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Doing my family genealogy, I found out that my Cousin 3x removed died in this battle. He was in the 97th Ohio Company K. I’m trying to find where he was.
Daryl Davis brought me here, just watching his ' accidental courtesy, film so interesting I have no interest in promoting a hate figure, yet i am educating meself , *takes a deep cleansing breathe*
I am a student attending Motlow State Community College. Thank you both for this video. I am currently doing Tennessee History over the summer. This video was very informative and put together very well. Have a good rest of your day, gentlemen.
Johnson county had 12.9% slave population, the neigbor counties had LaFayette 31.7% slaves, Pettis 20.9% slaves, Henry 12.6% slaves, the two Kansas border counties Jackson had 17.2% slaves and Cass had 10.9% slaves. Cockrell and his soldiers arrived from the massive proconfederate Missouri area from the higher slave populated Little Dixie area. Moreover the Kansas Missouri border area was a special local site for the Kansas West Missouri conflict FROM 1854 (Bleeding Kansas) TO 1865 (Civil War) for almost 9 years! In the Little Dixie the prounionism was a minority opinion and the non stop Kansas Missouri local border war strengthened the provonfederate majority opinion here. Missouri became from a slavery system supporter majority state which state population chased away Eliya P. Lovejoy to the that time proslavery majority supporter Illinois to kill him about 1830 to a unionist majority opinion state. The European and the Northern origin new settlers and the low % slaves populated areas with Missouri local people together changed Missouri for prounionist majority state for 1860. The only slave holding state was Missouy where Abraham Lincoln won 2 counties (St Louis and Gasconade) in 1860, Hancock county was almost won in Virginia (West Virginia) by Lincoln only some votes was missing for Lincon. 44th Missouri soldiers arrived from the low % slaves populated Iowa border strip counties (North to the Little Dixie) for example Gentry as Mercer 0.3% slaves, Sullivan 1.1% slaves, Putnam 0.3% slaves, Grundy 3.6% slaves, Harrison 0.2% slaves or Gentry 1.0% slaves. Here the local Missouri people were prounists and not the new settlers!
I never tire of any effort to honor the Texas troops- from Gaines Mill to Afghanistan. But fully support those needed and deserved Missouri narratives and citizen soldiers. Many thanks for your ongoing commitment to keep the past closer to the present. Like your style :)
This is a generally accurate and fair-minded portrait but with some glaring omissions: his employment as a young man as constable in Mississippi at a time when the job consisted primarily of slave catching, his separation of slave families during his slave dealing period, the Fort Pillow massacre he commanded, his murder with a hatchet of one of his black laborers after the war, his pioneering of the chain gang system in Tennessee in which scores of former black troops in the Union Army were cast in irons.
I was there for the 150th and had the incredible honor of taking the battlefield tour with Mr. Ed Bearss! We plan to be there for the 160th and look forward to seeing both of you (hopefully!)
Some very good challenges to the status quo; thanks! How will the Army of Tennessee be seen? I think kind of like the Army of the Potomac without a Grant to finally lead them to victory. And, like you said, look who they were fighting against.
Thank you for sharing. I am writing a book about South Carolina College/ USC during the Civil War. We have discovered 185 students and alumni who died during the war. Thank you for talking about a member of the Class of 1850.
The book brought me to Carnton. I had never heard of Carnton, the McGavocks and especially the Cemetery. I read the book went to Carnton and felt like I was coming to visit an old friend. I was amazed and was in solemn yet happy silence as I walked through the cemetery in awe if what they did to take care of these men after their final burial. I also know yes it was fiction but the cemetery is what the book was about and that is real.
Definitely Grant's memoir is must reading! 😊 Not to mention his memoir is so well written it could be considered beautiful literature. And it was written after Grant had lost all his money and at the same time he knew himself to be dying. Grant wanted make sure his family was provided for. Grant printed his memoirs with Mark Twain's publication. It was an immediate success. I'd also recommend Sherman's memoirs, which isn't quite on par with Grant's, but still fascinating to read. Finally I love Shelby Foote for his literary style, and of course his history of the Civil War is worth reading for its beauty, but there wasn't an anecdote that Foote didn't love! Yet Foote doesn't provide footnotes or endnotes to any of his sources which makes it difficult to say if some of his anecdotes are anything more than mere anecdotes. Bruce Catton writes just as beautifully as Foote and is worth reading as well.
I visited the Cater house around 1994 when my daughter lived nearby. It is wonderful that the Trust has acquired so much land around there and expanded the site to be able to tell the history of the battle in greater detail. Some friends will be moving near there next year. I will be visiting them and will be back at the Carter house and museum. I watch almost all the BOFT videos. I am from northeast Ohio and am fascinated that Ohian's had such a big role in the battle.
I love Spring Hill. My wife doesn’t! She got Lime disease from a tick she picked up there. That was years ago but she still hates the place!🤣Shes fine by the way.
Mostly the rumors started in the mid-20th century, but they really picked up steam around the Centennial. For 20-30 years it was standard fare, especially at Carter House where it reached some levels of ridiculousness back in the 1990s.
@@ericjacobson7321 Thanks! Was recently listening to the Antietam podcast co-hosted by John Banks, and their guest out it out there,that Lee may been on some substances during the Maryland campaign. He admitted there was no evidence, but to put something like that out there.....
I have listened to the BOFT podcasts for the past few years. Loved the Tenn in 20 format with Matt and Sarah. And now with The Dispatch with a sharp focus on the Civil War. You guys always seem very fair and certainly have your opinions. Looking forward to a future Campaign Tour to have some fun soon!!
If you are getting hit by flak, that means that you are over the target. Thanks for your videos and all your preservation efforts at and near Franklin.
Good video! I'm glad you are addressing the subject. I love B.O.F.T. and appreciate all you guys do. However, over the years, I have wondered if I am one of the "knuclkeheads". There does seem to be an issue here. I really want to like Mr. Jacobson. Seeing the Texas monument go up helped my view as I saw impartiality. Keep up the good work and I hope to call you both "friends" someday!
Learned so much from you over the last couple of years. If only every battlefield could have such great and dedicated stewards of their history. You guys are punching so far above your weight. Just wish you created more content. Never enough.
Want to see the follow-up ( and pics) on the van Dorn “ love-child” Cold Harbor anniversary today- so thinking a bit about my Virginia (from France…) :) Keep the episodes coming- you two are great !
I love everything about BOFT and this channel. I scared the bejeezus out of Eric earlier this year by getting a photo with him and his signature on one of his books. Thanks all for sharing your knowledge.
I thought this video had a fair treatment of the war. The most ridiculous argument I’ve heard going around are that states rights had nothing to do with the secession and the following war and that it was only about slavery. But the south would not have seceded if it weren’t for the beliefs in states rights. They just would have hung around and obeyed whatever Lincoln and Congress decided about slavery and other issues if they had not believed in states rights. Also it would not be fair to say the war itself is only about slavery. If there had been another President other than Lincoln they may have allowed the south to go in peace- including the president previous to Lincoln. Lincoln’s ideology had a major role in causing the war.
