After looking time and again, I still can't find anything on RU-vid as good as Warhawks videos in regards to civil war battles. I would love to see more content at this level, but it seems the only recourse is waiting for warhawk to put out more. Tysm for your work making these.
Discovered you recently, enjoying the attention to detail and the quotes that bookend the different chapters. One minor gripe: cavalry is pronounced CAV-alry not CAL-vary.
It’s crazy cause where I live is literally on the grounds of all do this (quarterpath area of Williamsburg) there’s a park behind my neighborhood called redoubt park and that’s were half the redoubts are that blocked fort magruder part of the old fort is now a hotel and the fence used for the hotel was build during the war
This is the finest work I’ve ever seen on the Battle of Williamsburg! Great job work Warhawk. This is amazing. I hope to see a Battle of Green Springs and Siege of Yorktown 1781. Those would have great success if made by you. Again, thank you for this!
Thank you for this fantastic, detailed video! Do you know by any chance where Union medical personnel would be at the time? Would the nurses have been closer to the battlefield or still in Yorktown?
From where do you source your excellent battlefield maps? The Peninsula Campaign battles are an especially egregious example of how urban sprawl has covered up a lot of old Civil War Battlefields. Many of these places, you simply cannot visit... like Beaver Dam Creek: it's under a big box store and a mall. And a significant part of Seven Pines is paved over by the town of Sandston and Richmond International Airport. Just a damn shame, is what it is.
Nice all parts together. I wonder if McClellan was political or afraid of being Napoleon of 1812 in Russia because clealry the Little Napoleon got his head.
Seems to me that the Union at this phase under Lil Mac was constantly hampered by indecisive commanders, more worried about things they could not control then effective decisive orders. Sumner in particular was not suited to this sort of command, the constant changing his mind and dithering as thousands of men struggled to even move in the mud was an embarrasement. The South could have been routed in this fight had there been decent coordination, and a willingness by the Union generals to act boldly. Instead the whole fight was poorly administered, and once again Hancock is the only one who understood what was happening in front of him.
I understand the confidantes successfully used this battle to allow for the withdrawal of their army, however it seems like a choke point and defensible position. Why did they not defend this position in a more determined way? Were they concerned about another Union army coming from the North to cut them off?
They took too many losses at the end. When they got lost in the woods and got wiped. Surrounded in two sides and outnumbered. The CSA withdrew. Mclellan finally joined the battle anyways towards the end and so the CSA was now outnumbered. Had mclellan not joined the battle it would have been much easier to hold longer for the CSA
Ofcourse, however if they did live in the town of Winchester during the war years it may be hard to find written evidence. (might have been destroyed, mostly fires) furthermore the town is still there and has a rich historical society and city hall still has the cities records prior and post war in archive. Also there are several genealogy folks in and near Winchester that focus of soldiers
@@F1lmtwit You show me ONE violation of the Constutution by the CSA and I'll give you TEN by the government of the USA. Not your opinion, but the LAW of the Constitution! Go ahead and prove your claim! I already have mine ready and waiting!
@@MGTOWPaladin levying war against the USA is pretty much the definition of Treason. End of Story. Oh yeah, the CSA also killed 1st amendment by killing Freedom of Speech and the Press. So why do you hate USA?
@@F1lmtwit Since secession is LEGAL under the Constitution - no restriction listed in Article 1 Section 10, the Union ILLEGALLY INVADED South Carolina and then Virginia. Virginia, New York and Rhode Island ACKNOWLEDGED their right to secede in their RATIFICATION letters of the "new" Constitution. The Bill of Rights which you quoted are restrictions on the US Federal Government (NOT THE STATES). The Constitution never would have been ratified without it. So far, you are batting ZERO! You may now try again!
+what makes ur videos so good is the fact that u sue no love humans acting as talking heads telling shit that is not relevant to the event But if u not sure of how to pronounce a name google it. U have good speaking voice and ur cadence is very understandable which makes for enjoyable listening Maps great but u need to change the colors and fount u are using on names of units very hard to read even more so when u go to night time action Have to go in and change contrast and brightness to read them and even then they are very hard to do so And i am watching these on a 56in screen from 6 feet away
James Wolfe Ripley here is a what if If Ripley had not been head of Ordnance and the person who was saw the uses of rapid fire rifle as a good thing would the war have lasted much past 1862? MHO is that Ripley did more to prolong the war then all the Southern Generals put together I am sure there had to be any number of men who could of done the job Maybe none had his expertise but they could of done an adequate job Union Repeating Gun, the "coffee mill gun" was ready at start of war If Hooker had just 6 of these at this battle... They had been delivered but Ripley ad them put in storage and never had them issued Over 100 of them and there could of been more made if they had been used Generals whould of been clamoring for them
I looked at the story of the Spencer gun and I am very astonished the invention was in 1860! It is similar the British Airforce banned the use of the parachut for the pilotes in the WW '..Lincoln had to look at the Spencer gun in Washington " Spencer was able to gain an audience with President Abraham Lincoln, who invited him to a shooting match and demonstration of the weapon on the lawn of the White House. Lincoln was deeply impressed with the weapon, and ordered Gen. James Wolfe Ripley to adopt it for production. Ripley disobeyed the order and continued to use the old single-shooters, causing him to be replaced as head of the Ordnance Department later that year." Was Lincoln better than his generals?
