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When Lincoln was accused of being a two-faced politician he responded, “If I was two-faced do you think I would wear this one?”
based uncle abe
The only good about Abe was he was a Republican and helped set the stage for Thomas Jefferson's vison. Other than that he was very authoritarian towards journalist, states rights and tariffs.
@@MrJustlucky11 he was a “republican” but because of the party switch he was essentially, for the time, a democrat.
@@mushroomy9899 Party switch is a myth. Democrats just learned to destroy blacks through abortion on every hood corner and welfare. With a sprinkle of drugs in there community. There is a reason its called the democratic plantation today.
@@MrJustlucky11 Lincoln was a liberal in every single possible sense of the word. If Lincoln were alive today he would 100% be a Democrat and not a Republican.
It’s insane that grant was the only one who realized hitting supply lines and isolating your enemy before engaging was an advantage
ahem... Sherman
Ahem
*Basically any pre-industrial army general*
@@JosephZepedaMarch to the Sea babyyyy! (That was him right?)
@@qwertyasdf4081wrapped Savannah up in a little bowtie too for good Ole Abe
@@JosephZepedatanks
John Brown wasn't crazy; he was slandered in media so hard that even today people believe the myths told about him.
You can actually read his statement from his trial and see his motivations were clear and logically made. John Brown believed that to exist and profit in a society built on slavery was sin no different than if he had owned slaves himself, so to ensure he could stand before God on judgement day he dedicated his life to deconstructing the slavery that surrounded him.
He wasn't necessarily crazy but he was pretty violent, and that's enough to push away most of the populace.
He wasn't crazy, he was the only person who recognized the humanity of slaves. He was the only person who was sane in an insane world
@@thecreator4296 in this situation John Brown did the only moral thing possible. If not for him and the Hysteria he caused this could have festered for Decades More.
@@MickGallJr True, someone had to be the powder keg. Someone will have to be again one day too.
The mentality someone has to have In order to move around the country to kill people (objectively wrong people even) isn't exactly the most stable one.
Grant's life story is pretty interesting, not many these days know much about him since he is a particularly popular or well known president. He really struggled financially and with alcohol and depression most of his life, one of his best qualities his superiors noted was he was very calm and determined under pressure. He only pulled his life together in his 30s after a friend found him selling firewood alongside the road, and got him re-appointed as an officer. He was a pretty good president in the afterwar, but many in his administration were very corrupt, and the southern historians didn't paint him in a good light, but he's gradually recovering his image these days. He knew he was dying from cancer and didn't want his wife to be impoverished, so he wrote an autobiography, and Mark Twain helped publish it, veterans went door to door selling it and in an age when most families only owned a bible, it was a best seller. After Grant died his wife was left with a lot of money.
that's actually really cool to know, common grant W
Grant is (moral character-wise) one of the greatest men to serve a president. W human.
Being from Virginia, I love Civil War history especially since it was all in my backyard.
Damn you own a lot of land
Yeah, I remember living in Alexandria I would often see remnants of the Civil War like cannons from the Battle of Manassas and such situated on the side of the road while driving around VA
@@kirpi7996 its funny when they do renovations or something near a battlefield and have to stop construction because they found bones from that time
RVA where y'all at?
It's not in New York. The declaration is in Washington DC
Weather you are a Democrat or a Republican, we are both Americans and should love one another as brothers.
We need to get back to this it seems as tho we only come together in the darkest of times I remember after 911 everyone was so united like even in traffic ppl would be nicer letting you merge and I don't think I saw a first responder pay for his meal for awhile we all had a greater appreciation
We need to ditch this arbitrary left and right *fabrication*. Most human beings on this made-up spectrum are somewhere around the middle, yet it's awfully convenient that the most diverse society on the planet can be split into two groups and believe they are completely different.
I mean, 'convenient' for people in charge.
We have nothing to come together on save for Trump voters and Progressives who both are sick of this war mongering imperialist system. Right wingers are not going to be otherized as "Semi Fascist" by the President, Establishment Democrats, and George Bush/Liz Cheney Neo Con War Hawk Republicans while they pass red flag laws and fight proxy war in Ukraine. Even the Progressives are sick of Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Squad pseudo progressives who are backing the Democrat party lead imperialist proxy war. It's funny how election denial is what Trump is targeted with doing along with Jan 6th, but RussiaGate and months of Antifa attacks at rallies as well as burnt cities and autonomous zones after the election is all forgotten. It's almost like claiming Russia tampered with the election got a just forget about it pass from the media that ties into US President Biden's still having an agenda against Russia in Ukraine a place his son has gotten money from. The Neo Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine gets western military aid even sings songs in memory to Nazis but us "semi-fascists" who actually don't actually know an Nazis and expect our president to respect our Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights get nothing but red flag laws and stigmatizing labeling. He is the one fighting a war with the support of literal ideological fascist Ukrainians vs Russia, hardly the image that US lead NATO imperialism should give off if they want to improve their image.
the democrats don't care. it has come down to this.
Republicans think that Democrats are misguided.
Democrats think Republicans are evil.
We should. Unfortunately greed wont allow this to happen. People so engrossed in being right that they will deny truth in order to defend there pride. I miss the days when we picked the president because of his ideals and not party. Where parties had different viewpoints but didn’t openly attack each other.
I saw those chat commenting "What culture?" Everyone is part of an culture, no body isnt culturless.
USA has cool culture but because you see USA as your whole world it might seem like you dont have culture.
But remember everyone is a part of an culture and USA has very different culture than anyother country.
I think part of the problem is that the USA is a melting pot, so much of anything done in the US has some old world roots. Also many of the newer examples of American culture are so ubiquitous they could hardly appear American at first glance. (Hollywood, Jazz -> Rock -> Hip Hop, blue jeans, cowboys, etc.)
I think people just throw that line out there to knock Americans back a peg. A particularly absurd variation was “Americans never invented anything.”
People don't think the us has a culture because 99% of american culture seen internationally is from New York or California. Theres an entire continent between those two states yet 90% of our media and foreign tourists will only talk about those two places.
@@jacobjones4766 California, New York, Texas, and Florida man.
@@DiviAugusti ?
@@childsworstnightmare8131 The guy must’ve deleted his comment.
"America has a very rich culture. You guys always talk so much sh*t" -TommyKay
what culture
@@gamerdrache6076 he says as he types on an American invented device on an American platform. On a video about an important cultural American moment.
@@orangecream3340 Products and inventions are not culture you know
@@zombieoverlord5173 inventions and products are a direct representation of a peoples culture and what they value. The US has the most dominant culture in the world because of the propagation of her inventions worldwide
@@alexiel4406 okay so youre always my culture german cause you use cars you eat burger its german you eat hotdog its german bagels are not bit still older than american ones germany made the tv germany computer that was first automatic germany see youre comparison makes no sense
Two things I have heard that I love.
Grant.
Before the war, he had an relative-in-law who owned slaves. Grant was in a horrible spot and had kids to feed. The in law gifted Grant a slave he could sell for a lot of money. Grant instead freed him.
Lee.
Fter he retired, Lee went on to promote reunification. He actually quit the army when the war started, not wanting to involve himself in a war against brothers. However, his home state was Virginia, one of the main stages of the war, and he took up arms to defend his state.
His is a pretty good example of fighting only out of loyalty to the state you were born in.
It does my heart good to hear someone truly understand why Lee did what he did.
Answering a call to duty was something he simply could not ignore. Despite his feelings, he did what he thought was right and honorable, and that's all any human can do.
Based Grant
@@angelskaixo5188 Is it right to defend slavery? Lee fighting for the Confederacy directly prolonged the war, and the end of the war was generally the end of slavery. He didn't take arms to defend Black Virginians. If so he picked the wrong side.
@@boyishmallard9404 But you got to understand that they had far different views than we have today. A lot of people never saw slavery as something bad. He sided with his state, not with the confederates, if that makes sense
@@boyishmallard9404 When you look at history, you HAVE to look at it from the time period and from the peoples perspective at the time.
Lincoln wasn't just tall, he was ripped. He would supposedly sometimes carry around multiple hundred pound bags of rocks just to get stronger, and is sometimes credited as the inventor and first user of the chokeslam technique.
definitely true, can confirm, my cousin saw this in a dream
37:30 doctrine not changing with technology is one of the reasons why the American Civil War was so bloody. Both sides switched from smooth-bore to guns with rifling which drastically increased accuracy. Towards the end of the Civil War a lot of battles would look like the type of warfare seen during WWI. The generals in WWI didn't take the lessons from the American Civil War and that resulted in a meat grinder in Europe.
A debunked myth casual historians still hold to.
You're 100% right about the long-term effects of Sherman's harsh tactics. I'm from an area of Georgia that Sherman's March directly crossed through, and I can tell you that resentment still lives on to this day; and postwar, it really helped fuel the "war of northern aggression" narrative.
Funnily enough, I live down the road from one of the only houses not burned down in the area - the house Sherman used as an HQ while on his way to Atlanta
They deserved it
@@myman843 I actually agree, but that doesn't change what I said.
well... they DID invade... most of the confederate soldiers didn't own slaves, most felt loyalty to their state and were there to defend it
@@quickbane1 Damn, that sucks… it seems Sherman forgot to murk your ancestors on his liberation of Georgia.
Tommy really thinks that being an alien makes you smarter.
I feel like it's the hope that a species that can make it to decent interstellar travel would be one that has solved it's issues. As if lol
Yeah Tommy's entire political ideology is that of a kid who watched star trek, yt animations.
In reality if a alien species achieved space travel they would have to first dominate their own planet, wich means doing all the stuff humans did, maybe more maybe less. But the principles stay the samae. Laws of biology, physics and evolution carry over.
way to misunderstand what he said
He said "As an intelligent alien"
@@Fostersauce I definitely think that's the case. We're farther away from interstellar travel than we are from fixing our own problems.
Love these videos. But for some more sort of random history that sort of fits here. Its incredible to me that the British Empire was one of the first places in the world to realize that slavery was so awful, and instead of keeping it anyway like most places did because of the profits, not only outlawed it, but actively sunk millions into sending out the royal navy to basically pirate any ships that were carrying slaves, and free them. I think its an incredibly unique piece of history and even as a history buff, I'd never heard anything about it until I stumbled onto it one day, its sort of a great moment in history that has just sort of remained very unknown, despite it really showing that even then there was this realization that this was wrong and it was time to make an enormous effort to do the right thing.
yeah its really interesting considering how evil and immoral they were most of the time, not even talking shit you're just right its so weird
They basically kept it in all their colonies they just added extra steps.
Yeah they did that because the shift in production and industry. Also the cost of slave revolts almost destroyed the entire plantation system in the Caribbean plus they lost America. The patrols were also about extending British influence more than ending the slave trade. Ie how the british got Lagos and thus all of Nigeria. So it wasn't just because it was the right thing to do more so that they can benefit with the new reality.
I mean, they outlawed the slave trade but owning slaves was still a very much legal thing to do.
2 things cotributed to Britain outlawing slavery.
first William the conqueror outlawng slave trade in the middle ages.
second British people being kidnapped and enslaved by north african pirates. If you know the song "Rule Britannia" you know it says "Britons never shall be slaves", it's a refrence to the british navy defeating the pirates and freeing their people. (Newton was a slave too ad once freed became an anti slavery advocate) Being victims of slavery themselves as well as developing democracy and a traditions of no unjust inprisonment contributed to those devepments
Sometimes it pains me to be American other times it makes my heart warm. I love this place and I know we can do better. Thanks for the great video.
joe biden
Hopefully we'll get rid of Biden soon so our heart can warm again
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 Honestly our entire government needs to be replaced they’re all corrupt dirtbags Who cares more about lobbyists than actually fixing any real problems
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 americans trying not to be politcal for 1 second challenge: impossible
@@ahab9712 as an American I can agree. The people take politics into our identity and it's hard to fight when everyone says your politics are who you are
I'm an American, so this part of history is freaking mandatory in our educational system, yet I'm not even a minute into this video, and you already know more about the American Civil War than half the slack-jawed idiots I had the misfortune to go to school with.
Being in said history class I can say that most people who don't know things and then turn around and blame it on the education system just weren't paying attention. But I also live in Virginia which has a relatively good curriculum so I don't know.
@@olivewooled1297 I'm in Mississippi, and this state is pretty much bottom-tier, as far as education goes.
@@anasazidarkmoon That sucks man, regardless of what I may have implied the country is needing an education reform. And not the safety or health kind.
@@olivewooled1297 yeah, we need some serious education reform. Actual history needs to be taught here, not the severely watered-down or flat-out wrong stuff they push because they don't want kids learning that slavery was monstrous, bigotry of any stripe is wrong, and some of our ancestors did evil things for some of the dumbest reasons.
Proper science needs to be taught, too, but that's a whole other kettle of fish altogether.
@@anasazidarkmoon Damn, mississippi needs to get their shit together, that's taught fairly well here, though it's dependent on the teacher.
32:47 They did build the first submarine (CSS Hunley)to destroy an enemy vessel, but the sub also killed its own crew - their weapon was an explosive charge mounted on a long pole which they would ram into a ship, but the pole was far too short, so the concussive blast from the explosion also killed the crew of the submarine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submersible)
I’m sure aliens are more terrified looking at us when oversimplified is breaking down the horrors of the Civil War only to be interrupted by the porn hub theme…
In college, I was awarded a fellowship to study the civil war. People who paint general statements about it do not understand what the nation went through and how people grew from it... The video is mostly well done, but it is sad to read chat comments.
The war was over slavery, in an economic and civil rights sense. It may not have started as such but the moment Lincoln signed the Emancipation, everyone knew slavery was on its way out.
If you disagree, may i remind you of a song that was popular in the Union army during the way, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, "Christ died to make men holy, so let us die to make men free."
@TommyKay VIBE its always awesome seeing you watch these videos and learning history from a relatively unbiased source, keep up the awesome content man!
For me the easiest argument is that it was mainly over slavery was their own fucking letters of secession lol
They should of tried to free the slaves before the war started
Its crazy to me the government has just completely changed history and everyone just goes along with it. What worse it was just in last 10 years they changed the books... But yeah you can say it was about slavery but in the sense the government wanted to raise taxes on slaves. They never intended on freeing anyone, they wanted to tax slave owners more for each slave they owned because they deemed them taxable property. The government wanted to raise taxes and increase gun laws. The "southern states" said fuck that your just trying to be Britain again. So the war started and the south won every single battle for the first 2 years. Just weeks before they were about to crush the Union entirely Abraham sat with his generals and asked why they were losing so bad. The answer was simple, because 50% of the confederate army was slaves. So they sat and thought for awhile how to combat that. The next morning Abraham gave his speech in hopes it would reduce the southern armies numbers. It worked, then they completely tried to rewrite history for over 125 years. Only JUST recently have the history book been changed to leave out the entire first 2 years of the war, why it was started in the place, and the fact the government got what they wanted. Higher taxes, more guns laws so people cant fight back. And now people sit and believe the lies even though the history book told a different story until just 10 years ago when they were cut out.
@@zombieoverlord5173bold of you to assume these traitorous southern racists can read
didnt lincoln sign the emacipation proclemation after the war?
The chat was waging a mini civil war through most of the video 😂
The funny thing is that McClellen actually won every battle of the Penisula campaign, but retreated after each victory, had he just advanced he could have shattered the Rebel Army in 1862. The reason the Civil War still used the Line of Battle was that firearms were still not advanced enough to counter Cavalry charges without massing the men in a Bayonette Block. At the last two years of the War the tactics shifted rapidly to trench warfare at the end.
RIP abraham lincoln, one of about 3 US presidents i truly, truly respect as an Mexcan and Shoshone native living in Idaho. hope he's in a good place because he deserves that
Donald Trump? 😃
@@scottydu81 im also Mexican dude
Mind if I ask who the other two presidents are?
@@Idontknowwhattowritehere256 So? You should support a President who is protective of his nation’s border. I see you live in the United States but you still call yourself a “Mexican”. Might i suggest you take your Mexican flags back to Mexico and be patriotic for Mexico in Mexico and get out of the US?
@@scottydu81what? If you believe what you say, you better tell everyone with a confederate flag to get out of this country as well
So for 1st Bull Run, another interesting fact is that friendly fire was very common as both sides were confused on who was who. Everyone was wearing normal clothing and not official colors until later on. It was insane and sad.
I am from Kentucky and being the "gateway to the south" is still our nickname nowadays. I have a book of maps from the time and we were essentially military occupied to have forts and our capital of the state was almost destroyed and changed. Yet we only had 2 minor battles here lol
Another fun fact.
At Appomattox Court House, General Lee dressed in his best military garments out of respect and honor, and Grant came in, hungover and dirty. Showing a stark comparison between the two Generals, who met and parted ways. The many years later Lee would dress in his best garments one more time for a photo and never wore them again.
Last thing.
Lincoln was a fierce advocate for a peaceful and gentle reconstruction, reintegrating the south and many say if his was was done, the South would be a far better place. Instead the Reconstruction era was ripe with violence and while succeeding in bringing the South back in the Union, failed to do keep former-slaves safe as the kkk rose up during this time.
And yes, as an American i did tear up at the end. Lincoln was the best President in my eyes, no other leader of the US wouldve kept us together like he did. The country i live in today is a shadow of its former self, and until the people realize the sad reality that our government is full of corruption and both sides are bad, then we could reclaim some former glory.
@@majorearl12 From what i've seen people seem to believe that their vote would be "wasted" if they were to vote third party and somehow many people don't know that there even are third parties; it's a sad state of affairs. Anyway, that's why i'm a large advocate for disposal of the electoral college and revision of the voting system; it'd go a long way to giving us the ability to fix things while still leaving the process to democracy.
@@olivewooled1297 I am large advocate or dismantling the Republican and Democratic parties as a whole and use the many other parties to have elections instead. That would be a great step in the right direction for sure.
1:40 Abe's poem is actually really genius because he doesn't rhyme anything in his name, so anyone anywhere could replace their own name into it and it would still work.
That does make it more likely he heard it from someone else first though...
The problem with cancelling elections during wartime is that that encourages starting wars for political gain.
truth
>>Bushes>Obama>Biden
none of them cancelled an election during wartime, your point is moot LOL @@eggybreath2958
@@eggybreath2958im not familiar with american schizo politics, but dont rightwingers consider bush as one of their own?
@@ESALTEREGO Bush was a neocon who killed millions of people for money, and Trump often criticized Jeb Bush for wanting to do the same, back in 2016.
People often forget about the Native Americans in the Civil War, it's glossed over a lot because it's not something people like to talk about but the Natives overwhelmingly sided with the Confederacy because Native economies were highly dependent on Slave labor. In fact, the very last Confederate General to surrender was a Native American, he was the Chieftain of the Cherokee, Stand Watie.
Yeah the southern natives, it's like saying all whites were slave owners , no just the southern ones. And blacks owned slaves too
On top of the slavery issue it also kind of makes sense for the natives to side with the confederacy. They generally lived in what became confederate territory and also didn’t really get along with the federal government.
Fun factoid: first pernanent slave owner in the US was a blackman by the name of Anthony Johnson
Do you have a link for this fun fact? I'd like to give it a read.
He was also erased from southern history for being black.
I highly doubt that.
Imagine saying a hot take like this and not providing a source.
@@shutyamouf2 The Spanish hadn't arrived in Virginia, yet
18:39 Something interesting I would like to note here. The fort's commander was an artillery commander and taught at a (lack of a better term) military school/university. He had one student who was the best he had ever seen, so good he forced the student to be held back to help him teach his next batch of students. That same student is the commander leading the Confederates sieging the fort.
38:48 This wasn't the first time in U.S. history Africa-Americans were enlisted in the military. It first happened during the American Revolution in 1778. The First Rhode Island Regiment needed more men and so they recruited slaves and promised them freedom if they fought.
I do appreciate the fact that at the end Tommy acknowledged and even pushed the fact that Americans have a culture, and a rich one at that, and that is always going to be nice to hear from non Americans, always so much slander against America and what we have and who we are but refusing to talk about our positives. Thank you Tommy
The charge of thr 20th Maine is one of those crazy moments that just inspires movies. Standing where they were positioned on little round top was so interesting.
I was born in and still live in West Virginia. The fact we weren't called Vandalia is still a point of contention for me. However, we do have a music festival called Vandalia (as of a few years ago). Anyway, love the channel. Great reaction
"You shouldn't have elections at wartime..."
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tbh, to me, that basically sounds like telling the leaders that they can maintain power if they just declare war
The emergency suspension of elections is already common. UK did it in WW2. If it was such a problem like you say, we would have seen examples already
There's a reason Lincoln is widely regarded as the greatest leader in American history, even moreso than the founding fathers themselves. If ANY other person was in charge during the Civil War we would likely have had 2 Americas in a North v South situation for a hundred or so years until war inevitably broke out again. It was Lincoln, and Lincoln alone that held the Union together. There's a reason you never hear about Lincoln's Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin. The man was a coward who spent most of the war cozied up in his home in Massachusetts (At least I think it was correct me if I'm wrong about that) doing absolutely nothing to help the war effort. A Vice President is supposed to be someone the President can fall back on for help in any situation they need, but Hamlin was a coward who refused to even acknowledge the war.
Abraham Lincoln's family was of English ancestry, with roots in Hingham, Norfolk, England. They migrated to the New World in 1637, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Konrad Juengling are distant cousins of Abraham Lincoln.
I've been to Gettysburg. Most of the buildings that were around back then still exist. You can see pitting on the walls where bullets hit the bricks and you can see a cannonball still wedged in the wall. There is a house with a bullet hole in the door. The story there is that a stray bullet from the battle went through the door killing the house's owner. The cemetery is massive and has a memorial to all those who died. Near the cemetery sits a platform. This is where Lincoln gave his speech. The hotel he stayed at still exists and a life sized statue of Lincoln sits in the square just outside. The government began changing the land to match how it had been back then. They rebuilt fences and placed cannons where they would have been placed during the battle. And they put up monuments and markers where major battles took place allowing people to see where people had been fighting. A tall observation tower exists where you can see most of the area allowing you to see where the lines of fighting were.
Thank you, tommy, I often find that though we are culturally different, we have far more in common with each other than what makes us different. One of the greatest things I've seen on the internet were memes from foreign countries all over the world parodying the same social, economic, and political issues we face. when I think of the future and imagine a time when we fully come to realize this it makes me really optimistic about what kind of future we can build.
Tommy almost always has such great insight to everything but then you see his chat and you just wonder how they say such stupid things.
Misinformation, mostly. Like the "what switch" people. They just didn't learn enough about history as the south after the civil war went on to teach alternative history in schools. I saw a textbook from Alabama in the 1960s that basically said a slave owner took care of all his slave's needs... as if that somehow makes it better. And without the benefactor slave owner, the slaves would be homeless and starving. I'm sure stuff like this still exists today.
truly. this is what happens when you get a coagulation of edgy hoi4 15 year olds in one place
@@BonejanglesTV So true. And I love HOI4 as a game.
@@alexs1640 well there was a switch in the middle of the 20th century, thats a made up thing, democrats are still the racists just more covert which you can see in their general view on blacks (more handouts and affirmative action) which is both very racist because first you consider them unable to care for themselfs and 2nd that they are dumber than the others (while saying asians are smarter) and need baseline more points to equalie them with the rest (while asians get points deducted)
and thats sadly a fact in modern day america
@@felixmustermann790 so why were southern white Christian conservatives in the 1940s voting Democrat, and those same southern white Christian conservatives in the 1980s voting Republican? You're just showing your ignorance by claiming the southern switch was a myth. It's an easily verifiable fact with plenty of evidence, educate yourself. Next you'll say the Holocaust was a myth too.
As for blacks, nothing says "I'm not racist" like saying black people are too stupid to know better than to vote for the "racist" who give them things that they actively want... Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are like 60% nonwhite, but Republicans are like 90% white. You keep telling yourself the diverse party is the "racist" one.
Finally, you don't want to take about intelligence, considering non educated whites are the biggest voting bloc of Republicans. It's a well known fact that Democrat voters are generally more educated, including a majority of college level education.
And THAT is sadly a fact of the modern day Republicans.
With regards to the north finding the cigars there is actually an alternate history series by Harry Turtledove where the north doesn't find the plans and end up losing the war. End result is the confederacy becomes its own country allied with France and Britain and the union needing allies ends up allying with Germany so when WW1 comes around the US is part of the central powers and the confederacy is with the entente.
The editing is perfect, ty so much
Your empathy is very refreshing and endearing. Appreciate you
I’m actually from Fredericksburg, we have a whole bunch of stuff for the including a national park battlefield and a memorial dedicated to that Confederate Sgt. that helped Union soldiers.
Also For anyone curious it has no mention of “how great confederates are” like other statues or racist monuments here in the south it’s more like a “monument to humanity type deal”
Yeah some of them get to stay. I kinda got annoyed at taking down statues of P.G.T. Beauregard but at the same time, why is he always portrayed as a Confederate General? Beauregard and Longstreet's post war career is really interesting but again. Every monument to them dresses them as a Confederate General though.
Anyway most of those statues should be taken down and gone, but some of them can stay.
@@MickGallJr you're a BLM supporter, aren't you?
@@elijahherstal776 yes
@@MickGallJr they should build a museum for those statues when theytakethemdown
@@myman843 why? Not many museums want them. Most of the Confederate statues are cheap mass produced garbage. Who would visit such a museum? Who would fund such a museum?
I went on a field trip to Gettysburg in grade school, and the battle there was massive. We had a guide that walked us around the battle fields, and this one place that was like a V shaped valley they said the blood ran down though the woods at the bottom like a large stream. If you're ever in Pennsylvania give it a visit. And if you want to see about the worst place during the US civil war, look into The Andersonville prison, located near Andersonville, Georgia,
the warden at andersonville was the only american EVER executed for war crimes, to give you an idea of how awful that prison was
I have to say your summary at the beginning was absolutely top tier 🤣
There is a series about going west: Lonesome Dove. It's about a group of settlers in a wagon train with families. Each hour is different as they tried to make to a plot of land they bought to set up farms. It's also had comedic elements. It's also based on a book.
I honestly think the death of Lincoln really crushed the efforts of Reconstruction before they began. He wasn’t universally liked or anything, but he probably would have done a much better job at healing the divide then most of his successors, no offense to them, but it takes a certain kind of person to lead others through something as momentous and devastating as civil war.
I also wonder if things might have gotten a bit back on track if not for the random assassination of James Garfield by an insane guy that thought he was divinely appointed to be a high government figure and was mad when the actual government didn’t give him any notice. He seemed to be an interesting opportunity as he hadn’t been actively seeking power and most of his focus seemed to be on reform, and advocating for civil rights, and seemed to have a knack for calming tensions between divided parties.
So, the reason they engaged in Nepolianic line warfare and not cover based more modern warfare was because the war was fought at a technology crossroads. Nepolianic warfare was becoming extremely deadly, but trench and cover based warfare was too ineffective. The Confederates did try those tactics at the end of the war in 1864-65 and they just got their shit pushed in even harder than they had before. The Beor Wars’ were when those tactics actually became useful thanks to advanced rifling techniques and bolt action multiple shot guns.
Fun fact: I live near the Kennedy farm in Sharpsburg Maryland, it was where john brown planned to do a raid on harpers ferry. The farm is about 5 minutes away from me and its really cool, they have wax statues of john brown and his family, and the house has been restored to look like it did back in the 1800s. Its kinda like the forgotten location amongst the other john brown locations.
Poor Burnside gets a bad rep for Fredericksburg and the Crater and people are quick to forget that he was a much more capable divisional commander, and he knew it! He even begged Lincoln not to make him commander of the Army of the Pottomac!
57:31 this photo is super famous. Based off of the exact location of where it was taken in NYC, and the known residents of each building, we know the name of the little boy peaking out of that window in the top right corner.
Theodore Roosevelt (yes that one)
As an American and new voter, I have the same sentiments about the current state of the country. Also the founders originally hated the party system, fearing a powerfully bloc would rise up and take control of what laws would be made. Which was counter argued that there would be too many parties would exist preventing one powerful one from ever forming. Guess which one has happened
In a war like this, you're best shot as survival was being an irregular. A skirmisher. Like Berdan's Sharpshooters. Not only were you not standing in a big line waiting to get shot, you would be moving from cover to cover in small groups, hard to track down, with very VERY good breach loading rifles that outperformed the muzzle loaders of regular troops.
I stumbled upon this video randomly, And I'm glad I found someone who also shares the idea that America could be a lot more if we stopped fighting one another.
Yeah, the American election cycle doesn't give af. Every four years, Americans will cast their ballots in the general election, be it peacetime, wartime, or the end times. The votes must flow.
"You can see this shit its all in New York, Nicholas Cage stole it, right?" average european's knowledge of america
At 57:30 at the left of the screen you will see an open window with shudders on the second floor with a child looking out to see Lincoln's funeral procession. That child was 6 year old Theodore Roosevelt who would become the 26th President of the United States less that 40 years later. Both he and Lincoln are now on Mount Rushmore. This is the only photograph of the two of them together.
Also some people in the live chat were talking about how muskets were "so inaccurate" but these were rifled barrels. They were plenty accurate at 300+ yards. A lot of the casualty rates with those can be blamed on the fact that many generals were using the tactics they knew from previous wars which is why it wasn't till the late war period we see more use of trenches, skirmishing formations, and open order.
And also Early never could've really threatened DC. The point was they just wanted to draw troops away but Grant kind of already knew this. Early had like 10,000 men and DC was surrounded by heavy fortified positions.
Don't expect viewers in a twitch chat to actually be knowledgeable on anything. They probably think it took minutes to load a single shot in a muzzle-loader.
The number of deaths in this war are approximately equal to the total of American fatalities in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, combined.
Yup, to this day it's considered the bloodiest war in U.S. history
Tommy, If you want to see a depiction of Gettysburg that is faithful, if not 100% accurate, there is a self titled film called Gettysburg. Its from the early 90's and has thousands of historical reenactors playing the part of the soldiers.
Well... Semi close anyway. It still doesn't capture the true scale, and well the Dialogue... Let's just say The Killer Angels certainly takes a large Creative License.
@@MickGallJr Yeah agreed. As good as Ghettysburg is. It only captures a fraction of the whole battle. A miniseries of documentaries is the only way to actually show everything, which I'm sure there are a few to choose from youtube alone.
@@nbewarwe also I don't think it's possible to get enough men together to show say Pickets charge or devil's den. Probably will need some help from a computer. CGI might make it possible. Gettysburg was roughly the size of Waterloo.
@@nbewarwe To be fair to the movie it's pretty much impossible for any movie to be 100% accurate and interesting, while also staying under budget and make it in a reasonable timeframe
@@zombieoverlord5173 Sergei Bondarchuk levelling off an entire area of Ukraine to recreate the Waterloo scenery and using a whole-a** division of the Red Army dressed as Russian and French soldiers to recreate the Battle of Waterloo with military-grade explosives and plunging camera shots in 1970: "Amateurs!"
This is one of the best reactions
First time seeing you Tommy. Liking what I see
A German unironically just restored my faith in America again. Thank you, Tommy.
Also, a big reason for the South's modern ways (despite many instances being overblown, western MA and Upstate NY aren't much better than the Alabama stereotype), was the failure of reconstruction. Sherman's march devastated the South in a horrible way. With the sudden loss of their main income, Military occupation, poor management, and loss of manpower the South never really recovered.
And a lot of people blame Grant for it which couldn’t be further from the truth
Yep. They fucked around & found out..
@@susanmaggiora4800 yankee explaining how causing a 200+ year economic and cultural divide was necessary and there was absolutely no other way to ensure CSA's surrender.
@@yigitoz8387 arrogance
@@yigitoz8387 A guy with a Turk name defending the Confederates. Now I've seen everything.
If you're interested in a deeper analysis of the Civil War, and more specifically a debunking of the Lost Cause narrative, I strongly recommend the series *Checkmate, Lincolnites!* by Atunshei Films.
Hear hear! His videos are so dang good!
Also, I am eternally jealous of that man's nose. It is a thing of wonder.
i dont watch confederate stooges
“I, John Brown now am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.” - John Brown’s last words before being executed.
It is really fun to see a German doing this, dude thanks
43:40 "And the Confederates were decimated"
TommyKay: "Shit..."
Is this a re-upload? I swear I seen Tommy react to this before
Edit it was the independence war I'm remembering him watching
His complete dismissal of the dangers of war time leaders holding onto emergency powere is amusing.
didn't see it mentioned but if you want to learn about the civil War read Shelby Foote's "The Civil War: A Narrative" in three volumes. It's pretty old now but remains the definitive introductory text.
Ken Burn's " The Civil War": documentary series uses it as a source heavily and features interviews with Foote.
I will say it here even though it wasn't mentioned but. The Oklahoma "mistake" might not have been. Because the pan handle was at the time an unorganized territory
I didn't know that 32 of 45 of our Presidents had served in the military.
3 Generals of the Army. 6 Major Generals, 4 Brigadier Generals, 6 Colonels, 2 Commanders, 3 Major / Lieutenant commanders, 6 Captain / Lieutenant (naval), 1 First lieutenant and 1 Private. That's crazy. I had no clue.
It's after the horrors of the Battle of Fredricksburg that Lee supposedly said "It is a good thing that war is so terrible lest we grow fond of it."
Your description at the beginning is EXACTLY like some of my German language teachers in school, you’re just missing a podium lol
Slavery has existed since the beginning of human history, and still exists today. In the British colonies it became associated with black races. England was eventually instrumental in ending slavery in the west.
yes because they all willingly gave up their slaves! there was no violence whatsoever in ending slavery!! 🤣🤣 ur so fuckin daft
That poem was pretty genius.
Fun fact: Arlington National Cemetery was General Lee's home and plantation. It was promptly seized by the Union after he had joined the Confederacy. Lee's house still stands there to this day.
I feel like an alien would find morality and ethics stranger than violence.
10% of the Union Army was German Americans. Many people who fled Germany after the failed Revolution of 1848 immigrated to America, and many served in the war as soldiers or officers
Yep most of the country was, it is evident by the town names; Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, etc
Oversimplified is a huge understatement. There are so many crucial details that are left out it's ridiculous
To add on to what RamJam73 said, Lincoln was forced to make the Civil War about Slavery when Cassius Clay refused Lincoln’s requests/orders until the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
After this watch Ken Burns Civil War, its letters of and events of the Civil War and is amazing even to someone who thinks it isn't for them. You get a birds eye view of the war from those who fought it and others who lived during that time.
Dead ass teared up when Lincoln got shot 😭
So sad bro but at least he got to see the 13th amendment passed and Lee’s surrender
@@civilwarguy4740 He also didn't have a painful and slow death due to his doctors. That's more than a couple presidents can say
Wasn’t he racist?
@@drained_yayo From a modern perspective yes. For back then no. Remember he was an abolitionist. But it was 1860 after all
10:30 glad you pointed this out. Political parties change a lot. Democrats become the more "liberal" party during the great depression. Basically former democrats that were more conservative jumped ship during this time and became republicans.
Uh no? The Democrats didn't become more liberal. The majority of the opposition to the civil rights act came from democrats, even with a democrat president. It's only recently that the Democrat party has become more leftist.
I once had a teacher who told us that "Sherman" was still a curse-word in Georgia. I also heard, though I don't know how true it is, that Robert E. Lee's mother, before he was born, fell terribly ill, went unconscious, and was mistaken for dead. They almost buried her alive, but her husband heard her call out to him, and he opened the casket to find her alive. Holy crap!
Another famous (or infamous) story about the Civil War was that after a battle that the Union won (I forget which one), one soldier went and kicked over the body of one of the Confederate soldiers he had killed, wanting to see the face of the traitor. But it was his own son, and he, himself, had killed him. Brothers, cousins, fathers and sons, entire families found themselves torn apart by this horrible war. I'm so glad the Union won, though.
No clue who you are my dude! But you showed up in my recommended after I watched a Canadian (currently residing in USA) react to this. I'm ready!
THE UNION FOREVER! HURRAH BOYS HURRAH! DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS AND UP WITH THE STAIR
Damn. Tommy created a war in his twitch chat.
thats politics for ya
I remember going on a field trip to Topeka and learning about John brown, very interesting guy
The biggest irony of Jefferson writing a condemnation of slavery is that he himself had MANY slaves
Man i have been thinking of moving to the USA but honestly given the current political climate all around the world and in the USA I have been thinking about it more…idk if there’s any country I can actually flee to in order to live in peace as there’s not a single country I think I’d actually wish to live under the rule off in this 21st century, historically speaking the US civil war is a big benchmark on the transition from classic napoleonic and Victorian tactics to the ideas of modernized industrial wars it was a prelude of the First World War to come with its trenches and wave assaults where the soldiers run at the enemy’s firing line…I think it was after the civil war that one of many “points of no return” for mankind got finally crossed and war finally changed for the worse.
War was always for the worst for the people fighting it.
@@christoperwallace6197 nope theres actually a big reason the opinion of war was for a long time something positive, it wasnt all sunshine and roses sure and PTSD was very much a thing but to be a soldier in lets say medieval times was actually a way to increase ones wealth and reputation especially if it was a defensive war, it was an oportunity for adventure and gathering wealth...which is why the soldiers in WW1 were so terrified and surprised since the war they were fighting looked and felt very different from the napoleonic and colonial wars their grandfathers and fighters described to them.
@@jonhstonk7998 if you die its for the worst. Every war, some grunts die. So every war ever has had someone who, in the end, has a worse life (aka no life) then before.
@@christoperwallace6197 who said dying in itself is bad? life is about quality not length.
@Chandller Burse okay first of all your medieval claim: armor isn't that heavy and it isn't hard to move in it its actually surprisingly flexible especially 14th and 15th-century armor anyone who used it or studied it will tell you this, it isn't like people who didn't knew how to fight were tossed in a battlefield the whole ¨peasant with a pitchfork¨ idea is a myth, knights and men at arms were trained since childhood in martial arts, use of weapons, armor, physical training like calisthenics and lifting and horseback ridding but the average peasant didn't just have TIME and MEANS for training he actually was encouraged to practice wrestling, boxing, physical exercise and especially practice the use of weapons since that many city-states and independent or semi-independent fiefs demanded that their commoners had Arms and Armor and practiced with them according to their wealth by LAW, medieval armies weren't really ¨exposed to the elements¨ as armies of that period had tents and most campaigns were generally fought in the forms of raiding or skirmishes in spring and summer and SOMETIMES Auttum since there was rarely any sort of fight in the winter, war was never seen as a fully good thing but it was a sure way for a peasant or commoner to grow wealthier if they survived as they would gain status and more importantly: wealth so war was seen as a dangerous and risky OPORTUNITY which is why most medieval armies rarely had to resort to conscription since in offensive wars they had no shortage of volunteers and in defensive wars...well if your home is attacked you will help defend it so they didnt had shortages of volunteers either.
Medicine was indeed less advanced but Medicine as a Science will OBVIOUSLY grow better over time! i mean honestly in medieval times they KNEW how to stitch up a wound since this was a known medical treatment since the BRONZE AGE, but it isn't as if medieval doctors were complete incompetents, this is the equivalent of someone in a hypothetical 25th century complain that 21st-century doctors are incompetent because they do not know how to cure cancer...i believe that to state ¨medicine/technology was worse therefore the period was worse¨ as an argument is very unfair to the period since again: those things evolve over time anyways, what you're describing as ¨small damage¨ may be referring to the first BULLET wounds and later the bullet wounds in places like the civil war, which in this case you'd be right: this is because when you get shot the shockwave of impact makes you get into a state of shock much faster than a slash or stab wound which made doctors very confused about how to treat such injuries without immediate amputation until as recently as the first world war so it isnt surprising that we got better at treating these sorts of wounds.
When it came to your comment about how ¨moving countries wont make you escape the horrors of the world¨ im inclined to agree to an extent: there will always be idiots and assholes and cowards in all places of the world just as there would be good people and so on...but im from south America and theres a very clear gap in quality of life and general IQ and opportunity between south and north america...but sadly the gap on what comes to the ¨having freedoms and rights¨ metrics between both extremes of the continent seems to be diminishing...and in favor of the: ¨lets fuck over the citizen¨side of the scale...so im still pretty lost as to WHERE should i move to in order to be able to have my rights...Montana seems to check all boxes for example however...for how LONG will it check those boxes? thats the sort of shit im worried about.
The last member of the kkk that was in a political spot was the senator from West Virginia that left office in 2003, he was a Democrat named Robert Byrd
I highly recommend TommyKay to watch Checkmate Lincolnites if he hasn't yet.
Not mentioned in the video, but Germany (or rather Germans) had a really deep impact on the US before, during, and right after the Civil War. Thousands of German exiles from the revolution of 1848 came to the US, settling mostly in the Midwest. Many of the most ardent abolitionists/republicans were former revolutionaries and they formed quite a few army units. A large community of Germans in Texas rebelled against the confederacy (see nueces massacre), and a German militia defeated a confederate uprising in St. Louis (see camp Jackson affair). Over 200,000 German immigrants (and their first gen children) fought during the war, mostly on the union side.
See also: Carl Schurz, the Turnvereine movement, and forty-eighters.
"i dont understand soldiers fighting for the bad side of the war" - bro you're german wdym "the taskmasters were the real gestapo" - bro you're german WDYM : lol i just thought it was funny
His nationality doesn't mean he agrees with Nazis tf
@@thecreator4296 true but history from his country should show him first hand how it happens.
Well he said he doesn't understand why soldiers fight for the bad side of the war. He didn't say "wow these americans how do you feel fighting for slavery"or sum shit. Just cause he's german doesn't mean he instantly knows why people fight for the bad side of the war.
@@PossibleTango He is saying how he couldn't possibly believe that he would do anything like it. From a personal standpoint, he doesn't empathize with how people can fight for an evil cause, be it slavery or Nazism.
@@thecreator4296 lmao me saying that he agrees with nazis is probably the least charitable take you could have on that comment its just gentle ribbing on the internet i wouldn't let it get to you. That being said nothing from this video makes me believe he agrees with nazis lmao again its a joke - relax
Ehhh Tommy little hypocritical when you say we USED to have good leaders, when you all went From Bismarck to Merkle lol
bruh merkel atleast did something
@@gamerdrache6076 that’s subjective to what political affiliation you have because some might argue an opposite opinion. Gotta face it if he thinks politicians today suck they suck everywhere not just the U.S.
@@jeff_underscore9244 i m german too and scholz is just doing nothing right evryone wants him not to allign with china but he does anyway
@@gamerdrache6076 So you can speak with absolute authority for every German?
@@jeff_underscore9244 i can because evryone around me says its true
"Nobody has empathy anymore." Fair enough, man.
"I didn't lose. I merely failed to win" is an actual quote by McClellan after getting crushed in the election btw
59:17 I know this nation has its tough times ( as every other nation does), but I know it will bounce back.
Agreed. We always persevere and will heal one day.
The tricky thing about American political parties is that they are more based on economics, and social policy usually goes with whatever serves their argument best. The democratic party was originally the party of rural farmers and the republican party was the party of big business and the religious (hence why they were anti slavery). Being a party for the rural voters, the democrats were originally bankrolled and co-opted by the southern plantation owners, which basically tricked poor non-slave owning southern farmers into defending slavery claiming it was "defending states rights". What ended up happening after the war was that Republican presidents after Lincoln become more business oriented and dropped the ball on reconstruction, which led to confederates getting elected back into their state governments and passing restrictive jim crow segregation laws targeting blacks. As the industrial revolution came to be, that is when we start seeing a shift in ideology between the parties. As the Democrats shifted from being a party of rural america to the party of the american worker, their racist ideology being left behind as black voters entered the workforce. As black participation in the workforce increased and as republicans neglected the black voters, eventually the democrats would be the party to pass the civil rights act in the 1960s. As a result, all the outraged racist southerners (who also are very religious), abandoned the Dems and joined the Republicans. And that's how we ended up with the parties we have today.
Thanks for taking the time to make this clarification for the uninformed. I have a hard time not rolling my eyes at modern day republicans trying to claim Lincoln's republicans as being one and the same.
The tactics during this time were weird because all of these Generals were trained on Napoleonic Tactics but the weapons were starting to evolve quickly there there's this big leap in tech but the tactics lag behind. Towards the end of the war, Lee basically just entrenched everywhere while Grant kept moving by his flank and this is a good example of WW1 tactics starting to take hold as Grant had to assault fortified positions over and over again.
Canceling an election during a war can be a slippery slope... we just got out of a 20 year "war on terror".
To quote Abe McLincoln
"We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."
He summarized it at the start better than alot of my history teachers