Not cool that he died, but VERY cool that you know that. Not many people nowadays care about history it doesn’t seem, and it’s always a blessing to see folk appreciate their heritage. God bless!
@@ThanksforcensoringmeUA-cam Thank you! Yes, I find history fascinating, I think it’s thanks to a teacher I had and it is sad that more people are not interested.
@@quest9926my 3x great uncle was mortally wounded in this battle and died 4 days later in federal captivity. William Elias Morrison of the 24th Tennessee co. C. God bless your family and the United States of America!
My g.g. grandfather, Private John Gallagher Cummins fought at Stones River on behalf of the Union Armies 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He was first stationed at the McFadden farm artillery line where 57 cannons were used to repel the Confederates across the Stones River to the south. Infantrymen were responsible for providing small arms cover for the artillery crews. He was then sent briefly to the very heart of the battle in the cotton field adjacent to hells half acre. Unbelievably, he survived the war after also fighting at Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain Ga., and accompanying Sherman to Atlanta. Eventually by the end of the war he was in the Carolinas. I'm so proud of his service!
Gday, I am Australian but I have always been obsessed with the American civil War, in 1981 my Aunty went on holidays to the states and bought me back among many other gifts a confederate forage cap! It started from that. Haha. I even did it as a school project as a kid in primary school, I was in a small country school, so my teacher drove me into the closest bigger town to go to the library to find any info we could on the civil war. My teacher really enjoyed learning about it too. She was the best. She made me want to become a teacher. I’m am so stoked to have found this channel and all these incredible documentaries. These are some of the best I have seen! I Sadly I was planning and half booked my trip of a lifetime to visit the states and go to all these battle sites and museums but to also fish all your incredible trout streams, I was almost ready to go in months, but I was then diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma. So the trip had to be canceled, I was devastated, I thankfully survived so I started to plan it again, but then a year later they found it in my neck and thyroid. So I gave up on my bloody dream adventure and now have to just watch documentaries and read books to compensate haha. I don’t think I’ll get over there now, oh well. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to recommend any other documentaries or books that they recommend for me to watch/read? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Cheers from ya mate in Australia! Haha. Stay safe
My great grandfather x4 and his brother fought in this battle. My great uncle fell in one of the last bayonet charges that pushed the confederates back for good. My great grandfather was severely wounded, and it took days before they were found together, and were buried together also. A freeman from the south, was helping out with the wounded & food, and he noticed the grave had life to it, my great grandfather x4 was still alive, his name was Calvin Faye Jones, such a tragic tale. He was soon discharged, and re joined for one year later on. He was originally 36th Illinois infantry
I'm from Murfreesboro and the courthouse on the square is the same courthouse that was there during the war. You can see where there are bullet holes from the war still. If you look in the pillars and the bricks you can see where they painted over them but they are still there. It's pretty cool
Several bodies of local Rutherford County confederate soldiers who died at Stones River were taken to the courthouse afterward and placed on the counters so they could be claimed by their relatives. One was the son of Judge Bromfield Ridley who owned a large plantation at nearby Jefferson.
I've been watching these videos one after the other for the last five or six hours. The best, I think, I have ever watched. The reenactment battles scenes are the most realistic I have ever seen. Definitely two thumbs!
What do you think about General Lee looking away from the portrait at Appomattox sitting on the rocking chair on the porch being seen by the town so he turned away so they aren't killed on a firing squad leave no witness, was the document surrender and they had become outlaws which is the death sentence the black men hung in all those pictures had to be southern rebels they hung Mexicans and Italians in Shreveport the Missouri River connects with the Mississippi it has the connection to Louisiana into the gulf of Mexico the Emmitt Till story has a Mississippi Delta connection from the Great lake's to Michigan lake in Chicago it's got many places to go. Atchison KS has a Missouri feel to it quite and the Victorian age house's gives it a haunted feel and has a hidden feel after leaving they are connected to Lawrence it's not something that came together cause I didn't realize people might be more affected than most of the continent, till you get in the history and criticize any points and imagine the sentiment told in the story I have to touch on it so if I'm wrong someone may correct me or give it a thought and it has lead to possibilities and maybe a cover up of Giant portions they'd rather leave it as it is cause no one offered to right Mexicans war's but the ballads may have people on edge which is not needed, we would prove that fool hardy spirit we've all been at the brink and if words destroy you free Speech has been used to see mental health problems which is ignorance and a low spirit which should reveal the people responsible for their actions and excuses will never make people trust anything but the blame has been made the walk into the Atlantic 😆 duh huh!!
(16:37) "...every fellow for himself, and the devil take the hindmost." The reenactment sound of so many musket and cannon fire is lovely. Missing are those fabled screams of the wounded and dying. (23:44) "...like a whirly gust of woodpeckers in a hailstorm!" This was a very good report. Thank you.
This battle provides a good microcosm of the Civil War as a whole. Confederate troops come up with a good strategy, exploit some bad planning on the part of the Union, and make some impressive gains. Then they make some bad mistakes of their own, which the Union exploits to its advantage. In the end, the Union suffers numerically greater casualties, but a smaller percentage of its troops, and it goes on like that for four years.
I appreciate it that the filmmakers gave a lot of time to the re-enacted battles without music or commentary every 15 seconds, seriously. Just allowing the battle to unfold as close to the reality as anyone not there could imagine.
Seeing all those "dead and injured" bodies on the battlefield, try to imagine what it truly looked like, with limbs shattered or blown off, heads blasted open, huge gaping wounds in torsos and chests. What a nightmare. The devil indeed came to greet them, but the angels took them home.
At the battle of Sharpsburg / ANTIETAM September 17, 1862, the battle line was at a road way, that the battle swayed back and forth, at the road way, until the deceased bodies lay like cord wood and the road way ran red with blood. They named the road way "Bloody Lane." They declared the battle a Union Victory...But by MILITARY strategies it was a tactical draw. Equal! The death were so numerous and Violent it was mentally disturbing by many of the Soldiers on both sides. That they never recovered from what they had did and saw. PTSD (Later many of the soldiers at Sharpsburg/ ANTIETAM committed suicide.)
@@danshowlund I'm sure that the Europeans, especially the Germans, learned from this never to go to war again. This will be known as "the war that ended all war."
Ancestors of mine fought for the South. One was wounded and put on a prison train. His wife went with him. He got sick and died before they got to the prison.
And the smell too, that smell of death stains your sense’s, it’s hard to get rid of and even harder to forget. I worked in a morgue as a young man, through 2 Australian extra hot summers. The stuff I saw and had to help clear has stayed with me for over 30 years. I can only imagine what I saw multiplied by thousands! The deafening sound of the guns and cannons the screams and groans. But after the battle, the disconcerting sound of millions of flies buzzing, the groans and cries of the injured and dying. I’m having flash backs thinking about it. And most of these young men were as old as my son is now. There will never be men like this again, I think the last of these stock of men were during Vietnam. I am Australian but I have always been obsessed with the American civil War, in 1981 my Aunty went on holidays to the states and bought me back among many other gifts a confederate cap! It started from that. Haha. I even did it as a school project as a kid in primary school, I was in a small country school, so my teacher drove me into the closest bigger town to go to the library to find any info we could on the civil war. My teacher really enjoyed learning about it too. She was the best. She made me want to become a teacher. I’m am so stoked to have found this channel and all these incredible documentaries. These are some of the best I have seen! I Sadly I was planning and half booked my trip of a lifetime to visit the states and go to all these battle sites and museums but to also fish all your incredible trout streams, I was almost ready to go in months, but I was then diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma. So the trip had to be canceled, I was devastated, I thankfully survived so I started to plan it again, but then a year later they found it in my neck and thyroid. So I gave up on my bloody dream adventure and now have to just watch documentaries and read books to compensate haha. I don’t think I’ll get over there now, oh well. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to recommend any other documentaries or books that they recommend for me to watch/read? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Cheers from Australia!
I had a great great grandfather who was a confederate soldier fought at Stones River. He survived the battle and the war. There needs to be a real movie about this battle.
General Bragg is one of the biggest mistakes Jefferson Davis ever made. Like Grant, Lee should have been given full command of the entire Confederate Army. General in Chief. Bragg should have been fired way sooner
@@jamesrichardson3322 Hardee was offered command after Murfreesboro, and refused. He was given temporary command after Bragg was removed and again said he didn't want the command.
@@moonmunster We No matter who they put in command, the United States Western Theater Armies would keep winning and defeating the Western Theater Confederate Army.
My Great, Great,Grandfather, William Lewis Sanders, died here on December 31st, 1862 in the Battle of Stones River. He owned a small farm in Gibson County, Western Tennessee. I salute his bravery and his stand for States Rights !
Braxton Bragg carries a large portion of the blame for Southern defeat in the Civil War. Jefferson Davis must hold the brunt for keeping Bragg and others particulars in command. Bragg regularly would win the battle and still retreat. The Kentucky Campaign shortly before this battle was a Confederate success but Bragg retreated. Stones River was a battle in their hands but against all advice Bragg again retreated. Abandoning Chatanooga instead of digging in. Failure to follow up victory at Chicamauga. The destruction of unity in subordinates and the morale of troops are all directly caused by his inept command skills. He made the Army of Tennessee the hard lick army of the war.
1st Texas light artillery is heading there this October for the battle reenactment. Looking forward to this event, our events out here in Az are falling victim to political correctness.
The Confederate forces under Bragg were The Army of Tennessee, not "The Army of the Tennessee," repeatedly referred to in the video. The latter was a Union outfit then commanded by U.S. Grant.
blunder? he won the battle, and inflicted more casualties % wise than he sustained. it was an extremely important victory, especially given how the union had just lost at fredericksburg. rosecrans is most remembered for chickamauga, but prior to that? he was easily one of the best generals of the whole war on either side... he just had an extremely off day at chickmauga, and it cost him his reputation.
My great great Grandfather was aide to camp to General Edward Kirk commander of the 34th Illiinois volunteers. They were positioned on the right flank of the Union line. They were one the first units hit by the rebel charge. General Kirk was shot that day and died later in summer of 1863 at home.
My Mom had been a Secretary at 1st Presbyterian church in Murfreesboro for a about 20 years. They would not sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic " until the 1980's or there abouts. Guess they hand no love for the Yankees for a good while. 😆
Stones river was another Shiloh....and initial brilliant Confederate attack was torn to pieces the next day.....I did not realize the similarities until now!
except this one, if you take into account % of men being casualties, was far, *far* bloodier than shiloh. in fact, if memory serves me correct, this battle is technically the bloodiest of the war by % of men involved.
A great uncle died on the 31st in the woods over there just behind where the Sam’s Club is on Old Fort Pkwy. That’s where the first fighting took place. Most of that is developed now and not part of the Park
Man how could the Confederates take those blue uniforms of Sheratons man as their own. Seems like it would be easy to tell who the enemy was by this point in the war. I can understand the confusion at Chickamaga from the eastern troops WithHood, they Dressed differently than the rest of the army of the Tennessee.
Wide Awake Films treatment of the Battle of Shiloh is much better - more contemporary human commentary more strategic big picture. This is a lot of excellent reenactment footage, which looks like it's be a lot of fun to do but is less enlightening to watch repetitively.
Those rebellious yells as they prepare a resting place, who's making popcorn and where's Denzel Washington? Did they leave them out to convince people they had ran back north or had embarrassing part's that their confidence was at stake failure of a soul has to be one of those beliefs so I can see that happening or people could think they didn't participate they were busy writing the series.
This was an interesting story with way too much reenactment going on. The length of time devoted to simply gun fire being exchanged, made this history lesson boring.
so many men died of typhus which they got from lice and lice were terrible - little did they know that lice lay their many eggs on the back of the neck - if men has shaved all the hair on the back of the head many would have lived but you know a man likes his manly hair and beard !
My 3x GGrandfather died in this battle, Absalom Sines 15th Regiment, Co. B of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Not cool that he died, but VERY cool that you know that. Not many people nowadays care about history it doesn’t seem, and it’s always a blessing to see folk appreciate their heritage.
God bless!
@@ThanksforcensoringmeUA-cam
Thank you!
Yes, I find history fascinating, I think it’s thanks to a teacher I had and it is sad that more people are not interested.
@@quest9926my 3x great uncle was mortally wounded in this battle and died 4 days later in federal captivity. William Elias Morrison of the 24th Tennessee co. C. God bless your family and the United States of America!
And God bless the state of Ohio
@@zcoosa1648 Thank you for sharing that, these stories bring the past to life, and I think us remembering them gives their lives more meaning.
I just fought in the Stone's River reenactment a few weeks ago!
I wanna do that too! Hell yeah 👍👍 re enactments Rule!
I have a shot bullet from there.
Good on ya for keeping historical events remembered and commemorated
Fought and reenactment
are not the same thing.
Thats like Martin Sheen saying he fought at Gettysburg hehe
Braxton Bragg had the marked ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
That's how We Roll in Mississippi Y'all
He was just the WORST. and he had trash eyebrows
He truly was one of the Unions best generals.
He was a complete idiot
My g.g. grandfather, Private John Gallagher Cummins fought at Stones River on behalf of the Union Armies 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He was first stationed at the McFadden farm artillery line where 57 cannons were used to repel the Confederates across the Stones River to the south. Infantrymen were responsible for providing small arms cover for the artillery crews. He was then sent briefly to the very heart of the battle in the cotton field adjacent to hells half acre. Unbelievably, he survived the war after also fighting at Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain Ga., and accompanying Sherman to Atlanta. Eventually by the end of the war he was in the Carolinas. I'm so proud of his service!
Gday, I am Australian but I have always been obsessed with the American civil War, in 1981 my Aunty went on holidays to the states and bought me back among many other gifts a confederate forage cap! It started from that. Haha. I even did it as a school project as a kid in primary school, I was in a small country school, so my teacher drove me into the closest bigger town to go to the library to find any info we could on the civil war. My teacher really enjoyed learning about it too. She was the best. She made me want to become a teacher. I’m am so stoked to have found this channel and all these incredible documentaries. These are some of the best I have seen! I Sadly I was planning and half booked my trip of a lifetime to visit the states and go to all these battle sites and museums but to also fish all your incredible trout streams, I was almost ready to go in months, but I was then diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma. So the trip had to be canceled, I was devastated, I thankfully survived so I started to plan it again, but then a year later they found it in my neck and thyroid. So I gave up on my bloody dream adventure and now have to just watch documentaries and read books to compensate haha. I don’t think I’ll get over there now, oh well. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to recommend any other documentaries or books that they recommend for me to watch/read? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Cheers from ya mate in Australia! Haha. Stay safe
If you can, you need to go to Gettysburg.
id love that@@BaseK59
It is awesome. I live about 180 miles from there and have been there over 30 times. You would love it I'm sure.@@TheSonicdruid72
I have been to multiple battlefields and Shiloh is the best kept battlefield.
@@volslover1504 thanks mate! Really appreciate your reply. I’ll go there for sure👍🏼 I’m looking forward to it. Thanks again mate
My great grandfather x4 and his brother fought in this battle. My great uncle fell in one of the last bayonet charges that pushed the confederates back for good. My great grandfather was severely wounded, and it took days before they were found together, and were buried together also. A freeman from the south, was helping out with the wounded & food, and he noticed the grave had life to it, my great grandfather x4 was still alive, his name was Calvin Faye Jones, such a tragic tale. He was soon discharged, and re joined for one year later on. He was originally 36th Illinois infantry
My great great grandfather and great great great uncle both in the 32nd Tennessee Infantry fought at Murfreesboro
Visited the battlefield with my Father. between my love of civil war history.and time spent with my Dad.i still hold it dear in my heart.
I'm from Murfreesboro and the courthouse on the square is the same courthouse that was there during the war. You can see where there are bullet holes from the war still. If you look in the pillars and the bricks you can see where they painted over them but they are still there. It's pretty cool
Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden.
Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden, Mister.
Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden.
Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden.
Several bodies of local Rutherford County confederate soldiers who died at Stones River were taken to the courthouse afterward and placed on the counters so they could be claimed by their relatives. One was the son of Judge Bromfield Ridley who owned a large plantation at nearby Jefferson.
I've been watching these videos one after the other for the last five or six hours. The best, I think, I have ever watched. The reenactment battles scenes are the most realistic I have ever seen. Definitely two thumbs!
>⁹⁹po pulp⁰
What do you think about General Lee looking away from the portrait at Appomattox sitting on the rocking chair on the porch being seen by the town so he turned away so they aren't killed on a firing squad leave no witness, was the document surrender and they had become outlaws which is the death sentence the black men hung in all those pictures had to be southern rebels they hung Mexicans and Italians in Shreveport the Missouri River connects with the Mississippi it has the connection to Louisiana into the gulf of Mexico the Emmitt Till story has a Mississippi Delta connection from the Great lake's to Michigan lake in Chicago it's got many places to go. Atchison KS has a Missouri feel to it quite and the Victorian age house's gives it a haunted feel and has a hidden feel after leaving they are connected to Lawrence it's not something that came together cause I didn't realize people might be more affected than most of the continent, till you get in the history and criticize any points and imagine the sentiment told in the story I have to touch on it so if I'm wrong someone may correct me or give it a thought and it has lead to possibilities and maybe a cover up of Giant portions they'd rather leave it as it is cause no one offered to right Mexicans war's but the ballads may have people on edge which is not needed, we would prove that fool hardy spirit we've all been at the brink and if words destroy you free Speech has been used to see mental health problems which is ignorance and a low spirit which should reveal the people responsible for their actions and excuses will never make people trust anything but the blame has been made the walk into the Atlantic 😆 duh huh!!
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(16:37) "...every fellow for himself, and the devil take the hindmost." The reenactment sound of so many musket and cannon fire is lovely. Missing are those fabled screams of the wounded and dying. (23:44) "...like a whirly gust of woodpeckers in a hailstorm!" This was a very good report. Thank you.
Awesome piece of history, and how tragic....
This battle provides a good microcosm of the Civil War as a whole. Confederate troops come up with a good strategy, exploit some bad planning on the part of the Union, and make some impressive gains. Then they make some bad mistakes of their own, which the Union exploits to its advantage. In the end, the Union suffers numerically greater casualties, but a smaller percentage of its troops, and it goes on like that for four years.
Wash rinse repeat
Can’t For Stones River 2021!! Bring It On!!
Thank you for putting this up.
I appreciate it that the filmmakers gave a lot of time to the re-enacted battles without music or commentary every 15 seconds, seriously. Just allowing the battle to unfold as close to the reality as anyone not there could imagine.
Seeing all those "dead and injured" bodies on the battlefield, try to imagine what it truly looked like, with limbs shattered or blown off, heads blasted open, huge gaping wounds in torsos and chests. What a nightmare. The devil indeed came to greet them, but the angels took them home.
At the battle of Sharpsburg / ANTIETAM September 17, 1862, the battle line was at a road way, that the battle swayed back and forth, at the road way, until the deceased bodies lay like cord wood and the road way ran red with blood. They named the road way "Bloody Lane."
They declared the battle a Union Victory...But by MILITARY strategies it was a tactical draw. Equal!
The death were so numerous and Violent it was mentally disturbing by many of the Soldiers on both sides. That they never recovered from what they had did and saw. PTSD
(Later many of the soldiers at Sharpsburg/ ANTIETAM committed suicide.)
@@danshowlund I'm sure that the Europeans, especially the Germans, learned from this never to go to war again. This will be known as "the war that ended all war."
Ancestors of mine fought for the South. One was wounded and put on a prison train. His wife went with him. He got sick and died before they got to the prison.
And the smell too, that smell of death stains your sense’s, it’s hard to get rid of and even harder to forget. I worked in a morgue as a young man, through 2 Australian extra hot summers. The stuff I saw and had to help clear has stayed with me for over 30 years. I can only imagine what I saw multiplied by thousands! The deafening sound of the guns and cannons the screams and groans. But after the battle, the disconcerting sound of millions of flies buzzing, the groans and cries of the injured and dying. I’m having flash backs thinking about it. And most of these young men were as old as my son is now. There will never be men like this again, I think the last of these stock of men were during Vietnam. I am Australian but I have always been obsessed with the American civil War, in 1981 my Aunty went on holidays to the states and bought me back among many other gifts a confederate cap! It started from that. Haha. I even did it as a school project as a kid in primary school, I was in a small country school, so my teacher drove me into the closest bigger town to go to the library to find any info we could on the civil war. My teacher really enjoyed learning about it too. She was the best. She made me want to become a teacher. I’m am so stoked to have found this channel and all these incredible documentaries. These are some of the best I have seen! I Sadly I was planning and half booked my trip of a lifetime to visit the states and go to all these battle sites and museums but to also fish all your incredible trout streams, I was almost ready to go in months, but I was then diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma. So the trip had to be canceled, I was devastated, I thankfully survived so I started to plan it again, but then a year later they found it in my neck and thyroid. So I gave up on my bloody dream adventure and now have to just watch documentaries and read books to compensate haha. I don’t think I’ll get over there now, oh well. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to recommend any other documentaries or books that they recommend for me to watch/read? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Cheers from Australia!
These are very well done.
I had a great great grandfather who was a confederate soldier fought at Stones River. He survived the battle and the war. There needs to be a real movie about this battle.
General Bragg is one of the biggest mistakes Jefferson Davis ever made. Like Grant, Lee should have been given full command of the entire Confederate Army. General in Chief. Bragg should have been fired way sooner
I agree, Bragg was unstable and incompetent to lead a army, General Hardee should have been in command.
@@jamesrichardson3322 Hardee was offered command after Murfreesboro, and refused. He was given temporary command after Bragg was removed and again said he didn't want the command.
@@dmac5595 I wonder why??
Luckily for the US, Jefferson Davis kept Bragg in command.
@@moonmunster We No matter who they put in command, the United States Western Theater Armies would keep winning and defeating the Western Theater Confederate Army.
My Great, Great,Grandfather, William Lewis Sanders, died here on December 31st, 1862 in the Battle of Stones River. He owned a small farm in Gibson County, Western Tennessee. I salute his bravery and his stand for States Rights !
Amazing acting and narroration along with great insight .
4th Great Grand father fought in this battle 18th Ohio CO I. I can only imagine how much he went through.
damn it Bragg
There sure are a lot of good reinactors.
40:43 looked so real.
They don't mention Nathan Bedford Forrest much.
He was too busy hitting 'em on the eeyend ;)
Forrest wasn't at Stones River, was he? Thought he was on detached duty. Joe Wheeler commanded the cavalry during Stones River.
My GGrandfather died in this battle. Daniel C. C. Leonard, 11th Michigan Infantry, Company C.
12-31-1862
If only Stevensons Division was on the field.
Braxton Bragg carries a large portion of the blame for Southern defeat in the Civil War. Jefferson Davis must hold the brunt for keeping Bragg and others particulars in command. Bragg regularly would win the battle and still retreat. The Kentucky Campaign shortly before this battle was a Confederate success but Bragg retreated. Stones River was a battle in their hands but against all advice Bragg again retreated. Abandoning Chatanooga instead of digging in. Failure to follow up victory at Chicamauga. The destruction of unity in subordinates and the morale of troops are all directly caused by his inept command skills. He made the Army of Tennessee the hard lick army of the war.
1st Texas light artillery is heading there this October for the battle reenactment. Looking forward to this event, our events out here in Az are falling victim to political correctness.
When is the reenactment?
@@theranger2185 22nd thru 24th
The Confederate forces under Bragg were The Army of Tennessee, not "The Army of the Tennessee," repeatedly referred to in the video. The latter was a Union outfit then commanded by U.S. Grant.
The first Rosecrans blunder. Chickamauga was fatal for his leadership next.
blunder? he won the battle, and inflicted more casualties % wise than he sustained. it was an extremely important victory, especially given how the union had just lost at fredericksburg.
rosecrans is most remembered for chickamauga, but prior to that? he was easily one of the best generals of the whole war on either side... he just had an extremely off day at chickmauga, and it cost him his reputation.
@@derps8690 Yes but after Tullahoma,he let Bragg breathe and get reinforcements.
My great great Grandfather was aide to camp to General Edward Kirk commander of the 34th Illiinois volunteers. They were positioned on the right flank of the Union line. They were one the first units hit by the rebel charge. General Kirk was shot that day and died later in summer of 1863 at home.
The dead time where minutes are wasted showing reenactors with ZERO narrative speaking of the battle is NONSENSE. Show better maps...
My thoughts exactly!!!
There’s way too many gaps without narration here
My Mom had been a Secretary at 1st Presbyterian church in Murfreesboro for a about 20 years. They would not sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic " until the 1980's or there abouts. Guess they hand no love for the Yankees for a good while.
😆
Stones river was another Shiloh....and initial brilliant Confederate attack was torn to pieces the next day.....I did not realize the similarities until now!
except this one, if you take into account % of men being casualties, was far, *far* bloodier than shiloh. in fact, if memory serves me correct, this battle is technically the bloodiest of the war by % of men involved.
A great uncle died on the 31st in the woods over there just behind where the Sam’s Club is on Old Fort Pkwy. That’s where the first fighting took place. Most of that is developed now and not part of the Park
Union losses were larger than the Confederates in the battle
Man how could the Confederates take those blue uniforms of Sheratons man as their own. Seems like it would be easy to tell who the enemy was by this point in the war. I can understand the confusion at Chickamaga from the eastern troops WithHood, they Dressed differently than the rest of the army of the Tennessee.
Wide Awake Films treatment of the Battle of Shiloh is much better - more contemporary human commentary more strategic big picture. This is a lot of excellent reenactment footage, which looks like it's be a lot of fun to do but is less enlightening to watch repetitively.
Shiloh was the bloodiest battle in Tennessee.
Franklin must have been bloodier
Not even close. Stones River sees 3 times as many casualties in total as Franklin.
Rosecrans running around like a duck that had been hit on the head.
This narrator keeps misprononcing the name MurfReesboro MurfRRRRReseboro! He leaves out the 2nd R!!!
Those rebellious yells as they prepare a resting place, who's making popcorn and where's Denzel Washington? Did they leave them out to convince people they had ran back north or had embarrassing part's that their confidence was at stake failure of a soul has to be one of those beliefs so I can see that happening or people could think they didn't participate they were busy writing the series.
26:58: You say one group of troops lost 306 out of 472 men, ~68%. Actually, that's 65%, pretty nearly.
Musket fire sounds like rain drops. Not a good account of battlefield noise. 😡
If you used close caption the Gun fire shows up as "applause:" In most of these battle reenactments the gunfire is lame.
the whole war was gonna be a union win, it was really never in doubt. manpower and industry would have seen to that.
This was an interesting story with way too much reenactment going on. The length of time devoted to simply gun fire being exchanged, made this history lesson boring.
Way too much meaningless reenactment, not enough factual narration
What a waste! 15 minutes of facts and narration, 35 minutes of fake whoops and hollers.
so many men died of typhus which they got from lice and lice were terrible - little did they know that lice lay their many eggs on the back of the neck - if men has shaved all the hair on the back of the head many would have lived but you know a man likes his manly hair and beard !
Obese reinactors are funny! Lol
Narrator...It's pronounced Murfreesboro with an R. Not Murphysboro.
Wrong, the "r" in the "free" syllable in NOT annunciated. You might know that if you were from here
@@mrdraper4633 Yes, it is. Google is your friend. Even if you're from Murfreesboro.
@@georgealdridge9453 stay up north, Yankee. You know not what you speak of
Those tactics are horrible and I see the North had some issues also but the south it was survival
Terrible but fascinating war.
I wonder if General Bragg had that straggler who made that comment to him, executed? lol
Glorified reenactments suck...
Wide awake films? Quite the contrary. Boring & lame, don't waste your time with this pos account of Stones River battle.
Paul J Unless you were there how could you call it a POS re-enactment?