The south rebelled against the constitution of the united states and the union put them in their place period. Yes we killed our brothers but that's civil war nothing to be proud of
I can't understand this tactics,stand up in full growth over against enemy's ramparts and be shot as pheasant.Why they don't assail with bayonets, as old soldier screamed? Be cursed civil war when the brother kills the brother. And were burnt in hell those ones who started that
@Al7417 I'm not American, but in my country was a civil war too. But I would never call this war "war when the brother kills the brother". No.. And in the U.S., and in Russia fighting Mens and Orcs. "Southerners" in the United States, "White" in Russia fought for one and the same: for his Home, his Family, for the world that they loved, the world that have created their ancestors. And the Orcs tried to destroy this World, this House, this way of Mens. Sadly, Orcs have succeeded.
God Save The Irish Catholics, the MEN who fought, killed & were slaughtered for AMERICA, I hope to God when our little backs are to the wall they remember their Motherland:(
the reason many immigrant Americans dont want to hear about the indians is because we arent responsibel for it....mostly that is, most of our ancestors didnt really get over here until well after the climax moments of the Indian Wars. The WASP Americans need to do most of the answering for that horror.
Andy a Pro-British bum living with his mum at the age of 42! He comments on all the Irish videos on youtube lol he puts the British people right to shame doesn't he!
@andythehun09 ????? the population of natives never was bigger than 3-4 millions (US and Canada). They were hunters and sometimes small farmers. The land wasn't stolen from natives. They deserved for the land. sorry, but if someone needs whole state for one tribe of 20'000 I believe it's exagerated.
@tomenicus i presume your irish/american..if this is the case,your irish side will bang on about british massacres at croke park,bloody sunday ETC,but your american side will deny the massacres at wounded knee,sand creek ETC..I dont think the extinction of hundreds of native american tribes,and the forced removal of 99% of the others is an exaggeration.EVERY american lives on stolen lands
@andythehun09 That is literally the stupidest thing I have ever heard. By that argument we should return every piece of land on earth to whoever was there first. Every single person on earth lives on stolen land. Rome had a whole bunch of massacres of natives in Britain and nobody says that that land should be returned. I am American and acknowledge that those 2 massacres you mentioned happened.
@andythehun09 I'm the polish historitian, living in Poland. writing about Sand Creek, and Wounded Knee you're right, but consider Metacomet, or massacres done by Sioux and Cheyens on the civilian people. Do you know, that every American natives never stopped to fight each other in XIX century? for instance: The Little Big Horn Campaign was planned to remove SIoux and Cheyennes from Crow territory! And Extinction of what tribes you've on your mind?
@tomenicus most of the small tribes in california and new england no longer exist or became so small in number that they were swallowed up by larger tribes.and to compare the odd massacre of white civilians to the massacres of whole indian villages is silly.as for the little big horn campaign(theres gold in them their hills) .and as a polish man you should know we were killing each other in europe only a couple of decades ago.
@andythehun09 Why comparing whites civilian massacres and Indian massacres is silly? For instance. during the wars with indians in US from 1865 to 1891 Soldiers and civillians supporting soldiers casualties was 2570 (killed and wounded). Indians (total) 5519. Sioux reservate was 200.000km2 big (for about 20.000). And look on the map, where's Black hills (where was gold) and where's Little big horn.
@andythehun09 Meanwhile, the population of natives was 250000 on plains and 2 milions on the rest of the country. There was found the indian village from XIV century, wich was destroyed by other indians, 400 killed, man, woman and children (girls was propably taken). in 1835 Sioux indians exterminated Piegan tribe. Look, I understand moral hangover caused by lack of the primitive tribes on tha american plains, BUt it's XXIst century. THats history.
@tomenicus can i also suggest you get your information from native writings (dee brown ETC) and not rely on what is clearly biased information from the so called victors
why did my countrymen die, for america. this is fucking bullshit. we had our own problems in ireland why wouldnt they come over here and fight for us.
@ktockly Because there was a famine in Ireland and thousands where dying every month from starvation not to mention they where getting fucked with from jolly old England. So many left Ireland in hopes to find work and some food. They found both and help create the greatest nation on earth.
Gross incompetence and lack of tactical common sense...no amount of troops thrown at that wall on Maryes Hieghts could withstand the withering fire that swept that hillside from the sunken road.
Had Grant and Sherman commanded the Union at the start of the war, it would have been over by the fall of 1961. Bull Run happened in July and Richmond would have fallen right after that.
@Boelcke1919 Grant realized something that mcclellan, hooker, mead and burnside were all to afraid to realize: he had more soldiers, better equipment, and used that to his advantage. Lee out-generaled grant the entire time grant was in command, but grant simply had near every advantage including morale after gettysburg. He pushed at the confederates and ground them into dust. If he hadnt, the war may have gone on for another 10 years.
Irish, german and blacks had thier own seperate brigade sperate from anglo americans. Irish blacks and germans paid a heavy price for fighting for the union.
Irish Brigade was in forefront of most of the big fights, from the Seven Days right through Gettysburg. They were decimated at Antietam, Fredericksburg and again at Chancellorsville - by the time the Brigade got to Gettysburg they had 532 men in the ranks.
Should have had those attackers lay down from the start rather than standing in place. I never understand why they had this style to just stand in one place and wait to get shot while they load the guns.
IT'S FUNNY, HERE IN THE SOUTH YOU'LL FIND STATUES OF CIVIL WAR HEROES AND GENERALS IN TOWNS ALL OVER THE PLACE AS WELL AS REENACTMENTS BUT YOU WON'T FIND VERY MANY OF EITHER ONE IN THE NORTH.
@texasgungeek In California, we have reenactments every year in my town. I'm avid scholar on the Civil War, and I have ancestors who fought and died while fighting for Georgia.
Had Lincoln offered the Irish Brigade 50 cases of whiskey and 3 sacks of potato's for breaking the confederate line at Fredicksburg, the battle would have been over in 30 minutes.
@Oso1G Yeah, many times the Civil War soldiers hardly got to eat anything especialy the Confederates though. Did you know Confederate Colonel Len T. von Zincken from a Louisiana regiment heard a Irishman yell "Charge 'em, boys they have cheese in their haversacks!"
The South will rise again, that can be certain. Lee should have freed the slaves then fired on Fort Sumpter so all those damn burecratic yankees don't have something to gripe over for 150 years. Everybody i talk to thinks the war was over slaves, well that was an issue but the war was over the North not recognizing the Constitutional States rights of the South and putting huge tarriffs and embargoes on cotton shipped north to the mills.
Tears in my eyes!! When I saw the harp on the Confederate flag, I got the feling I exectly know what they were in! I'm also convinced the Union Irish brigade didn't knew they were fighting against their brothers...
@Evan7893 Probably because it was not Peru, rather Éirinn. One of the most underplayed chapters in history is the irish fighting on the Confederate side
@JordoF6 it wasent the micks either i have never heard that the irish influenced any sort of push for independence i america it was taxes by king george and other things that made them yearn to be free however it was also the french who backed them up millitarily.
@1860george micks what a childish name for irish people..I never said the french never did anything i know my history.And 4 of the signers of american indepenence where irish and 8 others where of irish origin.Where are your ancestors from?
@JordoF6 i live in baldoyle north dublin im born and raised in ireland. the fact is that in 1776 approx 80% of the american colonists were english i doubt they even thought of ireland let alone used us as an example for their own independence movement. i have yet to see any document that stated the american colonists were inspired by ireland
@1860george ''english politician qoate'' we would have kept america if it havent been for the damn irish''.
Obama on irish ''Never has a nation so small inspired so much and also besides that you seem to love dishing your own people and what fucking irishman or woman calls their own people a mick? i'm doubting your irish just because you know where north dublin is dosent mean you irish.
@JordoF6 so one quote from an unnamed ''englsih politician''? get a grip obama is playing to the irish vote he would say shit is gold im irish born in the coombe hospital 1976 and we are micks its slang if your that sensitive then please go away and dont bother me again.
@1860george Firstly i know what obama is saying is to get votes secondly a few english politicians did say that 3rdly i am not sensitive to the word at all its just very suspiscious an irish person would even say the word to refer to their own people, i still don't believe your irish i'm not being mean.I was born in kildare in 1971 and have only retired from the irish army after serving in bosnia with the Un in the 1990s and lebanon and chad recently the irish do inspire.
@JordoF6 I mean the other Lad... I agree with you that "Mick" is only used as a personal nickname (for Michael) and is never used in Ireland as a race nomenclature that we call ourselves by... The "rat" that I smell is "mr. northside" of Dublin who claims to have been birthed in the Coombe women's and infants hospital... there have been too many historical revisionists and bigots doing the rounds on youtube of late and I think that he is just another manifestation of the same...
@1860george I agree. The british-americans dispised Irish and Irish in America. The ones who did have any support for Irish were Native-Indians. Also belive it or not some ulster-scots sided with the Irish too. The english didnt give a shit. The Irish had to work themselves and rely on tthemselves. Only way they progressed was because of the help of the Pope/Rome and other Catholic immigrants in USA.
Primarily Irish and Scottish, but I've got Scandiavian (Netherlands/Dutch), French, Welsh, and a bit of English and one generation of Blackfoot Tribe (Native American) in my bloodline.....but my family's always been primarily of IRish and Scottish stock (I've actually researched my family tree--props to my grandfather who started recording my entire family lineage and history), however you slice it, I'm still half Irish and partially Scottish.....*cont*
@HerrCollier And even if I were more of a mutt than that.....this would STILL move me to tears. Put yourselves in the shoes of a man on either side of that line....knowing, KNOWING that the man just hundreds of yards away was from the same island you were from....the US, even back then, was a LARGE country in comparison....so no doubt that many of those men on both sides had at least passed each other in youth, if not known each other before in life on a regular basis.
in my blood i carry the following Irish/Scottish/Cherokee Indian/ and German. and i to am a proud mutt you can bash on this all you want but if you do that then it means your jealous or just a hater of the proud Irish/Scottish
@GCmediacourse Hmm we fought in the Hundred years war between france and england we wear pushed to the front lines often.We used to fight the normans vikings and all that is pretty interesting and we used to fight with each other.
@WilliamWallace96 Love the 69th! My poor great grandfather had come into New York that September just in time to end up in this mess. He had no idea of what the war was about even he just wanted enough to eat.
the south had better generals than the north but were outnumbered by men coming in as immigrants from europe the same as in ww2 germany had far superior generals to the brits and americans but by sheer force of numbers the germans were beaten after 6 long years of fighting.
@WilliamWallace96 all the people of the world are spanish by birth, irish by birth, french by birth, but americans.. americans are americans by heart !!!!!!!!! cuz its a country made by inmigrants of other nationalities !!!!
@WilliamWallace96 im english and to hear someone proud of their country shows that that person has pride in helping it. to love your country is to hate the the ones who spoil it
What some of you fail to realize is that this is the wars were fought everything was done according to Napoleonic style .. this war came at the worst possible time ...a crossroads in technology the rifle was now the standard nit the exception in an army also artillery was improved ..generals in turn still didn't learn form these mistakes and again soldiers paid dearly years later only worse in the great war which for the most part attacks were sent in the same manner
More of this frigging Scots Irish bullshit. You pretend Ulster Scots idiots don't have a history that doesn't involve murder and land stealing. Now, stop rewriting history and go back to Britain.
Well, I admire the irish on both sides, They did their duty, they payed the price, and did what they had to do, despite how painful it must have been.
The irish brigade were protestants, northern irish of scots and english descent.
They hated the native catholic irish thats why they left for american, so remember that when you talk of the irish brigade, should really be called the ulster brigade.
@martinkb10 Not true!! Protestant Scots-Irish by the 1860s had blended into the American population mainstream, both North and South, and it is impossible to know how many of them fought. However, the Irish Brigade was specifically Irish Catholic, recent immigrants since the Famine of the 1840s and led by Thomas Francis Meagher, a leading Irish Nationalist at the time against British rule in Ireland. Moreover, the Brigade was just a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Irish who fought
what the hell history did you learn, the irish brigade were all CATHOLIC with the exception of the 29th mass who left very shortly and were replaced with the Catholic 28th mass, and the Irish brigade that they were named after were the brigade that served France,except for the 88th NY, who took the number 88 after the connaught rangers
@Ampolitor wrong they were by far and away the majority protestants read through all the cooments i must have learnt history at the same school as 20 others who posted comments here! fact
@martinkb10 well then your school is screwed up, and I doubt you learned about the makeup of a brigade in school, the 29th were PROTESTANT so they left, and the 28th were Catholic who replaced them, and Finnian, and if you know anything about history, without looking it up on the internet you'll know what that means.
@Ampolitor so at least you admit the 29th were protestant now!, the 28th were a smaller in number and amateurs compared to the 29th and by no means all catholic
@martinkb10 Most of them WERE Catholic though. Most of the men who survived service in the Irish Brigade (and some from the south) went on to defeat the Canadians when the Finnians invaded Canada in 1866. The brigade had several Catholic Chaplains with them through out the war. Are you trying to discredit the Irish Catholics or something by minimizing their presence in the Brigade?
@martinkb10 Who gives a shit they're over looked here? This was a Catholic Unit. Protestants had most of the rest of the army. They had the other famous units like the Iron Brigade, the Vermont Brigade, most of the Philadelphia Brigade (except the 69th Penn. which was mostly Irish), the 20th Maine, the Bucktails, as well as most of the Generals. Can't the Catholic Boys have just this one? The 29th was attached for a few months anyway. from the Peninsular Campaign up to just after Antietam.
@GeneralKenobiSIYE Many of the men in the Philadelphia brigade were Catholics, company K of the 71st Pennsylvania was made completely of Irish iron workers from Phoenixville
@martinkb10 Wrong! Only the 29th Mass was Protestant and most were not even Irish. They were more attached to the Irish Brigade than actually a part of it because the 28th Mass had not been fully mustered yet. The Brigade just needed reinforcements badly by Antietam. They had Catholic priests with them at all times, and even had one give the brigade absolution before they went to hold the Wheat Field at Gettysburg. (cont.)
@martinkb10 (cont.) Of the five regiments, only the 116th Penn used a blue state flag instead of "Those Damn Green Flags" (as they were called by a Confederate General) the other four used because they had as many German/French/Polish-Catholics as Irish-Catholics so were not predominately Irish as the other four. Much is said about how the well the 29th fought with the Irish because of their differing religious backgrounds. I.E. Irish Catholic immigrants and American born Protestants.
So we Irish are in the shit at the moment, we've being here many times before and most likly will be again. But it's the irish way to grin and bare it till we make it through and then look back and remember the look times and laugh (and most likely drink,yep that stereotypes is fearly true).
So stop with the bow how irelands ruined she'l be grand.
@WilliamWallace96 Me to except im english, scottish, irish, welsh, norwegian, swedish, and prussian or german but I take pride in prussia more than germany but im most proud of being scotting and this part always gets me its so sad. it was a horrible battle and a stupid plan god dam you burnside you wasted so many union lives i would have listen to hand cock
@armorsmith43 rifles of the civil war could be affective for several hundred yards that amount of distance to charge would have virtually destroyed the entire brigade before they were even close to the wall
the irish realy took loads of casulties in so manny wars it realy is something sad when you think about it from the older days when the british ocupied em,during the civil war (were they even had to fight eatch other) and on to current days with the things that started on "bloody sunday" another civil war it realy is something to think about ,about the verry sad history in search for peace that teh irish already faught so hard for i realy do respect em for there struggle
Just by following the basic principles in "The Art of War" you would never even consider such a suicidal assault. Throughout history soldiers always pay the price for their commanders' poor judgement.
I think they did a great job portraying St. Clair A Mulholland, made him look like the pan-ultimate Paddy soldier. Probably one of the best "Leprechaunizing" of Irish looks since Ron Howard's brother in Far & Away. Great Stuff.
Does anyone know what the confederates are chanting at 6:36. My best guess is, "faugh a ballagh" but im not entirely sure... or it could be "arewwww!!!!"
@undescoldmind :Faugh-a-Ballagh(Clear the Way)Was the motto of the now disbanded sectarian Ulster Defence Regiment now called the RIR(Royal Irish Rangers)Who are nothing more than an anti-catholic and anti-Irish Malitia.Most members were also members of the UDA,RUC,and UVF.UK.Govt backed terrorists.Ireland Abu.
@undescoldmind definitely not "Fág a' balach" nor is it "Abú" (to victory) as both of these are Irish battle cries giving warning to an enemy... they were actually saluting the bravery of their fellow Irishmen who stood their ground and behaved with conspicuous gallantry in the face of withering fire. "Horrah" or "horruh" is most likely not for their own victory but in recognition their opponent's display of courage. Accounts of the battle of Fredricksburg allude to this event.
just the first of many brave exploits performed by colonel Joshua Chamberlain.... and another display of tactical genius by the Confederates. :)
ahumblethinker 19 hours ago
The south rebelled against the constitution of the united states and the union put them in their place period. Yes we killed our brothers but that's civil war nothing to be proud of
gekiganger117 22 hours ago
The Confederates had an Irish Regiment as well, named after my high school in Nashville. 10th Tennessee Irish led by Colonel Randal McGavock.
haloless0320 4 days ago
I can't understand this tactics,stand up in full growth over against enemy's ramparts and be shot as pheasant.Why they don't assail with bayonets, as old soldier screamed? Be cursed civil war when the brother kills the brother. And were burnt in hell those ones who started that
Al7417 5 days ago
@Al7417 I'm not American, but in my country was a civil war too. But I would never call this war "war when the brother kills the brother". No.. And in the U.S., and in Russia fighting Mens and Orcs. "Southerners" in the United States, "White" in Russia fought for one and the same: for his Home, his Family, for the world that they loved, the world that have created their ancestors. And the Orcs tried to destroy this World, this House, this way of Mens. Sadly, Orcs have succeeded.
gonorhin 5 days ago
God Save The Irish Catholics, the MEN who fought, killed & were slaughtered for AMERICA, I hope to God when our little backs are to the wall they remember their Motherland:(
gespb32 1 week ago
the reason many immigrant Americans dont want to hear about the indians is because we arent responsibel for it....mostly that is, most of our ancestors didnt really get over here until well after the climax moments of the Indian Wars. The WASP Americans need to do most of the answering for that horror.
Winaska 1 week ago
My family opposed this unit at the stone wall they where the 24th Ga Infantry CSA
Long live the Irish no matter what side they fought for !
sailwed1 1 week ago 5
Andy a Pro-British bum living with his mum at the age of 42! He comments on all the Irish videos on youtube lol he puts the British people right to shame doesn't he!
harpicecold1916 1 week ago 2
the irish...let me dream boys
shadowskater11 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
irish americans are so stupid,"we want the brits out of ireland" "up the ra" ETC..yet you all live on lands stolen from native americans
andythehun09 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 ????? the population of natives never was bigger than 3-4 millions (US and Canada). They were hunters and sometimes small farmers. The land wasn't stolen from natives. They deserved for the land. sorry, but if someone needs whole state for one tribe of 20'000 I believe it's exagerated.
tomenicus 3 weeks ago
@tomenicus i presume your irish/american..if this is the case,your irish side will bang on about british massacres at croke park,bloody sunday ETC,but your american side will deny the massacres at wounded knee,sand creek ETC..I dont think the extinction of hundreds of native american tribes,and the forced removal of 99% of the others is an exaggeration.EVERY american lives on stolen lands
andythehun09 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 That is literally the stupidest thing I have ever heard. By that argument we should return every piece of land on earth to whoever was there first. Every single person on earth lives on stolen land. Rome had a whole bunch of massacres of natives in Britain and nobody says that that land should be returned. I am American and acknowledge that those 2 massacres you mentioned happened.
Jdaki1 3 weeks ago
@Jdaki 1 I couldnt agree more,could you please inform the Irish americans of that information.and tell them to stop banging on about ulster
andythehun09 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 damn Ulsters
wedgy4life 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 I'm the polish historitian, living in Poland. writing about Sand Creek, and Wounded Knee you're right, but consider Metacomet, or massacres done by Sioux and Cheyens on the civilian people. Do you know, that every American natives never stopped to fight each other in XIX century? for instance: The Little Big Horn Campaign was planned to remove SIoux and Cheyennes from Crow territory! And Extinction of what tribes you've on your mind?
tomenicus 3 weeks ago
@tomenicus most of the small tribes in california and new england no longer exist or became so small in number that they were swallowed up by larger tribes.and to compare the odd massacre of white civilians to the massacres of whole indian villages is silly.as for the little big horn campaign(theres gold in them their hills) .and as a polish man you should know we were killing each other in europe only a couple of decades ago.
andythehun09 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 Why comparing whites civilian massacres and Indian massacres is silly? For instance. during the wars with indians in US from 1865 to 1891 Soldiers and civillians supporting soldiers casualties was 2570 (killed and wounded). Indians (total) 5519. Sioux reservate was 200.000km2 big (for about 20.000). And look on the map, where's Black hills (where was gold) and where's Little big horn.
pbudownictwozaoczne 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 Meanwhile, the population of natives was 250000 on plains and 2 milions on the rest of the country. There was found the indian village from XIV century, wich was destroyed by other indians, 400 killed, man, woman and children (girls was propably taken). in 1835 Sioux indians exterminated Piegan tribe. Look, I understand moral hangover caused by lack of the primitive tribes on tha american plains, BUt it's XXIst century. THats history.
pbudownictwozaoczne 3 weeks ago
@tomenicus can i also suggest you get your information from native writings (dee brown ETC) and not rely on what is clearly biased information from the so called victors
andythehun09 3 weeks ago
@tomenicus if you want a true reflection of US policy towards the natives on film watch little big man or soldier blue.stop watching john wayne
andythehun09 3 weeks ago
@andythehun09 The irish weren't the ones who helped in the slaughte of real americans we stayed on the eastern seaboard you tool.
JordoF6 1 day ago
@JordoF6 typical deluded irish/american,,always in denial
andythehun09 19 hours ago
@andythehun09 I'm irish. im from dublin im not denying anythign im merely defending the irish disporia.
JordoF6 17 hours ago
irish vs irish never understood that along with gentlemen fighting using linear tactics w/ rifles
Paintinprettypicture 3 weeks ago
Greedy banksters caused the civil war
ccgamom2 3 weeks ago
Ktockly, maybe they wanted to fight? Maybe they wanted something to do?
AragonKingofmacedon 3 weeks ago
why did my countrymen die, for america. this is fucking bullshit. we had our own problems in ireland why wouldnt they come over here and fight for us.
ktockly 3 weeks ago
@ktockly Because there was a famine in Ireland and thousands where dying every month from starvation not to mention they where getting fucked with from jolly old England. So many left Ireland in hopes to find work and some food. They found both and help create the greatest nation on earth.
cwood4ever 3 weeks ago
@ktockly because they obviously would rather fight for america .
mesohorny360 3 weeks ago
@mesohorny360 your ignorance is funny.
ktockly 3 weeks ago
@ktockly alright i will admit that was a dick thing to say...
mesohorny360 3 weeks ago
"They be after our lucky charms boys - CHARGE!!!!!!"
hanvin375 3 weeks ago
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hanvin375 3 weeks ago
AOUHOUHOU WOUHOUHOU AOUHOUHOU !!!!!
BaronRougeCF 4 weeks ago
nice to see more bad attempts at irish accents... but anyway great movie
DrrnTW 4 weeks ago
@DrrnTW better then most
mcennis4545 4 weeks ago
Can anyone give me the name of the song at 0:49
mcennis4545 4 weeks ago
Gross incompetence and lack of tactical common sense...no amount of troops thrown at that wall on Maryes Hieghts could withstand the withering fire that swept that hillside from the sunken road.
muusketball 1 month ago
Had Grant and Sherman commanded the Union at the start of the war, it would have been over by the fall of 1961. Bull Run happened in July and Richmond would have fallen right after that.
Boelcke1919 1 month ago 2
@Boelcke1919 Grant realized something that mcclellan, hooker, mead and burnside were all to afraid to realize: he had more soldiers, better equipment, and used that to his advantage. Lee out-generaled grant the entire time grant was in command, but grant simply had near every advantage including morale after gettysburg. He pushed at the confederates and ground them into dust. If he hadnt, the war may have gone on for another 10 years.
furyjfn 1 month ago 3
Irish, german and blacks had thier own seperate brigade sperate from anglo americans. Irish blacks and germans paid a heavy price for fighting for the union.
Bronxguyanese 1 month ago
Irish always seem to get the short end of the stick
lolackay 1 month ago
The general takes after longshanks. Artillery costs money, send the irish, the dead cost nothing.
Jc40k1 2 months ago
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Jc40k1 2 months ago
Irish Brave MANS! Greating from Russia!
Keef19661 2 months ago
RIP to the men of irish Brigades from the North and South.
Vassilli42 2 months ago
Irish Brigade was in forefront of most of the big fights, from the Seven Days right through Gettysburg. They were decimated at Antietam, Fredericksburg and again at Chancellorsville - by the time the Brigade got to Gettysburg they had 532 men in the ranks.
Manwithamission1972 2 months ago
@Manwithamission1972 thats because they were fighters
KISSMYARSE88 1 month ago
No , not sarcasm, i'm irish and i despair when i look at how us humans treat each other and always have.
Do you know the song christy moore covered, " the holy ground" ?
Says it all realy. Actually, yeah it was sarcasm, in reaction to that sad sad film.
larryfrayne52 2 months ago
Whats the name of the song at 0:26? Song of the rebel irish? anyone know?
fokshill 2 months ago
Precursor to the Western Front sixty years later - what a damn shame in both instances.
mbabist01 2 months ago
such clever monkeys, well done them.
larryfrayne52 2 months ago
@larryfrayne52 i hope your being sarcastic because irish and british culture aside are not different at all.
JordoF6 2 months ago
what a tragic waste of brave men....
Darthbelal 2 months ago 25
There is no bravery more potent then charging into certain death.
spiritmartyr009 2 months ago
@spiritmartyr009 that was the way back then mate.
JordoF6 2 months ago
@JordoF6
Hence bravery being taken for stupidity. You are definetly right.
spiritmartyr009 2 months ago
Should have had those attackers lay down from the start rather than standing in place. I never understand why they had this style to just stand in one place and wait to get shot while they load the guns.
OctoSnuffaluffagus 2 months ago
Irish have to be some of the best soldiers in the world
barry8472 2 months ago
God Save the 80,000 Irish Catholics who fought for the Xonfederacy.
gespb32 2 months ago
IT'S FUNNY, HERE IN THE SOUTH YOU'LL FIND STATUES OF CIVIL WAR HEROES AND GENERALS IN TOWNS ALL OVER THE PLACE AS WELL AS REENACTMENTS BUT YOU WON'T FIND VERY MANY OF EITHER ONE IN THE NORTH.
texasgungeek 2 months ago
@texasgungeek Whats with the caps? You sound like some crazy old goat, on coccaine. I understand you but change your letters.
shiptech2k9 2 months ago
@texasgungeek In California, we have reenactments every year in my town. I'm avid scholar on the Civil War, and I have ancestors who fought and died while fighting for Georgia.
DonTheCritic 2 months ago
@DonTheCritic Where do you live?
360Nomad 2 months ago
England was called Britain my Now (1862). It changed it name in 1707 joining England , Wales and Scotland together.
GCmediacourse 3 months ago
these fucking idiots of the north will have their lesson learned ! Fuck off you fucking idiots
Bartolone42 3 months ago
@Bartolone42 i bet you're unemployed
splerppp 1 month ago
these fucking idiots of rthe north have their lesson learned ! Fuck off
Bartolone42 3 months ago
Had Lincoln offered the Irish Brigade 50 cases of whiskey and 3 sacks of potato's for breaking the confederate line at Fredicksburg, the battle would have been over in 30 minutes.
Oso1G 3 months ago 44
@Oso1G Ha friggin ha
ephabouyed 2 months ago
@Oso1G Add a weeeee bit o' Guiness and we'll drive them rebels all the way to Richmond!
KrazyKommieKiller 2 months ago
@Oso1G really.and your a real funny fkr
MrBillyhunchback 1 month ago
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360Nomad 1 month ago
@Oso1G Only one problem... They're fighting their fellow Irishmen!!!
360Nomad 1 month ago
@Oso1G Yeah, many times the Civil War soldiers hardly got to eat anything especialy the Confederates though. Did you know Confederate Colonel Len T. von Zincken from a Louisiana regiment heard a Irishman yell "Charge 'em, boys they have cheese in their haversacks!"
AUG351 1 month ago
@Oso1G Its easy be brave behind a keyboard isnt it? you son of a bi*ch?!!
gespb32 1 month ago
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solariis888 6 days ago
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@Oso1G You are a fuckin idiot and should be shot in the street like a dog.
solariis888 6 days ago
@bmt104 Fuck the North deportation of all blacks by Lincoln following Union victory was and will never be a good idea. the more you know...
CitizenJohnSmith 3 months ago
The best exampel how meanless the Civil War was. First the Wars between French and English, than the War for independence, and then................
DerLabbeduddel 3 months ago
It was very sad seeing the Irish fighting the Irish.
bmt104 3 months ago
@bmt104 They still do it the dumb feckers
topmangaz 2 months ago
The South will rise again, that can be certain. Lee should have freed the slaves then fired on Fort Sumpter so all those damn burecratic yankees don't have something to gripe over for 150 years. Everybody i talk to thinks the war was over slaves, well that was an issue but the war was over the North not recognizing the Constitutional States rights of the South and putting huge tarriffs and embargoes on cotton shipped north to the mills.
bmt104 3 months ago
@bmt104 fuck the south slavery is and was never cool having a man or women work for you without pay for that long you guys
haloreachlover99 3 months ago
It's easy to hate the English, but sometimes that's not the best course of action.
tmlafrance 3 months ago
Tears in my eyes!! When I saw the harp on the Confederate flag, I got the feling I exectly know what they were in! I'm also convinced the Union Irish brigade didn't knew they were fighting against their brothers...
LanzmanJan 3 months ago
It was sad to see the Irish having to fight their own brothers.
lparker0 3 months ago
so sad
Scabia25 3 months ago
The south is going to rise again and take back what is rightfully ours
TheRaymond1245 3 months ago
The Civil War was very sick. Poor and brave Irish soldiers on both sides. God bless the Irish.
Dramidoc 3 months ago
ive never heard an irish man chant peru in all the 17 years ive been living here xD
Evan7893 3 months ago
@Evan7893 Probably because it was not Peru, rather Éirinn. One of the most underplayed chapters in history is the irish fighting on the Confederate side
mcg389 3 months ago
Fucking Unionist Irish,I am for Erin Volunteers on CONFEDERFATE site!
Komotau4691 3 months ago
God Bless the Irish
zinnington 3 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 yaaaahhh hooooo!!!
Rodriguezx123 3 months ago
The irish are what gave America its spirit to never give up and to stand in front of tyrany and certain death with great courage.
JordoF6 4 months ago
@JordoF6 i think it was the french
1860george 3 months ago
@1860george While french are very brave people they arent the ones hwo gave america that spirit.
JordoF6 3 months ago
@JordoF6 it wasent the micks either i have never heard that the irish influenced any sort of push for independence i america it was taxes by king george and other things that made them yearn to be free however it was also the french who backed them up millitarily.
1860george 3 months ago
@1860george micks what a childish name for irish people..I never said the french never did anything i know my history.And 4 of the signers of american indepenence where irish and 8 others where of irish origin.Where are your ancestors from?
JordoF6 3 months ago
@JordoF6 i live in baldoyle north dublin im born and raised in ireland. the fact is that in 1776 approx 80% of the american colonists were english i doubt they even thought of ireland let alone used us as an example for their own independence movement. i have yet to see any document that stated the american colonists were inspired by ireland
1860george 3 months ago
@1860george ''english politician qoate'' we would have kept america if it havent been for the damn irish''.
Obama on irish ''Never has a nation so small inspired so much and also besides that you seem to love dishing your own people and what fucking irishman or woman calls their own people a mick? i'm doubting your irish just because you know where north dublin is dosent mean you irish.
JordoF6 3 months ago
@JordoF6 so one quote from an unnamed ''englsih politician''? get a grip obama is playing to the irish vote he would say shit is gold im irish born in the coombe hospital 1976 and we are micks its slang if your that sensitive then please go away and dont bother me again.
1860george 3 months ago
@1860george Firstly i know what obama is saying is to get votes secondly a few english politicians did say that 3rdly i am not sensitive to the word at all its just very suspiscious an irish person would even say the word to refer to their own people, i still don't believe your irish i'm not being mean.I was born in kildare in 1971 and have only retired from the irish army after serving in bosnia with the Un in the 1990s and lebanon and chad recently the irish do inspire.
JordoF6 3 months ago
@JordoF6 Yep no Irish people use "mick" as a slang word to describe themselves - I smell a rat
irishhistoryman 3 months ago
@irishhistoryman Who me or the other fella? because i know no irish people who call themselves a mick onyl if their name is michael.
JordoF6 3 months ago
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irishhistoryman 3 months ago
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@JordoF6 I mean the other Lad... I agree with you that "Mick" is only used as a personal nickname (for Michael) and is never used in Ireland as a race nomenclature that we call ourselves by... The "rat" that I smell is "mr. northside" of Dublin who claims to have been birthed in the Coombe women's and infants hospital... there have been too many historical revisionists and bigots doing the rounds on youtube of late and I think that he is just another manifestation of the same...
irishhistoryman 3 months ago
@1860george I agree. The british-americans dispised Irish and Irish in America. The ones who did have any support for Irish were Native-Indians. Also belive it or not some ulster-scots sided with the Irish too. The english didnt give a shit. The Irish had to work themselves and rely on tthemselves. Only way they progressed was because of the help of the Pope/Rome and other Catholic immigrants in USA.
Solarlad 3 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 amen to that lol same with me i'm swede, norwegian, british, scottish, irish, welsh, russian, german, swiss, and austrian
TsumeBeta038 4 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 Well said man, I learned to respect any man who puts on the uniform and fights for the country.
TheRapper10000 4 months ago
Fuck the Union hypocrites
moosey62 4 months ago
@moosey62 What??
IrishAmerican1234 4 months ago
Primarily Irish and Scottish, but I've got Scandiavian (Netherlands/Dutch), French, Welsh, and a bit of English and one generation of Blackfoot Tribe (Native American) in my bloodline.....but my family's always been primarily of IRish and Scottish stock (I've actually researched my family tree--props to my grandfather who started recording my entire family lineage and history), however you slice it, I'm still half Irish and partially Scottish.....*cont*
HerrCollier 4 months ago
@HerrCollier And even if I were more of a mutt than that.....this would STILL move me to tears. Put yourselves in the shoes of a man on either side of that line....knowing, KNOWING that the man just hundreds of yards away was from the same island you were from....the US, even back then, was a LARGE country in comparison....so no doubt that many of those men on both sides had at least passed each other in youth, if not known each other before in life on a regular basis.
HerrCollier 4 months ago
@HerrCollier Scandinavian doesn't mean the Dutch bro. Scandinavia is Norway, Denmark and Sweden (though some count Finland and Iceland).
cuchulainn424 4 months ago
Germans, Irish, and Blacks won the war for the Union. Hail Brothers!
hespelledyalewitha6 4 months ago
in my blood i carry the following Irish/Scottish/Cherokee Indian/ and German. and i to am a proud mutt you can bash on this all you want but if you do that then it means your jealous or just a hater of the proud Irish/Scottish
TheLegionofdarkness1 4 months ago
Only intresting war the Irish fought in.
GCmediacourse 4 months ago
@GCmediacourse We fought in WW1,WW2 the bosnian war we fought in the napoleon wars mate we fought in ever war there was.
JordoF6 4 months ago
@JordoF6 You are correct but what I ment were wars before the American Civil war
GCmediacourse 4 months ago
@GCmediacourse Hmm we fought in the Hundred years war between france and england we wear pushed to the front lines often.We used to fight the normans vikings and all that is pretty interesting and we used to fight with each other.
JordoF6 4 months ago
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GCmediacourse 3 months ago
Anyone know what the fife tune played at 50 seconds is? Thanks!
flintlocks84 4 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 Love the 69th! My poor great grandfather had come into New York that September just in time to end up in this mess. He had no idea of what the war was about even he just wanted enough to eat.
Ms2blackcats 4 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 A Feckin Men.
tiny667 4 months ago
"They shall not run from the charge of lances." Irish Brigade motto. God damn Burnside for an incompetent butcher.
bgdancer100 5 months ago
Wasn`t Thomas Francis Meagher riding a horse ?
1798Greenflag1916 5 months ago
the south had better generals than the north but were outnumbered by men coming in as immigrants from europe the same as in ww2 germany had far superior generals to the brits and americans but by sheer force of numbers the germans were beaten after 6 long years of fighting.
1860george 5 months ago
God bless the South!!
MrSysunia87 5 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 all the people of the world are spanish by birth, irish by birth, french by birth, but americans.. americans are americans by heart !!!!!!!!! cuz its a country made by inmigrants of other nationalities !!!!
XXXXXXX BY BIRTH, AMERICAN BY CHOICE !!!!!!
TheAmericanFreeBird 5 months ago
Over 100,000 Irish Catholics volunteered for the Union side of the civil war, over 80,000 Irish Catholics choose to have fought for the Confederacy.
End of story.
gespb32 5 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 im english and to hear someone proud of their country shows that that person has pride in helping it. to love your country is to hate the the ones who spoil it
ibidydo 5 months ago
What is the name of the song in 0.50? Thanks ^^
GiuliaDj 5 months ago
What some of you fail to realize is that this is the wars were fought everything was done according to Napoleonic style .. this war came at the worst possible time ...a crossroads in technology the rifle was now the standard nit the exception in an army also artillery was improved ..generals in turn still didn't learn form these mistakes and again soldiers paid dearly years later only worse in the great war which for the most part attacks were sent in the same manner
76tammystanley 5 months ago
More of this frigging Scots Irish bullshit. You pretend Ulster Scots idiots don't have a history that doesn't involve murder and land stealing. Now, stop rewriting history and go back to Britain.
VivaLaPol 5 months ago
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VivaLaPol 5 months ago
Well, I admire the irish on both sides, They did their duty, they payed the price, and did what they had to do, despite how painful it must have been.
Hobgoblin1975 5 months ago
The irish brigade were protestants, northern irish of scots and english descent.
They hated the native catholic irish thats why they left for american, so remember that when you talk of the irish brigade, should really be called the ulster brigade.
martinkb10 5 months ago
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irishmanhood 5 months ago
@martinkb10 Not true!! Protestant Scots-Irish by the 1860s had blended into the American population mainstream, both North and South, and it is impossible to know how many of them fought. However, the Irish Brigade was specifically Irish Catholic, recent immigrants since the Famine of the 1840s and led by Thomas Francis Meagher, a leading Irish Nationalist at the time against British rule in Ireland. Moreover, the Brigade was just a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Irish who fought
irishmanhood 5 months ago
@martinkb10
what the hell history did you learn, the irish brigade were all CATHOLIC with the exception of the 29th mass who left very shortly and were replaced with the Catholic 28th mass, and the Irish brigade that they were named after were the brigade that served France,except for the 88th NY, who took the number 88 after the connaught rangers
Ampolitor 5 months ago
@Ampolitor wrong they were by far and away the majority protestants read through all the cooments i must have learnt history at the same school as 20 others who posted comments here! fact
martinkb10 5 months ago
@martinkb10 well then your school is screwed up, and I doubt you learned about the makeup of a brigade in school, the 29th were PROTESTANT so they left, and the 28th were Catholic who replaced them, and Finnian, and if you know anything about history, without looking it up on the internet you'll know what that means.
Ampolitor 5 months ago
@Ampolitor so at least you admit the 29th were protestant now!, the 28th were a smaller in number and amateurs compared to the 29th and by no means all catholic
martinkb10 5 months ago
@martinkb10 Most of them WERE Catholic though. Most of the men who survived service in the Irish Brigade (and some from the south) went on to defeat the Canadians when the Finnians invaded Canada in 1866. The brigade had several Catholic Chaplains with them through out the war. Are you trying to discredit the Irish Catholics or something by minimizing their presence in the Brigade?
GeneralKenobiSIYE 5 months ago
@GeneralKenobiSIYE i'm not trying to discredit the catholcs, i'm making sure the protestants aren't overlooked, god bless the 29th
martinkb10 5 months ago
@martinkb10 Who gives a shit they're over looked here? This was a Catholic Unit. Protestants had most of the rest of the army. They had the other famous units like the Iron Brigade, the Vermont Brigade, most of the Philadelphia Brigade (except the 69th Penn. which was mostly Irish), the 20th Maine, the Bucktails, as well as most of the Generals. Can't the Catholic Boys have just this one? The 29th was attached for a few months anyway. from the Peninsular Campaign up to just after Antietam.
GeneralKenobiSIYE 5 months ago
@GeneralKenobiSIYE Many of the men in the Philadelphia brigade were Catholics, company K of the 71st Pennsylvania was made completely of Irish iron workers from Phoenixville
markmason1000 4 months ago
@martinkb10 You're retarded, lol. Fuck up you twat prod.
TheAssist 5 months ago
@TheAssist thats the attitude that likes to hide the truth!
martinkb10 5 months ago
@martinkb10 Wrong! Only the 29th Mass was Protestant and most were not even Irish. They were more attached to the Irish Brigade than actually a part of it because the 28th Mass had not been fully mustered yet. The Brigade just needed reinforcements badly by Antietam. They had Catholic priests with them at all times, and even had one give the brigade absolution before they went to hold the Wheat Field at Gettysburg. (cont.)
GeneralKenobiSIYE 5 months ago
@martinkb10 (cont.) Of the five regiments, only the 116th Penn used a blue state flag instead of "Those Damn Green Flags" (as they were called by a Confederate General) the other four used because they had as many German/French/Polish-Catholics as Irish-Catholics so were not predominately Irish as the other four. Much is said about how the well the 29th fought with the Irish because of their differing religious backgrounds. I.E. Irish Catholic immigrants and American born Protestants.
GeneralKenobiSIYE 5 months ago
I am proud to be Irish and I love this part of the movie
LesMiz22 5 months ago
@TheGesb79 Americans are in love with Ireland, seriously.
Doxie79 5 months ago
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
- Sean O'Casey
irishhistoryman 5 months ago
So we Irish are in the shit at the moment, we've being here many times before and most likly will be again. But it's the irish way to grin and bare it till we make it through and then look back and remember the look times and laugh (and most likely drink,yep that stereotypes is fearly true).
So stop with the bow how irelands ruined she'l be grand.
God help the really fuck in ireland
mightyrighty1 5 months ago
@WilliamWallace96 Me to except im english, scottish, irish, welsh, norwegian, swedish, and prussian or german but I take pride in prussia more than germany but im most proud of being scotting and this part always gets me its so sad. it was a horrible battle and a stupid plan god dam you burnside you wasted so many union lives i would have listen to hand cock
by the way God Bless The U.S.A
RemembertThe20thMain 5 months ago
Why the hell did he advance to withing range and then not bayonet charge them? Idiot Commander.
armorsmith43 5 months ago
@armorsmith43 rifles of the civil war could be affective for several hundred yards that amount of distance to charge would have virtually destroyed the entire brigade before they were even close to the wall
fr3shchuck 5 months ago
are they cheering for the irish union soldiers or what?
edyoung44 5 months ago
@edyoung44 it seems they are .......respect for the fight and irish fighting spirit
Kimchiboy08 5 months ago
@edyoung44 Yes they are... acknowledging the bravery that they had just displayed
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edyoung44 5 months ago
the irish realy took loads of casulties in so manny wars it realy is something sad when you think about it from the older days when the british ocupied em,during the civil war (were they even had to fight eatch other) and on to current days with the things that started on "bloody sunday" another civil war it realy is something to think about ,about the verry sad history in search for peace that teh irish already faught so hard for i realy do respect em for there struggle
bartvh1986 5 months ago
The words of Armistead to Pickett at the end of the video about men marching into carnage....prophetic words if any.
God Save Ireland!
God Save Dixie!
God Save America!
darthroden 5 months ago
Just by following the basic principles in "The Art of War" you would never even consider such a suicidal assault. Throughout history soldiers always pay the price for their commanders' poor judgement.
Goatoftheforest 6 months ago
I think they did a great job portraying St. Clair A Mulholland, made him look like the pan-ultimate Paddy soldier. Probably one of the best "Leprechaunizing" of Irish looks since Ron Howard's brother in Far & Away. Great Stuff.
N1k1mon 6 months ago
@N1k1mon Only problem is that he didn't serve in the 28th Mass, but the 116th Penn. and he was a Major during the battle of Fredericksburg.
GeneralKenobiSIYE 5 months ago
@GeneralKenobiSIYE Bah! Mere details!
Well, they cant expect to get it perfect! =)
N1k1mon 5 months ago
@TheGesb79 yea well with a large Irish-America population, id say so ;D
lolackay 6 months ago
Does anyone know what the confederates are chanting at 6:36. My best guess is, "faugh a ballagh" but im not entirely sure... or it could be "arewwww!!!!"
undescoldmind 6 months ago
@undescoldmind Faugh a Ballagh, As Gaelige, means "clear the Way"! in native Irish.
gespb32 6 months ago
@undescoldmind :Faugh-a-Ballagh(Clear the Way)Was the motto of the now disbanded sectarian Ulster Defence Regiment now called the RIR(Royal Irish Rangers)Who are nothing more than an anti-catholic and anti-Irish Malitia.Most members were also members of the UDA,RUC,and UVF.UK.Govt backed terrorists.Ireland Abu.
billyhunchback 6 months ago
@undescoldmind definitely not "Fág a' balach" nor is it "Abú" (to victory) as both of these are Irish battle cries giving warning to an enemy... they were actually saluting the bravery of their fellow Irishmen who stood their ground and behaved with conspicuous gallantry in the face of withering fire. "Horrah" or "horruh" is most likely not for their own victory but in recognition their opponent's display of courage. Accounts of the battle of Fredricksburg allude to this event.
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