Wow.

How did the votes from the soldiers count? Were there electors for the army, or did it matter to which State the regiment belonged?

Him saying war is the only true healing of a nations issues is perhaps the saddest thing I've heard from a veteran.

The Civil War proof tested several principles of our system of government and the election of 1864 proved the most basic and profound principle: that the people of America, as products of universal public education, did indeed have the wisdom to govern themselves. Today we are similarly testing our system of government and the principle that the people are wise enough to govern themselves. Today the two parties use the same names, but have completely inverted what they stand for. The Democratic Party is today what the Republican Party was in Lincoln's time and vice versa, so let us hope that Lincoln's principles and the Jeffersonian principle that the people are indeed wise enough to govern themselves are upheld in today's election. Today we will get the government we deserve for better or for worse.

Perfect for today where a divided country will decide its future.

Timely!

Thanks!

Let's hope the winning party of 2024 is one and the same as 1864. As then, much hangs in the balance. It's funny how history repeats itself.

Grant fought to win. Period.

It is interesting that even during the war, the propagandist line from the newspapers was that the “south made war on the Union.” Do people really believe this or do they just say it because it makes them feel better. Here’s the correction: the north INVADED the north after the south formed its own country. The south might have been wrong to leave, but even their firing on Fort Sumter came with a warning for northern troops to leave .. to leave a southern fort. And not one Union soldier was killed. Rather, the north invaded the south and burned much of it to the ground. So it’s really quite rich to hear newspapers lying that the south “made war” on the north. Insane.

Wonderful video. Thanks for hosting this channel

That is as relevant today as it was 160 yrs ago The candidates were also very different but the arguments to vote are the same

McClellan, the General who wouldn't get his army dirty & referred to Lincoln as a gorilla?

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters." - Abraham Lincoln

Very fitting for today thanks

Thank you. What a parallel to today.

Wow! On first sight of this standing photo of Lt. Jacob Zug , I saw my German father when he was twenty (as he appeared in a photo taken in1950)! Shorten the length of Zug's nose just a bit, shorten the distance between lower lip and chin, and add rimless spectacles (and an arm). The lips, chin, ears, forehead and hair and other proportions are otherwise strikingly similar.

"I begged for a rowboat, rowed it as far as it would go, then I walked 700 miles home." I guess that was something people did back then, but it sure feels otherworldly nowadays.

Love your channel! This is the way history should be taught in schools. I thought history was boring when I was in school. Now I know that when skillfully presented and brought to life in the participants own words it’s fascinating! Thank you!!!

Hi Ron- John Amoss from the AJC days. Nice to see you again!

I thought it was going to take 4 decades for you to get to the letter....

What a beautiful piece of writing! Amazing man!

I thought the fortune would be made with a on-the-scene shot in Wilbur McLean's living room at Appomattox. But all the photographers were preoccupied by newly -occupied Richmond.

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I dont see how Wirtz slept at night knowing the detestable suffering going on so close to him. He probably was paid to spend the least on each prisoner and not get medical help the prisoners needed. He got was was fair. The lesson that prisoners are human beings was lost on him

BLUE BELLY INHUMANITY TO BE SURE! HOOO_RAH, J.B. HOOD!

What an interesting story. Not the typical life of anyone in that era.

Trump 2024 Abraham Lincoln for life.

Thanks for the story of an otherwise fine, educated and intelligent man sacrificing so much and enduring so much for the worst cause a man can suffer and die for. Perhaps Mr. Archer would have served the Confederacy better if he would have stayed at Tredegar and help it expand production of much needed iron and steel. After all, the great issues of the day are decided by "blood and IRON." I would very much like to see a video on the Tredegar Iron Works, one of the few industrial entities of the agrarian based economy of the Confederacy. It is my understanding that, when the iron workers demanded better pay and conditions, the company threatened to replace them all with slaves and it would be interesting to see how production was kept up during the war.

Interesting video, but the mouth smacking is rude.

What a beautiful picture. War criminals... Gallows... The US Capitol... 😶

My greatgrandfather CSA-Col/San Francisco District Attorney David Lowe Smoot was with Lee at sailers creek

Lee's plan of attack on 3 July was sound enough. It was based on a version of the Napoleonic concept of the strategic battle. in which attacks on the enemy flanks (on 2 July) would draw local reserves from the center- and would be followed by an attack on the (supposedly) weakened center (on 3 July). The attack failed for two reasons. The first was that there were insufficient men in the attack columns. The second was that Meade- a West Point graduate- was aware of the concept of the strategic battle and anticipated it. He told Gibbon on the evening of 2 July that if Lee attacked on the 3rd, it would be on Gibbon's front (in the Union center. When Gibbon asked him why, Meade replied that as Lee had already made attacks on the flanks and had failed, any future Confederate attack would be against the Union center. When the attack came, Meade had approximately 20,000 men ready to converge on the attacking Confederates, and they repulsed the attack.

JUDGEMENTS ARE ALWAYS EASIEST WHEN RESPONSIBILITY IS EXTRANEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Ron for another interesting story.

"Who fought for home and native land..." yes...

Life was a struggle, not even counting the war. So many of these stories don’t even include battle.

In 1865 Richmond Vir. looked like Berlin 1945, completely bombed out.

So many stories of this era almost read like a Dumas novel. Astonishing times.

I was a Navy Nurse who cared for Civil War patients in 1987. Sounds funny? While stationed at the Camp LeJeune Marine Corps Base hospital, in the operating room, four Marines were brought in. They were EOD, explosive ordinance demolition. A Civil War mine has washed up on shore at Wilmington,NC and these Marines were asked to deactivate it. We were told they had used a drill press to get the explosives out…. The mine exploded. No one died. They all had ruptured ear drums and various broken bones. The Marine I took care of has both bones in both forearms broken. Open wounds. Totally impregnated with black tar. It took a lot of work to try to clean the wounds. Something not encountered today. God bless the US Marines! God bless America!

Our military forts should not ever be named after traitors to our Constitution

Remarkable Channel!

Usually the winners write history. The Civil War strangely most books were written by southern authors who degraded Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Lee, Jackson were great hero’s. Their mistakes were excused. Grant received the surrender of three Southern armies. He won at Shiloh,at Chattanooga, Vicksburg, if he had better subordinates he would have won at Petersburg in 1864. He was the most successful general of the Civil War.

I visited Andersonville back in the late '90s. A monument to Wirz still existed in the town square. A block away a Civil War reenactment was taking place. The camp and POW/MIA museum is well worth it, showing Man's inhumanity to Man.

"uh-man-yoo-EN-sis" (not "amanuisance" [sic])

apparently he was either a rabid slaveholder or totally oblivious to Calhoun's antics

Another cool video!

I am not a Civil War expert. Did the people of Atlanta evacuate?

A founder of future waffen ss camps.

It amazes me how these men could write their thoughts with such brilliant words and phrases. We have most certainly taken step backwards in our use of the English language.