22 Short Facts and Tales about the US Civil War
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2021
- Does what it says on the tin, a bunch of short snippets mostly from a book of Civil War facts I somehow came into possession of at some point or another.
Mostly this was just me trying to break the writing/editing/whatever block that I'd been in for a few weeks, decided "Hey, why not write, record and edit a video all in one day." and so I did.
Anyway, here's something to tide you over until the next music thing or mercenary tales or history video or whatnot. Enjoy!
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Something about facing a company of butchers in hand to hand combat sounds very unpleasant
Fear the men who are the only ones willing to face Civil War combat sober.
@@MajorSamm that is actually way scarier
@@carterburkhart4336 yeah :D i never in my life would fight war sober
@@wiking3520 Anthony Comstockism.
@@johnnotrealname8168 wut
I'm American, but I haven't heard about a good amount of this stuff. Really interesting stories, and an era that my family actually has connections too. Great video.
I HIGHLY recommend Ken Burns The Civil War, it's basically this but for 11 hours. It's highly engrossing, terrifying, heart wrenching. It really should be required watching for all Americans
@@JHenrySmith2 Hahaha very interesting you should say that - I got up to just before Gettysburg in the series a couple years ago but haven't watched the rest yet. I think I'll start again from the beginning. It's absolutely my father's favorite documentary series, no question. He read the entire Shelby Foote series on the Civil War after watching it.
I’ve got a couple neat little facts myself regarding the war.
Wilmer McLean. A farmer in Virginia, has his farm house involved with the First Battle of Bull Run. And moved away to Appomattox, Virginia to escape the war, thinking the spot to be safe.
Although in 1865, his then house was the farm house which General Lee signed the surrender of his army for Grant. Being involved in the first major battle, and then the last.
And another, during the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. Surgeons and men tasked with assisting the wounded were stunned to see some men’s wounds glowing in the dark. And later found this glow was actually not a bacteria that was hurting the wounded more, but infact healing them at a accelerated rate.
This phenomena was dubbed the “Angels Glow.” And was just discovered as of recent to have been a occurrence where the men were laying in such damp and muddy conditions. That it was perfect breeding ground for a bacteria which ate all the harmful bacteria on the wounds, ultimately saving their lives.
Neat
@@gnarl12 I love the lore of that War so much.
"MajorSamm does videos about the '60s?"
"Yes, the 1860s."
Something like my great great great uncle was in a confederate skirmish company. He was from Florence SC. After doing some scouting with 3 other men, they were to return to camp. A storm happened and the squad unknowingly got lost. By the time it became dark, they had found a camp. The wrong camp. They wondered into the middle of a Yankee Camp. Upon realizing, my Gruncle shot 3 men with his Griswald revolver and stole a Yankee regiment flag. That flag is now displayed in a museum somewhere in Columbia SC.
*circa 1864-1865, don’t really remember the date
Palmetto state as well?
The last confederate General to surrender was a Cherokee from Oklahoma
Stand Watie. I remember that from the book “Rifles for Watie.” Solid read. He kinda seems like a prick though from all my personal learning. And he lived in Oklahoma during the Civil War but he was from the traditional Cherokee lands in Georgia. He was a leader of the faction of Cherokees that sold out their own people/lands to the federal gov’t. I’m kinda cool with history forgetting about him.
@@thomaslawson7469 Why forget about him? He’s a part of history and a lesson to be learned from. We don’t celebrate him, but learn from him. Just like we should with all history even the parts we don’t agree with or enjoy.
@@VaporForce i agree with you 100%
South Band Cherokee are closer to North Carolina.
@@mauer594 I like how they just state he sold out his own land. The irony and yet also the sadness.
During WW2 (and even to this day), Southerners make up more of the enlisted corps and Northerners more the Officer ranks. As such, during the battle of Okinawa, the marine sargent whose men took the Okinawa castle only had a confederate flag. The Officers looking on from afar saw the Japanese flag come down and a confederate flag fly over Okinawa castle
One of my ancestors on my mom's side reportedly died of an "over joyed heart" when he finally saw his family after he returned from the war. There might have been a preexisting condition or two
Neat fact: Lincoln was offered a unit of war elephants from the King of Siam
The Union also raised a highlander unit from Scottish immigrants in New York.
Union battle elephants sound badass but I feel like they'dve just gotten murdered instantly
@@D_R757 They actually make pretty good gun carriers in mountainous areas. Our army used them to suppress revolts in northern provinces during the late 19th and early 20th century.
@@arnantphongsatha7906 that's badass, getting charged by an elephant with guys trying to kill you on it's back sounds terrifying. I can see how they would play that kind of a role, but in an open field battle they'd definitely be exposed to way too much gunfire to survive very long with how big of a target they are, and the fact that the lines of sight would be relatively unobscured.
I'm not sure they'd be used for war, the Army Corps of Engineers would probably love it
Itd been great for tranport and logistics smh
LETS GO MORE TALES
pls do some more tales with mercs
I find that Americans tend to be 50/50 about the civil war, some are heavily invested and know almost anything you could ask about it, the others don't care in the slightest.
thank you for bringing a little more of it to the public eye.
That's the way Americans are about most things. Either all in, or all out.
@@SoleMan117 I think it has to do with how they perceive the War. If you think of it as a sad piece of history then you are interested and soothed by the humanity present. Otherwise, everyone is evil.
Based, really liking the expansion of the scope of your content bro, proud of you
Man, I just can't decide whether I want to join the Temperance Union company or the YMCA company... Sounds like a college club roster: Boxers, Musicians...
Fat,drunk & stupid is no way to go through life,son.
Good video. You have a good clear voice for this sort of thing. American civil war lesser-known facts would be a good line to follow maybe.
I like to think that the Civil War was truly the first modern war. It was the first major conflict to take place after the Industrial Revolution, and many of the innovations used during the war revolutionized how conflicts would be fought in the future. (The telegraph, aerial recon, railroads, repeating guns, armored warships, etc.)
Yea same thing happened with the Franco Prussian war..... it changed colonization all around the world too and so many other wars around it also changed how treaties were made afterwards
I was about to sleep, this video will helps me to have great dreams
Cool stuff... I wasn't really interested in the civil war until I went on a day trip to antietam battlefield when I was a teenager, then I started reading about it and looking at photos online - I was pleasantly surprised to discover there were thousands of photos from the war, and the early balloons and railroads and artillery fascinated me. Later I visited Gettysburg a couple times, it's a very good battlefield to see and there's tons of monuments at various locations
Orville E. Babcock was a paternal great great great Grandfather on my mothers side, he was aide to Ulysses S. Grant, he served as engineer in the XXIII Corps building fortifications he later was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and aided in the reconstruction of the South after the war
Take notes kids, round two is on the way
Yo new MajorSamm video!
Three, no four well known battles took place within an hour drive from where I'm standing now. Chattanooga, Nashville, Franklin and Murfreesboro are nearby and Shiloh is maybe a two hour drive. The Trail of Tears runs through the neighborhood where I live. Come to think of it, there's a lot of ghosts in Tennessee.
I love this, I wish too see more content like this. Lovely way to end a day.
Love the stuff like this to put out between bigger videos. Would love to see more, or maybe some of your collection.
The war that nobody won
Amazing, thanks for the upload!
Lots of nice trivia about a momentarily sensitive political subject, without being political at all.
This has been on my mind for awhile because I'm in and my great Uncle was a Marine in 'Nam but maybe you can do the Fall of Saigon juxtaposed with the Fall of Kabul while "This is the end" by the Doors plays
A nice history snippet from a long day at School. Thanks Major!
In mid-August?
@@NathanDudani yes
@@NathanDudani Yep. My high school's a bitch.
Fun lil vid major, quite enjoyed it.
This was great, thank you for doing my classic war video request
Civil War facts content, a surprise to be sure but a welcome one.
Don’t expect this but it’s A Pleasant surprise to be sure
are you planning to do more of these?
Top tier content - may we have some more of that trivial knowledge, for which we all crave
Should do more of these types of videos for different wars and eras
The civil war park in vicksburg MS has a ironclad boat that was pulled out of the yazoo river. My grate grate grandfather was part of the free state of Jones county if you have never heard of it look it up it it is crazy how much they did and how they held off the confederates.
Thanks dude great vid
Really enjoyed this one, it deserves more views. Could you do one on the English civil war? Or pike and shot tactics in general?
I did enjoy this other type of video. Keep it up
Thank you for the video
-Texan
Outstanding 👍 well worth a watch
Great stuff!
4:14 i do appreciate how you rightly called Nathan bedford forrest a bastard
.during the civil war he slaughtered multiple black union soldiers including entire companies, even soldiers that had surrendered
.during the reconstruction era he was closely associated with the KKK aiding and abeding many of their horrendous actions against black Republicans and freedmen
- Forrest's "bastard" naming comes from Unionist namings such as "That Devil Forrest". Also stems from the "illegitimate son" tabloid
- There is only one supposed case of this, being the Fort Pillow Massacre. Given contradicting firsthand accounts, a 50/50 garrison that refused an offered surrender and the state of untrained black regiments in the entire war you cannot make a good judgement on this
- He was appointed in 1868 to be a Grand Wizard by an oddball group of Confederate veterans that formed the KKK, then left after a year when he presumably caught notice of their operations. Also tried to end it with a burn order but not many listened. The rest of Reconstruction was him picking up in Lee's reconciliation steps
I loled at the AL one
My ancestor was my county’s last confederate veteran to die. He died in 1940, he was drafted in 1864 at age 17 where he fought at Petersburg ultimately surrendering at Appomattox with Lee. Whats super cool to me though is that I had 5 other family members alongside him at Appomattox (of course at the time they didn’t know they’d be related) but none the less it’s wild to think if just one of them had been killed then I wouldn’t be here.
I enjoyed that M.S.!! Something different,but found it really interesting too.👍
I love this bro
You rock Sam
Nice video, I’ve been looking forward to a new one
Very cool video, man
I wonder what the YMCA's company battle cry was?
Awsome hope to see plenty more
Great video
What's weird is that all the pictures of the American Civil war show them as like that old school American war of Independence marching in rank and file and shooting each other down. After the first couple battles in the Civil War it mostly became Trench warfare. One of the first cases of trench style warfare in the world. The Chechens were already doing it of course lol. It was the precursor of what was to come 50 years later in World War 1. Lots of artillery, trench sniping, no mans land suicide charges. When you view it in this context, that unions soldiers quote makes a lot more sense then it does if you're imagining a death march lol. Takes a ton of lead and powder to snipe a confederate in the tree lines or trenches hundreds of yards away.
But also there was a large amount of guerrilla style warfare in forests and cities involving western style CQB shoot-outs.
Which I find far more interesting then the commonly depicted death marches.
Hey i was watching your old vids! You should make merch
Major I love these videos, you should do more about recent events like the ukraine riots, taiwan, Venezuela.
Would this book happen to be 'The Civil War, Strange and Fascinating Facts?' by Burke Davis? I have a copy myself.
loved it m8
You should do a video on the civil war, using footage from gods and generals and Gettysburg and stuff
Atunshei hates Gods and Generals
@@nikolaiaramov4851 who is that
@@Chris-vs4wt Look up his video Atun Shei Films gods and generals
Gettysburg is a pretty good movie, Gods and Generals though I just couldn't get through. I've thought about doing film edits but I'm not sure about it.
@@MajorSamm I think it would work nicely
thanks
Underrated
Hello, I love your channel, I'm from Mexico and I would die of wanting to see a video of yours with Excellent music that you choose either about the Zapatista conflict, the Mexico - Guatemala incident or the war on drugs that is in my country since 2006 would be great
Have never clicked on a video so quickly
German soldier: gëzieunehßweitzeïbekamzu
Confederate soldiers: UNIQUE REBEL YELL, YA GOT THERE, BOY!
Wasn't there a confederate soldier that was the very last veteran to be alive in the US long after it ended until the start of the Vietnam War in which he passed away but there were claims that he truly never served in the confederate and he only was considered as one so he and his family can get pensions from the government and he applied for it like 10 times until eventually getting accepted it
MAJOR SAM VOICE!!!!!!!!
For the videos like Czechoslovakia 68 could you put the clips you used in the description please?
I am quite curious where MajorSamm resides -his region specifically. I presume him to be British, and to that I find quite interesting. I notice some bits and pieces of his speaking which are also present in Southern US English, so I'd bet wherever he's from, be it region or family to which gave him his accent, is a place in which many Southerners' ancestors came from.
he's from Yorkshire :)
I liked this change, I wish jack Henson was in it
hiii major and the edit of the dictatorship of 64 (military dictatorship in Brazil) comes out when? lmao
Nice vic 2 music, u play the game?
In school u learn the basics
This channel tell you salty details
6:23 Call of duty: civil war
Make more of these
Nice video. I hope it's okay to ask but what kind of accent have you got? It almost sounds northern English but southern American at the same time
Yorkshire
@@freddyfrueger makes sense why he sounded slightly southern to that fella.
You should use "Could you be loved" by Bob marley in one of your videos. The bass line is bangin
Cool video. To bad UA-cam shadow bans and deranks you. Should have ten times the views.
Nice
Here’s a neat fact, the last battle of the civil war, the battle of Palmito Ranch was a confederate victory
Much the same way that some of the last engagements between the Germans and Soviets were a German victory. I'm speaking of the breakout of the 9th and 12th Army, fighting to make sure a hundred-thousand or so civilians and wounded could surrender to the Allies.
stormer moment
In Afghanistan when we had some down time,about twenty of us would find a area,mark off a square and box the hell outta each other,good times👍
@@punjivr bout 7 minutes between shower and shitter👍😁
Hail Dixie
Whattttty he bri'ish
If you watch his streams you know.. and he posted a couple of other videos of him speaking.
Have you ever tried to do a video about the '73 chilean coup?
Hold up "*Slaves* were being hired???" 2:56
I think he need new music video for afghan war
Yes yes yes thank you Jesus and major samm
More
Aeee
and no music video? :cry:
What’s your problem with Forrest?
Apart from the massacre at Fort Pillow and the KKK?
Post more facts, from other wars also.
Why have you never done any videos on the Croatian army?
Can you make a music video on Afghan National Army..? Some kind of tribute video..... I know its insensitive at this time ... but... please....?
Ok
Neat fact: The first American military unit to officially allow black officers was confederate.
Yes bruh that makes a lot of sense
Hey man, I tried to look up this fact and the only info given on the subject on the first black officer was not until the 30s, as well as the first black general being appointed in 1940. And upon even further research on first appointed officer in the civil war (all be it simplified sources from Wikipedia), it stated that the only circumstances of black officers were non-coms (non commissioned) until after the war. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Colored_Troops under the section “racial segregation and treatment” as well as an appointed(?) Major named Martin Robison Delany. I also found another source that stated something different of the first black officer was an army surgeon.
I just want to state for the matter that I am not here for any insults or name calling. I was just curious and wanted to see if the confederates (the people who went to war to keep their “property” as property) allowed any blacks to serve in the confederate army. But I am not saying that they did not ever form a black guard/black battalion. That is true, but it was made up of slave owners and were led by a white commander and wasn’t allowed in any significant co-op or inclusion in any battle but to defend their homestead.
Again I don’t want any trouble and especially Andy one insulting any person or side here. I am just curious on the details here.
@@aidenstammler4618 The 1st Louisiana Native Guard, a militia unit composed mainly of free blacks from New Orleans and its surrounding areas, featured many black Officers. New Orleans had a very unique perspective on race that wasn't really seen elsewhere in the American South at the time, which allowed this unit of volunteers to form.
A bit ironic that, after members of the 1st joined the Union, a majority of the black officers were stripped of their command positions, and many of its soldiers would quit due to what they perceived as poor treatment by their Union superiors.
Keep in mind the the 1st Louisiana Native Guard was disbanded in 1862 because a new law in Louisiana changed the laws to only allow white men to serve.
@@TheMonkeytrumpetz ahhh thanks, that’s the one I was believed you were thinking. Yeah, true it was at one point run by black officers, they still were controlled by a white commanders. But you are correct, this was the first ever time free blacks were given an officer ship, but not complete control.
Edit: but because of how short lived and insignificant the army was, it was in practice a group of free, some of them slave owning, blacks just sitting around.
where do you find the footage for the edits?
Thanks for posting this was really interesting. As a Southerner all you really learn in school is "states rights" and "dont worry, we weren't racist, it was those other confederates" along with the battles fought within driving distance so this was really interesting
cringe
2:50 The slaves were being paid more ?
Maybe ending slavery wasn’t such a good idea ?
Hay man I love your videos but I got IP banned from your discord server could you please help my name was mage Jesse21
One of the more strange and interesting channels on YT, but I quite love it.