Civil War series - Episode 6 - Tragic Victory: The Battle of Chancellorsville 

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That's a wonderful story. So many of us can't conjure up such family recollections. I'm glad YOU can.

@@lewismessinger2532 my uncle before he was debilitated by a wasting disease, had dug extensively into our family history. He visited a home that became a library if I remember correctly. He was so dedicated and invested. When he shared a copy of one of the letters Charles Emmett Coleman had sent home to his father and sister with the beautiful handwriting and mention of seeing “Mr Lincoln and his wife today” it brought history to life for me but even more so to my young son. It was nice to share some of the recent finds I had discovered through my searches to share with my uncle in his current state. It was a small but meaningful moment and I will cherish it. History is such a treasure and we more intimately connected to it than we might think. Thank you for your kind comment.

And your point is?was protestant whites principally involved in slavery and same crowd wiped out defenceless as american call them indians let alone hollywood depictions. You must be real proud . I suggest you get a proper education of history. Mise le meas. Slan go foill

Glad you enjoyed it!

He sounds of Scottish heritage, like many in the Confederate army.

To be honest, the Confederate army was wrecked during the Seven Days battles.

Take a look at the book “Rebel Yell” by S.C. Gwynne if you want a more in-depth look at Thomas J. Jackson and his life, campaigns etc.

@@RealSVTJunkie great book

Stonewall and chancellorsville. Did you watch the same video as we did. Or are you just amerikan

@@RealSVTJunkie what are you kidding. Do you think this poor frigging yankee can read. Seriously. Stone wall and chandlersville. Really

@@davidhallett8783 it’s Chancellorsville. And you come off as a bot or someone potentially on drugs. No, I’m not kidding.

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Being on the side of evil, he was destined by God to lose along with the South anyway.

@@F_ckAllTrumpVoters only God knows what side was good and what side was evil….

Confederates were fighting to preserve and expand African American slavery. Read Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens "Cornerstone Speech" made in March of 1861. The "Lost Cause " was a despicable Confederate lie. Jackson along with the rest of the Confederates was dispatched to hell where you can hear the rebel yell as they suffer in Satan's hell fire.

The measure in which you measure shall be measured unto you. Praise the Lord for His Mercy and His Justice. One might be shocked whom they see and don’t see in heaven if indeed they make it their themselves.

@@anitra7747 The Lord rebuke you.

If mcclellan had remained in charge the civil war would still be on today. He couldn t beat lee with lee s battle plans in his hand

McClellan was a Loser. Ask Lincoln.

Coward is a better description

@@alanaadams7440 Narcissist is another!

​@@marknewton6984McClellan is the epitome of the great administrative general, but awful in the field.

Thanks so much

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That's your opinion.

" Longstreet is a fine fighter, once the issue was drawn, but Longstreet was slow and contentious, always arguing for his own plan, even to the last minute, whereas Jackson after advancing his own proposal's would execute Lee's orders as readily as if they where his own. In the army of northern Virginia, he had no peer. For him to die would be in very truth for lee to lose his right arm ! B T Lacey shortly before Jackson's death after speaking to Robert E Lee

​@@RevJim-qc2ry Jackson at Seven Days battles?

HMM... Maybe because had just finished his Valley campaign. Maybe you need to read about that campaign. Then maybe you would understand why he was lethargic at the seven days battles.

@@volslover1504 I started by saying he was a great general, but people act like he was Lee's equal which just isn't the case. But compared to what the Union had he was a very good general and if he had lived the Union would have had a much harder war, but victory nonetheless.

Yes, slavery has no place in society. But this war was NOT about slavery. It morphed into the anti-slavery motto. After all, history is written by the victor. Study the true underlying causes of this horrible war.

The War was about Abraham Lincoln and The North Eastern "Common Wealths" Representatives: Who held the MAJORITY in the Congress, tried to change the USA from a "Constitutional REPUBLIC," to a "Democracy" for the Majority to Rule.. Abraham Lincoln and the North Eastern "Common Wealths" Representatives were fully aware that they held the MAJORITY and that they always would because the held the MAJORITY in Population. This "Denied" the Southern Common Wealths, their Representatives a Voice a Vote in their own government: for the Southern Common Wealths held the least in population and always would be. The Fore Father's who wrote the Constitution with the protocol that all 100% of the Common Wealths Representatives had to participate in the Congress "Law making Process." Bills were to be written and read openly on the House Floor. And then VOTED on by all 100% of the Representatives. And to pass a BILL into LAW: 63% of them had to VOTE the SAME WAY. By Abraham Lincoln and the North Easter "Ckmmon Wealths" going by a "DEMOCRACY!" They would use a "QUORUM" of whomever was present: And would PASS BILLS into LAW by only 51% VOTE... once again this Denied the Southern "Common Wealths" Representatives a VOICE, A VOTE in their on government. "States Rights!" And tge North Eastern Common Wealths Representatives were writing Bills against "Southern Common Wealths Commodities and Economy" and passing it into LAW as a Democracy MAJORITY RULE. And they had been since Andrew Jackson had been in office. Alexander Steven's and John C. Calhoun agreed that by being made to go by a "DEMOCRACY," would eventually lead to War. Read the Declaration of Independence? USA was a Federation, that was Formed by "SOVERIGN North American Extended Families" who used their Wealths to financially back their individual "SOVERIGN "Common Wealths." This very reason is why when they United their "Common Wealths" and made a Federation, by uniting their Wealths to declare the USA INDEPENDENT.. Thus SOVERIGN! I That is why the USA is a "Constitutional REPUBLIC!" WIth a Constitution Protocol.. What Abraham Lincoln and his North Eastern Common Wealths Representatives wanted was to DISOLVE THE FEDERATION... and to consolidate all the 13 Common Wealths Extended SOVERIGN North American Families WEALTHS into the First USA ONE Treasury and to introduce into circulation the FIRST USA CURRENCY: And for the First USA Treasury to be controlled solely by the North Eastern Common Wealths Representatives. And the Southern Common Wealths Representatives was not about to surrender their Sovereign Wealths to the Majority "Unionist!"... Ending the Federation of Common Wealths "SOVERIGNTY!" Many of the "Common Wealths" Extended FAMILIES shared Sovereign Family members. The issue of Slavery never entered the Civil War until 1863: When Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 troops for 90 day service: By 1863ctge Union Army soldiers enlistment had ended: The Union Soldier returned home and Would NOT ReEnlist. Besides the mass casualties that the Union Army had suffered from 1861 to 1863cin Battle. Abraham Lincoln and his Union Army was DESPERATE FOR WARM BODIES TO FIGHT THEIR WAR... Therfore, in the late Autumn of 1862 and going into 1863: Abraham Lincoln and his North Eastern Common Wealths Representatives wrote the Emanciption Proclamation Act and the Conscription Act at the SAME TIME. Abraham Lincoln and his North Eastern Common Wealths Representatives believed: If they could "FREE the Slaves in the States that they are War with" (Read the Emanciption Proclamation Act?) That they could declare the Slaves "Citizens" and "Conscription" the Slaves into the Union Army. At those sa6time in 1863 the Union Offices sent Union Army regiments to the port in New York City, New York to Conscript newly arriving immigrants on immigrant SHIPS arriving in the harbors, in to tge USA Army. With tge Union Army regiment escorted the newly arrived immigrants to the UNION ARMY FRONT LINES OF THE Civil War, without any training. For the Immigrants to only be cannon fodder for the Confederates. The Union Army to NEVER KNOW EVEN THE IMMIGRANTS NAMES .. With the Conscription Act 1863. No one wanted in the American Army to kill other Americans. So, even tho their names were called for the "Conscription/ Draft" many of the USA poor men REFUSED TO SERVE: BECAUSE If you were Rich, you could pay Abraham Lincoln $300 and you did NOT have to serve in the Union Army. This left only the poor men forced into Abraham Lincolns' War. In much of the Union Army Soldiers consisting of Rural Farmers. .RIOTS IN THE NORTH EVERY WHERE.. Especially in New York City, NY And to stop the Rioting: Abraham Lincoln ordered his Union Navy ships to the NY Harbor and Abraham Lincoln had tge city of New York Bombed. Killing PEOPLE of ALL RACES. Besides the ENTIRE USA was into STARVATION! By the Union Army attacking the Farms in the South destroy 50% + of the USA Food Supply: And the Union Army Soldiers consisting of the Northern States /Common Wealths FARMERS: LITTLE to NO FOOD HAD BEEN GROWN IN THE NORTH FOR GOING INTO 3 YEARS. Abraham Lincoln couldn't even feed his own union Army soldiers, or live stock. So, Abraham Lincoln ordered Union Regiments stationed in the North, to go to the Northern FARMs and to confiscate any Food, or any thing for the/ his War effort. Then in 1863 maurdering Union Army Soldiers, were "Confiscating" "Stealing& looting" Northern Farmers FARMs; just as they had done in the Southern Common Wealths /States.. Looting, Burning and murdering Americans of all Races. Evil that held the USA for over 5 years. NOT TO MENTION, SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION. Research Original Archived Common Wealths/ States Legislatures records.

Yes ask general grant when he is quoted saying if this war is about the negro then we will all pack up and head home

General Grant is one of my favorite heros of the civil war.

Amen Carol. God bless those brave Confederate soldiers and piss on Grant.

Its hard to believe Virginia voted democrat in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020.

Sherman was a general for the North. That is exactly why Ulysses S Grant used him to do what he did. And Southerners don't believe they almost won the war. That's what the daughters of the Confederacy want you to believe. The north thought that war with one arm tied behind its back. They just couldn't find the right General. And when they got Grant, who knew that he had Superior numbers and how to whoop old bobby Lee. He did.

Nathaniel Anderson that's an interesting name. Were you named after Nathan Bedford Forrest or Andersonville or both ? Southerners have trick themselves into believing they won because of segregation plain and simple. And how did that work out for ya ? You win that one as well ?

If Lee had followed Longstreet’s advice after the first day of Gettysburg and positioned the Army of Northern Virginia on ground of their choosing between D.C. and the Army of the Potomac, the South had a very real chance of victory. I can imagine if Jackson had survived his wounds from Chancellorsville he would have at least attempted to persuade Lee to flank the Union forces. The CSA had won or drawn almost every major battle in the Eastern theatre up until then. I think you underestimate the prevalence of Northern peace factions in 1863.

@@anonandy2210 I think that even if Lee did win at Gettysburg. He would have faced the same situation that Hannibal faced after Cannae, he had won a great victory, I think he knew after the battle that he did not possess enough men to take the city(Rome). Meade after Gettysburg did not pursue Lee's Army after the battle, he had lost over 20 %of his army and was not keen to maul his army a second time.

@@siyabongamngomezulu9743 I see your point but still think Lincoln would have been pressured to sue for peace if the AoNV had won at Gettysburg and continued on a path towards D.C.. Sure, they suffered losses that doomed the CSA to lose over the course of the next two years, but that’s accounting for the further attrition of the AoNV over the next two years. They sure would have had to quickly move on D.C. and most likely win another major battle but they were very very close in the summer of 1863. Much closer than people think. But hey, we’ll never know! I’m only speculating

ALL GLORY TO ODIN

George Custer, the Trump of Union officers

So did he

It was incredible what Lee and his army achieved against an army that was bigger, had endless supply of fresh troops and was better equipped

Yeah cause the country we got post war was incredibly efficient. Stay mad that no union general, including grant for that matter, could carry Lee and Jackson’s jock strap

Such a crude comment. Grant and Chamberlain held their Confederate adversaries in extremely high regard and showed them the utmost respect at Appomattox; what gives you the right, having never faced combat, to do any less?

@@meridian21157 Cope

@@LB0414 Cry

And what if they had won it in 1863?

I do agree that the south is glorified a bit in the video, but it is about Jackson and Lee and their combined brilliance on the battlefield. I don't believe the south could have won at any point in the war. The north simply had too many men, infrastructure and a president that was very determined to keep the union together. Once grant was put in charge, it was just a matter of time.

Hard agree. Im from South Carolina and would happily fight against the violent, elitist white supremacy the South stood for then. To hell with all who support it today.

@@F_ckAllTrumpVoters Both of you really don't know much about a point your attempting to make. Your ignorance is easy to see.

@@F_ckAllTrumpVoters You realize that practically all the Union big shots were violent white supremacists, right? Abraham Lincoln was a big fan of shipping all blacks out of the country, Grant said he would switch sides if he felt the Union was fighting to put the black man on an equal footing with the white man, Sherman and Sheridan loathed blacks and wanted to eradicate the Native Americans: all of them were devout believers in Manifest Destiny AKA the idea that America was God's gift to the white man and everyone else had to go.

I'm a good old reble now that's just what I am an for your Yankee nation I do not give a dam. We got 300,000 befor you conquered us.

You are right he was a sick turd fighting for the army of Satan.

@Max Tom -- right?! That old saw about The Lost Cause should have been ended a long time ago. But it is as you say a "myth" so it will never end. People who say the war was about States Rights and not slavery would do well to read what the actual leaders of the Confederacy said at the time. THOSE guys weren't uncertain at all. Check out the Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens' "Cornerstone" speech. HE doesn't leave any doubt -- "Our new government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery-subordination to the superior race-is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

@@4thamendment237 Lincoln himself promoted the repatriation program and wanted the black man to go to Liberia so the white man could have a government that could help its own people. The following material is to be understood as quoted: Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes [1] August 14, 1862 This afternoon the President of the United States gave audience to a Committee of colored men at the White House. They were introduced ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 371 by the Rev. J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Emigration. E. M. Thomas, the Chairman, remarked that they were there by invitation to hear what the Executive had to say to them. Having all been seated, the President, after a few preliminary observations, informed them that a sum of money had been appropriated by Congress, and placed at his disposition for the purpose of aiding the colonization in some country of the people, or a portion of them, of African descent, thereby making it his duty, as it had for a long time been his inclination, to favor that cause; and why, he asked, should the people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? This is, perhaps, the first question for proper consideration. You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. You here are freemen I suppose. A VOICE: Yes, sir. The President---Perhaps you have long been free, or all your lives. Your race are suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrong ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 372 inflicted on any people. But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. You are cut off from many of the advantages which the other race enjoy. The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best when free, but on this broad continent, not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you. I do not propose to discuss this, but to present it as a fact with which we have to deal. I cannot alter it if I would. It is a fact, about which we all think and feel alike, I and you. We look to our condition, owing to the existence of the two races on this continent. I need not recount to you the effects upon white men, growing out of the institution of Slavery. I believe in its general evil effects on the white race. See our present condition---the country engaged in war!---our white men cutting one another's throats, none knowing how far it will extend; and then consider what we know to be the truth. But for your race among us there could not be war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or the other. Nevertheless, I repeat, without the institution of Slavery and the colored race as a basis, the war could not have an existence. It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. I know that there are free men among you, who even if they could better their condition are not as much inclined to go out of the country as those, who being slaves could obtain their freedom on this condition. I suppose one of the principal difficulties in the way of colonization is that the free colored man cannot see that his comfort would be advanced by it. You may believe you can live in Washington or elsewhere in the United States the remainder of your life [as easily], perhaps more so than you can in any foreign country, and hence you may come to the conclusion that you have nothing to do with the idea of going to a foreign country. This is (I speak in no unkind sense) an extremely selfish view of the case. But you ought to do something to help those who are not so fortunate as yourselves. There is an unwillingness on the part of our people, harsh as it may be, for you free colored people to remain with us. Now, if you could give a start to white people, you would open a wide door for many to be made free. If we deal with those who are not free at the beginning, and whose intellects are clouded by Slavery, we have very poor materials to start with. If intelligent colored men, such as are before me, would move in this matter, much might be accomplished. It is exceedingly important that ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 373 we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as white men, and not those who have been systematically oppressed. There is much to encourage you. For the sake of your race you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people. It is a cheering thought throughout life that something can be done to ameliorate the condition of those who have been subject to the hard usage of the world. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself, and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it; but they were cheered by the future. Gen. Washington himself endured greater physical hardships than if he had remained a British subject. Yet he was a happy man, because he was engaged in benefiting his race---something for the children of his neighbors, having none of his own. The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time. In a certain sense it is a success. The old President of Liberia, Roberts, has just been with me---the first time I ever saw him. He says they have within the bounds of that colony between 300,000 and 400,000 people, or more than in some of our old States, such as Rhode Island or Delaware, or in some of our newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists, or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have been sent thither from this country. Many of the original settlers have died, yet, like people elsewhere, their offspring outnumber those deceased. The question is if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there? One reason for an unwillingness to do so is that some of you would rather remain within reach of the country of your nativity. I do not know how much attachment you may have toward our race. It does not strike me that you have the greatest reason to love them. But still you are attached to them at all events. Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5, P. 370-373. Publication date: 1953 Electronic Form: sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Association (6-9-2005)

YOU are the REVISIONIST. OPEN A DAMN ACTUAL HISTORY BOOK. Didnt realize you were an ACTUAL AUTHORITY on Civil War history.

This is true. There is definitely a Confederate bias here. I've seen far worse Civil War media tho. This is a product of it's time. And it's not worthless, it is very informative about military logistics and the skewed views that many very reputable and good historians had. While this documentary is flawed, I'm still glad it exists

@@voltigeur1862 I don’t remember specific criticisms I had of this documentary now but lost cause hero worship needs to end. Ken Burns’ Civil War series cited Shelby Foote extensively so I looked into his books. Foote had only good things to say about Jefferson Davis and how kindly he treated his enslaved people calling them Mr. James etc. and how Lincoln tricked the south to fire on Fort Sumpter without any evidence of such a claim. That’s when I stopped reading Foote. Unsubstantiated lost cause bull crap. Mark Twain published Grant’s memoirs, knew Grant and personally attested to Grant’s righteousness. There can be no better judge of character then Mark Twain. Grant is the hero of the Civil War. There has been a century long campaign to slander Grant’s history.