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What Happened During the Final Hours of the Civil War 

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On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Virginia's Appomattox Court House, effectively ending The Civil War.
During the final, decisive battles of the war, many men lost their lives as the Confederacy desperately tried to fight against the Union troops that overran them. But on that fateful day in 1865, General Lee's surrender set the precedent for other massive surrenders that led to the official end of the war.
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@davec.8406
@davec.8406 2 года назад
One of Lee's first requests to Grant was to feed his men . Grant accepted without hesitation
@jonsnowight9510
@jonsnowight9510 2 года назад
That was before it had become a crime to lose a war
@nicksosicc
@nicksosicc 2 года назад
@@jonsnowight9510 well its not a crime because Americans are familiar to losing wars.
@Kodoschannel1
@Kodoschannel1 2 года назад
@@nicksosicc are you French?
@dmathmothtutinean8950
@dmathmothtutinean8950 2 года назад
@@nicksosicc In 1865?? No… not USED to losing wars after becoming a nation and I am Canadian 🇨🇦.
@mrhumble2937
@mrhumble2937 2 года назад
@@dmathmothtutinean8950 never really lost a war period. Can argue Vietnam but we just pulled out because of public opinion not because we would actually lose.
@dragona33
@dragona33 2 года назад
It is amazing to me that Grant, being battle worn and decidedly exhausted from 4 years of war, was still a proper gentleman. By allowing Lee to surrender with dignity and respect shown to those who were once enemies, Grant showed himself to be a very honorable general and man. In the modern day, it is hard to find someone in power with the qualities and honor, like those found in Grant and Lincoln. Thank you for such a great video.
@Nope_handlesaretrash
@Nope_handlesaretrash 2 года назад
Grant was a man of honor. Lincoln was a tyrant only fondly remembered because the war was won and he was killed. Sherman was a psychopath who should have been nailed to a tree.
@travishylton6976
@travishylton6976 2 года назад
@@Nope_handlesaretrash the south should have burned more
@Nope_handlesaretrash
@Nope_handlesaretrash 2 года назад
@@matterman7662 you mean the union that was planning to expell all the blacks to Africa (Lincoln), or the union that used Irish immigrants fresh off the boat as cannon fodder? Or the one that used free blacks on useless suicide attacks? The one that massacred indians? Get bent.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@@Nope_handlesaretrash The Confederacy had a draft months before the Union did and while the Union draft had the provision that you could hire a substitute (thus exempting the rich from the draft) the Confederate draft exempted most slave owners. It's always important to keep that in mind when someone argues that most Confederate soldiers didn't own slaves. That's true. If they had owned slaves they would have had cushy jobs in the Home Guard and never gotten anywhere near the Army of the Potomac. And most Irish and German (a lot more German than Irish) immigrants volunteered for the Union Army.
@GravesRWFiA
@GravesRWFiA 2 года назад
@@Nope_handlesaretrash sherman understood modern war, his attrocities are greatly exagerated in the 'lost cause' except for SC his march was only 60 miles wide but people well outside that claimed they were robbed by him, in NC they were very careful becasue NC had voted to seceed by only 1 vote so they were much more careful. learn your facts before spouting off.
@aaronstark5060
@aaronstark5060 2 года назад
You guys left out the most interesting bit about where Lee surrendered. Wilmer McLean formerly lived on a farm lived in Manassas and was part of the opening battle of the war, Bull Run. His house was actually commandeered as a Confederate headquarters and hit by a Union Shell. He moved to Appomattox Courthouse to get away from the war.
@beckoutloud4364
@beckoutloud4364 2 года назад
I couldn't remember all of that story and was hoping they would bring it up! Thank you for telling it :)
@vinnydaq13
@vinnydaq13 2 года назад
McLean liked to say that the war “started in my back yard and ended in my front parlor”. 🧐
@thegoldfly1
@thegoldfly1 2 года назад
The first LAND battle. Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor was the first battle of the war.
@aaronstark5060
@aaronstark5060 2 года назад
@@thegoldfly1 Fort Sumter was more of a skirmish. It wasn’t a full scale battle.
@thegoldfly1
@thegoldfly1 2 года назад
@@aaronstark5060 Well I consider firing cannons at each other a battle. So does history. Fort Sumter is the first battle of the war, no matter how McLean wanted to put it. Considering that Fort Sumter's battle literally reached the point of pot shots.
@wecandobetter9821
@wecandobetter9821 2 года назад
Grant unlike previous Union generals kept constant pressure on Lee’s army until the bitter end. Like Lincoln said of Grant “ I can’t spare this man, he fights” History shows us that was true. What a god awful war.
@DMS-pq8
@DMS-pq8 2 года назад
Exactly, Previous Union commanders would lose a battle and than retreat giving Lee time to regroup, But Grant would lose a battle but keep fighting
@terryfont9468
@terryfont9468 2 года назад
What a waist
@neilpemberton5523
@neilpemberton5523 2 года назад
All his life, Grant hated to be turned around. If he lost his bearings whilst on the road he would cut across country rather than re-trace his steps
@SandfordSmythe
@SandfordSmythe 2 года назад
There is a story that after a major battle, the troops were expecting the usual few days for R&R. The next morning the call went out to move out, and the troops cheered.
@hereef1
@hereef1 Год назад
@@terryfont9468 did you mean waste? Good lord.
@ralphgreenjr.2466
@ralphgreenjr.2466 Год назад
Lee was the last great Napoleonic general, while Grant was the first modern general. Lee was a pure battlefield genius in the manor in which he exercised agility in battle. Grant saw the war in a strategic sense and in depth. He rightly reasoned that to defeat the enemy in the field, you have destroy his economy, moral, and ability to perpetuate the war. Grant, appointed battle captains (Sheridan, Sherman) and gave them the authority to pursue the war on multiple fronts at once. The Confederates could not match that agility of battle. Grant believed in cross service coordination with the Navy. Grant was a master of logistics, utilizing rail, ship, and wagon to supply his armies in the field. The Confederates may have had a great battle captain in General Lee, but they lacked a Grant, logistician, and strategic thinker.
@HHH-td3nz
@HHH-td3nz Год назад
pickets’s charge. Not a genius.
@noName-kn1lx
@noName-kn1lx 11 месяцев назад
@@HHH-td3nzno ones a 100 percent correct in war
@bobthebreaker8037
@bobthebreaker8037 7 месяцев назад
Grant and Moltke were based
@NoirEtBlanc86
@NoirEtBlanc86 2 года назад
While they treated each other with dignity, let us not forget how bloody and terrible this war was. To not romanticize it. I re-watched Ken Burns Civil War docu-series again recently and it was a reminder of how inhumane our society can truly be. That’s why I love history, reminds us not to repeat it in our struggle to “form a more perfect Union” as the late John Lewis used to say.
@Ghost12314
@Ghost12314 2 года назад
Yeah sure, saying people to not romanticize it will definitely make them to not romanticize it.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@@Ghost12314 The generals on both sides were all upper-class West Pointers. What I find interesting is not that they were civil to one another, but that they were still willing to lead hundreds of thousands of men to their deaths (while being civil to one another). It's a lot easier to understand a war (like the Eastern front of World War II) when it's an all out war of extermination between two nationalities who despise one another. It's much more difficult to understand a war that killed a million people fought in such a "gentlemanly" manner.
@AndriaBieberDesigns
@AndriaBieberDesigns 2 года назад
Love that series! Ken burns is so amazing
@jiukumite
@jiukumite 2 года назад
@@stanleyrogouski It’s always seemed to me that as one gains in years and you physically weaken, your mind is what is forced to strengthen. Human beings are capable of some CRAZY influences. Isn’t there a saying about how the older fight their battles with the younger or some thin’? I dunno. Hope you’re doing well and staying safe!
@crazypickles8235
@crazypickles8235 2 года назад
I feel that the romance surrounding the War of the Rebellion/War of Northern Aggression is played up a lot by modern education systems and media. No body looks at either World War in very positive light, but the United States and UK are almost never made to be villainous, no matter how heinous their atrocities were against their enemies, because history is written by the victorious, and the loser laments without end. A far more fascinating abuse of humanity and unsung hellscape of warfare would be the endless pursuit of the Cherokee, Apache, Arapahoe and Dakota in the years leading up to, during and following the Civil War. What America did to the First Nations is unforgivable. We soaked our hands in their blood and it is never mentioned
@kimberlyweaver1285
@kimberlyweaver1285 2 года назад
My entire 8th grade year history class was the civil war. We studied 100s of battles. We knew the dates, the generals and the outcome. Why we don’t study the civil war that in-depth now is a crime. It was our bloodiest war ever. We wouldn’t be America without it. Brother against brother.
@PhoenixAngel429
@PhoenixAngel429 2 года назад
What scares me is that. Today we have rhetoric as hot as back then. But when it happens again, the bloodshed would be MUCH worse
@johnhulsker9123
@johnhulsker9123 2 года назад
Who needs history, it's playing out in the present,
@eq1373
@eq1373 2 года назад
It's about to happen again on a far larger scale.
@007Julie
@007Julie 2 года назад
That sounds so interesting, what a privilege to have that kind of education. My school was in a lower income area and we were lucky if we had access to decent books.
@Ricky_Spanishh
@Ricky_Spanishh 2 года назад
@@007Julie blame your parents for putting you in that school or living in that area. Don't blame privilege.
@kirbymarchbarcena
@kirbymarchbarcena 2 года назад
Two great rival generals showing their utmost respect, compassion and trust to each other...traits that every leaders must learn.
@5103jerry
@5103jerry 2 года назад
no one great general, that other thing was a slave driving traitor
@HazeCarver
@HazeCarver 2 года назад
@@5103jerry Lee is just lucky it wasnt sherman who caught up to him :)
@5103jerry
@5103jerry 2 года назад
@@HazeCarver you is right on, i wish it would have been sherman
@daviddavenport9350
@daviddavenport9350 2 года назад
@@HazeCarver Actually, Sherman offered Johnston even milder terms than Grant offered Lee.....Congress berated Sherman and took back some of his terms...
@HazeCarver
@HazeCarver 2 года назад
@@daviddavenport9350 oh damn i actually didnt know that. Youd expect something different from old Willy T. “I will make georgia howl” Sherman. But i guess he was going for the caesarean approach of “crush your enemies then forgive them”
@rip8564
@rip8564 Год назад
Grant for reasons I will know never got his due. I’m from Georgia and I can tell you he is highly regarded and respected by many southerners. His treatment of Lee and his army at Appomattox - the civility he showed - has not been forgotten.
@okapmeinkap7311
@okapmeinkap7311 Год назад
They both were West Pointers and officers of the United States Armed Forces will and always do maintain the standard of AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN.
@sgchastain
@sgchastain 4 месяца назад
I’m from Georgia, too! I am just finishing the biography of Grant. Grant won the war; Lee won the myth. They say.
@sgchastain
@sgchastain 4 месяца назад
Lee”s men adored him. Even Union soldiers were blinded by the “invincibility” of Lee. GRANT FELT HE HAD TO make Lee conquer-able when he took over he Army of the Potomac.
@michaelplanchunas3693
@michaelplanchunas3693 Год назад
Grant hated slavery. His wife Julia was the daughter of a southern slave owner. When he died, he willed one slave to Grant. When the man arrived at Grant's house, he was taken the next day to the county courthouse where a document of Manumission was drawn up, registered with the county clerk. He gave his now ex-slave a copy and a handshake telling him he was a free man, and then returned home.
@henrymcmiller2527
@henrymcmiller2527 Год назад
I feel that Christians on both sides knew slavery was wrong, but the South was fighting for its financial independence. I cannot imagine the South winning this war.
@thehighllama8101
@thehighllama8101 Год назад
In all seriousness, I hope he gave that slave some money too, to get on his feet. Imagine leaving the former slave destitute, no money for a meal, hotel, or train ticket, standing at the front of the county courthouse.
@henrymcmiller2527
@henrymcmiller2527 Год назад
@@thehighllama8101 The slaves possessed something much more than money to start a new life; they had freedom.
@paintriarchdave7977
@paintriarchdave7977 Год назад
Sometimes being a slave was safer. A free man has to protect and provide for himself. A slave.... that's a mans property/income you're messing with.
@BSU55
@BSU55 Год назад
​@@paintriarchdave7977 so how old were you when, you voluntarily became a Slave, in exchange for someone else being responsible for your health and welfare.
@garrisonnichols807
@garrisonnichols807 Год назад
The crazy true story about the owner of Appomattox courthouse is really interesting. Wilmer McLean had a house he and his family bought in 1854 in Manassas where the first battle of the Civil War the First Battle of Bull Run began in 1861. McLean's home was used as Confederate General Beauregard's headquarters during that time. After the Second Battle of Bull Run McLean moved his family for safety reasons away from the fighting and bought the Appomattox courthouse in 1863. It was there that Grant and Lee would meet and finally end the war. So basically the Civil War started and ended in McLean's front yard.
@zach7193
@zach7193 2 года назад
Ok, this is great. Lee let his pride get the better of him. He was fully committed to the cause and devotion to his army. He hoped to link up with forces in the Carolinas and fight elsewhere. It was not to be. Sheridan's cavalry thwarted his efforts. The Army of the Potomac was on the chase in getting Lee to surrender. Grant was on his heels. The surrender at Appomattox was the domino effect. Other forces were still in the field. Lee's surrender was a chain reaction. It saw to it that fighting on was pointless. Peace and reconciliation was what the country needed after a bloody civil war.
@jarenjay9667
@jarenjay9667 2 года назад
Yea i also belive the president wanted lee to be the general for the union but he turned it down because of his family in the south, i believe. Im his great great great grandson Jaren Lee
@dpfljr
@dpfljr 2 года назад
Also if lee moved operations to Texas, he would have realized that he was not yet defeated
@GravesRWFiA
@GravesRWFiA 2 года назад
lee was an opponent but not an enemy.
@eduardoelizondo3487
@eduardoelizondo3487 2 года назад
@@GravesRWFiA Isn't anyone who perpetuates the slavery of humans the enemy?
@jeremyhull3177
@jeremyhull3177 2 года назад
@@GravesRWFiA he literally owned slaves he was the enemy and a bad person
@BillMorganChannel
@BillMorganChannel 2 года назад
Great video ... here are cool follow up facts. Licoln, like Grant wanted to be gracious to the surrendered Conferates. Lincoln gets shot and the new President, Johnson, wants to put Lee on trial for treason. Grant throws a fit saying "They surrendered due to the terms I proposed. We can't change the terms and do a hokey doke on them!" Johnson backed down. Grant was one of the greatest Americans ever.
@beavercleaver7848
@beavercleaver7848 2 года назад
Wow - hokey doke became okey dokey. Okey doke.
@BillMorganChannel
@BillMorganChannel 2 года назад
@@beavercleaver7848 To quote my Grant: "Nopey wopey on hokey dokie, free Lee or I give you my knee ...agree?"
@neilpemberton5523
@neilpemberton5523 2 года назад
Grant threatened to resign his office of General-in-chief, which would have been a political disaster for Johnson. Even at that stage, Grant was a shoo-in to win the 1868 election.
@beavercleaver7848
@beavercleaver7848 2 года назад
@@BillMorganChannel That would be a ten yard penalty. My father's father was Levi Grant LastName. My father was plowing a field on Little Round Top at the Gettysburg, PA battleground with a mule (and a plow) when someone drove up and told him the Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack began at 12:45 PM Eastern Time. He was too young to get in on the fun before it was all over, though. One day when I was maybe in Jr. high school, I was sitting on the low cement wall along the long staircase leading up a hill to the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Maybe around 2/3 of the way up the left side of the stairway as one walks up the hill. In my line of sight was the Custis Lee Mansion of Robert E Lee, on their former plantation at the bottom of the hill. My hands were on the top of the low wall I was sitting on, one on either side of me. Some boy around my age came running down the stairway from the top of the hill, stopped suddenly, and vomited on my left hand. Later, I won the New England High School fencing championship. I'm left handed.
@Melons-vg8dq
@Melons-vg8dq Год назад
Johnson kept backing out. He was almost killed too. Same with Grant
@nightshadehelis9821
@nightshadehelis9821 2 года назад
This is seriously my favorite channel. I learn so much and it's downright interesting. This is the type of content that I wish the History Channel produced. Nope. Instead we get reality shows about pawn shops and aliens.
@johngaither9263
@johngaither9263 Год назад
They should change the name from HISTORY CHANNEL to BS CHANNEL.
@STONESGAM
@STONESGAM Год назад
This is why many people barely watch regular tv anymore. I watch more RU-vid channels on topics I am interested in rather than the trash they have on mainstream cable for the most part.
@edpra7068
@edpra7068 2 года назад
US Grant is one of my favorite characters in all of history.
@stuartlee6622
@stuartlee6622 2 года назад
Mine is Louis Farrakhan.
@williamwallaceoftheus8033
@williamwallaceoftheus8033 2 года назад
Stuart Lee Weird choice
@user-xs5bl9dy6d
@user-xs5bl9dy6d Год назад
Characters" would imply that they're fictional. Yeah the Civil War" happened and many lives were lost on both sides.
@halleysever1073
@halleysever1073 2 года назад
Ulysses S Grant is my favorite human being of all time. I did a whole report on him in English class just cause I could.
@mmjahink
@mmjahink 2 года назад
Grant had his faults, but he was one of the best men of his time.
@geebeeinga
@geebeeinga 2 года назад
Read the latest biography on Grant. It is a wonderful read of a truly flawed but incredibly decent man. He was an overcomer and did more to promote the rights of the freed slaves than any president.
@daviddavenport9350
@daviddavenport9350 2 года назад
@@geebeeinga Til recently I didnt realize in what hight esteem Grant was held all over the world! He was feted everywhere he and Julia went on their Grand Tour.
@leepenlack5548
@leepenlack5548 2 года назад
grant was a drunk, closer to last in his class at west point. lee was third in his class at west point. grant had bad scandals later when he was president
@hyacinthlynch843
@hyacinthlynch843 2 года назад
@@leepenlack5548 1) Grant was not a drunk. He only drank out of sheer loneliness or boredom. But never during battle. 2) Grant graduated in the middle of his class at West Point. 3) Lee graduated second in his class, and he did not earn one demerit while at West Point. 4) Grant was not corrupt. But his cabinet members were.
@wcox4
@wcox4 2 года назад
Love your videos. Have you done a video on The Great Locomotive Chase or the Transcontinental Railroad?? If not, there's two ideas. Keep up the great work on our Weird History.
@thepaintingbanjo8894
@thepaintingbanjo8894 2 года назад
I seriously learn more about history through this one channel than the History Channel and school combined. The gift that keeps on giving.
@nedludd7622
@nedludd7622 2 года назад
The History Channel is shit, but the reason you did not learn things in school is that you were too smart to pay attention.
@jouhanneus
@jouhanneus 2 года назад
This video glossed over a lot. Immediately before Appotmattox, Lee's army was besieged at Petersburg, starving and without hope. When Union forces broke through Lee's lines and Lee's position became impossible, the goal for Lee's army was to fall back quickly and link up with General Johnston's army in North Carolina. That's why he refused to surrender, until surrounded at Appomattox Courthouse.
@michaelmillerski1071
@michaelmillerski1071 2 года назад
Who cares? You lost! lol 😆.
@jouhanneus
@jouhanneus 2 года назад
@@michaelmillerski1071 Cared enough to reply, didn't you? 😉 "You lost" ? Who? I'm not Southern. I'm not even American😄
@jouhanneus
@jouhanneus 2 года назад
@D Sullivan Johnston still had about 90 000 men in the field at that point. If I remember correctly, the idea was to merge the armies, and try and deal with Sherman first. If succesful, they would then turn around and try to go on the offensive against Grant. If not able to take offensive action, then solidify their position, and aim for a political end to the war, meaning negotiated peace. I seriously doubt it would have worked. Grant and Sherman would have done whatever it took to not allow Lee and Johnston to form a new army in peace and quiet. If it had worked, it could have extended the war for who knows how long.
@jouhanneus
@jouhanneus 2 года назад
@D Sullivan Well, Confederate armies, particularly the Army of Northern Virginia, had pulled off some unlikely victories against vastly superior Union forces in the past - 2nd Manassas/Bull Run and Chancellorsville f.example - and there was a small hope that they could repeat it.
@Sodbusterrod
@Sodbusterrod 2 года назад
@@jouhanneus Please check that 90,000 number. That’s an exceedingly high number for Johnston’s command.
@jimchumley2982
@jimchumley2982 2 года назад
Little do they know but when Grant shook Lee's hand as he surrendered Grant gave Lee a hidden check for One Million Dollars to surrendered. I told that to my daughter as a joke when she was young and in school and during a teaching on the Civil War in class she told the teacher that thinking it was the truth and not a lie. My daughter is 29 now and we still joke about that.
@mountainman679
@mountainman679 2 года назад
“The war is over - the rebels are our countrymen again. The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.”- General Ulysses S. Grant.
@Treklosopher
@Treklosopher 2 года назад
Probably his and Lincoln's most shortsighted viewpoint. It allowed for the intransigence of the rebels to continue and they are still a scourge upon the U.S. today. It's almost like they were allowed to think they won.
@pi3man252
@pi3man252 2 года назад
@@Treklosopher I doubt that racism was extremely common in the north. Racism developed because of slavery it didn't matter where north or south. You act like a huge majority of southern people nowadays are racists when that is just false. Racism still exists but it's a fraction of what it used to be I hate people like you giving yourself a false sense of reality.
@kenduffy5397
@kenduffy5397 Год назад
@@Treklosopher As a historian: You are 100% wrong. It was their longsightedness that saved thousands of American lives! Had they tried & hung Lee, Longstreet, etc etc? Never mind; I was going to explain to why Lincoln & Grant made that decision but why bother, besides I’m not in the mood to talk history today.
@randalllemons7479
@randalllemons7479 Год назад
i wish this was true nobody told everybody up north . instead they want erase all the souths history. and it was not a civil war it was war between the states. hey heres a thought some of yall should look at some of the contributions of confederate soilders officers and enlisted.
@xxxxxx-tq4mw
@xxxxxx-tq4mw Год назад
Because of class privilege, the West Point graduates who had taken oaths to defend the U.S. Constitution, but chose to be traitors and join the rebellion, instead were allowed to carry on with their lives when the war ended, some being honored to this day, when any rank and file enlisted troops who did the same, would’ve been hung for treason.
@jakethomson2991
@jakethomson2991 2 года назад
The Civil War started on Maclean's front lawn and ended in his parlor.
@thegoldfly1
@thegoldfly1 2 года назад
I wasn't aware that his front lawn was Charleston Harbor. The Civil War began at Fort Sumter. Sure Maclean tried to claim it started on his front lawn, but that wasn't what happened.
@BillMorganChannel
@BillMorganChannel 2 года назад
@@thegoldfly1 I thought the war began in Philadelphia in 1787. (And it is "McClean, not "MacClean" but I loved your comment!)
@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch
@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch 2 года назад
You lying SOB it certainly did not!!! It started at Ft.Sumnter, South Carolina.
@cpowell4227
@cpowell4227 2 месяца назад
​@BillMorganChannel This war really started in Kansas. Thats where the first bloodshed was
@kaito-hp1hy
@kaito-hp1hy 2 года назад
"The Confederates were now our COUNTRYMEN, and we did not want to exult over their downfall"
@mmjahink
@mmjahink 2 года назад
And yet Neoconfederates would have you believe that the Northerners overwhelmingly delighted at the humiliation at the South when really it was more of a relief that the war was over. This narrative serves as a rationale for their revisionist theories that brush aside any insinuations that the war was fought primarily over slavery. This gives them a victim status that justifies their ignorance and their ancestors bad decision for being on the wrong side of history.
@michaelmillerski1071
@michaelmillerski1071 2 года назад
Why the HELL not? They would have had a great big party 🎉!!.
@urekmazino6800
@urekmazino6800 2 года назад
@@mmjahink yup I see a few a month here in fl just like ignorant as can be about history.
@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore
@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore 2 года назад
@@michaelmillerski1071 would have? Haha. Hell their descendants are still having parties celebrating their defeat like it’s some grand achievement 😂😂
@patmccamy4126
@patmccamy4126 2 года назад
Extremely interesting and thanks for creating this video! I really enjoy your channel!!! Keep up the great work!!! Pat
@blampfno
@blampfno 2 года назад
'Lee pressed on' Nailed it.
@matthewmagda4971
@matthewmagda4971 2 года назад
1:12 XD
@arewehighyet3910
@arewehighyet3910 2 года назад
Underrated comment
@Balls4339
@Balls4339 2 года назад
I don’t get it
@lostfan5054
@lostfan5054 2 года назад
Comment of the century, right here.
@lesaber251
@lesaber251 2 года назад
Lee Press-On Nails
@blitzkrieg2928
@blitzkrieg2928 2 года назад
Sadly today it would be hard to find generals like Lee and Grant
@chuckrobinson599
@chuckrobinson599 2 года назад
Yeah, they're all too busy trying to be more woke than the others.
@williamgrant1127
@williamgrant1127 2 года назад
you are correct Blitz,this week in Virginia i watched the General Lee statue taken down and cut to pieces,the va governor said he was glad to see this traitor go then he placed pictures of Mr. George Floyd, and LGBTQ material in the pedestal
@chuckrobinson599
@chuckrobinson599 2 года назад
@@williamgrant1127 not liking what happened, the like is for you telling the story.
@FirstLast-hg1ez
@FirstLast-hg1ez 2 года назад
@@chuckrobinson599 lol "woke" the irony of people like you using that word , ill assume you watch fox news and oan. whelp keep on trying buddy
@eq1373
@eq1373 2 года назад
@@FirstLast-hg1ez you are not going to survive the next civil war
@kevindenelsbeck7444
@kevindenelsbeck7444 2 года назад
Great video, wish it had covered just a day or two longer, when the Union Army (under Chamberlain) did a very respectful acceptance (soldier's salute) of the surrendering Confederate troops. Completely improvised, and undoubtedly helped with reconciliation.
@hoponpop3330
@hoponpop3330 2 года назад
They may have been true a generation or two ago think your wrong currently it’s the left that fans the flames of hatred . Dividing is a necessary step in the destruction of the country .
@greglamm5986
@greglamm5986 2 года назад
@@hoponpop3330 That's laughable. Trump incited an insurrection and you have idiots like Boebert , Margery Taylor-Greene, Gosar, Gohmert, Ted Cruz, the list goes on. Keep up the gaslighting, though.
@joanbradley8042
@joanbradley8042 Год назад
Love your channel! For just the history itself.
@retromoto9456
@retromoto9456 2 года назад
Amazing how so many still haven't gotten over the loss of the confederacy.
@golfhound
@golfhound 2 года назад
It was not the loss as much as the terrible period of reconstruction that followed. After Lincoln died, many in congress and the Army sought revenge against a defeated South. Many ex-confederate soldiers were executed without trial. The whole South was destroyed and "Carpetbaggers" and other opportunists reaped rewards for preventing any real reconstruction. Vicksburg was in ruins. Sherman burned a trail 60 miles wide from Atlanta to the Atlantic. Scorched earth took on new meaning. Yankee troops wreaked havoc plundered and pillaged South Carolina out of revenge because SC was the first state to secede. Defeated Confederate soldiers were tired, broke, destitute and had nothing to come back to. Had there been real reconstruction and rebuilding of the South from day one, bad memories and feelings would not have run so deep for generations. General MacArthur and Eisenhower realized this at the end of WW2 and expedited rebuilding of Germany and Japan.
@retromoto9456
@retromoto9456 2 года назад
@@golfhound Those are excellent points and make sense but we are talking about a war that's been over for at least 150 years. The other issue is that as harsh the reconstruction period was... what about the period of slavery? As an adult, I've done reading on the practice of slavery in the South and I was shocked and appalled that this actually happened. I read in about how slaves were treated as farm animals to include breeding farms for southern landowners to increase their wealth. I was never taught this in school and slavery was a subject that was superficially covered. If anybody's got a right to be pissed it's African-Americans. Now I know why they call it "America's original sin."
@waynemartin2399
@waynemartin2399 2 года назад
@@golfhound the south couldn’t rebuild without slaves .
@dalew.6321
@dalew.6321 2 года назад
@@retromoto9456 what about the black slave owners? Should they be mad too? Owning slaves is bad whether you're black or white, my friend. I dont believe for a minute that the war was fought so black and white people could own slaves. That was a side issue that needed dealt with and changed. The major thing was that the tyrant Lincoln and the north were going unconstitutional on southern states. There was bad and good on both sides. And not everyone condoned what they're fellow brothers were doing on either side at all times either. That war is way more complex than just trying to free slaves, my friend.
@wildestcowboy2668
@wildestcowboy2668 2 года назад
@@dalew.6321 FACTS. I'm glad you told that Joe Biden loving gun banning clown off.
@JakeC91
@JakeC91 2 года назад
I love learning about the civil war. So many famous battles, so many personalities
@MC-gj8fg
@MC-gj8fg 2 года назад
Lee is often described as a reluctant, but honor and duty bound participant in the Civil War. Some of these letters make him sound quite a bit more zealous.
@waltonsmith7210
@waltonsmith7210 2 года назад
Its almost like we were lied to by propagandists.
@TheNightWatcher1385
@TheNightWatcher1385 Год назад
He fought like hell, but once he surrendered he didn’t tolerate further fighting and spent much of the rest of his life advocating that the south put aside the hatred and bitterness of defeat and to be one nation with the north again.
@marybeth1644
@marybeth1644 Год назад
@@TheNightWatcher1385 Lee also clearly stated that he had no desire that any statues be erected of him. He felt it could harm Union reunification.
@shadysif6220
@shadysif6220 Год назад
He also made it clear, he didn't believe in equality, he was against blacks having Civil rights, and when given the chance to speak out against the KKK terrorizing people of color, he refused. He was a white supremacist, who fancied himself a christian and a gentleman, so he sporadically threw out virtuous expressions to fool himself and others. When he was a typical sanctimonious southerner, who failed miserably to practice what they preached.
@johngarnergarner6724
@johngarnergarner6724 8 месяцев назад
I have read accounts that Lee was heard pacing all night long by his wife before he made the decision to join the confederate cause. Lee had spent his entire career in the US Army. He graduated second in his class at West Point and was later the superintendent there. He was considered by Gen Winfield Scott to be the most gifted officer in the army.
@Robert-un7br
@Robert-un7br Год назад
In 1860 Grant was pushing 40 years old. He was married with four children. A West Point graduate that had resigned from the army in 1854, he had failed at everything he had tried afterward, and had finally in desperation moved back home to work in his father store as a clerk. There, he was a subordinate to his two younger brothers. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant volunteered and received a commission as Colonel of Volunteers. He was given a command of 100 men. By 1862 he was Major-general of Volunteers and second in command of the Western Theater. Two years later, he was Commanding General of all Union armies. Four years later he was President.
@newerafrican
@newerafrican Месяц назад
An incredible man who made the most of circumstances. People sometimes think their lives follow a linear path but we never know what we’re capable of until the moment arrives.
@markthompson9754
@markthompson9754 Год назад
I have an ancestor who was one the officers who accepted the Confederate Flag on behalf of the Union. Grant wanted to reward his officers and so they drew straws.
@SLG-jt1rd
@SLG-jt1rd Год назад
That kind of ancestry is very interesting. I only descend from confederate officers and soldiers however.
@SpruceLynch
@SpruceLynch Год назад
Wow! What a neat part of your family history. What happened to the flag?
@garycarpenter6433
@garycarpenter6433 Год назад
I'm a relation to this great general
@savanahmclary4465
@savanahmclary4465 Год назад
The First National Confederate Flag? Or was it the Lee Family Scotish Heritage Shipping flag, the St. ANDREW? Used by the Army of Northern Virginia?
@katiejon17
@katiejon17 Год назад
@@SLG-jt1rd the vast majority of confederate soldiers neither owned slaves, nor agreed with it. They were fighting to keep the war from spilling onto their farms, and coming to the feet of their wives and children. They were also fighting for their individual home state more than anything. You can hold your head up high.
@angelzarate3125
@angelzarate3125 2 года назад
Great video! How about a video about the life and culture of the inuit people before modernization? Keep up the good work!
@porfirioxvi108
@porfirioxvi108 2 года назад
Excellent video!
@pedrofundora9185
@pedrofundora9185 Год назад
What a facinating story of how such a bloody war was ended with the elegance and honor that the 2 generals handled themselves. Very interesting and it set an example of how pride and bitterness can be put aside while seeking a higher honorable end for the good of the nation.
@johngaither9263
@johngaither9263 Год назад
A shame it failed to last during Reconstruction.
@williamrockwell9705
@williamrockwell9705 Год назад
We all see the massive damage your federal government power grab has done not just to this former nation but to the globe.
@jeremiahkivi4256
@jeremiahkivi4256 Год назад
Grant had his ideals, but he was also a realist and a pragmatist. He was just a man who got things done, and did it without spite of his adversaries.
@alexanderharding-roots2518
@alexanderharding-roots2518 2 года назад
Could you do a video on the history of messenger birds and also how they trained these birds. I have always been curious and it would be greatly appreciated
@btetschner
@btetschner 4 месяца назад
A+ video! Fascinating topic and video!
@this_is_history
@this_is_history 2 года назад
The final Confederate forces only surrendered on the 6th November 1865, when the CSS Shenandoah sailed into Liverpool, UK where Captain Waddell handed over his ship to the Royal Navy and presented a letter offering his formal surrender to the British Government. Interestingly, Liverpool also has a connection to the start of the war, as the first shot fired at the Battle of Fort Sumter came from a mortar made in Liverpool. During the war, despite Britain being officially neutral, Liverpool supported the Confederacy as it had strong economic and political connections with the cotton industry in the South. It provided shipping for the Confederate Navy (CSS Alabama) and financing to their diplomats who were based at their 'unofficial' embassy in the city.
@connerwills6802
@connerwills6802 2 года назад
Yea your not wrong but at that point there were no large scale battles. Also the capital fell, the president fled, and the two best remaining generals Lee and Jonson surrendered. It’s like how there was still German troops fighting after its surrender during WW2
@Boldorion1958
@Boldorion1958 2 года назад
Environmentalists should note that in the summer of 1865, CSS Shenandoah sailed into the Bering Sea and wiped out the Yankee whaling fleet, thereby saving the lives of countless whales.
@warrenmilford1329
@warrenmilford1329 2 года назад
Maybe a little known fact, but 42 Australians joined the CSS Shenandoah as crew, when she pulled into Melbourne, Victoria in Jan 1865 for repairs and resupply. They were on board when they captured those Yankee whaling ships in the Bering sea, and stayed with her till the surrender. Edit-apparently 19 of the Shenandoah's crew jumped ship, whilst in Melbourne, with most handing themselves into the Union US embassy there.
@dukeman7595
@dukeman7595 2 года назад
Captain Waddell is a traitor, his surrender to the British is a slap in the face to all who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
@ardshielcomplex8917
@ardshielcomplex8917 2 года назад
Australia also has a Confederate connection when the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah visited Melbourne and refitted there, the officers and crew were feted and made to feel welcome during their stay.
@jamescampbell2891
@jamescampbell2891 2 года назад
You guys should make videos for schools,would prob help kids get back into learning history. I love this channel
@hambam7533
@hambam7533 2 года назад
The schools are too driven to teach fake leftist propaganda then to teach real history they want to follow their God Marx who said if you can get a people to forget their heritage you can pursade them , this from a retired public school teacher
@Antimony145
@Antimony145 2 года назад
@@hambam7533 im in 7th grade and marx hasnt been mentioned once in my 8 years of “education”
@cek0792
@cek0792 2 года назад
@@Antimony145 not bad kid
@nedludd7622
@nedludd7622 2 года назад
@@hambam7533 Geez that is stupid. If you had paid attention, or maybe even have attended classes, all you would have heard is fascist capitalist propaganda.
@senatesheev
@senatesheev 2 года назад
@@hambam7533 what do you mean? All my teachers have been pretty objective when it came to history. Its the first thing we were taught
@TexasLady-ge1ms
@TexasLady-ge1ms 2 года назад
The picture at 7:16 is of Lee's office at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. Virginians still venerate Lee, but there are crazy things going on in Virginia now. Lee's office has been kept exactly the same as it was the last time he was there.
@matthewpixley4941
@matthewpixley4941 Год назад
I went to Appomattox and the museum of the confederacy about 5 years ago! Fascinating to see! Also just down the road 1/8 of a mile was a cemetery of soldiers(both union and confederate)who died the morning of the surrender. They literally were fighting until the end.
@drewmack5300
@drewmack5300 2 года назад
The narrators voice is oddly soothing and relaxing not sure why though
@charlesburke2379
@charlesburke2379 2 года назад
Lees forces were in Virginia waiting for a trainload of long awaited chow. They hadn't been resupplied in weeks. The train arrived as expected except the cargo was weapons instead of chow resupply. The war ended right there. General Lee had his runner contact General Grant for surrender terms. After that, General Grant dispatched 3 trains of chow.
@vibeofthee80s_
@vibeofthee80s_ Год назад
Really love these videos, thank you man for great content on RU-vid Happy Thanksgiving y'all 11/24/22
@shawndardbarbarbarian5061
@shawndardbarbarbarian5061 2 года назад
Great stuff learned things I had not known.
@dpierre3784
@dpierre3784 Год назад
Even with the casualties in the aftermath of 4yrs of war a man can't help but respect the valor and determination of a fellow soldier
@wa2436
@wa2436 Год назад
And as a southerner, Grant is one of the historical figures I respect the most. His gracious terms paved the way for a reconciliation of a whole nation
@TheNightWatcher1385
@TheNightWatcher1385 Год назад
@@wa2436A reconciliation that is now being torn down.
@rupvictoria3017
@rupvictoria3017 2 года назад
one of the last battles of the Civil War didn’t happen down in Virginia at that campaign it happened a month after the surrender down in Brownsville Texas which is the battle of Palmito Ranch in May of 1865
@midsouthirish1680
@midsouthirish1680 2 года назад
Stan Waite
@Boldorion1958
@Boldorion1958 2 года назад
Palmito Ranch was also a Confederate victory.
@MegaMantim
@MegaMantim 2 года назад
Took while for the word to spread....
@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch
@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch 2 года назад
Indeed and the Confederates won too!!!
@bradleyeatchel1413
@bradleyeatchel1413 Год назад
@@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch Indeed! and now we are all slaves to our wonderrfulllll goverment.
@rca19
@rca19 5 месяцев назад
New video editor? Looks great
@truesimplicity
@truesimplicity 2 года назад
It is difficult to acknowledge defeat... Though necessary before healing can begin.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
The war didn't end at Appomattox. Sherman and Johnson were negotiating a surrender in North Carolina. In Texas, the battle of Palmito Ranch took place in May. The raider CSS Shenandoah was in the pacific sinking whalers and traders until November.
@hugodegrand2198
@hugodegrand2198 Год назад
Yes. Everyone always says that the war ended on April, 9th but Lee's surrender represents only 27,000 men whereas Johnson's represents 90,000 men and no one know that.
@michaelalbertson7457
@michaelalbertson7457 Год назад
@@hugodegrand2198 Johnston, Joseph. He was known for using delaying tactics, so he lost fewer men, gave up much ground in the process. If he could have joined Lee, the South thought they might have a chance. But there was no way they could win, thank God. God was with the North. Another Johnston, Albert Sidney, also a Southern general, died at Shiloh.
@rickisaak66
@rickisaak66 Год назад
And Palmito Ranch ended with a Confederate victory.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
@@rickisaak66 Didn't matter much anyway. The Confederacy had pretty much been ended by that time.
@rickisaak66
@rickisaak66 Год назад
@@kellycochran6487 True, just an interesting footnote. Win the battle, lose the war.
@patrickscutella836
@patrickscutella836 Год назад
Enjoyed! How about a segment on the USS Michigan and the Confederate prisoners on Johnston Island in Lake Erie
@tombowers2020
@tombowers2020 Год назад
How could this have played out any differently, given the time? Strange, or not so. This is the embodiment of good sportsmanship. Quite possibly impossible today.
@PoshingtonSpark
@PoshingtonSpark 2 года назад
hope to see everyone at the next reenactment, lots of fun, everyone welcome.
@williammcdonald5086
@williammcdonald5086 2 года назад
I feel that General Grant was the bigger of the two men. It’s too bad that his presidency didn’t go so well. I guess military genius doesn’t equal political genius.
@collinsbico
@collinsbico 2 года назад
Yup, historically military leaders have made for terrible kings, presidents or dictators and vice versa. I guess running an army is very different from running a country.
@kevinaguilar7541
@kevinaguilar7541 2 года назад
Apparently, it was his friends (that he gave government positions) that messed up the country during the administration.
@SandfordSmythe
@SandfordSmythe 2 года назад
@@collinsbico Eisenhower did OK, but he was always in administrative and political positions.
@stuartwald2395
@stuartwald2395 2 года назад
He got a bad reputation for many decades from the Southern school of historians (Freeman et al.) as well as the Marxists. More recently, he has "risen in the rankings", especially when you consider his work in starting the first national park (Yellowstone), backing extensive surveying and exploration of Central America (for a canal) and beyond, opposition to racial and religious bigotry and violence, etc. His administration included many talented people such as Fish, Bristow, Ammen and others, as well as the people whom he wrongly trusted.
@memecliparchives2254
@memecliparchives2254 2 года назад
@@kevinaguilar7541 Unfortunately, that included Sherman. But arguably, Grant can be seen as the best Civil Rights President of the US. Although Jim Crow was becoming reality with Andrew Johnson, Grant being the president after him did all he can to stop that from happening. But the scandals that happened due to the people that manipulated him and the overall tiredness of both the North and South of the Civil War just let Jim Crow happen and run its course.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
The senior officers on both sides of the United States Civil War were not only the same nationality (American), the same religion (Protestant), the same ethnicity (Anglo Saxon) and the same class (bourgeoisie). They all graduated from the same school, West Point. So of course they were going to be civil to one another. It was like the Army Navy Game, or the Yale Harvard Game, or the Stanford Cal Game, only bloodier. But compare how Grant and Sheridan treated Lee to how the United States government (often led by the very same officers who commanded the Union Army during the Civil War) treated the leaders of the Plains Indians. There were no negotiations, no chivalry, no elaborate rituals of surrender. There was simply a brutal war of conquest where the defeated tribes were herded into reservations and the leaders treated like common criminals.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@R. P. Well the Cherokee expelled from the Southeastern United States during the Trail of Tears had already adopted the values of white Americans. They were literate, Christian, and many even held slaves (a lot of them fought for the South in the Civil War). And yet Andrew Jackson still felt it was his right to clear them off the land and send them to Oklahoma. A "war for civilization" was little more than an excuse for genocide. It's worth noting that as barbaric as the Southern Plantation class was, buying and selling human beings, they were still treated as gentlemen by Lincoln, Grant and even Sherman. West Point, founded oddly enough by Jefferson, created an elite that transcended even the bloodiest war in American history.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@R. P. I'm just pointing out that white Americans had too much experience with "civilized" Indians to believe the rumors about the Plains Indians. But even if we exclude the Cherokee you can find plenty of white men who acted like savages. Nathan Bedford Forrest massacred black union soldiers after they surrendered. And yet he was never tried for war crimes. I think the only Confederate officer who was was the commandant at Andersonville, who it's worth noting was a Swiss immigrant and not a West Pointer. Jefferson Davis spent a year or two in jail and since he was a West Pointer and an ex secretary of war it caused outrage in the north. Even the abolitionist Horace Greeley led a campaign for clemency.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@R. P. I think Charles Pomeroy Stone, who Lincoln set up as a scapegoat after the disaster at Ball's Bluff, wound up spending more time in prison than any Confederate officer. And he was completely innocent. All he did was enforce Lincoln's orders not to admit escaped slaves into the Union ranks. Yet when public opinion turned towards abolitionism in 1862, Lincoln had no trouble ruining his life. I think by the end of the war people in the North just wanted to be done with it. I wonder sometimes if Lee had organized a guerrilla war and extended the Civil War by a few more years if Northern public opinion would have turned more vindictive.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@R. P. And those contemporary accounts should be a lesson to us all today. Whenever the media tries to fill us all with fear of some other (be it the Chinese, Russians, Muslims) we should call it out for the propagandistic bullshit that it is. But that fear didn't limit itself to Indians. Think of the Haymarket Martyrs. The newspapers also promoted hysteria about immigrant (at the time largely German) radicals and Catholics. The same Union Army officers who destroyed slavery turned on a dime after the Civil War and became muscle for rich capitalists. Lee betrayed his oath and fought for slavery. But Grant, as President, was pretty much the Barack Obama of his day. He liked being around millionaires and oligarchs and largely served their interests instead of the people. The same army that crushed slavery crushed the Homestead Strike. It makes me wonder how different it would have been if slavery had been ended by a popular uprising and not a professional army commanded by West Pointers. Of course that wasn't going to happen. Crushing slavery took state power (which is what Lincoln means when he talks about "Saving the union," saving the state power needed to end slavery). But that same powerful state in the following decades was used to steal land from the Indians and serve as muscle for the wealthy.
@stanleyrogouski
@stanleyrogouski 2 года назад
@R. P. And you're a (strangely incurious about history) apologist for genocide. So get out of my face.
@janestevens8602
@janestevens8602 2 года назад
I live on a former battleground in Chattanooga. Truthfully, I think this was the beginning of the end for the Confederate army
@daviddavenport9350
@daviddavenport9350 2 года назад
Actually Shiloh in West Tennessee was the beginning of the end.....
@joeyanny8018
@joeyanny8018 2 года назад
Marvelous documentary film. Thank you. J
@johnduffy8532
@johnduffy8532 2 года назад
The manner in which Lee surrendered was perhaps one of his greatest pieces of leadership. It ended a war full stop that could have descended into a "bushwhacking" insurgency that would've added to the death toll and meant that the Union would destroy the South completely in order to ensure full capitulation. Grant knew this, hence the generosity of the conditions of surrender that he offered. Both men knew that getting the South back on its feet economically and restoring peace was far more important than gloating or score settling.
@rickeyhall9994
@rickeyhall9994 Год назад
Underrated comment. Well put sir
@haskellbob
@haskellbob Год назад
I know, right? I especially like the way James Thurber captured the events at Appomattox Courthouse: General Lee said, "I should like to have this over with as soon as possible." Grant looked vaguely at his aide, Corporal Shultz, who walked up close to him, frowning. "The surrender, sir, the surrender," said Corporal Shultz in a whisper. "Oh sure, sure," said Grant. He took another drink. "All right," he said. "Here we go." Slowly, sadly, he unbuckled his sword. Then he handed it to the astonished Lee. "There you are, General," said Grant. "We dam' near licked you. If I'd been feeling better we would of licked you." - From Thurber's story, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox".
@johnduffy8532
@johnduffy8532 Год назад
@@haskellbob funny. I've never read that.
@thomasbaagaard
@thomasbaagaard Год назад
except he only surrendered his own force. Johnston is the one who should get the credit for ending the war. and giving all remaining csa soldiers a way to go home in peace without fear of being prosecutor for treason.
@johnduffy8532
@johnduffy8532 Год назад
@@thomasbaagaard perhaps, but by that point Lee was overall command if all Confederate forces.
@f1guremeout
@f1guremeout 2 года назад
This is a story as much about the Land, as it is of it's People.
@Tully_23_32
@Tully_23_32 2 года назад
I'm loving Horace's moustache/goatee number. I wonder if the carpet is as bushy as the drapes
@maxpeters2613
@maxpeters2613 2 года назад
There used to be an engraved bronze plaque on a large stone at Appomattox Court House that said something like Lee and his 8 thousand and something army surrendered to Grant's army of 109, 000 on such and such a date .... Last time I was there it had been removed.
@jerryumfress9030
@jerryumfress9030 2 года назад
My gg grandfather was Joseph Howard Powell, Company H, 5th Alabama Cavalry. He was mustered out in the summer of 1865 and took his family and what was left of their possessions ( their home and most of the belongings, livestock was destroyed by the union army) to Itawamba County Mississippi. He passed away there in 1923 at the age of 91
@OldHeathen1963
@OldHeathen1963 2 года назад
"War is Hell" ~ Look at Ukraine now 3/1/22. Got to admire their spirit and cohesion! 👏 ( I bet it was like that in the South during the war )
@robertshepherd8543
@robertshepherd8543 Год назад
Glad you are preserving & passing on those memories. My parents were border state unionists. (Lincoln had been too). There was an expression in the South "thieving Yanks" - It financially destroyed some white southerners when thousands of collarrs worth of human capital were freed (or freed themselves) when Yanks came through. Some of Sherman's defenders brought up Chambersburg PA, when Sherman wreaked destrucction from Atlanta to Savannah. Morally, southerners and their defenders had a strong argument against guerre à l'outrance. The Bible commanded, don't destroy fruit trees, don't destroy crops or farm animals. Only take the food you need. Shermans troops wreaked havoc.
@michaelalbertson7457
@michaelalbertson7457 Год назад
@@robertshepherd8543 Sherman wasn't a Christian, and neither were most of his men, and most whose crops were destroyed weren't Christians either. To know and quote the Bible is not salvation. Living godly is. You can't be for slavery and please God. He made all men and women free. You don't please God, you don't go to heaven. But they all faced Bible retribution for their sins, even in beliefs. God took care of His own, which for some, the burners and the pro slavers, meant repenting, changing their minds to what God approved of.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
TBH, most of that livestock was probably taken by confederate taxation and more killed by confederate deserters and other thugs. Mind you the majority of Northern Alabama was pro-Union.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
@@OldHeathen1963 it wasn't. Southern desertion rates skyrocketed to a point that by early '62 they had it introduce a draft which exempted me who owned a certain number of slaves. They took most of the food as "tax in kind" to feed the army (it wasn't enough) and the currency was about as valuable as toilet paper. Georgia threatened to seceded from the Confederacy when the governor found out that Georgia troops were being sent to Virginia and not kept in Georgia to defend that state. The south was a damned mess from day one, and only the Postal Service worked correctly mostly due to the Postmaster General actually taking his job seriously.
@michaelr3583
@michaelr3583 2 года назад
The picture of Grant at 8:23 was the last picture of him alive when he was dying from throat cancer in the 1880's
@WILTALK
@WILTALK 10 месяцев назад
He died a few days after finishing his book. He worked in constant pain so he could finish his memoirs so that his family did not have to live in poverty.
@tonygrice1450
@tonygrice1450 Год назад
Really interesting video
@jeffk8247
@jeffk8247 Год назад
Great video two enemies who respected each other but at the end a dignified conclusion.
@OverTheTop85
@OverTheTop85 2 года назад
The Appomattox Courthouse Surrender was only for the Army of Northern Virginia. There were numerous other armies and groups of militia and son on that continued to fight long after the war ended. All good though. It was pretty much the end of the BIG WAR.
@jameshepburn4631
@jameshepburn4631 Год назад
Yes. Although some shooting went on into June in isolated areas, the last formal surrender was in May 1865 when Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, son of President Zachary Taylor surrendered his army in Southern Alabama to Union Major General Edward Canby. The other surrenders including Joseph Johnston to W.T. Sherman all had terms that mirrored the terms at Appomattox. Grant and Lee ended hostilities with honorable terms and both urging their men to work toward reconciliation as responsible citizens. Civil wars have ended a lot worse, with bitterness, guerilla warfare, and enmity lasting centuries with no end.
@welkinator
@welkinator 2 года назад
This was twelve minutes well spent.
@Mobleymoon
@Mobleymoon Год назад
I applaud you.......short, entertaining, factually accurate, great voice! I vote all your clips be required viewing by all grades in all school systems
@kaylamorris7381
@kaylamorris7381 2 года назад
I love living near Appomattox. There's so much history in Virginia!
@davehough7139
@davehough7139 Год назад
I remember hearing that Lee was too overcome to surrender his sword personally, so another general did. Grant did the same, using General Joshua Chanberlain to receive the sword.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
Grant wouldn't accept his sword. It was offered and declined. You're thinking of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
@donwayne4542
@donwayne4542 Год назад
Lee and Grant were both excellent Generals and the way Grant handled the surrender allowing southern soldiers some self respect was instrumental in my opinion.
@edwardclement102
@edwardclement102 Год назад
Lincoln not Grant and Lee used it well, the Confederates did the same at Fort Sumter.
@auntvesuvi3872
@auntvesuvi3872 2 года назад
Thanks for this! 🐴
@lerneanlion
@lerneanlion 2 года назад
And once the civil war has come to an end, the country resumed the wars on the western frontiers against the natives, thus leading to the westward expansion we all know today. Feel bad for the natives who are being driven out of their homelands by those colonists. May they be safe and sound.
@sherlockgnomes8971
@sherlockgnomes8971 2 года назад
Well said
@thunderbird1921
@thunderbird1921 2 года назад
Some of the tribes actually turned on each other and supported the US Army in their conquests, the Crow being the most famous of these. The Pawnee even protected the Union Pacific Railroad for a while because the Lakota was their mutual enemy. Furthermore some western lands were genuinely purchased from the tribes or from Mexico. I'm NOT defending all of the US government's actions, but history is seldom black and white.
@LedosKell
@LedosKell 2 года назад
Let the contributions of Confederate general Stand Waite not be forgotten.
@briannaaaron6804
@briannaaaron6804 2 года назад
Grant, when he became president, actually tried to secure equal rights for natives. Sadly, Congress wasn't interested and when he told people to stop stealing land they chose not to listen to him.
@chuckrobinson599
@chuckrobinson599 2 года назад
That was over a hundred years ago, I'm pretty sure they're all dead by now.
@alessiman
@alessiman 2 года назад
Please cover The Battle of Schrute Farms the northernmost battle of the Civil War
@Boldorion1958
@Boldorion1958 2 года назад
I did a quickie Internet search, and it doesn't seem there actually was a battle there. The northernmost land battle of the war was probably fought at Salineville, Ohio in 1863.
@danieladrian103
@danieladrian103 2 года назад
Hahahahaha
@daviddavenport9350
@daviddavenport9350 2 года назад
@@danieladrian103 Actually St Alban's VT claims that it was the Northernmost battle.....
@datguitarplayer1656
@datguitarplayer1656 2 года назад
I can't believe the commenters here don't get this joke...
@alessiman
@alessiman 2 года назад
@@datguitarplayer1656are you from Michael Scotts Paper Company? !
@stewartj3407
@stewartj3407 2 года назад
What I would give to be a fly on the wall at that meeting, then watch as Lee mounted his horse with Grant giving the tip of a hat.
@jsolmonsMN1858
@jsolmonsMN1858 Год назад
Nice work on the video. What’s the name of the song in the intro? 0:09 It’s great.
@gildavis8266
@gildavis8266 2 года назад
The end of the War Between The States marked the beginning, not the end of reconciliation between former enemies. It defined what America would become and placed what it was in historical context, where it properly belongs. How fitting that it would be two solders trained at West Point would bring the horror of that conflict to an end. It set the tone for the present and the future we now enjoy. Even though it's not perfect, our land is truly united for all think of themself as Americans first regardless of where they live. This is one huge reason why the symbols and monuments of either side, Union and Confederate, should be acknowledged because they all tell a very powerful story and give to us a big lesson that should never be forgotten.
@jameshepburn4631
@jameshepburn4631 Год назад
Sad to say the influx of illegal aliens with the government supporting their self segregation as Spanish speakers and socialist dependence on coerced taxpayers' $$$$ instead of self responsibility, has un-united the United States again.
@MrBaLard1
@MrBaLard1 2 года назад
Would be interested in seeing a video on the first days of the civil war leading up to the first battle/few skirmishes. A similar video for WW1 would also be good to see. Loving this channel, one of the few me and my gf both enjoy!!
@DonBJ21
@DonBJ21 2 года назад
Factual History. TY 4 Video
@theroachden6195
@theroachden6195 Год назад
I'm glad you said "effectively ended the war." People forget the war went on for months before the total surrender of the Confederacy.
@billharris1847
@billharris1847 2 года назад
Nice job The history was accurate and well done NOT EVEN A SCINTILLA OF WEIRDNESS
@billjulie10minutesleep56
@billjulie10minutesleep56 Год назад
Grant has always been my favorite I know some like to bring up his failings but I think we all have some so it's a moot point
@jacob4920
@jacob4920 Год назад
Grant handled the surrender of Lee as well as anybody could have, so his failings as a man pale in comparison to his virtues as a soldier.
@WILTALK
@WILTALK 10 месяцев назад
The failings as a man that are mostly brought up were his drinking, which was highly exagerrated and used by his enemies who had political ambitions. There were many Union Generals who had political ambitions and saw Grant as a rival for their miltary careers which were highly important to their political ambitions. Many general were political appointees. Halick was one who constantly tried to undercut Grant. He even wanted him arrested for taking Fort Donaldson without his approval. One reason the south and Lee were so successful is that they constantly went agains political appointees and inferior generals. There was also a Union officer who constantly wrote his wife that he was the one that kept Grant sober. Those letters were used to build up his importance by denigrating Grant. @@jacob4920
@823Labs
@823Labs Год назад
Happy to watch this Today of all days :) Happy Appomattox Day!
@YaSeenAli-bs4wq
@YaSeenAli-bs4wq 2 года назад
More Civil War videos please!
@whicker59
@whicker59 2 года назад
This isn't really weird, it's factual. I'd like to add what I consider to b an important event on the 12th when Gen Gird lead the brave Confederates into the Courthouse grounds to stack their arms: Gen Chamberlain received them, and Gordon and Chamberlain acknowledged themselves and their men by these 2 officers saluting each other with sword salutes. That era as bloody and disfiguring as it was, was far more gentlemanly and respectful than the lunatics n Washington DC now.
@michaeladrian2210
@michaeladrian2210 2 года назад
Except to black people whom Lee and other Confederates and Northerners ruthlessly enslaved. No moral integrity. No bravery in treason.
@thomasbaagaard
@thomasbaagaard Год назад
expect that it is a postwar myth... promoted by Chamberlain to make himself look good.
@shadysif6220
@shadysif6220 Год назад
Nothing honorable about the traitors down south. They were and still are a disgrace. But the north had blood on its hands as well, they were all talk, and either took part or condoned slavery. It was the lesser of two evils.
@williamrockwell9705
@williamrockwell9705 Год назад
@@shadysif6220 Of course you think that way because you have no idea what honor and honorable even mean.
@manicmechanic448
@manicmechanic448 2 года назад
A lot of people's pride cost a lot of men's lives, on both sides, and still are.
@charlesharris9965
@charlesharris9965 Год назад
Lincoln was determined to reintegrate the South back into the Union and had ordered Grant to offer generous terms. Grant had requested Lincoln's guidance in regards to the surrender terms. Lincoln's response was to "Let them up easy. "
@bryanparkhurst17
@bryanparkhurst17 Год назад
Pretty good video. Got most of the facts right.
@johngarnergarner6724
@johngarnergarner6724 2 года назад
I recently had the opportunity to visit Appomattox Courthouse. I had always seen depictions of the number of people who were in the room shortly after the surrender. I'm curious as to who was actually there. When I went into the McClean house I was quite surprised at how small the room was and recall thinking how in the world did all those people fit into that tiny space. Could someone bring me up to speed as to how many people were there?
@johngarnergarner6724
@johngarnergarner6724 Год назад
@Old Corps Thank You
@marybeth1644
@marybeth1644 Год назад
@@johngarnergarner6724 Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was also there.
@johngarnergarner6724
@johngarnergarner6724 Год назад
@@marybeth1644 That's right. He was a member of Grant's staff, wasn't he?
@marybeth1644
@marybeth1644 Год назад
@@johngarnergarner6724 Yes, at Lincoln’s request. Robert was 22 just out of Harvard and wanted to serve. Mary Lincoln was terrified he could be killed (she & Lincoln had already lost 2 children by then.) Lincoln and his son had many arguments about this. Lincoln did request Robert be put on Grant’s staff in a short letter. He did stress that this decision was up to Grant. Grant agreed and took Robert on as aide de camp.
@toddandangelbrowning2920
@toddandangelbrowning2920 2 года назад
Lee once saved Grant in the Mexican war. Grant asked about it that day. Lee said he had heard of it but couldn’t remember Grant.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
Uh, no he didn't. Lee was a staff weenie who only led a small detachment if infantry. Lee didn't remember because it never happened.
@georgemoore3304
@georgemoore3304 Год назад
One of my Collateral Ancestors died on 4/8 at High Bridge. The day before Appomattox. He was 20 years old and enlisted at 16. The Confederates we’re attempting to burn the wagon bridge to prevent the Union from crossing the James River. The Union attacked and lost several men. They regrouped and counterattacked which was successful. It’s a great story that never gets told.
@ralphh.2200
@ralphh.2200 Год назад
In Freeman's Vol 3, the description of Confederates' marching in to stack arms the next day was movingly written...Chamberlain, Gordon, the Stonewall Brigade...
@DonBair
@DonBair 2 года назад
The burning of the mile-long covered bridge in Wrightsville, Pa (6-28-1863) was the turning point of the Civil War. When the flames caught the town on fire, John B. Gordon's men actually helped save the town with an improvised bucket brigade. Having been denied access to Lancaster county and then Harrisburg, the Rebels would eventually converge on Gettysburg, three days later. This event would make a great story for your channel.
@michaelalbertson7457
@michaelalbertson7457 Год назад
That is very possible, makes sense. God wanted the north to win, end slavery. Reminds me of the Confederates losing orders about their troops movements and them orders being found by Union troops, before the battle of Antietam. God is in control.
@kellycochran6487
@kellycochran6487 Год назад
They weren't;'t denied access to Harrisburg. Ewell's corps was there, which included my Great Great Great Grandfather (who was captured the following May at The Muleshoe). They had to do a force march most of the day with little to no water, then made it to Gettysburg the evening of the 1st and tried to take Culp's Hill. Which they were never going to do.
@riceleston
@riceleston 2 года назад
The surrender of the Tennessee Army in North Caroline which was supposed to join Lee's Army must have had a role in Lee's decision to surrender.
@daviddavenport9350
@daviddavenport9350 2 года назад
It happened after Appomattox...
@andrea4246
@andrea4246 Год назад
Enjoy your videos.
@MegaOldies480
@MegaOldies480 2 года назад
War will always suck but at least these man had honor and dignity.
@tedebear108
@tedebear108 2 года назад
This is Ted from Texas. I am a civil war re-enactor in my off time. Remembering history is a big part of my life. Both the good and the bad. We must remember both and not rewrite history. Some people in our government and some of the public want to destroy histories past. It is very important to keep all of it. Our country is facing a turning point in all life at this time. I pray that we don't have another civil war, but they are pushing and pushing and pushing to break the Constitution of the United States and rewrite history as how they see it. Please Lord, male leaders both in government military and civilians make smart decisions and saving our country.
@RocKnight11
@RocKnight11 2 года назад
I totally agree with you. I disgusts me to see hategroups like the United Daughters of the CSA try to rewrite history. The United Daughters of the CSA is the reason why we have so many unfortunate statues of TraitorTrash of Lee and his crew. Thankfully people are waking up and ditching these monuments.
@tedebear108
@tedebear108 2 года назад
@@RocKnight11 . When you have time, see how Abraham Lincoln wanted to reunite the country. Everybody at that point, in our country, we're Americans. Both north and south are one. Remembering the Confederacy and what they were fighting for is equally important is knowing what United States was fighting for. This South fort for states rights. The North Fort to keep the United States as one. We are now stuck in that dilemma again. States rights over country rights. State law over government law.
@RocKnight11
@RocKnight11 2 года назад
@@tedebear108 Oh... what "State's Rights" were the South fighting for? Was it the right to own another human being as property?
@RocKnight11
@RocKnight11 2 года назад
@@tedebear108 Also, you bring up a good point, both the North and South were Americans. Lee and his crew ki//ed many more Americans than the TaIiban or any group like them. Yet, I get the feeling you have more admiration for Lee.
@tedebear108
@tedebear108 2 года назад
@@RocKnight11 . I do not agree with the Civil War. But we was a better General did any of the generals in the north at that time. The South had only two major Commanders of the Civil War. General Joseph Johnston , he was the first. And then General Robert E Lee. I do admit he was a good General as far as figuring out how to win a battle. The north did not get a winning General until Ulysses S Grant became in charge of the North Army. I just lights to know the history of the Civil War. I understand why General Lee resigned his Commission in the United States Army. He was offered the job being a charge of the United States Army defending against the Confederates. But he could not raise his arms against his home state of Virginia.
@rampagerichard
@rampagerichard 2 года назад
I swear I learn a lot from the channel than toxic ass school
@MiJacFan1
@MiJacFan1 2 года назад
Try checking out History Underground, History Traveler. He always has great content, and just completed a series on Gettysburg.
@supportyourtroopsathletes6460
@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 2 года назад
@@MiJacFan1 I will need to check that channel out also. Thank you.
@supportyourtroopsathletes6460
@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 2 года назад
Richard, that's fine but at the end of the day, this channel can not provide you a diploma nor degree therefore your school is not toxic at All. Furthermore you will regret later in life on not wanting to go back into the school of your teen age years, all adults wish that later on. Don't think you won't.
@cryptoknot
@cryptoknot 2 года назад
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 that may be true but an education is very overated. I work with a professor and someone with many college debts. Long story short we all make the same with the exception of the professor. I just have to pay off any debts like the both of them. If you do get an education at least get something that you can find a job for
@supportyourtroopsathletes6460
@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 2 года назад
@@cryptoknot I can agree with that on picking a education that leads to a long term steady career with decent income and benefits for oneself as well as their family.
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