenden.
The north was never concerned about the well-being of slaves. It was concerned about the swelling slave population in the south and the possibility of having the same problems suffered in Haiti.
_"Can there be a doubt in any intelligent mind, that the object which the Black Republican party has in view is the ultimate extinction of slavery in the United States? To doubt it, is to cast the imputation of hypocracy and imbecility upon the majority of the people of every Northern State, who have stood by this party through all its trials and struggles, to its ultimate triumph in the election Lincoln. I am sure that no one can entertain for them, individually or collectively, less personal respect than I do, and yet I do give them credit for more sincerity and intelligence than is consistent with the idea that on obtaining power they will refuse to exercise it for the only purpose for which they professed to seek it. I do believe that, with all their mealiness and duplicity, they do hate slavery and slaveholders quite as much as they say they do, and that no argument addressed to their hearts or judgments, in behalf of the constitutional rights of the South, would receive the slightest consideration."_ --Howell Cobb, President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States _"The idea that it is their special mission to war against slavery has held growing sway over the Northern people for many years, and has at length ripened into an armed and bloody crusade against it. This baleful superstition has so far supplied them with a courage and constancy not their own. It is the most powerful and honestly entertained plank in their war platform."_ --Confederate General Patrick Cleburne
Two observations 1) Since it’s inception as a nation , a majority of the people in the US have opposed slavery. They are an admirable people. 2) The LOGICAL conclusion of the Civil War should have been the FORCED repatriation of all freed slaves to their country of embarkation in Africa. This would have enriched both the United States , and Africa. A lost opportunity , sadly.
That is not a logical conclusion at all if you think about it for a bit. The freed men were American and not African. These people, our people, are American by birth and are not identified by the land of their ancestors.
While I understand where you are coming from, I think that idea would not have the impact you think it would. Unlike the present the US would have had no diplomatic sway in the African nations. The idea alone of forcing slave back to their nations would have had no effect on the slaves except derogatory. First, FORCED. It would have been a bad idea coming out of a war that lost millions of people and ripped a country apart to be in a position to force anything. There would have been no weight behind it. Secondly, what good would it have done to send slaves back to the countries that enslaved them in the first place? It’s not like Americans went over to Africa and captured them themselves. They went there and bought them from slave traders. (A practice still going on today though civilized countries no longer participate in the practice.) The best thing to do was what had been done. To this day we can second guess it but at the time given influence and power on the world stage, we did what was best. If we could get over ourselves and actually view history for what it was rather than what we’d like it to be or making mountains of molehills we could see the reasoning and logic of everything even if for the time it was flawed. I tend to think with logic and reasoning over everything else. The US had vast landholdings. The slaves being as they were newly repatriated should have been given a plot of land to work. Not trying to be insulting but they obviously knew how to work the land and that would have been the biggest benefit to them. I believe this was declared by Lincoln only to be repealed after his death which was the biggest mistake as it would have given their generations a good starting point to acclimate into freedom. The shame is that to this day people become so polarized on this issue one way or the other that actual history keeps getting rewritten judging from who is in power and what is politically correct. Let’s not forget they had slaves up north too. Just because we called them indentured servants or house servants which were given a few Pennies a week which they’d never have enough to leave their servitude doesn’t make it anything different. History is a wonderful thing, but in almost any era you hear about there are the conquerors and the conquered. It’s true human nature. Tribalism. So in the end, the logical conclusion was to do what had been done and that repatriation as it was written originally should have been allowed to continue.
😢 Don't know why there are present events if there would be knowledge... There is war around the world, everywhere 😢 But there has already been so many cruel wars 😢 We should know better! So much better!
@@Hatewontwin No matter what you liberals are always going to be stuck in your ways. Open border letting literal criminals in this country, terrible economy and high crime and the opioid crisis getting worse (because of the open border) and you guys won’t relent that your ideology of governance isn’t working. It’s sad that so many people are like this, like you, no matter how messed up this country gets you keep screaming “I love being a liberal, down with Republicans!”. You say this as a migrants come here and shoot and SA your countrymen, that is stupidity
@@Hatewontwin No matter what you liberals are always going to be stuck in your ways. Open border letting literal criminals in this country, terrible economy and high crime and the opioid crisis getting worse (because of the open border) and you guys won’t relent that your ideology of governance isn’t working. It’s sad that so many people are like this, like you, no matter how messed up this country gets you keep screaming “I love being a liberal, down with Republicans!”. You say this as a migrants come here and shoot and SA your countrymen, that is beyond pathetic
The Battle of Pea Ridge at video time counter 36:10 took place in ARKANSAS, NOT MISSOURI as this film's narrator noted in his 1st sentence at this time frame. He subsequently stated it took place in ARKANSAS.
If you love history and want to know A LOT MORE about the civil war get Ken Burns series 'The Civil War' there is no finer way to learn in breadth and depth about this very important event in US and world history .... Narrative, cerebral, musical, you name it, it's unsurpassed
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Movies to watch: Gods And Generals Sons Of Liberty Gettysburg Glory (about black soldiers) Lincoln (the politics of the war) Gone With the Wind (a Southern prospective) Amistad (The legal side of slavery)
You did a hell of a job I must offer my compliments. I will point out that General Lee had a mild heart attack a couple of days before the battle of Gettysburg started. The prince of Siam has all kinds of interests in this war as well. Abraham Lincoln borrowed money from the Vatican which was a big no no, which invited the central banks back into the country that Andrew Jackson originally kicked out. Don't forget the Organic act of 1871. Slaves were brought to America by Jewish owned ships, sold sold with Jewish owned slave markets and 98% of slave owners in the South were Jewish.
I think it's important to remember that from America's inception in 1776 to the civil war the Union was not strong enough to completely get rid of slavery without war. A war in which they were not strong enough to win at the time. And when we were strong enough we got rid of it and it's important that people understand that we didn't become a country and just decide yeah half of you can have slaves. It was an issue. I'm very thankful to live in a country that fought and shed blood to end something as evil as slavery.
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Yes true that about the evil slavery but after the war there wasn't any integration of Afro-American people to the society. In my opinion they should be given a choice of return to the African continent so they can choose for themselves. I believe majority will not hesitate and happily accept that offer.
@@pavolkocis7456 well then you're aware of your history because there were organizations set to allowing people to return to Africa as a matter of fact there was a colony established and surprised you don't know that history before speaking on that unless you're unless we're speaking of a different history. Plus slaves would not want to return to Africa for the most part because in Africa slavery still existed and still exist to this day. So to return to Africa just would be to return to slavery
[The revolutionary war in America] By the mid 1700s the British Empire was approaching the highest power around the world. Britain had fought four wars in Europe since the creation of it’s privately owned central bank, the Bank of England. The cost had been high. To finance these wars the British Parliament rather than issuing its own debt-free currency had borrowed heavily from the bank. By the mid 1700s the government was 140,000,000 Frank’s in debt, that's a staggering sum for those days. Consequently The British government embarked on a program of trying to raise revenues from its American colonies in order to make the interest payments to the bank. But in America it was a different story. Does the courage of a privately owned central bank had not yet landed in America though the Bank of England extricated it’s baneful influence over the American colonies after 1694. Four years earlier in 1690 the Massachusetts Bay to print it it’s own paper money, the first in America. This was followed in 1703 by South Carolina and then by other colonies. In the mid 1700s pre-revolutionary America was still relatively poor. There was a severe shortage of precious metal coins to trade for goods so the early colonists were increasingly forced to experiment with printing their own money grown paper money. Some of these experiments were successful. Tobacco was used as money in some colonies with success. In 1720 every colony Royal governor was instructed to curtail the issue of colony money. This was largely unsuccessful. In 1742 , The British Resumption act required that taxes and other debts be paid in gold. This caused a depression in the colonies; property was seized on foreclosures by the rich for 1/10 it’s value. Benjamin Franklin was a big supporter of the colonies printing their own money. And 1757 , Benjamin Franklin was sent to London to fight for colony paper money. He ended up staying for the next 18 years nearly until the start of the American Revolutionary War . During this period ignoring parliament more American colonies began to issue their own money. Called “colonial Script “ the indenver was successful with notable expectations. It provided a reliable medium of exchange and it also help to provide a feeling of unity between the colonies. Remember most “Colonial script” was just paper money debt free money printed in the public interest and not really backed by gold or silver coin. In other words it was a Fiat currency, officials of the bank of England asked Franklin how he would account for the new founded prosperity of the new colonies. Without hesitation BenjaminFranklin replied “ That is simple. In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called colonial script. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money we control it’s purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one.” -“ BenjaminFranklin” This was just common sense to Franklin but you can’t imagine the impact it had at the bank of England. America has learned the secret of money and that genie had to be returned to his bottle as soon as possible! [First American central bank war 1764 through 1776 bank of England 12 years duration] As a result Parliament hurriedly Past the currency act of 1764. This prohibited colonial officials from issuing their own money in order for them to pay all future taxes in gold or silver coins. In other words at force the colonies on a gold and silver standard. This intended the first intense phase of the first Bank war in America which ended in defeat for the money changers beginning with the declaration of independence and concluded by the subsequent peace treaty of Paris 1783. For those who believe that a gold standard is the answer for Americans current monetary problems, look at what happened to America after the currency act of 1764 was passed. Writing in his autobiography Benjamin Franklin said “ In one year the conditions were so reserved that the air of prosperity ended and a depression set in to such an extent that the streets of the colonies were filled with unemployed.” -“ BenjaminFranklin“ BenjaminFranklin claims that this was even the basic cause of the American revolutionary war. As Benjamin Franklin put it in his autobiography “ The colonies would gladly have borne a little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money which created unemployment and dissatisfaction within the colonies.” In 1774 Parliament passed the stamp pack which required that a stamp be placed on every instrument of commerce indicating payment of tax and gold which threatened the colony paper money again. Less than two weeks later the Massachusetts committee of safety passed a resolution dictating the insurance of more colonial currency and honoring the currency of other colonies. On June 10 and June 22, 1775 the Congress of the colonies resolved the issue of million and paper money based on the credit and faith of the united colonies. This flew in the face of the bank of England and parliament. It constitutes an act of defense, a refusal to accept a monetary system and just to the people of the colonies. “Thus the bills of credit [i.e Paper money] which historians with ignorance and or prejudice have belittled as instruments of reckless financial policy where really the standards of the revolution. They were more than this they were the revolution itself.” -“Alexander Delmar. Historian.” By the time the first shots were fired in Concord in Lexington Massachusetts on April 19, 1775 the colonies had been drained of gold and silver coins by British taxation. As a result the continental government had no choice but to print its own paper money to finance the war. At the start of the revolution war of the US colony money supply stood at 12 million. By the end of the war it was nearly 5,000,000 this was partly a result of massive British counterfeiting. As a result the currency was virtually worthless. Shoes sold for $5000 a pair. George Washington lamented , “A wagon load of money will scarcely purchase a wagon of provisions.” Earlier colonial script had worked because just enough with issue to facilitate trade and counterfeiting was minimal. Today those who support a gold backed currency point to this. During the revolutionary war to demonstrate the evils of a Fiat currency. But remember the currency had worked so well 20 years earlier during this time of peace that England had parliament outlawed and during the war the British deliberately sought to undermine it by counterfeiting it in England and shipping it by the bale to the colonies of the United States of America. [Second American central bank war 1781 through 1785 Bank of North America 4 years]
Goes the spoils of war. After the American Civil War, the country went bankrupt and back under the British Crown 👑. The United States Constitution, was rewritten/reworded. The Confederates and Patriots; or white Anglo Saxon Caucasian people of this country should go ape 🦧 💩, excuse my Native Aboriginal Autochthonous American Brown 🤎🟤🤎 not 🖤 black, red♥️ or African tongue 😜😛, because when the Europeans, first landed in the Americas 🌎 and saw the people they thought 💭 them as Indians from India; remember they were originally looking for spice trade routes to Asia 🌏. Peace and G-d Bless!
1st, please learn how to pronounce the names of places before reading them. 2nd, when discussing this very tedious issue, be sure to note the atrocities from both sides. I agree that slavery was a horrific thing, however, so was the amount of taxes being waged against the south. Slavery has been around since the dawn of time, though an evil act from today's standards, was not the prime reason the south seceded. This video might be technically 100% accurate, it is not 100% forthcoming. The south was not full of evil.
"Generational chattel race slavery was bad but so was paying extra money" Yikes. Also, the Confederacy was adamant they seceded over slavery. They weren't shy about it at all...
Guy makes a huge mistake in the intro. Cause the Washington monument was mid construction during the American civil war. Hence showing a complete Washington monument is a glaring error.
Does anyone remember when the History Channel cared about us history junkies. I can remember whole evenings after work watching black and white docs. Listening to my wife and kids crying about how hungry and cold they were outside in our yard. Damn I loved that channel.To everyone that is involved with any and all Historical Documentaries. THANK YOU! My veins are full of the past.
Damn homie u kept ur wife and kids chained to a post outside so you could watch the history channel in peace, and u didnt even give em a little doggy house roof or tarp or a cardboard box 4 shelter? Hope u at least fed em within a reasonable amount of time, but like your wife and kids, im not holding my breath on that.
You gotta remember though history runs out of things to do documentaries about when it catches up to the present day, which was the beginning of the end for channels like History
@@jnielsen90 Yes, true. I remember people not fondly calling it The Hitler Channel around the turn of the century because of the large (some would say excessive) number of WWII docus.
If you want to learn real history about the War Between the States, I recommend looking at UA-cam videos of Abbeville Institute lecture, or go on their site and listen to their podcasts.
The way the narrator pronounced "Potomac" it wasn't until about the third time he said it i thought HEY i think he is talking about the Potomac river ..😂..I live near the Potomac , and i can tell he is not a local lol
Sam Watkins was a private in the confederacy for the entire war.. his book " company H " is an outstanding book. He was an orginal Tennessee volunteer and he gives good details of what it was like to live, fight, March & survive 4 years of war..hes very funny as well. He describes eating rats, stealing corn, swimming the Tennessee River, shooting men all day at close range at the battle of dead angle, finding men frozen while standing guard duty. Its a great read
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Great video. I learned a few things I was aware of which is rare. I been studying American war history for 15 years now. I started with Vietnam and worked my way backwards however
@@successfulexcellent1646 Indeed an eye-opener😳. What an irony that it was Great Britain that influenced America to implement the death penalty and today it likes to call it "backward Western Democracy".
I honestly don't understand how I was completely bored of this information in high school. Out of nowhere 20 years later and I completely hooked.
Because good-looking high school girls don't give a shit about history. They don't change 20 years later, sadly.
Most teachers just want to earn a pay check instead of teaching and making things exciting.
It's more fun when you can decide what to learn on your own. In school you're forced into a specific curriculum and unless you're someone who has the drive (and time) to learn outside of school, that's all you get exposed to. I've been out of school for nearly 20 years now and I've done more self-learning in that time than I spent learning/studying in school.
Its not being jammed down your throat whilst several other subjects are simultaneously being jammed down your throat. History IS fascinating.
@@khalilalkarrsifi419b What an absolutely ridiculous generalisation. I could just as easily say most students are lazy, brain dead zombies who would rather play computer games than study... Actually that's accurate.
I’ve been a student of the civil war for about 18 years. It’s more fascinating to me then all the other wars combined. No matter how much I read and learn I can never get enough
It was a dramatic shift in the United States founding principles. Lincoln and the north illegally and treasonously implemented a Federal Nationalized Democracy which is what we live under to this day. The South seceded ideologically to preserve the constitutional Republic under a Confederation of sovereign Nation States that the United States was established as in 1776.
There are two United States, Jeffersonian America from 1776 to 1861, and Lincolnian America from 1865 to present.
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It's an interesting conflict, no matter what any southern sympathizers claim, they were never going to win, the naval blockade alone pretty much decided it. The confederacy did, militarily speaking, achieve a level of success well worth studying, the ability to maintain a coherent fighting force, more or less competently supplied in the face of economic collapse and a nearly total lack of industrial production capacity was remarkable, even if it was a foregone conclusion from its inception.
sounds boring
As a citizen of Kansas, United States, thank you for not leaving bleeding Kansas out, as a lot of people believe that it should be referred to as the beginning of the civil war.
I moved to Missouri from Washington and hearing how brutal Missouri was during the war...yikes
Kansas represent 💪
I would of been a proud southern rebel the norths just mercenaries, Lincoln cutthroats sic semper sing up the RA and PLO
@@georgethomas4419 and you re named after a union hero general George Thomas the rock of chickamauga. You must be another confused yankee
I'm for world peace, but my not for peace in America..I mean why did the turmoil stop!!!I'm against black America, white America I love world peace, but peace in America us nothing but a joke!!!
55:05 It's worth mentioning that Col. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his troops. It was seen as a sort of insult by the Confederacy, burying him with who they saw as lesser peoples. When the Union recovered that ground, they offered to return his body to his family. They responded with "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers. ... We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company."
he should have been pissed on too
@@fkujakedmyname Aww, aren't you the pretty one.
confederates are traitors.
This documentary tells the current selective revisionist story of the Mass. 54th and Col. Shaw. You are correct in your comments. But the documentary failed to note that the 54th were used as cannon fodder in a futile frontal assault against well built and well defended Confederate breastworks, and that they were slaughtered. It also fails to mention that on the Confederate side, the amongst the defenders was the son of William Ellison Jr., one of the largest slave owners in South Carolina, and that they were black. Many blacks served in the Confederate military as volunteers like Ellison. And unlike Union "Colored Troops", which were made up of segregated troops, Southern black troops were integrated into the the regular forces. 20% of the Confederate Navy were black freemen.
Forgot to mention the assault those Shaw troops had against black folks just before their assault on Ft Wagner. Great music in Glory, but pious cause narrative once again.
Nothing “civil” about war….any war.
Wrong context of the word.
Means civilians fighting amongst other civilians.
As a Dutch man i'm just an outsider looking in; America's history fascinates me. Thank you very much for sharing, sir. Appreciate it a lot.
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
Hi, Tonny 'Wild' Weasel, I was just scrolling thru the comments, and yours caught my attention. I don't see you at all, as an outsider, per say, because America, has been built by people like you who came here and settled down.
In Fact, every Nationality has a stake in America, because of the Constitution that the Founding Father's Quilled, way back in the 17th Century. Everyone who ventured here went thru tremendous struggles to make their place here, for their children, and their children's - children! And all that is in our CULTURE FABRIC.
Even Look at Me I was considered an "Outsider" Up until 1950, when the Native Americans got to be Full Citizens!!! Crazy Hanh??? Yeah I'm 4/4! Injun and I just love my toaster, TV, Car & Computer!!! Oh yes and Pizza delivery!!! :D
So I don't See anyone in the world a "TOTAL OUTSIDER", Because, Your Culture, and Country, have shaped this Nation!!! And I just Love it, and aalll of you!!! :D Good Luck Out There Mike Talas.
@@miketalas7998 : Nice to "meet" you Mike. And I admire your positive attitude. And I also like pizza :-)
I wish you all the best, Tonny Wezel.
The best thing the British got from the Dutch was William of Orange, who with his wife Mary signed their Bill of Rights to be co-regents of Great Britain. This led to the Virginia Bill of Rights, and later the US Bill of Rights. The idea of the separation of church and state and freedom of religion, and federalism we owe to the Swiss cantons and their Baptists though.
England has far better history theyve invaded more countries than anyone.
@@tonnywildweasel8138 This is a Brit telling America's story (with little inaccuracies)
Even as a Brit, I none the less cringe at the way the narrator mispronounces so many words. Potomac and Shiloh to name but a couple.
THANK YOU for this comment. For me, it's the "Mary-Land" as opposed to the correct pronunciation of "Mare-uh-lund". You'd think someone interested enough to create a documentary would know at least the correct pronunciation of the states. Lol
There is music even in a child's cry.
Nails on a chalk board,
Judge Pirro, Looney Loomer,
VD Vance😂
Forgive, but you sound Trumpian and politically correct 😂😂😂😂and 🙃 Shy Low🤣
Love the narrator's voice and accent. His pronunciation of some American words is greatly amusing - what?🤔Oh!😄🤓💖
Thank you for this substantial, speedy historical overview video 🙏
Speaking English you Americans cant speak it you pronounce your e's we dont we say Greenwich you say Gr ee nwich
Great doc, but needs more maps to show context of the events happening during the war relative to each other.
MAPS PLEASE
How about you guys get a map to the gym
@@Doom_Slayer224👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽 that was lame
It's odd that a place that claimed to have created a state based on universal freedom got hung out on slavery.
Universal freedom.. to those we see fit
God bless Mr brown he really died for a good cause
John Brown was a good man, died too soon!! Had he waited for two years he could have fought against slavery during the war
I kinda laughed every time he pronounced "Potomac" and "Appomattox" but I guess it's because he's British. This was a very interesting perspective of the War. No matter hoe many times you are taught about these battles in school and see them in docs like this, they are still captivating as ever. Great job!!!
It was general McKellen that got me - who knew Gandalf fought for the union? 😂😂
As a Brit with a reasonable level of interest in the war, I wouldn't have made any of the myriad pronunciation errors here... It's almost as if they've never watched a single documentary?!
Been looking for the comment but no ones mentioned it so far- at 25:38 (could be a little off but around there) he says James Brown instead of John Brown 😂
@@EnglishTMTB Im guessing you missed it? around 25:38 he said James Brown instead of John Brown lol😂 Never knew the Godfather of Soul tried to raid an armory lol
@@kristiskinner8542 ahh, I caught the mistake but didn't make the connection 🤣
I liked him pronouncing Shiloh as She-low.
Wow so much knowledge on this documentary you made well done! I believe that everybody has the right to be free and independent in their own life! It's crazy to know that half of our country wanted slavery and the other half wanted free and peace with one another!! Thank God the right people won that crazy War! We won the Civil War and it was amazing! It changed our country forever in a very good way!! We did not just free the🇺🇲 United States🇺🇸 from slavery. we also free the 🌍 from it as well!P.S. why did we have slavery States anyways!?! To be honest with you! to me it just doesn't make no damn sense! how the other side thought it is right to own someone and control their life and their future and their destiny! Everybody and I mean everybody should have the right to be free and independent with their own life!💓🌍🇺🇸💞💕💞🇺🇸🌍💓
The commentator is doing a great job in describing the American Civil war but I'm waiting for President Lincoln to speak the Gettysburg Address, when I was a grammar school student I had to memorized that .
Just a small correction but Texas was actually the 7th state to secede from the Union. Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union and was the first to be readmitted after the war was over. Overall the presentation is solid though 👌
One thing to understand is that although the South continued to advocate the State's Rights to maintain Slavery, the Abolitionists & Industrialists of the North would debate the Institution of Slavery while being clothed in comfortable cotton garments, drinking coffee & tea - rum spirits - while enjoying the sweetness of sugar in baked goods puffing on cigars or pipes full of fresh tobacco. The North also enjoyed the monopoly of US manufacturing and/or refining these goods and controlled the vast majority of US transoceanic shipping by sea. Hugh corporations for insurance also grew out of the need to protect Northern Profits. The North also had control of all US Slave Ships and shipping involved in the "Triangle" of trade from Africa to America to Europe to Africa. It was no coincidence that the North and the South would eventually collide over Slavery. Some would say that Slavery was the backbone to American (USA) Growth & Prosperity. The consequences were a Civil War and another 100 years of Racism in a country that staked its claim on being a God Ordained, Christian Nation founded on the same God & Bible dedicated to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for all Free Men. Families & Religious Denominations would divide. 400 years later and the debate continues over Race. God is currently being rapidly removed from the Equation. Many in the USA believe another Civil War is possible as Regions - some within States - divide socially & politically. Thank you for your Documentary. A History Buff from New England, USA. (04/28/22)
this. this is the comment I was looking for. I'm greatful I'm not alone in the sea of comments that seem to praise the north without realizing how absolutely corrupt and enabling they were by reaping the rewards of the slaves they brought over in the first place and gave to the people who would only be called monsters for using what they were given.
@@feralmagick7177 Thank you for your reply. There was a PBS Documentary done - DVD Library. A woman who is a descendent in a reasonably affluent family today lives in Bristol, Connecticut. She was curious about her heritage and how it connected to her life and her family. She is a direct descendent to the owner of over 10% of the Slave ships. In fact, the majority of Slave Ships were owned by people from Bristol. Almost all the rest originated from Newport, Rhode Island. I actually took Notes from the DVD. This dated Documentary got me going on the connections of many major businesses associated with the Slave Trade in the Northern States. She opened the "Can of Worms". Just recently I recycled my research paper on the DVD. I said to myself: "Who cares what conclusions I have come to believe." Again, Thank you.
Another interesting 'Tidbit'. Today when people refer to Northern expansion of Land Acquistion from the Native Tribes, they refer to the "Legal Terms" under the British Land Grant System of the British Crown. Well, when one got an approval for a Land Grant it was called a "Plantation" & a Number. Seldom do you read or hear any reference to "Plantation" history.
Lol😅 John Brown, not James Brown.
Correction: A picture of JEB Stuart labeled as Gen. James Brown @ 25:40...
I love how some Americans actually think the CIVIL WAR wasn’t about slavery.
The stupidity they possess is grossly entertaining.
Though a part of me somewhat misses the centralization of history programming on television, and the deep piercing voices of narrators from History and Nat Geo documentaries, I really am quite content with such a concise depiction of history through UA-cam channels like yours. I feel videos like these, and the comments that clarify or check information, allow for a greater learning experience overall. Thank you.
Yeah, I've largely switched to UA-cam for my history documentaries.
I do wish the narrator would have pronounced the names of battles & places better.
@@ralphquinteros7564Bad start using 'industrious' instead of 'industrial' in the first minute. OK documentary which would have benefited from a more professional narrator.
My 2 great-grandfather, 3rd great-grandfather, a 2nd great-uncle and more joined the Union and served in the Civil War. My great-grandmother was 40 years younger than my great-grandfather. She died in 1958. I was almost 8 at the time and had grown up with her. She told me a few things he told her about the War and a few things about him.
@@joannegordon7230 why you going to stop there and not tell us what she said. /slap
I have some ancestors that served in the 3rd Potomac home brigade. My home state of Maryland is rich with civil war history and it was so amazing to find out I had family members listed on the union roster of the 3rd Potomac home brigade. Although Gettysburg and Anteitam get the most recognition the the battle of Monocacy was the closest the Confederate troops ever pushed into Maryland. The Confederate forces were within 30ish miles of overunning the capital Washington DC. They may well have taken the capital if the union forces had not stalled the advance towards Washington at the battle of Monocacy. It's so amazing that some of my ancestors and family served in the battle of Monocacy. According to the rosters of the time I had 4 family members in the 3rd Potomac home brigade and that unit fought at Monocacy. It's just mind blowing to me that my family participated in that battle that could very well have turned the tide of the war if the union had not stalled the Confederate troops. They got within 30 miles of taking over Washington.
did u just repeat urself in a pyramid fashion?
I think its hard to tell John Browns story without also reciting his final address to the court.
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood"
With in 2 years the nation would be in a state of civil war and union soldiers would find themselves marching into battle singing hymns about his actions. Never before or since in American history have more prophetic words been spoken.
Sh** brown
as an 18 year old australian, i was not taught any of this until this moment. i watch with great interest, many thanks for uploading this.
Ive always been very interested with how other countries learn history growing up. I’m from America and just always been fascinated with history here and around the world, and what we are all taught in schools
Well history taught in schools is usually based on your own country's history and ww1 ww2 bc that's the good stuff
Oh and Alexander the great napoleon and genghis khan is all the main stream history too
@@carlsonkearley3727 i'm not sure if this makes a difference, but i was in Catholic school for year 7-10, then a Baptist school for year 11. teachers seemed like they didn't really care for what we learned either. like even now i've only ever head genghis khan as a name, i don't know who he was or what century he belonged to. and the only Napolean i know is my shorthair cat lmao, that's why i like self-teaching myself important events in history.
If the civil war was about slavery why was the emancipate proclamation written in 1863 and not before the war started? The war was about control of cotton and tobacco and the few families that owned very large farms that set the market prices. As was mine was the most powerful. Other than the battles and body count the rest is pure fiction
😂😂😂 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ old enemies shake hands Confederate veteran Union veteran shake hands 50th anniversary... ("WOW")!!! 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 Lost their lives In the line of duty. Taking as a percentage has risen as high as 6 million souls. The human Of, the civil war was beyond expectations.
THE END 😊
Not a bad idea 😆
There sure are a lot of inconsistencies in this video. One of which is @34:35. Union troops are waving a Confederate battle flag.
Also, since when was Robert E. Lee's uniform union blue color?
Potomac: Emphasis on the second syllable, please.
Shiloh: The 'i' is long, as in liar. "Shyloh".
Your multiple mispronunciations are driving me mad, despite all your preparations and cool paintings. Next time, just ask someone.
Interesting documentary, but I would enjoy it more if the narrator could learn to pronounce place names correctly!
Yeah. Its totally ironic.
Fun Fact! John Brown was captured by a company of United States Marines as well as local Virginia militia
Lee commanded the Marines, not the militia though.
The narrator says James Brown was captured
Was there marnies in 18th century ?
Amateur presentation
Having a Brit do a documentary on the American Civil War is like having a fox tell you chickens aren't for dinner.
Great documentary. The dumbasses who run the history channel should be embarrassed that an amateur...and british, content creator makes better content than they've shit out in a decade or more. Keep it up. Subbed
I like civil war history and found especially interesting hearing how the North evolved differently than the South regarding slavery. In the election of 1860 Missouri a slave owning state voted for a candidate trying to keep things the same by not seceding yet remaining a slave state. Missouri only had cotton in the extreme southeastern part of the state. Slavery was however used on Missouri farms. Missouri was divided more by urban versus rural than by north versus south. St. Louis with its large German immigration was like a Union city in a confederate state, and Missouri supplied soldiers to both sides of the war. I recommend to any civil war buff they visit the Grant national park museum in St. Louis, as he although he was from an abolitionist Ohio family, married the sister of his army buddy in to a slaveowning farm family near St. Louis. Grant had been assigned to a large Union army base called Jefferson Barracks close to St. Louis.
@@successfulexcellent1646 I do not but thanks for the offer. I cannot remember the book title or the author but I read a new book I got from the library this past year where the author came up with a fictional story something to do with arms shipment from North Korea sold over to the black market in Africa to Islamic terrorists in Africa and how through constant one upmanship and China backing North Korea and miscalculations of one upmanship between China and the United States resulted in a nuclear war. The author tried to use world war one history as an inspiration coming up with her story.
@@successfulexcellent1646 Sorry for the confusion by my reply, but I was responding to you thinking I was responding to another conversation on UA-cam of another story involving the Ukraine.
@@larryloveless2967 That's fine, no harm, no foul 😀
@@larryloveless2967 Before I got to the part about nuclear war, I thought about asking if this was really a fictional story since such weapon trades do actually happen. Lol
@@Nitidus Yes, it was a fictional story. I made a mistake commenting on some UA-cam story about about the war in Ukraine and by mistake did not realize I entered it to a comment I made about this American Civil war story. The author used what happened in world war one as a basis for her book seeing how one incident escalated in to a world war that became nuclear at the end of the book. There was one upmanship that went back and forth and sometimes through error a response back to a country was made even worse by mistake. I read this book I got from the library just a few months before the Ukraine war. Thanks for the info.
I'm Chilean and I'm very interested in this topic.
Me agrada que te guste nuestra historia
Army of the Pontomac, General McEllen and the battle of Sheeloh...
You sir, need to be better pronouncing names or you can just stop making videos!
This had to be the worst Civil War documentary I've ever seen. Mispronounced names of places and people, like General George McClellan. (How you missed the C-L in the middle of his last name repeatedly has to be some kind of cursed talent.) Repetitious use of scenes from Civil War movies instead of sticking to animated maps and actual pictures from the war. The whole thing came off as you stealing someone else's documentary, but doing so very badly.
The American Civil War sparked my interest in history.
I absolutely love learning about the history of it. The politics, the battles, the ideologies of both sides and the commeradery they shared on both sides both during and after a well as before from serving on the same side in the Mexican American War.
Also, I liked the movie dark command with John Wayne and Roy rogers, focusing on the bleeding Kansas era, but I've come to realize that it extremely glosses over some of the events...
Lawrence itself was one of the bloodiest moments with several dozen, if not hundreds dead and women, well, let's just say these people put bill Cosby and harvry weinstein to shame...
Cobadah!
@@successfulexcellent1646
I have alexa, which taps into spotify.
I've noticed too how the history books skimmed over some events and completely left others out. I took a civil war class school and have always been a huge fan of history but only recently discovered the horrible acts enlisted union soldiers did to the civilian population of Missouri. Its pretty easy to understand why Quantrills raiders did what they did in Lawrenceville when you realized how many of them had their wives killed or abused, their families harassed and their homes burned. Not that it made what they did ok but it makes sense that the raiders wanted to exact similar revenge. War is hell.
I also find it fascinating that most of the generals on both sides either fought together in the Mexican war or attended west point together.
@@rickeyhall9994
Yeah.
I felt the same way about Jesse James after they way his family and others were treated by the railroad company with it making sense he'd become a cowboy version of Robin Hood.
I now wonder if war was inevitable or if there was something that could've been done differently to avoid it.
So why does this video make it seem that the Civil War was only about slavery it most definitely wasn't just about slavery
Go watch Checkmate Linconites he has a whole episode on that very question and he answers it well.
Found the republican southerner
I am a avid history buff, especially on the subject of the US Civil War. It has been interesting to gear an accounting from a non US/CS centric perspective.
I would've enjoyed this more if the narrator hadn't butchered the pronunciation of so many words...what rocket scientist decided hiring him was a good idea? I also could've lived without the race card whine at the end...but such are the times we live in
The southern states refused/neglected to industrialize. Not smart to start a war with an enemy that has many times more factories than you. That is what defeated the Nazis and Japan. The US could build ships, planes, tanks, etc faster than the enemy could destroy them.
The southern states had fewer people, fewer factories, fewer resources period.
They had built an economy on the backs of slaves. Ironically, slaves had become so expensive the average southerner could not afford one. Those confederate soldiers were dying so that the 1% elite could continue their lavish life style. Those brave rebel boys died for something they could never benefit from.
The really sad thing is that slavery had become so expensive eventually it would have to be abandoned in favor of share cropping.
Foolish pride got a lot of good people killed.
I am quite impressed with this masterful presentation. The ONE missing piece is the computer generated voice pronunciation of Native American River Names. What a shame the producers couldn't include all America's grandeur
To just to think that it hasn’t been to long that this happened a good 150 years ago. Crazy
The quality of your content is amazing.
But please take responsibility for the many hours you’ve taken from me! These last few days, I thought I’d simply play it as I wind down to sleep and find myself having to go to work in a few hours
The Louisiana Purchase ended at the Rocky Mountains not the Pacific Ocean.
Just came back from a walk at Fort Monroe, I've seen the quarters where Jefferson Davis was imprisoned..
Away down South in the land of traitors
Rattlesnakes and alligators
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)
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Come away
Where cotton's king and men are chattles
Union boys will win the battles
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)
Right away (right away)
Come away
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam
Away (away)
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We'll all go down to Dixie
Away (away)
Away (away)
We'll all go down to Dixie
I wish I was in Baltimore
I'd make secession traitors roar
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)
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Come away
We'll put the traitors all to route
I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out
Right away (right away)
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Come away (come away)
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam
Away (away)
Away (away)
We'll all go down to Dixie!
Away (away)
Away (away)
We'll all go down to Dixie
Oh, may our Stars and Stripes still wave
Forever o'er the fee and brave!
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)
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Come away
And let our motto ever be
Forever Union and for liberty
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)
Ride away (ride away)
Come away
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam
Away (away)
Away (away)
We'll all go down to Dixie
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We'll all go down to Dixie
Please take more care when learning how to pronounce words especially when they are repeated over and over being from Maryland it makes this really well done documentary unwatchable and makes you question the accuracy
At 1.14.08 in this documentary you all of a sudden bring in parts from The Battle of Dybbøl (Danish: Slaget ved Dybbøl; German: Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen), a key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following a siege that began on 2 April. Denmark suffered a severe defeat which - with the Prussian capture of the island of Als - ultimately decided the outcome of the war, forcing Danish cession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Nothing to do with the American Civil War but it happened around the same year.
Joav Merrick
If just the prussians where there in the Civil War. That would gone brutal.
@@ariearie3543 they kind of were. A lot of European countries sent observers to see how the war was fought, with the Prussians learning that trains can be used to mobilize their forces quickly.
THER IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN ABE LINCOLN AND JOHN BROWN. MIGHT BE HIS DAD OR HIM.....
Imagine if those Southern "Christians," did the unthinkable, and paid people wages.
An excellent documentary. I would only say you should ask an American how to pronouce the geographic and other names.
Why when people can learn how others talk and pronounce stuff?
I am a history nut and the American Civil War is one of the most fascinating to learn about.
This documentary does a fantastic job at simplifying the causes of the conflict and the war itself for anyone who is interested in learning about this moment in American history.
It's fascinating because of the difference in what they say happened and what truly happened. All we have to go by is whoever wrote the "story" and the evidence left behind. Next time you get a chance.... take a look at civil war photos. There's not much of a war going on..... they had plenty of high speed cameras back then.....so it really has me confused as to what truly happened. And the Spanish were here so who were we fighting? indians? come on. more like exterminating if anything.... that may be why they telkl this triumphant story. look at those hovels they built. Those people were not to bright.... not even make a straight line. How did they build that stuff at the worlds fair? no way.... I'm not buying it
@@randomxaosin other words?
what exactly r u taking bout the civil war was going between North and South... Americans vs Americans and no they fight have high speed cameras the technology at the time was only bout 20 to 30 years old and still needed alot of equipment to capture photos... and what r u talking bout hovels what is that... And the world's fair didn't happen till the end of the 19th century which was 30 years after the civil war happened and we fought the Mexican American war before the civil war in 1830 so everything u r taking bout either happened before the war or at the war... but pls explain excatly what u r trying to say cause I'm confused
I disagree. The cause of the civil war is absolutely more of a State issue than just slavery alone. Had it not been for States thinking they can cancel laws, secede, and rebel, the civil war would not have occurred in the form that it did. Am I focusing on State's rights? Not specifically, it's larger than that too. Really, the more I learn of it, I see the U.S. Civil War more of a problem with the American Experiment and its version of federalism never having been thoroughly fleshed out in its early years. Slavery is merely a component to it, and I wish more documentaries would treat it that way than recite what revisionists want them to say.
@@platinumuschannel The South themselves said it was about slavery.
Here are some of the Declaration Of Secession from the States that rebelled and the reason they gave.
South Carolina, the first state to secede, in there Secession Declaration they acknowledged that the trigger was the election of Lincoln and his opposition to slavery: “A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.”
Mississippi's reason was the economics of slavery: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin…”
Louisiana's reason was again slavery: “The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.”
Alabama's reason was a fear of a slave revolt: “Upon the principles then announced by Mr. Lincoln and his leading friends, we are bound to expect his administration to be conducted. Hence it is, that in high places, among the Republican party, the election of Mr. Lincoln is hailed, not simply as it change of Administration, but as the inauguration of new principles, and a new theory of Government, and even as the downfall of slavery. Therefore it is that the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration, on the part of a great majority of the Northern people, of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions-nothing less than an open declaration of war-for the triumph of this new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and. her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans.”
Texas once again slavery:“…in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....”
These are the words of the Sothern States that attempted to create their new country. They are written in historic documents that they assumed would be proudly looked on by future generations as the foundation of their new country. All say SLAVERY was the reason. And if that isn't enough to convince you or anyone else then let's see what the “Vice President of the Confederate States” Alexander Stevens had to say was the reason.
“ The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew." Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. “
Alexander Stevens March 21, 1862, The Cornerstone Speech.
The cause the South fought for is slavery and that is 100% undeniable.
Got my money on Lincoln and the boys bringing it home for us.
Love that Pic of young lincoln at 16:01 he looks ripped asF*************k
Thank you .I am a ardent student of the American civil war . A war of brother fighting brother .,great loss of life and great savagery .For personal glory his men were slaughtered .
The narrator needs to learn the pronunciation of US rivers.
Sad life if that's all u have to worry bout 😢 I wish u better life
Well seeing as America is Britain’s baby that’s literally how the words originally sounded
video is good, pronounchtion is horrible, but I enjoyed it anyway
Your spelling is horrible, but we got the point.
I liked both
An American Civil War doc with the voice-over of an Englishman...
Humans do not learn from History we just repeat, repeat, repeat!
love this channel, all of your WW2 videos are very interesting but it's nice to see you doing really good videos about other conflicts as well
That was amazing, thank you! I love this channel
Are you a historian?
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Thank you I'm from Minnesota we where the frist ones to fight to free over 4 million enslaved people I recommend learning about Minnesota civil war history you can find this videos UA-cam as well
@@jackjacobson3893 I will look it up mate, thanks very much 👍
@@jackjacobson3893 British was the First Country to stop slavery long before American.
Ruined VIDEO with too long ADVERTISEMENTS!!
I never knew there were submarines that early, I was always under the impression the Germans were the first to use them in a war.
This is a very good video, with exception of some very humorous pronunciations of places in America.
It’s surreal to hear how these brave men died for the citizens of the USA and their freedom. RIP to these brave souls
It was to stop slavery was civil war
More like it's ignorance.. We still suffer from it today with the desperation to continue white supremacy..
You present the civil war as one solely about abolishing slavery but I believe slavery was merely the most salient of a number of issues the north and south were in disagreement over, such as questions of federal government over-reach and the functions of the US Federal Reserve. Are you aware of these other issues? The subsequent portrayal of the war as 'good versus evil' seems a little crude.
@@brian5001 Fair enough. Of course that is just for Mississippi. We're talking about the collective South.
Try reading the declarations of secession of each state. It was VERY much about keeping slavery.
@@wendypollock8168 Also, the congressional record in the decades leading up the Ft. Sumter. Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska...
@@wendypollock8168 Well Ok. That the Civil War had a number of underlying reasons is just something I heard a while ago
@@TheA8lee did you look up the declarations of secession?
Eli Whitney got tired of cotton and invented Gin. That's what I heard
Actually it’s George B Crittenden,the man shown in the photo os his brother Thomas Leonidas Crittenden. George was a Confederate general, Thomas was a Union General. it truly was brother against brother. their father was a senator John J Crittenden.
The north was never concerned about the well-being of slaves. It was concerned about the swelling slave population in the south and the possibility of having the same problems suffered in Haiti.
_"Can there be a doubt in any intelligent mind, that the object which the Black Republican party has in view is the ultimate extinction of slavery in the United States? To doubt it, is to cast the imputation of hypocracy and imbecility upon the majority of the people of every Northern State, who have stood by this party through all its trials and struggles, to its ultimate triumph in the election Lincoln. I am sure that no one can entertain for them, individually or collectively, less personal respect than I do, and yet I do give them credit for more sincerity and intelligence than is consistent with the idea that on obtaining power they will refuse to exercise it for the only purpose for which they professed to seek it. I do believe that, with all their mealiness and duplicity, they do hate slavery and slaveholders quite as much as they say they do, and that no argument addressed to their hearts or judgments, in behalf of the constitutional rights of the South, would receive the slightest consideration."_ --Howell Cobb, President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
_"The idea that it is their special mission to war against slavery has held growing sway over the Northern people for many years, and has at length ripened into an armed and bloody crusade against it. This baleful superstition has so far supplied them with a courage and constancy not their own. It is the most powerful and honestly entertained plank in their war platform."_ --Confederate General Patrick Cleburne
Both sides were filled with people that believed all manners of things
Two observations 1) Since it’s inception as a nation , a majority of the people in the US have opposed slavery. They are an admirable people. 2) The LOGICAL conclusion of the Civil War should have been the FORCED repatriation of all freed slaves to their country of embarkation in Africa. This would have enriched both the United States , and Africa. A lost opportunity , sadly.
That is not a logical conclusion at all if you think about it for a bit. The freed men were American and not African. These people, our people, are American by birth and are not identified by the land of their ancestors.
@@JohahnDiechter exactly so we should drop the label African American as well as p.o.c. we are all Americans
While I understand where you are coming from, I think that idea would not have the impact you think it would. Unlike the present the US would have had no diplomatic sway in the African nations. The idea alone of forcing slave back to their nations would have had no effect on the slaves except derogatory.
First, FORCED. It would have been a bad idea coming out of a war that lost millions of people and ripped a country apart to be in a position to force anything. There would have been no weight behind it.
Secondly, what good would it have done to send slaves back to the countries that enslaved them in the first place? It’s not like Americans went over to Africa and captured them themselves. They went there and bought them from slave traders. (A practice still going on today though civilized countries no longer participate in the practice.)
The best thing to do was what had been done. To this day we can second guess it but at the time given influence and power on the world stage, we did what was best.
If we could get over ourselves and actually view history for what it was rather than what we’d like it to be or making mountains of molehills we could see the reasoning and logic of everything even if for the time it was flawed.
I tend to think with logic and reasoning over everything else. The US had vast landholdings. The slaves being as they were newly repatriated should have been given a plot of land to work. Not trying to be insulting but they obviously knew how to work the land and that would have been the biggest benefit to them. I believe this was declared by Lincoln only to be repealed after his death which was the biggest mistake as it would have given their generations a good starting point to acclimate into freedom.
The shame is that to this day people become so polarized on this issue one way or the other that actual history keeps getting rewritten judging from who is in power and what is politically correct.
Let’s not forget they had slaves up north too. Just because we called them indentured servants or house servants which were given a few Pennies a week which they’d never have enough to leave their servitude doesn’t make it anything different.
History is a wonderful thing, but in almost any era you hear about there are the conquerors and the conquered. It’s true human nature. Tribalism.
So in the end, the logical conclusion was to do what had been done and that repatriation as it was written originally should have been allowed to continue.
It's amazing how knowledge of history helps to shed light and awareness of present events.
When you watch propaganda and don't know the truth you end up drinking Kool-aide. Follow the first words in the Koran - "Read".
😢 Don't know why there are present events if there would be knowledge... There is war around the world, everywhere 😢 But there has already been so many cruel wars 😢 We should know better!
So much better!
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What movie was the naval battle clips taken from?
Nikki Haley needs this documentary in her life.
Joe Biden needs a brain in his life.
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@@Hatewontwin No matter what you liberals are always going to be stuck in your ways. Open border letting literal criminals in this country, terrible economy and high crime and the opioid crisis getting worse (because of the open border) and you guys won’t relent that your ideology of governance isn’t working. It’s sad that so many people are like this, like you, no matter how messed up this country gets you keep screaming “I love being a liberal, down with Republicans!”. You say this as a migrants come here and shoot and SA your countrymen, that is stupidity
@@Hatewontwin No matter what you liberals are always going to be stuck in your ways. Open border letting literal criminals in this country, terrible economy and high crime and the opioid crisis getting worse (because of the open border) and you guys won’t relent that your ideology of governance isn’t working. It’s sad that so many people are like this, like you, no matter how messed up this country gets you keep screaming “I love being a liberal, down with Republicans!”. You say this as a migrants come here and shoot and SA your countrymen, that is beyond pathetic
Nicki Hailey was an embarrassment to South Carolina and the country She should've been Impeached
Excellent analysis focused on strategic objectives as opposed to tactical and technological alone. Thank you.
The Battle of Pea Ridge at video time counter 36:10 took place in ARKANSAS, NOT MISSOURI as this film's narrator noted in his 1st sentence at this time frame. He subsequently stated it took place in ARKANSAS.
Listening to the narrator butcher place and person's names is cringe-inducing
They gotta stop having foreigners narrate these. This dude pronounced everything wrong
Potomac - puh tow mac
Shilo - shy low
McClellen - mic cheh len
Sounds like Russell brand
Besides mispronunciation of several words, especially Potomac, great documentary.
I and the people that live in and near the city of Potomac and the Potomac River, thank you for pointing that out.
The pronunciations did throw me.
Yeah the mispronouncing of a bunch of places and names threw me off.
If you love history and want to know A LOT MORE about the civil war get Ken Burns series 'The Civil War' there is no finer way to learn in breadth and depth about this very important event in US and world history .... Narrative, cerebral, musical, you name it, it's unsurpassed
Sweet dude I’ll check it out thanks
This is a very well done video best I’ve seen about the American civil war learned things I never knew, great video great channel
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Movies to watch:
Gods And Generals
Sons Of Liberty
Gettysburg
Glory (about black soldiers)
Lincoln (the politics of the war)
Gone With the Wind (a Southern prospective)
Amistad (The legal side of slavery)
Thanks. I know "Glory" was about black soldiers but couldn't remember War & Generals.
John Slidell is pronounced by Americans as Sly- dell.
You did a hell of a job I must offer my compliments.
I will point out that General Lee had a mild heart attack a couple of days before the battle of Gettysburg started.
The prince of Siam has all kinds of interests in this war as well.
Abraham Lincoln borrowed money from the Vatican which was a big no no, which invited the central banks back into the country that Andrew Jackson originally kicked out.
Don't forget the Organic act of 1871.
Slaves were brought to America by Jewish owned ships, sold sold with Jewish owned slave markets and 98% of slave owners in the South were Jewish.
Lee had angina (insufficient blood flow causing heart pain); there's no proof, due mainly to the times, that he had an actual heart attack.
I think it's important to remember that from America's inception in 1776 to the civil war the Union was not strong enough to completely get rid of slavery without war. A war in which they were not strong enough to win at the time. And when we were strong enough we got rid of it and it's important that people understand that we didn't become a country and just decide yeah half of you can have slaves. It was an issue. I'm very thankful to live in a country that fought and shed blood to end something as evil as slavery.
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Yes true that about the evil slavery but after the war there wasn't any integration of Afro-American people to the society. In my opinion they should be given a choice of return to the African continent so they can choose for themselves. I believe majority will not hesitate and happily accept that offer.
@@pavolkocis7456 well then you're aware of your history because there were organizations set to allowing people to return to Africa as a matter of fact there was a colony established and surprised you don't know that history before speaking on that unless you're unless we're speaking of a different history. Plus slaves would not want to return to Africa for the most part because in Africa slavery still existed and still exist to this day. So to return to Africa just would be to return to slavery
@@pavolkocis7456 they were given the choice to leave the country of Liberia was founded for freedom slaves.
[The revolutionary war in America]
By the mid 1700s the British Empire was approaching the highest power around the world. Britain had fought four wars in Europe since the creation of it’s privately owned central bank, the Bank of England. The cost had been high. To finance these wars the British Parliament rather than issuing its own debt-free currency had borrowed heavily from the bank. By the mid 1700s the government was 140,000,000 Frank’s in debt, that's a staggering sum for those days. Consequently The British government embarked on a program of trying to raise revenues from its American colonies in order to make the interest payments to the bank. But in America it was a different story. Does the courage of a privately owned central bank had not yet landed in America though the Bank of England extricated it’s baneful influence over the American colonies after 1694. Four years earlier in 1690 the Massachusetts Bay to print it it’s own paper money, the first in America. This was followed in 1703 by South Carolina and then by other colonies. In the mid 1700s pre-revolutionary America was still relatively poor. There was a severe shortage of precious metal coins to trade for goods so the early colonists were increasingly forced to experiment with printing their own money grown paper money. Some of these experiments were successful. Tobacco was used as money in some colonies with success. In 1720 every colony Royal governor was instructed to curtail the issue of colony money. This was largely unsuccessful. In 1742 , The British Resumption act required that taxes and other debts be paid in gold. This caused a depression in the colonies; property was seized on foreclosures by the rich for 1/10 it’s value. Benjamin Franklin was a big supporter of the colonies printing their own money. And 1757 , Benjamin Franklin was sent to London to fight for colony paper money. He ended up staying for the next 18 years nearly until the start of the American Revolutionary War . During this period ignoring parliament more American colonies began to issue their own money. Called “colonial Script “ the indenver was successful with notable expectations. It provided a reliable medium of exchange and it also help to provide a feeling of unity between the colonies. Remember most “Colonial script” was just paper money debt free money printed in the public interest and not really backed by gold or silver coin. In other words it was a Fiat currency, officials of the bank of England asked Franklin how he would account for the new founded prosperity of the new colonies. Without hesitation BenjaminFranklin replied
“ That is simple. In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called colonial script. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money we control it’s purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one.”
-“ BenjaminFranklin”
This was just common sense to Franklin but you can’t imagine the impact it had at the bank of England. America has learned the secret of money and that genie had to be returned to his bottle as soon as possible!
[First American central bank war 1764 through 1776 bank of England 12 years duration]
As a result Parliament hurriedly Past the currency act of 1764. This prohibited colonial officials from issuing their own money in order for them to pay all future taxes in gold or silver coins. In other words at force the colonies on a gold and silver standard. This intended the first intense phase of the first Bank war in America which ended in defeat for the money changers beginning with the declaration of independence and concluded by the subsequent peace treaty of Paris 1783.
For those who believe that a gold standard is the answer for Americans current monetary problems, look at what happened to America after the currency act of 1764 was passed. Writing in his autobiography Benjamin Franklin said
“ In one year the conditions were so reserved that the air of prosperity ended and a depression set in to such an extent that the streets of the colonies were filled with unemployed.”
-“ BenjaminFranklin“
BenjaminFranklin claims that this was even the basic cause of the American revolutionary war. As Benjamin Franklin put it in his autobiography
“ The colonies would gladly have borne a little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money which created unemployment and dissatisfaction within the colonies.”
In 1774 Parliament passed the stamp pack which required that a stamp be placed on every instrument of commerce indicating payment of tax and gold which threatened the colony paper money again. Less than two weeks later the Massachusetts committee of safety passed a resolution dictating the insurance of more colonial currency and honoring the currency of other colonies. On June 10 and June 22, 1775 the Congress of the colonies resolved the issue of million and paper money based on the credit and faith of the united colonies. This flew in the face of the bank of England and parliament. It constitutes an act of defense, a refusal to accept a monetary system and just to the people of the colonies.
“Thus the bills of credit [i.e Paper money] which historians with ignorance and or prejudice have belittled as instruments of reckless financial policy where really the standards of the revolution. They were more than this they were the revolution itself.”
-“Alexander Delmar. Historian.”
By the time the first shots were fired in Concord in Lexington Massachusetts on April 19, 1775 the colonies had been drained of gold and silver coins by British taxation. As a result the continental government had no choice but to print its own paper money to finance the war. At the start of the revolution war of the US colony money supply stood at 12 million. By the end of the war it was nearly 5,000,000 this was partly a result of massive British counterfeiting. As a result the currency was virtually worthless. Shoes sold for $5000 a pair. George Washington lamented , “A wagon load of money will scarcely purchase a wagon of provisions.”
Earlier colonial script had worked because just enough with issue to facilitate trade and counterfeiting was minimal. Today those who support a gold backed currency point to this. During the revolutionary war to demonstrate the evils of a Fiat currency. But remember the currency had worked so well 20 years earlier during this time of peace that England had parliament outlawed and during the war the British deliberately sought to undermine it by counterfeiting it in England and shipping it by the bale to the colonies of the United States of America.
[Second American central bank war 1781 through 1785 Bank of North America 4 years]
Goes the spoils of war. After the American Civil War, the country went bankrupt and back under the British Crown 👑. The United States Constitution, was rewritten/reworded. The Confederates and Patriots; or white Anglo Saxon Caucasian people of this country should go ape 🦧 💩, excuse my Native Aboriginal Autochthonous American Brown 🤎🟤🤎 not 🖤 black, red♥️ or African tongue 😜😛, because when the Europeans, first landed in the Americas 🌎 and saw the people they thought 💭 them as Indians from India; remember they were originally looking for spice trade routes to Asia 🌏. Peace and G-d Bless!
its not pot o mack its pronounced puh toe mick. its not shelow. its pronounced shy low
1st, please learn how to pronounce the names of places before reading them. 2nd, when discussing this very tedious issue, be sure to note the atrocities from both sides. I agree that slavery was a horrific thing, however, so was the amount of taxes being waged against the south. Slavery has been around since the dawn of time, though an evil act from today's standards, was not the prime reason the south seceded. This video might be technically 100% accurate, it is not 100% forthcoming. The south was not full of evil.
"Generational chattel race slavery was bad but so was paying extra money"
Yikes. Also, the Confederacy was adamant they seceded over slavery. They weren't shy about it at all...
Guy makes a huge mistake in the intro. Cause the Washington monument was mid construction during the American civil war. Hence showing a complete Washington monument is a glaring error.
The only glaring error was your father should of pulled out.
Does anyone remember when the History Channel cared about us history junkies. I can remember whole evenings after work watching black and white docs. Listening to my wife and kids crying about how hungry and cold they were outside in our yard. Damn I loved that channel.To everyone that is involved with any and all Historical Documentaries. THANK YOU! My veins are full of the past.
Damn homie u kept ur wife and kids chained to a post outside so you could watch the history channel in peace, and u didnt even give em a little doggy house roof or tarp or a cardboard box 4 shelter? Hope u at least fed em within a reasonable amount of time, but like your wife and kids, im not holding my breath on that.
You gotta remember though history runs out of things to do documentaries about when it catches up to the present day, which was the beginning of the end for channels like History
@@jnielsen90 Yes, true. I remember people not fondly calling it The Hitler Channel around the turn of the century because of the large (some would say excessive) number of WWII docus.
If you want to learn real history about the War Between the States, I recommend looking at UA-cam videos of Abbeville Institute lecture, or go on their site and listen to their podcasts.
Well done
The way the narrator pronounced "Potomac" it wasn't until about the third time he said it i thought HEY i think
he is talking about the Potomac river ..😂..I live near the Potomac , and i can tell he is not a local lol
Blimey! Some of those pronunciations were atrocious.
Sam Watkins was a private in the confederacy for the entire war.. his book " company H " is an outstanding book. He was an orginal Tennessee volunteer and he gives good details of what it was like to live, fight, March & survive 4 years of war..hes very funny as well. He describes eating rats, stealing corn, swimming the Tennessee River, shooting men all day at close range at the battle of dead angle, finding men frozen while standing guard duty. Its a great read
Thanks. I'll check it out.
The book is named
Company Aytch
This is actually quite useful, please make more documentaries plus happy new year
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I love the fast moving narrative of this show. Just the facts , ma’am. Just how I like my documentaries every now and then.
With respect, there is no N in Potomac. puh-tow-muhk
50:40 that's incorrect. Stonewall Jackson was wounded during the battle but succumbed to pneumonia a few weeks later.
Great video. I learned a few things I was aware of which is rare. I been studying American war history for 15 years now. I started with Vietnam and worked my way backwards however
Same here, began with Afghanistan -> American Revolutionary War since several years. I guess I'll learn something new until my brain quits
@@successfulexcellent1646 Indeed an eye-opener😳. What an irony that it was Great Britain that influenced America to implement the death penalty and today it likes to call it "backward Western Democracy".