How did the Union Destroy the Confederates? - The American Civil War (1864)

[@edscott4729]

A Civil War historian declared that we should stop calling the Union Army the Union Army. He said, "Call it the American army."

[@Aeoferwyn]

I'm not American but the Confederates were Americans too. It was just United States of vs Confederate states of😂

[@LoserGopher]

@@Aeoferwyn traitors are not American

[@Wraize1]

yea and hippies want to be called the sons of the soil. but it's never going to happen.

[@neilpemberton5523]

​​@Wraize1 ah.... classic Simpsons! 😊 (but its hill billies, not hippies)

[@Aeoferwyn]

@@neilpemberton5523 What hillbillies wanna be called that? Lol

[@gergofordospecs7475]

Few weeks ago i started to read john keegan american civil war. Today I already finished the chapter is called "Breaking into the South".One quote from this chapter: Sherman also wrote: War is war, not a race for popularity. If they want peace, they and their kindred must cease to fight. They cannot describe war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty itself, and it is impossible to ennoble it, and those who brought war into our country deserve all the scorn and curses that the people can heap upon them.

[@AbbyNormL]

@@gergofordospecs7475 In today’s liberal society Sherman would be classified as a war criminal. He was fortunate to not have a CNN camera crew following him around.

[@donmeisner4438]

Its a great book, i have read it more than one time

[@gergofordospecs7475]

@@donmeisner4438 I read from Stephen W. Sears "Gettysburg" and "at the gates of richmond the peninsula campain"

[@gjdjdtht]

Precisely

[@unbreakable7633]

Lincoln brought the nation to war. Even Bruce Catton, a pro-Union historian, recognized that Lincoln repeatedly provoked the South and had no intention of letting the South go without war.

[@freddysw]

never forget that for the Confederacy, independence was not the most important aim of the war; it was to preserve slavery, that prevented any foreign recognition and resulted in a large portion of their population being fundamentally hostile to the country

[@WaltherPPK909]

That's victors propaganda from the Union perspective. It was about states rights for laws of commerce and taxation which the South were taken advantage of by the North.

[@Group.B]

@@WaltherPPK909 The Confederate states explicitly stated in their secession documents that preserving slavery was their primary reason for leaving the Union. The union was industrializing and confederates feared seeing their wealth acquired through FREE labor and the owning of human beings drying up. Prior to confederacy seceding they had the majority coming into next session and instead of diplomacy they chose to go to war. You won’t find many, if any historians saying it was ever about states rights…unless they say it’s about states rights to keep slaves. Please stop spreading lies

[@Group.B]

@@WaltherPPK909 The Confederate states explicitly stated in their secession documents that preserving slavery was their primary reason for leaving the Union.

[@WaltherPPK909]

@Group.B Not all the states listed it as their primary reason, and some states did not even mention it.

[@BlackCommissar]

@@WaltherPPK909 State right for what?

[@AbbyNormL]

Simply put, the Confederacy lost because: (1) The North was the industrial part of the of the pre-war US while the South was the agrarian (farmers) part of pre-war US (ie the North made stuff and the South made money growing cotton, tobacco and sugarcane. The South grew more cotton than the rest of the world combined. (2) The North blockaded the South so they were unable to sell their cash crops to the rest of the world and prevented importation of the industrial supplies they needed such as weapons and machine parts. (3) The Mississippi River was the main “interstate highway” transportation system used by the South and it divided the Southern states in half. The North gained control of river traffic which prevented roughly 1/2 of the South from supporting the other 1/2 of the South. Of course, it wasn’t quite that simple.

[@treblebbb3388]

Gutted for you.

[@abbottshaull9831]

Point 2 is largely relatively didn't work as expected. The South was still able to export both Cotton and Tobacco to import weapons and machine parts at will for most of the war. Point 1 and Point 3 were spot on.

[@AbbyNormL]

@@abbottshaull9831 Yep. Always handy to have very good blockade runners on your side. Another route for supplies was across the US/Mexican border (seems to be a recurring theme) after France, the UK and Spain decided to intervene in the Mexican civil war and France captured Mexico City. Napoleon was sympathetic with the South, but wanted to appear to be neutral.

[@johnbeechy]

and because 'using blacks as slaves caused the God, created by the black skinned authors of the Bible, to s send white men to end the slavery of its dark skinned people. and now my words. OH, u r rt about the tactics that ended the war, but here be my thoughts on the general ignorance of the Southern whites. only 3% of the Southern white population actually owned (black) slaves at the outbreak of the war. that makes the other 97% of the white population a bunch of lower classed piss poor farmers. not much manufacturing going on in the dumbed down South. also, 100% of the authors of the Bible were Black. Not one was white. moses banned whites from becoming Judaists. Jesus Himself was dark skinned and never ever preached to any whites, as per the Tradition of the Bible. no whites were allowed. it was king james that stole the words from the D S Judaists. James used their words, because he could not write words as Superior as the black authors, to enslave the white english to his wants and needs. God, created by the same black men that wrote the Bible, Cursed the many English kings with daughters. as per the Bible, men lead and women r not to speak, even Jesus believed this policy. so, God watched as the whites allowed 8 queens to reign longer than the 40+ male kings. the English kings just wanted power for their bloodlines and went whoa-ken. Slavery is a bad economic policy as it does not grow the GDP. the GDP is the economy. the GDP does not include Profits, nor dividends, nor capital gains. exports of cotton will never out value the value of imported dresses made from the same cotton. the 3% of the Pop, that owned slaves, was all about the enslavement of the whites to their lower GDP plans. // myop as a white skinned True Christian, i will never want to ever use blacks as slaves. the blacks wrote the Bible and i shall not piss off their God.. also, Rome used whites as slaves. rome also took the dark skinned Judaists away from Israel (in 70 AD) and forced the racist Judaists to breed with white slaves from gaul/briton/germanic Peoples, causing the Judaists to become white skinned. moses never allowed interbreeding between his dark skinned people and white sea peoples, so there is no allowance for any Judaist to become white, as per moses. The fact is the South is really a slave land, with whites being the slaves to the lowest wages known to the skin tone. the stew-pid r stupid and they have no God (due to moses banning whites from being saved by his God/Jesus never preached about His God to any whites) to protect them from the enslavement. The aim of the dumb is to be stupid. and when economics is the ONLY accounting to learn from, u learn the GDP does not rise while slavery holds it down. basic grade 10 accounting and economics' class include these teachings. but when the whites r the slaves there be no teaching going ON. whites take the Gym class so they can be trained to become monkees that will sing and dance for the atheist shareholder class. I thank all the white slaves of today for Volunteering to be paid less than what they want. they serve as slaves to the shareholder class and i thank u for that too.

[@avenaoat]

@@abbottshaull9831 1. The British government decided the World diversification of the raw cotton diversification in 1858 3 years before the Civil War and it was accomplished in 1864! 2. Less and less port cities step by step year after year and with Vicksburg the Mexican source was over.

[@Aviator-Chicken]

Remember kids! If someone says: “The war wasn’t about slavery it was about states rights” Respond with: “States right to do what” 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️

[@The_king567]

And it’s the most pointless war ever

[@Aviator-Chicken]

@ Freeing millions of slaves isn’t pointless

[@avenaoat]

The Confederate Constitution decreased the States' Right. The USA Constitution did not forbade a state assembly decides on abolishing the slavery system in its own border. A few Northern states abolished the slavery system according to the Stats' Right abolution. The last 2 were Missouri and Delaware before the 13th Amandment of the Constitution! The Confederate Constitution forbade this States Right!

[@Z28KR]

It always appears that from 1861-1863, much of the union strategy had been similar to the Napoleonic era, where they hoped to defeat the Confederates in grand battles. From 1864 on, it became a true evolution into modern war- where the battles were merely a means to gain ground and the actual objective were resource hubs (i.e., rail depots, farms, factories) which would steadily chip away at Southern capacity for war. Even a lost battle meant ground gained. I can only imagine Lee's reaction to the Wilderness campaign where he had previously seen general after general from the Union turn tail back to DC after being defeated by him; except Grant would simply roll off of him and move closer to his beloved Richmond. Lee, when dealing with Grant's strategic genius: "He's not supposed to do that!"

[@TheBandit025Nova]

@@Z28KR At least it wasn’t Sherman or his beloved Richmond would share it’s Fate like Atlanta

[@easttexasta6503]

Your point is sound, but I would argue that it began in 1862, after Antietam. The total war strategy of the north is in place at that point, but it has not been fully implemented. And as much as he's a fat asshole at that point, Winfield Scott deserves more credit than he gets, for developing the anaconda plan that grant eventually evolves into the Union strategy of 1864.

[@DieNextInLINE]

Kind of wild that we see this kind of slaughter in America because of strategy and tactics pacing behind advances in weapons technology and the rest of the world didn't take those lessons to heart.

[@thalmoragent9344]

​​@@DieNextInLINE Facts. After this point, the typical multi-line ranks on open battlefields were no longer practical for modern warfare.

[@djzl05l]

Nigel at the The great war channel which talked about WWI mentioned this too. Europe was looking back to napoleonic war strategy during the beginning of WWI when they should have looked at the recent American Civil war to see what “modern” warfare would be like.

[@mikedelong1207]

Awfully strange to hear machine guns at Gettysburg…

[@javiermoretti1825]

None were used at Gettyburg, but they were used at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia in 1865.

[@JoshuaHistoryBuff]

I agree and it’s not the sound of a Gatling gun either which is the ONLY machine gun available during this time

[@devenmacintosh4124]

Not sure if the Gatling gun is considered the “first” machine gun by technicality since it operated on a manual hand crank system. Believe it was the Hiram Maxim model machine gun that was actually the first ever machine gun

[@KingRat71]

@@devenmacintosh4124 the Puckle gun is considered the first machine gun (capable of firing multiple shots in succession). The Gatling gun the first commercially successful machine gun (used in civil war and was exported). The Maxim gun the first fully automatic (self feeding) machine gun. (It is a chciken and egg argument and dependds on how you define a machine gun)

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

​@@KingRat71 You can also call it a volley gun.

[@Mahbu]

A combination of factors. 1. The Union blockade. While not completely successful, it was successful enough in weakening the confederacy and discouraging other nations from helping them. 2. Manpower. The Union had WAY MORE people to draw upon than the south. 3. Industrial base. The industrial base of the north was just better AND it was also out of threat range where as Confederate supply lines were constantly under threat from the North. Especially after Grant took Vicksburg; it cut the Confederacy in half and deprived the Eastern theater - where Lee was - of valuable supplies. 4. Strong Federal government. Turns out weak central governments aren't good. Who knew. Too much power was divested in the confederacy to the governors who, spoiler alert, cared more about their own needs. Infighting was common. 5. Ineptitude and Nepotism in the Confederacy. Jeff Davis and other leaders in the Confederacy were very prone to corruption and favoritism and cronyism, etc. Generals like Hood and Bragg should NOT have been given the commands they had. They were not good commanders. Basically, the Confederacy was self sabotaging. 6. The Confederacy fought expensive battles it couldn't afford for little gain. Most of Lee's greatest victories ultimately achieved very little strategically while costing significant amounts of men and material he knew he couldn't afford to lose. 7. While the Union had its own issues with incompetence and cronyism, it nevertheless demonstrated its willingness to sack commanders in search of better. It's how we arrived at Grant and Sherman. Their willingness to fight "total war" expeditated the end of the conflict.

[@Jupiterxice]

Facts

[@avenaoat]

The union blokad was succesful: 1. Because it was combained with territory occupations. First the 4 forts Fort Monroe, Fort Pickens, Fort Jefferson, Fort Zachary Taylor. Hatteras, Port Royal, Fort Pulaski, East Florida forts, Roanock island and New Bern campaign, Norfolk, Ship Island, New Orleans, Pensacola. For short time Galveston. Mobile bay forts, Charlston forts. The Confederacy had to hold troops and source at their shore. The contraband slaves had more places to escape to decrease the manpower for the South! More territorories less ports for the blokad runner boats. 2. The Salt War had the parts the Navy destroyed the seashore salt works. The normal antebellum salt import to the Southern states was stopped by the USA Navy. Without enough salt the meat conservation was not enough for the troops in the South. 3. The end of coastal shipping diverted transportation to the poor inland rail network in the South. Rail transport became worse and worse year by year due to the lack of industry in the South. There was not enough industrial capacity to manufacture things for the railway. 4. The blokad runner boats could not transport everything as other industrial goods or the mentioned salt or raiway things. Many blokadrunner boats transported luxury goods for the Southern aristrocrats..

[@pteechka1]

Had the confederacy freed the slaves and incorporated them into the southern economy and the military, they might well have been able to defeat the United States. It also would have allowed France and Great Britain to recognize and aid them.

[@Mahbu]

​@@pteechka1 Mayhaps but that never would've happened. Slavery was too interwoven into the socioeconomic fabric of Southern Society. The racial superiority White Southerners felt AND the deep seeded fear of enslaved people taking their revenge means they would've fought tooth and nail to fight it. They did fight it. That was the Civil War. What I feel doesn't get talked about enough is just how terrified the South was of black people becoming free and then taking out the centuries of resentment on their former masters. Goes to show they were very aware of how bad Chattel Slavery was.

[@avenaoat]

@@pteechka1 The Confederate Constitution central point was the eternal slavery system. The USA Constitution had not such point so only the 13th amandment had to make in 31th January of 1865.

[@CliffCardi]

I nominate William T Sherman as an honorary Salamander marine

[@BobPulgino]

ummm … West Virginia was not a Confederate state. It seceded from Virginia because it did not want to secede from the Union.

[@justinmitchell3822]

Yep. Couldn't take anything seriously in the video after seeing this in the first few seconds. If the creator didn't spot that as quickly as I did, they aren't worth my time.

[@KSpotes]

Um…that’s what the video said?

[@OtakianStorm]

​@@justinmitchell3822 The borders are correct at the point they spoke about between the factions. "At the start of the war" The inaccuracy thus is west Virginia existing at that point.

[@Briantrenne]

While the braves were away….

[@Douglas_413]

It’s literally separate on the map bruh

[@abbottshaull9831]

The Army of the Potomac was still technically under Major General Meade in the East. General Grant kept his field HQ co-located with Meade's HQ so he could coordinate with various Union Forces operating in Virginia. Same as he had acted in West for the last year he served in the West with up to five separate Union Armies acting as one force, before Sherman took charge of these Armies with Grant appointment as the Lt. General and General in Command of all Union Armies.

[@jameshetu6885]

The description of the command structures of the Eastern Armies after Gettysburg is totally inaccurate. As pointed out by others, General Meade was in command and Grant made his headquarters with his army. On the southern side, Longstreet was always Lee’s favorite. He was the senior Lieutenant General and commander of the 1st Corps. He was the most reliable and capable of all of Lee’s generals. Including Stonewall Jackson. AP Hill and Ewell are examples of good officers promoted beyond their abilities. Both were superb Division commanders but struggled at the Corps level. This is what made Longstreet so valuable. He thrived at the Corps level. It would have been interesting to see him command his own army. We don’t know if he was capable at that next level. But he could command a wing of the army better than anyone. Stonewall Jackson benefits from “dying early” and thus not suffering through the reversals that the later southern generals went through. I think he was a good small independent command general. He did poorly when coordinating with other commands or as part of a larger army as the Peninsula campaign showed. He would have been left in command of the Shenandoah Valley instead of Early had he survived and probably would have done about as well as Early did.

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

Basically, Grant was a five star general in command of Army Groups before they became an official thing. He's the Civil War equivalent to Eisenhower.

[@meriemmeryouma655]

In 1864, geography played a pivotal role in the American Civil War, as maps guided Union and Confederate strategies. The Union's push into the South, including Sherman's famous March to the Sea, relied on detailed maps to navigate rivers, mountains, and railways. Control of key geographic regions like Atlanta and Richmond marked critical turning points. These maps showcased how terrain influenced troop movements and supply lines, underscoring the war's dependence on strategic geographic understanding.

[@mdj.6179]

The sounds of automatic gunfire in the background is a little inappropriate...

[@charliematts1736]

Oh man! 🤦🏿

[@abbottshaull9831]

Yeah it was.

[@adrienguy6905]

This sound effect is to represent the various infantry divisions firing their guns at the same time in a simplified way. This is why it may sound like automatic gun

[@28ebdh3udnav]

I mean, in a sense yes because automatic fire or something similar was super rare. There was a Gatling gun in service but from my understanding, less than 200 or so were in service throughout the whole Union. Also, during fights, once it got down to it, having hundreds firing muskets and reloading as fast as they can again and again may have sounded like a full auto to an extent Off topic but somewhat related to full auto, in world war 1, the British were able to fire their Lee Enfields fast. Having thousands just shooting in a general direction over and over again sounded like a machine gun to the Germans. That's how they described it. It was called the "Man Minute"

[@UnholyWrath3277]

It's a sound effect. On a war video grow up

[@SlitchBatty]

The union had the troops The union had the capital backing And the union had the railroad

[@avenaoat]

The Union had Navy so New Orleans, Fort Pulaski, East Shore of North Carolina, Pensacola, East Florida, Norfolk Virginia were occupied

[@SlitchBatty]

@@avenaoat Good point! I wasn't even remembering the naval blockade that sure choked the Confederacy.

[@dcs5343]

@Knowledgia I love all the videos but pronouncing Mobile as mo-bell? It's Mo-beel. Thanks for the videos!

[@Knowledgia]

You got me! I'll try to do better on the pronunciation in the future.

[@dcs5343]

@Knowledgia lol I'm just messing with you. I look forward to your videos and watch them multiple times.

[@avrowolf]

@@Knowledgia Good to hear, it is a common enough mistake to not be too hard on you (at least you're not pronouncing it the same way as its spelled)

[@JoeyY7]

Rushed here to say this. It physically hurt me.

[@chipmunk9471]

​@@Knowledgia that was the old year 😢

[@scottweisel3640]

The difference between Grant and previous Union generals shows with him breaking down in tears over The Wilderness loss but not retreating. The others could or would not maintain the pressure on the Confederates even after victories. Grant saw the big picture and did not deter from his main objective. He maintained the initiative and eventually broke through.

[@CARL_093]

The Union defeated the Confederacy in the American Civil War through a combination of strategies, including: The Anaconda Plan This strategy was developed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott and adopted by the Union to cut off the Confederacy's access to coastal ports and waterways. The Union planned to surround and squeeze the Confederacy by using a naval blockade and ground troops. Surrender at Appomattox Court House In April 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Final surrender in Galveston, Texas The final surrender of Confederate troops in the west took place in Galveston, Texas on June 2.

[@cal4837]

thanks chatgpt

[@DerekHamby]

General Stand Watie didn't surrender until June 23rd 1865 at Doaksville,(now Choctaw County) Oklahoma.

[@johnbeechy]

yeah, those dates may be true. here r my thoughts on the topic at hand. only 3% of the Southern white population actually owned (black) slaves at the outbreak of the war. that makes the other 97% of the white population a bunch of lower classed piss poor farmers. not much manufacturing going on in the dumbed down South. also, 100% of the authors of the Bible were Black. Not one was white. moses banned whites from becoming Judaists. Jesus Himself was dark skinned and never ever preached to any whites, as per the Tradition of the Bible. no whites were allowed. it was king james that stole the words from the D S Judaists. James used their words, because he could not write words as Superior as the black authors, to enslave the white english to his wants and needs. God, created by the same black men that wrote the Bible, Cursed the many English kings with daughters. as per the Bible, men lead and women r not to speak, even Jesus believed this policy. so, God watched as the whites allowed 8 queens to reign longer than the 40+ male kings. the English kings just wanted power for their bloodlines and went whoa-ken. Slavery is a bad economic policy as it does not grow the GDP. the GDP is the economy. the GDP does not include Profits, nor dividends, nor capital gains. exports of cotton will never out value the value of imported dresses made from the same cotton. the 3% of the Pop, that owned slaves, was all about the enslavement of the whites to their lower GDP plans. // myop as a white skinned True Christian, i will never want to ever use blacks as slaves. the blacks wrote the Bible and i shall not piss off their God.. also, Rome used whites as slaves. rome also took the dark skinned Judaists away from Israel (in 70 AD) and forced the racist Judaists to breed with white slaves from gaul/briton/germanic Peoples, causing the Judaists to become white skinned. moses never allowed interbreeding between his dark skinned people and white sea peoples, so there is no allowance for any Judaist to become white, as per moses. The fact is the South is really a slave land, with whites being the slaves to the lowest wages known to the skin tone. the stew-pid r stupid and they have no God (due to moses banning whites from being saved by his God/Jesus never preached about His God to any whites) to protect them from the enslavement. The aim of the dumb is to be stupid. and when economics is the ONLY accounting to learn from, u learn the GDP does not rise while slavery holds it down. basic grade 10 accounting and economics' class include these teachings. but when the whites r the slaves there be no teaching going ON. whites take the Gym class so they can be trained to become monkees that will sing and dance for the atheist shareholder class. I thank all the white slaves of today for Volunteering to be paid less than what they want. they serve as slaves to the shareholder class and i thank u for that too.

[@avenaoat]

@@DerekHamby CSS Shenandoah was the last on the 23th August 1865, when learnt from a British ship Kirby Smith surrendered!

[@longshucksgaming]

Curious this is called the war of northern aggression by some when the first shots were fired by the south

[@VernonWillis-n8o]

Only by some idiots. A few more like to call it "The War Between the States" but that is not an accurate description either.

[@joshuawright8509]

As someone who lives in the state that Sherman burnt to the ground and an avid studier of Confederate tactics and weapons, I can say this in simple terms: The North had immigrants coming in left and right, and was THE industrial powerhouse of the states. The South had limited manpower, mainly farmers, and had no organized war economy strategy, yet had more effective generals. The ONLY chance the South had was that of the Germans in WW2, win as fast as possible or begin getting outnumbered and outgunned extremely quickly.

[@corngreaterthanwheat]

This paragraph took longer to read than the csa existed.

[@Al-Rudigor]

Are you a fan of Nazis and traitors?

[@websystema]

Southerners also, in average, were more combat effective than northern city citizens. That bcs farmers are usually familiar this rifles, horses and guns since childhood. But South had no possibility to mistake, they had to won every battle, and they were more vulnerable to losses.

[@Al-Rudigor]

@@websystema the north was full of farmers. Farmers who actually did all of the work themselves. The south could barely feed itself. The largest land owners were still growing cotton and tobacco. The North grew way more food. Plus a lot of those immigrants were actually farmers in Europe.

[@Al-Rudigor]

@@joshuawright8509 sounds a little like you are disappointed that the south, and the Nazis lost.

[@Faust8423]

Logistics and supplies Plain and simple, among multiple other factors

[@JesusOrDestruction]

Less resources, less soldiers

[@DarkKnight52365]

sometimes superior tactics can make up for that

[@Group.B]

@@DarkKnight52365 Which the confederacy and General Lee had none of. Lee was a two-time traitor. A traitor to the Union and a traitor to the confederacy by executing his own forced conscripts and then fleeing to a Union state after he lost. Just an all-around pathetic person moonlighting as a general.

[@Nate-kc2wf]

@@DarkKnight52365If only they were more than hicks on horses

[@cal4837]

Less brains, less moral standing too.

[@johnbeechy]

and being stupid about economics does lead to death. Jesus knew Judaists used slaves. Jesus never denounced the use of blacks as slaves, because all Judaists were black. Jesus did ban whites from attending any of His sermons. only 3% of the Southern white population actually owned (black) slaves at the outbreak of the war. that makes the other 97% of the white population a bunch of lower classed piss poor farmers. not much manufacturing going on in the dumbed down South. also, 100% of the authors of the Bible were Black. Not one was white. moses banned whites from becoming Judaists. Jesus Himself was dark skinned and never ever preached to any whites, as per the Tradition of the Bible. no whites were allowed. it was king james that stole the words from the D S Judaists. James used their words, because he could not write words as Superior as the black authors, to enslave the white english to his wants and needs. God, created by the same black men that wrote the Bible, Cursed the many English kings with daughters. as per the Bible, men lead and women r not to speak, even Jesus believed this policy. so, God watched as the whites allowed 8 queens to reign longer than the 40+ male kings. the English kings just wanted power for their bloodlines and went whoa-ken. Slavery is a bad economic policy as it does not grow the GDP. the GDP is the economy. the GDP does not include Profits, nor dividends, nor capital gains. exports of cotton will never out value the value of imported dresses made from the same cotton. the 3% of the Pop, that owned slaves, was all about the enslavement of the whites to their lower GDP plans. // myop as a white skinned True Christian, i will never want to ever use blacks as slaves. the blacks wrote the Bible and i shall not piss off their God.. also, Rome used whites as slaves. rome also took the dark skinned Judaists away from Israel (in 70 AD) and forced the racist Judaists to breed with white slaves from gaul/briton/germanic Peoples, causing the Judaists to become white skinned. moses never allowed interbreeding between his dark skinned people and white sea peoples, so there is no allowance for any Judaist to become white, as per moses. The fact is the South is really a slave land, with whites being the slaves to the lowest wages known to the skin tone. the stew-pid r stupid and they have no God (due to moses banning whites from being saved by his God/Jesus never preached about His God to any whites) to protect them from the enslavement. The aim of the dumb is to be stupid. and when economics is the ONLY accounting to learn from, u learn the GDP does not rise while slavery holds it down. basic grade 10 accounting and economics' class include these teachings. but when the whites r the slaves there be no teaching going ON. whites take the Gym class so they can be trained to become monkees that will sing and dance for the atheist shareholder class. I thank all the white slaves of today for Volunteering to be paid less than what they want. they serve as slaves to the shareholder class and i thank u for that too.

[@kelvinw.1384]

Ummmm...west Virginia was on the union side in the beginning. They were never confederate. Plain and simple the North had the population to absorb losses. The south did not have enough men in the end

[@lostShadowLord]

Nitpick The confederates were the ones who started the fire in Altanta, to prevent the Union from using the military supplies there, not Sherman. Sherman's troops fight the fires.

[@avenaoat]

In Richmond also the Lee's Army made the fire!

[@davidbarker7030]

You're absolutely right. In all wars, retreating armies work hard to make sure they don't leave valuable stores for the other forces and they destroy the infrastructure that could slow them down. But it is also true that conquering armies can also do a lot of damage. After the way, the south emphasized the latter (overly much) and minimized the former. And strangely enough, the loser of the Civil War got to write much of its history!

[@nothuman3083]

Sherman sized the Goldfields the south lost at that moment

[@ehunt7498]

General Sherman was the GOAT

[@medusagorgon9]

I actually drove through Wilderness on November 8th heading back from Charlottesville. It had been years since I was last in that area (2012) and I stumbled across a reenactment! I had no idea it was going on, so my shock and delight was immense.😁 To look at me you would never guess, but I love historical reenactments. My first one was in Waterloo, Belgium and the gentleman playing Napoleon was the splitting image of him! It was crazy!😳 My second was Gettysburg, which was truly wonderful.

[@Knowledgia]

That's awesome! I've never been to a reenactment but it sounds like you had a lot of fun!

[@medusagorgon9]

​@@Knowledgia I did!🤩

[@Doyouknowgeography]

*Few weeks ago i started to read john keegan american civil war. Today I already finished the chapter is called "Breaking into the South".One quote from this chapter: Sherman also wrote: War is war, not a race for popularity. If they want peace, they and their kindred must cease to fight. They cannot describe war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty itself, and it is impossible to ennoble it, and those who brought war into our country deserve all the scorn and curses that the people can heap upon them.*

[@fiddleback1568]

Most of the Confederates that fled to Brazil, came back. Without slaves growing cotton and tobacco was hard.

[@erf3176]

The South hinged their theories of victory into some really dumb assumptions: That the union would not be committed to the fight. Clearly, killing their soldiers just made the Union angrier and angrier and more committed to win. They also weren't stupid. Allowing the confederates to set up a hostile nation that would have overlapping claims on territory was not a politically viable option. Then, there was that cotton is king dumbasssery. Sure, the UK and France used Southern cotton to keep their textile mills running. But their population was also being fed by grain imports from Union states. The confederates apparently were dumb enough to think one can eat cotton. At no time in the history of the world has anyone faced a national collapse due to textile riots. Bread riots on the other hand often end up with kings losing their heads. France and the Brits were not going to help them. Not unless they found a more strategic reason than acquiring cotton. You can have churches and government provide bread to unemployed workers. But if there's no bread for workers to buy with their money or the price goes up beyond their means, you've got a more difficult problem. Weathering a cotton shortage is nothing compared to dealing with a bread one.

[@avenaoat]

Very few people know (Funny but very few historians!!!!!) India became Crown colony in 1858 so the British government began to increase the raw cotton production in 1858 3 years before the Civil War! The British port city consulates began to give free of charge cotton seeds to the local agricultural producers in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Egypt 3 years before the Civil War. UK wanted to diversificate the World production of the raw cotton 3 years before the Civil War. IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY 1864 during the Civil War.

[@davidbarker7030]

@@avenaoat Great point. The Confederacy compounded their mistake by temporarily boycotting selling cotton to England. That just pushed England to replace southern cotton with that from India.

[@RonSilver-k8x]

Because they weren’t that bright ? Wanting to preserve Slavery wasn’t a moral solution ,and thus the Confederates should have formed a southern agricultural confederation to solve those southern issues by themselves. Imagine solving that issue of slavery & for the south’s economic benefit especially without the northerners having anything to do with anything at all .

[@josif409]

Thank you for covering winchester. I live there and there are reminders of the civil war everywhere

[@zoanth4]

AP Hill was an excellent divisional and corps commander. It's recently debated that he was more consistent and reatrained in his aggression than jackson. His division under jackson often saw the heaviest of fighting and losses until jacjsons death. He roited the 1st corps at gettysburg and held well during the overland and petersburg campaigns until the end. Jackson and longstreet both despised him, so he often is forgotten about as a great tactician.

[@smacky101]

Simply put: the Union was based, the Confederacy was cringe.

[@delanceysamuel4770]

The most true statement ever said.

[@BewuketGetch]

I am learning this history in grade 12history textbook in 🇪🇹Ethiopia .can you make the conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt ?🌹

[@pdxcorgidad]

Getting so many names and places right and then mispronouncing Mobile made me chuckle. This isn't an insult. It happens to all of us.

[@AquaCoalaNest]

Especially with this AI.

[@SocialStudies831]

Imagine being related to racist that wanted to keep slaves.

[@BlackPigeonPilled]

Absolutely 💯% based.

[@davidbarker7030]

I hope you recognize that we are all descended from slave owners. And slaves. How many generations to do you need to go back? I would guess less than 20. But who knows? Every generation needs to be open minded enough to recognize that some practices that seem acceptable might not be. For example, our generation has (mostly) overcome bias against homosexuals. What's next?

[@hyundaisonata580]

@@SocialStudies831 And one of them was related to a president.

[@GarrettCates]

Most Americans probably are, even black people. But you sound like a tool anyway.

[@Aeoferwyn]

You're related to Bill Gates?

[@skip031890]

I love these videos.

[@geoffreylee5199]

The CSA’s troops generally stayed in their own states. If needed in another location, they stayed put. Guys from Virginia did not go to The Carolinas if needed, nor the reverse. Not the case for Union troops, they went where they were needed; at the beginning there was difficulty, but later was more successful. Good clip!

[@unbreakable7633]

The Army of Tennessee was composed of troops from several States and the Army of Northern Virginia was composed of troops from every Confederate State. What Confederate troops in both armies were reluctant to do was to invade the North. When Lee took the army into Maryland in 1862, thousands of men stopped at the Potomac River and the army that met the Army of the Potomac in September was only about 30000 men, but that 30000 fought the 90000 men of the Union army to a standstill in the bloodiest one day of fighting in American history.

[@avenaoat]

@@unbreakable7633 Jackson occupied Harpers' Ferry and the Lee directive about Jackson's move was in a cigar paper . Some Federal soldiers found the Lee directive that Jackson was sent to Harper's Ferry, so Lee's army less. Mc Clallen got saome power.

[@samuelvidrine3548]

Wait you forgot that general banks burned down Alexandria a city in Louisiana on his retreat

[@TheDarthBuddha]

Why West Verginia in Confederacy?

[@unbreakable7633]

Because it was part of Virginia until it seceded from that State in 1863,

[@TheDarthBuddha]

@@unbreakable7633 But they never joined the south, the state voted and the the west virgina half voted union and went union..

[@TheDarthBuddha]

@@unbreakable7633 "Restored Government of Virginia" of 1861 is a interesting article on this subject.

[@unbreakable7633]

@@TheDarthBuddha A friend of mine is from Winchester, VA, and we were once talking about how W.VA's secession was illegal because it was accomplished without the permission of the State legislature, a Constitutional requirement, and his response was, "We don't want it back."

[@TheDarthBuddha]

@@unbreakable7633 Thats my point, the elected union congressmen took their spot in Washington and the elected confederates in Richmond. But you see my point, w Virgina , Kentucky and Tennessee and Missouri were gray areas,

[@patcroy78]

So dope, you put this video out 40 min ago, I’ve been watching the other videos leading up this for the past hour or more. Thank you universe.

[@Knowledgia]

I'm glad you're enjoying the series!

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video

[@Knowledgia]

Thank you for your constant support!

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@Knowledgia---Your welcome

[@AnthonyGentile-z2g]

You can only attack "infrastructure" "rescources" et al if the enemy field forces are destroyed. Grant destroyed the Armies in Mississippi at Vicksburg and Northern Virginia at Appomattox, and Thomas destroyed the Army of Tennessee at Nashville.

[@SeanDahle]

With the South Relying on slave labor, poorly managed logistics, little industrial capacity, loss of public support, no European backing, lack of communication, smaller population, loss of experienced officers, etc... The Confederacy was pretty much doomed from the beginning

[@lerneanlion]

I see now that the Confederacy did attempt stateless strategy too. But in the end, the Union forced them to play defensive most of the times. Am I correct about this?

[@pteechka1]

@@lerneanlion had the South implemented and kept to a defensive strategy, they might well have "won" (or at least not lost, almost the same). But they didn't really have a strategy , popular support, or the resources to implement and follow through with their invasions/attacks. The defeat of Southern states was made inevitable when south Carolina attacked fort Sumter. Another option that would have made a significant difference , had they freed the slaves and incorporated them into the southern economy and military, they might have been more capable in the field.

[@demetriuswilliams1796]

A lot of the Oldest Prisons were built rite Around this this time… I wonder y that is🤨

[@jarynn8156]

The first state prison was the Old Newgate Prison in Connecticut. New Jersey has the oldest active prison, the 1798 Penitentiary House, which has been active since 1798.

[@Jay-wf8hj]

West Virginia was never in the condefercy

[@phyrhfbr1819]

3:58 it's clearly not confederate... im unsure if why you even said anything at all... anyways, dude clearly marks on his map that w Virginia is union 🤔

[@Chronixx6]

They were confederate at first. They broke off from Virginia shortly after the start of the war

[@XandateOfHeaven]

It's complicated. Much of Western Virginia did vote of succeed but came under control of the Wheeling government.

[@PaulBudge]

@@phyrhfbr1819 0:58 the map clearly shows WV as confederate.

[@phyrhfbr1819]

@PaulBudge and do you know why... like Kentucky it back out... but at one point was... kinda fits the context huh? 🤔 Kentucky did very similar as well 🤔 but thank you for trying to correct me... but you should at least be correct or fully understand the reason for things, or perhaps hist remain silent 🙏🏻🌹

[@chardaskie]

I think the Union had something to do with it

[@paulcunningham2859]

Very easy answer. The union had way more men money and industry.plus the navel blockcade that kept supplies from the south.

[@Mysteriousstranger6]

The short answer is supplies factories and more manpower

[@pteechka1]

Exactly, 400,000 southerners served in the US army, a substantial number.

[@Wideloafer_shorts]

Alteast my favourite State NY joined the Union

[@davidbarker7030]

🤣

[@Aeoferwyn]

You have disgusting taste

[@TheBandit025Nova]

*General Sherman appears* Me: General 🫡🫡🫡

[@vijayiyer8518]

How did louisiana get to vote in the 1864 election when it was a confederate state ?

[@jarynn8156]

They were under Union occupation. That said, while they voted, their vote wasn't actually counted, their electoral votes were discarded.

[@AldousC]

The Confederates lost when they lost part of the Mississippi River.

[@VernonWillis-n8o]

The war could have been over after Gettysburg if Meade had only pursued the retreating rebels aggressively and forced to Lee to fight another showdown battle north of the Potomac River. He came up with a lot of excuses for not doing so but the reality is that he was afraid that if he attacked the Confederates the same thing would have happened to him that had just happened to Lee.

[@namenotfound8747]

The traitors lost because they thought they could crush the United States with 1 or 2 epic battles, early on they managed to maul a few Corps of the Union but by the end of the war, they never thought what would happen would they didn't have the numbers, because again, they care more about glory on the battlefield then winning the war. The traitors strategy was to fight a short war where the United States of America was prepared to fight as long as it took, no matter how many casualties it would cost. Robert E. Lee failures were numerous, not only failing to control and properly make orders clear in Gettysburg, a superior General, George Gordon Meade broke the traitor's army, after which they were never able to recover from after that point. Lee also was a glory hog, he never liked reinforcing other armies when the odds were against them. They slowly lost there manpower. The USA could replenish their troops while the traitors couldn't. By the end of the war, the traitors packed their things up and abandoned there posts, the Union also had the same issue but could call on immigrants from Europe, mainly Irish immigrants to refill their ranks. The traitors could not do the same. It was only 3 weeks before they surrendered that the traitors allowed there slaves to serve in their army, when it was way too late. They only did so out of desperation and no one was happy it came down to this.

[@bruceterhune3400]

Grant, Sherman, Hancock and their supporting casts. Also Lee's arrogance. Just my opinion.

[@chris-parker]

Grant was put in charge, and Sherman... well, Sherman took a little "firey but mostly peaceful" stroll through Georgia.

[@alaintremaine3302]

Strange that you forgot that George G. Meade was also a commander of the Army of the Potomac along with U.S. Grant.

[@harlangrove3475]

Had the Civil War ended shortly after Gettysburg, whither slavery? The Confederacy didn't control any territory in Union or border states. Would the Union just have handed back territory inside Confederate states but under Union control, such as Louisiana from Baton Rouge to the Gulf? Wither the territories into which spreading slavery was one of the Confederacy's main reasons for beginning the war? Had hostilities ceased in mid-1863, there would have been a 2nd Civil War within 2 decades. There were only 2 plausible conclusions to hostilities: the Confederacy forcing the Union to recognize its independence, or the Union crushing the Confederacy.

[@roadyholmes]

@13:00 That would be Mo beel...

[@praetorian9823]

Ah, the war over slaves rights, as in, the Confederates right to own people. If you think I'm an idiot, how about we ask the Vice President of the country you shamelessly prop up and glorify? Confederacy lost because of a lack of resources and Generals that could see the bigger picture. We think the Confederates had way better generals but A: who won again? And B: Confederate tactics were based off of this idea that with one bold strike, they would break the Yanks and win their honor and glory. The Union by contrast, as the war went on, eventually realised that no, war is not a glorious game, it's a brutal grind. People think the Confederate generals were amazing because of all their unique tactics, completely ignoring what they, actually accomplished with them. Congratulations, you threw away 20% of your army on random skirmishes away from where the main battle would even be fought. Based on purely percentage, while Grant did get more of his men killed raw numbers wise, you could argue percentage wise Lee was an even bigger butcher.

[@darkLiquid22]

Spoiler alert... the confederates eventually bent the knee.

[@johnwright9372]

The Union had the navy to blockade Confederate ports, it had three times the population, industry and railroads.

[@pteechka1]

Also significant, Southern states had purchased much of it's food from Northern states prior to the war. Anything that reduced imports caused prices to soar.

[@jasongaston17]

Let's go another awesome banger🎉🎉🎉

[@kevinj834]

I really wish this was just fully released to watch the whole thing rather than waiting months between releases

[@Crimson_Hawk_01]

Why are there assault rifle sound effects?

[@davidbarker7030]

It makes me think that some of this content was automatically generated and not checked by a knowledgeable person. I mean, the content is pretty good ... but it could've been better with one edit by someone who knows something.

[@natelate300]

Gotta love the people defending traitors in the comments

[@GarrettCates]

They were no more traitors than the founding fathers were. The states joined the union, the constitution doesn’t address leaving, so the reasoning was they could voluntarily leave. Not trying to be rude, but you’re probably somebody that had some leftist social studies teacher growing up, because your statement reeks of someone who is quite ignorant when it comes to history.

[@Aeoferwyn]

I'm not a fan of the Confederacy but I don't see defending your home as treacherous.

[@AnimaRandom]

Yeah xD Imagine trying to justify slavery as a state right Fcking backward thinking

[@monnica1862]

​@@Aeoferwyn defending home to keep salves.

[@Aeoferwyn]

@@monnica1862 The ones who owned the slaves didn't fight. It was the sharecroppers who fought. Most southerners hate both the slave owners and the Yankees.

[@chipmunk9471]

🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇹🇼 😊

[@Byenie0912]

Go to war for a just cause, you win Go to war for money, you lose

[@3209-f4h]

The CSA Railroad had various gages throughout the South ! Rail spacing !

[@eliscanfield3913]

eh, we don't need to label Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, or Rhode Island

[@DanielMontgomery-l2z]

The north was stronger. It wasn’t a bravery thing. It was a “we can do Gettysburg agian” and the confederates were already overextended with union armies poised to make deep strikes into confederate territory. Frankly even with a win at Gettysburg. They still would not have been able to match union output.

[@TonysMusic1974]

Why is west Virginia shown was a confederate state?

[@clarkstartrek]

Suffice It To Say: THE UNION SIMPLY HAD MORE MEN AND MATERIAL TO END THIS WAR. ( Even Though It Took 4 Years ) From The Author, Shelby Foote: "I think that the North fought that war with one hand behind its back," said Foote. If the Confederacy ever had come close to winning on the battlefield, "the North simply would have brought that other arm out from behind its back. I don't think the South ever had a chance to win that war." Over Half The Union Army Was On Garrison Duty In The Years1861 to 1864....U.S. Grant Brought Those Garrisons against Robert E. Lee in 1864 and End the Civil War in Less than a Year.

[@eliscanfield3913]

Shelby's a lost causer with no training as a historian & a desire to put his grandpas in a better light & so needs to be taken with a grain of salt, according to current consensus among actual historians

[@JohahnDiechter]

They had a better chance than the Continental Army against Great Britain. The southern rebellion started to fail the second the Anaconda Plan fell into place. Lee and many other southern generals recklessly lost too many men in pointless offensives and the war was likely going to be short due to the southern states being so reliant on the northern economies for their food, materials, and capital. It was a foolish war fought to protect the inhumane property rights of the southern planter class.

[@fcy802]

What is the CSA

[@Ghostrex101]

A amazing country with happy white people, but unfortunately only lasted 4 years

[@magnis380]

Confederate States of America

[@PURPLE_CANDY2008]

@@Ghostrex101 all slave reliant nations are doomed to stagnate

[@maddog5284]

West Virginia only exists so that it is not apart of the confederacy, so why is it coloured red and in the southern borders?

[@philv2529]

Your AI narrator doesn't know how to pronounce Mobile

[@LaManoNegra2061]

They didn’t want to hold up their end of the bargain

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

A good video, but some points of correction, I apologize that this will be long, but it's a subject I have studied extensively. I grew up near these battlefields, have walked them, and researched them for nearly three decades. I do hope to see more videos on the battle as it often gets overlooked despite the strategic significance of it on the campaigns in other theaters of the war. 1: Mobile, Alabama is pronounced Moe-Bill, not Moe-Bile 2: There were three Confederate forts that had operations conducted against them during the battle, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines was beseiged by a force landed on Dauphin Island before the Union Fleet entered the Bay and Fort Powell was bombarded by Union gunboats. 3: The layout of the Battle of Mobile Bay you have is fairly inaccurate. The Union Ironclads(two single turret and two double turret Monitor variants) did not precede the wooden ships into the bay, but rather were to divide their efforts with the two single turret Monitors, which were equipped with twin 15 inch cannon designed to counter the Confederate Ironclad Ram armor were to enter and engage the Ironclad Ram, CSS Tennessee-which is depicted in your video as a wooden vessel. The two double turreted Monitors were to lay off Fort Morgan and subdue the shore battery while the Union wooden vessels entering in line by twos(ship of the line to the starboard and paddle steamer to the port lashed together) the paddle wheelers on the port would be shielded from Fort Morgan's fire and could keep the larger vessels moving-effectively acting as tugboats. The Union vessels would go through the narrow channel between the torpedo(sea mine) field left open for Confederate Blockade runners. 4: The battle plan went awry quickly however as the USS Tecumseh(the lead single turret Monitor) veered to the wrong side of the buoy marking the torpedo field to engage the CSS Tennessee, she struck a mine and sank in under three minutes. This brought the battle line to a halt as the USS Brooklyn, the lead wooden vessel slowed to a stop halting the wooden ships under Fort Morgan's guns at point blank range while the Rebel fleet of the CSS Tennessee, Selma, Morgan and Gaines had cross the T and were firing on the Union vessels. The Union fleet was pinned between a crossfire and suffering mounting damage when Rear Admiral Farragut aboard the USS Hartford-second ship in the line, acted decisively to salvage the situation. He took Hartford around the stalled Brooklyn, through the Torpedo field and the column of wooden vessels followed him. No further mines detonated as they crossed the field due to many of the mines leaking from being under for months, rendering their powder charges worthless. Once in the bay, the fleet moved up, separated their lashed paddle gunboats to deal with the Rebel wooden ships which fled(Morgan), surrendered(Selma) or were scuttled(Gaines) and then the CSS Tennessee charged the Union fleet by herself. After a fierce brawl, Tennessee's steering chains were shot away along with her smoke stack, her gun ports jammed by damage and her Admiral wounded, unable to move, steer or fight, she surrendered. Fort Gaines would surrender quickly, Fort Powell was abandoned due to lacking finished defenses, Fort Morgan was later surrounded by a Union landed force and surrendered after a short siege.

[@dilladinbutler5811]

You’re West Virginia is in red. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of West Virginia’s history if it’s in red instead of blue.

[@jakeseeley2712]

What’s with the machine gun sound effects on a civil war video?

[@jonathansnow1886]

So many misspellings and inaccuracies in the graphics. "Shereveport", "Monocy", "Opaquan", "Rodes".

[@jamessteele7010]

How did the United States beat the confederate states? Why does KZbin not recognize the confederate states as a proper noun? Are there two chinas?

[@TheBandit025Nova]

There’s People’s Republic of China and There’s China 🇹🇼

[@AbbyNormL]

Of course not. The Union Army of the Northern States defeated the confederate states of america (csa) aka the south. Kind of like how the United Kingdom, United States and the USSR of WWII defeating the axis powers nazi germany, italy and the empire of japan. KZbin denies the losing side of every war in human history from the right to use capital letters.

[@HPLovecats]

why should youtube recognize the "confederates' as a proper noun when no country on the planet recognized the "CSA" as a country?

[@jamessteele7010]

@ Using that logic, Israel and Palestine would only be capitalized sometimes. All names are capitalized, whether or not others recognize it. It’s called a proper noun.

[@HPLovecats]

@jamessteele7010 the were no confederates states of america. they were slaveholders having a rebellion

[@somethingmoredecent]

Typo at 5:28, it is spelled Spotsylvania

[@HPLovecats]

my dude, how did you spell Spotsylvania wrong?

[@abbottshaull9831]

Okay it video about a Civil War battle at the begin with. You should have a track with obvious machine gun fire in it. Just saying.

[@marvwatkins7029]

"Mobel" Bay?

[@mrtaxi204]

Because God ordained confederacy to failure

[@RADSIKEGORILLAGEM-pz5qr]

West Virginia was north

[@Cowboyfromfrance]

Where is the next video please

[@AnvilMAn603]

the entirety of the industrial output of the south was like 1/4 of new york alone, they didnt destroy them so much as they wore them down, south pretty much stood 0 chance of winning

[@abbottshaull9831]

Uhm Major General Nathaniel Banks wasn't much of military ground commander. One of many Generals on both sides that should never have been put in charge of military Division let alone active Army in campaign. Part of the reason why loses were show large operation, and none of the Forces were organized and put in place to support each other.

[@abbottshaull9831]

If the Confederacy had kept their Capital in Montgomery, the war in Virginia would have looked very different.

[@HCHaven7619]

Then again, the war would've probably ended a lot sooner after the Battle of Vicksburg if Montgomery were the capital. Because Grant would be a lot closer to it at the time.

[@jamesricker3997]

Your map needs work, West Virginia was Union.

[@The_king567]

The civil war is the most pointless war ever

[@delanceysamuel4770]

Preservation of the union, complete abolition of slavery, and one of the first pre-steps to the civil rights movement. Sounds pretty important. Unless you think the above mentioned are bad, in which case you're wrong.

[@The_king567]

@ not are job to do s any of that if they want to succeed and have slaves that’s on them not us definitely not worth fighting a war over

[@delanceysamuel4770]

​@@The_king567"not are job" Nice English. It's about as good as the Dixie's attempts at a country. "If they want slaves, let them" let's have you be on the chained end then. Until then, have fun in your 7th grade edgy phase. You'll grow out of it.

[@lootar63]

Why is West Virginia shown as part of the confederacy? 1863 WV broke from Virginia and joined the Union but this video shows it as its own state AND part of the south.

[@AvarageYoututbeUser]

12 views in 56 seconds is crazy

[@dezwade9752]

Where is the rest?

[@roberthoward6590]

The Confederates were worn down by superior manpower, resources, leadership and organisational power. They lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers that depleted their military and destroyed their economic and social structure. Trying to take the fight to the Union at Gettysburg was a pointless disaster that sealed their doom.

[@jimmythedudeman]

I don’t think it beneficial to dumbs things down for the layman listener if it means saying things that are misleading or inaccurate