Guess I'm from an unusual family: at least I used to think so, since we're white, from Alabama and have always been glad for the Union victory. Our maternal grandparents witnessed and resisted racism long before 'woke' was an insult. Without their morals and influence, who knows? Would I be one of the people who worships Confederate memorabilia and uses racial epithets? Looking to history for lessons can help, but only if all of the truth is told: now there are those fighting hard to deny that. For all her flaws, America had a light once. May we survive the scary days ahead. God bless.

Thank you so very much

Thank you

Grant’s presidency was filled with corruption. He should never have entered politics.

I’d be happy with someone who can handle a flight of stairs

Your a nitwit grant is war crimanel

@@italadamwest As American citizens it’s our duty to be informed on issues and not be distracted by sensationalist media showing Tommy Tuberville tumbling down some steps. There are reasons to dislike the man’s policies, in particular his obstruction of the operation of our military in times such as these - but falling down a flight of stairs has no relevance to his qualifications as a Senator.

Grant in the White House? He's already had 2 terms but he pre-dates the 22 amendment by only a 130 years, so no problems there I think. But good grief man! Your problem with the current crop of cadavers is that they're not old enough? 😜

Then I assume you were not in favor of what hapoened at our capital on 1-6.

It's pretty obvious you have no clue as to what happened at our Capital on 1/6...

You every see the video the old CW vets dancing and shaking hands. It was in the 1940.s reunion.. Sad That slavery happened. What led to the civil war.. It was nice to see union and confederate soliders. Shaking hands at ther old age...

Racist loser so

Fact that most Southerners were not fighting for slavery but protecting their own homes.

@@73beetle19 agreed. He and his brothers who made it came home to burned farms and homes. Yankees destroyed and stole- everything.

Dumbass lost causers.

the James ? It was thought to be impossible, before Grant did it. Laid a pontoon bridge nearly a half mile long across in 8 hours His entire army took four days to cross. But as soon as he crossed the James, it was a matter of time before the war was over

USA is a Constitutional REPUBLIC! The Constitution Protocol REQUIRES that ALL Elected State Representatives to PARTICIPATE, in the LAW making PROCESS! And for the Congress to make a LAW : 63% of that 100% States Elected Representatives have to VOTE the SAME WAY. At NO TIME in Abraham Lincolns' Presidency, did he have all 100% of the States Representatives participation. So how was Abraham Lincoln able ever to ever MAKE LAW? Since the USA is a Constitutional REPUBLIC: There is 3 branches of Government: The executive Branch/ President has NO POWER, Only the Congress does! And the President is the LAST to read a Bill and approve it, if he signs the BILL... Abraham Lincoln was a Dictator! Trying to change the USA from a "Constitutional REPUBLIC" to a "Democracy" for only the MAJORITY to Rule. Fully knowing that the The North Eastern States would always hold the MAJORITY, due to population... "States Rights!" The omission, of Factual History that is NOT being presented, to give the current narrative, is overwhelmingly SAD! Lest Americans forget they were Americans in a Constitutional REPUBLIC! That the disagreements are to be addressed in the Congress and RESOLVED..By the Congress. For the GOOD of ALL AMERICANS! ONCE AGAIN WHAT DID THEY WIN! Economic collapse and Starvation? For all it's people. Some American Families lived it.

Dream on. The war of attrition took its toll on the south. Lack is what caused the defeat of the Confederacy-lack of soldiers, lack of food, lack of money....

Grant put the ANV into a submission hold and made Lee tap out.

Grant showed and gave Lee great compassion and empathy. Grant Respected Lee. To me, that speaks volumes on Grants behalf. 💯

Dude sounds like a TideWater Elmer Fud. 😂🤣

He sounds like he needs speech therapy 😅

Robert E Lee was almost 60 years old, had broken both his hands and had a heart attack at Gettysburg. And Robert E Lee fought through some of the most brutal Warfare seen in the Western Hemisphere. Don't even compare wooden teeth musket firing George Washington to the Civil War. What are you even talking about ?

Not to mention Lee had no men, because the Civil War had killed every able-bodied male in the south. These men fought through some of the most vicious Warfare ever seen up until that time. And the South had no more men to give

I agree. Lee needed to buy time and hope the north got tired of the bloodshed and the costs of the war. I think he should have tried harder to keep his army in tact. Just my humble opinion.

@@rayward3630 George Washington lost more battles than he won, but he held out long enough for France and Spain to see his potential and so joined his cause, Lee should of avoided major engagements with the Union, keep his army intact long enough for Britain and France to see his potential to fight off the Union, one mistake he made was Gettysburg, he went in when Longstreet told him to redeploy in a better position more closer to Washington DC but Lee I think felt invincible after Chancellorsville.

Which is why I think s.w. Jackson was so successful. He kept his army always moving. If he were to lose a city, then he was willing to let them have it after inflicting as manu casualties as he could before leaving it, but always keeping his army intact. Much in how the n. Vietnamese peoples fought the u.s. the Americans would arrive to take a hill, the nva would inflict as many casualties as possible, then slip away in the night. If the south ever wanted a chance at victory, they should have adopted guerilla tactics or kept to the defensive. The march into Pennsylvania imo was Lee's largest blunder followed by an even worse one...going on the attack while at Gettysburg.

Thanks

Shaving was a lot harder to do back then

@@GrantDWilliams82 Before the war many of these great bearded men were clean shaven, J.E.B Stuart one of them, look it up.

Size

Grant early in the war had a epic beard. His wife made him trim it to its famous

@@GrantDWilliams82 He had a weak chin and boyish looks, so he grew his famous beard to hid his features.

I like to say that Lee failed when he chose state over country...that's being a traitor.

@@jessecaple170 He stood for his homeland. It’s hard to grasp that today. There’s no honor today like the past.

@@73beetle19 his homeland was for a 'lost cause' - preservation of slavery

@@grindle1857 Like everyone had a slave back then. It was always a rich thing and they were democrat. The the rest of the people fought for their homeland . They didn’t have the convenience of internet like they do today.

@@73beetle19 they fought as their elitist plantation owners wanted them to do

There's a song in there somewhere.

He reckon he felt invincible after chancellorsville.

Ego is a dangerous thing. It gets people killed.@@shanebell2514

how come washington never fell, being almost encircled by lee?

The current administration doesn't understand the importance of those men and are finishing the job radical anti American leftist started. Just wait until Shermam, Grant, and Lincoln statues are removed.

There's nothing great about the United States, it has stolen everything it has from the Native Americans and murdered and lied to them to get it. Go to a Lakota reservation and see what they think about your precious United States, you won't get the attitude you want.

I bet you have to squat to urinate.

@@davidmuir7711Idiot

Amen

Our pleasure!

I second that!

What does one of the 2,800 man-made gods of History have to do with Lee or Virginia Tech?

​@PaulCaden How about you leave your atheistic opinion out of this conversation?

I've always wondered if Hancock hadn't been wounded, and Reynolds not have been killed, would Lee's army have successfully been able to retreat to Virginia. Hancock and Reynolds were two of Meade's best and most agressive Generals. I think they might have sucessfully urged Meade to quickly follow Lee and destroy the Army of Northern Va before they could get across the Rappahanok River to Virginia. I'm not faulting Meade, he was just new in command, and had conflicting orders from DC. He saw his job was to keep his army together and keep it between Lee and Washington.

He was General (Commander) for the 21st Illinois Infantry Regiment

traitors.... :)

Exactly

Unlike what happened at Vicksburg, Lee was never isolated at Petersburg & Richmond. There were rail lines open for logistical support. Confederates could load supplies into wagons, and bypass blocked rail lines. In September, 1864, a raiding party lassoed 2,500 Cattle which helped too.

Thank you very much. I've fixed it.... and checking the others

And then the graveyard of the whole CONFEDERACY

The Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to the Army of the Potomac IN VIRGINIA. 👈

Not my words, guys, but of a Yankee.

@@jacksons1010 : Not before we put so many of yours in red Virginia dirt….for four years. Cute pic of a racist, antisemitism, genocidal maniac, though.

The Army of the Potomac returned to Washington for a grand parade and it’s survivors returned home to great glory. The ANV was soundly defeated with its soldiers straggling home in disgrace. The AoTP dead rest in Virginia I’m honored glory under the flag of the victorious United States. If Virginia is the graveyard of anything. It’s that of the Confederate dream of independence.

Because their whole worldview was the blacks were inferior.

Who says slave would even fight for them, even uneducated slaves aren't that stupid.

They say it was the Northern Railroads that ultimately won the war

No one would dispute that the South had the better Generals

The Revolutionary War would have been lost except for the intervention of France; so the Confederate States of America lost the war without that foreign aid the colonies had received

And so the moral of the story is: don't fall prey to the decadence that so easily besets a nation of hegemony... The tables may turn quickly

Unless you're sure you have a NATO type alliance behind you; but even then I'd be weary

No country that so heavily exploited slave labor for economic production will *ever* be considered “great”

Most southern founding fathers were pretty loyal to the crown and a majority became federalists after the war idk what you’re talking about

Yeah wtf are you talking about ? 😅

Really, genius?? Because Lee ordering Pickett to charge was pretty stupid. Or Malvern Hill where he ordered repeated attacks on the Federal Lines that cost him 5600 men? And the Union 3000?? Or maybe the way he lost at Spotsylvania, when he thought that Grant had no more stomach for fighting and was retreating. She he pulled his artillery out. Instead Grant attacked the next morning, slaughtering the Confederates , and completely overran the Muleshoe??

Grant was the superior strategist as he understood the importance of the western theater and moving all the armies against the Confederates at once. He further understood that Richmond was not the target but the Confederate armies. He and his other Generals were ultimately successful not through just attrition but through brilliant strategies

But they did not win

I mean with forces at equal strength or slightly larger Grant halted Albert Sidney Johnstons/Beauregards attack at Shiloh. And then with reinforcements counterattacked and routed Beauregards army. Another fact is war isn’t meant to be fair the south was out manned, outgunned, and had a economy and industry that was dwarfed by the northern economy. The only reason the Confederacy lasted as long as it did was because Lincoln had to find the right commanders for the various armies and because England basically floated the southern army with arms and equipment. Lee was a good commander and did the best he could but ultimately he failed at his task as did the other southern generals.

All of those generals that you mentioned fought to continue an evil. That is a black mark against all of them and reduces their accomplishments. They were traders to our nation and many of them owned men women and children. Your ideas of fallacy and PBS has been providing families and children superior content for decades.

Thank you for your comment.

Yes, the narration and the musical score are definitely skewed to an air of regret over the Confederate’s defeat.