The Final Campaign of the Army of Tennessee (Lecture) 

I think a lot of people are frustrated history professors

Agree.

Fun fact: Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) Roman Catholic Irish were expelled from their Irish homeland (by a ZOG Protestant King) and they arrived in New York Harbor (by boat). Upon docking, Lincoln ordered them conscripted into the Federal Army or be deported post haste. Entire Federal Army infantry regiments were composed of enslaved Roman Catholic Irish. Why? Because the South was winning the War of Rights and U.S. Congress told Lincoln they were intent on withdrawing all funding (of Lincoln's war). Lincoln responded by enslaving the arriving Roman Catholic Irish and rendering them into infantry so as to throw them at the C.S.A. army. Much of U.S. history has been subverted/denied us.

Thanks for sharing 😊

So often, these videos/lectures don't pick up the laser pointers. You did and that is so more informative.TY.

This campaign gets overshadowed by the fall of Petersburg and subsequent events leading up to surrender of Appomattox. Still, Bentonville is an interesting battle to study. No way that Johnson's ad hoc army could tackle Sherman's whole force. Even if Johnson had beaten Sherman, Grant would have diverted forces from Virginia to counter, and in the end Johnson would have been caught between two superior forces. Wisely, he saw situation as it was, a hopeless cause, and surrendered to Sherman (right around time when Lincoln was assasinated).

Ernest Spencer I suppose the only hope they had was to link with the AoNV by rail and dig in for defense somewhere near Lynchburg. Still, that scenario was pretty hopeless.

how would you say the war was lost at shiloh? that's a fascinating theory

The South did lose the war at shiloh. Never again would the South have parity of numbers against federal armies. When Shiloh was lost the South lost more land mass and lands able to produce and feed its armies than it lost in both Sheridan's march up the valley and Sherman's March through Georgia. After Shiloh the South's only hope was a political solution. Unreconstructed Alabamian here but the reality is the South lost the war at Shiloh.

Vicksburg Campaign was the beginning of the end of the Confederacy, and the fall of Atlanta and Chattanooga. I under what he getting at!! Shiloh was the crack in the foundation, and so was Corinth.

Had not Southerners secede from the Union, and attack Fort Sumter, and formed the Confederacy. They wouldn't have suffered such humiliation and defeat, and total destruction of southern states.

Cary West is that in addition to The Alabama? RELee’s brother was the commander.

You must mean Nathan Bedford Forrest. He went on to commit hate crimes. @james crowe

The CSA documented its fundamental facts - such as its seceeding specifically for slavery, and its constitutional ban on states' right to sbolish slavery - thus proving the "states' rights" nonsense to be the pathetic lie it is. The CSA got just what it deserved, and those who identify with the CSA and fly its flags do so to the extent that they are obviously anti-American.

That feud might have cost them the war as Davis put incompetents in command specifically to avoid giving the skilled Beauregard command same case with Davis and Joseph E Johnston his personal grudges were perhaps the confederacy greatest military weakness

@Dat Dude Confederacy's greatest weakness WAS their "cause" ! ! !

@@datdude6754 ...and Lee should have listened to Longstreet more!!!

No Longstreet should have listened to Lee, and when he did at the Wilderness the Union army was pushed back and would many think been defeated had Longstreet not been hit by Union fire.

@@OldHeathen1963 The cause of State Rights what most men in gray fought for is what we need today as China is at the door.

***** Seems political generals were the bane of the Union Army. When Grant got situated into the Army of the Potomac in late summer '64 he asked his cavalry chief James Wilson on why there were so many bad political generals and what could be done with them. Wilson told Grant to fill his staff member Seneca Indian Eli Parker with the worst commissary whiskey available and let him scalp them all. Many of these generals did some good-mainly in the form of raising regiments from their respective states with which they conveniently appointed themselves commanders of. Many times the soldiers refused to have someone from another state in command.

I'm not calling Sherman a political general-he innovated the 'total war' approach. However on a tactical level I find his record wasn't exactly stellar. For example at Lookout Mountain Grant wanted Sherman to have the glory for it's capture but Sherman's attack bogged down. I also use the attack at Shiloh that caught Sherman's division by surprise and yet again at Bentonville. I'm more of a George Thomas fan, but we won't ever really know about him because he told his wife to burn his war diary upon his death.

***** As my hair turns grayer I'm happy that it's doing just that instead of falling out. I don't think George Thomas was bi-polar. Everyone that knew him said he was always even tempered. I think he simply didn't want 'the glory' memoirs usually give their authors which says a great deal of his character. He was a Virginian and his family forever disowned him for his service to the Union instead of Virginia. His troops loved him because they knew he wouldn't needlessly waste their lives and if 'Old Pap' was around things were going to be alright. In the words of Bruce Catton my favorite author, "the Union gained back nearly everything in George Thomas they had lost in Robert Lee." Sorry for the long reply...it's awesome that you're related to Joe Johnston. I don't have any ancestors that high up-just one that served with Sherman in his March to the Sea and another that died in a Richmond hospital 5 days after receiving a head wound at Petersburg, and another who was a Colonel in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

I can well imagine losing your hair upon seeing cases that an increasingly immoral society produces. I truly respect the capabilities of reasoning that marks a judge's profession. (Ever read about 'Judge' Roy Bean?) I really need to do some traveling to Civil War battlefields. We have a few here in Missouri but we never had any major engagements, with the exception of Wilson's Creek. Most around here are a simple marker around a ford or crossing and are mostly sadly forgotten and neglected. I firmly believe the saying that states a people that forget their history are doomed to repeat it. Our history may not be forgotten, but when political correctness becomes infused in it one might as well throw it out the window anyway in my humble opinion. I always wondered about being paroled in the Civil War. It was one of Grant's favorite terms of surrender but I think it was really Grant's logistical sense he learned from Winfield Scott in the Mexican War. Paroling prisoners freed Grant's armies from having to feed and guard them. As God-fearing honorable men they promised to peaceably go home and never pick up arms against the Union for the duration. Talk about devotion-I couldn't imagine continuing to fight for a lost cause after Lee and Johnston surrendered. Lee could have easily told his army to disband and continue fighting but he formally surrendered to end the bloodshed and hoped his example would influence the rest of any Confederates who pledged to fight on. These men were cast from an iron mold to withstand all the disease, bad food, and combat that I simply cannot fathom. Wow, getting shot in the head, recovering and walking home 75 miles-taken all in stride by what I consider the finest set of Americans ever; little wonder it lasted 4 years and cost 650,000 lives.

I currently reside in Gladstone, MO which is really part of North Kansas City. I grew up on a small farm near Braymer, a town of 900 or so. It's been my dream to get moved out of the city and to get back out to the farm but meaningful employment is lacking out there. I come from a long line of Republicans, back to my great-grandfather who moved from Virginia as a boy with $5 in his pocket and a 6th grade education. He was able to build himself up to shipping off 20 railroad cars full of swine to the Kansas City stockyards but lost it all during the '29 crash. I do consider myself very conservative on the role of government but I'm very frustrated at the GOP's apparent lack of backbone these last few years, at least in DC. I'm pleased with our state legislature who have toed the line against our liberal governor. (For example, passing a bill stating that Missouri will not recognize any Federal bill infringing the 2nd Amendment. What part of "shall not be infringed" do liberals not understand? (It shows their thinking on government power.) I can go on and get very agitated on this subject. Long story short I wished I'd been able to teach history or civics but college seems to think I need to know algebraic formulas to do so and that's my Achilles Heel. Anyhow Springfield is about 3 hours from here-it'd be great to talk. The furthest South I've ever been is Tennessee. Shiloh would probably be the closest major battlefield to me.

…better yet, they shouldn’t have taken up arms against their country to become traitors.

@@jamessoltis5407 They weren't traitors.. They legally departed from the union to gain sovereign independence from Northern Aggression. America was founded on this principle; hence, that's how we gained independence from the British. If the South had won, the North would be called the traitors; which, highlights neither side were traitors. Each side were fighting for their own beliefs which is divine.

@@smooth247fyi …derp. Secession has been found to be unconstitutional, according to the Supreme Court: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White?wprov=sfti1 The treasonous CSA killed more Americans than any other organization in history. Full stop. The American colonists who took up arms against their crown were technically treasonous. However, their cause, which was unshackling themselves from colonial rule, was a bit more palatable that that of the South, whose cause was to keep human beings shackled in forced labor. As for your “war of Northern aggression”: Haha! Who left the Union in a tizzy because they didn’t like the duly elected president? Who illegally confiscated federal goods and property before the war started? Who fired on Fort Sumpter to begin the war? Have your drinking water supply checked for lead contamination, Cletus.

@@jamessoltis5407 If you think it was treason then you must believe in communism and dictatorships. It's all about differences in beliefs. Most liberals side with the rebels overthrowing Syrias Government as "just..." Which, thinking like you, it should be deamed as "treason.." It's not. It's oppressed people trying to gain independence from their oppressor. Ain't no shame in that no matter what the cause.

@@smooth247fyi …derp. I’m a U.S. Army vet. I’ve given years of my life in service to my country. What about you, ‘patriot’? Confederate sympathizers are just so pathetic, and the direct ideological descendant of the Confederacy, aka the modern Republican Party, is even more pathetic. Blind allegiance to a leader is about as un-American as it gets, and the party of Trump has that in spades.

Why was Braxton Bragg a traitor??

***** lmao

James contact there web site and e mail them asking what are there requirements.

It will help to know the correct use of "there," "their," and "they're." Accents aside, these Rangers appear rather well-educated.

My guess is some college courses with a major in history but I say that because any cool job usually comes through the college programs.

Park Ranger jobs are highly competitive, they have to know history as well as PHDs. It’s an honor and dream job for those that become one. They are very passionate about what they do.

Trump will never appreciate or show appreciation for squat if it doesn't get him cheap political points or $. Trump is a disgrace, period. Every American whose politics extend beyond cheap hatred for the SJW fringe (and Trump supporters are the SJWs of the right) sees Trump for the lying trash he is and despises him.

@@neilhillis9858 You leftist weirdo, Trump has done more for Americans people. Trump made promises and kept them to me and the American people, we were better off when he was in office. Creepy, 😴 Sleepy Joe Biden manage to nearly destroy this country in only in a few months in office. Biden is the horrible 2.0 new version of Jimmy Carter, he is a puppet of the radical leftist Democratic Party.

Yea jusy like those hard fighting Nazis

It wasn't a second revolution, it was treason against the United States. They were free citizens in the Union, and under the United States Constitution. Yep we had superior numbers and endless supplies, and etc.

What country were you born within?

The Yankees sent back the demons back to the Devil.

Sherman > The CSA and its pathetic, lying apologists.

William Webster Sherman is greatest military genius, he but the rebs in their place.

@@neilhillis9858 Quit No care what you have say you Neo Confederate Lost Causers loser!!

You are naive. Refrain from commenting on subject matter you know not.

Do you not realize this video was uploaded eight plus years ago?

T. Davis Who but cowards would fight for slavery?

+Frederick Harriman Yes, half of the men who fought and died in America's bloodiest war were nothing but cowards. Lol, some people are just retarded.

Even Lee blamed the Confederate loss on desertions. Please educate yourself before posting. Thank You

Most of those men youcall cowards had been through many battles the reason they deserted was they received a letter from the wife stating that Sherman had marched through and destroyed all the food and your children are starving come home now!! what choice did they have. the south could have won the war if at Gettysburg, Lee had not attacked against up hill fortified positions and instead marched south around the union army Washington DC was 40- 50 miles away the union army would have had to follow. Lee could have met them on an even playing field and prob. won also the union had nothing to stop Lee with he had an open road all the way to DC the war was lost because the north had a larger population to draw on and they had a big manufacturing capacity the south had to win quick or lose

R.E. Lee called them cowards first son.