The Confederates smash into Georgia: 1863 Historical Battle of Chickamauga | Total War Battle

The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18-20, 1863, between the United States Army and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a U.S. Army offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It was the first major battle of the war fought in Georgia, the most significant US defeat in the Western Theater, and involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg.
00:00 Introduction
01:32 Moving forward
02:24 Rosecrans deception
03:29 Pre-battle movements
04:37 Scouts briefly engage
05:02 The armies improve their dispositions
05:48 Day 1: Battles at the river
07:03 Rosecrans movement
07:18 Day 2: Battle begins to the North
08:08 Both armies commit more troops
08:43 Confederate centre attack
10:03 Vineyard flank attempt
10:20 Battle continues at the centre
11:45 Day 3: The final Confederate attack
12:17 The battle continues
13:06 The Unions confusion
14:24 The Confederates attack
15:17 The Union right flank breaks
15:30 Battle at the field
16:18 The Union begins the mass retreat
17:00 Aftermath

[@logicaredux5205]

My great great grand uncle was killed at Chickamauga. Thank you for staging this.

[@mikecooper7978]

Was he Union or Confederate? It doesn’t matter, just curious.

[@logicaredux5205]

@@mikecooper7978 65th Ohio Infantry. Harker’s Brigade, Wood’s division. XXI Corps.

[@Wildcat_Shenanigans]

@@logicaredux5205 L man

[@mikecooper7978]

@@logicaredux5205 Very cool

[@davec8730]

@@logicaredux5205 one of the 300,000 then, WISH WE'D GOT THE LOT'

[@mikecooper7978]

The bravery of those men on BOTH sides is astounding. To just stand in a line while 10,000 guns are firing in your direction must’ve been horrifying.

[@-GEZtapo-]

This tactic comes from the Napoleonic Wars, where they fought with smooth-bore muskets. With rifled barrels and Minié bullets this line formation was suicide

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

I believe most had mad piece with their maker by then. They had already went throught all of the stages of grief.

[@t.a.169]

I was born in Lafayette,Ga and grew up in Chickamauga . The battle field and museum are a great place to visit and explore.

[@dcs5343]

Very cool. Lots of history there!

[@manuelacosta9463]

The gap being left in the Union line is among the greatest 'oops' moments of the Civil War. The Union troops desperately holding the line as Confederate forces exploited their lucky find was heroic.

[@feudinggreeks3316]

I wonder, why is it a tactical brilliance when the Union exploits the South's weaknesses, but "luck" when the South Exploits Union weaknesses? It's almost like people undermine the Confederacies successful tactics by dismissing it as just luck.

[@CamdenIrwin]

I feel like the greatest oops moment was the battle of the crater. They sent the soldiers into that hole without a ladder

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

Another cluster was when Gen. John Pemberton in the battle of Vicksburg, set up defences East of the Big Black river on the flat ground and got routed, while Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston didn't even show up.😮

[@henryb9720]

I absolutely love this! If the animations could be changed to keep troop numbers but form them into columns of 4s and in two to four ranks, then this would be nearly perfect for teaching a history class!

[@jimhoffmann]

My great, great grandfather fought here with the 1st Louisiana Cavalry Regiment.

[@jerryumfress9030]

My gg granddad fought in the Battle of Chickamauga. He was in Company H, 5th Alabama Cavalry. His name was Joseph Howard Powell and my granddad told me about the Battle when I was about 10 years old. I just recently found a war time picture of him. He was wounded in the Battle, my granddad told me that Joe Howard had told him that a cannon shell exploded near him, and shrapnel was in his foot. He survived the war, but when he returned home, everything was destroyed and gone. He took his wife and moved to Itawamba County Mississippi. He passed away in 1923 at the age of 92 and is buried at White Church Cemetery in Fulton Mississippi, next to my gg grandmother.. al my kinfolks are buried There including my granddad and grandmother, Rupert Powell and Effie Powell

[@davidanthony4845]

The Rebs were IN Georgia ; Rosecrans had maneuvered Bragg out of Tennessee. Bragg wanted OUT of Georgia. As Bruce Catton put it ' In the effort to keep Rosecrans out of Chattanooga Bragg had shoved him back into it.'

[@terpentoon]

Would be great if maps were integrated into the explanation. Without maps I have not the faintest idea of the strategic game.

[@montarakid1943]

Yeah, my thought exactly.

[@rudolfrednose7351]

Oh, you already stated what I just now commented.

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

well done. Thanks!

[@wyatthen55]

Wow just found the channel as a historian this was truly fun to watch, I will surely check out the other videos

[@cinematicbattles559]

Great thanks a lot😁

[@vix4631]

These videos are great. Where do you get information from to script/show the battles?

[@BadPeanutgames]

THe game iis called napoleon total war and he is using a mod

[@cinematicbattles559]

For the script I just use various online sources, the game is Napoleon Total War with an American Civil War mod installed

[@zach7193]

Well, this is something. Narration was well done. No AI. Though the Confederates won the battle, Bragg failed to pursue the Union when he had the chance. The Union was mauled, but escaped intact.

[@castercamber]

Bragg was an idiot, tee'd off his own subordinates.

[@CamdenIrwin]

Bedford Forrest threatened to kill Bragg after the battle for not taking advantage of the victory but to be fair, they were in a wooded landscape with confused reports and tired and disorganized regiments. His blunder is easy to call out with hindsight

[@davec8730]

bragg hadn't troop number superiority and thus couldn't force the issue without excessive losses, losses the CSA could not afford in ANY theatre.

[@user-jap84tlv24sq]

Hello, i think your videos would benefit with just small addition of some kind of "global map", like when talking about east and west etc. would be nice to have a map with some lines on it. Just a thought

[@Exyster]

these videos are so good I bugged my NTW so I can't play it But its nice to see these videos

[@cinematicbattles559]

Thanks a lot! Have you tried uninstalling it and then deleting all the files? Because sometimes when you uninstall it through steam it doesnt actually delete all the files which might be causing your problem

[@Exyster]

I deleted my files then uninstalled it@@cinematicbattles559

[@Exyster]

I have already tried but I deleted my files then uninstalled the game Does it make a differance

[@cinematicbattles559]

@@Exyster I'm not sure, what is wrong with your game exactly?

[@Exyster]

So basically when i load the game is just shows the License menu and I cant get onto the main menu or anything else@@cinematicbattles559

[@budgewilliams9019]

Errr! What are trees flying around in the area?

[@Mulberry2000]

What game is this?

[@RobertCampbellroberrific]

the wheat fields are huge. How wide were the grain heads on the combines back then?

[@MountainRaven1960]

Looks like a Zombie Civil War. But still good! Most enjoyable.

[@rudolfrednose7351]

Nice game graphics, but without regiments symbols moving across a map of the battlefields …..no idea what the computer voice is talking about.

[@donaldgrant9067]

Well in your animation I saw one union soldier out of a thousand get hit, while the rebels had half their numbers hit in each of the battles. So how did the union lose 16000 troops, did they stub their toe on the way back and fall over dead?

[@Minnesota.Highlander]

Spencer repeating rifles and Alexander's Bridge - I am here to today because of my ancestors (John,Wade,Levi) surviving the battle with Wilder's Lightning Brigade. The 92nd Mounted Volunteer Infantry. Then "On to the Sea"

[@matthewclark6871]

What game is this

[@cinematicbattles559]

Napoleon total war with an American civil war mod installed

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

Well, I guess the TN battle flag was right this time. lol

[@JeddieT]

The problem with this otherwise well-produced video is that there is no ariel or map view to really grasp and understand the strategies of these two opposing forces. All you really see is one braw after another with no sense of how or where these forces are fighting. What a waste.

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

This sux. They should have showed some maps.

[@mustlovedogs272]

The Confederate army numbered 50,000 not 65,000. As the decades go by the history books inflate more and more the number of Confederate soldiers at each battle and deflate more and more the number of Union soldiers at each battle.

[@kisstherain73]

The south still lost.

[@user-qq2vq4fv8b]

Why would any serious historian do that ? I have checked several sources , all of which give 65,000 Confederate against 60,000 Union . And the Confederacy winning the battle , ( IE , remaining in control of the battlefield) but suffering slightly higher casualties , 18 and a half thousand , all told . If the army had been as few as 50,000 , they would have been routed .

[@mustlovedogs272]

@@user-qq2vq4fv8b Don't act stupid. Just like yourself most historians are from north of the mason dixon line and they re-write history a little at a time in order to belittle the incredible accomplishments of the Southern armies while amplifying those of the Union. You comment that "had they been 50,000 they would have been routed" is all the evidence needed to know what you are all about. You Are The Problem.

[@phann860]

I doubt that any historian would do something so stupid.

[@mustlovedogs272]

@@phann860 I've watched it happen the last 50 years. For example, around 1970 the Union force at Gettysburg was put at 120,000 to Lee's 60,000. Gradually, that has changed to as low as 90,000 for Meade and as much as 75,000 for Lee. Don't tell me that I didn't see the GOP poll watcher get illegally kicked out of the precinct in Phylli and that cardboard was then put in the windows in November 2019 either. Don't tell me I didn't see a Trump lead by 100,000 +/- votes in 4 states gradually change to a slight lack of votes over a six week period as cheat by mail votes were manufactured either. Don't tell me I did not see things that I actually saw.

[@louispetherbridge9754]

Once again the rank and file soldiers suffer because of the Staff Officers cock ups