love ur vids jeff

Comparing militia numbers is interesting, but I imagine most of them wouldn't be available for service outside their state, for a number of reasons.

Really like the details of the beginning events. I've not heard this level of detail before and look forward to the next installment. In hindsight, we see many things that were not understand in the critical moments. Had Major Anderson time to prepare, Ft. Sumter might have been in a much better position by the end of the month.

I appreciate the precision, factual content and professional sobriety of your presentation. Please keep up the good work!🎉

So happy to see an upload!

Great summary of the secession South Carolina and the overall events going on in the last month of the year of 1860( To many people at the times on both side this probably the most traumatic events of their lives) I hope you continue this series go all the way up to at the outbreak of the open hostilities between the south and north.

great video like always. Your census ones are my favorite

Very interesting to see a perspective of how the Civil War progressed in the opening stages. Always knew Fort Sumter was the opening but all the intrigue, scheming and double cross add to the understanding of how events transpired.

great short doc thanks

Excellent video. I enjoyed it.

Thanks for another great video!!!!!!!

The damage done to the Union war effort by pro-Southern fifth columnists is a pretty fascinating topic, among other things because of how carefully it's been downplayed over the years in the name of promoting Northern/Southern sectional unity and whatnot. If you ever do a video on the Peninsula Campaign, I hope you impress on people just how downright... *odd*... McClellan and his staff conducted that campaign from start to finish, culminating in the mind-boggling letter to Lincoln in which he tried to spin his unforced retreat from a vastly inferior opponent as some kind of decisively hard-fought annihilation battle (in the last paragraph he literally says "I may be on the brink of eternity," as if Lee's bloodthirsty hordes were about to smash through his door and start behaving like Forrest's troops at Fort Pillow) in order to terrify Lincoln into giving in to the South's political demands.

Your graphic shortly before 8:15 misspells secession. The piece otherwise is superb.

Very good.

Thanks!

Brilliantly informative video… respect from the UK 🇬🇧🇺🇸…👏👏👍

Slavery wasn't at risk of being taken away.. Buying slaves was already outlawed. The slaves they had were theirs to keep, and Lincoln had no plans of taking that away. In fact, some of the southern states already voted on abolishing slavery on their own and it was a narrow margin. The succession was over northern states having power in the congress, all moneyed interest, and made financial laws at the expense of the south, the south didn't gave the population to out vote northern states. The north strong armed the south over and over, raking in money off tariffs largely carried by the south, and then when the south asked the north to respect their laws the north flatly ignored them. So why on earth do normie "historians" harp on and on about slavery? You REALLY think hundreds of thousands of southerners fought that war so some rich plantation owner could keep some slaves?? Only 1.5% of southerners owned slaves, most of that are smaller families who have 1-3 slaves. A miniscule portion of that measly 2% were plantation owners. So you're telling me all these states went and fought for slavery, which was already being phased out for technology like the cotton gin... The poor southerners who fought the war had every reason to not want slavery, as those could be paying jobs to Americans, but they're all being taken by slave labor. When you stop and think about it instead of just accepting whatever you hear, it begins to sound more and more ridiculous. Has the history channel ever mentioned the moril tariff? Abe Lincoln had no intention of outlawing slavery, but he did promise to uphold that tariff. That was the last straw. Almost sounds like the crown taxing colonists, and the colonists not feeling they have the political power to be represented fairly where decisions are being made... Especially when it's laws about funding the government which is outwardly hostile toward you. Nope. Against all logic it was just about slaves. Because evil white men and stuff... And the south were evil... Give. Me. A. Break. Slavery had already been slowing down, no more slaves were being brought and sold in the US. So why the hell would all these people fight fir something they had no risk of being taken away and something which they knew wasn't as valuable as it once was? Shut your brain off, hurry up! It was just slavery. And now you must get mad at me for daring to critique the official narrative. Because we know the facts, because we read about them in books over and over...

What was a militia in these times? What did that mean? How "battle-ready" are such militias? You don't really hear about militias now, when did that term stop being used or in official practice when did such forces cease to exist? Is there a contemporary equivalent to the militias of this time within the state and/or federal governments?

Really very interesting! Do you intend to make videos about each year of the War?

am reading the book "1861". good stuff. (Goodheart)

@8:22, South Carolina Ordinance of Secession not succession

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