Crazy how so many notables came out of that one regiment. That was the first that I'd ever heard of McKinley being called Coffee Bill though. Interesting!

@VloggingThroughHistory

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There’s a whole section on that at the museum in Canton where he’s buried.

We should probably name a mountain after him or something.

@TheHistoryUnderground

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😅

@jerroldbates355

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Funny! 😄

@johanrunfeldt7174

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Cracked me up! Liked.

@jackmessick2869

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And about a century later, un-name that mountain.🙄

To enlist at 18. Be there for his guys. Get to become a officer then president of the US he was a hero even though he never fired a weapon. These are the best stories to tell. Hero’s come to in all forms. Great video. We need more of these.👍😁

I went to Antietam a couple of times about a year or two ago, I remember seeing this monument there and not really putting time into looking much into it… there were so many monuments there it became overwhelming at times… thank you so much for explaining this and putting it into wonderful context!

Ok now THIS is the content that I live for! Brand new information for me on all counts. No idea that Hayes and McKinley served in the same unit together or that McKinley was a veteran at all!

@thegunslinger8806

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Oh yes McKinley was a civil war vet and I believe he was the last to be president, similar to how Andrew Jackson was both a veteran of the revolutionary War and the war of 1812. But no school in America will teach you that because there all happy to ignore American history for American historical revisionism in order to tell kids there country is bad and they should fee bad.

@kennym.4664

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William McKinley was the last Civil War veteran to become President. Obviously Ulysses S. Grant (1868-1877), Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881), James Garfield (1881), Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893), and McKinley (1897-1901).

@kennym.4664

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Of course I comment while in the middle of the video and end up repeating something that appears later in the video. Lol!

@obizzil

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Check out history underground he has a great civil war series, in fact he is there with this guy

I'll tell you, man, I never really cared for the smaller details in the Civil War (or any war really besides the World Wars), but once I stumbled onto your channel, it really opened my eyes to the intricacies of them. There are so many unknown individuals and every soldier has their own story to tell, so I'm glad I'm learning more through your content. Wish history classes were half as interesting lmao

As a soldier, if a sergeant came up to give me coffee I wouldn't say no and remember that act too.

As a Hawaiian, I hope you know it took a considerable amount of willpower to make it through this video, Chris!

@VloggingThroughHistory

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Understandable.

@HiveTyrant25

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@@VloggingThroughHistory while I have no love for “he who shall not be named,” I have a lot of love for the channel. Keep up the good work!

Coffee Bill is an awesome nickname. Couldn't meme back then.

I'm currently in College in a Civil War class, history major, and was stuck coming up with a thesis topic for a research paper. I think I know what to research now. Love the channel!

Interesting story, I knew the 23rd Ohio had two presidents serving in its ranks but not the rest of the story here. Perhaps it's just me but seeing him in the short movie at the end really resonates. We see so many of the ACW participants in old still photographs and a few as very old men in newsreels about the 70th anniversary of Gettysburg, but seeing McKinley here in his 50's just seems incredible. And of course it's also a point in time. From here on people will be filmed as well as photographed and painted.

I found your channel a few days ago and am a big fan. Like Garry Adelman, you tell things thorough and detailed without being long winded. I appreciate your channel and think you do an excellent job! 👍

Just came across your channel. I watch an a number of history channels, and I have to say that yours is fast becoming one of my favorites. The thing I absolutely love is that you include not so much the movement of the troops but you add in the personal little stories. It’s those stories that make up history and give us a personal connection to what happened. So thank you for not just showing us a map but making history come alive.

Chris I absolutely love these stories of the individual units or soldiers you bring to these videos. It adds such a personal touch to the war hearing from the men who actually fought in these battles and a whole different feeling to these places.

@jamesearly8518

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Me too!

Growing up near Canton, as soon as you said Niles, I knew!

your soundtrack is so soothing! great content

What an interesting video. Being from Ohio, its me proud of those boys from my home state

~Bravo~ Outstanding video. Beautifully structured. The way you withheld McKinley's name till the end. I'm guessing you've had more than one "A" on book reports back in school.

Two presidents on the same battlefield that pretty dope.

Chris, this is a great story and video. On another note, I am so glad I found your channel via your recent vid appearances with History Underground and American Battlefield Trust -- two channels that I had already discovered! I love your work as well. And I particularly LOVE the story-telling ones such as this. Very well done!

Hi, Chris, another great original content video. You always make them so interesting, looking forward to many more.

Very nicely done. I knew almost none of that. I always thought of McKinley primarily as the man whose assassination gave us Teddy Roosevelt. I'm gonna have. to read a book about him now.

I never knew this, thanks for being one of the people I can go to for new history! 2 years ago, my passion for history was dwindling because of lack of exposure at school and I didn't know any other history youtubers other than oversimplified. Then, I found your channel and my passion exploded and I love it more than ever before. Thanks for helping me back to my passion!

Excellent! Thanks, Andrew

Great, fascinating stuff. There are so many stories of the Civil War it is always great to learn a new one. Thank you!

Love this. Absolutely fantastic work Chris.

You should check out and react to Internet Historian’s videos. Especially the Man in Cave, Cost of Concordia, Curse of the Olympic Flame, Kony2012 and Y2K videos of his.

Thanks for making this video! I really enjoyed it!

Great video. Thanks. Keep up the great work.

Was just at the Kernstown battlefield. McKinley and Hayes were there too.

Funny how the nickname Coffee Bill was meant to ridicule him, for if you ask me, that’s a pretty weak insult.

Post Civil War elected Presidents with ACW experience in the Army: Grant-need I say more? 1868, 1872 Opponents: Seymour and Greeley more than 50 years old at the outbreak. As mentioned, Rutherford Hayes, 1876 Opponent Tilden 46 years old at outbreak of the war. Garfield, 1880: Major General Opponent: Winfield Hancock "the Superb" hero of Gettysburg. Arthur: Member of NYSM, offered a General position, but the NY Governor asked him to stay as NYSM Quartermaster General. Cleveland, 1884, 1892: paid $150 for a substitute draftee from Poland (equivalent of about $3500 today). His first opponent James Blaine was already a congressman from Maine. Second opponent was the next guy: Benjamin Harrison, 1888, Brigadier General from Indiana. Opponent was Cleveland. McKinley: well, you know now. Opponent: William Jennings Bryan, born in 1860. By 1908, most civil war veterans were in their 60s and 70s.

great video as always :D

I respect McKinley a lot more after hearing the coffee story, so I can definitely see how that would have backfired on his opponents.

Wow I had no idea William McKinley had this interesting Civil War history. History only remembers him for being assassinated. I wish we had politicians today whose character was forged in the inferno of combat. On a side note, the battlefield map of South Mountain shows a unit one of my ancestors served in, the 30th Ohio by the name of John Hawk. My family has his GAR medal and ribbon. I think he and one of his buddies moved to Missouri after the war as my rural family's cemetery has a 30th Ohio veteran by the name of James Baker interred there. No other family, just him. Baker served the entire war and mustered out as a Sergeant Major. I found this information from the state of Ohio's registry of soldiers from the Civil War.

Love the video

hehe..i love it when ppl call it kan-a-wha..its actually pronounced "Ka-naw" here in W.V. :) As i told you before on the other channel, my G.G. Grandfather was in the 23rd Ohio inf, Company K (Corporal Benjamin Burns). Seems the entire company got either wounded or killed in Antietam

@VloggingThroughHistory

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It was actually people from West Virginia who told me to pronounce it the way I do. I used to pronounce it "KAN a wa"

@papawsgaming8762

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@@VloggingThroughHistory huh, weird...must be the northerner west virginians ..

I’m here because of History underground, both great channels

@VloggingThroughHistory

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Welcome! JD is a great guy and I love his channel.

@obizzil

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@@VloggingThroughHistory glad to be here! You guy’s are a amazing job with the Antietam series as well as many others!

NICE!! Liked & Subbed! JJ

McKinley is one of my favorite presidents.

Thank you for doing this but 23rd Ohio did fight at many battles , I'm a big historian of the Kanawha Division and have display of artifacts related to the Kanawha Division and 23rd Ohio

@VloggingThroughHistory

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I said major battles. None of their others were major battles.

Weird fact: William J. Bryan was a toddler-baby during the civil war. (McKinley's opponent twice.) That is messed up.

Dang, thought I had it for sure with Bill Clinton! 🙃

He should of tried giving johnny Reb some hot coffee

Hey I'd like to get your thoughts on the new video uploaded titled "What if Nixon wasn't President". I personally haven't watched it yet, so it'll be interested to get your thoughts.

Alternative History Hub has a new video out, what if Nixon was never president?

Hey I have interest in joining your discord channel but the link is expired. Do you still have a discord channel?

Iknow its not rlly relevant to this vid but just waned to let you know theres a voice recording of otto

You should cover the 48th Ohio. There is a book written by Major John A Berring. The book details from the beginning to their muster out date in 1866.