The Civil War in Kentucky

[@kalebcarter364]

I live in russell county ky just about one county short of the Tennessee line. My great great great grandpa bulger (some nickname) was a Private First Class in the confederate army. I am proud to both be a southerner and a confederate relative.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

It's American history and our families did what they thought was best.

[@justsomedude77]

I wouldn't flaunt being in favor of one of the greatest injustices in history.

[@_Snafu_]

@@justsomedude77 which one? the federal government diminishing our states rights? or the president suspending habeas corpus?

[@justsomedude77]

@@_Snafu_ awww you think either one of those holds a candle to slavery, that’s cute. Millions of slaves didn’t have a right to habeas corpus for the states to claim a right violate…

[@aliali-ce3yf]

proud to be related to losers? odd flex, but ok

[@larry-three8225]

I was born and raised in Kentucky. When on the topic of the Civil War, if it came down to it, I would stand with the United States.

[@AbyssWRLD999]

Larry-three and i would put You down.. Yank

[@baconman2.052]

I bet you're from Louisville

[@waterboyyyyy9523]

As a confederate I can respect ur choice

[@tameschannel1865]

I’m from Madison county and I have union blood in me and I’m proud to live in Kentucky but it was a union state, yes it did have slaves but it was a part of the union. Why can’t we accept that that war was almost over 150 years ago and live in peace with each other as Kentuckians and Americans

[@jackmurphy4832]

That’s gay

[@The_PaleHorseman]

I was born and raised here in Kentucky and my family served on both sides, literally had 3 uncles serve, 1 was Confederate and the other 2 union, 2 died and one lived. if I was in that predicament I would have sided with the Constitution and I'm against slavery so I would have been union.

[@davidmullins6361]

Almost all the confederates didn’t aprove slavery they just wanted freedom

[@xXevilsmilesXx]

@@davidmullins6361 Except that part where every article of the Confederates' constitution that protected, encouraged, and enshrined slavery. Pathetic treasonous slavery apologist.

[@baconman2.052]

Considering the founding fathers were slave owning rebels, that makes no sense

[@metroguy4879]

David Mullins they wanted freedom geesh that's the same thing blacks wanted ( freedom) so why didn't everybody just go home they both believe in the same thing goolly dumb smuck😅

[@jerryhablitzel3333]

My grandmother’s grandfather and his 2 brothers served. Two in the 45 Kentucky mounted infantry (union)and one in the 2nd Kentucky cavalry (confederate). All survived.

[@mattiespotatoworld4869]

Hi I'm from Pennsylvania and I rlly wanted to learn about kutucky and I'm 9 and so far I think I like it

[@thestormchasingconservativ6999]

Mattie sing Blog im from ky....theres a lot of history here

[@thenaturechannel5179]

Nice place, we have Fort Knox, Lexington Legends, Basketball (But noone shuts up about it), surprisingly quite a lot of gamers, and The Kentucky Derby

[@kystars]

Im from KENTUCKY .. you spelled it wrong :) I favor the Confederacy

[@kystars]

Joeloveshistory oh so you think the civil war was just about slavery? come on, how do you think the slaves got here? They arrived with big boats off the shore of Africa and started chasing them down? Hey Mitchell, there's one, grab him! How many did we capture today? 35 sir. aye 35, that will be so nice for our collection today. ok load 'em on the boat.. There were many reasons I would have supported the Confederacy, but would have worked to try and stop that and find new ways to support the economy. so don't try to put me in a corner or start an argument when you know nothing about me. Slaves were SOLD by their own people, as I'm SURE you know. Also after the war was over , many of the slaves stayed on the farms because they had a job, were not treated bad and had a home. Of course their were bad owners and one of the end results was they slaves were free to go wherever they chose too. When I say I supported the Confederacy, it doesn't mean I supported everything they were doing. If I had been living during that time, I would have tried to make changes , as hard as that would have been to do. subhuman? etc, oh yeah YOU ARE RIGHT, you GOT me. come off of it.. people in politics know youj don't always support everything your government is doing. Like now, they propose bills.. Democrats and Republicans.. Maybe a bill propsed is set forth by the Republicans.. AND I'm Republican. It doesn't mean I am going to vote on it now does it? I would not have been in favor of slavery. or for calling them awful names. so stop trying to label me as something I am not.

[@kellendawson2510]

@@kystars Make no mistake slavery and racism was all around but the south was it's birthplace and home and the Confederacy was it's shining beacon and hope to keep it that way.

[@tsf5-productions]

May all these places stay preserved for now and generations to come. It IS American history...a portion that all free people of the world can study, and, respect the passion of purpose, fought by so many who had causes - good and not good - to defend for freedom in the American states.

[@trevorthecbdreviewer8056]

Born in prestonsburg Kentucky and raised in Martin Kentucky

[@terrynewsome6698]

Were the loyal south and the traitor north, depending on who you ask. We more then most fought our own communities over these ideas. We bled for both, and both made us bleed.😔 Side note: My grandfather's fought under Garfield at ivy and Sherman in Georgia.

[@thomasschneider8966]

you never mentioned the battle of London in Laurel County, KY south of Wildcat Mountain

[@lawrencefishborn5971]

The good ole commonwealth. God bless Kentucky

[@rednexicanusmc5884]

We actually have a Jefferson Davis memorial here in Washington state

[@alexanderhamilton2219]

Because the American West (including Washington State) is populated both by descendants of Northerners and descendants of Southerners.

[@tbBryce97]

I'm the kid in the gray jacket at the table with the confused look on his face

[@jonathansparks7558]

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that the confederate south, including Kentucky still carry a torch for over he southern cause. It’s been over 150 years now, they really should get some counseling about that. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@hoondaily270]

@@jonathansparks7558 what do you mean? Flying the Confederate flag is like bragging about a participation trophy. But reenactments,monuments and the teaching of it is just history I've lived in Kentucky over 20 years im 27 i hunt i fish i farm. The large majority of the country has a large misconception ppl in the south.

[@sadeaton]

Each day goes by historic markers and monuments are being removed, renamed, put in storage or melted down entirely. What is the point of being preservationist when at this rate there isn't going to be anything left to preserve?

[@justsomedude77]

The only monuments being taken down were the ones set up in the 1900s to intimidate black people. The land is still there, you can go and see these places.

[@alexanderhamilton2219]

⁠@@justsomedude77 Just because they were built in 1900 to intimidate Black people doesn’t mean that they weren’t “part of the area’s history.” Considering that the Civil War ended in 1865, but that Reconstruction only ended in 1877-1890 (union troops were “returned to their barracks” in 1877, and the very last personnel only physically evacuated in the 1890s), and that the last stages of the beginning of Jim Crow only concluded in circa 1890-1900, it only makes sense that the statues would be built during circa 1890-1900. One reason, war monuments only tend to be built after the generation who fought in the war has aged by 20-40 years, because you don’t need to memorialize a war that is already fresh in your memory, and the commissioning and building of statues are themselves lengthy processes. See also, most World War II memorials in America weren’t built until the 1970s. Second of all, the end of Reconstruction is what officially marked the rehabilitation of the former-Confederate white southern population back into the mainstream White American society and body-politic (especially after 1898, when white southerners fought alongside white northerners in the Spanish-American War); it would have made no sense for memorials to the Confederacy to have been built during the time when the CSA was still a rebellious treasonous program, and when white supremacist militias were still terrorist entities, in the Northern/Federal/mainstream American public consciousness. Third of all, “white supremacy in the South” (and outside of the south) is itself “part of American history,” therefore meaning that Confederate statues would still be “part of the history” of the area in which they were built, even if they were “only built to intimidate black people.” In countries like the Mongolia, Cuba, India, China, and Venezuela, where neither Karl Marx nor Vladimir Lenin ever set foot, there exist statues of those two individuals, which were similarly built decades after those individuals’ lifetimes. Those statues were only ever built to enforce a political ideology and to intimidate political dissidents, not actually merely to memorialize the history of the lives of the subjects of those statues. Yet, those statues are nonetheless also part of the histories of the areas in which they were built, because the history of which ideologies and regimes were in power at different times, as well as which ideologies were popular at different times, is part of an area’s history. Third of all, many (not all, not most, but many) of the confederate statues built during or after 1900 were built in cities outside of the south, mostly in the West, which were predominantly settled after 1890-1900 and of which the first non-indigenous settlers (or at least the first to arrive after 1890-1900) were white southerners, and so of course they wouldn’t build a monument to their history in their new community until after they moved to their new community.

[@justsomedude77]

@@alexanderhamilton2219 exactly monuments are put up for political reasons, active commemoration and intimidation being among them. That doesn’t mean we can’t take down monuments. Most communist monuments at least within Russia were relocated to monument park. When did I say a monument wasn’t part of an areas history? It is part of the history… just commemorating the worst part of it, hence why they should be taken down and put in a museum or park.

[@ompaloompa4970]

Amazing good narration!

[@rogermosberger6856]

I cant follow what the narrator is saying. That damned background music is too loud and distracting! Outta here!

[@jcwilder86]

im from lexington ive got family on both sides but nathan wilder was a big union guy who helf off rebs in ky

[@jbl7092]

Great video. We had relatives in the Confederate and Union Army. One was a confederate private who was captured twice during battles and escaped both times to return to his unit. The Union relative was a major with Grant. Thanks for this very informative film.

[@diegogrande1201]

My great great grandpa fought for Dixie He was just just 18, proud and brave but a Yankee put him in his grave. I swear by the blood below my feet You cant raise a canine back up when he's in defeat

[@jonathansparks7558]

Diego Grande that’s a good song. Now the big question is who did the song better, Levon Helm with The Band or the other rendition by, one of the hippy bands in he late 1960’s. The name of the group, along with the girl’s name slips my brain from the moment

[@dr.awkward9075]

"They met & clashed at Munfordville." The Closed Captioning said 'Monthly Bill.' Funny because i too have been fighting the battle of monthly bill for years now.

[@snowwolf2951]

23 of my family members served in the american civil war most being confederete i honor them yet two brothers stand out one a union man and one a southern man both fought eachother eventually the brothers united under the flag and finished out the war serving the union ive been told i had an uncle serve in the 7th kentucky calvary as a captain ive yet to uncover all there stories but i sure intend too

[@baconman2.052]

Louisville aren't Kentuckians, they're Yankees

[@trevorthecbdreviewer8056]

I agree

[@Indeed78999]

same for the people who don't say LOO-A-VUL

[@justsomedude77]

thank god. We know how to keep the rest of the state afloat.

[@JOSEPHMATTHEWHOLLAND]

Agreed

[@MegaRiffraff]

My great grandfather was in Kentucky confederate army, i think it was the 7th,

[@xavierprotocols]

Only 1 short brief mention of Cynthia, Kentucky during the War?? Our town was one of the few places to have NOT 1 BUT 2 Battles fought there during the war!!

[@trevorthecbdreviewer8056]

Are we south or union ?

[@lilmouse1903]

Both actually

[@tameschannel1865]

More union to be exact because we never seceded and southern Kentucky is mostly confederate

[@SusanTaft-o2x]

How many soldiers came from Kentucky?

[@KevinCapolino]

About 35,000 on the confederate side, 125,000 on the union side

[@threefiveseven]

@@KevinCapolino False. Those Union numbers are inflated. 45k-50k confederate and 66k-75k White union. 25,000 black.

[@Jamestele1]

My Paternal ,3 times great grandfather was a Union Private in the 52nd Regiment, Cavalry, putting down Confederate guerilla fighters.

[@AlCapone-dl3cd]

Sadly we were torn apart. Family against family's.

[@mexicant407]

Who barred the coins & forgot where they his them?

[@carnut476]

I hadn't been born yet so I don't remember much about that big war...

[@nickroberts6984]

chuck love Everyone who ate bacon during the US Civil War is dead now ! LOL

[@avenaoat]

I think the 20% slaves limite had an average effect for a territory to be higher % prounionist population. Kentucky lost 70 000 slaves for the slave trade so 24.5% slaves were in Kentucky in 1850 and in 1860 there were only 19.5% slaves in Kentucky. Tennessee and Arkansas had 24-25% slaves so the seccession had majority but in Tennessee the last vote was in June 1861. Missoury had 9.7% slaves, Maryland had 12.5% slaves and Delaware had 1.6% slaves. Kentucky had a poshumus Henry Clay effect for a lot of people to think of whole country.

[@LeeAlrighty]

John irvin Company I 5th KY Calvary Union my great great great grandfather

[@michaeljohnson1157]

❤❤ >BORN IN LOUISVILLE....LOUIE VEELE

[@nickroberts6984]

This is almost perfect. The narrator, like so many US Civil War enthusiasts, mispronounces "secession" as "succession". Secession is what 11 states did when they seceded from the union of states. They didn't "succeed" at anything other than 600,000 + casualties of war. By the way, I'm from East TN which didn't even want a convention on secession to take place. Unfortunately, we were outvoted by middle and west TN. TN was the last state to secede, and the first state to rejoin the Union. We wanted, like West VA, to rejoin as the state of East Tennessee, but it didn't happen. (NOT to be confused with "The State of Franklin" movement, which happened long before "the late unpleasantness".) #RALLYROUNDTHEFLAGBOYS

[@SusanTaft-o2x]

Iteod have been batrsssment to Lincoln

[@AbyssWRLD999]

Kentuc is a confederate state

[@ShidaiTaino]

SOUTHERNBOY OUTDOORS sorry the bluegrass is loyal to the constitution

[@afroartist1086]

No, we're loyal to the Union.

[@MsDellis1]

My family is from lawrenceburg ky, my research has shown some have been with the union and some with confederacy. But don't get me wrong, Kentucky is the most racist state in America to this day in 2021

[@justsomedude77]

@@MsDellis1 Have you heard of Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia?

[@SheepandSorcery]

@@MsDellis1 you actually have evidence to back that up? Very bold to assume a whole state of people are racist.

[@sandralittlejohn3816]

Jefferson Davis elected by the people.what a great leader that done so many things for this country. His birth place and first home good old Kentucky.

[@tomshaw661]

what is civil about war.

[@tameschannel1865]

Nothing

[@josephlitteral]

You are not exactly being truthful. The amount of slaves in Kentucky was almost equivalent to the amount of wealthy Democrat families in Kentucky. So that means the wealthy elites wanted to keep their slaves. Most people couldn’t afford land much less $100-$1500 for a slave. This was the rich sending 2 for 1 so their sons could stay home and not fight, not poor Kentuckians. More fought for the North than south by almost 3-1. Lincoln was born there and more whites than blacks died fighting for freedom by like 30-1 in the whole country!!!💯🐂💩🇺🇸

[@brandondowd6470]

Confederate all the way

[@xtruemw2]

0-1

[@edwil111]

better luck next time.

[@badgoy8075]

I know Confederate states espoused slavery as a reason for secession, and it's often claimed it was their primary reason, but why were they worried about it? As far as I've seen there wasn't exactly writing on the wall that slavery was going to end any time soon and in negotiations before the war to convince them to remain they were offered by the Union a guarantee to indefinitely continue slavery. Slavery didn't even end until months after the war, and Lincoln said his main goal for the war was the preservation of the Union and slavery was inconsequential compared to that goal. What had the Confederates thinking it was going to end and so worried about it? Why did the poor and just not rich who comprised the overwhelming majority of Confederates and had no slaves and couldn't afford them even if they wanted so incensed as to fight for the Confederacy when slavery was of no real importance to them and even a negative considering it took away potential jobs?

[@alexanderhamilton2219]

The “writing on the wall” was the presidential election of 1860, where Lincoln won the electoral vote even though he lost over 60% of the popular vote, simply because he won over 50% absolute majorities of the vote in enough northern free states (all of them other than California, New Jersey, and Oregon) to win the electoral vote (even if you took away his electoral votes from California and Oregon, where he won by plurality, and from NJ, where he won some but not all of the electoral votes because of the direct election of presidential electors). Even though Lincoln was *NOT* an abolitionist, as you correctly pointed out, he *was* relatively anti-slavery compared to all the other major candidates. Therefore, his victory demonstrated that white southerners were not a large and powerful enough group to prevent anti-slavery politicians from taking over the federal government. The reason why poor whites opposed abolitionism is because the abolition of slavery would have unleashed the black population into free white life, and poor whites did not want to endure the consequences of having to deal with a bunch of freed blacks in society.

[@soulsey]

Because the southern democrats wanting to kill Native Americans to make room for more slave states so they could have more representatives in congress, and they didn't think Lincoln was there man.