The Winter Campaign - The Battle For Two States: American Civil War

The Winter Campaign - The Battle For Two States: American Civil War - Part 3

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In our last video we covered the first major battle of the Civil War West of the Mississippi, the Battle of Wilson's Creek. In this episode we examine how Confederate forces went from winning a victory in August of 1861 to being chased across the Missouri-Arkansas border in early 1862, before new leadership decided to launch what has since been known as "The Pea Ridge campaign".
This is the first part of a two-part examination on the battle of Pea Ridge, we hope you will choose to subscribe so you're sure to catch the next part, the bloody battle of Pea Ridge.
We've put a lot of effort into researching the topic, if you're keen to learn more for yourself, here is a list of sources that we've used to make this video:
Baxter, William, "Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove; or, Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas."Hitchcock & Walden: 1869.
Carter, Arthur B., The Tarnished Cavalier: Major General Earl Van Dorn, C.S.A., University of Tennessee Press, 1999
Knight, James R., The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks - Civil War Series, Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
Shea, William L. "Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West". Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 1997
National Parks Service "3. Louisiana Infantry", www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-b... [07.12.21]
National Parks Service "The Battle of Pea Ridge", www.nps.gov/peri/learn/histor... [05.12.21]
The Civil War Muse - Skirmish at Little Sugar Creek (Dunagin's Farm), www.thecivilwarmuse.com/index.... [12.11.21]

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@williamcarter1993 2 жыл бұрын

I love these videos. The Trans-Mississippi is an underrated theater of the war. I'd do all those battles in this series, and then maybe even some naval ones. Keep up the great work !

@avenaoat Жыл бұрын

South Californian and Arizonian campaigns are almost unknown to New Mexican campaign.

@gyrospinup 3 ай бұрын

FYI: The movie The Outlaw Josey Wales was about a actual Missouri guerilla named Bill Wilson. Towards the end of the movie, when asked who he is, instead of saying Josey Wales, he says Bill Wilson.

@bryanwiedeman3154 3 ай бұрын

Awesome work..Headsand shoulders above everyone else. Most have railrroad tracks going past Springfield.

@thehistorybard6333 2 жыл бұрын

Your video has amazing quality, you deserve way more subscribers dude! I love to see quality, in-depth videos on the Civil War.

@inet9794 2 жыл бұрын

Well done, I can't wait for part 4. Keep it up! 💯

@tuki8468 2 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of when I was younger, and I watched an 8 part documentary series on the American Civil War, and it would have this southern music playing in the background with the old grainy photos being shown. Nice video

@caliberx8486 2 жыл бұрын

Your gonna blow up...fast...awesome stuff man

@TheJoeboy94 2 жыл бұрын

Lets keep it going, loving the content it is all looking sharp!

@killershrub5579 2 жыл бұрын

Great videos! I'd love to see Sibley''s New Mexico Campaign.

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

That is a high contender for a short series after we’re done with Arkansas & Missouri.

@jonnyboi841 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see videos about Missouri

@stoppotsstabbats 2 жыл бұрын

This . Is . Really good!!

@tuki8468 2 жыл бұрын

yo dude did you make this video yourself if so wow. impressive quality

@huntclanhunt9697 2 жыл бұрын

I've found the biggest thing that lead to the South losing is that they had no strategy. They had tactics, which won many battles, but they were not great at stringing those victories together towards a singular goal. The Union was much better at this, following up victories and stringing them together into campaigns that achieved goals.

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

You’re definitely on to something, Chickamauga is a prime example of a Confederate strategic failure after a victory in the field. The purpose of a battle is advancing your goal of winning the war. If you are simply fighting battles for the sake of a tactical victory without any main strategy behind it you’re not doing any favors to the cause that you’re serving. It can be argued that the Confederacy had a plan of sapping the northern will to fight enough to achieve a settled peace or international recognition. It is commonly simplified down to “Materials & manpower X Will to fight/war support = combat strength”.

@avenaoat 8 ай бұрын

I think it was big strategic mistake after Pea Ridge, Glorieta Pass, ensure South California and to occupy Arizona to neglect the Trans-Mississippi theater. Funny Halleck arrived from West and instead of Fredericksburg campaign (Burnside's disaster) he should have persuaded Lincoln to increase the aid to the West! May it be Halleck Grant personal antipathy was the root case?

@Tanakun09 2 жыл бұрын

where is the second part to this

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

You can check out part 1 and 2 on our channel, explaining the events prior to this video. We are also working currently on part 4.

@1Nathansnell 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question for you. What’s your opinion on General Sigel? He seemed like a good officer but when I read up him I get a different vibe

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Sigel does not have the best record in the Civil War as a battlefiel commander. Most of the battles he is associated with ended with defeats for the Union, like the Battle of New Market 1864. His strength was that he was able to be a talisman for the Germans in the Union army and he had a very fine moment at Pea Ridge that we will get to in a future video.

@MrSquareart 2 жыл бұрын

Found your video on the reddit Post. Not a big gamer fan.

@tannhauser7584 2 жыл бұрын

Osceola is pronounced, "Oh See Oh Luh" Rolla is pronounced, "Rah Luh"

@chamo2240 2 жыл бұрын

He wasn't hired because he could pronounce correctly...

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

Duly noted, thanks for the correction!

@kenttucson2830 2 жыл бұрын

The narrator is definitely not MO/ARK area. Rolla is not pronounced like its spelled - Rolla. The "o" is like an "a". And Fayetteville is not pronounced Fiyetteville.

@gyrospinup 3 ай бұрын

He also says Lebanon like the name of the country, when it's leba-none not leba-non.

@gyrospinup 3 ай бұрын

You never state what started this. Lincoln had told the Missouri governor that Missouri could be neutral. Shortly afterwards, Lincoln sent union troops into St Louis and the troops killed many civilians. Lincoln already knew he needed St Louis due to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers transporting confederate supplies. The union troops then invaded the Missouri state capital. The governor and many elected officials escaped to the Ozarks. Lincoln appointed a new "non elected" governor and state officials, which is against the constitution. The governor joined Missouri into the confederacy at Neosho, Missouri, making Missouri the twelfth star on the confederate flag. Kentucky later became the thirteenth and final confederate state due to Lincoln also lying to them by saying they could be neutral. Without use of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in Missouri, the confederacy sent supplies up the Arkansas and then the White River to Forsyth, Mo. close to Branson. The amount of supplies needed for Missouri was limited due to only small barges that could be brought up the White River. It was very difficult to transport large supplies with wagons in the ozarks of northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri. Once Arkansas fell, Lee knew that he was screwed, and most all focus was east of the Mississippi.

@jonathansloane702 2 жыл бұрын

You put a lot of work into your video but the correct spelling is "Franz Sigel," not Siegel.

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. We spelled it Sigel in the first two videos, and only realized the mistake in this after upload.

@jonathansloane702 2 жыл бұрын

@@historyfederation7146 No problem, enjoyed the video, would just hate for some nerd to nitpick. OMG, I'm that nerd. Lol.

@chamo2240 2 жыл бұрын

"🎵I go und fight mits Sigel!🎶"

@michaelnewton5873 2 жыл бұрын

Franz Siegal the worst political General of the war. Burnside looks like a genius next to Siegal.

@TheJoeboy94 2 жыл бұрын

With Sideburns like Burnside though he can do anything and history will still look on him favourably - All about that style!

@historyfederation7146 2 жыл бұрын

There are other strong contenders for the prestigious title “worst political general of the war”. Sigel does have some battles were he performed decently and Pea Ridge were was probably the most important tactical officer on the 2nd day. If you want some examples of political generals with very little or no decent performances you could look into Nathaniel P. Banks on the Union side and Gideon Pillow and John B. Floyd on the Confederate side.

@mattmuller3756 Жыл бұрын

@@historyfederation7146 Nice answer and very good series of videos. Hoping to see more series when your free to do so. Your very correct that the worst po. gen. covers a ton of ground in the war. you named some great options however. Freemont was a poor Union gen. why many were not used correct that were better effective the Confederacy had a tough road with a more states rights based system that had officers and troops and armies often to worried about a or a few states. Why others were on the back burner or in danger. What had the Confederates in high spirits before Antietam was broken forever by the 4th of Ju. 1863 when they endured the joint defeats in Vicksburg and were turned back in the Gettysburg campaign. I think even the great army of Northern Virginia needed to defend more after Antietam and attempt to bring an end to the war by making the North pay too much in the years heading into the 1864 po. race for US Pres. Hoping the Union army and pop. tired of the war and sacrifice. The South didn't shift troops to meet threats often but when they did at Manassas and Chickamunga it worked very good. An snatched victory from the jaws of defeat twice in two of it's most major victories in the East. Why the massive Chan. "victory" why Pete's core was detatched from ANV and it achieved perhaps it's most famous victory of the war.