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@GPB

2 ай бұрын

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@JamesLuciano-bf3id

Ай бұрын

@@GPB learning more by the minute

My great-grandfather and family were enslaved on a plantation near Savannah, and were freed when Sherman came through; my family stayed in the area until 1873 and then went west, to Ft. Smith Arkansas.

@melissapollom427

9 ай бұрын

My 3rd great-grandfather was part of Sherman's Army. Maybe they could met.

@dpdystro2227

9 ай бұрын

Glad they were freed. I’m wondering who will free the modern slaves in Georgia.

@nancyswass119

9 ай бұрын

Wow

@JohnEglick-oz6cd

8 ай бұрын

@@Freedom_Half_Off Fought war the way it was suppose to be fought ; the way H Union General William T. Sherman wanted to fight , and seek revenge of the South's secession of the Union.

@JohnEglick-oz6cd

8 ай бұрын

God bless , and very interesting that your family was part of this nations history .

the champion of ‘F* around and find out’

@tonyromano6220

2 ай бұрын

😂😂

@zacharyb5701

2 ай бұрын

Lol. Right? Don't want your city burned to the ground? Don't engage in a rebellion against the US. "GG, EZ" - Sherman, Nov 1864

@christopherjohnson1803

2 ай бұрын

Opened up a can of whoop a**

@scottklocke891

2 ай бұрын

And folks truly found out😮

@bighomiemac3472

2 ай бұрын

Monster left those slaves to die too.

"don't blame me for that. It's not my fault, I'm here. I didn't start this, but by god I'm going to end it" So succinctly and brilliantly phrased.

@krisaaron5771

Жыл бұрын

Wars don't end. They go home with the soldiers who fought them and permanently change the culture and the people -- including those who never heard a shot fired in anger.

@LtSump

Жыл бұрын

@@krisaaron5771 Sherman is one of my heroes, for that very reason, because wars in every generation DO change the culture. Somebody with a ruthless, 'I'm sick of this bullshit' attitude is needed to just get it over with.

@LtSump

Жыл бұрын

So, in other words, I agree with you completely.

@moebetta4224

Жыл бұрын

What specious bullshit. Sherman was a sadist and a psychopath, and Lincoln war criminal. And yes, the north started the war by attacking Fort Sumpter. Get a clue, Sparky.

@moebetta4224

Жыл бұрын

@@LtSump wow, you're profoundly ignorant and possibly a sociopath.

"War is cruelty, there's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over." -- William T. Sherman

@savanahmclary4465

5 ай бұрын

Lincoln got William Sherman out of a mental institution. What kind of an idiot President, in the USA "Constitution REPUBLIC!" tries to change the USA to a "Democracy" for the MAJORITY to RULE. Then calls for 75,000 troops... (that Mostly consists of Northern FARMERS) That for 4 years, little to NO FOOD CROPS are Grown in the North. (In a USA "Agrairian Society) And has his Union Soldiers to ATTACK 50% + of his own Countries Econony to destroy the Southern States FARMS, of FOOD SUPPLY... Throw the Southern Common Wealths into STARVATION. With the Northern States Farmers being off being Soldiers. (For Abraham Lincoln) for over 4 years LITTLE to NO FOOD was Grown in the North... Until the ENTIRE USA WAS INTO STARVATION And Fighting for FOOD! Not to mention the USA Livestock Starving to DEATH. Abraham Lincoln could NOT even FEED his own Army! That Abraham Lincoln orderd Union Army regiments to invade Northern Farms, just as they were doing in the South and to CONFISCATE any thing that was Food. Until Northern Veterans that had returned home to the North, on their Farms made militias, to fight the Union Regiments, to protect their Family Farms and FOOD SUPPLY. Just as the Union Army was doing in the South. Many of Union Soldiers disappeared in the North.

@marknewton6984

4 ай бұрын

Joseph Stalin😅

@MrCountrycuz

4 ай бұрын

Can we hold him accountable for his war crimes he allowed his army to commit against the civilian population of Georgie, and can we hold him accountable for his acts of murder against the Native Americans in the West and his statement that he regretted that he did not exterminate the Sioux Tribe? Are we simply going to ignore the evils of this Monster?

@jbagger331

23 күн бұрын

@@MrCountrycuz Sherman was a warrior, you unleash him to wage war and war is not civilised.

@lisalovett487

8 күн бұрын

I know it’s sad and evil I always tell God I don’t belong here I love to love I just sit and wonder how beautiful this world would be 🥰

Georgia: "War for the Confederacy!!" Also Georgia: "But do you mind doing this somewhere else?"

@jamezkpal2361

3 жыл бұрын

Ironically the state which wanted war least suffered worst.

@danielburbank1669

3 жыл бұрын

@MGTOW Paladin yes. It's too bad that slaves had to wait so long for their freedom from those slave states!

@danielburbank1669

3 жыл бұрын

@MGTOW Paladin I'm sorry, were there slaves in the south before the Civil War? Thought so. Were there slaves in the south after the Civil War? No. End of discussion pretty much...regardless of the true causes of or motives behind the war, the end result is that the nation moved past its worst evil.

@danielburbank1669

3 жыл бұрын

@MGTOW Paladin I never said the north was guiltless. The whole country shares guilt for it. You said that freedom was never a lost cause. Freedom did not exist for slaves before the war and did after. It was a necessary conflict.

@tlee51ftw

3 жыл бұрын

There were no US export tariffs.

"Don't blame me....You started this fire when you attacked Fort Sumter, and now the flames have reached your homes" William T Sherman.

@instantseven9270

3 жыл бұрын

On January 10th 1861 the line of scrimmage between Blue federals and Confederacy, Confederacy comes under fire at Fort Pickens, many were wounded before the Confederacy chased the Federal Blue troops off. Florida seceded from the United States January 10, 1861. All the forts commanded by the United States in Florida now became the target of Florida state troops. Friday, April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired on? Fort Sumter was not the first shot fired

@heckeroni6699

3 жыл бұрын

@@instantseven9270 Union forces in Florida gathered at Fort Barrancas, then travelled to the abounded Fort Pickens, before Confederate militias marched up in an attempt to take the fort, which the Union fired upon them. Then on October 9th the Confederates attacked the fort, lost 90 men without inflicting a single casualty, and retreated. Keep in mind this is coming from a guy who takes Lincoln quotes out of context, blames Africans and Arabs for slavery, and also think that the Union invented slavery. Still confused, was it the Arabs who invented it or was it the Union, Barry Boy?

@instantseven9270

3 жыл бұрын

@BenjaminFranklin99 When the states secede, they are technically no longer citizens of the U. S. This means all states in the Confederate States of America were technically not bound by the U. S. Constitution. Nowadays the laws state any secessionist activity is treason. But Davis was not found guilty of treason because he didn't commit it. Instead, the formed their own Sovereign Government and adopted back to the Original Constitution with a few ramifications granted all people citizenship. If that's the best you got, then just stop.

@gabriel.b9036

3 жыл бұрын

@@instantseven9270 First, please stop talking about the CSA as though they were a sovereign nation. Their secession was illegal and no one even bothered to recognize them diplomatically. Second, because their secession was considered illegal they were still under the US constitution, even if they refused to follow it and just decided to make their own, which was basically copy pasted most of what was on the original. Third, the only reason Jefferson Davis did not plead guilty of treason was just because Lincoln wanted to ease tensions between North and the now bitter South. Oh and your last paragraph is just wrong, not everyone within the south received full rights and Citizenship *cough slaves and natives*.

@instantseven9270

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabriel.b9036 Wrong, their secession was legal and was proved in court, fact, and who are you to tell me to stop talking about any History subject?

At a Democratic Party national convention a number of years after the Civil War, the state delegations marched in one at a time, to the strains of their state songs. When the Georgia delegates entered, the band struck up "Marching Through Georgia." There was nearly a riot.

@LordValorum

9 ай бұрын

Band decided to do little bit of trolling :D

@nicoletheresa6654

8 ай бұрын

Appropriate for dems, the party of slavery

@marknewton6984

8 ай бұрын

There should have been.

@samflynn8962

7 ай бұрын

Of course when you hear a song dedicating a cowardly march one should riot

@fruitingfungi

7 ай бұрын

@@samflynn8962 don't start none, won't be none.

I'm British and always been very interested in the US Civil War. This is a fantastic documentary and really well done, thank you.

@GPB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@scottbivins4758

Жыл бұрын

States rights an slavery man i live in north Carolina one of the southern states that succeeded from the Union everybody tell you is about slavery it just depends on who you ask maybe all the Rich generals were fighting for slavery but i can promise you this their soldiers weren't fighting fir slavery some might have been but it wont a whole lot of them if u were to ask the southern male who fought in the confederate army because i have heard oral records from a actual soldier he said he felt estate rights he felt like the government was abusing its power thats why Robert E Lee didnt get charged with treason and didnt get executed Abraham Lincoln knew it was gonna be war when he wanted to abolish slavery you see Lincoln was born in Kentucky but moved out of the state and went to Illinois so Lincoln didn't really grow up around slavery what the little he did say slavery it was enough to make him say this is wrong which thank god because slavery was wrong an i cant believe some of the generals left the union because of slavery the states rights is different i understand that because before we actually became our our country our States had constitutions that's why we have States Constitution and then we have a Federal Constitution so say if the federal government violates our rights and our Constitution's we have our state government which really if u think about it is America's original government is a state government not federal

@scottbivins4758

Жыл бұрын

I myself really think the civil war was a good thing because it questioned our founding fathers when they wrote every man is created equal now our founding fathers did want to do something about slavery but sadly they didn't do nothing about it and they left it up for future generation of Americans to question ask if this is really a moral thing to do so the civil war America need that

@thatguy2756

Жыл бұрын

@@scottbivins4758 There's a lot of confederate soldier journals talking about how blacks should and shall never be placed on the level of whites. Not to mention multiple secessionist states stating slavery for the reason of secession, and slavery being enshrined as a right in the confederate constitution...yeah it was primarily about slavery. States rights? States rights to what? Own slaves.

@beetle3088

10 ай бұрын

​@@scottbivins4758 punctuation is your friend.

General Sherman when asked said, " War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want".

@therooster556

4 жыл бұрын

amen tell theb middle eaqst

@sableindian

4 жыл бұрын

@@therooster556 ????

@waltershattenkirk3087

4 жыл бұрын

little anthony Huh? What are you communicating?

@mikebourn6938

3 жыл бұрын

KansasHoneyBadger WOW ,You are right!The Democrat Party is not about representing us the Democrat party is about controlling you.History proves this 1913 it was the Democratic Party that came up with the IRS the agency that can take your property,bank account etc

@britishgrenadier2800

3 жыл бұрын

KansasHoneyBadger 750,000 died in vain. The union seems like it will break once again. In 7 years.

When Sherman died, Johnston stood in the pouring rain for hours, hatless at his funeral. When asked why, he is said to have replied that Sherman would’ve done the same for him. Johnston died of pneumonia within two weeks.

@avelus5984

4 жыл бұрын

After the war ended, various Union generals saluted Lee out of respect.

@paulmorales3815

4 жыл бұрын

name surname there was a story about the Confederate general cadmus Wilcox who was a groomsman at Ulysses s Grant's wedding when Wilcox died, former Union and Confederate generals who fought against and with him were the pallbearers at his funeral

@avelus5984

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulmorales3815 Heartwarming.

@mnpd3

4 жыл бұрын

Johnston didn't attend because he agreed with Sherman on anything... the way it would have to be in these times. In those days of honor, you did it because it was the honorable thing to do. We don't make people like that anymore.

@terrygrossmann2295

4 жыл бұрын

mnpd3 you are correct. In fact in battle, many times Union and Confederate officers would order their men not to shoot at an officer of the opposite side do to that officers bravery.

If you read General Grants memoirs he called Johnston being replaced by Hood one of the best actions that Jefferson Davis did for the Union. Johnston strategy of prolonging things, retreating to the next defensible line was frustrating for Sherman's Army. Hood's aggression and lack of any strategy other then fighting played right into Sherman's hands.

@freddysw

Жыл бұрын

No general for the confederacy understood to win a war against a superior foe you can't hold onto lines on a map you have to wear your foe down over time.

@MudPig6110

Жыл бұрын

@@freddysw exactly, playing for time and inflicting casualties should have been the general strategy. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 and no side sets out to just hold off the other until they lose the will to fight, but the confederacy should have taken the North’s superiority in manpower and industry more seriously. All those troops lost in offensive campaigns were sorely missed in 1864 and 65.

@freddysw

Жыл бұрын

@@MudPig6110 call me an armchair general, I would not have engaged in any offensive into the north and abandon the state east of the Mississippi. I would’ve told my people we are fighting a war of national liberation, not as a sovereign nation. Lessons of the gorilla war in Spain during the Napoleonic war was a well-known at a point

@MudPig6110

Жыл бұрын

@@freddysw I wonder if all of the early victories by the confederates actually hurt them in the latter part of the war. Trying re-capture that momentum they kept on the offensive for a time, once they crossed over the threshold where it was increasingly harder to replenish their supplies and men they couldn’t even conduct defensive operations. Much like Vicksburg all the union had to do is cut off their supplies and repulse their attacks until they were so worn down that only surrender made sense. Thank goodness Lee and Johnston were purest when it came to the military and refused calls by Davis to go into a guerilla campaign.

@nobodyspecial4702

Жыл бұрын

@@MudPig6110 Well, it did cause Lee to believe his army was unbeatable, right up until he pissed away a third of it for no gains in Pennsylvania...oh, and he refused to send any reinforcements to Vicksburg, ensuring it would surrender and cut the rebel states in half. Every battle Lee fought was with the strategic goal of opening a way for him to march on Washington, but it ignored that he would be marching with an army that had just taken countless casualties, would be low on munitions and then had to fight their way through the heaviest defenses on the entire continent. Overall, that was never a winning strategy for the South to pursue.

When I was on a project in St Louis, I visited General Sherman's grave to pay my respect. His brother is the Sherman of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.

@michaelinsc1644

8 ай бұрын

Have you visited Berlin to pay your respects to Hitler as well? He too made war on women and children and engaged in genocide.

@swiater1

8 ай бұрын

@@michaelinsc1644 Slavery was abolished in 1865, right? Are you anti or pro slavery? Explain your comment please..

@michaelinsc1644

8 ай бұрын

@@swiater1 Slavery was not the issue when Sherman's hordes were raping, killing and burning their way through Georgia and South Carolina. When he said he wanted Southerners to howl who was he talking about? The elderly, women and children back home. That was the kind of monster he was. Much like the British in the Boer wars. They couldnt outright win completely on the battlefield so they made war on the women and children.

@neilkurzman4907

8 ай бұрын

@@michaelinsc1644 So what you’re saying is the Southerners killing the Black people was OK. Or did you skip over that part of the video? Sherman didn’t start the war. But he certainly finished it. Perhaps a lesson to those who want to start a war because they think it’s easy to win. People like you.

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelinsc1644 I doubt that you understand what War actually is.

Sherman "Well , if you are going to call it the war of Northern aggression..."

@Exedus20

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised KZread even let you print that phrase .

@MPlain

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. OK. so the south fires first and it's northern aggression ? If the south didn't start it... The fighting maybe never starts, and we are still two nations. But we are probably heading for two at the moment and might be better off given the lack of interest to work together "to do anything". Maybe two is an improvement on the alternative. 50. I admit that what happened after the war in the south is shameful.... but did the north do that or was it just certain elites that capitalized on an opportunity to steal from folks..... Most likely the latter.

@jamesrichardson3322

2 жыл бұрын

Mark Goding The South seceded from the Union illegal under the United States Constitution. They raised 100,000 volunteers against their government, they attack other forts and armories and warehouse's. They fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 at 4:30 am. The south was the aggressors.

@MPlain

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesrichardson3322 That's the history according to what everybody knows. Apparently that isn't what get's taught in the red state schools. Guess they start the indoctrination and the brain washing to blindly obey and be good little sheep early. They've made their objectives clear with shortly after Trump's inauguration by stealing the freedom of speech in 18 red states. Then there is Trump's actions to attempt to create a national government controlled and dictated news service to falsely inform the public.... aka.... copy Pravda. And the attempt to over throw election results installing a true dictatorship and 100% FAKE government and a FAKE president. Then since the removal of the man who has made it 100% he was the enemy in charge they have continued their quest to steal rights and freedoms from Americans. It isn't just Don that is the enemy. It's the whole damn Republican party. Vote for anything else in 2022. Voting republican is clearly voting for the enemy. It's time for a new conservative party. One that actually represents our values. Bring it. I will vote for it. I won't be alone.

@Exedus20

2 жыл бұрын

@@MPlain dude. Your leftobigotry is freaking epic.

“War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.” - William T. Sherman

@dogbean5015

3 жыл бұрын

"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow to fond of it" Robert E Lee

@terryrodbourn2793

3 жыл бұрын

Kwaku Anansi If you really think about Southern Women stated the Myth of Sherman when forage is taken from them!

@TonyWud

3 жыл бұрын

@@dogbean5015 I always thought that was a real insight into him. Why would anyone be fond of that meat grinder? Only a privileged asshole who never bled a drop of blood. He should have been hung and buried in a ditch.

@TonyWud

3 жыл бұрын

@James Richardson Are you talking about Lee? I was.

@ekkehardlichti9673

3 жыл бұрын

@@terryrodbourn2793 111

They seriously need to make an actual tv series of this just like Band of Brothers..

I'll never forget when the packers beat the falcons in the 2010 playoffs and the rock said "not since general Sherman came through here in the Civil War has Atlanta been beaten this badly" 😂

@babyfarksmgeezaks1037

Жыл бұрын

@@getitgotitgreat8667 ya well did the falcons go on to win win super bowl that year????? Because the packers did :). Thanks for letting us spank that ass dog. Hey better question has Atlanta even won a super bowl let alone a playoff game? I'll be waiting for your answer

@chrisb616

Жыл бұрын

It wasnt Rock, it was was Wayne Larrivee.

@WarriorAngel001

Жыл бұрын

Then the Falcons demolished the Packers in the 2016 playoffs. They were set to meet the Patriots in the super bowl. They adopted the "rise up" saying, and treated the game like it was gonna be a football version of a civil war rematch. And then 28-3 happened...

@babyfarksmgeezaks1037

Жыл бұрын

@@WarriorAngel001 lmao idc Atlanta did to gb 🤣 🤣 🤣 we got a super bowl whooping there ass. They didn't 🤣 they blew the biggest lead in super bowl history and will be joked about for years to come :). Thanks for letting us spank that ass in Atlanta just like the union did in the Civil War 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

@JoeSmith-ub1ox

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisb616 be

Sherman was probably the first high-ranking General to openly state how many men were going to be needed to win the war; he understood the scope of it, and understood what was going to be necessary to win it. He outright warned several of his acquaintances who went to join the Confederacy how they had no chance, and what was going to happen to them when they lost. Yes, Sherman was flawed. But he understood the war from the beginning.

@brycecolwell4304

2 жыл бұрын

i disagree. the outcome was anything but inevitable. thee were alot of mistakes along the way and luck and chance.what if Grant never had his chance at command and did indeed fall into the bottle.if Lee didnt fall into his own legend and send 50% of his army to the grave in Pickets charge of the light brigade... if atlanta had not fallen and held out just a few more months, and had things been done to assure this , would the north have the stomach to continue? the politics in the north were not unified. the south had to win by attrition, and they didnt do a bang up job of it. So Shermans bravado and self confidence was all it was, not fortune telling. he just happened to get the coin flip.

@gamerk316

2 жыл бұрын

@@brycecolwell4304 But looking at it another way, the North did literally EVERYTHING they could have done to try and lose the war. They had chances every year as far back as 1861, such as: Post Seven Days: Just attack Richmond Post Antietam: Give reinforcements after the Confederate center broken Post Gettysburg: Attack when the Confederates were trapped behind a flooded river Petersburg: Attack and capture the town before Beauregard reinforces it Even if you argue there's a world where Atlanta isn't captured and Lincoln looses re-election, Democrats were just as split between "war" and "peace" parties, and it's not inconceivable Grant just attacks Petersburg after Lincoln loses, leading to the same result. Realistically, the only chance the Confederates had to win was immediately after 1st Bull Run. After that Washington was unattackable and the weight of numbers eventually overcame general Union incompetency. The fact the Confederate government made a choice to try and hold everything instead of focusing on negating the Union manpower edge only hasted it's decline as the war dragged on.

@haythere5805

2 жыл бұрын

? he had a nervous breakdown because he didn’t believe the war could be won

@gamerk316

2 жыл бұрын

@@haythere5805 not true at all. He outright stated the south had zero prospect for victory, on a number of occasions early in the war. He was asked to go home when he loudly claimed a quarter million men would be needed to win, which was considered laughable in 1861.

@MollymaukT

2 жыл бұрын

He also was friends with Helmut von Moltke. The two toughest SOBs of the 19th Century that created modern warfare together must've been a sight

"You have started this fire when you attacked Fort Sumter. Now the flames have reached your homes"-William T. Sherman

@PacificCircle1

7 жыл бұрын

He said that? I like Sherman even more!

@PacificCircle1

7 жыл бұрын

Ken Abbott Sherman's 'victims' were enemy combatants or their supporters. The terrorism of slavery an insurrection HAD to be stopped. Sherman said his orders and actions necessary; responsibility.

@PacificCircle1

7 жыл бұрын

Ken Abbott No, the terrorism of slavery was not justified.

@PacificCircle1

7 жыл бұрын

Ft. Sumter was the 'Pearl Harbor' of the 1800s

@heidimelendez5623

7 жыл бұрын

No it was not. Fort Sumter was asked by the Confederacy to open the gates and let them have it. When the commander refused and asked for support from Washington DC, he was given food, no ammunition and no troops. The Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter but it was not a sneak attack.

What was one aspect of the times before telephones is how beautifully people wrote letters , no doubt a lost art . People with limited education could write in a beautiful style..

@TheGreyGhost_of43rd

Ай бұрын

Now kids can't send a proper text message. The downfall is undeniable

@lt.random210

Ай бұрын

@@TheGreyGhost_of43rd simply a change in culture, kids now are better at many other more things

Neither of the Confederate generals lost Atlanta. Sherman wasn't going to be stopped by anyone or anything. He won it.

@stephenandersen4625

4 күн бұрын

Joe Johnston was probably the best confederate commander but he didn't have the resources or the political backing. Hood was aggressive to a fault

Georgia when Sherman arrived: "It was just a prank, bro."

@napoleonbonaparte7686

3 жыл бұрын

Shame I died earlier, I would have been with Yankees kicking some ass

@jamesleavenworth6447

3 жыл бұрын

@Bob's house Well try to get a life at least.

@Moose803

3 жыл бұрын

@Bob's house who has it?

@dogbean5015

3 жыл бұрын

@@napoleonbonaparte7686 you realise france was allied with confederates right

@dogbean5015

3 жыл бұрын

@@napoleonbonaparte7686 or at least alloed to texas

I've read a letter sent from a distant and long-dead cousin to his family back in Iowa. It was a letter about the Battle at Kennesaw Mountain, in which he participated as a Union soldier. He was brief and spared his family the gory details, but he was clearly deeply sad about the whole experience, even though equally clearly committed to the Union cause. Men who have participated in such horror do not boast of it or wish ever to see it again. Only fools think war is glorious.

@graftedin3

2 жыл бұрын

My GG Grandfather was on Kennesaw Mountain, his Capitan Ward was killed by a cannon shell. (Wards Battery) My Grandfather walked back to Huntsville Ala. He related the story to my uncle in the 1928. My uncle lived to be 98 years old.

@Bellephus

2 жыл бұрын

War is glorious - it is brutal, cruel, and terrible, but it is also glorious.

@batmanjones5202

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bellephus You have obviously never been in one.

@veanwhitcher7867

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bellephus war is necessary for the human race to advance, as much as we would prefer to believe otherwise

@nightdragon1710

2 жыл бұрын

Hey do you know sherman documentary with actor not just pictures like this

One of the earliest American examples of the "F*** Around and Find Out" principle.

@G-MONEY1996

7 күн бұрын

Thats right

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee

@DuncanDisordely

4 ай бұрын

General Lee on refusing to write an autobiography: “I would be trading on the blood of my men” (unclear whether he was talking about his soldiers or slaves though)

@nickroberts-xf7oq

3 ай бұрын

After Appomattox, Lee told his men to "...fold the flag and put it away or else it will be devisive." ✔️ He also said, of civil war statues "Best to not leave open the sores of war." It's amazing just how many armchair generals defy his wisdom ! 💥 🇺🇸 💥

"You people dont know what your talking about. War is a terrible thing." - Sherman

@TraeSMR

3 жыл бұрын

He said "Here watch, I'll show you how bad it is."

@davidmeehan4486

3 жыл бұрын

That's racist!

@animeAJproductions

3 жыл бұрын

And Sherman is one of the most terrible warlords of the American Civil War.

@68weav

3 жыл бұрын

Architect of Total War. He is one of the reasons warfare is like it is now.

@68weav

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Davis Thanks for the comment of cold hard truth. Its just facts.

Sherman seems like the embodiment of "teaching by example". "Oh, you dont believe that war is hell? B O I do I have a lesson for you"

@JohnSmith-kz8yo

3 жыл бұрын

@James Richardson Germany even removed swastikas from grave stones....

@animeAJproductions

3 жыл бұрын

Condoning total war upon fellow Americans? What other war crimes did the Union NOT commit upon the southern states? Its not wonder so few are against federal and police brutality in 2020.

@willoutlaw4971

3 жыл бұрын

@@animeAJproductions The Confederates were not FELLOW Americans. They started a war against the U.S.A.to destroy the U.S.A. and killed hundreds of thousands of Union troops to try and defeat the U.S.A. Fortunately the Confederates States of American got their asses kicked by Union armies led by Generals Grant, Meade, Sherman, and Sheridan.

@bubblegumfacebabe

3 жыл бұрын

@@willoutlaw4971 legally speaking there's nothing in the constitution that says something like "secession is illegal", upon secession the union attacked the south. the south wanted to keep their state's rights and had no plans to hurt anyone, they kept to themselves.

@donnied6151

3 жыл бұрын

@sneksnekitsasnek I think most historians agree that the Treaty of Verssailes was a major reason for radicalizing Germany, I wouldn't say Germany was more or less guilty for starting World War One which was really responsible for setting off World War Two. I don't think we have really learnt any lessons in modern times either war does radicalize people and the butchery in the middle east will pay dividends in the future, just like decades of war in Afghanistan yielded September 11. I seem to be one of the few people that is grateful that we have nukes, finally something that has at least kept all the major powers from going into another butchery again but its a limited time-safe, technology marches on.

Lee literally sacrificed half of his army and he gets praise.. Sherman is the greatest general in USA history !

@jefftrahern616

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Maybe if you like evil men! ...murdering, rape, and theft!

@marknewton6984

4 ай бұрын

Strange

Gone with the Wind sent me here, I am now fascinated by this time period.

South: We are Seceding from the Union! Sherman: So you have chosen death.

@rw3423

3 жыл бұрын

People forget Sherman continuously warned everyone how horrific war is but South didn't listen, so sad, wasted lives, we should learn from this history lesson Correct?,🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🙏

@tlee51ftw

3 жыл бұрын

@@rw3423 "The South began the war by seizing forts, arsenals, mints, custom-houses, etc., etc., long before Mr. Lincoln was installed, and before the South had one jot or tittle of provocation. I myself have seen in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, hundreds and thousands of women and children fleeing from your armies and desperadoes, hungry and with bleeding feet. In Memphis, Vicksburg, and Mississippi, we fed thousands and thousands of the families of rebel soldiers left on our hands, and whom we could not see starve. Now that war comes to you, you feel very different." Sherman

@rw3423

3 жыл бұрын

@@tlee51ftw all lives are gift from God who is in control. War of any kind is horrific. I pray for this country- won't you join me🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@LordMephilis

3 жыл бұрын

Sherman was mostly salty cause he got humilated early on in the war and decided to take it out on Civilians.

@Rune-Thorne

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordMephilisYes, he learned from early losses and taught what he learned to every person he came across during war. Sherman's doctrine on total war and Marshall's doctrine on Nation Occupation and rebuilding are both taught to military commanders today. When you heard from Colin Powell that we broke it, we bought it in Iraq and opposing the how we occupied Iraq was just him echoing the plans these 2 men left to military leaders in America for all generations. You fight like Sherman, and occupy like Marshall and you will never lose a war, because you recognize war is hell and you better be the devil. The reason we have been less successful in occupation since WWII is that we no longer have the desire to truly pay for occupation even though military occupation would have been cheaper than military contractor occupation in the long run.

William "Defend the Plantation, Prepare for Cremation" Sherman

@josephmiele2277

3 жыл бұрын

What are the North’s and South’s views on seceding and slavery? The South: we have the right to preserve our livelihoods and states rights The North: DEFEND THE PLANTATION PREPARE FOR CREMATION

@Night_Hawk_475

3 жыл бұрын

​@@josephmiele2277 yeah yeah, "Preserve our livelihoods" as in "preserve our ability to make a living off the backs of slaves"? Nice mental gymnastics there.

@josephmiele2277

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the point. It’s supposed to have the south deny the extent of what they wanted to keep.

@faeking2223

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephmiele2277 Then the North genocide the Native Americans and force conscripted poor immigrants from Europe to fight for them while allowing the rich to buy their way out of the draft while also refusing to hire them said poor immigrants. but hey, genocide and indentured servitude is better than slavery right?

@djcogdill9263

2 жыл бұрын

@@faeking2223 They also forgot that Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Washington DC all had slaves when the war started, and Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey STILL had slaves AFTER the war ended. I guess the South seceded in order to keep something the North got rid of AFTER the South did.

The drive down I-75 from the Tennessee border to Atlanta, gets me every time.

@nickroberts-xf7oq

3 ай бұрын

Me too.....no Buckee's ! 😅

I remember I asked my dad when I was 10 before the internet which war killed the most Americans. And he told me it was the civil war. And I said “how many did WE lose.” And he said “well Son it was Americans on both sides so every battle was a massive loss of American life.” I’ve looked at the numbers and read books about it since then and the numbers are astronomical. So sad.

@rtqii

2 жыл бұрын

Sherman is said to have had a "nervous breakdown" prior to his battlefield command. He was having premonitions of the causalities before he caused them, these premonitions were so vivid and so intense, he was not able to function normally until he had processed through them.

@allingtonmarakan6639

2 жыл бұрын

In one battle, (I think it was either Shiloh or Gettysburg, I'd have to look it up to check), more Americans were killed than in the entire Vietnam War.

@raulbaquero5081

2 жыл бұрын

620,000 KILLED, 875,000 WOUNDED Population at time = 32 Million citizens..

@billastell3753

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly the upcoming civil war brought on by Trump and his supporters will make that one look like a walk in the park.

@billymack333

2 жыл бұрын

Relative to the population of the US at the time the numbers are huge. It’s rumblings are still felt over 150 years later.

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we should grow too fond of it"

@sambradley1968

4 жыл бұрын

Gen. Robert E Lee.. 😊

@andrewo.b.7638

4 жыл бұрын

I've always regarded the above statement about war to be tinged with psychopathology.

@Putaspellonyou

4 жыл бұрын

@@sambradley1968 and he said it whilst kicking Burnside's ass at the time. So yeah, I'm sure at THAT point he was quite fond of it.

@sambradley1968

4 жыл бұрын

@@Putaspellonyou Sherman said "War is Hell! 😊

@lestermount3287

4 жыл бұрын

Stonewall Jackson said that.

Sherman spared every town or city that didn't resist. This includes Conyers Ga where I live, Madison, and Savannah.

@tomcockburn653

5 жыл бұрын

There were only civilians in those towns.

@gph752

5 жыл бұрын

Savannah was a gift to Lincoln

@vitoferrara5876

4 жыл бұрын

he also spared every sonic drive through. It is said that he loved their curly fries, and would sometimes feed some to his horse.

@clockguy2

4 жыл бұрын

Not so. Columbia, SC surrendered to Sherman before he entered and they still burned it.

@slantsix6344

4 жыл бұрын

I think he could not control his troops and many things were burned that he had no idea about.

Truly a MOST informative, enlightening, and fascinating video! Thank you much for posting! This should be seen in every American history class.

@GPB

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching GPB

This is such an excellent documentary. It's the first one I've ever watched twice.

@GPB

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!

@danawinsor1380

9 ай бұрын

@@GPB You're quite welcome.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. - William T. Sherman

@TANTHEMANFILMS

5 жыл бұрын

@@mgtowpaladin6566 its just a quote dude. lol

@thomasmackelly7685

5 жыл бұрын

@@mgtowpaladin6566 sherman was in the right

@MainstreamPoPsucks3

5 жыл бұрын

@@mgtowpaladin6566 The south just wanted to keep their slaves.

@MainstreamPoPsucks3

5 жыл бұрын

​@@mgtowpaladin6566 The CSA was not a sovereign but a bunch of rebellious states who started attacking fort sumpter, this led to Lincoln calling up 75 000 volunteers to defeat the rebellion. What the north fought for was to keep a nation united. The south fought to preserve an institution that was outlawed in the northern states. The constitution of the rebels guaranteed the right for white men to own slaves. The confederate leaders said themselves they seceded because they wanted to keep slavery. Their vice president of the CSA said in his cornerstone speech that the CSA were based on the superiority of the white man over the black man and that their constitution was not based on equality between the white man and the black man. During the first half of the 19th century up until the civil war there was a huge controversy about the question of expansion of slavery which ended in several compromises that only calmed down the situation for a period at a time. The northerners opposed the expansion of slavery and the southerns wanted the expansion of slavery. The south did indeed fought to preserve the institution of slavery.

@MainstreamPoPsucks3

5 жыл бұрын

@@mgtowpaladin6566 How can you invade your own country? How exactly was Lincoln a tyrant? Because he didn't put up with more shit from the southerners? Face the fact. The south fought for independence only because they wanted to preserve the right to own slaves.

The most amazing thing to me is Sherman's dynamic with Johnston. Once they were one another's biggest rival and target... years later, Johnston serves as Sherman's pallbearer and dies, arguably, due to his own self-negligence in showing respect for Sherman. What a finale!

@diogeneslamplit6573

3 жыл бұрын

Johnson claimed he thought Sherman would have done the same for him. A measure of that man's superior charitable nature to mine. I rather tend to doubt it.

@61lastchild

2 жыл бұрын

Pallbearer.

@YoshLovesYou

2 жыл бұрын

@@61lastchild totally right, idk how I made that mistake

@SAS-hz5ek

2 жыл бұрын

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses or even fungi. It's spread by coughing, sneezing, or breathing near those infected. Not wearing a hat is not the cause of pneumonia.

@lilblackduc7312

2 жыл бұрын

..The riots & violence/murder in the north? They are getting what they deserve. 😎🖕

Sherman on Grant: "I stood by him when he was drunk, and he stood by me when I was crazy. And we've stood by each other since." Bottom line, the South was: - Outmanned - Outresourced - Outgeneraled

@jamesmiller5331

3 ай бұрын

If it wasn't for McClellan it might have been over within 18 months

@ellenchavez2043

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesmiller5331 I always suspected McClellan of sabotaging the Union. He would actually pull troops back after advancing rather than pursuing and winning the battle. He should have been tried for treason.

@marknewton6984

3 ай бұрын

Not out generaled.

@christopherjohnson1803

2 ай бұрын

Lee was a great General, but he faced increasingly difficult and impossible situations.

@marknewton6984

2 ай бұрын

Lee had 2 years to force a truce. Close. But Jefferson Davis would not accept.@christopherjohnson1803

I’m born & raised in Marietta, Ga. I remember in middle school they were saying it was haunted because the school was built on one of the confederate cemeteries. Alot of history on the streets I grew up riding bikes on

"The Confederacy is a hollow shell. I know it, and Sherman is going to prove it."- Ulysses S. Grant

@MGTOWPaladin

2 жыл бұрын

Celebrating a drunk!

@walterp.chrysler

2 жыл бұрын

@@MGTOWPaladin He outfought every confederate army that he faced, so he could not have been that drunk. If you still wish to claim that he was a drunk, then you are also saying that the confederate officers were idiots, because a drunk man beat them. Also, if you simply claim that Grant won those battles because he had better troops, then you are saying that the Union had better troops than the confederacy did, because Grant started winning battles in the east as soon as he was transferred east too. The south won battles at the beginning of the war because the Union had some high ranking, politically connected officers being put in charge of the army. Men like McClellan and Burnside, who should never have been given any other command other than officers in charge of latrine inspections. Lincoln saw what Grant was doing in the west and over the howling protests of others gave Grant command of the army. because he fought, and WON battles.

@MGTOWPaladin

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterp.chrysler There NEVER should have been any battles! But, the ENORMOUS financial growth of the South in money for its cash crops, took the former English southern colonies, at the turn of the century from about the War of 1812 to 1860, becoming a storehouse of cash crops and the 4th wealthiest country in the world. The North was not going to let that MONEY 💰 go!

@walterp.chrysler

2 жыл бұрын

@@MGTOWPaladin For a confederate supporting troll, your posts can be pretty damned silly. lol..

@MGTOWPaladin

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterp.chrysler I could say pretty much the same thing to you, Lincolnista! But, since you can't prove me wrong, I'm not going to worry about it!

Sherman didn't give a crap. The dude was gonna achieve his goals no matter what.

@jimomalley1518

3 жыл бұрын

I think he died of Covid 19 !

@williamwhite791

3 жыл бұрын

He would make the perfect Democrat today.

@5ithofnov159

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamwhite791 no Democrats are soy boys that dare not raise a hand, he'd be more of an independent Democrat like aoc ohmar or bernie

@pgrant7688

3 жыл бұрын

“... their indifference to the needs of their former masters.” Even at that point, Southerners couldn’t believe slaves preferred freedom.

@jefferyprescott8726

3 жыл бұрын

THEY WERE "TRAITORS" IN HIS EYE'S...STILL ARE!

"I can make this march and make Georgia howl!" Sherman wasn't lying when he said that. Georgia didn't just how, it SCREAMED.

@marknewton6984

8 ай бұрын

Sherman made war against widows and orphans. What a hero.

@Ntwolf1220

7 ай бұрын

@@marknewton6984bro is all over the comments crying because his great grandad got CLAPPED for owning people. Stay mad. sometimes you need a mad dog to take down an even worst beast

@carlreed6186

3 ай бұрын

To stop the south from enslaving babies. @@marknewton6984

@nghtwtchmn129

3 ай бұрын

@@Ntwolf1220 What, you actually think the NORTH had clean hands?? Do you even know how many enslaved persons the James DeWolf family imported?

@nghtwtchmn129

3 ай бұрын

@@marknewton6984 Today's leftists would scream bloody murder if Sherman's tactics had been used on the Taliban.

Congratulations on an epic review of history, told by those who suffered the most, if our children don’t know of this story then we should hang our heads in shame!

@savanahmclary4465

5 ай бұрын

"Shame" for what? If you are speaking of SLAVERY? SLAVERY was out Lawed in the USA in 1807. And the Shipping Companies stopped transporting slaves, from Africa in the Northern States (Soverign "Common Wealths" in 1807)Research the Shipping Companies, Leders and Manifest Records, in the Maritime Repositories in Maryland, in Virginia, Norfolk, North Carolina and in Charleston, South Carolina? While you are at it: Research the Common Wealths "Plat" maps and Tax Records? Starting around 1800s Plantations were being resurveyed and divided into 40 to 160 acre small farms: With 23 to 25 of the Aristocrats and Planters Children inheriting their Small farms: And they Farmed their Small Farms themselves. without Slaves.. And the Funny thing, that the Planters and Aristocrats descendants are still farming their small farms themselves today, in 2023 with GPS implements. Ans They are not using slaves. Research Civil War Statistics: 92% of the Southerners that fought in the Civil War did NOT own Slaves... Only 8% who fought for the South in the Civil War owned Slaves. Not say there was No African on North America: I suggest you Research just exactly to what was their status. And why you are researching notice that the Africans have their Ancestors Supposed Owners Surname. The only place on North America that SLAVERY was still being practiced: was in what once the Louisiana Common Wealth that belonged to France before Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana in 1804. And who were still in use of the French CURRENCY the "DIX," in plural is "DIXIE." Louisiana Common Wealth consisted of the Now States of Louisiana, a portion of Alabama,, Mississippi, Arkansas, a portion of Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.

Sherman was the first president of L. S. U. in 1860. When Louisiana seceded he resigned, went north and offered his services to the union. He remained good friends with some of the officials and professors at the university and after the war sent the university a cannon that was at Ft. Sumter which fired back on the confederates. It was there in front of the ROTC building when I attended L. S. U. in the 60s.

@PNL-DJ-1

2 жыл бұрын

It is two canons and his friend was David Boyd. When Boyd was captured in battle, he wrote Sherman to get him released. Sherman did this for David Boyd. They remained friends until they died.

@PNL-DJ-1

2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffreycoghy3783 - good for you! Did you like the Citadel when you were there?

@alexistrebexis3195

2 жыл бұрын

Liar. The Egyptians did that.

@youtubehastakenovermylife4979

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.

@JackOkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffreycoghy3783 Many of today's young folks would be wise to follow your example. I was drafted, posted to Ft. Sam Houston, after the Army went back to college much more mature than before I dropped out.

Fantastic summary at the start. "I didn't start it, but by God, I'm going to end it." Sherman did the right thing.

@TheRock1979

3 жыл бұрын

Hwdui

@Em3ga

3 жыл бұрын

"Dont start nothing, won't be nothing." - General Sherman

@marke8323

3 жыл бұрын

@@Em3ga Sherman was a believer of "Total War", decimated everything that could be used by the enemy, though through the years he has been blamed for sacking parts of the South that he was never near. Part of the legend I guess...

@mattja52

3 жыл бұрын

Sherman's words, "War is brutal, you can't refine it."

@waltermcfarland4912

3 жыл бұрын

He was a war criminal, attacking defenseless women and children against the international rules of war taught at West Point. Set the example for the carnage of WW1 and WW2.

I saw a quote some years ago from a Confederate officer about Sherman's army that the world had not seen an army like that since the Romans. Sherman's army runs into a swamp and they corduroy road through it in quick order. Manage to get a force in front of Sherman and he deploys and then flanks the blocking force. Nothing could stop them.

@tkmmkt6569

Жыл бұрын

I saw the same thing.

@g0679

Жыл бұрын

That was Joseph Johnston, honorary pallbearer at his funeral.

@thomasb1889

Жыл бұрын

@@g0679 Thank you.

Thank you for good upload. A difficult subject for some but necessary none the less. Truth & history must be shared in order to grow forward.

Living in Kentucky, I have often driven to Atlanta. Because of my studies of the Civil War, I am amazed at although so much has changed, so much of the land, roads and mountains that I see today are in the documentaries from the Civil War that I have watched, especially those by Ken Burns. I really appreciated seeing pictures of the then and now, as it for some reason in my mind validates the reality of what happened years ago. History has always fascinated me. I was born less than a 100-years after the Civil War, which helps bring home the point of just how recent it was. As a military man, it also brings home the point that war should be avoided at all cost, if possible. War is hell. This Civil War was hell on earth. Some of the true carnage will probably lie on a battlefield somewhere, never to be told for our ears to hear.

@staciasmith5162

3 жыл бұрын

Very well put. You'd make a good writer.

@Junkman2008

3 жыл бұрын

@@staciasmith5162 Thank you, ma'am. 🙂

@ALANRLEAKE

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent comments. Another thing that made the Civil War hell was the primitive medical care back then ( when you compare it to 2021) where many soldiers on both sides feared the medics more the enemy.

@Junkman2008

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALANRLEAKE Yes, you are correct sir. Looking at some of the battle wounds from that war shows that the medics were quick to lop off a limb. That was brutal. There's no telling how many soldiers suffered unnecessarily.

@stevejette2329

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALANRLEAKE What did they have for painkillers ? Whiskey maybe. Antibiotics ? Whiskey ? Prosthetics ? Wood. Evacuation ? HA

If Sherman tried to invade Atlanta today he'd get snarled in all the traffic.

@totallynotalpharius2283

4 жыл бұрын

" MERGE YOU ASSHOLES MERGE!" - William Tecumseh Sherman

@DJShire_ATL

4 жыл бұрын

ABC DEFG he would probably call I285 the city moat.

@robertbates6057

4 жыл бұрын

LOL! Ain't that the truth. My uncle was a former fighter pilot and refused to drive through ATL to get to the N GA mtns.

@SuperRat420

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine needing lights to tell you how to merge. I ran it first time I took the truck down that way because I never even considered that possibility. Had no fuckin idea what I was looking at

@SuperRat420

4 жыл бұрын

@Tropic Lightning''''''logic''''', just figure out if youre going slower or faster than traffic an MERGE

Beautifully done, and tragic.

"You people speak of war so lighty, you don't know what you're talking about, war is a terrible thing." - William Tecumseh Sherman......directed at people of the south, it echoes through time to our current entanglements

@tomdooley3522

2 жыл бұрын

As well war never gets refined , it's the Inevitable outcome of what happens When words become worthless.

@monberg1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomdooley3522 do you want a new civil war?

@tomdooley3522

2 жыл бұрын

@@monberg1000 If that's what it takes to drain the swamp , that's what it takes. I sure hope it don't come to that , because it isn't just this country , but all of western civilization. But whatever it takes to break the deep states back. Better to live a day as a lion then a lifetime as a jackal. ( motto of the Roman army ) Better to die on your feet then live on your knees. ( Davy Crockett ) I will pray for Caesar , I will not pray to him. ( frist century pope, told the Christians to say that were told, Burn a pinch of incense and say a short prayer to Caesar, and you can go free )

@monberg1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomdooley3522 That is all very good. But you are saying that you don't mind a war if it can't be avoided. In what circumstances would it be better to give up dialogue and take up arms? War is never a good solution to anything.

@tomdooley3522

2 жыл бұрын

@@monberg1000 When words become worthless war becomes inevitable ..

As a non American I've always been fascinated by your civil war. This is one of the best doco,s I've seen on the subject. Shame certain parts of humanity have learnt nothing from it.

@mleightle9289

2 жыл бұрын

war itself can't teach too many lessons on it's own, lots of bitter resentment/sentiments followed the civil war, and well because less determined/honorable men followed in Lincoln's footsteps reconstruction would ultimately fail...we've had a bit of cold war going on in this country regarding race for decades... plainly put, someone had the bright idea if we just welcomed the south back into the union after the war -without no major repercussions, like say executions of the senior officials/generals/politicians for treason who advocated for secession in the first place- that everything would work out.... instead, the war to free African Americans in this country lasted another 100 years and the hatred, racism, was allowed to breed and discontent carried/carries itself through 3-4 subsequent generations....

@samrapheal1828

2 жыл бұрын

Truth✔

@keithwilliamson7508

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Savannah Georgia, and yes it's fascinating.

@debbylou5729

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know where your from, but I wonder what you think of wars in Europe that lasted decades. Are there similarities?

@debbylou5729

Жыл бұрын

@stirange really? Super vision! There wasn’t a riot, unless you’re talking about the actual riots during the summer of love

Very touching written docu. Thank u to the writers and filmmakers.

@GPB

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Absolutely Stellar documentary enjoyed it from one point to the other what a story on so many points one hell of a story you don't hear about these days

I'm so grateful for the internet and for how these fine, freely available documentaries can enrich and inform everyone now. Ignorance is a choice at this time, as the sum of human knowledge and history is at our fingertips free for the taking.

My great-great-great granddaddy fought under Sherman. He was still in his teens. Makes you reevaluate what you’re doing with your own life

@gregbors8364

2 жыл бұрын

There haven’t been any “good wars” in which to fight for Americans since WW2. All subsequent American military actions were committed in the service of imperialism and corporate profit

@stoheha

Жыл бұрын

War is a horrible setback to any generation. Your ancestor probably would've been proud to see he had a grandson that had the freedom and interest to research history. Ironically, people fight wars to end them, and seeing teens unburdened by that should be a source of happiness, not dishonor.

@Ditka-89

Жыл бұрын

@@stoheha I appreciate that. There’s still something about the human condition that makes you eager for that glory, even if it’s a blessing you never have to experience war

@road_king_dude

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@lancelotkillz

Жыл бұрын

My middle school history teacher Mr. Calhoun had a grand papi who faught in the confederacy .. He always said that with pride. He was an awesome teacher and I vidily remember that he made history fun and I've been hooked ever since

One of the best civil war documentaries I’ve seen.

Congratulations on the beautiful work. Sincere, moving and broad. I discovered Atlanta years ago and covered what I could of the old battlefields. But I confess that I was moved by the approach you presented. You managed to masterfully use the history, the testimonies of the time with the images. . Sensational!!

Love that his middle name was Tecumsah after the Indian warrior who brought the tribes together!

@johnkennedy8478

3 жыл бұрын

It's odd to me. As secretary of war under Grant he was pretty terrible to native Americans. I think he did what he felt was right in the civil war and it worked. His army trashed Georgia and South Carolina and while he did shell Atlanta in its siege his March to the sea didn't physically harm noncombatants. He did not give the native Americans the same level of humanity

@frank5d

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It’s only awesome in that it’s damn weird.

@jimbarber9638

3 жыл бұрын

Sherman was given his middle name by his father, a great admirer of the Indian Chief Tecumseh. He was generally called Tecumseh throughout his younger years that morphed to the shortened name "Cump" in later years. During the war, his troops called him "Uncle Billy."

@jimbarber9638

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnkennedy8478 Sherman was never Secretary of War under President Grant or at any other time. At the beginning of the war President Lincoln offered him the position of Assistant Secretary of War in preparation to eventually move him into that position, but he declined. Sherman was very adverse to any political position...he hated politics. After Grant became President, Sherman was promoted to General in Chief of the Army that he served in until he retired many years later.

@johnkennedy8478

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbarber9638 Sherman served as grants interim secretary of war from September 6 1869- October 25 of the same year. While very short I encourage you to look into his actions in this time. While short his method of dealing with and attitude towards native Americans is clear and sadly helped shape policy in dealing with them

General Sherman “you want to cry!? I’ll give you something to cry about!”

@diogeneslamplit6573

3 жыл бұрын

I'm with you---you're correct. Sherman *was* a sociopath.

@mikepatrick5909

3 жыл бұрын

lol That's what my mom used to say....

@johnnydtractive

3 жыл бұрын

@@diogeneslamplit6573 Southern states & wealthy southern whites (& the poor ones too, unfortunately) happily enforcing the enslavement of human beings while pontificating about their own moral superiority & 'christian values'--there was no shortage of sociopathy at that time & in that part of the world.

@dr.vikyll7466

3 жыл бұрын

@@JC-uf4zu Imagine the march to the sea if it had tanks and jets. Sploosh

@peterthurman9384

3 жыл бұрын

War is Hell...and I'm the devil - Gen. Sherman. Thank you and god bless you. Making Traitors Howl - 1865 to 2021

Wow imagine being friends with someone since child hood and your on enemy sides now fighting each other. I can’t imagine how that must have been.

@curiousone6129

3 ай бұрын

Its happening today.

I loved the location shots of present Atlanta with civil war photos...Really caps off what is a nicely done video.

There's always a nerdy historian wearing a bow tie

@royalewithcheese7

3 жыл бұрын

And they are always the most passionate/weird ones

@notdeadyet5927

3 жыл бұрын

It’s always a wacky bow tie too it can’t ever be a normal one

@Afrimusican

3 жыл бұрын

This is a friendly reminder that real nerdy bow-tie wearing historians *rek'nize* real nerdy bow-tie wearing historians... And Tucker Carlson ain't one of them.

@andrewhuntley4242

3 жыл бұрын

Old, white historian

@Junkman2008

3 жыл бұрын

@@Afrimusican 😄😄😄

Sherman’s route to Atlanta, today, is I-75

@jonathanholland8434

4 жыл бұрын

James Richardson kennesaw mountain

@christianstewart1757

4 жыл бұрын

Sherman made America great again!

@randallflag9840

4 жыл бұрын

Christian Stewart Sherman was a war criminal period

@thehandoftheking3314

4 жыл бұрын

@@randallflag9840 was he?

@ruthmaryrose

4 жыл бұрын

oli fax I don’t know a lot about Sherman but what he did to those women, sending them up to Indiana, was certainly criminal. They had nothing in a strange land and subject to cold they were not used to.

"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." -W. T. Sherman

@marknewton6984

4 ай бұрын

Lenin

@PotatoGawds

4 ай бұрын

cry@@marknewton6984

@ikerivers1795

3 ай бұрын

@@marknewton6984 Nah, just an ol fashioned ass whoopin

I've been able to enjoy many great documentaries thanks to GPB

Casualties in the Civil War were incredible; in large part because commanders were using 18th century tactics against 19th century weapons. Sherman was one of the first, if not the very first to understand that fact. Frontal assaults in the face of repeating rifles, artillery, and fortifications was literally murder by the 1860's. Thus the constant flanking movements that US commanders in WWII embraced. He was ahead of his time in understanding destroying the industry led to destroying the enemy.

@robertbates6057

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, read more about the battle at Cheatham Hill (part of Kennesaw Battlefield.) OMG

@coryander1341

4 жыл бұрын

Well-said but who had repeating rifles in the Civil War years?

@robertbates6057

4 жыл бұрын

@@coryander1341 The Spencer came out in the last year or so and some Union units had them. Not a lot.

@LuvThatDirtyWater

4 жыл бұрын

Civil War casualties were incredible indeed. 61,000 died in captivity and 204000 were KIA but 388000 or 60% of the deaths were associated with disease. That's incredible and you gotta figure if you lost an arm or a leg your chances weren't good but being in a disease infested hospital killed more than anything else But the 1918 Spanish Flu killed more Americans than WW1 WW2 Korea Nam plus the Civil War combined and the aside is the COVID-19 pandemic. As of today more than 400000 Americans have been infected with 14000 dead in less than TWO months

@davidmasland5627

4 жыл бұрын

Lee understood what the rifled musket could do. He was also well aware of the horror of war..

I live in Lancaster Ohio where Sherman was born and raised. I went to General Sherman Junior High school.

@jamessullivan1348

3 жыл бұрын

Fairfield county. Coshocton county here.

@johndaugherty7779

3 жыл бұрын

So what?

@Thepourdeuxchanson

3 жыл бұрын

@@johndaugherty7779 So what is your So what?

@dar4431

3 жыл бұрын

I saw Lancaster Ohio on a map once, I can spell Shurmon

Wow! Powerful presentation.

My favorite war documentary of all time!

I've worn those woolen uniforms at re-enactments and even on 70 degree pleasant days I would be soaked through. I can't imagine wearing that in Georgia summer heat.

@davisx2002

7 жыл бұрын

1st line 4th word

@orabera

7 жыл бұрын

90's in England? Everyone nearly passed out.

@tfoen7678

6 жыл бұрын

Only a fool would wear wool in a Georgia summer. That and blue falcons and their battle buddies at Ft. Benning, Stewart, or Gordon.

@WestTNConfed

6 жыл бұрын

Try dark blue wool frock coat, in June Mississippi heat. That's what i did at the Brices Crossroads reenactment, you see the air you breathe. At the real battle Forrest used the weather to his advantage, because it was so hot and humid. Slowed the Federals to a craw.

@worldmusic09

6 жыл бұрын

I wore one of those uniforms at Gettysburg 150 where it was heat index around 100. Amazing how you find ways to stay cool and how quickly you become accustomed to it. Wool breathes, cotton doesn't.

You havin' treason problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but Atlanta ain't one. - William T. Sherman, probably

@hyperkirbynova8590

6 жыл бұрын

Lel

@HoodBoy426

6 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@eligah8

6 жыл бұрын

rideordie Lol...Love it.

@raderanthony

5 жыл бұрын

And Neither is the North.

@marianotorrespico2975

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyllooddte3415 -- Correct. When dealing with racist swine, a butcher is required. What is your point, lad? You all lost "the war", because you talk tougher than you is.

Favorite part of this was the before and after pictures at the end. Never forget.

So well done!!!

That moment when homeboy warns you and you call his bluff then find out he wasn't bluffing...

@regilee9003

Жыл бұрын

The true meaning of fucc around and find out lol

It looks like Sherman understands the mindset of the Southern elites and knew that it only total war was going to end the Civil War

@magnusthered5994

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad he didn’t get to really burn down their farms and make them pay for their aggression. Too much leeway given to losers which resulted in the ‘Lost Cause’ narrative and statues of traitors.

@Maples01

3 жыл бұрын

@@magnusthered5994 Oh how little you know, couldn't fill a thimble, gonna bet you hate Trump, had it been over slavery, why didn't the south come back to the union when Lincoln promised them they could keep slavery, it was the money, that is why he would not let it go.

@magnusthered5994

3 жыл бұрын

Maples01 Go read the Secession documents and speech of Jefferson Davis where he declared the formation of confederacy. The South wanted to keep slaves and expand slavery into the rest of America, when their plan to expand slavery failed they decided to revolt.

@bobbyyuppies4357

3 жыл бұрын

@@magnusthered5994 They did not revolt they tried to secede peacefully. Big Gov wasn't a fan.

@magnusthered5994

3 жыл бұрын

bobby yuppies They attacked Fort Sumner first. They started the damn war, also ending slavery was a great Cause and I’d rather side with a big government which ends slavery than a bunch of racists who wanted to keep their slaves forever and expand slavery in the rest of the America

Very well done documentary.

Great job, guys!

I was just in Atlanta last year. They've recovered nicely.

@alessiodelcastillo1613

3 жыл бұрын

We was gonna have to revive him if the Republicans won

@hanoitripper1809

3 жыл бұрын

The Falcons havent

@joeblow7064

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao.... I got that!!

@kaliyuga4753

3 жыл бұрын

Really? It doesn't appear that way to me...maybe certain areas.

@Charlie-qe6lv

3 жыл бұрын

I'd rather live in Aleppo than Atlanta.

There are two ways to win a war. First, one can kill every last enemy soldier. Secondly, you can destroy the enemies ability to support an army in the field with food and other supplies.

@a0flj0

5 жыл бұрын

There's just one way to win a war: destroy the enemy's strategy. Whatever that is. You can afford to kill his troops when you have superior weaponry, logistics, training and numbers. In case of comparable equipment and training, trying this will bring you nothing - you'll loose as many troops as you kill. Scorched earth works well against invading armies. Wasn't the case of Sherman's campaign. Still, Sherman did attack into his enemy's strategy. The South was fighting to keep up slavery, which was their source of richness. He started making the war more costly for them than freeing up slaves. That's when the South broke - even won, a war too costly would have been a total defeat.

@mattjohnson180

5 жыл бұрын

Joseph Coburn not all people in the south were fighting for slaves, and not all people in the north were fighting to free slaves. But with that being said it would be flat out ignorant to say that slavery was the sole factor in starting the war. We know this because 1 the succeeding states made it very clear that they were leaving because their right to own slaves was coming close to an end. 2 many people will say the civil war really started with the Kansas Nebraska act which was a slave state free state issue. 3 the 1860 presidential election was one of the most polarized elections in history with Lincoln not getting a single vote in the south for his anti slavery stance+ being part of the Republican Party which were abolitionist. There is no doubt the war wouldn’t have happened if the United States had no slaves bc the south wouldn’t have felt that their rights to own slaves were being infringed upon.

@dicktation_4769

5 жыл бұрын

Florin Jurcovici You’re WAY off. Sherman’s march occurred near the end of the war...after the South was already weakened. The Union strategy was two fold and had nothing to do with Sherman. First, the Union blockade strangled the CSA (the Anaconda Plan), cutting off valuable supplies coming in and cutting off the South’s ability to export it’s number one money maker to Europe...cotton. Second, the Union cut the South in two by way of the Mississippi River. You’re vaguely right in that the Union’s main strategy was economic, as it was clear early on that the South had superior military leadership on the field of battle. The early Southern victories showed the Union that they would need to take another approach to win (thus the Anaconda Plan and the Mississippi campaigns). But Sherman’s March and the freeing of slaves along the way was hardly the death knell for the South; nor was it the crowning Union strategy. The end was already near as Sherman marched towards Atlanta and was not the point “when the South broke.” That point had already passed.

@dicktation_4769

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Johnson You’re right, it had just as much to do with representation in Congress as the U.S. expanded westward and new states were being admitted. The Compromise of 1860 and the KS-NB Act (which you mentioned) were both examples of the fight for representatives in Congress between North and South (free and slave states). The very balance of power in Congress was at stake and the country was still very much divided between the agricultural south and the burgeoning industrial North.

@veritasnunc8749

5 жыл бұрын

And wars have only got worse. Humans will eventually destroy themselves through war.

Thanks for this fascinating documentary.

@GPB

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching GPB

Sherman was right. To end the war, the South had to be broken. Not damaged, not forced into surrender, CRUSHED.

@tailsprowerfan2729

Жыл бұрын

We will rise again we are sick of being mock and being told we should of been destroyed and hung

If Grant and Sherman were in charge in the start of the war it would have lasted about a year!!

@bethgiglio1135

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Winfield Scott was a horrible general

@alan30189

3 жыл бұрын

I agree that the war would’ve been much shorter if they were in charge to begin with, because Grant would’ve went after Lee early on, when McClellan didn’t, and probably would’ve won it right then. At the least, the war would’ve lasted much less than the four years it did.

@alan30189

3 жыл бұрын

@Joaldavid Sutton Lee was probably the best talent in the US Army before the Civil War started. His tactics won a lot of battles. But, his decisions at Gettysburg were absolutely horrible. He should’ve just flanked the town and went and attacked something else. Or they could’ve just surrounded the town and starved them out in a siege, not order thousands of men to run right into a bunch of hot lead in a futile attack.

@tsdobbi

3 жыл бұрын

@Joaldavid Sutton "with the best leader" Lee was a magician when it came to tactics, but he was a horrible military strategist, like Hannibal Barca before him. The 2nd punic war between Rome and Carthage was very similar to the American civil war in you had one side that really didn't have the manpower, but brilliant tactical leadership and the other, Rome, with a nigh limitless supply of manpower, but meddling tacticians as generals. Down to the Romans/Union being consistently successful in the West, while being dominated in the East. Hannibal won incredible victories...but the guy literally didn't know how to capitalize. He just hoped if he destroyed enough Roman Armies they would sue for peace. Which is basically the policy Lee employed. When he finally decided to invade the North, he lost a battle he SHOULD have won at Gettysburg, which was the beginning of the end.

@tsdobbi

3 жыл бұрын

@@alan30189 "But, his decisions at Gettysburg were absolutely horrible." It was literally like a different man commanded that battle. On paper, the confederates should have won that battle. It's like the one time Lee was super reserved at the outset. He LET the union take the high ground...and then...attacked them, utterly baffling. Obi Wan Kenobi would be rolling in his grave.

"There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet". Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., GBE

@kumasenlac5504

2 жыл бұрын

Would this be the Admiral that threw Taffy 3 to the wolves by going on a wild-goose chase ? When the great challenge came he hid in his cabin when he should have been going back to cut-off the rump of the Japanese fleet. All the world wonders...

@samrapheal1828

2 жыл бұрын

Correctamundo 🎯

Awesome production !

I’ve watched this several times. Very well done. Thank you.

@GPB

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching

@marknewton6984

4 ай бұрын

Sherman had 3to 1 odds. Big deal.

Georgia never stopped howling.

@moss8448

3 жыл бұрын

well the South is a proud (too proud really) area of the country when it comes to the 'war of northern aggression'...they'll still argue that it was all about 'states rights' when in reality the 'states rights' they're so fond of was called another name...been living thru that kind of thinking for 71 yrs...we all need to move on..and that goes for a certain group of ppl that likes to call Southerners 'crackers' 'rabbit' 'white bread' and all that other shit....it IS a two way street 'cha know.

@highjumpstudios2384

2 жыл бұрын

@@moss8448 specifically, the states rights to own slaves.

@moss8448

2 жыл бұрын

@@highjumpstudios2384 I agree but Southerners have a hard time owining up to that one for some reason. Although only about 3% of the Southern population had plantations, the other 97% still get blamed for the whole deal and did most of the fighting in that stupid ass war.

@marknewton6984

6 сағат бұрын

The North is howling now!😮

Brilliant documentary. As a Texan, I can say: the War Between the States should have been avoided. And, it should never be forgotten. God Bless America!

@ultimtdisc

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Adams - No, we should never forget the treasonous actions of the traitors of the CSA. Those that fire upon the US flag and the US military are our enemies.

@aeromagnumtv1581

5 жыл бұрын

If liberals, left media and the Dems have their way, there will be another. VOTE RED!

@TheRobdarling

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Adams no avoiding the inevitable...

@MrKen-wy5dk

5 жыл бұрын

As a fellow Texan, I agree with you. Texas should have followed Sam Houston's lead and remained in the Union. There was no advantage to Texas to secede. However, we did get a rusty sinking battleship as a consolation prize. And, a plywood replica of the space shuttle.

@elrondhubbard7059

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry dude, but if one side is practising slavery they deserve to have their entire society destroyed brick by brick.

It is so fantastic that we have a national treasure like Ken Burns who with his staff have worked so hard to bring us a true accounting of our national history so that others may "Borrow" from it.

...so well made, so well explained, so sad that all this happened...

As a Georgian living in the area of which Sherman destroyed I have this to say. Yeah for Sherman. He ended the war by fighting a total war. I'm glad the Union was saved. I live in Conyers Ga and this town was spared simply because we stopped fighting and gave Sherman what he wanted. Conyers was not a rich town but many of the houses that were here during the civil war are still here. Sherman also spared Madison Ga and when Savannah Ga surrendered without a fight he spared that magnificent too. He destroyed the railroads and the larger farms and whipped every army the Confederacy sent against him. The Confederate cause was anything but glorious.

@MrPotatoesLatkie

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyllooddte3415 But I guess he never spared those that surrendered to his army?

@eliseeden

5 жыл бұрын

johnny llooddte South deserved every bit if it. Treason has a price. You were on the wrong side of morality

@eliseeden

5 жыл бұрын

johnny llooddte Didn't the allies fire bomb Dresden? Didn't US drop atomic bombs on two cities? Suppose that's different though huh? Try again.

@JRead0691

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyllooddte3415 lmfao... what is the hangup old people have with communist countries? The majority of people that invoke "communism" can't even define it. Also, if you honestly think that Russia, North Korea, and Iran are "communist" then you really need to brush up on modern geo-politics. Also, Iran may not be communist but its actually a Republic, just like ours... its just a Theocratic Republic. Words mean things man...

@lamwen03

5 жыл бұрын

Grant was fighting and killing Confederate soldiers. And losing lots of his own troops doing it. Sherman's troops killed almost no one. He destroyed property, wrecked rail lines, stripped the food the rebel armies needed to continue the fight. He gutted the economy of the rebel states, and likewise the myth of the gallant southern armies that would fight to the death. They didn't.

I had shivers down my spine at 46:40, “To realize what WAR is....one should follow our tracks” -US Army General William T. Sherman as he’s marching his troops through Georgia heading to Savannah

@tinlinnoo1226

Жыл бұрын

"while we were marching through Georgia"

@ElBandito

Жыл бұрын

@@AngryAmericanWizard Way too many.

@1943Grandpa

Жыл бұрын

Marching on women and children. Sherman was a head case.

@globaladdict

Жыл бұрын

​@@1943Grandpa hes a hero, fuvk off confederate sympathizer. Hows it feel to be a loser in life?

@towerofghenjei

11 ай бұрын

@@AngryAmericanWizard Oh so y’all are fine that Sherman burned many towns to the ground including with his “bummers” pillaging, raping women and children, and killing innocent civilians, old men, women and children, both white and black, free and slave. He also collected blacks and re-enslaved them to serve his army and said many times blacks were lesser and deserved slavery. Those re-enslaved then got left when crossing major rivers, hundreds drowned trying to swim across. Sherman’s reputation became so bad, blacks would fight WITH the confederacy in order to preserve their town from being leveled and burned and their families raped and murdered. Learn your history. And innocent civilians no matter what race don’t deserve what he did. Sherman committed genocide against southern people in general, regardless of color.

Sherman had his flaws but he was an amazing commander

@georgewilkie3580

7 ай бұрын

Many of today's CIVIL WAR historians believe that Sherman was a very "disturbed" person. He once had a sergeant that fell asleep on Nigh Duty (Now called "CQ", or "Charge Of Quarters), nailed into a wooden military coffin for 24 hours. They say the unfortunate Sergeant came out traumatized, and had periodic nightmares for the rest of his life.

@shadowrunner2510

7 ай бұрын

@@georgewilkie3580 yikes that nuts, never said he was a Saint

@markbeckens

6 ай бұрын

As a human, would you expect human to not have flaws?

@marknewton6984

4 ай бұрын

Then he went out West...

I'm a World War 2 buff, But this documentary is really good. I'm gonna start watching more documentaries on the Civil War. Thank You.

“Nervous breakdown” = PTSD. “Recovered” = went back to duty.

@fastsetinthewest

4 жыл бұрын

Like Vietnam. I spent a fortnight in a Vietnam field hospital and then was sent back into the field. I'm lucky to be here. My gg grandfather was in the Tennessee Army Artillery fighting at Chickamauga. He was captured in Macon by Sherman forces.

@nicholaspadilla4943

4 жыл бұрын

@joe cheney you is a southern boy ain't ya?

@russellperson8505

4 жыл бұрын

You mean he lost his mind.

@jadeolin8514

4 жыл бұрын

@Marq LOECSTA you go girl!! Shout out your emotional indignation!! When you get a chance baby girl, clean the sand out of your vagene, grow a pair and start acting like a man. (Which means conducting yourself based off of facts and logic, not emotional triggering, as you have been conditioned to.)

@puddinbritches

4 жыл бұрын

@Marq LOECSTA what in the hell is wrong with you ?

For the South it was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

@collinhennessy3190

3 жыл бұрын

That's every side in every war.

@thefirely1439

3 жыл бұрын

Thats whats so sad. Men who didn't know any better had to die because of the greed of the upper class in the south

@stephanclaitt5991

3 жыл бұрын

@@collinhennessy3190 buullshit sop your blasphemy

@thefirely1439

3 жыл бұрын

@Pee Tee its true my ancestor fought on the confederate side. They made them think they didn't have a choice. Thats what makes it so awful. Just like every war started by the upper class fought by the lower class.

@tsdobbi

3 жыл бұрын

Well they tricked the poor man into thinking the war was about something other than what it was. The evidence is insurmountable the cause of secession was fear of abolition of slavery. Of course there were other concerns but that one reason was what was worth splitting the nation in two. They got a bunch of poor southerners to fight and die so they could have free labor.

Outstanding 💯! Thanks for preserving U.S. history! Regards, The '62 Mathew St. 1-Man Band (Total Retro Rock)

Very nice doc