My great grandfather x3 fought at Fredericksburg with the 24th NC Infantry Regiment Company C. He would be killed in June 1864 in battle at the Second Battle of Petersburg. I have his last letter he sent home two weeks prior to being killed. Love this channel!
Sorry about his being K.I.A.😒 R.I.P.😇 I had a maternal great uncle x3 who fought for the 9th N.C. Regiment as a captain and were involved in Pickett's Charge. He was wounded in the right calf with a piece of shrapnel. He survived the battle and the war
General Lee was ahead of his time, he was thinking ww1 western front, while General Burnside was thinking Napoleon tactics with his grand divisions, great story telling! Thanks for sharing!
I will agree that General Lee was ahead of his time, I wouldn't go so far as ww1 though. General Lee would order a frontal assault against a well defended line at Gettysburg 7 months later.
Nah. Lee was still thinking in the old napoleonic mindset of basing his campaigns on trying to find the enemy army, engage under favourable conditions and reach a favourable settlement on the back of a decisive victory. Grant was the one who realised the nature of the conflict as an early industrial war, to be won through constant pressure, attrition and destruction of the enemies' logistics and warmaking capabilities. That's exactly why he was able to grind Lee and the Confederacy into dust once he took command over the eastern theatre.
Loved this and all your videos. Wish there were more as I have seen them all. I always thought the Irish Georgians wasn’t true. I know there were a few Irish soldiers but not many…I’m a Georgian so I find it intriguing
I was born in Richmond but was raised in Fredericksburg and lived there for over twenty years. The signs of the battle are still prevalent all through the town and the surrounding areas. Theres even a bar called the Irish Brigade not too far from the stone wall the confederates held. The signs are everywhere.
Burnside was a VERY capable general and had the weight of the country placed on his shoulders overnight. Lincoln was all over him to to attack, what would you have done? He did his very best and history has been unkind to him IMO
That pontoon situation is a perfect example of "Murphy's Law". In fact, the entire battle of Fredericksburg is a perfect example of "Murphy's Law (for the Union side). Throughout most of its existence, the Army of the Potomac was luckless.
The terrain was used to the best advantage, and wagon trails often sunk, and failed RR pathways were excavated but abandoned. I can still see old wagon paths from a century ago in remote areas near me.
Arriving at the lightly defended Fredericksburg Burnside had the opportunity to seize the day , but for the want of pontoons he and the army of the potomac went on to rue that day instead. Like the poem , for the want of a nail the battle was lost. Ignore the logistics at your peril.
Truly boggles the mind what Burnside was seeing from across the river at 2pm after seeing five brigades decimated before him. Or as yoi said what wouldve happened if he had waited for the pontoons before he moved out. Speaking of the band playing at the end. It speaks to the humanity that lies within all of us, and highlights the ugly duality of war. How we kill and destroy in the name of our brothers and yet its our brothers we kill.
I live in Fredericksburg. Been to most of the battlefields. Some are sobering to see and imagine the hell that ensued there. The mounds they created to hide behind fire are still there.
If you’ve been to Fredericksburg to the heights, you can see how this was easily the most lopsided battle of the war. It is perfect as a defensive position.
i always wonder why, if he were determined to assault Maryes Heights and the stone wall....that Burnside did not direct his massive artillery train to simply level that stone wall....the Federal artillery was always great...and huge....then, when the attack happened do it with a rolling barrage just over the heads of the infantry.....It may then have succeeded.....
The American civil war is fascinating. I hadn’t quite realised it took place so late in the nineteenth century. it’s not much taught in school history.
You know, McClellan had the obsurd hubris to campaign for POTUS against Lincoln. Openly criticizing Lincoln as incompetent. McClellan felt the best course of action would be to devise a peace treaty and call it a draw.
Yes quite the young man... He was blazing away at 1st manassas on General Jackson's flanks also , and Sharpsburg , and many many other places of honor....
@MorganOtt-ne1qj on my way to Tennessee from the Florida panhandle , I made a quick detour to his resting place not far from Birmingham.... In Tennessee I wondered the roads between Spring hill and Franklin, being very aware of the paths Generals Hood and Forrest took on the very same right of ways , you must get that being in the center of so much of the Army of Northern Virginia's treks to an fro.....
@@-PanzerRabbit- Yes, I do. I've been to Elwood, and the grave of Jackson's arm. I had friends who farmed around it. I work in unrecorded places that have cannon pits and rifle pits still very visible but can only find scant records of them on maps. I wish I had paid more attention when I was in school, my grades might have been better! 😯😂
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj that sounds great , I always wanted to get up that way and wonder around , my brother tells me there's a historical marker every 1/4 mile down the blue ridge in the valley... :-)
Why men would men would slowly march so they can be picked off 0ne by one is beyond me. How can generals send wave after wave to be slaughtered. Say no!!! Refusing certain death for no gain is not cowardice.
It was because of their weapons. So basically, you've got a relatively short range, not incredibly accurate musket that is very slow firing. The way you do damage in that situation is to get close and then fire as a unit in a giant wall of lead. That way you do more damage. To do this, you need to be organized. You need to be in lockstep. That's why they marched in lines, because that's the easiest way to do this before radios. And as far as the pace, I mean that's just because it'd be impossible to stay shoulder to shoulder in a line while running over uneven ground. Hell it's hard enough to do that while walking. I should know, I was in Marching Band and keeping formation was a difficult task on a nice, level football field without anyone shooting at me. It all seems completely bonkers and yeah maybe it was, but it was the best tactic at the time. If there were better ways, they would have figured it out. Although by the Civil War weapon technology had begun outpacing those tactics, so they were definitely on their last legs.
What happened, was that General Robert E. Lee (with a lot less men that General Burnside had), still proved to be a Genius! He had (Generally speaking) his Men very well-positioned, even employing a Stone Wall, from which the Confederates fought behind, peppering the Union Forces, as they attempted ro cross that open field...much like Lambs being pushed like Lambs, into a veritable field of death. The Union Troops bravely fought, but with catastrophic results, with the Union losing at least 7,500 Brave Souls, on that Cold December Day. General Burnside kept pushing his own Men into a seemingly impossible situation...and should've known when to quit the field, regroup, and find another way to get the job done. Nope! He kept on doing the same stupid thing, over and over, like a Madman, and didn't stop! These are the reasons, that the Union suffered yet another embarrassing, and disastrous, defeat, at the hands of General Robert E. Lee, and his Brave Confederates. Shortly after this, General Burnside was replaced.
Can't imagine how much destruction, death, animal slaughter and the debacle of the unthinkable of mobs of wild soldiers leaderless from the leading officers being killed.
Decisive victory for the Confederacy in this battle. A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens gives a detailed history of the Civil War written specifically for Teens.
The Original Emancipation Proclamation was read on September 22,1862. Lincoln stated that if the Southern State's would return to the Union by January 1,1863 they could keep their slaves. Slaves would only be Emancipated in the State's that continued to rebel.When not one Southern State came back to the Union by January 1,1863 Lincoln omitted the Offer and signed and issued the Proclamation on January 1,1863. The North and Lincoln were happy to keep slavery as long as they could keep Milking their Cash Cow. Lincoln tried to secure slavery in the Constitution in the State's where slavery already existed. He said it in his Slavery forever speech called his First Inaugural Address. In all of Lincoln's Letters and Addresses and Speeches said his war was over a Tax Rebellion and a Tax Revolt. Not one word about slavery. The Lincoln taught is a lie and a myth.
Lincoln cared about keeping the country together. This in NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM changes that the southern slavocrats explicitly and outspokenly started the war over the "issue" of preserving and expanding (because there was no long-term preservation possible without the expansion of it into new states) their "peculiar institution". After all, slavery was the very foundation of the wealth and political power of the southern elites and so any threat to it was a direct threat to everything these wannabe-nobles had. When CSA fanboys and apologists pointificate about "states rights", they talk about the "right" to preserve slavery, and expand it into new states. Simple as.
Hi wasnt it a matter of enforce central government by the north and about taxes and that slavery question came afterwards as an xtra pusch! By the north cause even some north states had slavery too!
It was all about slavery FOR THE SOUTH right out of the gate. The "peculiar institution" was the very foundation of the wealth and political power of the southern elites, and as such had to be preserved and expanded - for if it was not expanded, the slave states would be outnumbered by the free states and abolition would be but a question of "when", not "if" - at any cost. And once they were faced with that not being possible, treason was the only option left that would leave them with their slaves, and thus their wealth and power. And like hell would the southern wannabe-nobility care about rending the naiton asunder and throwing a couple hundred thousand peasants to their deaths to protect those.
Has I been around then, I would have not sided with either. Probably would have packed my meager belongings and headed out west. Both sides were in it for glory and profits. War is a racket.
My hats off to those who wrote the narrative. The story and grammatical use are exquisite.
My great grandfather x3 fought at Fredericksburg with the 24th NC Infantry Regiment Company C. He would be killed in June 1864 in battle at the Second Battle of Petersburg. I have his last letter he sent home two weeks prior to being killed. Love this channel!
Salute from Alabama CSA
Thank you for sharing your story 😊
Sorry about his being K.I.A.😒 R.I.P.😇 I had a maternal great uncle x3 who fought for the 9th N.C. Regiment as a captain and were involved in Pickett's Charge. He was wounded in the right calf with a piece of shrapnel. He survived the battle and the war
God bless you all and your family back to the beginning of your times on the Earth.
As did mine. Jonathan Hauley for NC every step of the way
The outro on this episode is beautiful. Actually, this entire episode was. Thank you for these little gifts each week.
One of the best chanels on UA-cam like seriously! Please keep it up ive seen every video, most more than once lol.
This is outstanding. Please keep going schools should show this.
Superb ... I did not know of the close run thing involving Meade and his men with Jackson !
I tried to keep a dry eye but you guys are good. Excellent, thanx.
Omg im from Fredricksburg..this the best story ever!!! Truly Thank you😢
Thanks for listening
@@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry I wish this story was told as much as Gettysburg..
General Lee was ahead of his time, he was thinking ww1 western front, while General Burnside was thinking Napoleon tactics with his grand divisions, great story telling!
Thanks for sharing!
That was more Longstreet than Lee
I will agree that General Lee was ahead of his time, I wouldn't go so far as ww1 though. General Lee would order a frontal assault against a well defended line at Gettysburg 7 months later.
@@tobiasschultz7949 he ordered multiple frontal assaults against fortified positions even before Gettysburg, Malvern Hill being a good example
Nah. Lee was still thinking in the old napoleonic mindset of basing his campaigns on trying to find the enemy army, engage under favourable conditions and reach a favourable settlement on the back of a decisive victory.
Grant was the one who realised the nature of the conflict as an early industrial war, to be won through constant pressure, attrition and destruction of the enemies' logistics and warmaking capabilities. That's exactly why he was able to grind Lee and the Confederacy into dust once he took command over the eastern theatre.
Powerful speaker
Loved this and all your videos. Wish there were more as I have seen them all.
I always thought the Irish Georgians wasn’t true.
I know there were a few Irish soldiers but not many…I’m a Georgian so I find it intriguing
Look into “Thomas’ 69th Brigade of Irish ☘️ & Indians” out of western North Carolina.
Great work on a tragic day Fred.
Great stories ! Wonderful chanel.
I just about cried at work.
Powerful presentation. Thank you
I was born in Richmond but was raised in Fredericksburg and lived there for over twenty years. The signs of the battle are still prevalent all through the town and the surrounding areas. Theres even a bar called the Irish Brigade not too far from the stone wall the confederates held. The signs are everywhere.
I don't think of Fredericksburg VA without thinking of Moss Neck Manor and the story of Stonewall Jackson and the little girl
Read Robertson's bio of Jackson. Amazing research went into it, and an easy read.
Moss Neck was my families farm for about 60 years. It was thick with history and absolutely beutiful place.
@@kfiscal01 that’s cool. I first learned about it when I saw Gods and Generals
Excellent narration. Love it.
Thank you so much. Your channel is doing the lords work
Tim the McCallister Mills. History was very informative.
👍💯
Burnside was a VERY capable general and had the weight of the country placed on his shoulders overnight. Lincoln was all over him to to attack, what would you have done? He did his very best and history has been unkind to him IMO
That pontoon situation is a perfect example of "Murphy's Law". In fact, the entire battle of Fredericksburg is a perfect example of "Murphy's Law (for the Union side). Throughout most of its existence, the Army of the Potomac was luckless.
Sunken roads and piecemeal attacks seem to be a recurring theme in these videos
The terrain was used to the best advantage, and wagon trails often sunk, and failed RR pathways were excavated but abandoned. I can still see old wagon paths from a century ago in remote areas near me.
Arriving at the lightly defended Fredericksburg Burnside had the opportunity to seize the day , but for the want of pontoons he and the army of the potomac went on to rue that day instead.
Like the poem , for the want of a nail the battle was lost. Ignore the logistics at your peril.
You bring it to life! 😢 👍
Uh... What happened at 43:52? It seems to have cut into the audio for another video about Antietam.
What a great video
Most eliquent and poignantly put ending. Thanks, team .
Eloquent
Truly boggles the mind what Burnside was seeing from across the river at 2pm after seeing five brigades decimated before him. Or as yoi said what wouldve happened if he had waited for the pontoons before he moved out.
Speaking of the band playing at the end. It speaks to the humanity that lies within all of us, and highlights the ugly duality of war. How we kill and destroy in the name of our brothers and yet its our brothers we kill.
My great great great uncle Captain Wesley Mellard Co H 13th Mississippi Infantry Barksdales brigade fought at Fredericksburg December 13 1862
Thanks for sharing your story 😊
@@alanaadams7440 youre welcome
I live in Fredericksburg. Been to most of the battlefields. Some are sobering to see and imagine the hell that ensued there. The mounds they created to hide behind fire are still there.
This was a slaughter. Burnsides was crazy to keep sending his men against the confederates
What happened to the wizard of the saddle video
What's interesting is Lee's used Burnside's tactics at Chancellorsville.
Gettysburg
@@patriciogonzaga3101 Picket's charge was a frontal assault with JEB Stuart attacking the Union rear.
If you’ve been to Fredericksburg to the heights, you can see how this was easily the most lopsided battle of the war. It is perfect as a defensive position.
i always wonder why, if he were determined to assault Maryes Heights and the stone wall....that Burnside did not direct his massive artillery train to simply level that stone wall....the Federal artillery was always great...and huge....then, when the attack happened do it with a rolling barrage just over the heads of the infantry.....It may then have succeeded.....
Remarkable video. I am so proud of my southern heritage.
Bless him. Bless them all.
And to think Meade almost exploited the break thru
The American civil war is fascinating. I hadn’t quite realised it took place so late in the nineteenth century. it’s not much taught in school history.
They don't want anyone to be truly educated.
Sadly it isn't.
Because our government is pushing to make us ALL slaves again.....no better way to do it then ERASE THE HORRORS OF THE PAST
You know, McClellan had the obsurd hubris to campaign for POTUS against Lincoln. Openly criticizing Lincoln as incompetent. McClellan felt the best course of action would be to devise a peace treaty and call it a draw.
On the Democrat ticket no less
Mac's self importance knew zero bounds.
Aww bruh.. Sweet!
Hey I love there
Sounds like Patton Oswalt narrating. Good stuff!
"The Gallant Pelham" had his small battery of cannon firing as if they had modern repeating cannons. They had to cease fire to let the barrels cool.
Yes quite the young man...
He was blazing away at 1st manassas on General Jackson's flanks also , and Sharpsburg , and many many other places of honor....
@@-PanzerRabbit- I live about 3 miles from Kelly's Ford. If you trek a ways into the woods, there is a monument where he fell.
@MorganOtt-ne1qj
on my way to Tennessee from the Florida panhandle , I made a quick detour to his resting place not far from Birmingham....
In Tennessee I wondered the roads between Spring hill and Franklin, being very aware of the paths Generals Hood and Forrest took on the very same right of ways , you must get that being in the center of so much of the Army of Northern Virginia's treks to an fro.....
@@-PanzerRabbit- Yes, I do. I've been to Elwood, and the grave of Jackson's arm. I had friends who farmed around it. I work in unrecorded places that have cannon pits and rifle pits still very visible but can only find scant records of them on maps. I wish I had paid more attention when I was in school, my grades might have been better! 😯😂
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj that sounds great , I always wanted to get up that way and wonder around , my brother tells me there's a historical marker every 1/4 mile down the blue ridge in the valley...
:-)
We're all works, in Progress? That's my hope
Why men would men would slowly march so they can be picked off 0ne by one is beyond me. How can generals send wave after wave to be slaughtered. Say no!!! Refusing certain death for no gain is not cowardice.
It was because of their weapons. So basically, you've got a relatively short range, not incredibly accurate musket that is very slow firing. The way you do damage in that situation is to get close and then fire as a unit in a giant wall of lead. That way you do more damage.
To do this, you need to be organized. You need to be in lockstep. That's why they marched in lines, because that's the easiest way to do this before radios.
And as far as the pace, I mean that's just because it'd be impossible to stay shoulder to shoulder in a line while running over uneven ground. Hell it's hard enough to do that while walking. I should know, I was in Marching Band and keeping formation was a difficult task on a nice, level football field without anyone shooting at me.
It all seems completely bonkers and yeah maybe it was, but it was the best tactic at the time. If there were better ways, they would have figured it out. Although by the Civil War weapon technology had begun outpacing those tactics, so they were definitely on their last legs.
What happened, was that General Robert E. Lee (with a lot less men that General Burnside had), still proved to be a Genius!
He had (Generally speaking) his Men very well-positioned, even employing a Stone Wall, from which the Confederates fought behind, peppering the Union Forces, as they attempted ro cross that open field...much like Lambs being pushed like Lambs, into a veritable field of death. The Union Troops bravely fought, but with catastrophic results, with the Union losing at least 7,500 Brave Souls, on that Cold December Day.
General Burnside kept pushing his own Men into a seemingly impossible situation...and should've known when to quit the field, regroup, and find another way to get the job done. Nope! He kept on doing the same stupid thing, over and over, like a Madman, and didn't stop!
These are the reasons, that the Union suffered yet another embarrassing, and disastrous, defeat, at the hands of General Robert E. Lee, and his Brave Confederates.
Shortly after this, General Burnside was replaced.
After the "Mud March" debacle, Burnside was replaced. I live in the area, and winter mud can be a beast.
Lee’s comment on war is unfortunate.
Can't imagine how much destruction, death, animal slaughter and the debacle of the unthinkable of mobs of wild soldiers leaderless from the leading officers being killed.
this is a lot of wikipedia. just saying. thats like 4 paragraphs on burnsides almost verbatim.
Decisive victory for the Confederacy in this battle. A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens gives a detailed history of the Civil War written specifically for Teens.
no trucks to NYC,until that judge VACATES, his horrible decision
Need maps.
War is Hell
The Original Emancipation Proclamation was read on September 22,1862. Lincoln stated that if the Southern State's would return to the Union by January 1,1863 they could keep their slaves. Slaves would only be Emancipated in the State's that continued to rebel.When not one Southern State came back to the Union by January 1,1863 Lincoln omitted the Offer and signed and issued the Proclamation on January 1,1863. The North and Lincoln were happy to keep slavery as long as they could keep Milking their Cash Cow. Lincoln tried to secure slavery in the Constitution in the State's where slavery already existed. He said it in his Slavery forever speech called his First Inaugural Address. In all of Lincoln's Letters and Addresses and Speeches said his war was over a Tax Rebellion and a Tax Revolt. Not one word about slavery. The Lincoln taught is a lie and a myth.
Lincoln cared about keeping the country together.
This in NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM changes that the southern slavocrats explicitly and outspokenly started the war over the "issue" of preserving and expanding (because there was no long-term preservation possible without the expansion of it into new states) their "peculiar institution". After all, slavery was the very foundation of the wealth and political power of the southern elites and so any threat to it was a direct threat to everything these wannabe-nobles had. When CSA fanboys and apologists pointificate about "states rights", they talk about the "right" to preserve slavery, and expand it into new states. Simple as.
They sacrificed their men like Xerxes
Hi wasnt it a matter of enforce central government by the north and about taxes and that slavery question came afterwards as an xtra pusch! By the north cause even some north states had slavery too!
It was all about slavery FOR THE SOUTH right out of the gate. The "peculiar institution" was the very foundation of the wealth and political power of the southern elites, and as such had to be preserved and expanded - for if it was not expanded, the slave states would be outnumbered by the free states and abolition would be but a question of "when", not "if" - at any cost. And once they were faced with that not being possible, treason was the only option left that would leave them with their slaves, and thus their wealth and power. And like hell would the southern wannabe-nobility care about rending the naiton asunder and throwing a couple hundred thousand peasants to their deaths to protect those.
Has I been around then, I would have not sided with either. Probably would have packed my meager belongings and headed out west. Both sides were in it for glory and profits. War is a racket.
Not to say you are wrong, but you are looking back with the lens of today and the benefits of knowing how it all plays out
Lol Georgia men vs Texas men in a snowball fight in battle formations. The more things change the more they stay the same
All the obstinate butchery of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.
If the British won your all slave😂
Loved the history, your political commentary and propaganda at the end was pure bullshit however!
The only way man will "do the right thing" is through Jesus Christ.
Need to change the Civil War to the War of Northern Aggression (the war against the right to govern oneself).
I perfer the War against Northern Aggression
It’s the “war of the rebellion “. Careful, your white hood is showing.
How bout the War of Southern KKK Losers?
Liberalism is a disease.
I don’t recall slaves having that right
6uild 6ack 6etter. There is a reason the flag of ottawa is just 666.
Damn the Federals. 💀
fast and lose with the histore are we
lose the over enunciation
What..you wish he would mumble? It's perfect.
@@jimmycox9292Exactly
Thank you for this presentation.
no trucks to NYC,until that judge VACATES, his horrible decision