Thank you, I know usual shtick on another of your channels is to not link, I love that channel , I also like links . Busted my right arm so apologize for typos & probable lack of comments on other channels until I train my middle left finger to do anything but flip the bird. Will miss having fun on BB but I will be back TO HAVE FUN, SKUNK DUDE !
And going forward. :-) A few months of videos all recorded and ready to be scheduled. And some new authors on board to keep it going. Let's see how much money we can lose until the algorithm gods smile upon us. :-) -Daven
@@HighlightHistory - Appreciate all you guys do... is good to see some old style content hosted by Simon. I love the less structured format of Business Blaze... but I see that the improvisational nature and Simon memes pervading the other channels... so it is refreshing to see serious hosting of serious subjects.
I think that's because they do a few videos to see on how the channel performs and how the interest is. Daven commented elsewhere here that they now have months of videos produced for this channel. That's probably what they did in the meantime.
I had an ancestor who died as a POW at Andersonville, Union soldier William P. Vandever from Pennsylvania...he died of infectious diarrhea while imprisoned there... On the present site of the former prison camp (which was actually rebuilt on the site so visitors can get a full sense of what the prison camp was really like...the original has been long gone for ages...😳) the stream still runs through the middle...and is STILL too dangerous to even CONTEMPLATE drinking from as it remains polluted to this very day!
Andersonville is near the town of Americus, where I lived for several years. They celebrate this camp there. It now contains a large military cemetary.
Kudos to Simon, for managing to successfully traverse the tricky verbal pronunciation hurdle of clearly & distinctly dictating the orthologically challenging, incongruent combination of the two words: "...Wirz was..." - with _absolute clarity_ - several times throughout this video! Bravo, sir!!!🙇🏻♀️
Oooooo hey THERE'S an idea! See if any topics could be discussed on multiple channels to explore the many possible angles...for Andersonville, this could mean the Highlight History overview we just watched, followed by a Geographics on the camp location itself, a Biographics on Father Peter Whelan who worked to try to help the prisoners as much as possible and perhaps another one on the man who was in charge of the camp(?)...follow that up with a Today I Found Out discussing the efforts to restore the site and you've got quite the series! 😁😁😁😁
My mother had a great grandfather who had been a Union prisoner at Andersonville. She told me when I was a child that he had said it was a hellhole ( not quite in those words). She said he told of the time when there was a mouse seen running through the camp, with the result that the starving men ran after it for the chance to eat it. She said that he told how he caught the mouse, but another prisoner bit off one of his fingers in the mad scramble for the mouse. He was glad that the commandant was hung for how he permitted the prisoners to be treated. Thanks for sharing, I have not heard much about this part of the Civil War history.
Treantmonk did a video this week: “Monk’s Suck”. I have to agree. They’re a martial class with lousy HP, AC, and Damage output. Thematically they are fun but class-wise they’re probably worse than the much maligned Ranger.
What a gift! Daven and crew bringing Highlight History back from the brink! Not to make this video more depressing, but didn’t a steamboat of returning prisoners from Andersonville catch fire and sink in the Mississippi? Talk about adding insult to injury...
Stephanie... yeah, not to rain on the parade, but... for a lot of released Vets heading northward via the steamship Sultana on the river, it ended tragically. freepages.rootsweb.com/~indiana42nd/history/Sultana.htm
First, like anyone cares. It’s been a while for this site, Simon👍. Good to see you back here! Andersonville was truly horrendous. They should have just let them go.☹️
I live about a hundred miles from Americus Georgia where Andersonville prison is and have been there a few times and you can still see tunnels where they tried to escape ..... Not much left of the outer wall but still a very eery place.... Such a small place to hold a whole major league baseball stadium's amount of people....
I learned about this camp originally by chance (it might of been because of a toptenz video actually) about 4~ years ago and then I learned a bit more about it in my Georgia history class. It’s been one of the things I like to learn and talk that’s specifically connected to the civil war. I don’t think enough people know or talk about it. So many people died and suffered in the camp and it was just forgotten or people say “bUt ThE uNiOn-“ completely ignoring how hellish Andersonville was.
I love all of your channels! This is a new one for me and I find it fantastic. Love you sitting in the big chair! Thanks for being you and making excellent content!!
There is a book called the black country that is mostly based on Britain but there are a few chapters that have very detailed descriptions of andersonville. I don't know how historically accurate it is but it details the hell pretty well
The dutch angle throws me off a bit! i just want to tilt the camera to put it right! lol! and ive noticed this in other videos from here! love your work!!
Biographics, Geographics, Megaprojects, Sideprohects, TopTenz, Business Blaze, Today I Foud Out, Highlight History, Brainfood, Simon Whistler...I _think_ that's all of them. There's also Visualpolitik...but I don't know if that's actually his, or just one he writes for or is just sometimes involved with. I'm sure there's probably more, but it's another case of whether or not they're his or he just works on them sometimes. I'm sure you know of plenty in the list, I just figured I'd list all of the one's I know of and a couple maybes.
Wirz sent the five prisoners to the Union lines by issuing them a parole. When the attempt failed the five men, in keeping with instructions, voluntarily returned to the camp.
Anybody else have to pause the video, check the credits, eye the host really closely and try to decide how many downers they'd pumped in the Simon look alike before continuing......
_gasp_ The neon sign works again! Sam must have been drafted into indentured servitude for his occasional snarky memes. He's also now being held in the basement...allegedly.
It's things like this that emphasize how far we have come in humanitarian ideals. Sure we still have our issues (ie torture of Arab prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq), but definitely not as wide-spread as past ages.
Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't understand how this channel is different to any of the other Simon channels? This video in particular is just like Geographics. What's this channels "point"? Not being rude, just honestly curious.
Arguably the Union had halted prisoner exchanges not primarily because of the impact to Confederate manpower and resources (though that was certainly seen as a benefit) but because of how the Confederate Army treated black Union soldiers. Black soldiers who surrendered to Confederate forces were either killed outright in cold blood, or captured to be sold as slaves. And the reason why I would argue that was the primary reason for halting prisoner exchanges is because "treating black soldiers the same as white soldiers" was literally the condition the Union Army put on recommencing prisoner exchanges. But the Confederacy was so dedicated to their white supremacist worldview that they were willing to give up thousands of their own limited men and watch thousands of other (white) men suffer like this out of spite and hatred for the 10% of Union troops who were black.
I don't know if I want to watch this one, because... oh... you picked the wrong camp. Elmira on the Union side? Had a hirer death rate per capita than Andersonville and sooo much more. *sigh* But we don't hear about it because the victors buried it.
The prison was overcrowded and supplies were woefully lacking. The commander and his superiors wanted to ease the suffering through prisoner exchanges. Lincoln, however, preferred to let those prisoners rot. Who was the criminal?
As mentioned: Whatever Happened to Confederate President Jefferson Davis?: ruclips.net/video/5nHNTQ81QKg/видео.html
Highlight History Simon University!!!
Thank you, I know usual shtick on another of your channels is to not link, I love that channel , I also like links . Busted my right arm so apologize for typos & probable lack of comments on other channels until I train my middle left finger to do anything but flip the bird. Will miss having fun on BB but I will be back TO HAVE FUN, SKUNK DUDE !
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Wow, this channel's still alive!
Allegedly.
And going forward. :-) A few months of videos all recorded and ready to be scheduled. And some new authors on board to keep it going. Let's see how much money we can lose until the algorithm gods smile upon us. :-) -Daven
@@HighlightHistory Yay, new videos!
Also... *all hail the algorithm gods.* 🙏
@@HighlightHistory - Appreciate all you guys do... is good to see some old style content hosted by Simon. I love the less structured format of Business Blaze... but I see that the improvisational nature and Simon memes pervading the other channels... so it is refreshing to see serious hosting of serious subjects.
Lisa Bowers HAIL
@@HighlightHistory Didn't realise you were part of the highlight history team, daven, good stuff!
Keep this channel going Simon! Historic reviews are needed to hopefully prevent repetition of hellish events.
Too late. Look outside! LOL
@@garyoa1 I keep hoping 🙏
garyoa1 it’s fine where I live. Wouldn’t notice the pandemic or riots if it wasn’t for closures and the news.
I was not told to smash that dislike button, so I liked it.
This is the 1st one of these for ages. Had almost forgotten about the channel.
Yeah brand new videos twice a week. That was a very long week sonde the last one. About 150 days long.
I think that's because they do a few videos to see on how the channel performs and how the interest is. Daven commented elsewhere here that they now have months of videos produced for this channel. That's probably what they did in the meantime.
@1:04
I'm pretty sure 33 guys would be chill living in a place built to hold 10,000
I believe he meant to say 33 THOUSAND...but, ummm, Simon... *you left off the thousand* 😳
Lol, exactly. I thought the same thing.
I listened to that bit three times thinking I had missed something. Nope. Simon missed something.
So happy to see content on this channel. I feared it was being retired
Keep this channel alive! I know it's Simon's least popular channel, but I love it. I mean I love all 800 of your channels but still.
I had an ancestor who died as a POW at Andersonville, Union soldier William P. Vandever from Pennsylvania...he died of infectious diarrhea while imprisoned there...
On the present site of the former prison camp (which was actually rebuilt on the site so visitors can get a full sense of what the prison camp was really like...the original has been long gone for ages...😳) the stream still runs through the middle...and is STILL too dangerous to even CONTEMPLATE drinking from as it remains polluted to this very day!
Andersonville is near the town of Americus, where I lived for several years. They celebrate this camp there.
It now contains a large military cemetary.
I remember an excellent play broadcast on PBS titled "Trail at Andersonville" starring Richard Basehart. about this.
I love the fact simon has a channel for every single "subject" on youtube. You just need a gaming channel now 👍
Yay! The channel's back! I actually missed it.
Kudos to Simon, for managing to successfully traverse the tricky verbal pronunciation hurdle of clearly & distinctly dictating the orthologically challenging, incongruent combination of the two words: "...Wirz was..." - with _absolute clarity_ - several times throughout this video! Bravo, sir!!!🙇🏻♀️
Would be interested in a Biographics video on Peter Whelan, he sounds like an interesting dude.
Oooooo hey THERE'S an idea! See if any topics could be discussed on multiple channels to explore the many possible angles...for Andersonville, this could mean the Highlight History overview we just watched, followed by a Geographics on the camp location itself, a Biographics on Father Peter Whelan who worked to try to help the prisoners as much as possible and perhaps another one on the man who was in charge of the camp(?)...follow that up with a Today I Found Out discussing the efforts to restore the site and you've got quite the series! 😁😁😁😁
Hey simon. How about a video about the history of gibraltar british colony. As it affected european politics for like ever....
Damn, I didn't know this channel was still alive. 2x per week? Previous video was 5 months ago. One before that was a month earlier.
I was just thinking about this channel, glad it's still alive and kicking, also great video 😎👍
I thought I was hallucinating when I saw the notification.
I guess you finally have a few minutes from your other channels.
My mother had a great grandfather who had been a Union prisoner at Andersonville. She told me when I was a child that he had said it was a hellhole ( not quite in those words). She said he told of the time when there was a mouse seen running through the camp, with the result that the starving men ran after it for the chance to eat it. She said that he told how he caught the mouse, but another prisoner bit off one of his fingers in the mad scramble for the mouse. He was glad that the commandant was hung for how he permitted the prisoners to be treated. Thanks for sharing, I have not heard much about this part of the Civil War history.
Treantmonk did a video this week: “Monk’s Suck”. I have to agree. They’re a martial class with lousy HP, AC, and Damage output. Thematically they are fun but class-wise they’re probably worse than the much maligned Ranger.
I am at heart, a "Yankee", but it would only be fair to note the horrors of a northern camp, like Palmyra.
I have an ancestor who barely survived this camp. You nailed it with your description in this video.
What a gift! Daven and crew bringing Highlight History back from the brink! Not to make this video more depressing, but didn’t a steamboat of returning prisoners from Andersonville catch fire and sink in the Mississippi? Talk about adding insult to injury...
Shit they survived the horror camp just do die on the way home? Fuck that's horrible
Stephanie... yeah, not to rain on the parade, but... for a lot of released Vets heading northward via the steamship Sultana on the river, it ended tragically.
freepages.rootsweb.com/~indiana42nd/history/Sultana.htm
This channel is still goin huh? Good for you man
It is now :-) Mondays and Thursdays. :-) -Daven
Nice to see this channel isn't dead!
First, like anyone cares. It’s been a while for this site, Simon👍. Good to see you back here! Andersonville was truly horrendous. They should have just let them go.☹️
Awesome another Simon channel, I love listening to you Simon.
I think when Kelly Clarkson did her ancestry on the show”Who Do You Think You Are” she found one of her grandfathers was put in the camp.
"Camp Death" with a jaunty little tune to start us off. Brilliant.
Glad to see new content! Love your guy's work!
I was wondering when they would post on this channel again!
I have missed this channel!
Simon you’re a machine! Love the chair, you deserve comfort. The beard looks really healthy, maybe the trim was a good thing. Keep up the awesome!
Heard your voice coming from a classroom in my high school today, had to hang out and watch for a bit.
Good to see a return.
Glad you are back.
I live about a hundred miles from Americus Georgia where Andersonville prison is and have been there a few times and you can still see tunnels where they tried to escape ..... Not much left of the outer wall but still a very eery place.... Such a small place to hold a whole major league baseball stadium's amount of people....
How exciting! Just found this channel recently and I am super excited y’all are back! Will be checking in regularly for sure!
Yeah a new video welcome back.
I learned about this camp originally by chance (it might of been because of a toptenz video actually) about 4~ years ago and then I learned a bit more about it in my Georgia history class. It’s been one of the things I like to learn and talk that’s specifically connected to the civil war. I don’t think enough people know or talk about it. So many people died and suffered in the camp and it was just forgotten or people say “bUt ThE uNiOn-“ completely ignoring how hellish Andersonville was.
I know its not relevant to the video but Simon has trimmed his beard. Damn I was waiting for a ZZ Top.
“The Andersonville Trial” (1970) had William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Richard Basehart (as Wirz), and even Allen Hale Jr.
I love all of your channels! This is a new one for me and I find it fantastic. Love you sitting in the big chair! Thanks for being you and making excellent content!!
Just commenting to help you with the algorithm.
same
Great idea
Such a good video, love your American History videos.
Excited to see Highlight History revived!! Blaze it Simon!
Missed this in history class
FINALLY TY FOR UPDATING
How did I miss this Simon channel? Is there no end to his energy.
There is a book called the black country that is mostly based on Britain but there are a few chapters that have very detailed descriptions of andersonville. I don't know how historically accurate it is but it details the hell pretty well
1:07 "at it's peak, 33 prisoners were held in an area originally built to hold 10,000"
I'm going have to say the math is a little off here
I was hoping this channel was still around!
The dutch angle throws me off a bit! i just want to tilt the camera to put it right! lol! and ive noticed this in other videos from here! love your work!!
How have I only just found this channel when I sub to all of Simons channels.
What else have I missed. Anyone got any others I may have missed?
Biographics, Geographics, Megaprojects, Sideprohects, TopTenz, Business Blaze, Today I Foud Out, Highlight History, Brainfood, Simon Whistler...I _think_ that's all of them. There's also Visualpolitik...but I don't know if that's actually his, or just one he writes for or is just sometimes involved with. I'm sure there's probably more, but it's another case of whether or not they're his or he just works on them sometimes. I'm sure you know of plenty in the list, I just figured I'd list all of the one's I know of and a couple maybes.
Thank you
Thanks for the vids man. Love ur content, entertaining and educational :)
Wirz sent the five prisoners to the Union lines by issuing them a parole. When the attempt failed the five men, in keeping with instructions, voluntarily returned to the camp.
At least one Union POW camp had a higher mortality rate than Andersonville. That wasn't because of food shortages. It was cruelty.
More history please
Oooo Highlight History. Quite a rarity.
Yaaaaay. Its back.
Will you do a video on Johnson’s Island please? It’s a POW camp for the union in Lake Erie in Ohio.
Not to belitte the horrors of Andersonville, but what about Camp Douglas, Illinois?
Please can you cover the Japanese POW camps in Hong Kong?
Jesus! I found another Simon! I think this guy owns RUclips
You should do a biographical about Peter Whelan
Oh my
Oof, one of my ancestors died at Andersonville. From scurvy I believe.
Yay History Simon is back (or rather a different history Simon lol)
Anybody else have to pause the video, check the credits, eye the host really closely and try to decide how many downers they'd pumped in the Simon look alike before continuing......
I forgot about this channel.... Cool
_gasp_ The neon sign works again! Sam must have been drafted into indentured servitude for his occasional snarky memes. He's also now being held in the basement...allegedly.
Sweet! It's back!
It's things like this that emphasize how far we have come in humanitarian ideals. Sure we still have our issues (ie torture of Arab prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq), but definitely not as wide-spread as past ages.
Simon is so freaking cool
8:35 - Bonus fact n°1
9:20 - Bonus fact n°2
oh shit this channel lives!?
I just stumbled on this Simon whistler monopoly lol along with 5 other channels I'm subscribed too also. #allhailsimon
Yay
wow something new!!l
lol it's only been 5 months lol
great video ty i like this channel as i do ur atheres!!
♾👍♾😊♾🖖
Nothing like a Raid:Shadow Legends ad before the video started! ROFLMAO
Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't understand how this channel is different to any of the other Simon channels? This video in particular is just like Geographics. What's this channels "point"? Not being rude, just honestly curious.
Hence why they left this channel dormant for 6 months, they are looking to overhall this channel
Brand new videos twice a week... 2 weeks later an no new video
Simon gets to sit in the - Big - Sliver - Studded - Leather - Chair! 👏👏👏👏👏🙂
How many channels do you have?!?
Macon, Georgia is pronounced (May-Cun)👍🏻
Arguably the Union had halted prisoner exchanges not primarily because of the impact to Confederate manpower and resources (though that was certainly seen as a benefit) but because of how the Confederate Army treated black Union soldiers. Black soldiers who surrendered to Confederate forces were either killed outright in cold blood, or captured to be sold as slaves. And the reason why I would argue that was the primary reason for halting prisoner exchanges is because "treating black soldiers the same as white soldiers" was literally the condition the Union Army put on recommencing prisoner exchanges. But the Confederacy was so dedicated to their white supremacist worldview that they were willing to give up thousands of their own limited men and watch thousands of other (white) men suffer like this out of spite and hatred for the 10% of Union troops who were black.
No more dead lines for me!
How many channels does you have
Ah simon never can be bothered to put a link^^
I don't know if I want to watch this one, because... oh... you picked the wrong camp. Elmira on the Union side? Had a hirer death rate per capita than Andersonville and sooo much more. *sigh* But we don't hear about it because the victors buried it.
wheres the space heater at??? this is too weird!!! allegedly....
The prison was overcrowded and supplies were woefully lacking. The commander and his superiors wanted to ease the suffering through prisoner exchanges. Lincoln, however, preferred to let those prisoners rot. Who was the criminal?
The gang of prisoners made matters even worse for the rest of the prisoners.
Many union prisoner of war camps were not much better.
Interesting, but sad. After watching this, I feel like I shouldn't complain about how bad 2020 has been.
So, in a sense, the North's stranglehold on the South helped to kill their own troops. SMH
Camo Douglas in Illinois was an awful camp to look at too
Wow, so this channel is still a thing, eh? Lol
say Macon like bacon