Jefferson Davis - The Civil War & The Confederate States of America Documentary
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Im a black American army veteran myself & history buff
This is great to watch
Love all of this channels videos period
No hate all of history needs to be told. 💪🏾
God bless you all.
I love history, but I can hate it certain portions. JD was far from a 'southern gentlemen.' He was a monster and rapist.
@@Rob774 Who did he rape?
@@Rob774 100% And a traitor.
@@directsound4962 Same here, where is the proof 🤣
@@Rob774 Jefferson Davis was as hateful as Hitler. When Lincoln refused to do a prison swap he kept North POW's in torturous deadly prison camps. JD was also a coward. To scared to do the right thing for his people and surrender when the war was lost. General Lee did the right thing and surrendered yet JD wanted to hide in the mountains like barbarians. Finally when caught by the north he was caught wearing a womens Shaw.
I wish his men followed his order to arm the Slaves to fight. It would have been like Django x10,000. Jefferson Davis is a name any American would be ashamed to be kin too.
Any time questions are asked about things and beliefs that happened over a 150 years ago you must remember how times gave changed. I am 77 years old and just in my lifetime immense change has taken place but we should maintain history and learn from it and respect it.
I grew up in the 80's and 90's and the PBS Documentary Ken Burns "Civil War" was an incredible piece of work. Even though since then we've learned much of it is a lie. Ken Burns relied too much on Shelby Foote writings which fell in line with the "Lost Cause" myth. Shelby Foote was too romantic about the South's Rebellion.
(1860) White southern conservatives committed treason and formed the confederacy to preserve African slavery and white supremacy.
(1865) White southern conservatives make up the KKK.
(1865-1890) White southern conservatives make up black codes.
(1877) Poll tax, literacy tests and registration referral is instituted across the south to disenfranchise black voters *(Georgia)* The term “grandfathered” is first used, exempting whites from all of this.
(1883) Civil Rights Cases, Supreme Court votes (8-1) the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, ruling that the 14th Amendment only applied to state actions, not private individuals or businesses, leading to the legitimization of racial segregation and the establishment of Jim Crow laws in the South.
(1884) Black citizens are barred from juries *(Mississippi)*
(1896) Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, legitimizing the Jim Crow laws *(Louisiana)*
(1896-1968) White southern conservatives make up Jim Crow laws.
(1954) Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson, ruling that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional *(Kansas)*
(1954-1968) White southern conservatives oppose civil rights.
(1957) Little Rock Nine incident, *Arkansas* Governor resists federal law by activating the national guard to keep black students out. President Eisenhower directs the 101st Airborne to enforce and oversee desegregation.
(1967-2023) White southern conservatives oppose interracial marriages.
(2001-2013) White southern conservatives oppose gay marriage.
(2023) Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) is opposed by white southern conservatives.
We’ll never forget that Confederates are traitors and white supremacists 🇺🇸
Unfortunately the picture painted here let's try to paint a bad image of Davis and the South you can't tell me that 95% of the southerners would fight for slavery not owning any give up their lives and their homes the war was about the right of states to rule themselves from a tyrant government such as we have today.
@wally...
So you have read his trilogy on the war?
I’ve lived in the South with my Mom when I was a teenager, I miss that place. ❤ Frog legs
Shelby Foote wisely begins and ends his beautiful trilogy with Davis. To understand Davis properly is to understand the Civil War.
Foote is a great American historian.
I enjoy reading Shelby Foote's books but he buys into the bullshit "Lost Cause" Myth. He Romanticizes the South's despicable cause way too much. His contributions to Ken Burns "Civil War" Documentary while great for story telling are historically worthless and actually do more damage than good to Ken Burns work of art.
@@stephaniemurria5534he was not a historian, he was a novelist.
@@JohahnDiechterNot to mention a Lost Causer revisionist. Nothing great there.
So you have read Foote's Civil War narrative...all three volumes? Or have you read the novels he wrote?
I never expected an hour on the Confederate President. This is awesome
o7
So it will never happen again. Meaning Adolf Trump must go to jail for treason.
This show's what happened when one leader came from a traditional elite military aristocracy and the other leader was a bastard child of a white slave known as Nancy Hanks.
Urgent Tax Investigation.
Two of those current SCOTUS Judges had rape allegations over them when appointed, and have proved since, the women were honest, not them, compromised & disgraceful !
Traitor liar slaver "awesome" really doesn't cover it - cant fix stupid
This is a 'Wonderful & Intelligent' portrayal of the History of U.S. Civil War, seemingly not from the viewpoint of the Republican Party (Northern Perspective) nor the Democratic Party (Southern Viewpoint), but a rather 'Neutral Perspective', perhaps a British viewpoint.? I learned SO MUCH, from this documentary, I can see why this type of historical honesty is not taught in schools and why we (U.S. Citizens) are so ignorant of our own history. THANK YOU 'Peoples Profiles'..!!
You’re ignorant by your choice.
As a African American who’s ancestors were once enslaved in bondage and one who grew up in the Deep South, my view of this man (who my home county is named after) is he was a traitor. But l also understand the times in which he lived. Our ancestral land/home (on which my family was once enslaved on) was left (by his former master) to my great-great grandfather who passed it on to his sons. It remains in our family to this date - after over a hundred years after we’d acquired it. -That was the way it was and l understand that. No need for bitterness now! It was what it was and history cannot be changed
Nobody ask
Get you. Just found out my first cousin was his first wife. Holy shit. Total Yank. My family were among the first Underground Railroad NH Quakers....now this. We are all mixed. I have Nigerian and Haitian blood, now Johnny Rebs too. Shit my mother worked with Dr. MLK.
@@DarthDread-oh2ne We found the BOT again.
This is one of the most inspiring comments I’ve ever seen!! Thank you. It’s so refreshing to hear someone speak about this that doesn’t immediately attempt to make themselves a victim or use it as an excuse for their personal shortcomings. It seems so insulting and disrespectful to those ancestors who actually experienced these horrible things to even begin to compare life today with life then.
Oh, no, no. Don't make that mistake. The "times in which he lived in" included decades of abolitionists fighting against the Slave Power and a civil war to rid the country of slavery. These were conscience decisions against morality. And what do the descendants of those Confederates do today? They racially gerrymander across the South, still waving their Confederate War Flag, and talk of another civil war to start with Trump as their leader.
I was surprised to see Jefferson Davis in my family tree book, a few years ago. Turns out he's my 5th or 6th great uncle
Not something to brag about to be honest
@arklife99 according to you. Purely subjective.
@@arklife99honestly everyone in the south are 1 cousins.
@@liberalman8319 yes after they migrated their and honestly i think theres alot more incest in america than that all over the states ive heard many stories of people falling for their 1st 2nd or 3rd cousins
@@arklife99 I think it's cool. You're very rude.
This has become one of my favorite channels. I don't do well with a bunch of names and dates that seem disconnected from each other. These documentaries bring it all together for me.
I watched the documentary about Guy Fawkes before I watched this one.
What struck me is that both Fawkes and Davis believed in the "rightness" of their actions, that their way of life and existence were on the line.
As for the US the question of "what kind of nation are we" rages even today, although the issues differ.
It's easy to condemn a particular historical figure as a villain and say " I would NEVER do that" but no one really knows. The Biblical verse about eyes, motes and planks comes to mind.
I find history enjoyable because it's like visiting another country, but it's also taught me not to feel too proud because I think maybe I'm not that different from those in the past and have huge planks in my eyes.
Thank you.
Matthew 7 especially vv. 1-4 comes to mind as well. 20 or so years ago, the History Channel did a great documentary on Lincoln/Davis.
I am a direct descendant of the Davis family
I'm his fourth cousin my grandma's father was Joe ,jeffersons brother son who he riped off...😮
Best way to avoid a slave revolt, don't enslave people
Name one time in history slavery wasn’t present? We depend on slavery today
@@benjaminmorris2312yep.
@@benjaminmorris2312shameful
Everyone learned from Haiti 1804 in 1804: numbers matter. Even when the French - Napoleon, sent a well-armed company of soldiers to suppress the slave revolt, the soldiers, who had single shot military style muskets with bayonets, were overwhelmed and hacked to death by farm tools.
Haiti would later pay reparations to French banks, a ruling enforced by Napoleon, for the slave revolt.
The residents of Haiti revolted to be free of the sugar cane fields, succeeded, only to be forcibly returned to those sugar cane fields by the new government in Haiti which was paying its debt to France.
"Meet the new boss - same as the old boss."
The Who, c1966
@@cinaedmacseamas2978 we use slave labor too day! Who ya think built ya phone who ya think made ya clothes… lol ya Africans are simple minded
My mom's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth "Bettie" Tillman Davis Hooks, was adopted by Jefferson Davis when she was 5 years old along with her sister. She cared for him in his final days in her house on Chippewa Street in New Orleans where he died.
Every Schoolboy knows Jefferson Davis presided over the losing side in the Civil War.
But, we should also remember he was a successful military leader in the Mexican War, gaining the US California, Texas and the southwestern states.
He never belied himself, he went to fight for slavery every day of his low life
Sir, President Davis had nothing to do with Texas joining the union of states in 1845. He did do a great many things leading the Mississippi volunteers in the Mexican-American War. Jefferson Davis was a successful politician and soldier.
@@randalcook325 ".[55] During the remainder of the year, Davis campaigned for the Democratic party, advocating for the nomination of John C. Calhoun. He preferred Calhoun because he championed Southern interests including the annexation of Texas, reduction of tariffs, and building naval defenses in southern ports.[56] " // Davis was a politically powerful advocate of the annexation of Texas. Davis rejoined the military to fight in the Mexican American war and expand the country Westward. He was a "Jacksonian politician" who believed in and wanted to be a part of Manifest Destiny, and this belief is what prompted him to leave congress, and rejoin the military, to "fight for it". Davis was also a West Point graduate.
Its interesting hearing a British narrator describe the Revolutionary War as "The War of American Independence".
As the great great great grandson of a union soldier hearing about my ancestors exploits against the south, this was very informative.
This is the one I have been waiting on, love this channel. Love the presentation
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
I’m surprised nobody has made a film about him
They would have needed to make it before cancel culture
We canceled confederacey long time ago no worries. God ,what a dippy thing to think. As if,lol,that's what civil war was ,nothing to do with evil,just ya know, politically correct snowflakes, who got butthurt about people being sold as property! Stay classy dregs of dixie.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
It would have to be like that German movie Downfall.
Woke and liberals in Hollywood would never
For : all4one ... Your comment was MORE than fair . I was born in Jacksonville, but grew up in D .C. area. Considered myself essentially a Northerner , because a great grandfather was a Union soldier on Yankee side . It was all heartbreaking. And I don't hate Anyone . I understand some residual hate , even in my lifetime , Southerners had for Yankees , and residual hate blacks had/have for whites . But it's all a dead end .
Residual black hate for whites is a relatively new thing brought to the South by abolotionists and perpetual "know it all" Yankee interference in the South. If you want to understand the conditions and something of the true relationships of blacks and whites in the South you might read the abolutionist Nejamiah Adams's famous work on his travels in the Deep South and his discussion of slavery and conditions in the South prior to the War between the States.
Any sort of grudge is usually a dead end because a grudge is based on past events. The past lives on within us but we cannot live within the past ourselves.
There is a particularly profound ignorance in people whose knowledge is limited to what their government provided education provided them.
What the hell is a government Provided education What on earth are you talking about?
The pubic (sic) screwel system.@@johnscott6481
@@johnscott6481
Control of USA K-12 education is now centralized in the federal government. That was a bad idea, better to return control to the individual states.
Jefferson Scott Davis III was my roommate when I was stationed in Germany, lol.
was he black?
Eu também sou Jefferson Davis .. Fomos retirados dos USA por causa do ódio de várias pessoas..Mas o que eles não sabem que com a guerra os negros passaram fome e morreram abandonados nas estradas, pois não tinham mais aonde dormir e comer. Mas pelo que eu entendi a família tinha muitas terras.. Eles foram roubados isso sim!
Any good stories??
Just found out that my 3rd Great Grandmother was born on the Davis Bend Plantation in 1846. Doing more research, as I’m sure that her mother had also been born on this plantation. As the years passed, she ended up in Lauderdale County, MS and eventually married Joe Gaddis, which owned one of the most profitable cotton gins (Gaddis & McLaurin Cottin Gin), along with the (Gaddis Golf Course), which is now owned by Ted Kendall.
Although Davis served the United States as a soldier and a war hero, a politician who sat in both houses of Congress, and a cabinet officer, his legacy is mainly defined by his role as president of the Confederacy.
After the Civil War, journalist Edward A. Pollard, who first popularized the Lost Cause mythology, placed much of the blame for losing the war on Davis.
Into the twentieth century, many biographers and historians have also emphasized Davis's responsibility for the Confederacy's failure to achieve independence.
Since the second half of the twentieth century, this assumption has been questioned.
Some scholars argued that he was a capable leader, while acknowledging his skills were insufficient to overcome the challenges the Confederacy faced - and exploring how his limitations may have contributed to the war's outcome.
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Davis had thought that if the Unions casualties were high enough that the USA would give up. Indeed the number of Union KIA were roughly 365,000 out of 18,500,000 citizens of the Union or roughly 2% of the population of the USA. The CSA population was 5,500,000 Free citizens and 3,500,000 enslaved . The strategy of the Union giving up almost worked and the Confederate States of America almost won their independence as a new nation. Today such a KIA ratio with our current population would be like losing nearly and astonishingly high 7 million members of the Armed Forces of the USA which would be unacceptable.
The CSA has about zero chance of achieving a military victory due to the USA having much greater manpower and munitions. What they had hoped to achieve was to draw it out long enough that the USA would come the the negotiating table. A couple more CSA victories very well may have accomplished this. The casualities were overwhelming and many wondered if bringing the states back into the union was worth that cost.
At its beginning Lincoln thought bringing the removed states back in would be a very quick task. He was not expecting a 5 year war with hundreds of thousands dead on both sides.
It is almost as if secession was a really bad idea.
Quite interesting!!! I am descendant of Jefferson Davis. I have cousin , an author of childrens books & others. She found out he is a great uncle. My grandma told me about it years ago. There were many Davis scattered in Georgia I recall as a young child. Visiting. Family reunions in Florida relatives would show from miles away. I heard all these stories years ago , never believed them till my cousin showed me proof in 2005.
Well done production. Thank you for your work. 🙏🏾🇺🇲❤️
Abert Johnston (1803-1862) was the Johnston killed at Shiloh. Joesef Johnston (1807-1891) was one of those generals at the beginning of civil war who felt didn't get the proper rank seniority he felt he deserved. Joe thus became a life long critic of Davis.
Davis lost the War when he sacked Johnston and replaced him with Hood. Lincoln knew he was going to loose the election. Thanks to Hood's blunders quickly loosing Atlanta, Sherman was able to deliver Atlanta to Lincoln and he was reelected.
Good catch, I thought I heard him say Joe as well.
Joe Johnston critized Davis because he gave command of the Army of CSA in Atlanta to John Bell Hood.
Fun fact: Irish people took part in the Civil War fighting along side the Confederate South. As a matter of fact, music from the Confederacy had a lot of Irish influence with its musical instruments.
That’s true the Bonnie Blue Flag was written by an Irishman
Most fought for the united states, the famed Irish brigade standing out. Some Irish fought for the confederacy, roughly 20,000. However, that is far less than the roughly 180,000 who fought for the Union
@@smizdeazy that’s true but there was also anti Irish sentiment in the North that’s why some Irish came south to Virginia the Carolinas and Georgia
@@arlonfoster9997 100% lots of anti Irish sentiments
Yep..never sure can't say Irish as a nation . They straddled both sides and trust...ummm. But the Welsh ...handful for the South but not many. As chapel and baptist not much support for slavery. You knew where you stood with Welsh.😂🏴
Whether you like it or not, this man had a good point: Reconstruction was a Failure.
Reconstruction was abandoned after never truly being carried out in the first place
@@jasongibbs3713 It was abandoned because it didn't work, couldn't work, and its implementation turned the stomachs of even Northern Moderates. I've heard both "Reconstruction was a successful experiment in multiracial democracy," and "Reconstruction should have continued until it resembled the Khmer Rouge," but I don't think I've ever heard "Reconstruction didn't really happen."
REALLY? YOU MUST BE A LAZY AMERICAN!
It was abandoned because too many white people couldn't continence equality between whites and people of color. @@randomcommenter3189
@@randomcommenter3189Actually Reconstruction was working. It was not however financially or logistically sustainable, particularly in face of Western Expansion.
Personally interesting as I have two ancestors who fought for the Union and one who owned a platation & fought for the CSA
There were two Confederate General Johnstons. Albert Sidney Johnston was killed at Shiloh. Joseph Johnston was wounded in battle. RE Lee replaced him in command of the army of northern Virginia. Later Johnston will command the army of the Tennessee. That's another story though.
Thank you 💛.
I personally believe that Davis took advantage of having black slaves. When you see how they were looked upon as being less worthy as a human being etc, I can't help but feel that he didn't care what happened to black people or the things they were subjected to. It must have been a horrible time to be alive back then. It took the civil war before the laws were changed. I'm not sure when black people truly felt free, with all the way we treated them. The nonsense of separate bathrooms and drinking fountains and schools!
Thank you Sir 💛 I enjoy your history!! I look forward to seeing more.
Don't confuse slavery with discrimination. Slavery can be outlawed for there is tangible evidence of the practice. Discrimination is a survival mechanism. Like any other human trait discrimination can be a virtue or a curse depending on the circumstance. Some people who claim slave ancestry are not free because they cling to a slave mentality. They expect to be supported and awarded exceptions rather than accept responsibility for themselves. We all must play the hand we are dealt and try to leave our children with better cards.
❤we need a movie on Varina
Yes!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If you want to understand jefferson davis you have to listen to the interviews of his former slaves. Its eye opening to listen to who he really was. How they felt about him, and how he actually treated them. Which was far different than what was described by history books.
Yeah, like how he sold his plantation to one of his former slaves and in a single transaction that was so expensive, that recently freed slave became the single most indebted man in the entire the western hemisphere.
"Treated" them? He enslaved them. What a guy!
In my eyes Davis was not a traitor. He obvious had a deep desire to hold on tightly to the very thing that his country was built on. and that thing was the wicked, barbaric and evil institutions of slavery. Malcolm X is one of the 5 greatest men ever born in America and he said “the American south begins south of the Canadian border.” This entire country was on what the confederacy was on until the north developed other ideas for mainly economic reasons. but even president Lincoln said “he’s against the expansion of slavery” he wasn’t necessarily against the existence of slavery. He wanted above everything “the preservation of the union” and no civil war. Anyway. this was a great watch and i learned so much. 👍🏾👍🏾
Jefferson Davis was a fine leader and gifted statesman, I don't agree with your notion he was at all a villain. My hope is the south secede again, as a new nation.
Account created Dec 19, 2023. No username. Nice try, foreigner.
It didn't work out well the first time and definitely won't any other time.
Lol you couldn’t be a more obvious foreigner if you tried
Is that before or after they run out of Lipitor?
Here here
A+ Documentary
❤from Canada 🇨🇦
Excellent video!!
Although I started off binge watching the ancient Roman section of this channel, I have to say, this was definitely one of my favorite videos by far! Jefferson Davis was quite the character, but as a black man, I have to say I'm glad he lost and honestly it was inevitable.
Please do Winfield Scott
These documentaries are always done very well and informative. Bravo,
would love to see you cover Henry IV of France some time, truly one of the Great Leaders in all French History
Was willing to die and have others die to protect the institution on slavery. Strong point from the narrator. Goes against all the people who say the war wasn't over slavery
That is because it had more facits. States rights, economics and history. We can not lambast the past nor change it.
@@janaiello722 True. But we CAN check those who try to rewrite and distort it.
@@janaiello722 Yes. State's rights to participate in chattel slavery. Try harder.
Thanks. Fascinating topic.
Excellent and unbiased work, Sir. We thank you.
Love the video can you do more World War Two profiles fantastic mate ❤
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
“Jefferson Davis was a hero!”
Waz 😮 same ass trump waz 😮
Weird way of spelling traitor
Get sober if you think Jeff waz that still some are just plan ol white trash..
@@airsoftpopcornother ways to spell traitor is trump or republican or gop or cpac ...
The contrasts between Lincoln and Davis get more stark as you dig into both their lives. Lincoln literally ran away from military service before his first battle in the Blackhawk Wars, while Davis went to West Point and served in the military. Lincoln was self-taught, while Davis was classically trained in some of the finest schools.
Lincoln didn't see fighting in the Blackhawk War, he was in the militia and buried the dead after a battle. At probably had an effect on him, but I cannot say because there isn't much on his service record. He definitely did not run away from military service, he was a volunteer, that detail is very much known.
@@JohahnDiechter A.L. was the worst President because he was first to seriously violate the Constitution and, effectively, weaken the standing of the Constitution in many ways by somehow justifying its violation as the ends supposedly justifying the means - a very cowardly approach. Most importantly, A.L. was the only president to preside over the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen.
The narration says the Battle of Fredericksburg was in early 1863. It was actually fought on December 13, 1862.
The battle of Fredericksburg started on December 11th 1862 and ended on December 14th 1862
I love your channel. !
Thank you so much!
I remember reading a biography of Mr. Jefferson Davis on a 24' hour sleeper bus from Hanoi, Vietnam to K'bang in the Central Highlands.
As much as I disagree with slavery I have some respect for Jefferson Davis. He was a tragic figure. He was caught up in a moment in history that was greater than himself and he lost. Life is complicated.
When we are quick to judge men like him we always have to consider the times that he lived in, and the cultural context.
If you do that you can see that Jefferson Davis was not necessarily a bad man, but a man caught up in the context of his times.
True. So many folks today view history through the lens of Presentism, which negates all life and times of that era.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
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he was a megalomaniac
In 1865 What did US Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon Chase say about the laws that were broken when President Lincoln sent his army into states who had left the union
Lincoln died in April 1865, the same month the Civil War ended. His VP Johnson was sworn in soon after. Johnson wanted leniency for the Confederate states. It is not clear to me who authorized union troops to invade Confederate states in the post war period.
Many in these days went to Paris France for school too. England as well still do ..
Good timing.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
Love your American civil war videos guys! Please do lincoln soon😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
“Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good office …”
Jefferson Davis
Quite impressively thorough, clear and evocative!
Awesome document file videos !
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
What’s the difference between the founding fathers and the confederacy? Same energy
You ask what I think of him? I find him far more Honorable, a sort of tragic Hero, than Andrew Johnson - the 2nd worst person to hold the presidency of these here United states. ;o)
What about Andrew Jackson,another scumbag?
Well done. I enjoyed watching this.
Davis was man I, being American-Irish, would fight to my death. We are from different worlds.
This is the saddest documentary I've ever seen. I just finished it, and I can't believe we let the liars and thieves destroy our culture.
I always am mixed when it came to the American Civil War. Slavery was immoral but I def like the States rights over federal rights argument
I'll take a wild guess and say that you are a white person?
You are quite right, shanebly. However, it doesn't always work & this was one of those times. Shit happens!
I like the good generals on both sides of the war Lee Jackson Grant Longstreet Hancock Chamberlain and Armistead
The South didn’t give a crap about states rights though, especially if it interfered with slavery. The fugitive slave act is an example of this.
@@Prodigi50 true. And there was already a fugitive slave law from 1793 when George Washington was president
I believe he was simply an avid defender of the south. The south’s economy depended on slavery. Therefore he wanted to protect slavery. He was a man of his times, doesn’t justify slavery in any way shape or form
I live just 10 miles from where he was born in 1809 I passed a very tall Monument that was built in his name in Fairview KY. I believe he did his best during that time of era he is still respectful in KY area
He did his best ti expand slavery
6:53 Check out his mom’s French manicure! 😂💅🏻
Seriously, this is very well done!! 👏🏻
Sherman's "March To The Sea" was a massive war crime from start to finish.
You’re sharing white supremacy disinformation. There’s little evidence of war crimes committed by Sherman. The state of Georgia recorded 20 civilian deaths during the siege of Atlanta.
What crimes? The south burnt down their own cities
No it wasn't. If you want to look at a war crime, look at Bedford Forrest.
He was a good man. May God bless president Davis. Much love from the Netherlands.
History is repeating.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
An absolute hero... no doubts !
Jefferson Davis was a avid white supremacist who didn’t believe in the freedoms of my people my family got back to the 17th century in the state of Ga
Good. He knew right
I think we found every fecalbrain in the intellectual human centipede -just asses sown to mouths,passing shite from one segment to the other,arse to mouth to brain to arse to brain in an unending line of inbred Confederate apologia..
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
*an avid
The COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky; not the “state” of Kentucky.
Great story that everyone should watch, this kind of historical history is not being shown in schools like it should be, the good and the bad of Our Republic, it shaped us as a nation of great ideas and the people who gave us so much, and the freedom to live our lives in peace, but we have people here today that wants to go back and repeat the past, and that’s the truth that our children needs to know and learn so to not repeat.
Well we lost the war and all our slaves . Now you winners take good care of them .
Supporting Braxton Bragg and not selling cotton were two disastrous decisions.
“Jefferson Davis was a hero!”
- Miles Morales, 2023
He was fecal matter.
Never even heard of Miles, I'll look him up.
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
@@johnscott6481Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!! Yadkin county NC bitch come talk shit to my face
@@beerye9331Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
When I first heard about Jefferson Davis, I was like OK do you know who it into Jefferson Davises history? He got his self in some shenanigans. That’s why I like the history of Jefferson Davis.
Interesting documentary. I live in the South and I think some of my history teachers in school tried to overcompensate a bit and made Davis out to be an almost Hitler-like figure. He may not have been a "good guy" but he wasn't _that_ bad. Probably no worse than most modern politicians at least.
He wasn't that bad.🙄
Yeah... he was.
@@Rob774Give it a rest. You obviously didn't watch the whole video, and it shows. Davis was demonstrably not as bad as Hitler.
he was a megalomaniac
@whereisthebalance5732 Evidence please?
As per Napoleon Bonaparte..... History is written by the Victor's. Meaning that the Yankees hating the South wrote what the wanted history to believe about the war. As a self taught history buff concerning the war of Yankee aggression, I was often able to successfully debate my American History teacher on the realities of that war.
What a guy 💪
Hilarious that ole Jeff Davis WAS arrested wearing a dress. Its also a fun fact that davis and Lincoln were born just miles and months apart. In a state that was neutral during the Civil War,.
a lot of interesting characters came from kentucky.
@@whereisthebalance5732 I know, that includes a lot of my family.
breckenridge is one of my favorites@@JackBarrett7
@@whereisthebalance5732 It's pretty there. My family came from Montgomery County.
He was not caught wearing a dress. It was misty raining as his entourage crossed an open field when he was captured, after he sent his military detachment away, not wanting any of them to lose their lives if they were confronted. He was wearing a shawl to cover his head, and he was very weak and worn out from constant travels. The Yankee newspapers invented the "dress" story to sell newspapers and malign a very great man.
This was so interesting. There’s not enough about him out there
There has been a lot of credible research done on this individual. It's just knowing how and where to find it.
@@el-Cu9432 you’re probably right. I just got his book from my college library. Going to read it!
This is one crazy movie
4 minutes in and the first objection arises. When Northern states began the process of ending slavery in their respective states they DID NOT free them so that the former slaves could reside as free people in those states, such as Massachusetts. NO! Those slaves were sold first, then slavery was made illegal in that state, and former slaves were actually prohibited from establishing residency and citizenship or citizenship and residency was made very difficult in thise states.
Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina each had small populations of former slaves who resided within the respective states as free people while slavery was still legal.
And this willingness to "tolerate" proximity to a black, sub Saharan African population, whether slave or free, was Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster's chief contention with the South and Southerners, that Southerners, as European descendants had changed, had become, literally, more indolent and conforming to the nature of their black neighbors due to this region wide proximity to the slave population. That Southerners were thereby not like "sturdy, seaworthy New Englanders" because of this tolerance. And Senator Webster stated this explicitly in his debates in the US Senate with South Carolina Samuel Haynie.
The north did not free their slaves like Britain did in their Caribbean colonies -- gradual and compensated emancipation, with a time period for a former slave to learn a trade and be granted land to live. Slaves were sold first, then slavery within northern states was then made illegal and blacks were not allowed to remain.
Jefferson Davis serves as a good example of why it's good to vote out incumbent Senators.
I prefer old school Republicans like Liz Chaney, Mitt Romney, and Adam Kinzinger to Marjorie (Jewish Space Lasers) Taylor Greene, Lauren (Beetlejuice) Bobert, and Matt ("dates" a 17 year old) Gaetz.
New does not mean better.
Here's to the British who were perfectly willing to back the Confederacy as long as it eliminated the United States as an economic competitor,
Politics, especially the international ones, don't embarrass itself with naive morality.
@@felixmbandandayitabi4536naive? Once lincoln made ending slavery a major war aim, europe could not help the confederacy because of their morality
Nah! Miles dad is the one true Jeff davis!
And the only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace
@mickeybell8933 what about Robin?
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States!!!!
One of the unspoken truths about why many Southerners were against abolition is because 85% of blacks were in their area and what would become of them? They believed that just like in the north freed blacks will exist at the lowest social economical level in for 100 years would be depending
On public charity for their welfare.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Apr 21, 2023 4:51
He let his slaves have guns to go hunting that's insane what would stop the slave from blowing his head off that's like allowing me and that are in prison to have guns it's just crazy the first obligation of anybody that is a prisoner is to escape
Would have resulted in a swift death at the hands of the local militia. Also, for misbehaving slaves there was always the threat of being sold "down the river" to Texas, separating them from their families, and where conditions for slaves were generally much worse.
History shouldn't ever be erased, but let's make sure it's always taught with context. Call traitors traitors, pit their statues in museums of shame, and make sure Americans know that what they really fought for was slavery. Germany didn't raze their concentration camps; they make sure that every one of their citizens is familiar with their shame.
Someone's never heard of states rights versus the ever expanding centralized federal government...
You can’t compare Confederate generals to Nazis
Statues are meant to glorify, not shame.
@@anonymousperson9735 I agree that statues not just Confederate ones but also our founding fathers like Washington Jefferson and Hamilton are meant to glorify these figures who were just human beings but the statues also represent remembrance
Lmao states rights to do and expand what sir?
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Confederates had better looking uniforms.
Perhaps they did early in the war.
However, as the war progressed those uniforms wore out & were seldom replaced because the south couldn't afford it. Large numbers of southern soldiers were only half-uniformed & became shoeless as well. They also started to become undernourished & ran short of medical supplies. On top of that they started to suffer from shortages of munitions & became ever more short of transportation means.
Bad guys always do!
I'm guessing after they got a few of them wetted up and left out in the hot stinking sun for a couple of days, not so much.
idk man, maybe if the colors were switched. You just can't beat that Union blue.
Idk, the confederate red looks good
Oh wait, that is their blood
Who is the narrator I live when he’s narrating it’s whenever I hear his voice I get a prestigious and soothing feeling
The term traitor gets used a lot in these comments. Jefferson Davis and other Southerners followed their states out of the Union. Seems like they would have been traitors if they had stayed 🤔
They are neo yankee comments
A GREAT MAN AND LEADER RIP SIR WE LOVE YOU
With this attitude from an Indian person I can understand why India was under British rule for 200 years!!
@@elsidelhippo9599 talk about black African tribal chiefs who sold on their own race to the white European traders ✋ stop blaming white people for all your problems and mistakes l can now understand why your ancestors and so called race is so backward bring back white race for black Africa
We've already "forgotten" the insurrection and racism of the Democrat party.
"Democrat party". Lol, must be a cigar smoking Limbaugh listener. I'd love to send you a few cigars, help you meet him sooner lol
@arthurswanson3285 It's called the Civil War, or the war to stop Democrats from owning slaves. But don't let ignorance and hatred get in your way.
Davis was a great President and honorable man
I only noticed one important error in an otherwise excellent biography of Davis and his times. At Shiloh you misidentified the death of General Albert Sydney Johnston as that of being General Joseph E. Johnston's demise. Albert Sydney Johnston was mortally wounded at Shiloh by a rifle ball in his leg which caused his death by loss of blood. It was a serious blow to the Confederacy. A.S. Johnston was one of the South's most promising generals, probably second only to Robert E. Lee. The other Johnston, Joseph E., was a lackluster leader, weak in tactics. He was blamed for failing to thwart Sherman's advance on Atlanta after the Confederate defeat at Chattanooga, and for not stopping Sherman's devastating "March To the Sea".
Go watch the movie: North and South with Patrick Swazee. Also the movie Queen with Halle Berry
That was a good series
Hero !
More base head than based
@@johnscott6481Proud Confederate here. Civil War was fought over the sovereignty of an individual state. The terms traitor/rebel imply that we fought to topple or overthrow the United States government. This is false. We, as independent states, left the United States and formed our own nation, a nation that was formed democratically, and subsequently invaded by a foreign power in the United States. Yadkin County NC, come call me traitor to my face bitch.
🙄
I guess. If your heroes are losers. lol
The mistake the South made was attacking the North. If we had remained in the status of defenders of Northern aggression, European support for the Southern empire would have followed, which would have provided sufficient political recognition to the right of the CSA to exist as an independent Country.