August Light: Wilson's Creek and the Battle for Missouri

[@bl18ce99]

I visited the battlefield at Wilson's Creek years ago and when the guide said the Southern commander's name was General Sterling Price, I blurted out, " that's the name of John Wayne's cat in 'true grit' ". Many were amused.

[@calebshuler1789]

Lol. I know, its where duke got name. Cogburn served Missouri. From there in movie.

[@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw]

Rooster Cogburn was in the Confederacy. He was a rebel Guerrilla fighter under the command of William Quantrill, that’s how he lost his eye.

[@MichaelAptnow]

and Sterling Price's 2nd in command was General Chin Lee, Rooster Cogburn's other rooomate.

[@rogerhuner6566]

Visited Wilson Creek in 2022. The battlefield is well maintained

[@patrickbush9526]

Excellent presentation. My great grandfather and two sons fought at Wilson Creek

[@Ureconstructed]

You mean your great grandfather and his two sons…

[@josiekampe7746]

My son is the first kid that runs up and throws a rock at 9:27. He still jokes about being an actor, lol. He's almost 23 now, but I remember this like it was yesterday. It was a very cool shoot. 👍

[@ExpoJBbaby]

The infamous brick thrower #1

[@kc2276]

Whaaaat?! You're brick thrower's mom?! I'm his biggest fan!

[@josiekampe7746]

@@kc2276 🤣 I can get you an autograph for the low low price of $19.99. Now taking orders.

[@josiekampe7746]

@@ExpoJBbaby lol the one and only. 🤣

[@MeinemLeben]

​@@josiekampe7746hahahahaha

[@thelivingbranch]

capt phillip w fulkerson csa - unmarked grave in clinton mo - found and marked - fought at the creek - the only vet i have found

[@SteveHanson-z4f]

I visited the battle field at Wilson's Creek and was awe struck by the stories rendered. Such bravery and sacrifice on both sides. Having served during Vietnam war is still something that stirs the soul.

[@tekis0]

Very well done!! Thank-you for educating me on this important, little corner of the Civil War.

[@whicker59]

Well done presentation. More detail than most about individuals and events.

[@teutonalex]

My girlfriends ancestor Steven Mills was in the 13th Missouri Vol. Cavalry, company F. She has the original tin type photo of him in his St. Louis depot shell jacket.

[@souldavidthompson4854]

Excellent documentary telling the story of a vital battle at the beginning of our Civil War 👍

[@chuck9017]

Excellent, Glad I watched it. I highly recommend it.

[@2DSTORMS]

I made it in this film once in the 1st Iowa from the 1991 reenactment.....looking over ny shoulder from the top of Bloody Hill. First white shirt to the left of the guy tripping over a tree at 35:14. The battle documentary was superbly done!!

[@sherryneglia4804]

Just watched you w my morningcoffee. U r famous! Lol Seriously though, we can't let these memories fade. America must remember. That hole "doomed to repeat it" thing, I'm certainyou understandwhat I mean....safe travels

[@lesc3969]

Camera work and cinematography are excellent, realistic and authentic in appearance..

[@redcossack245]

What a battle. One of my ancestors, Captain Coleman of St. Louis fell leading his company of Confederates. Brave men one and all.

[@markmaclean1230]

It's a great historical event. It was August of 1861.

[@bwoutchannel6356]

Great stuff and great comments from very informed citizens.

[@baxtermason6909]

...I've heard the main commentator before; he's top-notch, and makes the documentary a great one...LR.

[@vintagebrew1057]

Excellent. Thanks from London UK.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

My grandma came to Canada from Limehouse in 1906 during the reign of King Edward XII. 🇨🇦=🇬🇧

[@vintagebrew1057]

@@mr.niceguy1812 My partner's great grandparents emigrated to Canada about the same time but sadly, Grandma passed within a year so he came back with his kids. A great aunt of mine emigrated to the US in the 1890's from the East End of London. She had a beautiful Hebrew name from the Bible, "Mahala". Don't know what became of her. My mum's family are Limehouse/Poplar via rural Essex and Lincolnshire. Many East End familys are from yeoman stock but were uprooted from their poor exsistence in the "Shire's" to seek work in London and beyond, looking for a better life no doubt. I was in the churchyard of St. Anne's Church, Limehouse just the other day. Many of the old buildings and seamen's rests are gone now. Lots of new cheap buildings going up. There are still some old properties but thankfully there are protection orders on those. Cheerio!

[@karlmoles6530]

This is phenomenal. Can you make another about Pea Ridge?

[@richardlindquist5936]

Nathaniel Lyon was the Missouri version of Leroy Jenkins.

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

He was a boot licking federal A-hole and tyrant, glad he came and went fast. He would have been intolerable to serve under back then.

[@mchankerhoff853]

I’m proud to be a Missourian

[@sheepdog1102]

Wow! That was astonishing, I felt like I was there!

[@Hi-lb8cq]

Thank you for the video...the 160th anniversary of wilsons creek is coming up next month

[@jamesrichardson3322]

😎 cool live to go to Wilson Creek

[@RobertLane-ry7wv]

This is a brilliant documentary.

[@CBates007]

My grandpa played Franz Sigel 6:38

[@dilwilliams5318]

UNDERRATED.

[@thomascoburn]

Well done

[@dongallowayjr3435]

Thanks for the video.. my second great uncle was under general Lyons.. who eventually made it to Pea Ridge an became a Major.. his name was Major Charles Galloway.. who the town In Missouri was named after him.. of Galloway Missouri.. still doing more research but I am visiting all of his foot steps as well as my 2nd Great Grand Father Francis mMarion Galloway !

[@asymptoticsingularity9281]

Nothing to be proud of there.

[@lukebertrichardson7799]

Tried National Archives catalog, sure you probably have. Go to census, and see if enumerator misspelled name or was mis transcribed. Had a S.N. Hatton, that was missing for almost a year twice. He transferred to cavalry, name became Sam, captured, exchanged, became S. M. Halton. 😇

[@iamnoone5478]

Nice. Where can i find Pictures of the Flags in this Doku???

[@mr.niceguy1812]

Try pausing the video & do a "screenshot" with yer phone or tablet. I get lots of images from documentaries that way.

[@2DSTORMS]

"Secede" not "Succeed"

[@calebshuler1789]

God Bless these innocent Missourians who have been held in your HANDS A LONG TIME NOW

[@avenaoat]

What happened between the first battle of Lexington and Pea Ridge in Missouri? I look for something and I do not find any video about it? Funny!

[@sgtfury1980]

Price went on to Kansas City Missouri and had a battle there near what is now the Country Club Plaza above Brush Creek.

[@lukebertrichardson7799]

I have to gather up some books so I can annotate what I am going to post. This thing is full of inaccuracies, mainly in motivation and reasons for actions on both sides. I will watch again so I can time inaccuracies. MO would be a contested state until the 1880's.

[@lukebertrichardson7799]

Working on it....... Personal quotes = I am finding extremely difficult to find first hand accounts of...........need place with large war between the states letter cache

[@indy_go_blue6048]

What you mean is that men who rode with Quantrill, Anderson, etc. turned renegade and outlaw and continued preying on innocent people for another 15 years.

[@lukebertrichardson7799]

@@indy_go_blue6048 No, what I mean: the rapaciousness, the outright theft, the greed, the misuse of an imposed military authority, and after the war the subjugation, and rape of individuals' common rights was so extreme, that people who raided, robbed, and murdered after the war were looked upon as champions of the downtrodden. This level of just downright hurt generated hard feelings arise out of injurious actions.

[@kencarney5456]

@@lukebertrichardson7799 doesn't do any good to talk to people whose only understanding of Missouri in the pre-war, war, or post-war period, none at all. Their only understanding of it is the Bushwhackers, the Partisans, and the James-Younger Gang anything else is beyond them alot can be traced to revisionist history. The troubles in Missouri can be directly traced to Lyon, Fremont, Halleck, Curtis and Rosecrans as well as the Radical Republicans and their Reconstruction of the state. Nothing occurs in a vacuum , but they don't understand that.

[@lukebertrichardson7799]

@@kencarney5456 Personal family story (able to authenticate high points). GGgrandrather joined MO guard after Lyon's shot civilians in the streets of St. Louis. After Wilson's creek, he was ready to go home; he had accomplished what he wished. It seems (take with grain of salt) he was given the choice of: staying with Price, becoming a CSA soldier, or walking home because the army he was with would keep his horse. Stayed with Price: made pea ridge, shiloh, chalk bluff (which is one white washed battle - Union losses had to be 1200 minimum.)and so on. The old guys were tougher than I am, and their hearts were planted in stonier soil - but still most were just average every day Joe's trying to bumble through I think.

[@StonewallSharpeson]

1:44 "... causing seven states to *succeed* from the union in protest..." Off to a good start...

[@jameseverett4976]

I guess they wanted to let us know upfront it was amateur BS revisionist history.

[@jameseverett9037]

So many "educated" and scholarly narrators now days. "suk-seed" [nstead of se-ceed] "Nu-Ky-ler" [instead of Nu kle-ar] and "eks-kape" [instead Es kape]. You can always tell a wet-eared ninny from a real scholar by the way they pronounce the commonly mispronounced words.

[@日記日誌]

What's the music at 17:01 ？

[@gyrospinup]

I've yet to find a video of this event that is non biased.

[@spacehonky6315]

I learned a few things from this video. I didn't know General Lyon had been kicked by a horse. He does seem a bit more reticent as a leader afterwards. I wonder if it's because the kick rattled his mortal brain, or if he was troubled for his part in the St.Louis fiasco with civilians. I was also a bit surprised that the regiment of US Regulars at Wilsons creek was led by a lowly captain. I know it was common for political appointees to outrank professional soldiers. I'm continually surprised by the odd conundrum that professional West Point trained Generals SHOULD be better strategic and tactical leaders than untrained political puffs. Sigel was supposed to be the best of both, but clearly wasn't.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

What i don't know would fill a warehouse, but I know a lot of towns have funny sounding names & the town of Chicken Alaska got it's name because no-one could spell ptarmagan, but where is Bloody Kansas?

[@lukebertrichardson7799]

Bloody Kansas is all of Kansas from the MO border to about Topeka. Guy's did not want to get to many days from home on raids against a bunch of Yankee religious zealots.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

@@lukebertrichardson7799 thanks for clarifying that for me, i had no idea, but in my defense i don't live in the States.

[@theodoresmith5272]

Oh yeah

[@CraigTodd-x9d]

28:46 Elias and Rebecca Short are my great, great, great, grandparents. Prior to the raid my grandfather moved all of his cattle to an adjacent farm and hid all of his firearms behind the wall boards of their home..the rebels kidnapped a couple of their children and were going to hold them overnight in their camp while Elias paced the floors of the house not knowing where they were being taken... they changed their mind and released them. Funny story, he also threw a crab apple at Sterling Price as he bent over and hit him right in the ass with it. The story goes is that for a split second Price thought that he'd been shot lmao..true story. They were originally from Tennessee and grandpa Short served in the Tennessee militia before they settled in Missouri.

[@DavidHarrison-js3ji]

'Wilsons creek, treated them rough"...........anyone recognise this ??????

[@bowiebowie4653]

8th of Kansas frontier brigade of the civil war reenactments we fight in that battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri the 8th of Kansas actually did fight there during that time period even at prairie Grove Arkansas and some other conflicts I am the lead scout of the 8th of Kansas frontier brigade

[@kenfox22]

Poor Germans. They had it rough. Must suck to be mocked everyday. Some people have little ♥

[@doreekaplan2589]

How did they know how many miles they marches? With what did they measure distance?

[@marinasorbelli3681]

Map and compass.

[@diwitdharpatitripathi6782]

Wilson's creek

[@nanouli6511]

Purely Yankee bias. Ashame really because the production quality is excellent.

[@jaroddraycounty]

You're a Yankee now. You lost. Loser

[@arialbati4011]

Très intéressant le Missouri. Un Etat complètement partagé. On a du mal à distinguer les comtés pro unions des comtés pro sécessionnistes. " Little Dixie" le long de la rivière Missouri, assez sécessionniste et pourtant assez an Nord de l'Etat....

[@bigcountry1604]

Lyon fd around and found out😁

[@meghan7547]

Slavery wasn't the issue that caused some states to succeed from the union. Slavery wasn't an issue until the North was doing badly and Lincoln came up with using slavery as a battle call for the North.

[@jaroddraycounty]

I think the Confederate Constitution, the Vice President of the Confederacy, and many other sources would disagree with you.

[@meghan7547]

You don't know history, do you?😂

[@MichaelAptnow]

When I visited the Wilson Creek Battlefield I knew very little about it. When I saw the way things unfolded, it dawned on me that it was Chancellorsville in reverse. There an vastly outnumbered army split in two, and while one force (under Lee) held the front against Hooker's Union Army while a striking force (under Stonewall Jackson) circled around to their flank and struck a Union force of Germans. Here at Wilson's creek, a vastly outnumbered Union army split in two with a main force (under Lyon) facing the Confederate front while a striking force (under Siegel) circled around and hit the flank, that force was mainly Germans. The results were very different though, as the Confederates prevailed in both battles.

[@Paul-oc6tk]

A People's victory

[@Airwaylon]

My 3rd great granduncle was in the 1st Iowa.

[@danieliellewis]

so there were many john browns and were willing to die for it i hope that the most blessed their prosperity but to those that kept their evil hearts i hope they are boiling in hell

[@meghan7547]

Only fitting the "butcher" of women and children died that day, he certainly is not a hero because of his previous action.

[@gyrospinup]

Springfield was in a bad spot and not staunchly pro union as you say. Just because Springfield was not guarded constantly by the state guard who had plenty to do, allowed the union to camp there but didnt make the majority of the citizens union. People in that area preferred to not mention which side they were on. Many of them switched after what Lincoln did. The union would stop by a house and take the males for their side. The confederates would do the same. The mayor of Springfield had to duplicate the ferry boat operation on the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales (real name Bill Wilson), and pretend to be on the side of whichever side came to town. Many brothers ended up on opposite sides. Technically, the civil war had already started in Missouri due to the Missouri/Kansas border war in the 1850's. Many dont think about Missouri and Kansas being the actual start of the war prior to secession of the states.

[@markbauer3937]

It's not 'SUCEED" - it's 'SECEEDE.'

[@richty3845]

God Bless Gen. Price and his Missourians who fought the invaders and protected Missouri families from the Yankees.

[@jaroddraycounty]

Price and his treasonous gang were all defeated, and we all are Yankees now.

[@dylanmendicina7391]

God bless federals for curbing the rebellion and saving the union!!!

[@jonbotten8106]

Yikes!

[@Bedwyr777]

uhhh the Federals were made up of Iowans, Illinoisans, Kansans and Missourians.. No Yankees at Wilson's Creek with the exception of the Union Commander

[@timmuenks9599]

My G.G. grandfathers fought with what we call the home guard when Price and his men considered attacking the state capitol . His raiders came through our neighborhood where I still live on the same farm scavenging food . Prices raiders also kidnapped a town blacksmith who was never heard from again . Murdered by the southern scoundrels .

[@alyssonmanson8912]

the unmarked grave of capt phillip w fulkerson csa has been found and respect paid - clinton mo

[@indy_go_blue6048]

This video was posted by Civil War flix 2 years ago. Nice "borrow".

[@henricothemonke1692]

There was a CD for this film a long time

[@henricothemonke1692]

Wide awake films created this, civil war flix must have got permission, or stole it.

[@gordonmcintosh2655]

Franz Siegel convinced the German immigrants to support the Union. The South actualy won more battles in Missouri than the North, but they lost the war.

[@nicholasgidaro5692]

Too many ads. Buh bye

[@kimmartin6160]

That was their motto FIGHT LOCAL😀

[@kenfox22]

As a Southerner it hurts to say that the South had to lose. Due to unjust Slavary and divided the country. All Men Are Created Equal

[@noahgaming6419]

CBRN SLC whats up

[@mr.niceguy1812]

What does that mean?

[@pir506d]

Chemical, Biological, Radialogical and Nuclear Senior Leader Course.

[@kencarney5456]

For what it's worth it's WILSON Creek not Wilson's Creek I've lived about 36 miles north of it through out my life.

[@maskcollector6949]

Literally everyone here calls it Wilson's Creek, this is poor correction. Source: I grew up 1 mile from it, and been there many times. Nobody here calls it Wilson.

[@robertsettle2590]

@@maskcollector6949 who ever this ken carney is, he certainly doesn't know his butt from a hole in the ground. WILSON Creek........ SHEESH!!!!SMDH!!!!!!

[@oregonoutback7779]

Wilson Creek is actually correct. I grew up in the 50's around Republic and spent a lot of my youth at the park. A local ranger would spend time with us kids, showing us around and telling stories. I remember him showing us a map dated well before the battle and it said Wilson Creek. Not sure how the S got attached to the end.

[@diwitdharpatitripathi6782]

The battle for the very survival of the United States of America.

[@toddpowers7720]

Writing like a true Yankee!

[@jaroddraycounty]

Well Southerners can't write so....

[@chrisgivens9632]

​@@jaroddraycountyGeorge Washington seemed to write pretty good.

[@marinasorbelli3681]

Acoustic shadow is not plausible. Make up something else. Like wiskie, might be?

[@ronnyrono782]

I'm no bible thumper. But who other than Lincoln could have won this war and held this country together? It almost seems like an act of Heaven.

[@pmcclaren1]

LinCLOWN was an atheist; and even today one of the world's LEADING MASS MURDERERS IN HISTORY!! Without this disgusting pagan, whose war He initiated, none of this would have occurred. All everyone had to do was to STAY HOME AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. You will remember this as I would be obliged!!

[@davedemyan3302]

More like an act of hell. Immigrant and poor conscripts forced to charge massed firepower. "Rich man's war. Poor man's fight." Three young men died up a hollow in North Coshocton County Ohio. Two were draft resistors and one was a member of the Provost Marshall's posse. The young farmer and his brother in law hid in the barn, were discovered and the shoot out Bagan. They were buried in a single grave with two headstones. The posse member was an English immigrant with a farm about 10 miles away. There were no patriotic speeches made at the graveside of these farmers.😢

[@valentinius62]

The southern states were more trouble than they were worth and better to have let them go their way. Few resources to speak of, small population, little industry, worn-out farm soil...Then there was also the massive poverty and lack of education. Then all the problems with Reconstruction, the Klan, the Civil Rights Movement, the Great Society, segregation then desegregation. If it weren't for the air conditioner, few people would live in the south.

[@tsomer07]

It used to be nice and cool everywhere, but you Yankees went home--those of you who went home, that is-- and started making automobiles that would get maybe 8 miles a gallon going down hill. You sold them everywhere and made sure Mr Rockefeller supplied plenty of oil to fuel them. That caused the globe to warm up and we poor Southerners had no choice but to buy your air-conditioners and put up with the noise.

[@marinasorbelli3681]

Hope, everyone understood that Herr Siegel (while in Germany) was fighting on the same side with Karl Marx)) Interesting liaisons for the future Republicans.

[@uratrick]

Pity the Confederacy lost. Take a peek of what we have today.

[@gyrospinup]

I made them mad at Wilsons Creek museum and was told to leave. I asked why they had false information that stated Missouri was not part of the Confederacy. I told them the real history while several people were listening. Lincoln told the Missouri governor that Missouri could remain neutral. Lincoln then sent federal troops to St Louis and they killed many citizens. Lincoln then sent troops to the state capitol of Jefferson City. The governor and other voted in officials fled to SW Missouri. Lincoln appointed his own chosen governor and officials to control the state. This was unconstitutional since they were not voted in by the people. The governor sent a message to Jefferson Davis from Neosho, Mo. requesting to join the Confederacy and Missouri became the 12th star on the Confederate flag. Kentucky shortly later became the 13th due to similar actions from Lincoln. The Wilsons Creek associate turned red and asked me to leave after a few of the crowd told me thanks for telling the truth. Lincoln knew the whole time that he had to cut off the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers from the confederacy and had lied to both Missouri and Kentucky about it being ok to remain neutral. Before long, they will have the union winning the battle. Its sad how our government is operating. The confederates had to send supplies up the White River to Forsyth, Mo. which only allowed smaller boats and was a long twisty river journey.

[@doreekaplan2589]

Not pronounced Rala..............it's Rah lee. 30000 horses were killed at Gettysburg....sickening picture as bad as the 12 MILLIONS of unwanted healthy dogs and cats of every breed killed YEARLY. Generals died in that war. Which put an end to it. After that we had/have armchair generals. Dead soldiers in some battlefields are still coming to the surface

[@BoonOrBust]

Really - unknown soldiers or are they being identified? I never heard that they were still finding .

[@robertsettle2590]

@@BoonOrBust this doree person is delusional. Whatever they are trying to talk about is coming right out of their butt!

[@robertsettle2590]

It is to pronounced Rah-la, for the town of Rolla Missouri. Not Rahlee, as in Raleigh North Carolina like you think. Also what was all that other gibberish you went on about horses, dogs & dead soldiers by the millions! SHEESH!!!

[@pmcclaren1]

It is pronouned RAL-LA; just like Missour-eee is correctly pronouned Muh--zoor-uh. Get this right as I have kin in the Bootheel of our great SOUTHERN STATE!

[@stephenkalatucka6213]

Zombie Confederates?

[@robertmoroney3461]

A lot of this is fake history and fake names.

[@robertsettle2590]

Prove it Sherlock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@seanautilis15]

Lyon was a coward who got himself into a situation he couldn't handle. He got what he deserved.

[@michaelmuller8072]

The most formidable army of that time were the prussians mr. Yankee

[@diwitdharpatitripathi6782]

The battle for the very survival of the United States of America.