I was born in NY and my mother was from the south, NC. I visit family in Virginia as often as I can and sometimes still refer to me as a Yankee. Through my Mom’s ancestry research I found two distant relatives that were captured and were incarcerated at the Elmira Prison Camp. I’ve always had an interest in the Civil War, thank you for videos.
I am from North Carolina my great-great grandfather server with the 32nd North Carolina he was wounded captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse in 1864 he was in prison in Elmira paroled June of 65
Yes!! The loudest voice at the time against the rising Lost Cause movement and corruption in any form. My GGG Grandfather spent a chunk of the war chasing him around as part of Cole's Cavalry - they had so much respect for Mosby and found him so likable that they invited him to their 1895 reunion. I find him fascinating!
Thank you for the 2nd episode. Nice video on some lesser known Confederate officials and generals. Look forward to further videos on confederate officials.i would also enjoy videos on Union officials and generals also.
An interesting Confederate officer was Longstreet's chief of artillery, Edward Porter Alexander. At Gettysburg, Alexander was the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge. He had a very distinguished post-war career.
I the woke for the removal of A.P. Hill's statue and changing the name of the fort. I'm glad that you did mention that most of the Confederate generals became staunch supporters of Reconstruction supported the equal rights of former slaves.
Put AP Hill’s statue right next to Admiral Yamamoto and General Cornwallis. What’s that? Yamamoto and Cornwallis don’t have statues in the USA? I guess American’s just aren’t that into putting statues up of the people we defeat in war. Especially those who commit treason.
Thanks for the great video and putting the suggested topic of Longstreet. Please do a video on southern generals who stayed loyal to the union during the civil war like Winfield Scott, George Thomas, David Farragut, Robert Anderson, Montgomery Meigs, Edmund J. Davis, Don Carlos Buell and Philip St. George Cooke etc.
Nicely done. All power to you. How about doing something about what these military and political leaders thought of each other? I realise it's been covered before, but hell, nothing is new in heaven or earth. For example, Grant apparently thought Lee was a plodder who didn't learn from his lessons, and he considered Joe Johnson a far more formidable opponent and the finest leader of armies the South ever had. I just finished Grant's memoirs and it's full of little details like that; uber interestink, ya?
Thanks SO MUCH for this second episode! I'd seen the first the other day and (not knowing you'd already done this), asked you to please consider a follow-up for others. Awesome to know.
As a UK citizen, I find these interesting as they fill in several gaps in my knowledge of the history of the USA. Also, am I the only person who finds it staggering how, after the spirit of reconciliation shown by the post-war Union towards their former Confederate adversaries, modern day activists wish to reverse that and wipe out an important part of the history of the USA?
USA is infested with woke, left wing liberals who try to bash the South by vandalizing Confederate statues and burn Confederate flags to push their clueless agendas onto other US citizens. President Abraham Lincoln settled this matter in 1865 but wokes want to stir up shit again. By the way, I was born and raised in a Yankee state and I fly Old Glory, my father's ancestors were Union blue bellies who fought "Johnny Reb" in the Uncivil War in 1860's. Any Southerner who wishes to fly the "Stars & Bars" while visiting their ancestors statues have got my support! And no! I am not a copperhead , carpetbagger, or a scalawag!
Modern day activist don’t want to wipe out history as you say, they just don’t want to celebrate treason. The US is probably the only country in the world where men who committed treason have statues.
I think the Union Genrals. Of course Ken Burns in the final installment of his film on the Civil War gives out a lot of this information. Amazing how many of these guys went into work as railroad executives. It was evidently the Big Tech of the last half of the Nineteenth Century.
My thought was that mostly were West Point graduates which at the time was primarily an engineering school with of course an emphasis on military as well.
I am surprised that UA-cam lets you show this video. My paternal ancestry are Union blue bellies and Iam getting my history nerd on while enjoying this! I am also happy that President Abraham Lincoln settled the matter in 1965 about allowing the Southern states to fly their Confederate flags and erect their monuments and statues so that future generations will understand why.
Good Job Just before watching this I watched part 1 and requested Joe Wheeler, then discovered you had covered him in this part along with Longstreet. My other request was Fitzhugh Lee
Thank you for the videos,no matter what side of the conflict,these were real and interesting people.Perhaps you could do a series of videos,and rotate sides even.Its hard to find accurate representation of many Southern Generals because presentisim thinking has demonized and tried to canceled them.I am a multi-generational southerner,I do NOT support the false lost cause narrative,but I do believe many of these men were honorable and deserving of respect.Thank you for bringing some of their stories to light.
@@starter47990 They fought for the status quo for 93 years, and being the confederation upheld by the Kentucky Virginia resolutions and treaty of Paris, 0.5 percent owned slaves, according to the plain folk of the old south data.
Another good doc. General Wheeler's moment should have been longer. One criticism if you don't mind? It's not Wah tee, it's Way tie. For General Stand Waite.
I'd be interested in both those videos you suggested. Some of the Union Generals had interesting later careers. Never mind Grant and Sherman, consider Chamberlain, Howard, Sickles among them.
Please continue this series. They are very good. Bloody Bill went on the Lawrence Kansas raid after his sisters were injured and one killed while in Union captivity . One was killed when the upper floor of the house in which they were held collapsed onto the first floor. I recommend the excellent book,The Devil Knows How to Ride. It's about Quantrill, but it also talks about other Bushwhackers. It also tells about Yankee irregulars,too. They were at least as bad as the Bushwhackers. An excellent movie about the irregular war out West is, Ride With the Devil. Free on UA-cam.
According to James Longstreet, Jubal Early stunk as a general. Sheridan sent Custer into the Shenandoah to wipe Early out - which Custer did. Early escaped capture by hiding under an old woman's hoop skirt with the woman still wearing it. Early resumed his position of District Attorney for the county he lived in until he died.
Little tidbit: Judah P. Benjamin was not born on the U.S. Virgin Islands, as they didn't exist at the time. We acquired the Danish West Indies in 1917 which became the USVI.
James Longstreet said to Wheeler after the Spanish-American War ended, "Joe, I hope I die before you do. I want to hear Jubal Early cursing at you from hell for wearing Yankee Blue."
Wheeler, upon seeing Spanish soldiers flee the field in Cuba, is said to have stood up in his stirrups, shake his fist and shout, "After 'em boys! We've got the damned Yankees on the run!"
David Levy Yulee has the distinction of having different places in Florida named after him - with different names. Obviously the town of Yulee, Florida is named after him. But so is Levy County.
AP Hill was undoubtedly the most unflinchingly brave general officer. His red shirt he gallantly doned in battle was conspicuous, much like Caesar who famously wore a crimson cape so that they could be distinguished by their men and inspire them by their bravery at the front. Hill fell as he was hastily personally reconnoitering a line of march as the ANV attempted to flee from the Petersburg lines. His, frequent illnesses were often of veneral disease. He was well known to visit the Richmond brothels.
I have a biography on A.P. Hill and it never mentions him visiting Richmond brothels. He was happily married. He contracted gonorrhea while a student at West Point.
A few years ago I was around the air bases in Pensacola, Florida. During conversations and visits there, I discovered that many people did not think of the United States as a united block of states, no, they were southerners and their pride and national feeling for the southerners was touching and admirable. Since then I have familiarized myself with the history and context of the time before and during the Civil War and that "slavery" in the southern states was a cardinal point is false and made up. As an old man, life has taught me that the lies surrounding wars and the cause of war are lies and false flags. As a Scandinavian, I understand better and better why the Vikings only told about their heroes and heroic deeds and did NOT write down their history - because why write down history when it anyway does not describe the actual facts. The stay in Pensacola and the conversations with the Southern people that have given me knowledge about the Southern army, the battles, the soldiers and the officers. Fantastic warriors and heroic actions throughout the civil war. Shameful and sad that someone is preventing the people from paying tribute to these heroes by removing memorials and statues. In Norse mythology, it is said that ODIN did not take part in wars, he only took care of the heroes - on both sides. Get those memorials and statues back up - "slavery" is fake and false flag...wars are all about economics and sons on both sides give their lives for a sham.
So, grant fights to not have Confederates dressed pardons them, and they're angry. Longstreet campaigned for Grant. Why I'll always dispise those traitors.
Before the war, most of the officers from both sides were railroad CEOs. After the war, most of the officers from both sides went back to being railroad CEOs. 😅
John H. Reagan. He was the only CSA Postmaster General the CSA ever had. He was captured along with Davis. He later became a well respected citizen and politician in Texas.
as a Dane its funny to hear that some of the leaders could be considered Danish (the us virgin islands at the time was a colonial territory under Denmark (Danish Antilles) the us bought the islands in 1917 and they where incorporated in to the US in 1927 so in 3 years thet can celebrate 100 years as Part of union)
Thank you for episode number two. Yes please continue the series and craft a similar one for union generals.
I was born in NY and my mother was from the south, NC. I visit family in Virginia as often as I can and sometimes still refer to me as a Yankee. Through my Mom’s ancestry research I found two distant relatives that were captured and were incarcerated at the Elmira Prison Camp. I’ve always had an interest in the Civil War, thank you for videos.
I am from North Carolina my great-great grandfather server with the 32nd North Carolina he was wounded captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse in 1864 he was in prison in Elmira paroled June of 65
Benjamin Clark Co. F 31st NC Reg. CSA; Thomas D. Wynn Co. H 1 NC Reg CSA. They are buried at Elmira National Cemetery.
Yes, do part 3 of the CSA, the Union may be interesting as well (sorry, from Louisiana).
If a part 3, please include the Gray Ghost, John S. Mosby.
Yes!! The loudest voice at the time against the rising Lost Cause movement and corruption in any form. My GGG Grandfather spent a chunk of the war chasing him around as part of Cole's Cavalry - they had so much respect for Mosby and found him so likable that they invited him to their 1895 reunion. I find him fascinating!
Let's not forget Jack Hinson
I appreciated both part 1 & 2.
Please continue with the series.
Yesss c:
Part three please! Union please also!
and include general order 28
Thank you for the 2nd episode. Nice video on some lesser known Confederate officials and generals. Look forward to further videos on confederate officials.i would also enjoy videos on Union officials and generals also.
nice video
These videos are fascinating. Some on the Union side would be fascinating as well. Thank you again for making these 2 videos.
The details of any event as large as The American Civil War are interesting as they display the frailty/whimsical nature of human nature.
An interesting Confederate officer was Longstreet's chief of artillery, Edward Porter Alexander. At Gettysburg, Alexander was the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge. He had a very distinguished post-war career.
That is a good idea to continue with the confederates and the union ones,
I the woke for the removal of A.P. Hill's statue and changing the name of the fort. I'm glad that you did mention that most of the Confederate generals became staunch supporters of Reconstruction supported the equal rights of former slaves.
Put AP Hill’s statue right next to Admiral Yamamoto and General Cornwallis. What’s that? Yamamoto and Cornwallis don’t have statues in the USA? I guess American’s just aren’t that into putting statues up of the people we defeat in war. Especially those who commit treason.
thanks for not using a robot voice.
Continue!!!
Yes, please continue. I am finding these videos extremely interesting!
Thanks for the great video and putting the suggested topic of Longstreet. Please do a video on southern generals who stayed loyal to the union during the civil war like Winfield Scott, George Thomas, David Farragut, Robert Anderson, Montgomery Meigs, Edmund J. Davis, Don Carlos Buell and Philip St. George Cooke etc.
That would be a great video idea! I'll try to make that soon
@@the_world_we_live_1nyour content is great, love and support from India
More! More! Your story telling style and voice are very good.
Give us Episode 3 and please do one for Union Commanders this history must bet told
I'm curious from 2:30 to 2:36 you are showing US Army wearing Campaign hats in front of a truck when narrating about Bloody Bill?
Nicely done. All power to you. How about doing something about what these military and political leaders thought of each other? I realise it's been covered before, but hell, nothing is new in heaven or earth. For example, Grant apparently thought Lee was a plodder who didn't learn from his lessons, and he considered Joe Johnson a far more formidable opponent and the finest leader of armies the South ever had. I just finished Grant's memoirs and it's full of little details like that; uber interestink, ya?
I went on found you second video on the Confederate General, it was real good. You have me as a new subscriber.
Same here.
Thanks SO MUCH for this second episode! I'd seen the first the other day and (not knowing you'd already done this), asked you to please consider a follow-up for others. Awesome to know.
Excellent! Please do a part 3!!
As a UK citizen, I find these interesting as they fill in several gaps in my knowledge of the history of the USA.
Also, am I the only person who finds it staggering how, after the spirit of reconciliation shown by the post-war Union towards their former Confederate adversaries, modern day activists wish to reverse that and wipe out an important part of the history of the USA?
Could not agree more, before researching this I had very little knowledge of the reconciliation efforts by former Confederates
USA is infested with woke, left wing liberals who try to bash the South by vandalizing Confederate statues and burn Confederate flags to push their clueless agendas onto other US citizens. President Abraham Lincoln settled this matter in 1865 but wokes want to stir up shit again. By the way, I was born and raised in a Yankee state and I fly Old Glory, my father's ancestors were Union blue bellies who fought "Johnny Reb" in the Uncivil War in 1860's. Any Southerner who wishes to fly the "Stars & Bars" while visiting their ancestors statues have got my support! And no! I am not a copperhead , carpetbagger, or a scalawag!
Modern day activist don’t want to wipe out history as you say, they just don’t want to celebrate treason. The US is probably the only country in the world where men who committed treason have statues.
Part 3 please
I think the Union Genrals. Of course Ken Burns in the final installment of his film on the Civil War gives out a lot of this information. Amazing how many of these guys went into work as railroad executives. It was evidently the Big Tech of the last half of the Nineteenth Century.
My thought was that mostly were West Point graduates which at the time was primarily an engineering school with of course an emphasis on military as well.
I am surprised that UA-cam lets you show this video. My paternal ancestry are Union blue bellies and Iam getting my history nerd on while enjoying this! I am also happy that President Abraham Lincoln settled the matter in 1965 about allowing the Southern states to fly their Confederate flags and erect their monuments and statues so that future generations will understand why.
LMAO! 1965?
@@T555BIRDthat is the wrong year but they made the keyboard to slow people down. T bird rock though.
This is not a well researched post. Don't take much in here for history.
Good Job Just before watching this I watched part 1 and requested Joe Wheeler, then discovered you had covered him in this part along with Longstreet. My other request was Fitzhugh Lee
Please continue your series but of both union and confederate sides Thankyou
Wow even better than the first video - extremely informative.
Yes to both.
I can't wait for the next video and also yes, do the Union leaders.
Union Leaders is out now!
Please do the Union Generals as well.
Thank you for the videos,no matter what side of the conflict,these were real and interesting people.Perhaps you could do a series of videos,and rotate sides even.Its hard to find accurate representation of many Southern Generals because presentisim thinking has demonized and tried to canceled them.I am a multi-generational southerner,I do NOT support the false lost cause narrative,but I do believe many of these men were honorable and deserving of respect.Thank you for bringing some of their stories to light.
They WERE demons. They fought to keep blacks enslaved. That's not a misrepresentation...that is a fact
@@starter47990 They fought for the status quo for 93 years, and being the confederation upheld by the Kentucky Virginia resolutions and treaty of Paris, 0.5 percent owned slaves, according to the plain folk of the old south data.
Another good doc. General Wheeler's moment should have been longer. One criticism if you don't mind? It's not Wah tee, it's Way tie. For General Stand Waite.
Thank you for doing these episodes. In the words of Oliver Twist, “More please.” Union & confederate would do.
nice series going here. :) Love it
That would be great little history lesson on the Union Generals👍
so great broe
Thx! I'm a new subscriber!
Pt.3 when
I'd be interested in both those videos you suggested. Some of the Union Generals had interesting later careers. Never mind Grant and Sherman, consider Chamberlain, Howard, Sickles among them.
Please continue this series. They are very good. Bloody Bill went on the Lawrence Kansas raid after his sisters were injured and one killed while in Union captivity . One was killed when the upper floor of the house in which they were held collapsed onto the first floor. I recommend the excellent book,The Devil Knows How to Ride. It's about Quantrill, but it also talks about other Bushwhackers. It also tells about Yankee irregulars,too. They were at least as bad as the Bushwhackers. An excellent movie about the irregular war out West is, Ride With the Devil. Free on UA-cam.
Keep the videos coming
Part 3
could you do one on Hood ,is Fort Still named after a Confediate gen?
According to James Longstreet, Jubal Early stunk as a general. Sheridan sent Custer into the Shenandoah to wipe Early out - which Custer did. Early escaped capture by hiding under an old woman's hoop skirt with the woman still wearing it. Early resumed his position of District Attorney for the county he lived in until he died.
Little tidbit: Judah P. Benjamin was not born on the U.S. Virgin Islands, as they didn't exist at the time. We acquired the Danish West Indies in 1917 which became the USVI.
Important fact
James Longstreet said to Wheeler after the Spanish-American War ended, "Joe, I hope I die before you do. I want to hear Jubal Early cursing at you from hell for wearing Yankee Blue."
Wheeler, upon seeing Spanish soldiers flee the field in Cuba, is said to have stood up in his stirrups, shake his fist and shout, "After 'em boys! We've got the damned Yankees on the run!"
@@gordonbergslien30 I had a relative that was a lieutenant in the Rough Riders. Yes, he would confirm that!
Thank you!
Thank you from
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I would like to see a Part 3 for Confederate Leaders.
Interesting video.
FYI, Centralia is pronounced Cen trail ia.
David Levy Yulee has the distinction of having different places in Florida named after him - with different names. Obviously the town of Yulee, Florida is named after him. But so is Levy County.
AP Hill was undoubtedly the most unflinchingly brave general officer. His red shirt he gallantly doned in battle was conspicuous, much like Caesar who famously wore a crimson cape so that they could be distinguished by their men and inspire them by their bravery at the front. Hill fell as he was hastily personally reconnoitering a line of march as the ANV attempted to flee from the Petersburg lines.
His, frequent illnesses were often of veneral disease. He was well known to visit the Richmond brothels.
I have a biography on A.P. Hill and it never mentions him visiting Richmond brothels. He was happily married. He contracted gonorrhea while a student at West Point.
A few years ago I was around the air bases in Pensacola, Florida. During conversations and visits there, I discovered that many people did not think of the United States as a united block of states, no, they were southerners and their pride and national feeling for the southerners was touching and admirable.
Since then I have familiarized myself with the history and context of the time before and during the Civil War and that "slavery" in the southern states was a cardinal point is false and made up.
As an old man, life has taught me that the lies surrounding wars and the cause of war are lies and false flags.
As a Scandinavian, I understand better and better why the Vikings only told about their heroes and heroic deeds and did NOT write down their history - because why write down history when it anyway does not describe the actual facts.
The stay in Pensacola and the conversations with the Southern people that have given me knowledge about the Southern army, the battles, the soldiers and the officers.
Fantastic warriors and heroic actions throughout the civil war.
Shameful and sad that someone is preventing the people from paying tribute to these heroes by removing memorials and statues.
In Norse mythology, it is said that ODIN did not take part in wars, he only took care of the heroes - on both sides.
Get those memorials and statues back up - "slavery" is fake and false flag...wars are all about economics and sons on both sides give their lives for a sham.
Yeah!-Do-ones of both north and South
Yes part 3 please
Don’t care about the union generals
Thank you for the informative video but I thought Kirby Smith was the last Confederate General to surrender.
Stand Waite was the last of General Lees general to surrender
I hope this was better reseached than episode one, that was full of errors and even outright lies.
Yes! Continue with Part 3 and do some episodes on the Union leaders as well.
So, grant fights to not have Confederates dressed pardons them, and they're angry. Longstreet campaigned for Grant. Why I'll always dispise those traitors.
Before the war, most of the officers from both sides were railroad CEOs. After the war, most of the officers from both sides went back to being railroad CEOs. 😅
John H. Reagan.
He was the only CSA Postmaster General the CSA ever had.
He was captured along with Davis.
He later became a well respected citizen and politician in Texas.
as a Dane its funny to hear that some of the leaders could be considered Danish
(the us virgin islands at the time was a colonial territory under Denmark (Danish Antilles) the us bought the islands in 1917 and they where incorporated in to the US in 1927 so in 3 years thet can celebrate 100 years as Part of union)
Odd that two of those Rebs ended their days in New York City.
I believe the Cherokee tribe also had a significant number of Union supporters.
Their is no evidence of this stinky
Like it. But it said after the war..
Will T. Anderson wasn't a General. He was a Captain
Bill Anderson is the general of what army!None.What battalion was Anderson a member of?None What division Anderson lead?None
😂😂😂
They weren't the U. S. Virgin Islands until 1917 or there abouts.
Brig. Gen. Stand Watie (CSA) principal Chief Native American Slave Ownership Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole "Five dollar Indian"
My apologies i am wring sbot judah Benjamin what i wrote about Benjamin
The WESTERN BAND Cherokee sided with the Confederacy. The Eastern band sided with they union.
Union Generals
I would like to see a Union version as well
JEB Stuart
So much for the 14th ammendment clause 3 believe it is demokrouts want for trump it was to stop all this in the 2 videos
All Patriots
Stand Watie... Weighty. You're not great at this.
No native tribe joined the union