What do they use in the guns in civil war reenactments? And how do they ppl now when they die in the baatle? Do they get hit by an airsoft pellet? Plz answer my questions!
@ThePimpycat They arn't airsoft guns they are real guns but loaded only with powder but no minie ball. You bite off the end of a cartridge and pour the powder down the barrel then usually you would place the bullet in the barrel then take out the ramrode and ram the powder and minie ball down the barrel then place a percussion cap and pullback the hammer and fire.
@ThePimpycat I carry a .58 cal musket. They are real rifles and cannon, they just fire blanks. In the morning inspections the captain or other ranking officer inspects you and your epuipment,often slipping a dummy cartridge in your cartridge box without you noticing (they can be sneaky) During the re-enactment, you will will eventually pull out the dummy cartridge when loading your weapon and know it's your turn to die or fall down wounded. Black means dead. Red means wounded.
Reenactment are nothing like war. They recreate all the meaningless details without considering the bigger picture.
Reenactments create an exciting sensitised spectacle, devoid of fear, the stench of violent death, and the madness and sorrow of those who survive... which makes the whole exercise a dangerous sham.
Wars are disasters created by politicians who fail in their primary duty to maintain peace and prosperity for all.
I am suppose to be reenacting shiloh this year and there is suppose to be 5,000 to 6,000 men plus 50 cannons.. I maybe wrong about the cannons this time though.
This has got to be the biggest waist of time that I've ever seene anybody doing.....yet scary, nothing like a few thousand red neck inbreds running around crazy TRYING to believe the year is 1863 and that there in danger while holding weapons. Oh and to the person that MADE this video......it must be nice to want to eat the corns off of an old mans foot but you do it anyway.
Hi guys to see a video of the 150th anniversary of the battle of manassas reenactment go to srvztube channel or search battle of manassas 150th anniversary
@TitaniumPlatnium well that is because we ARE IN THE USA... no shit we mainly hear about this war because it was with our own country... you dont see people in AFRICA learning about the American Civil War... are you really that dumb?
Unless we are knowledgeable of our history and learn the lessons we need to from it, we are surely doomed to repeat those mistakes. Seeing a life of a soldier lived as it was during the War Between the States or the Revolution allows us to associate with them and know them and more importantly, understand why they were there and what it meant to them. You can't get that from a history book or lecture, you need to experience it. That's what reenactors do.
@ZeitgeistWI yes but reenacting it isn't truely experiencing it though its just a false image you attempt to portray when the real one's who experienced it truely felt what it was like
@mike88189 Depends on what you consider, "truly experiencing". Do we actually shoot at each other? Do we face the possibility of death? Of course not. We are there as historical role players, trying to give the public some sense of what the conflict was like and the day to day life of a soldier. It's like reaching back to them through time and seeing things through their eyes, as much as we can anyway. We eat the same food, play the same music, live in the same tents and sleep as they did.
@mike88189 In the sense that we live as they lived in the field, do the same things that they did and more or less put on a persona while reenacting, it is very real. There is the obvious difference that at the end of it, we know that we can go back to our homes and our jobs and we won't have suffered serious wounds or death. But in a sense, that is what they did as well. Some lived, some were wounded and some died. Those who survived went home after the war.
@mike88189 You won't get a sense for what it is or isn't by listening to me tell it to you. Go and find a reenactment group around your home and ask them if you can see what it is all about and experience it for yourself. What you take away from it is up to you ultimately but I think your eyes will be opened to a new experience and you will see what I am talking about. Believe me, when you are standing next to a 12 pound artillery piece, surrounded by men firing rifles, you get a sense of it.
We can't go back in time and ask them what they were thinking, how it affected them to leave home and family to go off to war. We can't look into their minds and see that behind every stoic face was a scared man wanting to go home. The best we can do is try to live as they did and bring them back to our time so people can know their lives, sacrifices, toils and struggles. In doing that, we keep their memory and the memory of what they did alive for future generations.
Every generation has its doctors and lawyers, its public workers and nurses and others who serve their communities selflessly. Every generation has its soldiers too. Those who put the lives and safety and freedom of others above their own. The life of a soldier is always that way and it takes a special kind of person to take up arms in the defense of others. Portraying how they lived, ate, their friendships, their lives, what they left behind and who they were is out of respect for them.
Don't be fooled into thinking that professing peace will save you from those who wish to enslave you, it won't, and in that time when your freedoms and liberties are threatened is when you too will see that there is a time to live peacefully and a time to fight. Those who see no need for war have never had to live in a time when it was necessary. Those who tell others that they are not in favor of war, delude themselves because they have never had to fight to keep themselves free.
Even great Generals like Lee, Wellington, Napoleon and Caesar from antiquity knew that there was something about war that while horrible, was desireable to the human spirit. It is in strife and the readiness to engage in strife that great nations are forged. Washington, a great general and statesman, noted too that the surest way to effect the peace was to be prepared for war. It is a deterrent to those who seek to oppress others and so it is part of who we all are whether we admit it or not.
As to those like myself who are living history reenactors, why we do it is simple, a love of history, a desire to preserve it and a longing to understand who we are as a people and a nation and how we came to be. Honoring the brave men both North and South who gave the fullest measure of their devotion to their countrymen and their nation should not be seen as warmongering or loving war. Robert E. Lee said it best; It is good that war is so terrible lest we should grow fond of it.
To Southerners, it was about states rights and being able to live free as they sought to while allowing the institution of slavery to be a part of that life. For the Northerners, it was about freeing the slaves and preserving the Union. It was a terrible war and yet the reasons it was fought are what make it so well known even today. Our nation ripped itself apart in order to keep itself whole and set other men free. Not about land per se or power or empire, it was about each other.
Human beings have always had war as a part of their experience, it is a part of who we are. Why we conduct them and the spirit in which they are undertaken is the part that matters. History is replete with wars fought for kings or monarchy, land, trade and just about anything else you can think of. The American Civil War was a war to decide who we were as a nation. Were we believers in the Constitution or were some men free while others were not. It was a war fought to set others free.
Why do people re-enact wars when there are 2 real wars involving americans currently going on? Its stupid! Thats how much we like war, even when we are at war we have to conduct large plays about other wars we've fought.
@madashell1200 , Reenacting is important for the historical aspect of it. As a country we need to remember where we came from. Do you think we should omit wars from our textbooks during wartime? You r a douche.
This war gets a lot of attention because if the Confederacy had succeeded...not only America but the entire world might be a very different place today.
Also, echoing what other people said, slavery is often mentioned gratuitously in textbooks, but the truth is that it's merely a means of justifying the winner's cause...but that's true of any war.
@TitaniumPlatnium I guess they didn't think that America would fall apart like they did. Of course, it was when America just came to be, so, I really don't know.
This is the Civil War? I thought in a civil war gentlemen abstained from tactics such as killing and scorched earth and were better known for their kindness and civility towards their enemies. In the English Civil War Brits would concoct makeshift tearooms on the field of battle in order to serve cream teas and discuss the effect of Shakespeare's plays on contemporary British politics. "Kill all the Lawyers, indeed" quipped one noted General, drawing guffaws from friend and foe alike.
@TitaniumPlatnium War is bloody. There cannot generally be a war "bloodier" than another. Trust me, wars before the Romans were as bloody as the Colonial Age, and are just as bloody as wars of today. The varying weapons - swords, spears, cannon, musket, rifle, machinegun, laser - they will all be bloody. War is hell.
@TitaniumPlatnium Over 600,000 people died and there were more casulaties in that war then all the other wars the US has fought combined. Not to mention it was the biggest war ever fought in the western hemisphere.
@TitaniumPlatnium Behind which wars? The casualties were 30% and even 40% in some battles. Pickett's division suffered 60% casualties during Gettysburg. Today we consider 10% casualties a bloodbath. So like I said, it is the bloodiest civil war as far as battle casualties are concerned - perhaps even one of the bloodiest wars.
@TitaniumPlatnium Like what? There are a couple that were monstrously brutal (The Taiping Rebellion) as far as the civilian population is concerned. But as far as the numbers and proportions of soldier casualties, the American Civil War is one of the bloodiest, if not THE bloodiest.
@TitaniumPlatnium well this one was pretty bloody itself 750,000 people dies in just 3 years the other 2 years were the worst. when you see these re enactments you dont see them getting shot because their blanks. but if you really did back then you'd shit yer pants buddy lol
@TitaniumPlatnium Most civil wars were about regime changes and/or people not having enough to eat. This war was much more philosophical. Many people view it as black and white, good vs evil, freedom vs slavery. In other words, it has a heroic element to it.
@redarrowhead2 Heroic element, my *ss! Lincoln and his thugs were trying to deny an entire section of the country their rights to be free and to be governed as they saw fit. it was a power play to change the basic nature of the federal government, and it succeeded, much to our eternal misfortune.
"McClellan was good in some ways and not in others. He built the army but then didn't use it."
Right. Well, what use is an Army you don't use during a war? None.
McClellan probably kept the war going longer than it did. Napoleon would have beat the rebels a lot faster. And Patton would have finished in less than a year.
A place/country that you mention being more bloody than the American Civil War. Its so well known because it was the largest war in North America which involved people from many different countries.
We were part of Hancocks 2nd Corps. We fought at Kernstown, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancelorsville, Cemetery Ridge, The NY draft riots, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.
@TitaniumPlatnium You're biased because you're from Russia. If you're not interested in this war then don't look it up on youtube. The south could not have won easily if at all. The only reason they stayed in the war for as long as they did was because they had superior generals.
@Rexicano Lincoln was hated in Washington. Mcclelan had a lot of power in Washington. By no means was it easy for Lincoln to get rid of the bad generals.
And of course today Lincoln is world famous and McClellan...not so much, as in largely unknown, and for good reason. McClellan was a flop at war. Probably great for a Boy Scout Camp but war? Not.
@TitaniumPlatnium LoL !! So the war that introduced the new way war was to be fought such as trench warfare,seperation of armys for stratigic superiority, and guerilla tactics is not as important as the chinese revolution where most of it was meaningless slaughter useing the same tactics that were invented in the civil war? Killing 3 million women and children isnt really all that war like its more of a slaughter of the innocents and takes no real talent to do. and Meaningful ?
@TitaniumPlatnium It has nothing to do with the wars being so "bloody". It has more to do with the reasoning for the war. Like for instance, the American Civil War to free Black Folks from slavery and all those civil wars in Afrika are about just flat out, non-sense killing each other over nothing.
I could never be a reenactor - I'd make such a ham of my death scene (writhing around on the ground, being too dramatic etc) that they throw me off the field
hmmm.... my great grand-father was a Rebel fighting in AR and LA. He was a poor Texas farmer who owned no slaves. I really can't see him fighting for his rich neighbor's right to won slaves....
people will say that it was all about states rights and that has some truth to it. but really most states were talking about the right to own slaves, just look it up in the articles of confederation. and yes while i know it wasnt the only reason for fighting but the southerners were fighting for their way of life. that way of life involved the use of slaves. having said that most people in the north were also racist to some degree
@richardcwood1 could you please share a true civil war story or two with me from what those brave old timers graced you with hearing id really appreciate it and thank you for your family doing its part for our nations history
That is not all true. Lincoln stated that he was willing to keep slavery if it meant saving the Union. The war was about states rights. And in point of fact, Robert E. Lee released his slaves, while Ulyses S. Grant did not. Also most are not aware that Lincoln asked Lee to command the Union Army, but he refused as he did not want to fire on his own statesman.
it was because the south kept launching little attacks and soon enough they took a fort and Lincoln thought this was just the thing to start the war and then once we won one battle and it seemed like we were the supperiors in the war
he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation so that people would listen cause they would think we were winning.
The Civil War was entirely about slavery. The South proudly said so when they started it, in their Cornerstone Speech and Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina declarations of secession. You should read them before you lecture us about American history.
this stuff is epical. i'm a belgain civil war re-enactor and the biggest event ive done wuz with about 30 men witch is peanuts compared to this stuff. although i wuz present at the gettysburg re-enactment of 1996 as a visitor. the only thing we got back here the size of this is the batle of waterloo. lots of respect to the americans too fore keeping history alive on this scale the world can learn a thing or 2 from you guys
someone once asked me "what exactly is reinacting?" and i jokingly told them "remember when you were little and you would snap a branch off a tree use as a gun or sword and play army men well all these reinactors are just old yellers who never got over it"
It troubles me that our Founding Fathers gave us the act of secession to keep the federal government in check so they could not abuse power. Yet, Abraham Lincoln, was a Fascist who decided to go against our constitution and the values we stand for and started a war of so called TREASON. I'm not trying to start a debate with you all, and this is one mans opinion. I had ancestors fight for both sides. My ancestor from Michigan died at Anteitam, and my ancestor from Alabama, survived the whole war.
@monolith1676 it angers me that strange people still think they can use the Constitution as a philosophical foundation for enslaving black and brown people. :P
honestly, the bullshit about states rights, hides the fact that fully 20% of the southern population were an enslaved race... and its Antietam, not Anteitam...
On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, I remember all the fallen soldiers of the American Civil War. May they rest in peace.
@richardcwood1 The south felt that it could not be truly free while attached to the North and so it seceded. The North declared the Southerners as rebels and so the war began.
War is such a horrible thing, but it really does define a generation and human courage. We will never see such types of people again, just as we will never see again the people who lived through WW1 and WW2.The civil war was a looooong time coming though. It was very emotional and both sides had powerful reasons for war.
@Soreanol It's important to remember that although slavery is a disgusting system that (much) of the world has grown out of, the civil war did involve other issues besides slavery. Slavery was just a component to a bigger problem. State's rights was the principle reason and the South felt that with the North's economic dominance and lead role in congress, it was being treated unfairly. Tariffs that favored Northern manufacturers and hurt southern farmers was a huge problem.
@redarrowhead2-So why did the south not leave untill a president who was against slavery was elected and why did Jefferson Davis and his vice president give speeches saying that slavery was the main reason for the war. I'm not saying the soldiers were fighting for it, but their leaders who had money and slaves sure seem to have been using the poor men who loved the south to defend the rich mans right to own slaves. General Lee said that if he had the money he would buy all the slaves to keep the
@redarrowhead2- country together. But as big of a reason as slavery was for the war was the fact that America was formed because we didn't have a choice. The war with England forced the colonies together and then the country started to expand too fast and with all the Indian nations that we were becoming enemies with a lot of them add Mexico, England, Spain and France onto that and the people in this country were so different that a civil war was bound to happen. But every country has civil wars
@Soreanol oh lols...How quickly the ignorant turn to anger. Why didn't you ask any of those veterans why they fought for a racist President? Never heard that Lincoln was one of the greatest advocates for relocating all Black people to Africa and British territories? Didn't think so. Most Americans haven't, because most Americans like you are ignorant of their own history. Can't fix stupid.
"Most Americans like you", I'm not American you ignorant fool.
But hey, at least you're right about Americans being ignorant of their own history. Ignorant of a whole lot of other things, too.
Nobody was being angry here, you are misinterpreting wildly. I was just stating a fact. You wanted to fight for slavery, that's wrong. Obviously. Can't fix that. Who cares if Lincoln wasn't perfect? Better than the South at least.
@Soreanol Good thing you're not an American, its sad to be one these days.
You are wrong about your "facts". The War of Northern Aggression was the culmination of the division between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists won. And 150 years later we have the bloated, over-reaching, tyrannical government that the Federalists gave us. Abolitionism was NEVER a significant platform of the Rep. Party. Try reading books from those who fought for the South. Or stay one sided.
Oh come on, you think you have a tyrannical government. Give me a fucking break. Next to no taxes, a right to own pretty much anything? Sounds tyrannical indeed. Plus no slavery.
@Soreanol Sounds like you and I have differing views of tyranny. But then again you probably have not actually critically thought about the things you were taught in school. I was once a naive American who blindly joined the military to "defend freedom". But then I realized that we weren't fighting for "freedom", but for corporate profits and oil. To defend the dollar as reserve currency and the unit of exchange in oil. When it comes to today or 1861, follow the money.
Of course you aren't fighting for freedom, the oil and natural riches thing is obvious. Sure, they try to control you, but would it really have been better if the South won the Civil War? Don't think so.
@Soreanol- You are right about one thing. It drives me crazy when people from the south claim that having an expanding country that was half slave and half not and Lincoln being elected by saying that slavery would not be allowed in the half of Mexico that a lot of the people from the north and south took part in the war against Mexico and then the Civil War a little more than a decade later. But don't lump all Americans together. I love studying American history as well as world history.
@Soreanol Oh, and to you're reply about being a "racist piece of trash": You're a facking moron and I would have gladly shot at your grandfather if I were alive back then. :) cheers.
wow, that's really interesting. I'm only 21, but i'm a black american, and am grateful for those that fought so my family, and all of humanity could live in peace. I can't imagine what you have lived through, getting to meet all of those historic people. I'm sure when I'm older, in 50 years, people will be asking me about 9/11. But hopefully, i won't have any other great war stories to tell them
@richardcwood1 If you would like to could you please comment or message to me atleast one of the stories that you heard from them? I would very much appreciate it.
@richardcwood1 actually it was beacause of the lincoln election and south carolina decided to "quit" the country because they volunteered to be apart of the union. Then abraham made a law to free all slaves making it at that the time the primary reason to start a war.
@WhatTheHell396 No, what really should of happened is they should of allowed slaves to emigrate back to Africa or payed them to emigrate back. And then we would not have as much racial conflict that we have today -_- slavery was stupid idea number 1....
@WhatTheHell396 no...its the economics. Just trust me been an econ major. Slavery is one of those things where it, in the end caused more harm to the southern cause than good. Many slave owners were not willing to let their slaves work in factories to produce weapons and metal ect ect because slaves were considered to valuable and owners did not want them hurt (as in losing a leg or an arm)..No immigrates came to the south as a result of slavery occupying low paying jobs...I can go on and on
they should rly try to make some sort of like air soft ammo or something for these guns. So at least you can have the credit of been hit by something instead of playing make believe lol
@WhatTheHell396 no dumbass in long run slavery was actually more harmful to the southern economy than doing what the north did (allow immigration from Europe).
I wish I could go back in time and bring modern weapons with me so the north could just absolutely demolish the south with heat seeking missiles and fighter jets =)
UsaCsaHeritage is a channel devoted to both sides of the American Civil War. Of course the Union soldiers will be honored, but the Confederate soldiers are often forgotten. This Channel is dedicated to inform and honor ALL Civil War veterans.
@divinesense Theres not really any assignment of when to die, basically if you see someone aim their firearm at you and fire, you should fall down. You don't have to, though. It just looks better if you do. The only one that I know of that assigns deaths if Picketts Charge, when Confederates draw numbers to find out where they're supposed to die.
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FDR vs. Hitler. Both took power/office 1933 their countries unemployed 25-30%. 6-8 years later Germany rate 2% USA still 20%. Who was better leader? How? Hitler threw off International Bankers. They still hate & vilify him to this day like he had no qualities.
Those posting who think the seeds of a 2nd Civil War will exclusively be about race are sadly mistakened.Thats what certain powerful people WANT you to think. I admit their will be ignorant people of any ethnic group with this bs in their heads, they will be surprised on that terrible day . Our enemy is the Corporate/ Banking families who are MULTINATIONAl, and wish to do ALL of us harm. UNITE OR DIE
What do they use in the guns in civil war reenactments? And how do they ppl now when they die in the baatle? Do they get hit by an airsoft pellet? Plz answer my questions!
ThePimpycat 3 weeks ago
@ThePimpycat They arn't airsoft guns they are real guns but loaded only with powder but no minie ball. You bite off the end of a cartridge and pour the powder down the barrel then usually you would place the bullet in the barrel then take out the ramrode and ram the powder and minie ball down the barrel then place a percussion cap and pullback the hammer and fire.
AUG351 2 weeks ago
@ThePimpycat Some times they tap you on the shoulder or you just choose when to get hit.
AUG351 2 weeks ago
@ThePimpycat I carry a .58 cal musket. They are real rifles and cannon, they just fire blanks. In the morning inspections the captain or other ranking officer inspects you and your epuipment,often slipping a dummy cartridge in your cartridge box without you noticing (they can be sneaky) During the re-enactment, you will will eventually pull out the dummy cartridge when loading your weapon and know it's your turn to die or fall down wounded. Black means dead. Red means wounded.
barfyspitz 2 weeks ago
How could the men charge so without athletic supporters? Or did they have athletic supporters in them days?
amitus8 1 month ago
Reenactment are nothing like war. They recreate all the meaningless details without considering the bigger picture.
Reenactments create an exciting sensitised spectacle, devoid of fear, the stench of violent death, and the madness and sorrow of those who survive... which makes the whole exercise a dangerous sham.
Wars are disasters created by politicians who fail in their primary duty to maintain peace and prosperity for all.
PhilipMitchellGraham 2 months ago
It's important that we remember how divided our country was during the civil war, and these reenactments serve to remind us all.
studysync 2 months ago
kill them ignant confederate bastards!
CrimsonEmpire 2 months ago
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whats the name of the song?
Dennizjoon 2 months ago
I am suppose to be reenacting shiloh this year and there is suppose to be 5,000 to 6,000 men plus 50 cannons.. I maybe wrong about the cannons this time though.
Lildeathdude25 3 months ago
@Lildeathdude25 Sorry.. next year :P
Lildeathdude25 3 months ago
This has got to be the biggest waist of time that I've ever seene anybody doing.....yet scary, nothing like a few thousand red neck inbreds running around crazy TRYING to believe the year is 1863 and that there in danger while holding weapons. Oh and to the person that MADE this video......it must be nice to want to eat the corns off of an old mans foot but you do it anyway.
ActorAdn 3 months ago
i feel like this video would be more enticing if it had rap music playing in the background
NaStyleJaa 4 months ago
@NaStyleJaa Are you kidding?......
darthjamula 3 months ago
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Hi guys to see a video of the 150th anniversary of the battle of manassas reenactment go to srvztube channel or search battle of manassas 150th anniversary
sobelthree 4 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium The civil conflicts in 20th century China come to mind....
MeAtLoAfInTime 4 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium well that is because we ARE IN THE USA... no shit we mainly hear about this war because it was with our own country... you dont see people in AFRICA learning about the American Civil War... are you really that dumb?
BlueBig22 4 months ago
-.- suck balls everyone america is the best so bull crap
jpb951128 4 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium The US always plays victim.
loftymuses 5 months ago
This is just all of the reenactment scenes from the old computer game Gettysburg by Sid Meiers put together in one video.
micahemeyer 5 months ago
@micahemeyer bull
jpb951128 4 months ago
HA HA CONFEDERATES ARE LOOSERS
bahamaboy25 5 months ago
Its Stupid these Reinactment wars, Why cant they have Blood Pouches their on thir chests so they can tell their dead
Dim4323 5 months ago
@Dim4323 It would ruin their costumes. Source: the obvious.
loftymuses 5 months ago
Unless we are knowledgeable of our history and learn the lessons we need to from it, we are surely doomed to repeat those mistakes. Seeing a life of a soldier lived as it was during the War Between the States or the Revolution allows us to associate with them and know them and more importantly, understand why they were there and what it meant to them. You can't get that from a history book or lecture, you need to experience it. That's what reenactors do.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago 6
@ZeitgeistWI yes but reenacting it isn't truely experiencing it though its just a false image you attempt to portray when the real one's who experienced it truely felt what it was like
mike88189 3 months ago
@mike88189 Depends on what you consider, "truly experiencing". Do we actually shoot at each other? Do we face the possibility of death? Of course not. We are there as historical role players, trying to give the public some sense of what the conflict was like and the day to day life of a soldier. It's like reaching back to them through time and seeing things through their eyes, as much as we can anyway. We eat the same food, play the same music, live in the same tents and sleep as they did.
ZeitgeistWI 3 months ago
@mike88189 In the sense that we live as they lived in the field, do the same things that they did and more or less put on a persona while reenacting, it is very real. There is the obvious difference that at the end of it, we know that we can go back to our homes and our jobs and we won't have suffered serious wounds or death. But in a sense, that is what they did as well. Some lived, some were wounded and some died. Those who survived went home after the war.
ZeitgeistWI 3 months ago
@mike88189 You won't get a sense for what it is or isn't by listening to me tell it to you. Go and find a reenactment group around your home and ask them if you can see what it is all about and experience it for yourself. What you take away from it is up to you ultimately but I think your eyes will be opened to a new experience and you will see what I am talking about. Believe me, when you are standing next to a 12 pound artillery piece, surrounded by men firing rifles, you get a sense of it.
ZeitgeistWI 3 months ago
We can't go back in time and ask them what they were thinking, how it affected them to leave home and family to go off to war. We can't look into their minds and see that behind every stoic face was a scared man wanting to go home. The best we can do is try to live as they did and bring them back to our time so people can know their lives, sacrifices, toils and struggles. In doing that, we keep their memory and the memory of what they did alive for future generations.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
Every generation has its doctors and lawyers, its public workers and nurses and others who serve their communities selflessly. Every generation has its soldiers too. Those who put the lives and safety and freedom of others above their own. The life of a soldier is always that way and it takes a special kind of person to take up arms in the defense of others. Portraying how they lived, ate, their friendships, their lives, what they left behind and who they were is out of respect for them.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
Don't be fooled into thinking that professing peace will save you from those who wish to enslave you, it won't, and in that time when your freedoms and liberties are threatened is when you too will see that there is a time to live peacefully and a time to fight. Those who see no need for war have never had to live in a time when it was necessary. Those who tell others that they are not in favor of war, delude themselves because they have never had to fight to keep themselves free.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
Even great Generals like Lee, Wellington, Napoleon and Caesar from antiquity knew that there was something about war that while horrible, was desireable to the human spirit. It is in strife and the readiness to engage in strife that great nations are forged. Washington, a great general and statesman, noted too that the surest way to effect the peace was to be prepared for war. It is a deterrent to those who seek to oppress others and so it is part of who we all are whether we admit it or not.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
As to those like myself who are living history reenactors, why we do it is simple, a love of history, a desire to preserve it and a longing to understand who we are as a people and a nation and how we came to be. Honoring the brave men both North and South who gave the fullest measure of their devotion to their countrymen and their nation should not be seen as warmongering or loving war. Robert E. Lee said it best; It is good that war is so terrible lest we should grow fond of it.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
To Southerners, it was about states rights and being able to live free as they sought to while allowing the institution of slavery to be a part of that life. For the Northerners, it was about freeing the slaves and preserving the Union. It was a terrible war and yet the reasons it was fought are what make it so well known even today. Our nation ripped itself apart in order to keep itself whole and set other men free. Not about land per se or power or empire, it was about each other.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
Human beings have always had war as a part of their experience, it is a part of who we are. Why we conduct them and the spirit in which they are undertaken is the part that matters. History is replete with wars fought for kings or monarchy, land, trade and just about anything else you can think of. The American Civil War was a war to decide who we were as a nation. Were we believers in the Constitution or were some men free while others were not. It was a war fought to set others free.
ZeitgeistWI 5 months ago
Why do people re-enact wars when there are 2 real wars involving americans currently going on? Its stupid! Thats how much we like war, even when we are at war we have to conduct large plays about other wars we've fought.
madashell1200 5 months ago
@madashell1200 , Reenacting is important for the historical aspect of it. As a country we need to remember where we came from. Do you think we should omit wars from our textbooks during wartime? You r a douche.
InvadeFrance 5 months ago
This war gets a lot of attention because if the Confederacy had succeeded...not only America but the entire world might be a very different place today.
Also, echoing what other people said, slavery is often mentioned gratuitously in textbooks, but the truth is that it's merely a means of justifying the winner's cause...but that's true of any war.
RaggaeOfFunk 5 months ago
I was at a reenactment last year and this dumbass lady asked how many civil war veterans are still alive today.
MUSICALGUNNUT45 5 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium I guess they didn't think that America would fall apart like they did. Of course, it was when America just came to be, so, I really don't know.
10AceOfSpades01 5 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium I don't know, the American civil war was pretty bloody and savage. What other wars do you think were worse?
Lee05211 5 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium
The Ukrainian civil war was one of the worst. It is estimated that millions died just in the 1650s alone.
Vovk3 6 months ago
This is the Civil War? I thought in a civil war gentlemen abstained from tactics such as killing and scorched earth and were better known for their kindness and civility towards their enemies. In the English Civil War Brits would concoct makeshift tearooms on the field of battle in order to serve cream teas and discuss the effect of Shakespeare's plays on contemporary British politics. "Kill all the Lawyers, indeed" quipped one noted General, drawing guffaws from friend and foe alike.
fvgdfbdokd 6 months ago
in all that shit, how would you know if you got shot in the reenactment?
zanaik 6 months ago
@zanaik im a reenactor and you just kinda go down when you feel is right, when a volly of fire goes your way. or if your gun malfunctions.
akiller101 5 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium War is bloody. There cannot generally be a war "bloodier" than another. Trust me, wars before the Romans were as bloody as the Colonial Age, and are just as bloody as wars of today. The varying weapons - swords, spears, cannon, musket, rifle, machinegun, laser - they will all be bloody. War is hell.
SuperHaloStarwarsFan 6 months ago 3
Sorry to ruin your words of wisdom or whatever the hell those were, but yes, one war can be much much bloodier than another
KaiserReich98 1 week ago
@TitaniumPlatnium Over 600,000 people died and there were more casulaties in that war then all the other wars the US has fought combined. Not to mention it was the biggest war ever fought in the western hemisphere.
pvtslat85 6 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium Behind which wars? The casualties were 30% and even 40% in some battles. Pickett's division suffered 60% casualties during Gettysburg. Today we consider 10% casualties a bloodbath. So like I said, it is the bloodiest civil war as far as battle casualties are concerned - perhaps even one of the bloodiest wars.
whgoss 6 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium Like what? There are a couple that were monstrously brutal (The Taiping Rebellion) as far as the civilian population is concerned. But as far as the numbers and proportions of soldier casualties, the American Civil War is one of the bloodiest, if not THE bloodiest.
whgoss 6 months ago
Lee wasnt dumb for ordering the charge. He was unaware of the rapid change in weaponry. Generals always fight the last war...
SirTim123 6 months ago
General Lee to General Pickett: "General, you must see to your Division." "General Lee Sir, I have no Division."
Ricki957 6 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium becasue this nation was supposed to be united and we fought our own that's what makes it memorable i think. I could be wrong.
connor2112232 6 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium well this one was pretty bloody itself 750,000 people dies in just 3 years the other 2 years were the worst. when you see these re enactments you dont see them getting shot because their blanks. but if you really did back then you'd shit yer pants buddy lol
TheAmericanPatriott 7 months ago
Picketts charge was so dumb. If Lee would of waited...and listened to Longstreet...
MaddZzee350 7 months ago
This looks amazing
PivotCrime 7 months ago
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zipsrule 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium For example.
zipsrule 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium Most civil wars were about regime changes and/or people not having enough to eat. This war was much more philosophical. Many people view it as black and white, good vs evil, freedom vs slavery. In other words, it has a heroic element to it.
redarrowhead2 7 months ago
@redarrowhead2 Heroic element, my *ss! Lincoln and his thugs were trying to deny an entire section of the country their rights to be free and to be governed as they saw fit. it was a power play to change the basic nature of the federal government, and it succeeded, much to our eternal misfortune.
cscptdave 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium
Because it's the American Civil War and we're Americans. I bet the Africans know all of their Civil Wars far better than they do this one.
Whitsdude 7 months ago
i wold go in thar if thar in my naiberhood
MrLtwilliam 7 months ago
this was a great victory for the north. great job my fellow yankees and yankee ancestors.
trampledone 7 months ago
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"McClellan was good in some ways and not in others. He built the army but then didn't use it."
Right. Well, what use is an Army you don't use during a war? None.
McClellan probably kept the war going longer than it did. Napoleon would have beat the rebels a lot faster. And Patton would have finished in less than a year.
Rexicano 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium
A place/country that you mention being more bloody than the American Civil War. Its so well known because it was the largest war in North America which involved people from many different countries.
fritziematt 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium
That's not really an accurate statement.
Are you trying to say there was more loss of life? In proportion to population?
Or more efficient killing and faster by bombs, etc.?
And what's the point you are trying to make?
American Civil War was no picnic.
Rexicano 7 months ago
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14th Indiana
We were part of Hancocks 2nd Corps. We fought at Kernstown, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancelorsville, Cemetery Ridge, The NY draft riots, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.
But can we whip Taylor Swift at Billie Creek.
1967mustanggta 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium
Name a place.
fritziematt 7 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium You're biased because you're from Russia. If you're not interested in this war then don't look it up on youtube. The south could not have won easily if at all. The only reason they stayed in the war for as long as they did was because they had superior generals.
americanrep 7 months ago
@americanrep
And Lincoln waited too long to replace his bad Generals with some kick ass ones.
Rexicano 7 months ago
@Rexicano Lincoln was hated in Washington. Mcclelan had a lot of power in Washington. By no means was it easy for Lincoln to get rid of the bad generals.
americanrep 7 months ago
@americanrep
Lincoln needed a George Patton to kick ass.
And of course today Lincoln is world famous and McClellan...not so much, as in largely unknown, and for good reason. McClellan was a flop at war. Probably great for a Boy Scout Camp but war? Not.
And you don't even know how to spell his name.
Rexicano 7 months ago
@Rexicano
McClellan was good in some ways and not in others. He built the army but then didn't use it.
fritziematt 7 months ago
This is to rockonzepplin, first of all they didn't have videocamras in the battle dipshit and it says reenactment on the top of the video
seesee22331 7 months ago
what do they use in these reenactments? plastic/rubberbbs or something?
Soc245 7 months ago
@Soc245 they use blanks you dipshit
Lassen2O 7 months ago
@richardcwood1 Last soldier died in 1959, he was Confederate.
But still, that is amazing. It actually makes you the treasure!
mrceebees14 7 months ago
@mrceebees14
wow he saw the last two world wars before he died...
castronm69 7 months ago
@castronm69 Three.
You forgot the Korean war.
mrceebees14 7 months ago
Gr8t video!!
WhatupAhole 7 months ago
Wtf? How did they record in the 19th century?
rockonzeppelin 8 months ago
@rockonzeppelin I dont know you fuckin retard
CivilWarReenactor 7 months ago
@rockonzeppelin
Stay in school; God knows, you need it desperately.
Rexicano 7 months ago
@rockonzeppelin Time travel
MrGreatAndrew 7 months ago
Grand son please never close this. Its incredible. Every one should see this. God bless your grand fathers memory
moebanshee 8 months ago
@richardcwood1 incredible memories! I love the video.
moebanshee 8 months ago
0:33-36 is the best scene!
ichausgruenau 8 months ago
thus
1210catman 8 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium LoL !! So the war that introduced the new way war was to be fought such as trench warfare,seperation of armys for stratigic superiority, and guerilla tactics is not as important as the chinese revolution where most of it was meaningless slaughter useing the same tactics that were invented in the civil war? Killing 3 million women and children isnt really all that war like its more of a slaughter of the innocents and takes no real talent to do. and Meaningful ?
TheStrazy 8 months ago
@TitaniumPlatnium It has nothing to do with the wars being so "bloody". It has more to do with the reasoning for the war. Like for instance, the American Civil War to free Black Folks from slavery and all those civil wars in Afrika are about just flat out, non-sense killing each other over nothing.
ProTuner06 8 months ago
@richardcwood1 wow your sir are a massive piece of history also and should share what you heard. i would be love to hear it all;}
7676461 8 months ago
I could never be a reenactor - I'd make such a ham of my death scene (writhing around on the ground, being too dramatic etc) that they throw me off the field
Defender78 8 months ago
why are all the negative things about the usa blocked as spam?
MsPepijn 8 months ago
@MsPepijn Because we don't need anymore of that bullshit on youtube.
ProTuner06 8 months ago
these guys dont have phats:(
MsPepijn 8 months ago
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MsPepijn 8 months ago
ma both soldiers of the union and confederation rest in piece
LTVideoz 8 months ago
My great great grandfather was a drummerboy for the union when he was 16. From what I know of he turned as Union soldier. Not in gettsyburg though.
pijef 8 months ago
hmmm.... my great grand-father was a Rebel fighting in AR and LA. He was a poor Texas farmer who owned no slaves. I really can't see him fighting for his rich neighbor's right to won slaves....
JimRussell100 8 months ago
it take alot of nuts to be in the front line X)!
angrylolman 8 months ago 7
@angrylolman More tan you have.
zipsrule 7 months ago
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@angrylolman More than you have.
zipsrule 7 months ago
@angrylolman to bad the soldiers didnt get to decide
ryanroxsable 6 months ago
@angrylolman Not really maybe then, not now.
omgidontgiveafuck24 6 months ago
people will say that it was all about states rights and that has some truth to it. but really most states were talking about the right to own slaves, just look it up in the articles of confederation. and yes while i know it wasnt the only reason for fighting but the southerners were fighting for their way of life. that way of life involved the use of slaves. having said that most people in the north were also racist to some degree
flavius717 9 months ago
@flavius717 true but i am a southener and i know so mutch about the civil war that slavery would have died in the next year.
deanieandgavin 8 months ago
@deanieandgavin why is that?
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flavius717 8 months ago
@richardcwood1 could you please share a true civil war story or two with me from what those brave old timers graced you with hearing id really appreciate it and thank you for your family doing its part for our nations history
GFORCEpackattack 9 months ago
the confedarcy was not all that good but they were sometimes but the unions president wanted to kill jeff davis and that is all 100 percent true
MegaRocks9 9 months ago
That is not all true. Lincoln stated that he was willing to keep slavery if it meant saving the Union. The war was about states rights. And in point of fact, Robert E. Lee released his slaves, while Ulyses S. Grant did not. Also most are not aware that Lincoln asked Lee to command the Union Army, but he refused as he did not want to fire on his own statesman.
BlackKnight1586 9 months ago 2
@BlackKnight1586
Where do you get this nonsense?
Grant had slaves? Right. On his plantation in downtown New York I guess.
And Lee set his slaves free! So, they could wander around the South free and happy!
Incredible HIstory Lesson, not.
BTW; that an awful rendition of Unchained Melody at your site. Hideous.
Rexicano 7 months ago
@richardcwood1 you do know that the war was NOT only fought over about slavery... that wasnt even one of the main causes why there was a war
BlueBig22 9 months ago
@BlueBig22
it was because the south kept launching little attacks and soon enough they took a fort and Lincoln thought this was just the thing to start the war and then once we won one battle and it seemed like we were the supperiors in the war
he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation so that people would listen cause they would think we were winning.
Anyway the civil war was barely about slavery
XxExCrYpTiCgAmInGXx 9 months ago
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The Civil War was entirely about slavery. The South proudly said so when they started it, in their Cornerstone Speech and Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina declarations of secession. You should read them before you lecture us about American history.
RonPaulHatesBlacks 9 months ago
@BlueBig22 It was so...you hillbilly
kennyscotten 9 months ago
@kennyscotten uh... wat does that mean????
BlueBig22 9 months ago
this stuff is epical. i'm a belgain civil war re-enactor and the biggest event ive done wuz with about 30 men witch is peanuts compared to this stuff. although i wuz present at the gettysburg re-enactment of 1996 as a visitor. the only thing we got back here the size of this is the batle of waterloo. lots of respect to the americans too fore keeping history alive on this scale the world can learn a thing or 2 from you guys
metalmephisto 9 months ago
someone once asked me "what exactly is reinacting?" and i jokingly told them "remember when you were little and you would snap a branch off a tree use as a gun or sword and play army men well all these reinactors are just old yellers who never got over it"
Elliot T.
7th mich. infantry
centersnare13 9 months ago
Great music choice
BAMF5550123 9 months ago
Parts of this reenactment footage looks like it could be from the 125th (88) ? Any of ya'll have footage from the 125th?
Just wonderin,
Left
14th Tenn
TheHighflight769 9 months ago
@TheHighflight769 Previous message is from former 14th Tenn Pvt. Lefty Hall ( I left the Y off of Lefty )
TheHighflight769 9 months ago
@richardcwood1 Awesome! I live in Indiana. I was born in Ohio but live in Indianapolis. Are you from Indiana? GO UNION!
JoeTomFrank 9 months ago
It troubles me that our Founding Fathers gave us the act of secession to keep the federal government in check so they could not abuse power. Yet, Abraham Lincoln, was a Fascist who decided to go against our constitution and the values we stand for and started a war of so called TREASON. I'm not trying to start a debate with you all, and this is one mans opinion. I had ancestors fight for both sides. My ancestor from Michigan died at Anteitam, and my ancestor from Alabama, survived the whole war.
monolith1676 9 months ago
@monolith1676 it angers me that strange people still think they can use the Constitution as a philosophical foundation for enslaving black and brown people. :P
honestly, the bullshit about states rights, hides the fact that fully 20% of the southern population were an enslaved race... and its Antietam, not Anteitam...
dchris1990 9 months ago
@monolith1676
Yep, bad bad Lincoln...the man who got rid of slavery and kept the Union together.
I guess you would have done better?
There's sort of a reason Lincoln is still held in high regard while most people in the world would draw a blank when Jefferson Davis is mentioned.
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GiladPellaeon 9 months ago
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On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, I remember all the fallen soldiers of the American Civil War. May they rest in peace.
GiladPellaeon 9 months ago
@richardcwood1 The south felt that it could not be truly free while attached to the North and so it seceded. The North declared the Southerners as rebels and so the war began.
redarrowhead2 9 months ago
War is such a horrible thing, but it really does define a generation and human courage. We will never see such types of people again, just as we will never see again the people who lived through WW1 and WW2.The civil war was a looooong time coming though. It was very emotional and both sides had powerful reasons for war.
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GiladPellaeon 9 months ago
@richardcwood1 I would have fought for the South.
Boethius51250 10 months ago
@Boethius51250
You are a racist piece of trash then.
Soreanol 9 months ago
@Soreanol It's important to remember that although slavery is a disgusting system that (much) of the world has grown out of, the civil war did involve other issues besides slavery. Slavery was just a component to a bigger problem. State's rights was the principle reason and the South felt that with the North's economic dominance and lead role in congress, it was being treated unfairly. Tariffs that favored Northern manufacturers and hurt southern farmers was a huge problem.
redarrowhead2 9 months ago
@redarrowhead2
Sure there were other factors, but slavery was such a hugely negative aspect that it needed to be removed no matter what.
Soreanol 9 months ago
@redarrowhead2-So why did the south not leave untill a president who was against slavery was elected and why did Jefferson Davis and his vice president give speeches saying that slavery was the main reason for the war. I'm not saying the soldiers were fighting for it, but their leaders who had money and slaves sure seem to have been using the poor men who loved the south to defend the rich mans right to own slaves. General Lee said that if he had the money he would buy all the slaves to keep the
TheLostIdea 9 months ago
@redarrowhead2- country together. But as big of a reason as slavery was for the war was the fact that America was formed because we didn't have a choice. The war with England forced the colonies together and then the country started to expand too fast and with all the Indian nations that we were becoming enemies with a lot of them add Mexico, England, Spain and France onto that and the people in this country were so different that a civil war was bound to happen. But every country has civil wars
TheLostIdea 9 months ago
@Soreanol oh lols...How quickly the ignorant turn to anger. Why didn't you ask any of those veterans why they fought for a racist President? Never heard that Lincoln was one of the greatest advocates for relocating all Black people to Africa and British territories? Didn't think so. Most Americans haven't, because most Americans like you are ignorant of their own history. Can't fix stupid.
Boethius51250 9 months ago
@Boethius51250
"Most Americans like you", I'm not American you ignorant fool.
But hey, at least you're right about Americans being ignorant of their own history. Ignorant of a whole lot of other things, too.
Nobody was being angry here, you are misinterpreting wildly. I was just stating a fact. You wanted to fight for slavery, that's wrong. Obviously. Can't fix that. Who cares if Lincoln wasn't perfect? Better than the South at least.
Soreanol 9 months ago
@Soreanol Good thing you're not an American, its sad to be one these days.
You are wrong about your "facts". The War of Northern Aggression was the culmination of the division between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists won. And 150 years later we have the bloated, over-reaching, tyrannical government that the Federalists gave us. Abolitionism was NEVER a significant platform of the Rep. Party. Try reading books from those who fought for the South. Or stay one sided.
Boethius51250 9 months ago
@Boethius51250
Oh come on, you think you have a tyrannical government. Give me a fucking break. Next to no taxes, a right to own pretty much anything? Sounds tyrannical indeed. Plus no slavery.
Soreanol 9 months ago
@Soreanol Sounds like you and I have differing views of tyranny. But then again you probably have not actually critically thought about the things you were taught in school. I was once a naive American who blindly joined the military to "defend freedom". But then I realized that we weren't fighting for "freedom", but for corporate profits and oil. To defend the dollar as reserve currency and the unit of exchange in oil. When it comes to today or 1861, follow the money.
Boethius51250 9 months ago
@Boethius51250
Of course you aren't fighting for freedom, the oil and natural riches thing is obvious. Sure, they try to control you, but would it really have been better if the South won the Civil War? Don't think so.
Soreanol 9 months ago
@Soreanol- You are right about one thing. It drives me crazy when people from the south claim that having an expanding country that was half slave and half not and Lincoln being elected by saying that slavery would not be allowed in the half of Mexico that a lot of the people from the north and south took part in the war against Mexico and then the Civil War a little more than a decade later. But don't lump all Americans together. I love studying American history as well as world history.
TheLostIdea 9 months ago
@Soreanol Oh, and to you're reply about being a "racist piece of trash": You're a facking moron and I would have gladly shot at your grandfather if I were alive back then. :) cheers.
Boethius51250 9 months ago
@Boethius51250
You're using the term "you're" incorrectly here. You're = you are, while "your" would've been correct in your first sentence.
Soreanol 9 months ago
@richardcwood1
wow, that's really interesting. I'm only 21, but i'm a black american, and am grateful for those that fought so my family, and all of humanity could live in peace. I can't imagine what you have lived through, getting to meet all of those historic people. I'm sure when I'm older, in 50 years, people will be asking me about 9/11. But hopefully, i won't have any other great war stories to tell them
Superflykid2008 10 months ago
man what a horrible time to have lived in the states
uzavas 10 months ago
@richardcwood1 troll
S2Cents 10 months ago
@richardcwood1 If you would like to could you please comment or message to me atleast one of the stories that you heard from them? I would very much appreciate it.
ActionRealmStudios 10 months ago
@richardcwood1 actually it was beacause of the lincoln election and south carolina decided to "quit" the country because they volunteered to be apart of the union. Then abraham made a law to free all slaves making it at that the time the primary reason to start a war.
wowojo12q 10 months ago
@WhatTheHell396 lol not that I'm aware of. They never did it on a massive scale of encouraging emigrates to Africa.
Fenderkicksass 10 months ago
@WhatTheHell396 No, what really should of happened is they should of allowed slaves to emigrate back to Africa or payed them to emigrate back. And then we would not have as much racial conflict that we have today -_- slavery was stupid idea number 1....
Fenderkicksass 10 months ago
all north baby!:)
ironblade123456 10 months ago
@WhatTheHell396 no...its the economics. Just trust me been an econ major. Slavery is one of those things where it, in the end caused more harm to the southern cause than good. Many slave owners were not willing to let their slaves work in factories to produce weapons and metal ect ect because slaves were considered to valuable and owners did not want them hurt (as in losing a leg or an arm)..No immigrates came to the south as a result of slavery occupying low paying jobs...I can go on and on
Fenderkicksass 10 months ago
they should rly try to make some sort of like air soft ammo or something for these guns. So at least you can have the credit of been hit by something instead of playing make believe lol
Fenderkicksass 10 months ago
lol anyone remember Sid Meier's Gettysburg??? haha
Fenderkicksass 10 months ago
@WhatTheHell396 no dumbass in long run slavery was actually more harmful to the southern economy than doing what the north did (allow immigration from Europe).
Fenderkicksass 10 months ago
I wish I could go back in time and bring modern weapons with me so the north could just absolutely demolish the south with heat seeking missiles and fighter jets =)
GhettoBlaster100 10 months ago
@richardcwood1 damn, grandpa on da computer
GhettoBlaster100 10 months ago
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UsaCsaHeritage is a channel devoted to both sides of the American Civil War. Of course the Union soldiers will be honored, but the Confederate soldiers are often forgotten. This Channel is dedicated to inform and honor ALL Civil War veterans.
UsaCsaHeritage 10 months ago
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ZCituation15 10 months ago
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This is amazing footage. Who shot it? I'm doing a documentary and wondered who should I contact if I'd like to use this footage?
My email: katmar@gmail.com
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dankatzir 11 months ago
how do u dictate who lives and dies..? love the music by the way
divinesense 11 months ago
@divinesense Theres not really any assignment of when to die, basically if you see someone aim their firearm at you and fire, you should fall down. You don't have to, though. It just looks better if you do. The only one that I know of that assigns deaths if Picketts Charge, when Confederates draw numbers to find out where they're supposed to die.
Cimorene96 11 months ago
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Great new vid on Youtube titled "The Last Days of the Big Lie" youtube.com/watch?v=-48HQpgQRz0
Dr. David Duke's latest vid- “The Real Rogue Nuclear State” great also: youtube.com/watch?v=KLSlmLx4Fls
FDR vs. Hitler. Both took power/office 1933 their countries unemployed 25-30%. 6-8 years later Germany rate 2% USA still 20%. Who was better leader? How? Hitler threw off International Bankers. They still hate & vilify him to this day like he had no qualities.
2ndSamuel710 11 months ago
Those posting who think the seeds of a 2nd Civil War will exclusively be about race are sadly mistakened.Thats what certain powerful people WANT you to think. I admit their will be ignorant people of any ethnic group with this bs in their heads, they will be surprised on that terrible day . Our enemy is the Corporate/ Banking families who are MULTINATIONAl, and wish to do ALL of us harm. UNITE OR DIE
telemanque 1 year ago
Both sides of my Family fought for the Confederacy---I am proud of my ancestors and also proud of my White Heritage!!
Goldclaw837 1 year ago
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how do they know they have been shot though ?
Annihilation1919 1 year ago
from 4:53 to the end it's eerie
amazingmazie 1 year ago
Brings back memories of Sid's Meier's Gettysburg xS
XxxSakura101 1 year ago