American Civil War: Battle of First Manassas - "A House Divided" - Part 1

[@WarhawkYT]

Before we continue on in the eastern theater with the Peninsula Campaign, we have decided to go back and remake our first 3 videos! Starting with First Manassas, Parts 1, 2, and 3!

[@phe123]

Fine -- just wish we had more new episodes! They are excellent so fully understand it takes time! Just love this channel and want more! ;)

[@aprioriaposteriori3676]

16:38 "...as trains are used for the first time in war to transport military forces..." Don't want to be picky as you are doing great, but that isn't correct. Trains were used in the Crimean War and also earlier in the European wars of the 1840s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_railways#Military_railways Much of the technology used in the ACW had actually been used before, ex trains, ironclad ships, trench warfare, photography even submarines and etc etc. Many of these technologies are often incorrectly said to be used first in the ACW, though it can probably be said that it was used in larger scale in America in the 1860s. Thank you for a good video and nice channel! :)

[@tonybonano2952]

@phe123 I completely agree. Great content like this always makes you want more. I'm excited to see more battles in Missouri. Particularly Price's last ditch campaign from Pilot Knob to the Battle of Westport. (Apparently Price was so fat at that point in the war that he couldn't even ride a horse, and he irregulars in his army had pillaged so much, they had a slow moving wagon train just moving across the state.) I'm from Missouri, and we're hardly taught anything that happened here.

[@talamioros]

I would much rather you produced more fresh content and move further into the war before going back to refight old battles, especially since you don't exactly post new content very often and I've been waiting precisely for the actual big campaigns to start. You do great work and First Manassas DOES need improvement since it was your first experiment, but I wish your priorities were different.

[@ThisSickGuy]

Am I the only one that finds it hilarious that St. George Cocke was defending “Balls Ford”? 🤣

[@OlivierMosimann]

History is so often ironically comical indeed 😅

[@scsg11]

You just think according to your true nature. You told us what you like... Ckc & blls....

[@devildog7792]

I just discovered you. And I must say, you have done wonderfully providing new details I've never known about the Civil War! Granted, I've never really dedicated myself to learning too much. Your videos are really well made, and you seem really passionate in what you're doing. I've waited for a series like this on the Civil War. And to see it come to life before me is something I must say has made this week much better! You have my sub! Keep up the wonderful work. :)

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks for the kind words Devil Dog!

[@recondolaidy-slayer8468]

I’ll be the judge of that

[@Shifty69569]

I have rewatched every video like 20 times I love this series and your work so much.

[@WarhawkYT]

Wow John Doe, thanks for the amazing support bro!

[@phe123]

4 times here ;)

[@Shifty69569]

@@WarhawkYT we need to get Mr Terry History or Vlogging Through History to react to your content and you’ll get huge deserved growth

[@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite]

The one big fight of the Rebellion, animated! I reckon that McDowell shall be in the streets of Richmond by the end of the month, no doubt.

[@WarhawkYT]

oh god Beauregard has air pods in, he cant see the flank coming in

[@Methadone4Life]

@@WarhawkYT LOL

[@jamesmccrea4871]

You got the call for volunteers backwards. Davis called for a 100,000 volunteer force on March 6th, over a month before the attack on Fort Sumter, not in response to Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers the day after.

[@therandomnessnetwork1658]

Thank you for correcting that, it's the unfortunate truth but somewhere down the road most people were convinced Davis called for 100k after Lincoln called for 75k and multiple videos on the topic say that even though the dates of said requests should dispell that notion

[@SMJ495]

Lots of cope in the comments as well

[@reygordo]

I want to express my appreciation to you for your attention to detail and passion for your work. Well done! The new details I'm learning are endless and for that, I'm extremely grateful.

[@johnandre2962]

The, so called, 'Grand Crimean Central Railway' was not only the first hospital train in war but also the first time a train took troops to the front. Not as exciting as Bull Run, but nevertheless ..... the first was at Sevastopol.

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

Brilliantly made and as a Irish man, I'm very interested in American civil war as you well know many Irish volunteered. I discovered your channel through VTH and came here to enhance my knowledge. Keep up the amazing work brother. God bless from Ireland.

[@WarhawkYT]

Glad to hear that ITT!

[@firebrnd13]

Thanks for all the great videos. Would love to see more Civil War until the end of the war.

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks Firebrnd, we will be continuing our civil war coverage after the Texas Revolution finale.

[@emperorofhistory8724]

Been a while, quite a while, actually, since I got an itch to restudy the Civil War/War Between the States. (I overstudied it for many years until I got burned out a couple of years ago...) Just discovered your channel, and have to say that this was very well done. And for such a contentious, heated topic, wonderfully unbiased. Your channel deserves far more views and subscribers than it currently has.

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks man, I’m glad you enjoy our videos!

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Can’t wait for this war to be over on to Richmond

[@WarhawkYT]

the North will easily sweep the confederates here at First Manassas, they'll be in Richmond the day after

[@micahistory]

it will be over by christmas

[@RalphReagan]

That's a hard road to travel!

[@roykay4709]

Thanks!

[@WarhawkYT]

Wow thanks Roy, thanks for the generous donation!

[@BaronLukis]

Nothing u hadnt hear before. But really, this is not a good job, this is a piece of art. Just discovered your channel and eager to watch More and more. Really really great work.

[@fernandobastidas1983]

Amazing video. young people researching very good material and making great videos using new technolgies for preserving history.

[@GermLoc]

Just reminding the algorithm to increase recommendations I hope. Very much deserved.

[@SMJ495]

Great video and a great series!

[@stacyvonn8036]

Just wanted to give a MASSIVE SHOUT OUT and Commemorate with Adoration to the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 27th, and 33rd Virginia Infantry Regiments and the Rockbridge County Artillery Battery.... Will always be Immortally Remembered for there Dauntless Intrepid and Valorous Deeds on the Field Proving they were Prepare to Engage and Endure Suffering, Harm, and Injury while Showing Courage under Conditions where Belligerents were Waging War with Extreme Violence.....😊❤️💯🙏

[@WarhawkYT]

Congrats to them but its sad at the same time by Second Manassas they are a shell of their former selves

[@phe123]

keep up the amazing job! support is here!

[@WarhawkYT]

Thank you Phe!

[@roflcopter804]

I'm getting Epic History TV vibes. Good stuff.

[@WarhawkYT]

yep, EHTV inspired me a lot! I love their content

[@raylast3873]

What‘s striking is how much more consistent the Confederate High Command is than the Union side, almost shockingly so. Before Manassas, the commanding officers of the Confederate Troops in the Area are Beauregard and Johnston, and four years later the senior Confederate Generals next to Lee will be…Johnston and Beauregard. Also at Manassas in no particular order: Longstreet, Jackson (obvs), Ewell and Early, all incidentally already as division commanders. I’ll have to go through again to see who I can spot, but for the most part both future Senior Generals (even temporary ones) and even the future Corps commanders of the Army of the Potomac are conspicuously absent. Certainly none of them show up in command or as division commanders. Sherman and (I think) Thomas show up commanding brigades, and they both notably end up in the Western theatre for the rest of the war. Btw, this isn‘t necessarily a good thing for the Confederates, it‘s just interesting. After all, in theory they have more officers to chose from, but they still end up with the same handful of guys. Whereas Lincoln ends up mostly relying on commanders from the West, plus Meade who was only a brigade commander halfway through the war.

[@nathanbrady8529]

A contributing factor to this is the pseudo-feudal social structure in the South. A significant portion of the professional U.S. officer corps was southern aristocracy. That's how you end up with an engineer leading line infantry; they had the rank and stayed loyal.

[@twowheeledwireman282]

Keep them coming! Your videos are the best

[@WarhawkYT]

Thank you Two Wheeled Wireman!

[@burningphoneix]

Love the comments book-ending each chapter with the red highlight. Reminds me of Epic History TV. Is it possible to get higher resolution pictures for these things though. Pixelation ruins the look.

[@Jesse_Dawg]

This is SO WELL MADE. Please more

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks gamer

[@dylanthomas7680]

Wow, great production!

[@tabletopgeneralsde310]

Great start to the series mate, works well while painting my terrain.

[@mattyg8834]

Awesome channel!!! I love to see each unit is labeled ! One question I’m sure you’ve answered 100,000 times , but what do the different colored unit represent? ...i have seen some confederate units red , light blue , grey and dark blue .

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks!!! The colors represent the uniforms the regiments wore during the battle, With 1st Manassas, regiments on both sides wore a collection of blue, gray, and green uniforms.

[@tetriz6287]

"in their exposed rear" I heard a little stop before he finished that sentence. 😅

[@Michael-ws7rc]

Another really well done video. Kudos.

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks Michael!

[@chasemurraychristopherdola7108]

Just saying but interesting fact regarding Robert Edward Lee is that he is Seventeenth in descent from Robert the Bruce King of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@WarhawkYT]

quite interesting indeed

[@deteon1418]

Great video! The quality is fantastic.

[@WarhawkYT]

Thank you Dennis!

[@micahistory]

great job, i don't think it's a coincidence you and Epic History TV uploaded at the same time.

[@mt_baldwin]

PGT Beauregard seems like some kind character from a fictional story about the civil war, he shows up at the biggest moments of the war, in both the eastern and western theaters, yet disappears entirely into obscurity between these big moments.

[@yankeebrit9399]

Hey your sub count has multiplied by 7 the past time I saw it good job your finally getting the attention to these videos you deserve

[@micahistory]

ikr

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks bro! Thanks to Shiloh we caught a lot of attention

[@nateconley5923]

Excellent content man keep it up ur doing great

[@marshalney6150]

You should look into doing a video on the battle of Mansfield, some called it the Pickett’s charge of the south. One regiment lost 100 men killed or wounded in one volley during the battle

[@veritasinvicta8128]

In blood Gettsburg was considered the Fredericksburg of the North.

[@LucaVigliengo]

The initial quote has a far older history. Lincoln actually was quoting Jesus’ words in Gospel of Mark ch. 3 v. 25 “and if a house becomes divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand”.

[@rickjohnson1266]

PLEASE make s playlist that has the battles in chronological ( the date they occurred) order. I watch one video and I tells me the outcome of two others in the beginning explanation. If we have them in a play list (in order of date occuring) that will not happen. Many of these battles I didn't know who won. Many people don't. Please give us this play list. Thank You for putting together a nice channel.

[@WarhawkYT]

have you looked at our playlist?

[@rickjohnson1266]

@@WarhawkYT You have a chronological order list already. I didn't see it. My big goof. I am promoting your channel BTW. Excellent work. Better than Kings and Generals.

[@pr-tj5by]

This is excellent and Subscribed, as a Brit would you ever look at the masses of conflicts down the centuries that we have to offer ?

[@davidbuckley2435]

19:55 Pfft! Appomatox Courthouse? Nothing important will ever happen there, and may Sherman burn Atlanta if I'm wrong!

[@custerkiller7670]

Thank you

[@custerkiller7670]

Yeah Johnny REB!!!!!!!!!

[@raylast3873]

So apparently the Union and Reb sides swapped the names of their main Armies in the East at some point. Wild.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

10:25+ Not a big deal but the general labeled Garnett is the wrong one. You have Richard Garnett, a brigadier who was killed at Gettysburg; Robert Garnett is the general killed in WV.

[@Jason32Bourne]

Daaaamn, I was just getting into it.

[@adamhenrywalker]

God, every time I watch the Union winning I have some small hope but I know in the back of my mind that we lose this battle. Damn it. We’ll never enter the house of Wilmer McLean

[@WarhawkYT]

Maybe in a few years ;)

[@raylast3873]

Lick ‘em tomorrow tho.

[@Leaffordes]

In what order should I watch all these ACW videos to get from beginning of the war to end (or as far as you've come)?

[@WarhawkYT]

Watch our chronological playlist, it’s in order by day

[@Leaffordes]

@@WarhawkYT Thank you, thank you, thank you, far too kind.

[@civilwarbuff1861]

First shots were fired by the North, fired by the USRC Harriet Lane in Charleston Harbor on the ship Nashville on April 11th, the first shots of the naval war. Thus the union fired first.

[@hissyhonker220]

Yes that's true, also true is the firing on ft Sumpter was forced, there was a union fleet inbound to reenforce the Garrison and that is what triggered the firing, allowing the north to claim self defense when anyone who's military knows the truth is that fleet did it's job it forced the confederates hand causing the war to go hot. The same way Roosevelt would try to con America into war with Germany in WW2 with the Navy escorting allied convoys across the Atlantic shielding them from U boats. It is not technically illegal but morally, Lincoln did the same and that strategy is not new but very old and been done countless times throughout history.

[@SMJ495]

@@hissyhonker220what a load of horse shit this comment was

[@philmajohnson9150]

The name of the background music in the opening? Thanks

[@brycefreshcorn4844]

There is a typo in “Francis” at 13:43.

[@thomasb1889]

I have always wondered what would have happened if Fort Sumpter had not been attacked as that seems to be the tripping point where the North would fight. Would the US have split or would some compromise have happened as many in the South knew that slavery was a dead end and freedom for them was going to happen eventually.

[@jamesmccrea4871]

War was still coming. Lincoln did not want to attack first, but I think he would have if it came to it. The southern states had been aggressive throughout the "cold war" between December and April, taking federal forts, arsenals, calling for volunteers, forcibly removing and in some cases escorting US soldiers across their borders into other states that hadn't yet seceded. All before Sumter. It had to be answered for, and would be answered for. If not at Sumter, someone else would have drawn a lone in the sand and a shot would be fired.

[@jamesmccrea4871]

Slavery was not dying. Its was at its highest point of growth and value. None of the arguments that "slavery was dying" are really convincing. Even the argument that the south was building its manufacturing infrastructure falls flat when you recognize that slave owners quickly realized that a slave than work a factory floor as easily as a white man, and without wages.

[@thomasb1889]

@@jamesmccrea4871 I was talking about in the long term and Europe would eventually balk at getting their cotton from a country that still allowed slavery.

[@Cba409]

Good

[@andrewbowles9753]

Nice intro

[@veritasinvicta8128]

I don't see battles from the second half of the war. What of Sherman's March to the Sea? Gettysburg? Antietam?

[@WarhawkYT]

we have not got there yet lol, we're animating the war in chronological order

[@boonedockjourneyman7979]

Philippi and Rich Mountain need much more than this blow off.

[@darkhighwayman1757]

why do you use Southern nomenclature in naming the battle?

[@WarhawkYT]

They won the battle

[@darkhighwayman1757]

@@WarhawkYT I guess but it comes off kinda pro confederacy...

[@ApatheticBeaver]

@@darkhighwayman1757 they won the battle

[@darkhighwayman1757]

@@ApatheticBeaver And? The North won the war.

[@tyrian_baal]

@@darkhighwayman1757 They won the battle

[@raylast3873]

Yeah I mean obviously if you‘re fighting the war and some dudes are trying to get your territory to join the other side, you arrest them.

[@Lar1059]

Is this a re-upload?

[@WarhawkYT]

remaster, new narrator, new graphics, and more content

[@thedrinkinggamemaker9749]

The Confederate government should've stayed in Montgomery

[@bendover-t4t]

16:30 napoleon the third used trains at the battle of solferino a decade earlier sorry but ur wrong here

[@Taurencowpew]

Anaconda plan, not Anda conda!

[@formulah113]

you are not 100% correct.

[@darkjudge8786]

Are you planning on redoing all your earlier videos? To be honest I'm not really interested in remasters of existing content. Can we move on with the war rather than you showing off your new productions tools and software? You could remaster separately rather than selfishly polishing your knobs trying to be artistic. Unsubscribing. May come back but doubt it.

[@Vertze]

Pathetic response.

[@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite]

Certified bruh moment

[@WarhawkYT]

Its quite pathetic that you're mad over a remaster, we are extending what we showing on first manassas but if you're too angry that we are doing this then so be it.

[@DouglasEdward84]

What an entitled individual you are.

[@logankevitt8401]

Sorry that you are a pathetic person that can’t have a single ounce of patience to wait. So sad that you think you are gonna bully this great channel into getting what you want