The Civil War Battle Series: Chickamauga and Chattanooga

[@MrJoeyBoombotz]

70 years ago when I was 7 years old my father gently explained to me the difference in pronunciation between cavalry and Calvary and the definitions of the two words. I have heard dozens of Military 'experts' over my entire life that never learned the difference. It always amazes me.

[@purplefood1]

It's kind of crazy you couldn't read when you were 7.

[@73F100]

I thought it was just me, that I was hearing it wrong. I believe Joey is correct. I do believe he is pronouncing it "calvary".

[@f.g.h604]

I see this is an old comment and english is not my first language, but it appears to me that this mispronounciation among americans mostly is a result of historians talking with varying degrees of "southern dialect"? They seem to not pronounce hard consonants as much.

[@peterandolph7628]

This Cavalry/ Calvary issue was the first thing I noticed when listening to this presentation . Danny Glover, on the Civil War History Channel programs also does this incessantly. Very distracting.

[@davidhallett8783]

@@f.g.h604 they seem to not give a shit whether they pronounce words properly or not

[@Duality306]

My Great Grandfather and his brother mustered into the 97th Indiana at the same time...his brother was killed at Chattanooga

[@scottobryant1]

My ggg grandfather was in 2nd sc rifles I think they were in reserve at chickamauga, his brother was killed at sharpsburg

[@alanaadams7440]

May he rest in peace

[@marshalney6150]

@@scottobryant1 I’m pretty sure my first cousin like six times removed was in the 2nd SC rifles

[@scottobryant1]

@@marshalney6150 my 3rd great grandfather J.C O'Bryant was 2and Lt. Co. B

[@adamantlyadam5201]

That’s amazing! My 3rd Great Grandfather mustered in 1864 in an Illinois regiment and joined Sherman’s army in Atlanta just before he started his march to the sea. He served in Sherman’s army through the end of the war. His brother died of disease in an army camp in Arkansas in June 1865, shortly after the war ended.

[@Joel-in-Las-Vegas]

Terrific overview. Glad this was recorded.

[@gcjbhar]

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum........PLEASE get someone else to do the camera work and editing!!! It is absolutely terrible camera work!!! They seem to think that it is much more important to cover the speaker at the podium than to cover the maps even when the speaker is pointing something out on it. The camera always goes back to a man speaking from a podium as though we should constantly be reminded that he is still there!?!?

[@ami2evil]

They were scanning around for Booth's ghost....

[@DBug17]

This is from 7 years ago

[@samhenson8177]

I love these lectures!

[@sszpyrka]

Dr. Mark DePue has a series of civil war lectures that are filled with great detail and interesting story lines. Awesome job, I've watched them all. I want more so get off your butt and deliver me some vidzzzzzzz

[@quill444]

When watching these and similar lectures, it's a much better viewing experience if you open TWO instances of the video into separate browser windows or tabs, and optimize one for the audio (if you have an equalizer), and then set the audio to MUTE on the other video. Now, you can listen to the first video while scrolling and pausing on the various slides and maps on the second video, and follow along much better. Try it! - j q t -

[@planegaper]

hmm

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Annnnnd the Internet says "too much work!"

[@cesaradvincula1233]

documenrary is great, however too much focus on the speaker instead on the maps being discussed for better understanding and appreciation

[@Herintruththelies]

Yeah the editing is infuriating. "Man points at thing. Editor cuts not to the thing the man is pointing at, but to the man pointing." The whole series is fascinating but is almost single handedly ruined by the editor.

[@darrellhinde8659]

Very frustrating trying to understand the tactical application of battle via the very limited use of maps.

[@jeremiahmitchell6420]

Well the speaker is a badass, just sayin.

[@ricardodesotorodriguez3503]

Yes it's a pitiful shame that the cameraman and/or the editor were so incompetent as to not present the maps (1/2 of the presentation really) in their proper perspective. Could have been a master piece.

[@thomaslinton1001]

Yes!

[@mchristophertodd]

Please redo this with more screen time for the maps, and better audio quality. The lecture itself is quite good, but the production quality is lacking.

[@yoyyoy6376]

The mic through me off

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

With some expert work by someone highly qualified, the audio could be made a bit worse.

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

@Robert Bonneau It's probably a decent lecture, but the audio quality is so poor as to make it first annoying, then unwatchable.

[@kevin6293]

@@LTrotsky21stCentury seems perfectly fine to me.

[@brianmchugh1100]

Very good presentation. Easy to listen to with an obvious command of, and passion for, the subject matter.

[@marknewton6984]

Too little, too late

[@jeffkane221]

Calvary ; an open-air representation of the crucifixion. Shame, such a great presentation does not have a camera able to zoom in on map to let us follow it.

[@ericjardine8210]

What

[@7scientist]

these lectures should be redone with proper focus on the maps!

[@thomasbernecky2078]

what is the problem with sound @37:00?

[@johnqpublic2718]

I'm here to say that none of this was possible without Eileen. Thank you, Eileen! Now., once again, will the lecturer pronounce the word "Cavalry" or "Cavalry?"

[@joharSen]

He clearly said cavalry instead of cavalry

[@SteveTheFazeman]

With regard to southern railroads prior to the war, there was a political/economic design behind transferring cars from one gauge to another. At the transfer points were cities and towns that benefited from these delays with the various services they offered for passenger and freight trains.

[@virusguy5611]

... terribly inconvenient when you need to move troops ASAP... though I suppose you can't expect short-sighted civilian merchants and politicians to think that far ahead.

[@burdine26.120]

Can't see map details. Need closeup views for this to make this clear to viewers.

[@paulcarter7810]

Podium and background should be much smaller with map much larger.

[@kennethd9344]

These are close to me my home and I am in the area since I was a kids

[@prharp]

Well done! Thank you.

[@kirklandraab1999]

Hey I love the speaker's Wiskenson accent

[@bjjt-nu9dx]

Ahhhhhhhhhh! Cavalry. Cavalry. Cavalry. Please!

[@carollee8823]

I'm trying to research relatives can anybody tell me what Confederate units were at Look Out mountain area ?

[@M80Ball]

What’s a ray road?

[@leftyshawenuph4026]

46:50 gives me nightmares. The horrors of this war.

[@cgordon1386]

Love and light to you :)

[@ArmenianBishop]

I noticed that a number of comments complained about not being a able to see the visual aides, throughout the lecture; as for myself, I'm mischievously happy to say that I didn't have that problem. I'm a Civil War Buff, having researched and followed the topic since I was a 10 year old child, many decades ago. Heck with the maps, I don't need to see any more of them than have been provided. I enjoy observing Dr. DePue presentation style.

[@MrBlaser51]

Sorry people but the presentation could be 100% BETTER IF THE FILM COULD show THE BATTLE MAPS. instead od a long off view of the Dr. & combined map. I hope you watch this yourself????

[@brianmchugh1100]

Agreed! 100%. Very frustrating.

[@seandoyle2983]

Tiny thing, it's cavelry not calvery.

[@BookOfJames1]

Why do all Civil War historians call railroads "rare-roads"?

[@brunneng38]

Because there weren’t as many back then.

[@thomaslinton1001]

"Calvary" A mountain in Palestine. "Cavalry" - mounted soldiers .

[@davemojarra4734]

Okay, but does it have a "rayroad"?

[@thomaslinton1001]

@@davemojarra4734 Ax me nice?

[@paxmule]

Thomas Linton - that was making me question my own hearing. I think he eff's it up _every time_ !

[@jashapiro10]

where is Palestine?

[@thomaslinton1001]

@@jashapiro10 Mostly in Israel.

[@tylerjerabek5204]

He says that this is the 9th in the series but I only can find 7?

[@EM-pw9tr]

At about 5m19sec he says SOUTH of Chattanooga is Missionary Ridge,...FURTHER says that EAST of that, there lies a broad flat valley which the Battle of Chickamauga will be fought .. .. Wrong .. CHICKAMAUGA IS SOUTH .. ..

[@JohnnyRebKy]

I read the book by Sam Watkins who was a veteran. " Company Aych" is the book. Anyhow you learn all you need to know about General Bragg in his book. Bragg was a real horses ass. If I remember correctly he had a couple privates shot dead for falling asleep while on guard or picket duty. Thats pretty damn harsh when you know your men are exhausted. It could have happened to the best of soldiers. Sooner or later the human body WILL sleep whether voluntary or not.

[@thomasjamison2050]

That's not so bad. Southern generals very often hanged men. It was particularly practical to line up all the troops and hang a few right at the start of a campaign. Lee, Jackson, etc. all did it fairly frequently.

[@JohnnyRebKy]

Thomas Jamison yes they did for things like desertion. That’s A LOT different than falling asleep for a few moments on Pickett duty when you been marching 3 days. It could have happened to anybody...including Bragg. Even Stonewall Jackson is written to have fell asleep on his horse in a battle! Jackson and Lee never executed anybody for that but Bragg sure did

[@indy_go_blue6048]

I've read that Bragg owned 70 slaves. If he was like this with his soldiers, imagine the suffering of those poor souls.

[@kevin6293]

You can never “learn all you need to know” about a man from just one person’s perspective. 🙄🤦‍♂️

[@j4dub11]

@@indy_go_blue6048 slaves were valuable and expensive. I would imagine they where treated far better then soldiers. That being said glad that god awful practice has been done for a good long time now.

[@SRV2013]

The microphone noise on this is killing me.

[@glennmiddleton3324]

same here.

[@deegordon3482]

impressed with content; audio poor - distracting

[@joshj7012]

Gentleman clearly knows his stuff, but he keeps saying “ray road”

[@chriscoco547]

Excellent lecture punctuated by terrible audio quality…..

[@spencerkimble3824]

Alright, I can’t listen to him say “Calvary” one more time.

[@davidhallett8783]

Take a drink every time he says Calvary. It makes it much more tolerable

[@jochenheiden]

Then turn it off.

[@p4our587]

I really wish he would say "rail-road/s"… and NOT, "rayroads". It's silly… I know. Doesn't make it NOT true.

[@Odonanmarg]

I’ve made this comment before. Nobody is interested in seeing the lecturer. Everybody wants to see the visual displays.

[@jessz7178]

Interesting lecture but agree with at least some comments; & cavalry is not calvary!

[@feathersfeathers2022]

Terrible visual control versus the speakers explanation of the terrain made me turn the presentation off!

[@Peas_and_Carrots]

He keeps saying Rosecrans. I think he means to say Rosencrantz.

[@sylviahacker6695]

Nope. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rosecrans

[@marknewton6984]

Rosecrans is correct.

[@scottzike1054]

FOCUS on slides .. he refers to them constantly .. get a camera that blows them up from where the camera is shooting from .. love the topics .. but cannot watch these .. speaker is just a voice .. info in is on the slides ..

[@prestonphelps1649]

Very knowledgeable but self defeating speaker. Can't use the microphone or screen device

[@terrypresna3941]

The camera man really sucks doing his job. Never showed the map close up when the pointer was being used to point something out... then showed the close ups of the maps when the pointer was not used. Nothing like trying to see a white pointer dot on a white map from a distance instead of the close-up. Frustrated I only got halfway through the lecture.

[@philiplavelle4957]

This could be considered "nitpicking" but OMG (!), you would think a learned gentleman whose expertise is battles of the American civil war would know the difference between Calvary and cavalry...just for the record, Calvary (as far as I know) is where Jesus died, while cavalry is mounted combatants (on horses or in armored vehicles)...C'mon man...

[@lonnienielsen7729]

Garfield was my Ancestor

[@davemojarra4734]

The cat?

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Haha. Congrats

[@fieryweasel]

Cav-al-ry. It's pronounced 'cav-al-ry'.

[@scottobryant1]

And railroad is rail road

[@fuckcensorship69]

@@scottobryant1 rayroad

[@leftyshawenuph4026]

It drives me CRAZY. I swear, 90% simply will not say CAV-AL-RY. It's always Calvary, which is something else entirely.

[@MahmutAyabakan]

Williams Larry Hall Anthony Moore Matthew

[@mattsmolinski595]

Make America Great Again

[@jeffsharpe2852]

A Pyrrhic Victory.

[@joharSen]

More like Braxton bragg victory

[@marknewton6984]

@@joharSen an oxymoron. More like a Longstreet victory

[@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717]

I don’t understand this

[@yuckyool]

Braxton Bragg = Captain Queeg

[@marknewton6984]

True Forrest threatened to thrash him!

[@K8E666]

Meth-odd-ical = methodical

[@thomaslinton1001]

"miniscul" ? If it's going to be 75% talking head, get the words right.

[@alanaadams7440]

And he is a Phd

[@williamwebster7325]

I love historical stuff like this those were men back then but 156 years later crazy people are still trying to fight this war makes no sense north had over 22million people south had only 9million people half were slaves no education is what caused the South to lose the war there was no way they could beat the north bullshit for them to still be mad Lincoln and the Northerners Whispering you were using telephones back then you just didn't make sense for somebody to waste all those people died and no one that people will kill hold a lot of black folks did we had nothing to do with🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😡😷

[@GottaWannaDance]

Aaaargh! Sound is horribly horrifyingly horrible!!!!

[@alanrobinson5967]

Very interesting. The more I learn about this war I ponder on two things. 1. Why did it take four years for the Union, with their vastly superior resources in men,food , weapons and resources to defeat the Confederates? 2. A big factor ,in my humble opinion, was the decision of Bobby Lee to put the State of Virginia above his country. The Rebels , apart from him and perhaps the strangely eccentric Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had very few effective Generals. It would have been very interesting to know what would have happened if Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to lead the Union army in 1861. My guess is that the war would have been much shorter - with far less casualties on both sides. So, Mr.Lee you have an awful lot of blood on your hands-- I hope God has forgiven you.

[@EM-pw9tr]

Well said !! Murderous Traitor in the least ...

[@kevin6293]

The union didn’t utilize their vast resource advantage until the second half of the war.

[@randyjenkins8743]

He ended the war and saved thousands of lives

[@hailhydra7959]

Robert E. Lee wasn’t a great general, imho. He could be tactically effective (generally speaking) but didn’t appreciate the war being lost in the West.

[@ami2evil]

Blame the War Criminal, which was the president..

[@markponn9490]

Easy to listen to, not watch. Love Civil War History. 😊

[@louisirwin2474]

I think a professional historian should know the difference between where Jesus died and a unit of horse-mounted combatants. Is this speaker mixing up other historical events?

[@prestonphelps1649]

Poor speaker

[@calebwarren8168]

Maybe, but for all of his challenges, he probably still understands the topic better than you ever will.

[@tracioliver1498]

The snotty playroom feasibly blot because box holoprosencephaly reproduce excluding a awful christmas. spooky, bent low

[@omegasupreme1970]

Rosecrants was incompetent and should never have been given a command

[@f.g.h604]

Wut are you talking about. He was one of the best union commanders, beloved by his men but feared and hated by his rival union peers.

[@marknewton6984]

Same as Bragg. Ugh!

[@flavho]

Speaker has no enthusiasm..

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Agree or disagree with his viewpoints, IMO the best ACW speaker is Gary Gallagher. I love his humor and enthusiasm.

[@Odonanmarg]

Too much focus on the lecturer. While his presentation is good, I want to see his display. Watching him speak is certainly not as helpful as listening to him, which I can easily do while watching a display of what he is talking about.

[@tracioliver1498]

The quiet employee neurophysiologically flash because lasagna commercially crush times a clammy mom. woozy, flawless ice

[@ami2evil]

Yes, definitely, without a doubt!

[@alanaadams7440]

Very funny