ACW: Battle of Fort Henry - "Grant Invades Tennessee"

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Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the Union District of Cairo, embarks on an expedition into northern Tennessee with Union Navy Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote to capture two strategically-important Confederate forts positioned along the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers: Fort Henry (Tennessee) and Fort Donelson (Cumberland). Their first target is the half-sunken Fort Henry.
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Sources:
Battle of Fort Henry: The History of General Ulysses S. Grant’s Victory that Captured the Tennessee River for the Union by Charles River Editors
Script written J. Woody
#americancivilwar #westerntheater #civilwar

[@kevintierney5711]

Thank goodness. I’ve been waiting for a channel like this tackling the Civil War

[@WarhawkYT]

Im happy you found us!

[@ArmenianBishop]

Lloyd Tilghman was exchanged in August, 1862, for John Reynolds. Reynolds was captured at Gaines Mill, the same Reynolds who was later shot & killed by a sharpshooter at Gettysburg. After the exchange, Tilghman was posted at Vicksburg. At Champion Hill, in June, 1863, Tilghman was struck & killed by artillery fire.

[@ewg6686]

These videos are amazing and helpful, keep up the good work!

[@kennethfox1586]

Fantastic channel. Love the overall maps especially showing the waterways

[@Thisandthat8908]

bitterly persecuted = murdered in mass with no trial or anything. Not just known by Davies but ordered. Also good to know that Halleck didn't like Grant. Up to the point when Grant became his boss, then he was cool with him... Reading into it, the bickering between Generals in both armies is amazing. Grant was a rare exception. Mostly.

[@tabletopgeneralsde310]

Wow that was a harsh one at Fort Henry. Nice video mate.

[@JOEHOVA]

damn fine work. Keep it up. Dont pay attention to views. What you are doing here is for the ages. Let me know if there is any way I can help. I love this series. The battles in the west are always over shadowed by Lee in the east.

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks Joehova!

[@STLOU87]

@@WarhawkYT you pronounced James B. Eads name wrong. just letting you know.

[@WarhawkYT]

@@STLOU87 I've realized that, in the script it was Fads, but the actual guy was Eads.

[@TheLocalLt]

I don’t get it this video has a good amount of views, there are a lot of similar creators with criminally less views of most of their videos than this one. History Hustle and Wayback History just to name a couple, Ushanka Show too although that’s a bit niche

[@JohnAlberts827]

Wonderful video, your channel is a gem !

[@kennethfox1586]

Can imagine that the noise was deafening inside the ironclads when firing off the cannons

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

Very fine work. I never realized the enormity of the fort.

[@GeorgHaeder]

Another great video. Keep up the good work.

[@ViktoriousDead]

I live on the TN river right where this happened. Great coverage, great park if you ever get to go

[@bluelynxworld4748]

My Great Great Great Grandfather, John Henry Dorman, was on the USS Carondelet.

[@locoj7036]

Well done. Great channel

[@victory4history]

Great Video Warhawk!

[@WarhawkYT]

Thank you Victory!

[@theequalsgamer2074]

amazing work, just simply that

[@WarhawkYT]

Thanks THEequalsGAMER!

[@FlexBeanbag]

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[@af17317596]

Which tracks are you using from filmstro, I hear the same ones in Epic history TVs stuff.

[@redjacc7581]

i have a fascination for the ACW and the naval battles especially.

[@dhardy6654]

It's special. The confederates never saw the big picture. General Lee thought fighting the army of the potomac was a good idea when he should have ran at gettysburg. He was only 60 miles out of virginia. They marched out of virginia carrying only 60 rounds per man. Imagine how much fire power floated on union ships compared to what a man can march with?

[@badguy5554]

EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT!

[@thomashazlewood4658]

For the record, I come for the in-depth information you provide. I have yet to be misled by your quirks of pronunciation. Well done, son.

[@WarhawkYT]

Glad to hear that Thomas!

[@jason200912]

How did the gun crews blow up their cannons? Did they double load the powder?

[@jessmarksrushent.1769]

This battle and the taking of Ft. Donelson were of monumental importance. Grant had the wherewithal to see that and wasted no time in seizing these forts. Ft. Henry was poorly laid out to begin with and was an easy mark.

[@ARKHAMASYLUM-qc7bw]

Im 282 subscriber mate

[@jamplanet4587]

It’s pronounced “Eads” not “Fads” which is what I thought I heard here. Mr. Eads was a groundbreaking engineer with over 50 patents, and also designed the Eads bridge in St. Louis, which still stands today.

[@porcine83]

Great videos....but some very 'interesting' pronunciations 😮

[@raaven616]

Tilghman isolated himself. Huge mistake. He had no room for maneuver. He should have moved his entire command to Donaldson.

[@Taqruinnius]

Reminds me of the Great War Channel and the WW2 channel that does week by week

[@ok-pj4eu]

great video but the picture of the generals and flags take up too much space on the map.

[@Achill101]

@3:20 the engineer is not Fads but Eads!

[@deddbebbb5196]

mispronouncing Cairo Ill too?! Sounds like "Kay-ro."

[@adamhenrywalker]

Yeah! General Frémont!

[@cal4837]

Said the confederates, lol

[@toms.e9365]

A respectful request: please label the rivers and rail lines. Thank you.

[@badmacdonald]

ive seen quite a few of these now and i havent seen the south win a battle! have i missed some?

[@arminiusgratis9439]

You probably never will from warhawk. Good creator . . . yet hung up on the mighty Union . . . never mind that they were the aggressors . . . invaders of a sovereign nation (the CSA) and no different than someone like Hitler invading Czech. and Poland or Stalin taking the Baltic States. Some day History will be corrected and the idea of the USA willing to decimate the southern peoples because they were powerful enough to do so will be acknowledged. It was all about the land. If they had to kill off all the Southern White people to reclaim the land, then they would happily do so. (Not a southerner . . . I'm from the northern USA who believes in telling the truth)

[@seanmac1793]

The first one was on Wilson's creek

[@seanmac1793]

@@arminiusgratis9439 what right does does the CSA have to sovereignty?

[@jacksonguillory8114]

@@seanmac1793 every.

[@grapeleopard6809]

@@jacksonguillory8114 slavery supporter smh

[@gequitz]

Tilghman was in a really tough situation, but he still made the wrong choice

[@cal4837]

Didn’t have much of any choice really. Dude was fucked based on his command and orders. Whoever built that fort really screwed the pooch

[@user-fu8qf9xu7l]

Thee-ahh-ter not thee-A-ter lol

[@mikelshort9150]

10:28 I used to live in Danville KY

[@Bob_Betker]

Ead's ships were built at Mound City, Illinois, which is just north of Cairo, Illinois and Carondelet, Missouri., which was then just south of St. Louis, Mo. Mound City, Missouri is in a prairie northwest of St. Joseph's Missouri. You've got some good stuff here but you need someone to help you edit and proof the material before publication.

[@redefv]

8:42 the guys middle intial is wrong in either the graphic or the narration.

[@WarhawkYT]

It was the script, well redo this video in the future, thank you though

[@redefv]

@Warhawk just giving you a hard time. We can always Google stuff.

[@LorolinAstori]

Just a point of reference: a political general was a politician or civilian, with no prior formal military training, appointed to command by a politician. The way you use the term US Grant would be a political general.

[@Shadowman4710]

True. Halleck was a professional army officer...who was a master of politics.

[@orcinus6802]

You need to put a little more thought into your made up definitions.

[@LorolinAstori]

@@orcinus6802 made up? How? Oh. You are just telling me you dont know what you are taking about. Check out Sterling Price's rebuttal of the assertion he was not a political general. But yeah. Grant was a political general too since he was appointed by a politician. Lmao. Sherman received his commission from Lincoln so he was a political general too. So was McClellan by the videographers defunition. How about you put some thought in your reply. Next

[@LorolinAstori]

Reay: for the last time neither Halleck or Grant were political generals. Both were West Point trained. A political general is one who was appointed by a civil to military command without any previous military training. Try reading what I wrote. If the narrator, or anyone else, thinks Halleck is a political general is just plain wrong. Done arguing a silly point. Thanks.

[@HemlockRidge]

Con-es-tog-a Comm-is-ary

[@dennismoore7935]

Thee - A -ter / Theater

[@greenja4688]

Roblox Wild West

[@kennethhamby9811]

Shows just how unprepared the South was for war, this cost us the war.

[@bernardfinucane2061]

There was never any hope. It was all a fantasy.

[@cal4837]

Us? lol dude

[@talamioros]

Fantastic research and the amount of detail and your love of the topic is undeniable and infectious. But please, please get someone to proofread your script, and work on your narration. There are many reading and grammatical/vocabulary errors throughout all the videos thus far. I hope you'll be improving in subsequent videos. Either way, you've got a fan here now :)

[@markcrites7060]

James B Fads???? Really?

[@dominiqueplegat8934]

J aimerai la traduction en français

[@tttyuhbbb9823]

Zut! L'anglais va bien! 😅😅😅

[@fcktheonlythingmissingisu3792]

It's pronounced (Cairo) kiro not karo. Karo is the sweetener made from corn.

[@brandonc.8356]

Cairo IL is pronounced differently from Cairo in Egypt He pronounced it correctly in the video

[@TheLocalLt]

Nope the creator is correct, Cairo, IL is pronounced “Kay-ro”

[@danielphillips486]

Worst fort ever?

[@zurgesmiecal]

just a little flooding here and there, c'mon man

[@cal4837]

I made better forts in my living room with my little brother.

[@kurtiseschofield]

While the content is excellent, the significant amount of mispronunciation is very difficult to take. How can you pronounce "Carondelet" properly but mispronounce "theater"?

[@WarhawkYT]

im from Texas and thats how we say it

[@ravendon]

Needs a new narrator. Cairo, impotent, theatre. In a another video, McIntosh pronounced like MickIntosh. Otherwise nicely done.

[@WarhawkYT]

That’s how we pronounce those words here in Texas.

[@jaskim5723]

Cairo, IL is pronounced differently than Cairo, Egypt. He pronounced the Illinois version (Kay-row) correctly.

[@tigerlilly66]

An interesting and well-researched depiction of the batle, but rendered more of an embarrassment concerning the butchery of the King's English by the narrator. Sorry, but as a teacher of syntax, diction, and such, it is hard to ignore such an example of what happens when phonics is abandoned as it has been by the public school system for several decades. The illiterate aren't even aware of how they were shortchanged. An "A" for effort and graphics, but...

[@tttyuhbbb9823]

Yes Sir, I was extremely annoyed, feeling the narrator stepping blindly in the air, not knowing where to put his foot (or tongue!) next! So horrible! (And English is my 2nd language!...)

[@richardwells7635]

I like the history but am surprised at how very many words you mispronounce. Rehearse, and ask for pronunciation help. Your history stories will be more professionally done and you will have a product to be proud of.

[@yoyyoy6357]

This was made months ago

[@TheLocalLt]

This dude did not mispronounce any words why are there so many people commenting this? His pronunciation of theater is a regional dialect, and his pronunciation of Cairo, IL is correct “Kay-ro”

[@thomasfarley5070]

Thanks!

[@WarhawkYT]

You bet!

[@nanouli6511]

A bit too Yankee oriented.

[@WarhawkYT]

well they did win this battle

[@fatcontrollerproductions9910]

@@WarhawkYT the Americans won this battle

[@opalescencedoll7840]

Long live the confederacy

[@talleman1]

Dude, wars over. Get over it.

[@opalescencedoll7840]

@@talleman1 long live the confederacy

[@McFluff33]

Can't spell rebel without L