Shiloh Fiery Trail HD

[@bobbartholomew1435]

My G G G Grandfather fought for the south in this Battle he was part of the Arkansas 6th, He took a Direct hit from a union mortar and lost his leg. They put a peg Leg on him dismissed as unfit too serve, and he had to walk home to Arkansas on a peg leg . this happen on April 7th 1862, and exactly to the day 81 years later I was born. April 7th 1943

[@michaelsmith1094]

Bob, My mom Apr.7th 1917.

[@ppdntn1]

Bob Bartholomew And never learned to spell English correctly

[@shamusk1986]

My GG Grandfather was here in the 40th Illinois

[@crmatlockIII]

My 2nd great-grandfather, Sgt. Henry Matlock fought with the 52nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment (TDY from the 51st). They were under General Chalmers. He and some members of his unit got food poisoning, likely from looted Union rations. He had stomach problems for the rest of his life.

[@dennispfeifer7788]

Interesting, in the 1960's in grade school we studied Arkansas history...not, a word was spoken about our soldiers who fought in the civil war...we had to sing the song: Arkansas, Arkansas...but, not a hardly a word about Arkansas in the civil war other than it was part of the Confederacy...the public school system failed us. Today, driving the back roads of Arkansas I find civil war cemeteries, with just a small sign pointing in the direction of one a few hundred yards away, and I then stop and view the tombstones...our history books omit these facts. Men died there and now the government omits any reference to it...as if it was a crime.

[@timothyhuebner3889]

I just found out through Ancestry, that one of my Great great Grandfathers was with the 9th Illinois. Of the 570 that went into battle on the first day, only 70 were left for evening roll call. They certainly had their baptism of fire.

[@DarkFilmDirector]

As a direct descendant of one of the men of 22nd Mississippi who may have been directly engaged with Ohio and Illinois troops on both days of that battle, I consider you my brother and comrade and we must never be forced to fight one another ever again. This was such a low point in our history. The idea of shooting at fellow Americans makes me sick to my stomach.

[@izifaddag8221]

That was very helpful. Yesterday I was at the battlefield, it is beginning to be covered in spring wild flowers. I struggled down the hill to Pittsburg Landing to stand on the bank of a very swollen Tennessee River, the climb back was much worse. Having no idea how this battle was fought I imagined the federal troops must have landed there but I wasn't sure. At the top of the hill is a massive US National Cemetery. I wouldn't like to say how many graves there are. There are far more with just the soldiers number rather than a name. I came from England in 1984 and have been trying to visit and learn about American history since I arrived. I find myself living in a small town called Baldwyn 30 miles south of Corinth. It was here that the battle of Brices Crossroads was fought and I visited the battlefield last year. The battle markers start no more than 4 miles from my front door. I have been to other battlefields also Gen Beauregard's house and Gettysburg. These events are so massive, spread over such large areas that I have difficulty getting my arms around what actually happened. It is all too much. Documentaries like this one help me enormously to understand a little better.

[@Kimchiboy08]

Hearing the diaries of all the men really pulls my heartstrings . Both Armies

[@chasemurraychristopherdola7108]

I know what you mean by that because when I learned that my 4x great grandfathers house and barn was used as a Union field hospital for The 5th corps army of the Potomac i gripped my arms and tried not to imagine the piles of amputated legs and arms from the amputated soldiers and I know it was a hospital because at the museum in the Gettysburg national military park visitor center is my 4x great grandfathers kitchen table and stained on the kitchen table is the blood of union soldiers that were amputated on it

[@raphaelmostien6541]

Like Henry Morton Stanley. He's well known in Belgium for his services to king Leopold II. I learned about his adventures in Africa at school but I never knew he was at Shiloh.

[@lawrencebittke8478]

To go into battle with relatives compounds a sickening, gut wrenching experience for anyone exposed to combat. For Union Pvt. Cockeril to reunite with his father when he thought he was dead was truly a God-given miracle.

[@DarkFilmDirector]

I don't think anyone of us can imagine the torrent of emotions that poured over them that first moment. To imagine the demise of one's own father (or son) and to be forced out of pure survival to continue fighting through that sense of pure loss and dread, only to make out the silhouette of your loved one in the distance after its all over. Unimaginable. Perhaps in the 19th century there was a stricter idea of fatherhood, but I imagine that all of that just completely vanished at that moment.

[@VassilliHD]

My Uncle plays Johnston in this!! Thank you for uploading it!

[@jessallen7756]

Stacy Allen is your uncle????He is my cousin

[@rc59191]

Lol it's a family reunion in here.

[@DarkFilmDirector]

Pretty cool! Thank him for this! My ancestor was Pvt Albert Monroe Johnston fighting in the 22nd Mississippi that day under Gen Albert Sidney Johnston's command. I have never been able to find evidence or prove if the two men were related. If you were to look at my father and look at the old photographs of General Johnston, they look eerily alike with the swarthy complexion, dark brown hair with prominent widow's peak, steely eyes, and thick bristly mustache. Ironically, Gen Johnston fell while while leading my ancestor's regiment forward across the peach orchard, having galloped just a little too far forward and probably wounded from accidental friendly fire. Gen Albert Sidney Johnston named Mount Bonnell park that towers over Austin, Texas to this day after a friend of his. My ancestor also settled in Texas after the war.

[@walkerswaim]

I saw him at the battlefield one time

[@ZachersACracker]

Yo! My uncle is the guy standing behind him during his death scene!

[@moementum821]

This is one of the best Civil War documentaries I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot!

[@RebeccaTerrellAMDG]

Thank you for posting this. Excellent production!

[@u.s.patriot3415]

Agreed, tis a most excellent production.

[@johnmonroe7378]

Excellent production! I was in North & South, Glory, Gettysburg & Andersonville, but this film is one of the best ever made.

[@monumentstosuffering2995]

It is most awesome.

[@tomservo5347]

This is by far one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Why? No damned political agenda trying to influence the viewer but instead literal history getting told. I never thought I'd see the day George Orwell's 'history revision' would become a reality.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Things like "Newspeak" you hear on the piss-stream media all the time? I don't think dear George could've foreseen 57 varieties of genders.

[@tomservo5347]

@@indy_go_blue6048 Neither did these men that fought and died for what?

[@KaijuRails54_Official]

Plus no sudden charges without fixing bayonets

[@hadriansdog499]

@tomservo5347 well, they fought to determine if we were going to have a strong central government or a looser Federation of States, where state's rights were more important. Also whether states that voluntarily joined the Union could also voluntarily leave. Finally, later in the war, whether slavery could exist or not in the US.

[@nonyabiz9487]

A lot of people dont realize this battle was fought in the "WILD WEST" where the only thing you would see is trees, wildlife, and the occasional local frontiersmen or native american. Tens of thousands of people fighting and slamming into each other with cannons and rifles and bayonets roaring in the middle of nowhere would be quite a scene.

[@dillon5155]

This was in Tennessee.

[@Rammstein0963.]

@Dillon Back then Tennessee WAS the frontier essentially...

[@rc59191]

Tennessee was pretty tame at this point in time.

[@roccospencer53]

I think the saddest part of it all is that we, Americans did more harm to ourselves then ever an enemy army has done. Brave Americans, regardless of their uniform battled there and now sleep there. I like to think they know they built a stronger, better America.... We can only hope and do our best to make it so.

[@richardwahl8433]

Rocco A. Spencer I agree, and with today's society the way it has turned, those who served the Confederacy are almost vilified for fighting for what they held dear to them.......Their Family, their State and the invasion of northern troops onto what they considered their country. Today's society cannot fathom that concept, but being Southern myself, I deeply feel that understanding, but perhaps that was the way it was supposed to end, to make us all a better country.

[@barrysullins4839]

+Richard Wahl My GG Grandfather Major David Sullins was at Shiloh with the 19th Tennessee. No we're not a better country not now. We were till LBJ took over.

[@tungstenn]

Miss the slaves, do you?

[@roccospencer53]

No I don't...we didn't own any. matter of fact that's how we got the colonies (Scots), so we knew what it was like...we also know what it was like to be invaded by a foreign army bent on the total destruction of our culture... The Yankee war of aggression was nothing more then a money fed Washington wanting to control the South by force. Slavery was dying anyway, it was a good excuse... if it was about the slaves why didn't your president sign the EP in 1861? Because the people in the north didn't give a single shit about them, just money. If it was about the slaves why 'did the EP only apply to those states in rebellion? Ummm would have pissed Maryland off I guess, as well as Kentucky... best you check you facts tungsten, not your narrative

[@TheRobdarling]

Rocco A. Spencer all for slavery and economic oppression. Bigotry and fear rules.

[@Tomatohater64]

More documentaries need to take a close look at this one - superbly rendered.

[@lancenutter1067]

My great great grandpa fought here for the Union. He survived. He was in the Illinois 53rd we think.

[@hilldwler420]

As my great great great grandpap once said “ them damned Yankees were seven abreast and a mile deep!” Pvt. Owen G. Burchfield 2nd Alabama volunteers mustered out of Tuscaloosa Alabama.

[@teksal13]

Leander Stillwell(mentioned around 13:15) wrote a book of his experience, 'The story of a Common Soldier, of Army Live in the Civil War 1861 - 1865'. It is very good. Audio book is on YT also.

[@kevinrby1982]

My Paternal Grandmothers, Paternal Grandfather joined the Union Army in Sommerville Massachusetts in the Spring of 1861. Somehow, myself and my family don't know how, he served in Company H, 12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. His unit participated in almost all of the major battles of Grant's campaign in the west. The 12th Iowa was on the left flank of the Union line inside the Hornets Nest. He was captured along with the other Union survivors after repelling 12 frontal assaults, a near complete envelopment and the heaviest artillery bombardment in the war up to that point. He was furloughed along with the rest of the Union prisoners of the Hornets Nest the following autumn. My sister married a Deputy Sheriff in Lincoln County Mississippi, who has a ancestor who fought for the Confederacy. I'm always amazed when I reflect on that story.

[@chrislowry3822]

He may have switch Company or got mixed up the Iowa Boys

[@jarronsmith3733]

That was a DAMN GOOD documentary!!

[@francisharry2196]

YES, it was.

[@josephwolosz3205]

Very well done documentary. Good maps and fairly well done reenactments.

[@chrislowry3822]

It's something to walk that Field

[@ironsidemedia]

This, Mr. Ridley Scott, is how to make a documentary.

[@tommitchell4738]

Agreed. Excellent Documentary!

[@patriciareynolds2729]

saw this at shiloh park, it is great! park is pretty in spring when trees start start blooming out. my husbands grandfather fought here. we still have river floods in the spring.

[@carlruf9037]

Well done documentary. It makes the movie 'Gettysburg' look like a High School production. Very authentic in every aspect.

[@bradmoberly6164]

I'm glad it worked out for John cockrell in the end. That about brought me to tears

[@angelosantiago6155]

This is so vividly made..just awesome documentary..wow is like you're there transported to their times with all their horses and awesome uniforms..thanks for made such a well done job I'm really enjoying this!!

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

walked the battlefield trails 2 times to complete the veteran hiker award thru the BSA. this video is a great representation of the battle

[@scottof123456789]

OMG is that ever a well done video! That being stated, I can add nothing more.

[@josephcoburn1384]

Peter Coyote is the best

[@sanjursan]

Very good presentation, with excellent display of maps. Thanks for the upload.

[@nolimitarcade2865]

Back in the early 90s I was driving through the South on a business trip and came onto a couple oaks that had grown into an arch over the roadway. As I passed under it I suddenly had a spell that caused me to pull into the rest area on the other side of the road. I got out to walk it off and get some air. I saw a historical placard there, I was at Shiloh.

[@hanscyrus]

.@No Limit Arcade …, I know. And it's not like deja vu, but it is sort of; there is not an English word or phrase in reference to it yet.

[@subzero9113]

My Family and I went on a trip to see Shiloh and Chickamauga and it definitely was a very somber trip. It still give Me chills thinking about walking the Shiloh Battle field and the Hornets nest.

[@bluesky6985]

We all died a little in that damn war.

[@Itsatz0]

I'll say, after the war 1/2 the worlds trade was between NY and Liverpool. Wall st. made a killing. The first thing congress did, after the war, was authorize the laying of a telegraph cable between London and NY. Wall St. and London won that war, no one else.

[@Itsatz0]

stan gore Yes, Salmon Chase, Sect of the Treasury under Lincoln, founder of Chase Manhattan Bk. (What kind of name is "Salmon," sounds fishy to me.) I believe the announcement that Lincoln planned to reimburse the southern slave owner, less than a week before, to the tune of 400 million dollars, is what did him in. Needless to say, they never got their 400 million.

[@charlesrs]

stan gore True the scars will never heal

[@shelbyfoote7904]

My regards, sir. I too revere the Outlaw Josey Wales.

[@bluesky6985]

***** I think Salmon is a play on Solomon. Kenites like to imitate our brother Judah

[@clancywoodard310]

Right now I'm reading a unit history of one of the Confederate units from my home state of Texas called the 2nd Texas infantry

[@southernrailwayfan1338]

Good men probably just trying to get by

[@plooker39]

I have walked the ground of more than 70 battlefields from Pea Ridge to Fredericksburg. This one was worse than the Wilderness.

[@EvangelistNickGarrett]

Agree, Gettysburg and Antietam off the beaten paths for me are the worst, the vibe is palpable. Shiloh is up there too for me.

[@lsusmuggler]

Were you as underwhelmed by Malvern Hill as me?

[@BigSkyCurmudgeon]

i too have hiked all the trails of Shiloh, including wallace approach from the north and the Confederate advance from Corinth. not fun in Tennessee July. our BoyScout troop 127 makes this trip every 5 years. has the most "veteran Shiloh Hiker" awards of any BSA troop.

[@alanamcgaugh631]

The eerie feeling and the quietness of the battlefield at Shiloh made my visit unusual. It was overwhelming to feel the heaviness of the area and to know that so many young men from both sides had fought bravely and died for what they believed was right. Sacred ground holding the spirits of those brave boys.

[@u.s.patriot3415]

Sam Watkins book: Company H/Aytch...an awesome read.👍

[@scottriley1913]

“It is well that war is so terrible-lest we grow to fond of it” General Robert E. Lee. I don’t think the characterization of a conflict like this is and never will be possible. We were all Americans killing each other by the hundreds of thousands by ideology. This is tragic by any standards that ever existed. I am a retired United Military Soldier of 25 years, but reading and trying to understand this is very hard emotionally.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

The most unique thing about the ACW compared to all others that I've read of is the lack of retribution at the end of it. I'm sure Reconstruction wasn't a picnic, but compared to the aftermath of the Russian, Spanish and Chinese civil wars (along with later 3rd world CW) it was nothing.

[@PikeBishop65]

@@indy_go_blue6048 Read Jay Winick's "April 1865" in which he details the only Civil War (revolt, coup, etc.) where the winners just said to the losers "Go home."

[@SarisTX]

The park rangers at the Shiloh Battlefield told me how they had to keep this filming secret from the public in order to keep away people from stumbling into the filming. They said each part of this film was actually refought at the same times it was fought during the Battle of Shiloh.

[@chrislowry3822]

But the Parker Rangers hates having Reenactors in uniform there anytime. I know we got followed and got dirty looks from them when we was there. We wasn't there for a film or reenactment just honoring our family

[@johnnychaos152]

@@earlreeves1294 I've done probably 30 living history presentations at battlefields across the country and they always require me to contact them weeks in advance and discuss the details of what I'll be doing and then check in with them when I arrive. National Battlefield Parks have VERY strict rules when it comes to that sort of thing. But I did a presentation at Shiloh a couple of years back and they were extremely cordial. They even brought me lunch and let me see some artifacts that aren't on display to the general public.

[@The_Unrepentant_McClellanite]

Here we have the elusive Saris in his natural habitat; the wild reaches of the KZbin comment section.

[@robertburns6579]

Fantastic documentary. Interspersing the soldiers comments is incredibly moving,

[@rachelkemp4510]

I visit the battlefield often and thank all these brave men for their service and bravery

[@peteraldridge5210]

In Ireland we have English castles Norman castles old English manor houses they part of our heritage we don't knock them down

[@frankverdino477]

How many statues of Cromwell?

[@rexfrommn3316]

A couple points to make about this excellent video on the battle of Shiloh. Shiloh was the first modern battle in many ways in North America. The concentration of Grant's Union Army of the West was made possible with more than a 170 STEAM TRANSPORTS moving around 40,000 troops to Pittsburg landing on the Tennessee River 20 miles north of Corinth. The two Confederate railroads allowed Johnston's Confederates to be concentrated too. More importantly the steam riverboat, the steam railroad and the steam powered ocean ship allowed for the continuous movement, supply and concentration of armies on both sides. This dynamic completely changed warfare from Napoleonic times to modern times. Napoloenic battles could only take place once or twice a year. The reason for these few battles per campaign season during the Napoloenic era were the need for fodder for transport animals. These vital animals pulling everything with horses or mule muscle power on land would rapidly eat all the fodder, grass and hay up for miles around after armies were concentrated. Napoleonic era battles could only happen once or twice a campaign season due to the limited availability of fodder in a geographic region. The railroad and steam riverboat changed all of this immediately by continuously providing fodder for draft animals, water and supplies for men concentrated in armies. As long as a Civil War general's supply lines with river steamboat, ocean steamships or the railroad were kept open the opposing armies could continuously skirmish and have big battles once a month or more often again. Thus, the enormous casualties of the American Civil War were the direct result of the steam riverboat, the railroad and ocean steamship. The percussion cap musket also made firing the muzzle loading musket a more consistent operation, faster and with much more reliability too. Most Civil War battles were fought with muzzle loading muskets or rifle muskets with black powder creating enormous clouds of smoke. Most killing in the Civil War was done at well under 100 meters, often 50 meters with percussion cap firearms firing buck and ball rounds from smoothbore muskets or the Minie ball from a rifle musket. Either way, most soldiers could NOT see much more than 50 to 70 meters in front of them with all the smoke from black powder weapons. Most killing ranges at Shiloh ocurred at about 20 to 50 meters at most due to the brush and steep terrain intermixed with open fields.

[@michaeljoseph3528]

THIS IS PERHAPS THE MOST PASIONATE CIVIL WAR VIDEO I'VE SEEN. THANK YOU FOR THE HUMANITY OF IT

[@Gravelgratious]

Thank you so much for this Robert.

[@brentwinter6416]

If we learn anything from Grant it is "persistence pays off." He was truly great at staying the course.

[@geoffhunter7704]

An excellent production,fully educational well done and a huge thank you to the re enactors whose dedecation make lovely films like this so realistic,Superb.

[@tommitchell4738]

Great! One of my favorite battles!

[@MrKe4bss]

"The most misunderstood battle of the war" U.S. Grant

[@MichaelPower212]

Such a comment is understandable if he said it prior to the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864.

[@lainerdfunk]

best documentary ever i hilly recommend Lenard a lot

[@ssenn333]

nice video production thoroughly enjoyed this amazing documentary. Thanks for sharing!

[@thomasvanness1516]

In the afternoon of Sunday, April 7, there was a Lt. Colonel Robert F. Looney that led a brigade strength charge including the 38th Tennessee Infantry in the Water Oaks Pond area just north of Shiloh Church to give the Confederate Army time to leave the battle. The Union veterans said they weren't delayed by the charge, but by their commanders. The Confederate veterans say otherwise.

[@brananherndon6947]

At shiloh there is a national cememtary, and I have lowered the flag there. Shiloh is very cool

[@EdaugEthanbYT]

It’s also a place of amazing history

[@markzimmerman7279]

I have a 1st cousin 4 times removed burried there he was killed 4/6/62 a corporal in 57th Ohio. His brother was in the 20th Ohio and died at Pittsburg landing 4/11/62

[@julianterhorst7965]

@@markzimmerman7279 it's odd to think about how many people served. If you ask anyone today, they will have ancestors from the war.

[@markzimmerman7279]

@@julianterhorst7965 I didn't know if any one would respond to this after so much time passed I almost edited it but I didn't find where the one killed in the battle was actually burried the one who died at Pittsburgh landing is burried there though my 3x great grandfather who was in the war of 1812 had at least 7 grandsons in the civil war 4 were at Shiloh 20,49,57,65th Ohio regts. 2were 26th,mi.the 7th was a 100 day voulenteer and was at Washington DC ft.ethan Allen when Jubal Early atacted in 64. 169th OVI the 65th was there on the 2nd day and only suffered 2 wounded while in reserve.of the ones who were at Shiloh 3 were wounded one died in the course of the war of the 2 brothers from Michigan 1 was wounded at spotsylvania the other captured at cold harbor both managed to muster out with the 26th at the end.2 relatives on my mom's side were in the 1st mi.engineers & mechanics under Buell and had a unit commendation from Buell for building 3 road bridges so he could get to Shiloh.

[@rolandmartin1483]

What cool, you dump ashole, you never see what war means, not John Wayne, Bruce Willis and so on, war is so cool and so funny when friends are hited or crying her pain, that's fine guy, whenn you pissing on you, when you have fear that you crying and continue a job whitout any sens, i think that guy's than you must go to Afghanistan and see with your eyes, hear with your ear. It's so stupid that man's "play" war, war is the badest think that you c'an imagine. Best regard's from a "cool" Legionnaire Etranger de France, Youppi and tomorow, mayby, i die like a hero in a TV Movie, just a small difference, i a m dead, realy cool for ever. La Legion étrangère est a la recherche permanente de héros comme toi, sauf qu'on a pas besoin de connards de ton genre

[@MrKe4bss]

"I would fight them if they were a million. They can create no greater front than we can" Albert Sydney Johnston

[@sarge-cp8yq]

"Tonight, we will water our horses in the Tennessee River." Albert Sidney Johnston

[@josephcockburn1402]

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[@indy_go_blue6048]

Greater as in wider was true, but greater as in deeper made Sydney quite in error.

[@martinelliotedwards1883]

My ancestor was in the 27th Illinois at Shiloh. They were one of the first union regiments to witness the confederate attack on the morning of April 6th, 1862.

[@randallgibson693]

My paternal grandfather and namesake, Randall Lee Gibson led four unsuccessful charges against the Hornet's Nest as a young Colonel leading the 13th Louisiana. How he survived is a wonder especially with cannister being fired at his men from his left flank by Federal artillery commanded by John Wesley Powell, who later led a daring expedition through the rapids of the Grand Canyon and went on to become the first head of the US Geologic Survey. But for the coolheadedness of Grant's friend,William T. Sherman, who rallied his panicked troops before dusk of the first day, this union army came close to being pushed into the river. Their commander, Grant, spent the night before the battle drinking heavily and sleeping it off aboard his 'private' paddle steamer two miles down the river. Sherman's brilliance and Beauregard's ineptitude saved Grant's career.

[@alswann2702]

Private Sam Watkins wrote Co. Aytch, considered the best first hand account of the war by a common soldier.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Nov. 15, 2018----Thanks for the video. Always wondered who was the narrator for it and find out it was Peter Coyote. For some reason, when I'd hear his voice in other documentaries, I'd be thinking of Henry Fonda.

[@emilescheffers5365]

I thought the narrator was Kevin Costner.

[@patrickfrawley6656]

One best civil war documentary, no farbs here!

[@rebelbaron7003]

Yes we'll gather At the river The beautiful The beautiful river Gather with the saints At the river That flows By the the throne Of God.

[@thombrouwer633]

Love the soundtrack of this documentary.

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

Excellent! Thanks for sharing this 👍

[@tsfullerton]

My great-grandfather mustered into the 64th Illinois Regiment, 'Yates Sharpshooters', December, 1861. Love the hymn theme...'How Firm a Foundation'. What more can He say?

[@jamesrichardson3322]

There is a reenactment unit the 64th Illinios in my battalion, good unit.

[@tsfullerton]

@@jamesrichardson3322 I wonder if I could fill in for Gramps. We still have his saber.

[@jamesrichardson3322]

@@tsfullerton Well if you want join you start out as a private, only officers are allowed have sword. Or if you are in the cavalry you can have a sword. Unfortunately the 64th Illinois was an infantry unit.

[@dimasgirl2749]

I love that they chose the hymn "How Firm a Foundation" for this documentary.

[@brt-jn7kg]

My fifth great grandfather fought there. That entire war left such a mark on him that he would not even kill deer later in life. The only thing that he would kill to harvest for food was fish. The exact number of men killed at the Battle of Shiloh was the same number of men who were killed at Waterloo. Owl Creek saw fighting as vicious as any place during the civil war with the exception of the mule shoe. Those wounded at owl Creek after the sunset noticed a phosphorescent glow in their wounds and they did not get infections later it was discovered that good bacteria existed in the soil and when they got hurt and fell and the dirt got into the wound it worked like an antibiotic. Had they listened to general Nathan Bedford Forrest and attacked during the night while Grant was trying to unload his reserve very well may have been a different outcome to the war.

[@maksmaso4741]

just about the Waterloo bit... there where 23 000 casualties in battle of Shiloh 3400 of them died, at Waterloo, total number was 65 000 casualties on both sieds, 4700 dead on allied side (can't find exact number of dead on French side but definitely was atleast same probably larger) just for your comparison

[@shadownor]

"The victors write the history' or so they say, but not in the American Civil War; have you ever noticed that in so many documentaries the continuous theme that the south had the best leadership, the best men, the best philosophy, everything, but suffered at the cruel hands of industry, railroads, telegraphs and fate? So many people adore R.E. Lee, but what if Grant was.... better than he gets credit for? Normal guy as he was.

[@DarkFilmDirector]

+Hugh Dorfritz People did adore Grant to the point that he was elected President. But Grant doesn't deserve the credit for defeating Lee. That honor goes to Meade, whom history badly whitewashed because other jealous officers started many lies in the press about his character, making him highly unpopular. Grant was initially hated because he was a drunkard and his aggressive style of command made him something of a meat-grinder for getting very high casualties. But Grant needed his men less than Lee. The Confederate Army gained its reputation because the southern population was far less than the north at the time as well as lacking in artillery, so it had to focus hard on training its infantry to be more professional. By the time of mid 1864, many of the Confederate officers that were either ambivalent to or openly opposed slavery began to plee to the Confederate Congress to consider emancipation in exchange for service in the war effort. But this was coldly ignored.

[@roberthemingway8079]

The myth of the "lost cause" is both pernicious and equally nefarious! Yeah, I've noticed and couldn't agree with you more. The Confederate-Traitors lost the war but won the peace....

[@TheRobdarling]

DMC12Gauge Grant was not a drunkard there is a difference between being a drunkard and not being able to handle drink, or as we call it being a lightweight. He was only like 5'8" and 130 lbs .Also, there was only one General who forced the surrender of any armies in the war. Three armies during that war and that was Grant he was no mediocre leader he was no mediocre General, he defeated Lee...he knew how to do it. Grant would have hounded Lee after Gettysburg to The Bitter End Meade didn't. He failed to destroy Lee when he had the chance. Grant would not have made that mistake.

[@paulbrasier372]

Agreed...thought that Grant has never been given his due and Lee has always been easier from a romantic point of view.

[@somewhere6]

@@TheRobdarling No doubt about it. Grant was instrumental to the eventual victory. The campaign leading up to the surrender of Vicksburg was first class. I sometimes wonder what would have been the outcome if he had been in charge of the Peninsula campaign in 1862.

[@jamesrichardson7336]

My unit 45th Illinois. fought there. this is great video

[@jesseusgrantcanales]

My unit's first major battle; US Pvt, 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry USA, Co. E.

[@jamesrichardson700]

BlackHat 6 I am with the 45th Illinios Volunteers Infantry Washburn Lead Mine Regiment. Company C Corcoran Guard. We fought at Shiloh and we were camp at Purdy Road and Corinith Road, Behide Shiloh Church. General Halleck, Army Of Tennessee Major General U.S. Grant, First Division: Major General John McClernand. Second Brigade: John C.Marsh. This was our third battle, The first one was Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.

[@jesseusgrantcanales]

James Richardson Awesome! :)

[@larrymccombs1271]

5:05 the Stars and Bars flutters just behind Johnston

[@scullcap357]

The quality of this documentary and its respectfulness is HORS DE CATAGORIE .

[@mbelbiff5673]

I have a love/hate relationship to this documentary and battle. Shiloh was a crucial battle the confederates was so close to winning, but with some small mistakes turned into a fatal defeat with a huge moral loss.. Bravest men ever lived.

[@killianlile173]

Møbel Biff I mean there were brave men on both sides... Such as the 69th N.Y. and P.A., 20th Maine, 11th N.Y., etc. for the Union. The South weren't the only brave ones.

[@TheDustysix]

Look up The Iron Brigade of the West, Union Army.

[@CRuf-qw4yv]

Grant ultimately proved to be a better leader than Lee studies how. Determined and calculating, he knew what his limitations were. Though he was not a top five percenter in his class, his "grit" proved otherwise. And regarding the reenacting? The producers kept it considerably believable for the most part....i.e. (Not too many overweight, farby, and old reenactors.)

[@jerryjohnson4013]

Could not have been done any better. My great grandfather fought there at the age of 14 for the south.

[@jamesbrock1686]

I was able to visit this battlefield. Canon were lined up and you could try to imagine the battle.

[@chasemurraychristopherdola7108]

Oh my gosh me and the guys from Mc Arthur’s highland brigade have the same hat and it’s called a glengary but the man from mcArthurs brigade doesn’t have the red hackle but I got it on my hat because I play the base drum in a pipe and drum band that is named after the famous famous black watch which Is a British Canadian and Scottish infantry regiment and its currently the 3rd battalion of the royal regiment of Scotland and before I joined the band the band went to Scotland and the pipe major shook hands with prince Charles and the deceased queen mother said that the band could wear the hackle because only the black watch was allowed to wear it but now the band is allowed to wear it and for those of you who are wondering what i am holding in the picture it’s a dirk and for those of you who don’t know what a dirk is it’s a dagger that was used in close combat and it was used by the Scottish clans and regiments and the imperial Japanese navy

[@chasemurraychristopherdola7108]

@QTē i don’t understand what you are saying

[@geetarinmofo]

I really enjoyed this vid. Paints a realistic picture of what it must have been like.

[@Zoetropeification]

"Journey To Shiloh" is a very interesting movie made in 1968. Harrison Ford's second film. And currently free here on utube. Worth a look.

[@donaldbarnett8045]

this video remind me of a story my father told me about one of two uncles he met at a family gathering in the nineteen hundreds. these two great uncles had been on different sides in the war and one of them, he didn't say which was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. It seems a mini ball went through his his mouth removing all his jaw teeth and leaving him laying in the mud with bill on his kepi holding his head up out of the mud and someone saw that his head was up and took another shot at him clipping the bill off when his head drooped into the mud they assumed he was dead.

[@mikehoncho1005]

Damn, this brought tears to my eyes. To think our ancestors were capable of wholesale slaughter against each other, men who had so much in common. And the underlying issues still persist in America to this day...

[@FENBANK]

Brilliant.

[@tomservo5347]

If anyone hasn't, I recommend Private Sam Watkins' 'Company Aytch Or A Sideshow of the Big Show' memoir to get a real feel for the life of a foot soldier. He's humorous, but during his recollections of battles you get the sense of how he's still traumatized when he wrote about it later in life. He very funnily recalled the time he climbed to the top of some state capital building while on furlough and then couldn't summon the bravery to get back down. He also first hand addresses anyone that reads it as 'Kind Reader......'

[@stevecarry6016]

Emotional beyond explaination. Lest we forget.

[@JimbobHarrigan1984]

This is line Infantry warfare at it's most horrific, brave men for standing in a line shooting at each other in what accounts to be 2 firing squads shooting at each other but with modern rifled weapons. It raises points about the lack of adaption in changing infantry tactics to match the changing rifle technology, using old fashioned tactics just turned battles into fields of mass slaughter for both sides.

[@napoleonelempereur7495]

Blood Raven it is napoleonik style

[@kennykomodo2576]

West Point was still teaching "European" style of warfare, for the most part. I think the Civil War helped point them in a new direction.

[@henderson023]

Our Civil War put Napoleonic warfare into its grave for Prussia, who sent officers to observe the battles and learn what they could. In some ways, the United States reforged the Union and helped create the German state as we know it today.

[@lsusmuggler]

At this point in the western CSA army there were considerable numbers of smoothbores in usage. And the terrain was not amenable to pretty straight lines. These westerners were more likely to use a nearby tree for cover.

[@lsusmuggler]

Anybody see a ramrod in use?

[@model-man7802]

It's amazing how Grant could win twice but the first time he'd had issues he was immediately In trouble and labeled a drunk.

[@10Tabris01]

Halleck tried to get rid of someone he thought of as a rival and was working against Grant

[@civilwarbuff4555]

Wonderful content....thank you sir.

[@hilldwler420]

“Give em the cold steel , boys!”

[@jdisdetermined]

Johnston may have lived, or had a better chance, but he had his personal surgeon stay behind and tend to wounded *Union* soldiers abandoned in the retreat. I dont romanticize the Confederate cause as so many do, but that always stuck with me.

[@GuyFromTheSouth]

I cant imagine how rough it had to be for northerners to be in the south in the summer. The spring is nice but once summer hits its rough. You get use to it when you grew up there playing outside in it as a kid. I dont think you can get use to it suddenly.

[@robertnymand9889]

The union were limited on commanding officers. Lucky they had grant for 1.

[@GloriaSchneider-rw4ef]

Very good. I like the reality and at the end letting us know what happened to them later in their lives. Thank you.

[@garyjones5272]

"Shiloh is where southern troops found out those Ohio and west Pennsylvania plow boys were every bit as tough as them...by a long shot" - Shelby Foote.

[@robertnymand9889]

Sherman too!

[@GrantDWilliams82]

Grant was a great man.

[@monumentstosuffering2995]

Oscar - worthy.

[@westyinzer4607]

I agree . They really could not have done this any better

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

Grant is the greatest American General of all time. One of the only to succeed at all levels of war (tactical, operational, and strategic). I just finished Chernows bio on Grant and the man is amazing and it’s sad that revisionists (Lost Causers) have ruined his historical reputation. I truly hope these new rounds of bios paint the true picture of this heroic man. A man who pawned his gold watch for Christmas presents. A man who after his FIL gave him a slave he emancipated him instead of selling him (it would have been like walking away from your house.. all the while chopping firewood and dragging it 20+ miles every day to St Louis to sell). He started public schools so all children (black and white) could learn. Passed the 14th and 15th amendments making black Americans citizens and able to vote. Crushed the KKK by creating the justice department because no southerner would arrest or convict. And countless other things he never gets credit for.

[@DarkFilmDirector]

Greatest American general of all time? No sir. He was no tactician by any means. Only one general beat Robert E. Lee at full strength, head on, in a "fair" fight and that was George Meade. The thanks he got was nil and the credit was all sapped by Grant because Grant was Lincoln's favorite. Meade on the other hand had the balls to tell his superiors, including Lincoln, to their face, that they didn't know what they were doing. And because of that, he lost his command. You greatly overestimate Grant's tactical skills. Grant was a great logistician and field commander, but he was by no means an original thinker in terms of strategy. Nothing in the way of some of his subordinate generals, nor even compared to his adversaries in the field.

[@christopherdeen5275]

@@DarkFilmDirector Most historian's would disagree. Read Grant's strategy for taking Vicksburg . His strategy there was brilliant militarily.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

The Battlefield Detectives episode on Shiloh is pretty interesting as well. It disputes through forensic anthropology that the fighting at the Hornet's Nest went down as the historical record. The only thing I have to say about it is how many times has the area been scoured prior to their study? Check it out.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Never mind. For some reason the two BD videos have been removed; this one and the one for Antietam.

[@seekanddestroy7561]

Wow. This was a bigger engagement than I thought it was. Very well done!

[@joereachor2739]

People always point to Gettysburg as the turning point. I have always thought it as Shiloh and Vicksburg.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

@@joereachor2739 Just a debating point. IMO the absolute turning point was Atlanta and Sheridan's Valley campaign which assured Lincoln's reelection. Until then the CSA still had a slim chance of winning by negotiation though it's hard to tell what a President McClellan would've done.

[@Chris-mv5zc]

I read a book called 'A World On Fire' about the British people who felt compelled to cross the Atlantic to fight. Amazing how closely our 2 great nations are bonded.

[@tango6nf477]

There was a very strong sympathy with the South here in Britain and encouragement from the Confederacy to join in on their side however it was never going to happen. Our government were always going to remain neutral despite the economic damage caused by the war over here. Had they not done so I really think the outcome would have been terrible for all.

[@robertnymand9889]

Great vidio!

[@windowcreek1798]

As a narrator, Peter Coyote is magnificent. Check him out in the movie Time Rider with Fred Ward. MAGNIFICENT.

[@Hi-lb8cq]

Its funny how They say it was all about slavery but most Confederate soldiers didn't even own slaves

[@LilDumpling-yp4hv]

Only 32 percent of the whole south owned slaves with most of the plantation owners the average slave costed around almost 4 thousand in today currency which the average man could not afford. And which a lot of the men in the south did not really care much for slavery. The civil war was mainly fought for state rights and by the constitution the south had every single right to break apart.

[@rizzlerazzleuno4733]

@@LilDumpling-yp4hv Please read some real history. The confederate states succeeded from the Union because the powerful men of the south wanted to perpetuate slavery. The economy of the cotton states depended on slavery and that is the "rights" they wanted to maintain. Are you saying slavery was a good idea and should have been maintained? Enslaving fellow humans is the worse crime against humanity. Drop the old tired "states rights" nonsense. The merchants and regular folk of the cotton states all benefited from the slave economy. The great tragedy is so many died and so much destruction occurred and a hundred years of social injustice continued because men thought going to war was a good idea. A film like this should convince you that the Civil War was a bad idea.

[@southernrailwayfan1338]

@@rizzlerazzleuno4733 it was about state rights state rights to have slavery And can people stop making confederate soldiers evil and racist most were poor farmers looking for jobs and the war gave them jobs

[@danielesti]

My father and his dear cat Pinky bell the second cat of the first army of Tennessee saw some action in the battle of New York and the bottle of General Grant. they fought for several hours before my father won the battle. Long live my father and his cat you will not be forgotten

[@bobbest1611]

great video

[@tbd-1]

Sherman didn't believe it was an all-out attack until he rode out beyond the Union lines and was shot through the hand for his trouble.