Excellent piece of the episode

When you're so early to the comment sections, this is the only comment you read.....

When will the Mini Series be available on the Prime/Apple TV Channel History Play?

When is the full series coming to the History channel UK?????????

When will the whole series be available on DVD? Also, did Lee really want to go west to Vicksburg?

My thoughts exactly!

Only 0050's BC kids will get this one.

@@davidcooke8005, lol.

Um no you idiot's he built two series of trenches for the siege of Vicksburg and the second set of trenches so he doesn't have the confederate army attacking from the rear 🙄it's not a siege well being seiged my God your dumb 🙄😂🤣

@@daringachne4364 Hmm, your grammar and spelling may actually not support your name calling. Your Knowledge of ancient military history is kind of lacking as well. Siege of Alesia.

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@SunOnShine it was Grant's corruption as president, in part I believe, that led to the compromise of 1877 that ended the reconstruction era and set civil rights back a 100 years

Really

@SunOnShine At least you dropped all pretense of peaceful protests and called it for what they are: riots.

LOL I know, what is even happening??

Some history.. lot of mistakes in this

What?

It ain't history if there are no aliens involved...

Hope KZfaq don't demonetize them...

What? No monster trucks or ancient alien conspiracies? You mean actual and factual history? Oh..my word.

It says that at Petersburg too

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Best comment!

Lincoln "What does he drink?" Aide "Whiskey, sir." Lincoln "Send some to my other generals."

So do lawyers and car salesmen hahahaha.....😅

In Mississippi, in June/July, with a near constant bombardment of hot, exploding artillery shells, surrounded by 35,000 hot sweaty dudes. I agree, pack it in and raise the white flag by evening time.

No booze? I quit.

@@pittland44 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The best thing about history is you cannot smell it.

So then you add a tea bag and a cup of sugar and call it the waffle house 😂

As a tradition after a battle, the defeated General would give the victor their sword and their horse. Grant allowed Lee to keep both.

Grant was class act man, and military genius!!

Not quite napoleon who I think won 6 battles in 8 days marching around 150 miles.

My 3rd great grandfather was one of them. We have his diary. He was disturbed by the brutality but I say…slavery itself was more brutal. Not a cause worth fighting for. I put it on the level of the Holocaust evil.

And then he went to Moscow and lost 95% of his troops. Genius!! I take Grant over Nappy@alanb9443.@@alanb9443

@@alanb9443 Dam ner close

Lee also made the huge mistake by attacking the enemy when they had the high ground

@@thomasortega2838 "it is over Lee, I have the high ground

Lee didn’t fight correctly based on his situation. Grant could afford to use up man power as gruesome as that sounds. Lee didn’t have the resources or men to spare to do mass charges like he did. He should have used more guerrilla tactics.

I mean we call him “Loser”

People that lose will make any excuse about why they lost

No he is the hero the US needed.

@@apeman9238 Can you imaging what he would do to Putin?

@@6120mcghee give him a bottle of wiskey and let the show begin.

Why

@@apeman9238 meaning what?

Mike Hooson finally!!

But I thought Ancient Aliens was the best comedy on television!

True history doesn't bring in the money. TLC USED TO BE ABOUT LEARNING.... NOW IT'S ABOUT BABY PAGEANTS MIDGETS AND FAT HOARDERS.

But this is expensive. Reality BS is cheap and popular.

Agree. Enough with the crappy reality tv shows.

He’s on the $50 bill, but I agree. There should be more.

@@tluv6921 I'm not American but I know this President Grant was reluctant to be president, he squashed the KKK and he tried to get rid of corruption in the government. Dude should be revered more.

He was a drunk

Lost Cause propaganda mostly, as well as several decades of academic scholarship which depicted Grant as a weak and ineffective president. Thankfully, the consensus on both of those issues is slowly swinging back in the opposite direction, with much more positive assessments of Grant becoming the norm.

@@kyledonahue9315 In that way he's a lot like Jimmy Carter I feel. A good person that wants to do what's right, but he didn't have a great presidency and that has hurt their reputation.

Amateurs talk tactics professionals talk logistics. Without Vicksburg the Confederacy had to way to send troop's, food, and other supplies from Texas and states West of the Mississippi.

This includes the role he played in Reconstruction. Grant throw his weight against Johnson and his allies. This included Seward.

Why wouldn’t we exist

@@type7diabetes96 What?

Anti-Logan Paul Why wouldn’t we exist? You know the Confederate States were not going to take over the US right? They just wanted to establish themselves as a country.

@@type7diabetes96 What i meant to say was that the US as we know it now, wouldnt exist. If the confederecy would of won, we would be a smaller country.

Lincoln was a very self-confident man.

I wonder if Trump would have come even close to admitting something like that. 🤔🧐

@@shiwanmavaneh4618 Short answer no...

Lincolns invasion illegal, later KKk overthrew the occupation.

@@edwardclement102The rebels never paid the justified price. Lincoln was soft.

I used to play there as a child. Lol

I've seen them too. My parents took us there when I was about 14. The Vicksburg military park is an amazing place.

I just biked it today... was warned about the hills, ugh...

Me too

Wow would love to visit them!

Much better than watching blacksmiths getting judged.

@Gary Hunt nah, when grant became president, his greatest actions was his enfranchisement of black ppl in the United States and destroying the KKK

Against Vercingetorix in Alesia

My thought exactly. Caesar however wasn't as generous. He crucified thousands on the march back to Rome. Vercengettorix was parroted in the square

The super siege!

I imagine Grant studied Caesar at West Point

Which was studied by military officers for hundreds of years.

Yes, that lie has done immense damage to this country; it lingers strongly in the south and is used as justification for the un-justifiable.

Read about Grant and his Presidential Administration Corruption and Failure.... He lost the battle of Peace

@@mainely8007 Yes sir, it has done immense damage to this country and to the South itself. No one likes to lose and no one likes to have to think the thought, "My cause was not a good one in the first place." We're seeing that same dynamic play out in regards to the 2020 election. "We didn't lose, We were stabbed in the back" by this or by that or by machines or sneaky people, etc. Losing is hard and having fought for a not very good cause is harder.

Hmm... Maybe mixing up a couple of disparate events?

@@grantsmythe8625 You know the whole "we don't lose, we were stabbed in the back" was also used by a certain failed artist from Austria...

Too be fair for middle of the pack student. Of the 200+ students that started out he was of a few that still remained. And of subjects he excelled in were civilian categories of mathematics and engineering, one of his only subjects he had trouble with was military history. And was offered a job as a junior proffessor of mathematics at a university I believe. I've been reading Ron Chernow's novel 'Grant' and it is phenomenal definately worth a read. He may of been middle of the pack but it was an extraordinary pack he competed with.

A lot of that combined arms approach must also be credited to Admiral Andrew Foote, and old Navy salt that Grant worked with early on. Foote from the get go fully committed himself and his flotilla to Grant's purposes without fuss. It was a wonderful partnership of combined arms and set the tone for future operations. Foote's naval guns saved Grant on several occasions. Sadly Foote passed away without much fanfare for what he'd accomplished.

Good list of brilliant Military Commanders, I come from New Zealand and Love the story of General Grant,I rate him high for his Generaling abilities I also love the story of Russia's Marshal Georgi Zhukov I think without him the Russians might have lost WW2 , General Grant and Marshal Zhukov had very similar ways of conducting Battle

Classic standard tactic nothing to see here

Alesia

Yep. Pulled that one on Pompey, too.

Like the old saying: "If you can't beat them, join them."

How did he spend 2 years as a POW? when in this video they say after Grant was Victorious. He let all the Confederate Soldiers go back home. No POW'S. just curious. Not trying to be a smarty pants.

??? What? No POWs taken from Vicksburg

The confederate soldiers were paroled and allowed to go home until properly exchanged.

Well his anti Semitism wasn’t noble and he was a owner, but no one is perfect.

@@bowen4878 that Puts him on par with modern republicans

He was a government troglodyte.

@@kylew.4896 you're joking right? 90% of modern day antisemitism comes out of the democratic party. Have you listened to anything AOC, Omar, Talib, or the rest of the clown squad girl possy has said about jews and israel?

@@onebuffalo5402 That is the trap, being anti-Israeli does not necessarily equal being anti-Semitic. Israel likes to conflate the two so they can hide from legitimate criticism of their actions.

Well he went to Westpoint so I think he’d have been Aware of that Particular battle. 🤷‍♀️

Only really the final phase of the campaign was based on Caesar at Alesia (and unlike Caesar, he had to deal with two different armies that could make a thrust to relieve the city he was besieging). The rest of it was something truly brilliant. He divided his army three times using each part to carry out a different mission while acting on a different time table. The Majority of his army flooded the Mississippi, landed at Grand Gulf, and marched the full 200 Miles and fought the majority of the battles. He left 1 Corps under Sherman to feint towards Vicksburg to tie down the army there and would only move once the Navy and ran the blockade and pin Pemberton in the Northwest of the theatre of operations. Meanwhile, his cavalry under Benjamin Grierson (who had been given the entire Union Cavalry force under Grant who stripped his army of virtually every cavalry regiment he could find to carry out this task) completed a series of raids where they destroyed bridges connecting the other two confederate Armies in the theatre and stringing them out across all of Mississippi as they began leading confederate cavalry on a wild goose chase across the state. In the end, the confusion and paralysis caused by his preparations were more of a shield to his army than the fortifications he made were. Bragg and Johnston's forces were too scattered to actually mount a successful relief.

@@carolyndobry785 Westpoint in those days was an engineering school. Military strategy mostly stressed Napoleon

@@bobapbob5812 ...so what do you think Napoleon's learned from??

Wonder it all happened as Caesar described it?

@aztecwarrioruno I second that!!

Great nation? Where? You must be blind

In response to J Ray. Obviously you didn't watch the miniseries because that issue was addressed at length. You're statement about indentured servants has some hints of truth, but first was not a common practice by mid 19th century involuntary servitude abolished by the 13th amendment and peonage in 1867. But you might be confusing this with Hawaii when after being annexed by the U.S. it was finally outlawed in 1900. So I can see where you made your mistake, because of those brave Hawaiian Union soldiers.

J Ray He owned one slave and freed him shortly after receiving him. Not buying him. Receiving him through his marriage to Julia Dent. He also worked beside his slave, showing him that they were alike, in some ways.

J Ray “he was no different than his southern counterparts” Well for one, he didn’t commit treason.

Surprising considering the years from being beat down by family and the neighborhood. The man was bullied mercilessly and called a failure as a husband for not being able to separate from his family's financial support and failure as a solider for his drinking problem (was forced to resign in the 1850s for drunken behavior)

As a President he was honest himself but had one of the most corrupt administrations ever.

45 and my ex-mother in law were never wrong! So nothing to admit there. :)

That's pretty interesting.

A great quote, about a truly great American hero. Also, a new quote to me. Thank you! 4/19/22.

The Inn at Cedar Grove in Vicksburg is where we stay. Several ancestors fought with Grant's Troops there. Many in the 93rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Reg.. Vicksburg was justifiably called The Gibraltar of the South at that time.

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Well, since he did graduate West Point, it's safe to assume he studied all the ancient warrior generals and their campaigns.

Actually this clip is the tail end of this episode with the probably about half of or more of it devoted to just that problem.

I own the series, they do talk about his failed Bayou Campaigns, then his running of Vicksburg guns, advance towards Jackson, then turning back towards Vicksburg. This is an edited clip to focus on Vicksburg.

Yes, I noticed that, too. A small but meaningful gesture that revealed much about the man's inner thoughts.

It’s just a statue. Stop getting worked up over symbols being destroyed. They can be replaced.

@@MikeGoesBadaBoom Why did they have to be destroyed in the first place? What does it solve? Nothing. Because it isn't a protest anymore it's criminality.

@@MikeGoesBadaBoom same thing can be said of your wife

I did not know of this until now. It is shocking--and worse--even way after the fact. Will now, thanks to you, learn more of the history of this more than distressing, depressing action in S.F. 4/19/22.

Well he was a white man and your racist evil enemies have to attack him.

@Cpl Soletrain Yes! The racist president and the spiritual father of globalism. A true Democrat.

@@propriusly lol so trump is the natural descendant of Lincoln and the radical republican movement? Weird I thought all southern states that were democrats before 1964 were republican now?

Cpl Soletrain he had plenty of help

@@propriusly - Not all Democrats glorified racism. Go listen to Herbert Humphrey's speech he gave at the 1948 Democratic National Convention. It led to the "Dixiecrats" walking out of the convention because he spoke urging his party to support Civil Rights to blacks. Also, the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery got yes votes from I think 13 or 14 Democrats. I believe a Democrat President signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. I believe a Democrat President named JFK got on national TV and said the fight for Civil Rights for blacks is now a moral issue. Despite his vices, President Clinton did get the national budget and debt balanced, and our economy during his presidency did enjoy prosperity and growth. Yes, some Democrats have been pitiful, but it's equally pitiful to overgeneralize an entire group.

Green Cm, The Democrats delayed civil rights legislation for decades and it was Newt Gingrich and the house Republicans who forced that budget on Clinton. Much like the Dems forced the deficits of the late 1980s on Reagan.

Ditto for me in 2022.

My great grandfather was born in 1865 and was named for Grant.

His presidency not so much

Well he was president in a very bad time so it can’t all be him

@@nohbuddy1 the first civil rights act during his time. That's everything

@@nohbuddy1 He can't have been that bad. They reckon he would have got a third term if he wanted it, Also he was adjudged the most popular American in the world and America during and after his presidency. At his funeral 1.5million people lined the streets of New York. You know how many people that would be in todays population of New York? A bad president? i think you had better stop reading Southern b@$sh&t.

@@clarkianperez241 Yea but his presidency was during the time where corporations took over so all the good he did gets over looked because it was seen as a particularly "bad time". Its a Shame.

They made a movie out of it too starring Matthew McConaghey

Geri Kucinski good info

Oh, the irony!

These are the ones who should have bases named after them. Fort Benning should be named for Sherman to remind Atlanta what happens when they turn against the union.

I'm a Patton guy myself. I blame George C. Scott.

Still sinning to these days.

He could afford to slaughter more men for the greed of east coast elite. You are a fool and slave of these people. Look to your reward

There were serious weaknesses in how all the generals imagined operational campaigns -- how a series of battles could be strung together to yield concrete strategic gains. Grant was simply better at this than anyone but perhaps Rosecrans in his best moments. While simply pressing the attack is not elegant, it is an improvement of every general before him, including Lee. That is a bit unfair to Lee, but Lee had his chance to take the initiative and blew it at Gettysburg.

@@Madara-rz8hv The southern aristocrats were happy enough to led their fellow citizens to slaughter, just to keep men in chains. What is amazing is what perfect sheep those poor southerners were about the whole thing. But I suppose it requires a bit of manliness to think for oneself.

And the federal government allowed it that to happened? They should have force every citizen to place a US flag flying on their property and celebrate July 4th. If they refuse, it’s treason and jailed 50 years.

I did not know that. Thank you for posting that.

@@lestat1591 go away, dictator.

Tony Preston and what is real patriotism? Allowing to disrespect and dishonor our perfect government isn’t real patriotism.

@@lestat1591 Your parents are not patriotic. But you are!