It was a war unlike anything that had gone before. Men trained to fire in a line standing up at another line. The modern era of warfare would take 660,000 dead Americans to drive that point home. It was a time of the largest use of opium in US. The Patent Medicines main ingredient was opium. It was legal to sell & have it until the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1914. Who knows how many addicts were in the US; certainly more than now in absolute numbers.
Confederate soldiers did get a pension. I have copies of the paperwork where several of my ancestors received it. The Southern men who fought in the war between the states varied in age, some were quite young. As for anyone being a "butcher" the Southern states left the Union as IS allowed by the constitution of the US. It was then that the NORTH INVADED the South. I stongly suggest you all do some research before you jump to conculsions!!
J.B. Hood was a Butcher! He made Franklin a slaughter pen. "The wails and cries of widows and orphans made at Franklin, Tenn. Nov 30Th, 1864 will heat up the fires of the bottomless pit to burn the soul of General J.B. Hood for murdering their husbands and fathers! He sacrificed those brave men to make the name of Hood famous; when the history of Franklin is written it will make him infamous." Hood's actions "can't be called anything else but murder."(Diary of Capt. Samuel T. Foster. C.S.A. TX.)
@CosmicFork thats interesting. Ive never seen that before. He was also trying to impress a girl that he had fallin in love with. The order to make that charge was so messed up that after he gave it Gen Nathan B. Forrest told him " If you were half a man, I'd beat the hell out of you"....I'm sure that was cleaned up for the history books. lol
@CosmicFork Yeah, he used what I like to call "Burnside tactics" at the Battle of Franklin. I think after he had been wounded for the second time at Chickamauga and had to have his leg amputated he never really knew what he was doing for the rest of the war. At the Battle of Franklin Patrick Cleburn was also killed which was one of the best Confederate Generals who they called the "Stonewall of the West." They also call the Battle of Franklin the "Picketts charge of the west".
@AUG351 Yes, it's very sad that Major General Patrick Cleburne was killed in the assault on those heavily fortified Union Lines at the Battle of Franklin. From everything I've read about him, he was a man of unusual and sterling character. What is even more tragic is that he had just recently become engaged to a lovely young woman, named Miss Susan Tarleton from Mobile, Alabama. It's just not fair that he didn't survive the battle and get to marry her... What a horrific battle Franklin was!
@CosmicFork General Hood was undoubtedly a dumbass Texan. Its too bad he lacked the Virginia pedigree needed to command in one of the finest military organizations of the 19th century. The progress General Johnston had made in impeding Sherman was all in vain after Hood gained control and retreated the army to Atlanta to die. Hood's attacks at Peach Tree Creek should have NEVER been made. Too bad the Yankees didnt shoot him in his wooden head before Franklin, Atlanta, or the outset of the war.
@tranquilizedaz The progress Johnston had made in rebuilding and restoring morale to the AoT that General Bragg had starved and mismanaged. Not to mention his steady whittling down and hinderance of Sherman's advance with his victories at Kennesaw, New hope Church, etc. rather than holing up in Atlanta to be choked out in a siege like Grant had done at Vicksburg. As long as the AoT was intact and mobile it posed a threat to Sherman's larger and slower army, Johnston understood this Hood did not.
@CosmicFork He was trying to win a hopeless situation. Do you consider lee a butcher for his decision at Gettysburgh??? Hood was put in charge of an army that was demorilized and told to do the impossible.
Pensions yes. Widows and orphans. My GGGGrandpop was killed. Gma got a pension from the Confederate widows but the documentation is cloudy at best about it being a Confederate army pension. I think most of the boys were fucked to say the least.
@jimbowie09 Actually, Grant was penniless, until the last couple months on his death bed, he wrote a book about his life. Turned out to be a bestseller, and the once poor president, left his family with millions as he passed.
as a yankee who really won that war? family against family. so much wasted lives and blood. and the nightmares they must have had if a made it thru it. may they all rest in peace.
@SuperMalka I'm a southerner, but I had ancestors on both sides that were Confederates and in the Union. Two of them were twin brothers, but one fought for the south and one north. Weird, huh?
My mistake, change "Johnson" and "Johnson and Lee" to "Johnston" and "Johnston and Lee".. as in Joseph E. Johnston.. still have no idea who those other 3 are.
I have all but 3.. In order- Lee, Grant, Forrest, Chamberlain, Beauregard, Sherman, Early, Longstreet, Hancock, (?), Burnsides, Custer, Pickett, (?) , Jesse James(?), Hood, Sickles, JB Gordon, McClellan, Johnson, Johnson and Lee
Has anybody ever heard of General Franklin G. Beardsley from Tennessee? Frederick Douglass praised him as one of the few high ranking defectors of the South that was an Abolishonist. He was trying to get North with some slaves he freeed, but he was captured and hanged by Confederates acting on Robt. E. Lee's order somewhere near the Ohio River in Kentucky in early 1865.
Grant you dumb fuck wore a private's jacket and was a working man with no pretensions.
Lee was a lunatic about how he looked, and his rank and status. Both before and after the war, Lee was an egomaniac.
Above all, Lee thought God was guiding his every move. He was God's gift to the South. So he thought whatever he did was brilliant, that with God on his side, he could not make mistakes.
SO like very fucking lunatic who thinks they are God like -- he fucked up and fucked up.
@12FlyMe well if robert e lee is a lunatic wich he is not he kicked the norths ass for half the war intill sherman was crossing the deep south and grant with is fearce offesense tactic only work was cause the southern army was low on men and food guns and ammuntion but yet they last so long
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kill -- oh fucking bullshit. You pussies have excuses for everythign from slavery, to being traitors, to running away, to losing. There is not one single thing you fucks don't have 50 excuses for. You are fucking sociopaths. Lee fucking hid half the war in Richmond dumb ass -- behind massive earthworks he had over 100,000 slaves build. Did you know that dumb fuck? Lee surrendered when he was in any danger.
Lee destroyed the Southern Army not just by insane attacks that EVERYONE knew were insane -- but he got the "true believers" killed off.
The South had a group of men who were brainwashed as any Nazi lunatics and would die for the South. Lee made sure they died.
But after those lunatics got killed off by Lee's insanity --- the rest of the Southern men were far different. They fucking deserted by the hundreds of thousands.
Over 3/4 of the soldiers deserted -- many thanks to Lee
hm, in napoleonic times picketts charge has not failed...
If Lee was a slaughter, what about burnside and grant, what about sherman, the mass-murderer with his mob of raping, stealing and killing mercenaries paied with blood money???
AC dumb fuck -- general after general after general told Lee OVER AND OVER this was a dumb fucking move. Go see the movie Gettysburg for a glimpse of that.
It wasn't just stupid -- it was OBVIOUSLY stupid and everyone knew it. But Lee though GOD was magically making everything he did work.
Sherman you dumb fuck -- was not doing any mass murder you fucking idiot. The big fires you lunatics associate with Sherman -- were mostly done BY THE SOUTH. Especially Richmond, Atlanta, and Charleston.
Plus dumb fuck Sherman offered help to CSA repeatedly to move the citizen out of the way ---and gave them food and transportation.
In fact, read the exhange of letters between Hood and Sherman
@CompareTaxMyths Word of advice to you, don't plan on going to Thailand again, after they nailed your hero Gary Glitter, they are aware of pedophile's like yourself
and by the way do you think every soldier and general in the german wehrmacht was a nazi, insane and a pig???
If yes, you insult the honor of my grandfather and his brothers who were forced to fight, later fought to defend their families against the russians...
LEE freed the slaves he got from his father, LEE wanted the Black to fight for the South...
ROBERT EDWARD LEE is the most brilliant General in the History of the World, and instead of insulting him you should overthink whether you are a better man and human than he was...
ACW -- I used to read maybe 100 books a year. But now I read as much original material as I can. Lee's letters, Southern States Declarations of Causes, Davis' speeches and books.
You fucking lunatics in the South worship scum sucking pigs, who are as bad as any Taliban thug or Nazi lunatic.
"Lee's goal was always personal glory and riches - and he didnt give a fuck who had to die or get sold, whipped to do it"
While reading this i thought this would fit for some Ulysses S. grant, but not for Robert E. Lee. His aim never was money or land, his aim was the freedom and independance of his country, if he wanted to get rich he had chosen the command of the Union army...
ACW I read all the time. Im reading "REading the Man - Portrate of Robert E Lee Through His Personal Letters" now.
Lee was as fucking evil and insane as any German general who sucked on Hitlers dick. Lee's goal was always personal glory and riches - and he didnt give a fuck who had to die or get sold, whipped to do it.
He was great at sending other men to die for God --- he thought himself heroic to send men to die! But he surrendered like a pussy the first time he was in danger.
Robert E Lee was a lunatic. He sold slave children, had female slaves whipped in his barn, hired bounty hunters to get escaped slaves, and personally took part in torturing them when caught.
Lee insisted God intended slavery to be cruel and painful - and equated owning slaves with religious freedom.
He was as fucking nuts as Jim Jones, David Koresh, or Osama Bin Laden.
Sounds like you have never put your nose into a history book dealing with the topic Civil War, offending the great General Lee in such a way is disgusting, but i do believe that you stand alone with your opinion...
Deo Vindice and may Robert E. Lee rest in Peace!!!
ACW dumb fuck -- sorry idiot. I learned what a crazy fuck Lee was from his own insane words. God intended slavery to be painful and cruel?
Maybe that's why his slaves kept running away dumb fuck. We have the testimony of slaves he whipped -- how he had the girl stripped, how he screamed as she was being whipped, how he had salt poured in her wounds.
We know his dad was famous for fucking his slaves and selling the children from his rapes. Did Robert do it too?
. Hood was a complete blockhead: Singularly useless at anything but suicidal frontal assaults. Early comparable abject. A gallery of amateurs, mediocrity and senile incompetence. Embarrassing.
Johnsam dumb fuck -- Davis loved Hood for that reason--- he fired Johnston because he would not do insane frontal attacks. Davis was a lot like Hitler -- thought himself a military genius.
Those who sucked up to Davs --- like Lee and Hood -- knew the best way to please Davis was to attack. And when they did -- they usually got their ass kicked.
Hood was no more blockhead than Lee dumb fuck -- in fact, Hood was smarter than Lee at Gettysburg.
Dear willhoit63 (Bruce ?) , this montage comprises a terrific gallery of Civil War Generals. Many of them .. indeed most of them .. are no doubt recognisable to most CW history fanatics. But those of us CW buffs who live outside the USA may not know of them all, by name. A small and humble request, for future thought : if possible, could the names be provided along with the still photos. Thanks for this posting. Great work !!
This is Dixie? No way? It don't sound like it at first, but it is, lol, this is tight. Nice post man, Love The Civil War, These men will never be forgotten. Thanks.
John S. Mosby was not an officer in the regular army. He held rank as a ranger or Milita leader if you prefer that was attached to the ANV. He was a Captain in 1862, then a Major and a Lt. Colonel towards the end of the war. Just before the ANV surrendered he was promoted to the rank of full Colonel. Any list of civil war generals you view should show you that Mosby was never promoted to General.
@willhoit63 he was a colonel. he became a brevet brig. general at some point but i believe that to be commissioned as a brevet officer means that it's honorary or given as a temporary commission.
robert e lee ulysses s grant nathan bedford forrest joshua l chamberlain pgt beauregard
william t sherman jubal early james longstreet winfield scott hancock joseph wheeler ambrose burnside george custer george pickett wade hampton john s. mosby john bell hood dan sickles john b. gordon george mcclellan jospeh e johnston
Lee lived only 6 years after the war. that picture had to have been at least 3 years after the war. but it accurately showed what war does to you. five stars. good job
It was a war unlike anything that had gone before. Men trained to fire in a line standing up at another line. The modern era of warfare would take 660,000 dead Americans to drive that point home. It was a time of the largest use of opium in US. The Patent Medicines main ingredient was opium. It was legal to sell & have it until the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1914. Who knows how many addicts were in the US; certainly more than now in absolute numbers.
purplepimpernel 3 weeks ago
@purplepimpernel i disagee--opium was not in use in this war!
MrARKWILD 3 weeks ago
I think Grant made money writing his memoirs, which are on audio book.
Thx1138d 1 month ago
Who was that at :59?
Thx1138d 1 month ago
Confederate soldiers did get a pension. I have copies of the paperwork where several of my ancestors received it. The Southern men who fought in the war between the states varied in age, some were quite young. As for anyone being a "butcher" the Southern states left the Union as IS allowed by the constitution of the US. It was then that the NORTH INVADED the South. I stongly suggest you all do some research before you jump to conculsions!!
TheVlg214 1 month ago
@TheVlg214 You might have a leg to stand on if you ignore Ft Sumter.
JamesADempsey 2 weeks ago
Where is Stonewall Jackson ??? LOL
ChurchillCigar 2 months ago
" see you in hell Billy Yank " , " See you in hell Johnny Red "
Excerpt taken from the movie- Gettysburg
zzhamstring 3 months ago
@zzhamstring *Reb, not red :)
hAitztOn 2 months ago
J.B. Hood was a Butcher! He made Franklin a slaughter pen. "The wails and cries of widows and orphans made at Franklin, Tenn. Nov 30Th, 1864 will heat up the fires of the bottomless pit to burn the soul of General J.B. Hood for murdering their husbands and fathers! He sacrificed those brave men to make the name of Hood famous; when the history of Franklin is written it will make him infamous." Hood's actions "can't be called anything else but murder."(Diary of Capt. Samuel T. Foster. C.S.A. TX.)
CosmicFork 3 months ago 7
@CosmicFork thats interesting. Ive never seen that before. He was also trying to impress a girl that he had fallin in love with. The order to make that charge was so messed up that after he gave it Gen Nathan B. Forrest told him " If you were half a man, I'd beat the hell out of you"....I'm sure that was cleaned up for the history books. lol
willhoit63 3 months ago 2
@CosmicFork Yeah, he used what I like to call "Burnside tactics" at the Battle of Franklin. I think after he had been wounded for the second time at Chickamauga and had to have his leg amputated he never really knew what he was doing for the rest of the war. At the Battle of Franklin Patrick Cleburn was also killed which was one of the best Confederate Generals who they called the "Stonewall of the West." They also call the Battle of Franklin the "Picketts charge of the west".
AUG351 3 months ago
@AUG351 Yes, it's very sad that Major General Patrick Cleburne was killed in the assault on those heavily fortified Union Lines at the Battle of Franklin. From everything I've read about him, he was a man of unusual and sterling character. What is even more tragic is that he had just recently become engaged to a lovely young woman, named Miss Susan Tarleton from Mobile, Alabama. It's just not fair that he didn't survive the battle and get to marry her... What a horrific battle Franklin was!
CosmicFork 3 months ago
@CosmicFork General Hood was undoubtedly a dumbass Texan. Its too bad he lacked the Virginia pedigree needed to command in one of the finest military organizations of the 19th century. The progress General Johnston had made in impeding Sherman was all in vain after Hood gained control and retreated the army to Atlanta to die. Hood's attacks at Peach Tree Creek should have NEVER been made. Too bad the Yankees didnt shoot him in his wooden head before Franklin, Atlanta, or the outset of the war.
Podaboba 2 months ago
@Podaboba Progress that Johnson had made????
tranquilizedaz 2 months ago
@tranquilizedaz The progress Johnston had made in rebuilding and restoring morale to the AoT that General Bragg had starved and mismanaged. Not to mention his steady whittling down and hinderance of Sherman's advance with his victories at Kennesaw, New hope Church, etc. rather than holing up in Atlanta to be choked out in a siege like Grant had done at Vicksburg. As long as the AoT was intact and mobile it posed a threat to Sherman's larger and slower army, Johnston understood this Hood did not.
Podaboba 1 month ago
@CosmicFork He was trying to win a hopeless situation. Do you consider lee a butcher for his decision at Gettysburgh??? Hood was put in charge of an army that was demorilized and told to do the impossible.
tranquilizedaz 2 months ago
Pensions yes. Widows and orphans. My GGGGrandpop was killed. Gma got a pension from the Confederate widows but the documentation is cloudy at best about it being a Confederate army pension. I think most of the boys were fucked to say the least.
alabama1913 4 months ago
Robert E. Lee wasn’t pardoned until President Jimmy Carter reinstated his citizenship in the 1970s. It sure took long enough.
TheJer1963 4 months ago
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@jimbowie09 You're welcome If you like Military or Civil War HIstory you will enjoy it,
trajan75 4 months ago
I'd have to say some of the best Generals who fought in the Civil War were from the Confederate army.
sunriseelaine2003 7 months ago
Good thank's, bye w the Confederation, w Gen. Lee
Hollanderful 7 months ago
Was this man in love with General Hardee or is my Yankee history teacher being a carpetbagger? Someone please set him straight. Thank you in advance.
Dixie!
parafleet 9 months ago
Joseph Wheeler was an officer in the Spanish-American War if I'm not mistaken, which explains the army regala.
stashJ8 9 months ago
@jimbowie09 Actually, Grant was penniless, until the last couple months on his death bed, he wrote a book about his life. Turned out to be a bestseller, and the once poor president, left his family with millions as he passed.
conchandcoral 10 months ago
as a yankee who really won that war? family against family. so much wasted lives and blood. and the nightmares they must have had if a made it thru it. may they all rest in peace.
SuperMalka 11 months ago
@SuperMalka I'm a southerner, but I had ancestors on both sides that were Confederates and in the Union. Two of them were twin brothers, but one fought for the south and one north. Weird, huh?
RidirichdFlann 7 months ago
My mistake, change "Johnson" and "Johnson and Lee" to "Johnston" and "Johnston and Lee".. as in Joseph E. Johnston.. still have no idea who those other 3 are.
MaryesHeights1862 1 year ago
I have all but 3.. In order- Lee, Grant, Forrest, Chamberlain, Beauregard, Sherman, Early, Longstreet, Hancock, (?), Burnsides, Custer, Pickett, (?) , Jesse James(?), Hood, Sickles, JB Gordon, McClellan, Johnson, Johnson and Lee
MaryesHeights1862 1 year ago
These men will never be foregotten in my eyes
cginsberg94 1 year ago
should've showed a picture of Forrest with his hood on. XD
SunsetRubdownz 1 year ago
i know a lot of them but I guess labeling them would have been too much like right..
irish89055 1 year ago
Put their names under the pic
hangover71 1 year ago
A great video. Thank you for the time you took to make it.
sheldonone 1 year ago
This is an interesting video.
Just think of the stories every one of these men were able to tell.
I would love to have been alive to hear it all.
George Vreeland Hill
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The South Under Siege 1830 - 2000
A History of the Relations Between the North and the South
By Frank Conner
Names should be at bottom of photos.
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
My great great great grandfather was General Thomas L. Rosser of the Confederacy. I support the union though.
DuPuieproductions 1 year ago
Wow, longstreet really changed his beard
Great video, its really interesting to see this soldiers becoming older.
Gives a great feeling
ViccardXViccc 1 year ago
Has anybody ever heard of General Franklin G. Beardsley from Tennessee? Frederick Douglass praised him as one of the few high ranking defectors of the South that was an Abolishonist. He was trying to get North with some slaves he freeed, but he was captured and hanged by Confederates acting on Robt. E. Lee's order somewhere near the Ohio River in Kentucky in early 1865.
busterbone 1 year ago
Grant you dumb fuck wore a private's jacket and was a working man with no pretensions.
Lee was a lunatic about how he looked, and his rank and status. Both before and after the war, Lee was an egomaniac.
Above all, Lee thought God was guiding his every move. He was God's gift to the South. So he thought whatever he did was brilliant, that with God on his side, he could not make mistakes.
SO like very fucking lunatic who thinks they are God like -- he fucked up and fucked up.
12FlyMe 2 years ago
@12FlyMe well if robert e lee is a lunatic wich he is not he kicked the norths ass for half the war intill sherman was crossing the deep south and grant with is fearce offesense tactic only work was cause the southern army was low on men and food guns and ammuntion but yet they last so long
killnuknow 1 year ago 3
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kill -- oh fucking bullshit. You pussies have excuses for everythign from slavery, to being traitors, to running away, to losing. There is not one single thing you fucks don't have 50 excuses for. You are fucking sociopaths. Lee fucking hid half the war in Richmond dumb ass -- behind massive earthworks he had over 100,000 slaves build. Did you know that dumb fuck? Lee surrendered when he was in any danger.
12FlyMe 1 year ago
Lee destroyed the Southern Army not just by insane attacks that EVERYONE knew were insane -- but he got the "true believers" killed off.
The South had a group of men who were brainwashed as any Nazi lunatics and would die for the South. Lee made sure they died.
But after those lunatics got killed off by Lee's insanity --- the rest of the Southern men were far different. They fucking deserted by the hundreds of thousands.
Over 3/4 of the soldiers deserted -- many thanks to Lee
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
hm, in napoleonic times picketts charge has not failed...
If Lee was a slaughter, what about burnside and grant, what about sherman, the mass-murderer with his mob of raping, stealing and killing mercenaries paied with blood money???
ACWgamingprod 2 years ago
AC dumb fuck -- general after general after general told Lee OVER AND OVER this was a dumb fucking move. Go see the movie Gettysburg for a glimpse of that.
It wasn't just stupid -- it was OBVIOUSLY stupid and everyone knew it. But Lee though GOD was magically making everything he did work.
Got that dumb fuck?
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
Sherman you dumb fuck -- was not doing any mass murder you fucking idiot. The big fires you lunatics associate with Sherman -- were mostly done BY THE SOUTH. Especially Richmond, Atlanta, and Charleston.
Plus dumb fuck Sherman offered help to CSA repeatedly to move the citizen out of the way ---and gave them food and transportation.
In fact, read the exhange of letters between Hood and Sherman
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
@CompareTaxMyths Word of advice to you, don't plan on going to Thailand again, after they nailed your hero Gary Glitter, they are aware of pedophile's like yourself
valacar11 1 year ago
@CompareTaxMyths Hey RPHBs, stay away from Thailand, they nailed your pal Gary glitter
valacar11 1 year ago
WHat did Shelby Foote say about Lee? Something like "Losing Gettysburg (and therefore the war) was the price the South paid to have Robert E Lee"
Funny how you lunatics are stuck with insane slave raping Lee, and sociopath Davis. YOu have had to shine their shit up so you think it's gold.
No dumb fuck -- it's still shit.
TubeTaxPro 2 years ago
God bless General Lee!
He was a true gentleman and a hero!
Hinkel84 2 years ago
and by the way do you think every soldier and general in the german wehrmacht was a nazi, insane and a pig???
If yes, you insult the honor of my grandfather and his brothers who were forced to fight, later fought to defend their families against the russians...
ACWgamingprod 2 years ago
LEE freed the slaves he got from his father, LEE wanted the Black to fight for the South...
ROBERT EDWARD LEE is the most brilliant General in the History of the World, and instead of insulting him you should overthink whether you are a better man and human than he was...
ACWgamingprod 2 years ago
ACW Lee never freed a single slave in all his fucking greedy egomaniac life dumb fuck.
Not one.
TubeTaxPro 2 years ago
Lee was brilliant? You dumb fuck -- he was a lunatic. He sent 15,000 men over an open field - totally clear shots -- a 5-10 minute shooting gallery.
He thought GOD was going to magically change the laws of physics and for his little slave raping child whipping ass.
He lost the war for the South dumb fuck.
TubeTaxPro 2 years ago
@TubeTaxPro Stay away from Thailand, they nailed your friend Gary Glitter
valacar11 1 year ago
ACW -- I used to read maybe 100 books a year. But now I read as much original material as I can. Lee's letters, Southern States Declarations of Causes, Davis' speeches and books.
You fucking lunatics in the South worship scum sucking pigs, who are as bad as any Taliban thug or Nazi lunatic.
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
"Lee's goal was always personal glory and riches - and he didnt give a fuck who had to die or get sold, whipped to do it"
While reading this i thought this would fit for some Ulysses S. grant, but not for Robert E. Lee. His aim never was money or land, his aim was the freedom and independance of his country, if he wanted to get rich he had chosen the command of the Union army...
ACWgamingprod 2 years ago
ACW I read all the time. Im reading "REading the Man - Portrate of Robert E Lee Through His Personal Letters" now.
Lee was as fucking evil and insane as any German general who sucked on Hitlers dick. Lee's goal was always personal glory and riches - and he didnt give a fuck who had to die or get sold, whipped to do it.
He was great at sending other men to die for God --- he thought himself heroic to send men to die! But he surrendered like a pussy the first time he was in danger.
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
Robert E Lee was a lunatic. He sold slave children, had female slaves whipped in his barn, hired bounty hunters to get escaped slaves, and personally took part in torturing them when caught.
Lee insisted God intended slavery to be cruel and painful - and equated owning slaves with religious freedom.
He was as fucking nuts as Jim Jones, David Koresh, or Osama Bin Laden.
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
Sounds like you have never put your nose into a history book dealing with the topic Civil War, offending the great General Lee in such a way is disgusting, but i do believe that you stand alone with your opinion...
Deo Vindice and may Robert E. Lee rest in Peace!!!
ACWgamingprod 2 years ago
ACW dumb fuck -- sorry idiot. I learned what a crazy fuck Lee was from his own insane words. God intended slavery to be painful and cruel?
Maybe that's why his slaves kept running away dumb fuck. We have the testimony of slaves he whipped -- how he had the girl stripped, how he screamed as she was being whipped, how he had salt poured in her wounds.
We know his dad was famous for fucking his slaves and selling the children from his rapes. Did Robert do it too?
Probably.
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
Great job.
KnightOwl2006 2 years ago
. Hood was a complete blockhead: Singularly useless at anything but suicidal frontal assaults. Early comparable abject. A gallery of amateurs, mediocrity and senile incompetence. Embarrassing.
johnsammyanfal 2 years ago
@johnsammyanfal opium didnt help either
larsjake 2 years ago
Johnsam dumb fuck -- Davis loved Hood for that reason--- he fired Johnston because he would not do insane frontal attacks. Davis was a lot like Hitler -- thought himself a military genius.
Those who sucked up to Davs --- like Lee and Hood -- knew the best way to please Davis was to attack. And when they did -- they usually got their ass kicked.
Hood was no more blockhead than Lee dumb fuck -- in fact, Hood was smarter than Lee at Gettysburg.
CompareTaxMyths 2 years ago
robert e lee best general to ever grace america
greenvillenafeesah 2 years ago
hancock looks totally different in his after photo
MisterGage77 2 years ago
This would be a great video if you could add the names to it.
mpturcotte 2 years ago
Dear willhoit63 (Bruce ?) , this montage comprises a terrific gallery of Civil War Generals. Many of them .. indeed most of them .. are no doubt recognisable to most CW history fanatics. But those of us CW buffs who live outside the USA may not know of them all, by name. A small and humble request, for future thought : if possible, could the names be provided along with the still photos. Thanks for this posting. Great work !!
colindominy 2 years ago
Very Moving song for this, what is the tune may I ask?
JeffTheFutureJaros 2 years ago
I think its Dixie. It's from the movie Gettysburg!
willhoit63 2 years ago
This is Dixie? No way? It don't sound like it at first, but it is, lol, this is tight. Nice post man, Love The Civil War, These men will never be forgotten. Thanks.
JeffTheFutureJaros 2 years ago
who is at 1:36, and 1:41?
MisterGage77 2 years ago
I know the the man in 1:41 was John S Mosby and 1:36 might be Wade Hampton.
Steve17010 2 years ago
@willhoit63 american trillogy
dazchloe 1 year ago
It's Dixie, slowed down considerably, if played at normal speed you'd recognize it immediately.
TxTechRox123 2 years ago
Nice video. makes me want to brush up on the history. Sherman looks so peaceful in his "after" photo.
caseyjones2222 2 years ago
I don't think Sherman was ever Peaceful, lol, but what a great mind for War he had.
JeffTheFutureJaros 2 years ago
All gone but never forgotten.
drudge20 2 years ago 5
The first guy is General Robert E. Lee and the third guy is General Ulysess (not sure how to spell) Grant right?
1shot3killsH3 3 years ago
They weren't all Generals. But it was good. Thanks.
rainmanx63 3 years ago
These are all Generals. Who do you think wasn't?
Thanks for the comment.
Bruce
willhoit63 3 years ago
John S. Mosby was a Colonel.
desertstar987 3 years ago
John Singleton Mosby was a General.
willhoit63 3 years ago
John S. Mosby was not an officer in the regular army. He held rank as a ranger or Milita leader if you prefer that was attached to the ANV. He was a Captain in 1862, then a Major and a Lt. Colonel towards the end of the war. Just before the ANV surrendered he was promoted to the rank of full Colonel. Any list of civil war generals you view should show you that Mosby was never promoted to General.
desertstar987 3 years ago
@willhoit63 he was a colonel. he became a brevet brig. general at some point but i believe that to be commissioned as a brevet officer means that it's honorary or given as a temporary commission.
RealMarcusAurelius 1 year ago
@desertstar987 aye he was a cavalry general
Holyjunker 1 year ago
also j. chamberlain was a colonel.
boynamedblue 2 years ago
on June 18 1864 Gen. Grant promoted Chamberlain to a Brigadier General.
Bruce
willhoit63 2 years ago
That's my Birthday, June 18, 1982, Cool.
JeffTheFutureJaros 2 years ago
Hood looks very haunting and scarred in his after picture.
MisterGage77 2 years ago
Chamberlain was a General and Divison commander at the end of the war.
dragonriderjt 2 years ago 4
Then promoted to Brigadier General by the ending years of the war.
Alabama1861 2 years ago
I know he was not a general but is amazing to see what the Civil War did to Lincoln's and Davis' apperance.
DevJoch 3 years ago
Very interesting. Most of the Generals, I recognize. But can somebody identify them all in order of their appearance? I'd be grateful.
Striderr1 3 years ago
robert e lee ulysses s grant nathan bedford forrest joshua l chamberlain pgt beauregard
william t sherman jubal early james longstreet winfield scott hancock joseph wheeler ambrose burnside george custer george pickett wade hampton john s. mosby john bell hood dan sickles john b. gordon george mcclellan jospeh e johnston
wolfgangfuck 3 years ago 2
Lee lived only 6 years after the war. that picture had to have been at least 3 years after the war. but it accurately showed what war does to you. five stars. good job
NewMadrid01 3 years ago
Most of the after pics were taken a long time after the war. Everyone ages, somtimes sooner than others. Nice piece.
Nat
USMC
nathannathan124 3 years ago
Very powerful - shows the effect the war had on each man. Good work.
jimwalsh2001 3 years ago
Really an interesting historical document, very good work!
graant71 3 years ago
Thank you!
Bruce
willhoit63 3 years ago
excellent!
custerdivision 4 years ago