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

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

Wow

@@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.

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

😂😂

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

Opened up a can of whoop a**

And folks truly found out😮

Monster left those slaves to die too.

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.

@@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.

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

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.

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

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.

Joseph Stalin😅

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?

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

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 🥰

amen tell theb middle eaqst

@@therooster556 ????

little anthony Huh? What are you communicating?

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

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

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

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

@@paulmorales3815 Heartwarming.

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.

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.

Band decided to do little bit of trolling :D

Appropriate for dems, the party of slavery

There should have been.

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

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

Thanks for watching!

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

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

@@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.

​@@scottbivins4758 punctuation is your friend.

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

@@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?

@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.

@@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*.

@@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?

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

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

@@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.

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

@@terryrodbourn2793 111

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.

@@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.

@@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

@@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.

@@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.

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

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

@Bob's house who has it?

@@napoleonbonaparte7686 you realise france was allied with confederates right

@@napoleonbonaparte7686 or at least alloed to texas

Ironically the state which wanted war least suffered worst.

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

@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.

@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.

There were no US export tariffs.

@@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

It wasnt Rock, it was was Wayne Larrivee.

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...

@@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 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

@@chrisb616 be

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

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

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

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.

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.

@@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.

@@MPlain dude. Your leftobigotry is freaking epic.

He said that? I like Sherman even more!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

@@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.

@@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.

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

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

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.

@@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.

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

@@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.

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

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

That's racist!

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

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

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

Thats right

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

Strange

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

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.

@@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.

@@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.

@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.

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.

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

@@Bellephus You have obviously never been in one.

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

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

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)

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 ! 💥 🇺🇸 💥

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching GPB

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?,🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🙏

@@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

@@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🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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

@@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.

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

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

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

@@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?

@@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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Pallbearer.

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

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.

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

There were only civilians in those towns.

Savannah was a gift to Lincoln

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

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

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

Me too.....no Buckee's ! 😅

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

@@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.

Not out generaled.

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

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

@@mgtowpaladin6566 its just a quote dude. lol

@@mgtowpaladin6566 sherman was in the right

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

​@@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.

@@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.

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.

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

Liar. The Egyptians did that.

Very interesting.

@@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.

Lenin

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@@marknewton6984 Nah, just an ol fashioned ass whoopin

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!

@@GPB You're quite welcome.

Gen. Robert E Lee.. 😊

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

@@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.

@@Putaspellonyou Sherman said "War is Hell! 😊

Stonewall Jackson said that.

Hwdui

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

@@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...

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

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.

"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.

I saw the same thing.

That was Joseph Johnston, honorary pallbearer at his funeral.

@@g0679 Thank you.

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

@@tomdooley3522 do you want a new civil war?

@@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 )

@@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.

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

I think he died of Covid 19 !

He would make the perfect Democrat today.

@@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

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

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

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

@@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

To stop the south from enslaving babies. @@marknewton6984

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

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

" MERGE YOU ASSHOLES MERGE!" - William Tecumseh Sherman

ABC DEFG he would probably call I285 the city moat.

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.

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

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

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

@@staciasmith5162 Thank you, ma'am. 🙂

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.

@@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.

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

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

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

@@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.

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

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

Celebrating a drunk!

@@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.

@@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!

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

@@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!

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....

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

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

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

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

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.

@@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

Absolutely

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

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90's in England? Everyone nearly passed out.

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

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.

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.

Saviors?? Wow.....

@@eac1235 where's the lie? They saved the union from the slaver rebels right?

@@theCommentDevil Totally Agreed!

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rideordie Lol...Love it.

And Neither is the North.

@@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.

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

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

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."

@@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.

@@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

And they are always the most passionate/weird ones

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

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.

Old, white historian

@@Afrimusican 😄😄😄

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The true meaning of fucc around and find out lol

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

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

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

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

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

Its happening today.

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

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

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.

@@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...

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.

Fairfield county. Coshocton county here.

So what?

@@johndaugherty7779 So what is your So what?

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

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.

@@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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mark Adams no avoiding the inevitable...

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.

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

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Sherman had 3to 1 odds. Big deal.

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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...

Correctamundo 🎯

"while we were marching through Georgia"

@@AngryAmericanWizard Way too many.

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

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

@@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.

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.

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

You mean he lost his mind.

@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.)

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

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Sherman made America great again!

Christian Stewart Sherman was a war criminal period

@@randallflag9840 was he?

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.

My ex wife has said she is related to Sherman

Lmao I know a direct descendant of his, he searched his family tree and records, never heard of you

+Holly Villalobos Yeah a legacy of being a butcher..

Yes Mr President, I brought few of the ashes..

Yeah Winfield Scott was a horrible general

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.

@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.

@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.

@@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.

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Hey, fill us in on how Grant introduced himself to the Native Americans after the civil war!

Grant and Sherman also came up with the plan to starve the Indians by having the buffalo driven to extinction, the killing of native women and children too, funny how the blacks were considered above Indians, you know, freed them, forever imprisoned the natives.

Didn’t Sherman own a slave He must of hated it so much!

The South will rise again !

Ending slavery and preserving the union was hardly wrong.

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Yes, slavery was awesome, and the U.S. should have disintegrated.

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Slavery was necessary? Really? For what? For the planter arristocrats to maintain a lifestyle that European Royalty would envy? Yeah, I guess. Without slavery, the Old Dominion Arristocrats would have been merely well off, rather than fabulously wealthy. Eggs and omelettes, I guess ..

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 What's your point? Yeah, the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottomans, etc. had slaves long before the Southern Planter class, but not only does that not justify those planters manipulating the Southern states into a catastrophic war to preserve their "Peculiar Institution," it's also completely irrelevant. The "You can't judge people in the past by the standard of today" argument doesn't apply to the antebellum South. Slavery as it was practiced in America in the 19th century was abhorrent even by the standards of the time, and was rejected by most of the civilized world.

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Yeah, sure. You're the one downplaying the significance and awefulness of slavery, but I'M the racist because I said "Civilized world." Let's go with that.

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