The Battle of Stones River: The Fight for Murfreesboro 

Not cool that he died, but VERY cool that you know that. Not many people nowadays care about history it doesn’t seem, and it’s always a blessing to see folk appreciate their heritage. God bless!

@@ThanksforcensoringmeRU-vid Thank you! Yes, I find history fascinating, I think it’s thanks to a teacher I had and it is sad that more people are not interested.

​​@@quest9926my 3x great uncle was mortally wounded in this battle and died 4 days later in federal captivity. William Elias Morrison of the 24th Tennessee co. C. God bless your family and the United States of America!

And God bless the state of Ohio

@@zcoosa1648 Thank you for sharing that, these stories bring the past to life, and I think us remembering them gives their lives more meaning.

That's how We Roll in Mississippi Y'all

He was just the WORST. and he had trash eyebrows

He truly was one of the Unions best generals.

I wanna do that too! Hell yeah 👍👍 re enactments Rule!

I have a shot bullet from there.

Good on ya for keeping historical events remembered and commemorated

Fought and reenactment are not the same thing.

Thats like Martin Sheen saying he fought at Gettysburg hehe

If you can, you need to go to Gettysburg.

id love that@@BaseK59

It is awesome. I live about 180 miles from there and have been there over 30 times. You would love it I'm sure.@@TheSonicdruid72

I have been to multiple battlefields and Shiloh is the best kept battlefield.

@@volslover1504 thanks mate! Really appreciate your reply. I’ll go there for sure👍🏼 I’m looking forward to it. Thanks again mate

Wash rinse repeat

Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden.

Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden, Mister.

Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden.

Pretty cool? As long as you are not hidden.

Several bodies of local Rutherford County confederate soldiers who died at Stones River were taken to the courthouse afterward and placed on the counters so they could be claimed by their relatives. One was the son of Judge Bromfield Ridley who owned a large plantation at nearby Jefferson.

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What do you think about General Lee looking away from the portrait at Appomattox sitting on the rocking chair on the porch being seen by the town so he turned away so they aren't killed on a firing squad leave no witness, was the document surrender and they had become outlaws which is the death sentence the black men hung in all those pictures had to be southern rebels they hung Mexicans and Italians in Shreveport the Missouri River connects with the Mississippi it has the connection to Louisiana into the gulf of Mexico the Emmitt Till story has a Mississippi Delta connection from the Great lake's to Michigan lake in Chicago it's got many places to go. Atchison KS has a Missouri feel to it quite and the Victorian age house's gives it a haunted feel and has a hidden feel after leaving they are connected to Lawrence it's not something that came together cause I didn't realize people might be more affected than most of the continent, till you get in the history and criticize any points and imagine the sentiment told in the story I have to touch on it so if I'm wrong someone may correct me or give it a thought and it has lead to possibilities and maybe a cover up of Giant portions they'd rather leave it as it is cause no one offered to right Mexicans war's but the ballads may have people on edge which is not needed, we would prove that fool hardy spirit we've all been at the brink and if words destroy you free Speech has been used to see mental health problems which is ignorance and a low spirit which should reveal the people responsible for their actions and excuses will never make people trust anything but the blame has been made the walk into the Atlantic 😆 duh huh!!

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I agree, Bragg was unstable and incompetent to lead a army, General Hardee should have been in command.

@@jamesrichardson3322 Hardee was offered command after Murfreesboro, and refused. He was given temporary command after Bragg was removed and again said he didn't want the command.

@@dmac5595 I wonder why??

Luckily for the US, Jefferson Davis kept Bragg in command.

@@moonmunster We No matter who they put in command, the United States Western Theater Armies would keep winning and defeating the Western Theater Confederate Army.

At the battle of Sharpsburg / ANTIETAM September 17, 1862, the battle line was at a road way, that the battle swayed back and forth, at the road way, until the deceased bodies lay like cord wood and the road way ran red with blood. They named the road way "Bloody Lane." They declared the battle a Union Victory...But by MILITARY strategies it was a tactical draw. Equal! The death were so numerous and Violent it was mentally disturbing by many of the Soldiers on both sides. That they never recovered from what they had did and saw. PTSD (Later many of the soldiers at Sharpsburg/ ANTIETAM committed suicide.)

@@danshowlund I'm sure that the Europeans, especially the Germans, learned from this never to go to war again. This will be known as "the war that ended all war."

Ancestors of mine fought for the South. One was wounded and put on a prison train. His wife went with him. He got sick and died before they got to the prison.

And the smell too, that smell of death stains your sense’s, it’s hard to get rid of and even harder to forget. I worked in a morgue as a young man, through 2 Australian extra hot summers. The stuff I saw and had to help clear has stayed with me for over 30 years. I can only imagine what I saw multiplied by thousands! The deafening sound of the guns and cannons the screams and groans. But after the battle, the disconcerting sound of millions of flies buzzing, the groans and cries of the injured and dying. I’m having flash backs thinking about it. And most of these young men were as old as my son is now. There will never be men like this again, I think the last of these stock of men were during Vietnam. I am Australian but I have always been obsessed with the American civil War, in 1981 my Aunty went on holidays to the states and bought me back among many other gifts a confederate cap! It started from that. Haha. I even did it as a school project as a kid in primary school, I was in a small country school, so my teacher drove me into the closest bigger town to go to the library to find any info we could on the civil war. My teacher really enjoyed learning about it too. She was the best. She made me want to become a teacher. I’m am so stoked to have found this channel and all these incredible documentaries. These are some of the best I have seen! I Sadly I was planning and half booked my trip of a lifetime to visit the states and go to all these battle sites and museums but to also fish all your incredible trout streams, I was almost ready to go in months, but I was then diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma. So the trip had to be canceled, I was devastated, I thankfully survived so I started to plan it again, but then a year later they found it in my neck and thyroid. So I gave up on my bloody dream adventure and now have to just watch documentaries and read books to compensate haha. I don’t think I’ll get over there now, oh well. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to recommend any other documentaries or books that they recommend for me to watch/read? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Cheers from Australia!

I appreciate it that the filmmakers gave a lot of time to the re-enacted battles without music or commentary every 15 seconds, seriously. Just allowing the battle to unfold as close to the reality as anyone not there could imagine.

When is the reenactment?

@@theranger2185 22nd thru 24th

He was too busy hitting 'em on the eeyend ;)

Forrest wasn't at Stones River, was he? Thought he was on detached duty. Joe Wheeler commanded the cavalry during Stones River.

My thoughts exactly!!!

Not even close. Stones River sees 3 times as many casualties in total as Franklin.

If you used close caption the Gun fire shows up as "applause:" In most of these battle reenactments the gunfire is lame.

Wrong, the "r" in the "free" syllable in NOT annunciated. You might know that if you were from here

@@mrdraper4633 Yes, it is. Google is your friend. Even if you're from Murfreesboro.

@@georgealdridge9453 stay up north, Yankee. You know not what you speak of

Paul J Unless you were there how could you call it a POS re-enactment?