Battle of Gettysburg: Bird's-Eye View (Royal Marine Reacts)

Here we go! Battle of Gettysburg: Bird's-Eye View | Animated History by The Armchair Historian! This was a load of fun to react to! Makes me want top play loads of military tactic games!
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[@TheMeanmarine13]

They have a movie called Gettysburg. They occasionally focus on a part about colonel chamberlain who's actually from the state you live in right now. They ordered a bayonet charge down the hill. Pretty bad ass.

[@ScarriorIII]

He's a Maine guy too, so that will be Perfect for OH.

[@chuckschulze6877]

That's a fantastic movie. The book it was based on, "the killer angels" is so full of heartbreaking detail the movie just can't take time to add in

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

Swing like a doohr

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

I'm fightin' for mah rats

[@TheMeanmarine13]

@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 lol wasn't that a confederate p.o.w that said "I'm fighting for My rats" to the Colonels younger brother? I need to watch that again.

[@thegraytemplar2548]

When the video mentioned Dan Sickles as a “devoted husband” is a reference to when in 1859 he murdered his Wife’s friend suspecting he was having an affair with her. He was able to be declared innocent by means of “temporary insanity” thanks to many House of Representatives friends and even the president Buchanan helping his legal defense.

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

The guy he killed was Francis Scott Key's son and he did right in front of the White House, lol.

[@puffmoneyo3590]

The leg was a long time coming

[@Ein_Kunde_]

Disgusting.

[@valjean76]

also dan sickles was all over town with other ladies so his jealousy is so rich.

[@boombalatty2161]

You’ve got to go to Gettysburg in your bus, it’s such a sight to see. I’ve been there twice and had fun each time seeing different things. There’s also a ghost tour you could do if you were interested. It’s definitely not real but it gives you the spooks.

[@lukeb8711]

As a resident I love it so so much.

[@boombalatty2161]

@@lukeb8711 i remember a lot of it, i wish i remembered all of it, little round too was fun with the castle thing on top. And i remember there was a big tower in a field that you could climb up and see which direction the big cities were. That one house that i think had a cannon ball go through. And i remember most of the monuments. It’s and all around cool place to be in

[@Alkron1]

ive been to Gettysburg its amazing

[@Baker7of10]

Oh yes, the ghost tours are so cool!

[@robashley8216]

Define "not real". We know nothing about death and what happens next, so to say ghosts don't exist is silly. Its like people who say extraterrestrials don't exist in our ever expanding Galaxy. Its mathematically improbable

[@ExUSSailor]

The Gettysburg Battlefield National Park is an amazing place. I HIGHLY recommend you pay it a visit. I'm not a believer in anything "paranormal", or, "supernatural", but, there's something almost heavy in that place. It's like you can feel it pressing down on you. All that death...

[@ExUSSailor]

When I was 10, my family attended the 125th Anniversary Re-enactment of the battle. It involved THOUSANDS of re-enactors & living history experts from all across the country, and, it took place on the actual battlefield.

[@davidmacy411]

As a matter of fact, Gettysburg and the battlefield are known for being among the most haunted places in the country.

[@ExUSSailor]

@@davidmacy411 All fiction. There are no "spirits", there is no "afterlife". They're just fairytales, to scare children & gullible fools.

[@tchoupitoulos]

Hallowed ground.

[@htmn4712]

@@ExUSSailor guess we’ll never know until we find out the hard way haha

[@hubbabubba8083]

You should totally play strategy games like total war. There are a couple civil war strategy games on steam. I’d recommend Napoleon or Rome 2 for historical titles they are both pretty good. Also, Civilization 5 is a great strategy game and the full release with DLC and stuff has a Civil war mode which is really cool to ply, very macro but still fun!

[@huntersmith6086]

Ultimate general civil war is good to

[@rubenserrano1580]

hearts of iron 4 is another good one as well

[@hubbabubba8083]

@@rubenserrano1580 100%

[@DingleDobber]

Shogun 2 would be great, especially fall of the samurai

[@lafamiliahernandez3015]

Definitely Napoleon: Total War.

[@zklpr4661]

We went to Gettysburg on a school field trip a few years back, and seeing the hills that these men fought on up close is truly an experience that I'll never forget. It's bone chilling to imagine that thousands of people died right where I was standing.

[@corinnem.239]

They may be dead, but some are still there in spirit & still seen today.

[@williamrichards8682]

I recommend looking into the story of the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg. It is one of the most incredible stories of that day where they singlehandedly saved the left flank from falling in a suicidal charge with 80% casualties.

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

The Iron Brigade, legends.

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

They were on the right flank, not the left. The left was down south where the Round Top hills were, while the 1st Minnesota was further north nearer to Culp's Hill

[@jacobc1402]

I was just at Gettysburg during a small vacation and got a chance to walk through all of these with a video camera. The entire area is soaked in history and it is a great place to visit. The view from little round top and looking out to the peach orchard, wheat fields, and devils den is a massive reality check. In this style, it seems like a wide area, but this is all happening within maybe 3 to 5 miles. One thing he did not mention, but gives you an idea of the losses for the last charge, was in Picketts area. Picketts charge reached the low wall that the Union held before breaking and falling back, leading to Lee asking Pickett where his division is. Pickett famously responded by saying "I have no division". This is also pronounced with the knowledge that Pickett knew the charge to be foolhardy and had tried desperately to tell Lee to focus again on the Union left instead of the center which had almost broken the day before. Lee eventually continued going for the center because he believed that it had been weakened from the days fighting and reinforcing the left. It is up for debate if they could have won the battle if they had attacked little round top and other areas again

[@mistythemischievous2013]

Fun Fact about Joshua Chamberlain. He wrote extensively on his experiences of the civil war and his memoirs are still available to this day, by the war's end he was promoted to Brigadier General, and shortly after the war ended was elected governor of Maine from 1867-1871. He then retired from the military and from politics, and went back to Bowdoin College, where he served as it's president until 1883. He later died in 1914, at age 85, due to complications from a wound he received at the the Battle of Petersburg.

[@macklemore131]

ive been to gettysburg, its really beautiful area and the memorials and stuff are really well done. the town itself is really cute too.

[@TKDragon75]

Note, when he says "casualties" he means killed, wounded, captured, or missing. I think only like 7-8k actually died. Though of course, that shouldn't downplay the scale of the battle as many more were also badly wounded.

[@cheeseninja1115]

and back then being wounded like that was almost the same as a death sentence after the war.

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

A lot listed wounded did not survive for long. Germ Theory wasn't even around yet. It's impossible to get a solid number of deaths in a Civil War battle that includes a very significant number of "died of wounds".

[@connerwills6802]

30:20 Fun fact about Vicksburg, Jefferson Davis president of the conference wanted to send troops there to reinforce the city. Lee however though their best chance at victory was to invade the north and force them to surrender. And the same day he had to retreat from Gettysburg Vicksburg fell, if that’s not the definition of irony I don’t know what is

[@AngelWolf12]

Oh yeah, the charge of the 20th Maine is legendary in US history. Chamberlain didn't have such a great life after the war sadly. No joke I think he was shot in the groin during the battle and had bladder issues for the rest of his life. But the battle at little round top and the charge are just an epic moment in US history. Also the 1st Minnesota did a desperate last stand bayonet charge same day as the 20th Maine, knowing it was pure suicide but they needed to buy time for the Union to regroup. Something like 80% casualties, 250 men charging some 1500. People always say the average rebel soldier was better than a union one, but fuck me the union boys have courage and steel in their spines.

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

He was President of Bowdoin College and Governor of Maine. It wasn't all bad.

[@tomorrowhowever7488]

You MUST visit Gettysburg! Expect to spend a few days. The entire area of the battleground has been preserved. A long, slow walk is in order. Also, a visit to the cemetery where Lincoln gave his address and walking through the town is moving.

[@Algebrodadio]

Fun fact: Every year West Point takes their cadets to Gettysburg to walk the battlefield and learn lessons of leadership from the history and the big decisions made by the officers on both sides of that battle. It's a hugely important part of officer training. And if you ever want to take a field trip to Gettysburg, you would learn a lot about the Civil War, but also ... about leadership generally.

[@user-nx8pe6pc3h]

There is an awesome video called Retreat from Gettysburg. It show how Lee was able to save what was left of the Army of Northern Virginia. The Union military leaders kept letting Lee escape after battles. Instead of pursuing Lee the Union Generals always paused and licked their wounds whether they won or lost the battle. This allowed Lee to get away. Lincoln finally brought in Grant. Grant never let Lee breath. Grant kept chasing Lee regardless if he won or lost the battle. He eventually worn down the outnumber South and forced Lee to surrender.

[@lewisd7306]

You'd enjoy the rise of the van der linde gang it tells how the red dead gang came to be without spoiling anything in the actual games it just sets the background Normally you'd get this from hidden in game dialogue but it's hard to do on a lets play

[@AeonAxisProductions]

I grew up in New Oxford Pennsylvania which is like 15 minutes away from gettysburg, and I'm very well versed in the details of the battle, so here's the thing that most people don't know about Chamberlain's charge, and it's that they didn't CHOOSE to do a bayonet charge, they HAD to, it was literally their only option, otherwise anything else they did would've resulted in the line being broken and the battle being lost In the movie gettysburg, chamberlain (played by Jeff daniels) says this: "Well We can't run away If we stay here we can't shoot So let's fix bayonets We have the advantage of moving down the hill They gotta be tired the rebs, they gotta be close to the end if we are, so fix bayonets"

[@tonylabbe6690]

Joshua Chamberlains house has been turned into a museum in Brunswick Maine. His grave is about a ¼ mile from there and there is a statue across the street from his house. Should you ever make it around here it's got a bunch of cool stuff to see and learn about.

[@alexpion753]

I live 30 minutes from gettysburg and have been there multiple times. Its surreal imagining such a small quiet town as the place of one of the most important battles in history. One guide we had said there are probably thousands of musket balls in peoples backyards

[@renzluigiaquino7608]

Luke, if you want to add some some real-time strategy games, then I recommend you to play my childhood games such as; the starcraft trilogy, or the command and conquer series. Those games are fun. But i recommend you to play the tutorial first before doing the campaigns & multiplayer to help you get familiar with the new play style.

[@punk1200]

When it comes to command & conquer don't play 4 it's the worst of the series

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

He honestly sells Pickett's Charge short with that description. 3 full divisions took the field in that maneuver, and only about 1 came back. I think the best description of it comes from the channel Atun-Shei Films in his reviews of the Gettysburg movie: "Before the assault even began, Union artillery from Cemetery Ridge tore through the ranks of Confederate infantry as they cowered under the trees on Seminary Ridge. When they finally emerged onto open ground, federal gunners could start picking their targets, and the bombardment became even more destructive, taking off heads, limbs, and boring holes in chest cavities. As the advancing rebels came into range of the batteries positioned on Little Round Top, they were exposed to enfilading fire, meaning Union gunners could shoot twelve pound cast iron balls down the entire length of an enemy column, mowing down dozens of men at a time. Faced with this horrendous fate, entire Confederate regiments broke and ran, colliding with their comrades advancing from behind, sowing confusion and chaos as the iron rain continued. The charge faltered as the rebel infantry struggled to cross the fences at the Emmitsburg Road, about halfway to Cemetery Ridge. Those who did make it over the fences with their lives came within rifle range, and United States troops fired in four ranks, offering an unrelenting hail of .50 to .60 caliber soft lead bullets that sometimes exploded as they passed through the body, ripping through internal organs like tissue paper. A few hundred Confederates made it to the stone wall that protected the Union line, but they were easily outflanked, and quickly repulsed at the point of swords, knives, and bayonets. By the end, the angle was soaked in blood and viscera, to say nothing of the thousands of dead and wounded that littered the fields for a mile to the west."

[@bradjohnson1578]

My great great grandfather Bradley t Johnson fought in the Maryland line, understand wall Jackson. After Jackson's death after the battle of Chancellorsville, he fought under Richard Ewell.

[@gabrielegenota1480]

Damn my mans predicting Lee's strats before the video explains- I guess that military training helps with tactics eh?

[@hammerofmariotos]

Old Greene's stand on Culp's Hill is every bit as amazing as Little Round Top. Sickle's mistake in the Center left Greene with a little over 1,300 men to man trenches built for 10,000. Their trenches were wooden logs piled up and pinned in the earth with vertical logs, and a several inch gap at the top to aim and fire through, with a log head protector piece topping it. In the ground behind they dug a ditch to step back and reload from. Greene was a New York City engineer who designed and built elevated roads and sewer systems to make life safer for city people. He died aged 98 years.

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

I know this is a old video and idk if it was mentioned or not but to explain a bit of how Pickett's Charge. Over 250 cannons being fired for about 2 hours straight between the Union and Confederate combined and the sound from it was so massive the sounds of the cannon fire could be heard all the way in Washington DC which was a bit over 80 miles away. Also during Pickett's Charge the Confederates had to cross the Emmitsburg Road which had a wooden fence oblong both sides of the road. There's a original piece of wood from that fence on display at the museum and it has over 200 rounds embedded into it's wood.

[@archersfriend5900]

"The Civil War" by Ken Burns. Absolutely amazing series you should react too. This came out right before Desert Storm and Gen. Swartzkopf watched it right before the war began.

[@doccindy7545]

Gettysburg national battlefield park is an amazing place. Standing at the locations where thousands of men faced those positions and marched to near certain death is truly sobering.

[@darrenjoness2397]

The Battle of Gettysburg is so fascinating.It had so many twists and turns

[@mikelombard21]

Ive visited Gettysburg for vacation a few years ago. It was insane to see how flat and open the land is. They could see them coming out of the woods a mile away just marching towards them with no cover at all. While you have your cannons on the hill aimed at them. Pretty much everyone in and around the town of Gettysburg there was fighting. And there are monuments and statues everywhere. Very cool spot to visit for a history buff.

[@Kriegter]

Luke, the Armchair Historian team is making a new real-time strategy game based on the 1800s. It's similar to total war and they're currently in pre-alpha, it's called Fire and Manuever

[@andrewseberg5214]

Man the animations bring back memories of playing Sid Meier's Gettysburg back in the day.

[@gyver8448]

If you Google "General Sickles leg" you can see pictures of the bones because they still have them. His leg got fucked up in a serious way.

[@electricsex2738]

Go to Gettysburg, trust me on this one. I've been there twice and it just breaks your heart. The buildings there still have pock marks from bullets strikes. The museum is awesome, I spent hours in it just marvelling at the items on display from the battle.

[@Rocco1332]

Still boggles my mind how recent it was. I've known people that fought in WWII, that was 80 years ago, the Civil War was only 80 years before that.

[@Crazyasian123456]

There are homes from the Civil War that still have bullet holes in the brickwork. I can't remember, but there is one house that turned into a small museum and when they turned a black light on in the attic, they found blood splatter pretty much everywhere. The house was used by the Confederates as a sniper nest.

[@SnailHatan]

No they didn’t. The hemoglobin has long since broken down. No amount of luminol and no intensity of UV light will make it glow.

[@knightleeb3606]

I live only 45 minutes from Gettysburg and in elementary school(5ht grade) we were given a real confederate soldier do research on that soldier. Then we took a field trip and we reacted Pickett's charge playing as our soldiers we're assigned. It was awesome!

[@alexw5367]

A battle you should react to is the Battle of New Market. With missing troops, young cadets from the Virginia Military Institute was forced to fight. They made a movie about it called "Field of Lost Shoes"

[@SamuelThomson-qs8py]

please, fascinating.

[@jarredcox6714]

ive been to Gettysburg, what a sight. It's nice to see a top down version of the events though as the sheer size of the battlefield can be overwhelming in person.

[@JohnDingus_16]

A total casualty count for both sides is estimated at 57,000: 3,000 Union deaths to 4,000 confederate deaths. 14,000 Union wounded to 12,000 confederate wounded. and a total of about 10,000 captured or missing on both sides (5000 each) Because it was America's civil war it means that in 3 days, 8000 Americans died, and 26,000 were wounded. However, this was over 3 days. The deadliest day in American military history was the battle of Antietam, with roughly the same number of total deaths in ONE day.

[@benschultz1784]

I visited Gettysburg National Battlefield. It's awe-inspiring. You can't dig for bullets anymore but I have a minié ball from there I got from my middle school history teacher.

[@williambranch4283]

General Patton's grandfather was a Colonel, CSA, and died during that war. The grandfather's brother was a Lt Colonel, CSA, killed during Pickett's charge.

[@thewitchbasket]

Joshua Chamberlain, the guy who ordered the bayonet charge, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for that move. He also went on to become the governor of Maine!

[@genethekiller]

My wife grew up in Gettysburg and talks about how they couldn't dig anywhere on their property without digging up minie balls, bayonets, and any number of things. Recommend a visit. It's incredible.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

It’s crazy for me to think that I had direct ancestors on both sides of this battle and that I wouldn’t exist if either of them didn’t make it.

[@justhereforkicks8208]

I love Civi War history, you can’t help but be taken on an emotional roller coaster hearing about the heroism and sacrifice, along with just knowing how many lives were lost for slavery. It’s sad really, in some towns across the US, the entire populations of young men were wiped out, losses the south would take decades to recover from. I love your enthusiasm for it, it’s very cool to watch someone hear this stuff for the first time. Like others in the comments, I urge you to watch the movie Gettysburg. Also there’s a sequel/prequel called Gods and Generals, it focuses on the battle of Fredericksburg and Stone Wall Jackson. Most of the cast from Gettysburg returned for their roles. Then there’s Glory with Denzel Washington and Matthew Broadrick, awesome movie as well.

[@jeffmelton3904]

The battlefield is an amazing places to visit, and like others have said, it’s definitely worth the trip. It is very sobering to stand at the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge overlooking the field that the Confederates charged across on the third day. I always thought it was a miracle they reached the Union lines given the number of cannons firing at them.

[@nathanpfirman625]

I’ve been to Gettysburg as a Boy Scout since my troop was in Pennsylvania and their is sooooo much history their like you can literally see bullet holes in houses and their are so many memorials. You can even hear what it was like with things for tourists their to learn what happened exactly where you stand

[@chuckschulze6877]

You should visit Gettysburg. You said it must be easy to find bullets.. You're correct. There were so many fired and dropped almost every shop in the town sells them, muskets, swords, letters, uniforms, knives, Cannon balls.. This video was really good but to stand in those places and see the scale and terrain in person is soul crushing. If you do visit Gettysburg also visit cash town. The inn where many of the generals stayed is still there and still in business also visit Harper's ferry and sharps town, MD. All these locations are super close together and full of history. Even after all these years the marks left by the civil war are still evident

[@Kriegter]

If you want to see how battles and tactics go in a birds eye view, you HAVE TO watch Kings and Generals. They got hundreds of videos on these sorts of battles specifically the napoleonic war series

[@cheeseninja1115]

as others have said, on your bus tour you should go to Gettysburg. While your there you should also go to the museum and experience the Cyclorama painting, it quite interesting in person.

[@frankisfunny2007]

It's neat being there! Great programs there about the Battle of Gettysburg! Chilling as well! Some places there are still up, that housed the wounded from the American Civil War. __________________________________________ Kind of irrelevant to the video's topic, but..... The environment surrounding the Gettysburg area, is just beautiful! Very green, and hill-y. It's more beautiful around this time of year with Autumn/Fall, the leaves become yellow, orange, red & brown.

[@Evocati2008]

Cool reaction, subbed and liked. The weapons started becoming rifled, and much more accurate, from farther distances. That and further advances in gunnery made these old , in-line tactics obsolete. So, the key in this war was to hold the strategic offensive, while tactically fighting defensive battles. Whomever was forced to attack on defensive positions got wiped out in much more significant numbers than in prior wars in world history. Alot of the European observers watching these battles failed to learn that lesson, resulting in massive loss of life in later on Euro conflicts, including ultimately in WW1.

[@chancyhales5684]

You have got to watch the movie “Gettysburg.” It shows all three days of fighting, the second day mainly through the eyes of the 20th Maine. It is a rather lengthy movie, but more than worth the watch

[@justinaarhus4873]

If you’re more interested in the civil war, there’s a game called “Ultimate General: Civil War”, it has gameplay relatively similar to the animations in this video, but encompasses the entire US civil war. Empire and Napoleon Total War are also good games to play during the colonial era!

[@westhuizenarchives2614]

Something that isn't mentioned in the video and should be is the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Charge which is arguably way more scary and cooler then little round top. So the Union Regiments at the peach orchard were beginning to collapse. And the only regiment not engaged were the 1st Minnesota which were by an Artillery position. This regiment only consisted of 300~ men. But one of the company was sent to support the center of the union line (that company fought during pickets charge the next day). So this regiment has around 250 people and General Handcock rides up to them. Hancock sees the line breaking and is sending reinforcements but they won't arrive for another 5 minutes he thinks. So he tells the 250 Minnesotans to charge at over 2000 thousand Confederates. And they do so without any hesitation. They manage to beat the shit out of the Confederates halting their advance while being almost encircled. They sustained 15 straight minutes of hellfire by the Confederates while fighting with bayonets and shooting from a small divet in the ground by some trees which saved the regiment from being completely killed. When they were finally ordered to retreat only around 40.. 40 people from the regiment returned to the lines. The 1st Minnesota Volunteer sustained the highest percentage lost of any regiment during the Civil war at about 82% dead. Also did I mention this was the first regiment to be called up for during the Civil war. The Minnesotan governor after hearing about Fort Sumter and was also in DC at the time, went to old Abe and told him he would sent the first 1000 volunteers for the cause. So this one regiment went through most of the major battles of the war. So yeah, they really missed out on telling that charge.

[@HildegardActual]

I encourage you to visit Gettysburg sometime! I went as a child and I did happen upon a musket round. You can still find them today.

[@TheLastGarou]

If you ever get the opportunity to visit Gettysburg, take a couple of days. There's too much to see and do in one. There are a couple of marked trails (Billy Yank and Johnny Reb) that actually take you through several of the major sites from the battle. You get a much better sense of what the fighting must have been like when you get to stand where they did.

[@k0alaAssasin]

I know you are planning to tour the country. You should go to Gettysburg. The land has been incredibly well preserved. There is still bullet holes and cannon ball holes in some of the buildings. It's genuinely breathtaking

[@holdenmass8012]

Interesting point about your comment of the advantage of fighting from the ground. This is actually a fairly recent concept. During this time most soldiers stood up to reload their weapons as breach loading guns were only being more widely introduced towards the end of the war.

[@trax1602]

You should really go to Gettysburg and at 15:30 at devils den it was my main reason to go visit, the rocks are so huge it looks like an area from Utah but in Pennsylvania. Great Video!

[@iKvetch558]

Definitely been enjoying the reacts to history content...not sure what eras or areas of history you are most interested in, but I always recommend TimeGhost and the World War 2 Channels...made by the same group of folks. They focus on the 20th century, but there are quite a few good playlists to look at. TimeGhost has done in depth series on both the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Suez Crisis, as well as many many great videos on the period between WW1 and WW2. Their World War 2 channel has playlists on equipment, the Homefront, the War Against Humanity, and their "Special Episodes" playlist has dozens of must see videos...not to mention their minute by minute series on Pearl Harbor and their week by week series on the entire war. 🖖💯✌

[@A_Name_]

Gettysburg is a great battle sight to see. I would also recommend going to lookout mountain and missionary ridge in Tennessee. When I first went their I first thought this place is just beautiful. Then I remembered a battle was fought their and thought fuck that this place is a death trap. Edit: also about the Gettysburg battle field seeing where pickets charge was gives you a great idea of how suicidal that was.

[@GG-mi3bu]

I highly suggest visiting gettysburg it is an amazing place to visit. The tours are great take you around to all the monuments that are around there. There is still a ton of musket balls and mini balls all over the place but you are not allowed to dig or take them home, since its a monument it all belongs to the government and they still do find bodies to this day especially after a heavy rain the just re appear over time.

[@lordstarkiller6955]

I lived in Pennsylvania for most of my life and been to the battlefields of Gettysburg thousands of times and to just stand on the ground where it all took place is a thrill every time you are there seeing everything around you take it from me you will love it if you visit the town of Gettysburg 😊it’s breath taking you can almost feel and hear the energy around you PS. Gettysburg is home to over 100 ghosts sightings if your into that paranormal activity stuff

[@Potato_Gnocchi]

A captured Union solider form Wisconsin, Elijah Reed, was recovering in a Confederate Army hospital in the Seminary on day 3. Writing in his diary, he recounts Confederate junior officers observing Pickett's charge: "After calling Lee a fool, along with all the adjectives and adverbs that go with it, he yelled 'Lee can't do it, he knows he can't do it, so why the hell does he try it?'" IMO Lee was a good general, but his record outside of Virginia, his lack of an overall strategy, and his performance against generals who were not afriad to fight (Meade, Grant), brings him back down to earth for me. And we have to remember for as chivalrous as he is seen, he allowed his cavalry to kidnap free blacks in the surrounding countryside to sell as slaves when they returned to Virginia. We Americans often get the santized version of the ACW.

[@nickthelegend2303]

You really need to visit this place I live right near it and go there every month it’s truly amazing and there is SO much to learn!

[@SrpskoNightmare]

Bro you should visit ghettisburgh at night around Halloween. If you disturb the battlefield using a firework or something loud the whole place erupts into a battlefield again. It’s a crazy paranormal occurrence due to all the lives lost in that area. It’s at the Gettysburg national cemetery

[@archersfriend5900]

One thing to remember most of the senior officers of both sides had been school mates at West Point. Also many had served together in the Mexican American War as junior officers. The generals on both side new each other and their tendencies.

[@nickriley3242]

I recommend traveling to Gettysburg, it is a very somber place and will leave you astonished when you leave. There is some thing almost holy about those grounds.

[@DarkLord-7]

What isn't mentioned with the charge Hancock ordered was that the regiment he ordered to hold the line until the gap could be properly reinforced is the 1st Minnesota, led by Colonel Colville. The regiment had been through alot: Bull Run and Antietam being most notable before Gettysburg. They only had roughly 250 to 300 men left in the regiment, and they were pretty much sent on their own to hold the line, which resulted in them being outnumbered 6 to 1. By the time they were able to withdraw, they had suffered 80% casualties and only had a few dozen men left in the regiment. They were considered the regiment that saved the Union. That said, they could have easily been completely obliterated had the Confederates flanked them on both sides. The commander of the Confederates fighting the 1st Minnesota could not flank on both sides, because one side was being threatened by the New York regiments, which have pushed back the Confederates they were fighting. The next day, the final day, the 1st Minnesota was pretty much smach dab in the middle of the Union line during Pickett's Charge, aka Longstreet's Assault. Once again, their role was to hold the Confederates until the line could be reinforced. Little side note, one of the 1st Minnesota soldiers took the Virginia infantry flag during that battle and kept it as a trophy. The flag now is being held by the Minnesota Historical Society. The state of Virginia on multiple occasions have asked for their flag back, to which Minnesota has refused.

[@NaVy_Swift]

Have a great weekend Luke!

[@georgsyphers1437]

I know I commented this on another video, but Joshua Chamberlain, who ordered the little round top bayonet charge, is from Brunswick Maine, and you can come to the Joshua Chamberlain museum right on Maine Street (yes, in Brunswick it is spelled like the state) across from his statue, right next to Bowdoin college, where Chamberlain was later president, and he was also eventually governor of Maine. Hometown pride!

[@SoupSultan]

You asked about playing Tactics games in the OverSimplified, and you also like the birds eye view of this video. With that in mind, maybe give Ultimate General: Civil War a try? You can play as the Union or CSA and the battles are birds eye like this video. In fact, certain parts of the video like at 7:10 look really similar to the game. You recruit your armies (and can name them, something for your members perhaps?), and you go through every major battle of the war and some minor ones. Only downsides are its a pretty long game, and it can be a bit tough even on the easier difficulties, good tactics are a must.

[@chrisharmon8858]

One your bus tour you should stop by Gettysburg. You can't really appreciate the terrain until you see it yourself. It also makes you wonder what military genius could stand where Lee did looking up towards the union lines and say "yep General Picket I think you can walk a mile and a half through open ground and knock those boys off". Sickles was such a poor leader that one of other Union generals said something about the shot that took Sickles out of being the luckiest for the Union.

[@Toker888]

I went to Gettysburg when I was 12. Strange things happen there I had a vision/dream of a place there I had never seen. Then saw it in person the next day and it blew me away. So serene and beautiful, ironic knowing the hell that took place there.

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Also, a good civil war rts game is Ultimate General Civil War. It gives you a way to experience Battles from both sides as well as several to learn about, including minor engagements not a lot of people would know about.

[@corinnem.239]

The real battlefield and town are totally haunted to this day. It is well known that re-enactors who perform the battle often see & hear the ghosts who think these re-enactors are one of them. The entire battlefield hums with a certain electrical charge. The battle rages through the town and the buildings ore preserved are haunted as well. Bullet holes, canonballs, and blood are still there. The battle was huge & perilous. The invasion failed. It makes for a very nice historical vacation though. You can walkaround Little Round Top, Devil's Den, take a bus tour of the entire battlfyeld, see a visitor's center, stay in a hustoric B& B or a modern hotel with pool, watch & eat homemade fudge. Walk amongst all the graves & headstones.

[@ronaldminch9420]

20TH Maine scene from the Movie/mini series Gettysburg = MUST watch > Gettysburg - Little Round Top Battle - Bayonet Charge 5 minute version* I very serious strongly advise watching it - the cannon firing scene was 1 of a kind - and ALL of the extra's were reenactors and trained by themselves to be period correct ! PS - Filmed AT Gettysburg National Battlefield

[@francishaight2062]

I hope you do visit Gettysburg one day, bro. It’s like 20 square miles surrounding the town-mostly north, west and especially south-dotted here and there by monuments to the many state regiments from NY and Pennsylvania and Maine and Michigan, etc., as well as a bunch of monuments to the west and south to Confederate state regiments from Texas and North Carolina and Alabama, etc. The centerpiece of all these, in my humble opinion, is the beautiful Pennsylvania memorial standing about where the Union center was on Cemetery Ridge. Taken altogether, they stand as a grand and poignant reminder of “what they did here.” to echo Lincoln’s words in his famous address. If we love this country and what it has given us, allowed us to be and to do in freedom, Gettysburg should be the most hallowed spot to us on the North American continent. If you’re going to travel to renew that appreciation, there’s no place like Gettysburg. It’s lovely natural scenery to boot. Thanks!

[@bros1183]

You should seriously watch History Buffs battle of Gettysburg. Very very interesting and shows just how crazy this battle really was in person!

[@frootsalad7699]

You should defiantly look up the 1st Minnesota because they had a very important event that went unmentioned in this video

[@dramsac17]

Gettysburg would be great choice for a place to visit on your journey across the country. There's a bunch of museums, monuments, and most of the battlefield has been preserved. You can go visit all of the places mentioned in this video. Also Toatl War is probably my favorite game franchise. Almost all of them are great games, and the ones that aren't are still pretty good. I usually prefer the historical games but the Warhammer game is pretty awesome.

[@WaywardVet]

That mistake of misidentification... I was a cavalry scout. If you see us and think we're a joke, yeah, were all jokers. But we ain't no joke. If we're there, it's because there's a ton of pain waiting to hear what we saw and heard. (And we are fully trained to dish out that hot plate of whoopass before the reinforcements arrive)

[@eTraxx]

there are a series of videos by the US Park Service (I think) that has a Park Ranger leading you on the ground at each of the engagements .. well worth watching

[@eTraxx]

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[@tchoupitoulos]

There's about a thousand videos and websites devoted to Gettysburg. The wiki for it is also very good, I believe every day of the battle has it's own page. Lot of other civil war battles are detailed there as well.

[@lordvalandil1672]

I would totally recommend watching Kings And Generals series of Julius Caesar in both the Gailic Wars and the Roman Civil War. Great channel, they use Rome 2 Total War for their more in depth animation; really gets you into the story!

[@dustinshadle732]

The battle of Shiloh was very intense also. Did a 12 page report on it in my senior year and it's still regarded as the gold standard. This from a guy that only did one homework assignment that year

[@sweetrolldealer]

You should watch History buff's video on Gettysburg. Sure he might be reveiwing the movie, but he also goes into the actual history of the movie he is reveiwing.

[@ImmersiveReactions]

If you ever get back around to doing civil war history check out "Buford's Stand at Gettysburg Battle: Willoughby Run | Gamble and Devin hold McPherson's Ridge | Maps" video. It's the best video that exists that explains everything in detail. It's broken up into different videos though.

[@benbruhn6968]

I've been to Gettysburg it is the quietest place on earth. If you stand in the field where Pickett's charge happened if you close your eyes and just listen you can almost hear the charge or General Lee artillery bombardment it is every sobering.

[@yoshino4398]

Hey Luke you should play Red Alert. It takes a while to get used to the controls and how to play, but when you do it’s a really engaging war general type game where you command your troops and defend your mobile control vehicle. Hope you see this. Been loving your videos since

[@noahsummers1883]

play "Grand Taction Civil War" it is one of the most realistic games ive seen. it included poulation supplies dividion corps and brigade creation and so much more. its a real good game.

[@Joey-jg1su]

War in our streets happened twice. Dont forget the revolution war. Btw im from philly and Gettysburg is like 2hrs away. Its awesome going there and seeing the line which represents the farthest any confederate got north. After this Grant was assigned power and he unleashed Sherman and took the gloves off.

[@TheStonerification]

All I gotta say is "Ultimate General: Civil War".

[@markhamstra1083]

Or the earlier Ultimate General: Gettysburg.

[@Bobcrowly1488]

I’m from the south and I’ll always back my ancestors not for slavery but because most of my ancestors served in the confederate army and it’s my way of honoring them I despise slavery and I’m glad the union won but you still have to honor family heritage so that’s why I own a confederate battle flag

[@henrykung1983]

Just some future reaction suggestion from some random viewer passing by: If you're interested in historical strategic warfare videos, especially in bird's eye view, a YT channel called "The Operations Room" will be one of my recommendations. It has analyzed Desert Storm, some famous naval operations, and, if you're a fan of Band of Brothers, the battle sequence of Easy Company's assault at Brecourt Manor, and the battle of Carentan. It even re-constructs the map layout in time sequence of the event the movie Black Hawk Down based on. If you happens to be troubled by running out of reaction material, and are also highly interested in these historical rebuilds, checking that YT channel is never to be a bad idea. BTW, I'm not in any form associated with that content creator. I'm just enjoying you enjoying these videos. :) Love your reaction to "The Fallen of World War II," classic!

[@richlisola1]

You can visit The Gettysburg National Battlefield-It’s a park.

[@markkringle9144]

You should look up the Army war collage video on why Stuart is in Carlisle separated from the ANV.

[@aldenpittinger4162]

Love u Luke keep up the good work.