Civil War 125th "The Battle of Sayler's Creek" - Re-enacting Retro 1990

[@timothycunningham7352]

The wonderful years of CW reenacting. I loved every minute of it. It's over now but we'll always have the memories.

[@FlyingTooFast]

True sounds, large numbers, pretty uniforms, nicely polished weapons and large clouds of smoke Truly… this is what I wanna see in a history channel

[@PrinceChaloner]

1990's was the golden age of Civil War Reenactment...

[@ralphgeigner3011]

Yes, Gettysburg 135th 1998 , Nashville / Franklin 95 ? & Chickamauga 99 ? Interesting how much muskets costs now ? back in the days before the EURO a rifles cost $ 350.00 or less. And Parker Hales were around yet.

[@rupey8625]

The early 2000s were good too. I started 1999 when I was 13. I was in the 37th Virginia Co.k

[@godfreybarton7654]

came over from UK to take part amazing experience

[@model-man7802]

What about the 125th....the 80s?

[@jasons.7506]

How true is this statement. It has gone downhill since

[@KneeStrikes]

You know you're getting old when 1990 is considered retro

[@monumentstosuffering2995]

Stop please lol.

[@arctictimberwolf]

That's not true, retro MUST means something els!

[@model-man7802]

I know,the 90s were yesterday to me.I started in 78 and went all the way through the 125th battles in the infantry and Mounted Cav.Now the bones have to be satisfied with wrestling the horses out of the trailer and the guns and limbers off the flatbeds.Cant walk so far anymore....🤷‍♂️

[@richardschaeffer210]

My first reenactment with the 9th Pa. Reserves. To be able to be on the actual battlefield was unbelievable. Thank you for sharing this.

[@rayleewayne9109]

My Great Grandfather was Captain John F. Espy of the 18th Georgia Infantry Regiment. He commanded the regiment at Sayler's Creek. When Brig Gen DuBose was captured during the battle, he took over DuBose's Brigade. He surrendered the brigade as part of Gen Kershaw's Division at Appomattox. Thanks for producing this.

[@Roosterdoodler]

You sure it was only one great?

[@rayleewayne9109]

@@Roosterdoodler Yes, I'm sure. He was my Grandmother's father.

[@amain325]

@@rayleewayne9109 May I inquire what is your age? I am 67 and my great grandfather was born in 1875.

[@rayleewayne9109]

@@amain325 Capt. Espy was born in 1829.

[@matthewwedge6416]

Thank you for the keeping of our national history.

[@sparkle4223]

I live in Sweden and I think the Civil War is soooo interesting, I try to see everything I can find about it.

[@johnwilliams4541]

Great video. Very realistic. Even though I'm a southerner and a sad time for the army this video shows how things happened. A very good watch

[@lhaviland8602]

It has been said that some of the later confederate actions especially (like the one at 17:55) are reminiscent of suicidal Japanese banzai charges during WW2. It always amazes me that humans will do something like that.

[@100texan2]

Desperate men do desperate things

[@outdoorlife5396]

It reminds me of the desperation of the NAZI's in WWII. How the CSA sent kids of 13-16 to their deaths at Petersburg, while Slave holders were sitting this one out. 20 Slave law

[@randylayhe4279]

The confederate nazi comparison does make A LOT of sense.

[@ifcdirector]

I was there. We drew lots and you could get killed, wounded, or captured. I drew captured and was captured by a Federal Officer at sword point late in the battle. I surrendered around the 19:50 part of this video. It was an amazing battle.

[@allandavis8201]

I really enjoy the way that the visual actions of some seriously well organised re-enactments are combined with the maps and very well explained events of these battles, it really makes history come alive, but, a couple of questions that I would love to know the answers too if someone could oblige, 1) how do they decide who gets killed and wounded, is it decided before they engage or does someone go around telling individuals that they are out of action? 2) do the re-enactors pay for everything for themselves or is there and organisation that provide things like ammunition, food etc? I assume, rightly or wrongly, that they buy their own uniforms and provide their weapons, plus period accommodations (in character tents etc). Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary film 🎥😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Here in the United Kingdom we do have re-enactments but they are tiny compared to the USA events, I have never managed to go and view one but would like to, so the American ones really do bring history to life, and a breath of fresh air during this 2020 lockdown, thanks again for sharing this visually stunning film, even viewed on my iPad they are awesome. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@JCmacDavid]

@Scott Campbell especially near a shady spot. lol. I was at this event.

[@sojnab1]

great re-enacting,i really enjoyed it

[@hollywoodwerewolf]

As far as I can remember, Sayler’s Creek was just part of the final chapter of the Classic Images series from back then. This is expanded, and has scenes I’ve never seen before.

[@monumentstosuffering2995]

Magnificent films. Unique.

[@horseman528]

Two sides fighting over a country that we don't even have anymore. The America I grew up in is gone.

[@mrsillywalk]

@Phillip Pierson Isolated in my house in Ireland, i would say that everyone's world has changed!

[@brutusbarnabus8098]

@horseman528 - It's only gone because you, and so many like you, are letting it go. Show some spine, get off your ass, and stand for what you believe in. Push back on the progressives and vote for conservatives. Spit in the face of political correctness. Tune out the fake news. Call out the cellar dwelling losers on Twitter and Instagram. Apathy is why our traditions are being lost.

[@johnbeechy]

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[@johnbeechy]

@@brutusbarnabus8098 I cry not 4 U, s a.. so U believe The Idea of Free Trade (not just with CDN-Mex but with all nations) was not that of the Reagan at all? it must have been not the GHWB that started the whole paperwork.. note that the Wall fell during GHWB's reign of 4 short years and not during Reagan's.. poor man forgot about the men at Lebanon.. Alzheimer's is one method God sends a Message to them that forgot the Constitution's article 1 section 8 point 1.. waste of time to read it, for the First Amendment is already suspended.. within 40 States..// back to Billy duh Kid that would allow a Hebrew female to sex him contrary to Hebrew law as well as under normal moral faith (small F) .. yes he did sign that paper but the jobs did not leave USA until during GWBush's reign of errors. Dennis Hastert used His Rule by Minority (he was the Longest standing speaker as Republican, and also a gay pedophile that would go to jail for money laundering) to pass laws that gave Tax Credits to USA companies that would offshore the jobs that would disappear pre and post the great recession... sure the alan Greenspan should take a Get Deal of Credit (that is a Pun, for it was this Hebrew and his foolish way to offer the low rates so that the USA CEOs could borrow to LBO their own companies and then offshore the jobs like Mitt Romney and Bain capital = 60,000+ factories left post them Hastert Bush Tax Credits that even Sen McCain agreed to and voted for. // these were all white men that made these decisions to offer the credits to CEOs of white skin to offshore the equipment and the wages of course.. all that extra dividend going to the fewer after exploiting the foreigners. U can claim that automation has cost more jobs than normal offshoring.. but the rings of the many timecards still ring by the Billion over in china. and that may well be poly sci but the Fact remains that China ONLY joined the WTO in 2000.. Bill was already a non starter with policy by that final year of his post BJ and impeachment reign... If u want to claim that Billy duh kid had All the Power in 2000 that Bush had when Bush allowed all the USA investors to lose all their investments in russia in the early 2000s.. I would say.. that its nice day outside for u to experience.. and although i did know a teenager that did drink a glass (small one) of that Brand name u may have mentioned for a coin .. u would know that I possessed that experience and how LONG (Last name of a USA Mass shooter) it took to pump his stomach.. / Look.,. if u want to play Games.. I can do this all day.. reagan died of Alzheimer's and there is not a flipping Thing u can do about that fact.. and when he shit his own pants and forgot the names of the men in Lebanon.. God did not forget to send Him a message for dealing with iran for guns to hand over to govt forces that raped 6 virgin white USA Nuns.. reagan knew of the rapes and he did nothing.. // IN the Name of St. Patrick. I shall grant u one more chance.. as an atheist U did not possess more know than THIS and U crossing any one during this weekend without knowledge.. proves u are not one of the Christ and need help b4 a Hebrew finds u and wants to Go all Exodus 32:27 (Passover was a mass murder of 14% of the entire Hebrew population)... stay safe as the Purge passes U by.. the 2nd Wave shall be Your test.. so wait until then B4 U wander.. have Guidance to not Cross a Hebrew during their weakest moments.. Hs will and rather Kill them that diss their weakness.. // God Bless and Good Luck.. 20,000 ish already dead and none shall be missed... ok RIP Lee Fierro Jaws // May them that seek to pass an idea NOT be held to blame or account for their Ideas. Rather blame ONLY them that sign the actual paper that is deemed useless later (for example the USA Constitution is useless), & be They not punished for the idea that they Made but Free to make more bad ideas and have others blamed over and over again'... this new unwritten or typed code of conduct was created by Brutus B, the dishonorable roman.. he is a back stabber that will betray any one that wants to change the Calendar. // Brutus Killed the democratic Rome 4ever with Idea to stab the fro Now King Emperor for Life known as Caesar.. and as Jesus said, "Render on to Caesar', shall True Christians defend Caesar from any Brutus betrayal and render intell to send C to know of B.// JC the Son would not demand coins for the C if B was meant to be the one rendered upon to... Caesar Over Brutus, 4ever and always.,. // to all them that Honor Caesar and His Long Winning Streak of Battle and Victory and render Upon to the current small C Caesar.. then be safe and wander not a Thought of outside.. sleep and rest U sheep.

[@johnbeechy]

@@brutusbarnabus8098 spelling is import a non ant.. important the proper old French spelling was in fact Bitschey Alsace Lorraine region but really a combo of Heinz 57.. including a member of the Pre WW1 Austrian-Hungarian army... Ukraine, Transylvania (Romania/Rumania), england too .. / once upon a landing on a colony, they can not recall the slang used so they use their language and print out the name as they Hear Fit./. so yes.. I did possess a co ward of the State at a young age, drink another Name brand pumped and lived.. and yes the Name beechy was a bastard name given not by Blood relative but by the State.. that does not negate the message I sent.. If all U needed was the Bloodlined ones to tell u news.. u'd ONLY Listen to another Bush babgy and do as the WMDs are over there told. and then Have another hastert pass another Tax credit (not a cut a Credit) so u cant see it.. I have gone by many many nick has less names than I possess.and even wind and breeze so watt light bulb does it matter over mind where my Blood veins originate from?? watt steam engine does it matter that Vision in person is not worthy of mention for IT might scare the shit out a recruit for the army that cant save them from a ex cocaine user's wet dreams of WMDs.. ?? there is and will always be dumb.. best u not act upon their words until U get a 2nd confirmation.. pretend U are a reporter and that U need that 2nd C.. before U betray Caesar././ Jesus did not support the use of swords. and sure ass shit did not mention.. render on to Brutus.. so Long Live the Caesar so there is no other for whom to render on or Upon to.. // in the Mean time. May Peace (Piece if u need coins) be with u.. enough to handle the delivery costs of a food bank move. // I really liked this Video.. they are Perfect for Homeschooling and i have and shall always be a 100% supporter of the Homeschooling as LONG as the parents try try try to be apart of that 1 on 1 teaching ratio.. Good Videos are Good but these are Tony the Tiger./. Grrrrreat!// thanks be to God for the Purge is already 20,000 ish and there is Now more evidence of the Trump denying use of the "stop resident evil" pandemic plan.. evidence for the use of the 2nd amendment Perhaps?

[@bobflendorg1064]

My g-great grandfather was there in Anderson's 4th Corps, Johnson's Division, Wallace's Brigade, 26th South Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was badly wounded and captured and appears on a list of prisoners at U.S. Hospital, Farmville, Virginia, from April 7th to 15 June 1865.

[@jaywinters2483]

👍 thanks for not ruining it with music

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

So sad about the civil war and the deaths that were within, I am happy that it is over and will never to our Knowledge ever happen again. - a unnamed natural poet -

[@johnbeechy]

intelligence education about new business models and if sheep would stop make believing in false gods and hope is not a tactic. 'hope is not a tactic' was said by Mark W from the movie 'deepwater horizon'.. // the instrument of war is the least effective one any man that cant learn that farming crops will never pay off as much as the finished product. and If men wont allow labor units to use machines and the tools that fix them machines, then the jobs of that Kind be offshored to where the making is made the south would never want their labor units, black or white, make coins. even now their min wage is so low that their whites are more a slave than the blacks were back when there was no wage at all. suicides are high.. especially for vets. lying to sheep to con them into a Fear that is not True.. but not one of thr secret service was willing to remove dick cheney or his internal coup types that bum rush the ex cocaine user named bush baby... Matthew 26:52 was written 1000s of years before the articles, that were to be violated, Gave the right to remove a Tyrant from power ... article 1 section 8 point 1 of the Constitution has been violated ever since the bush cut and never learned that a Tax cut does not increase wages but the Net Pay only.. thanks for sharing.. stay safe during this Purge of 2020.. if the CDC had not its funding cut by 100$ of millions, or if the head of the pandemic dept had not been fired or if the Plan of what to do if and when a Pandemic happened had been followed.. there be perhaps less than the 16,000+++ dead that there are now.. will this C-Virus kill as many as the civil war?/.. God Bless and stay safe.. Purge and Be Well Purge and Be Free of the sheep that hate Jesus and refuse to Honor the Constitution.. leave them that hate go outside. 2B tested

[@tbone4646]

Excellent reenactment.

[@michaelzann6485]

I was fortunate to be in the 125th and 150th!!

[@valletasmith3218]

You know your getting old when you were there in 1990

[@JCmacDavid]

We were so young.

[@rupey8625]

I reenacted this battle about 20 years ago. I had to march 15 miles in the freezing rain, talk about miserable.

[@ziggymorris8760]

This sounds like chaos

[@bobapbob5812]

Sgt Harry Reese, former Welsh coal miner, was in charge of the building of the mine. He was given short fuses that had to be spliced together and which failed. He went into the mine shaft, relit the fuses and the mine went off. He was nominated for the CMOH by General Parks, CO of the 9th Corps but was never awarded the medal. I could not get PA congressmen or senators interested to getting his award even though many men received it just for the action of capturing a flag.

[@MegaWillieo]

I took part in the reenactment

[@bobapbob5812]

Lee had to strip garrisons along the coast and in other areas to make up for his losses. He was also suffering from growing desertion.

[@zach7193]

There was more to this? I thought there was no more after the showing of the Battle of the Crater. How many content are there with Civil War reenactments from the 80s and 90s?

[@josh6381]

The crater was a separate vhs... This one was part 1 of a different vhs where Appomattox was part 2.

[@WysteriaGuitar]

Why does Grant have a New Jersey accent! :)

[@briandenison2325]

It seemed like CW re-enacting was bigger and more popular in the eighties and nineties then it is today, then again I live in a western state that was still a territory at the time of the war, maybe it’s different in the eastern part of the country?

[@JCmacDavid]

You are right about reenacting being bigger in the 80's and 90's. With major Hollywood movies coming out and people interested in history it was a growing hobby. Now it is shrinking, it started losing members when the economy went bust in the mid 2000's and was not able to replenish its numbers partly due to the lack of interest in history and peoples misconception of the Civil War. It is an expensive hobby.

[@gudetama470]

6:55 the flag holder acting good yo

[@SN-xk2rl]

The "Grant was a Butcher" claim has been disproven for 30 years. It is a lost cause myth. Grant recognized that the second attack at Cold Harbor was a terrible mistake, as was the second assault at Vicksburg. But Lee had his costly days and campaigns as well. Lee's first, seven days was extremely costly. Also, gross numbers are a specious comparison. Going with % of your own army lost, Lee actually lost a higher % of his troops than Grant across both the entire war, as well as the overland and petersburg seige. The crater wasn't on Grant. Meade, Burnside and the drunken Brigadier were to blame for the debacle, that and the racism of the union command structures. Similarly, have you looked at TJ Jackson's butcher's bill? The war of manuever was brilliant - it was also bloody and costly. Stonewall died at the right time. Think of what he would have done in PA (Lee was delusional enough)? Then, imagine TJ doing dig-in-hold-retreat-rinse-repeat. It would have killed ole TJ.

[@travisbayles870]

My Great Great Great uncle Captain Wesley Mellard of Co D 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment of Humphreys brigade fought at Saylors Creek

[@the1magageneral323]

I don't know where to find these films anyplace online.

[@outdoorlife5396]

The food did not arrive due to I think it was LTC Taylor ( I think) who got married. He took care of the food for the troops. That said, the guy who was left took care of the weapons and ammo. So when they got to Amelia CH the train cars had no food

[@mcd6249]

I am in the first 30 seconds, Union Army private, in the 125 th NY Regiment.

[@reset8997]

Please do one based off Fort McAllister I’m a reenactor there as a Confederate drummer boy

[@reset8997]

I’m in the 2019 video of it

[@Jonathanbegg]

Too long getting to Sayler's Creek - about half the video.

[@lhaviland8602]

That title card tho...

[@josh6381]

I wish they would have left the original soundtrack of music on here without trying to overdub it with that new crap.

[@markhill7596]

war, what a waste

[@malcolmallerton3946]

Robert E Lee must have been one of the greatest General around

[@tobyoneil1969]

Malcolm Allerton the guy was. He made blunders of course, like any general, but his ability to take on superior numbers and defeat them is extraordinary. Plus he was an actual great military engineer. Some of the works he built in 1861 were not taken till the very end of the war.

[@johnbeechy]

if he had not chose the wrong side.. he'd been a True Hero and not a Traitor.. he was Good.. but then again his opponents had many flaws.. not as many as the one for being on the wrong side of God. thanks for sharing.. stay safe and inside during this Purge of 2020.. // Article 1 Section 8 Point 1.. Honor the Constitution before more Rights and amendments are removed.. First Amendment is suspended in 40 states already... Trump should not have cut funding to the CDC or fired their pandemic head in 2018.. God hates Idiots that Put 'In God we trust" on each Dollar bill and then deny the Simple Command of Jesus, to 'render on to Caesar' aka .. pay the taxes and do as the Constitution demands b4 u'll ask for your rts.. // stay safe..

[@tobyoneil1969]

Nomad Vagabond he could go on the offensive but failed a bit more there. Of his thirteen victories, I can only think of like 3 that were offensive battles.

[@amain325]

He was a good battlefield tactician. He lacked the long-range strategic insight of Grant, or Eisenhower. He was less than successful at managing the egos of his subordinate generals and getting the best performances out of them. He ignored Longstreet's prescient advice at Gettysburg and launched the disastrous Pickett's Charge (did he forget what he had seen at Fredericksburg less than 7 months before??). After Gettysburg (and Vicksburg the very next day) he had to know the war was lost. With his great influence he might have convinced the Confederate government to end it, simply by going home and declining to participate any further. Instead he kept battling for almost 2 more years, even when the situation had become hopeless; resulting in as many as 300,000 more deaths. In a very real sense, that blood is on his hands. And this doesn't even address the fact that he was a West Point graduate who turned against his country to fight for a government committed to the preservation of slavery. Not a great figure, not a hero. The "Lost Cause" myth and the hero worship of Lee are misguided and distasteful.

[@peterwallace9764]

So who decides to fall down dead or wounded where n when. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@tobyoneil1969]

Peter Wallace America civil war reenactment is usually coordinated. Some represent their ancestors, and act as they did. So a mix of preparedness is there. If a battle calls for a number of casualties (say Pickett's charge with some 8,000) they will just estimate. Also it isn't accurate and I guess if some feel like it they take a "hit" as it isn't strictly accurate.

[@jamesrichardson3322]

Peter Wallace during the Reenactment it pre -planned according to the original battle, officers on both sides ask for volunteers to take Hits. You can be wounded or dead it's really up to you, sometimes take hits because you are running low on cartages to fire. Or your tried and wore out, and want rest. We do ask if you are okay before we move forward, because we don't want leave behind anyone in need of medical assistance. Drink water before battle and during the battle, we don't need people pass out the battlefield. It has happened, people didn't drink enough water or ate properly before the battle. I am a Federal Reenactor guys in blue, and guys in gray are the traitorous Southerns.

[@thatonefordf-1502]

That’s when confederate flags was normal to people nowadays liberals say it’s racist

[@jebstuart4004]

you know i m french and i agree with you. In europe we consider nazi flags as racist symbols because this was not just a war but the suffering of millions of civils in concentration camps. Confederate flag is a battle flag, not a matter of killing civils and put them somewhere to exterminate them. Even if i m sure that the 5% of slaves owners were bad guys selfish and turned only on greed and finance. The others were there to fight for the states rights and for their homeland.

[@spartanwarrior1]

It is racist and it is a shame to read such a post from someone waving the US flag.

[@jebstuart4004]

@@spartanwarrior1 people like you have no arguments. They always say : "it s racist". Nothing more. Every single post i red are exactly the same. "it s racist, it s racist, it s racist". Seems that we deal with 5 years old kids Read more, study more instead of talking about things you don t know much about .

[@CashMeadows]

@@jebstuart4004 the millennial today is not interested in history. He is entitled and educated way beyond any reasonable ability to actually learn. They are fools. Stupid fools that will be demanding their rights to be loaded onto boxcars and carried away. Infact this one thinks there is a first class ticket too. Lol. Dumb as a door knob.

[@johnbeechy]

loser flags are losers.. U cant claim a win if u wont or refuse to win a war first..// and that is not racism .. that is pure stupidity.. God hates idiots as clint eastwood said.. and If u dont think Clint knows what he speaks of.. well u can take that scripted line UP with him.. // go win a war then use that win to say.. 'we put up that flag and we know that dying for the flag is good as long as the flag is made in china'.. Article 1 Section 8 Point 1 of the Constitution has been Violated y the GOP ever since Reagan.. and adding only debt to the nation is not fulfilling the Damn piece of paper called the Constitution. // and hating Jesus for His Command, to 'render on to Caesar' is not smart after U put the Cursed Words, "in God we trust" on each dollar bill.. if u hate the Command and deny the Son, at least know Voodoo economics enough to not put a Curse on Your own economy with such stupid words.. // reading and writing is not enough, u must understand the words and the commitment.. and that is why .. under Article 1 Section 8 Point 15 the North ordered the end of the southern separatists and their bad business models.. farmers.. they should know better than to compete vs machines and manufacturing GDP,.. weak business models make white men pay less wages to other whites or NO education. // God bless them that Honor Both The Son and the Constitution.