Wasn't Abe that owned slaves it was Washington got mixed up my bad 🙃

@peoplesrepublicofengland5631

3 жыл бұрын

In order of conflicts, ww1,russian rev, prohibition,ww2,cold war. And the French Revolution was in 1700 so you can't do that in order so you can put that where you want.

@eddiedaves9457

3 жыл бұрын

I live a hour from where the battle of vicksburg was at..I'm a huge history fan..

@eddiedaves9457

3 жыл бұрын

Please understand this is a very oversimplified.....only 3 to 4 percent in the confederate army had slaves...the people would fight for something that they didn't even have a part in... ingnorence brother..

@eddiedaves9457

3 жыл бұрын

I was in the army. Fort bragg is still there...and it might even be the largest of army post

@UncleForHire

3 жыл бұрын

@@eddiedaves9457 and yet they fought for the benefit of large plantation owners, the south can paint it however they want but in the end most confederates soldiers were used. Even if the south had won, the only winners would have been slave owners, not them.

Here’s a Fun Fact: The picture that showed Lincoln’s funeral procession, there’s a big white building with two boys looking out the window, one of those boys is future President Teddy Roosevelt

@JamesCornwall95

3 жыл бұрын

Oh damn no way !

@davejones5747

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that’s Teddy’s grandfather’s (Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt) house on Broadway. He owned a shit ton of Manhattan real estate and was the president of Chemical Bank.

@debramyrtle7638

Жыл бұрын

the other boy is Teddy's brother Elliott, Elinor Roosevelt's father

To add a little to the tragedy of Lincoln's assassination: 1. Abraham Lincoln was a theater lover, and was a huge fan of John Wilkes Booth as an actor. Imagine being murdered by one of your favorite actors. That's basically what happened to Lincoln. 2. John Wilkes Booth's own brother, William Booth, had saved President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Lincoln, from being hit by a train just a few months prior to the assassination. 3. After the assassination, even some staunch Confederates like Jefferson Davis were heavily dismayed by the news. Davis believed that now that they had lost, Lincoln was (perhaps ironically) the best hope for the South, since he was entering the post-war period with a spirit of reconciliation. Now that Lincoln was dead, Davis feared they would be at the mercy of Northerners whose only interest was in simply punishing them.

@1krani

2 жыл бұрын

Davis wasn't wrong. The Radical Republicans, and Grant, came down hard on former Confederate states and even harder on the emerging KKK. They deserved it.

The minimum age for president is 35 years old and Lincoln was 52 when he took office

@JamesCornwall95

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clearing that up mate !

@Hanoverfist86

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesCornwall95 fun fact.. The 3 youngest President to date are : Theodore ( teddy) Roosevelt age 42, next is John F.Kennedy age 43, and Ulysses S. Grant age 46🇺🇸

@drieuxkoeppel8152

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hanoverfist86 Further clarification: the youngest man to be sworn in as US President was indeed Theodore Roosevelt. He was sworn in at the age of 42, in September 1901-when he was Vice-President-because William McKinley was assassinated. The youngest man to WIN the US Presidency was John F Kennedy-who was elected at age 43. (He was assassinated at age 46). Fun fact: the OLDEST person to run for and win the Presidency is Joseph R Biden Jr. He was 77 when he was elected.

@drieuxkoeppel8152

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hanoverfist86 and #4 is Barack Obama!!

Fun Fact: Abraham Lincoln is a famous wrestler and won 299 of his 300 matches. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. as an American I believe Abraham Lincoln was the best President we ever had. It's really sad that he ended up dying early in his second term. Andrew Johnson (17th US President - After Lincoln) was a very bad president and really did everything he could to make it as hard for Black Americans as possible. It makes you wonder how different America would be had Lincoln survived.

@sicily7220

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed Lincoln was probably our best.

@robertguerra1831

3 жыл бұрын

Ur opinion not a fact

@robertguerra1831

3 жыл бұрын

I think, Theodore roosevelt is the best

@DJ118USMC

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertguerra1831 Theodore is definitely up there.

@antoinerideaux-porche6036

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah his presidency lead to Jim crow laws

To clear it up, chronologically it would be: The American Revolution The French Revolution The Civil War WWI/Russian Revolution Prohibition WWII Cold War Just in case you wanted to go chronologically from here on out!

@JamesCornwall95

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it man 💪🏼

@jasonjason6525

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesCornwall95 Epic History TV WW1, is way better than Oversimplified. Please watch Epic History TV WW1 instead of Oversimplified.

@serenade4926

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonjason6525 Epic History explains history in a more detailed way, but Oversimplified explains history in a simplified and comedic way. That's like comparing a lion to a cat.

@jobfranschman8436

3 жыл бұрын

@@serenade4926 Yes, but his WW1 is his the only videos that are kinda bad. Not enough resourced. To much bias against Germany and its also just 2x 10 minutes with other videos 20-30 minutes.

@funnyspoon5120

3 жыл бұрын

@@jobfranschman8436 What Bias against Germany?

The nurse they mentioned Clara Barton went on to found the Red Cross after the war.

The war started in that mans front yard, he moved but it's funny cause it ended in his living room

@golfr-kg9ss

3 жыл бұрын

How's that for a weird twist of fate.

@rageraptor7127

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao 😂

@nooneofconsequence1251

2 жыл бұрын

I've been to his house in Manassas. It's still there. I grew up a short ways away and used to go sledding down the hill across the creek they named the battle after.

@eddiedaves9457

2 жыл бұрын

@@nooneofconsequence1251 very cool ..ever find anything

@nooneofconsequence1251

2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiedaves9457 nothing that wasn't in the small museum nearby or otherwise clearly marked and meant to be found. :) With all the Civil War buffs around here I'm sure the area has been combed over by people with metal detectors so many times there's probably nothing left.

There's a Civil War movie called *Glory* starring Denzel Washington Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick, it tells the tale of the 54th Massachusetts regiment of African Americans who fought for the Union during the Civil War.

@maddied4669

3 жыл бұрын

I convinced my group in APUSH to use this movie for a project where we look at whether or not a movie is historically accurate. It was pretty accurate, just some exaggerations here and there (like any movie). I also volunteer at Ft. McHenry and one of the rangers/living historians was an extra in the movie!

@bradleyvogelsang6851

3 жыл бұрын

If you watch the hospital scene from that movie you see how that many men died from disease and terrible medical practices and conditions of the time.

@rdg760jr2

3 жыл бұрын

My 8th grade history teacher showed us that movie when we were studying about the Civil War

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

@@bradleyvogelsang6851 Yes. Leaving aside the problems of infectious disease and exposure, the munitions and ammunition used in the weapons at that time were very large caliber -- minie balls were .50 or larger. The small arms were rifled muskets, so even with a muzzle-loader, the projectiles would shatter limbs beyond any repair. They also had the first forms of sniper rifles. And amputations frequently led to infection and death. Artillery shell fragments, canister and grape shot were similarly devastating and could take off entire limbs. Add to that the fact that offensive tactics had not changed much since the 1700s (advancing in ranks and columns over open fields) while the defensive weaponry was edging up to 20th century standards, and you have a recipe for massive death by injury. This is partly why trench warfare began around Petersburg (and in the Crimean War) more than 50 years before WWI.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

@Beauty Queen ? Really? Sure you are thinking of the right movie? It's basically a "Saving Private Ryan" for the Union Army. There are actually no Southern characters in the movie -- the heroes are all members of the 54th Massachusetts.

Oh, on a side note, that cavalry commander that you guys noted was the best looking, he happens to be *the* guy who founded the KKK after the war.

@antoinerideaux-porche6036

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and the statue was made as a form of terrorism in the south to let my people know that they still lived in the south end that white still didn't us

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and the commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, led a Confederate cavalry corps that was connected with what many believe was a massacre of Union troops, many of them African-American, during and after the battle for Fort Pillow in May 1864 in Tennessee. Forrest is extremely controversial, with as many defenders as accusers, probably to this day.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

His day job prior to the war was a slave dealer.

@johnbrown8570

2 жыл бұрын

@@antoinerideaux-porche6036 yep exactly right. Shitty statue for a shitty guy.

@Polo-wk7zl

Жыл бұрын

@@johnalden5821 Also he’s who Forrest Gump is named after.

In some cases they were literally fighting their relatives. Many families broke up over the slavery question. My own family (from Missouri) had half the boys fighting for the South and half for the North. Two died from disease. It is said that the term "hooker" applied to a prostitute was due to Gen Hooker's tendency to provide the same to his men on occasion. WWII was the first war in history where combat killed more people than disease.

@sicily7220

3 жыл бұрын

SideBurns comes from General Burnside.

@louise3088

3 жыл бұрын

Mart Todd Lincoln, Abraham's wife, had brothers who fought on the Confederate side

@thebayoudiaries8389

3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing a heartbreaking story about a man that killed a confederate soldier only to figure out it was his son.

I want to quickly mention General Grant became president later on after the war

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

Correct. Elected in 1868 and re-elected in 1872. His presidency is often overlooked because of financial scandals in his second term. But he was instrumental in implementing Reconstruction and enforcing laws to try to prevent terrorism against black population of the South. It was his successor, Rutherford B. Hayes, who has been widely pegged for ending Reconstruction and paving the way for the Jim Crow era.

“How to Behave in Britain” It’s a 1943 video aimed at US soldiers being stationed overseas and goes over basic etiquette, cultural differences, how to behave in a pub, etc. It would be fun to see your reaction(s).

@coyotelong4349

3 жыл бұрын

I might have to check that one out

@scavenger6268

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was "Know your ally: Britain" then again that is likely a 1941-2 film so i wouldnt be surprised of more versions.

@sc1338

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! It’s great

During the Reconstruction Period there were tons of schools and organizations set up to help the newly freed slaves. There were even several black state senators and representatives, serving alongside former slaveholders and confederates. That all ended because of economic downturn and president Andrew Johnson’s southern sympathies, and the Jim Crow era began.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

I believe one of my relatives from Ohio was a teacher at one of those Freedmen's Bureau schools, or possibly a mission school. I have always been impressed, because she was a young, single woman who left her family to go and live in another part of the country -- not a common thing to do at the time.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

Republicans needed Southern votes in Congress.

I guess the British equivalent to our founding fathers would be the men that got the Magna Carta signed.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting question. I think this is a good comparison, in part, because the English nobility did militate for the first checks on royal power, but they arguably did it only for their own feudal interests. It started an eventual process of civil and political rights that eventually would lead to universal suffrage, but only centuries later, by the 1800s. The UK evolved democracy along the same timetable that we did, roughly -- from the 1600s through the 1800s..

@joematthews4952

3 жыл бұрын

That would be King Henry II. The first Magna Carta issued by the dreadful Barons was repealed less than 1 year later and was an awful document that is really an embarrassment to our great nation. It then had several more incarnations before the one we have today was written and enacted by King Henry II as a means to actually give him more control. You see, he noticed something amazing. If you let people think they have a say, you actually get far more out of them. But no, there is nothing in the UK that can be compared to the founding fathers. The closest thing would be the first recognised king of England, that being King Aethelstan, English King from 924-927.

@joematthews4952

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnalden5821 A very good point. I personally don't believe that you can make a comparison between an individual, or individuals, here and the founding fathers in the USA. Really the closest people would be the first recognised king of England, that being King Aethelstan, and arguably the greatest Prime Minister this nation has ever had, that being the great Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The man who creates modern politics, turns the Conservative Party into the natural party of Government in the UK which has lead to them being the dominant force in UK politics for 150 years since, and the man who extends the franchise, giving the vote to the working man, realising that the working man.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

@@joematthews4952 Yes, the Reform Act of 1867, which led to basically universal male suffrage. Also, I would not overlook the Reform Act of 1832 (with similar legislation in Ireland and Scotland) that reformed the old rotten borough system and broadened the voting base somewhat. In the U.S. we had similar democratizing changes among the states, which led to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, plus the important 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, which forbade the states from denying the vote based on color/race or previous state of servitude (ie., former slaves). Important to note that women in both our countries had to wait something like another half-century for full suffrage. It is noteworthy how closely our countries tracked each other in moving toward full suffrage -- I suspect a look at other western democracies would reveal a similar evolution.

@joematthews4952

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnalden5821 We have indeed seen a strong parallel between our nations. As you pointed out the Qualification of Women Act of 1918 gave women the vote here in the UK, and of course the 19th Amendment passed Congress in 1919. However, there are strong parallels going right back to the founding fathers. The US constitution is almost identical to that which is practiced in the UK. The US president is, for want of a better team, an elected king, holding much of the same power. The First Lady is a royal consort. The US House is managed by a speaker, simply because the UK House is managed by a speaker. The Senate plays the same role as the House of Lords, remembering that the Senate was not originally elected. It was appointed, and only became elected following Constitutional Amendment post WWI, and of course the manager of the US House is the Serjeant At Arms in British English, or Sergeant At Arms in American English. Most Americans have no idea why, but it is simply because he manages the British Parliament. I have to say, I am quite surprised at your level of knowlage in relation to British politics, most people are not so well informed.

Also Abraham Lincoln never owned slaves. You might be thinking of Jefferson, or Washington

@MaskHysteria

3 жыл бұрын

I believe he inherited slaves from his father or stepfather but set them free immediately.

What's funny is after the Battle if the Wilderness the union soldiers were happy with Grant. They finally had a guy that was willing to fight and wasn't scared of Lee. Like they loved Grant and his willingness to keep pushing bc at this point they wanted to end the confederacy once and for all. The public hated Grant but majority of the soldiers loved him.

@SandfordSmythe

2 жыл бұрын

Troops cheered when they found out there would be no rest between battles.

General Bragg is one of a number of Confederates who has a US military installation named after him. There is now a commission looking to rename them. BTW, Gettysburg was fought in July (1st through the 3rd) 1863 not June as the video says.

One thing they didn’t mention was that the South(I assume to discourage black soldiers from enlisting with the north) Stated that any black soldier in Union uniform captured alive would be immediately sold, or resold back into slavery. Apparently it did not have the desired effect

@jonttul

3 жыл бұрын

Black soldiers caught in Union uniform would be immediately executed. Those taking up arms spontaneously or in militias would be returned to slavery.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, Confederate armies on their rare incursions into northern states were known to "repatriate" many free blacks if they could catch them. They would be "returned" to the South as slaves, whether or not they had been legally freed or ever lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Many of the captured people were women and children. So in places like southern Pennsylvania, any free blacks were likely to become refugees, fleeing their homes in advance of Lee's approach to Gettysburg.

General Grant later became a U.S. president after the war from 1869 to 1877.

Also, right before the battle of Gettysburg, there was a battle in North maryland called Antietam. It's the single bloodiest day in American history. The union won, but at a heavy loss. However. It was a win. Ans Lincoln announced the emancipation proclamation after that battle, freeing slaves

@JamesCornwall95

3 жыл бұрын

Ah right, weird how that was left out (I get he can't include everything thou) bloodiest day in American history thou 😳

@iKvetch558

3 жыл бұрын

Oversimplified covered Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation in his Part 1 Civil War video. 💯✌

@nikhilcheerharan6085

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesCornwall95 it happened right before Gettysburg so it in generalcits just overshadowed. But also whats insanely interesting to me is that most of these generals were classmates and friends at west point (military academy) and often had dinner together after battle during the day. Different times

@JB-bv1rg

3 жыл бұрын

@Nikhil cheerharan. Your use of the words "right before" is interesting to me. The battle of Antietam ocurred on September 17, 1862. The 3 day battle of Gettysburg ocurred July 1-3, 1863. Thats nearly 10 months time between those two particular battles. In the eastern theater the major battles of Fredricksburg ( December 11-15, 1862) and Chancellorsville (April 30 - May 6, 1863) took place after Antietam and before Gettysburg.

@JB-bv1rg

3 жыл бұрын

The Emancipation proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. The slave holding border states that remained loyal to the union ( such as Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky ) were not affected by the Emancipation proclamation. Freedom to all slaves was granted by the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. "The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18."

I can tell you someone right off the top of my head in the UK that is at a "Founding Father" level of respect. That would be William Wilberforce who got slavery abolished in the UK. He was an amazing man. On the level of Washington, Lincoln and Churchhill. You guys should be really proud of him. Anyhow, love both of your reactions. Awesome channel! :)

Weird fact, after the war New Yorkers discovered that Columbia South Carolinas' Fire Department had been destroyed and donated a fire engine. The favor was returned after 9-11.

I grew up on Ft. Bragg. It's in Fayetteville NC. It's home to the 82nd Airborne division and Army Special Forces among other units.

@JamesCornwall95

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I hear that name alot in films and such !

@TheDCNerd1939

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@jj_franklin2345

3 жыл бұрын

Yo Fayetteville, I live there now...

Please do a reaction to America's craziest President: Teddy Roosevelt.

@maryozee6135

3 жыл бұрын

I guess you haven't heard that much about Lyndon Johnson, who used to strip naked as soon as he boarded Air Force One. Read "First Family Detail". It was written by former Secret Service officers. It was a revelation!

@jonathonfrazier6622

3 жыл бұрын

Specifically, could you react to " America's manliest president. The life and times of Teddy Roosevelt" by Jack Rackam?

@Bormannator

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew jackson was our craziest president

@jonathonfrazier6622

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bormannator i must concede that. He was something else.

@ae5998

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Trump claimed that title

The reason so many military forts and installations are named for confederate generals is that most of them were built just before or during WW1, which began just 49 years after the end of the Civil War. Construction of these forts required that the government claimed and seized huge pieces of land in the south by "Eminent Domain." One of the spoons full of sugar that helped that go down politically was naming them after popular local (southern) heroes.

My wife's great-great-great uncle served in Sherman's army during the Georgia and Carolinas campaign. He wrote a daily journal at the time (mostly only 1 or 2 sentences per day) which has been passed down in the family to my sister-in-law. Surprisingly, he didn't write about being in any heavy combat. Typically his entries related how many miles he marched that day, where his unit made camp, and how they foraged for food.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

My family has a similar wartime account from my great-grandfather, who served twice. The first time, he was captured and paroled from Harpers Ferry and then he came back again and fought in the western theater and Sherman's Army up into North Carolina. It's funny how you mention what your relative's account focused on. My great-grandfather's was similar. He talks about the bad accommodations, complains about a recurring leg injury, mentions certain places he was at, but never talks about the fighting. But we know he was at HF when it was encircled and shelled by Stonewall, and the dates and places put him at least close to, if not in, later fighting. I have to assume maybe they were reticent of putting some things on paper, either for intelligence reasons or to avoid mistreatment if captured.

@roccaclassico9028

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnalden5821 My relative did mention being in a few small skirmishes. It may well be that the Confederates were in constant retreat and never fully engaged, since they were outnumbered and Sherman was cutting off their supply lines as he went. My mother was born in Alabama and her great-grandfather served in the 17th Alabama. He was captured at Nashville in Dec. 1864, and held at the notorious Camp Douglas POW camp on the southside of Chicago. He became a "Galvanized Yankee" in April 1865, volunteering to join the 5th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiment. So, he was a veteran of both the CSA and USA, but didn't receive a pension from either.

@johnalden5821

3 жыл бұрын

@@roccaclassico9028 Wow, that is a unique story. I am very lucky that when my great-grandfather was captured in the early part of the war (1862), they were still paroling soldiers. So he got to go home to Ohio and, after the end of the parole period, he was able to re-enlist. Chances of surviving prison camps during the war were slim, and your relative was very hardy and strong to have succeeded.

I highly recommend the documentary series "The Civil War" by Ken Burns. It really helps make this incredibly complicated situation real and provides a lot of information in an easy to digest format. So many things going on in the U.S. today can be traced back to the Civil War. Some believe the Civil War has never really ended - we just stopped shooting.

We do have miltary base called Fort Bragg in north Carolina. The age you have to be to become president is 35.

Lee harvey oswald

@alt1f4

3 жыл бұрын

Jair messias bolsonaro

@gregcourtney7717

3 жыл бұрын

Sirhan sirhan, the killer of JFK's brother.

@cameron6803

3 жыл бұрын

How is that relevant

Fun fact about Tennessee (Nothing to do with the civil war), Oak Ridge, East Tennessee was a town built in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project

@itsbeyondme5560

3 жыл бұрын

Really?! Wow

31:26 Jefferson was one of the founding fathers. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third US president.

10:38 Because Vicksburg Mississippi surrendered on the 4th of July, Independence Day was not publically celebrated there from 1863 to 1945.

If you and your lady ever thought about reacting to a movie, I could suggest Glory...about one of the first official units of black soldiers trained by the Union. I bet you two would get a HUGE number of views. 💯✌😁

@trejones7735

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I would love to see them react to Glory. It's a classic!

@williamhernandez167

3 жыл бұрын

Bro, I cried to that movie definitely an amazing movie

@antoinerideaux-porche6036

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamhernandez167 I cried when denzel washington was whipped because he actually told them he wanted to get hit a little bit so his tears were real tears because he felt the pain of a lot of our ancestors who had that happen to them. My heart hurts every time I see that part

2 of my ancestors fought in the Civil War on the Union side. One died at the battle of Fredericksburg and is buried in a mass grave, while his Son(the other ancestor who fought in the Civil War), survived the war. The one who died was named John Bryant(yes he was Irish, he immigrated to the United States from Ireland in the 1840's).

I couldn't help thinking of Family Guy when I saw this. Abe Lincoln on his front lawn talking to his neighbor "Hey Dale. I noticed your lawn is getting a little high." - "Yeah, I used to have a guy for that! Dick!" lol

You gotta be at least 35 to be President, our youngest president was Theodore Roosevelt who was elected at 42 years old. And followed by Kennedy who was elected at 43

Appreciate you're great work and reactions!

As someone who lives not too far from Chattanooga, the battle at Lookout Mountain is bizarre to picture. The "mountain" is actually a long plateau that is incredibly steep to get to the top of(close to a 2,000 foot change in elevation in spots). Union forces charged up sections that almost become a 60-80 degree incline and overtook battle cannons sitting at the top.

If y’all want to learn more about the US civil war and still have some laughs y’all should watch “Checkmate Lincolnites” videos. It’s informative and funny.

Just want to say I love you guys. I swear I have never enjoyed a reaction video more. You both are actually interested in what you watch.

Look up the Gettysburg Address it's taught in school, and is famous.

The guy who talked for two hours (whose name I don't remember right now) was a famous orator. People flocked to his appearances to hear him give speeches. Figure, there's no television, not even any radio, no records or tapes or anything like that. Entertainment -- especially professional entertainment -- was in pretty short supply. Listening to skilled orators make speeches was something people were into back then, so at the time, nobody minded listening to him for two hours. :)

I live about ten miles north of fredericksburg. There's still lots of old houses down there with bullet holes and cannonballs imbedded in the sides of buildings. Also there are virtually zero trees around that are older than the civil war, because the armies cut all the trees for firewood. Fburg used to be a deep water port before then, now the river is filled with silt.

Ironically, John Wilkes Booth's brother saved Lincoln's son from being hit by a train in New Jersey.

i'm glad that i'm late and don't have to wait a day to see part 2!! i can't wait to find out who wins!!

Sherman March= 60 mile wide path of destruction, through the heartland of the south.

Burnside apparently did well after he wasn't general of the army but he never wanted to be in charge. According to records he cried when he was put in charge.

Lincoln didn't just die soon after the war, but rather, the war was still finishing up. Additionally, John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate sympathizer. In fact, Confederate sympathizers launched attacks on several major Lincoln administration officials simultaneously. In fact, not only was Booth shot, but four others were executed for suspected involvement by military tribunals, including the woman who owned the boarding house they met in (despite her being a civilian, and from a modern perspective most likely totally innocent of any involvement).

Great job you two! :-)

The best ever depiction of these events is by Daniel Day Lewis in the movie "Lincoln" from 2012. Spielberg nailed it.

My great great Grandfather William W Hiatt(Illinois infantry) was taken prisoner by the Confederate army during the battle of Vicksburg. William escaped from his captors and fled back to Union lines.

One thing I could tell you that I learned when it came to the Reconstruction era, was many Southerners were also sad that Lincoln died because they knew he wanted a peaceful Reconstruction. He death ended any hope of that. Lincoln's VP, Andrew Johnson, did try his best to see how Lincoln's wishes when he became president, but he didn't have the strength or charisma that Lincoln held, and soon radical Republicans took control of matters and made the South 'bleed'. You can feel the ramifications of that time period to this day.

You might like History Buffs video on Gettysburg. He analyzes historical movies for their authenticity, and tells a lot of the real history along the way

Thr movie "Lincoln" does an incredible job building his presidency and learning about the conditions of the war and of Lincoln's character

John Wilkes Booth was a notable actor that came from a family of actors. Many historians agree that his older brother Edwin was the Greatest Shakespearean Tragic hero. And his younger brother was said to be equally talented. Edwin was said to be a huge Lincoln supporter while his younger brother was quite the opposite. John Wilkes Booth was also a strong anti-abolitionist and witnessed the hanging of the abolitionist John Brown after offering his assistance to capture him. This is the same John Brown mentioned in the story. John Wilkes Booth had been known to be a southern sympathizer and was a secret agent of the Confederate Secret Service. Although it is not known to what level or degree he ranked, what is known is he was in regular contact with other agents, who had ties to the Confederate leadership. It appears he was recruited and trained in 1864 which was real late into the war. It is known that, throughout most of 1864 and in the months leading up to the assassination, Booth had frequent meetings with other operatives at the highest rank. Booth along with six other conspiritors had been ploting to kidnap Lincoln in March 1865, but had failed when Lincoln failed to appear where they anticipated. He became frustrated that his plot failed and had resolved to go to a far greater extreme. So about a month later he did by shooting and killing Lincoln. Now in a bit of Irony Booths older brother Edwin happen to save the life of Lincolns only surviving son Robert at a train station shortly before his younger brother assasinatated his father the President.

General Lee commented when General Jackson was wounded and has his arm amputated, " General Jackson has lost left arm, and I have lost my left hand." Jackson was instrumental to Confederate success, and his death was a big reason Lee began to fail after Chancellorville.

@tider77

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Lee said, “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.”

Two of my fourth great grandfathers (they weren’t related yet) fought on opposite sides of the war and were a part of Sherman’s March to the Sea. Looking at the regimental histories, they were on the same battlefields at least 4 times but never positioned directly across the field from one another.

I don't know if you would want to film a reaction to it as it is almost ten hours long but Ken Burns' documentary "The Civil War" is one of the best documentaries ever. In my opinion. It gets pretty deep into the whole conflict and tells some incredible stories. And if you're really feeling frisky I recommend Shelby Foote's books "The Civil War, parts I, II and III" Around 4,500 pages of in depth accounts of every battle and every personage involved. Fun reactions, guys. Keep up the good work. Peace

It was a plot, they went after Lincoln, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State simultaneously.

The movie "Gettysburg". It's a bit long and not sure you can get it over there. It is the greatest Civil War movie ever IMHO

@aaronburdon221

3 жыл бұрын

Love that movie because it actually gives the South a voice and not just finger wagging. While they were massively wrong about slavery, a good chunk of the southern army was fighting for states rights and their representation in the government. If people would read some of the letters they had sent back to their families and some of their personal writings, they would know this. Definitely one of the most accurate films about that battle ever filmed.

@SGlitz

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronburdon221 but virtually every declaration of secession is about Slavery. State'rights to own slaves. It was a cultural war. Much like now, actually...

@aaronburdon221

3 жыл бұрын

@@SGlitz Agreed but just because the right to own another person isn't a right, doesn't mean all other states rights go out the window.

@SGlitz

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronburdon221 oh, I agree. Just don't tell that to Obama or Biden. You are property of the government. :) so what other state's rights did you have in mind? The 10th amendment maybe....

@Revkor

2 жыл бұрын

@@SGlitz that's the government, the people a different story. ultiamtely the Confederacy was way to early and fought over the wrong thing for states rights.

Even though I know what's coming, this still almost brings me to tears when I see the part where Lincoln was shot.

good attitude about not all people in the past (and present) are "pure" and have problems but can still be seen as "good"/successful people for their country and or people.

You are correct on Fort Bragg, it's named after general Bragg. Same with Fort Knox named after Henry Knox who you saw in the American Revolution video, and WestPoint fort was going to be Fort Arnold until Benedict Arnold betrayed Washington and then they changed the name.

I actually took a trip to Gettysburg and one day when I was walking don the road to pick up an ice cream, there was an artillery round stuck in the wall of the ice cream store. Guess the soldiers didn’t like ice cream.

11:12 Yes, Fort Bragg does still exist. It's used as the training ground for Airborne troops, One Station Unit Training (OSUT) for new recruits joining the Infantry, and any other recruits as a Basic Training unit. (If you join, say the Transportation Corps, you can be sent to basic at Ft. Bragg before being sent to Advanced Individual Training (AIT) elsewhere within the US. Its a wierd and complicated thing to explain.)

@Longhauler85

Жыл бұрын

You're confusing Fort Bragg NC with Fort Benning GA. Basic Training, Airborne School, and Ranger School takes place at Fort Benning, and does have some tenant units stationed there like the 75th Ranger Regiment. Fort Bragg is home to the 82nd Airborne Division, Army Special Forces, Army Special Operations Command, and Delta Force.

Regarding your comment about the USA having leaders like Jefferson or Lincoln... over here we here about Churchill, Brunel etc I mean Darwin was British, Shakespeare, Newton, Queen Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Alexander Bell I mean shit there’s so many great Brits 🇬🇧

Brother fought Brother, Fathers fought Sons, Family fought Family. Over 750,000 Total number of deaths from the Civil War.

19:33 Sherman understood something obvious to modern generals but no so much to generals in the nineteenth century: a country’s ability to win a war often depends on its ability to manufacture. Atlanta and the areas around it were the closest thing the confederacy had to an industrial heartland, since before the war wealthy slave owners fought to have fewer factories and machines in the south, lest people question the need for slavery. After Atlanta was captured, the city was almost completely burned to the ground, an act which many residents of that place blame Sherman for to this day. While we have no evidence Sherman ordered the burning, he still did next to nothing to stop it.

Fort Bragg is one of the largest military installations in the world, and it was named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg who also fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican American War. He lost some battles and was criticized but he was generally considered brave.

US army bases were named after West Point graduates. Gen Braxton Bragg was in fact who Ft. Bragg in Georgia was named after.

If you feel so inclined and would really like to learn more about the American Civil War I recommend the mini series The Civil War by Ken Burns. Obviously no video from that period of time but photography was in it's infancy so plenty of pictures and written accounts that are used. Not good reaction material this would just be for you to learn more about it.

My great, great, great grandfather was in the Confederate Army (Company B Georgia Volunteers) and he was captured after the Battle of Atlanta and was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Kentucky and was exchanged (prisoner exchange) during the last month of the war.

Kennedy ..... Lee Harvey Oswald. For great music... look up Lee Harvey Osmond! 😁

Booth came from a family of famous actors. He was a hard core southern sympathizer and thought with Lincoln's death the war could be renewed and maybe the South would rise and win in the end.

Mark 19:42 or so. Movie Trivia Time! In the movie, "Gone With The Wind", there is the scene about the burning of, Atlanta, Georgia. How was it done? Well, rather than burn down a set of a Western town that could still be used, they burned down the native village set built for the original "King Kong" movie, that no one used anymore! So if you ever see that movie, and look closely at the background of flames, you will see huts and the like, rather than buildings befitting the depicted time period. I don't know if there is a digitally remastered version in which CGI may have updated the SFX, as was done with classic, "Star Trek". 🤔

What they didn't say, and is interesting, is how famous a John Wilkes Booth was. He was one of the best known actors in the whole US.

You asked about Booth. John Wilkes Booth, an actor who Lincoln actually saw in at least one play before, was a Southern sympathizer. He formed a group to kidnap Lincoln. Later, he decided to kill him. He and his group had "targets" to hit, like the Secretary of State, the President, etc., all on the same night. Only Booth succeeded. His main goal the whole time was to keep the war going so the South could win. He thought he would be a hero in the South for what he did, which was why he ran to Virginia. He thought the murder would spur the South to keep fighting. He was stupid.

Also a little fact that no one never knew about Lincoln was that he had a dream before the day that he was shot that he was going to be killed but didn't expect it to be the day after he was shot.

A lot of these locations still exist today, like you can still visit ford's theatre or the McLean house.

It used to be that all Southern military installations were named after Confederate generals I don't know what it is like now. Also all the battles had a northern name and a southern name like Antietam for the South will run for the North it was like that with most of the major battles.

You are correct on Ft. Bragg. Many military bases in the U.S. are named after Confederate Generals. Although there is talk of renaming them.

If interested, you should research the after-effects of the civil war or try to find a video on the subject. It's mostly political, but there are very interesting parts of history that even U.S education glosses over. There were political divides over how to occupy the South and how to deal with the repercussions of the Civil War. "Radicals" were proposing legislation such as having all former slave owners losing their lands and having them sold to former slaves. Also, ideals for continued military occupation in the South. On the other hand, you had Southern sympathizers trying to continue the "norm" with no difference except for free African Americans. You also had African Americans now in government positions. Laws didn't get rid of racism, however, and the social divide led to segregation, hate groups, and extreme poverty for former slaves (in order to ease tensions and keep economic stability, slave owners were reimbursed for their lost slaves, though former slaves received few reparations). In fact, most African Americans ended up continuing their work on the plantation just so they wouldn't starve to death. Enter a long period of political racism.

@antoinerideaux-porche6036

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah supposedly all free slaves we're supposed to get 40 acres and a mule but that never happened and what else is crazy that racist white people call black people lazy even though our ancestors help build this country more than their relatives did who am I might add were the real lazy ones who didn't do s***

At Fredericksburg some of the guys behind the wall shooting down the Yankees were a unit of Irish immigrants fighting for the south and the Yankees they were shooting down were the "Irish Brigade", immigrants fighting for the North.

Abraham Lincoln's great great great great grandfather Samuel Lincoln was from Hingham,England.He immigrated to America around 1637.Abraham Lincoln's only grandson,Abraham died in London while his father,Robert was the American ambassador to the Court of St.James.

If you want a good movie to check out that's about the Civil War, check out Glory. Mathew Brodrick, Carry Elwes, Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington. It's a very good movie about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment.

Mark 01:22. Hi! By the way, if you ever view the now hold "CBS" sitcom, "The Beverly Hillbillies", the character called, "Granny", has a very warped or skewed POV concerning the Civil War, because no one has been successful at trying to correct her! Oddly enough, there really are people like her, thanks to some families still having an oral history tradition. Sigh.

Keep up these great reactions...this is actually a pretty good Oversimplified, though it does have a few issues. For instance, the chart about military progress that you laughed at was kind of wrong. The South was indeed doing darn well with its military, winning big victories even against larger Union forces as we have seen...in the Eastern theater. However, in the Western theater of the Mississippi, Grant was kind of kicking the South's ass and cutting it in half at the Mississippi. 🖖✌

Yes Ft. Bragg is in North Carolina

There's a warehouse, on the river in Fredericksburg, that STILL shows the cannon ball and musket ball holes that were fired into it by, first, the Union troops and later, the Confederate troops. Amazing to see. They look fresh, like the battle occurred just last week. At that same battle, Irish Immigrant soldiers, in the Confederate Army, wound up firing on Irish Immigrant soldiers, in the Union Army. Both sides, evidently, were shocked their fellow, ex-country men were fighting on the other side. A major reason 2/3rds of the Army's died of disease: Many of the men came from family farms. They had been isolated, all their lives, from the general population. As a result, they had no immunity against even childhood diseases like Measles and Mumps. When those men were "herded together" in army camps, those diseases spread like wild fires. Add to that unsanitary conditions in camps and unsanitary battle wound surgeries.

My American patriotism sky rocketed for the memorial for Abe at the end of the video.

Great video! Did you notice the multiple changes in the Confederate flag over both Part 1 and 2? You had asked about it during your part 1 video - the Confederacy changed its official flag multiple times during the war and Oversimplified modified the flag they used in their animation accordingly. The modern day flag you might see is actually the ensign of the Confederate Navy. That same ensign is used in the top left corner of the Confederate National flag - with the rest of it being white or white with a big red vertical stripe on the right. I suspect the reason the modern confederate flag looks the way it does is that it's just cooler looking and they ditched the parts of the Confederate national flag that weren't too exciting and just turned the ensign into the whole flag.

Different topic, but I'd love to see you guys react to Fun to Imagine with Richard Feynman. It's a great video of him explaining some cool physics of everyday things.

The good-looking Geezer you're talking about is Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest founder of the Klu Klux Klan.

@OpRaven-62

3 жыл бұрын

Oh shit

@arsenalfan1776

3 жыл бұрын

@@OpRaven-62 LooooL

For UK some 'founding fathers' will mostly be monarchs like William the conqueror,Henry V,Richard the lionheart,Henry VIII.

A bill affects only day-to-day things and can be passed by Congress by a 1 person vote and changed or repealed at any time. An Amendment, on the other hand is an addition to the Constitution--the very Foundation by which we are governed. An Amendment requires a 2/3 majority in BOTH Houses of Congress (nearly impossible) and after that each state must then vote on that Amendment and 3/4 of the states must approve it.

Something that I didnt know until recently was while the UK government was split over who to support, the vast majority of the British people as well as those in Canada were in support of the Union and many volunteers and immigrants from those nations enlisted on that side of the conflict

There is a Fort Bragg in Fayetteville North Carolina the it is a very large Army base the US 82 Airborne Division is stationed there.

You need to see the film Lincoln if you haven't already. It explains the passage of the 13th amendment. Daniel Day Lewis plays Lincoln.

Fun Facts John Wilkes Booth shooting Lincoln would be like Brad Pitt or some other world famous actor shooting the President. Booth came from an acting family, his father and brothers were also world famous actors from Maryland. Maryland was a slave state that stayed loyal to the Union but had a lot of Confederate sympathizers living there J.W. Booth being one. Lincoln had to sneak through Baltimore for fear of getting murdered when he was first arriving in Washington DC. Lots of Baltimoreians were arrested and imprisoned without trial in Fort McHenry. That's site of the battle in 1814 that inspired the writing of the Star Spangle Banner our national anthem. One of the people imprisoned without trial in that fort was the son of F. S. Key. Anyway the Booths performed around the world for common folk and heads of state alike. There is even a photo of all three brothers in costume for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar taken during the Civil War, and the only time they all performed together. That performance raised the funds for the William Shakespeare statue in Central Park in NYC. Oh other fun fact the bar Booth was in was next door to Ford's Theater. Today the Hard Rock Cafe Washington DC (A bar) is next door to Ford's Theater. Speaking of bars the Surratt's House and Tavern Booths first stop out of town to liquor up his broken leg and get guns and fresh horses still stands today in Clinton, Maryland. Booth escapes into Virginia but get cornered in a barn by the army a couple of weeks later and is shot and killed. Mary Surrat's son was 100% involved in the conspiracy to kill Lincoln he basically gets away with it. His mother on the other hand may or may not have had anything to do with the plot other than own the properties where plotter lived or used to plot. A boardinghouse in DC where she lived and where one conspirator stayed for a time, and the tavern she inherited from her husband in what was then called Surrattsville, Maryland. It was in that tavern where he son and others plotted and stored gins and supplies to flee. Anyway for the dubious crime of owning the property the plotting happened in. She possibly knew what was going on, but the evidence against her wasn't very strong. In the end it didn't matter, she was hanged anyway. Becoming the first woman executed by the US government. There is are photos of the hanging, her and three men who were 100% involved with the Lincoln plot. What I find interesting is the use of a parasol to protect her from the sun before, you know they kill her.