I love how you just present the facts, treating each person as human deserving of respect and compassion. No grandstanding, no sensationalizing, no politicalization. Fantastic.
After watching this video, I as a black man came away with a complete different view of Jefferson Davis. I can't explain how this can be. The story was told in such a manner that you could not help but feel the pain of this man. Many died believing in Jefferson Davis and what he truly believed. If President Z.Taylor told him that his daughter has more wisdom than he did about him, them he was a man that truly believed in principles. RIP Jeff
This was a very difficult time in American history. The history of the confederacy should never be erased. There was a loyalty to the state you were born and raised. One can learn from the history of times gone by but we should never judge these times we never lived. I do not and never will call the people from the South traitors. They were loyal to their states, their people, and their beliefs. This is more than we can say about the people of our times.
Born and raised in Italy and recently became a Proud US Citizen, I have thad say, although my allegiance is to the United States of America and its Flag, I highly respect the men who had fought for the Confederacy. Although, I don't share the same beliefs, people from the South should have the right to wave the Rebel Flag. God Bless America 🇺🇸
My, how rosey those glasses. The South continues to be felled by this country's original sin, but things are MUCH better than they used to be. There is a relatively new South, today.
Damn the flag. Trump Lost hahahahaha crybabies it's a piece of cloth Trumps maga cult terrorists flew trump flags as they stormed our US Capitol killing five people.
Little known tid-bit of information about Jefferson Davis: As a young military officer he is credited with the exploration of the now famous Wisconsin Dells. What a beautiful family he had. What a tragedy his children passed so early in life.
@ROCK-vl5yw It was Lincoln's decision to illegally invade the South for REVENUE TAX MONEY that caused the deaths of 750,000 people and allowing his troops to rape, pillage, and muder Southerners for four years.
@@garrisonnichols807 Skinner left out most of the damning evidence against Davis. Here's an example: From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@@fayedetch6704 I tend to doubt it. None of their children (looking at the photos) have "darkish" complexions, and one would think one or two of them would if their mother had any African American genes at all.
Jefferson and Winnie Davis left a legacy on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, leaving their property for a home for homeless Confederate Veterans who had no other home. Over 2,000 soldiers lived and died there, with the last 2 widows leaving there in 1957. Behind Beauvior, the graves of those veterans lie there. When Katrina devastated the Coast, the Ohio National Guard posted an honor guard at the cemetery, a respectful and honorable gesture to those soldiers.
That is very good to hear. I can't imagine that any honor guard would be set up for them were this to happen again given the current "social environment".
A beautifully done treatment - revealing the humanity behind the confederacy. I played many times on the grounds of Davis' home Beauvoir, but never once realized the history. I recall seeing the Confederate widows - three surviving at that time - rocking on the porch of one of the grounds' houses - decked out in their long dresses and sunbonnets - in the sweltering heat. Oh, if I only knew then - what a wealth of history they could have shared... Thanks for this piece...
Right! There was no humanity behind the Confederacy. We are talking about a group of traitors who wanted to succeed because they knew that their way of life, aka slavery, was being challenged. Those is power could not have that, and those white people to poor to own slaves, were still “better” than a slave in their eyes.
@@boffo63 You think that the North had clean hands? Who do you think imported the slaves in the first place? And who bought that cotton that the slaves picked?
Frank Joseph society should back track, and every family who fathers profited from human bondage should be made to give the dead slaves children their doe, and maybe God will let them rest the devil is real
Drew Andrews Well Fuck you not all of the soldiers were fighting for slavery it was a second war of independence in most of their eyes and a majority of their families did not own slaves Im from the south and my great great grandfather was a confederate veteran just serving his country like any other soldier so go fuck yourself
Being age 73 & a lifelong history & trivia buff, i really love how you are able to get so much new & relativlely unknown facts about celebrities! You also present them in an unbiased fashion, letting the viewers decide for themselves, what to think about the personality! Thanks again!
"Unbiased", Ron? Seriously? How can anyone possibly write about the leader of a seditionist movement that caused the deaths of over 655,000 people and the serious wounding of over 194,000 Southerners between 1861 and 1865 without mentioning that this misguided "leader" simply lead U.S. citizens, most of whom could have no direct benefit from their traitorous acts, to their premature graves, over nothing more than the right to own and exploit slaves? The Kool-Aid that slavery apologists have drunk and that they continue to drink is embarrassing, disappointing, and just plainly obscene. What is so difficult about admitting that Davis was a *traitor*, and will be, first foremost, and forever, a *traitor* *to* *the* *United States* ?
@@aqjt8 As a self-proclaimed liberal, who hasn't been affected in any way, directly or indirectly, from the past history of this country, what do you propose ? reparations?
Great work. . . . but . . . it's pronounced "bove-wah" (Beauvoir). 20 years ago (pre-Katrina)my front yard was literally the back fence of Beauvoir. It was a beautiful property and Jefferson Davis' father (a Rev. War hero) was reburied there after Jefferson Davis took possession of the property. The great oak he used to sit under with his bible contemplating his past was magnificent as well. Southern History lost a great deal when Katrina hit Biloxi. The Confederate White House in Richmond is pretty impressive as well.
@@mabhet9063 I think you meant to say, "...which is different." Though L'Academie Francais doesn't like it, there are always regional variations in pronunciation, and the Southern US is definitely nowhere near Paris. Do you also believe that natives of New Orleans are, one and all, mispronouncing the name of their own city because they don't pronounce it the same way as the residents of Orleans, France say the name of *their* city?
Dear Jerry,Thank you so much for your documentaries on Jefferson Davis and Meriwether Lewis. My second great grandfather was Andrew Jackson Davis of Boone County, Indiana; he was President Davis' cousin. He was also a cousin to Meriwether Lewis, whom he strongly resembled. I've been watching your documentaries for my genealogical work.Jefferson Davis' life was indeed tragic in many ways. I'm glad that someone is finally recognizing this issue. What many don't seem to understand is that he was not thrilled with the war or being appointed President of the CSA. Jefferson Davis was backed into a corner in a very bad situation. Just like Lee and Virginia, he had to support the interests of his home State of Mississippi. Jefferson Davis didn't have much of a choice. I've read elsewhere that he was reduced to tears the day he resigned from the U.S. Senate.I've just recently discovered UA-cam; I hope to see more of your work. Thanks again -- Diane Kennedy.
+Diane Kennedy Thank you so much Diane, President Davis was more than just President of the Southern cause. I did not know these things about him until i started the research. Thank you again. Jerry
+Jerry SkinnerMy second great grandfather's resemblance to Jefferson Davis was in his personality. Sam Houston was quoted as saying President Davis was "ambitious as Lucifer and cold as a lizard". That gives me a chuckle, because that is much how my grandmother described Andrew Jackson Davis to me. She was a little more diplomatic though - she said "strong willed and ambitious". A. J. Davis and Jefferson Davis may not have looked alike, but were "kissin' cousins" when it came to personality traits! LOL - Diane.
+Jerry Skinner That is the only real thing my grandmother ever told me about her grandfather; she didn't like him. But by the same stroke, this aspect of A. J. Davis' personality helps me establish his relationship to Jefferson Davis (aside from family oral history). Jefferson Davis had deep blue eyes like my Davis family; he also was blind in one eye. The Davis family as I know them are prone to vision loss problems. We are from the branch of the family called the Nathaniel "Black Robert" Davis line. There are naysayers out there that say we are a different family. I don't think so from the DNA report. There are too many similarities to be coincidence.
I too am related; first cousin 6x removed to Meriwether Lewis, and by marriage related to Jefferson Davis via the Zachary Taylor and Meriwether families
Anyone supporting this nasty little piece of propaganda seems to be that group, Tom. Hitler likes dogs. Stalin liked small children. Davis, like them, had the blood of great masses of people on his hands from fighting for an immoral cause. How this is so hard for folks to grasp can be disheartening. Jerry Skinner evidently wants to be part of the whitewashing disinformation campaign that some Southerners seems to think is a necessity. How they can't just admit the mistake and move on with the rest of us remains a mystery to me.
Jefferson Davis visited Toronto Canada after he was paroled . While in Toronto he was feted by dignitaries and prominent citizens who had Confederate sympathies. During his stay he was serenaded in the evenings by the concert band of The Queens Own Rifles who played his favourite selections who played under his hotel room window. I am a former member of the regiment , the Regiment was formed in 1860 and has served in every major conflict Canada has fought in. Many Canadians served on both sides from 1861 to 1865.
Jefferson Davis, my distant relative, despite whatever human qualities he may have exhibited, was a leader of a traitorous sect of seditionists who broke with the United States over the practice of owning and exploiting helpless humans. To put this in phraseology that his defenders can understand, Davis was a seriously misguided racist who bore the deaths of over 1 million mean and women between 1861 and 1865 - a "POS". What could Skinner's motivation be for this video other than simply to add to the myriad attempts by racists ever since, to whitewash the immoral, evil acts of weak people to base their economy on the free labor stolen by force from enslaved human beings? Skinner would likely deny he is a racist. This is the blindness that continues to fester in a non-trivial segment of our U.S. population. As we wouldn't create a video about Hitler that showed he was kind to animals and to his mistress without also documenting the industrialized murder he committed, any video about Davis, such as this piece of unabashed racist propaganda, that does not begin to adequately enumerate his depraved indifference to human life and his systematic elimination of over 294,000 lives of Southerners for an incandescently immoral and despicable purpose, does no good to the cause of empirically documenting the horrible truth of his "presidency".
@@lymanmj Bravo Sieera! lincoln is the bad guy not davis. The primary cause of the war of northern aggression was tariffs. The north couldn't compete in the world market place, so they imposed high tariffs on imported goods from Europe. The tariffs not only did not benefit the South it punished them. They were having to pay more for imported goods due to the high tariffs. That also meant their wealth was being siphoned off and sent up north. The north had a greater population, so it had more votes in congress. So, their concerns about the tariffs were ignored. Why would they want to keep paying high tariffs for no reason? So, tariffs were the primary catalyst to war, states rights 2nd and slavery was a distant 3rd, becasue it was fading out anyway. Slavery was a moral evil on day one and an economic failure on day two. It wasn't profitable. That's why Thomas Jefferson died $80,000 in debt, and he brought it on himself. Paid employees are more productive than slaves. Every other Western nation abolished slavery without a war. There were still slaves in New York City in the 1850s as well as New England. It's clear that the civil war was uneccessary. lincoln was just a murdering scumbag who offered grant the chance to kill and destroy. But, hey, that's why he went to westpoint and became an infantry officer. Over 80% of the Confederate soldiers had to do their own work. It defies logic that they would want to fight a war just so the 10 to 15% sons of wealthy plantation owners wouldn't have to get their hands dirty. In conclusion, no man in histroy did more to earn his fate than lincoln.
@@John-th4sy Dude. The Civil War certainly does defy logic - we are in total agreement here. The 11 *southern* states seceded over the desire of the 10% AND the general population to maintain the practice of slavery - the southern "way of life" - not any northern states. Doesn't this strike you as completely immoral? WWJD? Own slaves? Or, be OK with slavery because Whites did not want to have to pick cotton or have to take on the menial labor that Black people were forced to do with threats and acts of violence against them? Fer crying out loud, take a moment to question the feeble shibboleths you have been inculcated with at a tender age and *educate* *yourself* !
Yes. And Lincoln's letter to Horace Greely stating Lincoln's primary objective for the war was to restore the Union and not to necessarily end slavery if it would preserve the country. This is evidence that the war didn't start over the idea to end slavery but to preserve the Union by squashing secession. But because there was no legal excuse for squashing a constitutional secession Lincoln listened to the abolitionists who urged him to make the war about slavery. Lincoln obliged because it now gave the government a moral excuse to continue to wage war on a legal secession. This came after 2 years into the war where the Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery. If slavery was the reason the war began then why was slavery not outlawed in the beginning but not until 2 years later? I already explained why. Lincoln didn't care about slaves but listened to the abolitionists who also convinced him that by finally outlawing slavery would spark a slave rebellion in the south and end the war sooner. Lincoln was convinced of this but the slave rebellion never happened. But not a complete failure for Lincoln since he now had a new moral excuse for continuing a horrific bloody war which the old illegal excuse of a squashing secession was losing popularity.
cannonball666 that’s right! I am amazed at what I’ve learned about Lincoln’s desire to expatriate blacks to the country of Liberia. Did you ever hear of such a thing?
Thank you so much for this Remembrance of Jefferson Davis...with a voice filled with kindness and honor! From another child of the South, a totally different world than from the north.
@@silasmarner7586 i am a white Southerner who no longer lives in the South and i think white Southerners who are stiil into this shit are backwards . It is old . Fifty years ago Gone With Wind was still released in theatres . Now ? As Coach Mike Leach said to his Texas Tech team about their 11 & 2 Season midway through the next Season " Well that don't make a shit anymore !"
@@@dagnabbit6187 Well, it gave a shit to the soldiers that fought the Civil War and their relatives. It gives a shit to the people in the South, and we are very proud of our heritage and way of life. We will not forget our ancestors that fought nor will we forget our northern brothers that fought what they believed in also. No, more than I will forget the Wars our soldiers fought in to keep this country free. Never ever forget and it is worth remember so it will not be repeated. God Bless America.
@Kristie C the probability of slavery ending by legislation was slim. Compromise after compromise, since the adoption of the Constitution, almost all favoring slavery. The south would not abandon slavery.
What have you learned, really, Emily - other than Jerry Skinner makes money here appealing to the base fears and ignorance of low-information Southern apologists?
@@lymanmj But what have you learned about US foreign policy, lymanmi? - in Yemen, Libya etc - there's a whole list of them that makes your comments on the internal war in The United States look lop-sided. Just asking.
@@lymanmj I don’t know why it is you feel compelled to look down your crooked nose at a person for telling historical stories and those who choose to listen. Do you think that the north was correct and the south wasn’t? The history of the north is replete with the same sorts of incidents, however the victors typically get to write the histories so I can see where your ignorance derived.
@@dewaynemizzell7009 Dewayne: this is not about North vs. South! That was litigated over 150 years ago. "My ignorance" as you see it in my posts about the highly questionable intent of Skinner's video is nothing more or less than the accurate portrayal of the motives of Jefferson Davis and the disastrous results of his administration. Can you imagine someone posting a video about how Stalin was kind to children, how he liked classical music and the ballet, and mentioned nothing about the millions he had murdered? Nor is this about the North wanting the South to "feel bad" or to feel shame or any sort of thing. It is about accepting the realities of United States history, and understanding how our history informs the opinions and actions of our fellow citizens today. I see no need to whitewash Davis or the U.S. Confederacy. Do you?
Like Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis was a true Southern gentleman. I'm visiting my home town of Richmond soon and hope to see his grave and that of his family (have probably seen it before, but it's been many years). This was an excellent presentation, Jerry, and I learned a lot. It really stirred my Southern soul!
+James Vaughan I live about 10 minutes from Hollywood Cemetery and can see JD with 5 of his kids tombs. Born and raised here I noticed you left out he was caught in female garb. Richmond is a city as was such in the 1860s but we suffered a major earthquake that finished off what the North hadn't. If your are going to give truth then don't sugar coat it.
+John D Thank you John for watching the video. The northern papers played up the story of him in female dress to try and show him in a bad light. He did have something to hide his face that belong to his wife on. It was given to him be his wife hoping they would not identify him. Did not work. Thank you again. Jerry
Jerry Skinner I always thought how was female garb supposed to hide a guy that was over 6'3". If I read my history right females over 5'6 were rare. Being you guys like to travel I wish you would have have done Hollywood and the White house of the Confederacy. I used to take dates to Hollywood, Some love the history but most didn't!
My Grandmother used to tell me stories that her Grandmother, a former slave used to tell her. As a teenager, she saw Davis being smuggled in a coffin. I never knew about the female clothing.
Jerry, you do such a wonderful job with these stories. You gave me a different appreciation for him, his family, his tragedies, and his life. Thank you!
Jerry is nothing more than a sad apologist for the racists who fomented treason against the U.S. He attempts here to portray Davis as a sympathetic figure when in empirical fact, Davis was a slaveholder who lead a war against the United States over the South's dependence on free labor to prop up its weak economy. For once, see if questioning the version of events in the Civil War era serves to open your mind to the facts: most Southerners grow up having a seriously spurious body of whitewashing lies crammed down their young throats long before they are old enough to have a chance to cultivate independent critical thinking. Liberals, like Lincoln, want the United States to be *united*. We want no disrespect towards Southerners. We just want them to accept the true history and understand its consequences for improving the quality of life for all citizens. Help stamp out racism!
@@lymanmj Another place another time can't be compared by the clip of today's society. Slaves from the continent of Africa were first enslaved in Africa by their own people then traded for stuff offered them by the Dutch and Muslim human traffickers. Interestingly enough affluent blacks in Europe and America owned slaves. Where is your outrage? 95% of the South never owned slaves nor knew of plantation life. So why on earth would a poor Southerner who only wore shoes in the winter fight for a way of life he had never known? In order to finance norther rail roads the South was imposed upon by unduly burdensome tariffs. The South had little left over to finance and expand her own much needed railway. With smoke symbolically still handing in the air from the American Revolution the South said hell no more her cry was heard battle commenced. Interesting to note; Slavery was not even a northern battle objective until 24 months into the 48 month long war. At the time war was declared Slavery was already out of favor in both northern and Southern states. With the Financial cycle plummeting; due to a crash in the commodity price of corn tobacco and cotton many plantations were going flat broke and filed for bankruptcy. Robert E Lee had already freed the majority of his slaves and Stone Wall Jackson had establish the Lexington Presbyterian Church Sunday School in Lexington, Virginia in 1855 where blacks were educated in spite of Virginia laws making it illegal to teach blacks to read and write. Times were changing; progress was enviable. Politicians never admit when their wrong. During the heart of the Civil War, President Lincoln himself wrote If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. Had this political war been avoided over 620,000 lives could have been spared and an undeniably up and coming free people would have had a much smoother transition. Fact is the north had no use for their influx. Many newly freed slaves found little solace up north and headed back South to live and raise families. History may not repeat but it rhymes. Slavery and human trafficking are alive and thrive around the globe today on the continent of Africa spilling across Americas southern border. And Once again State rights and succession are being debated in California and Texas among others. God bless America; we need his mighty hand upon us these days now more than ever.
@@1new-man "Where is my outrage?" Right here, my good man. Exactly what in my comments make you think that slavery is any less grotesque and immoral when it occurs outside of the U.S.? Your comment contains misspellings and errors of fact, which tends to discredit itself on its face. No matter how much "whitewashing" (pun intended) the resuscitators of the "Lost Cause" attempt, it is yet incandescently obvious to any keen observer that 11 states wanted to maintain the free labor basis of their economies, and that powerful plantation owners somehow managed to get hundreds of thousands of young men to go to war and to die in a defense of an atrocious, inhumane and immoral practice. The bulk of the sentimental stories promulgated by closed-minded southerners gets passed down, generation after generation, and the glorification of ignorance in action ultimately results in flare ups like Charlottesville and January 6th. We feel confident we know what side of that conflict you and Jerry Skinner are on. *Educate* *yourself* .
Great job Jerry. You are able to tell the historical stories with such honor and honesty. You tell the important details we are never taught in school. It's the details shared that shed a completely different light on everything.
Do you think President Obama was born in the USA? Just curious. Also, do you believe his wife is a man? Just curious. Also, do you believe President McBlacky wanted to put "patriots", aka white people, in FEMA camps to invoke sharia law?
It is theorized they had the same father. Papa Davis was an itinerate tinker; pots, needles, knives etc. They were born about 100 miles apart. It was not uncommon for traveling tradesmen to sleep in the house he traveled to.
Mr skinner didn't do anything but white wash shit the best history buff would DR henry louis gates he'll tell it like it. Is you sould have tone to documentary it was reconstruction and he told it like it is
You actually give a spit? The man tried to create a nation whose economy would be based on forcing people kidnapped from another country to perform free labor! Some of you Southerners are seriously delusional or *sick* b^stards.
My great grandfather was named Stonewall Jackson Atwell Griffin , his father Albert was in the 55th Virginia Regiment. My great grandfather was born during the war
64samsky it’s good to have revenge for your ancestors BUT don’t support their misguided allegiances. The South was wrong. Slavery is a stain on America. Support Trump 2020 MAGA 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
@@richardstevens3478 Who an the hell are you to judge the hearts of these brave Southern soldiers? It take two side to start a war or even a simple argument.
@@JerrySkinner1943 So, Jerry, we are anxious to see your upcoming video about Pickett - the great Confederate hero. Especially about his great work at Gettysburg.
@Dan Chapowski John - see how "Dan" has the English spelling capacity of a fifth grade C- student? Speaks to his "credibility". These Southern racists will *never* give it up.
@@sandrarice2069 I am a distant relative of Davis. He chose to be the head of a group of seditionists who, when faced with the loss of slavery, that had long been used to prop up its feeble economy, lead the movement to secede from the United States. He was a traitor to the United States. He was responsible for sending legions of young men who had no dog in the fight to their premature deaths. He oversaw one of the worst prison camps in history, including those of Japan and Germany in the 1940s. he was regarded as incompetent by his own staffers and generals. But hey, other than that - a just a great guy who had to endure a lot of hardships.
@@lymanmj Seethe, cope, dilate, in that order. If constantly coming back to this video after 3 years to post copy-pasted sections of Wikipedia articles helps you cope with the goofy blood guilt you think you have then, hey, you do you.
@@JerrySkinner1943 Good job, comrade. Look at all the rubes here you have buying your "applying lipstick to a pig" attempt to portray a war criminal as an admirable person. Now go collect your ruble.
My great grandmother used to talk about going to takke food baskets to elderly confederate veterans when she was a little girl. They would always talk about the battle of Vicksburg. They were so desperate for food they caught rats and fried them on top of the cannons
Thank you, Jerry. This was much more interesting than learning it from a history book. I graduated h.s. in 1959 - I don't remember if any J. Davis history was pointed out in h.s.
+whalesong999 Thank you, so much is left out in class room studies. They, i guess do not have the time to study the personal life of individuals . That leaves out so much. Thank you Whalesong. Jerrry
It should have been...curriculum guidelines point out the history in an honorific manner. Otherwise I believe Jeff Davis and his merry band should have been hung. Examine the rhetoric of Davis and it alienates me from fair treatment of the criminal. War of Northern Agression? Bullshit. Criminals attempting to do something they couldn't do as an electoral majority. In the year of 20 and 20, so swear me God...fuck the confederacy.
@@Bushdid-hx1zc You are one sad, sick puppy, dude. You simply cannot countenance the fact that the American South fought the *United States* desperately to retain its *slave* *labor* *based* economy. And *LOST*. Badly. And, which, to this day, retains a mass of uneducated people who cannot accept the loss. So, to this day, most rural Southerners are still racist ^ssholes - who try to glorify the monsters who fought on the side of the traitors to the United States. Forrest? "Although scholars generally respect Forrest as a military strategist, he has remained a controversial figure in Southern racial history, especially for his role in the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow and his 1867-1869 leadership of the Ku Klux Klan." - Wiki So, yeah, when we need another murderous racist lynch mob organizer, Nathan's our man!
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Jerry - Your reputation for excellence of presentation continues - I very much enjoyed this - Thank you!! - and Happy Holidays to you and yours! - Glenn
@@lymanmj - you're obviously the one who is full to the brim of hatred. Does it make you feel virtuous to hate on people you never met and know little to nothing about? Hey look at you! You hate southerners "cuz slavery". Wowee, what a fine person you must be. Be careful not to miss a chance to show everyone how much you supposedly "care" about others.
@@toinimoore3463 Very true About school history books. One thing they never taught us in school history books is that there were black slave owners in America In fact those were the Most BRUTAL slave owners in America.
Fascinating history of a great man and his remarkable strength, dedication, and service to our country and Southern Heritage. Thank you for all the accurate information within this video. It should have been taught in public schools the man President Davis was and hishe dedication. Our Southern heritage can never be erased nor the sacrifices our ancestors endured. Thank you!
@Wyn Sharp Jefferson Davies sold out his country for his boyfriend Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Where he grew very rich very quickly.
@@iamjustsaying4787 That is fine but if you do not reside in The USA then you have not sat in an AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS. You can think anything you want and have an individual opinion. That is the beauty of freedom. Nothing of the above opinion sounds even remotely decernable. Not one word of it. I live in the South and anyone with a brain knows History is written--in part-by the victors.
I realize this ain't about me but I am reminded . . . A few years ago I drove up to my home state of KY, walked past statues of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol rotunda at Frankfort, raised my right hand and swore among other things that I had never participated or been a second in a duel, and was admitted to the KY bar. The sense of history was palpable - and all in all I thought it was rather cool, the duel business and such. Thanks Jerry.
Yup. And *this* is also so cool: From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@@lymanmj No, that’s not cool. As you can see I was talking about having to swear never to have participated or been a second in a duel being interesting. And also being from the state of both Lincoln and Davis and feeling a little bleed over from those times. There’s nothing cool about slavery and murder, nor did I so imply.
@@CAROLUSPRIMA OK.Sorry if I implied otherwise. Yet, think about Kentucky and its historical attitudes, overall, about race. And convince me that Kentucky is much changed from Jim Crow days.
@lymanmj You are insufferable. You only kno a small parcel of history and that small bit you know, becomes your entire truth. Now tell me about the all the slaves those union soldiers raped at gun point during Sherman’s raids when all the men were gone, leaving women an children vulnerable to morbid abuses
The man did his best under the circumstances and no state suffered more than Mississippi. But he knew that the South was destined to lose a prolonged war. I would like to see his legacy honored and Matthew McConaughay would be excellent portraying Jeff Davis's life and times. The good the bad and everything between. His story needs to be told.
In 1865, Lincoln and some in his administration wanted the states to be united once again, in peace. He wanted the war wounds to heal and for us to move on past slavery to a just and peaceful society for all. Over the objections of others in his administration, he rejected the calls for Davis, Lee, and other Confederates to be hanged for treason - which, under the U.S. Constitution, he had every right to order. The hope was for the conflict to be forgotten, and for Southerners and African Americans to be integrated into U.S. society. Unfortunately, too much of the population of the South viewed the outcome of the Civil War as the Northern states attempting to impose their "way of life" on the South. If Southerners considered "no slavery" and "treating Black Americans as equal citizens" as a foreign way of life being forced on them, what does this say about their morality? The only "final authority" about Jefferson Davis, Lee, Forrest, et al, is morality - in my humble *opinion* . Now, 155 years later, for reasons that remain inscrutable to me, many Southerners do not accept the consequences of this conflict, despite the efforts of the Union to reunite the United States. Any balanced recounting of Jefferson Davis's life would include the atrocities and horrors he perpetrated on peaceful U.S. citizens as well as acts of kindness. The fact that Skinner's video skims over these "details" just characterizes his work as more whitewashing of Confederate traitors. Jackson and Lee undoubtedly would have been top notch military men if they had fought on the side of the Union. Instead, they surrendered only after sending tens of thousands of poor White men to their premature deaths, for the cause of maintaining the subjugation and forced labor of kidnapped peoples. Without all of this "South Shall Rise Again" indoctrination of young people, without the Confederate statues funded and erected by the KKK and other racists groups, without the inexplicable holding onto the past, the South would today be far more integrated into a forward-looking 21st century society rather than a backward-looking culture nostalgic for the day when its economy was based on free labor. Independent-thinking people see no value in this sentimentality towards Confederates. We welcome Southerners and ex-racists with open arms the very moment they disown their immoral past. No judgements of any kind are passed. The uphill battle here is that when children are inculcated with this irrational prejudice long before they have a chance to develop critical thinking skills, most of them will never open their minds. In the comments here on this embarrassing work of Confederate propaganda by Skinner, is more evidence of the truth of this statement than could ever be concocted.
@WoodstockSnoopy Killed by Freemasons... because he insisted on an American gold-based greenback that was not controlled by the Central Bankers of London (who had invested in both sides and even provoked the US Civil War, btw.... England has NEVER been our friend...)
Jerry Skinner is only interested in making money here by appealing to the base fears, prejudices, and ignorance of low-information citizens. This video and the comments praising it are an embarrassment to decent people.
@@lymanmj - there weren't any ads when I watched it. And you may have herd of "demonitizing" - something google does to anyone who disagrees with their political views.
@@jameseverett4976 So James - now you are descending from defending one of the worst traitors to the United States to promulgating insane conspiracy theories about Google? How is it that I am not even a little surprised?
Yeah, a great slave-owning man who sent over 483,000 Southern men to their premature death just to try to retain the incredibly *immoral* enslavement of humans.
@@warrenlewis3977you too are a simpleton. Plenty of accomplished men were slaveholders. It's a shame that people can't look at things in context. If you had been a landowner in the antebellum south you'd have been a slaveholder too. It's easy to look at these people through the lens of modern society.
Very good summary. One aspect of his life that was not included was that Davis' relationship with Varina was very strained, particularly in the early years. He treated her like a child and demanded her complete obedience, telling her that her happiness would come in making him happy. He never fully acknowledged her brilliance. During his many illnesses, particularly during the war, it was Varina who ran the Confederacy, with help from cabinet member Judah Benjamin.
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
I'm late to the party, busy holiday season. This is a very interesting video, I learned a lot, as usual. Good job. Happy New Year, Mr Skinner, blessings to you and yours.
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Jerry, they'll NEVER be anyone like you to do these absolutely detailed amazing stories! I love your slow, unique voice and style! THANK YOU SO MUCH for everything you contribute! May God bless you Jerry!
@@JerrySkinner1943 How about commenting on this, Jerry: From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Davis lost 4 of 6 children, Lincoln lost 3 of 4 sons...It didn't matter who you were, prosperous, powerful, influential, in the 19th century as life was so harsh in regards to diseases and poor medical knowledge. Yep, losing children in those days was an accepted hazard and child mortality was high for every sphere of society...so cruel and painful for parents of them times.
Louisiana had so many deaths from mosquitoes. New Orleans couldn’t bury people fast enough. My grandfathers family had some childhood deaths and my grandmother told me every summer her and her siblings would have to take powder and put it in capsules for malaria.
It is refreshing that at a place where views ,click bait, and subscribers are all the rage ,me included ,some one takes the time to do the research and and create a high quality entertaining video that is educational as well ,presented within the context of the period ,divorced from present day political correctness.
He spent one night on his flight to freedom in my old hometown of Joanna, South Carolina, then known as as Goldville SC. This was on the way to Abbeville SC
This 72 year old yankee would have probably moved south had he lived back then. The right of states to leave the union was a Constitutional fact ran over by Lincoln. It truly was a war of Northern aggression.
From Wiki: "Most historians sharply criticize Davis for his flawed military strategy, his selection of friends for military commands, and his neglect of homefront crises.[107][108] Until late in the war, he resisted efforts to appoint a general-in-chief, essentially handling those duties himself. "Davis was loathed by much of his military, Congress and the public - even before the Confederacy died on his watch," and General Beauregard wrote in a letter: "If he were to die today, the whole country would rejoice at it."[109]
Loved this Story ,although l'm a Yankee and Civil War buff much respect is owed to my Confederate brothers who fought so hard and valiantly with so little!keep up the good work.
Chuck Mitchell Nice to hear that some people will give credit to the bravery, suffering and fighting spirit of the Americans from the South during the Civil War. Times were different then and duty to your State was often thought to be more important than to the Nation. Most Southerners fought for their homeland, felt they had the right to succeed and the right to keep slaves was of little importance to them. They fought with honor, even though it was a losing cause and deserve the respect that very few now days afford them except for persons like you and I. R.W. Davis USN retired. P.S. Sad but true, the war didn't really need to be fought, so sad.
@@waynedavis936 Thank you. I believe with all my heart that the soldiers of the South should never be disrespects as they are being today. It breaks my heart to see all this stupidity and hatred.
@@melodyjordan6052 how are they being disrespect? You're raged over something that isn't happening. Most of these statues were put up 50 years, or later after the war.
@@melodyjordan6052 I assume your referring to the statues. And you should also be aware that those statues make some people really uncomfortable. Fellow citizens. For what? I love history. My dad was/is a civil buff, so I grew up going to battlefields, and civil war era houses. Re-enactments. I don't recall any statues.
You shouldn't have, Karin. Jerry is on an apparent mission to whitewash the history of the sheer immorality of the slave-holding states who went to war under Davis's direction to maintain the subjugation of humans to sustain the free labor basis of the economy of the South. Yeah, I would like to forget about this, too. But racist slavery apologists like Skinner keep up this insane and sentimental image of the South as anodyne. This is nothing if not hostile to *truth* . What their motivation might be, other than some insincere attempt to assuage the guilt that any normal person who once supported slavery, Jim Crow, or racism would feel, I cannot say.
I am glad he did and believe President Jimmy Carter is a good Christian man. I didn't agree with is politics but that does not keep from respecting President Carter.
Just a great story of our history, there was one thing that I heard that has been loosed over time since the Civil War is the relationship between people and the state they are from, even though he spoke out against succession he still followed where his Mississippi went and that was the thinking even in the Declaration of Independence they believed they were free and independent states and I suppose that belief is what led them to think it was in their rights to succeed.
We have lost that because of active propaganda campaigns that frame the early United States as something it isn't. It was conceived of more as "these United States", not "the United States".
it sickens me to know that people really believe that removing the confederate flag from any posted location is just going to erase any memory of the people who struggled to create this beutiful country. god bless America both flags north and south 850.000 lives .
The Confederate Battle flag is extremely offensive to African Americans because so many who fly it are in fact racists. I'm for replacing it with the official Confederate flag which doesn't have such an emotional meaning.
Jerry Skinner My profession is actor and so was my Aunt who died some years ago. She worked with Richard Harris in the 1960s in a film called This Sporting Life. Anyway, thanks for your reply. I will continue to watch your productions. If ever you want to contact me for any information regarding England, you will find me on Twitter under GRAHAMDAWACTOR. God Bless Graham Daw
+Jerry Skinner Graham, i just watched your screen test and i have to say it was very good. That is why you are an actor and i am not my friend. You are very very good. Jerry
My GG Grandfather on my mother’s side was 81st Illinois Infantry. He was captured in Battle of Brices’ crossroads by Tennessee Confederate Cavalry. On My Father’s side 42 Tennessee confederates fought-in the war! Most were Tennessee Cavalry. A few no doubt were involved in Capturing Soldiers from the 81st Illinois. My GG grandfather was imprisoned in Andersonville’ but survived and passed in 1921’ at age of 82. I have a snapshot of James Dudley Beasley’ and copies of his pension records. I wish I had some original photos of my Confederate ancestors from Tennessee. I have land grant and Census records of them though - Not one ever owned Slaves. MR SKINNER keep the History alive. Your videos are priceless 🇺🇸
Fascinating story of a man more understood than any other and along with Lincoln his name will forever be tied together as the face of the Civil War. While Lee was respected as a fallen hero after the War, Davis was regarded as a coward and was blamed for the South's loss by many of his own people
Lee knew better. He made a decision to fight for the side that felt it needed to continue to base its economy on the free labor of kidnapped, tortured, enslaved human beings. Moral people consider this to be *immoral* .
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
John Nall GOD blessed us Beautiful Black people even more so by allowing the Confederacy to fall into utter destruction!!!!! Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the rest of those men of the Confederacy committed treason against the U.S.A. Thank GOD those idiotic, worthless statues of those Confederates were brought down!!!!! President Obama is 100% a better man, and positive role model than Jefferson Davis ever was!!!!!!!!!!
Bencasey Conner He was not a coward your an absolute moron who has no idea what a coward is he was a hero in the Mexican war and a west point graduate also faught in the blackhawk war that is not “cowardice”
John Jacobs Fuck off troll Really? Before the Confederacy Jefferson Davis was a hero in the Mexican war who won battles a west point graduate he got shot in the leg and back then people would die from infections from gunshot wounds but he kept on fighting through he also fought in the blackhawk war thats 10x better than pussy obummer
Great story about a great man. We forget and most of us never learned that the New England states considered cession their right on the eve of the war of 1812. They didn't want to disrupt their trade with England.
@@maleexile9053 OK, sure. So, we shouldn't try to overcome the shibboleths we realize we've been inculcated from an early age? Are you saying "indoctrination is OK"? I admit I am mystified at your response, the male. BTW, you may want to look up the difference between "there", "they're", and "their" before your next post.
Jerry, in addition to this great informative video, as they all are, I wish to mention the selection of music that accompanies all your videos. The music is always in perfect style and harmony with each video. You must put so very much work into these short bios that cover all the emotional and personal stories and pictures of each person. Thank you so very much. No one can compare to what you do here.
Can Jerry change *this* ?: From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
He did not keep it alive at all. While Jerry Skinner has made some good videos, this one is just a very bad joke. Maybe he'll make a video about Stalin, how he loved small children, and classical music, and skip over the 20+ million people he had slaughtered. Would you call that "keeping history alive"? Much of the history of the 11 rebel states in the 19th century is a stain on the United States.
@@lymanmjthe point is that you are simple minded. Every word in this is true. Just because you dislike Davis , its a joke? You are the joke. Although jokes are funny and usually welcome. You are not either of those things
There's an interesting Wikipedia about James Davis - James Limber Davis is his full name. Worth reading. Jefferson Davis knew the northern general who was coming to get him, and requested that, as James was going to be taken from them, that General Staton would take him and raise him which he did. There's information about James until he was in secondary education. So It's an amazing example of a pretty thoughtful man and some honorable people in a difficult situation. And not everything is easy to label.
Holly. My little cactus flower - Hitler was an amazing public speaker and propagandist. He loved dogs. He treated Eva Braun well. Should we praise a video depicting these traits but leaving out the genocide? Jefferson Davis had the blood of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens on his hands, including some 483,000 men of *The* *South* .
@@lymanmj Sorry, but it is LINCOLN that is more akin to Hitler than Davis ever will be. Lincoln was a murdering thug who represented northern financial interests only.
@@lymanmj Davie sent some Union soldiers to Lincoln pleading for him to allow medicines for the prisoners at Andersonville. Lincoln refused. The medicines were needed to save the Union prisoners lives. How many deaths is AL responsible for
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc Please explain exactly how Davis Sent UNION soldiers to get help for prisoners that DAVIS alone was responsible for desecrating, depriving, and ultimately *destroying* for no earthly reason.
Another great factual history Lesson. Thanks Jerry. It saddens my heart that so much of the Nations history has not been taught or has been re-written for political motivation. Because of it-Our Nation faces great challenges in the future.
Really, Acoustic? Any thoughts about how or why Skinner thoughtfully omits facts such as this: From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
That is Joseph E JOHNSTON not Johnson! There is nothing in the US Constitution that says a state cannot secede. There is no procedure, at all, in the U.S. constitution for a state to secede. No state would have joined the union in 1787 if they thought they would have to give up their Sovereigty to a central government. The Military Academy at West Point taught that a state could secede, and Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point. The 10th Amendment guarantees the Sovereign right to it's independent existence. In Texas v. White in 1869, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that states cannot secede. The 8th Amendment prevents a state from existing system. There was a period of about 4 years when the State of Franklin existed within North Carolina. They partitioned the government to become the 14th colony but we're not admitted. The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today Eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.
@@lymanmj - oohhwoohoo looky here again, it's hate-man claiming to be against hate again, while being as hateful as can be. Got a problem with hate? Just ask lie-man here about how to fight hate with bucket-loads of smirky hate on ice. Then hate your way to haters utopia with the lie-man.
@@nunya2954 it had everything to do with slavery. The south wanted to secede because slavery was being outlawed and it was the entirety of the souths economy. They coulda continued it themselves but were FAR too lazy to do the work. It was entirely about slavery.
Laquinton Wagner It was about slavery but they were still human beings and we should look at them impartially and objectively. The way everyone looks at the past now is from a lens of political correctness and such a critical way that it astounds me. All of the historians I know don’t talk the way you even if their subjects were on the wrong side of history. One of my favorite historians said “the mission of the historian is not to judge but analyze understand and explain.”
Thank you for this profile of Jefferson Davis -- I learned more about him in twenty minutes than I learned in a lifetime of indifference. America' s growing pains are far from over....
You learned a lot of half-truths along with some true statements mixed together with little mention of the horrors against *humanity* perpetrated by this relative of mine. From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
You obviously have no interest in the history of the Confederacy or of Jefferson Davis. I can only conclude that you are here for the sole purpose of picking fights. So much for the concept of leftists (you’re not liberals by any stretch of the imagination) being interested in national unity.
Love this video, as all of yours are so interesting Jerry. I think Mrs. Verena suffered the most. Lovely family. Background music a bit loud. Thank You.
I will be in Biloxi later this month and I am glad I saw this. I would like to visit the tomb of the unknown soldier before some dumb ass tears it down.
I love how you just present the facts, treating each person as human deserving of respect and compassion. No grandstanding, no sensationalizing, no politicalization. Fantastic.
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Nice isn't it?
Amen!
Too bad he didn't get the facts RIGHT but hey, at least he didn't add any politicalization to all the changes he made to history.
Amen! I agree 😇
After watching this video, I as a black man came away with a complete different view of Jefferson Davis. I can't explain how this can be. The story was told in such a manner that you could not help but feel the pain of this man. Many died believing in Jefferson Davis and what he truly believed. If President Z.Taylor told him that his daughter has more wisdom than he did about him, them he was a man that truly believed in principles. RIP Jeff
+junkyarddog47 Thank you for your kind words. I can see you are a Gentleman Sir. Thanks again. Jerry
You are welcome. Many might disagree with what I said, but that came from my heart. My heart never lie. My head, but never my heart.
+junkyarddog47 Thank you junkyard, keep in touch. Jerry
Jefferson davis I think was a better president then Woodrow wilson
you really need to watch this ua-cam.com/video/_ferGR39eZU/v-deo.html it takes up after this
This was a very difficult time in American history. The history of the confederacy should never be erased. There was a loyalty to the state you were born and raised. One can learn from the history of times gone by but we should never judge these times we never lived. I do not and never will call the people from the South traitors. They were loyal to their states, their people, and their beliefs. This is more than we can say about the people of our times.
Good grief. The sentimental "lost cause" pining just goes on and on...
No such thing as lost cause , just truth and lies. , the north created lies to push war on southern states
Born and raised in Italy and recently became a Proud US Citizen, I have thad say, although my allegiance is to the United States of America and its Flag, I highly respect the men who had fought for the Confederacy.
Although, I don't share the same beliefs, people from the South should have the right to wave the Rebel Flag.
God Bless America 🇺🇸
Gary Daniel always, although, my flag now is the Starts and Stripes 🇺🇸
USA:
Obviously you don't understand what the South was actually fighting for, otherwise you wouldn't even say that. Do your research, please.
My, how rosey those glasses. The South continues to be felled by this country's original sin, but things are MUCH better than they used to be. There is a relatively new South, today.
Damn the flag. Trump Lost hahahahaha crybabies it's a piece of cloth
Trumps maga cult terrorists flew trump flags as they stormed our US Capitol killing five people.
@@alondathomas293 yes we do. Trump Lost hahahahaha crybabies
Little known tid-bit of information about Jefferson Davis: As a young military officer he is credited with the exploration of the now famous Wisconsin Dells. What a beautiful family he had. What a tragedy his children passed so early in life.
He killed other peoples kids
@@ROCK-vl5yw Lincoln killed Southern Kids just like Putin is killing Ukrainian children.
@@ROCK-vl5yw so did Lincoln. In case you didn't know it was a war.🤨
@ROCK-vl5yw It was Lincoln's decision to illegally invade the South for REVENUE TAX MONEY that caused the deaths of 750,000 people and allowing his troops to rape, pillage, and muder Southerners for four years.
@@garrisonnichols807
Skinner left out most of the damning evidence against Davis. Here's an example:
From Ohio State University History Department:
"In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Living back then was largely about dying. The Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond is fascinating. Winnie Davis was stunning.
I've been to Hollywood cemetery in Richmond. Fascinating, beautiful place.
For the life of me, Mrs. Davis looks like she had some 'black in her'.
@@fayedetch6704 I tend to doubt it. None of their children (looking at the photos) have "darkish" complexions, and one would think one or two of them would if their mother had any African American genes at all.
Both the daughters were nice- looking.
My great great grandfather is buried in the Hollywood cemetery very proud of my southern heritage thank you all
Jefferson and Winnie Davis left a legacy on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, leaving their property for a home for homeless Confederate Veterans who had no other home. Over 2,000 soldiers lived and died there, with the last 2 widows leaving there in 1957. Behind Beauvior, the graves of those veterans lie there. When Katrina devastated the Coast, the Ohio National Guard posted an honor guard at the cemetery, a respectful and honorable gesture to those soldiers.
That is very good to hear. I can't imagine that any honor guard would be set up for them were this to happen again given the current "social environment".
@@connorperrett9559 Sad but true.🗽👍
Fuck them
Thank you Ohio and the National Guard.
A beautifully done treatment - revealing the humanity behind the confederacy. I played many times on the grounds of Davis' home Beauvoir, but never once realized the history. I recall seeing the Confederate widows - three surviving at that time - rocking on the porch of one of the grounds' houses - decked out in their long dresses and sunbonnets - in the sweltering heat. Oh, if I only knew then - what a wealth of history they could have shared...
Thanks for this piece...
" humanity behind the confederacy" I'll just let that sit here awhile.
Right! There was no humanity behind the Confederacy. We are talking about a group of traitors who wanted to succeed because they knew that their way of life, aka slavery, was being challenged. Those is power could not have that, and those white people to poor to own slaves, were still “better” than a slave in their eyes.
@@boffo63 If you lived during that time you probably would have owned slaves.
Ask the enslaved black people about the "humanity of the Confederacy." Jefferson Davis was a traitor.
@@boffo63 You think that the North had clean hands? Who do you think imported the slaves in the first place? And who bought that cotton that the slaves picked?
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
- Oscar Wilde
This is true, but you have to admire a person who is willing to die for what they believe in.
Well quoted; sir.
@@brianbell564 belief is loaded with many deceptions find the truth first. Truth trumps all belief systems.
What is true is the historic records. The truth is Lincoln invaded the South for REVENUE TAX MONEY to "preserve the Union" Treasury!
Nor is a thing necessarily true because history books teach it.
People don't realize how prominent the Welsh were and still are in the South.
Also, just north and west of Philadelphia; now called the #MainLine, and filled with Welsh place names !
Frank Joseph society should back track, and every family who fathers profited from human bondage should be made to give the dead slaves children their doe, and maybe God will let them rest the devil is real
@John Bold Deer me....;)
And Irish
God forgives and forgets , God looks at a lie just the same as slavery , it’s all a sin period .. everyone has sinned , can’t say one is worse
My great great grandfather was a confederate veteran, he passed away in 1934. Officials from the US govt came out and our govt paid for his tombstone.
Fuck your great Great grandfather. He was a bigot and a traitor and Fuck You Too if you are proud if him.
Fuck anyone that badmouths anyone that was a confederate veteran. Them guys weren't pussy snowflakes like what's wrecking America today.
Drew Andrews Well Fuck you not all of the soldiers were fighting for slavery it was a second war of independence in most of their eyes and a majority of their families did not own slaves Im from the south and my great great grandfather was a confederate veteran just serving his country like any other soldier so go fuck yourself
Being age 73 & a lifelong history & trivia buff, i really love how you are able to get so much new & relativlely unknown facts about celebrities! You also present them in an unbiased fashion, letting the viewers decide for themselves, what to think about the personality! Thanks again!
You mean white washing? Yeah I see how some would appreciate that.
It's even easier to spot the inane who use words they don't know the meaning of. 😉
"Unbiased", Ron? Seriously?
How can anyone possibly write about the leader of a seditionist movement that caused the deaths of over 655,000 people and the serious wounding of over 194,000 Southerners between 1861 and 1865 without mentioning that this misguided "leader" simply lead U.S. citizens, most of whom could have no direct benefit from their traitorous acts, to their premature graves, over nothing more than the right to own and exploit slaves?
The Kool-Aid that slavery apologists have drunk and that they continue to drink is embarrassing, disappointing, and just plainly obscene. What is so difficult about admitting that Davis was a *traitor*, and will be, first foremost, and forever, a *traitor* *to* *the* *United States* ?
How can absence of bias about slavery and those who died promoting it be a good thing?
@@aqjt8 As a self-proclaimed liberal, who hasn't been affected in any way, directly or indirectly, from the past history of this country, what do you propose ? reparations?
Great work. . . . but . . . it's pronounced "bove-wah" (Beauvoir). 20 years ago (pre-Katrina)my front yard was literally the back fence of Beauvoir. It was a beautiful property and Jefferson Davis' father (a Rev. War hero) was reburied there after Jefferson Davis took possession of the property. The great oak he used to sit under with his bible contemplating his past was magnificent as well. Southern History lost a great deal when Katrina hit Biloxi. The Confederate White House in Richmond is pretty impressive as well.
I visited in 2002 and was amazed with the history stored there, and the graves behind the house I never knew about.
You don't speak French, I see. You are using southern pronunciation, which is not correct.
@@mabhet9063 I think you meant to say, "...which is different." Though L'Academie Francais doesn't like it, there are always regional variations in pronunciation, and the Southern US is definitely nowhere near Paris. Do you also believe that natives of New Orleans are, one and all, mispronouncing the name of their own city because they don't pronounce it the same way as the residents of Orleans, France say the name of *their* city?
I saw the estate before and afterwards. It looked to me like a lot was lost. Especially personal artifacts that were on display in the basement.
Mabhe T it’s called French Creole darlin
Dear Jerry,Thank you so much for your documentaries on Jefferson Davis and Meriwether Lewis. My second great grandfather was Andrew Jackson Davis of Boone County, Indiana; he was President Davis' cousin. He was also a cousin to Meriwether Lewis, whom he strongly resembled. I've been watching your documentaries for my genealogical work.Jefferson Davis' life was indeed tragic in many ways. I'm glad that someone is finally recognizing this issue. What many don't seem to understand is that he was not thrilled with the war or being appointed President of the CSA. Jefferson Davis was backed into a corner in a very bad situation. Just like Lee and Virginia, he had to support the interests of his home State of Mississippi. Jefferson Davis didn't have much of a choice. I've read elsewhere that he was reduced to tears the day he resigned from the U.S. Senate.I've just recently discovered UA-cam; I hope to see more of your work. Thanks again -- Diane Kennedy.
+Diane Kennedy Thank you so much Diane, President Davis was more than just President of the Southern cause. I did not know these things about him until i started the research. Thank you again. Jerry
+Jerry SkinnerMy second great grandfather's resemblance to Jefferson Davis was in his personality. Sam Houston was quoted as saying President Davis was "ambitious as Lucifer and cold as a lizard". That gives me a chuckle, because that is much how my grandmother described Andrew Jackson Davis to me. She was a little more diplomatic though - she said "strong willed and ambitious". A. J. Davis and Jefferson Davis may not have looked alike, but were "kissin' cousins" when it came to personality traits! LOL - Diane.
+Diane Kennedy Thanks Diane, sounds like the two traits i do not like in a person. Ambition and cold attitude. Jerry
+Jerry Skinner That is the only real thing my grandmother ever told me about her grandfather; she didn't like him. But by the same stroke, this aspect of A. J. Davis' personality helps me establish his relationship to Jefferson Davis (aside from family oral history). Jefferson Davis had deep blue eyes like my Davis family; he also was blind in one eye. The Davis family as I know them are prone to vision loss problems. We are from the branch of the family called the Nathaniel "Black Robert" Davis line. There are naysayers out there that say we are a different family. I don't think so from the DNA report. There are too many similarities to be coincidence.
I too am related; first cousin 6x removed to Meriwether Lewis, and by marriage related to Jefferson Davis via the Zachary Taylor and Meriwether families
It's encouraging to see astute Americans commenting on this presentation. School children continue to be taught lies about Lincoln's war to this day.
What do you mean by that?
Our children are being "taught" fed lies about a lot of things these days..
Anyone supporting this nasty little piece of propaganda seems to be that group, Tom. Hitler likes dogs. Stalin liked small children. Davis, like them, had the blood of great masses of people on his hands from fighting for an immoral cause. How this is so hard for folks to grasp can be disheartening. Jerry Skinner evidently wants to be part of the whitewashing disinformation campaign that some Southerners seems to think is a necessity. How they can't just admit the mistake and move on with the rest of us remains a mystery to me.
Jefferson Davis visited Toronto Canada after he was paroled . While in Toronto he was feted by dignitaries and prominent citizens who had Confederate sympathies. During his stay he was serenaded in the evenings by the concert band of The Queens Own Rifles who played his favourite selections who played under his hotel room window. I am a former member of the regiment , the Regiment was formed in 1860 and has served in every major conflict Canada has fought in. Many Canadians served on both sides from 1861 to 1865.
beautiful..
Jefferson Davis, my distant relative, despite whatever human qualities he may have exhibited, was a leader of a traitorous sect of seditionists who broke with the United States over the practice of owning and exploiting helpless humans. To put this in phraseology that his defenders can understand, Davis was a seriously misguided racist who bore the deaths of over 1 million mean and women between 1861 and 1865 - a "POS".
What could Skinner's motivation be for this video other than simply to add to the myriad attempts by racists ever since, to whitewash the immoral, evil acts of weak people to base their economy on the free labor stolen by force from enslaved human beings?
Skinner would likely deny he is a racist. This is the blindness that continues to fester in a non-trivial segment of our U.S. population. As we wouldn't create a video about Hitler that showed he was kind to animals and to his mistress without also documenting the industrialized murder he committed, any video about Davis, such as this piece of unabashed racist propaganda, that does not begin to adequately enumerate his depraved indifference to human life and his systematic elimination of over 294,000 lives of Southerners for an incandescently immoral and despicable purpose, does no good to the cause of empirically documenting the horrible truth of his "presidency".
@@lymanmj Bravo Sieera! lincoln is the bad guy not davis.
The primary cause of the war of northern aggression was tariffs. The north couldn't compete in the world market place, so they imposed high tariffs on imported goods from Europe. The tariffs not only did not benefit the South it punished them. They were having to pay more for imported goods due to the high tariffs. That also meant their wealth was being siphoned off and sent up north. The north had a greater population, so it had more votes in congress. So, their concerns about the tariffs were ignored. Why would they want to keep paying high tariffs for no reason? So, tariffs were the primary catalyst to war, states rights 2nd and slavery was a distant 3rd, becasue it was fading out anyway. Slavery was a moral evil on day one and an economic failure on day two. It wasn't profitable. That's why Thomas Jefferson died $80,000 in debt, and he brought it on himself. Paid employees are more productive than slaves. Every other Western nation abolished slavery without a war. There were still slaves in New York City in the 1850s as well as New England. It's clear that the civil war was uneccessary. lincoln was just a murdering scumbag who offered grant the chance to kill and destroy. But, hey, that's why he went to westpoint and became an infantry officer. Over 80% of the Confederate soldiers had to do their own work. It defies logic that they would want to fight a war just so the 10 to 15% sons of wealthy plantation owners wouldn't have to get their hands dirty. In conclusion, no man in histroy did more to earn his fate than lincoln.
@@lymanmj OMG
@@John-th4sy Dude. The Civil War certainly does defy logic - we are in total agreement here. The 11 *southern* states seceded over the desire of the 10% AND the general population to maintain the practice of slavery - the southern "way of life" - not any northern states. Doesn't this strike you as completely immoral? WWJD? Own slaves? Or, be OK with slavery because Whites did not want to have to pick cotton or have to take on the menial labor that Black people were forced to do with threats and acts of violence against them?
Fer crying out loud, take a moment to question the feeble shibboleths you have been inculcated with at a tender age and *educate* *yourself* !
Lincoln was not trying to "hold the Union together." He was trying to secure lands for the railroads as a former attorney for the railroads.
He managed to get the government to pay the railroads to build.
Never knew he adopted a black child... Wow...Throws cold water on the history I learned in high school.
Its does not matter to the young libtards today. Fact dont matter to them.
Funny how the Demorat teachers leave out important details to support their own agenda. Scumbags.
@@rolandrodriguez3854 very true,
Yes. And Lincoln's letter to Horace Greely stating Lincoln's primary objective for the war was to restore the Union and not to necessarily end slavery if it would preserve the country. This is evidence that the war didn't start over the idea to end slavery but to preserve the Union by squashing secession. But because there was no legal excuse for squashing a constitutional secession Lincoln listened to the abolitionists who urged him to make the war about slavery. Lincoln obliged because it now gave the government a moral excuse to continue to wage war on a legal secession. This came after 2 years into the war where the Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery. If slavery was the reason the war began then why was slavery not outlawed in the beginning but not until 2 years later? I already explained why. Lincoln didn't care about slaves but listened to the abolitionists who also convinced him that by finally outlawing slavery would spark a slave rebellion in the south and end the war sooner. Lincoln was convinced of this but the slave rebellion never happened. But not a complete failure for Lincoln since he now had a new moral excuse for continuing a horrific bloody war which the old illegal excuse of a squashing secession was losing popularity.
cannonball666 that’s right! I am amazed at what I’ve learned about Lincoln’s desire to expatriate blacks to the country of Liberia. Did you ever hear of such a thing?
Thank you so much for this Remembrance of Jefferson Davis...with a voice filled with kindness and honor! From another child of the South, a totally different world than from the north.
a much better world...
As a Yankee, I want to say I love the South and the Southerner and feel more bond with them than my Yankee bretheren.
@@silasmarner7586 i am a white Southerner who no longer lives in the South and i think white Southerners who are stiil into this shit are backwards . It is old . Fifty years ago Gone With Wind was still released in theatres . Now ? As Coach Mike Leach said to his Texas Tech team about their 11 & 2 Season midway through the next Season " Well that don't make a shit anymore !"
@@@dagnabbit6187 Well, it gave a shit to the soldiers that fought the Civil War and their relatives. It gives a shit to the people in the South, and we are very proud of our heritage and way of life. We will not forget our ancestors that fought nor will we forget our northern brothers that fought what they believed in also. No, more than I will forget the Wars our soldiers fought in to keep this country free. Never ever forget and it is worth remember so it will not be repeated. God Bless America.
@Kristie C the probability of slavery ending by legislation was slim. Compromise after compromise, since the adoption of the Constitution, almost all favoring slavery. The south would not abandon slavery.
I have learned more from your videos ,Jerry, than anywhere else. Fascinating to watch. Thank you so much.
What have you learned, really, Emily - other than Jerry Skinner makes money here appealing to the base fears and ignorance of low-information Southern apologists?
@@lymanmj But what have you learned about US foreign policy, lymanmi? - in Yemen, Libya etc - there's a whole list of them that makes your comments on the internal war in The United States look lop-sided. Just asking.
@@ThePiratemachine Huh?
@@lymanmj I don’t know why it is you feel compelled to look down your crooked nose at a person for telling historical stories and those who choose to listen. Do you think that the north was correct and the south wasn’t? The history of the north is replete with the same sorts of incidents, however the victors typically get to write the histories so I can see where your ignorance derived.
@@dewaynemizzell7009 Dewayne: this is not about North vs. South! That was litigated over 150 years ago. "My ignorance" as you see it in my posts about the highly questionable intent of Skinner's video is nothing more or less than the accurate portrayal of the motives of Jefferson Davis and the disastrous results of his administration. Can you imagine someone posting a video about how Stalin was kind to children, how he liked classical music and the ballet, and mentioned nothing about the millions he had murdered?
Nor is this about the North wanting the South to "feel bad" or to feel shame or any sort of thing. It is about accepting the realities of United States history, and understanding how our history informs the opinions and actions of our fellow citizens today. I see no need to whitewash Davis or the U.S. Confederacy. Do you?
Like Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis was a true Southern gentleman. I'm visiting my home town of Richmond soon and hope to see his grave and that of his family (have probably seen it before, but it's been many years). This was an excellent presentation, Jerry, and I learned a lot. It really stirred my Southern soul!
+James Vaughan Thank you!
+James Vaughan I live about 10 minutes from Hollywood Cemetery and can see JD with 5 of his kids tombs. Born and raised here I noticed you left out he was caught in female garb. Richmond is a city as was such in the 1860s but we suffered a major earthquake that finished off what the North hadn't.
If your are going to give truth then don't sugar coat it.
+John D Thank you John for watching the video. The northern papers played up the story of him in female dress to try and show him in a bad light. He did have something to hide his face that belong to his wife on. It was given to him be his wife hoping they would not identify him. Did not work. Thank you again. Jerry
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I always thought how was female garb supposed to hide a guy that was over 6'3". If I read my history right females over 5'6 were rare. Being you guys like to travel I wish you would have have done Hollywood and the White house of the Confederacy. I used to take dates to Hollywood, Some love the history but most didn't!
My Grandmother used to tell me stories that her Grandmother, a former slave used to tell her. As a teenager, she saw Davis being smuggled in a coffin. I never knew about the female clothing.
Jerry, you do such a wonderful job with these stories. You gave me a different appreciation for him, his family, his tragedies, and his life. Thank you!
Jerry is nothing more than a sad apologist for the racists who fomented treason against the U.S. He attempts here to portray Davis as a sympathetic figure when in empirical fact, Davis was a slaveholder who lead a war against the United States over the South's dependence on free labor to prop up its weak economy.
For once, see if questioning the version of events in the Civil War era serves to open your mind to the facts: most Southerners grow up having a seriously spurious body of whitewashing lies crammed down their young throats long before they are old enough to have a chance to cultivate independent critical thinking.
Liberals, like Lincoln, want the United States to be *united*. We want no disrespect towards Southerners. We just want them to accept the true history and understand its consequences for improving the quality of life for all citizens. Help stamp out racism!
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@@lymanmj Another place another time can't be compared by the clip of today's society.
Slaves from the continent of Africa were first enslaved in Africa by their own people then traded for stuff offered them by the Dutch and Muslim human traffickers. Interestingly enough affluent blacks in Europe and America owned slaves. Where is your outrage?
95% of the South never owned slaves nor knew of plantation life. So why on earth would a poor Southerner who only wore shoes in the winter fight for a way of life he had never known?
In order to finance norther rail roads the South was imposed upon by unduly burdensome tariffs.
The South had little left over to finance and expand her own much needed railway.
With smoke symbolically still handing in the air from the American Revolution the South said hell no more her cry was heard battle commenced. Interesting to note; Slavery was not even a northern battle objective until 24 months into the 48 month long war. At the time war was declared Slavery was already out of favor in both northern and Southern states. With the Financial cycle plummeting; due to a crash in the commodity price of corn tobacco and cotton many plantations were going flat broke and filed for bankruptcy.
Robert E Lee had already freed the majority of his slaves and Stone Wall Jackson had establish the Lexington Presbyterian Church Sunday School in Lexington, Virginia in 1855 where blacks were educated in spite of Virginia laws making it illegal to teach blacks to read and write. Times were changing; progress was enviable.
Politicians never admit when their wrong. During the heart of the Civil War, President Lincoln himself wrote If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Had this political war been avoided over 620,000 lives could have been spared and an undeniably up and coming free people would have had a much smoother transition. Fact is the north had no use for their influx.
Many newly freed slaves found little solace up north and headed back South to live and raise families.
History may not repeat but it rhymes. Slavery and human trafficking are alive and thrive around the globe today
on the continent of Africa spilling across Americas southern border.
And Once again State rights and succession are being debated in California and Texas among others.
God bless America; we need his mighty hand upon us these days now more than ever.
@@1new-man "Where is my outrage?" Right here, my good man. Exactly what in my comments make you think that slavery is any less grotesque and immoral when it occurs outside of the U.S.?
Your comment contains misspellings and errors of fact, which tends to discredit itself on its face. No matter how much "whitewashing" (pun intended) the resuscitators of the "Lost Cause" attempt, it is yet incandescently obvious to any keen observer that 11 states wanted to maintain the free labor basis of their economies, and that powerful plantation owners somehow managed to get hundreds of thousands of young men to go to war and to die in a defense of an atrocious, inhumane and immoral practice. The bulk of the sentimental stories promulgated by closed-minded southerners gets passed down, generation after generation, and the glorification of ignorance in action ultimately results in flare ups like Charlottesville and January 6th. We feel confident we know what side of that conflict you and Jerry Skinner are on. *Educate* *yourself* .
@@lymanmj Re:Your comment contains misspellings and errors of fact, which tends to discredit itself on its face.
Nuff said
Huge fan of yours. Love the stories
Great job Jerry. You are able to tell the historical stories with such honor and honesty. You tell the important details we are never taught in school. It's the details shared that shed a completely different light on everything.
Do you think President Obama was born in the USA? Just curious. Also, do you believe his wife is a man? Just curious. Also, do you believe President McBlacky wanted to put "patriots", aka white people, in FEMA camps to invoke sharia law?
Jefferson Davis looked like Abe Lincoln.
Not really Jeff Davis had a amazing chin line
@@unknown-dq6df and hair
@@unknown-dq6df And Abe Lincoln had amazing Cheek bones
It is theorized they had the same father. Papa Davis was an itinerate tinker; pots, needles, knives etc. They were born about 100 miles apart. It was not uncommon for traveling tradesmen to sleep in the house he traveled to.
Mr. Skinner....Thanks for sharing. I love history, especially Southern history. With much love & respect from the Heart of Dixie...Alabama.
+hershey bar Same here from Mississippi. Jerry
Mr skinner didn't do anything but white wash shit the best history buff would DR henry louis gates he'll tell it like it. Is you sould have tone to documentary it was reconstruction and he told it like it is
@@bencaseyconner939 Please speak English so we all can understand you.
Basically this was white washed history.
This man was VILE. EVIL.
hes much better forgotten much like the history of the South.
Racism is not cool.
@@bencaseyconner939 Along with history, you need to learn how to spell and write a proper sentence. Ignorance at it's peak.
I never knew his life was intertwined with so much personal tragedy.
You actually give a spit? The man tried to create a nation whose economy would be based on forcing people kidnapped from another country to perform free labor! Some of you Southerners are seriously delusional or *sick* b^stards.
The tragedy for the U.S. South was that he ever existed.
lymanmj somebody had to say it, thank you 🤓
lymanmj He actually was originally opposed secession and did not want to be the president of the CSA
John Saunders well Lincoln insisted on keeping us in the Union
My great grandfather was named Stonewall Jackson Atwell Griffin , his father Albert was in the 55th Virginia Regiment. My great grandfather was born during the war
My Great Great Grandfather got his arm blown off at Second Bull Run facing Stonewall Jackson.
64samsky it’s good to have revenge for your ancestors BUT don’t support their misguided allegiances. The South was wrong.
Slavery is a stain on America.
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Richard Steven's. My great great Grandfather and I would be out kicking arse if we saw someone try to take down a Stonewall Jackson statue
@@richardstevens3478 Who an the hell are you to judge the hearts of these brave Southern soldiers? It take two side to start a war or even a simple argument.
Richard Stevens government education I see, and accepting of what is shoveled in schools and I see politics
Love this story. Wonderful true story. Love the video Jerry. Great and wonderful job. 😀😀👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
+Dena Bandsma Thank you!
Ur welcome! :-)
+Jerry Skinner A very sad story, but a great video. Thank you for this contribution to the historical record.
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@@JerrySkinner1943 So, Jerry, we are anxious to see your upcoming video about Pickett - the great Confederate hero. Especially about his great work at Gettysburg.
Let us hope that both the north & south may live together in peace.
@John Saunders yessir
@Dan Chapowski that guy is a Europussy
@Dan Chapowski John - see how "Dan" has the English spelling capacity of a fifth grade C- student? Speaks to his "credibility".
These Southern racists will *never* give it up.
@Dan Chapowski ... What?..
Balanced and poignant bio of an American who should be better known. Thank you Jerry
@Free Thinker This man suffered tremendously in his lifetime. Your statement is not true. That's your opinion not fact! How dare you!!!
He repudiated his American citizenship so he could continue to own people.
@@sandrarice2069 I am a distant relative of Davis. He chose to be the head of a group of seditionists who, when faced with the loss of slavery, that had long been used to prop up its feeble economy, lead the movement to secede from the United States. He was a traitor to the United States. He was responsible for sending legions of young men who had no dog in the fight to their premature deaths. He oversaw one of the worst prison camps in history, including those of Japan and Germany in the 1940s. he was regarded as incompetent by his own staffers and generals. But hey, other than that - a just a great guy who had to endure a lot of hardships.
@@lymanmj I am so very sorry.😪
@@lymanmj Seethe, cope, dilate, in that order. If constantly coming back to this video after 3 years to post copy-pasted sections of Wikipedia articles helps you cope with the goofy blood guilt you think you have then, hey, you do you.
Jerry I wanted to thank you personally for all the time you spend on the videos and how much I listen to them.
Thank you Jason, is that you on the guitar? Jerry
Thank You Jerry for reposting this video, very educational
+old64goat Thank you for watching!
@@JerrySkinner1943 Good job, comrade. Look at all the rubes here you have buying your "applying lipstick to a pig" attempt to portray a war criminal as an admirable person. Now go collect your ruble.
@@lymanmj god damn why are you hating on every commet
@@dogbean5015 Because Jerry Skinner is attempting to *whitewash* the *real* history of racist murderer Davis.
My great grandmother used to talk about going to takke food baskets to elderly confederate veterans when she was a little girl. They would always talk about the battle of Vicksburg. They were so desperate for food they caught rats and fried them on top of the cannons
My GGG-Grandfather was there. 36th Miss. Infantry. I'm sure siege life in the Mississippi heat was little better than active campaigning.
Shouldn’t have been pro slavery I guess.
Thank you, Jerry. This was much more interesting than learning it from a history book. I graduated h.s. in 1959 - I don't remember if any J. Davis history was pointed out in h.s.
+whalesong999 Thank you, so much is left out in class room studies. They, i guess do not have the time to study the personal life of individuals . That leaves out so much. Thank you Whalesong. Jerrry
It should have been...curriculum guidelines point out the history in an honorific manner.
Otherwise I believe Jeff Davis and his merry band should have been hung. Examine the rhetoric of Davis and it alienates me from fair treatment of the criminal. War of Northern Agression? Bullshit. Criminals attempting to do something they couldn't do as an electoral majority. In the year of 20 and 20, so swear me God...fuck the confederacy.
I can sum up Jefferson Davis's History in one word TRAITOR
Drew Andrews Same thing goes for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
@@Bushdid-hx1zc You are one sad, sick puppy, dude. You simply cannot countenance the fact that the American South fought the *United States* desperately to retain its *slave* *labor* *based* economy. And *LOST*. Badly.
And, which, to this day, retains a mass of uneducated people who cannot accept the loss. So, to this day, most rural Southerners are still racist ^ssholes - who try to glorify the monsters who fought on the side of the traitors to the United States.
Forrest? "Although scholars generally respect Forrest as a military strategist, he has remained a controversial figure in Southern racial history, especially for his role in the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow and his 1867-1869 leadership of the Ku Klux Klan." - Wiki
So, yeah, when we need another murderous racist lynch mob organizer, Nathan's our man!
A story worthy of being told
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@@lymanmj Okay.
Jerry - Your reputation for excellence of presentation continues - I very much enjoyed this - Thank you!! - and Happy Holidays to you and yours! - Glenn
+superfuzzymomma Same to you and yours Glenn. Jerry
Yeah, a real "balanced" picture of the monster Davis here - . Sad.
@@lymanmj - you're obviously the one who is full to the brim of hatred. Does it make you feel virtuous to hate on people you never met and know little to nothing about? Hey look at you! You hate southerners "cuz slavery". Wowee, what a fine person you must be. Be careful not to miss a chance to show everyone how much you supposedly "care" about others.
Lifelong Civil War buff but this taught me things I didn't know .
Well, do some fact checking, because he got a lot of things wrong.
@@d.m.collins1501 Go on with it what did he get wrong?
When our history books in school are so lacking in information I am great full you believe in giving us our knowledge to those of us who Enjoy it😉😊
D. M. Collins Take a good look at a high school history book sometime buster!
@@toinimoore3463 Very true About school history books. One thing they never taught us in school history books is that there were black slave owners in America In fact those were the Most BRUTAL slave owners in America.
Fascinating history of a great man and his remarkable strength, dedication, and service to our country and Southern Heritage. Thank you for all the accurate information within this video. It should have been taught in public schools the man President Davis was and hishe dedication. Our Southern heritage can never be erased nor the sacrifices our ancestors endured. Thank you!
@Wyn Sharp Jefferson Davies sold out his country for his boyfriend Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Where he grew very rich very quickly.
Southern Heritage is one of lazy bastardism.
Sacrifices of ancestors. Now that's funny.
@@iamjustsaying4787 That is fine but if you do not reside in The USA then you have not sat in an AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS. You can think anything you want and have an individual opinion. That is the beauty of freedom. Nothing of the above opinion sounds even remotely decernable. Not one word of it. I live in the South and anyone with a brain knows History is written--in part-by the victors.
@@hackedagain2 they are granting you the freedom to think EXACTLY AS THEY DO, lol! Unbelievable how ignorant well-educated people can be.
Another very interesting video. Thank you for all the work.
Thank you again Gene. jerry
@@JerrySkinner1943 You are a Whitewasher par excellence, Jerry.
I realize this ain't about me but I am reminded . . . A few years ago I drove up to my home state of KY, walked past statues of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol rotunda at Frankfort, raised my right hand and swore among other things that I had never participated or been a second in a duel, and was admitted to the KY bar. The sense of history was palpable - and all in all I thought it was rather cool, the duel business and such. Thanks Jerry.
Yup. And *this* is also so cool:
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
@@lymanmj No, that’s not cool.
As you can see I was talking about having to swear never to have participated or been a second in a duel being interesting. And also being from the state of both Lincoln and Davis and feeling a little bleed over from those times.
There’s nothing cool about slavery and murder, nor did I so imply.
@@CAROLUSPRIMA OK.Sorry if I implied otherwise. Yet, think about Kentucky and its historical attitudes, overall, about race. And convince me that Kentucky is much changed from Jim Crow days.
@@lymanmj Not much as far as I can see.
@lymanmj
You are insufferable. You only kno a small parcel of history and that small bit you know, becomes your entire truth.
Now tell me about the all the slaves those union soldiers raped at gun point during Sherman’s raids when all the men were gone, leaving women an children vulnerable to morbid abuses
He initially argued against secession, but felt honour bound to his state. This was a man of conviction!!!
The man did his best under the circumstances and no state suffered more than Mississippi. But he knew that the South was destined to lose a prolonged war. I would like to see his legacy honored and Matthew McConaughay would be excellent portraying Jeff Davis's life and times. The good the bad and everything between. His story needs to be told.
Ew. Matthew McMcConaughey 😬 CANNOT understand the appeal of that smarmy, slimy guy,
Does anyone else thing that his second wife looked like she was part African American? Her mother was from Mississippi. How interesting.
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I was thinking the same thing.
I see that too, I wonder.
Yes absolutely
Excellent research and presentation. Jerry’s documentaries should be included in high school and college history courses!
Goes against there agenda. They never tell the other side of the story.
Lincoln was killed on the 15th
In 1865, Lincoln and some in his administration wanted the states to be united once again, in peace. He wanted the war wounds to heal and for us to move on past slavery to a just and peaceful society for all. Over the objections of others in his administration, he rejected the calls for Davis, Lee, and other Confederates to be hanged for treason - which, under the U.S. Constitution, he had every right to order. The hope was for the conflict to be forgotten, and for Southerners and African Americans to be integrated into U.S. society. Unfortunately, too much of the population of the South viewed the outcome of the Civil War as the Northern states attempting to impose their "way of life" on the South. If Southerners considered "no slavery" and "treating Black Americans as equal citizens" as a foreign way of life being forced on them, what does this say about their morality? The only "final authority" about Jefferson Davis, Lee, Forrest, et al, is morality - in my humble *opinion* . Now, 155 years later, for reasons that remain inscrutable to me, many Southerners do not accept the consequences of this conflict, despite the efforts of the Union to reunite the United States. Any balanced recounting of Jefferson Davis's life would include the atrocities and horrors he perpetrated on peaceful U.S. citizens as well as acts of kindness. The fact that Skinner's video skims over these "details" just characterizes his work as more whitewashing of Confederate traitors. Jackson and Lee undoubtedly would have been top notch military men if they had fought on the side of the Union. Instead, they surrendered only after sending tens of thousands of poor White men to their premature deaths, for the cause of maintaining the subjugation and forced labor of kidnapped peoples. Without all of this "South Shall Rise Again" indoctrination of young people, without the Confederate statues funded and erected by the KKK and other racists groups, without the inexplicable holding onto the past, the South would today be far more integrated into a forward-looking 21st century society rather than a backward-looking culture nostalgic for the day when its economy was based on free labor. Independent-thinking people see no value in this sentimentality towards Confederates. We welcome Southerners and ex-racists with open arms the very moment they disown their immoral past. No judgements of any kind are passed. The uphill battle here is that when children are inculcated with this irrational prejudice long before they have a chance to develop critical thinking skills, most of them will never open their minds. In the comments here on this embarrassing work of Confederate propaganda by Skinner, is more evidence of the truth of this statement than could ever be concocted.
@WoodstockSnoopy
Killed by Freemasons... because he insisted on an American gold-based greenback that was not controlled by the Central Bankers of London (who had invested in both sides and even provoked the US Civil War, btw....
England has NEVER been our friend...)
This was another of your wonderful stories. Thank you,I love the work you do.
Jerry Skinner is only interested in making money here by appealing to the base fears, prejudices, and ignorance of low-information citizens. This video and the comments praising it are an embarrassment to decent people.
@@lymanmj - how is he making money? Is he charging people to watch the videos? oops I guess not, this is youtube, all free.
@@jameseverett9037 You may have heard of "ads"?
@@lymanmj - there weren't any ads when I watched it. And you may have herd of "demonitizing" - something google does to anyone who disagrees with their political views.
@@jameseverett4976 So James - now you are descending from defending one of the worst traitors to the United States to promulgating insane conspiracy theories about Google? How is it that I am not even a little surprised?
We all think we know so much about the United States but I always learn a lot from your videos and your voice is beautiful.
Anne Johnson Jerry has the smoothest voice of all.
Yup Ah lahk mah racist videos nair-rated bah ah smooth voice.
@@lymanmj
☝️🤡Shifferbrains.
From a long line of CSA Vets,we honor and applaud your tribute to this good man.Deo Vindice,sir!
Yeah, a great slave-owning man who sent over 483,000 Southern men to their premature death just to try to retain the incredibly *immoral* enslavement of humans.
What was so good about a man who owned human beings?
Trump Lost, traitor.
You are a simpleton. Being a slaveholder doesn't necessarily negate all of a man's accomplishments@@lymanmj
@@warrenlewis3977you too are a simpleton. Plenty of accomplished men were slaveholders. It's a shame that people can't look at things in context. If you had been a landowner in the antebellum south you'd have been a slaveholder too. It's easy to look at these people through the lens of modern society.
Jerry Skinner, thank you so much for presenting all the informational and entertaining videos.
As Always AN EXCELLENT VIDEO. Thank you for all you do and have do. We are far better for it.
A VERY HUMBLE, HONORABLE, & HUMAN BIOGRAPHICAL STORY.
GREAT JOB!
It appears that many prominent historical figures hail from Kentucky.Nice orating,Jerry.Thank you.And God bless Kentucky,the Gateway to the South.
Fellow Kentuckian here ... 😁😉
Very good summary. One aspect of his life that was not included was that Davis' relationship with Varina was very strained, particularly in the early years. He treated her like a child and demanded her complete obedience, telling her that her happiness would come in making him happy. He never fully acknowledged her brilliance. During his many illnesses, particularly during the war, it was Varina who ran the Confederacy, with help from cabinet member Judah Benjamin.
Nonsense.
@@WestCoastAthletic Ditto!
He makes it sound like he was there and knew them personally. Lol 🙄
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Not true at all
@@lymanmj welcome to the war, baby girl.
Thanks for doing this video none of this was taught in school that I can remember
Thanks Jerry! Your biographies are the best! You have given me great education and insight into the lives of the most wondrous people.
Jerry Skinner - Whitewasher of History par excellence.
You make history come alive,, thank you Sir!!!
"History"? Seriously?
@@lymanmj yes.
@@susactivities_ Get help. Or don't. SMH
@@lymanmj HMS
I'm late to the party, busy holiday season. This is a very interesting video, I learned a lot, as usual. Good job. Happy New Year, Mr Skinner, blessings to you and yours.
From Ohio State University History Department:
"In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Jerry, they'll NEVER be anyone like you to do these absolutely detailed amazing stories! I love your slow, unique voice and style! THANK YOU SO MUCH for everything you contribute! May God bless you Jerry!
Thank you Debbie. Jerry
@@JerrySkinner1943 Another gullible sucker for your cause, Jerry. Nice work!
@@JerrySkinner1943
How about commenting on this, Jerry:
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Davis lost 4 of 6 children, Lincoln lost 3 of 4 sons...It didn't matter who you were, prosperous, powerful, influential, in the 19th century as life was so harsh in regards to diseases and poor medical knowledge.
Yep, losing children in those days was an accepted hazard and child mortality was high for every sphere of society...so cruel and painful for parents of them times.
Louisiana had so many deaths from mosquitoes. New Orleans couldn’t bury people fast enough. My grandfathers family had some childhood deaths and my grandmother told me every summer her and her siblings would have to take powder and put it in capsules for malaria.
Love your biographical videos. Hats off!
It is refreshing that at a place where views ,click bait, and subscribers are all the rage ,me included ,some one takes the time to do the research and and create a high quality entertaining video that is educational as well ,presented within the context of the period ,divorced from present day political correctness.
Surely you're joking, Danny.
@@lymanmj No, he's not joking. lincoln got exactly what he deserved.
Jerry, your awesome for collecting and gathering this info!
Disgusting, Jonathan.
Johnathan, "you're" English reflects your level of education - for all to see here.
He spent one night on his flight to freedom in my old hometown of Joanna, South Carolina, then known as as Goldville SC. This was on the way to Abbeville SC
We southerners will argue for peace with all are strength but when war starts we'll fight with that same intensity
mayoforsam 51 may have lost then but give it a try now. Yankee soy boys won’t serve in the military because they might break a nail.
This 72 year old yankee would have probably moved south had he lived back then. The right of states to leave the union was a Constitutional fact ran over by Lincoln. It truly was a war of Northern aggression.
@greenmean1 lol
@greenmean1 greenmean1 and Kristi are keyboard warriors coming to you from their mommas basement
@greenmean1 sure,, I'm in southern Michigan, where are you?
I always enjoy watching your biographies. With great skill, you put the facts into a perspective and personal way. Thank you!
From Wiki: "Most historians sharply criticize Davis for his flawed military strategy, his selection of friends for military commands, and his neglect of homefront crises.[107][108] Until late in the war, he resisted efforts to appoint a general-in-chief, essentially handling those duties himself. "Davis was loathed by much of his military, Congress and the public - even before the Confederacy died on his watch," and General Beauregard wrote in a letter: "If he were to die today, the whole country would rejoice at it."[109]
I never knew that Jefferson Davis was the son-in-law of a US president! Fascinating and well done documentary!
Gods2ndFavoriteBassPlyr he was also a president himself! At the same time as Abraham Lincoln his half brother!
@@whitneyforte4223 - I've heard that theory before. So far I am not overwhelmingly convinced.
I really enjoy your videos! Thank you and keep up the good work!
Loved this Story ,although l'm a Yankee and Civil War buff much respect is owed to my Confederate brothers who fought so hard and valiantly with so little!keep up the good work.
Chuck Mitchell Nice to hear that some people will give credit to the bravery, suffering and fighting spirit of the Americans from the South during the Civil War. Times were different then and duty to your State was often thought to be more important than to the Nation. Most Southerners fought for their homeland, felt they had the right to succeed and the right to keep slaves was of little importance to them. They fought with honor, even though it was a losing cause and deserve the respect that very few now days afford them except for persons like you and I. R.W. Davis USN retired. P.S. Sad but true, the war didn't really need to be fought, so sad.
@@waynedavis936 Thank you. I believe with all my heart that the soldiers of the South should never be disrespects as they are being today. It breaks my heart to see all this stupidity and hatred.
@@melodyjordan6052 how are they being disrespect? You're raged over something that isn't happening. Most of these statues were put up 50 years, or later after the war.
@@melodyjordan6052 I assume your referring to the statues. And you should also be aware that those statues make some people really uncomfortable. Fellow citizens. For what? I love history. My dad was/is a civil buff, so I grew up going to battlefields, and civil war era houses. Re-enactments. I don't recall any statues.
@@melodyjordan6052 I
enjoyed this video very much. Thanks!
+Karin Cervantes Thank you!
You shouldn't have, Karin. Jerry is on an apparent mission to whitewash the history of the sheer immorality of the slave-holding states who went to war under Davis's direction to maintain the subjugation of humans to sustain the free labor basis of the economy of the South. Yeah, I would like to forget about this, too. But racist slavery apologists like Skinner keep up this insane and sentimental image of the South as anodyne. This is nothing if not hostile to *truth* . What their motivation might be, other than some insincere attempt to assuage the guilt that any normal person who once supported slavery, Jim Crow, or racism would feel, I cannot say.
Simply outstanding Brother Jerry
Brother Daymond
I remember when Jimmy Carter restored citizenship to Jefferson Davis
I am glad he did and believe President Jimmy Carter is a good Christian man. I didn't agree with is politics but that does not keep from respecting President Carter.
Yessir, the ONLY thing he did, that was right as President for sure
@@michaelratliff905 He brokered a peace deal between Egypt and Israel. Is that not a good thing???
@@laserbeam002 Oh that work out well!!! Sadat paid with his life a few months later when he was assassinated.
@@cynthiaburrus3901 True but there has been peace between Israel and Egypt ever since and that's what is most important
Just a great story of our history, there was one thing that I heard that has been loosed over time since the Civil War is the relationship between people and the state they are from, even though he spoke out against succession he still followed where his Mississippi went and that was the thinking even in the Declaration of Independence they believed they were free and independent states and I suppose that belief is what led them to think it was in their rights to succeed.
We have lost that because of active propaganda campaigns that frame the early United States as something it isn't. It was conceived of more as "these United States", not "the United States".
it sickens me to know that people really believe that removing the confederate flag from any posted location is just going to erase any memory of the people who struggled to create this beutiful country. god bless America both flags north and south 850.000 lives .
No blessings for the southern traitors. Good that they have rotted to the worms.
The Confederate Battle flag is extremely offensive to African Americans because so many who fly it are in fact racists. I'm for replacing it with the official Confederate flag which doesn't have such an emotional meaning.
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But f*** you dude. You're just a narrow-minded prick.
Sir, You are a wonderful story teller. Thank you so much. Graham Daw Yorkshire in the U.K
+Graham Daw Thank you Graham, My doctor keep asking me to do a video on Richard Harris. They are both from Ireland. Guess that is why. Jerry
Jerry Skinner My profession is actor and so was my Aunt who died some years ago. She worked with Richard Harris in the 1960s in a film called This Sporting Life. Anyway, thanks for your reply. I will continue to watch your productions. If ever you want to contact me for any information regarding England, you will find me on Twitter under GRAHAMDAWACTOR. God Bless Graham Daw
+Graham Daw Thanks Graham. Jerry
+Jerry Skinner Graham, i just watched your screen test and i have to say it was very good. That is why you are an actor and i am not my friend. You are very very good. Jerry
Jerry Skinner That is kind...thank you. Take care Jerry. Best Wishes Graham
My GG Grandfather on my mother’s side was 81st Illinois Infantry. He was captured in Battle of Brices’ crossroads by Tennessee Confederate Cavalry. On
My Father’s side 42 Tennessee confederates fought-in the war! Most were Tennessee Cavalry. A few no doubt were involved in Capturing Soldiers from the 81st Illinois. My GG grandfather was imprisoned in Andersonville’ but survived and passed in 1921’ at age of 82. I have a snapshot of James Dudley Beasley’ and copies of his pension records. I wish I had some original photos of my Confederate ancestors from Tennessee. I have land grant and Census records of them though - Not one ever owned Slaves. MR SKINNER keep the History alive. Your videos are priceless 🇺🇸
Fascinating story of a man more understood than any other and along with Lincoln his name will forever be tied together as the face of the Civil War. While Lee was respected as a fallen hero after the War, Davis was regarded as a coward and was blamed for the South's loss by many of his own people
Lee knew better. He made a decision to fight for the side that felt it needed to continue to base its economy on the free labor of kidnapped, tortured, enslaved human beings. Moral people consider this to be *immoral* .
I've no doubt there was a great deal of propaganda against him coming from the north.
I love your narration style. Calm and measured.
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
God truly blessed us to have Jeff Davis as our President!
you are a dem yeah
John Nall GOD blessed us Beautiful Black people even more so by allowing the Confederacy to fall into utter destruction!!!!! Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and the rest of those men of the Confederacy committed treason against the U.S.A. Thank GOD those idiotic, worthless statues of those Confederates were brought down!!!!!
President Obama is 100% a better man, and positive role model than Jefferson Davis ever was!!!!!!!!!!
Jefferson Davis were a piece of shit a coward racist who should have Died in prison for treason
Bencasey Conner He was not a coward your an absolute moron who has no idea what a coward is he was a hero in the Mexican war and a west point graduate also faught in the blackhawk war that is not “cowardice”
John Jacobs Fuck off troll Really? Before the Confederacy Jefferson Davis was a hero in the Mexican war who won battles a west point graduate he got shot in the leg and back then people would die from infections from gunshot wounds but he kept on fighting through he also fought in the blackhawk war thats 10x better than pussy obummer
Great documentary.thank you
Great story about a great man. We forget and most of us never learned that the New England states considered cession their right on the eve of the war of 1812. They didn't want to disrupt their trade with England.
You are the best. I look forward to viewing all your videos.
Sure. More incandescently insincere Southern apologist indoctrination attempting to justify slavery. *This* is what we need...
@@lymanmj everyone is indoctrinated in there own Way
@@maleexile9053 OK, sure. So, we shouldn't try to overcome the shibboleths we realize we've been inculcated from an early age? Are you saying "indoctrination is OK"? I admit I am mystified at your response, the male.
BTW, you may want to look up the difference between "there", "they're", and "their" before your next post.
@@lymanmj ah yes Grammer
@@maleexile9053 *grammar*
Jerry, in addition to this great informative video, as they all are, I wish to mention the selection of music that accompanies all your videos. The music is always in perfect style and harmony with each video. You must put so very much work into these short bios that cover all the emotional and personal stories and pictures of each person. Thank you so very much. No one can compare to what you do here.
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That is the truth.
Another thumbs 👍 up for jerry most wonderful information everyone should know thank you 😊
Nicely done. Just a FYI - in 1892, Winnie Davis was Queen of the Mystick Krewe of Comus, New Orleans oldest Mardi Gras krewe.
Just excellent Jerry. I see you have the ability to change minds.
Can Jerry change *this* ?:
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Thank you for keeping history alive.
He did not keep it alive at all. While Jerry Skinner has made some good videos, this one is just a very bad joke. Maybe he'll make a video about Stalin, how he loved small children, and classical music, and skip over the 20+ million people he had slaughtered. Would you call that "keeping history alive"? Much of the history of the 11 rebel states in the 19th century is a stain on the United States.
@@lymanmjConfederate history is American history
@@dguy0386 Exactly, D guy. What is your point, if you have one?
@@dguy0386 Yes it is, my friend. Sad but true.
@@lymanmjthe point is that you are simple minded. Every word in this is true. Just because you dislike Davis , its a joke? You are the joke. Although jokes are funny and usually welcome. You are not either of those things
Wow, this was an interesting video. Thank you for sharing.
There's an interesting Wikipedia about James Davis - James Limber Davis is his full name. Worth reading. Jefferson Davis knew the northern general who was coming to get him, and requested that, as James was going to be taken from them, that General Staton would take him and raise him which he did. There's information about James until he was in secondary education. So It's an amazing example of a pretty thoughtful man and some honorable people in a difficult situation. And not everything is easy to label.
Holly. My little cactus flower - Hitler was an amazing public speaker and propagandist. He loved dogs. He treated Eva Braun well. Should we praise a video depicting these traits but leaving out the genocide? Jefferson Davis had the blood of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens on his hands, including some 483,000 men of *The* *South* .
@@lymanmj Sorry, but it is LINCOLN that is more akin to Hitler than Davis ever will be. Lincoln was a murdering thug who represented northern financial interests only.
No mr Lincoln has that blood on his hands ! He is the one who raged war against half the country remember? Say I’m wrong
@@lymanmj Davie sent some Union soldiers to Lincoln pleading for him to allow medicines for the prisoners at Andersonville. Lincoln refused. The medicines were needed to save the Union prisoners lives. How many deaths is AL responsible for
@BarbaraMarrs-xy7rc Please explain exactly how Davis Sent UNION soldiers to get help for prisoners that DAVIS alone was responsible for desecrating, depriving, and ultimately *destroying* for no earthly reason.
Another great factual history Lesson. Thanks Jerry. It saddens my heart that so much of the Nations history has not been taught or has been re-written for political motivation. Because of it-Our Nation faces great challenges in the future.
Really, Acoustic? Any thoughts about how or why Skinner thoughtfully omits facts such as this:
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
Would love to know if Jim Davis had children and if his ancestors are alive today.
Jeff or Jim. Jeff has one decedent that I k ow of. Name is jenne
Great story. You have a very educational channel.
A great video.
That is Joseph E JOHNSTON not Johnson! There is nothing in the US Constitution that says a state cannot secede. There is no procedure, at all, in the U.S. constitution for a state to secede. No state would have joined the union in 1787 if they thought they would have to give up their Sovereigty to a central government. The Military Academy at West Point taught that a state could secede, and Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point. The 10th Amendment guarantees the Sovereign right to it's independent existence. In Texas v. White in 1869, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that states cannot secede. The 8th Amendment prevents a state from existing system. There was a period of about 4 years when the State of Franklin existed within North Carolina. They partitioned the government to become the 14th colony but we're not admitted. The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today Eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.
Jerry, that was an outstanding video! Well put together.
+TunTavernWarrior2 Thank you for your kind words!
@@JerrySkinner1943 Totally undeserved!
@@lymanmj - oohhwoohoo looky here again, it's hate-man claiming to be against hate again, while being as hateful as can be.
Got a problem with hate? Just ask lie-man here about how to fight hate with bucket-loads of smirky hate on ice.
Then hate your way to haters utopia with the lie-man.
He seems like a very honorable man, todays politicians could learn a lot from his example, his ethics and honesty.
He was also a horrible racist tho
@Ron - Shut up you ignoramus. The war was because the South wanted to secede from the North. Get back in school dolt.
@@nunya2954 it had everything to do with slavery.
The south wanted to secede because slavery was being outlawed and it was the entirety of the souths economy.
They coulda continued it themselves but were FAR too lazy to do the work.
It was entirely about slavery.
Nun Ya all of you shut up and learn to dialogue politely and in a civil manner
Laquinton Wagner It was about slavery but they were still human beings and we should look at them impartially and objectively. The way everyone looks at the past now is from a lens of political correctness and such a critical way that it astounds me. All of the historians I know don’t talk the way you even if their subjects were on the wrong side of history. One of my favorite historians said “the mission of the historian is not to judge but analyze understand and explain.”
Thank you for this profile of Jefferson Davis -- I learned more about him in twenty minutes than I learned in a lifetime of indifference. America' s growing pains are far from over....
You learned a lot of half-truths along with some true statements mixed together with little mention of the horrors against *humanity* perpetrated by this relative of mine.
From Ohio State University History Department: "In response to the Union Army’s enlistment of black men, Confederate President Jefferson Davis promised to execute captured black troops as slave insurrectionists. White Union troops were to be taken as prisoners of war, but black ones were to be killed or enslaved. At the Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this order when they slaughtered an estimated 300 surrendering black soldiers, some even as they lay wounded in hospital tents. Two dozen others were castrated."
I love listening to what happened to all the renowned people. Thank you so much for posting . Appreciate it a lot .
Jerry, this is remarkable. Thank you for this impressive documentary. I learned so much.
*wretch*
You obviously have no interest in the history of the Confederacy or of Jefferson Davis. I can only conclude that you are here for the sole purpose of picking fights. So much for the concept of leftists (you’re not liberals by any stretch of the imagination) being interested in national unity.
Love this video, as all of yours are so interesting Jerry. I think Mrs. Verena suffered the most. Lovely family. Background music a bit loud. Thank You.
I will be in Biloxi later this month and I am glad I saw this. I would like to visit the tomb of the unknown soldier before some dumb ass tears it down.