Top 10 Most Important Battles of the Civil War

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@danielsantiagourtado3430 2 ай бұрын

The battle of gettysburg is iconic! The turning point

@bamacopeland4372 2 ай бұрын

I'd argue Vicksburg was a bigger turning point.

@dpl235654 2 ай бұрын

Antietam (Ahn-tee-tum)

@sawahtb 2 ай бұрын

or An-tee-tm.

@wcg19891 Ай бұрын

It seems to be a British habit of pronouncing proper nouns their own way. His predecessor was pronouncing “Mach number” like “Mack” instead of like Bach because Mach and Bach are both German names.

@brokenbridge6316 2 ай бұрын

For someone who didn't know much about this war you sure did your research. Their isn't much I could correct you on. Except. The Battle of Antietam. The Union soldiers got ahold of Lee's plans thanks to a Confederate officer wrapping them in some cigars and then forgetting about them when they broke camp and some Union soldier found them unwrapped them and took them to his commanding officer upon realizing it's value. Just thought you should know that.

@jonrettich-ff4gj 2 ай бұрын

There is some issue about Lee’s lost dispatch leading to Antietam as everyone seems to have received their orders and a Union spy was operating in the neighborhood. If that were true couldn’t the spy with the cigars as an incentive left the info to be fairly easily found and what commander would want to let on about how he had actually come by it?

@brokenbridge6316 2 ай бұрын

@@jonrettich-ff4gj---Well. I admit that's certainly possible.

@bnthern 2 ай бұрын

your information was wonderful - they should have given you a pronounciation guide!

@theresalaux5655 2 ай бұрын

Hi Karl!

@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n 2 ай бұрын

Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!!!!!!!!!!!

@multiyapples 2 ай бұрын

History is important to learn about.

@Hillbilly001 2 ай бұрын

Yeah Karl. Took a break from writing for Simon ehh? Cheers from Tennessee

@Aiko2-26-9 2 ай бұрын

I'm an American and didn't know much of this. Very interesting.

@flushedphoenix81 2 ай бұрын

The last civil war widow died in 2020

@wcg19891 Ай бұрын

Did the old geezer merry her when she was 15?

@grahamturbett 2 ай бұрын

Suggestion on video- please pause longer between sentences. I was running out of breathe just listening

@scottcarnley625 2 ай бұрын

Sorry, but I felt like I was watching this on 10x speed with random pop ups of Lee, Grant, Etc on repeat

@Kevan808 2 ай бұрын

Love you Karl, but could you please speak a little slower for us yanks? 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@anthonyperno1348 2 ай бұрын

The "turning point" of the Civil War was the Union defeat at Fredericksburg. The War turned for both sides. Both sides thought this would be a war fought to a conditional peace. The South was on the strategic defenseive believing the North would qiut the war once they suffered enough. E.g. Washington in the American Revolution and Ho Chi Minh in the American-Vietnam war, employed the strategy to success. The strategy was to wear out the superior enemy and make them quit the war. Fredericksburg's should have been that moment. It should have been the 'beginning of the end' for northern support of the war. But it wasn't. The North instead doubled down and began to move the 'conditional war' towards one of "total war." On the other hand the South, after the victory at Fredericksburg, foolishly believed that they could actually win the war (independence) without any conditions. The South then abandoned the strategic defensive and went on the offenseive which guranteed their defeat at Gettysburg (or somewhere in the North.) Gettysburg would have been the 'turning point' of the war had the South carried the day. But the reality set it. What everyone originally understood at the beginning of the war, that the South could not defeat the North, finally set in. The turning point of the American Civil War was Fredericksburg. It changed the war from a condidtional war to total war. A war the South could not win. A marginal victory, and not a total victory, at Fredericksburg, would have better served the South. They would have stayed on the strategic defensive and the North might not have moved the war to total war. No one at the time could have understood it in the moment. But the horrendous Union dead forced the North to either quit or double down, the North chose the latter. It also made the brilliant Lee stupid with hubris.

@multipletanksyndrome 2 ай бұрын

Kyle, recommendation for reading. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. A horror novel from the author of Fight Club. When he was on tour, promoting the book, people would pass out during readings.

@0104-s8k 2 ай бұрын

Which civir war? There are 195 countries in the world

@Aboz 2 ай бұрын

He tells us 11 seconds into the video. Did you watch it?

@0104-s8k 2 ай бұрын

@@Aboz Of course not, why would I do that

@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n 2 ай бұрын

The American Civil War!

@jetnova16 2 ай бұрын

There was a lot of mispronunciations here. Watching some Civil War Documentaries especially “Threads From The American Tapestry”’s KZbin Channel would show you how many mispronunciations there are here and how to correctly say them.