Long live the Union. My ancestors covered the retreat at Bull Run, charged at Corinth, stopped the Alabama boys cold with the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg. The Union forever
It is not fair that the south was left to starve because slaves were their only way to get money and the stupid union took away their money-makers. THE UNION IS THE TRAITOR!
LIncoln outfoxed you southern boys by getting old General Beauregard to fire the first shot. Big mistake. The attach on Sumter galvanized the North for war...not unlike the attack on Pearl Harbor. Without the shelling of Sumter northern support for a war was limited at best.
while yall are rallying around that flag, I'll remind you of what the political environment was like at the time, the call to "states rights" was needed as a president. The south was arbitrarily targeted by political ideology for multiple reasons. Cotton was a cash crop and heavily taxed. it was only a matter of time before war happened. Unfortunately many states were left as conquered territories for several years to come.
@Butternut731863 The land was not in the ownership of the states, only by extention of the greater U. S. If they wanted to leave, that's fine - just don't take U. S soil (or don't take over federal ports and forts, at the very least). Therefore, they were committing theivery. I believe the law has provisions regarding that.
the south were traitors and died a traitors death: lost their lands and got the shit beat out of them. the union forever.
"Down with the traitors and up with the stars" bastards...
and for those of you morons who said Robert Lee is great: he still lost..the....fucking....war. And almost only counts for horseshoes and hand grenades
@rscheng3 my first american ancestor who spoke little or no english volunteered to fight in the 103 rd ohio volunteer infantry he was given a canon to load and burned atlanta to the ground, i am proud my family did this to save the union and free blacks from this disgracefull stain on american liberty
@rscheng3 Well the reason why people say that Lee was great because he cared for his men like they were his own boys... may not be a complete fact... but that's what I heard and I heard he was a really cool guy back in the day...he basically surrendered because he didn't any more of his men to die. I am sure the south had their reasons for wanting their own country *cough lazyness* and wanted more colored people to work for them *cough deadbeats* but I wasn't there
@mdc2296 how in the world could it only have been your great grandfather ? That is, if your reported age is accurate, then you might need to add a few more greats to the list
just because the south wanted their own rights doesn't make them traitors. im not saying that slavery is a good thing. i think owning another living human being is one of the worst things in the world but the south aren't necesarily traitors because they were protecting their way of life.
Since Germans and Russians are ashamed of beign associeted with the Soviet and Nazi parties Why is it that modern southerners are so darn proud of being associeted with the confederacy!? The Germans and Russians are truely sorry guys, the entertianment industry needs to shift the focus away from them and on to our less than apologetic neo-confederate nieghbors and have them as the featured villians of all of our non-modern war games and movies.
@archiebunkerville both my great grandfathers were in the 69th new york and unfortunately the emerald guards but either way FAUGH A BALLAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!
Many claim that the South will rise again in 2010. Look, we have a black president, and i DONT think he'll take kindly to an uprising against his race and the north. Plus, we have the military on our side, they swore an oath to defending this country, her inhabitants and her amendments.
to biotoxicproduction: Perhaps, but the poor guy did the best he could: he was well aware that secesion and slavery were wretched ideas.He said that he never saw braver fighting in a worse cause.
@biotoxicproduction Robert E. Lee was the greatest general the Unites States has ever seen. He is still the greatest graduate of West Point, no one has ever graduated with the honors that he did and no one ever will. Just because he decided to fight and protect his home state does not mean he is a traitor.
This is coming from a descendant of Ulysses Grant.
@biotoxicproduction Hardly. The Civil war was not a clash of right versus wrong, but of right versus greater right. Lee did what was right, as it was given to him to see the right.
@TennesseeOwnsMyBones As good a cause as that of Independency, I believe the Union was the the better cause. As good a man as was Lee, he fought not for a bad cause, but for the lesser. Lee's army when down to ruin - but not disgrace. As I hope all Americans now believe, I believe the world is a better place for the preservation of the Union. Lee did what he did to save Virginia. Lincoln stated that he would preserve slavery if that would save the Union. T
@biotoxic production He was a Virginian, he was no traitor. He chose to fight for his home, not for a manipulative government that saw fit to oppress his state. The war was of northern aggression, the legal conflict is only of constitutional interpretation to which there are two views.
@Flayprime I wan to know how it was northern aggression. Tell me who's senator beat who's senator with a cane? OH that's right a southern senator. Who fired the first shot? The confederate guns did. The war to this day is not acknowledged by the US as nothing more than the quelling of a rebellion He was a traitor the constitution that he had sworn to protect, brilliant tactician and admirable leader but a traitor none-the-less
@tflLoTuS If by politics, a senator can cause an entire nation, or two to battle, then you show me a reason why it should not have been fought. If by the same politics, the "aggression" of the northern congressman.. imposing their values over southern culture, a sociological factor that weights truthful in the concept of "subcultures" and not to mention taxing the southern states to hell and back would not be causation for conflict... The government was the traitor to it's own people, and still.
@Flayprime i'm sorry, but the southern way of life back then involved selling human beings as property, keeping poor whites out of work by calling labor "nigger work" while the aristocratic plantation owners kept everything to themselves while driving the cruel wedge of racism between black and white. It was these plantation owners that called for seccession, in order to make sure their labor supply was kept intact. states rights was nothing but a front to make poor southern boys die for nothing
@SgtColbert42 Not everyone supported or owned slaves. To pigeon hole everyone in the south was wrong, folks in east Tennessee did not want to secede. Folks in northern eastern Alabama, as folks in east Tennessee, did not own slaves. The terrain was good for timber back then, but not much else. Aristocratic gentleman farmers did not all own slaves, some did not like the notion and spoke openly against it, yes they were few and far between, and everything you said is horseshit.
@Flayprime I agree with you there, that not all southerners were supporters of the cruel practice of slavery. Robert E. Lee stands out foremost among them. But we must also remember that he and others were in the minority. Most plantation owners reveled in the incredible profits they reaped on the back of the slaves, and were willing to send southern sons to their death to keep it this way.
@SgtColbert42 The reason Robert E. Lee stands out is cause he was a very competent leader, impossible adversary, and symbol of the south, even in his lifetime. The reason he chose to side with Virginia as opposed the union was cause that is where he was from. the USA was smaller back then, much more isolated as well. People did not move around like they do today. It was a brand new set of politics with vast blank spots on an ever growing nation. Plantation owners hardly controled that much....
@Flayprime True, and Robert E Lee deserves respect, even from a damnyankee like me. But it must be remembered that it was the state governments that chose to secede, and the governments were filled to the brim with plantation owners.
@SgtColbert42 Lee was an American, even by his own definition. He was also a Virgianian, but he was a Virginian first! .......and on the hierarchy of Antebellum Southern Culture, it was inherant that many states did not have vast tracks of land owned by very few, and those who did would in theory reduce the very number of such people..... Filled to the brim? David Crockett was certainly not apt to live in such a "den of snakes, "owned no slaves and had money. Your still generalizing......
@Flayprime Davy Crockett was again, one of the few, and he was killed before the civil war began, if you recall, so we have no way of knowing who he would fight for. Even if some of the people of the south were opposed to slavery, the individual governments of the states were staunchly in favor of the practice. Here, sir, I challenge you to find a single confederate state government that saw slavery in a negative light.
@SgtColbert42 Maryland and Kentucky. As well, members of state government in Illinois was in favor of slavery. It is a subject of legislature, once prohibited, no longer would it become a law. It was not the question of if it was moral, it was a question of "what's next, after they take that away?" Issues like Abortion are not touched by the federal government because people WOULD kick up fuss, yet everyone knows murder is wrong..... makes your head spin how "they" turn it around eh?
@Flayprime All of which were union states because they knew that slavery was a lost cause. Those members of the illinois government were in the minority. It makes no difference whether slavery was truly just a subject of legislature. Brother killed brother in bleeding kansas over slavery. A Confederate general with hate in his heart created the single most feared gang in the south in the form of the Klan, to opress newly free blacks. Politics has very little to do with that.
@SgtColbert42 They were southern states. Again, it was not about slavery from a southern perspective and you cannot force it down our throats. As an American I am obliged to disagree. Race was politisized, as it is now. As far as Nathan Bedford Forrest, his brand of politics is reknown AFTER the war. He firmly believed in what he believed, which was wrong. It was not the south that brought that view, it was the "enforcment" of the north that did.
@SgtColbert42 Also, I am an amatuer anthropologist. I know what ethnocentrism is and what politisized ideological bs that americans live in, what is called a "race culture," by the non-european nations, like Japan. It is entirely categorical, truth of the matter is we are all human. So to say that when culture and category are mixed... it is definatly political, even more so when they write laws about it. The Portugese started the slave trade based on 15th century "science." We are still stuck.
@tflLoTuS It was not the losers of that war that wrote the history books. Keep that in mind. Think on this. Why would the Constitution, so rich in vague generalities for the reasons of interpritation offer a second ammendment right to it's people? Overthrown of a King was indeed needed, but in that instance voting did not bring voice to the people whose subjegation was reinforced by division, to this day states rights are still omnipresent. Think on that and all the "what ifs."
@tflLoTuS And another thing, if the south had peacefully withdrawn from the union, and the soldiers from another nation were within their border and had been asked to leave, don't you think somethinig would be done about that? Lincolns war cost lives. It also reinforced the concept that the federal government may use force against state militias which are legal entities. Look up the Morril tarrif and see the straw that broke the camels back.
allegedly slavery was abolished in saudi in 1961 but it is sai it still exists not so secretly in many fundmetalist nations
i imagine you are being sarcastic
but you make my poiint
the south was in the same class as the towle headed pedophile worshipers
slavery is an abomination and true christians and men of justice and reason abhor it and will destroy it wherever it exists. shouting the battlecry of freedom!
well when the "revolution" comes, I hope you're one of the first they put up against the wall and shoot. you give Yankees a bad name and Americans for that matter. have a nice day
my name is legion for we are many you cant kill all of us trust me i wont be the one up agaist wall i'll be the one shouting ready aim fire the most important weapon isnt a gun friend its your brain and an idea youll die for yours and i've been dieing for mine for centuries you cant kill an idea but your welcome to try you just cant
haha, my moneys on my ArmaLite in the gun versus brain challenge. but even if you bastards get your revolution and I'm the one against the wall wearing the blindfold then I'll have the comfort of knowing I died a man at the very least
ak clone? well its more than a clone in my opinion.its a fine fine rifle, durablity of the soviet bloc with the accuracy and quality of a western weapon
7.62 x 51 (.308) is often considered to unweildy for full auto for example
the brits never had a full auto fn fal it was semi-The United Kingdom developed its own variant of the FN FAL, designating it the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR). The British SLR was graduated using Imperial measurements and included several changes from the original Belgian FN FAL. The most prominent change from the original FAL, was the introduction of a semi-automatic only setting/
well you know your stuff. my only experience with anything close to the valmet was with an old Kalashnikov and I just didn't like the rifle. most of my rifle shooting has been with AR-15s and AR-18s(AR-180B same thing) and an old Lee-Enfield. I just had more fun with the ArmaLites than I did with the AK. personal preference from relatively little experience but I still love the AR-18
There are eight types of M76, four of which use 7.62x39mm M43 ammunition, while the other four use 5.56x45mm NATO rounds. They use 15, 20, or 30 round magazines. Finland used the 7.62 mm version, while Qatar and Indonesia use the 5.56 mm version.
All variants of the M76 are finished with an industrial grade Parkerizing throughout.
The muzzle velocity depends on the ammunition used; the NATO round being 900 m/s while the Kalashnikov round is 719 m/s.
i dont claim to be an expert but i've had a sporter(colt m16 semi whatever) and chinese aks ive never had any rifle as fine as the valmet, to me it was the best
i liked the m14(m1a) but the one i was given was only semi and very heavy
The SLR was produced so the fire selector featured two settings, being safety and semi-automatic, rather than the original Belgian FN which featured automatic fire
this is a video of a reenactment. Not for a video game. And battle cry of freedom is a union song. So i dont see it being the theme of a video game about lee.
God bless America, the civil war was the most important war in American history. It's what had shaped American identity and American democracy. God Bless all of America and your heroic forefathers.
Oh that godamn pisses me off. The south were the good guys. Lincoln was practically being a dictator not letting the south secede. Quite simply, the civil war was the like the revolutionary war but we had become the bad guys. A truly free society would have let the south secede. Now don't say I'm racist or anything, because I'm DISGUSTED by slavery and I think that hate crimes and racism are the most evil things on the earth. The north didnt have slavery for economic reasons. They werent better.
A handful of Southern politicans dragged the country into a bloody war. There was no vote by the populace to secede. That's what makes them "bad guys". No disrespect...
That's the souths own problem. The main important thing is that the north didnt let the south do it. If the populace truly disagreed there would be another civil war among the confederacy alone.
There was a civil war within the Confederacy. Western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, north Georgia & north Alabama, and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi had strong Unionist sympathy and actively opposed the Confederacy. About 150,000 white Southerners served in the Union armies. Opposition to the Confederacy from within the South increased as the war dragged on and especially poor Southerners began to feel they were being used in the planters' crusade.
filthmonger71--No they weren't. A factory owner didn't have the right to rape a worker's wife whenever he felt like it and sell his children to other factories. Slavery died out in the North because it wasn't profitable up there. Free labor was. I've never heard of a factory worker escaping to the South so he could be a slave on a plantation.
obviously not, that would be illegal. in my studies, i found that slaves had better working and living conditions than immigrants. apart from the rape thing
my ancestors worked in those factories in the north as immigrants
and now we own factories
conditions were probably worse for northern workers in most ways
but they weere free, we worked hard and our lives got better
slaves could not really better themselves in any way unless they ran away to the north,slavery was a crime against humanity and the south got its just punishment
im not english im welsh. and your grandfather was another stinkin immigrant, forced into a war. he wasnt a true american. it is an insult to use foreign mercanaries in a rebllion.
he volunteered and he probably smelled like Brie we know he volunteered we know the family history we're proud of what he did lol and your empire is dead your our little bitch now he was an immigrant he was poor people probably spit on hom for beng catholic and foreign but we made it we all live in big houses and have very good lives thanks to him so you go cry in your beer and go spend you dole check welshman because your ancestors didnt have the guts to immigrate
America is a country founded by immigrants. ALL Americans have a ancestors from another country. The second you come to our land seeking a better life, you, are a true American!
it was freedom free labour versus a very evil system that was based on kidnapping torture murder of the black race the south was totally based on the slave sytem southerners were fighting to preserve slavery nothing more and deserved to be punished, reconstruction
I would like the one from The Blue and The Gray, from the Confederate deserter scene. Without any music, and by marching soldiers. It was great, you should watch that movie just for it.
It's not North and South so much anymore. Look at any post-Election map. If it ever comes about again, it's going to be Red State against Blue State.There's ALWAYS a Huge swatch of Red through the American South and West, with the blue states almost uniformly on the California coastline and the New England states.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,
far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Mclellan was a traitor .. the only true one that both sides costs lives on.
MrRizikoo 5 months ago
Lee should have won, but I'm glad the Union did.
wadens1 6 months ago
i feel the csa should have won, but am glad the union won.
The union got the equipment.
The csa got the generals, cause, and the will.
Don't hate me. *wimpers*
wadens1 6 months ago
Those confederates are traitors who deserve a traitors death.
tyber2010 6 months ago
Long live the Union. My ancestors covered the retreat at Bull Run, charged at Corinth, stopped the Alabama boys cold with the 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg. The Union forever
andylarson19591 11 months ago
no black peaple like me will kill you
1112coolemo 11 months ago
It is not fair that the south was left to starve because slaves were their only way to get money and the stupid union took away their money-makers. THE UNION IS THE TRAITOR!
robekka1 11 months ago
W T F
RuneFinity44 1 year ago
LIncoln outfoxed you southern boys by getting old General Beauregard to fire the first shot. Big mistake. The attach on Sumter galvanized the North for war...not unlike the attack on Pearl Harbor. Without the shelling of Sumter northern support for a war was limited at best.
andylarson19591 1 year ago
while yall are rallying around that flag, I'll remind you of what the political environment was like at the time, the call to "states rights" was needed as a president. The south was arbitrarily targeted by political ideology for multiple reasons. Cotton was a cash crop and heavily taxed. it was only a matter of time before war happened. Unfortunately many states were left as conquered territories for several years to come.
Flayprime 1 year ago
best line at 1:40
"although he may be poor he shall never be a slave"
knight4justice 1 year ago
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knight4justice 1 year ago
Those that know me know that I am color blind. This is a good song. Had another one sided conversation with a Canadian.
shikoda18 1 year ago
This looks like footage from the old Robert E. Lee Game from Sierra.
mikaleon 1 year ago
God bless Union!
paolonove65 1 year ago
GUYS were they really traitors if there was no law saying they couldn't secede?
Butternut731863 1 year ago
@Butternut731863 The land was not in the ownership of the states, only by extention of the greater U. S. If they wanted to leave, that's fine - just don't take U. S soil (or don't take over federal ports and forts, at the very least). Therefore, they were committing theivery. I believe the law has provisions regarding that.
SBIMEZM86 1 year ago
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Long live the South, from your Ulster friends, No Surrender, Deo Vindice
Ballynafeigh1690 1 year ago
the south were traitors and died a traitors death: lost their lands and got the shit beat out of them. the union forever.
"Down with the traitors and up with the stars" bastards...
and for those of you morons who said Robert Lee is great: he still lost..the....fucking....war. And almost only counts for horseshoes and hand grenades
rscheng3 1 year ago 13
@rscheng3 my first american ancestor who spoke little or no english volunteered to fight in the 103 rd ohio volunteer infantry he was given a canon to load and burned atlanta to the ground, i am proud my family did this to save the union and free blacks from this disgracefull stain on american liberty
MrBillcale 1 year ago
@rscheng3 Well the reason why people say that Lee was great because he cared for his men like they were his own boys... may not be a complete fact... but that's what I heard and I heard he was a really cool guy back in the day...he basically surrendered because he didn't any more of his men to die. I am sure the south had their reasons for wanting their own country *cough lazyness* and wanted more colored people to work for them *cough deadbeats* but I wasn't there
ninjausa86 1 year ago
@rscheng3
I refer you and those with similar ideas about how to view the south to Lincolns second inaugural address.
sargesoap 11 months ago
@rscheng3 it is so wrong that the union took away the Souths only money makers so THE UNION IS STUPID!!!
robekka1 11 months ago
@robekka1 We easily could have beaten your redneck asses far harder. Don't bitch at a superior force.
mdc2296 8 months ago
@mdc2296 We ? were you there ? Ever heard a shot fired in anger ?
ArthurofBritain 7 months ago
@ArthurofBritain We being the Union, and no I was never there, but my great grandfather marched with Sherman through Georgia.
mdc2296 6 months ago
@mdc2296 how in the world could it only have been your great grandfather ? That is, if your reported age is accurate, then you might need to add a few more greats to the list
ArthurofBritain 6 months ago
@ArthurofBritain I don't know how many greats to add on to that lol. two or three I think.
mdc2296 6 months ago
the south were traitors and died a traitors death: lost their lands and got the shit beat out of them. the union forever.
"Down with the traitors and up with the stars" bastards...
rscheng3 1 year ago
i dont rly care about who won the war, 1 mans freedom fighter, is another mans teorrist
delta3561 1 year ago
KILL THEM REBEL SCUM!!!!!!!
biscut420 1 year ago 3
i hate the union and im one of them.the union was like the united nations nato troops of its time
Boston1775 1 year ago
just because the south wanted their own rights doesn't make them traitors. im not saying that slavery is a good thing. i think owning another living human being is one of the worst things in the world but the south aren't necesarily traitors because they were protecting their way of life.
darkstriker12324 1 year ago
Why is the South traitors because they wanted their own country?
Willhur881 1 year ago
@Willhur881 When you fire on soldiers from your own country, that's called TREASON.
sabradan 1 year ago
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Since Germans and Russians are ashamed of beign associeted with the Soviet and Nazi parties Why is it that modern southerners are so darn proud of being associeted with the confederacy!? The Germans and Russians are truely sorry guys, the entertianment industry needs to shift the focus away from them and on to our less than apologetic neo-confederate nieghbors and have them as the featured villians of all of our non-modern war games and movies.
ShermansWarHammer 2 years ago
This song is so full of irony
redbaron998 2 years ago
The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the star;
While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom!!!
my great great grandfather helped burn atlanta to the ground
and i got a great t shirt to proove it
archiebunkerville 2 years ago 32
@archiebunkerville both my great grandfathers were in the 69th new york and unfortunately the emerald guards but either way FAUGH A BALLAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!
TsumeBeta038 1 year ago
Just a small comment: It sounds like Barney the dionsaur became a civil war buff.
correctedsun 2 years ago
Many claim that the South will rise again in 2010. Look, we have a black president, and i DONT think he'll take kindly to an uprising against his race and the north. Plus, we have the military on our side, they swore an oath to defending this country, her inhabitants and her amendments.
biotoxicproduction 2 years ago 3
Just like Robert E. Lee...
fearlessfred14 2 years ago
Robert E. Lee was a traitor.
biotoxicproduction 2 years ago 4
true as that is, I'd sooner fight under the flag of my state than against it
rifleman1122 2 years ago
to biotoxicproduction: Perhaps, but the poor guy did the best he could: he was well aware that secesion and slavery were wretched ideas.He said that he never saw braver fighting in a worse cause.
EMesaros 2 years ago 2
@biotoxicproduction Robert E. Lee was the greatest general the Unites States has ever seen. He is still the greatest graduate of West Point, no one has ever graduated with the honors that he did and no one ever will. Just because he decided to fight and protect his home state does not mean he is a traitor.
This is coming from a descendant of Ulysses Grant.
werd223 1 year ago 2
@biotoxicproduction Hardly. The Civil war was not a clash of right versus wrong, but of right versus greater right. Lee did what was right, as it was given to him to see the right.
sukneh 1 year ago
@sukneh ROF to the LMAO... St. Lee, huh? The Greater Right?
TennesseeOwnsMyBones 1 year ago
@TennesseeOwnsMyBones As good a cause as that of Independency, I believe the Union was the the better cause. As good a man as was Lee, he fought not for a bad cause, but for the lesser. Lee's army when down to ruin - but not disgrace. As I hope all Americans now believe, I believe the world is a better place for the preservation of the Union. Lee did what he did to save Virginia. Lincoln stated that he would preserve slavery if that would save the Union. T
sukneh 1 year ago
@biotoxic production He was a Virginian, he was no traitor. He chose to fight for his home, not for a manipulative government that saw fit to oppress his state. The war was of northern aggression, the legal conflict is only of constitutional interpretation to which there are two views.
Flayprime 1 year ago
@Flayprime I wan to know how it was northern aggression. Tell me who's senator beat who's senator with a cane? OH that's right a southern senator. Who fired the first shot? The confederate guns did. The war to this day is not acknowledged by the US as nothing more than the quelling of a rebellion He was a traitor the constitution that he had sworn to protect, brilliant tactician and admirable leader but a traitor none-the-less
tflLoTuS 1 year ago
@tflLoTuS If by politics, a senator can cause an entire nation, or two to battle, then you show me a reason why it should not have been fought. If by the same politics, the "aggression" of the northern congressman.. imposing their values over southern culture, a sociological factor that weights truthful in the concept of "subcultures" and not to mention taxing the southern states to hell and back would not be causation for conflict... The government was the traitor to it's own people, and still.
Flayprime 1 year ago
@Flayprime i'm sorry, but the southern way of life back then involved selling human beings as property, keeping poor whites out of work by calling labor "nigger work" while the aristocratic plantation owners kept everything to themselves while driving the cruel wedge of racism between black and white. It was these plantation owners that called for seccession, in order to make sure their labor supply was kept intact. states rights was nothing but a front to make poor southern boys die for nothing
SgtColbert42 1 year ago
@SgtColbert42 Not everyone supported or owned slaves. To pigeon hole everyone in the south was wrong, folks in east Tennessee did not want to secede. Folks in northern eastern Alabama, as folks in east Tennessee, did not own slaves. The terrain was good for timber back then, but not much else. Aristocratic gentleman farmers did not all own slaves, some did not like the notion and spoke openly against it, yes they were few and far between, and everything you said is horseshit.
Flayprime 1 year ago
@Flayprime I agree with you there, that not all southerners were supporters of the cruel practice of slavery. Robert E. Lee stands out foremost among them. But we must also remember that he and others were in the minority. Most plantation owners reveled in the incredible profits they reaped on the back of the slaves, and were willing to send southern sons to their death to keep it this way.
SgtColbert42 1 year ago
@SgtColbert42 The reason Robert E. Lee stands out is cause he was a very competent leader, impossible adversary, and symbol of the south, even in his lifetime. The reason he chose to side with Virginia as opposed the union was cause that is where he was from. the USA was smaller back then, much more isolated as well. People did not move around like they do today. It was a brand new set of politics with vast blank spots on an ever growing nation. Plantation owners hardly controled that much....
Flayprime 1 year ago
@Flayprime True, and Robert E Lee deserves respect, even from a damnyankee like me. But it must be remembered that it was the state governments that chose to secede, and the governments were filled to the brim with plantation owners.
SgtColbert42 1 year ago
@SgtColbert42 Lee was an American, even by his own definition. He was also a Virgianian, but he was a Virginian first! .......and on the hierarchy of Antebellum Southern Culture, it was inherant that many states did not have vast tracks of land owned by very few, and those who did would in theory reduce the very number of such people..... Filled to the brim? David Crockett was certainly not apt to live in such a "den of snakes, "owned no slaves and had money. Your still generalizing......
Flayprime 1 year ago
@Flayprime Davy Crockett was again, one of the few, and he was killed before the civil war began, if you recall, so we have no way of knowing who he would fight for. Even if some of the people of the south were opposed to slavery, the individual governments of the states were staunchly in favor of the practice. Here, sir, I challenge you to find a single confederate state government that saw slavery in a negative light.
SgtColbert42 1 year ago
@SgtColbert42 Maryland and Kentucky. As well, members of state government in Illinois was in favor of slavery. It is a subject of legislature, once prohibited, no longer would it become a law. It was not the question of if it was moral, it was a question of "what's next, after they take that away?" Issues like Abortion are not touched by the federal government because people WOULD kick up fuss, yet everyone knows murder is wrong..... makes your head spin how "they" turn it around eh?
Flayprime 1 year ago
@Flayprime All of which were union states because they knew that slavery was a lost cause. Those members of the illinois government were in the minority. It makes no difference whether slavery was truly just a subject of legislature. Brother killed brother in bleeding kansas over slavery. A Confederate general with hate in his heart created the single most feared gang in the south in the form of the Klan, to opress newly free blacks. Politics has very little to do with that.
SgtColbert42 1 year ago
@SgtColbert42 They were southern states. Again, it was not about slavery from a southern perspective and you cannot force it down our throats. As an American I am obliged to disagree. Race was politisized, as it is now. As far as Nathan Bedford Forrest, his brand of politics is reknown AFTER the war. He firmly believed in what he believed, which was wrong. It was not the south that brought that view, it was the "enforcment" of the north that did.
Flayprime 1 year ago
@SgtColbert42 Also, I am an amatuer anthropologist. I know what ethnocentrism is and what politisized ideological bs that americans live in, what is called a "race culture," by the non-european nations, like Japan. It is entirely categorical, truth of the matter is we are all human. So to say that when culture and category are mixed... it is definatly political, even more so when they write laws about it. The Portugese started the slave trade based on 15th century "science." We are still stuck.
Flayprime 1 year ago
@tflLoTuS It was not the losers of that war that wrote the history books. Keep that in mind. Think on this. Why would the Constitution, so rich in vague generalities for the reasons of interpritation offer a second ammendment right to it's people? Overthrown of a King was indeed needed, but in that instance voting did not bring voice to the people whose subjegation was reinforced by division, to this day states rights are still omnipresent. Think on that and all the "what ifs."
Flayprime 1 year ago
@tflLoTuS And another thing, if the south had peacefully withdrawn from the union, and the soldiers from another nation were within their border and had been asked to leave, don't you think somethinig would be done about that? Lincolns war cost lives. It also reinforced the concept that the federal government may use force against state militias which are legal entities. Look up the Morril tarrif and see the straw that broke the camels back.
Flayprime 1 year ago
@biotoxicproduction Lee was a noble man he could not go against his own kin.
1331km1 1 year ago
Now them Yankee's, them Yankee's won the war.
Losers oh losers oh dont be sore.
Your beliefs were flawed & your caused depraved
Aw the treasonous rebel scum lost dem slaves!
prawcessthegreat 2 years ago 4
This has been flagged as spam show
i hate this song
ToriandKristin 2 years ago
Really like this version of the song!
Who is the music by?
Regards.
Meymeygwis 2 years ago
Bobby Horton sounds like.
bullyboy1863 2 years ago
Cheers!
Meymeygwis 2 years ago
go USA, down with the traitors.
spartanwarrior1 2 years ago
I'm not sure having an empire is really something to brag about.
Politicgeek 2 years ago
Really? You're just an idiot aren't you.
AlabamaSoldier 2 years ago
Empires fall. America will not.
Politicgeek 2 years ago 3
You never know.....
Not being terrorist, but we can never be sure.
But I do hope that we will last for a
long time and continue
to strive for freedom and justice.
And Hopefully, without violence.
jacoluzzi 2 years ago
Well, after the workers take back what is theirs, it won't matter.
Politicgeek 2 years ago
The Union forever!
Hurrah boys hurrah!
Down with the traitor, up with the star,
While we rally round the flag, boys
Rally once again
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
The Union Forever! Hurrah, boys Hurrah!!!
drdst17 2 years ago 2
I wonder what the cause the northerners were fighting for was ... they were invading another country.
availableusername86 2 years ago
1) preserving the union
2) punishing traitors and slave mongers
3) abolishing slavey in the USA
my great great grandfather fought n the 103 ovi company g he loaded canon and burned atlanta to the ground very proud of him
the confederacy was NEVER a nation it was a cancer
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
Yea I know. This is what Lincoln told the press.
availableusername86 2 years ago
Lincoln was one of the most brilliant men ever to live, he saved our society
and eliminated a stain on humanity
most unionists were not abolishionists
and would have allowed slavery to continue to preserve the union
but sometimes people do the right thing for the wrong reasons
and let NO ONE TELL you the confederacy
was not about slavery
it was al about preserving that abomnation and the war was fought
basically to eliminate
it,confederated constantly talked about how slavery was gods
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
What's so wrong with slavery anyway? The prophet Muhammed owned slaves and he was the most just and wise man ever to live.
Cynewulfe 2 years ago
allegedly slavery was abolished in saudi in 1961 but it is sai it still exists not so secretly in many fundmetalist nations
i imagine you are being sarcastic
but you make my poiint
the south was in the same class as the towle headed pedophile worshipers
slavery is an abomination and true christians and men of justice and reason abhor it and will destroy it wherever it exists. shouting the battlecry of freedom!
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
you consider yourself a true Christian? HA
rifleman1122 2 years ago
religion is bullshit
i'm a rabid secualrist
if i can get muslsims and christians to kil each other the less work there will be for us one world socialists ha!
people like you need guidance of our vangaurd.long live the revolution
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
I hope that last bit is sarcasm.
rifleman1122 2 years ago
only partly i'm arrogant overly educated
yankee with money an an elistist atitude
and i do know whats best for the world
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
well when the "revolution" comes, I hope you're one of the first they put up against the wall and shoot. you give Yankees a bad name and Americans for that matter. have a nice day
rifleman1122 2 years ago
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
haha, my moneys on my ArmaLite in the gun versus brain challenge. but even if you bastards get your revolution and I'm the one against the wall wearing the blindfold then I'll have the comfort of knowing I died a man at the very least
rifleman1122 2 years ago
well thats fine
you keep underestimating the opposing goober and remember
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten George Carlin quote
see how smart you are rebel
"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always. " got any idea who said that or why?
give you a hint, guns have their limitiations
armalites i'm familiar with them
but my favorite gun i ever had was a valmet 71
its a better gun
so
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
it's a shame that quote ever had to be made. Thatcher should have been blown into tiny bits. and the valmet? some kind of AK clone?
rifleman1122 2 years ago
ak clone? well its more than a clone in my opinion.its a fine fine rifle, durablity of the soviet bloc with the accuracy and quality of a western weapon
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
7.62 x 51 (.308) is often considered to unweildy for full auto for example
the brits never had a full auto fn fal it was semi-The United Kingdom developed its own variant of the FN FAL, designating it the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR). The British SLR was graduated using Imperial measurements and included several changes from the original Belgian FN FAL. The most prominent change from the original FAL, was the introduction of a semi-automatic only setting/
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
well you know your stuff. my only experience with anything close to the valmet was with an old Kalashnikov and I just didn't like the rifle. most of my rifle shooting has been with AR-15s and AR-18s(AR-180B same thing) and an old Lee-Enfield. I just had more fun with the ArmaLites than I did with the AK. personal preference from relatively little experience but I still love the AR-18
rifleman1122 2 years ago
an enemy of my enemy
is my friend
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
cheers
rifleman1122 2 years ago
sláinte!
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
Wrong!
The enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy.
spooky767 2 years ago
bollackz
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
There are eight types of M76, four of which use 7.62x39mm M43 ammunition, while the other four use 5.56x45mm NATO rounds. They use 15, 20, or 30 round magazines. Finland used the 7.62 mm version, while Qatar and Indonesia use the 5.56 mm version.
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
All variants of the M76 are finished with an industrial grade Parkerizing throughout.
The muzzle velocity depends on the ammunition used; the NATO round being 900 m/s while the Kalashnikov round is 719 m/s.
i dont claim to be an expert but i've had a sporter(colt m16 semi whatever) and chinese aks ive never had any rifle as fine as the valmet, to me it was the best
i liked the m14(m1a) but the one i was given was only semi and very heavy
though really
any 7.62 x 51?
is too powerfull for
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
full auto
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
The SLR was produced so the fire selector featured two settings, being safety and semi-automatic, rather than the original Belgian FN which featured automatic fire
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
ideas are bullet proof mr creedy
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
islam is evil mohamed was a false prophet and islam is a false religion
mohamed was a pedophile demon and
islam is a cancer that must be removed form the planet..long live the memory of Charles the Hammer
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
its just wrong their humans just like normal people and they dont get money and they are treated like animals
Irish8594 2 years ago
muhammad was a paedophile who invented his religion by incorporating principles that are to be found in judaism and christianity.
spartanwarrior1 2 years ago 2
The prophet Muhammed owned slaves and he wasn't the most just and wise man ever to live.
That said, we should not judge the behavior of long past people by modern standards and nor should we judge modern behavior by long past standards.
TheMuon 2 years ago
Mohammad was a liar and a camel thief. He's just another reason why slavery should be branded as a moral evil.
AlabamaSoldier 2 years ago
will
people use religion to justify anything
thats why religion sucks
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
well no to be fair john brown was very religious and he was a rabid abolishinist so i take that back
i just dont get how people can use the same book to justify opposite values
confuses my ignorant secular head
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
Union FOREVER!!
Vertigo772 2 years ago
nice reenactment
BigMeatFeet 2 years ago
This video and song were used in a video game, called Battleground Bull Run.
MrZamanni 2 years ago
this is a video of a reenactment. Not for a video game. And battle cry of freedom is a union song. So i dont see it being the theme of a video game about lee.
FeSo4man 2 years ago
I played the game that this is the intro to. I forget the exact name, but it was a Battleground series.
joejedlicka 2 years ago
Was this made with the Civil War game : Robert E. Lee?
mikaleon 2 years ago
It did look a bit like those cutscenes. Also, this song seemed to be the game's theme.
Gaffenheimer 2 years ago
Hate to burst your bubble, fellas, but the South sure as hell were the bad guys. Thank God they lost.
fjgasior 2 years ago
No Good and Bad guys in wars. Both Kill and maim, steal and murder.
mikaleon 2 years ago
i am a reenactor! if you want to know anything about it send me a message or a friend request and i could get anyone in all the way across the USA.
squirrelshoot13 2 years ago
can u get me into the 10th illinois infantry in illinois?
JimmyMSIurine 2 years ago
how about in MA?
Ineededanaccount0 2 years ago
God bless America, the civil war was the most important war in American history. It's what had shaped American identity and American democracy. God Bless all of America and your heroic forefathers.
NKSK007 2 years ago
Oh that godamn pisses me off. The south were the good guys. Lincoln was practically being a dictator not letting the south secede. Quite simply, the civil war was the like the revolutionary war but we had become the bad guys. A truly free society would have let the south secede. Now don't say I'm racist or anything, because I'm DISGUSTED by slavery and I think that hate crimes and racism are the most evil things on the earth. The north didnt have slavery for economic reasons. They werent better.
Woahmatrix 2 years ago
Oh sorry about that, I didn't mean to disrespect Americans by saying this... What I meant was: God Bless ALL Americans.
NKSK007 2 years ago
A handful of Southern politicans dragged the country into a bloody war. There was no vote by the populace to secede. That's what makes them "bad guys". No disrespect...
bajabret60 2 years ago
That's the souths own problem. The main important thing is that the north didnt let the south do it. If the populace truly disagreed there would be another civil war among the confederacy alone.
Woahmatrix 2 years ago
There was a civil war within the Confederacy. Western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, north Georgia & north Alabama, and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi had strong Unionist sympathy and actively opposed the Confederacy. About 150,000 white Southerners served in the Union armies. Opposition to the Confederacy from within the South increased as the war dragged on and especially poor Southerners began to feel they were being used in the planters' crusade.
galoon 2 years ago
i agree totally. The north didnt have slaves because hiring immigrants was cheaper. They were also treated worse than slaves.
filthmonger171 2 years ago 2
filthmonger71--No they weren't. A factory owner didn't have the right to rape a worker's wife whenever he felt like it and sell his children to other factories. Slavery died out in the North because it wasn't profitable up there. Free labor was. I've never heard of a factory worker escaping to the South so he could be a slave on a plantation.
galoon 2 years ago
obviously not, that would be illegal. in my studies, i found that slaves had better working and living conditions than immigrants. apart from the rape thing
filthmonger171 2 years ago
my ancestors worked in those factories in the north as immigrants
and now we own factories
conditions were probably worse for northern workers in most ways
but they weere free, we worked hard and our lives got better
slaves could not really better themselves in any way unless they ran away to the north,slavery was a crime against humanity and the south got its just punishment
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
it figure a bloody brit
my great grand father fought in the irish brigade
you english know all about enlsaving and murder
you miserable eice of filth
your whole empire was based on slavery
glad its dead
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
im not english im welsh. and your grandfather was another stinkin immigrant, forced into a war. he wasnt a true american. it is an insult to use foreign mercanaries in a rebllion.
PS. at least we had an empire
filthmonger171 2 years ago
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
i cant understand how any educated person could argue for the confederacy
slavery was an obsolete economic concept and unjust
it could not survive
AND ALL THE CONFEDERACY WAS
all it was was a anachronistic fuedal order
stubbornly dedicated to preserving slavery
its demise was inevitable
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
America is a country founded by immigrants. ALL Americans have a ancestors from another country. The second you come to our land seeking a better life, you, are a true American!
sargesoap 2 years ago
it was freedom free labour versus a very evil system that was based on kidnapping torture murder of the black race the south was totally based on the slave sytem southerners were fighting to preserve slavery nothing more and deserved to be punished, reconstruction
did not last long enough
TheWilliamcale 2 years ago
I would like the one from The Blue and The Gray, from the Confederate deserter scene. Without any music, and by marching soldiers. It was great, you should watch that movie just for it.
FlashHawk4 3 years ago
i love it what group is it ?
yes well rally round again shouting the battle cry of freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
folkiefreek 3 years ago
Is that the actual background sound? Cus I dont hear any car noises in the background and people talking who were watching the reenactment lol
chaloner 3 years ago
This is just a video from an old PC game called Battlefield Shiloh.... hence the background noises.
dtr76 3 years ago
Correct the game kind a sucked, never understood it but the cd was getting scratchy and i wanted to save this video.
00polarbear 3 years ago
I actually was looking for this exact version because I heard it on that game, and this was the first video that popped up. :)
joejedlicka 2 years ago
Bobby Horton is a good singer!
sbuffalo42 3 years ago
Hurrah for Florida!!!! Rally round the Bonnie Blue boy's!!! YEE HAW!!!!
ArmyRangerNaruto 3 years ago 2
great vid
Vans606 3 years ago
This is a good video.
kecheen1 3 years ago
the way the econimy is goin i dont see why the south dont seceid again and start over
redneck1994 3 years ago
Freedom for the South! LEAVE THE UNION!
crazycuntryboy2 3 years ago
It's not North and South so much anymore. Look at any post-Election map. If it ever comes about again, it's going to be Red State against Blue State.There's ALWAYS a Huge swatch of Red through the American South and West, with the blue states almost uniformly on the California coastline and the New England states.
BenofLaMancha 3 years ago
correct brother from a white anglo saxon scottish protestant
hilly1690 3 years ago
this is an outstanding video..kudos
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
the civil war rox. cool vid. God bless
comradeshow 3 years ago
More casualties than all other American wars combined. Brother fighting brother, father fighting son. No war ever "rox".
t800rad2 3 years ago 3
agreed. But that's why we reenact.
civilwarkid2012 3 years ago 3
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
okay thanks for the gettysburg adress! haha
Ineededanaccount0 2 years ago
HA! You're a Cival War addict too!
22123332 3 years ago
where did u get the song for this video?
CaptainCARL55 3 years ago
it cames from an old pc game of the '90s.
it's battleground shilo.
there is also the confederate video with the bonnie blue flag.
luxxma1984 3 years ago
Long Live America!
MMusashi7 3 years ago 4