Viewer from Ireland here. Knew very little about the American Civil War until a family member moved to Savannah and I became a regular visitor there. Have been fascinated by the history of the region, and the character of General Sherman in particular, ever since. Thank you so much for these videos, I find them hugely educational.
You've got some fine pedigree to look into as far as Irish soldiers in the ACW goes. The Irish Brigade was EVERYWHERE in the Eastern theater, and were total badasses. Saw heavy involvement at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, among many others. Took the third highest number of dead of the war on the Union side, only after the Old Vermont and Iron Brigade. Even the South had some notable Irishmen, the most famous being Patrick Cleburne, if you didn't already know, who was arguably the best Division commander they had. He even advocated freeing the slaves to get more soldiers for their side and to take away a major reason for the Union to be fighting post Emancipation Proclamation, but that was predictably shot down in horror by the higher ups. Kind of ruined his prospects for advancement too because that did NOT net him many friends among his superiors. He was killed at Franklin along with 5 other Confederate Generals that day. Interesting guy.
My 3rd great-grandfather took part in the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the Carolinas Campaign. He was with the 57th Illinois Infantry.
I am so glad I found this channel. It reminds me of the lectures that my High-School teacher, Mr. Dave Finney gave. There is so much passion behind these videos, and it makes me glad to be a member.
In Sherman's memoir, he recalled a conversation with several women from a girl's school in Columbia who asked him why he permitted the burning of their city. Sherman replied he did not burn their city. He told them "your husbands, brothers, sons and uncles lit the flames when they fired on Fort Sumpter, and the flames finally reached Columbia." A classic Sherman response.
@@SuperMatt352 Atrocities were perpetrated by both sides. The confederates were quite adept at guerrilla warfare, which they waged to terrorize Union supporting civilian populations in Missouri and Kentucky. Some of those guerrilla bands didn’t hesitate to burn, pillage, kill and occasionally rape. As Sherman pointed out, war is hell and the aim of his much more comprehensive campaigns was to bring the war to a quicker end. He accomplished that purpose.
Sherman shows Grants greatness. Out ranking Grant, but knowing Grant would be better at the overall task Sherman shows his greatness. Then Grant reciprocated by putting Sherman in charge without oversight and Sherman achieved what he did. A great team, that’s what ended the war.
Grant had the tougher, grungier job -- up against hunkered down Lee. But Sherman's great war of movement over 11 months has rarely been matched in history.
@ Sherman was chosen by Grant to do this, no one else. Grant faced the main force and the only man he trusted to run the second front, on his own with Grants full trust was Sherman.
The best History lesson - better than the books and lectures even at University. (However, to be said, I was able to read at University replicated source material that simply blows the mind.) I think the research, the voice, the cadence of the voice, the pauses and emphasis rightly placed brings the Story home in the Mind and Imagination. As a retiree my means are constrained monetarily. Thank you.
Y'all do amazing work. Thank you so much for your dedication, passionate interest, and insight. Beautiful presentations and thoughtful insight of the most important aspects of the American Civil War.👍👍
What a team, Grant and Sherman. Grant had the tougher, grungier job -- up against hunkered down Lee. But Sherman's great war of movement over 11 months has rarely been matched in history. And much of it was accomplished in winter, when armies usually rest and refit.
@martymcpeak4748 Man, are you dramatic. You're talking about it like Sherman was personally sending people to the gallows in a conga line. It's a sad fact that civilians die in wars, especially in civil wars where the fighting happens where people generally live. Nobody is saying that's not terrible, because it is. But it happens. But it doesn't make the leaders of those armies some terrorist monsters. I'm not calling Robert E Lee a monster because civilians died when he invaded the North, the same way I don't think that way about Sherman. Neither one of those men ordered the deaths of "women and children," because they weren't villains in a Die Hard movie. The way I see it, Sherman did his job. And his job was to end the war. And when ending a war, you can't ask nicely. That doesn't usually work. That's why war is terrible and shouldn't be a thing that exists. Maybe the South should have thought about that before they started the damn thing.
Sherman told the politicians that the war would be long and bloody and was forcibly retired under a cloud. Then brought back when they decided that he wasnt nuts after all.
Apparently, the lead time that Sherman and the Union Army provided is running thin, and the Confederacy has comingled with the rest of the country. The future is less certain now than ever.
@ Sherman is the second greatest general in American history as far as I’m concerned after Grant. The man was a rock. He had balls, brains for days and his soldiers loved him. And as someone whose ancestors were slaves, I’m most certainly positively predisposed toward Union generals.
@@desertdetroiter428Union or Confederate...what would it matter in regards to the treatment of a civilian population of an entire region of a country? My ancestors were primarily Native American. Should I be predisposed to a genocidal mentality I'll person because of a particular uniform?
@@Matthew-rr4de that “entire region” was brutally enslaving 4 million people against their will. They routinely sexually assaulted the women, beat the men like dogs and broke up families…often selling children that were their own offspring. I’m actually supposed to care about the fate of such nihilists? Ehhhh…I’ll pass. If anything, Sherman was too lenient. I would’ve leveled every structure in South Carolina. My sympathies lay with the Union troops, period. That you’re a Native American is an experience that only you can speak to. I have no business telling you how to feel about anything. I have a right to my sympathies, and you have a right to yours. I’m anti-Confederacy…full stop.
@@waynelayton8568Are you saying they would have preferred that the South were able to continue to enslave black people and export their slave economy to new territories of the U.S.? That, after all, was why the hot heads in the South, made up of the planter aristocracy and their paid for politicians, forced the issue of war on the North to begin with. The south began taking hostile actions first by seizing federal forts throughout the South and bombarding Fort Sumter. And please don’t bring up the “states’ rights” canard, a now discredited bunch of hooey. Sherman’s campaign was punitive, to be sure, but you can’t say that South Carolina didn’t have it coming. And, in any case, Sherman’s stated aim was to bring that horribly bloody and destructive war to a quicker resolution by literally bringing it home to the population that wildly supported it 4 years earlier. Thank God for Lincoln, Grant and Sherman. Without them, the U.S. might have turned out to be 2 separate nations, neither one of which would have become a world power a couple generations later.
I appreciate the mention of Lt. Walsh. I visit his grave every April 13th. It was not a wise decision to fire at Kilpatrick's group. I understand why he was exexuted, but that story has always been bitter to me.
So much destruction has been put on Sherman even though he didn't do most of it is the stuff through the South Carolina campaign with that actually done
Glass half full.... you'll get to document the 2nd ACW or 2nd ARW in real time, likely alongside ww3..... So.... yay for historical times and all.... I love history, lived within 20 miles of a 1st ACW battlefield my whole life, from GA to NC. History is a lot more interesting when you're not square in the middle of it's writing..... Gotta get back to making preparations, keep up the good work guys!
Thank goodness Sherman had the fire and drive to do the march to the sea. I know the South hated Sherman he did what had to be done. He was 45 yrs old and then went to fight the Native Americans in the West
I never thought he was trying to shorten the War. He was doing payback on civilians and what was left of the Confederacy. Todestroy its people. Which was totally against what Lincoln wanted. Was not a fan of this tactic. Thanks for sharing this disturbing documentary that happened. 💯👊👍😢💕
"Peace is Our Profession", the principle motto of the USAF Strategic Air Command is the principle that describes and distinguishes Sherman and Grant's (and later Curtis LeMay of WW2), TOTAL war-winning strategy that ended the Civil War quicker, better, faster and SAVED more lives, property, etc. It is the very entirely INHUMANE mission, by necessity, to END wars and KEEP peace ABSOLUTELY. Sherman's "March to the Sea" IS a military offensive, not a war-crime, totally designed to end the war as fast as possible; NOT tactically, diplomatically, or anything less than MAKE peace by as much as completely eliminating the opposing whatever enemy/threat COMPLETELY and/or their capability to EVER threaten, physically, economically, psychologically, . . . ad infinitum by destroying them. It means "war to end all war." THAT necessity to get peace IS at all costs. That ferocity in combat matched and exceeded everything strategically the CSA was used to, had planned for, until it was too late to be any way else but Lincoln/Grant/Sherman's strategic war that has been a principle in American military strategy since the Civil War burned that into our brains like nothing else could.
My last girlfriend was a beautiful black woman whose name was Georgia. She was not amused if anyone sang or hummed, "Marchin' Through Georgia," in her presence.
Sherman is a true -conflagration- inspiration and a great beacon of -smoke- -fire- -heat- light. I shall never quite look upon a box of matches the same again.
Have just found this channel in the last couple days, and appreciate the historical accuracy. Most always make the south ALWAYS the bad guys. I do wish though you'd covered the Battle of Aiken SC. I lived there for some time, and it's one of the only towns spared from Sherman's fiery rampage, as the Confederates held the Union off there.
Sherman tank was aptly named. Mechanism of war hyped to lay waste to enemies but really resulting in an excess of dead on its own side. 100,000 more Yankees died than rebs in Lincoln's constitution bending widow maker. 700,000 dead and half the country laid waste is a high price to pay for freeing the slave and turning them out in hostile territory penniless. In truth, the grass roots abolition movement was growing in the south before the war and combined with fast approaching farm mechanization would lay slavery low. Lincoln simply exploited John Brown stoked abolition fervor to hoodwink northern support to get himself elected. Never vote for a social climbing lawyer with driving ambition. Heck, just never vote for a lawyer period.
ED, yes, just look at the mayhem and murders in our cities today! is this what we have turned loose on America by trying to help the black people? they mostly kill their own families and neighbors. then the dems lets thugs walk in from all over the world! what is next? we need leadership. we sure havent had any for 4 years.
Very fascinating. The Rebels knew the war was over (at least some of them), but they continued. All of that bloodshed for nothing. I do kinda feel sorry for the common people's homes being burnt or looted, but not the plantation owners.
i dont know why but when i hear what sherman and his army did in Georgia and the Carolinas, Gen. Tilly and his mercenary Army, looting and burning their way thru protestant northern Germany (during the first stages of the 30 years war), comes to my mind .
Unca’ Billy let me and history down. After the War of 1812 this country and her policies were guided by laws approved in Congress (literally nation building). The three leading Senators ( and without match even to this day) were Clay, Webster and JOHN C CALHOUN. John C pretty much started the war with his policies in the mid 1800’s No southern senator would cast a vote until they heard from Calhoun. He, a defender of slavery and a South Carolinian, advocated to all Southern senators the minority vote and view was legitimate (ignore laws passed by majority votes in Congress). He advocated resistance to Federal law. The SOB did not have the dignity to live to see what he started, did not live to see it start. Nevertheless ‘cump (as US Grant called him) did not go to Pickens County SC where Calhoun’s clan (and descendants)had about six plantations. He should’ve burned and treated them like he did the plantations of Georgia. After the war Calhoun’s son-in-law was wealthy enough to start a university. His SIL’s last name was Clemson.
"using such obscene language that we were forced to go indoors" Given that in 1950s the word "damn" in Gone With The Wind caused uproar, one wonders what words were considered obscene in 1860s.
Perhaps obscene for the aggressively conservative Production Code Era film industry, but not for the average person. In fact, not to be that guy but here's a fun bit of film trivia! Gone With The Wind was actually from 1939, and while films in that era were subjected to vigorous censorship under the Production Code despite self regulation being generally the norm, [per Wikepedia for brevity] the Motion Picture Association board passed an amendment to the Production Code on November 1, 1939, that forbade the use of the words "hell" or "damn" except when their use "shall be essential and required for portrayal, in proper historical context, of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore ... or a quotation from a literary work, provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste". So the line was accepted without complaint by the MPAA, because it was dramatically essential. In fact, a review from the time, 1939, actually uses "damn" in the article, and not while quoting the famous line, either. (They call the director "damn good." The poor children and their virgin ears!!! 😮) So despite the stereotype that movies and TV taught us, there were far less pearls being clutched over "naughty language" from the average person than we were led to believe. That fantasy was pushed by conservative, often Catholic organizations in an effort to push their white-washed, homogeneous, conservative agenda. Apologies, I probably went way deeper than you wanted into a statement you probably mostly meant as a joke lol.
@@patjacksonpodium Only half as a joke. The point was, that it would be interesting to follow over time what words were acceptable in "polite society" in everyday use, why these words were bad, mmkay?, and when and why people just couldn't give a damn about these words anymore. I focus on this layer of society, since there must have been more rural or working man's areas of society, where no one would clutch at pearls, even if they'd had them. PS: GWTW was 1940? Damn. Must calibrate my internal movie database.
And now we have elected a dictator, one bent on revenge and self agrandizment, no one could be more oposite of Abe Lincoln in both character and intellect than trump.
What I don’t understand is WHY the Union didn’t invade South Carolina much earlier in the war with an amphibious operation with the aim of cutting off Lee in Virginia from the rest of the Confederacy.
@ The union attempted in Dec 1864 and then succeeded in Jan 1865 to take the fort. But this isn’t really what I was talking about. Why didn’t the union attempt a large scale operation the size of Sherman’s army from the sea to land in the Carolinas and cut off Lee from the rest of the Confederacy? Not just from supplies from the sea but from the South and west. Essentially surrounding Lee? They seemed to have saved the Carolinas until last.
I would assume supply lines? I don't know the logistics of how it would work but from what I've come to realize is that, if there's an obvious solution to a military problem that they just didn't attempt, the answer is almost always "It was impractical for reasons that I do not have the military knowledge to immediately understand." And that usually boils down to "They couldn't supply or support the operation if anything went wrong." It's kind of like how the Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville area saw so much fighting when you could just say, "Well why didn't they just go around and hit HERE or THERE instead?" It's because that's where the roads were and roads are how you supply and feed an army. Easy to strategize when you're just looking at a map or playing a board game but in board games you rarely have to deal with logistics or the aftermath of a battle. I'm no expert but that's what I've come to understand anyway. It does seem weird though when it seems like there's an obvious solution. But again, if they didn't try it, there was probably a good reason. It's not like they didn't want to win, you know?
@ I agree with you and the answer might be deep in the archives somewhere. I will note that the British did invade Charleston and then proceed to chase the southern colonial army up to Virginia that ultimately ended in failure at Yorktown. So the idea of invading the Carolinas was not unprecedented. I’m sure it was given thought. And I agree that logistics is a prime candidate. Just not sure. It seems that using the navy as a way of outflanking the South was an advantage that they weren’t using well.
@@wcg19891 Well the Union did throw up a blockade of all Southern ports in 1861 and there really wasn't anything the Rebels could ever do about it for the rest of the war. They captured New Orleans almost immediately and that was the South's biggest city. Made a big impact in the war for sure.
hell joke was good heard it before. Now here is one about Grant To mem standing guard winter of 63 on the Miss N of Vicksburg. One tunes ot the other and say "I wish all these rebs were in hell." 2md reply's "I dont" 1st "why not" 2nd "If they were Grant would have us standing guard at the gates."
The Greatest General the North had, was.............Gen Braxton Bragg. Had he NOT been in charge, and was replaced by Gen Benjamin Chatham, it very well might have been a different story.
There's a very real argument he was in the top 5 but I dunno that I tale him over Grant, Sherman, or Thomas. But Braxton Bragg did more to defeat the Confederate military than about 90% of the Union.
If you read some of Sherman's writings or reports of what he said, you will come to see that he was a merciless, savage warrior who understood war in real terms and was plain spoken about it. He also was a complete psychopath.
My family never thought to highly of Sherman.It is well documented that he suffered from mental illness. Thank you for talking with Grant about Custer. Im glad he was able to fight at the Greasy grass
I see you’ve tripled the ad interruptions since the last upload. Ypu are in a losing cycle. No one who pays for YT Premium is also going to pay for a membership. Maybe with the extra revenue you could buy a quieter chair…
Viewer from Ireland here. Knew very little about the American Civil War until a family member moved to Savannah and I became a regular visitor there. Have been fascinated by the history of the region, and the character of General Sherman in particular, ever since. Thank you so much for these videos, I find them hugely educational.
Do you know why the Union won??? They had enough Irishmen to do the job❤
Sherman wasn't a very kind man. He suffered from mental issues. It's well documented
The USCW is one of the most interesting conflicts in human history.
Most people have mental issues. This was the 19th century, the amount of undiagnosed mental illness was everywhere
You've got some fine pedigree to look into as far as Irish soldiers in the ACW goes. The Irish Brigade was EVERYWHERE in the Eastern theater, and were total badasses. Saw heavy involvement at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, among many others. Took the third highest number of dead of the war on the Union side, only after the Old Vermont and Iron Brigade.
Even the South had some notable Irishmen, the most famous being Patrick Cleburne, if you didn't already know, who was arguably the best Division commander they had. He even advocated freeing the slaves to get more soldiers for their side and to take away a major reason for the Union to be fighting post Emancipation Proclamation, but that was predictably shot down in horror by the higher ups. Kind of ruined his prospects for advancement too because that did NOT net him many friends among his superiors. He was killed at Franklin along with 5 other Confederate Generals that day. Interesting guy.
My 3rd great-grandfather took part in the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the Carolinas Campaign. He was with the 57th Illinois Infantry.
I am so grateful and glad you made a documentary about this. This part of the war is never covered.
I am so glad I found this channel. It reminds me of the lectures that my High-School teacher, Mr. Dave Finney gave. There is so much passion behind these videos, and it makes me glad to be a member.
In Sherman's memoir, he recalled a conversation with several women from a girl's school in Columbia who asked him why he permitted the burning of their city. Sherman replied he did not burn their city. He told them "your husbands, brothers, sons and uncles lit the flames when they fired on Fort Sumpter, and the flames finally reached Columbia." A classic Sherman response.
Uncle Billy possessing both Truth Bombs AND The Audacity 😂 What an ultimate badass 🔥🔥🔥
@@patjacksonpodiumterrorizing widows and orphans is badass?
@@SuperMatt352 Atrocities were perpetrated by both sides. The confederates were quite adept at guerrilla warfare, which they waged to terrorize Union supporting civilian populations in Missouri and Kentucky. Some of those guerrilla bands didn’t hesitate to burn, pillage, kill and occasionally rape. As Sherman pointed out, war is hell and the aim of his much more comprehensive campaigns was to bring the war to a quicker end. He accomplished that purpose.
@@SuperMatt352 “widows and orphans?” Seriously?
@@SuperMatt352you at home watching Rocky getting geeked up for a second try at sedition?
Sherman shows Grants greatness. Out ranking Grant, but knowing Grant would be better at the overall task Sherman shows his greatness. Then Grant reciprocated by putting Sherman in charge without oversight and Sherman achieved what he did. A great team, that’s what ended the war.
Grant had the tougher, grungier job -- up against hunkered down Lee. But Sherman's great war of movement over 11 months has rarely been matched in history.
@ Sherman was chosen by Grant to do this, no one else. Grant faced the main force and the only man he trusted to run the second front, on his own with Grants full trust was Sherman.
The best History lesson - better than the books and lectures even at University. (However, to be said, I was able to read at University replicated source material that simply blows the mind.) I think the research, the voice, the cadence of the voice, the pauses and emphasis rightly placed brings the Story home in the Mind and Imagination. As a retiree my means are constrained monetarily. Thank you.
You guys are my favorite channel on UA-cam! Thank you for making such wonderful content.
Totally agree. Fairly and eloquently covered.
Your talks are enthusiastically received. I find your monolog alive . Thank you.
Thanks for covering a little talked about period. Most give up after Atlanta and go straight to the surrenders.
Total War is so brutal.
War is hell, you cannot reform it.....Sherman
Y'all do amazing work. Thank you so much for your dedication, passionate interest, and insight. Beautiful presentations and thoughtful insight of the most important aspects of the American Civil War.👍👍
What a team, Grant and Sherman. Grant had the tougher, grungier job -- up against hunkered down Lee. But Sherman's great war of movement over 11 months has rarely been matched in history. And much of it was accomplished in winter, when armies usually rest and refit.
In this episode, the Carolinas enter their "Find Out" Phase. 🔥😎🔥
yep, what a great way to describe women and children dying in a war they had nothing to do with. they really found out didn't they?
@martymcpeak4748 Man, are you dramatic. You're talking about it like Sherman was personally sending people to the gallows in a conga line. It's a sad fact that civilians die in wars, especially in civil wars where the fighting happens where people generally live. Nobody is saying that's not terrible, because it is. But it happens. But it doesn't make the leaders of those armies some terrorist monsters. I'm not calling Robert E Lee a monster because civilians died when he invaded the North, the same way I don't think that way about Sherman. Neither one of those men ordered the deaths of "women and children," because they weren't villains in a Die Hard movie. The way I see it, Sherman did his job. And his job was to end the war. And when ending a war, you can't ask nicely. That doesn't usually work.
That's why war is terrible and shouldn't be a thing that exists. Maybe the South should have thought about that before they started the damn thing.
I have never heard about this part of the campaign .Very interesting,thank you❤
Thank you!! This made my weekend
Sherman told the politicians that the war would be long and bloody and was forcibly retired under a cloud. Then brought back when they decided that he wasnt nuts after all.
Another superb episode…
I love this channel I watch these videos on loop.
I don't believe any other General was prepared to do what Sherman did on his march to the sea
SC here again, we have recovered just fine.
Love this channel
Apparently, the lead time that Sherman and the Union Army provided is running thin, and the Confederacy has comingled with the rest of the country. The future is less certain now than ever.
Great video, thank you guys
Love General Sherman. This story warms my heart.
Seriously? My family never thought to much of him or Lincoln
@ Sherman is the second greatest general in American history as far as I’m concerned after Grant. The man was a rock. He had balls, brains for days and his soldiers loved him. And as someone whose ancestors were slaves, I’m most certainly positively predisposed toward Union generals.
@@desertdetroiter428Union or Confederate...what would it matter in regards to the treatment of a civilian population of an entire region of a country? My ancestors were primarily Native American. Should I be predisposed to a genocidal mentality I'll person because of a particular uniform?
@@Matthew-rr4de that “entire region” was brutally enslaving 4 million people against their will. They routinely sexually assaulted the women, beat the men like dogs and broke up families…often selling children that were their own offspring. I’m actually supposed to care about the fate of such nihilists? Ehhhh…I’ll pass. If anything, Sherman was too lenient. I would’ve leveled every structure in South Carolina. My sympathies lay with the Union troops, period. That you’re a Native American is an experience that only you can speak to. I have no business telling you how to feel about anything. I have a right to my sympathies, and you have a right to yours. I’m anti-Confederacy…full stop.
@@waynelayton8568Are you saying they would have preferred that the South were able to continue to enslave black people and export their slave economy to new territories of the U.S.? That, after all, was why the hot heads in the South, made up of the planter aristocracy and their paid for politicians, forced the issue of war on the North to begin with. The south began taking hostile actions first by seizing federal forts throughout the South and bombarding Fort Sumter. And please don’t bring up the “states’ rights” canard, a now discredited bunch of hooey. Sherman’s campaign was punitive, to be sure, but you can’t say that South Carolina didn’t have it coming. And, in any case, Sherman’s stated aim was to bring that horribly bloody and destructive war to a quicker resolution by literally bringing it home to the population that wildly supported it 4 years earlier. Thank God for Lincoln, Grant and Sherman. Without them, the U.S. might have turned out to be 2 separate nations, neither one of which would have become a world power a couple generations later.
I appreciate the mention of Lt. Walsh. I visit his grave every April 13th. It was not a wise decision to fire at Kilpatrick's group. I understand why he was exexuted, but that story has always been bitter to me.
So much destruction has been put on Sherman even though he didn't do most of it is the stuff through the South Carolina campaign with that actually done
he sure as hell don't mind, regardless of the goal, funny how Atlanta was on purpose but not Columbia
Glass half full.... you'll get to document the 2nd ACW or 2nd ARW in real time, likely alongside ww3..... So.... yay for historical times and all.... I love history, lived within 20 miles of a 1st ACW battlefield my whole life, from GA to NC. History is a lot more interesting when you're not square in the middle of it's writing..... Gotta get back to making preparations, keep up the good work guys!
Thanks!
Thank goodness Sherman had the fire and drive to do the march to the sea. I know the South hated Sherman he did what had to be done. He was 45 yrs old and then went to fight the Native Americans in the West
Outstanding video
I never thought he was trying to shorten the War. He was doing payback on civilians and what was left of the Confederacy. Todestroy its people. Which was totally against what Lincoln wanted. Was not a fan of this tactic. Thanks for sharing this disturbing documentary that happened. 💯👊👍😢💕
Yes, Fort Bragg. Very good!
"Peace is Our Profession", the principle motto of the USAF Strategic Air Command is the principle that describes and distinguishes Sherman and Grant's (and later Curtis LeMay of WW2), TOTAL war-winning strategy that ended the Civil War quicker, better, faster and SAVED more lives, property, etc. It is the very entirely INHUMANE mission, by necessity, to END wars and KEEP peace ABSOLUTELY. Sherman's "March to the Sea" IS a military offensive, not a war-crime, totally designed to end the war as fast as possible; NOT tactically, diplomatically, or anything less than MAKE peace by as much as completely eliminating the opposing whatever enemy/threat COMPLETELY and/or their capability to EVER threaten, physically, economically, psychologically, . . . ad infinitum by destroying them. It means "war to end all war." THAT necessity to get peace IS at all costs. That ferocity in combat matched and exceeded everything strategically the CSA was used to, had planned for, until it was too late to be any way else but Lincoln/Grant/Sherman's strategic war that has been a principle in American military strategy since the Civil War burned that into our brains like nothing else could.
My last girlfriend was a beautiful black woman whose name was Georgia. She was not amused if anyone sang or hummed, "Marchin' Through Georgia," in her presence.
Love your show
Sherman is a true -conflagration- inspiration and a great beacon of -smoke- -fire- -heat- light.
I shall never quite look upon a box of matches the same again.
My Hero.
1865! Sherman was under Grant near Mississippi and later in Tennessee (Chattanooga) in 1863.
Simple mistake, easy fix. Replying to boost this comment.
Have just found this channel in the last couple days, and appreciate the historical accuracy. Most always make the south ALWAYS the bad guys. I do wish though you'd covered the Battle of Aiken SC. I lived there for some time, and it's one of the only towns spared from Sherman's fiery rampage, as the Confederates held the Union off there.
I love this channel you're my teammate 😂😊
This was different! I enjoyed it. Really needed a map though.
Sherman tank was aptly named. Mechanism of war hyped to lay waste to enemies but really resulting in an excess of dead on its own side. 100,000 more Yankees died than rebs in Lincoln's constitution bending widow maker. 700,000 dead and half the country laid waste is a high price to pay for freeing the slave and turning them out in hostile territory penniless. In truth, the grass roots abolition movement was growing in the south before the war and combined with fast approaching farm mechanization would lay slavery low. Lincoln simply exploited John Brown stoked abolition fervor to hoodwink northern support to get himself elected. Never vote for a social climbing lawyer with driving ambition. Heck, just never vote for a lawyer period.
ED, yes, just look at the mayhem and murders in our cities today! is this what we have turned loose on America by trying to help the black people? they mostly kill their own families and neighbors. then the dems lets thugs walk in from all over the world! what is next? we need leadership. we sure havent had any for 4 years.
Very fascinating. The Rebels knew the war was over (at least some of them), but they continued. All of that bloodshed for nothing. I do kinda feel sorry for the common people's homes being burnt or looted, but not the plantation owners.
first class !!
General Sherman is a true hero of his time
Sherman was an evil man. After the war he did this same thing to the Indians out west.
i dont know why but when i hear what sherman and his army did in Georgia and the Carolinas, Gen. Tilly and his mercenary Army, looting and burning their way thru protestant northern Germany (during the first stages of the 30 years war), comes to my mind .
it’s a good thing Sherman ,grant and Sheridan were level headed
Unca’ Billy let me and history down. After the War of 1812 this country and her policies were guided by laws approved in Congress (literally nation building). The three leading Senators ( and without match even to this day) were Clay, Webster and JOHN C CALHOUN. John C pretty much started the war with his policies in the mid 1800’s No southern senator would cast a vote until they heard from Calhoun. He, a defender of slavery and a South Carolinian, advocated to all Southern senators the minority vote and view was legitimate (ignore laws passed by majority votes in Congress). He advocated resistance to Federal law. The SOB did not have the dignity to live to see what he started, did not live to see it start. Nevertheless ‘cump (as US Grant called him) did not go to Pickens County SC where Calhoun’s clan (and descendants)had about six plantations. He should’ve burned and treated them like he did the plantations of Georgia. After the war Calhoun’s son-in-law was wealthy enough to start a university. His SIL’s last name was Clemson.
"We can make this march and make Georgia howl!
General Sherman,,,,ate his way thru Georgia & Burn his way thru South Carolina. Home Run Video. 💯👍
"using such obscene language that we were forced to go indoors" Given that in 1950s the word "damn" in Gone With The Wind caused uproar, one wonders what words were considered obscene in 1860s.
Perhaps obscene for the aggressively conservative Production Code Era film industry, but not for the average person. In fact, not to be that guy but here's a fun bit of film trivia! Gone With The Wind was actually from 1939, and while films in that era were subjected to vigorous censorship under the Production Code despite self regulation being generally the norm, [per Wikepedia for brevity] the Motion Picture Association board passed an amendment to the Production Code on November 1, 1939, that forbade the use of the words "hell" or "damn" except when their use "shall be essential and required for portrayal, in proper historical context, of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore ... or a quotation from a literary work, provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste".
So the line was accepted without complaint by the MPAA, because it was dramatically essential. In fact, a review from the time, 1939, actually uses "damn" in the article, and not while quoting the famous line, either. (They call the director "damn good." The poor children and their virgin ears!!! 😮)
So despite the stereotype that movies and TV taught us, there were far less pearls being clutched over "naughty language" from the average person than we were led to believe. That fantasy was pushed by conservative, often Catholic organizations in an effort to push their white-washed, homogeneous, conservative agenda.
Apologies, I probably went way deeper than you wanted into a statement you probably mostly meant as a joke lol.
@@patjacksonpodium Only half as a joke. The point was, that it would be interesting to follow over time what words were acceptable in "polite society" in everyday use, why these words were bad, mmkay?, and when and why people just couldn't give a damn about these words anymore. I focus on this layer of society, since there must have been more rural or working man's areas of society, where no one would clutch at pearls, even if they'd had them.
PS: GWTW was 1940? Damn. Must calibrate my internal movie database.
@@patjacksonpodium The Scarlet Pimpernel said "damn" at the club.
From Rutledge, Calhoun, Truman to Lady Graham, uncle Tim and Mace
You reap what you sew
No Confederate general ever came anywhere close to the level or number of war crimes committed by Sherman. Fail.
put it simple it was madness
you godda have guts to see the vision
after the railroad was built much less Lincoln was not to see it
He was "the Beast"!
Title 1863? Columbia was burned in Feb 1865!
Title says 1863 btw
Meh close enough
And now we have elected a dictator, one bent on revenge and self agrandizment, no one could be more oposite of Abe Lincoln in both character and intellect than trump.
1863? Wouldn’t this have taken place in 1864/65?
What I don’t understand is WHY the Union didn’t invade South Carolina much earlier in the war with an amphibious operation with the aim of cutting off Lee in Virginia from the rest of the Confederacy.
Fort Fisher
@ The union attempted in Dec 1864 and then succeeded in Jan 1865 to take the fort.
But this isn’t really what I was talking about.
Why didn’t the union attempt a large scale operation the size of Sherman’s army from the sea to land in the Carolinas and cut off Lee from the rest of the Confederacy? Not just from supplies from the sea but from the South and west. Essentially surrounding Lee?
They seemed to have saved the Carolinas until last.
I would assume supply lines? I don't know the logistics of how it would work but from what I've come to realize is that, if there's an obvious solution to a military problem that they just didn't attempt, the answer is almost always "It was impractical for reasons that I do not have the military knowledge to immediately understand." And that usually boils down to "They couldn't supply or support the operation if anything went wrong."
It's kind of like how the Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville area saw so much fighting when you could just say, "Well why didn't they just go around and hit HERE or THERE instead?" It's because that's where the roads were and roads are how you supply and feed an army. Easy to strategize when you're just looking at a map or playing a board game but in board games you rarely have to deal with logistics or the aftermath of a battle.
I'm no expert but that's what I've come to understand anyway. It does seem weird though when it seems like there's an obvious solution. But again, if they didn't try it, there was probably a good reason. It's not like they didn't want to win, you know?
@ I agree with you and the answer might be deep in the archives somewhere.
I will note that the British did invade Charleston and then proceed to chase the southern colonial army up to Virginia that ultimately ended in failure at Yorktown. So the idea of invading the Carolinas was not unprecedented.
I’m sure it was given thought. And I agree that logistics is a prime candidate. Just not sure. It seems that using the navy as a way of outflanking the South was an advantage that they weren’t using well.
@@wcg19891 Well the Union did throw up a blockade of all Southern ports in 1861 and there really wasn't anything the Rebels could ever do about it for the rest of the war. They captured New Orleans almost immediately and that was the South's biggest city. Made a big impact in the war for sure.
it’s called black mail
that’s pride
by hunger and vacancy
hell joke was good heard it before. Now here is one about Grant
To mem standing guard winter of 63 on the Miss N of Vicksburg. One tunes ot the other and say "I wish all these rebs were in hell."
2md reply's "I dont"
1st "why not"
2nd "If they were Grant would have us standing guard at the gates."
the country would not grow
yes I get it 😊
There is no other way
The Greatest General the North had, was.............Gen Braxton Bragg. Had he NOT been in charge, and was replaced by Gen Benjamin Chatham, it very well might have been a different story.
There's a very real argument he was in the top 5 but I dunno that I tale him over Grant, Sherman, or Thomas.
But Braxton Bragg did more to defeat the Confederate military than about 90% of the Union.
@Adamdidit "Gen. Bragg is the only person I know who could snatch Defeat from the jaws of Victory" unknown Confederate Soldier..
under what command
I’m the us army you don’t trust anybody
Maps would have been nice . Too much work I reckon .
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If you read some of Sherman's writings or reports of what he said, you will come to see that he was a merciless, savage warrior who understood war in real terms and was plain spoken about it. He also was a complete psychopath.
It is these psychopaths who made the USA.
no other
Grant
wose thinken her
Screw Sherman!
My family never thought to highly of Sherman.It is well documented that he suffered from mental illness. Thank you for talking with Grant about Custer. Im glad he was able to fight at the Greasy grass
He overcame chronic depression. Why would your family choose to judge him for that?
7:42 Sherman ,,the,, butcher
I see you’ve tripled the ad interruptions since the last upload. Ypu are in a losing cycle. No one who pays for YT Premium is also going to pay for a membership. Maybe with the extra revenue you could buy a quieter chair…
A free really good history but all you can do is troll. Sad for you
Thanks!