This is symbolic. It shows how despite your ancestry you are not them. Also shows that he decendents of people who supported th Revolutionary War stood with the South. It was their decision and I respect them for it.
@Rebel608 It is good to see a fellow Tennessean take up the banner of Dixie. As a native Tennessean myself I am proud of my Confederate Southern Heritage. My family was at Valley Forge as my 5th great grandfather was with Washington. His grandson then fights for the Confederacy. Evidently they believed the Declaration of Independence and the right to throw off a government.
I mean regardless of how you feel about the South, how can you not respect their bravery. I mean they went toe to toe with the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. An industrial giant with an endless well of manpower. Insurmountable odds, and they hung on for four years, and Lee only surrendered because his army was STARVING. They were literally eating their horses.
@StonewallJackson26 They don't make men like this anymore for sure. The Federal Government, well they know we are afraid of them. Don't want to get put on some watch list don't you know. I am a 48 year old proud son of Southwestern Virginia and still got some fight left in me. Just need a few more and someone to give the orders.
@TheJer1963 Yea, most people have such a misconception surrounding the War. Blacks WERE never the main motivation of the Southern soldier. Did you know that 60,000 Free Blacks fought for the Confederacy? But this is something Washington and Hollywood wants swept under the rug. Were there racists in the Southern Army? Yes. There were racists in the Northern Army. The average Southern soldier wanted to do his duty for his State, then go home. They weren't interested in keeping Blacks enslaved.
@StonewallJackson26 Yes, I do know that 60,000 fought for the South. I had a lot of family that fought and died for the South and I was raised with the truth a very longtime ago. I will always be proud to have been raised in Virginia. They need to start teaching the truth in our schools now.
@StonewallJackson26 You sir are a fucking liar. That or just your run of the mill delusional bigot too dishonest and/or to fucking stupid to seek out any truth whatsoever.
@StonewallJackson26 It is easily disproved that "50,00" blacks served in the Confederate army. Why propagate that myth? To assuage something or the other? Even cursory investigation proves that number a lie.
On March 13, 1865, the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14,[26] and President Davis signed the order into law. The order was issued March 23, but only a few African American companies were raised.[27]
@malkooth You do realize that blacks did fight separately from the Whites? There were no designated black units. So that piece of info you gave me is bullshit. Even then.
What does any of this have to do with the poor Southerners who fought, who owned ZERO slaves before the War?
@StonewallJackson26 Before you call me a liberal Yankee ALL my family has been from the south. Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. The south will benefit from facing the truth.
The problem we have is that men in Hollywood like the dreaded Edward Zwick create this misconception about the Civil War. They play loose with the facts and really present the conflict in a one-sided, biased facade that has little relevance with real history. Finally Gods and Generals presents the Civil War from a Southerners point of view and liberal critics hammer it.
It is sad that the American public is lied to on a regular basis. I love the South, and I am damn proud of it.
Also, if you don't agree then read FACTUAL information not a bull crap filled textbook. Then, if you still don't agree then you are not paying attention to what it says. If you then still do not see the truth then may you be damned.
@Stonewalljackson26 I agree with you. I have studied the war many years and I am in full accord. Being a native tennessean I would have sided with my state and the confederacy to fight the tyrant filled north. The norths own general U.S. Grant's wife didn't free her slaves until 1866. DEO VINDICE and SIC SEMPER TYRANNOUS!!
@ScotishChristian I laughed they are southern sons who cares how the dogs die i don't cry for taliban don't cry for norks don't cry for nazis don't cry for KKKonfederates
@TThorne931 We can believe in our own ways as long as we follow the Lord's teachings. There is no "correct" way to worship our God. For our God loved us so much that He sent His one and only son to save us from our sins. For He loves us all.
@ScotishChristian yes there is a correct way it is the Catholic faith the many rites of the said faith . God dosen't love traitors they have a special place in hell for themselaves and protostantism is the first betryal of us . And don't be stupid Christ died and told us to Establish the Rites with our ritualisc ways he ordered St peter to make the Catholic church with the pope an unbroken line from st peter himself . The church has the apolslitic leadership
@TThorne931 Lord Jesus did no such thing! He told His Disiples to spread his teaching through out the land. You Catholics believed the Peter was the first Pope since he lead the Chuch. But that did not make him Pope by any means. That is just what you wanted to believe to justify the Popes and their sometimes dispicable acts. If you want to be persistant yes I guess the closest subbranch of our religion that I'm related to is the Anabaptists. (If you do not know that means baptise again)
@ScotishChristian hahahahah your an anabaptists your a baptists no wonder you hate christianity you impede the faith at all costs . Peter was the head of the apostles he was made pope with the orders of christ and given the keyes of heaven in hsi hands to lead the Faithful to unit to one church united as 1 people . And read the bible the Real Catholic one not the proddie one and we are charged by god as the leaders. The popes are voted in by men who have spent their lives in study
@ScotishChristian No Christ told his disciples unite the church and Peter is the Rock on which the church is to be built . the popes are the vicars of Christ charged by him in an unbroken line of leadership . the papal authority hold the keyes to hevan . And your an anabaptists you know nothing of christ of hte bible you idiots impede christ i know of your westborro baptists
@ScotishChristian See you denounce those who actually suffered in their belief while you idiots shot us and stabbed us we did not raise an army to eradicate you with holy vengence . the Roman Rite is the head to the other Rite in syria in antioch in alexendria in etheopia in moscow The Rites are united Brothers of the Church sons of the Holy See we are a nation you are not .
@TThorne931 Offically Catholicism is a branch of Christanity. Plus the Protestants have beaten you guys time and again. Try to justify that. The Pope is just a person who is elected as leader of the Catholic Church.
@ScotishChristian no the protostants have murdered Catholics only Trying to evangelize you savages . We have never bore arms against you our of faith you have always come to rape and murder our clergy and the faithful and offically Catholics are the master Race Christians be they Ethopian Catholic Alexandrian catholic badhdad catholics antioch moscow American or Roman
@TThorne931 More like the murder of people that thought differently then you. Doesn't our Lord preach compassion and understanding? You should try that part sometime.
@ScotishChristian you know we did try that we got the westborro baptists and the Bilbe belt in the USA so yeah no not trying that again for you idiots . We are compasionate all we need ot for you to profess your atheist belief and come back to the faith . how do you explain the protostant wars in germany where you butchered and killed Catholics for being different or the opression of Catholics in America
@TThorne931 Do you even know what atheist means? If you don't it means somebody who does not believe in God or deities. Since I believe in God that means I am not an atheist.
@ScotishChristian judas burns in hell along with the Confederate army for crimes against christ and country . and annabaptists do anything they cna to impede the fiath liek their westborro church . and peter was given the keyes to heaven and told unite the church be the foundation of the church and an unbroken educate line of papacy has streached for 3 millenum
@UnionStatesHeritage Can any of you yankee's convince yourselves that any of the colonies/states that had just won their individual freedom and sovereignty would actually give it up to join a union where an federal government would then be their sovereign. Why not just stay with the King and not spend the lives and treasure of the colonist. No sir! Just read what the states wrote. They reserved the right to leave the union at own choosing or there would be no union to begin with.
The South Was Right.We have been lied to boys by the yankee teachers in the South.The yankee built the ships that brought the slaves too the US.I served in the Marines in Vietnam 1968-18 years old.Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.Semper Fi Dixie.
@pokysamgg You served in the Marines in Vietnam? Well i got news for you. You ARE a fucking Yankee. You fought for the Stars and Stripes...the same flag the YANKEES FLEW...and guess what, if your going to critcize the "Yankees" for building a ship under the name "United States" you should criticize your own involvement in Vietnam. They were both done under the stars and stripes. and BTW, Mobile Alabama and Portsmouth Virginia were major Shipyards during the slave trade years.
@tRicKyTuRok The citizens of MD & KY, did NOT favor secession, despite the sympathies of their leaders, who identified with the plantation South, and THAT fact is reflected in the enlistment records of not only KY, and MD, but MO, as well. Enlistees favored the Union Army by as much as 2-1.
The CSA did the SAME THING, and worse. Examples...forcing the entire region of East TN, into the CSA, at bayonet point, the Gainesville TX hanging, and the arrest and detention of John Minor Botts.
@tRicKyTuRok ..." I am surprised to see that men of the law can conscientiously advocate secession as a constitutional measure. This is equal to saying that a man has a right to kill himself. The Constitution has not provided for its own destruction. It was formed BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATES IN CONVENTION, NOT BY THE STATES AS GOVERNMENTS, & when formed it was referred back to the same people for ratification, and they ratified it...
@UnionStatesHeritage cont....And these United States BECAME ONE GOVERNMENT, with as much power as the people saw fit to give it; and all that is set down in the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and SECESSION OR FORCIBLE OPPOSITION TO IT IS TREASON".
Editorial posted to the Mobile Register 11/29/60, by a Southern planter.
@UnionStatesHeritage All this gives me a headache . I think it comes down to . We all get together and agree on a set of guidelines /rules that serve all of us and when they no longer do that for all then it's time to find something better . Desolve just like in the Rev War . No difference just twisty words . When in the course of human events .... time to go , well it was time to go again in 1861 .
@mollymu1 That's what the American people did in 1860. They voted for a change of policy, because they were fed up with the way the government, which had been dominated by Southern interests for decades.
LOL...It was "time to go" for a special interest minority. You sound like a typical Libertarian...only concerned with the rights and interests of one select group of people. The Union was formed by all of the people from all of the states. Therefore, it takes all of them to dissolve it.
@UnionStatesHeritage The overwhelming majority of American people opposed secession, and chose to fight against the CSA. So, in your world view they have no rights? Also, there's the rights of nearly HALF the South's population, which was given no vote in the matter, as they were living under the boot heel of chattel slavery. Another group of people, whose rights you are unconcerned with.
BTW...revolutions only count when they are successful. The Slaver's Rebellion, wasn't.
@tRicKyTuRok cont....I REFUSE TO TAKE THIS OATH"...that eloquent statement was a refusal by the Governor of Texas to swear an oath of allegiance to the CSA, for which he was removed from office, and placed under house arrest by the Confederate Empire...the guy was a "Yankee" by the name of Sam Houston.
@UnionStatesHeritage Refuting you is not necessary, you don't have an argument. Your position is based solely on emotion and doesn't even resemble the true nature of the War. The fact is 5% of Southerners owned Slaves. That is the most definite fact of them all. Do you think Americans today care if Bill Gates or Warren Buffet lost their advantages to obtaining wealth? NO! Hell NO!
So why would an average Southerner care if a RICH man owned Slaves? It meant nothing to him. IDIOT!!!!
@StonewallJackson26 I thought so. It took you an entire paragraph to change the subject, and arrive at .."I got nothing"... lol...employing still more politically correct, red herrings in the process.
2 of many great ironies: Gen. Armisteads uncle commanded Fort McHenry and refused to surrender the fort, giving the inspiration for the Star Spangles Banner, and his nephew, fighting about that banner. And Colonel William Henry, great grandson of the greatest orator in American history, Patrick Henry, who said ''The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more...... I am not a Virginian, but an American.''
THE SOUTH WAS THE ORIGINAL USA... THE YANKEE NORTH WAS THE COMING OF THE AMERICAN LIBERAL PARTY TO POWER... AND GOD HELP US ALL FOR THEIR DAMNABLE VICTORY OVER THE TRUE CONSTITUTION... FOR THE STAIN OF THE BLUE STATE LEFT IS EVER UPON US SINCE!!!!!
This day in history, 148 yrs ago, General Lewis Armistead lay dying in a Union hospital (Spangler Farm kitchen). He died the morning of the 5th around 9 a.m. This little note is posted in the memory of a brave and noble soldier. You have not been forgotten.
@ImperialGlory1920 Because the British considered entering the war on the South's behalf. The British aristocracy had strong Southern sympathies, but Queen Victoria didn't like the slavery issue. That is why Longstreet comments that the South should have freed the slaves and then declared war. They almost did over an incident on the high seas when Yankees stopped a British vessel to take two Confederate ambassadors in custody. Britain ruled the waves then, and Lincoln had to apologize.
@ImperialGlory1920 An interesting question. I think so. Had the South had the same resources as the North, the South would have won. In fact, after the incident Britain sent troops to Canada as a threat if Lincoln didn't profusely apologize. Of course, it turned out for the best in the long run. The South would probably be part of the British Commonwealth and the USA split. Remember the War of 1812 was only 50 years prior.
@ImperialGlory1920 Yes, Britain would not have wanted to spread its resources on too many fronts. The sun never set on the British empire for a reason. Britain and France lent some support to the South, but did not want to antagonize the US as they knew the South did not have the manpower and industry to win. However, I do think the Yankees would have pulled out of the South if Britain invaded from Canada. The South could have sustained the war if it hadn't been overrun with Yanks.
@ImperialGlory1920 Why do you say that? The South fought 4 years until it had exhausted its resources and people against great odds. Britain could have made a difference by keeping the ports open and supplying weapons and food. They could have helped even more by forcing a war on two fronts. It is doubtful even a strong military like Britain could have done it alone. They didn't conquer the US in the Revolutionary nor the War of 1812. An invaded people fight like hell's fury.
@lindygee King George and they obey. In this term it's queen vic. But Britian was fighting Russia the Zulus and shit so we were occupied. BTW Britian could of taken over the US in 1812 but the treaty ended that. American revolution Britian was under threat so we could only send colonials and a limited amount of soldiers and we were fighting you the spanish,the french and the dutch all at one time with very few soldiers and we won pretty much all the battles.
@ImperialGlory1920 Had Britain thrown more resources into the Revolutionary and 1812 there probably would have been a different outcome. But,people fight harder when their families, homes, property are at stake. That more than anything sustained the South against great odds for 4 years. Nothing like a bunch of d*** Yankees in your back yard looting and burning to fight with all your might. I did find it off putting that you think the South would have sat back and let GB do all the work.
@lindygee It wasn't just the Federals who committed atrocities. The Confederates did so as well. John McCausland burned Chambersburg, PA to the ground in July 1864, not to mention the Fort Pillow massacre of black soldiers. There was burning, looting, and murdering on both sides.
@BryantFinlay Check out the Yahoo group "Confederate Atrocities". A lot of solid documentation on the CSA's brutal atrocities committed against white Southern Unionists.
@BryantFinlay Whoever said "alone." The South wanted British aid, not to sit back and let them win the war. Yes, there were a few burnings and lootings from the South, but nothing like the total devastation in the South. And then the Yankees put their foot on the South's neck to reconstruct. The South was devasted for generations, which had a lot to do with the awful Jim Crow era. Not enough for the poorest of the poor, and so it came down to racial compettion for the leavings.
@lindygee Lincoln never actually apologized though, and the British would have a difficult time maintaining a blockade against Union ironclads, which were superior to British ones in that they could sail in coastal waters. Also, the U.S. had far more soldiers in its armies ready to fight than the English did. Even if Britain had entered the war, there is no guarantee they could have turned the tide in favor of the South.
@BryantFinlay Nothing is guaranteed, but keep in mind the South kept the war going for 4 years against superior numbers and resources w/o outside aid. Had all things been equall, there is no doubt in most people's minds that the South would have won. If the British merely forced a fight on two fronts and kept the ports open enough to bring supplies, the Union would have been in serious trouble. BTW, although not an "official" apology, Lincoln did smooth those ruffled feathers.
@lindygee I disagree. The only reason the South kept the war going was because of incompetent generals on the Union side. Mclellan could have twice ended the war at Antietam and in the Peninsular campaign. If the North had been led by able generals from the start, it is unlikely the war would have lasted into 1863. If the British were fighting against generals like Hooker or Burnside, then I would say they probably would turn the tide, but not against Hancock, Grant, or Meade.
@BryantFinlay This could be argued until the 12th of never and you'd still have disagreements on both sides. I am not a strategist, but had Lee not made the awful mistakes at Gettysburg then there might have been a different outcome. As the war went on, the North had less tolerence for the casualties. The South was fighting for its survival. The North had plenty more men and resources and could have kept the war going another 4 years if necessary; the South could not.
@ImperialGlory1920 There were foreign observers that accompanied many armies during the war. There were also Prussian military attaches with the Southern Army as well. Britain was still weighing the possibility of recognizing the CSA. (Although not so much as they had been in the summer of 1862, when the cotton embargo was having a serious impact on their textile industry.) But the South never won their "Saratoga" to convince Europe their war was winnable. So they just sat back and watched.
I'm not here to question beliefs or ideologies, who was right or wrong. At the end of the day, plenty of men died on both sides, fighting because they were told to. They were fathers, brothers, and friends on both sides who gave their lives doing what they thought was right. The war's been over for some time now, it's time to stop pointing fingers and just remember everyone who made their sacrifices. North or South we're Americans through and through.
I have relatives from Georgia and Pennsylvania Mr. Jordan did Gen. Armistead great justice...and I believe the General was with him....
As tragic as this war was for us as a nation....I know that they are (most) are....now in heaven....at last brothers....and when the final battle comes...I hope to see those brave boys in The Blue and Grey side by side....
Don't you all understand? This was all about Freedom, but Freedom with what? That is the ultimate question. Democrats, today, think Freedom means freedom from responsibility, but that is not freedom. Republicans, today, don't know what to think. Libertarians, today, think Freedom means liberty without consequence. But that's not so. Because in the end, Freedom without Responsibility is not Freedom, but Animalism. To enslave others for one's sake is not Freedom.
im a Cavalry Scout. my friends here ask me why i love Virginia so much. i tell them because my great great great grandfather fought with the 1st Virginia Cavalry. my great grandfather served his county, and my father did the same. next month i go home. back to the same farm my great great great grandfather, great grandfather and my father fought for. its not just a sense of pride but honor, that i follow in there footsteps as a Virginian.
Dear sir, you have ever right to be proud of your Virginia ancestors. I am sure they were honorable men like the great leaders you state has always produced. If I had not be born a Tennessean, I would have wanted to have been born a Virginian.
I loved the introduction you wrote. I'm glad that you recognized that he played his role even when diagnosed and finished the movie before he died. He did a great job playing Armistead and I respect him
Some people want you to believe that the Confederate Army was just a band racists, marching and fighting for the purpose of enslaving Black people. This is a lie. It is now and it was then. In reality, they were just average, low- middle class boys fighting for a cause they believed to be just and for their brothers on either side of them. This charge was about, advancing on Washington, surrounding the capital, then suing for peace. This was the South's ONLY resort for winning the War.
@StonewallJackson26 Yes, but it´s how Longstreet in the movie said: The CSA should have enfree the slaves and then shoot on Fort Sumter. Then the Yankees would not say, that they fight to end the slavery and have the moralic suporiority how the most other countries believed.
Sure enough - the North had to invade to maintain the original union, and the men of the South came out to defend their land against the invaders - the conflict just snowballed.
Of course there was a fair amount of respect & even fraternization between the armies throughout the war. The original dispute was slavery-instigated, of course, but it spun off irresistably into defense of one's homeland, i.e., home state. Nobody reads history anymore, they just make it up
@StonewallJackson26 Still, it was a foolhardy idea to send men over a mile of gently sloping ground to be battered by artillery and rifle fire with a fence to climb over. You are right about the Southern mindset for fighting the war. It was mainly the political leaders and planter aristocracy that focused on retaining slavery, not really the common soldiers.
@StonewallJackson26 Lee's army engaged in the seizure and abduction of free Blacks PA during its brief, and unpleasant stay in my home Commonwealth. Perhaps if the ANV had paid more attention to fighting, instead of stealing supplies, and slave trading, Lee wouldn't have had to turn tail, and run for his life.
Shout out to the Pennsylvania Volunteers...fighting domestic terrorism since 1861!
@UnionStatesHeritage I read the first sentence of your response and I can tell you are a troll. Is that you Mark!? LOL! Still trollin like the bitch you are.
@StonewallJackson26 HaHaaa...that first sentence...can be backed up by both civilian AND Confederate sources...civilian eye witness accounts, and Confederate records, which openly discuss Black captives moving with the army. Whites who tried to interfere with the 'round-up', were threatened with death, and property destruction. Some whites were forced at bayonet point to assist Confederates, and eyewitnesses observed Confederates trying to shoot Blacks, that they could not capture.
@StonewallJackson26 ...one group of civilians actually ambushed Confederates, and freed the Blacks they had captured. One group of Confederates threatened civilians if they weren't paid the value of the Blacks who had avoided capture. Incredibly one of the perpetrators in this atrocity, was...a Confederate CHAPLAIN...booh yeah, gotta luv that Southern chivalry.
It just warms my heart, knowing how many Reb bastards, never made it back to Virginia...courtesy of the Pennsylvania Volunteers.
@UnionStatesHeritage What a scumbag troll you are Mark. This is what your 35th screen name? All these screen names encapsulate your pathetic, so pathetic that you spread hate and lies on the internet for the sole purpose of getting attention. It is a shame that people like you exist in the world. You are a sorry excuse for a human being.
@StonewallJackson26 Ha...typical Neo-Reb. I've already set you straight as to the ownership of this channel, yet you continue to chant the same erroneous drivel, babbling on about someone named Mark, and his alleged channels.
UnionStatesHeritage is owned by WolfenCrowMedia...which is owned by Patrick Liens Burgess...not "Mark".
YOU are the one who is trolling false information as a means to discredit.
You're welcome to try and refute the documented historical facts I've presented.
@UnionStatesHeritage There is nothing intellectual about what you say. Just pure mindless garbage that you spew week in, week out. No one takes anything you say seriously.
@StonewallJackson26 The Confederates were a band of illitarate barbarian slavers who were racist to fuck explain the slaughters of Black colored troops by them and the Enslavment of those who were not slain. in reality they were Terrprosts fighting an illegal uprising against the Americans wnating to bring freedom to all races . they wanted to surrond washington and burn it to dust and slaughter everyone inside of the city they even pledged it
@TThorne931 Realize that most Southern soldiers couldn't afford uniforms, let alone own Slaves before the War. The Confederacy didn't have the money to fund a Navy or advanced weaponry. The wealth in the South was controlled by an Aristocracy, that Aristocracy owned Slaves.
You are so lost in the veneer of liberal revisionism, that you can't interpret historical time periods. History is not just about memorizing events and people, it is being able to think within a historical time period.
@StonewallJackson26 And then you allowed yourself to be reblinded by the aristocracy and the confederacy was inherintly infeior in nature to the Union Troops in skill size and morale.
What blidness do I have the south Raided Northern Cities to collect slaves enslaved US soldiers and slaughtered Black brigades . The south were evil goosestepping racists on all acccount
@TThorne931 And Sherman murdered an indefinite number of civilians while his Army laid waste to Georgia. He confiscated food, resources, all while engaging in Scorched Earth policy that condemned many to death by starvation.
@StonewallJackson26 No He didn't he killed 0 civilians everything he took was southern Army property that they would use to wage their terrorist war on America . And scorch the Earth salt it so no Terrorist Rises again if great solution and He didn't starve them their traitorous actions did that
@TThorne931 You bring a new definition to stupidity. Scorched earth policy basically starves indigenous personnel you idiot. Civilians that had nothing to do with the reason for the War. It is pointless debating someone has ignorant and out of touch as yourself.
@StonewallJackson26 no the incidental burning of the land and the lazy southerner inabilty to farm and irrigate the burning soil is not my fault your people were to dumb to farm burnt soil and starved better for the nation . Who cares your civilians were war criminals and Traitors who gives a shit what happened to them the women were begging to be raped flying those CS flags but the rape never happened
@StonewallJackson26 no it was just evident the men your nation didn't force to fight the vastly superior Loyal Army of the Free were to dumb to farm lands that got singed by a marching army . How about you lazy asses stop waiting for welfare and farm the soil burnt or not . Also who cares all CS citizens were War Criminals and Traitors they could have been shot for just being southern. Also all the owmen were begging to be raped flying those CS flags they wanted it not that it happened
@TThorne931 Not you again! No one is as filled with hate as you are, no...it is envy. You want to be southern so badly, yet you can't, so you hate them. Why else would you continually come to these sites? You have a fatal attraction. You would give anything to be a Robert E Lee, a Stonewall Jackson or at least to come from the culture that produced them. You would give anything to be comfortable in your own skin, and as decent and happy most Southerners are. But alas.... :-(
@TThorne931 Like I said - a fatal love attraction. You seem unaware that the vast majority of the black population STILL lives in the south, they are southern too...by choice. The south has always been more diverse than the north - French in Louisiana, Spanish, German, Scotts Irish, English, Irish, a large Greek population and before the war it had the largest Jewish population but of course, Africans were enslaved. I am not sure which Southern "race" you pretend to deride to hide your envy.
@stellalouise1 Why the fuck would i want any of that you told me there is nothing good there already. They live in the south not by choice but because niggas be poor . and there are French in main Spanish in rhode island German and True irish men and Italian in MA pourtegese in MA Englishmen in coneticut and Polish in new hampshire .
@TThorne931 ***niggas be poor*** An attempt at humor perhaps? Black people in the south choose to be there because it is a wonderful place, not because they are "po" and they don't need your condescending pitty. The vast majority of black people that I know stand head and shoulders over the likes of you and are good people. They don't need a jackass like you in their lives. The northern states have an English Puritan culture - the activist, know-it-all witch burning kind. You bear this out.
@StonewallJackson26 Only 6% of the South owned slaves at the start of the war. You may also want to remember that General Grant's wife in the NORTH did not free her slaves untill 1865. And what about the free black men selling slaves themselves? Never hear much about that.
@TheJer1963 I am not a Southerner myself. Born and bred is Washington State. I personally believe that the South has been given a pretty bad rap in regards to the Civil War.
You're right, there were Free Blacks in the South who sold Slaves themselves. And there were White Slaves as well. Slaves entered the country from Northern ports and most Slave traders were Northern men. Not to mention that many Slaves were not treated badly, and some were regarded as part of the family.
@edyoung44 I agree with you. I have studied Lewis Armistead's history, his military accomplishments and his tortured personal life. His story is a compelling one and he did not receive the credit he was due. How the man kept his congenial attitude instead of becoming a bitter man(lost 2 wives, 2 children, suffered a severe illness and his home in Virginia burned in 6 yrs time) is a testament of his personal fortitude and excellent character. He's my all-time favorite historical figure.
@c44LuWanda yeah and in this movie richard jordan friggin nailed the part cause armistead missed winfield and they fought for different sides and theres a scene where longstreet and armistead are talking and armistead just relieves himself of his emotions like hes been through alot and thats a man i would be honored to serve under, a man of respect,loyal and has close friend whom he hasnt seen since the war began so again i would be proud to fight for armistead and my home
I think Jordan almost stole the whole movie. When I think of the best scenes, he has two of them - this one and when he sticks his hat on his sword. Of course, you can't forget the best scene... "Bayonets!"
I love Virginia!
RevBillyRayCollins 1 month ago
V-I-R-G-I-N-I-A. Father of the South.
adgw1423 2 months ago
This is symbolic. It shows how despite your ancestry you are not them. Also shows that he decendents of people who supported th Revolutionary War stood with the South. It was their decision and I respect them for it.
ScotishChristian 3 months ago
@Rebel608 It is good to see a fellow Tennessean take up the banner of Dixie. As a native Tennessean myself I am proud of my Confederate Southern Heritage. My family was at Valley Forge as my 5th great grandfather was with Washington. His grandson then fights for the Confederacy. Evidently they believed the Declaration of Independence and the right to throw off a government.
TheCr1252 3 months ago
Thank you for uploading this portion ~ it was a very moving scene in the movie.
TTTrixie 4 months ago
We came so close.....so close
weakley726 4 months ago
I mean regardless of how you feel about the South, how can you not respect their bravery. I mean they went toe to toe with the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. An industrial giant with an endless well of manpower. Insurmountable odds, and they hung on for four years, and Lee only surrendered because his army was STARVING. They were literally eating their horses.
StonewallJackson26 4 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 They don't make men like this anymore for sure. The Federal Government, well they know we are afraid of them. Don't want to get put on some watch list don't you know. I am a 48 year old proud son of Southwestern Virginia and still got some fight left in me. Just need a few more and someone to give the orders.
A protest sign doesn't fit in my hands.
TheJer1963 4 months ago
@TheJer1963 Yea, most people have such a misconception surrounding the War. Blacks WERE never the main motivation of the Southern soldier. Did you know that 60,000 Free Blacks fought for the Confederacy? But this is something Washington and Hollywood wants swept under the rug. Were there racists in the Southern Army? Yes. There were racists in the Northern Army. The average Southern soldier wanted to do his duty for his State, then go home. They weren't interested in keeping Blacks enslaved.
StonewallJackson26 4 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 Yes, I do know that 60,000 fought for the South. I had a lot of family that fought and died for the South and I was raised with the truth a very longtime ago. I will always be proud to have been raised in Virginia. They need to start teaching the truth in our schools now.
TheJer1963 4 months ago 3
@StonewallJackson26 You sir are a fucking liar. That or just your run of the mill delusional bigot too dishonest and/or to fucking stupid to seek out any truth whatsoever.
malkooth 1 month ago
@malkooth How have a lied, how am I a bigot? I don't dislike black people. You sound like a typical liberal zombie throwing code words at me.
StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
@StonewallJackson26 It is easily disproved that "50,00" blacks served in the Confederate army. Why propagate that myth? To assuage something or the other? Even cursory investigation proves that number a lie.
On March 13, 1865, the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14,[26] and President Davis signed the order into law. The order was issued March 23, but only a few African American companies were raised.[27]
malkooth 1 month ago
@malkooth You do realize that blacks did fight separately from the Whites? There were no designated black units. So that piece of info you gave me is bullshit. Even then.
What does any of this have to do with the poor Southerners who fought, who owned ZERO slaves before the War?
StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
@StonewallJackson26 As I stated even cursory investigation will reveal your numbers as false.
As we know the war wasn't about slavery was it.
I'd say the poor whites, of which I came, were tragic figures.
malkooth 1 month ago
@malkooth Well at least you can admit they were tragic. Many Union supporters enjoy making fun of them. I stand by my 60,000 figure.
StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
@StonewallJackson26 It is sad to see people like you need to use such obvious lies to keep your psychological balance. You miss out accordingly.
malkooth 1 month ago
@malkooth jog on troll
StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
@StonewallJackson26 Remain on the losing side of everything dumbshit.
malkooth 1 month ago
@malkooth Stop messaging me dick breath. I DON'T CARE!
StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
@StonewallJackson26 Before you call me a liberal Yankee ALL my family has been from the south. Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. The south will benefit from facing the truth.
malkooth 1 month ago
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StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
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@malkooth uh huh. Sure you are. Well I am sure the people from your states would be ashamed of your ignorance.
StonewallJackson26 1 month ago
@TheJer1963 You been jackin off too much for a protest sign to fit in yourn hands.
malkooth 1 month ago
The problem we have is that men in Hollywood like the dreaded Edward Zwick create this misconception about the Civil War. They play loose with the facts and really present the conflict in a one-sided, biased facade that has little relevance with real history. Finally Gods and Generals presents the Civil War from a Southerners point of view and liberal critics hammer it.
It is sad that the American public is lied to on a regular basis. I love the South, and I am damn proud of it.
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StonewallJackson26 4 months ago
Also, if you don't agree then read FACTUAL information not a bull crap filled textbook. Then, if you still don't agree then you are not paying attention to what it says. If you then still do not see the truth then may you be damned.
Rebel608 5 months ago
@Rebel608 So Not the Doccuments and turth apporved by the DEP. EDUCATION. you want me to read your nazi gospel
TThorne931 5 months ago
@Stonewalljackson26 I agree with you. I have studied the war many years and I am in full accord. Being a native tennessean I would have sided with my state and the confederacy to fight the tyrant filled north. The norths own general U.S. Grant's wife didn't free her slaves until 1866. DEO VINDICE and SIC SEMPER TYRANNOUS!!
Rebel608 5 months ago
So many traitors bloodlines stamped out . God Bless the union for the stomping of these uneducated huns who disgrace their revolutionary family
TThorne931 5 months ago
I cried a little when I saw this So many people some of them barely old enough to be men fighting and dying.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago in playlist More videos from pknpqdm
@ScotishChristian I laughed they are southern sons who cares how the dogs die i don't cry for taliban don't cry for norks don't cry for nazis don't cry for KKKonfederates
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Everyone do not listen to this madman!
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian oh shut up you Atheist shitbag . no one wants to hear your atheist dribble
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Silence madman!
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian your an Atheist who hates christianity and the country . Shut your mouth as you speak to defend traitors you are a traitor
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 How can I be an Atheist when I have said that I am a Christian? Your arguements are weak and baseless.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian Are you a Catholic Roman or any of the other rites
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 We can believe in our own ways as long as we follow the Lord's teachings. There is no "correct" way to worship our God. For our God loved us so much that He sent His one and only son to save us from our sins. For He loves us all.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian yes there is a correct way it is the Catholic faith the many rites of the said faith . God dosen't love traitors they have a special place in hell for themselaves and protostantism is the first betryal of us . And don't be stupid Christ died and told us to Establish the Rites with our ritualisc ways he ordered St peter to make the Catholic church with the pope an unbroken line from st peter himself . The church has the apolslitic leadership
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Lord Jesus did no such thing! He told His Disiples to spread his teaching through out the land. You Catholics believed the Peter was the first Pope since he lead the Chuch. But that did not make him Pope by any means. That is just what you wanted to believe to justify the Popes and their sometimes dispicable acts. If you want to be persistant yes I guess the closest subbranch of our religion that I'm related to is the Anabaptists. (If you do not know that means baptise again)
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian hahahahah your an anabaptists your a baptists no wonder you hate christianity you impede the faith at all costs . Peter was the head of the apostles he was made pope with the orders of christ and given the keyes of heaven in hsi hands to lead the Faithful to unit to one church united as 1 people . And read the bible the Real Catholic one not the proddie one and we are charged by god as the leaders. The popes are voted in by men who have spent their lives in study
TThorne931 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian No Christ told his disciples unite the church and Peter is the Rock on which the church is to be built . the popes are the vicars of Christ charged by him in an unbroken line of leadership . the papal authority hold the keyes to hevan . And your an anabaptists you know nothing of christ of hte bible you idiots impede christ i know of your westborro baptists
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 You are a heathen. You are reminding me too much of those who wanted to crucify our Lord. May you stop your foolishness.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian See you denounce those who actually suffered in their belief while you idiots shot us and stabbed us we did not raise an army to eradicate you with holy vengence . the Roman Rite is the head to the other Rite in syria in antioch in alexendria in etheopia in moscow The Rites are united Brothers of the Church sons of the Holy See we are a nation you are not .
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Offically Catholicism is a branch of Christanity. Plus the Protestants have beaten you guys time and again. Try to justify that. The Pope is just a person who is elected as leader of the Catholic Church.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian no the protostants have murdered Catholics only Trying to evangelize you savages . We have never bore arms against you our of faith you have always come to rape and murder our clergy and the faithful and offically Catholics are the master Race Christians be they Ethopian Catholic Alexandrian catholic badhdad catholics antioch moscow American or Roman
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Sure that explains how your people attacked the Protestants in France. (not really)
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian The chrushing of a polotical uprsing .
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 More like the murder of people that thought differently then you. Doesn't our Lord preach compassion and understanding? You should try that part sometime.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian you know we did try that we got the westborro baptists and the Bilbe belt in the USA so yeah no not trying that again for you idiots . We are compasionate all we need ot for you to profess your atheist belief and come back to the faith . how do you explain the protostant wars in germany where you butchered and killed Catholics for being different or the opression of Catholics in America
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Do you even know what atheist means? If you don't it means somebody who does not believe in God or deities. Since I believe in God that means I am not an atheist.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
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@ScotishChristian except you don't believe in god you believe in protostantism
TThorne931 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian judas burns in hell along with the Confederate army for crimes against christ and country . and annabaptists do anything they cna to impede the fiath liek their westborro church . and peter was given the keyes to heaven and told unite the church be the foundation of the church and an unbroken educate line of papacy has streached for 3 millenum
TThorne931 5 months ago
I like these movies they make on the civil war. (: very interesting and insightful!!
hinatababe97 5 months ago
V-I-R-G-I-N-I-A. What would the South have done without old Virginia on their side? War would have been over in weeks
adgw1423 5 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage Can any of you yankee's convince yourselves that any of the colonies/states that had just won their individual freedom and sovereignty would actually give it up to join a union where an federal government would then be their sovereign. Why not just stay with the King and not spend the lives and treasure of the colonist. No sir! Just read what the states wrote. They reserved the right to leave the union at own choosing or there would be no union to begin with.
TheCr1252 5 months ago
@TheCr1252 the soverginity of the perpetual union is the soverginity of the State
TThorne931 5 months ago
The South Was Right.We have been lied to boys by the yankee teachers in the South.The yankee built the ships that brought the slaves too the US.I served in the Marines in Vietnam 1968-18 years old.Member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.Semper Fi Dixie.
pokysamgg 5 months ago 9
@pokysamgg You served in the Marines in Vietnam? Well i got news for you. You ARE a fucking Yankee. You fought for the Stars and Stripes...the same flag the YANKEES FLEW...and guess what, if your going to critcize the "Yankees" for building a ship under the name "United States" you should criticize your own involvement in Vietnam. They were both done under the stars and stripes. and BTW, Mobile Alabama and Portsmouth Virginia were major Shipyards during the slave trade years.
Rao665 2 months ago
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tRicKyTuRok 6 months ago
@tRicKyTuRok The citizens of MD & KY, did NOT favor secession, despite the sympathies of their leaders, who identified with the plantation South, and THAT fact is reflected in the enlistment records of not only KY, and MD, but MO, as well. Enlistees favored the Union Army by as much as 2-1.
The CSA did the SAME THING, and worse. Examples...forcing the entire region of East TN, into the CSA, at bayonet point, the Gainesville TX hanging, and the arrest and detention of John Minor Botts.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
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tRicKyTuRok 6 months ago
@tRicKyTuRok ..." I am surprised to see that men of the law can conscientiously advocate secession as a constitutional measure. This is equal to saying that a man has a right to kill himself. The Constitution has not provided for its own destruction. It was formed BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATES IN CONVENTION, NOT BY THE STATES AS GOVERNMENTS, & when formed it was referred back to the same people for ratification, and they ratified it...
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage cont....And these United States BECAME ONE GOVERNMENT, with as much power as the people saw fit to give it; and all that is set down in the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and SECESSION OR FORCIBLE OPPOSITION TO IT IS TREASON".
Editorial posted to the Mobile Register 11/29/60, by a Southern planter.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage Such sentiments were commonplace in the South, but were silenced by the Confederate regime's boot heel.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage All this gives me a headache . I think it comes down to . We all get together and agree on a set of guidelines /rules that serve all of us and when they no longer do that for all then it's time to find something better . Desolve just like in the Rev War . No difference just twisty words . When in the course of human events .... time to go , well it was time to go again in 1861 .
mollymu1 5 months ago
@mollymu1 That's what the American people did in 1860. They voted for a change of policy, because they were fed up with the way the government, which had been dominated by Southern interests for decades.
LOL...It was "time to go" for a special interest minority. You sound like a typical Libertarian...only concerned with the rights and interests of one select group of people. The Union was formed by all of the people from all of the states. Therefore, it takes all of them to dissolve it.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage The overwhelming majority of American people opposed secession, and chose to fight against the CSA. So, in your world view they have no rights? Also, there's the rights of nearly HALF the South's population, which was given no vote in the matter, as they were living under the boot heel of chattel slavery. Another group of people, whose rights you are unconcerned with.
BTW...revolutions only count when they are successful. The Slaver's Rebellion, wasn't.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
@tRicKyTuRok cont....I REFUSE TO TAKE THIS OATH"...that eloquent statement was a refusal by the Governor of Texas to swear an oath of allegiance to the CSA, for which he was removed from office, and placed under house arrest by the Confederate Empire...the guy was a "Yankee" by the name of Sam Houston.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage Refuting you is not necessary, you don't have an argument. Your position is based solely on emotion and doesn't even resemble the true nature of the War. The fact is 5% of Southerners owned Slaves. That is the most definite fact of them all. Do you think Americans today care if Bill Gates or Warren Buffet lost their advantages to obtaining wealth? NO! Hell NO!
So why would an average Southerner care if a RICH man owned Slaves? It meant nothing to him. IDIOT!!!!
StonewallJackson26 6 months ago 3
@StonewallJackson26 I thought so. It took you an entire paragraph to change the subject, and arrive at .."I got nothing"... lol...employing still more politically correct, red herrings in the process.
ALWAYS the same shell game.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
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tRicKyTuRok 6 months ago
Richard Jordan deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of Armistead.
BryantFinlay 6 months ago 3
2 of many great ironies: Gen. Armisteads uncle commanded Fort McHenry and refused to surrender the fort, giving the inspiration for the Star Spangles Banner, and his nephew, fighting about that banner. And Colonel William Henry, great grandson of the greatest orator in American history, Patrick Henry, who said ''The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more...... I am not a Virginian, but an American.''
ITILII 6 months ago
THE SOUTH WAS THE ORIGINAL USA... THE YANKEE NORTH WAS THE COMING OF THE AMERICAN LIBERAL PARTY TO POWER... AND GOD HELP US ALL FOR THEIR DAMNABLE VICTORY OVER THE TRUE CONSTITUTION... FOR THE STAIN OF THE BLUE STATE LEFT IS EVER UPON US SINCE!!!!!
CaptBeauregards 7 months ago 10
@CaptBeauregards Really?!
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@CaptBeauregards oh christ your retarded
TThorne931 5 months ago
This day in history, 148 yrs ago, General Lewis Armistead lay dying in a Union hospital (Spangler Farm kitchen). He died the morning of the 5th around 9 a.m. This little note is posted in the memory of a brave and noble soldier. You have not been forgotten.
c44LuWanda 7 months ago
Why is there a British officer there?
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
@ImperialGlory1920 Because the British considered entering the war on the South's behalf. The British aristocracy had strong Southern sympathies, but Queen Victoria didn't like the slavery issue. That is why Longstreet comments that the South should have freed the slaves and then declared war. They almost did over an incident on the high seas when Yankees stopped a British vessel to take two Confederate ambassadors in custody. Britain ruled the waves then, and Lincoln had to apologize.
lindygee 7 months ago
@lindygee Do you think the South would of won if the British went to war?
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
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lindygee 7 months ago
@ImperialGlory1920 An interesting question. I think so. Had the South had the same resources as the North, the South would have won. In fact, after the incident Britain sent troops to Canada as a threat if Lincoln didn't profusely apologize. Of course, it turned out for the best in the long run. The South would probably be part of the British Commonwealth and the USA split. Remember the War of 1812 was only 50 years prior.
lindygee 7 months ago
@lindygee We were alredy fighting the Russians and the Zulus as you were fighting this.
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
@ImperialGlory1920 Yes, Britain would not have wanted to spread its resources on too many fronts. The sun never set on the British empire for a reason. Britain and France lent some support to the South, but did not want to antagonize the US as they knew the South did not have the manpower and industry to win. However, I do think the Yankees would have pulled out of the South if Britain invaded from Canada. The South could have sustained the war if it hadn't been overrun with Yanks.
lindygee 7 months ago
@lindygee If Britian did join in Britian would be doing all the work pretty much.
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
@ImperialGlory1920 Why do you say that? The South fought 4 years until it had exhausted its resources and people against great odds. Britain could have made a difference by keeping the ports open and supplying weapons and food. They could have helped even more by forcing a war on two fronts. It is doubtful even a strong military like Britain could have done it alone. They didn't conquer the US in the Revolutionary nor the War of 1812. An invaded people fight like hell's fury.
lindygee 7 months ago
@lindygee King George and they obey. In this term it's queen vic. But Britian was fighting Russia the Zulus and shit so we were occupied. BTW Britian could of taken over the US in 1812 but the treaty ended that. American revolution Britian was under threat so we could only send colonials and a limited amount of soldiers and we were fighting you the spanish,the french and the dutch all at one time with very few soldiers and we won pretty much all the battles.
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
@ImperialGlory1920 Had Britain thrown more resources into the Revolutionary and 1812 there probably would have been a different outcome. But,people fight harder when their families, homes, property are at stake. That more than anything sustained the South against great odds for 4 years. Nothing like a bunch of d*** Yankees in your back yard looting and burning to fight with all your might. I did find it off putting that you think the South would have sat back and let GB do all the work.
lindygee 7 months ago
@lindygee It wasn't just the Federals who committed atrocities. The Confederates did so as well. John McCausland burned Chambersburg, PA to the ground in July 1864, not to mention the Fort Pillow massacre of black soldiers. There was burning, looting, and murdering on both sides.
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@BryantFinlay Check out the Yahoo group "Confederate Atrocities". A lot of solid documentation on the CSA's brutal atrocities committed against white Southern Unionists.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage I'll take a look, thanks
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@lindygee I don't think the British would have been able to defeat Meade, Grant, or Hancock alone. That much I am certain of.
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@BryantFinlay Whoever said "alone." The South wanted British aid, not to sit back and let them win the war. Yes, there were a few burnings and lootings from the South, but nothing like the total devastation in the South. And then the Yankees put their foot on the South's neck to reconstruct. The South was devasted for generations, which had a lot to do with the awful Jim Crow era. Not enough for the poorest of the poor, and so it came down to racial compettion for the leavings.
lindygee 6 months ago
@lindygee Lincoln never actually apologized though, and the British would have a difficult time maintaining a blockade against Union ironclads, which were superior to British ones in that they could sail in coastal waters. Also, the U.S. had far more soldiers in its armies ready to fight than the English did. Even if Britain had entered the war, there is no guarantee they could have turned the tide in favor of the South.
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@BryantFinlay Nothing is guaranteed, but keep in mind the South kept the war going for 4 years against superior numbers and resources w/o outside aid. Had all things been equall, there is no doubt in most people's minds that the South would have won. If the British merely forced a fight on two fronts and kept the ports open enough to bring supplies, the Union would have been in serious trouble. BTW, although not an "official" apology, Lincoln did smooth those ruffled feathers.
lindygee 6 months ago
@lindygee I disagree. The only reason the South kept the war going was because of incompetent generals on the Union side. Mclellan could have twice ended the war at Antietam and in the Peninsular campaign. If the North had been led by able generals from the start, it is unlikely the war would have lasted into 1863. If the British were fighting against generals like Hooker or Burnside, then I would say they probably would turn the tide, but not against Hancock, Grant, or Meade.
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@BryantFinlay This could be argued until the 12th of never and you'd still have disagreements on both sides. I am not a strategist, but had Lee not made the awful mistakes at Gettysburg then there might have been a different outcome. As the war went on, the North had less tolerence for the casualties. The South was fighting for its survival. The North had plenty more men and resources and could have kept the war going another 4 years if necessary; the South could not.
lindygee 6 months ago
@ImperialGlory1920 There were foreign observers that accompanied many armies during the war. There were also Prussian military attaches with the Southern Army as well. Britain was still weighing the possibility of recognizing the CSA. (Although not so much as they had been in the summer of 1862, when the cotton embargo was having a serious impact on their textile industry.) But the South never won their "Saratoga" to convince Europe their war was winnable. So they just sat back and watched.
Shafeone 7 months ago
@Shafeone Nope didn't get a word of that.
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
I'm not here to question beliefs or ideologies, who was right or wrong. At the end of the day, plenty of men died on both sides, fighting because they were told to. They were fathers, brothers, and friends on both sides who gave their lives doing what they thought was right. The war's been over for some time now, it's time to stop pointing fingers and just remember everyone who made their sacrifices. North or South we're Americans through and through.
pioshfd 8 months ago
I this speech should stir any American soul.....
I have relatives from Georgia and Pennsylvania Mr. Jordan did Gen. Armistead great justice...and I believe the General was with him....
As tragic as this war was for us as a nation....I know that they are (most) are....now in heaven....at last brothers....and when the final battle comes...I hope to see those brave boys in The Blue and Grey side by side....
NCBoyJess 8 months ago 2
@NCBoyJess Amen, brother!
c44LuWanda 7 months ago
Don't you all understand? This was all about Freedom, but Freedom with what? That is the ultimate question. Democrats, today, think Freedom means freedom from responsibility, but that is not freedom. Republicans, today, don't know what to think. Libertarians, today, think Freedom means liberty without consequence. But that's not so. Because in the end, Freedom without Responsibility is not Freedom, but Animalism. To enslave others for one's sake is not Freedom.
MaxxTheMerciless 8 months ago
@MaxxTheMerciless the republicans just think what fox new tell them to
3lordchief 8 months ago
@3lordchief And Democrats don't think.
MaxxTheMerciless 8 months ago
@MaxxTheMerciless well good thing im not a democrat or republican
3lordchief 8 months ago
@3lordchief Then why did this bother you enough to make a comment? Liar.
MaxxTheMerciless 8 months ago
@MaxxTheMerciless to correct you about the facist pigs not thinking
3lordchief 8 months ago
im a Cavalry Scout. my friends here ask me why i love Virginia so much. i tell them because my great great great grandfather fought with the 1st Virginia Cavalry. my great grandfather served his county, and my father did the same. next month i go home. back to the same farm my great great great grandfather, great grandfather and my father fought for. its not just a sense of pride but honor, that i follow in there footsteps as a Virginian.
MrYZFR1000 9 months ago
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Dear sir, you have ever right to be proud of your Virginia ancestors. I am sure they were honorable men like the great leaders you state has always produced. If I had not be born a Tennessean, I would have wanted to have been born a Virginian.
cujo53 9 months ago
@MrYZFR1000 Born and raised in Virginia myself my good sir, and damn proud of that.
RevBillyRayCollins 8 months ago 3
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MrYZFR1000 9 months ago
I loved the introduction you wrote. I'm glad that you recognized that he played his role even when diagnosed and finished the movie before he died. He did a great job playing Armistead and I respect him
craigwirollsuxdix 9 months ago
These were men of honor.
seeingthesigns 9 months ago 3
who is the man in the red?
turkeyhunter56 9 months ago
Colonel Arthur James Lyon Fremantle. He was a British Coldstream Gaurd that came to America as a tourist to see the American Civil War.
EricW1063 9 months ago
@turkeyhunter56 Colonel Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards, an Elite British Unit.
McSupaG 9 months ago
Some people want you to believe that the Confederate Army was just a band racists, marching and fighting for the purpose of enslaving Black people. This is a lie. It is now and it was then. In reality, they were just average, low- middle class boys fighting for a cause they believed to be just and for their brothers on either side of them. This charge was about, advancing on Washington, surrounding the capital, then suing for peace. This was the South's ONLY resort for winning the War.
StonewallJackson26 9 months ago 25
@StonewallJackson26 Yes, but it´s how Longstreet in the movie said: The CSA should have enfree the slaves and then shoot on Fort Sumter. Then the Yankees would not say, that they fight to end the slavery and have the moralic suporiority how the most other countries believed.
Legionaer666 7 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 Sry, my English is bad I hope you understand what I mean.
Legionaer666 7 months ago
@StonewallJackson26
Sure enough - the North had to invade to maintain the original union, and the men of the South came out to defend their land against the invaders - the conflict just snowballed.
Of course there was a fair amount of respect & even fraternization between the armies throughout the war. The original dispute was slavery-instigated, of course, but it spun off irresistably into defense of one's homeland, i.e., home state. Nobody reads history anymore, they just make it up
SupernalOne 7 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 Still, it was a foolhardy idea to send men over a mile of gently sloping ground to be battered by artillery and rifle fire with a fence to climb over. You are right about the Southern mindset for fighting the war. It was mainly the political leaders and planter aristocracy that focused on retaining slavery, not really the common soldiers.
BryantFinlay 6 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 Lee's army engaged in the seizure and abduction of free Blacks PA during its brief, and unpleasant stay in my home Commonwealth. Perhaps if the ANV had paid more attention to fighting, instead of stealing supplies, and slave trading, Lee wouldn't have had to turn tail, and run for his life.
Shout out to the Pennsylvania Volunteers...fighting domestic terrorism since 1861!
Gratia Dei Servatus!!!
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage I read the first sentence of your response and I can tell you are a troll. Is that you Mark!? LOL! Still trollin like the bitch you are.
StonewallJackson26 6 months ago 2
@StonewallJackson26 HaHaaa...that first sentence...can be backed up by both civilian AND Confederate sources...civilian eye witness accounts, and Confederate records, which openly discuss Black captives moving with the army. Whites who tried to interfere with the 'round-up', were threatened with death, and property destruction. Some whites were forced at bayonet point to assist Confederates, and eyewitnesses observed Confederates trying to shoot Blacks, that they could not capture.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 ...one group of civilians actually ambushed Confederates, and freed the Blacks they had captured. One group of Confederates threatened civilians if they weren't paid the value of the Blacks who had avoided capture. Incredibly one of the perpetrators in this atrocity, was...a Confederate CHAPLAIN...booh yeah, gotta luv that Southern chivalry.
It just warms my heart, knowing how many Reb bastards, never made it back to Virginia...courtesy of the Pennsylvania Volunteers.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage What a scumbag troll you are Mark. This is what your 35th screen name? All these screen names encapsulate your pathetic, so pathetic that you spread hate and lies on the internet for the sole purpose of getting attention. It is a shame that people like you exist in the world. You are a sorry excuse for a human being.
StonewallJackson26 6 months ago 16
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tRicKyTuRok 6 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 Ha...typical Neo-Reb. I've already set you straight as to the ownership of this channel, yet you continue to chant the same erroneous drivel, babbling on about someone named Mark, and his alleged channels.
UnionStatesHeritage is owned by WolfenCrowMedia...which is owned by Patrick Liens Burgess...not "Mark".
YOU are the one who is trolling false information as a means to discredit.
You're welcome to try and refute the documented historical facts I've presented.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage There is nothing intellectual about what you say. Just pure mindless garbage that you spew week in, week out. No one takes anything you say seriously.
StonewallJackson26 6 months ago 3
@StonewallJackson26 Funny...since most of my sources are SOUTHERN. Once again...if it's mindless garbage...refute it.
You can start with the information about the ANV's slaving efforts in PA. Go for it...I dare you.
UnionStatesHeritage 6 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 The Confederates were a band of illitarate barbarian slavers who were racist to fuck explain the slaughters of Black colored troops by them and the Enslavment of those who were not slain. in reality they were Terrprosts fighting an illegal uprising against the Americans wnating to bring freedom to all races . they wanted to surrond washington and burn it to dust and slaughter everyone inside of the city they even pledged it
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Enough!
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Realize that most Southern soldiers couldn't afford uniforms, let alone own Slaves before the War. The Confederacy didn't have the money to fund a Navy or advanced weaponry. The wealth in the South was controlled by an Aristocracy, that Aristocracy owned Slaves.
You are so lost in the veneer of liberal revisionism, that you can't interpret historical time periods. History is not just about memorizing events and people, it is being able to think within a historical time period.
StonewallJackson26 5 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 And then you allowed yourself to be reblinded by the aristocracy and the confederacy was inherintly infeior in nature to the Union Troops in skill size and morale.
What blidness do I have the south Raided Northern Cities to collect slaves enslaved US soldiers and slaughtered Black brigades . The south were evil goosestepping racists on all acccount
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 You are an idiot on all account. Go troll elsewhere you kool aid drinking bitch.
StonewallJackson26 5 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 What trolling your Racist Army Enslaved Americans on jeb stuarts raids
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 And Sherman murdered an indefinite number of civilians while his Army laid waste to Georgia. He confiscated food, resources, all while engaging in Scorched Earth policy that condemned many to death by starvation.
StonewallJackson26 5 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 No He didn't he killed 0 civilians everything he took was southern Army property that they would use to wage their terrorist war on America . And scorch the Earth salt it so no Terrorist Rises again if great solution and He didn't starve them their traitorous actions did that
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 You bring a new definition to stupidity. Scorched earth policy basically starves indigenous personnel you idiot. Civilians that had nothing to do with the reason for the War. It is pointless debating someone has ignorant and out of touch as yourself.
StonewallJackson26 5 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 no the incidental burning of the land and the lazy southerner inabilty to farm and irrigate the burning soil is not my fault your people were to dumb to farm burnt soil and starved better for the nation . Who cares your civilians were war criminals and Traitors who gives a shit what happened to them the women were begging to be raped flying those CS flags but the rape never happened
TThorne931 5 months ago
@StonewallJackson26 no it was just evident the men your nation didn't force to fight the vastly superior Loyal Army of the Free were to dumb to farm lands that got singed by a marching army . How about you lazy asses stop waiting for welfare and farm the soil burnt or not . Also who cares all CS citizens were War Criminals and Traitors they could have been shot for just being southern. Also all the owmen were begging to be raped flying those CS flags they wanted it not that it happened
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 I have no interest in what you're saying because it is pure nonsense. I can
t even bring myself to reading the entirety of your ridiculous rants.
StonewallJackson26 5 months ago 2
@StonewallJackson26 yet you stay
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Not you again! No one is as filled with hate as you are, no...it is envy. You want to be southern so badly, yet you can't, so you hate them. Why else would you continually come to these sites? You have a fatal attraction. You would give anything to be a Robert E Lee, a Stonewall Jackson or at least to come from the culture that produced them. You would give anything to be comfortable in your own skin, and as decent and happy most Southerners are. But alas.... :-(
stellalouise1 5 months ago
@stellalouise1 Why would i wish to be a racist . I visit these sites to claim the unionist victory again and again against your inferior race
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Like I said - a fatal love attraction. You seem unaware that the vast majority of the black population STILL lives in the south, they are southern too...by choice. The south has always been more diverse than the north - French in Louisiana, Spanish, German, Scotts Irish, English, Irish, a large Greek population and before the war it had the largest Jewish population but of course, Africans were enslaved. I am not sure which Southern "race" you pretend to deride to hide your envy.
stellalouise1 5 months ago 2
@stellalouise1 Why the fuck would i want any of that you told me there is nothing good there already. They live in the south not by choice but because niggas be poor . and there are French in main Spanish in rhode island German and True irish men and Italian in MA pourtegese in MA Englishmen in coneticut and Polish in new hampshire .
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 it funny how you call us racist but you said niggas
tRicKyTuRok 5 months ago
@TThorne931 ***niggas be poor*** An attempt at humor perhaps? Black people in the south choose to be there because it is a wonderful place, not because they are "po" and they don't need your condescending pitty. The vast majority of black people that I know stand head and shoulders over the likes of you and are good people. They don't need a jackass like you in their lives. The northern states have an English Puritan culture - the activist, know-it-all witch burning kind. You bear this out.
stellalouise1 5 months ago 6
@StonewallJackson26 Only 6% of the South owned slaves at the start of the war. You may also want to remember that General Grant's wife in the NORTH did not free her slaves untill 1865. And what about the free black men selling slaves themselves? Never hear much about that.
TheJer1963 4 months ago
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StonewallJackson26 4 months ago
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@TheJer1963 I am not a Southerner myself. Born and bred is Washington State. I personally believe that the South has been given a pretty bad rap in regards to the Civil War.
You're right, there were Free Blacks in the South who sold Slaves themselves. And there were White Slaves as well. Slaves entered the country from Northern ports and most Slave traders were Northern men. Not to mention that many Slaves were not treated badly, and some were regarded as part of the family.
StonewallJackson26 4 months ago
That was beutiful.
dingdongditch98 9 months ago
armistead should be one of the respected generals in history. if he isnt already
edyoung44 10 months ago
@edyoung44 I agree with you. I have studied Lewis Armistead's history, his military accomplishments and his tortured personal life. His story is a compelling one and he did not receive the credit he was due. How the man kept his congenial attitude instead of becoming a bitter man(lost 2 wives, 2 children, suffered a severe illness and his home in Virginia burned in 6 yrs time) is a testament of his personal fortitude and excellent character. He's my all-time favorite historical figure.
c44LuWanda 8 months ago 3
@c44LuWanda yeah and in this movie richard jordan friggin nailed the part cause armistead missed winfield and they fought for different sides and theres a scene where longstreet and armistead are talking and armistead just relieves himself of his emotions like hes been through alot and thats a man i would be honored to serve under, a man of respect,loyal and has close friend whom he hasnt seen since the war began so again i would be proud to fight for armistead and my home
edyoung44 8 months ago
I'm proud to be from Virginia, from Danville, one of the capitals of the Confederacy.
FancyGapClawhammer 10 months ago
*Tear*
StonewallJackson26 10 months ago
I think Jordan almost stole the whole movie. When I think of the best scenes, he has two of them - this one and when he sticks his hat on his sword. Of course, you can't forget the best scene... "Bayonets!"
kpz1234 10 months ago
@kpz1234
Indeed. You don't see that kind of gusto. Countering a charge with a bayonet charge? Ridiculous! But incredible.
Only once has that ever happened in modern day. Once. Against insurgents who surely must've been terrified.
Mahbu 9 months ago