When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March | GPB Documentaries

FOR 37 WEEKS IN 1864, GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN MADE GEORGIA HIS BATTLEGROUND. Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta History Center have partnered to produce the gripping new documentary “When Georgia Howled: Sherman on the March” on GPB Television. The program is the companion documentary to their Emmy-winning collaboration "37 Weeks: Sherman on the March,” a series of 90-second segments that premiered in April 2014 and commemorated the 150th anniversary of Sherman’s 1864 march into Georgia. IT WAS 37 WEEKS THAT WOULD DETERMINE THE FATE OF A NATION.
Originally Aired September 10, 2015
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[@tessamurphy987]

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[@JamesLuciano-bf3id]

@@GPB learning more by the minute

[@olliemck60]

My great-grandfather and family were enslaved on a plantation near Savannah, and were freed when Sherman came through; my family stayed in the area until 1873 and then went west, to Ft. Smith Arkansas.

[@melissapollom427]

My 3rd great-grandfather was part of Sherman's Army. Maybe they could met.

[@dpdystro2227]

Glad they were freed. I’m wondering who will free the modern slaves in Georgia.

[@nancyswass119]

Wow

[@JohnEglick-oz6cd]

@@Freedom_Half_Off Fought war the way it was suppose to be fought ; the way H Union General William T. Sherman wanted to fight , and seek revenge of the South's secession of the Union.

[@JohnEglick-oz6cd]

God bless , and very interesting that your family was part of this nations history .

[@The_Temple]

the champion of ‘F* around and find out’

[@tonyromano6220]

😂😂

[@zacharyb5701]

Lol. Right? Don't want your city burned to the ground? Don't engage in a rebellion against the US. "GG, EZ" - Sherman, Nov 1864

[@christopherjohnson1803]

Opened up a can of whoop a**

[@scottklocke891]

And folks truly found out😮

[@bighomiemac3472]

Monster left those slaves to die too.

[@LtSump]

"don't blame me for that. It's not my fault, I'm here. I didn't start this, but by god I'm going to end it" So succinctly and brilliantly phrased.

[@krisaaron5771]

Wars don't end. They go home with the soldiers who fought them and permanently change the culture and the people -- including those who never heard a shot fired in anger.

[@LtSump]

@@krisaaron5771 Sherman is one of my heroes, for that very reason, because wars in every generation DO change the culture. Somebody with a ruthless, 'I'm sick of this bullshit' attitude is needed to just get it over with.

[@LtSump]

So, in other words, I agree with you completely.

[@moebetta4224]

What specious bullshit. Sherman was a sadist and a psychopath, and Lincoln war criminal. And yes, the north started the war by attacking Fort Sumpter. Get a clue, Sparky.

[@moebetta4224]

@@LtSump wow, you're profoundly ignorant and possibly a sociopath.

[@666toysoldier]

At a Democratic Party national convention a number of years after the Civil War, the state delegations marched in one at a time, to the strains of their state songs. When the Georgia delegates entered, the band struck up "Marching Through Georgia." There was nearly a riot.

[@LordValorum]

Band decided to do little bit of trolling :D

[@nicoletheresa6654]

Appropriate for dems, the party of slavery

[@marknewton6984]

There should have been.

[@samflynn8962]

Of course when you hear a song dedicating a cowardly march one should riot

[@fruitingfungi]

@@samflynn8962 don't start none, won't be none.

[@iambiggus]

Georgia: "War for the Confederacy!!" Also Georgia: "But do you mind doing this somewhere else?"

[@jamezkpal2361]

Ironically the state which wanted war least suffered worst.

[@danielburbank1669]

@MGTOW Paladin yes. It's too bad that slaves had to wait so long for their freedom from those slave states!

[@danielburbank1669]

@MGTOW Paladin I'm sorry, were there slaves in the south before the Civil War? Thought so. Were there slaves in the south after the Civil War? No. End of discussion pretty much...regardless of the true causes of or motives behind the war, the end result is that the nation moved past its worst evil.

[@danielburbank1669]

@MGTOW Paladin I never said the north was guiltless. The whole country shares guilt for it. You said that freedom was never a lost cause. Freedom did not exist for slaves before the war and did after. It was a necessary conflict.

[@tlee51ftw]

There were no US export tariffs.

[@vincentpertoso3148]

General Sherman when asked said, " War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want".

[@therooster556]

amen tell theb middle eaqst

[@sableindian]

@@therooster556 ????

[@waltershattenkirk3087]

little anthony Huh? What are you communicating?

[@mikebourn6938]

KansasHoneyBadger WOW ,You are right!The Democrat Party is not about representing us the Democrat party is about controlling you.History proves this 1913 it was the Democratic Party that came up with the IRS the agency that can take your property,bank account etc

[@britishgrenadier2800]

KansasHoneyBadger 750,000 died in vain. The union seems like it will break once again. In 7 years.

[@hyacinthlynch843]

"War is cruelty, there's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over." -- William T. Sherman

[@savanahmclary4465]

Lincoln got William Sherman out of a mental institution. What kind of an idiot President, in the USA "Constitution REPUBLIC!" tries to change the USA to a "Democracy" for the MAJORITY to RULE. Then calls for 75,000 troops... (that Mostly consists of Northern FARMERS) That for 4 years, little to NO FOOD CROPS are Grown in the North. (In a USA "Agrairian Society) And has his Union Soldiers to ATTACK 50% + of his own Countries Econony to destroy the Southern States FARMS, of FOOD SUPPLY... Throw the Southern Common Wealths into STARVATION. With the Northern States Farmers being off being Soldiers. (For Abraham Lincoln) for over 4 years LITTLE to NO FOOD was Grown in the North... Until the ENTIRE USA WAS INTO STARVATION And Fighting for FOOD! Not to mention the USA Livestock Starving to DEATH. Abraham Lincoln could NOT even FEED his own Army! That Abraham Lincoln orderd Union Army regiments to invade Northern Farms, just as they were doing in the South and to CONFISCATE any thing that was Food. Until Northern Veterans that had returned home to the North, on their Farms made militias, to fight the Union Regiments, to protect their Family Farms and FOOD SUPPLY. Just as the Union Army was doing in the South. Many of Union Soldiers disappeared in the North.

[@marknewton6984]

Joseph Stalin😅

[@MrCountrycuz]

Can we hold him accountable for his war crimes he allowed his army to commit against the civilian population of Georgie, and can we hold him accountable for his acts of murder against the Native Americans in the West and his statement that he regretted that he did not exterminate the Sioux Tribe? Are we simply going to ignore the evils of this Monster?

[@jbagger331]

@@MrCountrycuz Sherman was a warrior, you unleash him to wage war and war is not civilised.

[@lisalovett487]

I know it’s sad and evil I always tell God I don’t belong here I love to love I just sit and wonder how beautiful this world would be 🥰

[@MudPig6110]

If you read General Grants memoirs he called Johnston being replaced by Hood one of the best actions that Jefferson Davis did for the Union. Johnston strategy of prolonging things, retreating to the next defensible line was frustrating for Sherman's Army. Hood's aggression and lack of any strategy other then fighting played right into Sherman's hands.

[@freddysw]

No general for the confederacy understood to win a war against a superior foe you can't hold onto lines on a map you have to wear your foe down over time.

[@MudPig6110]

@@freddysw exactly, playing for time and inflicting casualties should have been the general strategy. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 and no side sets out to just hold off the other until they lose the will to fight, but the confederacy should have taken the North’s superiority in manpower and industry more seriously. All those troops lost in offensive campaigns were sorely missed in 1864 and 65.

[@freddysw]

@@MudPig6110 call me an armchair general, I would not have engaged in any offensive into the north and abandon the state east of the Mississippi. I would’ve told my people we are fighting a war of national liberation, not as a sovereign nation. Lessons of the gorilla war in Spain during the Napoleonic war was a well-known at a point

[@MudPig6110]

@@freddysw I wonder if all of the early victories by the confederates actually hurt them in the latter part of the war. Trying re-capture that momentum they kept on the offensive for a time, once they crossed over the threshold where it was increasingly harder to replenish their supplies and men they couldn’t even conduct defensive operations. Much like Vicksburg all the union had to do is cut off their supplies and repulse their attacks until they were so worn down that only surrender made sense. Thank goodness Lee and Johnston were purest when it came to the military and refused calls by Davis to go into a guerilla campaign.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@MudPig6110 Well, it did cause Lee to believe his army was unbeatable, right up until he pissed away a third of it for no gains in Pennsylvania...oh, and he refused to send any reinforcements to Vicksburg, ensuring it would surrender and cut the rebel states in half. Every battle Lee fought was with the strategic goal of opening a way for him to march on Washington, but it ignored that he would be marching with an army that had just taken countless casualties, would be low on munitions and then had to fight their way through the heaviest defenses on the entire continent. Overall, that was never a winning strategy for the South to pursue.

[@pr-tj5by]

"Don't blame me....You started this fire when you attacked Fort Sumter, and now the flames have reached your homes" William T Sherman.

[@instantseven9270]

On January 10th 1861 the line of scrimmage between Blue federals and Confederacy, Confederacy comes under fire at Fort Pickens, many were wounded before the Confederacy chased the Federal Blue troops off. Florida seceded from the United States January 10, 1861. All the forts commanded by the United States in Florida now became the target of Florida state troops. Friday, April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired on? Fort Sumter was not the first shot fired

[@heckeroni6699]

@@instantseven9270 Union forces in Florida gathered at Fort Barrancas, then travelled to the abounded Fort Pickens, before Confederate militias marched up in an attempt to take the fort, which the Union fired upon them. Then on October 9th the Confederates attacked the fort, lost 90 men without inflicting a single casualty, and retreated. Keep in mind this is coming from a guy who takes Lincoln quotes out of context, blames Africans and Arabs for slavery, and also think that the Union invented slavery. Still confused, was it the Arabs who invented it or was it the Union, Barry Boy?

[@instantseven9270]

@BenjaminFranklin99 When the states secede, they are technically no longer citizens of the U. S. This means all states in the Confederate States of America were technically not bound by the U. S. Constitution. Nowadays the laws state any secessionist activity is treason. But Davis was not found guilty of treason because he didn't commit it. Instead, the formed their own Sovereign Government and adopted back to the Original Constitution with a few ramifications granted all people citizenship. If that's the best you got, then just stop.

[@gabriel.b9036]

@@instantseven9270 First, please stop talking about the CSA as though they were a sovereign nation. Their secession was illegal and no one even bothered to recognize them diplomatically. Second, because their secession was considered illegal they were still under the US constitution, even if they refused to follow it and just decided to make their own, which was basically copy pasted most of what was on the original. Third, the only reason Jefferson Davis did not plead guilty of treason was just because Lincoln wanted to ease tensions between North and the now bitter South. Oh and your last paragraph is just wrong, not everyone within the south received full rights and Citizenship *cough slaves and natives*.

[@instantseven9270]

@@gabriel.b9036 Wrong, their secession was legal and was proved in court, fact, and who are you to tell me to stop talking about any History subject?

[@ericoberlies7537]

When Sherman died, Johnston stood in the pouring rain for hours, hatless at his funeral. When asked why, he is said to have replied that Sherman would’ve done the same for him. Johnston died of pneumonia within two weeks.

[@avelus5984]

After the war ended, various Union generals saluted Lee out of respect.

[@paulmorales3815]

name surname there was a story about the Confederate general cadmus Wilcox who was a groomsman at Ulysses s Grant's wedding when Wilcox died, former Union and Confederate generals who fought against and with him were the pallbearers at his funeral

[@avelus5984]

@@paulmorales3815 Heartwarming.

[@mnpd3]

Johnston didn't attend because he agreed with Sherman on anything... the way it would have to be in these times. In those days of honor, you did it because it was the honorable thing to do. We don't make people like that anymore.

[@terrygrossmann2295]

mnpd3 you are correct. In fact in battle, many times Union and Confederate officers would order their men not to shoot at an officer of the opposite side do to that officers bravery.

[@babyfarksmgeezaks1037]

I'll never forget when the packers beat the falcons in the 2010 playoffs and the rock said "not since general Sherman came through here in the Civil War has Atlanta been beaten this badly" 😂

[@babyfarksmgeezaks1037]

@@getitgotitgreat8667 ya well did the falcons go on to win win super bowl that year????? Because the packers did :). Thanks for letting us spank that ass dog. Hey better question has Atlanta even won a super bowl let alone a playoff game? I'll be waiting for your answer

[@chrisb616]

It wasnt Rock, it was was Wayne Larrivee.

[@WarriorAngel001]

Then the Falcons demolished the Packers in the 2016 playoffs. They were set to meet the Patriots in the super bowl. They adopted the "rise up" saying, and treated the game like it was gonna be a football version of a civil war rematch. And then 28-3 happened...

[@babyfarksmgeezaks1037]

@@WarriorAngel001 lmao idc Atlanta did to gb 🤣 🤣 🤣 we got a super bowl whooping there ass. They didn't 🤣 they blew the biggest lead in super bowl history and will be joked about for years to come :). Thanks for letting us spank that ass in Atlanta just like the union did in the Civil War 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@JoeSmith-ub1ox]

@@chrisb616 be

[@DK-cy5mt]

I'm British and always been very interested in the US Civil War. This is a fantastic documentary and really well done, thank you.

[@GPB]

Thanks for watching!

[@scottbivins4758]

States rights an slavery man i live in north Carolina one of the southern states that succeeded from the Union everybody tell you is about slavery it just depends on who you ask maybe all the Rich generals were fighting for slavery but i can promise you this their soldiers weren't fighting fir slavery some might have been but it wont a whole lot of them if u were to ask the southern male who fought in the confederate army because i have heard oral records from a actual soldier he said he felt estate rights he felt like the government was abusing its power thats why Robert E Lee didnt get charged with treason and didnt get executed Abraham Lincoln knew it was gonna be war when he wanted to abolish slavery you see Lincoln was born in Kentucky but moved out of the state and went to Illinois so Lincoln didn't really grow up around slavery what the little he did say slavery it was enough to make him say this is wrong which thank god because slavery was wrong an i cant believe some of the generals left the union because of slavery the states rights is different i understand that because before we actually became our our country our States had constitutions that's why we have States Constitution and then we have a Federal Constitution so say if the federal government violates our rights and our Constitution's we have our state government which really if u think about it is America's original government is a state government not federal

[@scottbivins4758]

I myself really think the civil war was a good thing because it questioned our founding fathers when they wrote every man is created equal now our founding fathers did want to do something about slavery but sadly they didn't do nothing about it and they left it up for future generation of Americans to question ask if this is really a moral thing to do so the civil war America need that

[@thatguy2756]

@@scottbivins4758 There's a lot of confederate soldier journals talking about how blacks should and shall never be placed on the level of whites. Not to mention multiple secessionist states stating slavery for the reason of secession, and slavery being enshrined as a right in the confederate constitution...yeah it was primarily about slavery. States rights? States rights to what? Own slaves.

[@beetle3088]

​@@scottbivins4758 punctuation is your friend.

[@MarkGoding]

Sherman "Well , if you are going to call it the war of Northern aggression..."

[@Exedus20]

I'm surprised KZbin even let you print that phrase .

[@MPlain]

Wow. OK. so the south fires first and it's northern aggression ? If the south didn't start it... The fighting maybe never starts, and we are still two nations. But we are probably heading for two at the moment and might be better off given the lack of interest to work together "to do anything". Maybe two is an improvement on the alternative. 50. I admit that what happened after the war in the south is shameful.... but did the north do that or was it just certain elites that capitalized on an opportunity to steal from folks..... Most likely the latter.

[@jamesrichardson3322]

Mark Goding The South seceded from the Union illegal under the United States Constitution. They raised 100,000 volunteers against their government, they attack other forts and armories and warehouse's. They fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 at 4:30 am. The south was the aggressors.

[@MPlain]

@@jamesrichardson3322 That's the history according to what everybody knows. Apparently that isn't what get's taught in the red state schools. Guess they start the indoctrination and the brain washing to blindly obey and be good little sheep early. They've made their objectives clear with shortly after Trump's inauguration by stealing the freedom of speech in 18 red states. Then there is Trump's actions to attempt to create a national government controlled and dictated news service to falsely inform the public.... aka.... copy Pravda. And the attempt to over throw election results installing a true dictatorship and 100% FAKE government and a FAKE president. Then since the removal of the man who has made it 100% he was the enemy in charge they have continued their quest to steal rights and freedoms from Americans. It isn't just Don that is the enemy. It's the whole damn Republican party. Vote for anything else in 2022. Voting republican is clearly voting for the enemy. It's time for a new conservative party. One that actually represents our values. Bring it. I will vote for it. I won't be alone.

[@Exedus20]

@@MPlain dude. Your leftobigotry is freaking epic.

[@ruthlesslyuninfluencedbyin2525]

Georgia when Sherman arrived: "It was just a prank, bro."

[@napoleonbonaparte7686]

Shame I died earlier, I would have been with Yankees kicking some ass

[@jamesleavenworth6447]

@Bob's house Well try to get a life at least.

[@Moose803]

@Bob's house who has it?

[@dogbean5015]

@@napoleonbonaparte7686 you realise france was allied with confederates right

[@dogbean5015]

@@napoleonbonaparte7686 or at least alloed to texas

[@edwardwong654]

When I was on a project in St Louis, I visited General Sherman's grave to pay my respect. His brother is the Sherman of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.

[@michaelinsc1644]

Have you visited Berlin to pay your respects to Hitler as well? He too made war on women and children and engaged in genocide.

[@swiater1]

@@michaelinsc1644 Slavery was abolished in 1865, right? Are you anti or pro slavery? Explain your comment please..

[@michaelinsc1644]

@@swiater1 Slavery was not the issue when Sherman's hordes were raping, killing and burning their way through Georgia and South Carolina. When he said he wanted Southerners to howl who was he talking about? The elderly, women and children back home. That was the kind of monster he was. Much like the British in the Boer wars. They couldnt outright win completely on the battlefield so they made war on the women and children.

[@neilkurzman4907]

@@michaelinsc1644 So what you’re saying is the Southerners killing the Black people was OK. Or did you skip over that part of the video? Sherman didn’t start the war. But he certainly finished it. Perhaps a lesson to those who want to start a war because they think it’s easy to win. People like you.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

@@michaelinsc1644 I doubt that you understand what War actually is.

[@PrinceChaloner]

They seriously need to make an actual tv series of this just like Band of Brothers..

[@__cornflake__4252]

William "Defend the Plantation, Prepare for Cremation" Sherman

[@josephmiele2277]

What are the North’s and South’s views on seceding and slavery? The South: we have the right to preserve our livelihoods and states rights The North: DEFEND THE PLANTATION PREPARE FOR CREMATION

[@Night_Hawk_475]

​@@josephmiele2277 yeah yeah, "Preserve our livelihoods" as in "preserve our ability to make a living off the backs of slaves"? Nice mental gymnastics there.

[@josephmiele2277]

That’s the point. It’s supposed to have the south deny the extent of what they wanted to keep.

[@faeking2223]

@@josephmiele2277 Then the North genocide the Native Americans and force conscripted poor immigrants from Europe to fight for them while allowing the rich to buy their way out of the draft while also refusing to hire them said poor immigrants. but hey, genocide and indentured servitude is better than slavery right?

[@djcogdill9263]

@@faeking2223 They also forgot that Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Washington DC all had slaves when the war started, and Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey STILL had slaves AFTER the war ended. I guess the South seceded in order to keep something the North got rid of AFTER the South did.

[@mistahanansi2264]

“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” - William T. Sherman

[@dogbean5015]

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow to fond of it" Robert E Lee

[@terryrodbourn2793]

Kwaku Anansi If you really think about Southern Women stated the Myth of Sherman when forage is taken from them!

[@TonyWud]

@@dogbean5015 I always thought that was a real insight into him. Why would anyone be fond of that meat grinder? Only a privileged asshole who never bled a drop of blood. He should have been hung and buried in a ditch.

[@TonyWud]

@James Richardson Are you talking about Lee? I was.

[@ekkehardlichti9673]

@@terryrodbourn2793 111

[@tomsurber2293]

Neither of the Confederate generals lost Atlanta. Sherman wasn't going to be stopped by anyone or anything. He won it.

[@stephenandersen4625]

Joe Johnston was probably the best confederate commander but he didn't have the resources or the political backing. Hood was aggressive to a fault

[@rickstevens1479]

What was one aspect of the times before telephones is how beautifully people wrote letters , no doubt a lost art . People with limited education could write in a beautiful style..

[@TheGreyGhost_of43rd]

Now kids can't send a proper text message. The downfall is undeniable

[@lt.random210]

@@TheGreyGhost_of43rd simply a change in culture, kids now are better at many other more things

[@gamerk316]

Sherman was probably the first high-ranking General to openly state how many men were going to be needed to win the war; he understood the scope of it, and understood what was going to be necessary to win it. He outright warned several of his acquaintances who went to join the Confederacy how they had no chance, and what was going to happen to them when they lost. Yes, Sherman was flawed. But he understood the war from the beginning.

[@brycecolwell4304]

i disagree. the outcome was anything but inevitable. thee were alot of mistakes along the way and luck and chance.what if Grant never had his chance at command and did indeed fall into the bottle.if Lee didnt fall into his own legend and send 50% of his army to the grave in Pickets charge of the light brigade... if atlanta had not fallen and held out just a few more months, and had things been done to assure this , would the north have the stomach to continue? the politics in the north were not unified. the south had to win by attrition, and they didnt do a bang up job of it. So Shermans bravado and self confidence was all it was, not fortune telling. he just happened to get the coin flip.

[@gamerk316]

@@brycecolwell4304 But looking at it another way, the North did literally EVERYTHING they could have done to try and lose the war. They had chances every year as far back as 1861, such as: Post Seven Days: Just attack Richmond Post Antietam: Give reinforcements after the Confederate center broken Post Gettysburg: Attack when the Confederates were trapped behind a flooded river Petersburg: Attack and capture the town before Beauregard reinforces it Even if you argue there's a world where Atlanta isn't captured and Lincoln looses re-election, Democrats were just as split between "war" and "peace" parties, and it's not inconceivable Grant just attacks Petersburg after Lincoln loses, leading to the same result. Realistically, the only chance the Confederates had to win was immediately after 1st Bull Run. After that Washington was unattackable and the weight of numbers eventually overcame general Union incompetency. The fact the Confederate government made a choice to try and hold everything instead of focusing on negating the Union manpower edge only hasted it's decline as the war dragged on.

[@haythere5805]

? he had a nervous breakdown because he didn’t believe the war could be won

[@gamerk316]

@@haythere5805 not true at all. He outright stated the south had zero prospect for victory, on a number of occasions early in the war. He was asked to go home when he loudly claimed a quarter million men would be needed to win, which was considered laughable in 1861.

[@MollymaukT]

He also was friends with Helmut von Moltke. The two toughest SOBs of the 19th Century that created modern warfare together must've been a sight

[@Eric0816]

"You have started this fire when you attacked Fort Sumter. Now the flames have reached your homes"-William T. Sherman

[@PacificCircle1]

He said that? I like Sherman even more!

[@PacificCircle1]

Ken Abbott Sherman's 'victims' were enemy combatants or their supporters. The terrorism of slavery an insurrection HAD to be stopped. Sherman said his orders and actions necessary; responsibility.

[@PacificCircle1]

Ken Abbott No, the terrorism of slavery was not justified.

[@PacificCircle1]

Ft. Sumter was the 'Pearl Harbor' of the 1800s

[@heidimelendez5623]

No it was not. Fort Sumter was asked by the Confederacy to open the gates and let them have it. When the commander refused and asked for support from Washington DC, he was given food, no ammunition and no troops. The Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter but it was not a sneak attack.

[@ellenchavez2043]

Sherman on Grant: "I stood by him when he was drunk, and he stood by me when I was crazy. And we've stood by each other since." Bottom line, the South was: - Outmanned - Outresourced - Outgeneraled

[@jamesmiller5331]

If it wasn't for McClellan it might have been over within 18 months

[@ellenchavez2043]

@@jamesmiller5331 I always suspected McClellan of sabotaging the Union. He would actually pull troops back after advancing rather than pursuing and winning the battle. He should have been tried for treason.

[@marknewton6984]

Not out generaled.

[@christopherjohnson1803]

Lee was a great General, but he faced increasingly difficult and impossible situations.

[@marknewton6984]

Lee had 2 years to force a truce. Close. But Jefferson Davis would not accept.@christopherjohnson1803

[@jrh7741]

Lee literally sacrificed half of his army and he gets praise.. Sherman is the greatest general in USA history !

[@jefftrahern616]

Lol. Maybe if you like evil men! ...murdering, rape, and theft!

[@marknewton6984]

Strange

[@andrewwynne6934]

South: We are Seceding from the Union! Sherman: So you have chosen death.

[@rw3423]

People forget Sherman continuously warned everyone how horrific war is but South didn't listen, so sad, wasted lives, we should learn from this history lesson Correct?,🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🙏

[@tlee51ftw]

@@rw3423 "The South began the war by seizing forts, arsenals, mints, custom-houses, etc., etc., long before Mr. Lincoln was installed, and before the South had one jot or tittle of provocation. I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands and thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes to you, you feel very different." Sherman

[@rw3423]

@@tlee51ftw all lives are gift from God who is in control. War of any kind is horrific. I pray for this country- won't you join me🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@LordMephilis]

Sherman was mostly salty cause he got humilated early on in the war and decided to take it out on Civilians.

[@Rune-Thorne]

@@LordMephilisYes, he learned from early losses and taught what he learned to every person he came across during war. Sherman's doctrine on total war and Marshall's doctrine on Nation Occupation and rebuilding are both taught to military commanders today. When you heard from Colin Powell that we broke it, we bought it in Iraq and opposing the how we occupied Iraq was just him echoing the plans these 2 men left to military leaders in America for all generations. You fight like Sherman, and occupy like Marshall and you will never lose a war, because you recognize war is hell and you better be the devil. The reason we have been less successful in occupation since WWII is that we no longer have the desire to truly pay for occupation even though military occupation would have been cheaper than military contractor occupation in the long run.

[@Pseunolia]

Sherman seems like the embodiment of "teaching by example". "Oh, you dont believe that war is hell? B O I do I have a lesson for you"

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

@James Richardson Germany even removed swastikas from grave stones....

[@animeAJproductions]

Condoning total war upon fellow Americans? What other war crimes did the Union NOT commit upon the southern states? Its not wonder so few are against federal and police brutality in 2020.

[@willoutlaw4971]

@@animeAJproductions The Confederates were not FELLOW Americans. They started a war against the U.S.A.to destroy the U.S.A. and killed hundreds of thousands of Union troops to try and defeat the U.S.A. Fortunately the Confederates States of American got their asses kicked by Union armies led by Generals Grant, Meade, Sherman, and Sheridan.

[@bubblegumfacebabe]

@@willoutlaw4971 legally speaking there's nothing in the constitution that says something like "secession is illegal", upon secession the union attacked the south. the south wanted to keep their state's rights and had no plans to hurt anyone, they kept to themselves.

[@donnied6151]

@sneksnekitsasnek I think most historians agree that the Treaty of Verssailes was a major reason for radicalizing Germany, I wouldn't say Germany was more or less guilty for starting World War One which was really responsible for setting off World War Two. I don't think we have really learnt any lessons in modern times either war does radicalize people and the butchery in the middle east will pay dividends in the future, just like decades of war in Afghanistan yielded September 11. I seem to be one of the few people that is grateful that we have nukes, finally something that has at least kept all the major powers from going into another butchery again but its a limited time-safe, technology marches on.

[@Unpainted_Huffhines]

One of the earliest American examples of the "F*** Around and Find Out" principle.

[@G-MONEY1996]

Thats right

[@michaelnaretto3409]

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee

[@DuncanDisordely]

General Lee on refusing to write an autobiography: “I would be trading on the blood of my men” (unclear whether he was talking about his soldiers or slaves though)

[@nickroberts-xf7oq]

After Appomattox, Lee told his men to "...fold the flag and put it away or else it will be devisive." ✔️ He also said, of civil war statues "Best to not leave open the sores of war." It's amazing just how many armchair generals defy his wisdom ! 💥 🇺🇸 💥

[@68weav]

"You people dont know what your talking about. War is a terrible thing." - Sherman

[@TraeSMR]

He said "Here watch, I'll show you how bad it is."

[@davidmeehan4486]

That's racist!

[@animeAJproductions]

And Sherman is one of the most terrible warlords of the American Civil War.

[@68weav]

Architect of Total War. He is one of the reasons warfare is like it is now.

[@68weav]

@Chris Davis Thanks for the comment of cold hard truth. Its just facts.

[@flournoymason8961]

Sherman spared every town or city that didn't resist. This includes Conyers Ga where I live, Madison, and Savannah.

[@tomcockburn653]

There were only civilians in those towns.

[@gph752]

Savannah was a gift to Lincoln

[@vitoferrara5876]

he also spared every sonic drive through. It is said that he loved their curly fries, and would sometimes feed some to his horse.

[@clockguy2]

Not so. Columbia, SC surrendered to Sherman before he entered and they still burned it.

[@slantsix6344]

I think he could not control his troops and many things were burned that he had no idea about.

[@youtubehastakenovermylife4979]

I remember I asked my dad when I was 10 before the internet which war killed the most Americans. And he told me it was the civil war. And I said “how many did WE lose.” And he said “well Son it was Americans on both sides so every battle was a massive loss of American life.” I’ve looked at the numbers and read books about it since then and the numbers are astronomical. So sad.

[@rtqii]

Sherman is said to have had a "nervous breakdown" prior to his battlefield command. He was having premonitions of the causalities before he caused them, these premonitions were so vivid and so intense, he was not able to function normally until he had processed through them.

[@allingtonmarakan6639]

In one battle, (I think it was either Shiloh or Gettysburg, I'd have to look it up to check), more Americans were killed than in the entire Vietnam War.

[@raulbaquero5081]

620,000 KILLED, 875,000 WOUNDED Population at time = 32 Million citizens..

[@billastell3753]

Sadly the upcoming civil war brought on by Trump and his supporters will make that one look like a walk in the park.

[@billymack333]

Relative to the population of the US at the time the numbers are huge. It’s rumblings are still felt over 150 years later.

[@Buckdodgers]

"I can make this march and make Georgia howl!" Sherman wasn't lying when he said that. Georgia didn't just how, it SCREAMED.

[@marknewton6984]

Sherman made war against widows and orphans. What a hero.

[@Ntwolf1220]

@@marknewton6984bro is all over the comments crying because his great grandad got CLAPPED for owning people. Stay mad. sometimes you need a mad dog to take down an even worst beast

[@carlreed6186]

To stop the south from enslaving babies. @@marknewton6984

[@nghtwtchmn129]

@@Ntwolf1220 What, you actually think the NORTH had clean hands?? Do you even know how many enslaved persons the James DeWolf family imported?

[@nghtwtchmn129]

@@marknewton6984 Today's leftists would scream bloody murder if Sherman's tactics had been used on the Taliban.

[@1thomson]

I've read a letter sent from a distant and long-dead cousin to his family back in Iowa. It was a letter about the Battle at Kennesaw Mountain, in which he participated as a Union soldier. He was brief and spared his family the gory details, but he was clearly deeply sad about the whole experience, even though equally clearly committed to the Union cause. Men who have participated in such horror do not boast of it or wish ever to see it again. Only fools think war is glorious.

[@graftedin3]

My GG Grandfather was on Kennesaw Mountain, his Capitan Ward was killed by a cannon shell. (Wards Battery) My Grandfather walked back to Huntsville Ala. He related the story to my uncle in the 1928. My uncle lived to be 98 years old.

[@Bellephus]

War is glorious - it is brutal, cruel, and terrible, but it is also glorious.

[@batmanjones5202]

@@Bellephus You have obviously never been in one.

[@veanwhitcher7867]

@@Bellephus war is necessary for the human race to advance, as much as we would prefer to believe otherwise

[@nightdragon1710]

Hey do you know sherman documentary with actor not just pictures like this

[@idontknow164]

"The Confederacy is a hollow shell. I know it, and Sherman is going to prove it."- Ulysses S. Grant

[@MGTOWPaladin]

Celebrating a drunk!

[@walterp.chrysler]

@@MGTOWPaladin He outfought every confederate army that he faced, so he could not have been that drunk. If you still wish to claim that he was a drunk, then you are also saying that the confederate officers were idiots, because a drunk man beat them. Also, if you simply claim that Grant won those battles because he had better troops, then you are saying that the Union had better troops than the confederacy did, because Grant started winning battles in the east as soon as he was transferred east too. The south won battles at the beginning of the war because the Union had some high ranking, politically connected officers being put in charge of the army. Men like McClellan and Burnside, who should never have been given any other command other than officers in charge of latrine inspections. Lincoln saw what Grant was doing in the west and over the howling protests of others gave Grant command of the army. because he fought, and WON battles.

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@walterp.chrysler There NEVER should have been any battles! But, the ENORMOUS financial growth of the South in money for its cash crops, took the former English southern colonies, at the turn of the century from about the War of 1812 to 1860, becoming a storehouse of cash crops and the 4th wealthiest country in the world. The North was not going to let that MONEY 💰 go!

[@walterp.chrysler]

@@MGTOWPaladin For a confederate supporting troll, your posts can be pretty damned silly. lol..

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@walterp.chrysler I could say pretty much the same thing to you, Lincolnista! But, since you can't prove me wrong, I'm not going to worry about it!

[@robertemanuel7664]

Truly a MOST informative, enlightening, and fascinating video! Thank you much for posting! This should be seen in every American history class.

[@GPB]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching GPB

[@rightpa]

"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." -W. T. Sherman

[@marknewton6984]

Lenin

[@PotatoGawds]

cry@@marknewton6984

[@ikerivers1795]

@@marknewton6984 Nah, just an ol fashioned ass whoopin

[@TANTHEMANFILMS]

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. - William T. Sherman

[@TANTHEMANFILMS]

@@mgtowpaladin6566 its just a quote dude. lol

[@thomasmackelly7685]

@@mgtowpaladin6566 sherman was in the right

[@MainstreamPoPsucks3]

@@mgtowpaladin6566 The south just wanted to keep their slaves.

[@MainstreamPoPsucks3]

​@@mgtowpaladin6566 The CSA was not a sovereign but a bunch of rebellious states who started attacking fort sumpter, this led to Lincoln calling up 75 000 volunteers to defeat the rebellion. What the north fought for was to keep a nation united. The south fought to preserve an institution that was outlawed in the northern states. The constitution of the rebels guaranteed the right for white men to own slaves. The confederate leaders said themselves they seceded because they wanted to keep slavery. Their vice president of the CSA said in his cornerstone speech that the CSA were based on the superiority of the white man over the black man and that their constitution was not based on equality between the white man and the black man. During the first half of the 19th century up until the civil war there was a huge controversy about the question of expansion of slavery which ended in several compromises that only calmed down the situation for a period at a time. The northerners opposed the expansion of slavery and the southerns wanted the expansion of slavery. The south did indeed fought to preserve the institution of slavery.

[@MainstreamPoPsucks3]

@@mgtowpaladin6566 How can you invade your own country? How exactly was Lincoln a tyrant? Because he didn't put up with more shit from the southerners? Face the fact. The south fought for independence only because they wanted to preserve the right to own slaves.

[@saxogrammaticus3917]

"You people speak of war so lighty, you don't know what you're talking about, war is a terrible thing." - William Tecumseh Sherman......directed at people of the south, it echoes through time to our current entanglements

[@tomdooley3522]

As well war never gets refined , it's the Inevitable outcome of what happens When words become worthless.

[@monberg1000]

@@tomdooley3522 do you want a new civil war?

[@tomdooley3522]

@@monberg1000 If that's what it takes to drain the swamp , that's what it takes. I sure hope it don't come to that , because it isn't just this country , but all of western civilization. But whatever it takes to break the deep states back. Better to live a day as a lion then a lifetime as a jackal. ( motto of the Roman army ) Better to die on your feet then live on your knees. ( Davy Crockett ) I will pray for Caesar , I will not pray to him. ( frist century pope, told the Christians to say that were told, Burn a pinch of incense and say a short prayer to Caesar, and you can go free )

[@monberg1000]

@@tomdooley3522 That is all very good. But you are saying that you don't mind a war if it can't be avoided. In what circumstances would it be better to give up dialogue and take up arms? War is never a good solution to anything.

[@tomdooley3522]

@@monberg1000 When words become worthless war becomes inevitable ..

[@isaacasdreams]

Gone with the Wind sent me here, I am now fascinated by this time period.

[@jerroldbates355]

The drive down I-75 from the Tennessee border to Atlanta, gets me every time.

[@nickroberts-xf7oq]

Me too.....no Buckee's ! 😅

[@notthatdonald1385]

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we should grow too fond of it"

[@sambradley1968]

Gen. Robert E Lee.. 😊

[@andrewo.b.7638]

I've always regarded the above statement about war to be tinged with psychopathology.

[@Putaspellonyou]

@@sambradley1968 and he said it whilst kicking Burnside's ass at the time. So yeah, I'm sure at THAT point he was quite fond of it.

[@sambradley1968]

@@Putaspellonyou Sherman said "War is Hell! 😊

[@lestermount3287]

Stonewall Jackson said that.

[@jacoboburke5821]

Sherman didn't give a crap. The dude was gonna achieve his goals no matter what.

[@jimomalley1518]

I think he died of Covid 19 !

[@williamwhite791]

He would make the perfect Democrat today.

[@5ithofnov159]

@@williamwhite791 no Democrats are soy boys that dare not raise a hand, he'd be more of an independent Democrat like aoc ohmar or bernie

[@pgrant7688]

“... their indifference to the needs of their former masters.” Even at that point, Southerners couldn’t believe slaves preferred freedom.

[@jefferyprescott8726]

THEY WERE "TRAITORS" IN HIS EYE'S...STILL ARE!

[@thomasb1889]

I saw a quote some years ago from a Confederate officer about Sherman's army that the world had not seen an army like that since the Romans. Sherman's army runs into a swamp and they corduroy road through it in quick order. Manage to get a force in front of Sherman and he deploys and then flanks the blocking force. Nothing could stop them.

[@tkmmkt6569]

I saw the same thing.

[@g0679]

That was Joseph Johnston, honorary pallbearer at his funeral.

[@thomasb1889]

@@g0679 Thank you.

[@danawinsor1380]

This is such an excellent documentary. It's the first one I've ever watched twice.

[@GPB]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!

[@danawinsor1380]

@@GPB You're quite welcome.

[@lray1948]

Sherman was the first president of L. S. U. in 1860. When Louisiana seceded he resigned, went north and offered his services to the union. He remained good friends with some of the officials and professors at the university and after the war sent the university a cannon that was at Ft. Sumter which fired back on the confederates. It was there in front of the ROTC building when I attended L. S. U. in the 60s.

[@PNL-DJ-1]

It is two canons and his friend was David Boyd. When Boyd was captured in battle, he wrote Sherman to get him released. Sherman did this for David Boyd. They remained friends until they died.

[@PNL-DJ-1]

@@geoffreycoghy3783 - good for you! Did you like the Citadel when you were there?

[@alexistrebexis3195]

Liar. The Egyptians did that.

[@youtubehastakenovermylife4979]

Very interesting.

[@JackOkie]

@@geoffreycoghy3783 Many of today's young folks would be wise to follow your example. I was drafted, posted to Ft. Sam Houston, after the Army went back to college much more mature than before I dropped out.

[@YoshLovesYou]

The most amazing thing to me is Sherman's dynamic with Johnston. Once they were one another's biggest rival and target... years later, Johnston serves as Sherman's pallbearer and dies, arguably, due to his own self-negligence in showing respect for Sherman. What a finale!

[@diogeneslamplit6573]

Johnson claimed he thought Sherman would have done the same for him. A measure of that man's superior charitable nature to mine. I rather tend to doubt it.

[@61lastchild]

Pallbearer.

[@YoshLovesYou]

@@61lastchild totally right, idk how I made that mistake

[@SAS-hz5ek]

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses or even fungi. It's spread by coughing, sneezing, or breathing near those infected. Not wearing a hat is not the cause of pneumonia.

[@lilblackduc7312]

..The riots & violence/murder in the north? They are getting what they deserve. 😎🖕

[@williamlapenna3443]

Congratulations on an epic review of history, told by those who suffered the most, if our children don’t know of this story then we should hang our heads in shame!

[@savanahmclary4465]

"Shame" for what? If you are speaking of SLAVERY? SLAVERY was out Lawed in the USA in 1807. And the Shipping Companies stopped transporting slaves, from Africa in the Northern States (Soverign "Common Wealths" in 1807)Research the Shipping Companies, Leders and Manifest Records, in the Maritime Repositories in Maryland, in Virginia, Norfolk, North Carolina and in Charleston, South Carolina? While you are at it: Research the Common Wealths "Plat" maps and Tax Records? Starting around 1800s Plantations were being resurveyed and divided into 40 to 160 acre small farms: With 23 to 25 of the Aristocrats and Planters Children inheriting their Small farms: And they Farmed their Small Farms themselves. without Slaves.. And the Funny thing, that the Planters and Aristocrats descendants are still farming their small farms themselves today, in 2023 with GPS implements. Ans They are not using slaves. Research Civil War Statistics: 92% of the Southerners that fought in the Civil War did NOT own Slaves... Only 8% who fought for the South in the Civil War owned Slaves. Not say there was No African on North America: I suggest you Research just exactly to what was their status. And why you are researching notice that the Africans have their Ancestors Supposed Owners Surname. The only place on North America that SLAVERY was still being practiced: was in what once the Louisiana Common Wealth that belonged to France before Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana in 1804. And who were still in use of the French CURRENCY the "DIX," in plural is "DIXIE." Louisiana Common Wealth consisted of the Now States of Louisiana, a portion of Alabama,, Mississippi, Arkansas, a portion of Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.

[@hellstromcarbunkle8857]

Sherman was right. To end the war, the South had to be broken. Not damaged, not forced into surrender, CRUSHED.

[@tailsprowerfan2729]

We will rise again we are sick of being mock and being told we should of been destroyed and hung

[@zolafuckass8606]

Fantastic summary at the start. "I didn't start it, but by God, I'm going to end it." Sherman did the right thing.

[@TheRock1979]

Hwdui

[@Em3ga]

"Dont start nothing, won't be nothing." - General Sherman

[@marke8323]

@@Em3ga Sherman was a believer of "Total War", decimated everything that could be used by the enemy, though through the years he has been blamed for sacking parts of the South that he was never near. Part of the legend I guess...

[@mattja52]

Sherman's words, "War is brutal, you can't refine it."

[@waltermcfarland4912]

He was a war criminal, attacking defenseless women and children against the international rules of war taught at West Point. Set the example for the carnage of WW1 and WW2.

[@ABCDEFG-bk9gx]

If Sherman tried to invade Atlanta today he'd get snarled in all the traffic.

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

" MERGE YOU ASSHOLES MERGE!" - William Tecumseh Sherman

[@DJShire_ATL]

ABC DEFG he would probably call I285 the city moat.

[@robertbates6057]

LOL! Ain't that the truth. My uncle was a former fighter pilot and refused to drive through ATL to get to the N GA mtns.

[@SuperRat420]

Imagine needing lights to tell you how to merge. I ran it first time I took the truck down that way because I never even considered that possibility. Had no fuckin idea what I was looking at

[@SuperRat420]

@Tropic Lightning''''''logic''''', just figure out if youre going slower or faster than traffic an MERGE

[@GeorgiaBoy2n1]

I’m born & raised in Marietta, Ga. I remember in middle school they were saying it was haunted because the school was built on one of the confederate cemeteries. Alot of history on the streets I grew up riding bikes on

[@johnnyfive4436]

Wow imagine being friends with someone since child hood and your on enemy sides now fighting each other. I can’t imagine how that must have been.

[@curiousone6129]

Its happening today.

[@flournoymason8961]

As a Georgian living in the area of which Sherman destroyed I have this to say. Yeah for Sherman. He ended the war by fighting a total war. I'm glad the Union was saved. I live in Conyers Ga and this town was spared simply because we stopped fighting and gave Sherman what he wanted. Conyers was not a rich town but many of the houses that were here during the civil war are still here. Sherman also spared Madison Ga and when Savannah Ga surrendered without a fight he spared that magnificent too. He destroyed the railroads and the larger farms and whipped every army the Confederacy sent against him. The Confederate cause was anything but glorious.

[@MrPotatoesLatkie]

@@johnnyllooddte3415 But I guess he never spared those that surrendered to his army?

[@eliseeden]

johnny llooddte South deserved every bit if it. Treason has a price. You were on the wrong side of morality

[@eliseeden]

johnny llooddte Didn't the allies fire bomb Dresden? Didn't US drop atomic bombs on two cities? Suppose that's different though huh? Try again.

[@JRead0691]

@@johnnyllooddte3415 lmfao... what is the hangup old people have with communist countries? The majority of people that invoke "communism" can't even define it. Also, if you honestly think that Russia, North Korea, and Iran are "communist" then you really need to brush up on modern geo-politics. Also, Iran may not be communist but its actually a Republic, just like ours... its just a Theocratic Republic. Words mean things man...

[@lamwen03]

Grant was fighting and killing Confederate soldiers. And losing lots of his own troops doing it. Sherman's troops killed almost no one. He destroyed property, wrecked rail lines, stripped the food the rebel armies needed to continue the fight. He gutted the economy of the rebel states, and likewise the myth of the gallant southern armies that would fight to the death. They didn't.

[@Junkman2008]

Living in Kentucky, I have often driven to Atlanta. Because of my studies of the Civil War, I am amazed at although so much has changed, so much of the land, roads and mountains that I see today are in the documentaries from the Civil War that I have watched, especially those by Ken Burns. I really appreciated seeing pictures of the then and now, as it for some reason in my mind validates the reality of what happened years ago. History has always fascinated me. I was born less than a 100-years after the Civil War, which helps bring home the point of just how recent it was. As a military man, it also brings home the point that war should be avoided at all cost, if possible. War is hell. This Civil War was hell on earth. Some of the true carnage will probably lie on a battlefield somewhere, never to be told for our ears to hear.

[@staciasmith5162]

Very well put. You'd make a good writer.

[@Junkman2008]

@@staciasmith5162 Thank you, ma'am. 🙂

[@ALANRLEAKE]

Excellent comments. Another thing that made the Civil War hell was the primitive medical care back then ( when you compare it to 2021) where many soldiers on both sides feared the medics more the enemy.

[@Junkman2008]

@@ALANRLEAKE Yes, you are correct sir. Looking at some of the battle wounds from that war shows that the medics were quick to lop off a limb. That was brutal. There's no telling how many soldiers suffered unnecessarily.

[@stevejette2329]

@@ALANRLEAKE What did they have for painkillers ? Whiskey maybe. Antibiotics ? Whiskey ? Prosthetics ? Wood. Evacuation ? HA

[@mattmccormick8749]

Absolutely Stellar documentary enjoyed it from one point to the other what a story on so many points one hell of a story you don't hear about these days

[@tomservo5347]

I've worn those woolen uniforms at re-enactments and even on 70 degree pleasant days I would be soaked through. I can't imagine wearing that in Georgia summer heat.

[@davisx2002]

1st line 4th word

[@orabera]

90's in England? Everyone nearly passed out.

[@tfoen7678]

Only a fool would wear wool in a Georgia summer. That and blue falcons and their battle buddies at Ft. Benning, Stewart, or Gordon.

[@WestTNConfed]

Try dark blue wool frock coat, in June Mississippi heat. That's what i did at the Brices Crossroads reenactment, you see the air you breathe. At the real battle Forrest used the weather to his advantage, because it was so hot and humid. Slowed the Federals to a craw.

[@worldmusic09]

I wore one of those uniforms at Gettysburg 150 where it was heat index around 100. Amazing how you find ways to stay cool and how quickly you become accustomed to it. Wool breathes, cotton doesn't.

[@ultimaterescreen]

Love that his middle name was Tecumsah after the Indian warrior who brought the tribes together!

[@johnkennedy8478]

It's odd to me. As secretary of war under Grant he was pretty terrible to native Americans. I think he did what he felt was right in the civil war and it worked. His army trashed Georgia and South Carolina and while he did shell Atlanta in its siege his March to the sea didn't physically harm noncombatants. He did not give the native Americans the same level of humanity

[@frank5d]

Yeah. It’s only awesome in that it’s damn weird.

[@jimbarber9638]

Sherman was given his middle name by his father, a great admirer of the Indian Chief Tecumseh. He was generally called Tecumseh throughout his younger years that morphed to the shortened name "Cump" in later years. During the war, his troops called him "Uncle Billy."

[@jimbarber9638]

@@johnkennedy8478 Sherman was never Secretary of War under President Grant or at any other time. At the beginning of the war President Lincoln offered him the position of Assistant Secretary of War in preparation to eventually move him into that position, but he declined. Sherman was very adverse to any political position...he hated politics. After Grant became President, Sherman was promoted to General in Chief of the Army that he served in until he retired many years later.

[@johnkennedy8478]

@@jimbarber9638 Sherman served as grants interim secretary of war from September 6 1869- October 25 of the same year. While very short I encourage you to look into his actions in this time. While short his method of dealing with and attitude towards native Americans is clear and sadly helped shape policy in dealing with them

[@tarot-karma-online]

Very touching written docu. Thank u to the writers and filmmakers.

[@GPB]

Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!

[@roblindsay101]

Beautifully done, and tragic.

[@astralclub5964]

There are two ways to win a war. First, one can kill every last enemy soldier. Secondly, you can destroy the enemies ability to support an army in the field with food and other supplies.

[@a0flj0]

There's just one way to win a war: destroy the enemy's strategy. Whatever that is. You can afford to kill his troops when you have superior weaponry, logistics, training and numbers. In case of comparable equipment and training, trying this will bring you nothing - you'll loose as many troops as you kill. Scorched earth works well against invading armies. Wasn't the case of Sherman's campaign. Still, Sherman did attack into his enemy's strategy. The South was fighting to keep up slavery, which was their source of richness. He started making the war more costly for them than freeing up slaves. That's when the South broke - even won, a war too costly would have been a total defeat.

[@mattjohnson180]

Joseph Coburn not all people in the south were fighting for slaves, and not all people in the north were fighting to free slaves. But with that being said it would be flat out ignorant to say that slavery was the sole factor in starting the war. We know this because 1 the succeeding states made it very clear that they were leaving because their right to own slaves was coming close to an end. 2 many people will say the civil war really started with the Kansas Nebraska act which was a slave state free state issue. 3 the 1860 presidential election was one of the most polarized elections in history with Lincoln not getting a single vote in the south for his anti slavery stance+ being part of the Republican Party which were abolitionist. There is no doubt the war wouldn’t have happened if the United States had no slaves bc the south wouldn’t have felt that their rights to own slaves were being infringed upon.

[@dicktation_4769]

Florin Jurcovici You’re WAY off. Sherman’s march occurred near the end of the war...after the South was already weakened. The Union strategy was two fold and had nothing to do with Sherman. First, the Union blockade strangled the CSA (the Anaconda Plan), cutting off valuable supplies coming in and cutting off the South’s ability to export it’s number one money maker to Europe...cotton. Second, the Union cut the South in two by way of the Mississippi River. You’re vaguely right in that the Union’s main strategy was economic, as it was clear early on that the South had superior military leadership on the field of battle. The early Southern victories showed the Union that they would need to take another approach to win (thus the Anaconda Plan and the Mississippi campaigns). But Sherman’s March and the freeing of slaves along the way was hardly the death knell for the South; nor was it the crowning Union strategy. The end was already near as Sherman marched towards Atlanta and was not the point “when the South broke.” That point had already passed.

[@dicktation_4769]

Matt Johnson You’re right, it had just as much to do with representation in Congress as the U.S. expanded westward and new states were being admitted. The Compromise of 1860 and the KS-NB Act (which you mentioned) were both examples of the fight for representatives in Congress between North and South (free and slave states). The very balance of power in Congress was at stake and the country was still very much divided between the agricultural south and the burgeoning industrial North.

[@veritasnunc8749]

And wars have only got worse. Humans will eventually destroy themselves through war.

[@fatpowerful]

General Sherman “you want to cry!? I’ll give you something to cry about!”

[@diogeneslamplit6573]

I'm with you---you're correct. Sherman *was* a sociopath.

[@mikepatrick5909]

lol That's what my mom used to say....

[@johnnydtractive]

@@diogeneslamplit6573 Southern states & wealthy southern whites (& the poor ones too, unfortunately) happily enforcing the enslavement of human beings while pontificating about their own moral superiority & 'christian values'--there was no shortage of sociopathy at that time & in that part of the world.

[@dr.vikyll7466]

@@JC-uf4zu Imagine the march to the sea if it had tanks and jets. Sploosh

[@peterthurman9384]

War is Hell...and I'm the devil - Gen. Sherman. Thank you and god bless you. Making Traitors Howl - 1865 to 2021

[@Kevbing9825]

One of the best civil war documentaries I’ve seen.

[@josemauriciosaldanhaalvare1507]

Congratulations on the beautiful work. Sincere, moving and broad. I discovered Atlanta years ago and covered what I could of the old battlefields. But I confess that I was moved by the approach you presented. You managed to masterfully use the history, the testimonies of the time with the images. . Sensational!!

[@Rob-eo5ql]

Sherman’s route to Atlanta, today, is I-75

[@jonathanholland8434]

James Richardson kennesaw mountain

[@christianstewart1757]

Sherman made America great again!

[@randallflag9840]

Christian Stewart Sherman was a war criminal period

[@thehandoftheking3314]

@@randallflag9840 was he?

[@ruthmaryrose]

oli fax I don’t know a lot about Sherman but what he did to those women, sending them up to Indiana, was certainly criminal. They had nothing in a strange land and subject to cold they were not used to.

[@tyharris9994]

I'm so grateful for the internet and for how these fine, freely available documentaries can enrich and inform everyone now. Ignorance is a choice at this time, as the sum of human knowledge and history is at our fingertips free for the taking.

[@desertdetroiter428]

Generals Sherman and Grant are my heroes! Both native Buckeyes. My family left the South and slavery behind immediately after the war and settled in Ohio.

[@woodsplitter3274]

A lifetime Wolverine here, but I have always liked Sherman. I first heard of him in James Thurber's stories (another Buckeye for you) where he is referred to as "Cump" by Thurber's grandfather. In fact, I think my first introduction to the Civil War was through Thurber's works.

[@desertdetroiter428]

@@woodsplitter3274 Cump was a real man’s man!! One helluva General.

[@samval4372]

u belong in hell with them he was an evil murdering devil nothing good about him. your a stupid person

[@marknewton6984]

Why didn't Sherman free the prisoners at Andersonnville? Many Union soldiers were bitter about that.

[@Ntwolf1220]

@@marknewton6984 what should he have done? Brought 25000 emaciated and traumatized vets with him? It’s not like he kept them in the concentration camp - the rebels had most of the prisoner’s moved before Sherman even got there

[@rustycalvera977]

I loved the location shots of present Atlanta with civil war photos...Really caps off what is a nicely done video.

[@brohan914]

You havin' treason problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but Atlanta ain't one. - William T. Sherman, probably

[@hyperkirbynova8590]

Lel

[@HoodBoy426]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@eligah8]

rideordie Lol...Love it.

[@raderanthony]

And Neither is the North.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@johnnyllooddte3415 -- Correct. When dealing with racist swine, a butcher is required. What is your point, lad? You all lost "the war", because you talk tougher than you is.

[@robertpage3195]

As a non American I've always been fascinated by your civil war. This is one of the best doco,s I've seen on the subject. Shame certain parts of humanity have learnt nothing from it.

[@mleightle9289]

war itself can't teach too many lessons on it's own, lots of bitter resentment/sentiments followed the civil war, and well because less determined/honorable men followed in Lincoln's footsteps reconstruction would ultimately fail...we've had a bit of cold war going on in this country regarding race for decades... plainly put, someone had the bright idea if we just welcomed the south back into the union after the war -without no major repercussions, like say executions of the senior officials/generals/politicians for treason who advocated for secession in the first place- that everything would work out.... instead, the war to free African Americans in this country lasted another 100 years and the hatred, racism, was allowed to breed and discontent carried/carries itself through 3-4 subsequent generations....

[@samrapheal1828]

Truth✔

[@keithwilliamson7508]

I'm from Savannah Georgia, and yes it's fascinating.

[@debbylou5729]

I don’t know where your from, but I wonder what you think of wars in Europe that lasted decades. Are there similarities?

[@debbylou5729]

@stirange really? Super vision! There wasn’t a riot, unless you’re talking about the actual riots during the summer of love

[@user-ly7np5rm5c]

Thank you for good upload. A difficult subject for some but necessary none the less. Truth & history must be shared in order to grow forward.

[@shadowrunner2510]

Sherman had his flaws but he was an amazing commander

[@georgewilkie3580]

Many of today's CIVIL WAR historians believe that Sherman was a very "disturbed" person. He once had a sergeant that fell asleep on Nigh Duty (Now called "CQ", or "Charge Of Quarters), nailed into a wooden military coffin for 24 hours. They say the unfortunate Sergeant came out traumatized, and had periodic nightmares for the rest of his life.

[@shadowrunner2510]

@@georgewilkie3580 yikes that nuts, never said he was a Saint

[@markbeckens]

As a human, would you expect human to not have flaws?

[@marknewton6984]

Then he went out West...

[@GhostTrueCapitalist]

Southern States: *Secedes* Grant and Sherman: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

[@jonathangiles4747]

😁

[@animeAJproductions]

Hey, fill us in on how Grant introduced himself to the Native Americans after the civil war!

[@Maples01]

Grant and Sherman also came up with the plan to starve the Indians by having the buffalo driven to extinction, the killing of native women and children too, funny how the blacks were considered above Indians, you know, freed them, forever imprisoned the natives.

[@unknown-dq6df]

Didn’t Sherman own a slave He must of hated it so much!

[@JC-uf4zu]

The South will rise again !

[@mapoijitur1161]

"There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet". Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., GBE

[@kumasenlac5504]

Would this be the Admiral that threw Taffy 3 to the wolves by going on a wild-goose chase ? When the great challenge came he hid in his cabin when he should have been going back to cut-off the rump of the Japanese fleet. All the world wonders...

[@samrapheal1828]

Correctamundo 🎯

[@leoyork2037]

Wow! Powerful presentation.

[@TheDaleSwitzer]

When we read the stories of the old west, remember that you are reading stories of men who were severely traumatized by the civil war. They couldn't admit their disability because it wasn't manly to show weakness, what they could show was aggression - and they did.

[@buckfan1969]

Casualties in the Civil War were incredible; in large part because commanders were using 18th century tactics against 19th century weapons. Sherman was one of the first, if not the very first to understand that fact. Frontal assaults in the face of repeating rifles, artillery, and fortifications was literally murder by the 1860's. Thus the constant flanking movements that US commanders in WWII embraced. He was ahead of his time in understanding destroying the industry led to destroying the enemy.

[@robertbates6057]

Yes, read more about the battle at Cheatham Hill (part of Kennesaw Battlefield.) OMG

[@coryander1341]

Well-said but who had repeating rifles in the Civil War years?

[@robertbates6057]

@@coryander1341 The Spencer came out in the last year or so and some Union units had them. Not a lot.

[@LuvThatDirtyWater]

Civil War casualties were incredible indeed. 61,000 died in captivity and 204000 were KIA but 388000 or 60% of the deaths were associated with disease. That's incredible and you gotta figure if you lost an arm or a leg your chances weren't good but being in a disease infested hospital killed more than anything else But the 1918 Spanish Flu killed more Americans than WW1 WW2 Korea Nam plus the Civil War combined and the aside is the COVID-19 pandemic. As of today more than 400000 Americans have been infected with 14000 dead in less than TWO months

[@davidmasland5627]

Lee understood what the rifled musket could do. He was also well aware of the horror of war..

[@Ditka-89]

My great-great-great granddaddy fought under Sherman. He was still in his teens. Makes you reevaluate what you’re doing with your own life

[@gregbors8364]

There haven’t been any “good wars” in which to fight for Americans since WW2. All subsequent American military actions were committed in the service of imperialism and corporate profit

[@stoheha]

War is a horrible setback to any generation. Your ancestor probably would've been proud to see he had a grandson that had the freedom and interest to research history. Ironically, people fight wars to end them, and seeing teens unburdened by that should be a source of happiness, not dishonor.

[@Ditka-89]

@@stoheha I appreciate that. There’s still something about the human condition that makes you eager for that glory, even if it’s a blessing you never have to experience war

[@road_king_dude]

Absolutely

[@lancelotkillz]

My middle school history teacher Mr. Calhoun had a grand papi who faught in the confederacy .. He always said that with pride. He was an awesome teacher and I vidily remember that he made history fun and I've been hooked ever since

[@Backwoods_870]

General William Tecumseh Sherman was a brilliant tactician... and his campaign through Georgia broke the confederacy back & will to fight... absolutely brilliant.

[@tyjameson7404]

Without Sherman’s determination and destruction of the south the civil war would never had ended. I don’t give a damn what happened at Appomattox!! Love ❤️ and respect to Sherman ❤️👍🔥🙌👏🙏🏽

[@jayster7591]

If Grant and Sherman were in charge in the start of the war it would have lasted about a year!!

[@bethgiglio1135]

Yeah Winfield Scott was a horrible general

[@alan30189]

I agree that the war would’ve been much shorter if they were in charge to begin with, because Grant would’ve went after Lee early on, when McClellan didn’t, and probably would’ve won it right then. At the least, the war would’ve lasted much less than the four years it did.

[@alan30189]

@Joaldavid Sutton Lee was probably the best talent in the US Army before the Civil War started. His tactics won a lot of battles. But, his decisions at Gettysburg were absolutely horrible. He should’ve just flanked the town and went and attacked something else. Or they could’ve just surrounded the town and starved them out in a siege, not order thousands of men to run right into a bunch of hot lead in a futile attack.

[@tsdobbi]

@Joaldavid Sutton "with the best leader" Lee was a magician when it came to tactics, but he was a horrible military strategist, like Hannibal Barca before him. The 2nd punic war between Rome and Carthage was very similar to the American civil war in you had one side that really didn't have the manpower, but brilliant tactical leadership and the other, Rome, with a nigh limitless supply of manpower, but meddling tacticians as generals. Down to the Romans/Union being consistently successful in the West, while being dominated in the East. Hannibal won incredible victories...but the guy literally didn't know how to capitalize. He just hoped if he destroyed enough Roman Armies they would sue for peace. Which is basically the policy Lee employed. When he finally decided to invade the North, he lost a battle he SHOULD have won at Gettysburg, which was the beginning of the end.

[@tsdobbi]

@@alan30189 "But, his decisions at Gettysburg were absolutely horrible." It was literally like a different man commanded that battle. On paper, the confederates should have won that battle. It's like the one time Lee was super reserved at the outset. He LET the union take the high ground...and then...attacked them, utterly baffling. Obi Wan Kenobi would be rolling in his grave.

[@theschwader]

I live in Lancaster Ohio where Sherman was born and raised. I went to General Sherman Junior High school.

[@jamessullivan1348]

Fairfield county. Coshocton county here.

[@johndaugherty7779]

So what?

[@Thepourdeuxchanson]

@@johndaugherty7779 So what is your So what?

[@dar4431]

I saw Lancaster Ohio on a map once, I can spell Shurmon

[@Jabberstax]

I've been able to enjoy many great documentaries thanks to GPB

[@shirleyanne6573]

Thanks for this fascinating documentary.

[@GPB]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching GPB

[@2know1self]

It looks like Sherman understands the mindset of the Southern elites and knew that it only total war was going to end the Civil War

[@magnusthered5994]

Too bad he didn’t get to really burn down their farms and make them pay for their aggression. Too much leeway given to losers which resulted in the ‘Lost Cause’ narrative and statues of traitors.

[@Maples01]

@@magnusthered5994 Oh how little you know, couldn't fill a thimble, gonna bet you hate Trump, had it been over slavery, why didn't the south come back to the union when Lincoln promised them they could keep slavery, it was the money, that is why he would not let it go.

[@magnusthered5994]

Maples01 Go read the Secession documents and speech of Jefferson Davis where he declared the formation of confederacy. The South wanted to keep slaves and expand slavery into the rest of America, when their plan to expand slavery failed they decided to revolt.

[@bobbyyuppies4357]

@@magnusthered5994 They did not revolt they tried to secede peacefully. Big Gov wasn't a fan.

[@magnusthered5994]

bobby yuppies They attacked Fort Sumner first. They started the damn war, also ending slavery was a great Cause and I’d rather side with a big government which ends slavery than a bunch of racists who wanted to keep their slaves forever and expand slavery in the rest of the America

[@Armoredcompany]

That moment when homeboy warns you and you call his bluff then find out he wasn't bluffing...

[@regilee9003]

The true meaning of fucc around and find out lol

[@shawnastephens1536]

I'm a World War 2 buff, But this documentary is really good. I'm gonna start watching more documentaries on the Civil War. Thank You.

[@stoneeagle7360]

I thought for sure this would have a Confederate-sympathizer tone to it. Pleasantly surprised to see otherwise. I can see why men like Hood and Johnston had mad respect for him. Sherman was doing his job, wanted it all over and done with, and did his best to avoid civilian casualties (with varying results). Sherman deserves his own place on Mt. Rushmore along with Sitting Bull, Frederick Douglas, Sacagawea, Lewis & Clark, Dr. King, Patton, and C.J. Walker.

[@GiordanDiodato]

yeah even Lee wanted this to be over by the time of the siege of Richmond.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

It is better to build monuments to ideas than to individuals.

[@87jello]

I had shivers down my spine at 46:40, “To realize what WAR is....one should follow our tracks” -US Army General William T. Sherman as he’s marching his troops through Georgia heading to Savannah

[@tinlinnoo1226]

"while we were marching through Georgia"

[@ElBandito]

@@AngryAmericanWizard Way too many.

[@1943Grandpa]

Marching on women and children. Sherman was a head case.

[@globaladdict]

​@@1943Grandpa hes a hero, fuvk off confederate sympathizer. Hows it feel to be a loser in life?

[@towerofghenjei]

@@AngryAmericanWizard Oh so y’all are fine that Sherman burned many towns to the ground including with his “bummers” pillaging, raping women and children, and killing innocent civilians, old men, women and children, both white and black, free and slave. He also collected blacks and re-enslaved them to serve his army and said many times blacks were lesser and deserved slavery. Those re-enslaved then got left when crossing major rivers, hundreds drowned trying to swim across. Sherman’s reputation became so bad, blacks would fight WITH the confederacy in order to preserve their town from being leveled and burned and their families raped and murdered. Learn your history. And innocent civilians no matter what race don’t deserve what he did. Sherman committed genocide against southern people in general, regardless of color.

[@seththomas9105]

"He stood by me when I was crazy, I stood by him when he was drunk." W.T. Sherman on his friend U.S. Grant. Two men of different backgrounds and beliefs, but united in defeating the Confederacy.

[@kendallandrews8691]

Ending slavery and preserving the union was hardly wrong.

[@occamtherazor3201]

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Yes, slavery was awesome, and the U.S. should have disintegrated.

[@occamtherazor3201]

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Slavery was necessary? Really? For what? For the planter arristocrats to maintain a lifestyle that European Royalty would envy? Yeah, I guess. Without slavery, the Old Dominion Arristocrats would have been merely well off, rather than fabulously wealthy. Eggs and omelettes, I guess ..

[@occamtherazor3201]

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 What's your point? Yeah, the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottomans, etc. had slaves long before the Southern Planter class, but not only does that not justify those planters manipulating the Southern states into a catastrophic war to preserve their "Peculiar Institution," it's also completely irrelevant. The "You can't judge people in the past by the standard of today" argument doesn't apply to the antebellum South. Slavery as it was practiced in America in the 19th century was abhorrent even by the standards of the time, and was rejected by most of the civilized world.

[@occamtherazor3201]

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Yeah, sure. You're the one downplaying the significance and awefulness of slavery, but I'M the racist because I said "Civilized world." Let's go with that.

[@pops1507]

Catton remarked that Sherman's troops treated South Carolina with "offhand hatred." It was the first state to secede. His army would scour homes and plantations, take away wagons loaded with provender, consume what they could overnight, pack their rucksacks with food they could carry and then ....... set fire to what they left.

[@marknewton6984]

3 to 1 odds. Big deal.

[@JR-pr8jb]

As of 2023: After all this hard history, formerly slave-owning Georgia has become one of the redemptive bright lights of the American South and indeed of America itself. Courageous and creative people white and black endeavoring to overcome the past and move forward, not back.

[@uarbor70]

What he did shortened the war. It did not change the outcome that was inevitable. Just like when we nuked Japan. In both cases collateral damage was horrific. My advice would be don't start a war if you don't want the Superior Force to bring the horrific.

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

Japan didn't have to nuked, it was a test to scare Russia. America could have starved out japan by then. Truman was a weakling.

[@manperson5315]

@@davidhoogendyke2774 Yes it did. Firstly, a campaign within mainland Japan would've ended up absolutely brutal and far more catastrophic than what the bombs had brought upon the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In fact, more casualties were recorded within Operation Meetinghouse, far more than the combined nuclear explosions themselves. And why would you ever assume that the nuclear explosions were a 'test' to scare Russia? It seems like an even more out of place and guilty-like reason than say, 'ending the war quickly'? Get your head straight, dude.

[@travisbickle4360]

@@davidhoogendyke2774 Not just to scare Russia but to prevent it from invading Japan

[@manperson5315]

@Javid Rashid I can agree.

[@rw3423]

Sherman gave clear warning but they chose war😒😒😒😒😱over ☮️

[@briancuprisin4571]

I was just in Atlanta last year. They've recovered nicely.

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

We was gonna have to revive him if the Republicans won

[@hanoitripper1809]

The Falcons havent

[@joeblow7064]

Lmao.... I got that!!

[@kaliyuga4753]

Really? It doesn't appear that way to me...maybe certain areas.

[@Charlie-qe6lv]

I'd rather live in Aleppo than Atlanta.

[@debbylou5729]

Sherman always had a look on his face that says, ‘I hate doing this and I’m really pissed that I have to be here’

[@marknewton6984]

He was a mental case.

[@djack4125]

So well done!!!

[@markadams7597]

Brilliant documentary. As a Texan, I can say: the War Between the States should have been avoided. And, it should never be forgotten. God Bless America!

[@ultimtdisc]

Mark Adams - No, we should never forget the treasonous actions of the traitors of the CSA. Those that fire upon the US flag and the US military are our enemies.

[@aeromagnumtv1581]

If liberals, left media and the Dems have their way, there will be another. VOTE RED!

[@TheRobdarling]

Mark Adams no avoiding the inevitable...

[@MrKen-wy5dk]

As a fellow Texan, I agree with you. Texas should have followed Sam Houston's lead and remained in the Union. There was no advantage to Texas to secede. However, we did get a rusty sinking battleship as a consolation prize. And, a plywood replica of the space shuttle.

[@elrondhubbard7059]

Sorry dude, but if one side is practising slavery they deserve to have their entire society destroyed brick by brick.

[@natsune09]

Being a veteran, I have thought about Sherman and his march with different eyes than before being a veteran. Sherman's march was done at the dawn of industrialization, and industrialization makes it possible to resupply a war effort quickly. His march was the answer to industrialization, the moment when war changed. Grinding out battle after battle in an industrial world is just a long grueling war. You need to not only defeat an army, you need to defeat the industrial efforts behind it, otherwise that army you destroyed will just come back. It is easy to see why his march set the tone for America well into WW1 and beyond. Europe didn't learn what an industrial era war really was like we did in the US. It was probably one of the biggest influences into our stance of being neutral in affairs of Europe, we didn't want to see another Sherman's March. As bad as it was, it can be compared to dropping the atomic bomb. A method, or tool, that though dark and deadly, in the long run ended a war and saved lives in the long run.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Well said. I don't think there's any question that the ACW was both the first modern war and the first total war.

[@natsune09]

@@indy_go_blue6048 What I find funny, in an ironic way, is when people mention that it was an unpopular move. Well, of course it was unpopular, that was the point. It was suppose to get people to be unhappy! People were suppose to hate it, so they get sick of the war!

[@iansneddon2956]

Except the atomic bombs were largely irrelevant. The US Air Force had been destroying Japanese cities for months using incendiary bombs and, when they ran out, about 80,000 tons of napalm. Being able to destroy a city with just one bomber instead of 400 is impressive but didn't change the fact that the US had 1,000 bombers available to launch such attacks. The Japanese military high command considered meeting after the Hiroshima bombings but decided nothing had significantly changed and so there was nothing to discuss. Ultimately Japanese hopes rested on persuading the USA to accept a conditional surrender brokered by Stalin. They had troops dug in and planned to fight bitterly for every piece of ground with American forces taking heavy casualties as a motivator to accepting a conditional peace just to end the war. When Stalin broke his deal with Japan and invaded Manchuria their options were an unconditional surrender to USA or face invasion and occupation by the Soviet Red Army whose commanders had little concern over casualties. They must have heard what happened in occupied East Germany. This all came out when records of the Japanese military high command were declassified. Telling Americans that it was the atomic bombs was just telling their occupiers what they wanted to hear.

[@skibadibop-yeaskitskatskat4454]

He had a tiger by tail.

[@garym7989]

One thing that thsis program missed was the following, and extremely critical to the success of Sherman's plans: He and his staff, over the prior year had gone through the federal tax records in Washington, thereby locating every piece of wealth that the South owned, both governmental & private locations. His stratagy was to eviscerate the South's wealth. His attack route was a combination of the Railroad & the location of wealth, his Primary target, knowing without money, the war is impossible to prosecute. This research indicated that this was an example of the first modern war. Total war, complete intel, along with the first widespread use of trench warfare due primatily to the reach and destruction of the Minne ball round, & later including the first use of rapid fire rifles, yeilding a need to dig trenches. The first Modern war. Aweful.

[@rosaliedill7088]

I’ve watched this several times. Very well done. Thank you.

[@GPB]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching

[@marknewton6984]

Sherman had 3to 1 odds. Big deal.

[@Medevicerep]

Very well done documentary.