Glory? no glory in this Lee was a damn fool. By the third day the Blue jackets had all the best realastate. Instead of going around the round top like he should Lee's pride and vanity got in the way. He couldn't take the ground and so sought anialation. Still, this probably saved Washington three months of seige and what kept the Southeastern US from becomming a third world country.
About ten years after the war, when Pickett was asked about the failure of that charge, he replied. "I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it!'
Franklin was all General Hoods fault who also lost a opportunity Spring hill right before Franklin. Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest told Hood before the battle of Franklin "If you were half a man I would beat the hell out of you" Hood was crippled from Chickamauga and was probably suffering battle fatigue and should have never been put in place of Johnson. At Franklin 1,750 killed and 3,800 wounded aswell as 6 generals.
What allot of people don't know is that at the Battle of Franklin which has been called the "Pickett's charge of the West" was actually bloodier than Pickett's charge where the Army of Tennessee lost over 6,000 dead and wounded and charged across 2 miles at Franklin where Pickett's charge was about 1 mile. They also had no artillery support at Franklin, also the Union at Franklin were behind huge fortifications almost 20ft high with abbatis infront.
I think the trouble of Lee( so as much generals of his time) is that he had an napoleonic vision of the battle , Frontal assault on column was a typical Napoleonic assault - and he dont understand the changes caused by modernization of weapons took place in those years
@gorozon That wasn't anything peculiar to Lee - besides, he was at a tremendous disadvantage at Gettysburg. It was a common syndrome in the ACW. Shelby Foote; "The weapons were way ahead of the tactics", there were dozens of frontal assaults made - the power of the new rifling/minie bullet took a good while before tactics were adapted to them - traditions don't change overnight. BTW, what battle do you mean re, "column assault" - I see a line-abreast assault.
A blunder yes ! But a glorious charge no less! the men from the great state of Virginia the bravest of the brave and the proud stock of mother England! I salute you
@lordcornwallis2 RE Lee was a great general but this was an damned stupid mistake.
General Longstreet was correct: there were no 15,000 men ever who could take that Union position with a frontal daylight assault. Something to consider: assuming somehow Pickett's division had seriously breeched the Union lines, how the hell were the survivors to deal with a counterattack? If the South had heavy artillery and another division maybe it would have worked at enormous cost.
i cant watch this. it was a march/charge doomed to fail!! lee didnt have all the facts... Only the brave from the ARMY OF NORTHERN VA could have even tried to make this charge!
Rather than argue about north and south, we need to understand that while commending the bravery on both sides, the Civil War has made us who we are as a nation today. Actual veterans who had fought in the war had found it in their hearts to forgive each other later in life.
It was a stupid move with the Union controlling all of the high ground, after the Alabama regiment disgracefully lost to a hand full of Maine troops protecting the area who had NO ammunition left.
Pickett had no combat experience, yet, Longstreet didn't have the balls to tell Lee "I am not sending them out there to be brutally slaughtered." Lee for all of his brilliance failed in the way Napoleon and Hitler did......thinking he was invincible.
In the end Lee lost that war, not the confederacy.
@mrceebees14 he did not think he was unvincible, but after the first and second day at gettysburg, lee's army was doing some progress, so Lee hoped to continue is progress, and btw comparing Lee to hitler is just stupid
@mrceebees14 The 20th Maine was not out of ammunition, Capt Spear who commanded the three left companies wrote, "I never heard of any order for a bayonet charge, my companies were not out of ammunition and many of the 20th Maine's officers exaggerated their stories." Not only was the 20th Maine on LRT, but 100ish members of the 2nd Maine and the 2nd US Sharp Shooters were also with company "B" from the 20th Maine. The 20th Maine certainly was not outnumbered as Hollywood showed.
@mrceebees14 How the 20th Maine's bogus bayonet charge started in history was in 1888. The compilers were putting the Gettysburg battle/campaign together for the Official Records. So they wrote to Chamberlain and asked him, "Do you know where you're July 6th, 1863, after battle report is?" "I do not, replied Chamberlain". Incredibly, they asked him to write a "new" report, which was 25 years after Gettysburg. Micheal Shaara did not know that and wrote "The Killer Angels".
@mrceebees14 Several years later, a Maine researcher found Chamberlain's original July 6th, 1863, after battle report. It was much different then the 1888 bogus report. Add on Hollywood's "Gettysburg" movie and reality was gone.
@mrceebees14 You're comment that "Pickett had no combat experience" is bogus. Picket was a brigade commander during the Seven Days Campaign and he was shot in the right shoulder at Gaines' Mill. You're statement should have been "General Pickett had no combat experience at the divisional level." His division was in reserve at Fredericksburg and during the battle of Chancellorsville his division along with Hood's division and Longstreet were detached.
It wasn't about the number of troops it was about jeb Stuarts cavalry who was to attack the union rear and then it will be a confederate victory but general Armstrong Custer changed that.
The Confederates did not have any moral or political authority. They betrayed their nation and the Constitution. It's a shame so many soldiers sacrificed themselves to defend slavery.
I dare anyone to stand on the Confedate line in the trees & look across that field & NOT think, Lee was an idiot. No one who was not consumed w/ his ego could have imagined it would succeed. I personally think half the Rebels laid down & waited for the inevitable retreat.
@cowboyx1970 No thats Pickett's charge where the Confederates tried to break throught the Union defece on cemetery ridge on day 3. Little round top was on day 2 when the Confedrates attacked the Union left. This scene is from Gettysburg which also shows Little round top in a different scene.
@iLove2lax It wouldnt have mattered, the South didnt have the men or the strength to fight 100,000 well armed Union soldiers, Gettysburg was doomed for the South from the start
@cbohar84 Thats why he should have listened to Longstreet.... Longstreet wanted to avoid the third day all together. Longstreet suggested a march towards Washington because there was no army between Lee and the capital. If Lee had marched on washington, like Longstreet suggested, Meade would have had to come out from behind his defenses at Gettysburg to intercept Lee. This would have allowed Lee to pick where the battle would be fought instead of attacking dug in Union cannon and troops.
@iLove2lax Im no military expert, but wouldnt that have been even more suicidal for Lee's army? Washington was probably the most fortified city in the world at that time. If Lee had placed himself between Washington and Meade's army it would be double the trouble. He should have just burned the PA state capital of Harrisburg, he had the manpower and it would have been a psychological blow to the north as well as the loss of a major manufcaturing city
@cbohar84 If Lee had placed himself between Meade and Washington then Meade would have had to attack Lee. A confederate army would never have been allowed to be in a position to attack the capital
The Union army was bank rolled, financed by the banking elites to fight and win the war. Those favors never were on the CSA.
War has always been a tool for profit and one can see the stark difference in production of arms and financing of the armies between North and South.
In the same way, the banks in Europe funded both sides, the Napoleonic France and the rest of Europe. Rothschild bought the whole Lndon Stock exchange during Waterloo. These bankers are the enemy of mankind.
@ConstantineJoseph Great Points. It is sad but true what you stated in your comments. There is no doubt in my mind that the Rothschilds banking dynasty is responsible for all major wars since 1750. There is also no doubt that the Rothschilds Dynasty has done a far better job concealing themselves from the public and history than any other organization ever.
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In my Star Trek: The Next Confederation, Confederate Starships face Union starships at Gettysburg Outpost. July 3rd, 2363 in an alternate universe. Where its 2363 and the War of Northern Aggression never ended but
continued to the 24th Century. Confederate Starships under Admiral Pickett leads his forces against the Union fleet. Phasers, torpedoes blazing this showdown shows the tenacious devotion of the Confederate fleet. :)
But today is there alot of bad blood between Southeners and Yankees and is there still any wish for independence or has it become more of a traditonal rivalry like England and France ??
@thebritish25 True Southerners still favor independence. Unfortunately there are very few of us left, as the majority seemed to have "swallowed the dog" and become good little reconstructed subjects of the imperial government.
@thebritish25 There were a lot of immigrants to the North after the war, so more of them have forgotten about it than Southerners. There are serious secessionist movements in the South, but not even close to a majority. So I'd compare it more to England and Scotland than England and France, with the South being the traditional/agricultural Highlanders and the North being the more urbanized/industrialized England.
@thebritish25 I agree with TheBullionBull - it is more like Scotland/England than France/England. There are cultural differences. Yankees have moved south in droves and have no idea how offensive they can be to Southerners because the things they do are not considered rude where they come from. I would not call it a rivalry at all. To this day, the South just wants to be left alone rather rival anyone. There are a great many people of Ulster Scot ancestry in the south. It has had an influence.
Seems to me that the Southern army had more of a pride and the Northern army had more numbers.Great example of quanity vs quality and quanity won out because of overwhelming numbers.I'm from the North and can see through so much and I wouldn't be suprised if something like this would occur again just to straighten out this country again.
Nice to know Pettigrew's NC division is so well remembered - the 26th NC had the highest casualty rate for the entire war for participating in the charge and the fighting on day 1 ... but VA did a hell of a job as well.
hey hey guys lets run across an open field to a fortified hilltop that we failed to bombard that has two head high fences in the way and try to climb those and teach thum guys stuff . menwhile at the union line . LoL hicks
@TThorne931 There you are again - coming to a Civil War site just to insult people. There was no way of knowing that the bombardment was ineffective. Meanwhile, look up Fredricksburg. If attacking a fortified position from across a field going uphill merits being called "hick", then apply it to the brave Union soldiers who marched on and got routed. Then look up the statistics of Gettysburg and note the fact that they are nearly identical, even with the South being so outnumbered.
@stellalouise1 I wanted to add, at the battle of Fredericksburg, not a single Union soldier even got to Marye's Heights stonewall. The AOP lost at least 8,000 men attacking with Seven divisions (Worst attack, losses in the entire war on either side). At Pickett's Charge at least 150-300 of BG. Armistead broke through. The Confederates lost 4,802 total. At the battle of Franklin, Tenn, LT Gen. Hood lost at least 7,000 men, certainly the worst charge (Losses) for the South.
@stellalouise1 Well with gettysburg at little round top it was different i would say, the union had swung down in a wheel formation and charge down the hill into an un-fortified position rather than charging upwards towards a fortified position. However the "Charge" wasn't a "hick" move. A lot of armies did it, including up until about korea. So there's different points to be seen.
@ContinentalPatriot I had Pickett's Charge in mind when I answered the troll TThorne - his calling the Confederates hicks for doing it when we all know what happened at Fredricksburg, etc. I don't dispute you at all regarding Little Round Top. I need to refrain from taking that troll's bait but it's difficult. Some strategy may be questionable at times but to throw off on the brave men who made those charges - on either side - galls me.
@stellalouise1 1) Burnside was a bad general, he marched 14 divisions in there before he was directly told to retreat. The man was just plain stupid and he demoralized the army after that. 2) The rule back then was "match men to arms," meaning you march into their ranks, fire and then bayonet charge. You have no idea how frightening it is to see men still coming at you even when you rip their lines to pieces, it's an intimidation move that Napoleon always used.
@stellalouise1 part 2...... was a thing of the past, it never existed like it had in the Spanish American war years prior. The Union learned from it and never did it again, the South however never learned and lost Gettysburg as a result. The south should have won Gettysburg on day 2, that is how close they were.
Lee allowed himself to think he was god and his men would pick up the slack, he was wrong and he lost the war for his side.
@mrceebees14 Gettysburg was a much closer call that it appears at first glance. Many things went wrong that could have just as easily gone correctly for the South. There are too many to list here. Lee took full responsibility for every mistake that was not his because that is what a great general does and what a great man does. Lee fought brilliantly for 2 years after Gettysburg, reducing Grant to tears on one famous occasion. All reasonable people give Lee his due - his foes were the first to.
@stellalouise1 TThorne931 does this on every American Civil War video. He or she (whatever) obviously thinks they're the only "nigger in the governor's box on Kentucky Derby Day." They say in Arkansas, a quarter mile of unpaved road behind a diesel 1 ton dually with an "in-tow" placard stapled to a person's ass changes that attitude. Just tossin that tidbit out there, since the US Supreme Court ruled even hurtful speech is protected. Chief Justice Roberts ruled, "lest we stifle debate."
@stellalouise1 Although this view may be unpopular, I believe that there may have been a (slim) chance for the attack to succeed. Furthermore, I believe that Longstreet intentionally hindered the plan as much as possible in order to distance himself from what he perceived to be its ultimate failure. If all had gone according to plan, Pickett's Charge would have been fully supported by Col. Alexander's battery right up till they reached Cemetery Ridge. Longstreet kept delaying the-
@stellalouise1 Cont: to give the order for the charge until the last possible minute. At the beginning of the Confederate bombardment Longstreet had been apprised that Alexander only had about two hours’ worth of ammunition. For the next hour and a half it was a constant back and forth between Alexander and Longstreet, with Alexander advising the gen that he proceed with the charge and Longstreet telling the Col. To inform him when he thought the time was right. Very strange?
@TThorne931 You apprently know nothing of history. Don't even try to mouth someone about something that happened here. Stell is right, look up Fredricksburg please, or Cold Harbor, or Second Manasses at the unfinished railroad. The list goes on. So please, next time you try to say something, do the world a favor and don't.
@TThorne931 You apprently know nothing of history. Don't even try to mouth someone about something that happened here. Stell is right, look up Fredricksburg please, or Cold Harbor, or Second Manasses at the unfinished railroad. The list goes on. So please, next time you try to say something, do the world a favor and don't.
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@RevBillyRayCollins It wasn't anybodies fault because the north had the south outnumbered. If the south had the same number of troops we would have won. I know this because General Lee was my great, great grandfather. Its cool to see people still hold him as a hero!
@Virginiaboy131 Nope. The war would have simply dragged on longer. Besides, the CSA was defeated as much from lack of support at home, as the Union Army.
Read "Bitterly Divided, The South's Inner Civil War"...David Williams. The book documents a Southern perspective of the war, you won't find in books like "The South Was Right".
Lee was no hero. He was a traitor fighting for the one of the most despicable regimes in history.
@UnionStatesHeritage Your probably a stupid Northerner who does not know what he is talkin about. Lee was a southern Christian Hero! Grant on the other hand was addicted to smoking and was a unsober drunk!
@UnionStatesHeritage Your probably a stupid Northerner who does not know what he is talkin about. Lee was a southern Christian Hero! Grant on the other hand was addicted to smoking and was a unsober drunk!
War is the most stupid thing on earth. Poormen must fight and kill other poormen and for what? Just for the profit of those that start wars but never put a toe on the battlefield.
@Templarone1 Yep...but wars couldn't happen if average people would refuse to allow themselves to be manipulated by the people who start wars.
Poor Southerners (initially) allowed themselves to be manipulated by fire eating politicians who were concerned with one thing...the preservation and the expansion of slave rights.
One of the ways they were manipulated...fear of losing their place withing the South's social hierarchy if slavery ended.
@tpajason We ended up with Obama thanks to...Southern conservatives. Don't forget that. Oh yeah...we now live with the economic system favored by the CSA. Free trade. Enjoy your cheap imported goods, slave wage jobs, and...trade deficits.
@UnionStatesHeritage We did? Funny. Appears to me (according to maps of the US Electoral College in 2008) that SC, AL, TN, MS, GA, TX, AK, KY, MO, and WV all voted red. As far as my home state of FL, well ... we get a lot of displaced yankees with their bs liberal agenda and all the hispanics in Miami that always vote democrat as the democrats give them more of our money rather than getting them jobs. Free trade is what made us strong. Regulating destroys jobs. Try reading up on economics.
@tpajason LOL...you're a bit dense, aren't you. If it weren't for the destructive policies of George W. Bush...independent voters would not have turned to the Dems & voted for Obama. Southern conservatives spent the last 20 years hi jacking the GOP, and turning center-right voters away from the party. Guess what...we're the ones who make or break elections...not the right wing.
Free trade is what made us strong? Really? Take a look around, Brilliance. Then take your own advice...
@UnionStatesHeritage I never said I liked Bush. No one mentioned Bush. You brought up Obama. And we haven't had "free trade" here in decades. You can't bash it as we haven't had it. Carter ... he was a real winner. Lemme tell ya. Took a Carter to get a Reagan. Clinton? Criminal. Didn't vote for him. If it weren't for retards moving south, we wouldn't have democrats getting elected down here. And Red Shirt Army is pretty spot on. Read your Constitution.
@tpajason Yeah...I'm really tired of hearing ignorant Southerners talk about the "Yankee" liberal agenda...the author of the Great Society...Southerner. Jimmy Carter...Southerner. Bill Clinton...Southerner. James Carville...Southerner. Fact is...my home region of Central Pennsylvania is, and has always been politically conservative. Same is true of much of the rural North East, and Mid-West.
Why am I not surprised that you subscribe to a fruit bat like RedShirtArmy...U people are all alike.
Though I agree with the title, Virginia's Glory (Pickett's Charge). Yet it might be a slight. Sure there was Pickett of Virginia but here was also at the same level Pettigrew of North Carolina and Isaac Trimble of Maryland. Of all the regiments the 11th Mississippi infiltrated beyond the Bloody Angle the furtherest. A North Carolina state suffered the highest casualties.
The Confederate States of America's Glory (Longstreet's Charge) maybe?
@rebelcry99 There were more North Carolinians in the Confederate Army than from any other state and THEY went the farthest at Gettysburg, but the battle was fought under the great General Lee so we Tarheels let our neighbors to the north indulge. We are nice that way - good neighbors. :-) North Carolinina was among the last to secede and had the least to gain or loose but they showed up to do the heavy lifting. That is why it is called "A vale of humility between two mountains of concite". :-)
@stellalouise1 Actually, North Carolina had the highest rate of desertion from the Confederate Army for exactly those reasons...the Confederate Conscription Act, and the Twenty Slave Law didn't help much either.
Yep, I currently live in SC (Thank GOD I'm not a native) A state that has always suffered from a terminal case of Little Man Syndrome. I've visited Virginia...it's definitely awash in its own sense of self-importance, as well. Although it's got a bit more to back it up with.
Please please please for the love of God STOP putting this very lousy music on every video with a decent original sound track. It's way beyond ridiculous and it does NOT makes it more dramatic ! What's f..king wrong with you people?
Lee was to arrogant to admit he could not win this battle, even when his men saw the outcome. A very sad moment in this country's history, all of those men dying when thier general knew he was sending them to thier deaths.
Spencer repeating rifles, a starving army, and ugly politics in Richmond doomed the Army of Nothern Viriginia in 1864. God bless the soldiers of Virginia and our blessed Union foes. Bless my G-G-G grand daddy W.T. Daougherty who fought with Jeb Stuarts cavarly.
You know whats funny Robert E. Lee was actually going to join the North because he believed more in their cause but when it came down to it he couldn't bring himself to fight his fellow Virginians.
When General Hancock was wounded he fell into the arms of soldiers from the vermont brigade. Most of the Confederates captured during Picketts Charge was by soldiers of the Vermont Brigade it could be said that the men from such a tiny state like Vermont did more to ensure a Union Victory on the third day of the battle.
The Second Vermont Brigade was probably the key union unit on the field that day. Smashed the flank of Kemper's brigade with a terrible volley then turned to meet Wilcox's supporting troops. Most of the Confederates captured during Pickett's Charge was by Stannards Vermonters.
@HaggenPagan26 Is there a hollywood film that is completely historically accurate? I don't know of one. I think Glory was relatively historically accurate compared to some. Apart from the sanitized battle scenes, I thought Gettysburg and Gods and Generals were reasonably accurate. I liked the depiction of the battles of Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville in Gods and Generals. Apart from old Hollywood historical movies, which are fantasies, the worst example I know is Braveheart: a travesty.
@fidomusic Glory was about as accurate as Braveheart was. The last battle the 54th is portrayed as losing over half its force. In the end you see hundreds of dead soldiers littered on the beach the next morning. In reality the 54th lost 29 dead at Fort Wagner, some more captured and some wounded. It only presents one point of view. One reason why I hated Cold Mountain so much, but I really can't take that seriously, it's just a Love Story.
@HaggenPagan26 I didn't know about the low casualties at Fort Wagner. Braveheart was a travesty. A total distortion of history and full of lies, mixing times and dates up eg Wallace died before Longshanks, no evidence for the love affair, Longshanks totally one dimensional, Wallace a flawless hero (even Gibson admitted in an interview Wallace was a bastard), and ridiculous ending. What was the one point of view Cold Mountain presented? A history prof at MIT who I worked with thought it a good.
@mk3238 I think Eisenhower & Lee are apples and oranges. The Allies in WW2 were made up of many nations. MANY prime ministers and generals had their fingers firmly in the pie of Allied strategy. Eisenhower was more of a committee leader in his position. Lee more or less stood alone as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (while masterfully coping successfully with Davis's continual attempts to micro-manage),so much more responsibility & decision making were directly on his shoulders.
Looking back, Lee should have sent Pickett to attack the Round Tops. This provides a deceptive action while Stuart makes and end run to secure the right flank with a portion of his cavalry. Meanwhile, Lee leaves a division as a center blocking force, then throws the kitchen sink at the left flank to complete the encirclement.
I will say that the South lost at Gettysburg because Lee was still emotionally rattled by the death of Jackson 6 weeks before. Lee should have done some re-evaluation to see who could have been the best replacement before committing to a full scale operation like Gettysburg. Lee would have fought that battle totally different with Jackson by his side
@TheSirisaac52672 Well it wasn't really a full scale operation was it? It was more or less an accident that Meade and Lee brushed into each other next to Gettysberg. Both were trying to lure the other to preferred battlefields (to the north and south respectively) when lead elements of their armies made contact with each other north-west of Gettysberg. Both generals were unsure whether or not they had actually found the enemies main forces, well at least that's just what I've read...
One last thing, I have said it before. If Stonewall Jackson is at Gettysburg, the South wins handily and we would have a Confederate States of America
Outstanding movie, terrible time, arrogance of officers, best tactics my arse, the south lasted so long due to its mobility and detemination what it lacked in pure ordnance it made up in tactics. Hubris, hubris!! If it works don't change it!! disgusting waste of humanity. Its great at the rear eh!!
l'iniziale fortuna dell'esercito confederato è stato che la maggior parte degli Ufficiali Generali provenivano da West Point cito Beauregard, Pierre, Jackson, Jonathan Thomas, Lee, Robert Edward, Johnston, Albert Sidney, Johnston Joseph Eggleston,Longstreet, James e non ultimo gli eccellenti Comandanti della cavalleria sudista , punto di forza dell'esercito confederato J.E.B. Stuart, Nathan Bedford Forrest
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top ten civil war officers 10. George Meade 9. Jubal A. Early 8. Joseph Johnston 7. George Thomas 6. P.T.G. Beauregard 5. Philip Sheridan 4. Thomas Jackson 3. William Sherman 2. Robert E. Lee 1. Ulysses S. Grant Thats my opinion. Respond if you disagree.
@Dangerbil102 Robert E. Lee was undefeated in battle up until Gettysburg, regardless of him being outnumbered 10:1 in some cases. He was under argument, the greatest General the Americas had ever bred.
@CDeoD being undefeated in individual battles is nice. But if you lose the war what is the point. George Washington lost alot of his battles but he won the key battles and hence the war. Lee won alot but lost those battles that were the key battles
@CDeoD I would like to add, that any "Great Commander's in history" will have General Lee in those books, not General Grant. General Lee fought many battles outnumbered, while Grant never fought a major battle outnumbered 2-1. So I can not judge Grant as a great general. Yes he got the job done, by sheer manpower, but did that make him the better "General", I think not. Let us examine the battle of "Shiloh", let us suppose General Buell never showed up?
@rebel2276 So by your logic then ONLY a general with numerical inferiority can be considered a great general. Utter nonesense. And let us examine the Battle of Antietam. Suppose AP Hill doesn't show up. Let us examine Chancellorsville. Supposed Hooker is not concussed. Let us examine Antietam again. Suppose the Union army is not commanded by the hapless McClellan but Grant? War is over before lunchtime and Lee is dead or a prisoner along with his entire army. Lee was VERY LUCKY at times.
@Shafeone If we are supposing, here is an interesting thing to suppose. Suppose Lee commanded the army of the Potomic. How long would the south have lasted, do you think? You seem to have a bias against Lee, as though the war were still raging and you have chosen sides.
@stellalouise1 I think Lee would have ended the war right quickly. I do not have a bias against Lee but rather those who have a bias in favor of Lee. (Or actually more a bias against Grant). Lee was a great general and given the resources that Grant had (or McClellan for that matter) and against no Lee he would have won quickly. Grant, however, had to face Lee and he beat him the only way possible. Through attrition. And I DO side with the North in this conflict. But still respect Lee.
@rebel2276 So I guess you rule Napolean out because he fought more than a few battles with superior numbers. And forget the Allied generals in WW2 then, except perhaps MacArthur.
@rebel2276 If you include Lee, but not the man who defeated him in 11 months (after four other generals could not defeat him in two years) then your list is awry. Grant understood exactly how to beat Lee and he did so. Grant understood how to wage a continental war, from the saddle no less, and how to defeat the CSA as a whole. Grant was a true first generation modern warrior. Lee an anachronism. Both great in their respective commandes..but it was GRANT who won the day. Don't forget that.
Glory? no glory in this Lee was a damn fool. By the third day the Blue jackets had all the best realastate. Instead of going around the round top like he should Lee's pride and vanity got in the way. He couldn't take the ground and so sought anialation. Still, this probably saved Washington three months of seige and what kept the Southeastern US from becomming a third world country.
Bonzai0311 4 days ago
About ten years after the war, when Pickett was asked about the failure of that charge, he replied. "I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it!'
Gouiverneur 4 days ago
This is sad. American against American. If only a few of the American elite realised what was sacrificed so they could ruin the country!!
hotlips296 6 days ago
Maj. Nathan Bedford Forest was one of the greatest generals alive!!!!!!! He is my hero.
ZacharyKirby661 1 month ago
@ZacharyKirby661 Mine too. He was a Lt. General - Corps commander. His war record is astounding.
gyrofoam1 4 weeks ago
@gyrofoam1 yea i ment that i was buys at the time
ZacharyKirby661 3 weeks ago
@ZacharyKirby661 you spelled your hero's name wrong.
kozmon0t 3 weeks ago
Franklin was all General Hoods fault who also lost a opportunity Spring hill right before Franklin. Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest told Hood before the battle of Franklin "If you were half a man I would beat the hell out of you" Hood was crippled from Chickamauga and was probably suffering battle fatigue and should have never been put in place of Johnson. At Franklin 1,750 killed and 3,800 wounded aswell as 6 generals.
AUG351 1 month ago
What allot of people don't know is that at the Battle of Franklin which has been called the "Pickett's charge of the West" was actually bloodier than Pickett's charge where the Army of Tennessee lost over 6,000 dead and wounded and charged across 2 miles at Franklin where Pickett's charge was about 1 mile. They also had no artillery support at Franklin, also the Union at Franklin were behind huge fortifications almost 20ft high with abbatis infront.
AUG351 1 month ago
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blackusa1 1 month ago
I think the trouble of Lee( so as much generals of his time) is that he had an napoleonic vision of the battle , Frontal assault on column was a typical Napoleonic assault - and he dont understand the changes caused by modernization of weapons took place in those years
gorozon 1 month ago
@gorozon That wasn't anything peculiar to Lee - besides, he was at a tremendous disadvantage at Gettysburg. It was a common syndrome in the ACW. Shelby Foote; "The weapons were way ahead of the tactics", there were dozens of frontal assaults made - the power of the new rifling/minie bullet took a good while before tactics were adapted to them - traditions don't change overnight. BTW, what battle do you mean re, "column assault" - I see a line-abreast assault.
gyrofoam1 3 weeks ago
sir you and the noble general Longstreet were correct.
lordcornwallis2 1 month ago
A blunder yes ! But a glorious charge no less! the men from the great state of Virginia the bravest of the brave and the proud stock of mother England! I salute you
lordcornwallis2 1 month ago
@lordcornwallis2 RE Lee was a great general but this was an damned stupid mistake.
General Longstreet was correct: there were no 15,000 men ever who could take that Union position with a frontal daylight assault. Something to consider: assuming somehow Pickett's division had seriously breeched the Union lines, how the hell were the survivors to deal with a counterattack? If the South had heavy artillery and another division maybe it would have worked at enormous cost.
RPenta 1 month ago
i cant watch this. it was a march/charge doomed to fail!! lee didnt have all the facts... Only the brave from the ARMY OF NORTHERN VA could have even tried to make this charge!
LONG LIVES DIXIE
bluegrassreb1 1 month ago
Rather than argue about north and south, we need to understand that while commending the bravery on both sides, the Civil War has made us who we are as a nation today. Actual veterans who had fought in the war had found it in their hearts to forgive each other later in life.
TheMerman1989 1 month ago
Should have left the film's original audio intact.
BOBBYthebrainBUNDY 2 months ago
Viva la confederazione !
valhalla973 2 months ago
It was a stupid move with the Union controlling all of the high ground, after the Alabama regiment disgracefully lost to a hand full of Maine troops protecting the area who had NO ammunition left.
Pickett had no combat experience, yet, Longstreet didn't have the balls to tell Lee "I am not sending them out there to be brutally slaughtered." Lee for all of his brilliance failed in the way Napoleon and Hitler did......thinking he was invincible.
In the end Lee lost that war, not the confederacy.
mrceebees14 2 months ago
@mrceebees14 he did not think he was unvincible, but after the first and second day at gettysburg, lee's army was doing some progress, so Lee hoped to continue is progress, and btw comparing Lee to hitler is just stupid
12F220 2 months ago
@mrceebees14 ......you really need to study more history and get your facts stright.
Jrebindixie 1 month ago
@mrceebees14 The 20th Maine was not out of ammunition, Capt Spear who commanded the three left companies wrote, "I never heard of any order for a bayonet charge, my companies were not out of ammunition and many of the 20th Maine's officers exaggerated their stories." Not only was the 20th Maine on LRT, but 100ish members of the 2nd Maine and the 2nd US Sharp Shooters were also with company "B" from the 20th Maine. The 20th Maine certainly was not outnumbered as Hollywood showed.
rebel2276 1 month ago
@mrceebees14 How the 20th Maine's bogus bayonet charge started in history was in 1888. The compilers were putting the Gettysburg battle/campaign together for the Official Records. So they wrote to Chamberlain and asked him, "Do you know where you're July 6th, 1863, after battle report is?" "I do not, replied Chamberlain". Incredibly, they asked him to write a "new" report, which was 25 years after Gettysburg. Micheal Shaara did not know that and wrote "The Killer Angels".
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@mrceebees14 Several years later, a Maine researcher found Chamberlain's original July 6th, 1863, after battle report. It was much different then the 1888 bogus report. Add on Hollywood's "Gettysburg" movie and reality was gone.
rebel2276 1 month ago
@mrceebees14 You're comment that "Pickett had no combat experience" is bogus. Picket was a brigade commander during the Seven Days Campaign and he was shot in the right shoulder at Gaines' Mill. You're statement should have been "General Pickett had no combat experience at the divisional level." His division was in reserve at Fredericksburg and during the battle of Chancellorsville his division along with Hood's division and Longstreet were detached.
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Gee this music is TONS better than that in the original movie....The music director of the movie should have been soundly FIRED.
biped1of1pandemonium 2 months ago
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Gee this music is TONS better than that in the original movie....The music director of the movie should have been soundly FIRED.
biped1of1pandemonium 2 months ago
Gee this music is TONS better than that in the original movie....The music director of the movie should have been soundly FIRED.
biped1of1pandemonium 2 months ago
@biped1of1pandemonium This movie is from 1993, the song you are hearing wasn't released until around 2000.
mrceebees14 2 months ago
There where just as many NC troops as Virginia's.
Goofus5453 2 months ago
The South will rise again
MegaAaroncarter 2 months ago
@MegaAaroncarter I love CSA and VA
3treeproductions 2 months ago
A top Uni for the South.
seangrie8 2 months ago
@scotish Christian
It wasn't about the number of troops it was about jeb Stuarts cavalry who was to attack the union rear and then it will be a confederate victory but general Armstrong Custer changed that.
commandersheperd1 2 months ago
The Confederates did not have any moral or political authority. They betrayed their nation and the Constitution. It's a shame so many soldiers sacrificed themselves to defend slavery.
oriolesfan61 2 months ago
I dare anyone to stand on the Confedate line in the trees & look across that field & NOT think, Lee was an idiot. No one who was not consumed w/ his ego could have imagined it would succeed. I personally think half the Rebels laid down & waited for the inevitable retreat.
VictorLepanto 3 months ago
call for arms agin nig ger west slavees
5466895 3 months ago
I've often wondered how it would have turned out if Jackson was at Gettysburg.
1BEAVIS13 3 months ago
that didn't look like little round top, but good to see those traitorous flags drop anyway.
cowboyx1970 3 months ago
@cowboyx1970 No thats Pickett's charge where the Confederates tried to break throught the Union defece on cemetery ridge on day 3. Little round top was on day 2 when the Confedrates attacked the Union left. This scene is from Gettysburg which also shows Little round top in a different scene.
AUG351 3 months ago
Lee should have listened to Longstreet
iLove2lax 3 months ago
@iLove2lax It wouldnt have mattered, the South didnt have the men or the strength to fight 100,000 well armed Union soldiers, Gettysburg was doomed for the South from the start
cbohar84 3 months ago
@cbohar84 Thats why he should have listened to Longstreet.... Longstreet wanted to avoid the third day all together. Longstreet suggested a march towards Washington because there was no army between Lee and the capital. If Lee had marched on washington, like Longstreet suggested, Meade would have had to come out from behind his defenses at Gettysburg to intercept Lee. This would have allowed Lee to pick where the battle would be fought instead of attacking dug in Union cannon and troops.
iLove2lax 3 months ago
@iLove2lax Im no military expert, but wouldnt that have been even more suicidal for Lee's army? Washington was probably the most fortified city in the world at that time. If Lee had placed himself between Washington and Meade's army it would be double the trouble. He should have just burned the PA state capital of Harrisburg, he had the manpower and it would have been a psychological blow to the north as well as the loss of a major manufcaturing city
cbohar84 3 months ago
@cbohar84 If Lee had placed himself between Meade and Washington then Meade would have had to attack Lee. A confederate army would never have been allowed to be in a position to attack the capital
iLove2lax 3 months ago
The Union army was bank rolled, financed by the banking elites to fight and win the war. Those favors never were on the CSA.
War has always been a tool for profit and one can see the stark difference in production of arms and financing of the armies between North and South.
In the same way, the banks in Europe funded both sides, the Napoleonic France and the rest of Europe. Rothschild bought the whole Lndon Stock exchange during Waterloo. These bankers are the enemy of mankind.
ConstantineJoseph 4 months ago 17
@ConstantineJoseph Great Points. It is sad but true what you stated in your comments. There is no doubt in my mind that the Rothschilds banking dynasty is responsible for all major wars since 1750. There is also no doubt that the Rothschilds Dynasty has done a far better job concealing themselves from the public and history than any other organization ever.
Long Live the Constitutional Republic!
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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Robert E Lee
1stVARifleman 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
My great, great, great, uncle, Richard Yeadon Blackwell of Lauderdale Mississippi died in Pickett's Charge.
360Nomad 4 months ago
Menuda masacre. Vaya generales de mierda devieron de tener los confederados si dejaban morir asi a sus hombres.
Atakullu 4 months ago
In my Star Trek: The Next Confederation, Confederate Starships face Union starships at Gettysburg Outpost. July 3rd, 2363 in an alternate universe. Where its 2363 and the War of Northern Aggression never ended but
continued to the 24th Century. Confederate Starships under Admiral Pickett leads his forces against the Union fleet. Phasers, torpedoes blazing this showdown shows the tenacious devotion of the Confederate fleet. :)
lawnmowermanTX 4 months ago
Gimme my grey uniform now!
philconnors74 4 months ago
Im just curious
But today is there alot of bad blood between Southeners and Yankees and is there still any wish for independence or has it become more of a traditonal rivalry like England and France ??
thebritish25 4 months ago
@thebritish25 True Southerners still favor independence. Unfortunately there are very few of us left, as the majority seemed to have "swallowed the dog" and become good little reconstructed subjects of the imperial government.
cscptdave 4 months ago
@thebritish25 There were a lot of immigrants to the North after the war, so more of them have forgotten about it than Southerners. There are serious secessionist movements in the South, but not even close to a majority. So I'd compare it more to England and Scotland than England and France, with the South being the traditional/agricultural Highlanders and the North being the more urbanized/industrialized England.
TheBullionBull 4 months ago
@thebritish25 I agree with TheBullionBull - it is more like Scotland/England than France/England. There are cultural differences. Yankees have moved south in droves and have no idea how offensive they can be to Southerners because the things they do are not considered rude where they come from. I would not call it a rivalry at all. To this day, the South just wants to be left alone rather rival anyone. There are a great many people of Ulster Scot ancestry in the south. It has had an influence.
stellalouise1 4 months ago
Seems to me that the Southern army had more of a pride and the Northern army had more numbers.Great example of quanity vs quality and quanity won out because of overwhelming numbers.I'm from the North and can see through so much and I wouldn't be suprised if something like this would occur again just to straighten out this country again.
brsfan66 4 months ago
Nice to know Pettigrew's NC division is so well remembered - the 26th NC had the highest casualty rate for the entire war for participating in the charge and the fighting on day 1 ... but VA did a hell of a job as well.
davypete7 4 months ago
Every time I've seen this I always think, "Maybe they'll win this time..."
longof99 4 months ago
ARMISTEAD !!!!!!
waktss 5 months ago
Where can I get the music (drum solo)?
longof99 5 months ago
hey hey guys lets run across an open field to a fortified hilltop that we failed to bombard that has two head high fences in the way and try to climb those and teach thum guys stuff . menwhile at the union line . LoL hicks
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 There you are again - coming to a Civil War site just to insult people. There was no way of knowing that the bombardment was ineffective. Meanwhile, look up Fredricksburg. If attacking a fortified position from across a field going uphill merits being called "hick", then apply it to the brave Union soldiers who marched on and got routed. Then look up the statistics of Gettysburg and note the fact that they are nearly identical, even with the South being so outnumbered.
stellalouise1 5 months ago 18
@stellalouise1 This isnt a Civial War site . And The Union never faced Defeat .
TThorne931 5 months ago
@stellalouise1 I wanted to add, at the battle of Fredericksburg, not a single Union soldier even got to Marye's Heights stonewall. The AOP lost at least 8,000 men attacking with Seven divisions (Worst attack, losses in the entire war on either side). At Pickett's Charge at least 150-300 of BG. Armistead broke through. The Confederates lost 4,802 total. At the battle of Franklin, Tenn, LT Gen. Hood lost at least 7,000 men, certainly the worst charge (Losses) for the South.
rebel2276 4 months ago
@stellalouise1 Well with gettysburg at little round top it was different i would say, the union had swung down in a wheel formation and charge down the hill into an un-fortified position rather than charging upwards towards a fortified position. However the "Charge" wasn't a "hick" move. A lot of armies did it, including up until about korea. So there's different points to be seen.
ContinentalPatriot 4 months ago
@ContinentalPatriot I had Pickett's Charge in mind when I answered the troll TThorne - his calling the Confederates hicks for doing it when we all know what happened at Fredricksburg, etc. I don't dispute you at all regarding Little Round Top. I need to refrain from taking that troll's bait but it's difficult. Some strategy may be questionable at times but to throw off on the brave men who made those charges - on either side - galls me.
stellalouise1 4 months ago
@stellalouise1 Even napoleon did it so it's obviously not a hick move.
ContinentalPatriot 4 months ago
@stellalouise1 1) Burnside was a bad general, he marched 14 divisions in there before he was directly told to retreat. The man was just plain stupid and he demoralized the army after that. 2) The rule back then was "match men to arms," meaning you march into their ranks, fire and then bayonet charge. You have no idea how frightening it is to see men still coming at you even when you rip their lines to pieces, it's an intimidation move that Napoleon always used.
But the bayonet charge
mrceebees14 2 months ago
@stellalouise1 part 2...... was a thing of the past, it never existed like it had in the Spanish American war years prior. The Union learned from it and never did it again, the South however never learned and lost Gettysburg as a result. The south should have won Gettysburg on day 2, that is how close they were.
Lee allowed himself to think he was god and his men would pick up the slack, he was wrong and he lost the war for his side.
mrceebees14 2 months ago
@mrceebees14 Gettysburg was a much closer call that it appears at first glance. Many things went wrong that could have just as easily gone correctly for the South. There are too many to list here. Lee took full responsibility for every mistake that was not his because that is what a great general does and what a great man does. Lee fought brilliantly for 2 years after Gettysburg, reducing Grant to tears on one famous occasion. All reasonable people give Lee his due - his foes were the first to.
stellalouise1 1 month ago
@stellalouise1 TThorne931 does this on every American Civil War video. He or she (whatever) obviously thinks they're the only "nigger in the governor's box on Kentucky Derby Day." They say in Arkansas, a quarter mile of unpaved road behind a diesel 1 ton dually with an "in-tow" placard stapled to a person's ass changes that attitude. Just tossin that tidbit out there, since the US Supreme Court ruled even hurtful speech is protected. Chief Justice Roberts ruled, "lest we stifle debate."
BOBBYthebrainBUNDY 2 months ago
@stellalouise1 Although this view may be unpopular, I believe that there may have been a (slim) chance for the attack to succeed. Furthermore, I believe that Longstreet intentionally hindered the plan as much as possible in order to distance himself from what he perceived to be its ultimate failure. If all had gone according to plan, Pickett's Charge would have been fully supported by Col. Alexander's battery right up till they reached Cemetery Ridge. Longstreet kept delaying the-
TheDoLeMike1977 1 week ago
@stellalouise1 Cont: to give the order for the charge until the last possible minute. At the beginning of the Confederate bombardment Longstreet had been apprised that Alexander only had about two hours’ worth of ammunition. For the next hour and a half it was a constant back and forth between Alexander and Longstreet, with Alexander advising the gen that he proceed with the charge and Longstreet telling the Col. To inform him when he thought the time was right. Very strange?
TheDoLeMike1977 1 week ago
@TThorne931 You apprently know nothing of history. Don't even try to mouth someone about something that happened here. Stell is right, look up Fredricksburg please, or Cold Harbor, or Second Manasses at the unfinished railroad. The list goes on. So please, next time you try to say something, do the world a favor and don't.
history32jr 4 months ago
@TThorne931 You apprently know nothing of history. Don't even try to mouth someone about something that happened here. Stell is right, look up Fredricksburg please, or Cold Harbor, or Second Manasses at the unfinished railroad. The list goes on. So please, next time you try to say something, do the world a favor and don't.
history32jr 4 months ago
@history32jr none of those battles Ever occured nazi
TThorne931 4 months ago
@TThorne931 Your last comment has made me realize I'm in violation of rule number one in the Internet Manuel, "Don't feed the trolls."
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sobelthree 5 months ago
why the music??
ibeatcodin1day 5 months ago
General Lee blamed himself for what happened there. But it was not his fault. I would just like to say that.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@ScotishChristian There were a lot of problems with this campaign, the blame can go around. I attribute the most to Dick Ewell.
RevBillyRayCollins 5 months ago
@RevBillyRayCollins It wasn't anybodies fault because the north had the south outnumbered. If the south had the same number of troops we would have won. I know this because General Lee was my great, great grandfather. Its cool to see people still hold him as a hero!
Virginiaboy131 5 months ago
@Virginiaboy131 Nope. The war would have simply dragged on longer. Besides, the CSA was defeated as much from lack of support at home, as the Union Army.
Read "Bitterly Divided, The South's Inner Civil War"...David Williams. The book documents a Southern perspective of the war, you won't find in books like "The South Was Right".
Lee was no hero. He was a traitor fighting for the one of the most despicable regimes in history.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage Your probably a stupid Northerner who does not know what he is talkin about. Lee was a southern Christian Hero! Grant on the other hand was addicted to smoking and was a unsober drunk!
Virginiaboy131 5 months ago
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@UnionStatesHeritage Your probably a stupid Northerner who does not know what he is talkin about. Lee was a southern Christian Hero! Grant on the other hand was addicted to smoking and was a unsober drunk!
Virginiaboy131 5 months ago
Such a waste of life (when it really happened). Also got to compliment the music that goes with it.
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
War is the most stupid thing on earth. Poormen must fight and kill other poormen and for what? Just for the profit of those that start wars but never put a toe on the battlefield.
Templarone1 5 months ago
@Templarone1 Amen to that
ScotishChristian 5 months ago
@Templarone1 Yep...but wars couldn't happen if average people would refuse to allow themselves to be manipulated by the people who start wars.
Poor Southerners (initially) allowed themselves to be manipulated by fire eating politicians who were concerned with one thing...the preservation and the expansion of slave rights.
One of the ways they were manipulated...fear of losing their place withing the South's social hierarchy if slavery ended.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
Thank god the north won
SArmagh681 5 months ago
@SArmagh681 Yea. I love living in debt & under the control of socialists with no regard for the Constitution. Makes me happy every day.
tpajason 5 months ago
@tpajason We ended up with Obama thanks to...Southern conservatives. Don't forget that. Oh yeah...we now live with the economic system favored by the CSA. Free trade. Enjoy your cheap imported goods, slave wage jobs, and...trade deficits.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage We did? Funny. Appears to me (according to maps of the US Electoral College in 2008) that SC, AL, TN, MS, GA, TX, AK, KY, MO, and WV all voted red. As far as my home state of FL, well ... we get a lot of displaced yankees with their bs liberal agenda and all the hispanics in Miami that always vote democrat as the democrats give them more of our money rather than getting them jobs. Free trade is what made us strong. Regulating destroys jobs. Try reading up on economics.
tpajason 5 months ago
@tpajason LOL...you're a bit dense, aren't you. If it weren't for the destructive policies of George W. Bush...independent voters would not have turned to the Dems & voted for Obama. Southern conservatives spent the last 20 years hi jacking the GOP, and turning center-right voters away from the party. Guess what...we're the ones who make or break elections...not the right wing.
Free trade is what made us strong? Really? Take a look around, Brilliance. Then take your own advice...
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
@UnionStatesHeritage I never said I liked Bush. No one mentioned Bush. You brought up Obama. And we haven't had "free trade" here in decades. You can't bash it as we haven't had it. Carter ... he was a real winner. Lemme tell ya. Took a Carter to get a Reagan. Clinton? Criminal. Didn't vote for him. If it weren't for retards moving south, we wouldn't have democrats getting elected down here. And Red Shirt Army is pretty spot on. Read your Constitution.
tpajason 5 months ago
@tpajason Yeah...I'm really tired of hearing ignorant Southerners talk about the "Yankee" liberal agenda...the author of the Great Society...Southerner. Jimmy Carter...Southerner. Bill Clinton...Southerner. James Carville...Southerner. Fact is...my home region of Central Pennsylvania is, and has always been politically conservative. Same is true of much of the rural North East, and Mid-West.
Why am I not surprised that you subscribe to a fruit bat like RedShirtArmy...U people are all alike.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
Great video!
yugosks59 5 months ago
Though I agree with the title, Virginia's Glory (Pickett's Charge). Yet it might be a slight. Sure there was Pickett of Virginia but here was also at the same level Pettigrew of North Carolina and Isaac Trimble of Maryland. Of all the regiments the 11th Mississippi infiltrated beyond the Bloody Angle the furtherest. A North Carolina state suffered the highest casualties.
The Confederate States of America's Glory (Longstreet's Charge) maybe?
rebelcry99 5 months ago
@rebelcry99 There were more North Carolinians in the Confederate Army than from any other state and THEY went the farthest at Gettysburg, but the battle was fought under the great General Lee so we Tarheels let our neighbors to the north indulge. We are nice that way - good neighbors. :-) North Carolinina was among the last to secede and had the least to gain or loose but they showed up to do the heavy lifting. That is why it is called "A vale of humility between two mountains of concite". :-)
stellalouise1 5 months ago
@stellalouise1 Actually, North Carolina had the highest rate of desertion from the Confederate Army for exactly those reasons...the Confederate Conscription Act, and the Twenty Slave Law didn't help much either.
Yep, I currently live in SC (Thank GOD I'm not a native) A state that has always suffered from a terminal case of Little Man Syndrome. I've visited Virginia...it's definitely awash in its own sense of self-importance, as well. Although it's got a bit more to back it up with.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
@stellalouise1 ...I've spent a lot of time living in NC, and it's by far a better state than VA, or SC...probably the best state in the South.
UnionStatesHeritage 5 months ago
Please please please for the love of God STOP putting this very lousy music on every video with a decent original sound track. It's way beyond ridiculous and it does NOT makes it more dramatic ! What's f..king wrong with you people?
antoninusl 6 months ago
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MrRizikoo 6 months ago
The sout were MEN! Thats something for the rest of you to think about... (fags and females)....
EriBle 6 months ago
u dont bloody walk into cannons you dam well charge them !!
theirondukesboy 6 months ago
Lee was to arrogant to admit he could not win this battle, even when his men saw the outcome. A very sad moment in this country's history, all of those men dying when thier general knew he was sending them to thier deaths.
readmerrilee 6 months ago
Spencer repeating rifles, a starving army, and ugly politics in Richmond doomed the Army of Nothern Viriginia in 1864. God bless the soldiers of Virginia and our blessed Union foes. Bless my G-G-G grand daddy W.T. Daougherty who fought with Jeb Stuarts cavarly.
MaddZzee350 6 months ago
what confederate gen does the guy at 0:50 play as
bobcanbeatyou 6 months ago
@bobcanbeatyou That would be General Lewis "Lew" Armistead. Made it to the top, but not through the battle.
17Matt76 6 months ago
@bobcanbeatyou Lewis Armistead
dbickfordduane 6 months ago
Great job
BBFan23BB 6 months ago
WTF these guys are charging against canons? what kind of messed up military tactic is that?
charlatanbaby 6 months ago
@charlatanbaby these guys dint know what they were up against until it was too late
blackpearlfan01 6 months ago
wats the name of the song that starts playing wen the cannon fire starts
888000777666 7 months ago
@888000777666 Lol, you gotta be kidding me.
LightStijn 7 months ago
song at beginning is Lux aeterna, by ( iforget who )
shabaloo2 7 months ago
@countryboyv3 it's from the soundtrack for the film 'Requiem for a dream'
Necrovamp101 7 months ago
picket himself lost 5000 men or a whole division on the third day
888000777666 7 months ago
You know whats funny Robert E. Lee was actually going to join the North because he believed more in their cause but when it came down to it he couldn't bring himself to fight his fellow Virginians.
TheUnparalleled0ne 7 months ago
nice music choices
888000777666 7 months ago
When General Hancock was wounded he fell into the arms of soldiers from the vermont brigade. Most of the Confederates captured during Picketts Charge was by soldiers of the Vermont Brigade it could be said that the men from such a tiny state like Vermont did more to ensure a Union Victory on the third day of the battle.
AhuraWerewolf1 7 months ago
The Second Vermont Brigade was probably the key union unit on the field that day. Smashed the flank of Kemper's brigade with a terrible volley then turned to meet Wilcox's supporting troops. Most of the Confederates captured during Pickett's Charge was by Stannards Vermonters.
AhuraWerewolf1 7 months ago
The battles scenes in 'Gettysburg' were totally sanitized. 'Glory' was much better.
fidomusic 7 months ago
@fidomusic 'Glory' was good. But historically inaccurate.
HaggenPagan26 7 months ago
@HaggenPagan26 Is there a hollywood film that is completely historically accurate? I don't know of one. I think Glory was relatively historically accurate compared to some. Apart from the sanitized battle scenes, I thought Gettysburg and Gods and Generals were reasonably accurate. I liked the depiction of the battles of Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville in Gods and Generals. Apart from old Hollywood historical movies, which are fantasies, the worst example I know is Braveheart: a travesty.
fidomusic 7 months ago
@fidomusic Glory was about as accurate as Braveheart was. The last battle the 54th is portrayed as losing over half its force. In the end you see hundreds of dead soldiers littered on the beach the next morning. In reality the 54th lost 29 dead at Fort Wagner, some more captured and some wounded. It only presents one point of view. One reason why I hated Cold Mountain so much, but I really can't take that seriously, it's just a Love Story.
HaggenPagan26 7 months ago
@HaggenPagan26 I didn't know about the low casualties at Fort Wagner. Braveheart was a travesty. A total distortion of history and full of lies, mixing times and dates up eg Wallace died before Longshanks, no evidence for the love affair, Longshanks totally one dimensional, Wallace a flawless hero (even Gibson admitted in an interview Wallace was a bastard), and ridiculous ending. What was the one point of view Cold Mountain presented? A history prof at MIT who I worked with thought it a good.
fidomusic 7 months ago
@fidomusic Most of Glory's characters were fictitious. The battle before Wagner never took place also. Totally dramatized, like Braveheart.
HaggenPagan26 7 months ago
@mk3238 I think Eisenhower & Lee are apples and oranges. The Allies in WW2 were made up of many nations. MANY prime ministers and generals had their fingers firmly in the pie of Allied strategy. Eisenhower was more of a committee leader in his position. Lee more or less stood alone as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (while masterfully coping successfully with Davis's continual attempts to micro-manage),so much more responsibility & decision making were directly on his shoulders.
stellalouise1 7 months ago
@mk3238 He won battles without Jackson lol.
OzzyFan87 7 months ago
Looking back, Lee should have sent Pickett to attack the Round Tops. This provides a deceptive action while Stuart makes and end run to secure the right flank with a portion of his cavalry. Meanwhile, Lee leaves a division as a center blocking force, then throws the kitchen sink at the left flank to complete the encirclement.
TheSirisaac52672 7 months ago
I will say that the South lost at Gettysburg because Lee was still emotionally rattled by the death of Jackson 6 weeks before. Lee should have done some re-evaluation to see who could have been the best replacement before committing to a full scale operation like Gettysburg. Lee would have fought that battle totally different with Jackson by his side
TheSirisaac52672 7 months ago
@TheSirisaac52672 Well it wasn't really a full scale operation was it? It was more or less an accident that Meade and Lee brushed into each other next to Gettysberg. Both were trying to lure the other to preferred battlefields (to the north and south respectively) when lead elements of their armies made contact with each other north-west of Gettysberg. Both generals were unsure whether or not they had actually found the enemies main forces, well at least that's just what I've read...
HoZzIe27 7 months ago
i don't think there is a case there. General Lee was the most beloved commander of an american army ,,, ever. Probably the greatest as well.
pdgolf99 7 months ago
One last thing, I have said it before. If Stonewall Jackson is at Gettysburg, the South wins handily and we would have a Confederate States of America
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TheSirisaac52672 7 months ago
Fuck this music! I hate ''Recuem for a Dream''!
TheFaveteLinguis 7 months ago
mute this video and put on 300 violin orchestra while watching this , it will blow you away!
airsoftbeast3490 7 months ago
Outstanding movie, terrible time, arrogance of officers, best tactics my arse, the south lasted so long due to its mobility and detemination what it lacked in pure ordnance it made up in tactics. Hubris, hubris!! If it works don't change it!! disgusting waste of humanity. Its great at the rear eh!!
dustysailor1 7 months ago
2:48 Irish birgade.
ImperialGlory1920 7 months ago
Lee was a stupid ass ....who slaughtered Pickett;s men. That why they used his front lawn to buried the dead solders from the union
spedshift 7 months ago
ANY FATE BUT SUMBISSION
Panz82 8 months ago
Thank you for posting-important, timeless American Hisory.
Kjdjrh 8 months ago
Madness....
Tw1St3DSt33L 8 months ago
@Tw1St3DSt33L
Madness?....THIS IS AMMERRRIIIICCAAAA!!!!!!!
ConverterBand 8 months ago
Great video.
Joshuajlawn 8 months ago
Great video, but I hate this song.
Joshuajlawn 8 months ago
l'iniziale fortuna dell'esercito confederato è stato che la maggior parte degli Ufficiali Generali provenivano da West Point cito Beauregard, Pierre, Jackson, Jonathan Thomas, Lee, Robert Edward, Johnston, Albert Sidney, Johnston Joseph Eggleston,Longstreet, James e non ultimo gli eccellenti Comandanti della cavalleria sudista , punto di forza dell'esercito confederato J.E.B. Stuart, Nathan Bedford Forrest
maximorm 8 months ago
Check out the Pioneer Little Europe prospectus, which proposes that we raise up an entirely new model of the White community. This will serve as the vessel of an Uncontrolled White Nationalists Culture that will cause our opponents to voluntarily avoid us. And within that we will lay claim to both heritages of the Civil War.
Mimereader2 8 months ago
The 1st Minnesota Infantry captured the Virginia flag during this charge.
pen24 8 months ago
type in and watch -
"14th Indiana"
Should have been on the wall with Hancock - but had other duties to tend to
check it out
1967mustanggta 8 months ago
nice.. but.. where is the sound? and whats the deal with this song?? every second youtube video has it.. it really sux, man..
petrsonpicus 8 months ago
3:32 facepalm...
USMarineRifleman0311 8 months ago
bullshit music
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
Dangerbil102 9 months ago
@Dangerbil102 Robert E. Lee was undefeated in battle up until Gettysburg, regardless of him being outnumbered 10:1 in some cases. He was under argument, the greatest General the Americas had ever bred.
CDeoD 9 months ago 26
@CDeoD being undefeated in individual battles is nice. But if you lose the war what is the point. George Washington lost alot of his battles but he won the key battles and hence the war. Lee won alot but lost those battles that were the key battles
AntagonisticEnemy 8 months ago
@CDeoD I would like to add, that any "Great Commander's in history" will have General Lee in those books, not General Grant. General Lee fought many battles outnumbered, while Grant never fought a major battle outnumbered 2-1. So I can not judge Grant as a great general. Yes he got the job done, by sheer manpower, but did that make him the better "General", I think not. Let us examine the battle of "Shiloh", let us suppose General Buell never showed up?
Great post! Thumbs up!
rebel2276 8 months ago
@rebel2276 So by your logic then ONLY a general with numerical inferiority can be considered a great general. Utter nonesense. And let us examine the Battle of Antietam. Suppose AP Hill doesn't show up. Let us examine Chancellorsville. Supposed Hooker is not concussed. Let us examine Antietam again. Suppose the Union army is not commanded by the hapless McClellan but Grant? War is over before lunchtime and Lee is dead or a prisoner along with his entire army. Lee was VERY LUCKY at times.
Shafeone 8 months ago
@Shafeone If we are supposing, here is an interesting thing to suppose. Suppose Lee commanded the army of the Potomic. How long would the south have lasted, do you think? You seem to have a bias against Lee, as though the war were still raging and you have chosen sides.
stellalouise1 8 months ago
@stellalouise1 I think Lee would have ended the war right quickly. I do not have a bias against Lee but rather those who have a bias in favor of Lee. (Or actually more a bias against Grant). Lee was a great general and given the resources that Grant had (or McClellan for that matter) and against no Lee he would have won quickly. Grant, however, had to face Lee and he beat him the only way possible. Through attrition. And I DO side with the North in this conflict. But still respect Lee.
Shafeone 8 months ago
@rebel2276 So I guess you rule Napolean out because he fought more than a few battles with superior numbers. And forget the Allied generals in WW2 then, except perhaps MacArthur.
Shafeone 8 months ago
@rebel2276 If you include Lee, but not the man who defeated him in 11 months (after four other generals could not defeat him in two years) then your list is awry. Grant understood exactly how to beat Lee and he did so. Grant understood how to wage a continental war, from the saddle no less, and how to defeat the CSA as a whole. Grant was a true first generation modern warrior. Lee an anachronism. Both great in their respective commandes..but it was GRANT who won the day. Don't forget that.
Shafeone 8 months ago