"The Battles for Atlanta" Commemorative Film - Complete Civil War Docu-Drama

[@geoffhunter7704]

Another GREAT film from Lionheart Filmworx with Wide Awake Films you are both beyond compare,EXCELLENT.

[@vernonsanders371]

These battles are part of our history an should never b forgotten so its never repeated

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

The GREAT things I can see in all of these re-enactments is that these men get together and bond in the name of HISTORY! Plus being able to educate our children and the world. I’ve been so enthralled by your videos… thank you so much. P.S. I’m glad they had to re-load their rifles after every shot or there wouldn’t have been anyone left to the stories !! 🎻

[@MickeyJWind]

true however these reenactments bear 0 resemblance to the actual battles. the men and officers are too calm, and too well ordered while in combat. the real thing would not have been so orderly or calm

[@stephenchristiansen]

@@MickeyJWind I took part, with my father, in the 158th Gettysburg reenactment. Our officers took good care of us and there was urgency in our orders and the fighting. It’s true that some other events are like that, but not this one. Or at least that was my experience.

[@harrybond7459]

These reenactments are terrible. Practically a comedy farce.I like the really fat soldiers who can barely move.Most c.w. soldiers were lean from marching and poor quality food, not these fatties.

[@stephenchristiansen]

@@harrybond7459 Well, its not like we can all be fit, unfortunately. Sorry to burst your bubble there, buddy.

[@gib59er56]

One thing I always have chuckled at is the fact that all the re-enactors seem to be fat dudes. NOBODY was fat during the war. They did not have a damn thing to eat, and you were lucky to have shoes and pants that had enough fabric to cover their asses. Most evident in the southern troops.

[@ferda9476]

OK this has been driving me crazy forever, but I think I finally narrowed down what regiment the narrator may be a member of. He says they were in Lightburn's Brigade of the XV Corps, so that's the 83rd Indiana and the 30th, 37th, 47th, 53rd, and 54th Ohio. He doesn't mention Indiana at all, and they were the only Indiana unit in the entire division, so I ruled that one out. (I think he would have mentioned that at least once if he was in the 83rd) The 30th, 37th, and 53rd's veterans were on furlough until after the campaign already began, so I eliminated those (he specifically mentions Rocky Face Ridge and seemed to be there at the beginning of the campaign). So that leaves either the 47th or the 54th Ohio as the narrator's regiment. The 54th was a zouave unit with their own special zouave uniforms, and he never mentions any of this, so I'm pretty confident that this guy was in the 47th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

[@andrewstravels2096]

My third great grandfather was in the Atlanta Campaign. His name was Ira Alvin Maddux, and he was a Private in the 111th Illinois Infantry Regiment. His regiment was in all the major battles of the campaign. They counterattacked at Resaca, fought hand to hand at Kennesaw Mountain, and was forced to retreat and later reform in the Battle of Atlanta. He was later in the March to the Sea and his regiment helped storm Fort McAllister at the end of the March at the gates of Savannah.

[@susanmenegus3863]

That's cool your great grandfather is a part of history.

[@markminter3960]

My great great great uncle was there too, and was involved in pushing back the 111 Illinois vol regiment back! He was a Col John Abner Minter , he took over a regiment, formerly served under Baker. . .

[@andrewstravels2096]

@@markminter3960 We have relatives that served on opposite sides in the same section of the battle, very cool. What’s interesting about my ancestor is that his family was Southern, from Georgia. His father moved his family to Illinois and Ira was born there. His siblings and there family stayed in Georgia, and Ira had cousins that served in the Confederate Army.

[@deadsweetheart1]

The guy with the Henry is hilarious cause well I don’t think many if any were used in that campaign and the fact it’s 44 rimfire yeah it’s rapid but basically your firing a pistol round at someone from a distance

[@charlessaint7926]

The 66th Illinois a 'Sharpshooter' regiment equipped with as many as 250 Henry rifles. These weapons were privately purchased by the soldiers using their reenlistment bounties. On 22 July 1864, during the Siege of Atlanta, the Confederates overran Captain Francis DeGress's Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery of 20lb Parrott rifles. The 66th Illinois counterattacked and drove by the Confederates thanks largely to their rapid firing Henrys that, at close range, were devastating, if not physically with wounds or death, but disheartening with their rapid fire.

[@hissyhonker220]

Yes, Henry's were with Sherman in late 64 as many as 600 went with him to the sea and up into the Carolinas plus as stated above me there were many privately purchased and carried in the various regiments

[@vernonsanders371]

yeah the Henry repeaters were not in the battle for Atlanta

[@geoffhunter7704]

There is nothing like war to spur on technology!

[@allanchurm]

two of my family ancestors fought on the rebel side there defending atlanta...hood got lots of them killed for nothing.

[@andrewstravels2096]

Though my ancestor was on the opposite side, I give my greatest respect to your ancestors!

[@andrewstravels2096]

Hood was a good Brigade commander, but an awful Division, Corps and Army commander.

[@lorcis1]

why killed for nothing, what did hood do wrong ?

[@forwardobserver6441]

I had relatives in the 36 Alabama and 5 Washington artillery- they all signed their name knowing the danger - I just visited hoods grave- hood was 100% fighter-

[@BARUCHIAN99]

I like the dramatic portion between two Union prisoners at 32:35

[@herbertlewis8442]

You should watch the movie 'Andersonville'

[@craigfinley2507]

The great General William Tukamfus Sherman was a bad no nonsense General, burned everything in his path got things over quick he didn't give a damm about nothing Grant loved the Hell out of him,General Lee surrendered after Sherman's wipe out of Georgia. Damm good video.

[@MGTOWPaladin]

Sherman was a real mental patient who knew Lincoln was fighting to *ENSLAVE* the South for control of Southern cash crops! Sherman knew the Union Invasion of Dixie was about control of *COTTON CROPS* on the end of the BOOMING INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY! Sherman wired Lincoln with the message, “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 *BALES OF COTTON.”* The Confederate States of America (1861-1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for *THE PRODUCTION OF COTTON* for export to Europe. *IF CLASSED AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY,* the area of the Confederate States would have ranked as the *FOURTH-RICHEST COUNTRY OF THE WORLD IN 1860."* (Wikipedia: Economy of the Confederate States of America).

[@craigfinley2507]

@@MGTOWPaladin you know your shit

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@craigfinley2507 Why, NO! How did you come to that conclusion? I told the truth about WT Sherman, the man who invaded Georgia for the cash crop of COTTON? Sherman's telegram to Lincoln, 22 December 1864 "I wish to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 BALES OF COTTON! The Confederate States of America (1861-1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe. *IF CLASSED AS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY,* the area of the Confederate States would have ranked as the *FOURTH-RICHEST COUNTRY OF THE WORLD IN 1860."* (Wikipedia: Economy of the Confederate States of America). MOST PROFITABLE NON-FOOD PRODUCT* *COTTON* is the most *widespread, profitable, **_non-food crop_** in the world.* Its production provides income for more than 250 million people worldwide and employs almost 7% of all labor in developing countries. *Approximately half of ALL textiles are made of COTTON.* *COTTON IS KING!* As The Economist put it in 1861, the (southern) United States had become so successful in the *WORLD’S cotton markets* because the planter's “soil is marvelously fertile and costs him nothing; his labor has hitherto been abundant, unremitting and on the increase; the arrangements and mercantile organizations for cleaning and forwarding the *COTTON* are all there." By midcentury, *COTTON had become CENTRAL TO THE PROSPERITY OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD.* *COTTON ACCOUNTS FOR HALF OF EXPORTS* *COTTON* accounted for *OVER HALF* of all American exports during the first half of the 19th century. The *COTTON* market supported America’s ability to borrow money from abroad. It also fostered an enormous domestic trade in agricultural products from the West and manufactured goods from the East. In short, *COTTON helped tie the country together.* *NO COTTON TO COTTON BOOM* Almost no *cotton* was grown in the United States in 1787, the year the federal constitution was written. However, following the War of 1812, a huge increase in production (of COTTON) resulted in the so-called COTTON BOOM, and by midcentury, *COTTON BECAME THE KEY CASH CROP* (a crop grown to sell rather than for the farmer’s sole use) of the SOUTHERN ECONOMY and the *MOST IMPORTANT AMERICAN COMMODITY.* By 1850, of the 3.2 million slaves in the country’s fifteen slave states, 1.8 million were producing COTTON; by 1860, slave labor was producing over two billion pounds of COTTON per year. Indeed, American COTTON soon made up *TWO-THIRDS OF THE GLOBAL SUPPLY,* and production CONTINUED TO SOAR. By the time of the Civil War, South Carolina politician James Hammond confidently proclaimed that the North could never threaten the South because *“COTTON IS KING!”* *COTTON - GREATEST INDUSTRY* By the time shots were fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, *COTTON* was the core ingredient of the world’s most important manufacturing industry. The manufacture of *COTTON yarn and cloth* had grown into *“the greatest industry that ever had or could by possibility have ever existed in any age or country,”* according to the self-congratulatory but ESSENTIALLY ACCURATE ACCOUNT of British cotton merchant John Benjamin Smith. By multiple measures-the sheer numbers employed, the value of output, profitability- *THE COTTON EMPIRE HAD NO EQUAL."* *COTTON MADE MISSISSIPPI WEALTHY* By 1860 so much wealth was being produced in the state of Mississippi from *COTTON* that Mississippi became the *richest state in the entire country.* By 1860 there were more millionaires per region in Mississippi than in any other place in the *WORLD.* *FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRAISES COTTON* In 1924, the US Federal Reserve Board (FRB) in St Louis issued their report on the History of Cotton. Please note before 1800 there was little cotton production. By 1850, *COTTON* supplied 53.36% of ALL US exports. By 1870, *COTTON* supplied a whopping 60.28% of all US exports.. *COTTON MAKES CSA TOP 4* In 1860, the top three wealthiest countries were: the world-wide British Empire, the United States (North and South combined), and the Qing Dynasty (China). If the Confederacy, by itself, reaches the #4 ranking, and it was separated from the joint US/CS total for 2nd place, then the US would drop out, China and the CS would move up one notch in the rankings. If the amounts of GDP were available, I'd know if the CSA would move to 3rd or possibly, just above the Qing Dynasty for 2nd place. *COTTON IMPORTANCE TO NYC* "Business relationships between NEW YORK CITY and the SOUTH had grown strong in the four decades prior to the Civil War. Mayor Wood, during his campaign for a third term as mayor in 1859, put it simply: “The South is our best customer. She pays the best prices, and pays promptly.” *COTTON had become the nation’s top export,* accounting for more than half of all American exports, and New York City was America’s undisputed center of the trade." "The secession crisis was proving to be the expected body blow for *New York City’s cotton-dependent economy."* "The city would not wait idly for that disaster to happen. (NYC Mayor) Wood’s proposal that *New York City leave the Union in order to continue trading with the South-taking with it the hefty 67 percent of the federal revenue that was the city’s contribution- came shortly after."* *COTTON - SPOILS OF WAR* This short telegram, from US General William Tecumseh Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, is dated December 22, 1864. “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of0 *COTTON,”* Sherman wrote. (Google: Sherman Christmas 1864 telegram). The FOUR FALSE CAUSES (or LIES) of the Union's invasion of the South: 1. Secession is illegal - need the cotton 2. The South rebelled - need the cotton 3. Preserve the Union (need cotton money) 4. Slavery - need cotton, enslave the South *COTTON* is the most *widespread, profitable, **_non-food crop_** in the world.* Its production provides income for more than 250 million people worldwide and employs almost 7% of all labor in developing countries. *Approximately half of all textiles are made of COTTON.* By the end of the 18th century, demand for *COTTON* was increasing as power looms were able to turn out great quantities of cloth. With the cotton gin, *southern cotton plantations* could now supply the world's demand. Ironically, the man who would make cotton king was born to a Massachusetts farmer. www.historynet.com/new-york-citys-secession-crisis.htm fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/FRB/pages/1920-1924/26396_1920-1924.pdf www.ushistory.org/us/27a.asp www.worldwildlife.org/industries/cotton

[@jmhproductions7335]

I’ve noticed a lot of steps being taken out of the loading process using the muskets.

[@herbertlewis8442]

I did too. No ramming of the rounds

[@Northman87]

They don't ram the loads in reenacting to avoid firing a ramrod

[@majcorbin]

IOWA DAD JOKE of the day [Q] How does the GINGERBREAD MAN, make his bed? [A] He uses COOKIE SHEETS, of course.

[@larskunoandersen5750]

was the 26th North Carolina there too?

[@sharonlefebvre7292]

I had relatives in the civil war. It's all so sad and a waste of lives.

[@lorcis1]

sad yes but not a waste, the union had to be saved, the slaves had to be freed, not without value

[@thebestgamer8001]

@@lorcis1 Slavery would have come to an end eventually. It couldn't have continued forever.

[@lorcis1]

@@thebestgamer8001 yeah, i know, it would probably have finished long before i could get my hot slave

[@herbertlewis8442]

@@thebestgamer8001 Why do you believe so?

[@thebestgamer8001]

@@herbertlewis8442 slavery is evil. And other countries would have pressured them to stop slavery soon.

[@jmhproductions7335]

I want to audition for a role in these movies…

[@mr.niceguy1812]

It's pronounced Mac-furson, not fearson. As we in the clan say, "There's no fear in MacPherson". Turns out General James is/was a distant relative of mine. I'm a massive history nerd & this is a great documentary, i only wish it was longer! ✌❤ from Canada

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

Yeah we should all be aware of who we are and where we came from. I’m also glad that you corrected ‘MacPherson’s NAME… it makes my head itch to hear some of these new agers speak!!! Mr. Nice Guy, even though your comment has been EDITED somewhat, I like you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. 🌟

[@gib59er56]

As a MAC DONNELL I am ALWAYS correcting the pronunciation of my Scottish name...Mac DONnell, not Mc Donal !! I friggin basically just ignore the mis. now cuz it is too time consuming and I am not an ego driven type dude.

[@jackthunderbolt4307]

Your family lost so hard you had to move to a different country

[@jackthunderbolt4307]

I jest tho, in good fun

[@barnabasschuler9025]

Is that gunfire accurate?

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

On a lighter side … no offence to anyone, my friend said it reminds her of Game of Thrones… without the girls and dragons. My respects, thoughts and prayers go out to EVERYONE who suffers … really suffers from the effects of any WAR! Peace is so important and SANE.

[@fastsetinthewest]

Peace? Better red than dead? War is about forcing one's will and agenda on others. My gg grandfather fought for the Tennesse Army at Chickamauga and down to Macon, Georgia before his capture. From a drafted disabled Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68. By the way. I was drafted against my will by a lying bunch of scum government people. One scum bag rat was Lyndon Johnson.

[@jerrysummers5971]

Civil war only ever had one winner really!After the first year the rebels had no chance....

[@larskunoandersen5750]

Lt Ge. Polk was killed here

[@rickrose486]

There’s to much reenactment and not enough narrative information! I don’t recommend wasting your time.😮😮😮

[@dirkzimmermann9101]

07:54 Was the Henry rifle used in Georgia?

[@charlessaint7926]

Yes. I know of one regiment, the 66th Illinois, had at least 250 Henry rifles and they were good with them.

[@dirkzimmermann9101]

@@charlessaint7926 ok, very interesting

[@BARUCHIAN99]

They were in existing during that portion of the war period

[@geoffhunter7704]

@@charlessaint7926 Another Union Regiment used Spencer Repeating Carbines to great effect ( 7shots) and the Winchester M1894 is still in production today.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

It's a pity i can only like this video once.

[@jonathancobb3522]

reenactments are awesome but when you see a volley and nobody drops dead its kind of disappointing. and the overall calmness of the battle i mean look at this guy smiling 19:32 i feel like when doing reenactments it should be more serous real people fought and died on that soil and im pretty sure they wasn't smiling

[@anthonygoad4833]

My 3x great grandfather Henry F Heath 60th New York Infantry fought in all the Atlanta campaign battles!

[@larskunoandersen5750]

Notice they haven´t fixed their bayonets for safety reasons

[@imherwerdio6852]

Sure doesn't seem like the rebs are really being cut to pieces at the battle of jonesboro in this....great documentary overall, however

[@jackthunderbolt4307]

I hope not. It's a reenactment. If bullets start flying, something has gone VERY VERY *WRONG*

[@fastbuzzardo4204]

Totally disappointed that the battle for the east side of Atlanta on the 22nd of July was totally left out . This account jumps from July 20 to late august and there was the whole burning of Atlanta left out along with hoods departure for Vicksburg . WTF!!!!! A lot of time wasted watching reenactors with absolute no narrative that could have been better used to give more information. I feel that this is some candy coated bull crap of a telling of what really happened to Georgia and as a native Georgian I am pissed! Sherman said he was going to forage liberally and he did that as well as burned two swaths from Atlanta to Sarvanana. Nice try covering up Sherman's total war policy and don't forget the "Scorched Earth Campaign". His Yankee troops stole and plundered everything . What they couldn't take with them they burned . And thats a Fact! I will say for good measure there were no reported accounts of Rape none that I have ever read of and I have read alot on this subject.

[@MickeyJWind]

LOL. battles were not fought this calmly or orderly on the field. also, LMAO at how quiet and ordered the medical area was near the end. not even close to how it would really have been. it is nice to love history and want to represent it, but it is almost impossible to replicate the reality, chaos and horror of war.

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

Dear Micky, lol at your cute name. 🤭 Yes these men probs had a HUGE BBQ 🍖 after sweating for about a day or two. You can also hear the men laughing, joking and bonding. This is all very interesting to me as our history lessons never included anything on this topic. Love from Australia 🇦🇺 and thanks for your comment. 🌟

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

@@TheGpono I, for one, totally agree with you there! It makes sense. Thankyou for explaining it so well… especially the 1st Sgt part, see we need to be educated about these things so we can better understand how, why, where, when and who! Peace to you and yours.

[@hissyhonker220]

K so this is a reenactment of historical battles if you want more immersion go to a living history exhibit or demonstration... On the field we aren't allowed by most "hosts" to do many things. Some are more loose than others, but this is historical portrayal of a battle correct, we can't literally start screaming and crying and cursing and begging for mama or using "slam packs" loaded with fake convincing blood cause it would scare the bystanders and viewers, many children, vets, families there to see history come to life not to "live hell". There are many events where things can get ugly but true no one dies, this is tactics and the portrayed battle is there to give a mind a picture to better understand the battle and the tactics and movements of said battle.. I've been around and involved in a few short but sometimes mean physical fights when the sides get close. I saw a guy loose a tooth to a butt stock and his buddy pistol whip the guy back at the 150th of Gettysburg, I however managed to get through that one without hurting some poor little billy yank.

[@hissyhonker220]

Sometimes at smaller and non park hosted events if we know another unit personally on the other side we have been known to load a handful of popcorn kernels or sometimes a little taste of rocksalt for a sting. I knew this guy in a NY unit and only ever saw him at events and we would target one another if close and pop each other and often several others get involved. Makes it a little more interesting for the folks on the field haha

[@mackritete3386]

And they like this to this day in good ole usa ,land of the free ,thanks to the reb,trump

[@craigfinley2507]

It was kind of stupid the way they fought just standing there trading shots for shots I never could figure out how they new what part of the country the opposition would be at and stand their without trying to circle or fighting gorilla style that is why so many men died, very crazy

[@Chrishughes215]

For your freedom and where we can be free

[@detroit12870]

Yet another movie ruined by way too much meaningless re-enactment and too little history

[@QuizmasterLaw]

someone, anyone POST MEMES

[@thesouthernhistorian4153]

This ain't a meme channel mate

[@fastsetinthewest]

Heirog...: Do you eat rice out of your girlfriend's rice bowl?