My GGGGF, John Dunning, 52nd North Carolina, Randalman/Guilford County, NC was there after surviving Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Cold Harbor. I cannot imagine the horrors. He survived to Appomattox and was one of only 30 survivors of the 52nd. There is a memorial to the 52nd at Appomattox, across the road and back in the woods from the McClean House.
What a life. Did he keep a diary or otherwise record his experience. It was understandable if he did not the horror he would have seen would make him want to forget.
I’m sorry your ancestor had to experience the horrors of war. I’m sorry he chose or was conscripted into fighting for such a terrible and evil cause as slavery and secession.
Secession yes. If you think the ACW was fought for slavery, youre as gullible and ignorant as your mom giving it up to your negligent father. @grontelp77
Years ago I was stationed at Ft. Lee, VA, at Petersburg. I went to the battleground many times, including seeing the area of the crater. The remnants of the crater were still there, and I could only imagine how it much have looked right after the blast.
My great great grandfather Pvt. Isaac Sanford Thomason was there with the 64th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Company K. He was later captured at the Second Battle of Deep Bottom (Fussel's Mill) and sent to Point Lookout POW Camp in Maryland. He did not survive the war.
Truly amazing story. The detail is outstanding with fsr more info than any book and God awful film on this event. Here words do more justice to the shock and carnage than the images on the silverscreen. A perfect plan that was tinkered with and of course they forgot to take account of getting out of their own works. I have never read anywhere that it took 10ins before even the attackers shool themselves into action. Amazing account narrated superbly.
These videos take me back to my Civil War class at Virginia Tech. Dr James I Robertson, Jr. painted pictures with his words so well it was amazing. He had a lecture each year on medicine during the war. Without any visual aids and in a 700 seat lecture hall he would describe things in such detail that students would leave to throw up before returning for more.
Having visited the area and the Crater battle site it was unimaginable to comprehend the mayhem and destruction that followed the blast. A terrible waste of humanity even in war. This video describes it as visibly as possible.
Terrific video and narration. I enjoyed hearing about the tunnel construction itself. The description of the explosion and resulting was very vivid. I felt horrible for all who witnessed it from the details mentioned. I also enjoy the inclusion of many of the eras photographs. Interactive maps whether conouter generated or hand drawn have always held an appeal to me. Great work. Thank you the share. Narrator has a good voice for the job. A good hire. Thanks again for the share.
This was one "General", that never should have been a General. There were others, that fit right in that very same category. Union Generals that fit in that particular category, are people like General McClellan, General Pope, and, of course, General Ledley. A coward in the service, he will find no place. The one Confederate General that fits in this particular category, is General Braxton Bragg. From what I gather, he was very troublesome, and very argumentative. He didn't have many friends. No one wanted to be associated with him, because hardly anyone could get along with him!
Why? It failed. Nothing good came from it. Before it happened, the regiment trained to handle it was replaced in fear and so created a slaughter in the end.
Sincerely, you have my condolences. Many good Men lost their lives in that War. Some wore Blue... Some wore Gray, or Butternut. Personally, if I'd of fought in the Civil War, I would have fought for the Confederacy. I'm a Southerner.
Meade and Grant change the meticulous plan a day before....probably difference between success and failure...old Burnside the scapegoat and eternal damnation
Also the African American units were sent to the flanks reluctantly by the officers. Turned out to be a huge debacle because they would be allowed no surrender
Dixie forever! I, too, am a Southerner, and proud of it! Why couldn't the Yankee Invaders have just left us alone? I guess I'll be asking that question, until the day I draw my last breath! I offer my sincere condolences to you and yours, my Friend. As far as I'm concerned, our Brave Men gave their lives for a much nobler cause, than the Yankees ever fought for...and what absolutely enrages me, is seeing what Gen. Sherman and his worthless Blue-Bellies, did to our Southern Folk... especially our Women! They were raped and tortured by these Devils! They had everything taken away from them! On the other hand:The two times that our Confederate Troops went up North, up around the Harper's Ferry District, and even Antietam, did we ever hear of our Confederate Troops ever doing anything disrespectful, to the Marylanders? No! Why? Because our Men were Gentlemen! They knew that if Gen. Lee would've found out about that kind of nonsense, he would've dealt with the wrongdoers very severely! He might've even had 'em shot! Same thing for Gettysburg. The reports that I have, are that our Men behaved in a Soldiery, Gentlemenly , manner. I'll always be on the side of the South, come what may. Have a great evening! One other thing: HOORAY FOR DIXIE!!!!! 42:32
When I was doing my history homework using Mad magazine,I learned that the Civil War ended in 1955.My grandfather told me that he rode on a horse driven trolley car during the Civil War in 1943.
I'm from Lower Alabama myself. Humidity in NY was a big surprise for me. I went up north after college (for a few years) and was shocked that it was so humid. Granted... The heat wasn't as oppressive, but it was truly a surprise to me.
@@rweezy6246 I could see why you would think that, NYC is worse than where I'm at in Niagara Falls, we get more cold fronts thru--it only gets to the upper 80s on the hottest of days and heat domes usually are 2-3, although the one we had this year right at the beginning of June was 5 days and people were getting cranky, and by my birthday in mid October it's over. If you want to see something crazy search last years Christmas blizzard, Reed Timmer was here and rescued a few people in downtown Buffalo, it was bad, and lake effect is so bizarre, a matter of 10 miles you go from a foot to 5 feet, there was a 4 day travel ban.
I hated history in school, but today, as a senior citizen and adamant student of American military history, I cry over those who died for our freedom as these boys did. Why? Our nation today pisses on the graves of those suffering souls, all started by teaching the ungodly and anti-scientific fairy fable called evolution, that Hitler himself held as 'gospel.' A fact that evilutionists today deny vehemently, yet falsely. As a direct result, we are today watching the demise of what was once a highly-successful REPUBLIC, based explicitly on God and the freedom of religion, to a deMOCKracy based solely on atheism, and the doctrine of 'only the strong survive,' causing the inevitable sabotage of the American experiment in freedom - now a dying, if not already dead concept. Great job 'americans.'
I live in Petersburg va and I do alot of fishing in the Appomattox River in downtown Petersburg you can still find relics of all kinds from the Civil War still to this day on the banks of the river very good metal detecting if anyone wants to know
@@totallynotalpharius2283Its the most realistic and chilling depiction of the civil war without a doubt it shows you that it was literally hell on earth and as brutal as that depiction is it’s hard to comprehend that’s just a small battle compared to the whole war…
I tip my hat, to that. If only I could imagine what that day looked, felt, smelled, sounded, and left upon me, would I wish I never asked to know. When everything in your line of sight has a burnt, dirty, callused hue, and time seems to tick slowly, oblivious to you or your purpose there, does your memory start creating gaps that you long to fill, but just can't due to the overwhelming weight of yesterdays reality. My age removes my exuberance for the desire to have been there and done that. I tip my hat
Petersburg was hell on earth in 1966 when I viseted the Battlefield and the rebel line was a Shoping Center...man it's hot in july and the rock song back then was Oh Sweet pea...by i forgot and Richard Speck killed 12 nurses and hambergers had Mayo on them that made me sick.
The massacre at the end was not because they were black soldiers with guns, it was due to a massacre after the explosion. The 1st Confederate line was cut off, and upon surrending black soldiers because murdering the surrending men, and it only ended when the Union officers began shooting them. The massacre after was retribution for the murders at the start of the battle.
Idk man they were cut off but managed to run back and mass disseminate their story to a unit that was in the midst of conducting its 5th bayonet charge of the day? From how often those incidents tended to occur (like Ft Pillow), it sounds more likely that theater-wide quarter between them had frayed into mutual no prisoners policy
@normanfury8259 idk why youtube deleted my comment. Is there somewhere I can read up on this? The vid in this post makes it seem like the battle was more chaotic than dudes in the battlements being able to discern executions vs combat in a skirmish going on upfield
Nothing wrong with God’s help. Technology, numbers and superior industry were always going to be a massive unassailable advantage. Read General Sherman’s writings. Tactically Confederated were good, but strategically not so much.
"in the seven day fight i stood at my post, and each pop of my gun made a federal ghost, and when the word came to charge by my soul, i made in some blaggard a bayonet hole"
Visited the battlefield and saw remains of the crater in 1984 while a Marine attending training at Fort Pickett…..as a newly promoted corporal, I imagined what it would have been like having to lead men in that situation…a sobering thought 120 years after the fact.
My GGGGF, John Dunning, 52nd North Carolina, Randalman/Guilford County, NC was there after surviving Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Cold Harbor. I cannot imagine the horrors. He survived to Appomattox and was one of only 30 survivors of the 52nd. There is a memorial to the 52nd at Appomattox, across the road and back in the woods from the McClean House.
What a life. Did he keep a diary or otherwise record his experience. It was understandable if he did not the horror he would have seen would make him want to forget.
Cold Harbor first Trench Warfare example.
@allenschmitz9644 No, it wasn't. The Crimean War did it before the ACW even started in the 1850s
I’m sorry your ancestor had to experience the horrors of war. I’m sorry he chose or was conscripted into fighting for such a terrible and evil cause as slavery and secession.
Secession yes. If you think the ACW was fought for slavery, youre as gullible and ignorant as your mom giving it up to your negligent father. @grontelp77
Years ago I was stationed at Ft. Lee, VA, at Petersburg. I went to the battleground many times, including seeing the area of the crater. The remnants of the crater were still there, and I could only imagine how it much have looked right after the blast.
The many different types of warfare developed in our Civil War never ceases to amaze me. This was another brutal battle well narrated again sir.
I grew up around this battlefield.
It made a mark on me as a young man.
It’s an incredible site to see and visit.
Thank You for the video.
❤
YOU GHOUL YOU.
My great great grandfather Pvt. Isaac Sanford Thomason was there with the 64th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Company K. He was later captured at the Second Battle of Deep Bottom (Fussel's Mill) and sent to Point Lookout POW Camp in Maryland. He did not survive the war.
Truly amazing story. The detail is outstanding with fsr more info than any book and God awful film on this event. Here words do more justice to the shock and carnage than the images on the silverscreen. A perfect plan that was tinkered with and of course they forgot to take account of getting out of their own works. I have never read anywhere that it took 10ins before even the attackers shool themselves into action. Amazing account narrated superbly.
These videos take me back to my Civil War class at Virginia Tech. Dr James I Robertson, Jr. painted pictures with his words so well it was amazing. He had a lecture each year on medicine during the war. Without any visual aids and in a 700 seat lecture hall he would describe things in such detail that students would leave to throw up before returning for more.
Dr. Robertson writes like he speaks, very engaging and easy to read.
I have seen a 10part series about the civil war with Dr.Robertson, that was great. Could listen to him for hours. Must be great to have seen him live
I was waiting for this topic to be covered! Great video. I enjoy all your shows very much. Please keep up the great work!
Your videos are so well made. They are informative and the story is so well made. Great writing and great narration.
Absolutely agree.
Having visited the area and the Crater battle site it was unimaginable to comprehend the mayhem and destruction that followed the blast. A terrible waste of humanity even in war. This video describes it as visibly as possible.
Terrific video and narration. I enjoyed hearing about the tunnel construction itself. The description of the explosion and resulting was very vivid. I felt horrible for all who witnessed it from the details mentioned. I also enjoy the inclusion of many of the eras photographs. Interactive maps whether conouter generated or hand drawn have always held an appeal to me. Great work. Thank you the share. Narrator has a good voice for the job. A good hire. Thanks again for the share.
Thanks for another great story ! Great work !
Once again thank you friend for another amazing narration.
Well that's where Burnside's military career as a corps commander under Grant ended. He got relieved soon after.
This was one "General", that never should have been a General. There were others, that fit right in that very same category. Union Generals that fit in that particular category, are people like General McClellan, General Pope, and, of course, General Ledley. A coward in the service, he will find no place.
The one Confederate General that fits in this particular category, is General Braxton Bragg. From what I gather, he was very troublesome, and very argumentative. He didn't have many friends. No one wanted to be associated with him, because hardly anyone could get along with him!
Of all things to make a 3 hour movie on the Civil War, this story needs to be told, and with all possible accuracy.
Why? It failed. Nothing good came from it. Before it happened, the regiment trained to handle it was replaced in fear and so created a slaughter in the end.
The movie Cold Mountain does a great reenactment of this battle.
This is the best video on the crater that I have seen. 👍
I had an ancestor who was killed at the crater in the 22nd South Carolina
Sincerely, you have my condolences. Many good Men lost their lives in that War.
Some wore Blue...
Some wore Gray, or Butternut.
Personally, if I'd of fought in the Civil War, I would have fought for the Confederacy. I'm a Southerner.
Very informative. Great Job!!!
Meade and Grant change the meticulous plan a day before....probably difference between success and failure...old Burnside the scapegoat and eternal damnation
Also the African American units were sent to the flanks reluctantly by the officers. Turned out to be a huge debacle because they would be allowed no surrender
Very well done love the narrator
My great x 5 grandfather private William Lollis 22nd South Carolina was blown up at the crater I am a proud descendant of a brave confederate soldier
Dixie forever! I, too, am a Southerner, and proud of it!
Why couldn't the Yankee Invaders have just left us alone?
I guess I'll be asking that question, until the day I draw my last breath!
I offer my sincere condolences to you and yours, my Friend. As far as I'm concerned, our Brave Men gave their lives for a much nobler cause, than the Yankees ever fought for...and what absolutely enrages me, is seeing what Gen. Sherman and his worthless Blue-Bellies, did to our Southern Folk... especially our Women! They were raped and tortured by these Devils! They had everything taken away from them!
On the other hand:The two times that our Confederate Troops went up North, up around the Harper's Ferry District, and even Antietam, did we ever hear of our Confederate Troops ever doing anything disrespectful, to the Marylanders? No! Why? Because our Men were Gentlemen! They knew that if Gen. Lee would've found out about that kind of nonsense, he would've dealt with the wrongdoers very severely! He might've even had 'em shot!
Same thing for Gettysburg. The reports that I have, are that our Men behaved in a Soldiery, Gentlemenly , manner.
I'll always be on the side of the South, come what may.
Have a great evening!
One other thing:
HOORAY FOR DIXIE!!!!! 42:32
When I was doing my history homework using Mad magazine,I learned that the Civil War ended in 1955.My grandfather told me that he rode on a horse driven trolley car during the Civil War in 1943.
😂😂😂
God bless the Union soldiers who fought and died to preserve our nation and destroy the evil of slavery.
Yes
July in western New York is extremely humid, I'll pass on Virginia.
I'm from Lower Alabama myself. Humidity in NY was a big surprise for me. I went up north after college (for a few years) and was shocked that it was so humid. Granted... The heat wasn't as oppressive, but it was truly a surprise to me.
@@rweezy6246 I could see why you would think that, NYC is worse than where I'm at in Niagara Falls, we get more cold fronts thru--it only gets to the upper 80s on the hottest of days and heat domes usually are 2-3, although the one we had this year right at the beginning of June was 5 days and people were getting cranky, and by my birthday in mid October it's over.
If you want to see something crazy search last years Christmas blizzard, Reed Timmer was here and rescued a few people in downtown Buffalo, it was bad, and lake effect is so bizarre, a matter of 10 miles you go from a foot to 5 feet, there was a 4 day travel ban.
Va Humidity is no joke. But nothing and I mean nothing tops Georgia in July. Ask anyone who went to Airborne school.
@@zachmoore4550I live in the Western Part of the State of Virginia, in Staunton, and believe me-I know what you mean!
It was 98 percent humidity the other morning then later that day it was 97 degrees ...hard to breathe
I hated history in school, but today, as a senior citizen and adamant student of American military history, I cry over those who died for our freedom as these boys did. Why? Our nation today pisses on the graves of those suffering souls, all started by teaching the ungodly and anti-scientific fairy fable called evolution, that Hitler himself held as 'gospel.' A fact that evilutionists today deny vehemently, yet falsely.
As a direct result, we are today watching the demise of what was once a highly-successful REPUBLIC, based explicitly on God and the freedom of religion, to a deMOCKracy based solely on atheism, and the doctrine of 'only the strong survive,' causing the inevitable sabotage of the American experiment in freedom - now a dying, if not already dead concept. Great job 'americans.'
@ForeverBleedinGreen
I still don’t understand how everyone thinks they evolved from bacteria that magically replicated itself infinitely.
BUGS BUNNY SAIDS THANK YOU FOR NOT DOING YOUR HOMEWORK AND WATCHING MY CARTOONS INSTEAD.
I live in Petersburg va and I do alot of fishing in the Appomattox River in downtown Petersburg you can still find relics of all kinds from the Civil War still to this day on the banks of the river very good metal detecting if anyone wants to know
Definitely it wasn't Burnside's fault
IT WAS YOUR FAULT.YOU GHOUL.
Cold Mountain does this pretty well
Think of this battle because of Cold Mountain and Civil War Combat.
That’s my favorite depiction of a civil war battle in any media
@@totallynotalpharius2283Its the most realistic and chilling depiction of the civil war without a doubt it shows you that it was literally hell on earth and as brutal as that depiction is it’s hard to comprehend that’s just a small battle compared to the whole war…
My GG uncles were blown up in the explosion, they along with others from Eilliots unit are on the wall in Blandford church on a plaque..
Burnsides Folly
I enjoyed the story. It was good.
They couldn't even retreat properly
DOWN with the Union!
No
RIP
To the 504 Union troops and 361 Confederate troops who were killed in the Battle of the Crater
Thank you. Not a happy story, but I always thought it was a interesting one.
What an utter disaster!
Can anyone answer this I wonder if the hole is still there
Yes it is
Much smaller and you can see the 4 powder holes. Erosion has taken it's toll
DA WHAT HOLE?
@@Davidgreene-t2y where the gunpowder was placed
I tip my hat, to that. If only I could imagine what that day looked, felt, smelled, sounded, and left upon me, would I wish I never asked to know. When everything in your line of sight has a burnt, dirty, callused hue, and time seems to tick slowly, oblivious to you or your purpose there, does your memory start creating gaps that you long to fill, but just can't due to the overwhelming weight of yesterdays reality.
My age removes my exuberance for the desire to have been there and done that. I tip my hat
Petersburg was hell on earth in 1966 when I viseted the Battlefield and the rebel line was a Shoping Center...man it's hot in july and the rock song back then was Oh Sweet pea...by i forgot and Richard Speck killed 12 nurses and hambergers had Mayo on them that made me sick.
The massacre at the end was not because they were black soldiers with guns, it was due to a massacre after the explosion. The 1st Confederate line was cut off, and upon surrending black soldiers because murdering the surrending men, and it only ended when the Union officers began shooting them. The massacre after was retribution for the murders at the start of the battle.
Idk man they were cut off but managed to run back and mass disseminate their story to a unit that was in the midst of conducting its 5th bayonet charge of the day? From how often those incidents tended to occur (like Ft Pillow), it sounds more likely that theater-wide quarter between them had frayed into mutual no prisoners policy
@junioraltamontent.7582 No, it was witnessed by those on the battlefield. The men that survived were taken prisoner.
@normanfury8259 idk why youtube deleted my comment. Is there somewhere I can read up on this? The vid in this post makes it seem like the battle was more chaotic than dudes in the battlements being able to discern executions vs combat in a skirmish going on upfield
Salient = point, post, position, station, location. Jsyk
The Union generals were so incompetent. It was only the hand of God that brought Victory to the Union
Nothing wrong with God’s help. Technology, numbers and superior industry were always going to be a massive unassailable advantage. Read General Sherman’s writings. Tactically Confederated were good, but strategically not so much.
"in the seven day fight i stood at my post, and each pop of my gun made a federal ghost, and when the word came to charge by my soul, i made in some blaggard a bayonet hole"
Maybe Grant's lack of enthusiasm is being borne by the mine scheme at Vicksburg. Which also accomplished nothing. IMO.
Interesting I hadn’t thought of that. It may have played a part in it
Sounded like a lot of fun just didn't work
my great great cousin deserted the confederate army after this battle. spent the rest of the war hiding in the woods from hanging gangs
This started out well...then descended into the lost cause. No thanks
Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq are hilarious multiple lost causes
It worked in Europe a few times Battle of Bologna
Don't think guns were invented at that time though
Visited the battlefield and saw remains of the crater in 1984 while a Marine attending training at Fort Pickett…..as a newly promoted corporal, I imagined what it would have been like having to lead men in that situation…a sobering thought 120 years after the fact.
YOU GHOUL
Butternut and grey looks best drenched in it's own blood. True then, true now. FAAFO
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