70 years ago when I was 7 years old my father gently explained to me the difference in pronunciation between cavalry and Calvary and the definitions of the two words. I have heard dozens of Military 'experts' over my entire life that never learned the difference. It always amazes me.

My Great Grandfather and his brother mustered into the 97th Indiana at the same time...his brother was killed at Chattanooga

I love these lectures!

Terrific overview. Glad this was recorded.

Please redo this with more screen time for the maps, and better audio quality. The lecture itself is quite good, but the production quality is lacking.

Dr. Mark DePue has a series of civil war lectures that are filled with great detail and interesting story lines. Awesome job, I've watched them all. I want more so get off your butt and deliver me some vidzzzzzzz

With some expert work by someone highly qualified, the audio could be made a bit worse.

I'm here to say that none of this was possible without Eileen. Thank you, Eileen! Now., once again, will the lecturer pronounce the word "Cavalry" or "Cavalry?"

documenrary is great, however too much focus on the speaker instead on the maps being discussed for better understanding and appreciation

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum........PLEASE get someone else to do the camera work and editing!!! It is absolutely terrible camera work!!! They seem to think that it is much more important to cover the speaker at the podium than to cover the maps even when the speaker is pointing something out on it. The camera always goes back to a man speaking from a podium as though we should constantly be reminded that he is still there!?!?

Well done! Thank you.

Podium and background should be much smaller with map much larger.

With regard to southern railroads prior to the war, there was a political/economic design behind transferring cars from one gauge to another. At the transfer points were cities and towns that benefited from these delays with the various services they offered for passenger and freight trains.

When watching these and similar lectures, it's a much better viewing experience if you open TWO instances of the video into separate browser windows or tabs, and optimize one for the audio (if you have an equalizer), and then set the audio to MUTE on the other video. Now, you can listen to the first video while scrolling and pausing on the various slides and maps on the second video, and follow along much better. Try it! - j q t -

Calvary ; an open-air representation of the crucifixion. Shame, such a great presentation does not have a camera able to zoom in on map to let us follow it.

Very good presentation. Easy to listen to with an obvious command of, and passion for, the subject matter.

these lectures should be redone with proper focus on the maps!

Hey I love the speaker's Wiskenson accent

Can't see map details. Need closeup views for this to make this clear to viewers.

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These are close to me my home and I am in the area since I was a kids

what is the problem with sound @37:00?

Sorry people but the presentation could be 100% BETTER IF THE FILM COULD show THE BATTLE MAPS. instead od a long off view of the Dr. & combined map. I hope you watch this yourself????

I'm trying to research relatives can anybody tell me what Confederate units were at Look Out mountain area ?

He says that this is the 9th in the series but I only can find 7?

Ahhhhhhhhhh! Cavalry. Cavalry. Cavalry. Please!

At about 5m19sec he says SOUTH of Chattanooga is Missionary Ridge,...FURTHER says that EAST of that, there lies a broad flat valley which the Battle of Chickamauga will be fought .. .. Wrong .. CHICKAMAUGA IS SOUTH .. ..

46:50 gives me nightmares. The horrors of this war.

I read the book by Sam Watkins who was a veteran. " Company Aych" is the book. Anyhow you learn all you need to know about General Bragg in his book. Bragg was a real horses ass. If I remember correctly he had a couple privates shot dead for falling asleep while on guard or picket duty. Thats pretty damn harsh when you know your men are exhausted. It could have happened to the best of soldiers. Sooner or later the human body WILL sleep whether voluntary or not.

What’s a ray road?

The microphone noise on this is killing me.

Interesting lecture but agree with at least some comments; & cavalry is not calvary!

Gentleman clearly knows his stuff, but he keeps saying “ray road”

"Calvary" A mountain in Palestine. "Cavalry" - mounted soldiers .

Tiny thing, it's cavelry not calvery.

Why do all Civil War historians call railroads "rare-roads"?

I noticed that a number of comments complained about not being a able to see the visual aides, throughout the lecture; as for myself, I'm mischievously happy to say that I didn't have that problem. I'm a Civil War Buff, having researched and followed the topic since I was a 10 year old child, many decades ago. Heck with the maps, I don't need to see any more of them than have been provided. I enjoy observing Dr. DePue presentation style.

I really wish he would say "rail-road/s"… and NOT, "rayroads". It's silly… I know. Doesn't make it NOT true.

Alright, I can’t listen to him say “Calvary” one more time.

impressed with content; audio poor - distracting

Excellent lecture punctuated by terrible audio quality…..

I’ve made this comment before. Nobody is interested in seeing the lecturer. Everybody wants to see the visual displays.

Garfield was my Ancestor

A Pyrrhic Victory.

He keeps saying Rosecrans. I think he means to say Rosencrantz.

Terrible visual control versus the speakers explanation of the terrain made me turn the presentation off!

This could be considered "nitpicking" but OMG (!), you would think a learned gentleman whose expertise is battles of the American civil war would know the difference between Calvary and cavalry...just for the record, Calvary (as far as I know) is where Jesus died, while cavalry is mounted combatants (on horses or in armored vehicles)...C'mon man...

FOCUS on slides .. he refers to them constantly .. get a camera that blows them up from where the camera is shooting from .. love the topics .. but cannot watch these .. speaker is just a voice .. info in is on the slides ..

Very knowledgeable but self defeating speaker. Can't use the microphone or screen device

The camera man really sucks doing his job. Never showed the map close up when the pointer was being used to point something out... then showed the close ups of the maps when the pointer was not used. Nothing like trying to see a white pointer dot on a white map from a distance instead of the close-up. Frustrated I only got halfway through the lecture.

Cav-al-ry. It's pronounced 'cav-al-ry'.

Very interesting. The more I learn about this war I ponder on two things. 1. Why did it take four years for the Union, with their vastly superior resources in men,food , weapons and resources to defeat the Confederates? 2. A big factor ,in my humble opinion, was the decision of Bobby Lee to put the State of Virginia above his country. The Rebels , apart from him and perhaps the strangely eccentric Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had very few effective Generals. It would have been very interesting to know what would have happened if Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to lead the Union army in 1861. My guess is that the war would have been much shorter - with far less casualties on both sides. So, Mr.Lee you have an awful lot of blood on your hands-- I hope God has forgiven you.

Meth-odd-ical = methodical

Braxton Bragg = Captain Queeg

Aaaargh! Sound is horribly horrifyingly horrible!!!!

I love historical stuff like this those were men back then but 156 years later crazy people are still trying to fight this war makes no sense north had over 22million people south had only 9million people half were slaves no education is what caused the South to lose the war there was no way they could beat the north bullshit for them to still be mad Lincoln and the Northerners Whispering you were using telephones back then you just didn't make sense for somebody to waste all those people died and no one that people will kill hold a lot of black folks did we had nothing to do with🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😡😷

Easy to listen to, not watch. Love Civil War History. 😊

"miniscul" ? If it's going to be 75% talking head, get the words right.

I don’t understand this

Poor speaker

Rosecrants was incompetent and should never have been given a command

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Speaker has no enthusiasm..

Too much focus on the lecturer. While his presentation is good, I want to see his display. Watching him speak is certainly not as helpful as listening to him, which I can easily do while watching a display of what he is talking about.

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