This is a great museum. Columbus is a nice small city. The National Infantry and Armor Museum is second to none.
@janerkenbrack337320 күн бұрын
When we learn about the Civil War, it is the land battles that get most of the attention. The war tends to be chronicled from battle to battle, Bull Run to Appomattox Courthouse, but the Navy was critical to the defeat of the rebellion. In many ways it was the naval victories that made the difference.
@TheDansonT20 күн бұрын
I am revisiting the museum NEXT week on my lengthy vacation! I live just north in Newnan GA (home to the Battle of Brown's Mill). I'm a HUGE amateur enthusiast of ACW naval history as well as an avid player of 'Dawn of Iron: The American Civil War at Sea', a historical miniature wargame.
@gregdiamond602320 күн бұрын
I’m in Valdosta. I need to get up your way and check out the north Georgia battlefields. I need to get to Columbus and see the museum. I've been to Andersonville Olustee. And most of westerns sites but I'd like to take a summer off and hit DC Maryland and Virginia.
@thearmoredgeorgian273618 күн бұрын
I live in Newnan too, i've been to browns mill several times. Have you read any book on the battle? Shermans Horsemen is good, and so is the book written by Judge Bryon Matthews.
@TheSaturnV15 күн бұрын
Lucky dawg, I'd love to travel to GA one day to see this place. Do you have a club that gets together for wargame nights? How long do rounds of that game typically last?
@Jangolfin20 күн бұрын
Amazing museum! Everyone should visit and get a better vision of the Navy during the Civil War. On my bucket list surely!
@terryeustice539920 күн бұрын
Garry great Tour of the Naval Columbus GA. Museum. 🥰 Thanks for sharing! 💯👊👍
@Engineer189715 күн бұрын
The building of the Confederate States Navy, practically from scratch, was one of the greatest achievements on either side of the War. It deserves recognition that is all it's own
@1TruNub20 күн бұрын
That place is on the bucket list.
@jangiel310320 күн бұрын
The bucket that gets dumped over the side?
@claycooley212619 күн бұрын
h Holly is a friend of ours. such a cool place to visit..
@AmericanBattlefieldTrust19 күн бұрын
@@jangiel3103😮
@CarolinaThreeper353420 күн бұрын
Thanks again Gary
@user-tp1bi6of3v15 күн бұрын
Thanks Gary for doing the naval aspect of the civil war. Really enjoyed the tour and really want to go see it someday.
@mickaderholt353419 күн бұрын
I've been twice, the last time about 5 years ago. It's one of the best.
@TheNewBowunter20 күн бұрын
Wow..its so big!
@horizon42q20 күн бұрын
Excellent, good information
@MorganOtt-ne1qj18 күн бұрын
Rafeal Semmes was a terror in the Atlantic as a blockade runner and privateer. The CSS Alabama was well handled by him.
@michaelsnyder387114 күн бұрын
Until USS Kearsarge sank the Alabama right from under him.
@MorganOtt-ne1qj13 күн бұрын
@@michaelsnyder3871 True, but he escaped many close calls. Odds were always against him from the start. Interesting tactics were his own design.
@michaelamanek890817 күн бұрын
The Hartford’s bell sits today in Downtown Hartford on Constitution Plaza
@garys.478920 күн бұрын
Great tour Garry, i’ll put this place on my bucket list 😎👍
@MicC-yx5th9 күн бұрын
We visited last year it was an awesome day trip from where we live in Alabama.
@daveblackburn539314 күн бұрын
Nice video very well done. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the fantastic videos and work. Respectfully herr Dave blackburn
@sixxfreak5818 күн бұрын
Could someone provide the correct spelling of the young powder monkey's name mentioned at ~ 15:00. It sounds like Aspin Walfour.
@SinCitySharksfan70211 күн бұрын
I need to get down to Georgia that’s awesome
@annmcgehee172820 күн бұрын
Awesome video, thank you!!
@TheGravitywerks20 күн бұрын
The South trying to catch up,.... like the submarine, electronically detonated torpedoes, land mines, etc....ok. Been there, great museum!
@kevinking817014 күн бұрын
My Great Great Grandfather , Richard B Newnham served in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He came to America in 1861 from England where he had been a police superintendent. Joined the navy in 1862, serving until the end of the war. Post war settled in Saugatuck, Michigan. Brought his family over from England except two adult daughters, one of whom was my Great Grandmother. He remained in Saugatuck until his death in 1908. Can anyone tell me how to obtain his service record, if this is possible. Kevin King, Bearsted, Kent, England.
@housecat520220 күн бұрын
Happy 410k ABT
@chrisgreig562810 күн бұрын
WOW !!! Truly Cool
@2ezee201120 күн бұрын
gotta find a way to go here.
@paulyost684920 күн бұрын
Cool if I ever get to Georgia
@Bailbondello18 күн бұрын
So it was " way down yonder in the Chattahoochee?"😂😂😂😂
@TheSaturnV15 күн бұрын
"Never knew how much that muddy water meant to me..." I was hearing that song the entire time
@samparkerSAM18 күн бұрын
Does the Museum have recommendations on finding Union Navy records? My relative served in the capture of New Orleans and other campaigns. I would like to find out more if possible.
@Bartskarts2 күн бұрын
57 thousand views and only 1 and a half thousand likes?..... Y'all viewers need to step up!
@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa322613 күн бұрын
Last time I’ve went by there noticed that some of your outdoor displays are gone
@redbonechkn15 күн бұрын
Oh you're at the confederate naval museum in Columbus GA really close to Fort Benning 🫡
@jacq13512 күн бұрын
In the midst 1970s my parents found a piece of decayed wood what must have been a piece of mast covered under sand on the beach of Cherbourg on that piece of wood there was a very heavy iron or steel ring with a big oval ring forged on it and three eyeleds also forged on it. Also in the remains of that piece of mast were four forged iron so called 'dognails' presumably made in the USA in the beginning of the 19th century according to the Dutch maritime museum. So it must have came from an 19th century American ship I believe it came from the 'CSS Alabama' wich lost her masts during the battle with the USS kearsage and the masts washed up on the Cherbourg beach in France...if you have an Instagram page I could get in touch with you about this mysterious mastring
@gregbiggs56743 күн бұрын
I was asked to do a lecture there a couple years ago and Holly and the whole staff were terriffic!
@ralphwatten242610 күн бұрын
I'm curious as to how cavalry could capture a large ship like that. Couldn't a gunboat like that defend itself?
@drbichat522912 күн бұрын
I think the screws are placed reversed
@mikearmstrong848310 күн бұрын
Pretty sad that a museum has a big nameplate of the "USS Hartford" even though such a ship didn't exist during the Civil War. The designation "United States Ship" was not adopted for American naval vessels until 1907. It was known as just "Hartford", the same as every other Union naval ship was called simply by its name. If you were to tell a crewman his ship was called USS Hartford, he wouldn't know what you were talking about.
@Engineer189717 күн бұрын
This place is the former Confederate Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. It should have remained thus. Political ' correctness ' run amok.
@michaelamanek890817 күн бұрын
Yup
@TheSaturnV15 күн бұрын
100% Someone wants our history wiped clean.
@mpojr11 күн бұрын
most of the real important industries are in the south now including the energy,everything switched in the last 100 plus years.
@nuts4ships7 күн бұрын
Dude! Switch to decaf!
@AmericanBattlefieldTrust7 күн бұрын
He only drinks decaf
@sasjhwa20 күн бұрын
Many historians and tour guides get this mixed up including this one. Calvary = place Jesus died. Cavalry = mounted soldiers. I love the museum and this presentation but I'm thrown out of what you are saying every time you say the historically incorrect term.
@TheSaturnV15 күн бұрын
Stops me in my tracks when I hear it. Not in the same league, but when customer service folks say "S as in Sam" and "M as in Mary." 😑
@MBCGRS13 күн бұрын
An American correcting the proper spelling of English words I find very amusing for some reason...
@sasjhwa13 күн бұрын
I assume you mean things like color and colour. Americans and British spellings of some words are different. I don't know about in Britain but in the US some people don't know that. They are both correct spellings for their regions though.
@drbichat522912 күн бұрын
Like weather people that say “strom” and “thunderstrom” all the time