I’m a combat infantry veteran. 11b. 2-22 infantry 10th Mountain. I live outside of Harrisburg PA just 30 miles North of Gettysburg. If you ever want to get back up to Gettysburg and want a pretty airtight battlefield tour message me on this. I am the Infantry. I am the Queen of Battle. My bayonet…on the wings of power… keeps the peace worldwide. And despots, falsely garbed in freedom’s mantle, falter…hide. My ally in the paddies and the forest… I teach, I aid, I lead. FOLLOW ME! And Semper Fi to you.

Thank you for your service, I did the reverse trip NYC to Virginia, taking in Gettysburg, the wildernesses and Manasass, you can really feel something at these fields of glory.

It is I believe a most noble pursuit of truth and realism, reenacting that is. They recreate these tragically beautiful and horrific extreme events of human experience. Animals too. Without them there would be no profound, magnificent documentaries such as this. A visual art form that makes other visual art seem trivial in comparison. It should be recognised and revered.

@@monumentstosuffering2995 Thank you for your appreciation for what we do, it time, passion, love, money and research and effort to do what we do. We try re create the period and give the public what it was like to live in this period.

It was mostly the numbers they couldn't overcome.

@@stonewalljackson5692 Whatever. They get no pity from me. They are the ones who wanted to keep people enslaved. They got what they deserved. I know what you're thinking. No, I'm no SJW and will be voting for the orange man. The Confederacy with it's slavery had to be dealt with for this nation to go on.

@@stonewalljackson5692 I completely agree. However, the south (especially in the beginning) had as much trouble finding qualified officers to lead their army as the north did. Both sides had some complete bozos in command (again, at the beginning of the war especially.) At the beginning of the war. There were VERY few officers that had commanded more than a battalion of troops under fire, even fewer that had commanded at the battalion, regimental, and brigade levels of command and still fewer at the division and corps level. Finally. More to your point, the south could not replace their most valuable commodity.... manpower. The south three men into the meat grinder of battle just as bad as the north did and could not replace the fallen whereas the "damned Yankees" could and did. Had the south been able to supply and resupply their armies like the yankees.... it is my belief that no nation or army could have come close to defeating the rebs.

@@stonewalljackson5692if it was so obvious then they never should have started the war.

@@stevestringer7351the south was outthought and outfought. Don’t start what you can’t finish.

Federal government is always wrong. Same as today, tyrants.

I would add General George Thomas to that list. He ended the CSA Army of Tennessee at Franklin and Nashville.

If Jeff Davis had listened to General Patrick Cleburne and emancipated the slaves if they fought for the South, they would have had the men. The rich planter class determined politics and doomed the South.

Grant kicked lees a$$

@@liberalman8319 We know that today! No surprise

Forrest is completely overrated.

The most American indians were killed by the contegiouse illnessess! The American continents had very few contigous illnessess, but the European and African people brought the contigouse illnessess. Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Measles, Tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, Malaria, Mumps, Plague, Etc. In the Mississippi valey the indian culture was killed by the illnessess before the American settlers!

The Measles is low dangerouse below 20 years old, but high death percentege illnessess above 20 years old. In the XVIIIth Century in the Faroer Islands were free from Measles and the people were not immunis so about 25% of the people dead in Measles, but the kids and young lived!

It is also a bit of a myth that organized scorched earth tactics were a new form of warfare. As I sure I don’t need to tell you, European settlers and soldiers used these tactics in early conflicts with native populations of the Americas, and they in return. Burning crops and other means of production are as old as war itself. Hell the Russians did it to themselves in order to starve out Boney and his Grande Armee in 1812.

Amen

Interesting. The Confederate calvary and artillery used their personal horses for the most part. Replacement mounts were secured through purchase, capture, requisition and "finding" suitable mounts. The army was supposed to be supplied by the government.... however, their was so much "me,me,me" going on within the southern states that much supplies and equipment was withheld, lost or never aquired. As we all know, the south was an almost ENTIRELY agricultural society. There were very few factories, ship builders, arms makers, railroads, etc in the entire south. The agricultural might of the south was, for the most part, centered on "cash crops". Much of the food grown in the south was for personal consumption. Most of the larger planters were interested in making money rather than feeding the army or another state. So, the big downfall of the confederacy was that there was no unified effort to actually found a new nation. There were no great statesmen leading the cause. They were all too busy boasting of "honor" and "glory" and their own personal interests. Now, of the south had waited to fire on fort sumpter say maybe 10 years in order to build the necessary infrastructure they might have had more of a chance. Also, they should have freed the slaves before the first shot was even fired. I believe that this would have shown their sincerity in forming their new nation.... also, this would have been an easier sell to other nations of the world who might have seriously considered support of the Confederacy.. Sorry for the "dissertation". I too have a passion for history (civil war especially). I have basically spent my entire life studying it. To be honest, that war still makes no sense to me. It should not have happened.

None of this would be history if it wasn't for the Union's greed for REVENUE TAX MONEY, and Dixie supplied 70% of the Union Treasury before secession.

@@stevestringer7351 Because the war was manufactured. When you take the truth off the table, and try to figure things out, you have no chance. Put it back on the table, and it is obvious what happened.

@@stevestringer7351This is the inherent flaw in trying to wage a war as a CONFEDERACY and why federalism eventually won out in early US governance. You just cannot run a country, let alone a war effort, without some centralization of command.

@@Zarastro54so much for the states right theory.

Thanks for letting us know! We always want to be as accurate as possible.

I caught that too!

Sheridan had asked Grant for as many Henrys as Grant could spare. They made a difference.

Replicas of the original Henry Repeating Rifle are still available to buy today. A replica in .44 Mag. caliber costs new $1,125.

If you watched the explained it all, you are cherry picking an early line.

The piece that came America is still spirit of Truth for my own place within America how's the free black man with all of the black and white and red make the truth of the American people remember the soccer place within the hour of the world

Powder, but no shot.

I've often found that this is one of the hardest words to pronounce to non-Maryland native Civil War "scholars"

Wrong. They weren't trying to destroy America.... they were just trying to take the part they owned and do what they wanted to do.

You are a product of the American education system, well done. Lmao!

I like Dr. Gallagher too. However, you do know that the northern "fight to end slavery" only came about to stop foreign intervention on the behalf of the Confederacy. Lincoln said that he had no desire to end slavery where it existed. He also said that those that states in rebellion where slavery was legal could keep their slaves (of they re-joined the union) .... this was the foundation of the emancipation proclamation. Hell.... there were union states that kept theornslaves until they outlawed it across the nation. (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island also had a long history of slavery.) (Wikipedia). Now, I too take a very dim view of slavery.... however.... my question is..... if the majority of the United States were anti-slavery..... why wasn't it outlawed BEFORE the civil war? Of course, we all know that the ones that were making all the money during the time are the ones that "allowed" and even called for the war to even happen in the first place. The rich planters that depended on slave labor to plant and harvest their cash crops are certainly to blame..... however, they were doing building with a lot of rich yankees who (believe this or not) were just as dependent on slavery for their riches as anyone. Finally, most of the men who fought for the union didn't care one way or another about the "rich man's war"... they 9nly knew about "the poor man's fight." And of course, the poor, ignorant dirt farmers who barely scraped by to feed his family didn't own any slaves..... the slaves (in many cases) are better than they did!

No, you have been brainwashed. They left the Union because the North was attempting to dictate to the South on the issue of slavery. The war was the North attempting to use force to deny the South leaving the Union. The south had already left, so without war, the Union was screwed. They needed war to force them to stay. They fought to "preserve" the Union, so to speak. The South fought for the right of self determination. Slavery was tacked on later by Lincoln as an issue when the war was not going good, and they needed a cause, because they had none.

“The North was attempting to dictate to the South on the issue of slavery.” How can you literally admit this then deny that slavery was the primary cause? The double-think of lost causers is truly astounding. As YOU said, the only “self determination” that was under threat was the ability to own slaves.

I thought the johnnies could whip the Yankees 12 to 1. Guess not.