Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing features MyHeritage has to offer. If you decide to continue your subscription, you’ll get a 50% discount when you use this link bit.ly/FlashPointHistory_MH My first civil war video!! Please share on social media and spread word to that special someone who loves civil war history. Also, yes, I do like to say Beauregard's name.

This is how you present history. No whitewashing or taking sides in a subtle way, just straight up facts presented in a storytelling fashion. Perfect!

The algorithm didn't seem to like this video, commenting to bring it up! Your channel is extremely underrated.

i grew up in south carolina and took a military history class in high school. teacher was a mr.sherman and a lot of the class was about the civil war

The old maps, and photos are splendidly done! Nice visuals, and as always excellent narrative.

Started watching this channel a week or so ago while I’m at work and I’ve been running through the videos too fast, thanks for the putting out some of the best historical content on this site and keeping the monotony of the work day away

I don't know what to say, other than I really enjoy the presentation. The visual element of battles you've grown up just looking at on static maps in books- to THIS. Seriously next gen immersive, and so appreciated! Two thumbs up-

I’ve always disliked that Shelby Foote quote, if not the man himself. The Civil War didn’t start because Americans refused to “compromise”, it started because some group of Americans wanted to own human beings as property and struck first to make sure they could continue to do so. Also I believe it’s spelled McClellan, but I’m okay with disrespecting the timid borderline Confederate sympathizer who considered himself Napoleon reborn 😅

Ive been using KZfaq for almost five years and in this time I have subscribed to many good history channels and yet only within the last week did this absolutely amazing channel appear in my recommendations. Unbelievable that have been missing out on content that could be tailor made for me. On the bright side I can look forward to binge watching the backlog of these epic uploads. THANKYOU.

Excellent job! You brought this battle to life! That 40 minutes went by quick!

This is great stuff. Your video on the bulge and the battle of Bastogne was excellent also. I like how you set up the battle with a 3-5 minute lesson, and then get granular with the details.

Very well done! Easy to follow, and the graphics were about the best I've seen. The narration was clear and compelling. Thank you!

A little piece of trivia about the Battle of Shilo. A "Brown Bess," a 100 year mainstay of the British Army, was picked up off the battlefield. Making it the last known use of a Brown Bess in combat. The Confederate troops at the time, and well into the war, were using whatever arms they could muster.

Live near Shiloh, love going there 3-4 times a year and just spend hours exploring the park

Great video, ps the Minie ball was names after it's designer (Claude-Étienne Minié) not it's shape

Another great video! looking forward to the next part

In my opinion the actual changes from the reinforcements not arriving that night would not have been very momentous. True Grant would not have had the numbers to immediately go on the offensive but he was not at a numerical disadvantage at that point and had prepared defenses. Beauregard was down to 22-28,000 and would now haver to attack fixed positions against an enemy that could still receive resupply and artillery support via the river. Conventional wisdom is that an attacking army should have at least a 2 to 1 advantage to ensure victory. Even had Grant's army been destroyed, Buell's would have arrived shortly and no doubt cleaned up on what was left of the Confederate army.

This video was so good its awesome to get a refresher on all of this

I am beyond excited!!!! I am in cocoa visiting siblings on the beach and this is perfect timing!!!!!

An really underrated channel

Haven't watched this channel in years, but what a video to come back to. Thanks YT algo and ofc FPH for the vid.

I visited Shiloh battlefield about 12 years ago. Very humbling for me

This is a top notch vid, these new videos need alot more views

Just under 40 minutes. A valiant effort indeed.

👍👍👍👍 The first video about the civil war I watched and the BEST one I’ve seen this month. Amazing and full of details.

Very good overview of the first year of the Civil War and of the Battle of Shiloh.

Well Done Maestro! Now I won't be able to wait for the next one! My bell is ON!

Informative & amazing introduced

Well Done

That was awesome

This is just great. Presented very well, unbiased historical facts. You really brought the battle to life, well done. Thanks for posting.

fun fact: General Leonias Polk of the Confederate left flank was originally a bishop and founded the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confederate States of America. he was the second cousin of President Polk, the president who launched the Mexican American war, where Grant first made his name

this is a pretty good video Flash Point.

I saw this in my inbox this morning. Imazing narration and animations.

What I learned about the Civil War, absolutely everyone had fantastic names.

I was not expecting the next video to be a video about Shiloh but as a southerner I thought the video was very well done I do declare, but for real though my biggest what if has always been what if Lee had decided to fight for the Union army, how would we remember him, how would the South remember him, would there even be a Arlington cemetery, could he have done a better job as president then Grant, if anyone would a new it would have probably been Shelby.

Finally got some free time to watch the video and LOVED it! This is the best video under one hour. I have to respectfully disagree with those that say Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest generals in history for two reasons: 1. He was known to give very vague and confusing orders. This came to bite him in the butt after Stonewall Jackson died as his win/loss record suffered considerably. 2. His ordering of Pickett's charge defies logic. He seemed to completely disregard the sage advice of General Longstreet that such an attack was essentially a guaranteed failure. P.S. please go back to hour-plus videos my friend 🙏 😉😊

Pretty cool stuff dude I love American history it's so rich

Criticisms of Grant aside, he beat the hell out of the Confederates at Shiloh. And ultimately Lee and his army surrendered to him at Appomattox.

This may be some of your best work yet.

The video is here!! I really enjoyed the ability to vote on the topic, i hope you allow us to vote on some future video options again sometime.

Love all your work, brilliant

I love your channel and tell everybody about it. Great Stuff - Thank you for your efford!!

great documentary

Great video! Covered all the Shiloh high points. In response to your questions; Buell arriving on the evening of the 1st day was certainly a huge boost to the Union, no doubt. But I think Grant was aggressive enough to probably have counter-attacked early the next morning anyway, because he knew the Confederates weren't expecting it. "Yeah...lick 'em tomorrow though." Although having the extra four divisions surely helped ensure success. I don't think Lincoln would ever have pulled troops from the Army of the Potomac and sent them West. Although it was important, people in Washington considered the Western theater a side show. The Eastern theater is where the war would be won. To that point, and I know this is going down the dreaded 'Civil-War-what-if-rabbit-hole,' if Lincoln had brought Grant East to command the Army of the Potomac two years earlier, ie right after Shiloh, the war might have ended at the Battle of Antietam in Fall 1862. No way a General like Grant lets the Army of Northern VA escape destruction at Antietam/Sharpsburg. Only McClellan could have made that mistake.

Grant always had the big picture in mind and while Lee might have achieved brilliant tactical victories, he needlessly sacrificed soldiers he could ill afford to lose. We can "what if" forever, but the Union always had more resources to pour into the battle than their Confederate counterparts, in this way it really was a war of attrition dwindling down the ability of the South to continue to wage war. From the outset the "anaconda" approach initially schemed by Burnside to capture key strategic objectives and then "squeeze" the confederate army was a very effective plan of action to win the war.

Another great video. And answer to your question on what would Grant would have done if he didn't get reinforced that night: being the engineer that he was (and yours truly. Go 12Bs. We lead the infantry! But I digress. Lol) He would have crossed the river and built fortifications on the other side, using the river as a natural barrier. I lived in Western Kentucky for a while and went to Columbus Belmont State Park many times. You can see how anybody who controlled that area controlled the Mississippi River. The bluffs were straight down and it was a circular area also. So you had a clear shot for probably two or three miles. Also, look up a picture of the anchor and chain that they used to drag across the Mississippi on rafts. There wasn't anything getting through that. Side note: they also had dug defensive positions with mounds. They had placed steel tubes in the bottom of them so they could communicate from one position to another, called speaking tubes.... obviously. Even 25 years ago you could talk to somebody 100 ft away. It was pretty cool. Pretty slick feat of engineering.

Texan here, my great great grandfather on my dads side was a Confederate captain and took part in the second Battle of Galveston helping expel the union soldiers and lift the blockade for four days.

I think it was less that this was the first industrialised modern war and more that, becauee of cultural and trade links with major colonial powers, Americans were the first to apply combined global principles peacemeal onto a blank page, by the best educated ppl in the world who were nevertheless, at this stage, operating with a largely untested military tradition. I dunno, I'm being finnicky - probably just repeated what you said, I just think it left a lot out. Awesome video, gonna binge the hell out this channel now! TY!

Great work, well done, Shiloh my favourite civil war battle. More civil war battles please.

Great video. You deserve more views.

This was great! Thanks.

Excellent overview and analysis.

Well done and presented well. As a southern male of a certain age all of these battles and campaigns were fought and refought throughout our childhoods. No, the south could not have taken Washington. Not because the union could have stopped them but because neither side was organized well enough to recover and reform in the immediate aftermath of Manassas to do a pursuit and seige.

Always stunning!;-)

I immediately subscribed after watching the Bastogne video just prior to watching this one. Great commentary and I loved both. I'm really looking forward to more videos in this series and will soon be enjoying (I'm sure) past videos of yours that I already see will interest me. I appreciate how you weave smaller details into these larger historical events that often give them such a delicious irony - exactly why I absolutely love history to begin with. Thank you for that. One note...maybe more about me than you. I've always been a fan of US Grant and was thoroughly engrossed in this video on a battle that I did know of, and had watched videos of as well, yet did not realize how close to defeat Grant was here. Thorough enjoyment throughout...until the maudlin music at the end. Some songs just give a body-wide cringe. I felt like unsubscribing. LOL but my cooler side prevailed and I'm again willing to wait, anxiously, for the next addition to this video series. Well done.

Yay! Absolutely adore every video you make (and voice).

cool pamphlet, good video

ANother fantastic release

I’m related to Gen. John Bell Hood, also I have stayed the night @ Shiloh before in 2010. We did a living history @ that time and I walked the field that night along the sunken road, bloody pond, water oaks pond, Farley field. From April 1861-June 1862 Congress had not declared war by the time they did the battles of: Bull Run Wilson Creek Balls Bluff Ft Henry Ft Donelson Shiloh And the peninsula campaign (7days) was in full swing when war was declared.

Well put together. Maybe the best I’ve seen.

very well done.

Another Absolutely Wonderful Story... I'm from Charleston S.C.. ..Ken Burns Can't Do Any Better

Very nicely done, sir!

His eyes in the begining only look animated because he's moving like Eber from the table of nations if you make him move like Assur he wouldn't look fake.

Not sure if your applause for Lee's aggressiveness is really warranted. You say yourself that in most of his engagements, he was outnumbered. But as an attacker, you're likely to have higher losses. One of the fundamental problems of the Confederacy was that they couldn't even afford their victories, whereas the North often could afford even their defeats, being able to compensate the losses in manpower and try again somewhere else.

Everytime I hear the name “Beauregard” I’m now going to pronounce it exactly how you do in this video

Great video Nitin. The old pictures were amazing...how is your artist going?

An interesting incident took place after the battle as described by Shelby Foote's "The Civil War." "As Beauregard's forces fell back to Corinth, Sherman followed with a brigade to make a show of pursuit, or at any rate to see that the Confederates did not linger. A show was all it was, however, for when he reached a point on the Corinth road, four miles beyond his camps, he was given a lesson hunters sometimes learned from closing in too quickly on a wounded animal. "The place was called the Fallen Timbers, a half-mile-wide boggy swale where a prewar logging project had been abandoned. The road dipped down, then crested a ridge on the far side, where he could see enemy horsemen grouped in silhouette against the sky. Not knowing their strength or what might lie beyond the ridge, he shook out a regiment of skirmishers, posted cavalry to back them up and guard their flanks, then sent them forward, following with the rest of the brigade in attack formation at an interval of about two hundred yards. The thing was done in strict professional style, according to the book But the man he was advancing against had never read the book, though he was presently to rewrite it by improvising tactics that would conform to his own notion of what war was all about. "War means fighting," he said. "And fighting means killing." It was [Nathan Bedford] Forrest. Breckinridge had assigned him a scratch collection of about 350 Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas cavalrymen, turning over to him the task of protecting the rear of the retreating column. "As he prepared to defend the ridge, outnumbered five-to-one by the advancing blue brigade, he saw something that caused him to change his mind and his tactics. For a the skirmishers entered the vine-tangled hollow, picking their way around felled trees and stumbling through the brambles, they lost their neat alignment. In fact, they could hardly have been more disorganized if artillery had opened on them there in the swale. Forrest saw his chance. "Charge!" he shouted, and led his horsemen pounding down the slope. Most of the skirmishers had begun to run before he struck them, but those who stood were knocked sprawling by a blast from shotguns and revolvers. Beyond them, the Federal cavalry had panicked, firing their carbines wildly in the air. When they broke too, Forrest kept on after them, still brandishing his saber and crying, "Charge! Charge!" as he plowed into the solid ranks of the brigade drawn up beyond. The trouble was, he was charging by himself; the others, seeing the steady brigade front, had turned back and were already busy gathering up their 43 prisoners. Forrest was one gray uniform, high above a sea of blue. "Kill him! Kill the goddam rebel! Knock him off his horse!" It was no easy thing to do; the horse was kicking and plunging and Forrest was hacking and slashing; but one of the soldiers did his best. Reaching far out, he shoved the muzzle of his rifle into the colonel's side and pulled the trigger. The force of the explosion lifted Forrest clear of the saddle, but he regained his seat and sawed the horse around. As he came out of the mass of dark blue uniforms and furious white faces, clearing a path with his saber, he reached down and grabbed one of the soldiers by the collar, swung him onto the crupper of the horse, and galloped back to safety, using the Federal as a shield against the bullets fired after him. Once he was out of range, he flung the hapless fellow off and rode on up the ridge where his men were waiting in open-mouthed amazement. "The ball now lodged alongside Forrest's spine as he followed the column grinding its way toward Corinth." I recall that Forrest finally had the ball removed about two weeks later. Apparently, one tough SOB. It's a pity that the Ft. Pillow surrender and his involvement in the genesis of the KKK besmirched his image for us in the modern era. But I supposed he was a man of his times. As my Georgia father would say, "He was an unreconstructed Southern."

Was this truly a counterattack? And if so it wasn't (in my eyes) perfection. Yes it worked but because he had greater numbers and time to rest. Great video i just find the battle not to be a counterattack masterpiece

Just saying but I would love to see you do a video on the battle of cedar creek and I am saying that because just like at Shiloh when it looked like the south was gaining the upper hand the union counterattacked.

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War is never like Call of duty game. People forget that especially armchair generals, War is the last tool of diplomacy as Bismarck preached.

A lot of praise goes to Lee for good cause but Grant was a way better supreme commander. He was an good tactician but a master at strategy. I believe he was one of few to see the big picture. He realized in modern war you dont win the war by single battles but by men and material

visited Shiloh nearly a decade ago. Would say, that heavily forested area would have contributed to the units loosing their cohesion

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The Battle of Shiloh even if it was early in the Civil War stands out to me as one on the top 5 battles of the war. You could cite a number of reasons, but Shiloh is where the partnership and friendship of US Grant and William T. Sherman started. It was mentioned that Sherman was going to suggest to Grant that the retreat, but something held him back. Grant would have lost respect for Sherman if he had suggested retreat. The other point often overlooked about Shiloh is the change in the relationship between Grant and General Halleck. Halleck could have made Grant the scapegoat in his report, instead he blames some other lower ranking officers. He demotes Grant to second in command, but I think this shield Grant from the storm about Shiloh until larger battles in 1862 showed that Shiloh was not a one-of-a-kind event. Also, Grant is a West Point graduate not a political general. The war is getting more political and for good or bad, the West Point men will stand together.

Ulysses S Grant, the greatest American in history second to no one. Great video

Obsolete tactics did NOT cause the high casualties of the American Civil War. This is commonly held myth, infinitely recited. Casualties were high simply because both sides wouldn't quit. If soldiers stand and bang in close packed ranks, as at the start of the war, then casualties accrue rapidly in short battles. If, conversely, soldiers hide in trenches, as in later stages of the war, then casualties accrue steadily over days and weeks. But either way it's the same result.

Great video

Excellent job, Ken Burns should be jealous 😉

If Jackson was released as Sherman later was in the south, considering his skill and ability on the battlefield, and he was actually the one in charge, I believe he could have taken Washington Unfortunately, it seems the South was a bit timid to this idea ( the invasion of Washington) Could have saved a lot of people, though I don't see the average Southern soldier disregarding the civilians of the North either as the north later did in the south, which began a whole nother horrible consequence of the Civil War by both sides - what a waste of life....

Please, more Civil War videos!

You say the election of Lincoln pushed southern states to secede. Hmm…. You quote Shelby Foote saying people failed to compromise. Hmmm. Actually the Southern states leaders wanted to expand and extend slavery. The South rejected the 1820 and 1850 compromises. I realize that this video is about military strategy and tactics. But all military action contains political dimensions so an offhand remark that the south was pushed to secede minimizes the fact that the South was fighting to preserve and ultimately to expand slavery. And this despite the fact that slavery did not benefit the vast mass of southern people except perhaps to let them feel superior to another group of people. An excellent example of the southern approach is Texas. Texans wanted to have slavery. When the Mexican government prohibited slavery the Texans decided to form their own county so they could have it. So though this is an excellent video, its start suggests the idea that the South was somehow justified in its actions.

4:04 That is unmitigated bullshit. The war was entirely on the Confederacy. Just read the articles. He may have been a historian, but that was pushed aside to be an apologist.

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Bit heavy on the exposition, lol , dang. :p

My family lost 1 man in the revolution war, two in w.w.1 four in w.w 2 and nine in the Civil war.

Now that u have done shiloh u should do one on Antietam

Might I ask why you only use a southern drawl when saying the name "Beauregard"??

What if. A game delusionists play, to sooth their angst

i typed first first

What is the name of the narrator please

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This is a masterpiece!🤌

Oscar Mike!

Dude sounds just like the voice on CSX recordings

I think the man's name was McClellan, not McClennan🙁

Is it Corinth? Or cornith?

McClennan ??