A union of states can all too easily became a centralised tyranny. On slavery, the South were stubborn. But they had genuine fears for their overall way of life.
@Silentstorm231 "States Rights" in this instance is pure dog whistling. However, most soldiers were not slave owners; they were fighting against federal over- intervention. Some may argue it was blind patriotism. They were young, impressionable.
Stop arguing and insulting each other, no matter who win this battle, no matter who win this war, we are all American. And, this is one of the most bloody battle in our history and it was filled with American blood, our blood, from both sides. To me, it is hurt to look back, what a great nation today built up from blood and bone of American, of our ancestors. We, should feel proud, a painful pride, to live on where our ancestors dropped sweat and blood to build up.
@planetrockford this war was fought for alot more reasons then slavery. Thats just given as the main reason to simplify things into a good vs evil perspective.
@BulletBill64 Well, although i agree with you on the fact that the war was fought for other reasons, it's still the main reason why the war was fought. Mostly because of how states would be considered like either free states or slavery states and sometimes it would come to violence like "Bloody Kansas". While the Confederates also fought for states rights it also ment "i should have the right to own slaves" basically.
"Foot to foot, body to body and man to man, they struggled, pushed, shtrived and killed. Each rather yield. The mass of wounded and heaps of dead entagled the feet of the contestants, and, underneath the trampling mass, wounded men who could no longer stand, struggled, fought, shouted and killed hatless, coatless, drowned in sweat, black with powder, red with blood" - Ernest Linden Waitt account of Pickett's Charge.
Grant should have hanged Lee's entire army for treason, Sherman should have burned the entire south to the ground and saved future generations of Americans the embarrasment of fat, stupid, ignorant, poor, racist redneck slobs who do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for this country except embarrass it. You fly your Confederate flags and regurgitate all your pro-Confederate horseshit, and yet you actually have the nerve to call yourselves Americans. It blows my mind.
@thomasbrennan3 Kids like you need to grow up and respect all who fought and went through hell in the war or any war. Stop insulting people and respect the soldiers who went through way more than you ever have. Kids like you don't realize that soldiers on both sides had more respect for one another than most idiots like you have for anybody else. They knew they were brothers, men from the same country fightin one another. Please give them respect that they diserve.
@thomasbrennan3 people who live in southern states of usa are americans, exactly like me, and i live in quebec city, canada. what blows my mind ? when you, u.s.ers, talk like our entire continent was your country.
@gargouenzene The founding fathers of the U.S. intended for Canada to be apart of the our Union. I wonder how different history would be if that happened.
As an American citizen who has lived east of the Mississippi for most of my life, I think that many of the psychological scars from this war still remain in the Southern states. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
@williamcarter1993 The connon ball would seal all the gases and power from the blast in so it would force the cannon back where without it the gases all escape out the end of the barrel with nothing in its way.
Advancing line-abreast into well fortified defences is just plain stupid and suicide. The same thing almost happened at Belleau Wood when the Marine's advanced this way into the German machine gun nests and lost over 2000 men on one day. Yes they may have won that battle but it was at a high cost.
@ephabouyed Yes, they used tactics like that many times throughout the war, like Gen Ambrose Burnside always lost due to those sort of tactics like at the Battle of Fredricksburg or Burnside Bridge at Antietam and many other times got men slaughtered charging them against fortified positions. Also at the Battle of Franklin, what they call the Picketts charge of the west Gen Hood lost many men using a frontal attack.
@metalkrush77 Ordinary citizens, my friend. Farmers, blacksmiths, fisherman, etc. Mostly not professional soldiers and no funding to purchase uniforms. It went to ammunition, medical supplies, etc.
@TheImabitch69 "Killer Angel" from the "Gettysburg" soundtrack, by Randy Edelman, track 15 - although I personally advise you get the full album, and "Gods and Generals" soundtrack too - they both have some absolutely beautiful tracks.
Seems like a lot of marching. These people had more honor than today's soldiers. Granted, to face death you have to have bravery, but these men didn't have predator drones and such. I wish I could go back and be in America the old because it was actually free. Let's see how many people would enjoy Government running things back in those days. War everywhere if they tried today's BS.
And I noticed other comments talking about WWII. The Germans were hardcore, but never fight a war on two fronts.
The Confederate army always employed superior tactics and used mobility to move into good tactical positions. Whilst the Union army was more cumbersome and usually employed a larger force of numbers to overwhelm their opponents.
While I think the CSA generals were one of the best in the world, they were not close to the tactical genius of Napoleon Bonaparte. His use of guile, artillery and shock strategic campaign moves makes him the very best in 19th century warfare.
@ConstantineJoseph In WW2 America had terrible equipment, technology, and tactics, they won against the German ultra-modern army by numerous numbers. It took 3-5 Shermans to take out a Tiger. The reason for this was because of the depression, and Bonaparte failed when he tried to invade Moscow, the winter got the best of him, same with Hitler with the Invasion of Stalingrad. Plus fighting in a line with muskets seem sort of retarded...
@Southpark124 You're right about American military tactics being used proficiently against the outnumbered Germans. Efficiency wise, the German military was no longer the same machine it was in 42 or 43 when US was involved in France. In Italy, the German defensive campaign made life very difficult for allied forces for 2 years.
With a scorched earth strategy, no army can invade Russia, unless you intend not to undertake a lightning campaign, which Hitler and Bonaparte partook.
@ConstantineJoseph The Italians we're actually terrible, they mostly sought to invade Ethiopia, mostly because during the Atlantic Slave Trade; they were never defeated by any of the European powers. When Eisenhower and Churchill pressed onto North Africa, Italian supplies were cut, so Italy retaliated, and was known as the Africa Korps, of course with a little help of the Germans as well. However, the German general, Rommel, failed to mobilize his troops.
Again, spot on about the Italians SouthPark. They're not much of a threat except for the few notable divisions like the Ariete division and the paratroop division in North Africa. Generally, they have poor equipment and their men were'nt as tough as the German soldier, coming from a laid back society, unlike their industrious counterpart.
There is no doubt, even with superior tactics, that with little or no reinforcements of men and materiel, no army can win a war.
@danlinkgan they were mainly an army of rednecks i agree 100%....but these rednecks were pretty smart.....thier generals were the best in the world at that time....
@WV202 I dont know why you are actually trolling me when I didnt troll you stfu I dont give a fuck I make spelling errors everyone does now gtfo of my site good job on talking nonsense dickface.
@LordWellington15 I have a life dickhead I shouldnt have watched this crap because of you damn trolls gtfo of my sight I dont give a fuck about your words or opinion when I do have a life unlike you crappy assholes go ahead troll back right now if you're telling me to get a life do you have one? does that make you perfect no muthafucka. Eat some confederate dick
@hollowsoul1233 Yes I did actually because you said "I hate the south because of there slavery ". You have obviously never read up on the Civil War or you would know that less than 20% of Southerners owned slaves, and Abraham Lincoln owned slaves himself.
@LordWellington15 Haha, Dont spread your nerd ass here please troll somewhere else and not us who shows respect by not trolling nor starting an arguement like you did.
@hollowsoul1233 Nerd ass? Please, dont call me a nerd just because you got beat in an argument. You clearly have no clue about the civil war and yet you watch and make stupid comments. I wonder why you get trolled, i wonder why...............
Most people only know of Pickett's Charge, they don't know what else was happening at the same time. Stewart was on a wide sweep to the Confederate left , out past Benner's Hill, with the idea of sweeping in to the Union rear at the same time Pickett's troops reached the bottom of the ridge. Only George Custer personally leading TWO cavalry desperate charges in to the teeth of Confederate fire stopped Stewart. Had his Cav shown up in the Union rear as planned, there would have been hell to pay.
These weren't battles of war, these were suicide missions. Just think of how many soldiers would have not died it they just ducked every now and then. Just sayin'.
it was napoleon who said tactics should be changed every 5 years from the battalion level on up. then the advent of long range weapons changed even the most basic of tactics. then later came airpower, tanks and a whole different type of warfare. thats history and progress.
I guess Lee put too much faith in his cannon bombardment that it would run the yankees off that ridge. I heard from one tour guide at Gettysburg that the smoke was so thick because of the heat and humidity that they couldn't even tell where their cannon shots were landing. That must have been one grand and fearful sight seeing 15000 men marching in formation over a mile wide. R.I. P. brave Confederate soldiers
@horseman528 Thank God they lost. Can you imagine if the United States had been divided when called upon to destory Hitler in WWII? It would have been a disaster if we were two countries.
@brivanas it's doubtful hitler would have ever come to power if the US had been seperate. WW1 would have had a completely different turnout. Germany may have even of won, but more than likely a peace agreement would have occured. Then again maybe WW1 may not have happened either lol everything is connected so we will never know :S
@ashly383 If the bullet which hit Hitler in the leg in WWI had travelled a little higher history may also have been completely different, but that's all ifs and but's. There's no real point saying what if this happened or that happened, because at the end of the day, what's happened has happened that's never going to change.
Those 15,000 men were supposed to draw the fire, and eyes, of everyone on the ridge, while Stewart's cav attacked from behind. Only two desperate personal charges by George Custer, in what is today called East Cavalry Field, stopped that from happening. Had Stewart overrun the Federal Positions from behind, as planned, how different a world would we be living in today?
That's right. General Lee believed that if he could concentrate all of his artillery in that one position, that the Union line would be split in two. The tour guide was correct. The smoke covered the ground and the air around the Confederates that the Southerners couldn't see in front. Some of the Union soldiers on Cemetery Ridge exclaimed that the lines looked like a dress parade. I am a Union reenactor and I know how those lines would have looked back in the years of 1861-1865.
@nounever Marching in closed ranks with fire from three sides and a fence to cross on top of all that. Those were some very brave men but I can't say much for the tactics. Lee should have known better but its over. I just hope all the brave men that died in that war are at peace. God will judge us all one day, but all one can deal with is whats right in front of him at the time.
@44Snyder One horrible war. We all tend to romantize war until we see young men getting blown apart by cannon grape shot. To see someone dying that is still concious while their body is blown in half is no doubt a horrible sight. Over 7000 Confederate soldiers never came back from that charge. God bless all the men who died in that war. They were braver men than I'll ever be. I think about the price that was paid and then I see all this occupy wall street crowd who are angry over nothing.
How many of you Confederate sempithisers have a rectangular flag? Are you aware that the battle flag was square? I see it every day and i lmao at you wannabes. You are so lame and so stupid. Grab a fucking swastika, it will suit you better. Shelby Foote, my hero, said the saddest part of the post-war was the claming of the national emotion by people who then degraded it. That would be you.
they should pull the confederates flag so that could symble that the infantry are confederates and when the union are killed and injured they should take thier uniforms and weapons and disguise theyre selves with it it may be useful for them in any assualt
and if the unions didnt retreat they should keep picking the off until the cannons at the back of the cliff come to support the surrounded soldiers the confederates should be hiding in the back and go advance and take the artillery and infantry at the back and if there was a view for the east or west for the confederates they should snipe em off and if there wasent they should approach them silently with grunts and should not hold a flag while stealthly attacking the union so when they get there
the problem in the confederates tactic is charging they need to strike the union with cannons in that defended hill they could stick scopes in theyre rifles and snipe them off from a distance and then when the union retreats they go and charge for the cover the unions had you know that little wall and hide in it then the snipers pick them off one by one also an infantry if he had the chance but not to charge to shoot him they must pick a safe distance so the the charging infantry can kill unions
@WimpBastard right this is the civil war. i love giving my two cents or sense on everything but where the hell does anyone come up with the gusto to say what the north or south shoulda done here and there unbelievable its the fucking civil war what proper know how does any one have to say shoulda woulda coulda tactics about this horrendous event in time
hey pickett -oh hey lee -hey pickett you should do a hurried charge on a heavily defended hill and try to win the civil war but make sure you dont lose 7000 men on the way-sounds good sir
And if we had won? Right and wrong are matters of truth, not might. And the simple truth is the North had no right to force the South back into the Union.
"Early in the war, a union squad closed in on a single, ragged confederate. And he obviously didn't own any slaves, he couldn't have much interest in the constitution, and they asked him 'What are you fighting for anyhow?' and he said 'I'm fighting because you're down here.' which is a pretty satisfactory answer."-Shelby Foote, Ken Burns "The Civil War."
i am sorry i dont understand the history of the united states much but, why did the armies fight in the first place ? and who were the generals. Looks like a very bloody battle
@WEBMASTERTURAGA : Before 1860 the United States ONLY had California as an official state west of the Mississippi river. The nation had challenges over how to grow with the immoral spector of slavery and State's rights. The Southern States left the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. President Lincoln raised an army to restore the Union and the war was on.
Incorrect...before 1860 the US had challenges over the North's use of the tarrif to cripple Southern industry and force them to trade goods through Northern ports, and the rise of immigrant labor in the North that meant that the industrialists of the day could dispense with expensive slave labor and turn to (underpaid) "free" labor. They used their political clout (money) to ensure the government saw things their way...and the war was on...
@Lexington73300 The tariffs were the cause of the 1840s nullification crises not the American civil war, Southerners wrote the tariff laws used at that time and the only other time they were that low was 1816,get your facts right
@WEBMASTERTURAGA You had brothers fighting brothers. In this battle alone General Armistead, who served with General Hancock in the US/Mexican war face off against each other. Armistead is killed in the battle by Hancock's troops. This battle is considered the turning point in the war. General Lee invaded the north which culminated in this 3 day battle. Pickett's charge is the scene which General Lee gambled one throw of the dice. 12,500 men, 3 divisions went forward and were massacred.
@madgoose66 Pickett's Division (Kemper, Armistead, and Garnet) J. Johnston Pettigrew's Division (Brockenbrough, Fry, Marshall, and Davis) and Isaac Trimble commanding Dorsey Pender's Division (Lowrence and Lane) and with Richard Anderson's Division on the Right flank as support (Wilcox and Lang)
All of these brigades made the charge that is now incorrectly known as Pickett's Charge. To be correct, it should be called the Pickett-Trimble-Pettigrew-Anderson charge.
@madgoose66 Two brigades of Pickett's five-brigade division (those of Corse and Jenkins) had been detached to guard Richmond. Pickett's other three brigades--led by Armistead, Trimble and Kemper--participated in the charge. They are so focused-upon because they were the only fresh troops the Confederates had at that stage of the battle.
@WEBMASTERTURAGA This Union victory and the victory in the west of Vicksburg by General Grant put the Confederate States on the defensive for the rest of the war.
heard that the paddock/field thet cons crossed was owned by a black man ? who owns it to-day./? Did he thank Richmond for sending the FREE Fertilizzer .?
@tarheelsTM The Ghana Empire, The Mali Empire, The Songhay Empire, The Zulu Kingdom, The Massina Empire, The Toucouler Empire, The Bunyoro Kingdom, and The Dahomey Kingdom, to name a few powerful black nations. You just have to open a History Book and look up the History of Africa.
It was my understanding that the initial attack did not get any support but it was supposed to come from behind the blue lines in the form of a Jeb Stuart attack with a force of more than 4000. But he was throttled by a young Custer who blew into Stuart's front with a small force. It was like a domino effect as the Confederates in the back ran into the confused grey front. A little later, Custer got support from the rest of the Union mounted forces.
Great movie. Sometimes history turns on just one day, one hour, and Pickett's charge was such a moment - the best division of the confederacy marched up the hill, and when it was smashed, the confederacy was effectively finished.
@TheWalterabrego Maybe not stupid....but obviusly questionable.....he broke a number of basic military strategies at Gettysburg, such as attacking the high ground or not scouting the enemies strength well enough. But we can't blame Lee for all that, if I remember correctly his main intel supplier Stuart Jebs didn't report for almost the entire battle..but I may be wrong in this so anyone is free to interject on my statement.
@qwirberbil Well at the time the decision made sense. The line was weakest at the middle, the field is actually rolling so the confederates would be sheltered from cannon fire for their early attack and he was sending his best troops against an army of mostly green recruits. Longsteer didn't like the attack simply because he was a defensive man and thought attacking should be a last resort.
When the negrids not hawe freedom then that was a problem now when they have freedom they are gangsters long live the CONFEDERACY
sebestyenification 1 week ago
Smell yout mother
sebestyenification 1 week ago
you can almost smell the racism
rancidfan39 2 weeks ago
A union of states can all too easily became a centralised tyranny. On slavery, the South were stubborn. But they had genuine fears for their overall way of life.
atrophyfilms2012 3 weeks ago
@Silentstorm231 "States Rights" in this instance is pure dog whistling. However, most soldiers were not slave owners; they were fighting against federal over- intervention. Some may argue it was blind patriotism. They were young, impressionable.
atrophyfilms2012 3 weeks ago 2
Not as impressive as Napoleon`s Imperial Guard advance.. But still cool!
TheRomanRuler 4 weeks ago
u got that right @binhdangrmit
seeallhearall7 1 month ago
Awesome movie.
MsAlfaRomeo2 1 month ago
The music score of this film is the most immoral and sickest I've ever seen & heard, given the contents it's played on!
Make's me belch!
LumiKuuro 1 month ago
Its like lord of the rings. Just walking and walking an walking and walking.
PUSPUSinthaBUSHBUSH 1 month ago
Stop arguing and insulting each other, no matter who win this battle, no matter who win this war, we are all American. And, this is one of the most bloody battle in our history and it was filled with American blood, our blood, from both sides. To me, it is hurt to look back, what a great nation today built up from blood and bone of American, of our ancestors. We, should feel proud, a painful pride, to live on where our ancestors dropped sweat and blood to build up.
binhdangrmit 1 month ago 4
I wonder how many of the real dudes from the battle (not mounted on horses) owned slaves or a had a single thing to gain from this crazy war.
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@planetrockford this war was fought for alot more reasons then slavery. Thats just given as the main reason to simplify things into a good vs evil perspective.
BulletBill64 3 weeks ago
@BulletBill64 Thanks Bill, I am not unaware not the background,
planetrockford 3 weeks ago
@BulletBill64 Well, although i agree with you on the fact that the war was fought for other reasons, it's still the main reason why the war was fought. Mostly because of how states would be considered like either free states or slavery states and sometimes it would come to violence like "Bloody Kansas". While the Confederates also fought for states rights it also ment "i should have the right to own slaves" basically.
Silentstorm231 3 weeks ago
"Foot to foot, body to body and man to man, they struggled, pushed, shtrived and killed. Each rather yield. The mass of wounded and heaps of dead entagled the feet of the contestants, and, underneath the trampling mass, wounded men who could no longer stand, struggled, fought, shouted and killed hatless, coatless, drowned in sweat, black with powder, red with blood" - Ernest Linden Waitt account of Pickett's Charge.
AUG351 1 month ago
that's right, the leftover resentment goes both ways
thomasbrennan3 1 month ago
Grant should have hanged Lee's entire army for treason, Sherman should have burned the entire south to the ground and saved future generations of Americans the embarrasment of fat, stupid, ignorant, poor, racist redneck slobs who do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for this country except embarrass it. You fly your Confederate flags and regurgitate all your pro-Confederate horseshit, and yet you actually have the nerve to call yourselves Americans. It blows my mind.
thomasbrennan3 1 month ago
@thomasbrennan3 U mad bro? Well guess what? Fuck you.
360Nomad 1 month ago
@thomasbrennan3 Kids like you need to grow up and respect all who fought and went through hell in the war or any war. Stop insulting people and respect the soldiers who went through way more than you ever have. Kids like you don't realize that soldiers on both sides had more respect for one another than most idiots like you have for anybody else. They knew they were brothers, men from the same country fightin one another. Please give them respect that they diserve.
AUG351 1 month ago 4
@thomasbrennan3 people who live in southern states of usa are americans, exactly like me, and i live in quebec city, canada. what blows my mind ? when you, u.s.ers, talk like our entire continent was your country.
gargouenzene 1 month ago
@gargouenzene The founding fathers of the U.S. intended for Canada to be apart of the our Union. I wonder how different history would be if that happened.
Lesnar316F5 3 weeks ago
As an American citizen who has lived east of the Mississippi for most of my life, I think that many of the psychological scars from this war still remain in the Southern states. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
henderson023 1 month ago
this movie sucks it does not tell you the general leading the charge ???? why not atleast inform the viewer FFS
finalfrontier001 1 month ago
The music tends to trivialize the horror and death which this incident .
Thx1138d 1 month ago 3
REBELS are what keep freedom alive
phalanx213 2 months ago 4
I did my reasearch paper on the Battle of Gettysburg. I should of looked at this before i did my report,I still got a A+!
TheGreengirl2000 2 months ago
The cannons never recoil when fired...O O
williamcarter1993 2 months ago
@williamcarter1993 Thatws because theres no cannon ball in them lol
AUG351 2 months ago
@AUG351 but shouldn't just the firing of gunpowder make them bounce even a little?
williamcarter1993 2 months ago
@williamcarter1993 The connon ball would seal all the gases and power from the blast in so it would force the cannon back where without it the gases all escape out the end of the barrel with nothing in its way.
AUG351 2 months ago
@AUG351 Oh ok. Thank you.
williamcarter1993 2 months ago
This should be on 1,000 ways to die
Alexander19851 3 months ago
51,000 casulties in the three days at the battle of Gettysburg.
Brandon20120 3 months ago
doud we get it part 2
00karatekid101 3 months ago 11
Advancing line-abreast into well fortified defences is just plain stupid and suicide. The same thing almost happened at Belleau Wood when the Marine's advanced this way into the German machine gun nests and lost over 2000 men on one day. Yes they may have won that battle but it was at a high cost.
ephabouyed 3 months ago
@ephabouyed Yes, they used tactics like that many times throughout the war, like Gen Ambrose Burnside always lost due to those sort of tactics like at the Battle of Fredricksburg or Burnside Bridge at Antietam and many other times got men slaughtered charging them against fortified positions. Also at the Battle of Franklin, what they call the Picketts charge of the west Gen Hood lost many men using a frontal attack.
AUG351 3 months ago
Its freakin suicide
DJSbros 3 months ago
@metalkrush77 Ordinary citizens, my friend. Farmers, blacksmiths, fisherman, etc. Mostly not professional soldiers and no funding to purchase uniforms. It went to ammunition, medical supplies, etc.
tpajason 3 months ago
what is the name of the song starting at around 1:36 and ending around 4:25
TheImabitch69 3 months ago
@TheImabitch69 "Killer Angel" from the "Gettysburg" soundtrack, by Randy Edelman, track 15 - although I personally advise you get the full album, and "Gods and Generals" soundtrack too - they both have some absolutely beautiful tracks.
MarcusBritish 3 months ago
Seems like a lot of marching. These people had more honor than today's soldiers. Granted, to face death you have to have bravery, but these men didn't have predator drones and such. I wish I could go back and be in America the old because it was actually free. Let's see how many people would enjoy Government running things back in those days. War everywhere if they tried today's BS.
And I noticed other comments talking about WWII. The Germans were hardcore, but never fight a war on two fronts.
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Von 8:09 bis 8:26 : GÄNSEHAUT ohne Ende... the most epic scene !!!
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Damn, those shaky helicopter shots are primitive-looking after just 18 years.
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youtert 4 months ago
The Confederate army always employed superior tactics and used mobility to move into good tactical positions. Whilst the Union army was more cumbersome and usually employed a larger force of numbers to overwhelm their opponents.
While I think the CSA generals were one of the best in the world, they were not close to the tactical genius of Napoleon Bonaparte. His use of guile, artillery and shock strategic campaign moves makes him the very best in 19th century warfare.
ConstantineJoseph 4 months ago
@ConstantineJoseph In WW2 America had terrible equipment, technology, and tactics, they won against the German ultra-modern army by numerous numbers. It took 3-5 Shermans to take out a Tiger. The reason for this was because of the depression, and Bonaparte failed when he tried to invade Moscow, the winter got the best of him, same with Hitler with the Invasion of Stalingrad. Plus fighting in a line with muskets seem sort of retarded...
Southpark124 4 months ago
@Southpark124 You're right about American military tactics being used proficiently against the outnumbered Germans. Efficiency wise, the German military was no longer the same machine it was in 42 or 43 when US was involved in France. In Italy, the German defensive campaign made life very difficult for allied forces for 2 years.
With a scorched earth strategy, no army can invade Russia, unless you intend not to undertake a lightning campaign, which Hitler and Bonaparte partook.
ConstantineJoseph 4 months ago
@ConstantineJoseph The Italians we're actually terrible, they mostly sought to invade Ethiopia, mostly because during the Atlantic Slave Trade; they were never defeated by any of the European powers. When Eisenhower and Churchill pressed onto North Africa, Italian supplies were cut, so Italy retaliated, and was known as the Africa Korps, of course with a little help of the Germans as well. However, the German general, Rommel, failed to mobilize his troops.
Southpark124 4 months ago
@Southpark124
Again, spot on about the Italians SouthPark. They're not much of a threat except for the few notable divisions like the Ariete division and the paratroop division in North Africa. Generally, they have poor equipment and their men were'nt as tough as the German soldier, coming from a laid back society, unlike their industrious counterpart.
There is no doubt, even with superior tactics, that with little or no reinforcements of men and materiel, no army can win a war.
ConstantineJoseph 4 months ago
Jesusland
EternalCrappyKid 4 months ago
I still wonder how did an army of rednecks cause so much trouble to the government...
danlinkgan 4 months ago
@danlinkgan they were mainly an army of rednecks i agree 100%....but these rednecks were pretty smart.....thier generals were the best in the world at that time....
LordTariq83 4 months ago
8:15 missiles??
donnecarlo06 4 months ago
whats with all the confederate fans here.
five5200 4 months ago 18
@five5200 I agree its better to have one nation than two.
1Historygenius 4 months ago
@five5200 The modern U.S. sucks! I would rather live in a Confederacy.
Lesnar316F5 3 weeks ago
@Lesnar316F5 course you would you are not black and neither am i but i would still pick the union long live the us strong and free
jeremybear14 1 day ago
@five5200 they dont get it the war is over rebs lost everyone get over it its did and done
jeremybear14 1 day ago
I keep hoping they'll win this time
longof99 4 months ago
how do you now what god looks like
soccerbomb3 4 months ago
This is true hounor few people understand today...
SeigSel 5 months ago
arnt cannonballs meant to bounce through formations? and not explode?
MrRazzeldazzel88 5 months ago
Traitors deserve a traitors death. Hang them all!
TheIcelandicPatriot 5 months ago
I hate the south because of there slavery
hollowsoul1233 5 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 You are very intelligent then.
leves777 5 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 Their* learn to spell moron
WV202 4 months ago
@WV202 I dont know why you are actually trolling me when I didnt troll you stfu I dont give a fuck I make spelling errors everyone does now gtfo of my site good job on talking nonsense dickface.
hollowsoul1233 4 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 You obviously have been reading your history books. Get a life.
LordWellington15 4 months ago
@LordWellington15 I have a life dickhead I shouldnt have watched this crap because of you damn trolls gtfo of my sight I dont give a fuck about your words or opinion when I do have a life unlike you crappy assholes go ahead troll back right now if you're telling me to get a life do you have one? does that make you perfect no muthafucka. Eat some confederate dick
hollowsoul1233 4 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 Are you trying to use your big swear words to compensate for your small penis?
LordWellington15 4 months ago
@LordWellington15 My penis took the title unlike yours Ill be happy to block your ass
hollowsoul1233 4 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 Ah yes, you sound like a 14 year old fresh into high school. Go take you immature antics elsewhere.
LordWellington15 4 months ago
@LordWellington15 Ok did you have to troll me and start this stupid arguement? Go troll somewhere else dickhead
hollowsoul1233 4 months ago
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@hollowsoul1233 Yes I did actually because you said "I hate the south because of there slavery ". You have obviously never read up on the Civil War or you would know that less than 20% of Southerners owned slaves, and Abraham Lincoln owned slaves himself.
LordWellington15 4 months ago
@LordWellington15 Haha, Dont spread your nerd ass here please troll somewhere else and not us who shows respect by not trolling nor starting an arguement like you did.
hollowsoul1233 4 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 Nerd ass? Please, dont call me a nerd just because you got beat in an argument. You clearly have no clue about the civil war and yet you watch and make stupid comments. I wonder why you get trolled, i wonder why...............
LordWellington15 4 months ago
@LordWellington15 Well the problem here is we keep trolling eachother why dont we stop?
hollowsoul1233 4 months ago
@hollowsoul1233 Aye
LordWellington15 4 months ago
why does it look so late in the day
edyoung44 5 months ago
ROBERT LEE WAS A TRAITOR & SHOULD HAVE SENT TO THE GALLOWS.
mozellar 5 months ago 2
@mozellar I AGREE!
joejoeoreoo 5 months ago
Most people only know of Pickett's Charge, they don't know what else was happening at the same time. Stewart was on a wide sweep to the Confederate left , out past Benner's Hill, with the idea of sweeping in to the Union rear at the same time Pickett's troops reached the bottom of the ridge. Only George Custer personally leading TWO cavalry desperate charges in to the teeth of Confederate fire stopped Stewart. Had his Cav shown up in the Union rear as planned, there would have been hell to pay.
tcrlaf 5 months ago
the only good confederate, is a dead one.
urbanwamp 6 months ago
These weren't battles of war, these were suicide missions. Just think of how many soldiers would have not died it they just ducked every now and then. Just sayin'.
TheRenegadeAssassin 6 months ago
it was napoleon who said tactics should be changed every 5 years from the battalion level on up. then the advent of long range weapons changed even the most basic of tactics. then later came airpower, tanks and a whole different type of warfare. thats history and progress.
bigblondman1 6 months ago
So you gain control from the British and 100 years later your fighting eachother :P
joedalby14 6 months ago
why not just leave a small portion behind and go around the yankee position and head to washington lol. oh well....
crazyknight2008 7 months ago
Not enough troops, imagine this with today's CGI.
Gustavflyer 8 months ago
I guess Lee put too much faith in his cannon bombardment that it would run the yankees off that ridge. I heard from one tour guide at Gettysburg that the smoke was so thick because of the heat and humidity that they couldn't even tell where their cannon shots were landing. That must have been one grand and fearful sight seeing 15000 men marching in formation over a mile wide. R.I. P. brave Confederate soldiers
horseman528 8 months ago 33
@horseman528 well said!
tarheelsTM 8 months ago 9
@horseman528 Thank God they lost. Can you imagine if the United States had been divided when called upon to destory Hitler in WWII? It would have been a disaster if we were two countries.
brivanas 7 months ago
@brivanas it's doubtful hitler would have ever come to power if the US had been seperate. WW1 would have had a completely different turnout. Germany may have even of won, but more than likely a peace agreement would have occured. Then again maybe WW1 may not have happened either lol everything is connected so we will never know :S
ashly383 5 months ago
@ashly383 If the bullet which hit Hitler in the leg in WWI had travelled a little higher history may also have been completely different, but that's all ifs and but's. There's no real point saying what if this happened or that happened, because at the end of the day, what's happened has happened that's never going to change.
ephabouyed 5 months ago
Those 15,000 men were supposed to draw the fire, and eyes, of everyone on the ridge, while Stewart's cav attacked from behind. Only two desperate personal charges by George Custer, in what is today called East Cavalry Field, stopped that from happening. Had Stewart overrun the Federal Positions from behind, as planned, how different a world would we be living in today?
tcrlaf 5 months ago
That's right. General Lee believed that if he could concentrate all of his artillery in that one position, that the Union line would be split in two. The tour guide was correct. The smoke covered the ground and the air around the Confederates that the Southerners couldn't see in front. Some of the Union soldiers on Cemetery Ridge exclaimed that the lines looked like a dress parade. I am a Union reenactor and I know how those lines would have looked back in the years of 1861-1865.
number1sonify 4 months ago
@horseman528 I know I cannot begin to comprehend how one could live past such a day.
nounever 3 months ago
@nounever Marching in closed ranks with fire from three sides and a fence to cross on top of all that. Those were some very brave men but I can't say much for the tactics. Lee should have known better but its over. I just hope all the brave men that died in that war are at peace. God will judge us all one day, but all one can deal with is whats right in front of him at the time.
horseman528 3 months ago
@horseman528 I have heard that the cannons could be heard in Philadelphia. If that is true...incredible.
44Snyder 2 months ago
@44Snyder One horrible war. We all tend to romantize war until we see young men getting blown apart by cannon grape shot. To see someone dying that is still concious while their body is blown in half is no doubt a horrible sight. Over 7000 Confederate soldiers never came back from that charge. God bless all the men who died in that war. They were braver men than I'll ever be. I think about the price that was paid and then I see all this occupy wall street crowd who are angry over nothing.
horseman528 2 months ago
@horseman528 How does one relate occupy wall street to the civil war?
steal77theif 2 months ago
It is two groups of people ordered to kill each other for a politicians lust for power. If they do not, they get hanged.
dude58677 9 months ago
How many of you Confederate sempithisers have a rectangular flag? Are you aware that the battle flag was square? I see it every day and i lmao at you wannabes. You are so lame and so stupid. Grab a fucking swastika, it will suit you better. Shelby Foote, my hero, said the saddest part of the post-war was the claming of the national emotion by people who then degraded it. That would be you.
jggrow 9 months ago
@jggrow Try googling "second confederate navy jack" before you make yourself look like more of an idiot.
The rectangular flag, aside from being the second ensign flown by the Confederate navy, was also used by several army units.
enabrin 8 months ago
can anyone tell me the song that starts at 4:39? it's so awesome but haven't really found it on the youtube soundtrack anyone know?
TheAclark109 9 months ago
I heard that lots of the actors got skin cancer from the glue they used for their beards.
LEOtheIsaurian 9 months ago
they should pull the confederates flag so that could symble that the infantry are confederates and when the union are killed and injured they should take thier uniforms and weapons and disguise theyre selves with it it may be useful for them in any assualt
kuwaiti585 9 months ago
and if the unions didnt retreat they should keep picking the off until the cannons at the back of the cliff come to support the surrounded soldiers the confederates should be hiding in the back and go advance and take the artillery and infantry at the back and if there was a view for the east or west for the confederates they should snipe em off and if there wasent they should approach them silently with grunts and should not hold a flag while stealthly attacking the union so when they get there
kuwaiti585 9 months ago
the problem in the confederates tactic is charging they need to strike the union with cannons in that defended hill they could stick scopes in theyre rifles and snipe them off from a distance and then when the union retreats they go and charge for the cover the unions had you know that little wall and hide in it then the snipers pick them off one by one also an infantry if he had the chance but not to charge to shoot him they must pick a safe distance so the the charging infantry can kill unions
kuwaiti585 9 months ago
The South was right, the North was wrong, enjoy your crushing debt brought on by unconstitutional federal programs.
WimpBastard 9 months ago
@WimpBastard 3/10 Nobody is that dumb. Try harder.
KingSkullfuck 9 months ago
Haha, look at all these armchair generals spouting retarded opinions.
WimpBastard 9 months ago
@WimpBastard right this is the civil war. i love giving my two cents or sense on everything but where the hell does anyone come up with the gusto to say what the north or south shoulda done here and there unbelievable its the fucking civil war what proper know how does any one have to say shoulda woulda coulda tactics about this horrendous event in time
GFORCEpackattack 9 months ago
hey pickett -oh hey lee -hey pickett you should do a hurried charge on a heavily defended hill and try to win the civil war but make sure you dont lose 7000 men on the way-sounds good sir
tjet861 10 months ago
Union victory. Nuff said.
pijef 10 months ago
@pijef
And if we had won? Right and wrong are matters of truth, not might. And the simple truth is the North had no right to force the South back into the Union.
Lexington73300 10 months ago
General with no imagination sees no new opportunities. Napoleon said : "Imagination rules the world".
niilomio 10 months ago
Reason why he lost is that he attackedupphill! He should have threatend Washington DC instead. Forcing them of the ridge!
NoRacismInThisWorld 11 months ago
thx for uploading, fuck your secesh flag.
phlorky 11 months ago
@phlorky
Your hate is noted and more than retured, you carpetbagging a**!
Lexington73300 10 months ago
"Early in the war, a union squad closed in on a single, ragged confederate. And he obviously didn't own any slaves, he couldn't have much interest in the constitution, and they asked him 'What are you fighting for anyhow?' and he said 'I'm fighting because you're down here.' which is a pretty satisfactory answer."-Shelby Foote, Ken Burns "The Civil War."
Butternut731863 11 months ago
The Army of Northern Virginia...the greatest, noblest fighting force ever to take the field. Rest in Peace, boys...you are not forgotten.
Lexington73300 11 months ago 2
@Lexington73300
The army of virginia, sister fucking illiterate hics that can barely fire a musket.
pijef 10 months ago
@pijef
Oh? Seems to me there were an awful lot of dead Yankees who would tell you otherwise...if they weren't dead and all...
Lexington73300 10 months ago
@Lexington73300 sure we had more killed, but we won. Lol, why do people always find excuses? That's like saying The japanese empire died of colds.
pijef 10 months ago
@pijef if they were even that they must be better men than you
johncashrocks221 9 months ago
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The Army of Northern Virginia...the greatest, noblest fighting force ever to take the field. Rest in Peace, boys...you are not forgotten.
Lexington73300 11 months ago
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The Army of Northern Virginia...the greatest, noblest fighting force ever to take the field. Rest in Peace, boys...you are not forgotten.
Lexington73300 11 months ago
The Army of Northern Virginia...the greatest, noblest fighting force ever to take the field. Rest in Peace, boys...you are not forgotten.
Lexington73300 11 months ago
One of the greatest film soundtracks of all time.
CODEColt45 11 months ago
general lee looks like god
TheAirsoftAaron 1 year ago 27
@TheAirsoftAaron u know what god looks like?
Cryoniclime 11 months ago
@TheAirsoftAaron more like satan
moneycat95 4 months ago
@TheAirsoftAaron more like satan
moneycat95 4 months ago
@moneycat95 Somebody's jealous.
LordWellington15 4 months ago
@LordWellington15 na
moneycat95 4 months ago
I get chills whenever I watch this movie, especially the part where the Virginians are marching across the field.
dancergirl 1 year ago
i am sorry i dont understand the history of the united states much but, why did the armies fight in the first place ? and who were the generals. Looks like a very bloody battle
WEBMASTERTURAGA 1 year ago
@WEBMASTERTURAGA : Before 1860 the United States ONLY had California as an official state west of the Mississippi river. The nation had challenges over how to grow with the immoral spector of slavery and State's rights. The Southern States left the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. President Lincoln raised an army to restore the Union and the war was on.
madgoose66 1 year ago
@madgoose66
Incorrect...before 1860 the US had challenges over the North's use of the tarrif to cripple Southern industry and force them to trade goods through Northern ports, and the rise of immigrant labor in the North that meant that the industrialists of the day could dispense with expensive slave labor and turn to (underpaid) "free" labor. They used their political clout (money) to ensure the government saw things their way...and the war was on...
Lexington73300 10 months ago
@Lexington73300 The tariffs were the cause of the 1840s nullification crises not the American civil war, Southerners wrote the tariff laws used at that time and the only other time they were that low was 1816,get your facts right
markmason1000 10 months ago
@WEBMASTERTURAGA You had brothers fighting brothers. In this battle alone General Armistead, who served with General Hancock in the US/Mexican war face off against each other. Armistead is killed in the battle by Hancock's troops. This battle is considered the turning point in the war. General Lee invaded the north which culminated in this 3 day battle. Pickett's charge is the scene which General Lee gambled one throw of the dice. 12,500 men, 3 divisions went forward and were massacred.
madgoose66 1 year ago
@madgoose66 how many divisions did the Con-federates have at gettysburg. ?
MrSeanodwyer140 1 year ago
@MrSeanodwyer140
I'm not certain on the division numbers, but I believe the Army of Northern Virginia was roughly 70,000 men.
Historian1066 1 year ago
@MrSeanodwyer140
9 Infantry divisions, 3 artillery divisions and 1 calvary division.
Though the scene here depicts 'Pickett's Charge' the assault was actually a mix of 4 brigades. I think on 1 or 2 were from Pickett's division.
The full strength of both armies were not on the field all at the same time. It was a 3 day battle and divisions were arriving at different times.
madgoose66 1 year ago
@madgoose66 Pickett's Division (Kemper, Armistead, and Garnet) J. Johnston Pettigrew's Division (Brockenbrough, Fry, Marshall, and Davis) and Isaac Trimble commanding Dorsey Pender's Division (Lowrence and Lane) and with Richard Anderson's Division on the Right flank as support (Wilcox and Lang)
All of these brigades made the charge that is now incorrectly known as Pickett's Charge. To be correct, it should be called the Pickett-Trimble-Pettigrew-Anderson charge.
HGM1138 1 year ago
@HGM1138 You are 100% correct. If you go by the forces involved it is misnamed.
madgoose66 1 year ago
@madgoose66 Two brigades of Pickett's five-brigade division (those of Corse and Jenkins) had been detached to guard Richmond. Pickett's other three brigades--led by Armistead, Trimble and Kemper--participated in the charge. They are so focused-upon because they were the only fresh troops the Confederates had at that stage of the battle.
Crymson1 11 months ago
@WEBMASTERTURAGA This Union victory and the victory in the west of Vicksburg by General Grant put the Confederate States on the defensive for the rest of the war.
madgoose66 1 year ago
LE GEE IONS OF SOLDYEEARRSSS
campbpar 1 year ago
heard that the paddock/field thet cons crossed was owned by a black man ? who owns it to-day./? Did he thank Richmond for sending the FREE Fertilizzer .?
MrSeanodwyer140 1 year ago
@MrSeanodwyer140 wow and i wonder why there has never in the HISTORY of mankind been a powerful black nation?
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
@tarheelsTM could you please clarify your comment, as ahh am An UP Syndrome, - Sufferrer.
MrSeanodwyer140 1 year ago
@MrSeanodwyer140 OK I'll make it clear for u"as u are a complete dumb ass" read slower lol wow
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
@tarheelsTM lts git over this obbsession off 1860-1865 north Amerikan war.
MrSeanodwyer140 1 year ago
@tarheelsTM The Ghana Empire, The Mali Empire, The Songhay Empire, The Zulu Kingdom, The Massina Empire, The Toucouler Empire, The Bunyoro Kingdom, and The Dahomey Kingdom, to name a few powerful black nations. You just have to open a History Book and look up the History of Africa.
happydeath20 9 months ago
@happydeath20 idiot,I'm not talking about tribes running around with bones through there nose's! I'm talking in the modern area!
tarheelsTM 9 months ago 6
great movie, to bad the outcome wasn't different!!
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
@tarheelsTM
The South is dead
pepelepew2006 1 year ago
It was my understanding that the initial attack did not get any support but it was supposed to come from behind the blue lines in the form of a Jeb Stuart attack with a force of more than 4000. But he was throttled by a young Custer who blew into Stuart's front with a small force. It was like a domino effect as the Confederates in the back ran into the confused grey front. A little later, Custer got support from the rest of the Union mounted forces.
MonteCristoRecords 1 year ago
@MonteCristoRecords
You forgot Ewels cor
pepelepew2006 1 year ago
Great movie. Sometimes history turns on just one day, one hour, and Pickett's charge was such a moment - the best division of the confederacy marched up the hill, and when it was smashed, the confederacy was effectively finished.
heridfel 1 year ago
I think that lee's decisons were stupid
TheWalterabrego 1 year ago
@TheWalterabrego Maybe not stupid....but obviusly questionable.....he broke a number of basic military strategies at Gettysburg, such as attacking the high ground or not scouting the enemies strength well enough. But we can't blame Lee for all that, if I remember correctly his main intel supplier Stuart Jebs didn't report for almost the entire battle..but I may be wrong in this so anyone is free to interject on my statement.
qwirberbil 1 year ago
@qwirberbil Well at the time the decision made sense. The line was weakest at the middle, the field is actually rolling so the confederates would be sheltered from cannon fire for their early attack and he was sending his best troops against an army of mostly green recruits. Longsteer didn't like the attack simply because he was a defensive man and thought attacking should be a last resort.
ih8makinusernames 1 year ago
@TheWalterabrego
Agreed.
pepelepew2006 1 year ago
The Union artillery at gettysburg was at its best. most of the credit has to to to General Hunt the Union Chief of Artillery.
MMSMikey 1 year ago