thank you it really improves the video

Please do one for Chancellorsville

These narrations lose credibility when they mispronounce simple things like “Shenandoah” and “decimate.”

Awesome, thanks! Is this available with Spanish audio anywhere?

With terrible narration, the lack of context, and an underwhelming script, you make us suffer through this history lesson as if Ben Stein himself was giving us an economics lecture. Maybe try again with some feedback from people.

Me also I lived in Chantilly and Herndon bac in the day

@@mobilechief I well remember when Dulles was first built, to get there I had to go through Chantilly. It was nothing but the intersection of 28 and 50. Very little else around. Look at it now!! I have often wondered where that battle actually took place around there.

@@billlawrence1899 TRue , its sad to see history destroyed for profit

Man I wish I lived on a battlefield. I wouldnt even sell it maybe donate some but keep a personal collection. My father had a fellow employee that lived on shiloh battlefield he had a few shells etc he was gonna give but lost connections after company went down. I was also a reenactor of the civil war. My ancestors is what brought interest I didnt think I had as much family fight in that war but I was wrong. My mothers side split uncle and nephew split the family the uncle lost his foot sometime from shiloh to Corinth. My fathers side one captured another before they married into the family and became prisoners of war.

Wow, nice recollection thank you for sharing Bill Lawrence

t Mann hahaha now that’s funny

Been down that way before. You're not just whistling Dixie brother.

Too many state troopers along the road looking to give speeding tickets.

Ed .H. Not really a problem-rarely been able to reach speed limit, let alone speed

This is the funniest comment I’ve seen on a KZfaq video in a long time 🤣

how was the book? and discussion about his time with the union army during reconstruction?

Justin Upp I’m listening on Audible and same.

The maps are awesome. Definitely makes it easier to understand things.

I'm nearly through the second book. It is extremely good.

Unkept looking weirdo. He'll never amount to nothing in this war.

@@DumpsterFire2048 You mean That War. Schools, Roads, Libraries and Parks are named after Him though. id say that's something, you'll be forgotten 150 years from when your dead and gone.

@@clb8usmc he is a traitor and loser the south should territories to this day and not part of our great Union.

​@@DumpsterFire2048 I agree, his standing still was probably foreshadowing for his stagnant career.

That’s why it’s called the war of northern aggression. They started the murderous war when they refused to leave for Sumter when the state had LAWFULLY succeeded. Then they started their “on to Richmond” aggression .

@@alexeubanks467 The war settled that there was no right to secession. The Monroe Doctrine gave USA complete domain over North America. Had they stayed, the USA would have had a much more difficult time ending slavery.

@@alexeubanks467 You're a fool. It only takes half a braincell to read primary sources that completely debunk your delusional ramblings, but you're clearly from the shallow end of the gene pool. The Confederacy chose to go against America's values and to throw the nation into bloody conflict. Sumpter belonged to the USA, not the rebels. So the rebels firing on Sumpter caused the beginning of armed conflict. Argue your lost cause nonsense all you like, it doesn't make it historic FACT. It is truly pathetic how dearly you clutch at non existent straws to defend your ancestors because god forbid your great grand pappy openly supported a racist and treasonous cause. Own up to their mistakes and detest what they did, instead of trying (and failing) to cover up their wrong doings and abhorrent behaviour . All of our families did awful things in history, its time to grow up and face these truths like an adult.

@@alexeubanks467 "succeeded" hahah that's that southern education for you

or perish in the parish.

Exactly, separation of church and state.

They were already wearing gray and blue before this battle. But I found interesting the Confederates adopted a battle flag, as their stars and bars were too much alike the stars and stripes.

RJR wrong. Many northerners wore grey and many southerners wore brown.

@@tannerjordan3754 the uniforms on both sides were all over the place. The 14th NY had a wacky red uniform. Some wore their grey academy uniforms. The 11th NY had their gery coat and blue pants. Most Union troops did have the blue, but the north had every color possible. Some southerners still wore their US military academy uniforms. Some southerners were in civilian clothes and the officers still had their US uniforms.

@Karl Johan Lea: Thanks for reminding me of that. IIRC, Jackson's men wore blue, and Sherman's wore grey.

@@rjr6274 I think that the origin of the colors were the regulations at the time which held that Federal Regulars were to wear blue and militiamen were supposed to wore grey. Since both sides were composed largely of militiamen and volunteers (and because the secessionists raided many Federal armories before the war) both sides had men wearing grey and men wearing blue. As GNranger, some regiments had custom designs, including some with red pants in imitation of some of the more gaudy armies of Europe at the time.

They did disseminate some decimating artillery.

"Disseminate some of thar case shot inta them Yankees" -TJ Jackson, First Manassas, July 1861

Well, this is the first major battle so it is pretty important to mention here probably. It's also interesting to note in battles such as Antietam how the casualties total to more than all other previous wars combined. Also, when you get past Gettysburg, they stop saying that! But for the first few years, every battle just got bloodier and bloodier.

Mule shoe salient at spotsylvania?

Cold Harbor?

Chickamauga?

Guys, I certainly agree. Everyone always says “this was the bloodiest battle etc”. There are a few notable portions of some battles (preaching to the preachers here!!) Kennesaw mtn; those below; hornets nest at Shiloh; heck there are quite a few. I really appreciate these videos.

Manassas was the Southern term the south used. Bull Run was what the union troops referred to the battle.

That's the name of the ford used to cross the creek. A Confederate artillery shell hit a wagon on the bridge which caused mass hysteria among troops and civilians.

Karl Johan Lea Thank you, that makes sense. That's right, some think it was a mortar shell that hit the bridge on the Warrenton Turnpike in Centreville. So that must have caused a detour.

Names of battles vary depending on which side you were on. I believe the Rebs referred to it as Bull Run while the Yanks called it Manassas.

@@kreedur the Yanks called it Bull Run and the Rebs called it Manassas l.

Winners name the battle

Depends on where you’re from

Yes

@@backyardboosters9128 No it doesn't

not really, we can call it whatever we like, as long as people know what we are talking about

Let's compromise with Battle of Bull Asses

Because nobody was ready to launch a major campaign. McDowell only did so under great pressure from Lincoln

From what little I've read it seems as though most was improvised. Try reading Rebel Yell. It's about Jackson's life but talks about this battle in detail.

They likely would have had eyes on the battlefield and terrain around them watching for enemy movements and responding/reacting to them.

Does it offend you?

@@backyardboosters9128 no. Im not offended. Usually history is written by the victors and i just find it odd is all.

Typically people tend to call the battles what the victors of the battle called it plus naming battles after the nearest town is most of the time better then the nearest body of water it’s almost like a rule that the name of the battle goes to the victor

@@backyardboosters9128 What gave you the impression he was offended?

They might be based in Virginia, since a lot of battlefields are there.

Yea, they didn't mention Normandy or John Paul Jones either, but since it's a 5 minute video about First Manassas, I wasn't expecting them to.

@@jdhill4 Cute. It wouldnt take no more than 20 seconds to describe the armistice agreement. They left it out because it doesnt go with their "Johnny Reb started the war" narrative. Cute , but nice try. Maybe if you had an actual passion about history, you would be upset like others about misconceptions.

@@JohnnyRebWasATexan I have a huge passion for history and do find myself getting mildly triggered over historical inaccuracies or perpetuation of myths. I just don't think this is the video for being triggered about Fort Sumter. Make that argument in that video.

@@jdhill4 You certainly dont seem to have a huge passion for history. Your first comment was filled with malice, contempt and arrogance;intended for someone who would be your fellow history buff. Someone who also has a passion for history. You felt the need to belittle me for what reason? Simply because you did not agree with my first comment? Wow. Being passionate about history does not work that way. For being a history buff you went off the rails. The only one "triggered" is you. I simply stated a fact in a curt manner. And so you did not agree with my comment. There for you felt to be rude in an attempt to make my opinion on this video invalid. You need to gain some self confidence and quit being rude and belittling people you do not agree with. Have a good weekend sir.

@@JohnnyRebWasATexan Johnny Rev did start the war. They were raiding and looting federal stockpiles for arming the South leading up to Ft. Sumter.

Stonewall reportedly said that with 5K troops he'd take Washington.

I'm watching this on 8/2/19. It's great!!!

@@ronaldshank7589 Nah, I'm watching it this evening.

me

If Grant was general the opposite should have happened

If only Lee had ICBM`s he would have won the war.

Nah what we needed was an Air Force and space program 👩‍🏭

cannons or cannon, both are in common usage.

Pretty sure this isn't a computer voice

Yeah, I am sorry for you feeling invaded I wish there was no reason for us to migrate here.

@@davido1953 he's Latino.

@@SinjidKhan that doesn't change my statement

@@davido1953 sure, but I figure you were assuming he's black.

Well tie my ear to a pigs hide & roll me in the mud! You better move out faster than a cat on a hot tin roof! This is the new America! Oh, my family was here before Los Angeles was even a city. No need for predjudice here now.

thats absolutely retarded

It was all about slavery. People can argue that it was a "war of rights" but what rights specifically? The right to own other people, and the right for states to choose whether or not they want to allow that - therefore still boiling down to slavery.

The south relied on slavery as the bedrock of its economy. Also, southerners had watched the horrors of the Haitian revolution and thought that that would happen again if the slaves were freed. So when the north demanded they ban it, the south believed they were either blind or evil enough not to recognize that it might render the South into something akin to a failed state like Somalia. I'm not saying I would sign up for the Confederacy if I were thrown back to that time, or that it isn't good that that system was brought to an end one way or another, but this was no fairy tale, it was real life and the confederate mentality was a lot closer to being like mine and yours than we might dare to consider. Maybe it's not surprising that a German would see that, who's born with his own version of that x2.