Civil War Prisons - The Ugly Truth

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Civil War Prisons - The Ugly Truth

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Жыл бұрын

The misery and death that took place in Civil War prisons is the most tragic and least covered chapter of the war. So many men perished needlessly in vile prisons far from home as both heartless governments placed ideology over humanity. A Civil War prison proved to be much more deadly than a battlefield.

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@bobp5356 Жыл бұрын

This is the horrific part of the Civil War that no one every talks about. Thank you for making this great film.

@benjaminrush4443 Жыл бұрын

Excellent Tribute to those men mistreated on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Thank you.

@Kickyourass484 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the surge of mental hospitals built after the war. Macon, Georgia ended up with a mental hospital. Many families would drop former soldiers off at the mental hospital and abandon them. These men were buried behind the Macon hospital and many without a monument. God rest their souls.

@Kickyourass484 Жыл бұрын

I meant that the Hospital was the Milledgville, Georgia insane asylum. This hospital had been established in 1837 and was used by veterans after the war.

@travisbayles870 Жыл бұрын

Amen

@clifforddriver9434 Жыл бұрын

Every one of them are truly American heroes, the place where you reside should be the only land to defend.

@pattyconley4096 Жыл бұрын

I was trying to research PTSD in the Civil War to compare the treatment with my dad's PTSD from WWII. Unfortunately, I only found one book written on it and discovered several different things. The poor vets often drank in excess and turned mean. Many committed suicide, some were labeled cowards, others were labeled idiots. This was in part due to the barrage of artillery. Basically we lost the survivors just as surely as we lost those killed. I would love to know if there are more books outthere on this subject.

@DavidSmith-sf4rl 5 ай бұрын

I was also studying PTSD throughout the past. I’ve found some short articles and books covering the crusades, civil war and world wars 1-2 plus Vietnam. It’s a big topic for my family. All the best to you.

@elaines424 Жыл бұрын

Excellent and held my interest through to the end. Learned a large part of the Civil War that was never taught in school nor spoke about. This is one short film that will stay with me.

@susanmeyer2742 Жыл бұрын

It's certainly to haunt me! I for years now have taught my kids of "the atrocities of war"

@suzieaustin.5905 Жыл бұрын

Same here. I have been watching the Holocaust. My parents didn't talk about. My dad family was lucky to get out. Some of his family was not so lucky.🕊️🕊️ suzie from Puyallup Washington.

@laurie1536 Жыл бұрын

Man and his never ending penchant for brutality. I can't even imagine the suffering these prisoners experienced.

@susanmeyer2742 Жыл бұрын

Let's pray we or our children and so on will never have to live this

@tomobedlam297 Жыл бұрын

The women would shame their men into the ranks. If any able-bodied man was seen in civilian clothing they would scold him and present him a white feather for cowardice.

@lyedavide Жыл бұрын

The greater tragedy is the fact that no lessons were learnt. Nothing has changed. Those in power still throw the lives of their people onto the pyre of war. May God dispense with the souls of such men to the eternal suffering of Hell that they so richly deserve.

@celticpridedrums Жыл бұрын

well said--you are a poet.

@carywest9256 4 ай бұрын

Listen to the lyrics of War Pigs by Black Sabbath. And your eyes will be opened by the instigators of all corruption and wars. Never realized until when l started participanting in living history reenactments. Then it all came to light. A lightbulb clicked on in my head!

@catholiccrusader5328 Жыл бұрын

All people should realize that governments by their very nature don't give a rat's a** for their people. 💀👿

@patrickryan1515 Жыл бұрын

How very clear that has become in recent years.

@dsxa918 Жыл бұрын

This is a sad video, all around, I just watched one about slaves of any kind, under some title like Irish Slaves, that I'd hav3 to look up to fully recollect - this was in the suggested videos, below. Together, theyre immensely sobering and at times truly unnerving to imagine in mind.

@hsserry5289 Жыл бұрын

They shall reap (now) what they sow in 1865! 😊

@Terry9624 Жыл бұрын

Family members on both sides of this war, yes we agree

@Gwizz1337 Жыл бұрын

Exactly, unless it benifits them in some fashion, they will toss you aside and hope all others forget about you as well. Brittnay was only released because political rats found it beneficial to themselves.

@randym9147 Жыл бұрын

Wow... I learned a lot about the Civil War tonight. Very grim, and sobering. Thank you.

@tercuman7374 Жыл бұрын

Damn all those leaders, North and South, that deserted their captured soldiers.. Northern leaders deliberately starved their prisoners and abandoned their own soldiers captured. That is embarrassing and a black mark on the US government.

@patrickryan1515 Жыл бұрын

One black mark camouflaged by so many other black marks.

@tercuman7374 Жыл бұрын

@@patrickryan1515 Agreed!

@lawrencemay8671 Жыл бұрын

They always talk of Andersonville. But there were many Union Prisons just as cruel

@travishendrix7026 Жыл бұрын

I'm a Southerner, a 5 time Son of The Confederacy. My grandfather was sent to Elmira for 13 months. He left a detailed journal of his experience there. This is one of the first close to fair observations I have seen on this topic. Yanks, we're not retaliating against the South for harms done. They sought out death for our men by design. I appreciate your video. Many thanks.

@stevefanslow3530 Жыл бұрын

Maby for history , you should publish it.

@piushalg8175 Жыл бұрын

Such a shame, particularly for the Northeners who had enough means to treat prisoners decently. And of course, being victorious, the responsible criminals were not held accountable.

@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын

Lots of corruption by No. Vendors who were supposed to supply p r isioner chow-cut corners to pocket $,as many defense companies do today,world- wide,!

@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын

I agree completely. From what I heard in this presentation, it sounds like Grant should have absolutely been one of the ones charged...he wasn't merely incompetent, unable to provide for Southern prisoners, or even just indifferent towards them but was willfully malicious towards them while in captivity. And he saw his own prisoners as things to be discarded and forgotten about, instead of men who were brothers in arms and in need of rescue with his attitude of "They are no benefit for our war effort now so they'll just be left to their fate".

@alanaadams7440 Жыл бұрын

There was no budget for POWS on either side. There was no foresight on how to feed clothe and give medical help to the prisoners there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides

@patrickryan1515 Жыл бұрын

And yet 1M plus was returned unused after the war.

@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын

@patrick ryan It was actually nearly double that and it was from just a commander of ONE Union prison camp. The fact that Union camps had the means and ability to take better care of their prisoners and just refused to do so is particularly horrifying.

@timinla64 Жыл бұрын

There was also one final tragedy. On April 27 1865, the sidewheeler Sultana exploded near Memphis killing over 1100 union POW’S after their release from Andersonville and Cahaba. “Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony”. - Morpheus/1999

@johnccargill4665 Жыл бұрын

It was no civil war as such but a war of separation. Lincoln's personal war.

@davidduff5123 Жыл бұрын

Finally! A fair treatment of such a horrible time in our history. For once an honest person has presented that Elmira Eason par with Andersonville and gave honor to those who survive bed prison but succumbed to sickness after the war ended. My g- g- great grandfather all the battles of N GA only to be captured at the Battle of Nashville. He died in an Ohio POW camp less than a month after Lee’s surrender, never being repatriated to GA soil. You did a great job on this video, sir. I applaud you.

@jimmyraythomason1 Жыл бұрын

My gggrandfather, a private from Georgia, was captured at the 2nd battle of Deep Bottom (aka Fussel's Mill) was sent to Point Lookout, Md in August 1864. He was exchanged in October 1864 and died in hospital at Richmond, Va where he is buried at Hollywood Cemetery there.

@Firefighter_Matt Жыл бұрын

Good and yet selfish at the same time. When we think civil war only ours in the USA comes to mind. Genocide happens to this day in many countries that are over beliefs and will never stop. Many civil wars have happened since ours that were far worse but what comes to mind when say civil war? Only the American civil war.

@travisbayles870 Жыл бұрын

Salute from Alabama to your brave ancestor

@christinagiagni3578 Жыл бұрын

hellmira

@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын

@Matt And? The same will be true for pretty much any citizen mentioning the "civil war" in their own country.

@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

@lw47646 Ай бұрын

Interesting. Was she one of the people who searched for gold on their land?

@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.

@bobburnitt5761 Жыл бұрын

One of my ancestors, William Lovell Zachary, was born in Kentucky, he was the only ancestor I have that was a soldier of the Union Army, the rest were in the CSA. He was captured in Tennessee, and was sent to the Andersonville Prison Camp. He was there the entire run of the Camp, about 18 months. He did survive of course. Interestingly, almost as soon as he was released, he made his way to Texas. He is buried in Lockhart Texas. You know, this happens in EVERY WAR. When one group of militants surrenders, instantly you have a huge problem. Where do you put them? All anyone can do is build a FENCE, a Corral, and pen them up. You have Ten Thousand men surrender, you immediately have a HUGE PROBLEM, where do you put them? War is HELL........in many ways. A Civil War is the worst War.

@eddief9959 11 ай бұрын

Andersonville was opened for 14 months. Not 18 months.

@bobburnitt5761 11 ай бұрын

@@eddief9959 You are correct, February 1864 to April 1865, I don't know how I got it was 18 months, Thank You for the correction!!! BB

@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!

@nemomarcus5784 Жыл бұрын

I am always amazed at those who survived such atrocities when most succumb to death.

@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.

@deweywallace6314 Ай бұрын

Excellent video. I had three ancestors imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD. Two died, and the third only escaped by joining the Union army and becoming a Galvanized Soldier. As bad as Elmira was, many consider Point Lookout or Camp Hoffman to be just as bad or worse.

@Sgtklark Жыл бұрын

One thing I never understood was why neither side would exchange disabled prisoners. They were likely to take up arms again, and the burden for feeding and caring for them would be born by their nations. With less prisoners each side would have been better able to feed those they kept. In the novel Andersonvile, there were a lot of soldiers there who had lost a limb. They were no threat to the Confederacy, so why not send them home, where their presence might actually lessen the thirst for war.

@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын

The North realized that swapping was aiding the South much more than not doing so as the S had very few " spare" men,while the North's population was millions more

@Sgtklark Жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-rn5tb Sending crippled CSA vets back south wouldn't have benefited the south, or sending crippled yankees north. I can see sending able-bodied men would have been a problem, particularly for the north. Actually, sending south crippled vets would have put a burden on the south, but they couldn't very well refuse them. I can see, also, that the south being unwilling to trade, one for one, black soldiers to the north was a problem.

@gogrape9716 Жыл бұрын

Both Stalin and Hitler used these types of institutions...

@lendir1 Жыл бұрын

A great, great uncle, died of dysentery a few of months after the war. He was admitted to a hospital in Washington after being released from a southern prison, not sure which one, I have to do a little more digging to find that out.

@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын

More soldiers died of disease than gunfire- that man was a hero regardless!!

@johnfisher228 Жыл бұрын

My Great Great Grandfather Pvt. John N. Sutton, 18th NC Co A, died at Elmira Sept. 13th, 1864.

@Kickyourass484 Жыл бұрын

Grant was ruthless. His buddy Sherman even more. My gg grandfather was captured by Sherman forces near Macon, Georgia in 1864. Sherman released these prisoners upon them taking oath back to the USA. When my gg grandfather got back home near Franklin, Tennessee, the neighbors thought him a traitor even though he'd been fighting at places like Chickamauga since 1861. He fought for Tennessee rights.

@alanaadams7440 Жыл бұрын

There is nothing fair about War

@thomasjamison2050 Жыл бұрын

Sherman was more ruthless than Grant, but Sherman let you ggg go home on his own word. Something wrong here with your thinking. Truth is, Grant let southern soldiers he captured in the South go home because most of them weren't worth a damn as soldiers.

@frankwilson536 Жыл бұрын

@@thomasjamison2050 Something wrong with your thinking.

@thomasjamison2050 Жыл бұрын

@@frankwilson536 Something wrong with your history. Grant made that comment in his autobiography. If he thought they would have made good soldiers that he might need to worry about, he would have sent them North to prison.

@fastsetinthewest Жыл бұрын

@@thomasjamison2050 Saw your comment. Explain the policy by the Union government not allowing prisoner exchanges? I laughed at your comment. It took a much larger Union Army to subdue the Southern Army. Hahahaha. Myself, I had gg grandfathers fight on both sides.

@travisbayles870 Жыл бұрын

One of my Confederate ancestors perished at the terrible Northern prison at Camp Douglas Illinois

@joeeverett9775 3 ай 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.

@haroldrupert4957 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this deeply moving documentary .

@jorgecruzseda7551 Жыл бұрын

ALL WARS ARE HELL

@Seacheroftruth Жыл бұрын

Only for the soldiers. It's heaven to the weapons sellers. Worse yet...the asshats that start them (your government and mine!) push for them to happen. Oh, they'll sell you stories of "freedom and liberty," then make sure you stay their slave. Paying taxes endlessly to keep themselves and weapons manufacturers in the black. Yes. War is hell.

@johnccargill4665 Жыл бұрын

The south saught prisoner exchanges but Lincoln and Grant resisted. Check the book to die in Chicago about camp douglas.

@frankluna8069 Жыл бұрын

Yes they did and it was because of numbers the north had more soldiers so not exchanging them hurt the south more

@johnjohnon8767 Жыл бұрын

As I remember it the south wanted to keep slavery. The war was in the making for decades. Both sides moved to territories about to become states to influence its views. The south seceded the union and attacked. Battles were won, and there were those that were captured. Paroles were conducted and some of the parolees went home and rejoined the fight. Grant said no more. I imagine after hearing stories of treatment, both sides could be vindictive. Out of this conflict, slavery was ended, maybe not immediately though. People fought for what they believed in,bottom line. A thought , what if the war never happened. What would be today's history be? It is a shame that an issue/issues couldn't be settled in a peaceful way, but it happend, cant change that. Or erase it either, though some will try for multiple reasons.

@boss42971 Жыл бұрын

Although slavery was a component of the war, it wasn't the primary cause of it. The primary cause was the same as every other war, money and power.

@wankertanker1813 Жыл бұрын

@David Money to be made off the power of controlling other people via enslaving them. Slavery and the nonsense of white supremacy was what the confederacy stood for and why they seceded.

@jodeenichols8509 Жыл бұрын

By freeing slaves to fight we beat the South, Mexico, Indians. Louisiana Purchase. Bought Alaska. REPUBLIC OF USA secured.

@alanaadams7440 Жыл бұрын

War takes the humanity out of people

@normanpotts3169 Жыл бұрын

I've been to Andersonville. It's a very sobering place

@jodynunley6447 Жыл бұрын

Just another politicians war!

@patrickryan1515 Жыл бұрын

And it wasn't even all about slavery.

@fonziebulldog5786 Жыл бұрын

If thats true why was the slaves released of their chains when the war ended.

@jfbft5007 Жыл бұрын

From what I’ve read, Elmira Eason hasn’t really been equal to Andersonville. Andersonvill was terrible because south hav'nt food for prisonners, in Elmira, the northerners would have voluntarily starved their prisoners out of revenge towards Andersonville. the result is the same, the absolute horror, but the will to do seems very different. but i am not a specialist and i appreciate the fair treatment of th history.

@boss42971 Жыл бұрын

And that is the difference. Southerners were struggling to feed themselves so they had little to give the northern prisoners. The north limited rations to prisoners out of spite.

@bettygossell3408 8 ай бұрын

I have 2 great uncles who were in Andersonville. Only 1 survived, but he went home with chronic health problems.

@pappydanny58 Жыл бұрын

Brought to you by Abraham Lincoln

@michellekrueger5122 Жыл бұрын

Yes just one of the many government officials...from the North and the South!🤔😡

@christinaadams1235 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather died as a pow in the civil war.

@dustins.97 Жыл бұрын

from ohio and can say there is quite a few civil war memorials even though we arent a battle ground but some kids from modern wars my age get highways named after them. im not ashamed im proud to be an american and ohioan

@ernestoemerson3838 Жыл бұрын

Patton had it right... I don't want you to die for your country, I want you to make the other guy die for his country! Forget decency and humanity in war. The idea is to anihilate your enemy, not kiss and makeup after horrendous carnage and destruction! Forget honor and glory! Just a thought

@morganottlii2390 Жыл бұрын

The South provided what they could, but the North was malicious in their neglect. The end of exchange/parole brought on the misery of the POW camp system. Was a sad and dark time in our history, but at least by WW2 we had learned to take a higher road. I've heard of many German POW's that were sent to our homeland to work on farms that produced the food for our Military, and from the stories, they were treated well and fed like any other farm help. Made for an interesting life for the farmers who were assigned to "look after" the POW's in their care.

@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.

@robertbenedict4668 Жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work...

@jaybee9269 Жыл бұрын

Stanton was one of the great historical a**holes.

@johnelliott7375 Жыл бұрын

A few northern leaders should have been punished!

@Rebelartist83 Жыл бұрын

I had ancestors on both sides and some end up at Andersonville I believe but I know all military prison was bad especially on the home front my relative was in a place called Johnsonville I think it was called his name was Enoch able Mathis a umc pastor can't say I like he fought for the south I'm in Tx but I'd definitely share union sympathies but still sad both sides had no winners when it came to lives and families ect

@fredbielawski2600 Жыл бұрын

Have we learned anything or do we just repeat history?

@steveib724 Жыл бұрын

This cemetery close by and very emotional 😢 when passing by 🇺🇸

@georges3799 Жыл бұрын

Seems the nazis learned a thing or two about prisoner of war camps from Americans.

@1943Grandpa Жыл бұрын

The Allies destroyed the food supply. Yes! America taught them! America starved tens of thousands of German civilians, women and children, to death after the war was over. An American tradition!

@georges3799 Жыл бұрын

@@1943Grandpa Hilter and anyone following him bear the responsibility of what happened to Germany and her people.

@williamrobinson827 Жыл бұрын

You're probably confusing German POW camps with concentration camps. Of course, the concentration camps were brutal and very few survived. How POW's were treated depended on the nationalities. The Germans treated American, French, and Commonwealth servicemen fairly well and a high percentage survived (although "Hogan's Heroes" didn't paint a realistic picture.) The Germans were much crueler to the Soviet POW's. And the reverse was also true. The Soviets were extremely cruel to German POW's. Most were never repatriated after the war. They were used as slave laborers until their death. And of course, the Japanese were particularly cruel to their POW's.

@1943Grandpa Жыл бұрын

@@williamrobinson827 I am not confusing anything. Our prisoner of war camps were calculated evil. There was no justification for the United States purposely starving German women and children, by withholding available food. Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Stalin, and Eisenhower were all war criminals as evil, or more evil than anyone of that time and place. Actually, Stalin was the most evil.

@1943Grandpa Жыл бұрын

@@georges3799 Russia and England started the war. Never mind global Jews declaring war on germany in 1934

@thelivingbranch Жыл бұрын

not much has changed in history we are still getting screwed

@therealkevan8158 Жыл бұрын

I had a great Uncle who was murdered by the union soldiers at the rock island concentration camp

@michellekrueger5122 Жыл бұрын

Imagine how many family tree's were cut down, in a hail of gun fire, how many blood- lines ,soaked into the earth....how many never born...all for this war!💥💥💥☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️😭😭😭😭 ☠️☠️☠️ COUNTLESS ☠️☠️☠️

@clifforddriver9434 Жыл бұрын

I could see dying during war only in defense of my own country, and no where else.

@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын

Great original song in the intro!!

@kentstone319 Жыл бұрын

I went to Andersonville in the mid 80 s .... most of us the visitors cried.

@appalachianwoman561 Жыл бұрын

Very good video on a subject few people cover. Btw I wonder if you and I aren't possibly related, my maternal grandfather was a Wilson, I'm related to Mildred Wilson who was the mother of actor James Dean as well. We might be cousins possibly, either way this is a very good video and Greetings from southwest Virginia, I had family whom fought on both sides during the Civil War.

@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 10 ай бұрын

Terrible fact : a 15 year old Union soldier and a 16 year old Union soldier were held at Andersonville

@heathperry2835 Жыл бұрын

Why would anyone fight for either side. I would have went west as far as possible

@Firefighter_Matt Жыл бұрын

As opposed to worldwide civil wars? This makes those seem like roses. To add some context to the title.

@janetwebb2701 Жыл бұрын

Those who forget history are Doomed to repeat it. Forgetting the harsh politics that used the slavery as a linchpin to press forward control of open winter Ports and overland commercial trade touted has examples this. My own maternal great great grandfather perished in a Union POW camp.

@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын

What ARE u saying,actually?Harsh politics?? U mean being against slavery?Linchpin- WTF??The North controlled more roads/ rails,as they were more industrialized!And I thought you " Rebs",now and then want " States Rights"- sorry u can't have it both ways?

@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын

@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.

@natsski9003 Жыл бұрын

Heh sounds like the government we need help guys come fight for us, die for us, and if you get captured yeah we're not doing shit you're on your own.. I'm surprised they didn't switch sides hell.

@guydegregg8555 Жыл бұрын

As heart wrenching as this is, we have legislators today clamoring for a repeat of this tragedy because of a sore loser, and the want to hide the truth.

@christoduplessis8177 Жыл бұрын

If you are only going to blame one side you are as much part of that problem as those you point towards. Both sides have to do a lot better.

@fattonycapaldi8743 Жыл бұрын

We will be shipped off to Ukraine to be killed for the politicians money washing operation before a civil war happens imho.

@chuckrobinson599 Жыл бұрын

@@christoduplessis8177 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you people never cease to make me laugh. On the one side you have a bully, on the other, a group who just wants to be left alone. Some how both are at fault. 😂😂😂😂😂 You cannot peacefully coexist, with people who intend to make you thier punk.

@christoduplessis8177 Жыл бұрын

@@chuckrobinson599 what an asinine approach. Guess it says everything we need to know about you. But since I am neither om the Dem\progressive side or the Rep\conservative side please come again with your child minded interpretation...

@MJanovicable Жыл бұрын

@@chuckrobinson599 As we all know today, Ft. Sumter fired on itself, and it was all a false flag populated with actors. In fact, the entire American Civil War was an illusion to trick the gullible. You lost, dumbo.

@stuffnva Жыл бұрын

Excellently researched and presented except at 17:58 "at the turn of the 19th century" should be the turn of the 20th century.

@Rebelartist83 Жыл бұрын

In Grayson county Texas a union soldier ended up living there and he's buried in Denison pretty interesting and my town Denton Texas has a monument to both sides dedicated in 1918 and recently had to put a plack in front of it explaining it and how it's not a monument to racism...some oversensitive snowflake crybabies said it was so now we have a plack convoluting the original powerfulness and meaning of the statue it was more understandable without the plack but whatever

@JohnSmith-rn5tb Жыл бұрын

Just remember that EACH SECEEDING STATE MENTIONED SLAVERY AS A REASON TO LEAVE UNION-IN THEIR SECESSION STATEMENTS- SORRY,FACTS NOT EXCUSES!!

@dannypalmer7701 2 ай бұрын

I dont see the Goverment crying at funerals! 😂😂

@haywoodyoudome Жыл бұрын

Too few want to admit it but there wouldn't have been a civil war if we picked our own cotton.

@boss42971 Жыл бұрын

Well that wasn't why the war was started but okay.

@charlieb3943 Жыл бұрын

No human being should be owned by anyone and the price will be paid if you think otherwise

@Poordirtfarmer Жыл бұрын

👍🏼👀👍🏼

@patrick8904 Жыл бұрын

Some times the real truth hurts eh

@robertesposito9871 Жыл бұрын

WOW !!

@coltsjason Жыл бұрын

I agree the south should have released them if they couldn't feed them but in a way what the north did was worse they could have fed and clothed the pows didn't

@Revolver1701 3 ай бұрын

What role did Confederate refusal to take black soldiers prisoner of war have on the exchange?

@josephf.wilson2747 3 ай 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

@user-mz1sp3wi9b Жыл 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.wilson2747 Жыл 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.

@robertesposito9871 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like your talking about current events

@johnelliott7375 Жыл бұрын

These monuments are nothing to do anything for the families that were robbed of their members lives due to a few men who should have been punished for their crimes 3I bet my last penny that the Lord did so. God bless you all!

@davidkimmel4216 Жыл бұрын

Interesting

@davidkolaga8489 Жыл бұрын

Allow me to recommend the book Andersonville by McKinlay Cantor

@patrickryan1515 Жыл бұрын

What of REPARATIONS for the descendants of these prisoners?

@williamrobinson827 Жыл бұрын

Why??? I had ancestors that fought on both sides. Some may have died in prison camps, but I'm not sure. I'm saddened by the inhumanity of the POW camps, but I have not suffered any damages due to the deaths or mistreatment of any ancestors over 150 years ago. So why should I receive reparations? And how would it be possible? Suppose that an ancestor of mine died in Andersonville. Who would pay the reparations? The responsible party, the Confederate States of America ceased to exist as soon as the war ended. This makes even less sense than reparations to the descendants of slaves.

@Zickcermacity Жыл бұрын

0:01 - I. WANT. THAT. SONG!!!!!! 😭😭❤️

@josephf.wilson2747 Жыл бұрын

Do you really?? Or do you just like it?

@Zickcermacity Жыл бұрын

@@josephf.wilson2747 Both! And stupid fucking Shit-sam couldn't ID Happy Birthday, let alone your song!

@Zickcermacity Жыл бұрын

Shit-ZAM that is

@timeversman9804 Жыл бұрын

Whoever this affected needs reparations.

@robertschweppenhauser9891 Жыл бұрын

Why didn't they swop prisoners out ....answer to the prisoner ...FOOLS THE LOT OF THEM .😢

@nomdeguerre7265 Жыл бұрын

Grant refused any exchange that did not treat all US soldiers equally. This video entirely overlooks the racial aspect of Grant's refusal to exchange prisoners. Prior to enlistment of substantial numbers of black Union soldiers exchanges were common. It was only after the Confederacy refused to treat black US soldiers equally that Grant ended all exchanges.

@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

@johnelliott7375 Жыл бұрын

The answer to the Poor Christian nurse, is no the answer is that of people who have no soul and God has Judged them for I as bad as I like to can not and will not leaving it to the man who can this only son.

@danny5743 Жыл бұрын

What war they tore down south statues, so the men died for nothing

@Underledge Жыл бұрын

Perhaps the 'respect' given to President Lincoln should be dampened.

@procrastinator6902 Жыл бұрын

I agree and have long thought this to be true. I hate how he is talked about in histories of America and the time period as some kind of 19th century Santa Claus.

@michaeldesilvio221 Жыл бұрын

They were originally star cities star forts? His story is not our story. 🤥

@jamesdellaneve9005 Жыл бұрын

It was, what is was. Get over it. We freed the slaves, saved the union.

@boss42971 Жыл бұрын

"It was, what is was. Get over it. .... saved the union." said every domestic abuser ever

@jamesdellaneve9005 Жыл бұрын

@@boss42971 Logic?

@boss42971 Жыл бұрын

@@jamesdellaneve9005 Image a marriage where the the woman is subjected to repeated emotional abuse. One day she decides to finally leave and then husband beats her up and threatens to kill her if she tries to leave again. Is it really still a voluntary and healthy union?

@jamesdellaneve9005 Жыл бұрын

@@boss42971 I thought that this was a history video. Or are you attempting an allegory?