Bristoe Station: The Campaign that Followed Gettysburg
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Join us for our first video commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Bristoe Station! The campaign was the first major action between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia post-Gettysburg. Our group of historians explain how Lee and Meade led their forces into yet another engagement in Northern Virginia. #BristoeStationTour
Special thanks to Kevin Pawlak and Lance Russell from Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park for joining Dr. Chris Mackowski and Dan Davis for our coverage!
Check out the rest of our Bristoe Station 160 videos here: • Bristoe Station: The 1...
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Always felt to me like both armies were trying to come to grips with what happened at Gettysburg for the rest of 1863. Thanks for shining a light on this overlooked period. Looking forward to the Mine Run campaign video too!
I think apart of it too was Meade trying to reorganize since he was still new to command. hooker for all the good he did his army didn’t leave behind a feasible organizational structure
Thank you Chris and Kevin. Bristo station is a battle that many don’t realize it even happened.Dan Davis was really good.
I really appreciate seeing a little bit of attention given to these overlooked but very important campaigns. Kinda like the Kanawha Valley Campaigns in West Virginia in 1861 and 1862.
Don't you mean the western counties of Virginia?
Fantastic as always - wonderful mix of topography, tactics, command and good story telling. You guys are the best. Many thanks!
Poor AP Hill… never afraid to charge boldly, but often costly…
Thank you…for all the same reasons I give for all the videos you produce.
Thanks for the support!
Well done. Great stuff. Thanks
Always a great presentation by Kevin Pawlak! Thanks for the video and information.
Great presentation Kevin. Met you at tour of Ben Lomond a few years ago and was equally impressed.
Good presentation. Nice mix of maps and period photos added in post processing.
We just got home to Georgia this week from spending eight days in northern Virginia. We saw almost every battlefield except…. Guess.
I have been a civil war nerd since being a kid watching north and south. This channel rocks! Could you do a special on Marines in the civil war? 3rd gen Marine from coastal nc. I grew up exploring the earthen works unmarked 😮 around newbern and havelock.
That cloud behind you was so weird. Not another cloud in the sky!!
Great stuff!
Very informative
Great vid as ever
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Needed a battlefield map video of Chattanooga Campaign and how Hooker's army assisted the Union army of Tennessee and Army of Cumberland especially Battle above the clouds and Missionary Ridge
Any guy with a ski last name is great in the eyes of a guy with a icz last name.
Gouverneur K Warren was A team material for sure….suggesting he’s C team material is insane.
As an engineer he was the best of the best and Five Forks he was definitely A tier but prior to his men heading to the Valley less so
@@lucassimmons3496 he was developing yes, and he was indeed in his finest at Five Forks, but as a developing commander at Corps he was better than most.
Definitely not a C team type regardless.
@@willkellett5769 I took that comment to mean for that particular battle he was the C team which might be harsh for a new commander but just got Bristoe Station I think it’s somewhat accurate
At the time of the battle he was a temporary corps commander who had never led more than a brigade, so at that moment you could say he was the c team.
@@hokie7373 I don’t even think you could say he commanded a brigade as I understood it he was a career engineer prior to Bristow
The narrator's use of the French pronunciation of 'corps' confuses the listener as to whether or not the narrator is referring to one corp or multiple corps.
"he is going to get real close". what? Bristoe was a fiasco and the worst beating any part of the ANV took from the Army of the Potomac in a single battle. what was it 1,400 casualties against only 300? it was a total thrashing by any definition and cost them a real good Brig general also in the process. i think people like to say "Lee came close" to things when he moved his bowles in the morning. in all due respect...Lee came close to nothing except losing an entire corps at Bristoe. Obviously, Hill was the one responsible for the fiasco, but it was a pure one sided campaign and it was not on the ANV side. Pure rubbish
Fun Fact: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as a puppet state of London.
London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene.
Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it.
There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the
hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.
Isn’t true the confederacy had discovered a living dinosaur
As disgusting and life ending, horrific atrocities that these battles were, I find the ACW battles to be quaint. Much, much simpler times for our Republic. I understand that EVERYTHING was at stake. That being said, what we are and have become in October of 2023 is VILE. We have spread ourselves far too wide. Just like the Romans. The citizenry is overtaxed, the foreign policy is trillions, the military takes 90% of the revenue and the war continues for what, freedom? This is economic. War is GOOD for this fraudulent economy. These people died for virtue and a cause. Now they don't, they die for empire. FF's are spinning in their graves.