Death of The Confederacy: Sherman's March to the Sea | Animated History

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[@ScorpoYT]

They don't call it M4 Sherman for no reason

[@killthewrong4598]

What are you doing here

[@angryeliteultragree6329]

Lol hi Scorpio.

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

Hiya Scorpo. I just saw your video on the war crimes in Atlanta. (Lol!)

[@thekemet5919]

that's wild

[@Zaftrabuda]

Le Sherman has arrived

[@therealcriky]

"without a supplyline, shermans army will starve!" sherman: "say a prayer as you wont be able to in a moment"

[@monkofdarktimes]

Its old Antiquity Tactics

[@vinz4066]

Modern Problems require medival solutions

[@Abdus_VGC]

his buddy and west point roommate George Thomas destroyed Hood at Nashville so his supply lines were already safe anyways

[@nicbahtin4774]

@@monkofdarktimes the best kind

[@vklnew9824]

6 month old bot account

[@CL-lu8mc]

if Atlanta didn't want to get burned why did they make the city so flammable?

[@jurassicturtle3666]

@@dirtyrat886 my guy it's a joke

[@jeffreycater5447]

@@dirtyrat886whoosh

[@CASH-THE-NERD]

Wood was really the only way to make buildings back then. There were a plenty full number of concrete buildings. But since there insides were also made from dry wood they would burn from the inside. Leaving stone skeletons in its wake.

[@500ccRabbit]

​@@dirtyrat886I unironically agree with both statements.

[@StarsAndSnipes344]

@@dirtyrat886hmm you make a good point tho

[@AmericanWolfGaming]

A fun fact, people may not know is the 1st Alabama Union Cavalry regiment was a Regiment comprised of Southern Unionists that was handpicked by General Sherman, to be his escort during the March through Georgia and the Carolinas campaign.

[@mattstakeontheancients7594]

Alabama native and didn’t know we had any Union soldiers. Will have to look them up.

[@AmericanWolfGaming]

@@mattstakeontheancients7594 Part of the reason I know this is because my ancestors fought in that unit and another Union unit. A lot of people unfortunately don’t know much about the regiment.

[@Apple-om5mr]

@@mattstakeontheancients7594NC native here. This is why we need to teach and remember these people! Show people that southern heritage isn’t just traitors and slavers, don’t let crazy lost causers destroy our history of fighting for the Union! (A lot of southern unionists joined the Union army from pretty much all southern states)

[@slomoshun2258]

​@@mattstakeontheancients7594 Silent Cavalry by Howell Raines is an audiobook about this. I'm only a couple hours in, but it is great so far.

[@obi-wankenobi1233]

This is what southern pride should be about.

[@taylor7772]

My great great grandfather immigrated from Prussia in 1858 (and where he served in the Prussian army) to the United States and joined the 26th Wisconsin Infantry (The majority of its soldiers were German-American). According to a copy of his service in the Union Army, The twenty sixth regiment was with the Twentieth Army Corps under General Sherman and participated in the Atlanta Campaign, Savannah campaign, and the Carolinas campaign. My great grandfather most likely witnessed and took part in Sherman's famous March to the Sea. Besides the march to sea, he fought at the following engagements: Chancellorsville, VA Gettysburg, PA Funkstown, MD Wauhatchie, TN Missionary Ridge, TN Buzzard Roost Gap, GA Resaca, GA Cassville, GA New Hope Church, GA Golgotha Church, GA Nose's Creek, GA Kenesaw Mountain, GA Peach Tree Creek, GA Siege of Savannah Siege of Atlanta Averasboro, NC Bentonville, NC He reached the rank of Corporal by the time he mustered out of the army May 30, 1865 and died on December 26, 1926.

[@surfingbrrrd]

my great great (however much it is) grabdfather was a captain (i believe, it may have been some other higher up officer position) for the confederacy, and fought in many that you listed. My family still has the signed pardon in the family that he recieved from President Johnson after the war, framed at parents house

[@firstpersonwinner7404]

That's pretty neat! Thanks for sharing

[@Grid-the-goofy]

Yo, Did he have somin to say about Savannah... as A Georgian who loves that Port city... kinda want to know How a solid Man thought about it

[@JamesLee-mp8hk]

Wisconsin regiments were some of the most coveted regiments in the army because unlike other states Wisconsin didn't create entirely new regiments instead they opted to replace personnel in their already existing regiments.

[@taylor7772]

@@Grid-the-goofy I do not know unfortunately.

[@LucyBean42]

If you say "heritage not hate" 3 times in a mirror, the ghost of General Sherman comes out and burns your house down.

[@General_Rubenski]

Lmao

[@plaguedoctor1173]

Kinda weird how you see southerners raising Confederate flags saying its their heritage and not because they are racist. Like bro you dont see Germans pulling out a N*zi flag and saying “This is my heritage I don’t actually hate Jewish people!!!”

[@TinsleyLaw]

😅😅

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

Too funny😂

[@Camino-pb7vy]

Ahh the man of war crimes

[@alaricskjelver7014]

"many southern families opted to bury their possessions, only for their slaves to lead Union soldiers to them." the true definition of Karma

[@vextex9719]

@@royale7620 get your own country dixie boy

[@cheetahlover156]

@@royale7620and why was that wrong? They had slaves.

[@JohnnyYK]

@@royale7620 womp womp shouldn’t have enslaved people

[@Dauntless2000]

@@royale7620 Well, by the south's standards, It was property showing where the rest of its kin was at. Property can't rob itself.

[@larsfackendahl2344]

They literally robbed people of their freedom so yea sherman and the freed slaves did nothing wrong

[@markbanash921]

"We cannot change the hearts and minds of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible . . . [and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.” W. T. Sherman

[@EvaIowaCubsFan]

I read this in the voice Ken Burns used for his documentary

[@dakotadurham4788]

Which is kind of ironic, given that the American South has always been America’s military levy, with Southerners always serving in the U.S. Military in far higher disproportionate numbers than most other parts of the country

[@jamesofficial6829]

He is right I would rather die in this world without the CSA. I wish I was never born. The US is sick twisted and corrupt!

[@Dunge0n]

3.5% of the population (black males aged 13 to 35) 65% of non-familial violent assaults nationwide. Lincoln wanted them back in Africa for good reason.

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

@@dakotadurham4788 thats because joining the military during peacetime is one of the few advanced and relatively reliable career options for people who live poor or rural, whereas job options and travel is already more available to people who live around areas in the north. war-time is of course entirely different, as cities have way more people to levy. i guess it just goes to show that the union was ultimately successful. for the most part.

[@therealolms5095]

Can’t believe that guy made a tank, crazy world we live in

[@_Saracen_]

he was way ahead of his time

[@alpharius4434]

There was also an american tank named from General Lee. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Lee

[@caleb2507]

Which got absolutely wrecked by German tanks lol. Was also nicknamed “matchbox” due to exploding after 1-2 shots from most German tanks. Was pretty useless aside from the Pacific campaign due to the Japs not having any real tanks.

[@kingofsomething3250]

@@alpharius4434 you forget about the m3 grant, basically a similar tank but remodified to fit british standards

[@ragnarlothbrok4281]

Sherman tanks were pieces of junk.

[@nickhinx22]

You know, back in 1942, the flamethrower variant of the M4 Sherman was almost cancelled during its trials at the Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland because they kept breaking loose and driving towards Atlanta…

[@fenrir7878]

Lol, and it kept saying "I'll show that Johnny Reb"

[@DamonNomad82]

They also reportedly attacked anyone foolish enough to sing "Marching Through Georgia" (a postwar song about the March to the Sea that Sherman hated) near them...

[@trevorslinkard31]

“War is a terrible thing.” “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” “War is Hell.” -William T. Sherman

[@mariobadia4553]

I committed genocide against the Native Americans- William T. Sherman

[@markgarrett3647]

He's the Union John Hunt Morgan.

[@derkaiser420]

I will never forget what a Vietnam vet told me. "War is worse than Hell. At least in Hell you know that you are already dead."

[@huntclanhunt9697]

​@@derkaiser420 I'd think that makes hell worse. In war, if you die, at least it's over. With hell, it never ends.

[@sjbcatcher]

The second line to that second quote is, “The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” Fitting for this video.

[@Finlandball39]

It would’ve been very ironic for the M4-Sherman to have a flame thrower.

[@JimboShogun0686]

During WW2 there were M4's with flamethrower in the pacific theater

[@Sobercapybara]

Oh wait

[@partner5485]

there is

[@murdermeoninterchange]

I do believe there was a variant sporting one

[@BHuang92]

It would be more ironic if someone had a *bright* idea to name his Sherman flamethrower "Atlanta Lighter"

[@herrflammen6487]

In some parts of the Rutal south you can still find rail lines wrapped around trees. The nicknames for these were well fitted being “Sherman’s Bowties”

[@Emanon...]

Describe Georgia in one word: Lee: Sultry Grant: Treacherous Sherman: _Flammable_

[@pr-tj5by]

LMAO

[@lucianoosorio5942]

“I didn’t lose, I mearly failed to win!” George B. McClellan Abraham Lincoln: Don’t get your fans stirred up in some sort Twitter Civil War!

[@MootRental78]

oversimplified😂

[@SteveInLava]

Referencing oversimplified and ERB in an armchair historian video about sherman? There's a tax for that.

[@MootRental78]

@@SteveInLava dude.....uncool

[@NicolasHaufe]

​@@MootRental78ohhh nooo

[@kyleliberty9978]

​@@SteveInLava An oversimplified and ERB reference To the guillotine

[@riopratamamartin7870]

Oversimplified : "Sure the tactics were cruel , but to him it's more better than losing more men in the process".

[@blankspace7336]

Better to be cruel than lose more men.

[@hayro252]

He's apologist lol

[@8ball279]

It also conveniently puts the blame on Sherman, not the confederacy.

[@Batchall_Accepted]

​@@8ball279I always thought it was wild to blame Sherman specifically. It's like getting mad at someone for knocking a guy out in a fight the other dude started.

[@JC-fy8wh]

@@hayro252 You mad snowflake?🤣

[@Blub_525]

How much damage do you want to do to the South? Sherman: Yes

[@markgarrett3647]

John Hunt Morgan: Them damned Yankees are such copycats.

[@bransonwalter5588]

The results can't be argued with though. If you pay attention to desertions, soldier's letters, and more to gauge willingness to fight, Sherman's March caused a straight nosedive. All of the letters from around this time basically say "come home, I am afraid it will happen here". The number of desertions straight skyrocketed from this.

[@caleb2507]

@@bransonwalter5588results should never justify the means. Sherman was a war criminal for his actions. Immigrants/ federal gov yuppies vs Americans (most of which had family that fought to free the 13 colonies) that didn’t want what we have today; too much federal control. Shame the wrong side lost, as within 30-40 years slavery would have been far less impactful and far more expensive than tractors and the like. Slavery was already leaving (England banned in the 1870s and by the early 1900s it was almost nonexistent across the West), not to mention most rebs owned few if any slaves and fought more for their states than anything else (slavery included). Easy logic that the masses choose to ignore and glorify hypocrites and degenerates (Sherman being a traitor to the people and murdering innocent folks, Grant being a drunk, womanizing, gambler with corruption issues, Lincoln “if I did not have to free a single slave to save the Union I would”, etc.

[@nathanjones6638]

A true man of culture, that Sherman.

[@ZairokPhoen]

@@caleb2507 If slavery was already leaving the world by that point, then wouldn't it make the South look worse in context? Because it was going strong at the time, and the Confederates had no plan of letting it go. Sure Confederate soldiers had a myriad of reasons for fighting in the Civil War, but a lot of them knowingly and willingly fought to preserve the chance of expanding slavery. You can read it in their journals. As for Lincoln, you're taking the Greeley Letter completely out of context. The letter was written to Lincoln stating how he's not being abolitionist enough. What isn't mentioned is that at the end of that letter he openly expressed his "personal wish that all men, everywhere, to be free." As for Sherman, how was he a "war criminal... traitor to the people?" Now I can see "murdering innocent folks" if you're talking about the events after the Civil War with the Native Americans. Now on to U.S. Grant. He definitely abused alcohol, I won't argue with you there. As for womanizing I'm not too familiar on where that came from really. Corruption issues I'm guessing you're talking about General Orders 11. I'll give you that, it was a horrible decision made, and he definitely deserved the criticism that came to him from that order.

[@screamingseal4805]

I hate it when Sherman said “it’s Sherman time “ and Sherman’d all over the place

[@hu3bman]

The Shermanning has arrived

[@restitvtororbis5330]

That sounds like a YOU problem, because everyone in my theater cheered until they cried, and cried until they Sherman'd

[@balabanasireti]

You got a new one?

[@softdrink-0]

The most unfunny meme format ever to grace this platform

[@killjoy4895]

The most funny meme format ever to grace this platform

[@tsarfox3462]

So a guy zooms past Savannah Georgia and a highway cop pulls him over. The officer asks "You know how fast you were going? No one goes that fast through my town" The driver without missing a beat says "Sherman did"

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

Here's another good one don't stop me if you've heard this one. What's the difference between Hitler's Germany and the state of Georgia? It only took one Sherman to destroy the state of Georgia!!

[@tomjarrett2477]

Read Union Terror.

[@tsarfox3462]

@@tomjarrett2477 I might

[@tsarfox3462]

@@thomasprislacjr.4063 LMAO. Good one!

[@DamonNomad82]

That sounds like a good way for a driver to shorten his life expectancy to about 2 seconds. Much of the south is still butthurt about the justice Sherman dispensed in Georgia and South Carolina.

[@morganv7895]

“Bring the Good Ol’ Bugle Boys we’ll sing another song!”

[@liamproductions1115]

"Sing it with the spirit that will start the world along!"

[@hdhstarwars2723]

@@liamproductions1115 sing as we used to sing it 50 thousand strong.

[@thatonewaspatyourpicnic7978]

@@hdhstarwars2723 While we were marching through Georgia!

[@johnfitzgeraldkennedy5076]

@@thatonewaspatyourpicnic7978hoorah hoorah we bring the jubilee, hoorah hoorah the flag that makes you free

[@trevorslinkard31]

So we sang a chorus from Atlanta to the sea! While we were marching through Georgia!

[@LtZetarn]

This is why M4 Sherman Tank can equiped with Flamethrower.

[@daltonroller2998]

The animation just gets better and better. I’m glad you also mentioned the tragedy of Ebenezer Creek. Great video, Griffin!

[@saulalessio2251]

he ignored Sheldon Church in Yemassee.. where he burned it full of unarmed women, children, and elderly, and shot anyone trying to leave the burning church.

[@Apple-om5mr]

@@saulalessio2251yea I’ve not been able to find any evidence of this happening besides that it was burned down, so ima have to doubt this happened as you described

[@saulalessio2251]

@@Apple-om5mr i know from visiting it, there use to be a plaque outside it and the guide there would tell you the story of the church. We stopped on the way back from the beach.

[@saulalessio2251]

they also warn you it's Haunted

[@alextheloremaster8041]

@@saulalessio2251 tbh wouldnt count on that. Neo-confederates are prone to lying to look better.

[@CocoHutzpah]

I believe General Sherman would have loved the flamethrower had he seen one.

[@CosmoShidan]

The earliest use of liquid flame or Greek Fire shells was used at the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor, so Sherman would have used those indeed.

[@cameronnewton7053]

*meet the pyro intensifies*

[@abitofapickle6255]

Sherman is an interesting American figure. This man was NOT an abolitionist by any means, and yet his accomplishments helped rid of slavery in the United States. His mindset and tactics of ending the war quickly by hitting the enemy hard was effective against the Confederates and unfortunately against the Natives. Also, I think his name fits very well for the M4 medium tank. It fought hard, with the might of American industrialization, and took control.

[@elijahbrown9738]

Asking honestly because I don't know. You say, with emphasis, that he was not anti-slavery. The final quote Griffin gives at the end of the video gave me the opposite impression. Confusing, might have to do some research. Edited to add: In that essay, Sherman called upon the South to "let the negro vote, and count his vote honestly", adding that "otherwise, so sure as there is a God in Heaven, you will have another war, more cruel than the last, when the torch and dagger will take the place of the muskets of well-ordered battalions".

[@Kededian]

U do know that slavery wasnt the main reason for the civil war right?

[@gabegerdes298]

​@Kededian actually most of the southern states wrote in their papers of succession that theyre leaving because the threat of losing their slaves

[@kinocorner976]

“Unfortunately against the natives,” They sided with the confederacy. They are combatants and made that choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

[@lovelylavenderr]

@@KededianSorry kiddo, the adults are talking.

[@Lem0nsquid]

Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. Bunch of chads. It’s nice to see the men loyal to the nation getting some sunshine

[@foxnfrill]

Milledgeville native here. My great grandfather and architect, Donald Larson, was tasked with restoring the governors mansion and state capitol building to its original state in the late 50’s. My family holds lots of artifacts from the buildings. Great video.

[@khameronsmith108]

Hey I'm in milledgeville too! From Monticello but it's cool to see our towns in one of the main turning points in history

[@mattl165]

I’m also a Milledgeville native. I went to GMC for middle and high school. Legendary has it, Sherman himself stayed in my childhood home-that’s why it wasn’t burned.

[@TheWoollyFrog]

Bet the mansion still flies the traitor rag to this day.

[@connorhernandez6570]

Damn bro, so many Milledgeville people here, I’m at GMC for college right now.

[@khameronsmith108]

It's pretty interesting our city used to be the state capital but then suffered as a result of them moving to Atlanta. Glad to know other lovers of history are in my area though!

[@twinnyhill7289]

Fascinating bit history. Outstanding work!

[@dimeadosen8372]

They already make thousands of dollars. Why don't you donate to a smaller creator?

[@cainmathewson1857]

One of Sherman's troops, upon entering South Carolina said: "treason began here and by God it shall end here."

[@nicholascastellano5106]

Obviously a dumb soldier. Treason began in Massachusetts then moved elsewhere.

[@300thNPC]

It's unfortunate that South Carolina still exists

[@dylanm2000]

@@300thNPCwhy don't you come here and do something about it then

[@300thNPC]

@@dylanm2000 I tried but it was a very miserable year so I left

[@brennanleadbetter9708]

Imagine if Sherman had a squad of Shermans with him.

[@capncake8837]

There would be no more Georgia.

[@brennanleadbetter9708]

@capncake8837 it would be a forgotten memory.

[@crazychase98]

​@@capncake8837 no more south

[@marknewton6984]

They would be homeless.

[@zwagig1761]

A battalion of SherMEN

[@Someone-xi3vn]

To quote the man himself who quoted the man himself: "Hey, its war baby. What are you gonna do?" - Abraham Lincoln, probably

[@MrRAGE-md5rj]

Lincoln & Sherman were pretty tight, IRL. The later even mentions it in his own memoirs.

[@SlapStyleAnims]

The South has fallen. Millions must be emancipated

[@Apple-om5mr]

So true

[@markgarrett3647]

- Uncle Billy

[@devondanklin1808]

It’s over

[@malcolm4737]

"Sorry, general Lee, but as you can see, you have been depicted as a Soy Wojak".

[@Legendary_UA]

But yet the Emancipation didn't free slaves in the North. What's that you say? You didn't know there were slaves in the North? 😂😂😂

[@razorburn645]

Oh way down south in the land of traitors...

[@Strykenine]

RATTLESNAKES AND ALLIGATORS!

[@nicholassmith7359]

Right away! (Right way!)

[@Lamenator_Productions]

Come away (come away)

[@Emigdiosback]

@@Lamenator_Productions Where Cotton's king and men are chattles...

[@Lamenator_Productions]

@@Emigdiosback Union boys will win those battles!

[@AhmetYildirim-b5w]

LET HIM COOK

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Based

[@jamesofficial6829]

I'm sure Sherman is cooking in hell for what he did!

[@TheWoollyFrog]

@@jamesofficial6829 Yes, but only for his post-war actions.

[@jrgrimm6091]

He did cook Georgia

[@Clarkamadorian]

Gotta love that southern BBQ

[@charlestran6265]

Georgia Citizens: But General, if you destroy our supplies. What will we eat? What will we do? How will we survive? Billy Sherman: Frankly my dear…

[@sirbacon1744]

“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” -William T Sherman

[@crazychase98]

You may whope an holler all you want but a war is a war an not a popularity contest. Ulysses.s.grant to a reporter after asking about supoosed war crimes

[@KroiAlbanoiArbanon]

Say whatever you want about Sherman. But the guy knew war for what it was better than anyone. And he never reveled in it. He simply did it because it was his job.

[@markgarrett3647]

And Sherman was only doing what John Hunt Morgan wanted to do systematically to Ohio and Indiana.

[@dakotadurham4788]

@@markgarrett3647One day, the cities of the Midwest will be sacked. One day the Midwesterner will feel receive the exact retribution they levied against the South, the Mormons, and the tribes of the Plains.

[@tannerbanner1660]

@@dakotadurham4788what?

[@markgarrett3647]

@@dakotadurham4788 Try looking up the burning of Lawrence, Missouri.

[@Crazy_Broke_Asian]

“We are not only fighting armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war” yeah, good ol Tecumseh definitely didn’t revel in his butchering of southern civilians…

[@CHEESYHEAD684]

God, Sherman is such an icon, you guys need to make a $1000 bank note with him on it. "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it" - SherMAN

[@kjj26k]

He is the perfect American Anti-Hero. Definitely one of our best military minds.

[@TheCatholicNerd]

What I always find fascinating about the civil war is you really had in the best generals on both sides. Examples of old and new warfare. General Lee and Stonewall Jackson are very much the old school maneuver/ Napoleonic, tactical maneuver, warfare. Grant and Sherman exemplified in my view, what war would become, logistics and attacking the enemy industrial base and overwhelming the foe.

[@BradanKlauer-mn4mp]

Somewhat ironic you called Jackson and Lee “Napoleonic” in thinking, since Napoleon constantly fretted about his supply lines on campaign.

[@mylifeisajoke1]

@@BradanKlauer-mn4mpAmateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

And Winfield Scott was a legend in both

[@procinctu1]

Lee was chided early in the war for his emphasis on building trenches and fortifications. Many of the tactic practiced by both sides preceded the bloody stalemates of World War One. The fact the Lincoln Administration chose to make war on civilians as an integral part of the war strategy is objectively true. The total war we have seen in the blood soaked 20th century was initialed by this horrible precedent. Abandoning limited war was a major step backward in Western Civilization. I would have thought a Catholic would be appalled by the wanton destruction and loss of civilian lives.

[@Fhurin]

Sherman: if ya didn't want me to burn down a city, then y'all shouldn't have made it flammable

[@christopherevans2445]

Liked the Lincoln with the Falcons Flag

[@PunkIcould]

Same

[@MrKeepnit100]

Except Lincoln didn't blow a halftime lead

[@ebtv7663]

Tom Bradys forefather fought with Sherman

[@2015BLOXXER]

As American as it gets 😅

[@davidvasquez08]

@@ebtv7663this for real?

[@shariberry3123]

My mother's paternal grandfather, was a Union soldier out of Missouri. His obituary ( 1933) says that he marched with General Sherman to the sea.

[@_vasty3776]

That thumbnail is just so good, how much your style has changed over the year is insane

[@MemeFlavoredJam]

The great Confederate Skill Issue of 1861-1865

[@roypiltdown5083]

mom was from north Georgia & i grew up listening to the stories she had been told, about the 'noble' southern paladins and the 'vile' damyankees that camped on her grandfather's farm in Cartersville - come to find out, she had been fed a solid diet of lies by her forebears, and the Union army was never within 50 miles of her family's land, and none of the men she had revered had ever served in the rebel army. some of my other citizens of southern descent might want to look into the accuracy of their own family histories, before they get up-in-arms about statue-removal and army-base-renaming: not everyone back then was as admirable as they would want their descendants to believe.

[@davidhochstetler4068]

People say parts of Georgia still haven’t recovered. It’s interesting to think a military tactic 160 years ago still holds an affect over small towns

[@john1701q]

Europe and Japan rebuilt quickly after WWII. The reason the south never rebuilt was because they had their slaves taken away. The southerners did not know how to actually do work.

[@youngthinker1]

When you destroy the roads, and supplies, so leave the people out in the cold winter with nothing but starvation and hypothermia to accompany them, the town disappears. It is difficult to rebuilt from such through destruction, like trying to rebuild Carthage after the Romans torched the area.

[@davidhochstetler4068]

@@john1701q not like 1/4 of the southerners owned slaves. The problem wasn’t that no one knew how to use a hammer. The difference was the allies basically rebuilt Japan and Germany for the countries. Marshall plan?

[@celston51]

@@davidhochstetler4068 Reconstruction was a thing. Was it on the scale as the Marshall Plan? Certainly not but there was an attempt to rebuild and replacing an entire economic system was going to take awhile. Japan and Germany were heavily industrialized nations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The American South...was not.

[@neilkurzman4907]

@@john1701q Europe in Japan quickly rebuilt because the United States provided help to rebuild them

[@mgailp]

@9:00 The bent railroad tracks were called "Sherman's Bow Ties."

[@pikeman6774]

“War is cruel, the crueler it is, the faster it’s over.”

[@hismajesty6272]

WWI was long winded though…

[@ValtoMan]

I mean, 4 years isn't much compared to some early modern and medieval wars (100, 30, 80 years wars for example)​. Ww1 was comparably short, but very cruel@@hismajesty6272

[@chico9805]

​@@hismajesty6272 WWI was cruel to soldiers, not civillians. If it didn't get bogged down on empty fields, and instead was waged on industrial and agriculture centres, the war would've ended much sooner. Many would have died from shelling and starvation, but ended sooner nonetheless.

[@MCL003]

@@chico9805it was pretty cruel to civilians, the Armenian genocide, the scorched earth policy the Germans had when withdrawing to the Hindenburg line, the British blockade of Germany

[@graysonhoward1562]

It doesn’t always work though. Germany tried this in Belgium in WW1 and in Russia in WWII. This led to partisan groups and guerrilla forces that arguably prolonged the cruelty even further.

[@thewarroom1944]

I went to a restaurant in Savannah that has one of Sherman’s maps on display. They discovered it when they were renovating and didn’t want to move it, so they put a shadow box over it.

[@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy]

Ooh, do you remember which restaurant? I live there and would love to check it out!!

[@thewarroom1944]

@@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy Yeah, it's called Vic's on the River

[@charley2714]

I live in Savannah, I've always been obsessed with Sherman's March and I was glad to hear how much my city was mentioned We even have a reenactment of the battle of Fort McAllister every year

[@brokenbridge6316]

Sherman is hands down one of the people that certainly helped the Union win the war against the Confederacy. Nice video.

[@marknewton6984]

Looks crazy to me.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@marknewton6984---He said "War is Cruelty." Do you think he would've just left it at that. No. He went out and tried his best to prove it. That's why many have such a negative opinion. And please keep in mind that a Civil War in any country is the most tragic of all Wars. And the American Civil War was no exception.

[@marknewton6984]

Sherman did not liberate prisoners Read "Andersonville Diary John Ransom." Ed. Bruce Catton.

[@Comrade_Bread]

This is a dream come true. Thank you Armchair Historian

[@jiiaga5017]

Any time a southerner criticizes Sherman's March, the simple response is Andersonville. Where 35,000 Union POWs starved, 1/3rd of them to death, while all of the wealth and richness of the South's breadbasket surrounded them. Georgia got off easy.

[@emberfist8347]

I would say that is what aboutism. I as a Georgia resident instead respond that Sherman didn’t commit a war crime or kill civilians not to mention the South was fighting for Slavery.

[@travisbayles870]

There were prisons in the North where thousands of Confederate soldiers suffered from disease and often went hungry for months and often years and as a result many died They were Camp Douglas Point Lookout Ft Delaware Johnsons Island and Elmira just to name a few

[@emberfist8347]

@@travisbayles870 Of course disease is going to be an issue in a world where nobody heard of germ theory.

[@jiiaga5017]

​@@travisbayles870 This "whataboutism" you are spouting, it just makes people question your humanity. Do you also argue that some german prisoners in WW2 were treated just as bad as the Jews?

[@travisbayles870]

@@jiiaga5017 I never said a word about German POWs or the Jews My point was that the North had their share of prisons where Confederate POWs suffered inhumane conditions just as bad if not worse than the Union POWs in Confederate prisons

[@sr.bombardeado8903]

OG title was: Fall of the South: Sherman's March to the Sea | Animated History

[@grandson_0623]

Much more partial title. This title makes it seem like they are a bunch of lost causers!

[@jnev5572]

Every Dixie boy must understand, that he must mind his uncle same

[@kaiserwilhelm8029]

Away, away

[@archimedesfromteamfortress2]

Away, away ​@atoms2242

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

away (away!) away (away!)

[@arthurlibritannia1865]

We all go down to Dixie!

[@last1729]

Lmao now your daughter is getting shucked by Tyrone

[@aidenlarson9911]

I’ll admit Sherman did do one thing wrong He stopped.

[@ismaelfleurine2620]

Very well made, thank you @TheArmchairHistorian

[@tommy-er6hh]

fine video, but one point - in the beginning Sherman did not cut the confederacy in half, that was already done at Vicksburg under Grant in the Mississippi river campaign. Sherman just chopped it up further into 3rds.

[@ZergrushEddie]

"Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis." Well, that middle initial is super important...

[@MegaRedspade]

General Sherman always reminds me of Trevor from GTA V, now I think about it General Grant makes me think of Michael.😂

[@Emigdiosback]

So who's Franklin?

[@noahlonaker2668]

Chronically online

[@MegaRedspade]

@chinsaw2727 he can pull a great score like what smalls did

[@kingace6186]

@chinsaw2727 Respect

[@dojusticelovemercy1]

“Mad about confederate monuments? You should see what I did to the originals.” -Gen William T Sherman

[@alexhudson277]

From Atlanta area, even attended reenactments of the Battle of Joneboro. Had at least two ancestors who fought in Sherman's army. As a well as another who fought against at that battle. Personally, love the video. I just kind of wish the rest of the war had been fought as sensibly. The southern public needed that harsh wake up call, otherwise they'd have supported the war indefinitely

[@ZackaryWilliams77]

"So we made a thoroughfare For Freedom and her train Sixty miles in latitude Three hundred to the main Treason fled before us For resistance was in vain While we were marching through Georgia"

[@thexalon]

Apparently, by the end of his life Sherman hated "Marching Through Georgia", mostly because people would sing / play it pretty much everywhere he went.

[@Desert-Father]

Hurrah! Hurrah!

[@Desert-Father]

​@@thexalonThen people played the song at his funeral...

[@bennygarcia1913]

I’ve been waiting for this ! Thank you

[@PunkIcould]

Same

[@danielbower2069]

The lack of "Marching through Georgia" as background music tells me serious research wasn't done lol

[@definitely_not_Hirohito]

😂

[@jasonalbert6251]

A version of it plays at 1:20

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

Damn good song though, isn't it

[@JenniferYeh-fr2nv]

Marching through Georgia isn’t that good -native Georgian

[@Numba003]

War is a brutal and terrible thing. Death and destruction are never limited to only soldiers and battlefields. Hopefully, we won't have to face another terrible civil war in our history. Thank you for this educational video on Sherman. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️

[@kjj26k]

We are going to face another civil war because the last one was never finished.

[@SasanHorseArcher]

r/ShermanPosting is gonna lose their mind

[@guywithabatpic]

No, don't you dare summon them

[@schwunkie]

​@@guywithabatpicHURRAH, HURRAH, WE BRING THE JUBILEE!!

[@coffinmyface4237]

​​​@@guywithabatpiceach Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his uncle sam!

[@charactooling6470]

​@@schwunkieHURRAH! HURRAH! THE FLAG THAT MAKES YOU FREE!

[@mariobadia4553]

That's subreddit likes to pretend that guy is a state and really likes to act like the man didn't leave a bunch of slaves to drown to save his own men and how he participate how many crimes against humanity against the Native Americans which include giving orders to murder women and children and to hunt the American Bison into Extinction

[@georgemetcalf8763]

The Shermanator!

[@williamhayes2479]

Oh boy, what an interesting video, I'm sure that the comment section is filled with civil and rational discussion instead of Reddit tier memes, low effort bait, and people trying to justify slavery or warcrimes against Americans.

[@elemperadordemexico]

At this point any video about the civil war is guaranteed to be pure cancer aids in the comments

[@scottanno8861]

12 year olds watch this channel bro.

[@jtl-en4yx]

Welcome to the YT comment section

[@Dziadzia-d6e]

Sherman may have made Georgia howl, but he made South Carolina scream. He blamed SC for the war. Also, whereas European military observers of the Civil War took away the notion that trench warfare was the new way of warfare, a German General studied Sherman's march through South Carolina. He broke his Army into six columns, moved swiftly, attacking where he wasn't expected. It was the 19th Century version of Blitzkrieg. The German General, Heinz Guderian.

[@28ebdh3udnav]

I love watching history videos that one day my girlfriend told me, "I learned a lot about history when you see these videos when you fall asleep with your phone on". Which reminds me, I told my dad, "I want to visit Palmito Ranch. It's part of history. It dates back to the civil war" and he asked me, "how is this are related to the war?." Me: "it was the last battle of the war. The confederates won the battle. But the union won the war. And that's how we are free " and he looked into it and kept quiet and he was proud I studied outside of school

[@abbcc5996]

how old are you?

[@28ebdh3udnav]

@@abbcc5996 28 but when my dad told me that, I was 15

[@charger9912]

Definition of "You gotta do what you gotta do."

[@marknewton6984]

Especially if unopposed..

[@R-ecipes864]

I love how you have the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” in the background.

[@Lanetgm]

“God save the south because I won’t” -Willam T Sherman

[@marknewton6984]

Why didn't he liberate Andersonville Prison? Some Unionists were bitter...

[@Lanetgm]

@@marknewton6984what even is that

[@marknewton6984]

History.​@@Lanetgm

[@pokefan-ix7sh]

Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army. The campaign began on November 15 with Sherman's troops leaving Atlanta, recently taken by Union forces, and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forces followed a "scorched earth" policy, destroying military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property, disrupting the Confederacy's economy and transportation networks. The operation debilitated the Confederacy and helped lead to its eventual surrender. Sherman's decision to operate deep within enemy territory without supply lines was unusual for its time, and the campaign is regarded by some historians as an early example of modern warfare or total war. Following the March to the Sea, Sherman's army headed north for the Carolinas Campaign. The portion of this march through South Carolina was even more destructive than the Savannah campaign, since Sherman and his men harbored much ill-will for that state's part in bringing on the start of the Civil War; the following portion, through North Carolina, was less so.

[@redshyguynumber5567]

Interesting, this event in why the former NHL team was called the Atlanta Flames. Now moved to Calgary where the name is still the same. 🔥Go Flames Go🔥

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

Go Flame (I’m from Calgary but actually a Canucks fans)

[@redshyguynumber5567]

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography I both can and cannot blame you

[@hydrolifetech7911]

My favourite sound in American history is the howl that Georgia howled! I LOVE IT!!

[@fireironthesecond2909]

So they destroyed railways and plantations? That doesn’t sound like a warcrime to me that sounds like warfare

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Even the plundering was pretty normal for 1800s warfare

[@scottishlion9428]

​@@zombieoverlord5173 Um no it wasn't...at all

[@zombieoverlord5173]

@scottishlion9428 It was definitely commonplace, my dude. The confederacy threatened to burn Northern cities to the ground for supplies during Lee's March through Pennsylvania. Remember? Armies needed supplies

[@scottishlion9428]

@@zombieoverlord5173 A threat and actually carrying out that threat are two very different things. I'm not aware of Lee ever saying such a thing. The bottom line is when the South had the chance to do what Sherman did in Georgia they didn't do it. War crimes like those of Sherman and Sheridan were rarely committed and not tolerated in the Confederate army, whereas in the Union army they were tolerated, condoned, and encouraged.

[@CosmoShidan]

@@scottishlion9428 We can't forget that confederate generals and KKK founders Forrest and Early committed war crimes as well.

[@dariustiapula]

Civil war speedrun.

[@andrewkelley9405]

Any% glitch less

[@j3lny425]

And it seems some of them are still 'howling'

[@markgarrett3647]

It's interesting how you said war crimes when the Confederate John Hunt Morgan raid was also using similar tactics against Ohio and Indiana.

[@hershy1594]

When designing the Sherman tank, they originally tried putting a flamethrower on it, but stopped when the tanks started driving to Atlanta on their own

[@downskated]

The 1864 SEC champion

[@goldengoose9941]

I always loved the American Civil War thank you for making this video

[@jwclapp1183]

If the Slavers didn’t want to lose their stuff, they shouldn’t have rebelled. Sherman warned them what would happen when he was dean of the Louisiana military seminary before the war. He told them what would happen, and then he did it.

[@Gettysburg-cz8hx]

Do it again, Billy!

[@jtl-en4yx]

@@Gettysburg-cz8hx Billy and his boys gone get some lead in the head next time!

[@ronmobley2819]

@jwclapp1183 Secession is not rebellion. The South had the right to leave the Union. You should familiarize yourself with the original U S constitution, The Articles of Confederation, which called for perpetual union, and the subsequent U S Constitution, which did not call for perpetual union.

[@Gettysburg-cz8hx]

@@ronmobley2819 But they also seized US property and fired on a us military installment that was guarded by regular infantry.

[@jtl-en4yx]

@@Gettysburg-cz8hx "Protestors" tried to seize US property in 2020, that was not a rebellion.

[@djeto2525]

General Sherman is my favorite and greatest general in the Union army, regardless historians calling him a war criminal. Overwhelming alternative war tactics, is necessary to achieve total victory with very limited civilian casualties. Civilians are necessary when using a total war method. Also, General Sherman used a method from Sun Tzu, The Art of War, "only fight when it is necessary", "avoid what is strong, attack what is week."

[@kingace6186]

Honestly, even by Geneva standards, Sherman was no war criminal. (On the other hand, Jefferson C Davis definitely was.)

[@procinctu1]

⁠@@kingace6186you are objectively wrong. Sherman directly violated many of the Geneva standard rules. Stop making things up you cannot support.

[@pmannnn4]

RIP.. 4 EVER...THANK YOU..GEN.Sherman..

[@thevoidlookspretty7079]

The battle hymn of the republic in the background was beautiful.

[@jayglier]

My great grandfather participated in Sherman's march as part of the 18th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry

[@MythicFool]

Small thing, but during the ad read, at 3:42, it shows the 'Battle of Pilot Knox (Fort Davidson), Missouri'. It should be 'Pilot Knob', referencing the town and mountain said town is named after that overlooks Fort Davidson.

[@thetechguychannel]

Thank you for a sincere summary of this, as much as you could be sincere on KZbin.

[@GreenLion19134]

At least Sherman warned this In a letter from Sherman following Georgia's Secession, He said that the state could end up in a trail of destruction if there was a war and just like clockwork, that happened

[@moon_wei]

Wasn't that when Sherman was a dean in a Louisianian Military institution?

[@alexius23]

Sherman’s Neckties: Union soldiers pull up iron rails. Using the wooden ties the soldiers created big fires with the iron rails covered in wood. When the rails turned red hot the soldiers wrapped the iron rails in corkscrew around trees or stone work. This rendered the rail totally useless.

[@truckingmogul3254]

Uncle Billy’s Field Order #15 was a great and noble idea

[@Significantpower]

The entire planter class should have lost ALL their land, and it should have been parceled out to (in order) freed slaves, southern unionist soldiers, and northern soldiers.

[@johnhallett5846]

You always had to be careful when driving an M4 Sherman. It always wants to go South.

[@sladetuner8661]

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. - Major General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

[@InquisitorXarius]

“The only regrettable thing about Sherman’s March to the Sea is that more Slaver Traitors weren’t liquidated.”

[@saulalessio2251]

the Man was a war Criminal..they Raped and murdered women and children, while burning houses down with the elderly inside. If you tried to leave the burning building you was shot and thrown back in. They Also Burned Churches..hence Sheldon Church in Yemassee. Sheldon Church was full of the elderly, women, and kids, they burned it to the ground with the people inside, and shot anyone trying to escape and threw their bodies back in the burning church.

[@coffinmyface4237]

​@@saulalessio2251incredibly overblown propaganda. He was responsible for the deaths of citizens, no doubt, but he burnt buildings with no prejudice whatsoever, I don't understand your fixation on burning churches they were just the same as any other.

[@icyr0bin-794]

TRUUUUEEEE

[@gabriel.b9036]

​@@coffinmyface4237 He tried to specifically target infastructure supporting the war effort.

[@saulalessio2251]

@@coffinmyface4237 because the Churches are like hospitals, and orphanages, you don't attack them, and kill everyone inside. When the only thing in there are unarmed women, kids, and the elderly...it's a rule of war, only war criminals attack those places

[@stephenandersen4625]

Sherman and Grant were the only ones who knew what had to be done. Joe Johnston was possibly the best CSA commander but even he could do no more than exchange distance for time. Putting Hood in charge was just murder

[@anonbefallen4807]

God dammit its hard not to sympathize with Sherman, the way he says things makes him sound like such a god damn badass

[@mr.macgregor5203]

One of my ancestors fought with the Union in the Civil War. I have his pocket watch as proof. I also found out he was one of the soldiers under Sherman's command!