How did the Union Destroy the Confederates? - Knowledgia Reaction

[@Knowledgia]

Hi Vlogging Through History! Thank you so much for your reaction and for your corrections! It seems that some details were overlooked on my end. I will definitely pay extra attention to the next part. Just to clarify one thing, as I have noticed a few comments about this: we do not use AI voice in our videos. Thank you!

[@TheIrishNational]

Thank you Knowledgia!!

[@tylerman39]

Not ai voice but ai script?

[@TheHadley54]

Honestly you saying it’s not AI but having things like the mispronunciation of Mobile Alabama makes it a bit worse.

[@CRS253]

14:12 I understood it to be "chased" as in everyone was chasing Lee, not "chaste".

[@Theegreygaming]

beat me to it

[@meredithsmyth7059]

That's what I just said. 👍

[@Lady_NightCourt_22]

That's how I took it too. 😊

[@maximemunger5022]

"Welcome back everyone to another reaction video" is always pleasant to hear

[@RyansFiles]

The only channel I have notifications on for. Time to get stuck in (will have to pause for the Leeds Luton game)

[@haraldisdead]

Someone once asked Pickett for the millionth time why "picketts charge" failed, and he said "well, I've always thought the Yankee army had something to do with it."

[@ReformedSpeculator]

Robert E Lee, the Chaste. Though what they were trying to say is “the chased,” meaning the Union armies objective was to follow and destroy Lee’s army, it comes off as sounding exactly as you interpreted it.

[@FaithfulObjectivist]

Outstanding and concise commentary. We learn more from this kind of measured reviews.

[@295Phoenix]

In Thomas' defense, the reason he held off on attacking Hood at Nashville was because he waiting for Wilson's cavalry to finish getting resupplied with horses. Can't pursue a beaten army without horses.

[@paula8135]

Plus there was an ice storm for two days prior. Also, funny how Grant wanted him to move faster when he himself had been sitting on his fat a** in Petersburg for months

[@michaelyarnell1559]

Yes. And after the battle of Franklin Hood's army was incapable of defeating Thomas. So it just looked at Thomas's army for some reason. Hood should have withdrawn and regrouped instead of staying waiting for doom day. Thomas doubtless thought, "As long as he can't do much why do I have to move before all is ready?" Solid logic. I always thought Thomas was a very good general. Only Grant, Sherman and Reynolds rank higher among Union generals IMO.

[@goldensun2787]

What else was grant to do at Petersburg?​@@paula8135

[@Tsweeney12584]

Not with that attitude

[@general-cromwell6639]

A 10th mountain twice veteran...Back in the day...A few of my troopers got involved with some local "known" girls. Come to find out, there was a large "mafia" element in Watertown...Watertown...YEA! ;-) Not going to go further, because, why... Always great to see your content. All my best to you and yours. Cheers.

[@brittking3990]

lol he is saying “Lee the chased”…not as you are thinking “the chaste”. 🤠 He is referencing the Battle of the Wilderness where because of Grants policy “wherever he goes there you’ll be!” causes almost another 50,000 union casualties.

[@dennis2376]

Thank you for the course correction. It is interesting that the map shows how little ground was taken. It is staggering to think how many soldiers it would take to hold all the ground. Thank you and have a good week.

[@Seannn412]

I'd pay an obscene amount of money to listen/ watch you do a Civil War lecture series

[@BrandonSmith84]

George R. Crook is my 2nd Cousin 8x Removed and my 5th Great Granduncle George Washington Rouse was part of Sherman March with the 100th Indiana

[@icygaming20]

I think the "machine guns" is meant to be a sped up version of a mass of rifles firing at eachother to represent battle.

[@MichalKolac]

Maybe but it does look slightly stupid.

[@alpharius5178]

It is

[@luskvideoproductions869]

Nice, I was waiting for this one. Tnx!

[@AttackerNumberTwo]

As a European I really appreciate US historical content. Love the channel.

[@JoiceVaderd]

1:26 I lived in Fort Drum, as a baby. My parents were bith stationed there, briefly.

[@SouthernRelics1863]

Fort Morgan has really good fishing, I’ve caught some fish in very close proximity to the USS Tecumseh

[@MalikF15]

Hey VTH, if you could react to epic history video on the smaller stories of peninsular war during Napoleonic wars. It has a ton of eye witness accounts. Happy thanksgiving 🦃

[@Chamomileable]

I think he said "General Lee, the chased" due to the number of commanders who were in pursuit of Lee. And I think the "machineguns" are supposed to simulate a line performing a volley fire.

[@WilliamKennedy-cg3ff]

I think he meant chased not chaste. Since he is the North objective.

[@TheRedleg69]

Haha. There's at least two of us watching in Watertown, NY

[@tatedavis2016]

1864 is always the most interesting year of the Civil War to me. It’s interesting seeing Grant sending all those massive Union armies moving at the same time, and the Confederates trying to defend against them.

[@someone6124]

A week ago I stopped reading Grants memoirs, because it became an undecipherable conglomeration of movements, relocations, battles and so on. It was hard for me to follow where everything was happening, since im not American. Whilst my searches on KZbin for a concise big picture summary were not fruitful, your reaction popped up in my feed. I guess the algorithm wanted to spoil me. Your additional comments were also insightful. From reading Grants memoirs I was pleasantly surprised as well as a bit disillusioned. On the one hand I found Grants tenacity and conviction in the cause of the union impressive. As well as his efforts in sparing lives wherever feasible and necessary. On the other hand I guess I was expecting someone to be more sympathetic with the fates of enslaved people, although the one act where he managed to find bread winning labour by felling timber was quite nice. All in all this period of time became interesting to me and im looking forward to learning more. Especially some details around the fringe, which put actions and thoughts of all participants into context. Im not sure that I fully understand yet how not to read these accounts with a modern eye. Especially to understand where Grant for example tried to make himself look better than he was. Thats what most people do in their memoirs. Oh and a question I have, someone here might be able to answer: When Grant for example speaks in his memoirs of accounts where his troops took supplies from the enemy what exactly does that mean? How are 'Rations' for example being handled? Does flour come in barrels? Are they the same as from the north? Or is every state / locality producing whats at hand? What about other stuff. Grant talks about coffe. Does it come in tin cans, from one manufacturer and when you plunder these do you now have a different way of storing from another manufacturer? What I understand from the logistics of the day its not quite usual to just have one supplier, especially when your just ramped up recruitment and now demand is very high. I guess both sides scrambled to get just whatever could be found right? So am I right in assuming that your rations are a wild mix f different stuff from different manuifacturers rather than the streamlined way its handled today?

[@colmortimer1066]

I think he was being cute calling Lee "The Chased" since he was being chased by the Army of the Potomac. But I will agree it sounded odd either way. I think a lot of these channels do that, rely on flash and flair, nice animations, and a passing knowledge of history. I'd rather watch a guy with nothing more than a camera to film himself watching and correcting these more high production videos, where his only real draw is an outstanding knowledge of what he is talking about.

[@bryanharte551]

I love how the whole video bro was making corrections. gotta love a history nerd that knows his shit

[@Stormageddon571]

19:50 One mistake I think the CSA made was, in a time of war, placing their capital so close to the enemy.

[@brittking3990]

Yea but back in 1860’s era you literally only had a handful of towns with ANY industrial capability…the others being Charleston, Atlanta and maybe New Orleans. Pretty slim pickings!

[@Stormageddon571]

@@brittking3990 I think Charleston would have been a decent pick, being an important coastal city in the South which wasn't already a capital city, also being in the first state to secede.

[@chrisdevault5823]

@@Stormageddon571 I believe Coastal wouldn’t necessarily be better. The Union Navy was probably the biggest mismatch for the south in the war. If I’m the south I definitely would want the North to have to fight its way in through the battle lines. Richmond may actually have been one of the best options when you see what it actually takes to surround and capture it. Defining the battle lines and playing hard defense wasn’t anywhere near the problem. The problem was not having the manpower to hold it indefinitely.

[@jdotoz]

There does seem to be a good bit of controversy over Fort Pillow - and there is some Confederate testimony supporting the idea of a massacre - but suffice it to say that surrendered or not, if a soldier is hors de combat he should not be killed. Nevada marks its Civil War origins with the motto "Battle born" on its flag.

[@beslim15]

I could not imagine what kind of president McClellan would have been.

[@kimjongun1348]

An awful one.

[@torresmat10]

I think the "machine gun" fire is just supposed to be a volley of musket fire

[@Morristown337]

Just looking at the Railroad map at the start of the war kind of explains it all.

[@lirisa1869]

14:00 I think you misheard the narrator, they said "the chased at the helm"

[@anathardayaldar]

Liked for your fact checking on their video.

[@matsand4719]

later in the vid W Virginia is colored correctly

[@ericnorman5237]

So maybe the purple West Virginia early in the video was kind of preparing the way for later when it goes blue. Yet I agree with Chris; I think it would been better to simply combine the two Virginias at the beginning as a single Virginia.

[@jankusthegreat9233]

I'm proud of crhis for being such a picky nerd

[@kevinrussell3501]

I been to all the lower 48 states but still yet to visit any cities named Mobbell in our great country. Maybe I'm missing out, maybe we all are?

[@kinjiru731]

10:34 I'm confused about what the difference between "captured" and "surrendered" means in this context.

[@Lakitu886]

Kings and Generals has a new series on the civil war too

[@michaeltelson9798]

Basically, Sigel was a political general, yes he had military experience in Europe but almost always as a loser. The German immigrants were the political power in NYC at that time. When flustered he would make his commands in German, further confusing the troops. German pride was shown prior to New Market with the troops saying “Who fights mit Sigel” changing it after the battle to “Who runs mit Sigel”. In the Battle of New Market you had the participation of the VMI cadets, except only their artillery battery actually fought. An interesting event, occurredst the rout phase of the battle, Breckinridge saw two of his commanders walking up the valley behind their troops and joined them. Both were VMI graduates with a more famous descendant. These were George Smith and George Patton, close cousins and the father of George Smith Patton.

[@rustyknott-W.D]

Basically, it was the application of Fudd's 1st Law of Opposition: If you push something hard and long enough, it will fall over.

[@opengee]

I don't think the sound effect of machine guns is what you're hearing. It's drumming/drum taps/drum rolls, which was a common sound in Civil War battlefields.

[@theroachden6195]

I think he meant "the chased" as in he's being chased. Not how you were thinking.

[@danielkitchens4512]

What's your thoughts on John Breckenridge he was a political General?

[@Abdus_VGC]

'Chaste at helm' is an old english proverb meaning 'defeated but not destroyed'

[@claudiaclark6162]

In Florida they were battling against themselves with The Seminole War military commander Richard Keith Call who advocated for restraint and judiciousness. His daughter Ellen Call Long wrote that upon being told of the vote outcome by its supporters, Call raised his cane above his head and told the delegates who came to his house, "And what have you done? You have opened the gates of hell, from which shall flow the curses of the damned, which shall sink you to perdition." Florida had a very small population at the time and half were slaves not including the Seminoles and Black Seminoles. The Men went to war in other States and Florida was left pretty much undefended

[@KingOfTheSkies1]

pleasee do the campaign trail more 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@marybicanic3093]

Like your commentaries. You are probably right about the machine gun sound effect, but didn't the gattling gun play a part in the civil war? It probably sounded different.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Not really, no. It certainly wasn't at any of the battles in this video.

[@drea.m.r.76]

Maybe he meant "chased" instead of "chaste?" 🤷‍♀️🤔♥️

[@Skogsmard]

Would love to see a reaction to Extra History's "The Story of Beer", a compilation video just dropped the day before Thanksgiving.

[@meredithsmyth7059]

I thin̈k he was referring to R. Lee as the "chased".

[@tedfischer2023]

I think they said the chased like in the hounds chased the fox not the chaste meaning being a virgin.

[@dgill21]

A few video ideas (In case you needed some more lol): -Extra History: History of Beer -Monsieur Z did a video of who he would've voted for in each election and I think that would be interesting from your perspective Great Stuff!

[@Stormageddon571]

14:00 "Chased" not "chaste"

[@jakeflaherty6074]

I thought Jackson died a couple of months before Gettysburg not a year?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

A year before the events in 1864 that were being discussed when I said that.

[@jakeflaherty6074]

​@@VloggingThroughHistoryMy apologies, thanks for the clarification

[@antoinedoyen7452]

Yes correct...it is pronunced MOBEEL , because it was a french city.

[@MichalKolac]

Can you watch Potential Historys video about the indiana soldiers in the battle of Gettysburg?

[@twister2460]

did you see the new db cooper evidence?

[@VATravels]

Very cool!

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

Anyone else bothered by the mispronouncing of Mobile?

[@DoctorElk]

It is because computer generated voices can't read words like real humans.

[@razier5299]

@@DoctorElk I'm pretty sure he isn't AI as far as I remember.

[@ternel]

​@razier5299 i really think it a computer voice.

[@yashjoseph3544]

@@ternel It's a real voice.

[@victoriabaker6943]

Misinformation - oh boy!!!😮. Thanks for some chuckles

[@holysquire8989]

General Lee the chased not the chaste.

[@rythania7686]

they did have repeaters

[@PurpleCrownVic]

Chaste means he refrains from EXTRAMARITAL sex. A lot of people use it as someone who abstains from ALL SEX tho.

[@renatomboemer9789]

Question for you, Chris. Was Grant as good of a general as Napoleon?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

No, but neither was anyone else in the 19th century.

[@Arrowfodder]

No he wasnt, but then again no one was. Its no mark against Grant, Napoleon was just in a different league.

[@walterreeves3679]

The Union destruction of Confederate war assets did not result in "a fire that leveled the city"of Atlanta. That is a pernicious myth,

[@paulbarteltii9998]

I can’t stand AI videos. I love your reactions but I can’t watch reactions to AI videos. I appreciate you taking your time to do them tho, because there are usually an atrocious amount of inaccuracies which should be called out.

[@luapkcuhs]

Completely agree, too many good history videos to react to just watch an AI one

[@mslyyt]

Many criticisms to be leveled here but Knowledgia definitely doesn't make AI videos, or use an AI narrator. They started out way, way before all of that stuff.

[@starsaber2002]

I don't think knowlogia is ai tho

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I'm not entirely sure this is an AI channel

[@TheSkyGuy77]

The video he's reacting to isn't AI generated though.

[@dhermitmorse]

Perhaps quarry would have been a better word choice. I think the video meant chased not chaste.

[@iammattc1]

He calls the Union army "the Lee--chasing army" and Lee the "chased" not "chaste" It's just that you made comments and broke up the flow of what was being said

[@dennish300]

"Ohio guys..." love it. No bias whatsoever... 😁

[@dalbalgbusc]

The chased as in the union wss chasing him

[@mrgrrr9552]

"chased" not "chaste"

[@arts2412]

Your a better than than I, I could not sit through this. Yankees? Northerners? Are they talking about the Army United States?

[@jamesblackwell7752]

Chased not Chaste

[@BlueSideUp77]

Stonewall Jackson wasn't always a great general, looking at the early war.

[@Arrowfodder]

He certainly had his up and downs and is overrated historically.

[@seminolewar]

I couldn't stand the constant machine gun background noise and had to turn it off after halfway.

[@haraldisdead]

Reynolds was the same rank as McPherson. LancasterPA gang gang

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

McPherson outranked Reynolds by about 7 weeks in terms of date of promotion. McPherson also had a BG rank in the regular army, which most of the other Major Generals did not have.

[@Steelers4life6969]

I cringed everytime this video made an error. They need to contact you Chris before they ever post anything again

[@Phillz3]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ-wm2qnjMyBf80si=bkZwAfLbNIlx8a0Y This would be a great reaction video b/c Bill comes at it more from a historian perspective

[@LeSethX]

Yeah, this video shows a.. whole bunch of reasons why Knowledgia is not the, uh, best of history channels. The Roman videos are particularly painful to watch

[@HolyknightVader999]

Superior logistics, superior numbers, superior firepower. The Union won by having a strong military bureaucracy and having more men.

[@williewilson4262]

And being the good guys good guys always win

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@williewilson4262 Not quite. The Byzantines in the 7th-8th century lost to the Muslims even though they were the good guys. But the Northern USA had something the Romans lacked: superior technology, numbers, firepower, and logistics. Hence why the North was able to put down the Southern rebels, while the Romans had no such luck.

[@josephwurzer4366]

AI is terrible in chiding or cresting visuals.

[@quasi_moto8013]

Sounds to me like an AI generated script. Might even be a bot channel

[@oftenwrong.]

2st not bad!!

[@xdoc482]

10:50 Wait, Nathan Bedford Forrest? Isn’t that who I think it is??? White Sheets…. So we are taking his word as truth?

[@jamescameron4735]

So bassicly anytime the north fought and lost tactical battles but killed confederate soldiers they won a strategic victory. So based on this they literally cant loose lol. And people wonder why i say grant is an overrated general. If Lee had been in charge of the north he wouldnt won the war long before grant did.

[@SpottedSharks]

That channel is the worst. It's what happens when you turn it over to AI without any supervision.

[@AdamVassGal]

It’s amazing what Lee was able to do. Was he outnumbered in every battle he fought? That had to be incredibly frustrating for Grant. I know that you don’t see issues with the way Sherman and company conducted themselves, but it is interesting behavior when you consider that the ultimate goal was to reunite the nation. The attacks on civilians and their livelihoods are difficult to see as a strategy rather than as a last resort when the army is struggling to finish the job. I also find it interesting that someone with more of an anti-war stance wasn’t considered for president. If I were a northerner during this time, I would absolutely have been over the war at this point and have wanted everyone to come home. We love to talk strategy and tactics, but imagine being a mother sending your sons to die in this war. That was really interesting. Thank you for the lesson.

[@curious968]

McClellan was the anti-war presidential candidate. Or, at least he tried to be. And there was certainly some sentiment to just let the south go. The problem is, so much blood had been shed that a 1960s style "peace" movement was going to have tough sledding in the 19th century. Especially as everyone tacitly knew or had good 19th century reason to suspect that if the south won, it would certainly mean more war later on over the US Southwest. Almost nobody in the 21st century thinks about that, but to say the least, the south and north would not be allies had the south won. In the 19th century, that's a formula for more wars. The fact is, the defender in this war had all the advantages. Generally, not just in the Civil War, the attacker needs (at least locally) a 3-to-1 advantage to expect to prevail. Grant seldom had such an advantage. Overall, in all his commands, he did quite well. While he took about 150,000 casualties (horrific for the time), he inflicted 190,000 casualties on the Confederacy, virtually all of it on the attack. So, despite the claims of the apologists, and some shocked northern locals, Grant was no butcher. At least, not when you realize there was no low casualty approach to this war (most of Grant's critics tacitly repeat the mistakes of Grant's predecessors who looked in vain for precisely that and ground out an extra couple of years of casualties. Grant ended the war in about 13 months.). The real deal was when Grant forced Lee to defend a siege at Petersburg. Lee knew it was just a matter of time. A very bloody "just a matter of time" but so it proved. In fact, Grant forced Lee to _abandon_ Richmond without a battle. That is a remarkable fact that gets far less attention than it should. A lot of people fantasized about Lee taking Washington after a somehow win in Gettysburg. But Grant never cared about taking Richmond. He knew, just as George Washington knew in his own war, that the real objective was the Army of Northern Virginia. Take that out, and the rest falls quickly. As, in fact, it proved. But there was no low casualty approach that actually did that. Grant made sure Lee had _no_ room for his famous clever maneuvers. Why? Because Grant never let up, always kept Lee engaged. To a large extent, Lee wasn't the general we remember when he faced Grant. Grant wouldn't allow it.

[@goldensun2787]

If you go to the battlefield, you'll see how massive of an advantage Lee had due to the terrain

[@williewilson4262]

Then the traitors slave owners should have gave up their stupid practice and ended the war

[@RobertH1971]

@@goldensun2787It is still to Lee’s credit that he fought Grant on that terrain. If Johnston had been in charge, there would’ve been a retreat.

[@daveunbranded]

This is AI shit

[@Subvetsteve]

Chased not Chaste! I hate AI videos!

[@yashjoseph3544]

This isn't AI.

[@Subvetsteve]

@ I’m not referring to Chris’ react video but to the video he is reacting to!

[@bx9559]

Reall.y need to warn yhou not to react to videos produced by AI...

[@yashjoseph3544]

This isn't AI.