A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one! Thanks VTH for covering another one of our videos, I hope you and Woody had a great time at Antietam!

@Shifty69569

Жыл бұрын

Been asking him every video to come bakc to y’all😂

A lot of people say pressure creates cracks. Pressure also creates diamonds. Grant is a diamond

The civil war was wild and just a horror, i hope we Americans will never experience it again or wish it upon my worst enemies even actually. As Lincoln once said “A house divided cannot stand”

General Grant saved the lives of many by quickly winning. My ancestor in the 3rd Tennessee Volunteers was captured, not held very long at an officer's prison in Ohio, and then paroled (as they did early in the war). No more fighting for him. He named his son Ulysses.

Been binging your videos. Favorites have been the Lexington+Concord visit and Breed's hill visit

The channel "History Gone Wilder" is currently doing a biography series on McClernand with his latest on the time of Fort Donelson. His biographies are quite entertaining and indepth. He also has already done some on Cleburne, A.P. Hill, Hancock, and Leonidas Polk.

I was able to go to Shiloh last winter and visit the grave of a Great x4 Uncle who was killed on April 6th. He was in Marsh’s brigade (20th Illinois) and I got to walk the ground he saw for his last days and visit the brigade camp.

When you're at Shiloh eat at the Catfish Hotel. A story that doesn't get much attention that is connected to Shiloh is the seizure of Huntsville, AL the week after Shiloh by Major General Ormsby McKnight Mitchel and the 3rd Division of the Army of the Ohio. They captured Huntsville without firing a shot. They also captured several locomotives and Confederate wounded from Shiloh at the train depot. Mitchel is responsible for authorizing Andrew's raid on the Atlanta to Chattanooga railroad. Mitchel was a well know astronomer before the war and was nicknamed "Old Stars".

The nicest way to describe Tennessee weather is unpredictable 😁 good video, i got a soft spot for this story. I was born and raised in dover, i can show you on that map at 12:30 where my grandpa would build a house for my grandma about a hundred years later 🤘y'all have a badass day🤘🍻🤘

It's also crazy that the confederate general stationed at Ft. Donelson had bailed Grant out of some gambling debt years before but grant was just like "nah, I don't care bud" when writing his terms of surrender, civil war was a wild time.

@Anna-rs4mx

2 ай бұрын

No, that’s not true. Grant offered generous surrender terms and his personal purse to Buckner. Well documented.

Warhawk is such a great channel, glad to see them getting some love.

There is a lot I like about your channel - what I particularly appreciate is how you always support other channels.

The main reason the Monitor v. Merrimack battle is considered the big ironclad moment is it's the first time two ironclads fought *each other.* Until then, ironclads were only on one given side, as they were here.

Louis Wallace eventually became the governor of New Mexico.

@VloggingThroughHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yep and wrote Ben Hur.

29:35 The Monitor and Virginia were the first ironclad-to-ironclad action of the war.

We need a trip to the Shenandoah Valley soooon please

My 4th Great Grand Uncle, John F Lawson, was part of the Confederate 9th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, Company D when he and almost the entire 9th TN Cavalry Battalion when Fort Donelson was Captured. He was sent to a POW camp in Indiana called Camp Morton in June of 1862. Glad you did a video on it so I can see where my and your ancestor was during the entire battle of Fort Donelson

@spencermccormick299

Жыл бұрын

My 3x great grandfather was with yours as well. Captured while serving in the 3rd KY Calvary. Escaped from Camp Morton in April. I have a detailed account of his escape and journey home.

@charlayned

11 ай бұрын

​@@spencermccormick299 And my 2nd great grandfather on my dad's side was in the 26th TN Infantry (Confederate) at Ft. Donelson and almost the entire regiment was captured. He spent the time in Camp Morton. Thing is, another 2nd great grandfather (mom's side) was in the 30th Illinois Union at Ft. Donelson, doing the capturing side. I also had that at Vicksburg, but luckily the Confederate ggf of 41st Reg GA was only PoW for two days before being paroled (and went right back to fighting). The same 30th Illinois great grandfather was there for that too. It's weird that happened that way.

At around the 20:00 min mark you talk about hot-shot, or heated shot, I just wanted to chime a few things in. Heated shot was not meant as a means to better the armor penetration of the shot, but rather to cause a fire in wooden vessels. Even these armored gunboats and all but the monitors were iron-clad, or iron-over-wood. If you could get your red hot round past the armor and lodged somewhere in the wooden hull, you could destroy the ship by causing a fire. In WW2 and later, armor piercing ammunition would certainly be heated through the process of firing - friction and the gunpowder combustion - but the 'smoking' or 'red hot hole' in the target is more to do with the conversion of kinetic energy into thermal energy upon impact.

I always heard of the Monitor and Merrimac referred to as the first "Duel" between ironclads and not so much as the first action of ironclads. Been doing a ton of research on Mississippi brown water navy action recently (for a boardgame) and an interesting consequence of Donelson falling was that the Ironclad CSS Eastport was captured before she was completed. Its interesting to wonder what would have happened if that didn't happen. An Ironclad duel on the Mississippi?

As a Warhawker am very happy to see this just finished 2nd Bull Run

I heard recently that Grant was the only president to have been arrested while in office. He was speeding on his horse drawn cart (carriage?) and got out on bail.

@Anna-rs4mx

2 ай бұрын

He insisted on being arrested and paid his ticket.

Hope you have a blast when you get to those travels . Pumped for the original content 👍

Hey VTH! I can tell it's going to be a great video.

Was a project Engineer doing road work at Fort Donelson in 2020. Beautiful place. It was cool to learn about the history of the place while I was there

Can’t complain about any content on Grant, love your passion for getting the truth about him out there so he can get the recognition he is long overdue for! You should do a reaction to the 3 part miniseries that the History Channel did a few years ago. They had Chernow (among others) on there and the re-enactments were great as well. Apparently Leonardo DiCaprio was a producer for it. They did a similarly well done one on Washington, showing how influential people like Knox and Greene were to Washington.

I love this channel. Daily dose of history fun :)

I have that Time Life series as well. I asked for it when I was a little girl.

I know it’s not related to this video per se but thought it would be cool to let you know your talks about your ancestors in other videos inspired me to dig into my family tree. I discovered my great great grandfather on my dads side fought in the Indiana 19th regiment he fought from the regiments formation all the way to Appomattox. He was invited to the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg but he declined attending. It was super cool to learn. I already bought a book to learn more about his regiment.

I love these super detailed battles

Great channel for learning more about American and European history. Despite my very different take on some of these events due to life experience and world outlook, there is a strong focus on the basic facts, which I greatly appreciate

Thank you!

That time life series is great I thoroughly enjoyed reading the whole thing

I started reading his autobiography about a week ago per your recommendation and I just got through this part 👍

I have watched all of warhawks videos and really enjoyed learning about the US Civil War. I also enjoy your input with extra info as its not something that is taught in our schools as its not our history. From the UK

My 4x great grandfather was captured at Fort Donelson. He escaped from Camp Morton less than 2 months later and joined up with a partisan group. He was murdered in 1865 by a Union Lt.

You should watch that documentary on grant it’s soo good!!!

Great video, Chris! I remember learning a little bit about the Battle of Fort Donelson when I was a kid, but it wasn't in as much detail as was presented here. I like the extra insight you added, especially about McClernand (as I did not learn about him before). All the best for your visit to Shiloh and Gettysburg. I hope you have a great trip! On a different note, I was wondering if you were planning on reviewing the movie "Oppenheimer" after it comes out this summer. I remember you reviewed "All Quiet on the Western Front" and I'd definitely be interested in hearing your review and reaction to "Oppenheimer" too.

Warhawk is amazing💯

@WarhawkYT

Жыл бұрын

i concur

Bushrod Johnson was a professor in Kentucky and involved with the militias of KY & TN. As an engineer, he approved the locations for Forts Henry and Donelson. Interesting fact, Johnson was one of the last prisoners scheduled for transportation to a prison. He was allowed to walk freely around Donelson, which is what allowed him to escape and rejoin the Army in time for Shiloh.

I had a 6th cousin at that battle. Some guy called Ulysses Grant.

Nice man, I always like when you do warhawks videos. Cheers.

Brought me back to my childhood Back in the 60s I just finished learning about Grant taking Fort Donaldson in 5th grade. My family is from the area and we vacation there often, we went there and there was a monument with a button that when pushed told you the history of the Fort. However according to the monument, GRANT NEVER CAPTURED FORT DONALDSON. I asked my dad and he told me about how my great great grandfather swimming the river to escape when Grant took Fort Donaldson. I haven't been back since, just curious if that monument was still there.😆😅😂🤣

50 minute Civil War reaction? Sign me up🤩

Wish I'd known you were going to be around. I live nearby. Could have taken you onto Ft Campbell for a visit.

I always find Grant's Cumberland campaign to be very fascinating. It always felt like it was over shadowed by Shiloh and Vicksburg when we learned about the civil war in school. I think it's one of the most brilliant campaigns in the entire war.

Reminds me a little of epic history tv 👍

As a Lancastrian, I really appreciate your correction of "Conestoga."

If you have the time at Shiloh. Please look into the 40th Illinois. Multiple ancestors fought for three 40th Illinois company F. Their location is so out of the way, and more people really need to know about them

I’ve been researching my family tree for the first time in my life and recently found out one of my great great grandfathers was in the 26th Mississippi infantry(which was surprising bc I had no idea my dad’s line came through Mississippi and neither did he) They were one of the units that surrendered at Fort Donnelson. I believe these soldiers were part of a prisoner exchange later that year and returned to service for the Confederacy but I found a service record that lists him present for 3 days leading up to the surrender and then absent without leave on the day of the surrender. So if this is correct, sounds like he slipped out in the middle of the night like Gideon and Pillow lol (he was just a private though) He is listed as present after that at several engagements and roll calls through the end of the war so he must have returned to his unit after they were exchanged. That or the absent without leave on the service record was a mistake.

1:57 Yes Chris, I don't know about everyone but i am very interested in civil war battlefields. Like Bamianshan, Baoying but Baoding has to be a big one

Are we going to eventually return to the Napoleon series and see the ranking of his Marshalls? Because these are some great videos.

as a person that lives 45 minutes from ft Donelson February is a strange beast we get a false spring of about a week in early to mid of the month so i always giggle when i hear about the yankees getting rid of their winter gear

The first usually cited for Virginia vs Monitor is ironclads FIGHTING EACH OTHER. As Fort Donnelson has no floating defenders that would count as ironclads, this is not a comparable battle.

Hey, VTH! I was wondering if youd like to do something not very related to the History your channel has. Its the wreck of edmund fitzgerald by maritime horrors, it covers the sinking and the history behind it, its 30 Minutes but theres another one thats 10 minutes by fascinating horror, which are both cool to watch and very informative! God bless and keep up the great work❤

@leibbenowitz2661

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The 30 minute one is great as its very informative, very interesting, and would be awesome for a reaction. Thanks for the suggestion man, i forgot about that video😁

Was looking for the announcement but didn't see it. When will the meetup be?

You should do a video on Champ Ferguson.

You should take a look at more UsefulCharts as well as a video on the 1904 Olympics by Jon Bois.

Hi, Chris very interesting , I had never heard of this channel before but I'll check out more. As I made a recommendation on Patreon yesterday I won't do another today for a particular video but just a general request, could we have something on famous navel battles we haven't had so many of them.

Hey random question but have you ever been to the WWI museum in Kansas City? If not you should make a video on it if you’re ever out there. It’s a really cool location

I found out that I'm related to Grant, through the Delano family tree!

Can you cover the BATTLE OF FRANKLIN?

Hey VTH Great Video. Have you ever watched the mini documentary "When Georgia Howled" detailing Sherman's Atlanta campaign and his subsequent March to the Sea? I'd love to see your reaction to it

Where did you get your Iron Brigade shirt when you showed the clip of you with Warhawk?

@VloggingThroughHistory

Жыл бұрын

At the store in the Antietam visitors center.

men of Fire by Jack Hurst is a good book on this subject

Does anyone know why Foote was not obligated to follow Grant's orders? I did a bit of digging and this might me a hugely broad military question rather than a Fort Donelson question. Was it a rank thing; that they were essentially the same rank in this battle? Was it branch issue one being Navy and the other Army? To keep it Civil War I could even ask would Grant have been able to give that order later (or by the end of) the war? This becomes a singular Grant question, given his unique rank and command structure by the end.

In my opinion henry halleck and general mcclenard both made the war in the west drag on for longer than it needed to and both were unable to adapt to the new situation at least lincoln did back grant which allowed him to win eventually with the seizure of vicksburg but perhaps more importantly he finally got rid of mcclernads meddling

hey when are you gonna visit michigan? lol i know ohio and michigan beef but it would still be nice if you were around

Just curious is the professor related to general Early?

Sorry Chris i didn't know that you dislike people recommending vids excessively, i promise i will do that in a better manner 😊 Today i am not here to recommend just to ask for your answer, you see for the last couple months Epic History TV is releasing a series about Napoleon's brilliant campaign in 1796 in Italy and it is not finished yet (it will need around 3 more months to conclude, will you check it when it ends?) Good video by The way

@VloggingThroughHistory

Жыл бұрын

No worries, Pierre. Glad you're here!

@stephenparker6362

Жыл бұрын

I recommend a video twice, after that I move on to something else. I always do twice just in case Chris misses it the first time.

@pierredelasalle4731

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenparker6362 i will do that as well!

Chris, ok I'm no expert on the mid 19th century, so I may be missing something. You have a circumstance, where the tactics dictate that units line up shoulder to shoulder and that those units detach skirmishers which move more tactically - very similar to Napoleon. However it seems that in Europe (certainly in Britain and France who had experience from Crimean war) that they knew the nature of war had changed and we're looking looser formations of infantry. What actually did the US understand about the changing nature of military needs, were there American observers in Europe, much like there were British, French and Prussian observers in the US during the Civil War?

@SmedleyDouwright

Жыл бұрын

I think it is because the US Civil War started out with both sides still using mostly smooth bore muskets, which fit the shoulder to shoulder tactics. I'm sure Chris and others will correct me if this is wrong.

I am going to be unkind and correct VTH on his take on heated shells made after 19:45 First, it's heated (solid) shot. You heat a shell, and it'll blow up on you. They heat shot for the incendiary effect. It not only does nothing for penetrating power, red hot iron is less strong and thus less likely to penetrate. The comparison to WW2 tank shells is also off base. (Anti-)Tank shells are not super heated nor does heat come into it for penetrative effect. Though the kinetic energy involved of a high velocity round hitting armour does produce quite a bit of heat. But it's not a function of the round. I think VTH might have been wrong-footed by HEAT rounds. The High Explosive Anti Tank rounds work by having a shaped charge detonate in such a way that a copper cone is reformed into a tight jet of plasma(ish) copper travelling at a bonkers speed. Yes, the jet is extremely hot but that's a by-product of the process, not the way it achieves penetration. The HEAT round does NOT melt through armour, it still relies on the kinetic energy of the tightly focussed jet of superheated copper.

Is Chris hinting at a Ken Burns cameo?

One of the last wars where parole was given. This was standard in European wars for the last 200 years especially with enemy officers.

Being from Texas and having the last name "Early" I wonder if your professor friend might be a bit biased...

Why did the Union forces extend so far south and east instead of attacking the shorter defenses to the northwest? There is a road leading to the flank of the trenches from that direction.

I'm here for the 69th New York regiment.

@VloggingThroughHistory

Жыл бұрын

Well you're gonna be disappointed then. They were in the Eastern Theater.

@IrishTechnicalThinker

Жыл бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistory Damn, I am only beginning to learn about the Irish role in the war and I am so proud of that.

@VloggingThroughHistory

Жыл бұрын

@@IrishTechnicalThinker I did a video on the Irish Brigade a while back kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYl8rLyKidbVXcY.html

@IrishTechnicalThinker

Жыл бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistory Go raibh maith agat mo chara

Hey, I realize this will be considered a weird comment. But have any of you seen that video of the bull frog vs the king scorpion? The king scorpion possesses every apparent advantage. It's got pincer claws, a stinger. And I'm pretty sure it's armor-plated. The bull frog doesn't have nothing. The king scorpion stands in front of that bull frog ready to attack. And you know what happened next? That bull frog scooped up the king scorpion in one fell swoop. Ate the damn thing whole. With the bull frog's weird eyes facing in different directions, you couldn't even tell what it was thinking. Or if it was thinking at all. Ulysses S. Grant reminds me of that bull frog. You think there's nothing going on underneath the surface. Until he attacks. You realize then, once it's too late, that you've been eaten whole. I'd rather not fight that man.

Out of curiosity how much of a difference do you think the weapons Floyd sent to the south had? Like if he hadn’t have done it do you think the south could have ran out of supplies and had to surrender sooner? Or maybe they wouldn’t have the resources to invade the north? Or did it just make no real difference overall?

Hey chris I have a personal request there is a hometown hero where I’m from named Annie Oakley and I’m a distant relative of her would you consider doing something on her also is there anyway to contact you about things like this?

@VloggingThroughHistory

Жыл бұрын

This is the best way to put in a request. I can keep that in mind for the future.

@andymiller-xx4kf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I wish I could be a Patreon but I don’t have the money but I’m still a fan also Annie Oakley is from Ohio and she was a very famous performer and I think she preformed for European royalty

@MATT10653

Жыл бұрын

Hey Annie Oakley is my 2nd Cousin, 7x Removed

12°F = -11°C for all my fellow non-Americans. Which is awfully cold...

Hey VTH! If you're into something really wild, I'm from Dover, Tn and this battle was in my back yard. Could you do a video over the Dover sniper, he literally was a civil war brave heart. The union soldiers hung 2 of his son's post battle of Ft. Donelson because there was fear in the union ranks of bushwhackers. They decapitated the boys dead body's in the town square. The union hung and killed a lot of people the following months after the battle, burning the whole town down but 2 buildings. When the man found out about his son's, he ordered a custom long rifle and freed his slaves and relocated his family to west TN. He took some personal rations and his custom long rifle to a hideout in a cave that you can still find at Land Between the Lakes. He would shoot anyone wearing union blue, especially troops on the tops of decks of the gunboats going slowly upstream on the Cumberland. He has a really crazy story! Jack Hinson, had 30 something confirmed officer kills and he didn't even count any ranked lower than that.

I don't feel that Grant should be knocked for not leaving orders for every possible situation. Junior officers are expected to exercise judgment and initiative in the absence of orders covering unexpected developments.

My ancestors surrendered with the 53rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment

Extra credits is making videos about John brown.

@Hamburger2005

Жыл бұрын

He waits untill the series is done to react to it

I know this isn't the main topic of the video but I'm going to have to disagree with you on heated shot being used in world war 2 I think maybe you're thinking of the ring in a hole being heated but it's more likely just from the velocities of the rounds or shaped charges. Heated rounds where more of an age of sale thing to set for to the ship they even had molten metal in hollowed out shells that would burst on impact.

To be fair in the begining of the war digging in was considdered cowardly & not done nearly as much as in the last 16 months of the war…

2:45 don't let us hang like that... is he related?

Please come to Kansas to visit bleeding Kansas sites lol

Hey sorry if I’m being annoying, but can you check out Lavader’s series on the Last Kaiser? Keep up the great work. Peace ✌🏻

.Jesus loves you❤

Hi 🤗

@Player_nate2008

Жыл бұрын

Hello 👋

Isn’t that a little too long for a nickname?? 😆

I noticed this has become manly about the American civil war was this always the case because I thought he coverd very different topics

Interesting, i am subbed to the Key Battles pod and i can't remember finding them as tedious to listen to as the War Hawk Audios, which despite the interesting research they do are an immediate cringe about their content. Maybe WarHawk should consider finding a better reader/speaker to present their content?