This reminds me a lot of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863 during the American Civil War. South of Vicksburg another siege was going on at Port Hudson, Louisiana. Like Vicksburg the Confederate Army was dug in with a series of trenches and redoubts surrounding the town. The Union Army tried to take Port Hudson with a couple of infantry assaults but was repulsed both times. The attacks were made by the U.S. Colored Troops, many former slaves that joined the Union Army. The ground over which the troops advanced was called Slaughter Field after a local farmer. It was a slaughter and after that the Union Army dug trenches and settled in for a siege. After Vicksburg surrendered on July 4, 1863 Port Hudson surrendered the following week. After this the Union gained control of the Mississippi River all the way from the headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Both battles had much more the character of World War I battles than American Civil War battles like Gettysburg which was taking place at the same time. I have done some archaeology at the Port Hudson Battlefield where we excavated some Confederate trenches. We found lead shot and shell fragments including the base of a Hotchkiss shell fired from a 3 inch ordinance rifle from the Union lines. Even after 150 years there were still well preserved Confederate trenches in the woods nearby.

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Very good simulation and graphics

Great work ...and greetings from Germany.

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@zeep6969

3 ай бұрын

Ye

This wonderful video has a strong resemblance (to my mind) to the fortifications in front of Atlanta in Summer 1864 and Petersburg 1864-65. This is very well done.

This is amazing!

Endelig et animationsklip med overblik over det hele super detaljeret.dejligt for os der interasere os for slaget.bliv ved med at lave det her

@nanagroth7749

6 жыл бұрын

Tak, x Key! Noget forsinket må man sige, men stadig tak for de pæne ord! Dejligt at høre fra en med interesse for det. Hvis du har lyst, kan du finde mere på vores hjemmeside www.groth-ostergaard-animation.com :)

@thexkey8862

3 ай бұрын

Hej groth østergårs. Jeg drømmer om engang i fremtiden at instruere kortfilm. Skal lige spare op først. Kan man betale jer for at lave videoer af visse historiske begivenheder? Kan man betale jer for at lave flere Dybbøl videoer, bare meget detaljeret? Hvor meget har den her Dybbølvideo kostet? Og kunne i være interaseret i at lave en hel film hvis jeg eller nogle andre kom til jer med pengende?

@thexkey8862

3 ай бұрын

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really good animation

The Danish artillery is so far behind. You know the Prussians were heavily equipped with rear-loaded guns.

@Rex1987

10 ай бұрын

yes in most ways. What this animation does also show that the danes had one thing that was pretty high tech for 1864: the ironclad rolf krake (HDMS Rolf Krake (1863)) which help try to steem the tide of prussians. But as you mentioned i wasnt enogh compared to the combination of firepower the prussians had. But its just a good detail often lost in other historical accounts.

@nirvana3921

10 ай бұрын

​@@Rex1987Danish weapons had a serious generational gap with Germany at that time

1864

looks like ww1

@groth-stergaardanimation8423

3 жыл бұрын

Yep Olaf, you're right - actually the barrage of the fortifications of Dybbøl from preussian artillery, if you count in number of granates pr. m2, were much heavier than barrages of WW1. Imagine Hell...

@olafkessler8886

3 жыл бұрын

@@groth-stergaardanimation8423 Yes that sounds not good...

@pittbullking87

2 жыл бұрын

@@groth-stergaardanimation8423 In 1998 I went to Verdun in France and you could still see the landscape covered in shell craters. Verdun was bad enough for the French and German troops involved and so this barrage must have been of unimaginable ferocity.