Tutto quel casino,e poi hanno perso la battaglia. Invece che tenersi al margine del cratere,ci sono andati dentro,e, mentre cercavano di arrampicarsi, sono stati abbattuti a fucilate. Come conigli.
It was even worse than what was shown here. Some white union soldiers who were told by the confederate soldiers that any white man helping the black union soldiers would not be allowed surrender ended up turning on them and bayoneting them to gain favor.
Strange it is, indeed, that those Yankees kept on getting things wrong, throughout most of the Civil War. Think about it-They were well-clothed, well-fed, well-armed, and well-supplied...and yet, they lost most of the engagements with the Brave Men and Boys of the Confederate Army! Our side, The Confederates, didn't have all of the advantages, that the Yankees did.. and yet, at certain points during the early and middle parts of the Civil War, they managed to win some very key battles. If only General Lee hadn't invaded the North, up around Gettysburg, Pa , back in 1863. Y'all Yankees mean to tell me, that y'all couldn't of beat us, during that time?!? Must've been poor leadership on y'all's part! General McClellan couldn't get the job done, and neither could General Pope, General Burnside, and even General Hooker! It took General Grant to help y'all win the Civil War!
The United States Army won most of the battles against the Confederacy in the Civil War. Despite many cases in history where smaller armies defeated a larger, more industrious enemy, the Confederacy lost because of poor strategy. Their boisterous tactics worked in the beginning, against more timid generals, but became far less effective later in the war. Lee refused to fight like a smaller army, with less resources. Lavishing in grandiose charges and sweeping tactics, eventually led them to bleeding out their own resources. But before that even happened, Grant formed a three pronged attack against the Army of Northern Virginia. Him keeping pressure on Lee from the North, with the Western theater generals moving in after taking the Mississippi and crushing the Army of Tennessee, And Sherman performing his march, destroying Confederate supply lines and obliterating their morale, before coming up from the South. Lee's myopia for Virginia caused him to become encircled. The defeat of the Confederacy was a strategic defeat. The old tired mantra "the North only won because of overwhelming numbers and resources" is a myth, started by Lee at his surrender speech to his men. He refused to take responsibility for his loss. "our side" The Confederates aren't "your side". You weren't alive 160 years ago. The Confederate rebellion was defeated and dissolved in 1865 after a meager 4 years of existence. It was never able to gain recognition for it's sovereignty, and therefore lacked any kind of legitimacy whatsoever. The last veterans of it's armies died in the mid 20th century, before you were even born.
The big mistake the assaulting Federal columns made was to actually go INTO the Crater. They should have gone around it, that's where the open flanks of the the Confederate defense were. Of course, Burnside was in charge and that along with the rest of the Federal leadership guaranteed a costly failure.
I find it so irritating that these malarials(millennials) just post shit and it's no where near correct, according to reports given in The ' Official Records of the War of the (so called) Rebellion." Half the videos on RU-vid can cite no source but their poorly educated high school teacher.
No doubt one of the most shocking and monstruous battle scene I have seen in a movie so far. Does anyone know where to find the orchestral version of the Idumea they use for this scene ? I've looked on RU-vid and there is only the voice only version...
Only when we moved to Charlottesville, VA 20 years ago (we don't live there currently) did I learn the extent of how badly this war tore things apart. To this day many native Virginians hate "the Yankees" and they keep the stories alive of what the Union soldiers did to their ancestors, like burning down their farms and such. They don't let it go, and have passed on the hate for generations. Confederate soldiers' graves are still well maintained to this day as I saw firsthand, with fresh flowers and Confederate flags. I've never seen anything like the way Virginia does NOT forget, like it was literally just yesterday, and not 160 years ago. I had no idea having grown up in New England. Nobody ever spoke of the Civil War up there. Because they won, so it's not an issue for them and they moved on like it never happened. In Virginia however the Civil War and Confederacy is pervasive, due to intense bitterness and resentment.
As an American I’m ashamed to admit we were never taught about this battle in school. I can think of a couple of reasons just from this scene: cowardice disguised as strategy, it backfired.
WTF are you talking about lol? This was an innovative and extremely ballsy tactic to break the Confederate line at Petersburg, and probably would have succeeded (up to and including ending the war, saving lives) if not for Burnside's shenanigans. And you wanna talk about cowardice? Look up what the Confederates did to the surrendered black prisoners after this battle.
Budding reenactor here. This movie is awful haha but this scene is one of the most powerful depictions of the civil war I have ever seen. Historical context: A black Regiment was supposed to go in first and knew the plan. At the last minute, they were withdrawn (I assume for political reasons) A new regiment of white soldiers were given the task. The commanding officer was drunk behind the line and failed to communicate intelligence to the advancing troops. The Union soldiers that went ahead with the attack were not provided proper instruction and did not know to go around the crater and instead, barreled headlong into a pit of death and destruction. even at the tail end of the war, the bloody incompetence of certain officers didn’t cease. Lest we forget. We should never, under any circumstances, fight each other like this again.
A 4th great grandfather of mine was listed as" MIA/KIA died on impact" during the crater. He was never recovered. I got him a marker that i installed at my house in his memory.
The Union army trained an elite assault force of black soldiers to attack the crater. At the last moment President Lincoln ordered that they be replaced with a force of white soldiers who were not trained to fight a crater battle. The black soldiers had to rescue those of their white comrades who survived in the crater.
The scene where the native American and African American guy are trying to kill each other is insane.... So much depth in a small couple second sceen....
To be fair is Gerenal Ambourse Burnside Fault as Burnside didn't follow Grant's Order to Hold Fast And Attack but Burnside belived that It was weak and Burnside troops would make a defensive line that could go around Petersburg and Burnside also planned to create A Massive Man Made Explosion aka The Crater (Until The Messiness Ridge Made By The British Around 1916 During World War 1) that his troop could go around but Instead Burnside lead his men to death and The Crater also happened to trap his own troops and it also began to pick off union soldier which is depicted here and In the end union lost In The Battle Of Crater and I love the fact that the Native American were throwing their rifle like spear 💀
