Jubal Early Is Unrepentant

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@lanemeyer9350 Ай бұрын

“My bad old man” - Robert E. Lee

@dresqueda Ай бұрын

Interesting information on the thoughts of Jubal Early. Thank you for sharing this.

@pjmlegrande Ай бұрын

It was a bloody and bitter war that obliterated much of the old South’s culture as well as its agrarian, slave labor economy. But the country’s deep sectional conflict had been brewing for many years and war seemed inevitable. The outcome was understandably hard for many like Early to swallow, but for 4 million former slaves not so much. On the whole, I sympathize with Grant’s sentiments about the matter. He wrote that when he met Lee to accept his surrender he was sad and depressed and “felt anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. I do not question, however, the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us.”

@markmcintosh7095 Ай бұрын

Thank you, that was very interesting.

@davide9658 Ай бұрын

Old Jube, Lee's 'Bad Old Man' is someone who never gave up. I'm from the same part of Virginia as him and always considered him to be a somewhat unconventional yet admirable character. Although he had his detractors he definitely proved himself to be a capable and courageous military commander.

@williamrossetter9430 Ай бұрын

@@davide9658 maybe so, but Early was a secesh who did not know when to give up and fold his cards. Obviously, the Union and Grant did this for him!

@rl13b99 Ай бұрын

@@williamrossetter9430”The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.”-Jubal Early

@duckwalker1 Ай бұрын

@@williamrossetter9430the union nor grant did anything for him.

@williamrossetter9430 Ай бұрын

@duckwalker1 hmm, might want to consider that Grant and Pete Longstreet were such good friends that Grant nominated Pete an ambassadorship abroad.

@richiephillips1541 Ай бұрын

My sister-in-law's family are Earlys. Direct descendants of Ole Jubal.

@edglass9912 Ай бұрын

Great job on Old Jube!! We have him here in Lynchburg, Va!! Ed from Lynchburg

@crowder2320 Ай бұрын

That’s one man that was never reconstructed!

@johnvesper989 Ай бұрын

To his eternal disgrace. A simple traitor, nothing more.

@crowder2320 Ай бұрын

@ at least he stood for something, you probably don’t to your eternal disgrace, a traitor to yourself

@johnvesper989 Ай бұрын

@@crowder2320 So did Hitler, another racist P.O.S.

@billgabbard922 Ай бұрын

@@johnvesper989 The usual comment from a Mynah bird!

@crowder2320 Ай бұрын

@@billgabbard922 a bird that flies over your head

@davidlearn8239 Ай бұрын

Always liked Jubal Early, he got to write his memoirs unlike some of his fellow statesmen. It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of of someone such as A.P.Hill, but alas and sadly that will never be.

@edouardrobert160 Ай бұрын

Thanks Ron

@loganpollock1689 Ай бұрын

His corps took every quilt and every pair of shoes in the Pennsylvania campaign. He took $100,000 from Frederick, Maryland. He said they were a Yankee town and he would burn it if they didn't pay up.

@davidtvedt7597 Ай бұрын

Early defines the true meaning of a dedicated "Rebel." No matter the prevailing circumstances, before, or after battle, win, or lose, there was no changing his mind, right up to the time, when he breathed, his last breath! Obviously, no argument, with, him, for his commitment, to cause, was, unwavering!

@oldgeezerproductions Ай бұрын

As someone who has made his career based on scientific investigations to determine the actual cause of things that came up at work, I have no sympathy or feelings of solidarity with people who can not alter their preconceived ideas and opinions when presented with contrary reality. One of my greatest joys has been to be shown where I was wrong so that I could abandon fallacious ideas and replace them with what was much more likely to be the truth.

@waynelayton8568 Ай бұрын

@oFUldgeezerproductions

@thescarletandgrey2505 Ай бұрын

@@davidtvedt7597 he was a Confederate Karen who was forced to live in a nation he now hated. Right along with Bedsore Forest.

@red88chevy Ай бұрын

Reading the comments I see we are still arguing over the cause almost 160 years later, never the less Early had a dedication to his beliefs that few nowadays could match

@ebrim5013 Ай бұрын

Yeah, he was clear about what he did and his reasons.

@sbgroen Ай бұрын

This discussion isn't about the cause of the Woah. It's about the mechanism of secession and whether it was constitutional at the time each political entity did so.

@williamrossetter9430 Ай бұрын

@@red88chevy So did the Germans in WWII, does not make Early a national hero in my mind. The Confederacy would have killed America as we know it today. Victors take all and write history.

@spiraling69 Ай бұрын

My hero!

@davidcouch6514 22 күн бұрын

My Great Great Grandfather was in 53rd Georgia Infantry Regiment and was killed on October 19, 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek; I don’t know if before or after General Sheridan’s Ride. The Regiment had approximately 450 men at Gettysburg; Yankees managed to whittle down the ranks to 64 at Appomattox Surrender.

@davec1330 Ай бұрын

What a dedicated & honest man expressing his thoughts and heart-felt commitment to his state & countrymen.

@rutlandfuel2637 Ай бұрын

As a Corps commander, Early was an outstanding Brigadier. Peter Principal personified

@timferguson2682 Ай бұрын

"I ain't asking for no pardon For anything I done."

@VideoSaySo Ай бұрын

Virginia has the best historical society, putting up signs all along Highway 11 especially. Every few miles, you'll read Early's name on a sign...for quite a ways. The signs always tell the tale of Early making Sheridan's life hell. Then you come to Fisher's Hill...

@paulthompkins4150 19 күн бұрын

0:42 That doesn't sound correct? 1867?

@geneotrexler8246 Ай бұрын

Good video 👍🏼 I enjoy the way Mr. Early spins a phrase.

@wmschooley1234 Ай бұрын

Yes indeed. Early spins a phrase and twists the truth into knots

@THE-HammerMan Ай бұрын

@@wmschooley1234Bah! He spoke truthfully. Shame on you for having a closed mind to the truth.

@wcg19891 Ай бұрын

1867 Shenandoah valley?

@red88chevy Ай бұрын

Think he meant 1864

@wcg19891 Ай бұрын

@ I’m sure he did. The book was written in 1867 so I’m assuming he had that number in his mind.

@alexanderv7702 Ай бұрын

Did you say in 1867, he stubbornly defended the Shenandoah Valley?

@dsmonington Ай бұрын

that's late for Early

@jamesholland270 Ай бұрын

The speaker is referring to Jubal Early’s 1867 memoir. Not the battles of 1864

@THE-HammerMan Ай бұрын

@@jamesholland270 I'm not going to listen to it again right now, I'll take your word on it. Makes sense. I didn't think Ron would make such a big mistake. Thanks. My comment is deleted.

@wcg19891 Ай бұрын

@@jamesholland270He simply misspoke

@tominrichmond Ай бұрын

A great man, prosecutor in Lynchburg before the war.

@bradjohnson4787 Ай бұрын

Ah, he avoided slavery, the attack of Fort Sumter, and ultimately his responsibility towards non-slave holders! And he betrayed his country.

@dagmarbruma 27 күн бұрын

Great admiration for Jubal Early

@lindaaloha 13 күн бұрын

Wonderful

@sbgroen Ай бұрын

Until the opinion of Chief Justice Salmon Chase in the Supreme Court of the United States in White v. Texas (1869) [opining that Texas never left the union because it had already "incorporated itself into an existing indissoluble political body" [from Wikipedia and Murray, Robert Bruce. Legal Cases of the Civil War. (2003), p. 156], the federal Constitution did not address the right of secession. Until then, it seems logical that Jubal Early's position, ratified by a vote to secede in a statewide referendum after the Virginia Convention of 1861, was correct from a lack of any contrary language in the Constitution. There's nothing in the Constitution about the union being an "indissoluble political body." Likewise, an implied right of secession exists in the Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The right to secede or prevent secession was not delegated to the federal government nor prohibited by the federal government in 1861. And Virginia's approval by a democratic statewide referendum should have been honored by the federal government. It's certainly arguable that Lincoln was uncivilized on the issue of secession, not Early.

@wmschooley1234 Ай бұрын

Try re-reading that 1861 U.S. Constitution. Maybe you missed, overlokked or ignored Article 1 Section 10 C1.1 It explicitly states: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation Section 10 imposes a list of prohibitions on the states. Clause 1 contains absolute prohibitions that Congress cannot waive. Clause 1.1 absolutely prohibits the states from forming a confederation. Thus, under the Constitution, the CSA was an illegal and unconstitutional entity from its very inception.

@tominrichmond Ай бұрын

@@wmschooley1234 confederation with *another nation*, which is the clear meaning since it comes after treaty, alliance. This section clarified that while in the Union, the states agreed not to have 13 foreign policies, or to treat with other nations on their own outside the federal union. But the states were absolutely sovereign entities before ratifying the constitution, and only gave those powers expressly ceded to the national government. They never expressly ceded the primordial right of a sovereign nation to withdraw from a contractual agreement, which is what the constitution was in essence. They certainly never gave a right for a combination of states to invade any other state. No states would have ratified the constitution understood as forever forfeiting their sovereign existence to the national government.

@brianniegemann4788 Ай бұрын

So if the seceding states were sovereign nations, which then formed a confederacy, they were still in violation of the clause. What they should have done was to petition Congress and the Supreme Court for the right to peacefully secede. The Court would likely have sided with them, since it was a pro-southern majority, 5-4. Instead they declared war and forced Lincoln's hand. He could hardly be expected to tolerate a new, hostile country on his doorstep, which was in the process of seizing forts, armories and navy facilities. If this were to happen today, the result would be the same; the President would be forced to send federal troops to restore order in the breakaway states. Ask yourself what Trump would do if California seceded. Wave bye-bye? I doubt it.

@JCinerea Ай бұрын

So, the various Confederate states started to secede, then Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, then some more states seceded, then a bunch of people got slaughtered, and then the Confederacy got stomped, because lots of Northerners and lots of Southerners didn't think that secession was cool. If you make the bull mad.....

@sbgroen Ай бұрын

@@wmschooley1234 Because there was nothing in the U.S. Constitution that prevented Virginia from seceding, at the exact moment it did secede, it was not part of the union and was free to form relationships as it pleased. As I stated, there's nothing in the Constitution about the union being an "indissoluble political body," as Lincoln's former Secretary of the Treasury and former presidential candidate read into the document eight years after Virginia's secession. Perhaps you should try re-reading the document?

@kentonyoderii3443 Ай бұрын

A true warrior !! Truth is sometimes very hard to swallow, and history being written by the victors, great narration is often sent to a place where the truth can be hidden. The old adage Those who don't look back at history are bound to repeat it should be the first wisdom taught to our children. God bless Jubal Early true warriors are unrepentant they stand thier ground and defend thier homes and families with every part of body and soul, never giving up the fight that comes from thier hearts. My great grandfather Takes Gun Ahead and every Blackfeet warrior had this heart !! Just like Jubal they where relegated to submission by despotism a blight that infects politics so much as to cause those who embrace it to ignore the base truth that "all men are free and created equal in the eyes of our Creator." Human kind from the time of Kane and Abel would rather do violence than pursue peace. It is the way of the flesh. May God rest all faithfull warriors in peace in Glory !!

@CrossTrain Ай бұрын

While his commitment to his 'cause' is in fact admirable from a loyalty standpoint, there is no defense of the man himself (using his own words from the preface of his memoirs as a bit of true perspective with no post-modern spin applied): "In his final years, Early became an outspoken proponent of white supremacy, which he believed was justified by his religion; he despised abolitionists. In the preface to his memoirs, Early characterized former slaves as "barbarous natives of Africa" and considered them "in a civilized and Christianized condition" as a result of their enslavement. He continued: The Creator of the Universe had stamped them, indelibly, with a different color and an inferior physical and mental organization. He had not done this from mere caprice or whim, but for wise purposes. An amalgamation of the races was in contravention of His designs or He would not have made them so different. This immense number of people could not have been transported back to the wilds from which their ancestors were taken, or, if they could have been, it would have resulted in their relapse into barbarism. Reason, common sense, true humanity to the black, as well as the safety of the white race, required that the inferior race should be kept in a state of subordination. The conditions of domestic slavery, as it existed in the South, had not only resulted in a great improvement in the moral and physical condition of the negro race, but had furnished a class of laborers as happy and contented as any in the world."

@ozzyphil74 Ай бұрын

@@CrossTrainThank you for bringing to notice this barbarian. One of those who justify evil and serve convenience while making it seem as if they are being dispassionate. He was an odious fellow. It's a pity what he wished upon others wasn't served to him. And all those who justify these evil men. Know that your place is amongst the Nazi sympathizers since they took many aspects of their practices from the likes of Early.

@edwil111 Ай бұрын

@@CrossTrain Amazing how some people "forget" the Confederacy was a racist police state. Twist it like a pretzel! But, but, but, my HERITAGE!

@brianniegemann4788 Ай бұрын

Since your ancestors were Native Americans, l can forgive your support for a rebel like Early. He was trying to defend what he saw as his country and his people, however wrong his motives were.

@questerperipatetic4861 2 күн бұрын

I'm confused by your statement. Your are giving praise to Early with the quote "all men are free and created equal in the eyes of our Creator" , saying he defended that? Seriously?

@glennkrzywicki4954 Ай бұрын

I read his other book: The Heritage of the South. Well written.

@wolfpack4694 Ай бұрын

I suspect he did better in plebe English than I managed. Very interesting and well written perspective.

@dsmonington Ай бұрын

@0:40 "in July 1867 he defended", for Early that sounds rather late

@travisbayles870 Ай бұрын

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy General Jubal Early Confederate Army

@steveweing 25 күн бұрын

He was delusional.

@FuzzyWuzzy75 Ай бұрын

HUZZAH TO GENERAL EARLY!!!

@supererdoc Ай бұрын

A true and loyal patriot to his country, Lee's "Bad Old Man," Gen Jubal Early, commanded my grandfather and uncles at 1st Manassas, 2nd Fredericksburg, and the Valley Campaign of 1864 at Cedar Creek and Berryville. May God bless his soul.

@davidwiggings6951 Ай бұрын

Ole Uncle Jubal!!!A God fearing Southern Gentleman that stood up for his Birthplace and the place his ancestors built!!

@evancagle9164 12 күн бұрын

1864 was his valley campaign not 1867.

@kevinrussell-jp6om Ай бұрын

This makes one wonder about the path not taken. By that, I mean how would history have played out IF Lincoln and the US government had simply said "go your own way, brothers and sisters"? We all know now, and many knew then, that slavery was a moral wrong, that mankind, at least the majority of them, would eventually wake to this truth, and the practice would end. Lincoln COULD have called for a convention of the loyal states and asked that each state hold a plebiscite of citizens allowed to vote (yes, it would have been almost exclusively male and white) to settle slavery's abolition. How long would it have been before the rebel states decided to rejoin their northern cousins, and how many additional generations of slaves would have been born? How do you gauge the value of hundreds of thousands of lives saved rather than abolishing an evil that was violently ended with the victory? And how long before the various sections no longer discuss the matter? It will be rehashed for as long as the stars shine in the night sky and the stars adorn our flag.

@steveweing 25 күн бұрын

4 million slaves were freed in the civil war. Jeb failed to mention the war was all about slavery and he fought to make it last forever

@ThomasJanik-nf5vi Ай бұрын

Early carried the war all the way to 1867!! (:D

@williamrossetter9430 Ай бұрын

Early was one who never had any doubt as to his intentions. Unfortunately, he held his Lost Cause beliefs to his dying day. I admire Pete Longstreet who accepted defeat and moved on, to become one of Louisiana's finest officials. Early despised old Pete for this and that is Early's issue, not Longstreet's. MIght want to discuss Pete Longstreet in future videos.

@Matthew-rr4de Ай бұрын

Heard the term, listened to lectures given by Ivy League professor's, historians and plenty of parrots and still never once heard a, "lost cause" argument amount to anything other than sour grapes. The victor's write the history. If in this they fail to meet their own standard, the fault lies solely with themselves. But man...for winners, yankees come across as some kinda butt-hurt lovers. Just so intent on the South being punished without end. You do the math and it never adds up. There's something tricky missing from the equation. Something the yankee can't admit to himself. And that same reason is why he can never quit and simply bask in the glory of his victory. Gotta keep looking for that whipping boy. Gotta keep on crusading...tearing down Lee just to raise up Grant...complete denial of factor after factor and the most common, and worse, transgression; not understanding the clear line between emotional reaction and actual scholarship. The argument is bs, doesn't hold water, never did and it's soo worn out already. Go party and celebrate in yankee town and if y'all can't get there, at least come up with some new material. Damm.

@Pelham1538 Ай бұрын

@@williamrossetter9430 I grew up on a street called Longstreet Circle in a development called Confederate Hills in a town called Sharpsburg Maryland. Sure you were dying to know 😂

@brandonlollis1506 Ай бұрын

Longstreet was a traighter

@williamrossetter9430 Ай бұрын

@brandonlollis1506 that's traitor, huh?

@williamrossetter9430 Ай бұрын

@Matthew-rr4de whew, that's really good talk, seems like you cannot move on like Early. Might want to read up on Pete Longstreet

@GSD- Ай бұрын

Would rather live in poverty as an honest man than high on the hog as a desecrator of one’s own homeland and successful Washington functionary. That’s a lesson that many “Americans” today could stand to learn.

@jake1776 Ай бұрын

Just visited his childhood home. I have so much respect for Jubal Early. Sad how liars have manipulated history.

@isoldam Ай бұрын

Yes, it's sad how the lost cause lie has been used to manipulate history. To bad so many have fallen for that garbage.

@curtgomes Ай бұрын

The "fire breathers" on both sides stoked the flames of war and, as we listen to Jubal Early's words, it becomes obvious that there could be only one remedy....

@anthonykelly1368 Ай бұрын

He was the best bounty hunter in the outer worlds

@jamesorth6460 Ай бұрын

Well, my father's maternal great-grandfather James DeVall came from the Western part of Virginia which is now West Virginia; was a loyal US citizen who fought to preserve the Union and is now buried in Shelton Nebraska.

@jimflowers6455 Ай бұрын

So he abandoned his homeland ....

@wmschooley1234 Ай бұрын

@@jimflowers6455 NO, He remained loyal to HIS country; the United States of America

@ozzyphil74 Ай бұрын

@@jimflowers6455His homeland, being a barbarous place, which thought trading in people was the way of things, he was right to abandon such heinous thinking and neighbors and stay loyal to his more enlightened countrymen. 😊

@colinfoster7655 Ай бұрын

@@ozzyphil74 a truly unenlightened comment - is it ignorance or just arrogance?

@oldgeezerproductions Ай бұрын

@@ozzyphil74 Well said indeed.

@johnmacgregor5050 Ай бұрын

Ol' Jube was spot on, 100% correct.

@waltergibson9178 Ай бұрын

Early was late! Best natural joke of the war.

@laurencemccarty4493 Ай бұрын

Jubal Early was a Good Old Rebel. When I hear that song, I think of him. He's on top of list. That being said. He was a Trader to his Country and was a Bigot. He may have originally opposed Session. But, he embarced the very reasons why the South broke away from the Union. To keep Chattel Bondage going. This Man slandered James Longstreet for the Lost at Gettysburg. Longstreet knew The Confederacy would not prevail in "Pickett's Charge!" Time proved Longstreet Right. He also ardently opposed Reconstruction(and Longstreet joining The Republican Party and The Reconstruction effort). Black Sufferage and Civil Rights Early staunchly opposed. For his Raizing of Chambersburg, that should have been reason enough to have him Incarcerated. He should have never received Pardon(he is on my long list of Traders who fought against The United States of America, who should never had been pardoned). He was argubly the Architect of the "Lost Cause" myth. Which has only caused more confusion and less Candor. No doubt, there where exceptions of Confederates who were against Slavery whole Heartedly. But, they were a very Sparsly diminutive rare exception to the rule. Jubal Early was personification of the very lofty example of The Confederacy reasons to fight. That was of course, was keeping Slavery going. Jubal Early being defeated was no more than he deserved. He got off too easy.

@carywest9256 Ай бұрын

You need to learn the proper words to build your sentences with! That, or proofreading would be a great benefit to your rant.

@waynelayton8568 Ай бұрын

Hw was a True American fighting a war of NORTHERN AGGRESSION

@wmschooley1234 Ай бұрын

Hello troll. The claimed “War of Northern Aggression” is, of course, nonsense. It was always THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. It was South Carolina that first raised rebellions ugly head on 20 December 1860. It was secessionist’s that first fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor South Carolina on April 12, 1861. “War of Northern Aggression” is part of the lost cause mythology that didn’t come into general use until the 1950’s Southern segregationists used this distorting term for the Civil War because it bolstered their arguments that the effort to enforce the Civil Rights of Blacks in the 1950s and 1960s was a continuation of the war of 1861-1865. In this view, African Americans did not want Civil Rights, it was Northerners stirring up trouble, just as in 1865 the Yankees had imposed freedom on the southern slaves.

@THE-HammerMan Ай бұрын

@wmschooley1234 Incorrect. Very much so. As Early stated, correctly, the Constitution itself gave states the right to secede if their rights were infringed upon. I'm glad, as are many, that Lincoln did what he thought best... but it did go against the Constitution.

@Thor13332 Ай бұрын

😅

@hamiltonconway6966 Ай бұрын

I wish the Constitution had addressed Secession at the very founding of the country. I don't think the Southern colonies should have taken up arms against the Crown. The South would have been so much better off.

@hunterdunaway1354 Ай бұрын

The right to secession is in the declaration of independence.

@carywest9256 Ай бұрын

First shots against the lobsterbacks was in Yankeedom!

@Pelham1538 Ай бұрын

If Early WAS a traitor, then let us all endeavor to be traitors such as he.

@santijauregui459 Ай бұрын

Nah man, I’m good. I like my country, warts and all. But at least you don’t deny that Early, his ilk, and people like you are either traitors or sympathetic to treason. It’s hard getting lost causers to even acknowledge slavery being a thing in the antebellum south, let alone acknowledging the treason espoused by the confederacy.

@runwillrobinson Ай бұрын

I would really like to have heard a conversation between Old Abe and Old Jube. Abe tried hard to unite, not go to war.

@brandonlollis1506 Ай бұрын

Bullhocy

@lamontpearce170 Ай бұрын

That's pure BS Lincoln was a tyrant. All wars are bankers wars. That's why Wilson, said the south had to be punished .

@crowder2320 Ай бұрын

@@runwillrobinson Abraham Lincoln was a warmongering pos

@cleanwillie1307 Ай бұрын

But Early was late.

@fuferito Ай бұрын

Elijah Hunt Rhodes, I believe.

@scottgoens7575 Ай бұрын

One of the many that supported the Myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy with his writing.

@jimflowers6455 Ай бұрын

They had a Cause they were willing to die for, and they Lost. Where is the Myth? That sounds like a Lost Cause to me.

@scottgoens7575 Ай бұрын

@@jimflowers6455 He helped shape the Lost Cause of the Confederacy with his writing. Despite hard primary sources that existed before his writings he attempted to promote the issue of states’ rights-rather than slavery-as the cause of the Civil War. It's still indisputable that slavery was the only cause... not the myth Early helped to create from his twisted context written after events transpired.

@colinfoster7655 Ай бұрын

@@scottgoens7575 Indisputable? You have to ignore so much evidence to the contrary to say such a ridiculous thing. Your self-righteous 21st century perspective applied to those men and their times is what is twisted more than anything else.

@billymule961 Ай бұрын

@@scottgoens7575 The war was not predicated on the one issue of slavery. I remember reading an article on Yahoo several years ago where the author went to great lengths to prove that slavery was the single driving reason behind the war. In fact he didn't name any other point of contention, which resulted in this being a 21st century personal opinion of a 19th century mindset. In the decade prior to the war most people rarely traveled more than thirty miles from their home, thus their allegiance tended to be more localized, such as to their state first, country second. According to Ken Burns only 3% of the population in the southern states owned slaves. Slavery was present in Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, and those states remained in the Union. By the way, black slaves were owned by the Cherokee and other nations in the Oklahoma territory at the time of the war. The southern states representatives were outnumbered in Congress and felt legislation favoring the northern states was getting pushed through and they could not stop it, especially regarding taxes and tariffs which interfered with the South's ability to do business with Europe, particularly England. The northern factories needed raw goods like cotton at cheap prices. There are many things which can be argued, but perhaps we can oversimplify by saying a wealthy plantation owner in the south had a disagreement with a wealthy factory owner in the north, so the young men were called on to settle the issue.

@scottgoens7575 Ай бұрын

@@colinfoster7655 Then provide your contrary evidence and I will knock it down like ten pins. Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi (future Confederate President): "A large part of the non-slaveholding States have declared war against the institution of slavery. They have announced that it shall not be extended, and with that annunciation have coupled the declaration that it is a stain upon the Republic ..." [Speech in the Senate, Feb. 13--14, 1850; see The Congressional Globe, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, p. 149.] Davis, from the same speech: "The slave trade, however, so far as the African was concerned, was a blessing; it brought him from abject slavery and a barbarian master, and sold him into a Christian land ... The slave trade has been the greatest source of permanent blessing to him." Davis, again (same speech): "We claim that it is the duty of the Government to protect every species of property." Stephan Dodson Ramseur, future Confederate general, writing from West Point (where he was a cadet) to a friend in the wake of the 1856 election: "...Slavery, the very source of our existence, the greatest blessing both for Master & Slave that could have been bestowed upon us." The Secesh told us their reason for secession was slavery. Reneging after the war just don't cut it.

@ThomasJanik-nf5vi Ай бұрын

Jubal Early was an intelligent, honorable, and loyal man, holding on to his committed beliefs to his end. R.I.P. Mr. Early.

@thomaslinton5765 Ай бұрын

"is"? WAS

@jackanderson1598 Ай бұрын

Jubal explained very well the problem. Lincoln and railroad cronies seceded from the Union-not the South.

@kendelvalle8299 Ай бұрын

Amazing what a true believer believes.

@bruceterhune3400 Ай бұрын

1867???? The war was long over on that date. Come on man.

@chrisfarrell9894 Ай бұрын

He clearly misspoke saying the date he soon after referenced regarding a document authored by the Jubal in question.

@lonestarbug Ай бұрын

1867? Good grief.

@michaelzivanovich2061 Ай бұрын

Lee's bad old man...inherently incorrect..but badass nonetheless

@franksmall1313 Ай бұрын

SAD... JESUS MADE ALL AND HAS CARING LOVE FOR ALL. WE CAN NOT TREAT ANY ONE BADLY NOR RISE ANYONE ABOVE A PERSON. WE ARE TOLD BY THE LORD OF ALL TO HAVE CARING LOVE FOR EACH OTHER.... PERIOD. EACH PERSON WILL WILL WILL STAND BEFORE THE LORD OF ALL AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIFE TO HIM. MY NAME IS WROTE IN THE BOOK OF LIFE AND JESUS IS OUR HERO. YOU ALL ARE LOVED.

@chuckoffcampus9738 Ай бұрын

What was his private life like?

@thomaskreidler3376 Ай бұрын

Never married but had children by 4 women.

@1961OnRock Ай бұрын

Such dedication to such an unworthy cause. I believe General Grant said something similar but more eloquently.

@jeffchristie-od5gu Ай бұрын

States' Rights aren't unworthy of defending

@rdbchase Ай бұрын

"... the rights of the people of the South ..." -- Early implicitly excludes the black population of the South.

@wmschooley1234 Ай бұрын

There was nothing "implicit" about Early's raceism and white sepremist views. He was open, upfront and explicit that blacks were supposed to be slaves. Early’s preface to his book even states blacks wre “ignorant and barbarous natives of Africa” Preface pg viii

@rdbchase Ай бұрын

@@wmschooley1234 I did not suggest otherwise. The quotations did not deal with racism or white supremacism, yet Early implicitly excludes black people when he refers to "the people of the South".

@ChineseChicken1 Ай бұрын

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." - Abraham Lincoln

@barneyroberts8272 Ай бұрын

Jubal Early was the greatest.

@johnmartin2502 Ай бұрын

Early was correct.

@pughoneycutt1986 Ай бұрын

I get so sick of constantly hearing the myth about the myth of the lost cause. There was a cause that lost. That is not a myth, it is a fact calling it a myth is the actual myth.

@BillyAbshier Ай бұрын

The "myth" is not in reference to "A cause" for which these men fought and often died for. The "myth" is that the cause referenced was ever honorable or worthy, that it was ever about anything than the naked greed of a land (and - let's not forget - people) owning few. A myth that only coalesced into a coherent narrative after the war. Individuals participated for many reasons. No one "cause" will ever speak to the thoughts of so many. But history - real history, like the articles of succession written and voted upon by the legislative government of each of the traitor states - points to very different motivations than to eloquent lines written by bitter survivors trying to justify their actions.

@pughoneycutt1986 Ай бұрын

@BillyAbshier I didn't say anything about the right or wrong of the cause. I simply pointed out that there was a cause that lost. That is not a myth. And calling it a myth is in fact a myth.

@winstonsmith8482 Ай бұрын

@@BillyAbshier Hmm let's think about this for a second, did the men of virginia, etc. fight because of the wording of the articles of secession (how many of them could even read those documents?) and for slavery (when ~95+% of them didn't own any slaves) ? or because union armies were invading their home states? Pretty sure it was the latter.

@robbrobertson8545 Ай бұрын

Dont go south

@BillyAbshier Ай бұрын

@@pughoneycutt1986 the Lost Cause (yes, capitalized letters) is a very specific thing, a set of ideas championed post-war. You can Google the term yourself, if you are so inclined. And it's tenets are very much myth. I'm sure you'll be pleased to note that even the very term 'Lost Cause' is not some damned Yankee invention. It is credited to Edward Pollard, editor of the Richmond Examiner for a work he published in 1866. (The specific terms and tenants of the mythos evolved over the next few decades, thanks in part to the writings like Early's, but Pollard's post-war writing is considered the genesis). The Lost Cause is a myth in the same way something like Homer's Illiad is a myth. It does indeed "exist" insomuch as copies of it are written down, it contains certain elements of truth (Troy and Greece are places that exist) but most of the details are post hoc fabrications of the imagination.

@Buconoir Ай бұрын

Aw, deleting comments. Just be glad we won. USA USA USA

@ThreeZeroOne 29 күн бұрын

An amazing man and general. History is always whitewashed by the winners. Without looking into the other side's situation, arguments, and personalities, you're not studying history. You're trotting and trolling.