What role did Confederate refusal to take black soldiers prisoner of war have on the exchange?
@josephf.wilson274714 күн бұрын
The Union hung their hat on the black soldier issue but in reality that simply didn't want to give back the Confederate prisoners. It was a war of attrition. Thus, Union soldiers had to starve to death. It was an inhumane policy that place ideology over humanity. Of the 50,000 Union prisoners, only approximately 800 were black soldiers. Other exchange solutions were presented, but rejected by uncaring General Grant who wanted the the advantage of numbers. But so many Confederates would not have rejoined the army in 1864. Desertions in the CSA was getting very bad in 1864. JW
@joeeverett977521 күн бұрын
Thanks for a fair representation my great great grandfather Peter Seaford from Davie county,NC died of starvation at the northern prison in point lookout Maryland. Most historians fail to talk about northern atrocities . Fairness presents both sides as you did.
@joeeverett977521 күн бұрын
My great great grandfather Peter Seaford from Davie County, NC was captured at Gettysburg and imprisoned at Cape Lookout where he attempted to escape but was recaptured. He died there from starvation and was buried in a mass grave. Northern prisons were every bit as bad as any in the south but that story is seldom told.
@joecombs74683 ай бұрын
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@swarm66973 ай бұрын
In Petersburg, Virginia, there's a mass grave CSA underneath the big mount of trash and methane. And no one ever Talks about it
@josephf.wilson27472 ай бұрын
Where? I want to write about it. Joe
@jasonbecker49744 ай бұрын
One of the best stories in American history.
@bettygossell34085 ай бұрын
I have 2 great uncles who were in Andersonville. Only 1 survived, but he went home with chronic health problems.
@linsqopiring68166 ай бұрын
A very nice video presentation thanks. It almost has me admiring this man, until I remember that he was fighting for the continuance of human slavery.
@MrBrody19617 ай бұрын
My great grandfather lived in Elmira during those times. He was very lucky to make it out of there.....Elmira was a shit hole !!!
@rithvikmuthyalapati97547 ай бұрын
Terrible fact : a 15 year old Union soldier and a 16 year old Union soldier were held at Andersonville
@paulaharrisbaca48517 ай бұрын
And blacks want reparations
@proudconfederate8 ай бұрын
Isn't the dirtiest building in Washington the white house
@user-mz1sp3wi9b9 ай бұрын
Grant tried to keep them out of the prison but he found the confederates captured returned to thebattle so. he prisons to prevent them from returning
@josephf.wilson27479 ай бұрын
By 1864 desertion rate in the Confederacy was very high. It's likely half wouldn't be going back into Lee's army. Wanting superior numbers isn't a good reason for allowing thousands of patriotic volunteers to starve to death or rot to death from disease. Ideology over humanity is never a good idea.
@heathperry283511 ай бұрын
Why would anyone fight for either side. I would have went west as far as possible
@happybubble230111 ай бұрын
The civil war didnt start because of slavery. It started over taxes.
@billiesoldyn5509 Жыл бұрын
My ancestor, 2Lt Russell Legg of the 50th Virginia, was captured at Spotsylvania Court House. He lived in different prisons, the last being at Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Died 2-8th February 1864. He died of dysentery. His food was pickles and moldy corn meal. He was buried in what is now a parking lot. It was only recognized in this century.
@damianshneider7090 Жыл бұрын
And today we are seeing history repeat itself. The political weaponization of justice departments, judges, and criminal justice.
@kathrynsmith3417 Жыл бұрын
My father's great grand uncle was captured by Confederate soldiers & spend his imprisonment at horrible Anderson prison. Miraculously he survived to come home & tell his story of the US Civil war.
@haroldrupert4957 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this deeply moving documentary .
@josephbrandt6778 Жыл бұрын
He might of been a Reb but as a Yankee I salute him for a great mission completed...😁👍
@lance3451 Жыл бұрын
the inhumanity of humanity, and nothing changed with humanity.
@wankertanker1813 Жыл бұрын
Ideology over humanity. What war is. Prisons are also a terrible thing. May need to be abolished as well. For one, solitary confinement is totally insane and actually torture. No humane society would continue them if they knew more about them.
@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын
Great original song in the intro!!
@joejankoski8471 Жыл бұрын
"Devoted young soldiers, North and South, whose only offense was volunteering to support their nation of choice..." How wrong this statement is. One group was defending the Constitution and rule of law. The other committed treason and took up arms to murder their fellow citizens so that they could continue to own human beings. There was no honor in the southern effort. There was no "lost cause." It is telling that you refer to the members of the United States Army as Yankees - while calling the traitors "confederate soldiers."
@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын
The irony is that you yourself don't know how wrong you are. If you are an American citizen, you should know there was no amendment regarding slavery in the constitution. Nor was there any amendment against secession from the Union, it was seen as a voluntary commitment. There was, however, a 10th amendment that gave rights to the states that the federal constitution didn't speak on. In this case, that right was the right to own slaves. There was also a Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens and that, as property, they didn't have rights. From a legal and Constitutional point, the Confederacy was entirely in the right. It was the Union who was violating the rule of law. And it wasn't even really over slavery, it was political power. They only used slavery as a cudgel against the South to make it seem as if they had a moral high ground when in fact, they didn't care for slaves or blacks themselves.
@garymorris5974 Жыл бұрын
LONG LIVE DIXIE
@thelivingbranch Жыл бұрын
not much has changed in history we are still getting screwed
@SirBelvedere333 Жыл бұрын
Both sides did deplorable things to each others POW’s. Shameful!
@grizz2532 Жыл бұрын
" A fractured nation moving closer to ruin". Those words could have been written yesterday...
@lawrenceklein3524 Жыл бұрын
What a terrible waste of American lives, all to save other Americans from the curse of slavery. May the Lord have mercy on their souls.
@clifforddriver9434 Жыл бұрын
I could see dying during war only in defense of my own country, and no where else.
@echohunter4199 Жыл бұрын
As liberals and every other group with anti-Constitutional aims press their desire to take up arms to silence people who decline their ideals, we’re closer to open conflict more than ever. I’ve fought in two wars as an Infantryman and I beg these people to not pursue this idea because it’ll end poorly for them and once that genie is let out of the bottle, things will implode and cause our society to come to a halt which will cause more deaths than any rainbow haired socialist. Most Infantry Veterans/Retirees such as myself are well equipped with nearly everything we used while in uniform and can defend our neighbors properly. If enough of us form a group, we can easily deal with untrained, undisciplined armed insurgents. But again, we ask them to reconsider their life choices as reality is not what they might think. God be with us all.
@francoischamberland4029 Жыл бұрын
Murderous nation...before, now and for ever !!!!
@rwseemore1 Жыл бұрын
Yankee vermin, didn't mention camp Douglas in Chicago, Stanton and his vermin offspring were cursed to be dwarfs
@setheast2773 Жыл бұрын
Pisses me off so much that these little retards want to take down statues of any kind and Confederate statues and it's all a design by these jerks that brand wash these kids
@setheast2773 Жыл бұрын
It just upsets the hell out of me. It's another bankers war.. there's really only one war is just defined by places in time
@victorcontreras9138 Жыл бұрын
Very good video on something I never thought about! We hear of battles and those killed but seldom know what life was like for the soldiers captured.
@setheast2773 Жыл бұрын
Still people to this day don't understand that the rebel flag is not about racism.. Even people that lived in the north that this war was wrong people in South knew the war was wrong it was all wrong wrong wrong.. it was all about money money money... My ancestors were on both sides and none of them knew anyone that owns slaves
@christinaadams1235 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather died as a pow in the civil war.
@1982nsu Жыл бұрын
Another Civil War tragedy. "Sultana: Mississippi's Titanic" kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6yao6SCd9W6k7w.html
@martinedwards4522 Жыл бұрын
politicians have been total scumbags forever... pretty scary to think this is where America is headed.... again
@CGH250 Жыл бұрын
I had 2 g-g-grandfathers who were confederate soldiers from the same county in NC and fought in most all major battles. They were both injured at the battle of Gettysburg and one was captured by the Union army and held prisoner until a prisoner exchange at the end of the war. While imprisoned, he contracted Typhoid fever and was critically ill for a time. It’s a miracle he lived. The stories told down thru our family generations of this war were so amazing and interesting. It was never about slavery. Only a very small percentage of confederate soldiers came from families who owned slaves and there were a high number of northern families who did!! I love this time period as well as the time period of the Revolutionary war where a family member served as a Lt Colonel in the Continental Army from NC and met with George Washington when he traveled thru Hillsborough NC. Thank you for this most interesting video.
@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын
Great story ,yet it WAS ABOUT SLAVERY,go check all Southern States' "Secession Statements" and see each mentioned conflict w/ the North about slavery and this alone was enuf to leave Union over- rest of yr story excellent!
@CGH250 Жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-rn5tb - it started because SC wanted to succeed from the Union and Lincoln wasn’t having it. He was a horrible president. My family and other Southern families know exactly what that war was about! It wasn’t slavery but you can believe that lie if you want. Interestingly, the US govt has lied about the reason for many wars we’ve participated in - right up to this current day!
@fredbielawski2600 Жыл бұрын
Have we learned anything or do we just repeat history?
@po2313 Жыл бұрын
Here's your reparations.
@concretejoe7526 Жыл бұрын
Not only slavery was fought over in the civil war but also southern states not paying taxes on cotton, tobacco and slavery which history text books fail to mention
@JohnSmith-xd8do Жыл бұрын
In 1863, Susan McBeth worked for the Union Army in St Louis. She fell in love with a CSA POW Doctor, CPT Law. She spent every day with him and gave him all the supplies she could steal. He promised to marry her when he got out. He lied. She was heartbroken, never the same. She moved to Idaho and started the Nez Perce war of 1877. I wrote a book about it
@scrubbwhite291 Жыл бұрын
This is a snowflake version of events. Putting disconnected visual with heavily socialist audio to distract you from the truth.
@thomasford5042 Жыл бұрын
So don’t the American blacks read or study history? Who do they think died for their freedoms? White confederate and Yankee soldiers and their families did. Yet they’re demanding monetary reparations for an already highly-shaky economy? Get a job, get a life, get an education, find some ambition and pride and move on from things not even a part of your own lifetime. Any excuse to bitch and get free money. It’s disgusting. Think about all the whites who died for you 2 centuries ago and be thankful for your current lord in life.
@jaimecoburn1339 Жыл бұрын
The Nazis could have learnt a thing or two from these bastards.
@shartne Жыл бұрын
The real reason for the war was the south didnt want to pay unfair taxes the north imposed on the tobbaco and cotton and the north did not grow these things so they didnt have to pay the unfair taxes. The south were called the rebels they rebelled against unfiar taxes. The north wanted to punish the south for succeding. They thought they could just go down a have a picknic for a few days wooping the south but it was not so easy. They blockadded the south from geting supplies and this hindered the south greatly. They wore what was once blue uniforms the same as the norths became gray and tattored. Democrats are repeating this sceanero again. The war was never about slavery. Lincoln didnt release the slave until the war was underway after 2 !/2 years later.
@GaryG63 Жыл бұрын
americas entire history from conception to present is one of brutality, violence, corruption and murder…
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What role did Confederate refusal to take black soldiers prisoner of war have on the exchange?
The Union hung their hat on the black soldier issue but in reality that simply didn't want to give back the Confederate prisoners. It was a war of attrition. Thus, Union soldiers had to starve to death. It was an inhumane policy that place ideology over humanity. Of the 50,000 Union prisoners, only approximately 800 were black soldiers. Other exchange solutions were presented, but rejected by uncaring General Grant who wanted the the advantage of numbers. But so many Confederates would not have rejoined the army in 1864. Desertions in the CSA was getting very bad in 1864. JW
Thanks for a fair representation my great great grandfather Peter Seaford from Davie county,NC died of starvation at the northern prison in point lookout Maryland. Most historians fail to talk about northern atrocities . Fairness presents both sides as you did.
My great great grandfather Peter Seaford from Davie County, NC was captured at Gettysburg and imprisoned at Cape Lookout where he attempted to escape but was recaptured. He died there from starvation and was buried in a mass grave. Northern prisons were every bit as bad as any in the south but that story is seldom told.
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In Petersburg, Virginia, there's a mass grave CSA underneath the big mount of trash and methane. And no one ever Talks about it
Where? I want to write about it. Joe
One of the best stories in American history.
I have 2 great uncles who were in Andersonville. Only 1 survived, but he went home with chronic health problems.
A very nice video presentation thanks. It almost has me admiring this man, until I remember that he was fighting for the continuance of human slavery.
My great grandfather lived in Elmira during those times. He was very lucky to make it out of there.....Elmira was a shit hole !!!
Terrible fact : a 15 year old Union soldier and a 16 year old Union soldier were held at Andersonville
And blacks want reparations
Isn't the dirtiest building in Washington the white house
Grant tried to keep them out of the prison but he found the confederates captured returned to thebattle so. he prisons to prevent them from returning
By 1864 desertion rate in the Confederacy was very high. It's likely half wouldn't be going back into Lee's army. Wanting superior numbers isn't a good reason for allowing thousands of patriotic volunteers to starve to death or rot to death from disease. Ideology over humanity is never a good idea.
Why would anyone fight for either side. I would have went west as far as possible
The civil war didnt start because of slavery. It started over taxes.
My ancestor, 2Lt Russell Legg of the 50th Virginia, was captured at Spotsylvania Court House. He lived in different prisons, the last being at Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Died 2-8th February 1864. He died of dysentery. His food was pickles and moldy corn meal. He was buried in what is now a parking lot. It was only recognized in this century.
And today we are seeing history repeat itself. The political weaponization of justice departments, judges, and criminal justice.
My father's great grand uncle was captured by Confederate soldiers & spend his imprisonment at horrible Anderson prison. Miraculously he survived to come home & tell his story of the US Civil war.
Thanks for sharing this deeply moving documentary .
He might of been a Reb but as a Yankee I salute him for a great mission completed...😁👍
the inhumanity of humanity, and nothing changed with humanity.
Ideology over humanity. What war is. Prisons are also a terrible thing. May need to be abolished as well. For one, solitary confinement is totally insane and actually torture. No humane society would continue them if they knew more about them.
Great original song in the intro!!
"Devoted young soldiers, North and South, whose only offense was volunteering to support their nation of choice..." How wrong this statement is. One group was defending the Constitution and rule of law. The other committed treason and took up arms to murder their fellow citizens so that they could continue to own human beings. There was no honor in the southern effort. There was no "lost cause." It is telling that you refer to the members of the United States Army as Yankees - while calling the traitors "confederate soldiers."
The irony is that you yourself don't know how wrong you are. If you are an American citizen, you should know there was no amendment regarding slavery in the constitution. Nor was there any amendment against secession from the Union, it was seen as a voluntary commitment. There was, however, a 10th amendment that gave rights to the states that the federal constitution didn't speak on. In this case, that right was the right to own slaves. There was also a Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens and that, as property, they didn't have rights. From a legal and Constitutional point, the Confederacy was entirely in the right. It was the Union who was violating the rule of law. And it wasn't even really over slavery, it was political power. They only used slavery as a cudgel against the South to make it seem as if they had a moral high ground when in fact, they didn't care for slaves or blacks themselves.
LONG LIVE DIXIE
not much has changed in history we are still getting screwed
Both sides did deplorable things to each others POW’s. Shameful!
" A fractured nation moving closer to ruin". Those words could have been written yesterday...
What a terrible waste of American lives, all to save other Americans from the curse of slavery. May the Lord have mercy on their souls.
I could see dying during war only in defense of my own country, and no where else.
As liberals and every other group with anti-Constitutional aims press their desire to take up arms to silence people who decline their ideals, we’re closer to open conflict more than ever. I’ve fought in two wars as an Infantryman and I beg these people to not pursue this idea because it’ll end poorly for them and once that genie is let out of the bottle, things will implode and cause our society to come to a halt which will cause more deaths than any rainbow haired socialist. Most Infantry Veterans/Retirees such as myself are well equipped with nearly everything we used while in uniform and can defend our neighbors properly. If enough of us form a group, we can easily deal with untrained, undisciplined armed insurgents. But again, we ask them to reconsider their life choices as reality is not what they might think. God be with us all.
Murderous nation...before, now and for ever !!!!
Yankee vermin, didn't mention camp Douglas in Chicago, Stanton and his vermin offspring were cursed to be dwarfs
Pisses me off so much that these little retards want to take down statues of any kind and Confederate statues and it's all a design by these jerks that brand wash these kids
It just upsets the hell out of me. It's another bankers war.. there's really only one war is just defined by places in time
Very good video on something I never thought about! We hear of battles and those killed but seldom know what life was like for the soldiers captured.
Still people to this day don't understand that the rebel flag is not about racism.. Even people that lived in the north that this war was wrong people in South knew the war was wrong it was all wrong wrong wrong.. it was all about money money money... My ancestors were on both sides and none of them knew anyone that owns slaves
My grandfather died as a pow in the civil war.
Another Civil War tragedy. "Sultana: Mississippi's Titanic" kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6yao6SCd9W6k7w.html
politicians have been total scumbags forever... pretty scary to think this is where America is headed.... again
I had 2 g-g-grandfathers who were confederate soldiers from the same county in NC and fought in most all major battles. They were both injured at the battle of Gettysburg and one was captured by the Union army and held prisoner until a prisoner exchange at the end of the war. While imprisoned, he contracted Typhoid fever and was critically ill for a time. It’s a miracle he lived. The stories told down thru our family generations of this war were so amazing and interesting. It was never about slavery. Only a very small percentage of confederate soldiers came from families who owned slaves and there were a high number of northern families who did!! I love this time period as well as the time period of the Revolutionary war where a family member served as a Lt Colonel in the Continental Army from NC and met with George Washington when he traveled thru Hillsborough NC. Thank you for this most interesting video.
Great story ,yet it WAS ABOUT SLAVERY,go check all Southern States' "Secession Statements" and see each mentioned conflict w/ the North about slavery and this alone was enuf to leave Union over- rest of yr story excellent!
@@JohnSmith-rn5tb - it started because SC wanted to succeed from the Union and Lincoln wasn’t having it. He was a horrible president. My family and other Southern families know exactly what that war was about! It wasn’t slavery but you can believe that lie if you want. Interestingly, the US govt has lied about the reason for many wars we’ve participated in - right up to this current day!
Have we learned anything or do we just repeat history?
Here's your reparations.
Not only slavery was fought over in the civil war but also southern states not paying taxes on cotton, tobacco and slavery which history text books fail to mention
In 1863, Susan McBeth worked for the Union Army in St Louis. She fell in love with a CSA POW Doctor, CPT Law. She spent every day with him and gave him all the supplies she could steal. He promised to marry her when he got out. He lied. She was heartbroken, never the same. She moved to Idaho and started the Nez Perce war of 1877. I wrote a book about it
This is a snowflake version of events. Putting disconnected visual with heavily socialist audio to distract you from the truth.
So don’t the American blacks read or study history? Who do they think died for their freedoms? White confederate and Yankee soldiers and their families did. Yet they’re demanding monetary reparations for an already highly-shaky economy? Get a job, get a life, get an education, find some ambition and pride and move on from things not even a part of your own lifetime. Any excuse to bitch and get free money. It’s disgusting. Think about all the whites who died for you 2 centuries ago and be thankful for your current lord in life.
The Nazis could have learnt a thing or two from these bastards.
The real reason for the war was the south didnt want to pay unfair taxes the north imposed on the tobbaco and cotton and the north did not grow these things so they didnt have to pay the unfair taxes. The south were called the rebels they rebelled against unfiar taxes. The north wanted to punish the south for succeding. They thought they could just go down a have a picknic for a few days wooping the south but it was not so easy. They blockadded the south from geting supplies and this hindered the south greatly. They wore what was once blue uniforms the same as the norths became gray and tattored. Democrats are repeating this sceanero again. The war was never about slavery. Lincoln didnt release the slave until the war was underway after 2 !/2 years later.
americas entire history from conception to present is one of brutality, violence, corruption and murder…