Marching Through Georgia with the 125th OVI

[rutley1990gsdf]

I think you guys have a wonderful unit i love going to tunnel hill and hearing you guys playing the music in the morning or friday night when every one is showing up to the event i always tell my guys a event just isnt the same without the 125th ohio.

[FGTBOGSAT]

A great Soviet march.

[Gneisenau]

@Georgia: The roof the roof the roof is on fire. We don't need no water let the mother fucker burn.

[kennybase1]

125th ohio... was that 11th corps?

[SWPrrFanA1]

What song was that?

[stevensneedjr]

The yanks called it the quickstep because they were quickly stepping away from us rebs during any fight we took to them.

[FeildMusician123]

lol

[Skytroop]

Most cool, What is this tune BTW?

[FeildMusician123]

Its actually played as a set, its 2 songs, the first the called J-Bird's Quickstep, and the Second is The Fireman's Quickstep. Our band plays as a set, and we just call it "J-Bird Fireman". :)

[guywith3]

the tune is jaybird quick step

[Skytroop]

Thank you very much!

[Peacekeeper76]

well ok that in itself is understandable. BTW i do WW2 reenacting as an american GI of color (even got me a m1), but i wonder how a man of spanish heritege can fit in the civil war reenactment scene while still being authentic. Any tips on where i can get a quality uniform/ weapon for it. either CSA or Union is fine with me. TY

[MarkTK36thIL]

Look up Authentic-Campaigner and search for a local unit. People of Spanish heritage and even Asian can participate, and still be authentic. Just stay away from farb units.

[Peacekeeper76]

I love reenacting but why are 85% of the reenactors obese?

[FeildMusician123]

ha, I know right, I guess old men are just fat, ha, these guys are from my unit. Always a pleasure to rag on them!

[rutley1990gsdf]

@Peacekeeper76 lol they dont do research on the inmpression of a foot soldier

[ColonialFifer]

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

Got to love Jaybird and Fireman's

[FeildMusician123]

One of my personal favorites!

[brainerdrebel]

The War For Southern Independence was not fought over slavery. The Southern States fought to leave the Union. The Federals fought to force the Southern States back in the Union. Take a trip to Chickamauga Battlefield and you will find the records of blacks in the Confederacy, 90,000. Free Blacks owned slaves. What a great free country we have, the feds have to force a state that voluntarily joined the confederation to stay in the union.

[idriveayugo]

nice pictures and nice music, very good indeed! :)

[Lumotaku]

Reancting should never take itself too seriously for me it was fun. I have heard of people pissing on buttons to make them look authentic waste of time if you ask me. DId any of those people march barefoot to the reanctment?The only fat people like myself in the union or the confederacy were some of the commanders.

[chaloner]

anyone know where I can get this song I love it!

[Redlegpete]

I think its on the Tiger Band CD. The Tiger Band is with the 125th OVI. Its' a great CD with this and other great marches on it.

[FeildMusician123]

Sure man, I'm in the Band that Plays this song, I could Email you this track.

[FeildMusician123]

I'll Email it to you, this song is from my band's CD. I'm not playing onthis track however because the CD was made years ao, before I even started reenacting.

[joelpatricksimmons]

you right

[BenAliGtor]

I love that Troiani print of Col. Opdyke @ the Carter House at the Battle of Franklin: talk about an avenging angel of the living God smiting the enemy (the damn Secesh) with his last full measure!

[FeildMusician123]

Yeah, I totally agree, I had an ancestor in that battle (125th OVI) so that painting is one of my personal favorites.

[joelpatricksimmons]

the civil war was not over slavery our states rights were violated there were black confederates there now black confederates to day who support those damn yankees free the slave but did not do shit for them sherman was racist he killed a bunch of slaves on his way to alanta sherman sould have been shot in the head for raping southern children and women were harmed he commited war crimes

[Redlegpete]

Joel, you don't get to count labor gangs and servants as soldiers. Stop lying about the war. The truth will make you free. There were only a few dozen black confederates and over 100,000 in the Union Army. Nice force pool drain on the confederacy that!

Let's also not forget that many Southerners wanted to stay in the Union. Over 200,000 enlisted in the Union Army! Another force pool drain! This isn't even counting the 400, 000 deserters and prisoners from the confederate army.

[joelpatricksimmons]

type in black confederates and neo black confederates there blacks who support the confederacy for freedom you damn raped innocent southern belles and even children were harmed my shermans troops i'm a southern soilder boy saying lets but a tent in the hornets nest at shoilh leave your ass there at night you yanks are scared of the rebel yell it was not over slavery you damn yanks drove us mad enough to leave the union same re

[joelpatricksimmons]

you damn yanks lied about of what we really you ingnorant scum think were racist and poor white trash guess what i got class been to southern balls been to fine expenive restraunts and were expenive cloths i'm a prep and a southern gentlemen never ever disrepect me cause i will make you look bad long live the soutern confederacy

[joelpatricksimmons]

the civil war was not over slavery our states rights were violated there were black confederates there now black confederates to day who support those damn yankees free the slave but did not do shit for them sherman was racist he killed a bunch of slaves on his way to alanta sherman sould have been shot in the head for raping southern children and women were harmed he commited war crimes

[Drummer7rf]

Good job with your videos!

[chaloner]

If thats the case we should have put Gereneral Robert E. Lee in front of a firing squad for high treason!

[joelpatricksimmons]

sherman burns in hell the damn yankees lied about the south and rewrote the history of the south now i really know the truth about what the south was really fighting for states rights not slavery there neo black confederates who support the confederacy type it on youtube you yanks free the slaves and did not do shit for them the north was really for slaves they hanged run a way slaves up there sherman burns in hell now he was mentally crazy almost shot him self

[Redlegpete]

If anyone is burning in hell, its confederate officers who previously served in the federal army. They broke their oath to their country and God to defend the United States against all enemie "so help me God" is at the end of that oath.

The rebel officers are lucky that the Government didn't hang the lot of them. They certainly would have been within their rights to do so.

Pretty cool that we are the only nation to end a civil war war the winners didn't execute the losers!

[joelpatricksimmons]

listin here you damn yank the reason why yall did not hang jeff davis cause the south would rise up again with a angry mobb we left union the same reson why the 13 colonys left england and the same reason why texas left mexico general lee was not fighting for slavery you know what he told lincoln he said i will not draw my sword against virginia cause you sending troops across the river why you can sxee my house he was defending his home and so was everybody else

[Redlegpete]

When the Union was through with the South there was no one left to rise up. That's the genius of Sherman. He cut the guts right out of the rebellion.

Then he and George Thomas went on to become celebrities in the South. The confederate veterans mostly loved these guys.

Its' you neo-rebs that won't let it go.

[joelpatricksimmons]

i love the usa cause i was born here but born in the south in shermans march movie it showed him cuting off the bridge and leaving the slaves to drown i saw it on the history channel i'm a southern boy i'm agaisnt slavery its wrong racism is wrong to i fly the confederate flag for heritage not hate there are neo black confederates today you don't beleve me just type it in on youtube and see for your self

[Redlegpete]

Actually, that was General Jefferson C. Davis who cut the bridge at Ezra Creek. Sherman was miles away. Cutting the bridge in and of itself didn't cause those freed slaves to drown. Wheelers cavalry was charging in and that's when they tried to swim the creek and drown.

Yeah, I have seen black confederate re-enactors. The black Union re-enactors I know think its ridiculous. There is one I have seen who is a black provost marshal. How farby is that?!

[chaloner]

Its ashame that most people are uneducated about black confederate. They believe it never happened.

[Redlegpete]

Actually there were about 250 black confederates.They were drilling in Richmond at the time of its' fall. A death bed conversion if ever there was one because they were authoirzed about a month before the end of the war.

How were they repaid by the people of the confederacy? By being jeered at by the Richmond civilians who hurled rocks and mud at them.

The confederacy didn't even have the decency to offer them freedom in exchange for their service.

[brokenspears]

Try a little more than 250. There were nearly 50,000 Black Confederates being trained in and around Richmond by War's end. And that's not counting others who served. In New Orleans, blacks were some of the first who offered their service but were ignored, and ended up fighting for the Union.

It was a decision that would have helped, but came too late in my opinion.

[Redlegpete]

There is no record of that many blacks serving the confederacy in either army's records, and trust me, the Federal Army was meticulous in its' record keeping. The Army of the Cumberland which took in the most prisoners of any federal Army has no record of a single black confederate soldier being taken prisoner. Why is that?

The number is about 250 regardless of how much you try to state otherwise.

Grant, who took in all the rebel prisoners around Richmond also records no black prisoners

[TheBoberton]

@Redlegpete Then why do the estimates by yankee historians put the number at around 65 thousand? Forrest freed the 70 slaves that fought for him. They all got paid the same and got the same equipment. They even fought in integrated units.

[joelpatricksimmons]

thats right i'm a neo confederate so are black people type in neo black confederate but general stone wall jackson thought that secession was wrong so did general lee they both thought slavery was wrong the south fought back in self defence after the war carpet bagger scum start stealing what southerns worked hard for and then men in rob and hoods called confederate ghost who them carpet baggers hell hey boy hands of the southern belle bang bang i don't like carpet bagger scum

[joelpatricksimmons]

thats right i'm a neo confederate so are black people type in neo black confederate but general stone wall jackson thought that secession was wrong so did general lee they both thought slavery was wrong the south fought back in self defence after the war carpet bagger scum start stealing what southerns worked hard for and then men in rob and hoods called confederate ghost who them carpet baggers hell hey boy hands of the southern belle bang bang i don't like carpet bagger scum

[joelpatricksimmons]

listin here you damn yank the reason why yall did not hang jeff davis cause the south would rise up again with a angry mobb we left union the same reson why the 13 colonys left england and the same reason why texas left mexico general lee was not fighting for slavery you know what he told lincoln he said i will not draw my sword against virginia cause you sending troops across the river why you can sxee my house he was defending his home and so was everybody else

[joelpatricksimmons]

i'm sorry dude its just i'm in a lot of pain and suffering right now cause my yellow lab puppy was killed by a pit bull no more bull shit ok let just be friends instead if emenies

[joelpatricksimmons]

sherman is a terroist scum who almos t shot him self in the head he was metally ill his troops raped southern belle for fun he sould of shot him self dead and grant was a damn drunk they free the slave but did not shit for them

[Redlegpete]

Wow, Joel Patrick Simmons is an idiot! Great video! Joel try reading some real history. If the war was about States Rights it was about one State right in particular and that was to keep your slaves. The stupid rebels were afraid that Lincoln would free the slaves and by attacking Union forces at Ft Sumter they made it come true. Shows what idiots the confederate leadership was. Don't start a war you can't possibly win.

Funny how a drunk ( Grant) beat your best General (Lee).

[joelpatricksimmons]

hey its called shermans march on the history channel he killed a bunch slaves on his way to alanta you dame yanks won the war and you get to lie about what we were fightin for our states rights were violated patrick cleburne always said the north will go on to teach there children in northern school book the ingorant lies

[Redlegpete]

I watched that show and my relatives to part in the Atlanta campaign. No slaves were killed on the way to Atlanta and most property and citizens were left alone as the History channel pointed out. North Georgia was spared because it was mostly pro-Union and Sherman had not yet devised his scorched earth policy.

Try reading his orders for the campaign. No property could be taken without a Corps Commander's approval. They even placed guards at the property of loyal citizens.

[joelpatricksimmons]

read my email that i sent you ok see if i'm really a dumbass i know the civil war to the battle of shoilh and franklin to i'm a civil war reenactor to i don't hate you i'm sure reenact to i just disagree with some stuff its part of life many southern people thought leaving the union was wrong but defending there homes

[Redlegpete]

Sherman's campaign was well within the articles of war at the time. Confederates burned and looted throughout Kentucky and East Tennessee. They threatened to destroy Carlisle, Pennsylvania is they didn;t come up with $200,000! The dumb rebel general wrote $20,000 by mistake in the demand letter so the town was spared.

Don't forget Lawrence Kansas either. The confederate burned the town and murdered everyone they could catch.

At least federal troops who committed crimes were tried.

[joelpatricksimmons]

i do aplogzies and say i'm sorry but i was speaking in character i'm a civil war reenactor just like you i had you fooled you i love the united states my guys time to time protray kansas red legs out west but how can a confederate reenactor in uniform be treson

[joelpatricksimmons]

you damn yanks are war criminals who rape southern belles and i don't like carpet bagger scum they steal and lie for what southerns worked for sherman is a sorry bastard who burns in hell i curse the ground he walked on if a yankee came to my home burned it and killed my family i would find the son of a bitch hunt him down tie him to a tree and let a rattle snake play with him

[joelpatricksimmons]

you damn yanks are war criminals who rape southern belles and i don't like carpet bagger scum they steal and lie for what southerns worked for sherman is a sorry bastard who burns in hell i curse the ground he walked on if a yankee came to my home burned it and killed my family i would find the son of a bitch hunt him down tie him to a tree and let a rattle snake play with him

[chaloner]

dude get over it, the war is over, if you don't like it go move to Brazil where alot of ex confedereates moved to after the war. lol :P

[joelpatricksimmons]

i'm a civil war reenactor i'm speaking in caracter

[CivilWarReenactor]

Did you say the song was Marching Through Georgia? The song is Jaybirds/Firemans Quickstep. One of my favorites to play

[FeildMusician123]

No, Marching Through Georgia is the name of our CD. (where I got J bird/fireman from)

[FeildMusician123]

Also, we are located in North GA.