This is a North Carolina soldier…close to South Carolina tho

@@irockuroll60 good point, close enough 😉

And you know cause you were there lol

I had an ancestor who fought with the 31st at Battery Wagner.

@jay jay what counties was the 31st out of?

@@Hugh_jasshole1980 Sorry I didn’t respond earlier. The 31st North Carolina Reg. was known as the “Cape Fear Boys”. Under General Clingman. All my information is in a box somewhere. My ancestor was in Co. I. It was really cool doing the research and his participation in Battery Wagner. Pvt. Norman T. Johnson

My great great great uncle Sergeant Thomas McCracken fought in the Thomas Legion in the 69th North Carolina Infantry

@@travisbayles870 Cool I am akin to your family. I have pieced most of my family together

@@Firekeeper61 you mean we are related

@@travisbayles870 Yes my grandmother has McCracken in her family line I live in western n.c. I will attempt to send a pic of Cubbies &Betsey's grave

@@Firekeeper61 that would be great If youre on facebook send me a friend request I want to stay in touch if thats ok

explain a moment in the whole video that mentioned him or his comrades wanting to keep black people enslaved. I'll wait.

You've been brainwashed. Did you know a mere 1.3% of all of America owned slaves at the height of slavery? You need to try and step back and reasses. Oswald killed JFK = Lie Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack = Lie 9/11 done by goat herders = Lie Joe Briben received 81M votes = Lie Covid Vax safe and effective = Lie Climate change = Lie J6 was an Insurrection = Lie But not the reason for the Civil War that not a lie.. lol C'mon now.. Our History has been totally Propagandized , you are living through Propaganda right now .

@Immortalis... @dtcdtc8328 You guys know what casus belli is, right? From the confederate Constitution; a law of the land-type document nearly identical to the living Constitution Union soldiers fought to defend. The Constitution that ALL confederates fought to establish (regardless of their own, personal reasons for volunteering) included this: Article I Section 9 (4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed. That's a bulletproof, stain-resistant, ironclad article protecting (indefinitely) the institution of slavery. If the rebellion had been successful, THIS would've been cemented within the law of that land; of that new nation the world would have to recognize. No matter what any veteran said or put to paper about why 'they' fought... THIS was the confederate casus belli. All the post-hoc excuses like states' rights, defending our homes, slavery not applicable to anyone too poor to own a slave or my favorite, "why are you fighting? because you're down here", are attempts to stiff-arm the stigma of this document from their willingness to fight, kill and/or die in the War of the Rebellion. I will concede after the fact, that veterans saying they fought for states rights, etc would feign ignorance to this article. Many of them indeed may not have known of it, having been ginned up to war by other statements. My question to you is, if that were the case, what do you think those veterans would have done HAD they known of it? Lincoln was a president astute and shrewd enough to know that hitching 'ending slavery' to the early war wagon would diminish the number of northern volunteers, whereas saving the Union was a far more universal cause; even rallying southern Unionists to it. After years of battle and bloodshed, the US Army would become keenly aware of how slaves were being used against it. As sure as the hardship of fighting 19th century warfare without saltpeter for gunpowder, was the hardship upon the south fighting a war without slaves. As soon as the Federal Army knew that dismissing slavery was the wrench it needed to turn the bolt that would end the war, the south was finished.

I am from Iredell County North Carolina my ancestry served with 12th North Carolina from Catawba County wounded at Chancellorsville May 2nd 1863 return to service January 64 present at Appomattox

Had a relative in the 50th GA , iirc released there at the end of the war too. Point Lookout was some hateful cruelty. Camp Douglas in Chicago was terrible too.

The fastest you relies the faster it Stop's.

What was the "worse" cause ever fought for?

@@ZM7241994 the great principles/reason of confederate ide of that civil war---preservation of slavery of africans! (and, NO! I have ZERO interest in arguing over some ridiculous/pro confederate-slavery argument that "It was really over states rights, not slavery")

@@brucebostick2521 You cannot say that you have zero interest in this argument after replying to my question five months after the fact. You clearly do. The war was not fought primarily over slavery as emancipation did not become a Union war goal till late 1862, and even then Lincoln offered the slaveholding states several chances to keep their slave property if they'd lay down their arms and rejoin the Union. The South never took him up on any of his offers even in 1864 when prospects for a Southern victory were quite low. Why would alleged slavery fanatics throw away their best opportunities to save their property unless there were other more important motivators at play such as independence, state rights, or the safety of their families? You do realize that ante-bellum Southerners were human beings and not poorly-written cartoon characters, right?

@@ZM7241994 thank you for making the point i made (and all historians thatve ever read even a sentence on this issue)! SLAVERY, of Africans kidnapped from their nation/homes, was the cause of the war, but more so, cause of literally every major issue confronting our nation, from founding until the war. (That was true of the huge natl land purchases, major SC cases, elections, natl citizenship debates, etc) you cant even pretend to understand even the smallest detail in early america while attempting to cover up/bury the issue og slavery. You are correct that it wasnt INTENDED to be such but reality assured it would be. every seccession document of all eleven of those 'traitor/states' that left our nation. alexander stephens, spkg as CSA VP in 1861, stated clearly that Slavery was the central/key policy requiring the existence of that new nation, based on exactly that policy! lincoln, who personally opposed slavery, tried to keep it a war to reunite the union, but reality made that impossible.

@@brucebostick2521 Slavery was NOT the cause of the war. The refusal of the United States government and the Northern people to accept secession(the war didn't start in December of 1860), and their subsequent invasion of the Cotton States was what started it. The historical record makes this quite clear. Lincoln promised a constitutional amendment in his First Inaugural that would've made it impossible for the Federal government to ever interfere with slavery yet none of the seceded states returned and eventually several more states would leave. Again, if slavery was the big issue here then how come none of the slave states took this amazing offer? Most slaves in America that were alive around 1860 were born in America so they were hardly kidnapped, and it was African warlords that kidnapped the few that were. All the European/American did was buy them. I'd also like to point out that slavery in the South had been present well before there was even a United States and thus was a problem inherited by Southerners and not created by. Slavery was NOT at the heart of every controversy of the ante-bellum United States. The whole slave versus free state back-and-forth tug of war was your standard power struggle that we see in all nations at all times. It was also not the only difference between the North and South. That's not to say that the most peculiar institution didn't play a role, but it wasn't the main actor or the only issue of the day. By "secession document" I'm guessing you are referring to the secession ordinances such as South Carolina's? If so, then not all the States that would join the Confederacy had such documents, and even for those that did there is more nuance then you let on. They mention constitutional violations, discriminatory tariffs and spending, and Mississippi's even mentions the welfare of the slave. Alexander Stephens wasn't a fan of secession as he felt slavery was better protected within the Union then without, and that impromptu speech he gave was on a hotel balcony after several drinks and to an audience of planters. It's not a founding document, and the ideas he espoused in it, such as white supremacy and slavery, were at the same time the rules of the land in the United States or do you think that the ante-bellum North was some sort of inclusive society with annual pride parades? Also, secession was and is not treason and only some very ignorant of American history would insist otherwise. Lincoln didn't oppose slavery, but only the extension of it and that was due to his white nationalist views and partisan politics. His plan to emancipate blacks during the war came packaged with his plan to remove them from the country. He even invited a delegation of blacks to the White House just to tell them to pack their bags.

To try and keep people as SLAVES

I hope he made out out alive and well!

@@Mr_Fancypants he did, but he was wounded. He ended up becoming a preacher, got married and died of old age.

Anyone who reads the actual words of the politicians in the South who brought about the Confederacy knows that they were trying to protect their slave based economy. Many German soldiers in World War II didn't write in their diaries that they were fighting to kill Jews or Polish civilians and ethnically cleanse their lands. But that doesn't change the reason why they were fighting. Politicians make war, not privates.

Well I think you unappreciative Reb would be thankful for the Victor to take time first to read it and second to have it read to you. I've spoken this as a native son of Pennsylvania. Second GreatGrandfather left his leg and two brothers at Vicksburg. Union Forever!

@@williambarr2698 Like Shelby Foote said. "North is a direction, South is a place." Deo Vindice!

I know, right. What had happened was that they found themselves down wind from a category 4 shit storm.

The rebellious human nature response to territory. "We're fightin' you 'cause you're down here."

We didn’t take well to people telling us how to live or invading our homes then and we don’t now. What you think is your own business. I’m a Native Tarheel whose family fought in North Carolina Regiments and owned no slaves.