Now that you know what happened to Jefferson Davis check out this video and find out about The Last Veteran of the Civil War: ruclips.net/video/1Eakd_v-G5o/видео.html
Lee and Grant did not meet at "The Appomattox Court House." The two men met in a town named Appomattox Court House which is the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia. The meeting was held in the living room of Wilmer Maclean, a resident of Appomattox Court House. The poor guy's house was stripped bare by souvenir seekers in the days following the surrender.
@@EnemyOfMagats Also Andrew Johnson was kind of downplayed as he was on the side of the southerners as well. They argued that he accused him of assasinating Lincoln but really he had to becuase everyone liked Lincoln and everyone wanted answers. The fact that he treated him like a child that said the f word rather then a grown up who helped kill 600k American men for the sake of enslaving millions more
Actually it was acute bronchitis. Lincoln died from the shot in the dark....(jk)....I’ll give JD credit, though, for encouraging reunion in his later years....
That was really interesting, never knew what happened to him. History class focused on signing the surrender by Lee and jumped to reconstruction period. Thank you for making!
History usually gets written by the victors of war. I’m sure they preferred not to call attention to the fact that Davis & all who served under his leadership were later pardoned.
Well, a priority of reconstruction was also to reunite the country. Leaders at the time figured the amendment was better than purges, witch hunts, and demonizing the south. We haven't had a civil war since but it left some wounds open
There is an excellent documentary series on Davis here on RUclips. They interview many historians on Davis in making the documentary. One of the things that one of the historians on there said was that in the historical narrative there is no Davis before 1861 and there is no Davis after 1865 and that is sad. ruclips.net/video/a35NAQvvTB0/видео.html&ab_channel=JosiahGorgasChapterMOS%26B
They found Jimmy Hoffa - turns out he was hiding in 'Trump's hair - he was offered a hiding place in John Lennon's hair - but he took off when he heard Yoko squealing during sex.
@jpbazzano no he really wasn't the Commander in Chief of Confederate forces. He was the most famous and successful, but his surrender struck fear in other armies that if Lee can be forced to surrender so could they.
The Roach Den President Davis named Lee General-in-Chief of all Confederate forces in February 1865 so yes...yes he was. Communications were severely hampered though so generals like Kirby Smith were unaware of the surrender until much later. I suspect that Johnston was aware as he was only one state away but those further west wouldn’t have known. Hell, the CSS Shenandoah wasn’t aware the war was over until August 1865.
@@ralphdougherty1844 The appointment of a General in Chief had been debated as early as February 27, 1862. President Jefferson Davis voiced his rejection (and veto) of creating this position to the 1st Confederate States Congress on March 14, 1862, believing that such a general could "command an army or armies without the will of the President." Davis performed many of the responsibilities of a general in chief himself throughout the war, acting as both a military operations manager and commander-in-chief. Lee (from March to May 1862) and General Braxton Bragg (from February 1864 to January 1865) also performed related duties, as they were military advisers to Davis, or "charged with the conduct of military operations in the armies of the Confederacy." Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J. (2001), Civil War High Commands, Foreword by John Y. Simon, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3, LCCN 2001020194, OCLC 704488651
Davis wanted to fight on with 100k men in the field but he could not relate this to the other Generals and the Yanks were closing in on his govt. in a stagecoach.
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In short: Davis was imprisoned for two years, but convicting him of treason would prove problematic since his actions *technically* weren't unconstitutional. Moreover, it wasn't in the Union's interest to make a martyr out of their former enemy, hence why they let him off the hook rather easily. Later in life, he wrote a book on the history of the CSA, which was met by glowing praise from none other than Oscar Wilde. Davis died in relative obscurity in 1889.
Actually secession was ruled unconstitutional in the 1869 Supreme Court case "Texas V White." So there is every reason to believe Davis would have been conviction. He was pardoned in the spirit of reconciliation. As you said, no need to make a martyr of him.
@@TheStapleGunKid Fuck you! 9 lawyers wearing dresses Don't posses any magical powers in their opinions. It's nothing but judicial activism. Today is the greatest day in American history, minus maybe the 4th of July, abe got exactly what he deserved. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!
Error at 0:48 - A Common misconception, Grant and Lee did not meet in ‘the Appomattox Courthouse’, they met in the private home of Wilmer Mclean in the hamlet of Appomattox Courthouse. Edit: Spelling (thank you, commenters)
Wilmer McLeans original house in Manassas Virginia was a confederate headquarters in 1861 during the first battle of Bull Run. Very interesting historical coincidence.
Wilmer McLean moved there after his backyard was the site of the first battle of the civil war bull run or manassas as the confederates called the battle.
I only correct the misconception because Appo is my beloved hometown. Also, they technically DID meet in Appomattox Courthouse...as in, the county seat of Appomattox County at that time. McLean's home was in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. Since then, the county seat moved to the area that was then known as "Appomattox Station," and is now known as the "Town of Appomattox." The original county seat is still there, it is just owned by the federal government and is operated as a National Historical Park.
@@jeffreyhall52 First LAND battle. The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle. Now since the Fort is in the middle of Charleston Harbor it was two Forts fighting, and no casualties from the battle, BUT still the first actual battle.
He died at Beauvoir in Biloxi Mississippi. If you ever get a chance you should visit it. They have a museum and it is on the beach. I have lived in Biloxi Mississippi for most of my life.
@@robloxPlayer-qd6mt first things first, little Timmy troll work on your spelling! I'm taking this from a serious POV, I know a certain six year old that has far better spelling than you! (And mind you, English was not their first language! ) Second thing, something is wrong with your parents, my parents would've smacked me across the face for swearing. No seven year old should know how to swear, legit. And be glad my parents were not your parents, as you would get whooped everyday, with a thing that hurts more than a belt.
Simon, i love you for uploading this video. As an avid American History buff, for basically my whole life, I have actually never thought what happened to Davis after the war, but I read the title & it immediately drew me in, my favorite part of American history is the civil war era & the 60s-70s. So thank you for uploading this & i hope you stay safe & stay healthy my bearded friend.😊
"pried"??? Really, all you have to do is ask anyone at all familiar with the history of the period. Or, let a knowledgeable person proof-read your script....simple.
2:05 Jefferson Davis left all the money of the treasury to Captain Clark,where it disappeared under mysterious circumstances. That was the most interesting fact about this whole video.
Another interesting mention: dressed in a petticoat? Many conclusions can be gleamed from this clip; a cross dresser and/or a coward. Ha ha ha ha, captain Clark became rich.
Nitpick: The surrender signed at Appotomatox Courthouse was not a surrender of the whole Confederacy. It was a surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had no authority to surrender for the Confederacy as a whole. However, since the Army of Northern Virginia was a large fraction of the Confederacy's remaining troops, the surrender ended up spurring the remaining forces of the Confederacy to surrender in short order.
Confederate General Richard Taylor, Zach's. Son had an interesting background; no experience, but a bigtime history buff, which allowed him to whup an apposing noob general.
@@kimsey0000 Richard Taylor was a brilliant commander in and of itself too. He didn’t need a noob. He was known to have trained some of the best troops in the whole Confederate military.
Which is how I am distantly related to Jefferson Davis. Sarah Knox Taylor is my 4th cousin 6x removed. My 9th great grandparents through my Taylor line were James Taylor (1635 - 1698) and Frances Walker. My 9th great grandfather would have been Sarah Knox Taylor’s 3rd great grandfather. History and genealogy are some of my favorite things to study. Presidents Taylor, Tyler, Roosevelt, and Madison were all related, and so therefore I am distantly related to all of them. Just like President Obama and I are related by marriage (my 1st cousin 9x removed, Rebecca Catlett, married President Obama’s 1st cousin 11 times removed, Francis Conway). All USA presidents are related in one way or another. Political, military, and religious families are usually connected by blood or marriage for whatever reason.
The Emancipation Proclamation did not out law all slavery in the United States, only in the south. In northern states like Maryland it was still practiced and legal until the 13th Amendment was adopted in December 1865 8 months after the end of Civil War.
If I remember correctly it was carefully worded to only apply to the states in open rebellion. The reason for that is Lincoln’s executive order could only apply where martial law had been declared. He he tried to have it apply elsewhere it could have been open up to a lawsuit and thrown out by the courts. In the movie Lincoln there is a very nuanced discussion he is having with another person about how essential it was to get the amendments passed before Congress for wind peace was declared and things reverted back to the status quo
@gas pumper If you look at the New York City Draft Riots, they were sparked because of the fear of the now freed slaves coming to the North to take the working white man's jobs....
camokazi1313 I know that one. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, it was used by Roman legioniers to mock and humiliate their Jewish captives. It's the initials of "Jerusalem Is Perished" in Latin, followed by cheering.
Jennifer, and Cindy, not to be too pedantic, but you are no ancestors of Jefferson Davis, but he is your ancestor! You are his descendants. Just thought I mention it...
I think it was a pretty poor presentation because it glossed over him being provided a retirement home to write his memoirs. Just saying and that’s why he died living on the coast.
As the Union Army moved through Mississippi, George Johnson, one of Jefferson Davis' slaves (a slave in the privileged position of bookkeeper for the plantations there), became alarmed. Loyal to his master, Johnson got a "pass" to travel to Virginia to warn Davis and to propose a way of protecting Davis' estates from the Union Army. Johnson persuaded Davis to sign over the deeds to Davis' Mississippi plantations to George Johnson. Johnson returned to Mississippi, and when the Union Army arrived, Johnson was asked, "Who owns these plantations?" "I do. My name is on the deeds." Problem solved! When Davis returned to Mississippi, Johnson restored ownership to Davis. Astonishing. ruclips.net/video/qN-p98lYOnQ/видео.html
The surrender was signed at Appomattox Courthouse, not the Appomattox Courthouse :) The town was called Appomattox Courthouse and the treaty was signed at the private house of William McLean in Appomattox Courthouse. This was a really well done video and did a good job of shining light on a portion of history I wasn't aware of!
cut him some slack, thats REALLY fucking obscure, and is a totally understandable error, especially considering its an internet show. (not swearing cuz mad, swearing to make clear how much i think its obscure)
CommandoDude lee was a cool 😎 guy actually too cool to be leading the Army but a good choice nevertheless. He was great at the beginning of the war but the war evolved and Lee’s greatness kinda became outdated. Grants greatness grew and there you have it but after the war he proved to be a stand up man
as a recent graduate student in Military history, and as someone who thoroughly studied the end of the Confederate government and Davis' movements after leaving Richmond, I must say that your little talk was very much historically accurate...
I call it "little" because his rendition of the story is short and basic, an in-depth examination of this topic would be much longer. I did not mean to belittle his summary by call it "little" and I apologize if it was taken that way. I should have said "summary" or "overview."
My great-grandfather, Charles T. Hudson, captured him in the Civil War. We have a button and pieces of fabric from the cloak Davis was wearing, as well as the original newspaper clippings of when he was captured. It’s now in the possession of my brother, Charles T. Hudson IV.
@@worldrenown4057 I spoke to my brother and as I suspected those are in a safe. He did send me some pictures, but I don’t know how to upload them here.
That quote at 4:27 is awesome, because it shows that at least one person thought 2 years of imprisonment in the United States without a trial is absurd, and agreed to pay part of someone's bail. In 1885! He would be shocked how long people wait in the US nowadays. And that debtors prisons are basically run by municipal, state, and federal government's dime.
***** Then why aren't so many constitution toting people don't talk about all the lower income people in county and state jails for years awaiting trials or jailed because they couldn't afford fines on very minor offenses. I don't mean this in an aggressive tone to you, just people I have met and seen in general. I think it would be a lot different if a LEADER OF AN ARMED INSURECTION got sympathy for being locked in military court for two years without trial. It's amazing how people pick and choose from documents or data and tote what fits them.
Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest both resided in Memphis for a time after the war. I live near Moscow, TN and Bedford passed through our property on his way to raid the railroad that runs to Memphis. So much civil war history around here, it's kinda nuts...
General Lee did not surrender "The Confederacy" at Appomattox. He surrendered The Army of Northern Virginia... That effectively put any hope of victory out of reach but there were still other Rebel Armies in the field and ships at sea.
Jefferson Davis when he had been paroled visited Toronto Canada and stayed for several days. While there he was feted and invited to several dinners. The band of my regiment The Queens Own Rifles serenaded him outside his hotel room in the evenings.
What this video doesn't mention: On October 17, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed Senate Joint Resolution 16, restoring Davis' U.S. citizenship retroactive to the Christmas pardon of 1868. This act Carter referred to as the last act of reconciliation in the Civil War.
luvcheney1 An independent nation that should've been destroyed because it was fighting for slavery. I'm sorry that places like my hometown of Nashville had to burn, but the CSA was a bunch of terrible men and women wanting to do terrible things.
A fun fact: at his house, Beauvoir, Ole Jeff once entertained Oscar Wilde during Oscar's celebrated tour of the United States. The two shared a love of the Greek and Roman classics in the original.
Are you kidding me? What in the world? I’m flabbergasted at this- Would give anything to have been a fly on the wall for the duration of that visit...♥️ hearing about that, it’s like an episode of Unlikely Animal Friends
@@cynthiacopland8634 On a related note Cynthia, F. Scott Fitzgerald knew Dwight Eisenhower. The two officers were stationed together on the same army base in Alabama during World War I. You have to wonder what they talked about.
@@tylersmity3845 Don't need propaganda when it's fact the south was racist as fuck and largely still is and they were literally fighting for plutocrats' right to enslave people. You can scream propaganda all you want, them there's the facts. And facts have a way of giving fuck ups like you the finger.
@Fatin Marwat 9th and 10th amendment bud allows secession taxes on ports taxes on exported goods hell even new york wanted to succeed from the union but the army stop that one there were 4 union states had slaves
Jefferson Davis’ daughter Varina Anne’s life is another interesting story. Her life basically was ruined because of her father’s reputation, but from the Southern side. She fell in love with the son of a prominent Abolitionist family, a pretty sad love story and somewhat tragic.
@@-jank-willson Yes, but because of that GOOD Southern reputation. She was getting attacked and pressured to not marry the man she loved, who just so happened to be from a Yankee abolitionist family.
@@-jank-willson Sad thing about it too, Jefferson Davis liked that man and gave his blessing for them to marry before he died. Despite the political and cultural differences. But, because of his death, her mother got pressured and thus pressured her to live up to Jefferson Davis’ legacy and not marry a Yankee. Had he lived, he could have silenced the critics
For a moment I thought you had written "there's a plague..." - and folks want to know what happened to all that money he collected which never went to buy shoes for his troops or to feed them when they were literally starving. Davis was an evil man.
One fact I will always love, when in a proper trial setting, the federal government was not confident that secession would be found unconstitutional, and so didn't even try. All of this after a war with an estimated 1M+ casualty list, civilians included and making up 40%(the highest confirmed of any u.s. involved war).
@@ToxicRainStorm The Yankees are still desperately trying to justify their illegal occupation of the Confederate states. It's nothing new. I'm British, and we marched into LOADS of other peoples' lands, and took them over. It's just how things were. Move on.
Say what you want about the man. He had a lot of respect from many people, including his own slaves. He sent many of them for higher education and they went on the be prominent men in society because of Davis.
@@pickolascage1283 back then the viewpoint was that slaves were treated better than factory workers in the north. Remember there had always been slaves throughout recorded history up until then. Its like imagining a purely vegan world, with lab grown burgers and stuff so there is no more butchering animals. That sounds great but its never been done before. But then 100 years from now all our great great grandkids call us murderers for eating hot dogs
How about having to have your entire family, including children, working in a factory 14 hours a day and still not being able to afford housing? Children were frequently maimed and killed in these factories. Women were beaten for not working fast enough. When you were done with your shift you went to the hovel your factory owner had built next to the factory and slept amongst rats and the other factory workers families. Factory owners would work people to death, literally.
Yes the so called slaves even fought for the confederacy . Their is a group of their defendants who meet annually in florida. Many stayed right were they were after the war . Almost none went back to Africa . Many took their masters last name and had great respect for them like Davis. Lincoln could have avoided the civil war by giving slave owners a grace period of 20 years to grant them freedom. A good president does lead his people into a war that can be avoided or start them under false circumstances like the ones we are presently saddled with.
Most people don't realize this, but Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were actually the same person. It was an inside job and that's why Lincoln was "assassinated" Wake up
Definitely interesting as it answered why he’s in Hollywood Cemetary where I’ve been this grave. Hubby retired from the Army very shortly before Ft. Monroe was decommissioned. What a tragic, short-sighted move that was. It’s construction was overseen by a brilliant Army engineer named Robert E. Lee.
I recall reading it, whether it's a true quote or not, it's probably correct. Had Lincoln survived, his plan for reconstruction was less vitriolic. But the newly freed slaves hard to say either way would have been better for them. The insidious racism still exists to this day.
After his release Jefferson Davis moved to his mother-in-law's home in Montreal, Quebec. But with winter coming and his poor health to consider, his doctor advised he move back south. From mid-May until November 1867 he lived in the Montreal area with a brief visit to Niagara , south of Toronto, to visit former Confederates like Jubal A. Early and Jame M. Madison .
General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. Would you please get the history correct. General Lee did not surrender the Confederacy. This is how people misinterpret history in a profound and significant ways.
Joseph Beagle This is truly an error but not a profound one. Lee had (finally) been named as general of all confederate armies, so the error is not unusual. He did only surrender the army of Northern Virginia, but many people today wave the ANV flag and call it the confederate flag, so that's another way this stuff gets easily conflated.
@OldPossum Not when one follows the error up with the insinuation that the President Davis and his cabinet were attempting to carry out the war without an army. The Army of Tennessee (Army of the South) under the command of Joseph E. Johnson was surrendered April 26 with 30,000+ men. Johnson also surrendered the rest of the forces East of the Mississippi which included almost 60,000 more under his command but not with him. General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered The Army of the Trans-Mississippi (43,000 ) a month later, May 26. That surrender wouldn't have taken place when it did had Davis been able to make his way to Cuba and then on to the Trans-Mississippi Dept. So NO not exactly the "same thing."
People actually think the war was mostly about slavery as well.....like they say winners of the war writes the history or at least what the people believe
After his 1867 release he came to Canada (he was actually in Canada when confederation was signed). Specifically he came to my town of Lennoxville (Sherbrooke), Quebec where his son was enrolled in private school
@@bobayotte2940 Poutine was invented by a truck driver , Armand Lachance , in 1957. He got to a restaurant just before it closed . They only had little bits of this and that . He ended up with fries , gravy and cheese curds mixed together . Hockey was invented by British soldiers in Windsor , Nova Scotia , Canada and later played about 40 miles away in Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada . ( There are people who believe that hockey was invented at McGill University in Montreal , Quebec ,Canada . The only problem with that thinking is that they were going to play the game " using Nova Scotia rules and using equipment sent from Nova Scotia ". )
The confederate White House museum in Richmond Virginia is still open and quite interesting. The restoration is very well done. Insight into the life of Jefferson Davis is comprehensive and interesting.
Why do you get to celebrate your herritage but we dont as bad as history is you have to rememer it or it will be repeated were traiters against britain but no one talks obout that whithout national pride we talk about the confedercy whith regional pride im not a racist i have plenty of black friends well all the balck people i know are my friends its a small county whitch is kinda a shit hole and we didnt suceed from the union but the rest of are state did and lord im on a rant
Being British you are unaware the city in Mississippi is properly pronounced "Be-Lux-ee" Thankyou for your informative and interesting videos mate. Slim 😎 x
Those civil-war-era videos are great! Usually Americans just talk about it as it's like "THE WAR OF SHAME" and the only thing they focus on is slavery&stuff. It's great to learn something more about the era and the approach of people to things in the US!
VieneLea. Never heard anyone call it the war of shame, yeah they do just like other earlier parts to liberal white guilt everyone, notice that they'll never talk about Blacks, Muslims or Indians owning slaves and or killing each other for their own land, the liberal belief of nationalism and a country for all peoples and slavery is buuu bad because ITS NOT LIBERAL!!!
I'm a Texan and don't know anyone who speaks of the War of Northern Aggression with shame. Our ancestors stood up to a monster, and a bunch of barefoot Southern farm boys came close to winning although they were severely out-numbered, half-starved. However, younger generations are being indoctrinated with lies about that war in school.
I have just started reading more about the 5 tribes that were on the side of the Confederacy. That is very interesting about Jefferson Davis and the Cherokee nation. Thank you!
John Dunbar Yep, my ancestor fought in the Revolutionary War before the Declaration of Independence was even written. Will always be proud I come from traitors blood.
Nick Arjomand you know nothing of history. He was also a US Senator & US Representative. His daughter married President’s son. We all come from somewhere. I also come from a Revolutionary War soldier who fought & died in the war before the Declaration of Independence was even written. It’s nothing more than an interesting tidbit. I know my heart. Don’t try & shame me, cause it won’t happen.
Just one correction... Davis 's war did not begin in Richmond. He was sworn into office on the steps of Alabama capital building in the then capitol of the CSA, Montgomery, AL.
Lincoln simply ordered the navy to restock Fort Sumter with food. He had every right to do that. The South had no right to stop them. The South started the war and did so to create their own slave empire. That's true regardless of what you think about Lincoln.
JA was short for Blind Lemon Jefferson Airplane so no. (Blind Lemon Jefferson was a famous blues musician, and supposedly Jefferson airplane was a slang term for what's usually called a roach, a marijuana cigarette butt.) (Yes, I am a yuge Jefferson Airplane fan.)
I heard that before they caught him, he sent an ironclad full of confederate gold across the Atlantic which eventually got lost somewhere in the Sahara.
There are many places the Confederate treasury is said to be. Some say Danville, some say Georgia, Texas, and even Africa or South America. Nobody really knows, but most likely it was stolen by the people who were guarding it little by little in the chaos at War's end.
@@USA24541 history channel did a show about that, apparently a northerner found it and started a "Mine" that no one knew about, melted it down and built some city up in the north, just forgot what the series was called.
Man, it sure would have been nice if they'd gone ahead with that court case so we had some legal precedent about a person responsible for an insurrection being eligible to be president...
For those of you who keep saying that the Supreme Court ruled and said that succession was unconstitutional any illegal that wasn't until after the war was over and the North had one so they had the power
I've been to Fort Monroe and I suggest anyone would enjoy visiting that place. I did not know that Davis was held there until the time I visited. Sauk Indian war chief Black Hawk was also held there. You could do a few videos about that area, the Tidewater region of Virginia.
It is always ironic. Davis was the one who escorted Black Hawk across the country. But Davis refused to put Black Hawk in chains because he said it was undignified. When Davis was taken there he was not shown the same courtesy. That being said, the union did treat him much better pretty quickly. For the first few weeks he was chained and then one of the union officers heard that and had them removed and then later he was put in a much better room and allowed to write and read books and all that.
Mike C the American conquest of native tribal land is no different than any other two nations at war. The superior group comes out on top. That’s progress. It becomes different when you involve race for some reason.
The civil war was one of the most complex in history. We can assume it's all about slavery, but that was just one factor involved. It's a fascinating study...as long as you don't use a US public school history book that makes the North look like they could do no wrong. The pardon of Davis is a perfect example of saving face.
The primary cause of the war of northern aggression was tariffs. The north couldn't compete in the world market place, so they imposed high tariffs on imported goods from Europe. The tariffs not only did not benefit the South it punished them. They were having to pay more for imported goods due to the high tariffs. That also meant their wealth was being siphoned off and sent up north. The north had a greater population, so it had more votes in congress. So, their concerns about the tariffs were ignored. Why would they want to keep paying high tariffs for no reason? So, tariffs were the primary catalyst to war, states rights 2nd and slavery was a distant 3rd, becasue it was fading out anyway. Slavery was a moral evil on day one and an economic failure on day two. It wasn't profitable. That's why Thomas Jefferson died $80,000 in debt, and he brought it on himself. Paid employees are more productive than slaves. Every other Western nation abolished slavery without a war. There were still slaves in New York City in the 1850s as well as New England. It's clear that the civil war was uneccessary. lincoln was just a murdering scumbag who offered grant the chance to kill and destroy. But, hey, that's why he went to westpoint and became an infantry officer. Over 80% of the Confederate soldiers had to do their own work. It defies logic that they would want to fight a war just so the 10 to 15% sons of wealthy plantation owners wouldn't have to get their hands dirty. In conclusion, no man in histroy did more to earn his fate than lincoln.
@@John-th4sy Good points all, but i think it is at least somewhat important that confederate sympathizers not minimize slavery. The election of Lincoln was the most direct reason South Carolina seceded. IMO the south had every right to secede but many people (not you) like to pretend that they weren't slave states.
@@John-th4sy I disagree, after reading Shelby Foote’s history. A confederate congressmen proposed that the south free the slaves so they could win the war, one of the primary reasons European nations wouldn’t help the southern cause, needless to say they rejected it out of hand, also little things, like calling Lee the “king of spades” for asking them to dig fortifications, because “it wasn’t white mans work”, I’ve heard all the northern aggression, states rights arguments, and yes, it’s true after the fact, but by and large a racist rebellion by a generation that revered Thomas Jefferson, who we owe a tremendous debt to, obviously, but who was by every definition a racist, a sad, unfortunate, blemish, on the establishment of the worlds greatest republic to date. We are still reaping the whirlwind, we should not memorialize traitors, and honor their dead as equal to those who fought for the republic, nor make excuses for their bad decisions. I’m not a fan of all the times Lincoln broke constitutional law, but I thank God he preserved the republic, if for nothing else than to beat back the nazi and communist scourge
Lee's surrender only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, and not the Confederacy. Johnston still fought in North Carolina, and fighting continued in Texas. The war ended later on in 1865.
Frank, that is true, the “Stars and Bars” is actually the battle flag carried by soldiers into battle. The actual Confederate flag is not well known and had several versions.
You left out that he was ruined financially by the war and at his last residence in Biloxi he spent his remaining years helping soldiers of either side along with slaves displaced by the war.
That's true! The "good guys" who invaded and occupied the South didn't care about anything. Hundreds of thousands of black people became war refugees due to abe and his boyfriend grant's destruction. How many black people were offered assistance in relocating to the magical utopia north of the mason dixon line? ZERO!
In 1861, my infant great grandfather came to America with his parents and uncles from Germany. His father, my great great grandfather along with the great uncles, joined the Union Army and I think some were assigned to the 4th Michigan Cavalry to take care of the horses. It is said that two of my great uncles were in on the capture of Jefferson Davis in someway. It's in the family history, but I'm not sure just how accurate that might be.
Now that you know what happened to Jefferson Davis check out this video and find out about The Last Veteran of the Civil War:
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Lee and Grant did not meet at "The Appomattox Court House." The two men met in a town named Appomattox Court House which is the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia. The meeting was held in the living room of Wilmer Maclean, a resident of Appomattox Court House. The poor guy's house was stripped bare by souvenir seekers in the days following the surrender.
I live in Danville and didn't know most of this information! Awesomeness!
12rwoody Does it bother you when Brits try to tell us about American history?
@@DS-xp4jb Not if it's correct .
Dude your comment section down here so toxic help I'm drowning
Nothing. I'm fine. Leave me alone.
Lmfao nice
Running away in women's clothing... how embarrassing.
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tony gilbert you probably smell like a yankee
tony gilbert traitor lmfao
"What ever happened to confederate President Jefferson Davis?"
I'm gonna take a shot in the dark here and say he died.
You're right!
He died a miserable old racist piece of shit. Damn, Longstreet and Nathan Forest changed some after the war. None of the others did.
@@EnemyOfMagats Also Andrew Johnson was kind of downplayed as he was on the side of the southerners as well. They argued that he accused him of assasinating Lincoln but really he had to becuase everyone liked Lincoln and everyone wanted answers. The fact that he treated him like a child that said the f word rather then a grown up who helped kill 600k American men for the sake of enslaving millions more
Brilliant
Actually it was acute bronchitis. Lincoln died from the shot in the dark....(jk)....I’ll give JD credit, though, for encouraging reunion in his later years....
He was treated very well for an official enemy of the state.
Compare that to how John Brown, a real American hero, was treated. Fuck the US government.
StraightShooterGaming facts
Edward Snowden must be quite irked in comparison to say the least.
@Quigle- Dorf Murderer? And what was this other guy?
LICK!
That was really interesting, never knew what happened to him. History class focused on signing the surrender by Lee and jumped to reconstruction period. Thank you for making!
Must have been '60's or since then. I heard there were real history classes before my time, but the older sibs left home before I could ask them.
History usually gets written by the victors of war. I’m sure they preferred not to call attention to the fact that Davis & all who served under his leadership were later pardoned.
Well, a priority of reconstruction was also to reunite the country. Leaders at the time figured the amendment was better than purges, witch hunts, and demonizing the south. We haven't had a civil war since but it left some wounds open
@@Erik_Ice_Fang or, for the reasons cited in the video.
There is an excellent documentary series on Davis here on RUclips. They interview many historians on Davis in making the documentary. One of the things that one of the historians on there said was that in the historical narrative there is no Davis before 1861 and there is no Davis after 1865 and that is sad.
ruclips.net/video/a35NAQvvTB0/видео.html&ab_channel=JosiahGorgasChapterMOS%26B
He changed his name to Waldo and we've been wondering where he is ever since
😄
yep, where's waldo? thar he is.
That WAS funny.
They found Jimmy Hoffa - turns out he was hiding in 'Trump's hair - he was offered a hiding place in John Lennon's hair - but he took off when he heard Yoko squealing during sex.
Haha
Robert E. Lee didn't sign confederate surrender, just the surrender of the army of northern Virginia
@jpbazzano no he really wasn't the Commander in Chief of Confederate forces. He was the most famous and successful, but his surrender struck fear in other armies that if Lee can be forced to surrender so could they.
The Roach Den President Davis named Lee General-in-Chief of all Confederate forces in February 1865 so yes...yes he was. Communications were severely hampered though so generals like Kirby Smith were unaware of the surrender until much later. I suspect that Johnston was aware as he was only one state away but those further west wouldn’t have known. Hell, the CSS Shenandoah wasn’t aware the war was over until August 1865.
@@ralphdougherty1844
The appointment of a General in Chief had been debated as early as February 27, 1862. President Jefferson Davis voiced his rejection (and veto) of creating this position to the 1st Confederate States Congress on March 14, 1862, believing that such a general could "command an army or armies without the will of the President." Davis performed many of the responsibilities of a general in chief himself throughout the war, acting as both a military operations manager and commander-in-chief. Lee (from March to May 1862) and General Braxton Bragg (from February 1864 to January 1865) also performed related duties, as they were military advisers to Davis, or "charged with the conduct of military operations in the armies of the Confederacy."
Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J. (2001), Civil War High Commands, Foreword by John Y. Simon, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3, LCCN 2001020194, OCLC 704488651
Yea, yea....
Davis wanted to fight on with 100k men in the field but he could not relate this to the other Generals and the Yanks were closing in on his govt. in a stagecoach.
He kept himself to himself - his remains remain there...
Who writes this gold?
To hear an articulate person from that era speak or write is incredibly fascinating to me....
@luvcheney1 hahaha ahahaha hahaha ahahaha hahaha ahahaha hahaha ahahaha
Don't concern yourself with yourself, move on up to square, initial it with love and care, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo-dooo
doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo do-dooooo
Standard British English, 101!
And people say British speak better English than Americans and Australians
In short: Davis was imprisoned for two years, but convicting him of treason would prove problematic since his actions *technically* weren't unconstitutional. Moreover, it wasn't in the Union's interest to make a martyr out of their former enemy, hence why they let him off the hook rather easily. Later in life, he wrote a book on the history of the CSA, which was met by glowing praise from none other than Oscar Wilde. Davis died in relative obscurity in 1889.
Nailed it. It’s funny what’s not taught or talked about very often.
Actually secession was ruled unconstitutional in the 1869 Supreme Court case "Texas V White." So there is every reason to believe Davis would have been conviction. He was pardoned in the spirit of reconciliation. As you said, no need to make a martyr of him.
@@TheStapleGunKid Texas v White has no Constitutional foundation. It's a text book example of judicial actvision.
@@John-th4sy Well that's what you think, but you don't get to make that determination, the Supreme Court does. And they clearly got it right.
@@TheStapleGunKid Fuck you! 9 lawyers wearing dresses Don't posses any magical powers in their opinions. It's nothing but judicial activism. Today is the greatest day in American history, minus maybe the 4th of July, abe got exactly what he deserved. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!
Error at 0:48 - A Common misconception, Grant and Lee did not meet in ‘the Appomattox Courthouse’, they met in the private home of Wilmer Mclean in the hamlet of Appomattox Courthouse.
Edit: Spelling (thank you, commenters)
Wilmer McLeans original house in Manassas Virginia was a confederate headquarters in 1861 during the first battle of Bull Run. Very interesting historical coincidence.
Wilmer McLean moved there after his backyard was the site of the first battle of the civil war bull run or manassas as the confederates called the battle.
Appomattox*
I only correct the misconception because Appo is my beloved hometown.
Also, they technically DID meet in Appomattox Courthouse...as in, the county seat of Appomattox County at that time. McLean's home was in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. Since then, the county seat moved to the area that was then known as "Appomattox Station," and is now known as the "Town of Appomattox." The original county seat is still there, it is just owned by the federal government and is operated as a National Historical Park.
@@jeffreyhall52 First LAND battle. The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle. Now since the Fort is in the middle of Charleston Harbor it was two Forts fighting, and no casualties from the battle, BUT still the first actual battle.
Why is humpty dumpty assumed to be an egg when the nursery rhyme never says what humpty dumpty is
Coming up :-)
I heard he was actually a boy, but they turned it into an egg because that is less morbid or something :p
That makes more sense. Thank you and I will look it up.
Leer Wesen look mom I'm a real boy *splat
Nah it was a cannon
Q: What Ever Happened to Confederate President Jefferson Davis?
A: He died.
He died at Beauvoir in Biloxi Mississippi. If you ever get a chance you should visit it. They have a museum and it is on the beach. I have lived in Biloxi Mississippi for most of my life.
A: He got away with itz
Nicole Jessica no not from U get back in the kitchen before ur husband get mad stupid femail im only 7 yeers old but ill still beat u up bit ch
@@robloxPlayer-qd6mt first things first, little Timmy troll work on your spelling! I'm taking this from a serious POV, I know a certain six year old that has far better spelling than you! (And mind you, English was not their first language! ) Second thing, something is wrong with your parents, my parents would've smacked me across the face for swearing. No seven year old should know how to swear, legit. And be glad my parents were not your parents, as you would get whooped everyday, with a thing that hurts more than a belt.
@@robloxPlayer-qd6mt BOI
Simon, i love you for uploading this video. As an avid American History buff, for basically my whole life, I have actually never thought what happened to Davis after the war, but I read the title & it immediately drew me in, my favorite part of American history is the civil war era & the 60s-70s.
So thank you for uploading this & i hope you stay safe & stay healthy my bearded friend.😊
Your presentation and research into these type of subjects is really what makes me love this channel.
We pried ourselves on our in-depth research. Nobody bats a thousand, of course; that's impossible. But we do try really, really hard. :-)
"pried"??? Really, all you have to do is ask anyone at all familiar with the history of the period. Or, let a knowledgeable person proof-read your script....simple.
Today I Found Out *pride ;)
except so much was wrong with this that I don't know where to start.
Question of the day: Could Simon still talk if he were wearing handcuffs?
no
no ^^
I can picture him struggling to speak as if his mouth was covered up 🤐🤲
Gary Cameron He would be speechless
You John Wayne Gacy types 🤣
God Bless U.S.A. And C.S.A. Veterans as we are all Americans and should unite against foreign enemies instead of making enemies of eachother
Antonio R the Union seemed like it was a lot more American that the Confederacy.
Antonio R the csa are traitors to the usa
THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!
Imperial Crusader the South almost had to rise when Clinton almost won
Antonio R are supporting Trump
Mom can we get Abraham Lincoln?
No we have Abraham Lincoln at home
Abe Lincoln at home:
I never realized that he looks like a ripoff of Lincoln.
Explain
2:05 Jefferson Davis left all the money of the treasury to Captain Clark,where it disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
That was the most interesting fact about this whole video.
Another interesting mention: dressed in a petticoat? Many conclusions can be gleamed from this clip; a cross dresser and/or a coward. Ha ha ha ha, captain Clark became rich.
A trudeau stole it.
Soo this is Obama's cousin wowzers
Allegedly lol
@@Jake-nk4wg you shouldn't be afraid of women's clothes unless you got something to hide hmm
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both born in Kentucky.
So, probably related anyway....
So was I...even though Mom always told me she found me under a rock...
And both against race mixing by sex and marriage are you like our founding father and those who followed them are you like Jesus
From whot I have read and researched both of their ancestral familys came from Snodonia North Wales. Not to far from where I live.
...and they both farted six times on a Tuesday!
Nitpick: The surrender signed at Appotomatox Courthouse was not a surrender of the whole Confederacy. It was a surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had no authority to surrender for the Confederacy as a whole. However, since the Army of Northern Virginia was a large fraction of the Confederacy's remaining troops, the surrender ended up spurring the remaining forces of the Confederacy to surrender in short order.
Mark Crites Stand Watie, leader of the Cherokee Confederates, didn't surrender until several months later.
Fuck the confederacy. The republicans freed the slaves and was for civil rights.
Vulpes Inculta they are called the 13, 14, and , 15 amendments. those are the civil rights.
But the AoV was the spirit of the CSA. It was the lifeline. Without it there WAS no hope of maintaining the charade of having started a new nation.
i thought the CSS Shenandoah didn't lower it's battle colours until the following year?, when it sailed into Liverpool, i'll stand corrected if wrong.
Davis' first wife was Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of future president Zachary Taylor. She died 3 months into the marriage from malaria.
Was it from malaria, or from ""MALARIA""?
Wow thats ironic considering how Talor died shortly after becoming president
Confederate General Richard Taylor, Zach's. Son had an interesting background; no experience, but a bigtime history buff, which allowed him to whup an apposing noob general.
@@kimsey0000 Richard Taylor was a brilliant commander in and of itself too. He didn’t need a noob. He was known to have trained some of the best troops in the whole Confederate military.
Which is how I am distantly related to Jefferson Davis. Sarah Knox Taylor is my 4th cousin 6x removed. My 9th great grandparents through my Taylor line were James Taylor (1635 - 1698) and Frances Walker. My 9th great grandfather would have been Sarah Knox Taylor’s 3rd great grandfather. History and genealogy are some of my favorite things to study. Presidents Taylor, Tyler, Roosevelt, and Madison were all related, and so therefore I am distantly related to all of them. Just like President Obama and I are related by marriage (my 1st cousin 9x removed, Rebecca Catlett, married President Obama’s 1st cousin 11 times removed, Francis Conway). All USA presidents are related in one way or another. Political, military, and religious families are usually connected by blood or marriage for whatever reason.
The Emancipation Proclamation did not out law all slavery in the United States, only in the south.
In northern states like Maryland it was still practiced and legal until the 13th Amendment was adopted in December 1865 8 months after the end of Civil War.
If I remember correctly it was carefully worded to only apply to the states in open rebellion. The reason for that is Lincoln’s executive order could only apply where martial law had been declared. He he tried to have it apply elsewhere it could have been open up to a lawsuit and thrown out by the courts.
In the movie Lincoln there is a very nuanced discussion he is having with another person about how essential it was to get the amendments passed before Congress for wind peace was declared and things reverted back to the status quo
and new jersey
@Michael RedCrow I sense hostility towards members from the other side of the aisle.
@Michael RedCrow I'm a "leftie" and have told people this about the Emancipation for years...
@gas pumper If you look at the New York City Draft Riots, they were sparked because of the fear of the now freed slaves coming to the North to take the working white man's jobs....
Love the channel I look forward everyday to learn something new! Can't wait to see what's coming tomorrow.
Thanks :-)
Today I Found Out Do a video on the origin of cheering "Hip hip hooray!"
camokazi1313 I know that one. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, it was used by Roman legioniers to mock and humiliate their Jewish captives. It's the initials of "Jerusalem Is Perished" in Latin, followed by cheering.
camokazi1313 www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/hip-hip-in-hip-hip-hooray-was-once-an-anti-semitic-phrase/
As an ancestor of Davis, on my grandmother's side, it was nice to see a more accurate description of his life after the war.
If you haven't already, you owe it to yourself to read "The Long Surrender" by Burke Davis. It's a very detailed account of what this video is about.
@jennifer rader I too am an ancestor of Davis, on my Dad's side. It would mean I'm his 5th cousin!!
Jennifer, and Cindy, not to be too pedantic, but you are no ancestors of Jefferson Davis, but he is your ancestor! You are his descendants. Just thought I mention it...
I think it was a pretty poor presentation because it glossed over him being provided a retirement home to write his memoirs. Just saying and that’s why he died living on the coast.
Do you mean descendant?
As the Union Army moved through Mississippi, George Johnson, one of Jefferson Davis' slaves (a slave in the privileged position of bookkeeper for the plantations there), became alarmed. Loyal to his master, Johnson got a "pass" to travel to Virginia to warn Davis and to propose a way of protecting Davis' estates from the Union Army. Johnson persuaded Davis to sign over the deeds to Davis' Mississippi plantations to George Johnson. Johnson returned to Mississippi, and when the Union Army arrived, Johnson was asked, "Who owns these plantations?" "I do. My name is on the deeds." Problem solved! When Davis returned to Mississippi, Johnson restored ownership to Davis. Astonishing. ruclips.net/video/qN-p98lYOnQ/видео.html
Didn’t matter because 13th amendment
The surrender was signed at Appomattox Courthouse, not the Appomattox Courthouse :) The town was called Appomattox Courthouse and the treaty was signed at the private house of William McLean in Appomattox Courthouse. This was a really well done video and did a good job of shining light on a portion of history I wasn't aware of!
cut him some slack, thats REALLY fucking obscure, and is a totally understandable error, especially considering its an internet show. (not swearing cuz mad, swearing to make clear how much i think its obscure)
Freya Stuart did the war really start and end in McLean's house?
Bloxerator Games My mistake if I sounded harsh. Easy error. I used to do it all the time, that's why I remember :)
Alastair Ward The treaty ending the war was signed at McLean's House.
Freya Stuart I read somewhere he lived near to a location where the first hostilities took place and moved to avoid trouble.
Interesting how people remember Abraham Lincoln way better than Ulysses S Grant, but nobody remembers Jefferson Davis as well a Robert E Lee.
The losers always fade away. It also helps that Grant became president later on
Because if it weren’t for Lee, and had Davis been a genuine commander in chief, the Confederacy would have lost even faster.
@@dkupke 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
CommandoDude lee was a cool 😎 guy actually too cool to be leading the Army but a good choice nevertheless. He was great at the beginning of the war but the war evolved and Lee’s greatness kinda became outdated. Grants greatness grew and there you have it but after the war he proved to be a stand up man
Who?
as a recent graduate student in Military history, and as someone who thoroughly studied the end of the Confederate government and Davis' movements after leaving Richmond, I must say that your little talk was very much historically accurate...
What DOES happen to persons of stature in war's woeful aftermath? Do they retire into dignified obscurity? Nothing left to be very proud of.
why call it little then?
I call it "little" because his rendition of the story is short and basic, an in-depth examination of this topic would be much longer. I did not mean to belittle his summary by call it "little" and I apologize if it was taken that way. I should have said "summary" or "overview."
My great-grandfather, Charles T. Hudson, captured him in the Civil War. We have a button and pieces of fabric from the cloak Davis was wearing, as well as the original newspaper clippings of when he was captured. It’s now in the possession of my brother, Charles T. Hudson IV.
Make a vid I want to see those pieces
@@worldrenown4057 They are in a safe deposit box in the possession of my brother who lives about 2500 miles away from me but I’ll ask him for photos.
@@worldrenown4057 I spoke to my brother and as I suspected those are in a safe. He did send me some pictures, but I don’t know how to upload them here.
@@worldrenown4057 wow!
Damn your grandfather
He had a pretty damn good defense attorney.
IKR!!!???
He’s undefeated. His name Walter Supremacy Esq
Didnt need that good of one.... under the definition of a constitutional republic, the states had every right to seceed.
Why do you think the us govt never prosecuted him because they knew they couldn’t win in a court of law. Go read your history it’s a fact!!!!!!
Kinda hard to prosecute when Tomas Jefferson and many of the other founding fathers wrote papers saying secession was perfectly legal.
As an American, I must say that you did a fantastic job covering this topic. 10 out of 10.
Why is this British "Redcoat" bastard, trying to give us a history lesson anyway?(Yes, I'm still holding a grudge)
@@gunsquawk6693 because the channel is ran by both Americans and British people.
Normie
That quote at 4:27 is awesome, because it shows that at least one person thought 2 years of imprisonment in the United States without a trial is absurd, and agreed to pay part of someone's bail. In 1885! He would be shocked how long people wait in the US nowadays. And that debtors prisons are basically run by municipal, state, and federal government's dime.
***** Then why aren't so many constitution toting people don't talk about all the lower income people in county and state jails for years awaiting trials or jailed because they couldn't afford fines on very minor offenses.
I don't mean this in an aggressive tone to you, just people I have met and seen in general. I think it would be a lot different if a LEADER OF AN ARMED INSURECTION got sympathy for being locked in military court for two years without trial. It's amazing how people pick and choose from documents or data and tote what fits them.
Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest both resided in Memphis for a time after the war. I live near Moscow, TN and Bedford passed through our property on his way to raid the railroad that runs to Memphis. So much civil war history around here, it's kinda nuts...
General Lee did not surrender "The Confederacy" at Appomattox. He surrendered The Army of Northern Virginia... That effectively put any hope of victory out of reach but there were still other Rebel Armies in the field and ships at sea.
You have people fighting over statues & arguing that it’s about history but people rarely take the time to actually learn even about it.
America does NOT and NEVER HAS cared about TRUE history, just their version of it.
My 3rd great grandfather originally from Kentucky served/fought for the Confederacy in Tennessee in 1863 , it is a part of my families history
@CCJJ...
This is so true !
That would be because the South was never the haters but those who want to destroy statues and destroy history they are the true haters ignorant fools
@@lexiconcapacitor586 Read the Declaration of Clauses of seceding states.
These videos are like clickbait, but they actually give you the information you've hoped for. Keep it up.
Jefferson Davis when he had been paroled visited Toronto Canada and stayed for several days. While there he was feted and invited to several dinners. The band of my regiment The Queens Own Rifles serenaded him outside his hotel room in the evenings.
Jefferson Davis also owned a Saloon. I think it was called The Boar's Nest. It had a good looking waitress named Daisy.
This guy makes me love history again. Not since high school have i enjoyed it this much.
the WhitePanther Black Panther here
He has very good delivery which makes presentation entertaining.
the WhitePanther - If you really love Civil War history, you should move up to serious historians such as H. W. Brands.
Excellent job of just presenting the story. I had always wondered what became of ol' Jeff
What this video doesn't mention:
On October 17, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed Senate Joint Resolution 16, restoring Davis' U.S. citizenship retroactive to the Christmas pardon of 1868. This act Carter referred to as the last act of reconciliation in the Civil War.
NJGuy1973 that’s what you call sticking up for a fellow democrat
I wish Carter was right. A great amount of the people here still consider the south to be the CSA and will not abide by US law.
luvcheney1 I agree, but I'm failing to see the relevance here.
luvcheney1 Something that happenned less than 150 years ago. Let it go you sore fuckin loser.
luvcheney1 An independent nation that should've been destroyed because it was fighting for slavery. I'm sorry that places like my hometown of Nashville had to burn, but the CSA was a bunch of terrible men and women wanting to do terrible things.
Some of this History is precious and many of my fellow
Americans are keen to find out. Thx!
A fun fact: at his house, Beauvoir, Ole Jeff once entertained Oscar Wilde during Oscar's celebrated tour of the United States. The two shared a love of the Greek and Roman classics in the original.
@Kirk Moore You're not suggesting Ole Jeff was...?
we ain’t want him. you straights can keep him
Are you kidding me? What in the world? I’m flabbergasted at this- Would give anything to have been a fly on the wall for the duration of that visit...♥️ hearing about that, it’s like an episode of Unlikely Animal Friends
Oh Well, I should have read the other comments first before I posted mine...
@@cynthiacopland8634 On a related note Cynthia, F. Scott Fitzgerald knew Dwight Eisenhower. The two officers were stationed together on the same army base in Alabama during World War I. You have to wonder what they talked about.
His gravestone reads "an American soldier." The copium is real LMAO
How has it avoided being defiled all this time? People get to hurl pennies and five dollar bills at Booth's grave...
He was an American soldier
@@johnnyrebel9971 he was a confederate soldier, are you dumb?
@@thegoonlegend were confederates not American??
@@thegoonlegend he wasn't a soldier in the CSA LMFAO
Interesting history of the final days of the Confederacy.
okrajoe - yup, had no idea that the Confederacy was still technically in existence when Lincoln was assassinated...
His house is still in Biloxi, survived many hurricanes. Exceptional building techniques
Rustin Wilson it didn't survive Katrina. It was rebuilt after the storm.
Exceptional luck more like.
@@patrickmccrann991 skeleton survived, more than can be said for many of the other buildings on the coast.
Rustin Wilson his house needs be burned down
I wouldn't say survived... If it wasn't historical it would have been demolished and replaced because it was essentially totaled by Katrina.
He ran out of s'mores schnapps
I still think we can take Topeka...
Them hot schmoes
Sprite Cranberry
That South Park episode kicked ass! 😎👍
I hate those guys. I hate them so very much. Yours, General Cartman Lee.
He sank into drugs and booze, then eventually formed “Jefferson Airplane,” as an outlet for his despair.
Bravo, Sir
Jefferson starship.
Lol
7:05 amusing that his tombstone conveniently leaves out every connection to the Confederacy. "US Senate 1857-1861" and absolutely nothing after that.
His tombstone has 3 more sides not shown in that picture. That's 3 more sides of accomplishments that yours will lack.
@Mike C you heard that the yankees lied about that shit called Yankee propaganda
@@tylersmity3845 Don't need propaganda when it's fact the south was racist as fuck and largely still is and they were literally fighting for plutocrats' right to enslave people. You can scream propaganda all you want, them there's the facts. And facts have a way of giving fuck ups like you the finger.
@Fatin Marwat 9th and 10th amendment bud allows secession taxes on ports taxes on exported goods hell even new york wanted to succeed from the union but the army stop that one there were 4 union states had slaves
@@jmitterii2 lol you seem unhealthy dude
Jefferson Davis’ daughter Varina Anne’s life is another interesting story. Her life basically was ruined because of her father’s reputation, but from the Southern side. She fell in love with the son of a prominent Abolitionist family, a pretty sad love story and somewhat tragic.
but he had a GOOD reputation in the south though...
@@-jank-willson Yes, but because of that GOOD Southern reputation. She was getting attacked and pressured to not marry the man she loved, who just so happened to be from a Yankee abolitionist family.
@@2randomblackmen aaahh, ok
@@-jank-willson Sad thing about it too, Jefferson Davis liked that man and gave his blessing for them to marry before he died. Despite the political and cultural differences. But, because of his death, her mother got pressured and thus pressured her to live up to Jefferson Davis’ legacy and not marry a Yankee. Had he lived, he could have silenced the critics
There's a plaque on the sidewalk in Charlotte NC. It says on this spot Jeff Davis was informed of Lincoln's assaination.
😂
And on that day, break dancing was invented! 🤣
For a moment I thought you had written "there's a plague..." - and folks want to know what happened to all that money he collected which never went to buy shoes for his troops or to feed them when they were literally starving. Davis was an evil man.
I'm sure it's been destroyed by now.
Is the brown stain still there?
It's quite funny watching these back and being able to guess how long ago it was by the length of Simons beard lol.
One fact I will always love, when in a proper trial setting, the federal government was not confident that secession would be found unconstitutional, and so didn't even try. All of this after a war with an estimated 1M+ casualty list, civilians included and making up 40%(the highest confirmed of any u.s. involved war).
Probably not a good idea to have an illegal war brought out in court.
Civilian casualties so high due to all the rape and murder in the wake of the northern army
@@bubbag8895 we gotta a sore loser over here lmao
@@ToxicRainStorm The Yankees are still desperately trying to justify their illegal occupation of the Confederate states.
It's nothing new. I'm British, and we marched into LOADS of other peoples' lands, and took them over.
It's just how things were. Move on.
@@tooleyheadbang4239 I did move on, with all 34 of those states in 1865 lmao
Simply a war for who has the best cheekbones.
You could say it’s oversimplified
This is crazy, I was recommended this, and I had literally just thought about this like 2 days ago but forgot to search it up
Google can read minds now
@@travis1240 Ha! Just about, for sure.
Say what you want about the man. He had a lot of respect from many people, including his own slaves. He sent many of them for higher education and they went on the be prominent men in society because of Davis.
It's too bad that he didn't have the foresight to fight against slavery then.
@@pickolascage1283 back then the viewpoint was that slaves were treated better than factory workers in the north.
Remember there had always been slaves throughout recorded history up until then.
Its like imagining a purely vegan world, with lab grown burgers and stuff so there is no more butchering animals. That sounds great but its never been done before.
But then 100 years from now all our great great grandkids call us murderers for eating hot dogs
@@jomten no factory worker in the north ever got sold away from their family.
How about having to have your entire family, including children, working in a factory 14 hours a day and still not being able to afford housing?
Children were frequently maimed and killed in these factories. Women were beaten for not working fast enough.
When you were done with your shift you went to the hovel your factory owner had built next to the factory and slept amongst rats and the other factory workers families.
Factory owners would work people to death, literally.
Yes the so called slaves even fought for the confederacy . Their is a group of their defendants who meet annually in florida. Many stayed right were they were after the war . Almost none went back to Africa . Many took their masters last name and had great respect for them like Davis. Lincoln could have avoided the civil war by giving slave owners a grace period of 20 years to grant them freedom. A good president does lead his people into a war that can be avoided or start them under false circumstances like the ones we are presently saddled with.
Jefferson Davis looks like Lincoln’s cousin, the kind you that when you see them together you’re like: “are you related?”
Both are from Kentucky
Max McMullen : )
All presidents are kin
Most people don't realize this, but Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were actually the same person. It was an inside job and that's why Lincoln was "assassinated"
Wake up
Definitely interesting as it answered why he’s in Hollywood Cemetary where I’ve been this grave. Hubby retired from the Army very shortly before Ft. Monroe was decommissioned. What a tragic, short-sighted move that was. It’s construction was overseen by a brilliant Army engineer named Robert E. Lee.
There is a monument plaque in St. Louis to Robert E. Lee as well. He was the engineer that worked on the Mississippi there.
Davis said that apart from losing, Lincoln being killed was the worst thing to happen to the south.
Source of this?
I recall reading it, whether it's a true quote or not, it's probably correct. Had Lincoln survived, his plan for reconstruction was less vitriolic.
But the newly freed slaves hard to say either way would have been better for them. The insidious racism still exists to this day.
"App-uh-Matt-icks Simon. "
After his release Jefferson Davis moved to his mother-in-law's home in Montreal, Quebec. But with winter coming and his poor health to consider, his doctor advised he move back south. From mid-May until November 1867 he lived in the Montreal area with a brief visit to Niagara , south of Toronto, to visit former Confederates like Jubal A. Early and Jame M. Madison .
General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. Would you please get the history correct. General Lee did not surrender the Confederacy. This is how people misinterpret history in a profound and significant ways.
Joseph Beagle This is truly an error but not a profound one. Lee had (finally) been named as general of all confederate armies, so the error is not unusual. He did only surrender the army of Northern Virginia, but many people today wave the ANV flag and call it the confederate flag, so that's another way this stuff gets easily conflated.
@OldPossum Not when one follows the error up with the insinuation that the President Davis and his cabinet were attempting to carry out the war without an army. The Army of Tennessee (Army of the South) under the command of Joseph E. Johnson was surrendered April 26 with 30,000+ men. Johnson also surrendered the rest of the forces East of the Mississippi which included almost 60,000 more under his command but not with him.
General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered The Army of the Trans-Mississippi (43,000 ) a month later, May 26. That surrender wouldn't have taken place when it did had Davis been able to make his way to Cuba and then on to the Trans-Mississippi Dept. So NO not exactly the "same thing."
People actually think the war was mostly about slavery as well.....like they say winners of the war writes the history or at least what the people believe
The war wasn't *about* slavery, but it was *caused by* slavery. Slavery led to secession, secession led to war.
After his 1867 release he came to Canada (he was actually in Canada when confederation was signed). Specifically he came to my town of Lennoxville (Sherbrooke), Quebec where his son was enrolled in private school
Lennoxmatt, while living in Quebec he invented the hockey and he and his heirs lived very comfortably.
@@geoffreyludkin8672 no, I'm pretty sure he invented the poutine, not hockey.
@@bobayotte2940 Poutine was invented by a truck driver , Armand Lachance , in 1957. He got to a restaurant just before it closed . They only had little bits of this and that . He ended up with fries , gravy and cheese curds mixed together . Hockey was invented by British soldiers in Windsor , Nova Scotia , Canada and later played about 40 miles away in Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada . ( There are people who believe that hockey was invented at McGill University in Montreal , Quebec ,Canada . The only problem with that thinking is that they were going to play the game " using Nova Scotia rules and using equipment sent from Nova Scotia ". )
No matter the foreign accent, the narration is clear, swift and excellent in content.
No need for the background music on this interesting and informative video. It doesn't add anything.
speak for yourself
WHAT IS WITH THE ANTI MUSIC COMMENT ARMY
I agree. Sometimes the music is too loud or annoying.
This video did not cover his and his wife's time after the war in Canada, in Montreal.
I would love to see the missing pages of booths diary. I wonder what kind of treason was afoot in the north.
watch "The Money masters" for more information on Booth. takes a while to get to it though. its more about money powers.
Is there any other power besides money? They are enter twined
@@chomama1628 enter twined? 🤔😂
He looked like Abe without the Beard, I guess Illuminati sleight of hand existed in those times too..
Lol.
I just finished an assignment on them, and I couldn't help but think the exact same thing, haha.
Davis had a beard.
The confederate White House museum in Richmond Virginia is still open and quite interesting. The restoration is very well done. Insight into the life of Jefferson Davis is comprehensive and interesting.
Traitor of these United States 🇺🇸, meanwhile we have statues of him all over the place 🤦🏽♂️
Exactly
I might add the irony that General Lee actually didn't want status erected of him. So what eventually happened of him? Statues!
Why do you get to celebrate your herritage but we dont as bad as history is you have to rememer it or it will be repeated were traiters against britain but no one talks obout that whithout national pride we talk about the confedercy whith regional pride im not a racist i have plenty of black friends well all the balck people i know are my friends its a small county whitch is kinda a shit hole and we didnt suceed from the union but the rest of are state did and lord im on a rant
Not for long...
History dude. I got a statue of a leprechaun in my lawn.
Being British you are unaware the city in Mississippi is properly pronounced "Be-Lux-ee"
Thankyou for your informative and interesting videos mate.
Slim 😎 x
I guess Be-Lux-ee is right if you count the first E as a short E.
Love the content. Can you do one on Kaiser Willhem II after WWI?
Those civil-war-era videos are great! Usually Americans just talk about it as it's like "THE WAR OF SHAME" and the only thing they focus on is slavery&stuff. It's great to learn something more about the era and the approach of people to things in the US!
VieneLea. Never heard anyone call it the war of shame, yeah they do just like other earlier parts to liberal white guilt everyone, notice that they'll never talk about Blacks, Muslims or Indians owning slaves and or killing each other for their own land, the liberal belief of nationalism and a country for all peoples and slavery is buuu bad because ITS NOT LIBERAL!!!
I'm a Texan and don't know anyone who speaks of the War of Northern Aggression with shame. Our ancestors stood up to a monster, and a bunch of barefoot Southern farm boys came close to winning although they were severely out-numbered, half-starved. However, younger generations are being indoctrinated with lies about that war in school.
BonnieBlue 2
The famed Cherokee division fought for the confederates as Davis had promised them they could live outside the reservations without fear
BonnieBlue 2
Funny how that is never mentioned either
I have just started reading more about the 5 tribes that were on the side of the Confederacy. That is very interesting about Jefferson Davis and the Cherokee nation. Thank you!
Jefferson Davis is actually my ancestor.
Who?
Cool
John Dunbar Yep, my ancestor fought in the Revolutionary War before the Declaration of Independence was even written. Will always be proud I come from traitors blood.
Nick Arjomand just stating a fact. Can’t change it. I didn’t do anything wrong. I love history. Just interesting to be tied to it.
Nick Arjomand you know nothing of history. He was also a US Senator & US Representative. His daughter married President’s son.
We all come from somewhere.
I also come from a Revolutionary War soldier who fought & died in the war before the Declaration of Independence was even written.
It’s nothing more than an interesting tidbit. I know my heart. Don’t try & shame me, cause it won’t happen.
Just one correction...
Davis 's war did not begin in Richmond. He was sworn into office on the steps of Alabama capital building in the then capitol of the CSA, Montgomery, AL.
Not Davis' war, Lincoln's war. It was Lying Abe who invaded a sovereign nation.
@@stockscalper Nope, it was the rebels who started the war to create their own slave empire. They attacked Fort Sumter and dug their own graves.
Lincoln simply ordered the navy to restock Fort Sumter with food. He had every right to do that. The South had no right to stop them. The South started the war and did so to create their own slave empire. That's true regardless of what you think about Lincoln.
The South invaded the North as well. Both sides invaded each other whenever they thought it would help them win the war.
John Irwin Feel better now that you’ve had your rant?
Enjoyed the video, thanks for posting it and many others.
Jeff Davis was the brother of my Great great grandmother. They had some knockdown drag out fights over slavery
Good on you to at least acknowledge the fight was over slavery, and not who has rights over the living room.
Then We are related Jim
He was reincarnated in 1966 as Jefferson Airplane? 😏
Not even god can explain the Jefferson starship era though...
Alan true
You need more likes on this
JA was short for Blind Lemon Jefferson Airplane so no. (Blind Lemon Jefferson was a famous blues musician, and supposedly Jefferson airplane was a slang term for what's usually called a roach, a marijuana cigarette butt.)
(Yes, I am a yuge Jefferson Airplane fan.)
I heard that before they caught him, he sent an ironclad full of confederate gold across the Atlantic which eventually got lost somewhere in the Sahara.
There are many places the Confederate treasury is said to be. Some say Danville, some say Georgia, Texas, and even Africa or South America. Nobody really knows, but most likely it was stolen by the people who were guarding it little by little in the chaos at War's end.
@@USA24541 history channel did a show about that, apparently a northerner found it and started a "Mine" that no one knew about, melted it down and built some city up in the north, just forgot what the series was called.
It was rumored to be here on the property of an old plantation called the Mumford House, in Brantley County, Georgia.
An ironclad ship got lost in the Sahara?? Must have been very lost. Normally ships stay waterborne.
I went looking for it but Matthew McConaughey beat me to it.
Man, it sure would have been nice if they'd gone ahead with that court case so we had some legal precedent about a person responsible for an insurrection being eligible to be president...
he died that's what happened
Golem 7 or did he
Golem 7 ,what was really in the briefcase?
no shit Sherlock
True, he died. Happens to the best of us.
Golem _ please jew
I live in Biloxi Mississippi. Thank you for pronouncing it correctly. You would be surprised how often it is mispronounced
Chris King same here!
For those of you who keep saying that the Supreme Court ruled and said that succession was unconstitutional any illegal that wasn't until after the war was over and the North had one so they had the power
In 1869....they court ruled that...
Wow!!!! He had it nice for someone who committed treason against his country!!
Jefferson Davis Was An Alien 👽
I've been to Fort Monroe and I suggest anyone would enjoy visiting that place. I did not know that Davis was held there until the time I visited. Sauk Indian war chief Black Hawk was also held there. You could do a few videos about that area, the Tidewater region of Virginia.
It is always ironic. Davis was the one who escorted Black Hawk across the country. But Davis refused to put Black Hawk in chains because he said it was undignified. When Davis was taken there he was not shown the same courtesy. That being said, the union did treat him much better pretty quickly. For the first few weeks he was chained and then one of the union officers heard that and had them removed and then later he was put in a much better room and allowed to write and read books and all that.
Fun fact: Jefferson Davis sold land to my ancestors in Louisana.
Slaves too huh
Did your family get a good deal?
@gas pumper they were not paid wages so how is that equal?
Mike C the American conquest of native tribal land is no different than any other two nations at war. The superior group comes out on top. That’s progress. It becomes different when you involve race for some reason.
gas pumper u got smoked bro u gotta sit this one out
I’ve been to his mansion and visited his estate several times, very cool museum.
The excaterated movments of his hands has put me into a hypnotic sizsior.
Seizure?
Thanks for the educational video!
saw the title and thought "he died."
"He didn't want to admit defeat"
Oh America, you never change
6:17 If Jefferson Davis had a full beard he'd almost be a double for Abraham Lincoln.
Their cheek bone structure is very similar to each other.
You might be onto something. Notice how you never see a photo of Lincoln and Davis together??
Lincoln was a good bit taller, though.
There has been for years a theory that Davis and Lincoln were twin bothers. Look it up.
Thank you for all History videos friend.
A group fled to Brazil due to the strength that slavery still had there
The Confederate States had a plan to expand as far south as possible to form a cotton producing empire. Of course it never happened.
That's too bad. The slave revolt in Brazil was a bloody horrible event for the slave owners.
@@disco07 sounds like the slaves had a good time during that time.
@@disco07 which one?
That's right, their descendants still live there today, doing their debutante balls and all. True story.
The civil war was one of the most complex in history. We can assume it's all about slavery, but that was just one factor involved. It's a fascinating study...as long as you don't use a US public school history book that makes the North look like they could do no wrong. The pardon of Davis is a perfect example of saving face.
The primary cause of the war of northern aggression was tariffs. The north couldn't compete in the world market place, so they imposed high tariffs on imported goods from Europe. The tariffs not only did not benefit the South it punished them. They were having to pay more for imported goods due to the high tariffs. That also meant their wealth was being siphoned off and sent up north. The north had a greater population, so it had more votes in congress. So, their concerns about the tariffs were ignored. Why would they want to keep paying high tariffs for no reason? So, tariffs were the primary catalyst to war, states rights 2nd and slavery was a distant 3rd, becasue it was fading out anyway. Slavery was a moral evil on day one and an economic failure on day two. It wasn't profitable. That's why Thomas Jefferson died $80,000 in debt, and he brought it on himself. Paid employees are more productive than slaves. Every other Western nation abolished slavery without a war. There were still slaves in New York City in the 1850s as well as New England. It's clear that the civil war was uneccessary. lincoln was just a murdering scumbag who offered grant the chance to kill and destroy. But, hey, that's why he went to westpoint and became an infantry officer. Over 80% of the Confederate soldiers had to do their own work. It defies logic that they would want to fight a war just so the 10 to 15% sons of wealthy plantation owners wouldn't have to get their hands dirty. In conclusion, no man in histroy did more to earn his fate than lincoln.
Also states rights.
@@John-th4sy Good points all, but i think it is at least somewhat important that confederate sympathizers not minimize slavery. The election of Lincoln was the most direct reason South Carolina seceded. IMO the south had every right to secede but many people (not you) like to pretend that they weren't slave states.
@@John-th4sy I disagree, after reading Shelby Foote’s history. A confederate congressmen proposed that the south free the slaves so they could win the war, one of the primary reasons European nations wouldn’t help the southern cause, needless to say they rejected it out of hand, also little things, like calling Lee the “king of spades” for asking them to dig fortifications, because “it wasn’t white mans work”, I’ve heard all the northern aggression, states rights arguments, and yes, it’s true after the fact, but by and large a racist rebellion by a generation that revered Thomas Jefferson, who we owe a tremendous debt to, obviously, but who was by every definition a racist, a sad, unfortunate, blemish, on the establishment of the worlds greatest republic to date. We are still reaping the whirlwind, we should not memorialize traitors, and honor their dead as equal to those who fought for the republic, nor make excuses for their bad decisions. I’m not a fan of all the times Lincoln broke constitutional law, but I thank God he preserved the republic, if for nothing else than to beat back the nazi and communist scourge
Lee's surrender only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia, and not the Confederacy. Johnston still fought in North Carolina, and fighting continued in Texas. The war ended later on in 1865.
Frank, that is true, the “Stars and Bars” is actually the battle flag carried by soldiers into battle. The actual Confederate flag is not well known and had several versions.
Ya sweater looks like old tv static. Love it!
You left out that he was ruined financially by the war and at his last residence in Biloxi he spent his remaining years helping soldiers of either side along with slaves displaced by the war.
That's true! The "good guys" who invaded and occupied the South didn't care about anything. Hundreds of thousands of black people became war refugees due to abe and his boyfriend grant's destruction. How many black people were offered assistance in relocating to the magical utopia north of the mason dixon line? ZERO!
In 1861, my infant great grandfather came to America with his parents and uncles from Germany. His father, my great great grandfather along with the great uncles, joined the Union Army and I think some were assigned to the 4th Michigan Cavalry to take care of the horses. It is said that two of my great uncles were in on the capture of Jefferson Davis in someway. It's in the family history, but I'm not sure just how accurate that might be.
YOU GRANDFATHER NEVER CAME TO AMERICA, YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN, GO AND LEARN WHO YOU ARE, AND WHERE YOU ARE. SALUDOS YANKEE
Lincoln imported you as mercenaries, sounds like
I hate that guy.