Confederate Generals

[RidirichdFlann]

I am from the south, but my ancestors were all northerners, so yeah lol, but hell I got me a rebel flag hanging . I had ancestors on both sides in the war as well...

[bukhis]

Bravooooo! Ben fatto.

[blues9934]

you forgot john hood , nathan forrest ,and josehp johnson :]

[TheTrimby1973]

Shelby Foote.. the best Civil War historian ever!

[cdonnellyful]

South is cool, but you did lose. So, stop war crime talk.. You wanted to fight the yankees. Get over it, you got whopped.

[4GooMan]

Seems Joe Johnston got short shrift here.

[killnuknow]

the north was fought the war with one hand behind its back if it was losing really really really bad it would have just took out the other hand so the south had realy no chance of winning the war i would have fought for the south

[4GooMan]

@killnuknow Sounds like a quote from Shelby Foote.

[drquads]

If any of you havn't read The South was right, By Kennedy bros. i strongly suggest it.

[reb198]

i think its time we were a nation again and take our rightful place along side the other grate nations world its our ultimate

[sojournfan]

awsome thats all that i can say

[mmooreglfprt]

Thank you. -Gulfport, MS

[MavMin]

The Union was contract and nothing more. NJ threatened to secede 3 times without any threat of war towards them. In fact, secession was first thought of by the Yanks. In 1848 Abe was fer it. In 1869 he was agin after he was fer it. Nothing changes,

[hartshornguy]

very true, actually nj could be considered a border state, in its mentalitiy. it threatened secession but was strong armed to stay along with new york city who wanted to secced.

[seismiccowboy]

How could Abe be "agin" the war in 1869?.....he had been dead 4 years by that time.

[MavMin]

It was a typo, my man. I meant 1860.

[meccadon434]

in1869 abe was dead.

[Luigi84289]

gettysburg though. Even with the northern victory the south should have remained free. Germany wasn't annexed by anybody after WW2 and the atrocities committed under hitler were bad. Millions of people died. Any issue brought up could have been resolved without reannexation. This is the achilles heal of pro unionist arguments.

[bookkeeper57]

The only decent union generals were Grant, Meade, Sherman and Sheridan.

McClellan was a fop, and Hooker and Burnside were alchoholics. Grant drank when he was bored, and Sherman is accused of being a war criminal.

[MavMin]

Grant was only able to do anything because he had more troops and materials than the Rebs. He even admitted to Lee that he had outnumbered him not out generaled him. Sherman might have been tried as a war criminal had the South won. He actually made a genocidal statement about the Southerners being a race that should be eliminated. Seeing how the North nearly committed genocide against the Native Americans such attitudes were probably more common than we would like to admit.

[bookkeeper57]

Agree with that.

[rebelstang]

Bravo! 5 +

GOD BLESS, DIXIE!

Issues! Not Race!

[dragonriderjt]

J. Kreshaw, South Carolina

one of only two Divison Comanders in Lee's army that was not a West Point man.

[rebelstang]

Howdy!

Thanks! Good To Know!

Deo Vindice!

[DevJoch]

Like the video alot but how can you make a list without Nathan Bedford Forrest !!! Foote, the most respected Civil War Hisotrian, said there were two geniuses that came out of the war Forrest and Lincoln.

[JimmyEatWorld55]

Could you make one of union generals as well.

There's nothing here, but grant, and Sherman.

[DevJoch]

they were not on here at all. plus add sheridan and those are the only ones you need. All the rest sucked.

[JimmyEatWorld55]

Well he could use Burnside with his giant bomb.

Old fuss and feathers was kind of interesting. With his links to Lee, and all.

[GeneralRobertELee07]

Hmmm son, I respected Grant, but ole' Sherman, he was just a ruthless General. He comes down here to the South, burns entire towns, crops, homes, and destroys transportation. The biggest disgrace was the burning of Columbia, South Carolina.

[JimmyEatWorld55]

He didn't order the attack on South Carolina. A simple note there.

The thing to know about Sherman is he was trying to end the war. I mean look at his quotes. They are all about him hating war.

I mean I'm not going to try to defend what Sherman did, since t was monstrous, but he was trying to do well.

If that makes any sense.

[Luigi84289]

Yeah but killing civilians, including women and children (of all races) and raping women isn't the answer. Enacting unprecedented acts of violence from Georgia to north carolina is wrong. How do you expect to retain any chance of a feeling of unity? That's why there's so much anti northern sentiment to this day. After Gettysburg the South could no longer win the war. It was a 1.5 year surrender. The Yanks should have been setting the example not acting like animals.

[JimmyEatWorld55]

Well many of those he did not issue. When they reached places like that the troops acted on their own.

It took 1.5 years because Lee wouldn't give up, and the south believed Lee could win. Kind of like Hannibal in the Punic wars.

[Luigi84289]

Because we should be a free people. Everybody should be free. The south had every right to fight for independence and liberty. The north was no better than any other conqueror like rome. No matter what the cause or motivation the forceful reannexation of the south was wrong. Violence doesn't solve anything. Lee fought to the end because hew was a proud southerner. He knew ultimate victory would be almost impossible after

[Patriot1862]

Good job! I hope you keep making more videos. A lot of my heroes are in this one. Some other great Confederates for future vids that weren't in this one would be Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Hunt Morgan, Stand Watie, Patrick Cleburne, (and they don't have to be generals) Jesse & Frank James, and many others.

[lomax343]

Just done a bit of research, through half a dozen sites. They all seem to agree that in 1861 Clemens joined a Confederate-sympathising militia (Missouri being a slave state that did not secede) called Marion's Rangers. The group drilled for two weeks, then disbanded, having never fired a shot.

From 1862 Clemens was a journalist in Virginia City, Nevada; moving on to San Francisco in 1864, where he stayed until 1866. The claim that he served the Confederacy seems tenuous, to say the least.

[lomax343]

It's Clemens, not Clemmons.  Still, it's an intriguing fact I didn't know. Any idea where he served?

[GeneralRobertELee07]

Arkansas sir, a brave Private he was, from what I've heard. He didn't serve long though sir, but he was still proud to have served with the Confederacy till the day he passed on.

[Alissa815]

Very good! Loved how you added many fighters, that like you said, some may not have heard of.

-Alissa815 / reenactor