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​@@onlineempire4204 Not for long.

Agreed this documentary is like a full sized action packed movie

Agreed ! I prefer documentary’s

The uniforms and formations are incredibly inaccurate. in this doc.

Agree! ✌️

Agreed abc64pan . This is even better than TBS’ Gettysburg or Gods and Generals and nowhere as long. The Scott brothers are kickass filmmakers

They had a whole series done like this one. Been trying to find it for years but no luck.

Ryan M “Civil War Journal” perhaps ?? There are some episodes on KZfaq

Add some ufos and we’re have it on the history channel no time

innertubez they had a documentary about Gettysburg on the history channel 6 years ago

Yeah because i dont know how tf ice road truckers is history

He didn’t it is a reenactment

@@Gettysburg234 you don’t get the joke

O now I get it

@@Gettysburg234 OK, now keep on thinking. Maybe you can figger out that Trump is a dope and a fraud.

Risked his life? Was that due to the perilous nature of time travel or getting shot to bits filming the battle?😉

Because this is a real documentary, not a constantly action-laded, inaccurate, uninformative, bunch of hoopla intended for you to buy tickets.

@John Harris Hi

@John Harris Are you a fellow history enthusiast? If so, what of what era?

@John Harris Understood.

Ridley Scott is about as "big Hollywood" as it gets. Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, The Martian.

+Blood Raven But we did grow fond of it. We are still doing it.

David Crandall That is one aspect of human nature that is difficult to change, it's like war is hard wired into our mentality

+David Crandall Not everyone; only some of us.

I live in fredericksburg, there are a lot of rebel flags

"Tell Hill he must come up!" then..... "Strike the tent." R.E. Lee's last words

Okay.

@Sorji Grice You state that as if it was okay. Also America was not completely built at that horrible time in our history. Fuck the idea of slavery and The Confederate States Of America. Traitors they are and always will be.

@Sorji Grice I love how this has no relevance whatsoever to what youre commenting on...

Sorji Grice actually incorrect. When England had discovered the America’s African Americans came to America on boat. They were broke so they did work. Working and slavery are 2 different things.

"Indentured servitude isn't slavery." says everyone. "You can work off your debt and become free." Yeah. So long as your master keeps accurate records of your servitude and you don't die doing dangerous labor. And if you do manage to get out of servitude, you're penniless and everyone hates you because you're a poor Eye-tie or Irish drunkie taking jobs from the good "white" folk.

That's amazing. God bless all of them. I wish I could know if any of my ancestors fought in the war.

Kevin Wade Thanks Kevin. Nice sentiments.

Where did the rest of your ancestors serve?

Invisible Camel I'm currently looking into this, and preparing for a few years hard work!

***** Thanks for posting. Your ancestral link to the war is interesting. I am from England, but the American Civil War fascinates me too. Notions of the Confederacy, the rebels and the Old West are the stuff of the Boys Own stories I grew up with.

This battle was the turning point which lead the union to victory

There are aspects of this recreation of events that bare criticism, which most intelligent and astute individuals will point out as marring the impact of the program. Things such as using cross rifles on Hardee hats when that symbol was not introduced until 10 years AFTER the Civil War. Or the sloppy ragged formation of ranks and columns. For all its efforts, this program still fails to do those brave soldiers from both sides proper justice. Either the producers need to go the full measure and do a proper job of accurately recreating these scenes or they need to strike the tent.

The Battle of Gettysburg was July 1-3, 1863. On 7/4, there was no fighting - both armies had been incredibly battered. It poured rain and Gen. Lee began his retreat. Also on that holi-day, Vicksburg surrendered to Gen. Grant after a 47-day siege. 'Father Abraham' Lincoln gave a July 4th speech from the White House where he acknowledged the alignment of these two victories and said, "87 years ago". As Lincoln prepared his Gettysburg Address, he realized that he could refer to the Biblical Story of Genasis 16:16 (KJV) where Abraham is "Four score and six years old when the slave girl Hagar gave birth to his son Ishmael." Hence, "4 score and 7 years ago, our fathers" referred back to 7/4/1776, Gen 16:16 and Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A proof of destiny. GOD=7_4, 7/4=July 4th. This Masonic(7,74) Code(4) was used by our Freemason Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Hancock. holiday=74=H8+O15+L12+I9+D4+A1+Y25 Mason=47=M13+A1+S19+O+N14 Masonic=74=M13+A1+S19+O15+N14+I9+C3 John(4 letters)=47=J10+O15+H8+N14 Hancock(7)=40=H8+A1+N14+C3+O+C3+K11 (The circle O can be 15 or zero.) 'There Are No Coincidences - there is synchronism...signs from GOD'. This is the title & subtitle of the prophesied (Revelation 5:1) "book/scroll sealed with 7 seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce this and it triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is not the 'end of the world'.

Hell, the way things are going they'll prob try to ban this off KZfaq........ sad times we live in

History channel doesn't do history any more 😞

This is all real footage.

@@WesleyWyndam-Pryce thats not possible because they didn't have that technology in 1865

@@MathieuPinto woooooooooosh!!!

"The First Minnesota Regiment coming up at this moment, charged the rebel regiment in handsome style, capturing its colors, and driving it back in disorder. I cannot speak too highly of this regiment and its commander in its attack, as well as in its subsequent advance against the enemy, in which it lost three-fourths of the officers and men engaged." -- Maj. Gen W.S. Hancock, II Corps commanding, official report re: Battle of Gettysburg

Ratzas 2002 I am very sorry for your loss but thank you for ancestors service and like I also lost a family member in the civil war but not at Gettysburg and the ancestor that I lost was my 3rd great grand uncle Sergeant George Washington shriver who was from Gettysburg but he was captured on New Year’s Day 1864 and my ancestor died at Andersonville prisoner of war camp and since one of your ancestors served in the 1st Minnesota I am going to recommend a book that you might like and it’s called At Gettysburg or What a Young Girl Saw and Heard of the battle a true narrative. And it’s a civilian account of the battle of Gettysburg and like some of my ancestors are in it but there’s a part that has to do with the 1st Minnesota in it and in the part it mentions Colonel William colvill who was the commander of the regiment.

That's so cool that you have ancestors from that badass regiment. They performed probably the most impressive charge on either side of the Battle of Gettysburg, a single understrengthed regiment shattered an entire rebel brigade. Most of the Minnesotans, apparently including one of your ancestors, were killed or wounded, but they defeated the rebels and fought alone until they were reinforced by a regiment of New Yorkers. They held off a major rebel attack, killing its momentum. I genuinely think it's probably the most badass thing a single regiment did during the entire war.

For all our flaws, America had a light once. Now hatred, guns and Dunning-Kruger effect - single circle Venn diagram - will be our undoing. Peace to our Canadian neighbors.

Ever heard of the eureka stockade? For the size of Victoria at the time it is Victoria’s Gettysburg

America was forged by war. Lots of incredible stories.

Lee after the battle "I hate you "

"Dont try it" -General Meade

You were my brother Robert!!!!

Gg no re.

I went there with my father back in 2020 and toured the battlefield. It certainly deserves as much. The rock formation in the woods certainly struck me as a strong position to fight from

Any one who thinks the Civil War was about anything other than slavery should read the Congressional Record in the months before Ft. Sumpter. It shows that all the Southern congressmen talked about their right to own people and the superiority of white men over black.

Bullshit.

Hey don't say that, he very well could have

You sound like a pussy

@@thadtuiol1717 Only a pussy would call someone a pussy..... pussy.

I'm siding with Thad

@UC6xPjKEZYdjKSDhRHfYKaGg take a pussy to know a pussy

I am Belgian and the feeling you had I felt it also on 2 places I visited, Waterloo (1815) and Passchendaele (1917) a deep sorrow and a deep respect for the soldiers who fought there

It turns out this isn't the one. It was called Gettysburg: Battle, at least on my DVR. It was on the Military Channel.

You should go back to the U.S., the land of your ancestors And embrace your roots. Forget the hangis, fried bread, nz rugby, cookie time and Georgies pies. Be a tobacco spittin', bud light sippin', in'n out burger eatin', gun slingin' Yankee Doodle.

I know what you mean about Amos Humiston being one of the many heroes in American history but like even though he was a hero I don’t like the people sort of feeded off the brave men who died and what I mean by that is you see when the picture of Humistons kids was found a nationwide newspaper search was launched to find who the man that had the picture and like in Gettysburg they built an orphanage for kids who lost their parents in the war and like people donated money to the orphanage and yet the person who organized the nationwide search for Humistons kids used the money for himself and like the worst part is that at this orphanage there was this mean strict disciplinarian and this persons name was mrs Carmichael and like she locked the orphans in the outhouse for the entire night but that’s not the worst part the worst part was that she turned the basement into a medieval torture chamber and just saying but I actually got to meet an author who is in touch with the descendants of Humistons kids.

@@tomkat1983 I stand corrected 156* thanks you.

Jackson Langhans Yep

157 years now July 1st 2020

10-31-22 here

No

I mean it’d be better with a weakened America not able to become a superpower in the later centuries would save billions of lives even if the confederates are a bunch of racist maniacs

@@eugenekrabs869 Yeah why not sacrifice the freedom of several generations of a few million black folks, worth it eh?...

More than any other that was the murderous moron Douglas Haig who in a speech in 1926 called those three weapons of war "adornments", he went on to say that the cavalry was still the war-winning weapon. An absolute idiot whose performance gave grim evidence of his ineptitude on a daily basis. But then the Civil War also had its share of high-ranking officers on both sides who were not worthy of command. Cheers!

@David McConville You may want to reconsider your opinion, he was indeed that stupid. I should have quoted him in full rather than just the one word, regardless, truly a wonder that he was considered fit to command Allied forces in France when all he was capable of leading was a few elderly gardeners with their implements . . . and even that would have taxed the dribbling old twat. Agree with you re: Passchendaele, but why stop there? The Somme was a blundering, murderous mess with an objective that even in its most positive light could only be described as asinine. But we're just beating up the old bloat now aren't we . . . Appreciated your comment, always a pleasure when one's musings are responded to so thoughtfully. Cheers!

I worked with the National Park Service at Gettysburg National Military Park as a park ranger and lived in one of the farm houses on the battlefield and was there everyday for 5 years over every inch of that battlefield, plus my co-workers lived in original homes and farm houses all over gettysburg that the NPS owns. I never met a single person who had a paranormal experience... yet visitors have them left and right. A friend of mine live in a home in downtown Gettysburg that was on the "Ghosts of Gettysburg" tour... group after group after group on this tour stopped in front of his home and hear the tales of ghost soldiers and past lives still there... yet my friend lived in that very house for 15 years and never saw or heard anything paranormal. The coolest thing I ever saw on the battlefield was a Hawk that swooped down into the Wheatfield and grabbed a mouse... and then perched on the 115th Pennsylvania Monument to consume the mouse.... now that was cool.

It was horrific. After the war, Ambrose Bierce delighted in writing stories that painted a gruesomely vivid picture of battle. Check him out. And if you can find it, see Henry Morton Stanley's first person account of what he experienced at Shiloh. That one battle was enough for him. How anyone survived mystifies me. Stanley chose to take himself out of combat by getting himself captured.

Read Rufus Dawes' book. It is outstanding

"You underestimate my power!" - General Lee

@William Crolley *Pickett

nobody asked you.

+Omg Zxrc No one asked for your opinion.

Glad he survived. My great great great grandfather served in the 29th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company B, Captain Thomas Robinson. Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville

+Nastrael Rowe yes mine served in a NJ regiment don't know which though

Rob Blake i'm glad your 3rd grandpa served Confederate army

Yes, I was also aghast at that blunder.

MrBobbyz24 Yes that was a key moment in the battle. I also noticed that the Round Tops got short shrift in this documentary. On the other hand I hardly ever hear about the fighting at Culp's Hill so it was good in that respect. There is a really good documentary series called "Civil War Combat". In the Gettysburg episode it is all about the fighting in the Wheatfield. The Wheatfield wasn't even mentioned in the movie (I think, it has been a while) but the scenes of Chamberlain at Little Round Top in the movie were awesome. Do you know if Colonel Vincent, the officer who placed Chamberlain at Little Round Top, survived the battle? It would be a shame if he didn't, IMO.

he died was killed

Absolutely agreed. I was waiting for Chamberlain to be mentioned at least but nothing

MrBobbyz24 not necessarily, while Little Round Top was an important position and the charge of the 20th Maine brave it was not a critical position. Culp's hill was critical it anchored cemetry Hill and if it fell the Union would have to withdrawl from Cemetry hill and ridge losing the high ground. The movie Gettysburg really exagerated Little Round tops importance.

Agreed It helped end slavery but at a massive loss of human life

Timothy Evans I know what you mean about when you mention being a civil war buff because you I am also a civil war buff however sometimes I see re-enactments sometimes I don’t but I still get to see a part of the American civil war and I see it in the stories of how the war impacted my ancestors and it impacted in 1major way and that way was serving in it and the first way that the war majorly impacted my ancestors is my ancestors fighting in it because I had 4 3rd great grand uncle’s and my 3rd great grandfather who served in the war and in order from oldest to youngest is my uncle Private William Henry Weikert who was in the ranks of a local cavalry unit that eventually became company b of the 21st Pennsylvania cavalry regiment and the only engagement that I know that he was in was a very underrated and overlooked skirmish that happened on June 26th 1863 and the skirmish was fought on the western and northeastern side of Gettysburg my next ancestor was Williams brother my 3rd great grandfather private Emanuel Weikert who served in the second organization of Company g 101st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment and even though he didn’t take part in the fighting he did tear up railroad tracks in the south however even though he didn’t fight in a battle he was a witness to the to the battle of Gettysburg as he was at his parents house with his wife and his first born daughter and son and he was also living with his parents because he was building his house when the battle happened however by the time of his death in 1927 he was famous as at the time of his death he was the oldest surviving civil war veteran in Adams county Pennsylvania. The last 3 of my ancestors to serve in the civil war are the 3 remaining of my 3rd great grand uncle’s after my grandfather Emanuel came my Uncle Sergeant George Washington shriver and he fought in company C 1st Potomac home brigade cavalry and out of my ancestors to serve in the war only he would not return as on January 1st 1864 he was captured at rectorstown Virginia by the 43rd Virginia cavalry battalion and my ancestor was sent to Andersonville prisoner of war camp where he sadly passed away however out of the engagements that he served in with his regiment the most famous one was the siege of harpers ferry and its the most famous one because during the night of September 13th 1862 the regiment my ancestor was in escaped from harpers ferry and cut through enemy lines and evaded capture however on their way to join the main body of the union army they captured confederate general James Longstreet’s ammunition train at a place where the bloodiest single day in American history would take place two days after the capture of the wagons. The next of my 3rd great grand uncle’s is my grandfather Emanuel’s little brother Private Levi George Weikert and he served in two enlistments one in the 21st Pennsylvania cavalry and one in the 165th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment however the last of my uncle’s to fight in the civil war was by far the bravest of my ancestors to serve and this ancestor of mine is my uncle George E Kitzmiller aka Jake Kitzmiller and he served in the ranks of Company K First Pennsylvania Reserves Infantry Regiment and unlike my other ancestors who were not in any major battles Jake was in a lot of major battles like the seven days battles, the battles of south mountain, Antietam,Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the wilderness, Spotsylvania court house, North Anna and his final battle cold harbor and he discharged with the rank of 1st Lieutenant however the war was not done with him yet as on June 22nd 1867 at the age of 26 the war department issued him a brevet promotion to captain to date March 13th 1865 for gallant and meritorious service in the wilderness campaign.

but he survived

yeah but that shit hurts

Twice as painful as getting shot

Col. Arthur Freemantle : [chuckles] That was ages ago. We wouldn't dream of doing it now. Cavaliers and Roundheads! Off with his head! Off with his head! just quoteing the movie Gettysburg lol.

Wow you're really old!

is that even possible????

@Keith Olsen I don't think that is possible. You would have to be at least 150 years old for that to be true. I think you made a mistake.

Sad thing is those children inspired the creation of an orphanage. One that sadly began to torture children for punishment I heard.

I'm not old, I'm actually a millennial.. 🙋‍♂️ But I've studied the Civil War some in grad school, and I've seen pictures of the original photo the real Amos carried.. which is why they were able to use a copy of the authentic photo for this reenactment. The *image* shown is real, not the paper it's printed on.., I figured that was obvious.. I'm not saying the actor here is holding the actual original photo, that would be absurd. I just thought it was a cool little touch and appreciated the attention to detail. 🇺🇸✌

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and the swinging door maneuver. He was quite a hero all through the war.

Chamberlain and his swinging dick slap move to the flank of the rebs !!!!!

I get the impression they were focusing on people in the battle who were maybe lesser known. Little Round Top did get a passing mention in this documentary, though.

Maybe not a rout, Mike, but different

Where my boy Joshua Chamberlain?

Kendalle Dunkle It was very informative and interestingly intense.

He did not

Lol

WW2 veteran mustard gas

How was it

Your Very Welcome!!

Ctv4history

thanks !

So am I - always have been. Fwiw, I was born and raised in the American deep south. Grateful for my family. Otherwise, I might've grown up to be like the hateful racists who flew the Confederate flag in my youth...who still do. Our country has many flaws, but there's still a light here.

I agree. This documentary doesn't really get in to many high level command decisions outside of Lee or Meade and focuses more on the rank and file. But without people like Buford, Reynolds, or Heth there wouldn't be a story to tell.

They don't even mention Chamberlin at all

They were trying to tell the lesser known events of Gettysburg

Buford and Chamberlain's stories are well known and featured in several other videos including Burns' Civil War and "Gettysburg" so why retell them here?

It occurred during the battle and seeing as how this is so long that was a good way to sum it up

You might add that he was an a recon mission beyond his own lines and when he (they) returned to their own lines the 18th NC hadn't post had been relieved and the replacements hadn't gotten the word. They thought it was Union cavalry and opened fire.

It was also 10 months long. The rate of casualties at Gettysburg was way higher.

Often the measure of mans achievements can be determined though the wars that are waged. Sad though it is war can bring out the best of man while also bringing out the worst in man. While peace is preferable to war, man becomes almost stagnant, while war seems to be the driving force for man to achieve great things.

More accurate comparison would be the first day of Somme during WW1 with over 50k casualties in a single day. And yet, that "push" took place about 53 years after this. Somehow, the military thinking lagged behind technology of that times seriously.

It was about trench warfare which was rare at the time

@Don White during the civil war, it was rare at the time to do trench warfare. That's why the shovel was considered rare. Before Gettysburg it was shoulder to shoulder and volley to volley. Outdated tactics with modern weapons

Watch the film

nothing on Buford's actions on Day 1, Longstreet on Day 2

Rahul Lodha And no songs either ........ and it describes itself as a musical.

Michael Igoe this isnt described as a musical...its a docudrama u silly goose.

Oh, right ! Thanks Matt :)

Sounds like you all know about those accounts. These are lesser known accounts.

It's a battle who's importance grew long after the battle and even the war had concluded...more in the mind's of the people than anything else. Strategically it didn't do all that much to significantly alter the war at the time. It was certainly not a Marathon or Teutoburg Forrest for the Confederacy or the Union in that its conclusion simply didn't have any discernable immediate decisive impact the way Marathon did for the Greeks or how Teutoburg Forrest completely shattered the sense of invincibility and inevitability that eventually Rome would subdue all of greater Germania whether it would take a few more years or a few more decades.

+akincomer blacks still mad somehow.

We have Trump bitch. Now who's salty?

Aqua Man You have a New York playboy trust fund draft dodger and you think you won?

Stephen Hoerst you realize south voted trump in. Nyers knew trumps bullshit way before he ran. (Not like Hillary was any better mind you ).

I think you guys left Caps Lock on.

Drew that’d be great actually

'Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Slayer'

Lol I remember those books

Brad Watson lol

*L O L* !!

I agree it plainly says that they had to retreat but they had no where to go or run and then they were pushed into town

this whole documentary is extremely biased

Apparently it was the largest battle ever fought in the western hemisphere........ Except at least four from the Napoleonic wars.

Smerferlerf, it’s the single bloodiest battle in US History (51112 casualties in total)

You could tell 2 mins in its biased to the North

Savage Wendigo, that would be the same as calling world war 2 documentary’s biased against the Nazis

produced by ridley scott and his brother

TheDeadlyMedley But had the south won, millions of men, women, and children would have remained enslaved. That is something you cannot deny. And while many didn't own slaves they didn't have any problem with it and post war treated them as 2nd class citizens. Why do you think Jim Crow and the KKK flourished in the south.

@Limpossible---you call it sad that people were chained, whipped, stolen, and all manner of atrocities leveled against them? This was our countries greatest sin that has produced all kinds of mental illnesses in our population.