ACW: Battle of Garnett's and Golding's Farm - "The 'Calm' Day"

[@deteon1418]

As a swede without much knowledge about the US civil war, these detailed videos are great to watch.

[@ericappleman5843]

As an American better educated than most, this is a great watch!

[@boonedockjourneyman7979]

Absolutely. I’m an American who studied this stuff under the lash as we say. I learn so much here.

[@kjetilfjellheim1801]

As a norwegian I agree.

[@charlessaint7926]

McClellan, "What if they have a big, scary army over there?" Lincoln, "They probably do." McClellan, *WHAT?!*

[@WarhawkYT]

Who else but McClellan!

[@briangarvey6895]

@@WarhawkYT Give Little Mac three corps, and he'd still be convinced he was doubly outnumbered by a troop of Girl Scouts.

[@twowheeledwireman282]

Great to see another video! I like how you cover engagements that are often overlooked.

[@WarhawkYT]

You're welcome 2 Wireman!

[@gallantcavalier3306]

HE’S BACK, PERFECT TIMING SIR!!! I was already hoping for a new video!!!

[@ApatheticBeaver]

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[@WarhawkYT]

Was here the whole time, had technical troubles which delayed this video by a week.

[@gallantcavalier3306]

@@WarhawkYT don’t even worry, this channel is worth the wait!!!

[@davemartin4183]

Fantastic as always!! Didn't know about this battle at all. Thank you for the episode

[@boonedockjourneyman7979]

You do a great job. I make these comments with the motive of helping you in production. I have spoken in front of courts for 3 decades. That’s my thing. 1. You are great. You know your subject. 2. Slow down. That is everything. 3. You’re reading a script. Good. You have pride enough to do the right thing. 4. Item 3 is messing with item 2. You have already experienced your speech - which is what it is. No one else has. 5. See item 2 before every recording session.

[@frederickbays405]

agree and put in more detail the proof is in the fine detail

[@LawIV]

Alternative History: the savage station revolt. Rather than abandon the siege of Richmond and march three days through a swamp, someone at Union HQ puts a round through lil Napoleon's head and storms Richmond. Rebellion over by Christmas

[@johnwinter7597]

Your definitely correct but we in Texas do appreciate little napoleon for giving us a chance

[@briangarvey6895]

Little Mac could do everything but actually lead an Army in battle. A shame that was the primary function of his job.

[@Philbert-s2c]

@@briangarvey6895 He would have been fine if they had created the Chief of Staff position 2 years earlier than they did....

[@lucassimmons3496]

@@briangarvey6895 Grant said it best after the war “ he was a fine administrator and General in Chief but he was no field commander”

[@raylast3873]

@@briangarvey6895 not completely true. McClellan did actually win most of his battles, including strategically important ones. What he lacked was follow-up. What Lincoln lacked were obvious replacements.

[@MatthewChenault]

The area today is at the edge of Highland Springs - a post-war town founded in the late 19th and early 20th century named after all of the natural springs in the area. The spawn has encompassed many of the bluffs and the plateau the farmhouses were built upon. The springs flowing down to the Chickahominy River dug out deep hollows that made the terrain difficult to navigate by foot.

[@frederickbays405]

still gives us little concept of terrain a few contour lines on a map without any units on it would help for all these videos Other then that not a bad job but ur narrative could use some work. U gloss over important details Like the coffee mill gun

[@thomasfarley5070]

Thanks!

[@WargamesGuru]

Amazing videos so detailed I love them!!

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

I really enjoy your work, Warhawk. However, one thing I'd appreciate is labeling the roads & rivers on your maps. Keep up the great content!

[@frederickbays405]

Ues that would be a great help as not everyone has been to the battle field and have a working knowledge of how it was set up

[@Stiglr]

@@frederickbays405 Most of this battlefield doesn't exist anymore anyway. Half of it is underneath Richmond International Airport!! The rest under housing subdivisions. But, yes, road labeling is a good thing. I do recall the River Road (to Mechanicsville area) being labeled...

[@andrewesdaile9484]

Really enjoying this series and always look forward to the next (from a Brit). It always amazes me how Little Napoleon was so inept at fighting. No courage whatsoever.

[@frederickbays405]

Not so much courage as to careful Unwilling to take an chances and relying on faulty intelligence given to him by a closet Rebel. The closet rebel was giving him only number of units and not the number of men within each thus Little Napoleon was under the impression that he was up against 100K more men then he was. This is what happens when u have only one source of intelligence on which u rely. If a Mead or Grand type had been in command the war would have been over by Jan '63.

[@joshuafogleman2080]

Another great detailed video. Thank you again for the educational entertainment. Well done!

[@frederickbays405]

not that good of detail in that he glosses over some of them Like the use of the coffee mill gun Lincoln wanted a lot of them but his QMG saw them as wasting ammo and sent few of them to the front lines. They spent the war in a warehouse in Maryland. The same was true for the breach loading and multi shot rifles for Gen Montgomery C. Meigs they too were a waste of ammo and thus money Other wise Meigs did a good job as QMG. He just could not see how spending a lot of money on ammo in '61-'62 or anytime during the war could shorten it.

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Already liked I know you guys always make the best content

[@WarhawkYT]

CWWBW is gaming ong

[@Ksgamer103]

Good stuff man. I wish you had more viewers and subscribers

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks Ksgamer! I sure hope so aswell!

[@mahdiziyafati2626]

Is this a good day? Yes there's a new warhawk video released

[@WarhawkYT]

Quite so Mahdi

[@steventurner9744]

Super good video. Keep them coming. Would love it, if you would do some on General Forrest’s Battles .

[@WarhawkYT]

We will some day!

[@steventurner9744]

@@WarhawkYT Thank you. Most dodge it because of all the lies told about the Greatest Cavalry General period . My people rode with Forrest. Very proud of that. Thanks, Warhawk

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@Michael-ws7rc]

Outstanding.

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks Michael!

[@scottanno8861]

Don't worry, Steiner's offensive will save the day. Any day now....

[@WVzombie138]

New Warhawk video? Yes please.

[@WarhawkYT]

Yes yes!

[@richardgouldin4638]

my family own the mill the battle was bad i still have southern pride in me my these men rest in peace

[@donchichivagabond1578]

This video came out just a few days after the 160 year anniversary of this battle. What a coincidence!

[@RossOneEyed]

Had Grant been in charge during the Peninsular campaign, the Civil War would have been over by August 1862

[@MrAlex_Raven]

Sometimes I'm so confused. Let's say we offered up the "Fog of War" and Lee "in fact" outnumbered McClellan. Given his men had successfully thrown back two separate massed assaults, and he at least knew that one segment, but likely not the entire army of Northern Virginia was north of him, he lacked insight or initiative to try to throw himself back at Lee and seize some sort of tactical or strategic initiative. Instead, he got attacked twice, won; but still chose to retreat. I didn't even know he largely won every fight he got in in the Peninsular campaign including these last two videos right outside Richmond. At this point it's beyond just caution. I cannot imagine how or why he felt so demoralized by two beaten back attacks and one partial breakthrough (which he managed to consolidate his position anyway) he felt such an urgent need to flee.

[@GlorfindelofGondolin]

Hell yeah!

[@WarhawkYT]

Hell yeah!

[@lawsonj39]

The "young Napoleon" LOL

[@jeffreyallen3461]

Let's Go Hancock!

[@model-man7802]

Fun Fact: White House landing is now a part of City Point,Virginia.

[@robertrobert7924]

McClellan should have been replaced so many times. It could have ended the War of attrition so much sooner and saved so many lives on both sides. At this point in time, who would have been a good replacement?

[@WarhawkYT]

Not sure, Pope would come in and start a new army after the Seven Days. Grant hasn’t proved himself completely by this point. Porter would’ve been the best choice

[@raylast3873]

He should, but the problem is is that without hindsight Lincoln has extremely limited options at this point, especially if he wants to win battles. McDowell got crushed at Manassas, and soon Pope will suffer the same fate at 2nd Manassas. Both of these defeats will be routs. Later on Burnside and Hooker will suffer crushing defeats that make Lee look like an invincible master tactician (he isn‘t, his opponents just fucked up. Hard). In the meantime, McClellan is not only credited with turning the Army of the Potomac into a serious fighting force (including by the troops), he is also a General who can win battles. His West Virginia campaign was brilliant, and he will beat Lee in several of the Seven Days battles (even though both of them don‘t come out of it looking like geniuses). Later on, he will ruin Lee‘s Maryland Campaign at South Mountain and Antietam, a hugely consequential victory for the Union. And unlike others, McClellan‘s defeats don‘t turn into costly and embarrassing routs for the Union. So at this point, he is in some ways the least bad option, though nontheless an endlessly frustrating and contradictory one. I think we also have to consider this from the political angle: Not only is Lincoln a new president, the entire Republican Administration is a totally new thing. The Republicans have never been in power before; they probably aren‘t fully in control of Washington and they certainly don‘t have a god’s-eye view into the Army. They find out very quickly that they can‘t fully trust the Army, either. And at the end of the day, what has to happen isn‘t the replacement of this or that General, by this or that other general who happens to be available, but instead the reconstruction and exchange of the entire army high command. That‘s a tall order, especially for an administration like the Republicans that iin some ways itself represents a hostile takeover of DC (remember, pro-slavery forces were extremely entrenched before Lincoln took office). In essence they have to find out who can win the war through trial and error. If you look at who is in charge of both Armies during the early battles, you‘ll realize that on the Confederate side it‘s people like Johnston, Beauregard, Longstreet, Jackson, Ewell, Early and Hill. In other words the same people who will be in charge in 1865 with the addition of Lee. On the Union side, the Army, Corps and Division commanders in the East will for the most part be gone by mid-1863, to be replaced by people who are completely unknown even 24 months before. The Seven Days Battles happen in June of 1862, about a year before the big showdown at Gettysburg. Who will be in charge at Gettysburg? The answer is: None of the people in major command a year earlier. George G Meade and Winfield S. Hancock are both brigade commanders at the moment, quite a bit removed from Army Command and in all probability not even slightly on Lincoln‘s mind as potential replacements for McClellan. Grant is probably unique in that he already plays a strategic role in the war and is essentially a theatre commander at this point. But at the same time, Grant‘s win at Shiloh looks like a decidedly mixed bag* in addition to the fact that Johnson and Beauregard totally got the jump on him. Plus putting Grant in command in the East before 1863 might be a bad move even with hindsight, because in the time he is in charge in the West he completely smashes the Confederacy on that front and hands the North total control of the Mississippi and the ability to invade the Deep South. Both of which were crucial to overall victory. What if whoever replaces Grant (who?) can‘t deliver those same wins, or they just take longer? *without hindsight it probably looks more like a Pyrrhic win than the strategic success it actually was

[@Philbert-s2c]

@@raylast3873 Except Rosecrans did most of the work in West Virginia. McClellan took the lion's share of the credit.

[@raylast3873]

@@Philbert-s2c bold claim, but even if true, does Lincoln know that? And again, at the end of the day, McClellan was able to win battles and prevent embarrassing and costly routs. Better than the immediate alternatives Lincoln had in 1862.

[@Philbert-s2c]

@@raylast3873 Well, no I doubt Lincoln knew how much Rosecrans contributed because McClellan was a master of self promotion (although not as good as Henry Halleck) and Rosecrans was not. I can't remember the exact month Rosie got transferred to the West but it was probably around this time. And it's not a bold claim to the "Cult of Rosecrans." We're not as numerous or loud as the Grant cultists but we're out there.

[@raylast3873]

Wondering what kind of „overseers“ were living in the „Overseer‘s Cabin“ 🤔

[@WarhawkYT]

I spoke with my lawyer and I am unable to answer that question.

[@raylast3873]

@@WarhawkYT I‘m sure it had nothing to do with the reason for the war or anything like that

[@WarhawkYT]

@@raylast3873 totally not

[@comradedimitri5075]

Once you cover everything about the civil war or whatever you want do you think you will focus on the revolutionary war or other Victorian era wars?

[@WarhawkYT]

Our tentative plan is starting with the French and Indian war and going through American history

[@raylast3873]

@@WarhawkYT do the French Revolutionary War.

[@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite]

Ayo Colonel Hiram Burnham and the Sixth Maine lesgooo

[@averagetexan9930]

Furry

[@WarhawkYT]

Omg a Maine Unit!!!

[@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite]

@@averagetexan9930 Source? Footnote? Anecdote? Evidence? Documentation? Verification? Authentication? Confirmation? Proof?

[@averagetexan9930]

@@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite you literally date a furry jesse

[@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite]

@@averagetexan9930 You got me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@CMDRFandragon]

9th and 1st GA Regulars: Ooooh, knapsacks, food, fancy supplies 1st NY Light Artillery: Ooooh, target practice! General Lee: *Puts 2 men in front of McClellan* McClellan: Oh crap, he out numbers me greatly!! Time to abandon our superior defensive positions, burn all our supplies and casually fall back to our gun botes!! Lincoln shoulda put Porter, Hancock or Chamberlain in command of the Army of the Potomac, they woulda won that crap lol. Chamberlain and his banzai charge into the Rebels during Little Round Top.......Hancock clappin Toomb's cheeks for 2 days. Porter kickin butt until he was told to retreat from superior positions by the all knowledgable and tactically sound McClellan.

[@WarhawkYT]

LOL

[@MatthewChenault]

The problem all stems from the tenuous supply position for McClellan. His supply hub along the Pamunkey River was decent due to the railroad line, but it also extended his supply line and the area required to defend it. Ultimately, his position was a bad position to make a strong defense without overextending his army. Strategically speaking, withdrawing to a more defensible position would have been better, which left him with the option of withdrawing to White House Landing or abandoning it for a position along the James. He chose the latter option.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

Just saying but I am really interested in the 4th Vermont infantry regiment and I am interested in it because of its commander Edwin Stoughton and he interests me because on March 8th 1863 the day that the battle of Hampton roads started the previous year confederate partisan ranger John Singleton Mosby aka the Grey ghost captured Stoughton and what happened was Mosby walked into Stoughtons bed room and roused him with either a slap or spank to his rear and upon being so rudely awakened Stoughton shouted “Do you know who I am?” And then Mosby responded by saying “Do you know Mosby, General?” And Stoughton replied”Yes! Have you got the rascal?” And then Mosby responded saying”No but he has got you” and as a result of Mosby’s capture of Stoughton the incident became well known and Stoughton became an object of ridicule and when president Abraham Lincoln heard of Stoughtons capture he sailed that”I did not so much mind the loss of a brigadier general, for I could make another in 5 minutes; ‘but those horses cost $125 a piece!’” However besides Mosby’s capture of him Stoughton is also known for defending his West Point classmate Robert Cobb Kennedy when Kennedy went on trial for an attempt to burn New York City on or after Evacuation day however Kennedy was convicted and in March 1865 Kennedy became the last confederate soldier to be executed by union authorities.

[@WarhawkYT]

That’s an interesting story!

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

@@WarhawkYT well thank you.

[@Sakai070]

Maine regiments.......my people

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

I completely agree with you on that even though I am not from Maine but Maine regiments are my people because during the battle of Gettysburg the brave and heroic men of the 20th Maine infantry regiment were fighting the 15th Alabama infantry regiment on my 4x great grandparents property.

[@Sakai070]

@@chasechristophermurraydola9314 that is an amazing connection to history that you have. Funny you say that, I'm from Brunswick Maine which is the home of Joshua Chamberlain. Which as you well know, commanded the 20th Maine. I work two streets down from this house, which is now a museum. If you ever get the chance and get up this way I think you'd find that interesting.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

@@Sakai070 well that’s actually a good point because on the 19th I am actually coming up to Maine and I might visit Brunswick but I am not sure.

[@BA-gn3qb]

McClellan. 😖😪

[@TheBasedGoat]

hey

[@WarhawkYT]

Hey Vincent

[@TheBasedGoat]

@@WarhawkYT whats up

[@boonedockjourneyman7979]

Philippi and Rich Mountain need serious consideration. The consequences cost the Union a year and countless lives. You really dropped the ball.

[@cmcc5825]

Distracted from all those commercial breaks, for a 23 minute video could you please do just two big commercials instead of 6 small ones?

[@WarhawkYT]

I dont get to choose when the ads are shown

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Thank glorious KZbin for that

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