Thank you Dr. Robertson for teaching us all. Rest in Peace sir. You will not be forgotten.

@dadd7570

2 жыл бұрын

He was a great teacher of the civil war Love his commentary

@jimmymalone9139

2 жыл бұрын

Cop on Racist sectarian liar

@adamberndt4190

Жыл бұрын

Yeah.... Whats his name again?

@davidhallett8783

Жыл бұрын

Dr james robertson nov 2 2019. Born in danville virginia which is mentioned in the band song. the night they drove old dixie down. Virgil kane is the name and i served on the danville train

@adamberndt4190

Жыл бұрын

@@davidhallett8783 Well! That was a bunch of oddly spaced sentences containing random words and dates! Lol

158yrs. ago today. April 9th 2023. It's good to remember our history. Thanks for your program.

This is the best account of the last days of the confederacy I ever heard. Dr Robertson RIP

Outstanding! a true pleasure and Dr. Robertson makes it so tasteful RIP sir

I like the style of this presentation. Even today, over 150yrs after these tumultuous events there's still controversy. Many try to erase the memories of this war and it's utterly wrong! Like ALL history, it is vital that what happened and why is known and understood. Both viewpoints need to be remembered because otherwise, they can raise their ugly heads and history WILL repeat itself. This programme is an excellent example of how that can be done. Simple storytelling, without bias, politically or otherwise. War, is a breakdown of communication. When one side stops listening, it is inevitable and that has scary parallels with today, 2024. America is rapidly becoming more and more polarised. Unless some drastic reconciliation happens, I fear major internal conflict.

@waroftherebellion.

4 ай бұрын

The Union Veterans talk about Confederates re-writing the memories of the war because after all of the blood, treasure and destruction. The reasons for the war just didn't hold up anymore. So its not being erased. It's being told. Correctly.

@robwernet9609

Ай бұрын

Much like the run up to that civil conflict the division we see now grows more by the day. Many seem to think this history can't be repeated. I'm not so sure.

@waroftherebellion.

Ай бұрын

@@robwernet9609 You mean where one political party wants a Civil War because their political power is receding because they are religious nutjobs who immersed themselves in lost cause ideology and the other side, which just wants to give average Americans healthcare so they don't go bankrupt over medical care. One side asks its voters to die for it every year. The other does not. Division comes from a small percentage of the voters (The Republican party) constantly killing its own voters and wondering why nobody else wants to join. The South also went backwards prior to the Civil War. In the exact same away. Republicans are free to die for their ideology but they can't ask the other 75% of the country to follow. Democrats will never ask that of me.

The year is 2024 the 159 anniversary of this amazing week in our nation’s history. It’s a powerful document. Rest in peace Doc. Enjoyed your books and wisdom in a troubling time in our history.

@robwernet9609

Ай бұрын

Not all that long ago in the larger scope of time. But a mere few seconds ago in the eons that mark thru history.

I'm 65, live in Columbus Oh. Civil War history is my passion. The more I learn through these documentaries, the more passionate it becomes. .

@BlueRidgeStreaming

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much

@johnschneidhorst3406

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, easy to like Civil War Hstory if you were n the side that won..

@wnchstrman

8 ай бұрын

​@@johnschneidhorst3406We are ALL on the side that won. We are all Americans. There are no Confederates any more.

@Popskull-yl9gn

6 ай бұрын

About hr north of you and 5yrs behind but I too am a nut. Can't get enough. O-H

While a member of the Australian Army I attended the US Army Logistic Management College at Ft Lee, in Petersburg Va. I was privileged to visit Gettysburg, Appomattox and various battlefields during my time there. I was deeply moved at Gettysburg at the slaughter and tremendous sacrifice of soldiers of both sides. The US does not need another civil war!

God bless all the men who fought and died with honor. God bless America.

@edwardsaenz4216

5 ай бұрын

I only wish the best for those southern soldiers who were only simple farmers and were lied to by Confederate leaders Most Southern soldiers did not own slaves and worked their farms with assistance of family members.

@Tmindful182

Ай бұрын

@@edwardsaenz4216 Your statement is one of the pillars the lost cause is built on. If you endeavor to read the letters & diaries of common soldiers who didnt own slaves they were overwhelmingly fighting for slavery if you believe their own words. The correspondence is actually tough to get through even in a purely academic fashion but I recommend you try to ascertain the truth of their motivations. I understand it was a different time but even for the era the confederacy was one of the last bastions of evil. Its important to note not everyone in the union wanted slaves freed either but they weren’t willing to kill their brothers & betray their country for the right to endlessly enslave human beings. An important distinction between virtually every union & confederate soldier.

Thank you so much for this excellent presentation.

@BlueRidgeStreaming

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

41:00 Wilmer McLean, who owned the house at Appomattox, had previously owned a farm at Bull's Run. The only man in American history who can claim "The Civil War started in my back yard, and ended in my front parlor.

@robertdubois2917

2 жыл бұрын

The war began in his front yard.

@GottaWannaDance

Жыл бұрын

@@robertdubois2917 Really?

@alexanderbreglia7282

Жыл бұрын

Nobody knows - That's a really cool fact. Glad to learn about it!

@fernandolopez3905

8 ай бұрын

Just about 20 minutes ago, I was thinking of a way to explain something at work . A coincidence, and what you indicated " the civil war started and ended on the same man's properties in Virginia. Was something that came to mind .

Best review of the retreat online

Lee surrendered to General U.S. Grant. To phrase the event as an "agreement" is incorrect. Surrender and agreement are not linguistic equivalents. Just like winner and loser have different meanings.

So glad I found this fine series

Lee was the man!

Moral of the story never go to a shad bake during a war.

I always admired Lee as a military genius i always thought he was a good Christian man

@jannarkiewicz633

8 ай бұрын

He had escaped slaves flogged and the ordered brine poured into their wounds.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 ай бұрын

Source?

@Tmindful182

Ай бұрын

What about beating slaves then pouring brine in the wound makes you think he was a good christian man? In the throws of poverty… grant walked the slave his step parents tried to give him downtown & freed him rather than accept life changing money to help his family by selling the man. The character of grant when impoverished versus the horrifying character of lee when wealthy beyond his needs says everything about the difference between the real greatness in men.

@Tmindful182

Ай бұрын

@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsWesley Norris, one of the slaves he had punished in this manner testified to the facts. Dick Williams (local constable) administered the lashes. Lee enjoined Williams to lay into the slaves good & then ordered them thoroughly washed in brine… Arlington House The Robert E Lee Memorial. Whats astonishing is you dont know about all this. The lost cause isnt real… There is nothing redeeming about the confederacy. Today the lost cause is resoundingly laughed at you dont want to be the last one holding the bag of slavery

@rogerallen4717

Ай бұрын

And he was responsible for the deaths of more Americans than Hitler.

I challenge the notion that Union soldiers sought to destroy Richmond for four years, rather, they “sought to occupy Richmond”, may have been a better description.

This is a great episode, and a magnificent channel, not just for the fine residents of Virginia. Many Thanks!

@BlueRidgeStreaming

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@nobodyknows3180

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueRidgeStreaming not only that, but I have been watching many of the other episodes. Your series on the Civil War - very informative at the regional level - you don't get this detail elsewhere. Great job!

This is narrated for a Southern audience!

@rtengstrom9620

4 ай бұрын

yep

This series is excellent 👌

Very very good! Thank you Sir.

@BlueRidgeStreaming

2 жыл бұрын

Most welcome!

I drove Lee's retreat in 2015 a 150 years after it happened.

@RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia

Жыл бұрын

Then you drove right past my house on Jamestown Rd, Farmville on the Union picket line and cannon line on the East side of the Battle of Cumberland, Church. The last Confederate victory.

That was great. Thanks.

@BlueRidgeStreaming

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Shad bake? Amazing.

Great!, to say the least

Love his piedmont virginia accent!

@willoutlaw4971

Жыл бұрын

He sounds like a combination of Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny. Is this a common accent for people in his part of the USA?

great view. I'm interested in collecting hand written diaries from the civil war ... pref. Pickett, Lee or Grant would be ideal. I also would be interested in any military gear from the era.

@robertdubois2917

2 жыл бұрын

Then look up, and find "Lee's Dispatches" by Douglas Southall Freeman.

Billy Yank was mostly fed. Johnny Reb was starving. Johnny Reb had marched longer, farther, and faster during the than Billy Yank ever did. Only during the pursuit of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia had Grant forced his men this way. Johnny Reb had done so willingly to protect theirs homes, hearths and family.

@Joseph70663

Жыл бұрын

AND THEIR SLAVES!! SNEER>>>>>

@shanebell2514

Жыл бұрын

And all for a foolish cause.

@scprivatepilot01

Жыл бұрын

@@shanebell2514 the rich man's cause, poor man's fight.

@shanebell2514

Жыл бұрын

@@scprivatepilot01 100%. I wonder how things would of panned out if the federal government said Kansas would be a free state-but only southerners with no slaves could settle on it, that would be very interesting.

@jannarkiewicz633

8 ай бұрын

Protect their right to own slaves. You kind of left that out.

It’s amazing that the south an men that fought an died trying to split an fight against the United States are looked at as heroes I’m from the south but I never understood why they were not tried for treason an the main generals that lead rebellion were not hanged

@chadrowe8452

2 жыл бұрын

Because Lincoln wanted the war to end no to go on for 10 years of guerrilla warfare. If you would have had hangings no one would surrender after that

@LouieKaboom

Жыл бұрын

No, the (still) racist Democrat Party did. They controlled the South and forced the citizens there to choose a side. If you don't understand why people weren't hanged, you haven't studied it very well.

@susanpowers9402

Жыл бұрын

Because Lincoln didn't want them tried for treason, he wanted to bring the country back together peaceably. He didn't want to punish the South, he had a Reconstruction Plan to put the country back together again. Obviously that didn't happen once he was assassinated.

@teamrecon2685

8 ай бұрын

That's because you've never been in a war or suffered.

Maybe the reason Gen. Pickett didn't take his duties too seriously that April 1st is because he was still bitter over the massive loss of his men "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg which he blamed Lee for. Just a thought.

@andrewpytko4773

11 ай бұрын

Plus it was apparent that the South was going to loose and these battles were largely pointless.

@brucebostick2521

7 ай бұрын

He was an arrogant prissy wealthy slaveowning fool! History has little interest whether that military diva was personally conflicted!

@samcolt1079

5 ай бұрын

If Lee gave up after gettysburg he would haved saved thousands on both sides. The south knew it was never going to win.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 ай бұрын

Personally, I think PTSD was more the case. A proud man, he was never the same after the loss.

Spoiler Alert: The south lost and that way of life dissolved. Unfortunately there are still a few who have yet to realize this reality.

@Baseballnfj

4 ай бұрын

Boy this bleating, gloating attitude is annoying. Do you know why we didn't have decades long nightmarish insurgencies in the South? Do you know why emancipation and reconstruction went so god damn smoothly? Because we honored each others sacrifice and we agreed to compromise on the memory of the war. Most people don't think about this... the whole genius of Lincoln in helping to put the country back together was his insistence that there be reconciliation and compromise... not punishment. That meant letting people have their memory... a compromise. "With malice toward NONE, with charity for ALL with firmness as the right God gives to to finish the work we are in and bind up the nation's wounds."

@davidmcnamara8024

4 ай бұрын

@@Baseballnfj Oh yea. Jim Crow, segregation, and lynching's sure helped to control storming the capital too. I guess it's all in your point of view BOY!

@DonaldKDever

16 сағат бұрын

Yes, very sad.

@DonaldKDever

16 сағат бұрын

Lincoln wanted to ship the slaves back to Africa or South America, Columbia.

Incredible with how intelligent Lee was to be so blind to the absolute evil he fought to uphold. He was at the head of the darkest chapter in our history.

@samcolt1079

5 ай бұрын

Yes he was. A good man gone wrong

@andyforbes5553

4 ай бұрын

It has to be rembered that those who wanted Slavery to end where radicals at that time. Never in human history had any other Nation or people otlawed the practice of Slavery. So the ending of Slavery was one of many steps in humanity's long journey from animalistic behaviours to Civilised individuals capable of independent thought and action but with the capacity to empathise with others and feel sympathy for strangers.

@ringostarrgazer2419

4 ай бұрын

@@andyforbes5553 I agree with second part of your statement..for the first part england/france/Spain all abolished slavery way before the U.S. did...I'd prefer to argue that the radicals were the confederate secessionists who fought to uphold it.

@andyforbes5553

4 ай бұрын

@@ringostarrgazer2419 I'm not calling anyone Radicals but instead pointing out that the concept of outlawing Slavery was so totally new that civic leaders at the time would have called it a Radical idea. Yes Britain waged war both finical and literal to force many nations to comply with Britains stance on Slavery. Countries such as France, Spain, America, Brazil and the many nations ot West Africa had to be forced at times to desist from practicing in this terrible Trade but within 50 years every Western civil nation had outlawed Slavery themselves that is why I made no distinction between nations. I am talking about us as a race the human race and how we have developed mentally. The point of all this is, we are the people we are today with all are high minded ideals because of what are ancestors did and not inspite of them as so many today belive. If it wasn't for our ancestors fighting over Slavery, then who would have taught us it was wrong. Do you think we would just have known Slavery was wrong instinctively, from birth. We owe all we are and much we belive to those who came before us.

@Baseballnfj

4 ай бұрын

Nah

Such terrible loss of life to preserve a practice that never should have been in existence. God forgive those who maintained slavery. God bless those who brought it to an end.

love bud Robertson & Mort Kuntsler!

We need to find a new Dr Robertson and do more Virginia history docs.

It was not the end of the Civil War…it was the Surrender of the arm of Northern Virginia. Johnston had yet to surrender in North Carolina.

I thought I heard that Dr Robinson had a piedmont accent

Excellent presentation, and well written. Question: Given the importance of the railroads to Lee's army, why didn't the Union troops just attack them 50 miles or so to the south?

@butterfly.933

2 жыл бұрын

Because Sherman didn't want to march north, with winter coming and do just that. The winter in that area can be wet and miserable. He was to busy waging a war of extermination on women, children, the elderly and enjoying his pillage. This has always been exactly my point. What you propose, could have ended things MUCH earlier, but Sherman had a much more ambitious plan. Remember he was a failed banker, and the land he "cleared and cleaned out" was all bought up by NY bankers after the war on the cheap. Wars are always fought for empire, NEVER humanitarian reasons. To the victor go the myths and the monuments.

@gawaineross6119

2 жыл бұрын

@@butterfly.933 Read Shelby Foote about Sherman. You can hardly accuse him of Northern propaganda.

@robertdubois2917

2 жыл бұрын

At the Battle/Siege of Petersburg, and after the bomb that created the Crater Union forces moved south and attacked the rail line. It was only 5 miles south of Petersburg. There was a skirmish and the Confederates withdrew, and Lee had to withdraw and attempt to escape.

@GottaWannaDance

Жыл бұрын

Also, Grant knew, just as Lee knew.

On his retreat, Marse Robert gave my old granny a mule.

@BlueRidgeStreaming

2 жыл бұрын

Cool story

Longstreet should have explained what he meant by "Not yet". Let's sacrifice a few more men for nothing, just to show we're not the kind of people to give up?

@andrewpytko4773

11 ай бұрын

He was hoping they could escape.

@Baseballnfj

4 ай бұрын

He still had troops who wanted to follow, there were still multiple confederate armies in the field... Willmington was still open... not yet meant not yet. They were hoping to escape and unite with Joe Johnston's army in NC. Kirby Smith in the far West was still active and in fact was the last to surrender in March.

Modern day trench warfare can be directly traced to the Battle of Fredericksburg. It came about because of the wall at the Sunken Road protection below Marye's Heights. Pronounced ma-rees heights. Not Mary's heights.

@_kaboom826

7 ай бұрын

Bro forgot about the Crimean War

@muthaship2992

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the trenches at Petersburg. Where both side dug miles of trenches

@Baseballnfj

4 ай бұрын

Lol no... but definitely by the end of the civil war open line infantry field tactics gave way completely to trench warfare... but it's not that simple. Fredricksburg wasn't just Marye's Heights... it was a lot bigger. The most sustained and viscious combat occurred on the Confederate right where the Union actually broke through for a bit There were plenty of Napoleonic tactics used during the Franco-Prussian war. And also Russia is fighting Hella wars at this time.

I truly believe Gen Lee's men would have marched to the gates of hell for him. Shoeless, unarmed, starving....they'd of done it. Simply bc he commanded them to.

that glove and hand sign was a way to the rest of that southern trash to never give up and this the reason we have them still running around with that flag of theirs

I’m afraid we’re not so united anymore.

The fight for the preservation of slavery finally met its inevitable end.

@markcrawford5983

8 ай бұрын

not in africa

@peggyfleener3111

7 ай бұрын

Research original Archived history records. Slavery was OUTLAWED in the Naorthern States in 1804. Shipping Companies stopped transporting Slaves in 1804.

@samcolt1079

5 ай бұрын

THANK THE LORD

Good documentary with good information and an interesting perspective. Nit: The commentators mispronounce cavalry. A common error.

people the most high were there in every battle but man close his eyes to this fact he forced two brothers to shed blood for one reason alone just as he sent moses with that message to pharoah he did the same here and they still don,t see it lee had the the most powerful army but that cause was dead from the start but this place is still in danger they still hold us as hostage but the end is near APTTMH

I wonder if the union army had speed because they were going hells bell for days before the surrender.

@butterfly.933

2 жыл бұрын

Mainly it was strength in numbers, guns, food, and equipment, coupled with the fact that Lee's army was only a shell of it's former self at this time and further impacted with a desire for Lincoln to not lose the election as many in the north, were ready to sue for peace having been very tired, of sending their sons, fathers and loved ones to die in Virginia, or Andersonville for example.

@Joseph70663

2 жыл бұрын

@@butterfly.933 ...I didn't think there was an election in 1865. Wasn't that in 1864? And it wasn't the Northern Armies suffering from massive desertions...many of the poor Southern soldiers were coming to grips with the fact that they had been dying to defend wealthy plantation owners who owned millions of slaves. They didn't own any.....

@butterfly.933

2 жыл бұрын

@@Joseph70663 The overland campaign, which included Petersburg , yes was part of 1864 leading up to the election. Yes again! Northerner soldiers, unhappy with fighting a war, which now, had the added directive of freeing slaves, was not something many of them were the least bit interested in doing, as they wrote home in many letters detailing their feelings on the matter. Good point. I can't say as I have read any letters or accounts of southern soldiers unhappy about defending the rich mans war, which I believe it was. Lincoln added a second directive in his war, which he did hoping to, A) cause a slave insurrection as had recently happened in Haiti, which never happened in the south. B) Hoping to gain support from the different abolitionists, of which there were three classes; those being direct abolitionists who offered no answer to the social issue created by direct and immediate abolition, much like sjw's today they simply liked pointing their finger from atop the moral high ground, yet offering no solution, (Virtue signaling is not new) also were deportationists... like Lincoln himself became, and exclusionists who wanted slaves freed, but confined to the south. Lastly, C) Adding this directive eliminated England and France from aiding the Confederacy, Lincoln's most troubling of these reasons listed. Never the less, none of this changed the reason these men were defending Virginia, or elsewhere. Deserters in Virginia were tired of being hungry and waiting months inside of a besieged location. I do recall Lee having said he met with the politicians in Richmond; and, all they seemed to be interested in doing was eating peanuts and chewing tobacco while his men starved. Hard to blame deserters who wanted to quit at that time and go see their family's. Forgive me I was answering ( like a fool ) a troll, that the narrator, seems to have acquired.

@grindle1857

Жыл бұрын

@@Joseph70663 Confed troops eventually came to the truth that so many died for the elitist plantation owner desire to preserve institution of slavery. Was only a matter of time.....what a waste

@RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia

Жыл бұрын

They had fresh bread and Meat and shoes. A huge difference in body strength and morale.

The Siege of Petersburg (1864 -- 1865) is a 19th Century Version of Homer's Iliad, and the Siege of Troy. But, rewritten into the sagas of the CSA.

@teenieneenie630

4 ай бұрын

So...history really does repeat itself.

Sorry; but wars are never over, until there is no more such! How could his (Lee's) soldiers not have wanted to continue, and in fact die?

@BlueRidgeStreaming

8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, you are probably right.

We have not forgotten the sacrifices of our ancestors. I have nearly a dozen confederate relatives mostly from SC and NC . I will forever be greatful to Dr Robertson for this series . When he filmed this I bet he could not imagine the country turning on their own and vilifying our gallant southern leaders and our brave southern boys who live on inside of us . I for one will never forsake the southern cross or my home state who raised that Bonnie Blue flag high and proud in defiance in the spring of 1861 . God save Dixie Sic semper Tyrannis Deo vindice

@willoutlaw4971

Жыл бұрын

Why don't we ever hear from the decendents of the tens of thousands of Confederate deserters and draft dodgers??

Many thanks to those Union troops who saved the USA from the evil clutches of tyranny. Thanks also to the 200 000 African American soldiers known as United States Colored Troops who fought to end African American slavery. Thank you also to Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln and his administration. Thank you also to the abolionists who helped to end slavery in the USA.

@keithbartlett9048

7 ай бұрын

The tyrant was Lincoln and his administration that basically ripped up the constitution to do whatever he wanted. The CSA was pro constitution and understood that document far better then Lincoln and the Republicans did back then. When the CSA lost the war, all it did was make oppressive centralized federal the future government of the country. States rights died when the CSA lost.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

5 ай бұрын

@willoutlaw: Have you looked at the actual initial reasons for the American Civil War? The southern states were fighting for THEIR rights against northern tyranny. Until 1863, slavery was a sidebar. Even Lincoln was ambivalent about freeing the slaves. It was only when he was convinced of the damage to the confederate economy that he issued the proclamation, even then, he delayed issuing it! Over 100yrs later, black Americans were still fighting for equality. Frederick Douglass fought tirelessly to help African Americans, that's true. The main thanks should go to him and the abolitionists for the end of slavery in the US. The coloured troops were actually used, initially, out of desperation because the federal armies were having difficulties in recruitment and retention of soldiers. It was only when they proved how competent they were with the sub-standard equipment they were issued that they became more widely accepted and finally respected as they deserved.

By this time of the war theres no chace for the reb army. They should have gave up long ago. It would have saved a lot of people. Lee knew it was over he got a lot of men killed for nothing.

Just wonering was Lee a traitor to the Republic? Thomas a fellow Virginian honored his oath.

Lee should have surrendered at Gettysburg. Hundreds of thousands died and suffered after that crushing annihilation and he surely knew there was no winning from that day. He was a mediocre general at best ( arrogant narccisistic) who failed miserably once he went on the offensive. Disgraceful. Tragic.

his god which is satan was in no position to help him at this point

@BlueRidgeStreaming

6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure he thought that his God was Satan

I wish the South had conducted a Guerrilla war, and never gave up.

@willoutlaw4971

Жыл бұрын

A guerrilla war would have resulted in the total destruction of the Confederates. As it was, Confederates were deserting at near record levels while they were being chased across Virginia, Tenn. N. Carolina. It's hard to conduct guerrilla warfare when they were being run like starving, homeless jackrabbits across the country.

The war did not end when Lee surrendered. Read more history.

You mentioned "The ground made sacred by the blood of patriots." You are referring to the Northerners exclusively. Seditionists are not patriots. Those who fought to keep people enslaved are not patriots. Roll my eyes at the "States Rights" argument. Great video but lets not glorify those who fought for slavery.

@tcod3137

6 ай бұрын

Did you hear the saying, Don’t speak ill of the dead!

@jannarkiewicz633

6 ай бұрын

@@tcod3137 read how Robert E. Lee treated his escaped slaves. He was no saint. We should not make excuses for such behavior.

@tcod3137

6 ай бұрын

@@jannarkiewicz633 and when I read about what Robert E lee did, who the author of this great article?

@jannarkiewicz633

6 ай бұрын

@@tcod3137 NY Tribune's 1859 article (yes, predating the Civil war). Of course you had testimony of Wesley Norris in 1866 -- one of his former slaves. Don't get me going on Longstreet -- his Christianity made him think they were inferior... Yikes!!!!

@tcod3137

6 ай бұрын

@@jannarkiewicz633 paper never refused ink!! We’re any of the people you mentioned ever cross examined? Remember lee never put himself up on a pedestal, it was the people that did that to him!!

Grant realized what the commanders before him did not --- that he could never match Lee's genius. He did know that he had vastly superior numbers of everything, and that's what he used. Grant fought a war of attrition he knew he couldn't lose. Just order failed charges, then order more failed charges on top of those. So you get 7,000 of your men shot down in 20-minutes at Cold Harbor, who cares? Just order another charge until subordinate commanders refused to obey further orders. Lee would retreat, and Grant would follow him for more charges. Grant's work was called the "Butcher's Bill" and except for Lincoln he would have been relieved faster than any commander before him. Sure, he never won a battle, but he won the War. Lee lost fewer of everything, but couldn't replace any of it. But, the attrition caused Lee to retreat and eventually surrender. Grant also caused a change in American military thinking... for the next century America would only fight wars of attritions. Not since Lee did America produce a single military genius; American generals were known for their odd personalities such as "Blood 'n Guts" Patton who won only because they had more beans and bullets than the enemy.... America never had a Rommel, Manstein or Guderian. Yeah, we lost a million dead after 1865, but no one gives a shit when you win the wars.

@bleedingkansai9961

Жыл бұрын

I like Lee but the blind worship has to stop. The casualty comparisons aren't surprising given that the Federals were faced with the big offensive task of taking the American Southland while the Confederates were on the defensive. Still, Lee made wasteful and costly moves throughout the war that needlessly drove up his % casuality rate. Between the two generals, there's no comparison. Lee fought in one theater with one army the whole war and was unsuccessful whenever he attempted offense. Grant commanded in three different theaters with three different armies in the war and was successful in all of them.

@collingrant6693

Жыл бұрын

Wait Grant never won a battle? How about "the unconditional surrender" name? Vicksburg, fort donelson,Henry, to name few...Talking about waste....how about Picket charge? If Grant had made mistakes so did lee . You can not compare these 2 generals. And btw Grant was a genius. He saved the USA

@waiwaianela

11 ай бұрын

total Confederate soldiers killed under Lee's command: 121,000. total Union soldiers killed under Grant's command: 94,000

@alanaadams7440

8 ай бұрын

We lost Korea Vietnam Iraq Afghanistan we don't win anymore we cut our losses and leave

if the good "Doctor" can't say "Railroad" with "Hard "R"s, then it's not "accent", it's a speech impediment [as in Elmer Fudd] and inappropriate to be broadcast.

@BlueRidgeStreaming

8 ай бұрын

Normally I would just delete such an asinine comment. However, I am compelled to respond. "Inappropriate" is not the word you're looking for. Just because someone is slow of speech does not mean they shouldn't speak, especially when they are an authority on the subject matter at hand. Could you not understand the message and information? Given your line of thinking, I suppose that FDR shouldn't have been president since he had polio. Maybe Bob Ross shouldn't have had a painting show because he only had 9 fingers. Really?!???

Its the graves that get me they died such a long long time ago

Thank u for stopping the democrat confederacy.

@benjaminjarrett9816

6 ай бұрын

There’s a day where we must march off to stop the Democrats yet again…

@TheLAGopher

5 ай бұрын

It’s the modern GOP that is about states rights honoring Confederate icons and ignoring the Civil Rights legacy of Lincoln and Grant.