Emerging Civil War's Sean Michael Chick talks about the December 1864 battle of Nashville, Tennessee, and his forthcoming Emerging Civil War Series book "They Came Only to Die."
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@johnresto1603 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for having this. This is one of my favorite battles of the war. Thomas doesn't get credit that he deserves. He is one of the best union generals.
@tumbleweed2240 Жыл бұрын
Just finishing Grant’s Left Hook! Marvelous
@jacobmasters438 Жыл бұрын
Now that 2022 is nearly over. I look forward to 2023 and the fantastic material Emerging Civil War will undoubtedly produce. Chris Mackowski is a fantastic historian who will outwork his mortal being. I can think of no other historian who is as busy as he is with providing the public with historical reference.
@emergingcivilwar8965 Жыл бұрын
From Chris: "Thanks for the kind words! When you're doing what you love, it never feels like work."
@williamashbless79049 ай бұрын
Great talk. I never knew Thomas’s other nickname. Thomas was a serious talent. He had a habit of routing Confederate Armies. He was slow, but very methodical. He was the opposite of Patton’s “Better to have a good plan now, than a perfect plan tomorrow.” Thomas’s ‘I trained myself not to feel’ comment was in regards to someone asking him how he dealt with his entire family and friends disowning him when chose his country over his home state. When Hood took over the Army of the Tennessee, after Atlanta, Sherman looked up a former classmate of Hood’s from West Point and asked what he thought of Hood’s temperament. “I once saw him bet $2500 in a poker game with nothing in his hand but a pair of twos.” Three days after Hood assumed command, he attacked at Peachtree Creek.
@emergingcivilwar89658 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@arts24127 ай бұрын
Thank you, really interesting discussion.
@lifelinesoutreach6 ай бұрын
Glad my great grandfather did not die. I would not exist.
@Abdus_VGC5 ай бұрын
John Schofield was the teammates you didn't hope to be on your side, someone who is going to fuck you up regardless
@emergingcivilwar89655 ай бұрын
Ha! Great way to put it.
@travisbayles8709 ай бұрын
Both my great great grandfather and 3 great uncle who were in the 32nd Tennessee Infantry fought at Franklin and Nashville Hood was a poor choice to command that army
@brucetelfeyanАй бұрын
I have wondered why Hood didn't bypass Nashville and raid Kentucky and try to cross the Ohio River. I'm not sure what he would have gained, but it would have force Grant to divert troops from the siege of Richmond/Petersburg.
@KevinKindSongs11 ай бұрын
Nice analysis. Got the book. Not quite the depth of analysis I was expecting but...
@clarkbuckner49003 ай бұрын
I think Savas Beatie should have done a regular book on the battle of Nashville with Lee White as the author.
@timfrye3586 Жыл бұрын
such a senseless campaign. If Hood had the guts to admit he was out maneuvered the pointless slaughter of Franklin and Nashville could have been avoided.
@stevedoverspike8429 Жыл бұрын
He makes that choice because "his life" is not on the line. The total disrespect for the common man is heartbreaking.
@Revolver17012 ай бұрын
A confederate ancestor of mine was defeated at Nashville and after the artillery horses were killed and the guns captured his unit was sent to Fort Blakey in Mobile where he was defeated and captured. 😂
@jonmcintosh1737Ай бұрын
Super funny…
@Revolver17017 ай бұрын
Hood was not competent to command an army. That said, I can’t see a path to victory at that point.
@emergingcivilwar89657 ай бұрын
No good options seemed to exist for Confederates by that point in the war.
@williamsteele14092 ай бұрын
Cleburne should have had been in command but the bigotry of high command knew better