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[@thewiseoldherper7047]

Interesting facts on Ulysses S Grant. Technically he was an alcoholic. Today he would be called a binge drinker. Its said he only drank when he was bored. Never during important events or battles. His problem was that two drinks would make him appear visibly drunk in an age when you were expected to be able to hold your liquor. He was the West Point graduate and Mexican War veteran who resigned from the army in 1854. Grant never found his footing in civilian life. By 1860 he was destitute, married with 4 children, pushing 40 years old, and had just returned home to work in his father’s store. He was subordinate to his two younger brothers. Then the war broke out. Grant volunteered. He was commissioned a Colonel in charge of 100 volunteers.Two years later he was a Brigadier General in the Union army. Four years later he was Commander in Chief of all Union forces. Eight years later he was President of the United States.

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

Grant was a very dedicated family man, a loving husband and doting father. Before the war, he first established his reputation as a hard drinker when he was stationed out west, far from his family, and feeling depressed about it.

[@JKSSubstandard]

And here we are watching KZbin reaction videos. We have 8 years to turn it around

[@patmanchester8045]

@@JKSSubstandard so did Grant drink to relieve the pain from his cancer or did it cause his cancer?

[@amberdragonis1932]

@@patmanchester8045well since he had throat cancer way after he was president I don’t think it was a drinking thing or it probably would have been liver cancer or something.

[@ProjectHailMary]

hes literally me

[@maureenseel118]

One thing they didn't mention is that General Burnside was a key player in the battle of Antietam. There's a bridge named after him :) (Burnside Bridge-so original). Sherman's March across the south was brutal. Low-key committed war crimes against fellow Americans. Granted, it worked...it crushed their spirit and made a swift end to the war but... oof.

[@lindaeasley5606]

There's a part of the US Civil War few have been taught about ,and that's Britain's involvement. Although Queen Victoria took an official neutral stance,many prominent figures in Britain actively helped the Confederacy. From continuing to trade with the Southern states ( breaking Union blockade of Confederate shipping lanes) to building war ships for them and supplying ammunitions. They even welcomed Confederate government officials in Britain. If Britain had gotten involved directly it would have been on behalf of the South

[@ArynChris]

Some about France as well-- they DID send troops that were intended to help the Confederacy, but they had some business in Mexico first... see the story of Cinco de Mayo for why the French troops never reached their destination.

[@catherinejones5807]

When you visit the USA, you should go to Washington DC and see the Lincoln Memorial. It’s truly one of the sacred places of our country.

[@lynnw7155]

Also Gettysburg. It's phenomenal; get the self-guided car tour; it walks you through the entire battle on the site where it took place.

[@roaaoife8186]

There are all kinds of crazy stories from the US Civil War of soldiers from both sides engaging with each other in friendly ways. The night before the Battle of Murphysboro, the Union army started playing music. The Confederates responded by playing music back, and for the whole night they took turns playing music back and forth. The night ended with both armies singing "Home Sweet Home" in unison. In the morning they got up and killed each other.

[@paulpierce1001]

That is such a beautiful image. Your comment brought a tear to my eye. I had not known of this. Thank you for that.

[@lucaskuczek]

I didn't know they listened to mötley crüe

[@zeromagnum2811]

Which is the general stubborness and stupidity of humanity. Where as in the Revolutionary war that whole war would have been avoided if the British king had given the colonies representation in British parliament for fair tax discussion it could have been avoided. Where as keeping the slave trade past the revolution was driven by the greed of southern democrat plantation owners that made the south dependent on the slave trade plantations and free labor of slaves. both of those wars could have been avoided minus human ego and greed being involved .

[@christypriest30]

People have to remember that this war literally had brothers against brothers. So a lot of the time the 2 sides were trying not to kill each other because they didn’t know if they were shooting at their own brother or not

[@UrbanCohort]

"They never quite seemed like an enemy."

[@MoshehKoke]

meanwhile blacks were slaves so kind of like slaves vs slaveowners for us id think lol

[@UrbanCohort]

@@MoshehKoke well, they weren't all slaves... The Freed Men who signed on to fight for the Union truly distinguished themselves, though. It's embarrassing to remember that almost 60 years later, they'd have to do it again for almost no recognition.

[@MoshehKoke]

@@UrbanCohort i feel what ur saying. i guess im just saying from a black man's perspective or mine at least lol i don't feel like it was brother against brother because one side wanted me to be a slave. so it was more like fighting an enemy from my perspective and not a brother. if u want me to be your slave and ur willing to go to war with me for it you're not my brother lol

[@MoshehKoke]

@@UrbanCohort regardless I agree the whole situation was messed up....cant we all just get along?? lmao

[@ronshelton4356]

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal... The greatest speech in history.

[@masterleoric4565]

The way I was taught it in school, Stonewall Jackson was hearing impaired, he failed to respond to the challenges of the guards on the way into camp with the proper safe words, in the dark they assumed he was a northern soldier

[@oscarfontana4]

That butt-ugly statue was privately owned and on private property right net to I65 (a major highway) in Nashville TN. Recently, the owner died, and the statue has thankfully been removed.

[@JaimeMason]

And when the war was over, Texas didn't know about it for a year, y'all probably don't realize how big Texas is. My 2x's Great Grandmother told her story, about how she was "freed." She was only 10 or 11 at the time, & she was also Native American. She lived to be 104 yrs old & I remember her a little bit. She died when I was 2, almost 3.

[@robynsmith5646]

And the delayed notification in Texas is how we got Juneteenth

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

Damn. That's an impressively long time.

[@AlanMandragonKing]

Wow that's incredible

[@nancypatterson2215]

General Meade is my 3rd time Great Uncle. He retired to Southern New Jersey & acquired generational wealth. He was able to finance my great-grandmother when she became a widow. I remember visiting her in this very expensive private nursing home. She lived to be 107. She would literally give all of us children $100 bills every time we visited her.

[@Gutslinger]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1242">20:42</a> If you look in the 2nd story window, the youngest child was future president Theodore Roosevelt.. The dude is a legend. Definitely worth watching a video about him. He's also where we get the name "Teddy" bear.

[@CivilizedWarrior]

For anyone interested in getting a vivid description of what it was like fighting in the Civil War, from the perspective of someone who was there, I read a great book, that I found in a book/gift shop when I visited the battlefield at Gettysburg, PA. It was called “Infantryman Pettit: The Civil War Letters of Corporal Frederick Pettit.” It’s a collection of a native Pennsylvanian Union soldier’s personal letters, sent to his various family members back home. I was blown away by not just the content and the imagery of the battle scenes, endless marching, and dreary camp life, but also the prose, the vocabulary, and the seeming ease with which this 19 year old soldier wrote down everything he saw in graphic detail. If you can find it, it’s really a remarkable and worthwhile read. What really astounded me was the contrast between how mature and well educated this teenage farm boy was compared to most 20-something college educated students today. It’s pretty disheartening to see the extent of just how far the general population has gotten dumbed down over the past 160 years.

[@iKvetch558]

I concur with the recommendation of Lincoln for a good film depicting the passage of the 13th Amendment. I would add my own recommendation for the movie Glory from 1989, which is about the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment, the second unit of black soldiers organized and trained by the Union during the Civil War, and its commander Robert Gould Shaw. It features Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick and many other notable actors. 💯✌

[@patmanchester8045]

I was thinking of Glory, too. A great, if painful, movie.

[@historyjunkie3144]

Glory ❤... Makes me cry every time. The bravery and selflessness they displayed are almost beyond comprehension 😭💯❤️

[@amyjohnson5839]

That's a great movie!!

[@paulawitham3579]

I was thinking Lincoln as well. It is a very well done movie.

[@DansBuddhaBodega]

Great movie

[@Kanthros-kreations]

What a lot of people dont realize is its more than just to country splitting. Towns split. Families split. You could be fighting your neighbor, and youre fighting people speaking the same language with the same accent. These were people who grew up on the same side. It wouldnt be surprising that you would falter and hesitate against your former countrymen.

[@injunsun]

It got to me, hearing how Lincoln was killed, after all that, and him and Mary Todd Lincoln finally happy. He was my 6th cousin, 6 generations removed, so I have always thought of him as distant kin.

[@gardengirl7258]

When General Sherman got to Savannah, Georgia, he felt it was too beautiful to burn to the ground and it’s said the general “given it to the President as a Christmas present “. It is still a beautiful city.

[@krash66]

The two most famous and stirring Abraham Lincoln speeches worth reading and/or doing videos about are The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. I cannot read either without choking up. They get to the heart of what The American "Experiment" is all about.

[@TacoSallust]

Thank you for taking the time to learn about our Civil War.

[@patmanchester8045]

yes, iso now we should learn about the War of the Roses.

[@Bancheis]

@@patmanchester8045 I have only heard of it in name, but never knew the significance of it. A 32 year civil war?? Damn... I will most certainly be looking into this. Thanks for the reference!

[@slenderfoxx3797]

@@Bancheis Fun fact, The war of the Roses is one of the main inspirations for the book and TV series Game Of Thrones.

[@jph0917]

This war was so confusing. Many battles were known by 2 different names. Bull Run/Manassas Shiloh/Pittsburgh Landing Sharpsburg/Antietam Murfreesboro/Stones River Just to name a few.

[@pamelalandon2423]

The Names of Battles depended on which side you were fighting on.

[@andrewsanders17]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="546">9:06</a> what is crazier is because the south was low on food and supplies during temporary truces you had a lot of people willingly giving themselves up to the north to be able to get food.

[@esh_414]

There is a phrase from a Southern Writer that states "The Revolutionary War gave us our country, but it was The Civil War that defined what we were to become." In a way, he is right.

[@TheEfvan]

Arguably the greatest Amercan president was almost completely self-educated.

[@vmi02raven]

"For a civil war, this is a long *** war." 1861-1865, at 3 years and 6 months, yeah, pretty long. The longest Civil War (apparently) was the Norweigam Civil War that lasted 110 years (1130-1220). It is infact the 23 longest Civil War in world history

[@donnacarter2617]

When my son was younger , went to Gettysburg every summer. So many things to do and see at Gettysburg. I love the fact they have both memorials for both sides.

[@McofCOD]

Still today the rural regions between Atlanta and Savannah and up into South Carolina remain incredibly poor and dramatically affected by Sherman’s March to the Sea. There also was the burning of Atlanta which saw a significant portion of the city burned to the ground.

[@AlanMandragonKing]

Maybe they shouldn't have been keeping people as property cry more

[@amyjohnson5839]

​@@AlanMandragonKingactually, most weren't slave owners. I doubt this whole time they are still affected by the Civil War. People move and if they haven't rebounded its their own fault.

[@biggierocc1935]

@@amyjohnson5839 True. The only reason that they supported it so much is that the people who *actually* owned slaves were *really* good at politics

[@jasonboy6666]

Fun fact.... Arlington national cemetery (where we bury all of our national heros) is actually the front lawn of General Lee's old house. Lincoln put it there because he wanted Lees wife to see all the men he killed during the war..... brutal

[@BellsWatson]

One of my Great Grandfather was a confederate and another was in the Union Army. The Confederate had four sons two joined the south and two joined the union. Only the Confederate Great Grandfather died in the war, all the others survived.

[@bretcantwell4921]

Same here. One a German immigrant who served with the North, the other a dirt farmer from Alabama who served in Hood's Texas Brigade. Also had a ggu who served as a doctor with the Union.

[@user-cn5ie4zf2c]

There are many odd things not mentioned about Lincoln and his assassin booth. The most macabre one is the boarding house across from the theater where he was shot. He was taken to a room and but into a bed that booth himself had used many times when staying in Washington.

[@starwarsonpiano6798]

Stonewall Jackson's death was a big turning point in the war.

[@stephenignatz8364]

Lincoln was a ledgend. Truly the greatest president.

[@projectgg6730]

This was back when the leaders witnessed first hand the horrors they were sending their children to do.

[@grabble7605]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1198">19:58</a> The two friends sitting with Lincoln and his wife were Clara Harris and husband Henry Rathbone. Henry's mind began to deteriorate after the assassination and he eventually killed Clara and spent the remainder of his life in an asylum.

[@cyberus1438]

The poor man felt himself personally responsible for both failing to defend Lincoln and apprehended booth (which is very unfair, even after booth cut him from elbow to shoulder to the bone and severing an artery he grabbed booth and caused him to break his leg on the fall down to the stage). Afterwards he very clearly had deep feelings of self hatred and truly went mad. He started having violent fits due to it and one day he attacked his children, fatally shooting his wife when she tried to defend them. After he realized what he had done he stabbed himself 5 times in the chest but wound up surviving. He was found to be insane (as in to the level of believing that hidden machinery in the walls were poisoning him with gas as punishment for Lincoln) and lived the rest of his life in an insane asylum

[@amyjohnson5839]

So sad. I've never heard that story befire

[@biggierocc1935]

@@cyberus1438 Tbf they did have arsenic in the wallpaper in that period of time so he wasn't too far off

[@Ryarios]

After Lincoln received word of Lee’s surrender, he was giving a small speech to people gathered outside in celebration. He noticed a band present and mentioned that he always liked the tune "Dixie" and stated that he felt "we fairly captured it", asked the band to play it which they did. Also, I have ancestors that fought on either side, as many Americans do.

[@vladtastic5511]

"That's a dope statue"...that is the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. If you ever come to the states, that is a place you must see to truly understand what it is to be American

[@Raytv1000]

I live in the Fredericksburg area of Virginia, Stafford to be exact, which is actually the boyhood home of George Washington, and i’ve learned a lot about the civil war living here. Confederate victories and soldiers were honored in Virginia after the civil war including building a confederate graveyard in downtown Fredericksburg, and naming the major highway route 1 “Jefferson Davis Highway” in their part of the highway, recently they have re named the part of the highway “Emancipation Highway” and Stafford county has it changed to “Richmond Highway”, the city of Fredericksburg has also taken down a slave auction block that use to be preserved in the downtown area.

[@cyn37211]

The Nathan Bedford Forrest fiberglass statue was a real eyesore on I-65 south of Nashville. Since it was on private property, nothing could be done to remove it. I believe the property owner finally kicked it, and the statue has been demolished. Forrest was in the Kkk, and was an all-around bad guy.

[@silverrobinson7940]

Forrest wasn't just in the kkk, he founded the kkk

[@cyn37211]

@@silverrobinson7940 Yes. He was a terrible human being

[@scotchsunday]

Wilmer McLean was able to say, the war started in his front yard and ended in his living room.

[@kimberlyramos8670]

I’m from Appomattox and found that one of the most interesting Civil War facts.

[@cedric13]

Was a crazy way to fight. They generally fought as they fought in the Revolutionary War in long lines, because back then the rifles didn't shoot too straight, unfortunately by the time of the Civil War the technology of rifling (making the bullet spin to give it stability) was starting to become more and more common. The rifles where produced en mass so the change over took some time and they were still slow to load, but stuff like pistols already had cartridges and rifling.

[@Lavender7193]

Some thing it didn’t say is that Abraham Lincoln had reoccurring dreams where he walked down the stairs of his home, and there was a funeral, and his body was in the coffin

[@amandahibbs3690]

As somone who grew up in Fredericksburg the Rappahannock river in that area is half rapids and the other half full of rip-currents. Theres still bullet holes in the houses there

[@pamelagoodman7559]

One thing they didn’t tell you is that Lincoln suffered from debilitating depression continually. both his sons died of illness fairly close to one another.

[@rodneysisco6364]

My great,great grandfather commanded one of Stonewall Jackson's 3 brigades when Jackson gained fame in his Shenandoah Valley campaign ,he was killed at Gaines Mills in the Seven Days battles when Lee ran McClelland off the peninsula in front of Richmond .

[@Gutslinger]

There's an old video interview with an old man who was standing outside the house when they carried Lincoln in, right after he was shot. There's also a video of an old American game show, I think called "What's My Line?". There was an old man on there who was in the theater when the assassination happened when he was about 6 years old.

[@anaplaysstuff]

Piece of trivia: in Vicksburg they didn't officially celebrate Independence Day (the 4th of July) until well into the mid-1900s because of the surrender on July 4, 1863 to Grant.

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="530">8:50</a> Mark! The famous song about a train named "The Chattanooga Choo-Choo" is in reference to the City of Chattanooga that the cartoon just showed us. 😊

[@rayleenerwin1703]

I remember reading about this in school via a massive History Book. I wish they had these videos in the 80's - 90's. So much easier to digest what actually happened.

[@toportime]

Thank you for taking your time to learn about our civil war, it was a brutal time in our history with brother fighting brother.

[@christypriest30]

Gettysburg is one of the most haunted places in the country

[@jamesnoel5173]

A great movie depicting the War Between the States from a southern perspective is Gone With the Wind. My great, great, great grandfather fought for Alabama.

[@tracieh215]

Oh and a note: if you go to Ford's Theater to see where Lincoln was shot, it's not the original theater. That burned down many many years ago, and was rebuilt.

[@tracieh215]

Seriously, though - come to the US and walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Manassas, and Antietam. These are well preserved historical sites, and it's a little bit haunting. It kinda hits you when you look at the beautiful green fields and you realize this is the spot where men died, sometimes in most gruesome ways. Do you KNOW what a minie ball does?? Oh man it's horrible

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1223">20:23</a> Mark! Hmm. This cartoon depicts him with a 6-shooter revolver pistol. Other people have had him using a "Derringer" pistol. Others have shown a single-shot, muzzle-loader dueling pistol. 🤷‍♂️

[@subitman12]

There is a movie about the battle of Gettysburg with the same name. It's long so you probably can't watch it in one sitting. It also has a lot of stars doing cameos. Even Ted Turner the head of TBS at the time did a cameo.

[@vmi02raven]

"How does the man who defended his country so good get killed by his own men?!?!" As much as I love Jackson, he foolishly went on a reconnaissance ride with his staff without telling his troops. When he retruned *at night*, his troops throught the Union was infiltrating and openned fire. He was struck three times [the field jacket he wore with the bullet holes is still on display at the Virginia Military Institute (where he taught)]. His arm was amputated and buried at Chancellorsville. He almost recovered but died of infection and pnuemonia 8 days after.

[@Tigger2041]

Only 3% of American colonists fought against the British during the American Revolution.... The revolutionary War caused fights/ arguments with neighbors against neighbors.

[@johnreed2409]

Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy was my 5th cousin. Although I don’t agree with what he stood for in any form or fashion, it sparked my interest in the civil war at a young age. My dad was also a history teacher, so most of my vacations growing up revolved around visiting battlefields and museums. I live in eastern Oklahoma, which was Indian territory at the time of the Civil War. You should check out Judge Parker “The Hanging Judge” and Bass Reeves, a black marshal who was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger. They were based out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, about 30 miles from where I live now. They still have the gallows up on the courthouse lawn.

[@d0ublestr0ker0ll]

Me and generations of my family grew up in Maryland. My dad and his friends say that people from Virginia and Maryland would still take shots at each other across the Potomac River in the 1950s.

[@itoibo4208]

Pot shots

[@nirvanaqueens]

Omg??

[@scotchsunday]

The hatred and resentment lasted for decades after the war. Vicksburg fell on the July 4, 1863. The 4th of July was not celebrated again in Vicksburg for 80 years; until after WWII

[@SuperLordHawHaw]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="118">1:58</a> I've seen most of these battlefields. Fredericksburg was a hill overlooking a river and a bridge. At the top of the hill was a stone wall and buildings. They marched right up to the wall and, as you noticed, took horrible casualties. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="209">3:29</a> They didn't do it in the beginning because the emancipation hadn't happened yet. Also there was racism in the union army too so mixed units weren't going to happen. Also the south enslaved or murdered captured black soldiers. Most of the black soldiers at first were used as engineers and garrisons until they pleaded to be allowed to fight. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="484">8:04</a> Lee called out to one of his commanders, Longstreet, to rally his men. Longstreet pointed to the field of dead soldiers and said "There's my army."

[@joeskewes9618]

I live in Milford pa the museum in town has the flag that was put under Lincoln’s head and the costumes the actors wore on stage. So much life was lost 😞 I hope our country can look at the past and stop fighting we now have or history will repeat it’s self

[@radioactive_sunflowerz2450]

My moms family are distantly related to Grant (that being my great grandmothers last name) and it has been pretty well known (even back then) that the Grant family had a tendency for alcohol. This is actually because people in the family have a low alcohol tolerance, which was also the case for Ulysses Grant. My mother, brother and other relatives could get visibly drunk after only 2 drinks. I don't know how this works genetically but there's definitely a family narrative of this happening for generations. So even if the person isn't exactly binge drinking they can be a mess unfortunately. It's a bummer but makes me avoid more than a glass of wine around polite company 😂

[@wargame2play]

My Great Great Uncle William Pittenger fought on the Union side and won the Congressional Medal of Honor , our country’s highest award for his part in a strange incident. Andrew’s Raid or The Great Locomotive Chase where a group of Union volunteers went hundreds of miles behind Confederate lines to Georgia and STOLE an entire train! Drunk History made a hilarious video about this. Might be right up your alley.

[@Spnlgrl1985]

This was crazy thinking how hard we fought to be free and then we split apart and fought each other 😞my Dad was from the South and my Mom was from the North. So glad we came together as a Nation and we are still together today!

[@serimus]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="254">4:14</a> Stonewall was a genuinely good man, too. Really the only reason he fought for the South was because of his loyalty to Virginia and even wished for Virginia to remain with the union. I don’t know whether he was racist or not, but he was a fellow West Virginian. (Born before it became a separate state, obviously.) His birthplace is just a few miles from me. (One of the unspoken rules of WV is to never disrespect Stonewall. You will be cannibalized.)

[@Gaeilgeoir]

At the end of Part I, it said Lincoln needed & got *A* victory, not “victory overall.”

[@RConklinArts]

The Confederacy lasted about 4 years (I have socks older than that) many here in the south get all emotional when you talk about the civil war and those damn Yankees still. My Southern ancestors did much more than fight on the wrong side of a war, they tamed this land and built it into what it is today, now that's heritage to be proud of not the short lived confederacy... 👍

[@bettyhaskins1424]

Lincoln stated that McClellan treated victory like a defeat and that Grant treated defeat like a victory.

[@tracieh215]

But now you see why, in Washington DC, there is a *MASSIVE* temple/monument, commemorating the life of Abraham Lincoln. It's a beautiful memorial. The sculpture of President Lincoln is 19' high. Please note his hands on the sculpture. It's not an accident that they look that way. Daniel Chester French devoted several years to researching Abraham Lincoln and studying photographs of him. French decided that the special qualities found in the sixteenth president were his strength combined with his compassionate nature. In what ways did French portray these characteristics in his statue? French depicted the president as a worn but strong individual who had endured many hardships. He positioned Lincoln's hands in a manner that displayed his two leading qualities. One of the president's hands is clenched, representing his strength and determination to see the war through to a successful conclusion. The other hand is a more open, slightly more relaxed hand representing his compassionate, warm nature.

[@jph0917]

The Battle of Gettysburg was in July, not June.

[@bologna4feet]

Thanks for saying that. I was starting to worry I was wrong all these years!

[@michaelinthebathroom7560]

I live in Virginia, and it's so weird to hear these places I go to frequently (Fredericksburg, Richmond) mentioned in these videos. Also, (not so) fun fact, the place where the barn was that John Wilkes Booth hid after he assasinated Lincoln is about a half hour away from my house.

[@kimberlydavis-lx5nn]

L3WG REACTS I actually live in a very small town in GA called Tunnel Hill. Where part of the war take place. We have a very small battle field and also the tunnel. That The Great Locomotive went through. We have a reactment every September.

[@francishaight2062]

Lincoln, yes, but let's not forget the huge contribution of Grant. Without him the ending would have been very different!

[@andyboog2010]

Our civil war was the bloodiest war we have ever fought. It cost on both sides a total of 640,000 troops. That was roughly 2 percentage of our population. If that happened today that 2 percentage would equal roughly 7 million people. With the weapons the civilian population posses today I'm afraid those numbers would be close to 7 percent.

[@Blend-24]

Gettysburg was the hump in that war. From then on, dispite a small victory here or there, the southern army was on it’s heals and in defensive mode. The casualty rate would be like 8 million Americans falling today.

[@GunUDwnAt2nd]

"For a civil war, this is a long ass war." Somalia: "Heh. Yeah..."

[@christypriest30]

They might have made it to my Savannah, Ga but my beloved old lady rebuilt back better!

[@tracieh215]

My sister lives in Gettysburg and was the manager of a small bed & breakfast there, in a building that had stood since the Civil War. The building - like many other locations in Gettysburg - was definitely haunted. Every year at the 4th of July the Civil War re-enactors to go Gettysburg and drive the hospitality business crazy. It's hilarious when tourists go to Gettsyburg and just wander around the fields, asking "where's the battlefield?" Um, YOU'RE STANDING ON IT

[@GenXSurvivor]

The Civil War split families. Brother against brother.

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="100">1:40</a> Mark! The CC showed me what the cartoon men said, not what you said. 😮

[@TimMcCurry-ue9kr]

One fact about Northern General William Tecumseh Sherman: In 1864, more than 100 freed slaves lost their lives as they followed Union troops led by Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, (Not the President of the Confederacy), As the former slaves were about to make their way across the creek, the troops removed a temporary pontoon bridge. On Dec. 9, 1864, on the march to Savannah, hundreds or thousands of African American families who had just escaped from slavery were left to drown by Sherman's Army. This is referred to as the Massacre at Ebenezer Creek. Davis crossed Ebenezer Creek with his 14th Army Corps as it advanced toward Savannah during Gen. William T. Sherman's March to the Sea. Davis hastily removed the pontoon bridges over the creek, and hundreds of freed slaves following his army drowned trying to swim the swollen waters to escape the pursuing Confederates.

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1339">22:19</a> Mark! It is saddening to see it in a state of disrepair in "Logan's Run" and the Ape version in the 2000 "Planet of the Apes" is just weird! 😮 I prefer this one! ❤

[@boringnoninterestingname65]

Burnin Sherman is my fav civil war general he had some very modern concepts of honor and warfare.

[@recon2k609]

Grant & Lee went to West Point together West Point= United States Military Academy

[@AngelaKSellsHomes]

FYI I sell houses in Jackson county Missouri. The Confederacy set fire to all homes that weren't within a 6 mile radius of the courthouse. It's hell to find comparable houses to determine value!

[@djtally1140]

if i member right a holiday hit when they were camping each side of the river. both sides agreeded to a raft that could be sent back and forth and they started small trading with them tobaco booz. then they went back to war with each other when they were told to . this battle was basicly brother vs brother but both sides held there orders

[@janet0613.]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="633">10:33</a> that looks like my calendar 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulawitham3579]

You have to realize that the Civil War was not just north vs south. It really was brother against brother, cousin against cousin, father against son. Relatives lived in all parts of the country and they didn’t always have the same beliefs. And some could just be geography. Just depending on where they lived.

[@elijahbeasley7757]

There was a battle in georgia that sherman lost. The Doctor Town bridge. A major railroad supply route. DoctorTown is gone, but nearby is the city of Jesup.

[@DarthRaider520]

The M4 Sherman Tank was named after General Sherman.

[@Plague31319]

I lived in mobile for my childhood it’s so beautiful and was pretty safe for people

[@beatlesarebest]

Thanks man. That was great!

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

Pickett's "charge" is an interesting thing. It was more of a walk across oh, what looks like a *mile* of nearly completely open ground with just fences and the odd ditch for cover. He got *thrashed* as a result.

[@rocknrollcannibals]

No, the ending of the last one said they had to end their losing streak before Lincoln could outlaw slavery to keep Europe off his back and stir up slave rebellions in the south. It was still the middle of the war.

[@Thisandthat8908]

always interesting to note: Lincoln was "facing election". Jefferson Davies was not.

[@Melissa-cc6em]

I love going to gettysburg- such am amazing place. So much energy and history. If you ever get tglhe chance and love history - go here

[@limolnar]

Fun fact from a UK perspective: the US has only ever had one government. Administrations are formed by each president but the prez is a member of the executive, not the legislature.

[@sharonmcarthur8951]

You should listen to the song The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band. It's pretty much historically accurate.

[@Vexxy197]

I’ve been to Gettysburg before. Almost the whole town is memorials and statues for the battle. There are still bullet holes in some of the buildings, and in fact Illinois 7th infantry was the one to start the battle despite being very small

[@targetlockedgaming8349]

not me an american getting emotional over here at the end about lincoln lmao 🤣🤣