Best of The History Guy: American Civil War

Four classic episodes about some of the least known events of the War Between the States. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy.
00:00 - CSS Albemarle
14:03 - Cruise of the Black Terror
26:58 - Custer and the Confederate Wedding
40:41- The Battle of Wilson's Creek
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[@tommywright7196]

I'm taking my lunch break setting in the parking lot of Walmart in Albemarle listening to this

[@jorgecruzseda7551]

Say hi to Albie

[@shenghan9385]

Sounds like a life.

[@rolux4853]

Why do Americans always sit in their cars in parking lots for their lunch break? Aren’t there restaurants or cafes you can go? A cafeteria or at least a break room at your workplace?

[@theresehopkins1581]

​@@rolux4853The car is a private place.... your place..... your haven from the world 😊❤🎉... a place to be alone.... especially when you work in customer service!!😅❤🎉

[@bdunk914]

I love all the beautiful UVA girls in the spring!

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventure through time history and space

[@paullough4946]

"...Sometimes making that request at gunpoint." THAT one line deserves a subscription.

[@gerritschouten637]

Thanks for all the fun episodes! A suggestion for a future segment: Willem Schouten, the Dutch explorer and contemporary of Tasman. He "discovered", sailed around and named Cape Horn on the way to the Spice Islands. It's my understanding that because he presumably went through the Strait of Magellan and didn't pay tax to the Dutch East Indies Company he was put in chains in the Spice Islands and taken back to the Netherlands. He sued the company, proved he had taken a new route and won his case.

[@francispitts9440]

Doing my family history I found men on both sides of the Civil War with 4 in the North and 2 in the South. Now I understand why my grandparents had such sadness when they talked about that war and how the country was divided but restored. I hope and pray that we never see such horror again. People just don’t understand what it’s like and what war does. Thanks for sharing these stories.

[@m.streicher8286]

It is a lot easier to stomach when it's a black and white war morally.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

Gen. George Custer was reincarnated as Gen. George Patton who famously believed in reincarnation. - Seal #7 See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.

[@savanahmclary4465]

Especially when a President of the USA tries to change the USA from a "Constitutional REPUBLIC" to a "Democracy" for only the MAJORITY to RULE. What kind of idiot President attacks 50 % of his own countries ECONOMY, destroying his own food crop , by using the Farmers in the North, as his Soldiers. Until These Farmer had not been home enough, going into 3 years to not grow little to no food crop in the North. Until The ingenious President had his ENTIRE USA Country into STARVATION. That the President could not even feed his own soldier, little alone his live stock. The Union Army chasing Lee out of Pennsylvania across Maryland to Northern Virginia, lost 32,000 Horses to STARVATION...in Maryland.. The road sides were littered with corpses of horses. And so to RESOLVE Abraham Lincolns' union Army horse shortage; Abraham Lincoln gave his Union orders to confiscate/ STEAL any horse and food and supplies off of Northern People that they could. Just as the Union Army was doing in the South. Until Union Veterans were making militias and killing Union Soldiers in the North.. Tell the TRUTH here! Give the Factual Narrative. Research Northern states Legislatures archived records.

[@johnphillips8922]

A hope the same, but I see it possible along the race, ethnics. Certainly not to that extent but the attitude and open displays of hate and anger will eclipse that of the civil war.

[@francispitts9440]

@@johnphillips8922 I’m hopeful that people are mostly venting. Most have never been in a violent confrontation like warfare or civil unrest. I don’t think most people can handle that and it would be something they would avoid. There’s a lot of big talkers on social media but a large majority have never even been in a street fight let alone a major conflict. I keep praying we avoid such a thing. People don’t know how bad it can get. How destructive it can be.

[@djchaiwallah]

This is the perfect morning coffee and cleaning content. It's too early for true crime

[@m.streicher8286]

are you my doppelganger?

[@normajeanmorrissey4459]

Thanks for your interesting and informative videos. Retired L&D nurse. Student of the Civil War and U.S. presidents. I have learned much through my studies. Each day I learn a little more about this tragic period in our history and of the great men who have led us through good times and bad. I never cease to be amazed by our history and it’s heads of state. As a nursing educator, my goal is to use those skills to teach history as teaching is in my heart. Thanks again for your great presentations!

[@jackvoss5841]

He “requested” cast iron pans from people as he pointed a gun at them? As Al Capone once said, “You can get more with a smile, and a .45, than you can with just a smile,” Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

[@robertbenson9797]

As a native of Missouri, I was always amazed at the action within the state’s borders during the Civil War. Growing up in north central Missouri, I did not know about Wilson’s Creek until l was in high school. Because my family had relatives in the Lexington area, I was always amazed at the cannonball embedded in the Lafayette County courthouse’s column. I had also heard of “the Battle of the Hemp bales” around the Anderson House near Lexington. Because my mother liked to shop at the Country Club, I was amazed that the largest battle of the war east of the Mississippi River, occurred just to the west and south of the Plaza in Kansas City (Westport). Thanks History Guy for the interesting episode.

[@carywest9256]

Don't you mean the largest land battle West of the Mississippi River?

[@robertbenson9797]

Of course, every 4th grade student in Missouri know the state is west of the Mississippi River! My mistake.

[@dustyak79]

Look up General Joe Shelby

[@BradWatsonMiami]

West of the Mississippi. Gen. George Custer was reincarnated as Gen. George Patton who famously believed in reincarnation. - Seal #7 See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.

[@avenaoat]

Funny but the Missouri river part of Missouri was the main slave populated counties in Missouri and this counties were the the most proconfederate counties. This area was called the little Dixie. The Ozark region, the IOWA border stipes and ST Louis and its neighborhood counties had the lowest % slave population and this areas were the the prounionist areas. St Louis and Gasconade countis voted to Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln got 10% in Missouri, only in Delaware Lincoln got more vote in a slavery system state! Kentucky gave below 1% vote to Lincoln in 1860. Missouri gave 40 000 soldiers+bushwackers to the Confederacy but 110 000 soldiers to the Union! The 44 th Missouri regiments had key role in the triumph of battle of Franklin in 1864 and fought in Nashville under general George Thomas. i am interested the soldiers of the 44th Missouri regiments which counties came from? Missouri had its own civil war and a special border war between the proconfederate bushwackers and the Kansas people. The majority of Missouri were prounionists as the soldiers numbers show! Unfortunatelly the Kansas border war which began from 1854 could not stop and this results in some overshoots.

[@Toyotas_n__Tools]

Id love to see one of those ironclad ships rebuilt for show

[@davidwiser1113]

You should look up CSS Neuse. She is high and dry as a museum ship in North Carolina. Just Google it and you’ll see all the photos. It’s a sister ship to the Albemarle.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

you can do that. www.nps.gov/vick/u-s-s-cairo-gunboat.htm

[@chiefslinginbeef3641]

There's one in Kinston NC.

[@baileybrunson42]

Check out the Confederate Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia. I believe they have one raised out of the Chattahoochee River there in Columbus.

[@sharlenezuhlke1561]

Wm. B. Cushing is one of my ancestors. William, Alonzo and Howard all fought bravely for our country and hold a special place in our hearts. Thank you for this episode.

[@workablob]

Thank you for the correct pronunciation of 'Cairo'. I was aboard that ship once and it is really fascinating.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I only happen to know because I happen to live in little Egypt.

[@asuperstraightpureblood]

​@@TheHistoryGuyChannelsouthern Illinois, Grant I believe named one of his horses "little egypt"

[@jonrettich-ff4gj]

The small individual actions frequently produce the great military leaders and innovations although it might take some time. I always appreciate your presentations. Thanks

[@Plantandpeoplecarer]

I’m seeing all the corresponding scenes in Gone With The Wind as you describe the blockade

[@prycklee]

Great videos! As a civil war historian, I think it would be great if you did one on Ft. Neegly in Nashville. It’s a good story.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

Gen. George Custer was reincarnated as Gen. George Patton who famously believed in reincarnation. - Seal #7 See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.

[@-jeff-]

Thanks for the rousing stories of the Civil War.

[@danstotland6386]

Outstanding. You successfully brought their history to us in the twenty first century. But you entertained us as well.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

Gen. George Custer was reincarnated as Gen. George Patton who famously believed in reincarnation. - Seal #7 See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally !

[@phillipallen3259]

Many years ago I visited the Wilson's Creek battlefield. The visitor center there was wonderful. The battle, like many early Civil War battles, was a very confined affair. Perhaps a more decisive victory one way or the other, would have changed the way war handled in Missouri.

[@anoteofblue]

I love your content as I'm a huge history buff. I have followed your channel for quite a while. Have you ever looked into the Pemmican War? I just recently discovered it and it's very interesting. Thanks so much for providing these looks into history.

[@edstahl9802]

Good video!! Civil War History is one of my favorite subjects. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@efowlermail]

OMG, That beer can is the kinda thing that makes studying American History sometimes so sad.

[@walkercustoms]

Thank you very much

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

I live by the banks of the forks where the red and Assiniboine rivers meet🇨🇦

[@jonthinks6238]

I watch in the evenings. As always, THG tells us as a "good yarn" making history so understandable. I enjoyed these historical lessons, TY.

[@workingguy6666]

This was GREAT!

[@jessd47]

Thank you for the great stories...I love history more because of The History Guy. Thanks again.

[@chuckh5999]

Rivetting Lance.Thank You.

[@JamesGoetzke]

I was raised in Springfield New Jersey. Summit hospital. Madison where I went to school. And don't forget Norristown New Jersey. For before the Battle of Yorktown... there was the Battle of Springfield. We baked the necessary bread for the battle there. Then we went south and won the American Revolution. I grew up hanging about the tombstones of early heroes and young victims of life. The Protestant church... still there now...is where Johnathan Edwards preached. It's still there and so are the cemeteries. "Give 'em Watts Boys ". And that's history.

[@lydiahorton5010]

Thanks!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@TheTunnellTake]

At least it wasn't an audio only, on youTUBE! 😂😂 GREAT VIDEO!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

When we post podcasts we label them.

[@TheTunnellTake]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel this is a platform for video audio. How hard is it to sit up a camera during a podcast anyway?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

@@TheTunnellTake KZbin us a podcast platform as well. We post three videos a week. We release the podcasts in addition every other Tuesday. If you don’t prefer podcasts, you can skip those.

[@Nmccarville]

the best of which American Civil War the 1860 or the present one brewing... I do love your show an watch it when ever a new episode comes out

[@DavidBenner-cy4zl]

Three of my great a few times uncles were officers in the Missouri State Guard. One captain and two lieutenants, his sons. One son killed in battle, the captain taken prisoner. Escaping, he and his son made it back to Virginia, the old homestead. They formed a partisan ranger company that did so much damage to the rail lines in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia that some historians credit them with extending the Civil War by a full year. And fed the south with confiscated beef and grain. The son, Jessie, captured Gen. Crook and another Yankee general from Cumberland, Maryland. From the exploits of this group, you should get a dozen history lessons. John, wounded at Meems Bottom on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, died in Harrisonburg. Jessie took over command. Never more than 200 and purposefully kept small, some acting as sciuts for Gen. Tom Jefferson, they were known as McNeil's Partisan Rangers. I think they were one of the last organized Confederate troops to surrender, allowed to keep all arms, tac and horses. John and Jessie McNeil.

[@pamelasmith7740]

I'd love to see how how you tell the story of William Newby. He served with the Union army. Came from Millshoals, White County, Illinois. 😢

[@ThePrader]

Wasn't RADM Porter the man whose morals were such that it was once said about him that , "No man's back is safe if Porter has a knife" ? Or words to that effect?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

David Dixon Porter has his detractors, and has been described by some as self-serving and ambitious. But those were common complaints during the era when promotion was seen as quite competitive. His is one of the most important names in US Naval history. He found success during the Civil War through daring and innovation. His effect on the Navy after was substantial. He was only the second man in the US Navy to reach the rank of admiral. (After his adopted brother David Farragut. If his legacy is complex, it is difficult to see how his career can be seen as other than successful.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

No serious student of the Western Indian Wars calls The Battle of the Little Bighorn, Greasy Grass. I refer you to any publication, but especially Gregory Michno's "The Mystery of E Company" which has the most complete, recent, and revealing battle order and field analysis to date, also solving the riddle of the Deep Ravine,

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I disagree, as the Lakota won the battle, their name for the battle is proper.

[@thebulge3396]

A replica of the Abelmoral is located on the Roanoke River in Jamesville NC.

[@guineapigzed]

Please ; Mr Custer I don’t want to go.

[@melgerber8954]

The history of Molybdenum is full of intrigue and WW1 German espionage , attempted murder and Kurpp armaments. "The Disappearing Spoon" is a good source of the story but not commonly known.

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Wonder if The History Guy's grandson or granddaughter will do a video on American Civil War 2.0 in about 20/30 years?? Might be interesting!!

[@Look_What_I_Did]

Keep chriping.... You think talk is tough...

[@SMichaelDeHart]

​@Look_What_I_Did it's called understanding current reality and asking a question. Cowards need not apply...coward!!

[@TM-ev2tc]

You should check out the Bahia incident during the American Civil War.

[@fishinglunkies3629]

86th Illinois, company D reporting in sir!!!

[@savanahmclary4465]

You didn't mention Illinois Farmers. Research original Illinois legislatures' archived records?

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

I hear Gen. Custard like to much on green onions

[@dcmoore8937]

Read the book on BURY MY HEART ON WOUNDED KNEE: by Dee Brown. Tells a lot about Custer and his beliefs about the Indians and what he wanted to do with all of them! Also, pertaining to the Civil War, do you have any history with the Cumberland River and how much of the Civil War was fought on that river?

[@milkywayan2232]

Hello history guy. I have a couple questions. One. You said the ship was named after the town of Albemarle. The town of Albemarle North Carolina is (just guessing) 250 Miles from the Atlantic ocean in Stanley County. There is Albemarle sound out there at the coast. Second question/comment is, and I am only 14 minutes into the video, did you know that the headquarters of the secessionists (CSA) For a time was in Charlotte North Carolina. I remember when I moved To Charlotte in 1981 and seeing the historical marker placard 5 blocks west of the center of town stating such. Come to find out later it was because the Confederates did not feel safe having it on any of the waterways that were navigable by union war ships. I believe it was there until the end of the war. Being the history guy you probably want to verify. I know I would. Thank you for your presentations

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

At least one reference said the boat was named after the town, which was incorporated in 1858, but you (and a few other commenting) are probably correct that it was named after the sound. Charlotte was important during the war for several reasons. It was briefly the headquarters of Jefferson Davis and his cabinet in 1865 after the fall of Richmond, making it the unofficial capital from April 19 until Davis adjourned the government on May 5.

[@milkywayan2232]

My reply left out a key word. "Navy". The Navy of the CSA was headquartered in Charlotte North Carolina. I do not know when it moved there, and it was only brought to my attention when I noticed the historic placard in my crosstown commutes in the early 80s. Curious though I investigated and found they moved it to 220 miles away from the ocean because all the Naval bases they installed adjacent to the ocean, or a short trip up river, kept getting destroyed by their adversaries.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

@@milkywayan2232 Confederate shipbuilding was largely decentralized. As coastal ports were taken by the federals, many navy yards were moved inland where ironwork could be done and shipped by rail. The Charlotte navy yard was established after Norfolk fell to the Union in 1862. There is a good discussion here: civilwarnavy.com/confederate-navy-yards-stations/

[@milkywayan2232]

All I'm saying is the department of the confederate navy was in CharlotteWhich seemed odd to me when I discovered this in 1982. Now that I'm a fraction more in tune than I used to be, and considering what I learned about why it was moved in land, I think at wowed, "communication with the various ship building locations (as I'm sure US ship building was being done at various places) communication must've been a real pain. No response necessary unless you feel the need. Thanks for your videos and your responses.

[@albin2232]

I heard that there's going to be a rematch.

[@Look_What_I_Did]

Keep chirping tough guy.

[@gpwcowboy]

How different a world just 160 years ago. A 19 year old was educated, acknowledged and awarded such a task. (2:20) The total collapse and failure of the early education system and college academia could/would never allow it now.

[@Look_What_I_Did]

Cool narrative bruh. Everybody but your party welcomes education, and all the benefits associated with it. Including the ability to communicate and thus negotiate needs. Rising tide raises all ships.

[@daleford8411]

I it's late but I applaud regulation of E-bikes for the following easons:- 1. Last year I had a silly accident and a knee op. Not relevant but it lead to me meeting a guy in outpatients that a painful compound fracture from an Uber Eats rider on a E-bike speeding on a footpath. In NSW it is actually illegal to ride any pushbike on the footpath unless a child or supervising children. The rider was ticketed for this but the law is rarely enforced ( like Jaywalking). Turns out the rider had no liability insurance an Uber Eats only has liability insurance while the rider is carrying food. So he was unable to recoup costs or sue as the overseas student was unrecoverable. 2.In my neighbourhood elderly people are seriously threatened by food delivery drivers on E-bikes speeding on footpaths. Many are basically bullied out of their evening walk. So I get check8ng the speed limiters ( here they are restricted to 30k but it's well known you can buy a chip online to double that cheaply and easily online as the electric motor has the capacity. ( and bikes are sold because of it). 3.Registration includes easy identification by plates and thus easy ticketing.The problem with the "freedom" argument n ent is every cou n try I know I w of recognises anarchy in the transport area does not work and rules are required.

[@pvccannon1966]

North Carolinen?? Im a North Carolininian. Well maybe both are correct.

[@frogandspanner]

Ah! This is about the second civil war, the first being 1775-1783.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

It is fair to say that the War for Independence was a Civil War in more than one sense.

[@rickhobson3211]

Read the title. Thought the vid was about current events.

[@TheZenGarden_]

The "Transatlantic Slave Trade" = Devarim 28:15-68​ ~ Bereshit 15:12-14 ⌛

[@bigsarge2085]

🇺🇲

[@kimberlykillebrew5704]

BRAVO!!! WELL DONE. YA KNOW, IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME, BOTH SIDES FOUGHT WHAT THEY KNEW AT THAT TIME WAS THE RIGHTEOUS FIGHT. THE SOUTH NEVER HAD A CHANCE. BOILS DOWN TO; NORTH HAD SOUTH 3-1 IN BASIC BULLITT ROUNDS.😮

[@merlinwizard1000]

15th, 8 January 2024

[@chiefslinginbeef3641]

Lincoln was our first dictator.

[@carywest9256]

Thank You!

[@radiocameron]

Probably why Trump is jealous of him.

[@zach7193]

Thinking he was covering the entire conflict, but ok.

[@loraweems8712]

In less than 60 minutes??? (Edit: spelling)