U.S. Civil War - Surprising Soldiers - Extra History

📜 U.S. Civil War: Surprising Soldiers - Historians have been learning that the US civil war armies were a lot more diverse than previously accounted for--partly because many soldiers who hailed from other countries and nations used adopted names. Chinese, Hawaiian, Hispanic, and Cherokee soldiers all participated on both sides of the US civil war--suffering even more conflict in some cases.
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[@extrahistory]

Researchers are beginning to learn that the makeup of the Union and Confederate armies in the US Civil War was a lot more nuanced and diverse than we had previously known. Here is an episode on the accounts of some of those surprising soldiers! bit.ly/EHPatreon

[@bruhgames4175]

Cool episode

[@tospsy]

@@moritamikamikara3879 sorry not to be mean but *stop whining*

[@annoyingcat6980]

Hi!

[@ATSucks1]

Who drew a snow storm in El paso Texas? And why the drama about that being bitter and harsh? Do yall not understand or know where Texas Is? We can grow year round there, their is only two seasons, summer and not summer. Hunting and forgoing would not of been a challenge.

[@Kurtizss]

Can you Talk about the Filipino-American War. please im a filipino

[@awesomeness1122]

And people say capture the flag is an unrealistic game mode.

[@aaroncohen2700]

If you have their flag you most likely have everything else too.

[@marcl7215]

😂

[@JamesSarantidis]

@@aaroncohen2700Knowing that why not go for the flag in the first opportunity as a means to break moral. Sure if it you go for the flag at the start of the battle it will have no effect. But if you do it when the enemy is close to breaking, the very act of capturing the flag will probably deal a devastating blow to the enemy's moral instead of giving them a chance to rally.

[@BLGStudios]

People say that but, get your guns Time for round 2 boys!

[@FruitSnackHorse]

and those people who said it was unrealistic are probably in the ground now :3

[@GarthTheMighty]

"Born In Hong Kong On The Fourth Of July" sounds like a song title.

[@monsterisland1702]

Giving Sabaton ideas are we

[@JP12345]

@@monsterisland1702 it's about time they do a civil war song

[@Aserlotl]

Born in a mountain top In Tennessee greenest state of the land of the free

[@Aserlotl]

Davy Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier

[@roninnder]

Ok boomer.

[@insertname252]

Stop teasing us and just cover the entire civil war already.

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

here here

[@zekedia2223]

I’d be just fine with them not. I don’t think they can accurately cover so much in so little time. People spend years looking into and researching, and even then most never learn everything.

[@enderpup9289]

JackOfTwoTrades MasterOfAHundred least a one off episode on the ironclads

[@zekedia2223]

Hampton Roads?

[@enderpup9289]

ZZekedia 222 yes!

[@puncturedbicycle7264]

As a Filipino I'm amazed that our history with american goes far beyond the Spanish-American war, it's pretty awesome to know some of our ancestors fought in the civil war

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

Hehehe We wuz making US history

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

Now I can larp as a US Civil War Cavalryman

[@puncturedbicycle7264]

@@philippinecircularflag2023 go lang pare HAHAAHA

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

Jeremy Lucina Lolololol

[@erwinsabilala6014]

US consider us as a state not a province of motherlacking commy china ahha

[@flibbernodgets7018]

I have an ancestor that fought for the union. He was captured as a P.O.W. by the confederates, but the union negotiated his release. He got back into action just in time to get slaughtered at Gettysburg. That kind of luck is how we know he's related

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Yo atleast your uncles whole unit didn’t captured on their first mission and starved to death in a pow camp he only survived because he was an officer

[@luckyassassin1]

My family was part of the Wisconsin volunteers and survived all through the civil war

[@Ethan-mp7wr]

Flibber Nodgets Am I related to you? Because I think I might be.

[@WaysideGamer]

@@luckyassassin1 Woo! A fellow Wisconsinite

[@j.a.pelaez6435]

My great-great-grandfathef was a mexican general during the 2nd french invadion of Mexico, it was from 1862 to 1867, his name was Miguel Negrete Novoa, during those convulsive times, french emperor Napoleon III wanted Mexico to support dixies and put limits to the U.S growing influence, seems we're all connected in some ways

[@darkhorsearmor3513]

Native Americans: Fight for confederacy to get better deal Confederacy: Losses Native Americans: Well that didn’t go as planned.

[@benjamingrist6539]

It's even worse than that. After the war was over, the US called a meeting of all the tribes that had sided with the Confederacy, informed them that by siding with the Confederacy they had revoked all former treaties with the US, and proceeded to force them into treaties that were much harsher than the ones they had been in before the war.

[@Lycaon1765]

@@benjamingrist6539 oof

[@christianweibrecht6555]

No matter what the native Americans where doomed

[@Leivve]

@@benjamingrist6539 That's not really saying much, since they would then proceed to wipe out the tribes that did side with them too.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Benjamin Grist literally their own fault lmao

[@abcdef27669]

Interesting historic fact for the EC crew: several confederates fled to the Empire of Brazil after the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1885, almost 20.000 americans arrived in Brazil, bringing cotton culture, american cuisine and Baptiste faith. The two greater centers of american-brazilian culture were the cities of Americana and Santa Barbara D’Oeste, both in São Paulo state.

[@nileshkumaraswamy2711]

Wow, so like a pocket of dixie in latin America

[@kerneywilliams7476]

Jimmy Carter visited there while President, and met a distant cousin.

[@kyokyoniizukyo7171]

abcdef27669 Dixies in goddamn Brazil... *Sweats in californian vapors*

[@kerneywilliams7476]

@DD X UP until 1888 there was.

[@davidxrod]

@@kerneywilliams7476 That's not true.

[@deepakgurung5672]

I'm from Hong Kong and I'm totally unawared of this noble man so thank you for bringing this up.

[@PixProductions2]

pa tamburrino because HK has fewer restrictions than mainland China? Also VPNs exist, if you didn’t know that.

[@WinterYuzu]

@pa tamburrino wow, why are you so hostile towards other immediately?

[@WinterYuzu]

@pa tamburrino Not how the damn entire internet works, unless you're on Tumblr, or 4chan. lighten up a bit, lad. You'll not be attacked in any manner if you are neutral or positive most of the time.

[@seancampbell6292]

You left out the part where Sylvanus becomes Warchief of the Horde.

[@neonlitpaladin]

Mankrik 'The Thorntusk Butcher' Lmfao, Does your wife know your here?

[@jean-lucwaters9140]

I was looking for this comment haha

[@seancampbell6292]

@@neonlitpaladin My wife is dead..

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

And other contorting convolutions

[@xMasterxRazorx]

Dark Lady watch over you.

[@GeneralLuigiTBC]

2:04 I didn't know Thor served in the Civil War.

[@nefhelimwhat609]

He was never in the civil war mo.... Oh

[@benheinz8817]

Nice eyes.

[@harbl99]

No, no, that was Theodore Odinson, who was originally a Sino-Portuguese immigrant from Macao.

[@ErikBramsen]

You learn so much watching Extra Credits!

[@AnimationFanboy2k4]

8:46 Avengers cameo Confederate soldiers: No,we don't know him, Futurers. Union soldier: Never heard of him.

[@loverneverend12]

Confederacy: let's do capture the flag. Union: Theres no such thing. Thomas: hold my beer

[@calebfenderson9327]

“We’re all Americans” patriotic, but unfortunately, his people wouldn’t be granted full citizenship for many years after the war.

[@koolmckool7039]

Now we can all be glad to be Americans.

[@calebfenderson9327]

Should I make a immigrant joke now?

[@koolmckool7039]

@@calebfenderson9327 I guess. I'm on Trump's side of immigration policy, you?

[@calebfenderson9327]

Keith Petersen me neither to an extent, but it would have been a funny joke.

[@thetechies2627]

@@koolmckool7039 really, you think separating kids and their families and sending a army to stop people from legally immigrating is a good idea. Sorry no it's idiotic and inhumane.

[@polkka7797]

North: *blockades the south* Europe: “We wont get involved” Britain: “Im about the end these guys whole careers.... and get really rich”

[@diarradunlap9337]

@@yochaiwyss3843 Little-known fact. Also, the Russian Tsar considered getting involved on the Union side, but only if Britain and France got directly involved on the Confederate side.

[@sol2544]

@@diarradunlap9337 World war 0.5

[@xStat_USx]

@@sol2544 no that is seven years war

[@Zamolxes77]

@@sol2544 There have been at least 1 World War, before World War 1. War of 1756 is one such affair.

[@sol2544]

@@Zamolxes77 that's why I said 0.5 World war 0 is that

[@Pikazilla]

siamese twins had their own sons? those twins had interesting wives, if they had to 'share' their husbands

[@justinbuergi9867]

Pika Zilla I really need to know more about their lives

[@shwqa]

There is a dollop podcast on their lives. They married sisters but never discussed the sex life. However the sisters did have their children around the same time of each other.

[@fireemblemaddict128]

What if they had one wife, and they took turns... you know, washing the dishes.

[@benjamingrist6539]

According to their neighbors, they changed houses every other day. Also, Gen. Sherman found out about the awkward situation when he tried to draft one of the twins to haul luggage for his army but not the other. He eventually decided to leave the brothers alone.

[@user-xq5og9lt8p]

You know, sex is a personal matter of those 4 who participate

[@ethanhatcher5533]

Sees Civil War video: *happiness nosies* Sees it's a one off episode: *less happiness noises*

[@sapsinthetree]

Just one more of these stories...

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

You had best make that series on the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War, I have never been more interested in American history as I am right now.

[@jg0037]

U.s. history!.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@@jg0037 I don't recall the Cherokee Nation being part of the United States. :P

[@Mr.Byrnes]

SaltpeterTaffy Of course you don’t lol

[@sammccullough1255]

*When Johnny comes marching home starts playing in the distance*

[@enderpup9289]

Sam McCullough hurray hurray!

[@mitsumikyoya8746]

*when General Sherman caught staring from the distance*

[@duskmoss]

Sam McCullough wait that’s a song

[@thetexan1011]

What about. " Jhonny i hardly knew ye " .

[@cam4636]

@@thetexan1011 We'll sing that one afterwards

[@wafflesthewookiee4716]

How about the old man in Gettysburg who fought at Waterloo?

[@HenningGu]

You mean Napoleon and Waterloo? Damn. He shouldve been at least 80

[@theoperator3712]

@@HenningGu No, the Napoleonic Wars started after the French Revolution which happened in 1812. If you were about 20 when fighting in that war, you would only be about 60 when the US Civil War broke out.

[@JbJbJb009]

@@theoperator3712 I'm pretty sure the French Revolution didn't happen in 1812

[@celston51]

The man you're probably thinking of was John Lawrence Burns. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a teamster volunteer during the Mexican-American War before he left his home in Gettysburg to join several Union regiments during the first day of the battle. He did not fight at the Battle of Waterloo however.

[@timothymclean]

@@JbJbJb009 The French Revolution happened in the 1780's, if I recall correctly. 1812 was when the War of 1812 started (though the finale was delayed several times due to scheduling issues).

[@Texasp12]

I'm glad you're giving the Cherokee conflict it's own video. I learned about it last year and it was a great story of revenge within the nation

[@medd-lee]

did they end up making it?

[@rc59191]

You should read the book Rifle's For Watie. It gives the Western Theater the attention it really deserves it follows a Kansas farm boy that fights at the battle of Wilson's Creek and later becomes a Union Scout that uncovers some Union traitors that are smuggling Colonel Watie Spencer repeating rifle's it's very good they also have it on Audible.

[@NobelTheKnave]

“We’re *all* Americans” Ain’t that the truth

[@battlesevengames9479]

@Pojka you must be fun at party’s

[@joelgilmore3084]

2:19 Tahiti, it's a magical place

[@ihavenovideos98]

Joel Gilmore Just need more MONEH

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

I've heard Tahiti is a nice place

[@willval21]

I heard it's a nice place to have mango farms from a man named Dutch.

[@andrewhantzes9504]

Fucking hell coulson, resurrected again? I thought we were done with that shit

[@immasword]

Tahiti: exists Dutch: I hAVe a pLaN!!11!!

[@SAMURIADI]

3:50 THE ARMSTRONG FAMILIES NAME HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS AFTER ALL

[@keeperofeurobeat8421]

Is this a FMA reference?

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

@@keeperofeurobeat8421 Clannad actually

[@SAMURIADI]

@@keeperofeurobeat8421 yes

[@pancakes8107]

MAKING FMA REFERENCES HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS

[@NobelTheKnave]

Ah, I see, an intellectual

[@redstone1542]

1:42 US annexed New Brunswick and parts of Quebec, That’s pretty dope

[@willkenny5687]

Redstone154 Canada is actually part of the US, they just don’t know it yet.

[@rainyday7831]

Will Kenny I'm Canadian and you have offended meh

[@Muffin-kk7kt]

When you put New Brunswick on a U.S. map: 1:39

[@jessejisk9918]

You mean north-Maine?

[@alexnuffsaid1]

Canadian Maine you mean

[@Samuel1y9]

they put a part of quebec to x)

[@robertwalpole360]

Well, they had to fudge up a drawing of a map sooner or later. I mean, we all know how bad they are at getting flags right.

[@MaxShinBowl]

Manifest Destiny intensifies

[@harbl99]

5:30 -- Good ole boys in the General Lee shouting "Wheeeee!" ... You had one job!!!

[@StellanQuin]

idk why this reminds me of the Cobra Car in AOE2. Good ol days

[@kerneywilliams7476]

One of the fun stories is the Surrender of the CSS Shenedoah at the end of the war. It pulled into Liverpool (they were considered pirates by the U.S. Government) and the British Naval officers who come to accept the surrender will let the crew go, save for any British subjects who were illegally fighting for the South. When asked for where they were from, sailors with thick Irish, Cockney, Welsh or whatever accents declare they are from Georgia, South Carolina, Texas etc. The British Officers are "satisfied" there are no British subjects among the crew and let them go. Another on person who could bear special mention here is Major General Patrick Cleburne, CSA. He probably made the Atlanta Campaign possible by preventing Army of Tennesse's Artillery from being captured in the aftermath of Chatanooga. He uses (and looses) his hero status by proposing by suggesting that the South allow blacks to fight in exchange for freedom. Ironically, if he'd kept his mouth shut he probably been promoted to Corps Commander and been in a very good position to affect the outcome of the Atlanta Campaign, and arguably the last chance the South had to win the war.

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

This was a video that really made my day as it shows that the often very diluted grade school level of understanding of historical events gloss over complex moral and social issues which need to understood in detail. The respect and level of research that these topics are handled with is also why I love Extra Credits. Even with the nerd references, this is probably the most fair handed documentary over this extremely delicate part of history.

[@Matt-en4yg]

Siamese twins each had a son Wtf

[@plucas1]

Didn't they marry separate wives?

[@Ethan-mp7wr]

I read that comment wrong. Thought it said Siamese twins had a son. Was about to google shit before I read that correctly.

[@everlast282]

The image I have in my head is pretty awkward

[@genghiskhan5701]

and the wives were sisters. That is one weird foursome

[@Lycaon1765]

_"I long to see the girl I left behind me_ _And that ain't a josh_ _She's a Yankee, by gosh_ _(Oh, say can you see_ _Anything about a Yankee that's a phony?)_ _I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy_ _A Yankee Doodle, do or die_ _A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam_ _Born on the Fourth of July"_

[@bolabillargmail]

>tap dancing down a flight of stairs ensues

[@acebalistic1358]

Welp that is officially awesome

[@the.abrahamlincoln]

For those people living in the modern days, this is perfectly accurate, definitely.

[@johnfraire6931]

I trust you, Abe.

[@Afrimusican]

Easy for you to say

[@gonaldginkus6228]

Thank you Mr president

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

My Great Great Grandpa was John Hamilton Morgan and he served in the 123rd Illinois for the entirety of the war on the Union side.

[@michaelfanning4447]

A Tejano (Texan born hispanics) cavalry regiment under Col. Santos Benevides traveled up and down the Texas-Mexico border defending Texas from both Union troops in the west and Mexican raiders in the south. Often under supplied and over marched, the regiment under the command under Benevides, the higgest ranking Tejano officer in the confederacy, would be undefeated until the final surrender of confederate troops at Palmito Ranch. 10% of the Confederate army in Texas was Tejano.

[@AlienAbles420]

My 3rd great grandfather wrote about the Tejanos he rode with during the Civil War. Good men, Good Texans

[@spartanx9293]

TRAITOR(only jokin)

[@seamuswbiggerarmalite3379]

@@spartanx9293 inbred brittish

[@reynanlamsen2007]

Benevides?Is he related to Roy Benevidez?

[@problems3485]

@@spartanx9293 Texas does have a record of becoming traitors to their nation

[@foxdom3185]

Hey Team of Extra Credits. I am a German student and I want to say THANK YOU for your videos! The topics and the quality of the videos are crazy, I never of some topics before I watched a video from you about it. Again THANK YOU!!! I hope you never end to make this crazy videos. 😀😊

[@mseiksby4541]

Good luck to you from South Korea

[@brianhuss9184]

"We are all Americans." Well said, sir!

[@Demicleas]

The union people would disagree. They think we deserved to be bucherd to the last southerner for our treason. That we committed before we were even born. It's hard to like a country that wants to see you dead for your ancestors actions.

[@andrewcantrell6732]

@@Demicleas Yeah....must really suck to be judged based on your birth.....wait a minute.....

[@WebofHope]

6:55 Joseph Decastro: Memorialised for Best round of CTF Ever

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

That was a speech from one of the greatest vampire slayers in history

[@Tony-cb4wf]

Muy bien mi Cubano

[@GunBuilt]

Random fact Lincoln was self conscious and thought he was ugly

[@darksensai1184]

In the Lincoln letters he admits hes prejudice against blacks, Saying he would never see a black man as equal to a white.

[@agilemind6241]

@@darksensai1184 So did the people who wrote that into the constitution, only clearly they didn't even see blacks as men/human or they that phrase probably wouldn't have been included.

[@colocho545]

Can You Guys Do A Full American Revolution (USA Vs Great Britain) Extra History Series

[@javieraravena5345]

North, central or sourth americans revolution?

[@colocho545]

Javier Aravena North Sorry Should Of Been More Specific

[@con1302]

They covered the Boston massacre and the articles of confederation. Probably as close as we're gonna get

[@grfu08]

The American Revolution has been done to death, though. I'd much rather a topic that I don't know as well.

[@javieraravena5345]

@@grfu08 why not some latin american revolutions now?

[@martinsjoquist]

In the book "Guns of the south" the alternative history author Harry Turtledove explores a few of the less known characters. I was reminded of this since Henry Pleasants is one of those characters. I was hoping that this episode would also bring up some of the women that fought in this war. One of them being Molly Beans (also portrayed in previously said book) but several accounts of women secretly joining the armies to fight.

[@hanoihero8168]

5:40 *_This feels like that one scene in Star Wars._* _blaster sounds here as kenobi falls off “dewback” (idk)_

[@stevenchoza6391]

Hell, Admiral Farragut, the guy who said “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”, was from Spain.

[@wumpusthehunted2628]

Admiral Farraut was from Tennessee (making him personally no grata in the eyes of family and neighbors). His father was from Spain.

[@willkenny5687]

wumpus the hunted Do you mean persona non grata?

[@nickolasgarner6739]

This is a good video, really brought an interesting topic to light, but I noticed you used flintlocks instead of percussion caps for the rifles.

[@ahorrell]

Ah...... the internet.

[@philippinecircularflag2023]

*_INACCURACY OF HISTORICAL FIREARMS_*

[@emkhor9742]

Uploaded just in time for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! ❤️

[@_unlikelyvalentine]

Spies, engineers, and sappers. Sounds a lot like a specific game I know.

[@silviolego9652]

No mentions of the Garibaldi brigade? Of sad

[@thatonecrytian8997]

Silvio Lego: Thought it was just a Regiment and not a brigade

[@ciaranjamiesonfamily-frien5144]

Much of me sad am yes

[@tony9161]

That One Crytian, depending on the language and military structure a bridge and regiment are the same size (1,000 men)

[@thatonecrytian8997]

Claudius Nullberg: That I know, but they were known as the 39th New York Garibaldi Guard *Regiment* , But I see your point.

[@umjackd]

Garibaldi in general deserves his own series

[@sonny9690]

3:10 "each had a son" Wait a minute...

[@schwa6275]

I was trying hard not to think about that :'D

[@Taji.M]

Ummmmm

[@williamtecumsehsherman520]

Ah yes. The American Civil War. I also fought for the Union.

[@tilenstupar4659]

Did you really March through Georgia and singing this song?

[@enakuen1]

I hear the Georgia coast is lovely this time of year.

[@jpheitman1]

@@enakuen1 Warmer in December.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Oh please make a series about Charles I of Spain. Very interesting character and a good foil for your series on Suleiman the magnificent. And you could continue with his son Philp II. And I'm sure you get this request quite often but please make Frederick the great of Prussia.

[@YourAverageTruf]

Some people: Team death match is just for games! Historians: Oh that’s what you say..

[@Mixer2904]

I was hoping you would tell the story of Union Irish brigade at Fredericksburg who charged at the side of wall being defended by irish confederate brigade, it really shows how civil war is brother fighting against brother, but I guess that story deserves it's own episode

[@boblaryson3621]

Or more how poor immigrants fleeing tyrany in Europe were forced against their will to fight for another regime as soon as they arrived

[@braxtonfriday8713]

You guys continue to amaze us with knowledge from the lesser known parts of history. Great vid. Keep it up!!

[@jplabs456]

Asian and Pacific soldiers in the Civil War? I wonder how they ended up there.... Huh.... WAAAAALPOOOOOLE!

[@medd-lee]

John Ross decendant here! It's actually kind of awesome to hear his name in your videos, especially about the civil war. There is a specific subset of the Cherokee Nation(nit sure about the eastern band) for the slaves freed from the war, they're called Cherokee Freedmen. Also it's awesome to see so many stories in here.

[@davididiart5934]

I consider myself a huge history buff and I'd never heard about this. Thank you EH!!!

[@speedy01247]

When you hear the names it sort of makes sense. Who would suspect Thomas of being not white when they never looked at him before.

[@geneomatherly6742]

Really cool episode, the U.S civil war is one of my favorite time periods in history, I hope we get see more on this subject.

[@militantzero1846]

Yes! Finally Civil War Topic!! Thank you!!

[@yes1770]

Hehe! The fact at 1:59 says "Most Muppets are left handed" I'm dead bro!!

[@woxof46]

Any y'all seen Thanos?

[@StellanQuin]

I got snapped idk

[@Afrimusican]

Who wants to kn.....

[@historicalminds6812]

Please do more videos like this they are vital to our understanding of history. Thank you for all that you do Extra Credits!

[@aw08gang]

According to chronicles, memoirs, and journals, most New Mexico Volunteers joined the fight not because of North vs South, because they thought they were fighting TEXAS.

[@Yannis1a]

EH has a fame of drawing inaccurate flags but in this episode they draw the actual CSA flag when many people get it wrong

[@cly-9128]

@Angel Fox you just cant please people.

[@GabyGibson]

The minute you mentioned Glorieta Pass, I let out the most joyful noise

[@johnfraire6931]

That was me when I heard El Paso- and in the snow, of all times

[@Mr.Turano]

Thank you, this has really helped. I'm happy to know our history keeps getting thicker and richer.

[@spixvh]

Do a video about the revolutions of 1848 from the perspective of different soldiers

[@cly-9128]

I appreciate how this went into detail on both sides and showed the humanity for both the union and confederate soldiers. Even if the reasons war was started was dark, the reason for war was started by politicians who didnot go and fight, most of the privates and officers simply fighting for their home. Great work for not demonizing either side and showing us the countless different peoples who fought for the union and confederecy for varieties of reasons.

[@AlienAbles420]

As a Confederate's descendent, I was very happy as well. Most of the time it's just people shitting on my ancestors.

[@martinaustin6230]

Love being early to watch extra credit episodes.

[@auroralong1099]

2:19 *Dutch's Plan Intensifies*

[@alsoarkb0t]

Confederate soldiers in New Mexico: *"Why is the spanish inquisition here?"*

[@vincentvassallo5727]

So good to see such a little known side of history get the spotlight it deserves

[@estebanandresaguirre8101]

3:42 Adventure Time was such a good show.

[@damedesuka77]

Stories of the real human, the people behind the events, this is why Iove this channel.

[@courtneyrogers238]

God, I forget how much I love history until I see things like this

[@MrDmuny944]

Great episode I continue learning meaning facts from your team

[@josephchristopherdeboulogn2365]

Can you make a video about the irish foreign legion serving at the french army during the years 1803-1815 please?

[@TheCreepypro]

truly a fascinating episode well done EC!

[@Cityinlead]

I can’t tell you how thankful I am for this video. As a first generation born in America, it brings great pride and relief to know these stories are being brought up and won’t be forgotten

[@cjayx]

I love this!! I have done so much US Civil War research and this is such an interesting take that never gets talked about! You should do a full US Civil War series for those that aren't familiar.

[@petlahk4119]

Yeah, but I think they ought to cover mostly the immigrants and forgotten stuff. 'Cus that's the stuff we've had the most difficulty remembering.

[@cjayx]

@@petlahk4119 that's what they're doing now. I'm saying for the folks who don't take US history in school. Not everyone is from the US.

[@petlahk4119]

@@cjayx - I think it's valuable because, let's be honest, whenever the civil war is covered it isn't covered well enough or properly enough in schools. IIRC the best coverage I had of the civil war was in my college-level general US history course, and that was still just mainly focused on the east coast. I think also we ran short on time in both of my classes so the Civil war got nipped short in the first semester, and the cold war nipped short in the second semester. But, that still doesn't change the fact that the civil war is not taught very well. The focus tends to be either a historical-revisionist perspective, a perspective that is trying to cover as little of the American injustices as possible, or a perspective that's just trying to remind everyone that the South was pretty awful. And that last one is valid, but I think is probably missing a lot if it's not about what this episode covered - the stories of people. My professor was a god professor who taught from 1st-hand documents, but I still don't feel like it was enough. Especially when it comes to overturning decades of awful secondary-school education. :/

[@aliasfakename4183]

I am glad they mentioned Joesph Pierce of the 14th CVI. I have a friend who researched and portrayed him as a reenactor. Great video!

[@coriander4853]

I am so happy this released today because my social studies class is just starting the Civil War and my teacher is almost certainly going to show this

[@specter86fl]

Wow, really good job at showing the civil war in a fair light from both sides and all angles, really expressed the complication and confusion of that times quite well. Most people these days like to remember those times in fatalistic views, when in reality, as we see, things were much more complicated.

[@darkbluecraft25yt19]

2:55 Wait... There's a *Filipino* who joined the American Civil War... I've never heard that before in our history!?😲

[@ivanrabbath3864]

May we remember these great people who fought for us.

[@AlienAbles420]

I am a Texan. My 3rd great grandfather, my 4th great Uncles, and sum 30 more of my ancestors who fought for the Confederacy did fight for us. For his Family, State, and Nation. In their own words that's why they joined and fought.

[@vincentlance]

I run quite a few RPGs set around historical periods and I love integrating obscure historical stories like these into it, so my thanks.

[@SaiyanHeretic]

Great episode! Lots of stuff I didn't know AND no awful attempts at forced humor! This is why I'm still subscribed.

[@elina9418]

Wait for real, if the next episode about the civil war in the MCU?

[@peacemaker1895]

It's amazing how many different cultures came in to the conflict I have four ancestors that I know of that fought in the War one was a creek Native American another was a Irish immigrant another was an Englishman one was a poor dirt farmer from Georgia and another was a Cherokee and Irish man that's thought for the 52nd Georgia Infantry

[@AryaWibu]

Finally, I've been waiting for a Civil War episode.

[@legoworksstudios1]

I had a feeling that the Civil War was more nuanced and complicated in the reason for it happening and what both sides fought for as opposed to who fought for it. So imagine my surprise when I learned in this episode that a bunch of different people enlisted on both sides for a bunch of different reasons. That's actually pretty interesting.

[@EmporerAaron]

Just goes to show you how simplifying the civil war doesn't do it justice for either side. A conflict being built up for years erupts and years later people just see it as a good vs evil fight even though there were individuals like these with their reasons for choosing the sides they chose.

[@croweman6515]

I like that quote, and I agree, north or south, blue or grey, one thing both sides had in common, they were all Americans, and in my opinion, that was always the saddest part of it. Peace To The Fallen.

[@anonymousanton8418]

Well technically speaking anyone who fought for the Confederate States were terrorist and kinda gave up there United States/Union citizenship when revolting.

[@croweman6515]

@@anonymousanton8418 they were rebels, not terrorists, there is a distinct difference.

[@EmporerAaron]

@Patrick Martin that is the definition of terrorist. So yeah.

[@anonymousanton8418]

They were terrorist who broke away from the union and started a war with the rest of the United States. But what ever you need to tell your selfs.

[@anonymousanton8418]

@@croweman6515 yeah the difference is you trying to make terrorist seem not terrorist. They are called "rebels" because they were rebelling again the AMERICAN government.

[@Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos]

3:58 I can imagine their first encounter they speak pidgeon. Armstrong: Ho you from Hawaii cuz. Hawaiian volunteer: ho yuups cuz.

[@jorgnocke991]

Thank you so much this really made my day, may the force be with you

[@drawnseeker]

Videos like this are why i love your channel so much!

[@thomashermann620]

Both sides had adopted percussion cap rifles by the beginning of the war, so the flintlocks shown are kinda not correct.

[@Oklahomie_Friendly]

I have an ancestor who fought under StandWatie in the cavalry

[@kingdomofromania9640]

Been waiting for a civil war vid for so long, thx

[@NuclearPies957]

Hell yeah! I’ve been waiting my entire life for this!

[@JDubs1464]

Thank you for bringing this topic up to me, I normally focused on learning about WW2, but now I want to learn more about this topic

[@somerandofilipino6957]

2:17 I swear I jumped in excitement when the Philippines was actually mentioned 😂

[@jadonberg9364]

Nice. I’ve been wanting a Civil War video for a while now. Thanks

[@gundamheavyarms4879]

The Civil War is my favorite time period to study! I love this!