I married my wife on July 1st for a reason.......1st day of Gettysburg 🤣

Your father has a wonderful sense of humor. Hopefully your mother appreciated his humor.

@@gary4250 The were married until death parted them. They were both always joking even when times were tough.

@@model-man7802Also Canada Day, eh?

@@TheMrPeteChannel absolutely👍

I’m glad you are trying, I am 32 and have always been confuse why everyone doesn’t want to know history. The more history you know the less mistakes you make I truly believe that.

So why did you not pay attention and do the reading? Maybe you were just lazy. But for you, it is always the teacher's fault.

Good teachers matter.... and after a generation of focusing on STEM there are even less good history teachers now than ever.

@@stenbak88 not to mention an endless supply of good stories...

@@nedludd7622 maybe the readings werent adequate or interesting either. I have a degree in history, but my love of the subject was not gained in any k12 classroom, unfortunately. My passions grew out of my own personal reading selections. Which actually started mostly with sports biographies..but that lead to biographies generally, etc. I've found a passion for history is usually instilled through some passion you have, ie a hobby that younare presently engaged in, etc. But with such an immediate reaction I cant help but wonder if you arent one of those teachers who just doesnt get it and blames their students for not being passionate when the teacher doesnt know how to connect with them.... (Btw I had really bad grammar teachers and never gained a passion for that)

Research Tuck Haynesworth. For the rest of the story lol

The first shots were fired from fort Johnson on James Island, where the marine research labs, dnr, and a CofC campus reside, not downtown at battery park, but it’s a popular misconception. There’s a stone marking the site near the coast. I know this because I used to eat lunch next to it at a picnic table.

@@jasonteknut Yep! Use to ride my bike there when I was a kid.

@@jasonteknut I guess I misunderstood about the start of this. I remember it being said of the bombardment from the battery and didn't think of the other locations. Take Care and be safe, John

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When you learn the history, you’re doomed to coordinate with it.

Thomas Jefferson's birthday tomorrow as well.

@@firingallcylinders2949 And Yuri Gargin's first flight into space

... and the anniversary of FDR's death.

@@EricDKaufman 40th Anniversary of the First Space Shuttle Launch as well. STS-1 "Columbia", which some years later was lost on re-entry along with all crew.

well said!

Who did they say fired the first shot? I haven't done the tour in a while although we visit the Holy city often as we live in Sumter

@@toddtouchberry It's been a long time since the tour and my memory can be shaky in the best of times, but as I recall there were some CSA cadets manning a battery that let the first salvo fly.

@@stevedietrich8936 research Tuck Haynesworth (we live in Sumter)

That is an interesting place to visit, I bet most tourists don't even realize it's down there.

There is star on The Citadel cadet graduate ring commemorating the firing upon the Star of the West.

George E. Haynsworth was the Cadets name. James Islander here.

The actual first shots of the war.

Visit the Hunley??

9:05 is Fort Jefferson: www.nps.gov/drto/learn/historyculture/fort-jefferson.htm. 9:49 is Fort Clinch: www.floridastateparks.org/fortclinch

The next civil war will be much worse.

We have been tearing ourselves apart for the past six years. The violence is bubbling up. Our elected leadership is fostering it, or ignoring it. They are tearing down law enforcement to help it.

@@dirus3142 The seeds for what looms ahead were sown at least as far back as the 1960s.

My Birthday too Happy Birthday Aries

Happy Birthday

Thanks you guys

yep, and a few more dates in history

Best of the day to you.

Are you referring to the museum in Columbia?

Nice to see it spelled correctly. The largest "mountain" in Australia is named for him but nobody there pronounces it correctly. His statue to commemorate his contribution to the war of independence used to be outside the Whitehouse. He left quite a legacy

Mr Simms was my favorite History teacher in school. We opened the book on the fist day then put it under the desk and took notes the rest of the year. He captivated us with his stories of History and gave us a feeling that we were there and a part of it.

My best history teacher was in my local community collage. He had good textbooks, and lectures. He prompted his class with questions, many of them aimed towards considering the point of view of a person at the time. If you were a upper class woman why would you NOT support the suffrage movement? If you were a poor southern farmer why would you support, or not support, succession.

Key West's Fort Zachary Taylor, Dry Tortuga's Fort Jefferson(?) and the fort in Saint Augustine are also great Florida forts. 👍🏻🇺🇸

You should also attend the reenactment of the battle of Olustee, Fl. It is one of the last battles of the Civil War.

One of my bucket list items that is not there anymore... Great suggestion! Niels is with the Old Man, to this day...

Seconded! Great idea.

I remember that face. As a kid of about 10 we used to visit a cabin near there in the early 60s. I had an old 110 black and white film camera and somewhere have a picture of it. It was sad to hear it broke apart.

I want to add, Niels Nielsen came to my elementary school to teach us about the Old Man and how his family cared for it. I still remember how nice he was, and how passionate about his work. He was a great caretaker and a great educator, too.

Niels was a friend of the family, tickled and grateful that he is remembered, especially so fondly. I used to love looking for the old man every time we drove through the notch when I was a kid. If you have the opportunity to visit, nowadays there is a very nice Memorial; you can pull off the Kank & there are plates with cutouts arranged in such a manner that you can still see the old man...

You can examine online the history textbook for any state in the Union. Simply choose the state, then begin your search. There are no secrets in public education. It's all online.

@@grantsmythe8625 And those books are full of inaccuracies, and outright lies.

@@LordFalconsword Really? So first you claim that history isn't being taught and when you're called on it you change to "Well, its taught but there are errors in the books. So you've read some of them? Tell us, which ones have you, give the publisher and the error.

@grant smythe: online information is easily manipulated and thus fallible. Also: just because it is online doesn't mean it is being taught. The first slaves in the US where white Irish. The most slaves were Chinese. The reparations movement is horseshit. Ronald Regan was the best president ever. Second best was Trump.

@@christopherwedemeyer2993 Well I probably wasn't clear about the online comment. There is an online copy of the textbooks that the kids have in the classroom. Lesson plans are online too. Often, students' work from previous years is online as well. As for the reparations issue, I have mixed feelings about it. Reagan was somewhat above average while the president of Trump University is at the bottom.

We entered a WWII diesel submarine that was moored beside the Yorktown about 15 years ago. Always wanted to do that.

Supermax?

@@gorflunk Fort Leavenworth is much more than just the military and Federal prisons. Lots of other stuff there.

@@gorflunk we dont have a super max but we do have 7 prisons in town 2 of which are military prisons on the Fort. The forts primary mission is to train senior officers in command and war fighting. All of our allies send officers also. Pretty much any captain or better has been here. There is a wall of fame for our allies and sometimes individuals have to be removed, like Manuel Noriega.

Awful hours that could have been avoided had they simply left when offered the opportunity. Nothing in the Constitution forbade any State from seceding then. Nor is there any prohibition now. Indeed, none of the original 13 states would have signed or ratified such a provision.

@@johncox2865 Perhaps you are correct; there was some debate at the founding about secession, just without agreement. With all due respect, Sir, had the Federals permitted the south to secede, the unconscionable blight of human slavery would have continued to fester "next door," and I suggest would have eventually led to blows. A righteous man cannot live peacefully next door to a wife beater. Let's be clear, the "rights" that concerned southern secessionists were property rights over fellow human beings. I've just been reading a fascinating book, "The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War" by Mark Tooley. In this book, Tooley demonstrates that the property rights arguments of the slave-holding members is clearly the driving force behind secession.

@@davemoore6690 Slavery was not the basic issue. However, it neither began nor ended in the American South. Are you aware that slavery continued unabated in the North long after Emancipation? I repeat, the South was Constitutionally justified in secession. If the tables were turned, would not the North have done the same? I remind you that, before Emancipation, the war was intensely unpopular in the North. Lincoln only turned to the moral issue after realizing that he would fail re-election, if not face military defeat, unless the war could be popularized.

@@davemoore6690 And, I readily admit to being a Recovering Racist, having been born white and male in Birmingham, AL in the very middle of the 20th century. I voted against Roy Moore and for Joe Biden, the first Democratic votes I have ever cast. The reasoning behind my opinions of the war have nothing to do with racism, for I have discovered myself to be a member of an even more hated minority.

@@davemoore6690 I will not argue the morality of slavery. The only point I am making here is that the South had Constitutional justification for secession. In particular, the document is a legal contract between the subscribing states. Clearly, the Union violated that contract.

That is som(p)thing to think about.

There is the same problem with Clemson University. Many people say Clempson.

The accommodations were quite sumptuous.

Guilty as charged, but I reformed.

I seem to recall a sumpter was someone involved with provisioning the army.

So you're saying (back then) the U.S. was fighting a "defensive" war by invading the Confederacy and forcibly retaining sovereign states which had elected to leave a voluntary union of sovereign states?

So I receive a notification in which you call me a racist and accuse me of not watching the video. I guess you missed the memo, but this channel is about history -- meaning facts - stuff that's real. I would ask what you're doing here, but I'm sure you don't know, so instead I'll give you a little free advice: Your puppetmasters only expect you to DRINK the Kool-Aid - you don't have to give yourself enemas with the stuff. You're welcome.

@@dougearnest7590 One who defends the Confederacy is defending the use of African slaves and thus is a racist.

I wish he included info on Tuck Haynesworth

It is impossible that anyone could wad up a piece of paper and throw it into a trash receptacle prior to 1891, the year basketball was invented. 😄 Don’t worry, I’m joking.

While there is some academic discussion, in the field of polemology a civil war does not require a fight for control of a central government. Fights for regional independence are generally considered to be civil wars in both academic and geopolitical parlance. Moreover, the leadership of the Confederacy themselves referred to the war as a civil war at the time. In the north the war was more often referred to as a "rebellion," but in the field of polemology a rebellion that rises to the level of a war is also called a civil war. Too, the term "civil war" was still commonly used in the North as well, evidenced by Lincoln's reference to "a great civil war" in the address at Gettysburg. In brief, the claim that the term is a misnomer generally relies on generic dictionary definitions, which can vary. But the American Civil War was a civil war by both the historic and academic use of the term. Most importantly, the people involved in the conflict referred to it as a civil war at the time.

Lincoln wanted that war. Freeing slaves was just an excuse and a way to put a righteous face on their aggression.

@@au7-721 Freeing the slaves was a much easier sell to someone about to possible go off and die than than telling someone they are fighting to protect and promote northern commercial interests. History is always written by the victors.

Those carriage rides are fun. Did They mention that the cannonballs were absorbed into the palmetto trees because they were nearly rubber like?

Did they teach you ANYTHING?