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In the Spring of 1862 the Union moves deep into Tennessee in an attempt to cut the Confederacy in two. Near the banks of the Tennessee River in early April a Federal Army under U.S. Grant gets ambushed by the confederate General Sidney Johnston’s army. The Battle of Shiloh came within a hairs breath of being a Union defeat, but a well time and coordinated counterattack would turn that around.
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My first civil war video!! Please share on social media and spread word to that special someone who loves civil war history.
Also, yes, I do like to say Beauregard's name.
This was great! Thanks.
War is never like Call of duty game. People forget that especially armchair generals, War is the last tool of diplomacy as Bismarck preached.
Might I ask why you only use a southern drawl when saying the name "Beauregard"??
Everytime I hear the name “Beauregard” I’m now going to pronounce it exactly how you do in this video
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The first video about the civil war I watched and the BEST one I’ve seen this month. Amazing and full of details.
Very well done! Easy to follow, and the graphics were about the best I've seen. The narration was clear and compelling. Thank you!
Grant always had the big picture in mind and while Lee might have achieved brilliant tactical victories, he needlessly sacrificed soldiers he could ill afford to lose. We can "what if" forever, but the Union always had more resources to pour into the battle than their Confederate counterparts, in this way it really was a war of attrition dwindling down the ability of the South to continue to wage war. From the outset the "anaconda" approach initially schemed by Burnside to capture key strategic objectives and then "squeeze" the confederate army was a very effective plan of action to win the war.
Fort Henry's garrison did not surrender on Feb. 6. Only a small rear guard manning the guns and the commander of the fort surrendered. The rest of the garrison evacuated the fort and went to Fort Donelson. Very telling mistake undermines the speaker's credibility.
I saw this in my inbox this morning. Imazing narration and animations.
Very good overview of the first year of the Civil War and of the Battle of Shiloh.
You say the election of Lincoln pushed southern states to secede. Hmm…. You quote Shelby Foote saying people failed to compromise. Hmmm. Actually the Southern states leaders wanted to expand and extend slavery. The South rejected the 1820 and 1850 compromises.
I realize that this video is about military strategy and tactics. But all military action contains political dimensions so an offhand remark that the south was pushed to secede minimizes the fact that the South was fighting to preserve and ultimately to expand slavery. And this despite the fact that slavery did not benefit the vast mass of southern people except perhaps to let them feel superior to another group of people. An excellent example of the southern approach is Texas. Texans wanted to have slavery. When the Mexican government prohibited slavery the Texans decided to form their own county so they could have it. So though this is an excellent video, its start suggests the idea that the South was somehow justified in its actions.
excellent video. would certainly like to see more videos like this on the US civil war as there are so many about the wars in Europe. thanks!
Another Absolutely Wonderful Story… I'm from Charleston S.C.. ..Ken Burns Can't Do Any Better
fun fact: General Leonias Polk of the Confederate left flank was originally a bishop and founded the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confederate States of America. he was the second cousin of President Polk, the president who launched the Mexican American war, where Grant first made his name
Well done and presented well. As a southern male of a certain age all of these battles and campaigns were fought and refought throughout our childhoods.
No, the south could not have taken Washington. Not because the union could have stopped them but because neither side was organized well enough to recover and reform in the immediate aftermath of Manassas to do a pursuit and seige.
Excellent overview and analysis.
What if. A game delusionists play, to sooth their angst
History shows it takes a lot of honest blood too rid the world of white supremacy
Not irony, stupidity, regularly confused
Johnson, another psychotic racist who loved to kill Americans .
Lee – great general, – slaver. Win some lose some
The only people who go back 600 years for their genetics are deluded. And probably have illegal wealth
His eyes in the begining only look animated because he's moving like Eber from the table of nations if you make him move like Assur he wouldn't look fake.
Well put together.
Maybe the best I’ve seen.
great documentary
McClennan ??
An interesting incident took place after the battle as described by Shelby Foote's "The Civil War."
"As Beauregard's forces fell back to Corinth, Sherman followed with a brigade to make a show of pursuit, or at any rate to see that the Confederates did not linger. A show was all it was, however, for when he reached a point on the Corinth road, four miles beyond his camps, he was given a lesson hunters sometimes learned from closing in too quickly on a wounded animal.
"The place was called the Fallen Timbers, a half-mile-wide boggy swale where a prewar logging project had been abandoned. The road dipped down, then crested a ridge on the far side, where he could see enemy horsemen grouped in silhouette against the sky. Not knowing their strength or what might lie beyond the ridge, he shook out a regiment of skirmishers, posted cavalry to back them up and guard their flanks, then sent them forward, following with the rest of the brigade in attack formation at an interval of about two hundred yards. The thing was done in strict professional style, according to the book But the man he was advancing against had never read the book, though he was presently to rewrite it by improvising tactics that would conform to his own notion of what war was all about. "War means fighting," he said. "And fighting means killing." It was [Nathan Bedford] Forrest. Breckinridge had assigned him a scratch collection of about 350 Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas cavalrymen, turning over to him the task of protecting the rear of the retreating column.
"As he prepared to defend the ridge, outnumbered five-to-one by the advancing blue brigade, he saw something that caused him to change his mind and his tactics. For a the skirmishers entered the vine-tangled hollow, picking their way around felled trees and stumbling through the brambles, they lost their neat alignment. In fact, they could hardly have been more disorganized if artillery had opened on them there in the swale. Forrest saw his chance. "Charge!" he shouted, and led his horsemen pounding down the slope. Most of the skirmishers had begun to run before he struck them, but those who stood were knocked sprawling by a blast from shotguns and revolvers. Beyond them, the Federal cavalry had panicked, firing their carbines wildly in the air. When they broke too, Forrest kept on after them, still brandishing his saber and crying, "Charge! Charge!" as he plowed into the solid ranks of the brigade drawn up beyond. The trouble was, he was charging by himself; the others, seeing the steady brigade front, had turned back and were already busy gathering up their 43 prisoners. Forrest was one gray uniform, high above a sea of blue. "Kill him! Kill the goddam rebel! Knock him off his horse!" It was no easy thing to do; the horse was kicking and plunging and Forrest was hacking and slashing; but one of the soldiers did his best. Reaching far out, he shoved the muzzle of his rifle into the colonel's side and pulled the trigger. The force of the explosion lifted Forrest clear of the saddle, but he regained his seat and sawed the horse around. As he came out of the mass of dark blue uniforms and furious white faces, clearing a path with his saber, he reached down and grabbed one of the soldiers by the collar, swung him onto the crupper of the horse, and galloped back to safety, using the Federal as a shield against the bullets fired after him. Once he was out of range, he flung the hapless fellow off and rode on up the ridge where his men were waiting in open-mouthed amazement.
"The ball now lodged alongside Forrest's spine as he followed the column grinding its way toward Corinth."
I recall that Forrest finally had the ball removed about two weeks later. Apparently, one tough SOB. It's a pity that the Ft. Pillow surrender and his involvement in the genesis of the KKK besmirched his image for us in the modern era. But I supposed he was a man of his times. As my Georgia father would say, "He was an unreconstructed Southern."
Now that u have done shiloh u should do one on Antietam
So the cause of the Civil War was Lincoln's election? From all the articles of succession you would have thought it was slavery.
visited Shiloh nearly a decade ago. Would say, that heavily forested area would have contributed to the units loosing their cohesion
cool pamphlet, good video
very well done.
A lot of praise goes to Lee for good cause but Grant was a way better supreme commander. He was an good tactician but a master at strategy. I believe he was one of few to see the big picture. He realized in modern war you dont win the war by single battles but by men and material
Great work, well done, Shiloh my favourite civil war battle. More civil war battles please.
The Battle of Shiloh even if it was early in the Civil War stands out to me as one on the top 5 battles of the war. You could cite a number of reasons, but Shiloh is where the partnership and friendship of US Grant and William T. Sherman started. It was mentioned that Sherman was going to suggest to Grant that the retreat, but something held him back. Grant would have lost respect for Sherman if he had suggested retreat. The other point often overlooked about Shiloh is the change in the relationship between Grant and General Halleck. Halleck could have made Grant the scapegoat in his report, instead he blames some other lower ranking officers. He demotes Grant to second in command, but I think this shield Grant from the storm about Shiloh until larger battles in 1862 showed that Shiloh was not a one-of-a-kind event. Also, Grant is a West Point graduate not a political general. The war is getting more political and for good or bad, the West Point men will stand together.
Haven't watched this channel in years, but what a video to come back to. Thanks YT algo and ofc FPH for the vid.
Just played a round of apex with you had a blast Heres a sub.
no offence bro, american hisory is interesting to no one else besides a few americans. Can we stick to the international classical stuff?
I’m related to Gen. John Bell Hood, also I have stayed the night @ Shiloh before in 2010. We did a living history @ that time and I walked the field that night along the sunken road, bloody pond, water oaks pond, Farley field.
From April 1861-June 1862 Congress had not declared war by the time they did the battles of:
Bull Run
Wilson Creek
Balls Bluff
Ft Henry
Ft Donelson
Shiloh
And the peninsula campaign (7days) was in full swing when war was declared.
This is just great. Presented very well, unbiased historical facts. You really brought the battle to life, well done. Thanks for posting.
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Another great video. And answer to your question on what would Grant would have done if he didn't get reinforced that night: being the engineer that he was (and yours truly. Go 12Bs. We lead the infantry! But I digress. Lol) He would have crossed the river and built fortifications on the other side, using the river as a natural barrier.
I lived in Western Kentucky for a while and went to Columbus Belmont State Park many times. You can see how anybody who controlled that area controlled the Mississippi River. The bluffs were straight down and it was a circular area also. So you had a clear shot for probably two or three miles. Also, look up a picture of the anchor and chain that they used to drag across the Mississippi on rafts. There wasn't anything getting through that.
Side note: they also had dug defensive positions with mounds. They had placed steel tubes in the bottom of them so they could communicate from one position to another, called speaking tubes…. obviously. Even 25 years ago you could talk to somebody 100 ft away. It was pretty cool. Pretty slick feat of engineering.