You are by far the most informative channel on the Civil War I have been able to find! The strategy employed and the movements of the units are clearly described. Well done sir!!!
As always a fantastic watch and listen, thank you so much for all of your hard work Jeffrey. You've created one of the best channels on RUclips bringing us well presented and unbiased American history. The no frills, fact based presentations are truly a breath of fresh air in comparison to our current bombastic sound bite driven social media era.
I love learning about all the small incidents that lead up to and cause the large things we all already know. That's why this is so interesting to me.😊
What I will always have trouble with, are the black&white pictures and history they show. I can't imagine to this day how actual history looked like in colour and put myself in the head of people of the past and just see with their eyes what they saw but in colour. Anyway, thanks for another interesting story telling session, enjoyable as always.
Hey man you missed out one of the most interesting parts of the central Atlantic. As a border state many parts of Maryland were sympathetic to the confederates. You mention it a little bit with the riots in Baltimore. But southern Maryland, specifically the area around what would be later known as Point Lookout POW camp like Leonardtown and St. Mary’s City, Maryland would succeed from their own state. But being so close to DC union troops were sent down to the Maryland peninsula to occupy and take back the town of Leonardtown and subjugate the confederate sympathizers and plantations in the area. I’m native to southern Maryland so know a lot about the shakey history as a border state
Good job Jeffery! However, Mobile is pronounced (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL) founded by the French and pronounced French: [mɔbil]. Being a Librarian Iwould think you would pay more attention to details. Otherwise good work!
Private Francis Brownell, one of the soldiers who was with Ellsworth, immediately shot and bayoneted to death the man who shot Ellsworth. Brownell was chronologically the war’s first Medal of Honor recipient for these actions even though he wasn’t awarded the medal until over a decade later after making three requests to be awarded it. He also received an officer’s commission and left the army in 1863.
It seems like the Confederate states put themselves on a path they continue today. Union cities and states seem to have prospered more as a whole over time.
Like saying East Germany is poor because they want to be. Simply not the case and I'm truth the south was extremely cultured and built up before we burned it's cities to bricks
The Historian Heather Cox Richardson suggests, in her book "How the South Won the Civil War" that Confederate values of Oligarchy, inequality of races and individuals has in fact managed to triumph, as denoted by the state of the former Republican party and it's utter lack of a moral compass that would be recognizable by it's founders in 1861. High culture was for the few, to be supported by the "Mudsills"- the mass of lesser people under the command of the elites.
Good work my favorite subject other than God's word it's the civil war...not fake men men that actually walk the walk not just talk like alot of men now days
British govenment organized India to be brand new Crown colony and one of the first measure was to increase the raw cotton production from 1858 (3 years before the Civil War)! British port city consulates in the port cities of Egypt and the Ottoman (Turkies) Empire began to give free of charge cotton seed to the agriculural producers. UK started the World diversification of the raw cotton production 3 years before the Civil War. I am curious the Southern policians knew anything about this decision of London?
The Confederate government assumed Britain would be dependent on southern cotton, not realizing that the British Empire had other markets and an oversupply of cotton in 1860.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian 1. For 1864 the raw cotton production was World diversificated! 2. The flax and wool industries were behind the cotton industry during the industrial revulution so the 1861-1863 cotton shortage helped these industries to develop quicklier.
@@snapmalloy5556 , I think the test for proper or at least acceptable pronounciation of Southern locales is to follow how they are prounced in popular song. If Bob Dylan did it that way, you are safe.
Huh? "Maryland's loyalty?" Lincoln's Government quickly invaded the State with its military machine, and threw almost the entire State Legislature in cells, locked down Baltimore, its citizenry heavily pro-Confederate, and created a puppet Legislature which it moved to Frederick. It is stretch to suggest Hicks was "working heavily for the Union." The State government was unable to produce a single regiment made up of county militia and tender it to Lincoln for his use in invading Virginia.
Outside of Baltimore, the citizenry was largely loyal to the US. Western Maryland, like western Virginia, had nothing to do with the landed gentry of the east, and thus, no interest in the Confederacy. In 1862, Lee got the cold shoulder in Frederick, while the crowds came out to welcome McClellan's army as it passed through. The Park Service database shows 35 Maryland regiments for the Union, and 15 Maryland regiments for the Confederacy, more than a 2 to 1 ratio for the North.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Yes, most of us know that, in the sparsely populated western region of the State, the population was about evenly divided in sentiment between Union and Confederate. An example of this is the tension that developed among the congregation of the Frederick First Presbyterian Church, during the Antietam Campaign, over the fact the pastor, Dr. Ross and his wife Mary McDowell, were known to be pro-Confederate. There were twenty infantry regiments formed, one way or another, during the war, in Maryland. The first ten were formed by the Legislature with the mandate that they serve only _in_ Maryland; they were nominated "Potomac Guards" and "eastern Shore Guards." Several regiments were underwritten privately by non-Marylanders and the ranks filled with non-Marylanders. In 1863, several regiments were formed in Maryland composed of Africans, and one of these was present at the Surrender. Another regiment, the 8th Maryland, was formed in August 1862, served with the Union Army in 1863 and was present at the Surrender. In 1864, another ten regiments were formed which did join the organization of the Union Army but their service was limited to occupying places in Western Virginia. They were rushed to Appomattox to be present at the Surrender.
The British working class was extremely against a war to uphold slavery, which is why the British government's only options were to support the Union or remain neutral.
This is a great military summary. I wish there were political summary as good as this, which would reveal how much more nuanced the war was, rather than just black and white, like hearing you say “Missouri rebels” when Missouri voted to remain in the Union. There’s a difference between rebelling against your government and wanting to stop your government from going to war against its own people. If the federal government marched troops into Missouri today in order to wage a war against its own people and opened fire on a crowd of civilians (killing 28 and wounding 90)… yeah that’s going to be a tipping point where people want to rebel against the responsible government.
The "Missouri rebels" were attempting to seize the arsenal at St. Louis, that's what prompted Lyon to capture them. After the secession crisis began, taking up arms against (or seizing arms from) the US can really only be interpreted as pro-Confederate. Lyon's men would have been Missourians themselves.
Outside of Baltimore, there was widespread Union support in Maryland, as seen during McClellan's 1862 campaign. Lee got the cold shoulder in Frederick, but McClellan was treated like a liberator.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Still a distortion, and you've already demonstrated your bias, had Union troops not intervened, Maryland likely would have left the Union. One could play the same games with Northern states. It would be like preventing Virginia from leaving, then saying Virginia was loyal when only portions of it were (Western Virginia).
These are so easy to follow. Great work again.
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Thank you Jeffrey for the entertainment, however all the extra facts that tie events togethers are so rewarding to learn!!
Thank you for watching!
You are by far the most informative channel on the Civil War I have been able to find! The strategy employed and the movements of the units are clearly described. Well done sir!!!
Thank you!
Great series. Makes me want to rewatch the previous one, then this one again, perhaps tomorrow.
As always a fantastic watch and listen, thank you so much for all of your hard work Jeffrey. You've created one of the best channels on RUclips bringing us well presented and unbiased American history. The no frills, fact based presentations are truly a breath of fresh air in comparison to our current bombastic sound bite driven social media era.
Thank you for the nice comments. I really appreciate it.
I continue to learn a lot. Thank you sir
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Awesome production of the most exciting period of US history!
Perfect! I love watching these videos eating breakfast on weekends.
GG Sir, TY, I really enjoy these.
Excellent description. I learned a lot. Thanks
Thank you!
I love learning about all the small incidents that lead up to and cause the large things we all already know. That's why this is so interesting to me.😊
I like how the small actions have big consequences, such as securing a rail line.
I really do enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
What I will always have trouble with, are the black&white pictures and history they show. I can't imagine to this day how actual history looked like in colour and put myself in the head of people of the past and just see with their eyes what they saw but in colour. Anyway, thanks for another interesting story telling session, enjoyable as always.
Thanks Jeffrey!
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Nothing better than waking up to find a brand new, gleaming J the L lesson!
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So good! Thanks!
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Hey man you missed out one of the most interesting parts of the central Atlantic. As a border state many parts of Maryland were sympathetic to the confederates. You mention it a little bit with the riots in Baltimore. But southern Maryland, specifically the area around what would be later known as Point Lookout POW camp like Leonardtown and St. Mary’s City, Maryland would succeed from their own state. But being so close to DC union troops were sent down to the Maryland peninsula to occupy and take back the town of Leonardtown and subjugate the confederate sympathizers and plantations in the area. I’m native to southern Maryland so know a lot about the shakey history as a border state
I had to look up Benjamin Butler to confirm he was a lawyer. Only a lawyer would come up with that argument.
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Good job Jeffery! However, Mobile is pronounced (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL) founded by the French and pronounced French: [mɔbil]. Being a Librarian Iwould think you would pay more attention to details. Otherwise good work!
Thank you. I corrected my pronunciation of "Cay-ro", Illinois for this one, but now I need to correct "Moh-beel."
Private Francis Brownell, one of the soldiers who was with Ellsworth, immediately shot and bayoneted to death the man who shot Ellsworth. Brownell was chronologically the war’s first Medal of Honor recipient for these actions even though he wasn’t awarded the medal until over a decade later after making three requests to be awarded it. He also received an officer’s commission and left the army in 1863.
That's a good bit of information. Thank you!
It seems like the Confederate states put themselves on a path they continue today. Union cities and states seem to have prospered more as a whole over time.
Like saying East Germany is poor because they want to be.
Simply not the case and I'm truth the south was extremely cultured and built up before we burned it's cities to bricks
The Historian Heather Cox Richardson suggests, in her book "How the South Won the Civil War" that Confederate values of Oligarchy, inequality of races and individuals has in fact managed to triumph, as denoted by the state of the former Republican party and it's utter lack of a moral compass that would be recognizable by it's founders in 1861. High culture was for the few, to be supported by the "Mudsills"- the mass of lesser people under the command of the elites.
Good work my favorite subject other than God's word it's the civil war...not fake men men that actually walk the walk not just talk like alot of men now days
What a great synopsis to summarize my hometown of Maryland in five minutes
Maryland is a beautiful state. Love Deep Creek Lake.
British govenment organized India to be brand new Crown colony and one of the first measure was to increase the raw cotton production from 1858 (3 years before the Civil War)! British port city consulates in the port cities of Egypt and the Ottoman (Turkies) Empire began to give free of charge cotton seed to the agriculural producers. UK started the World diversification of the raw cotton production 3 years before the Civil War. I am curious the Southern policians knew anything about this decision of London?
The Confederate government assumed Britain would be dependent on southern cotton, not realizing that the British Empire had other markets and an oversupply of cotton in 1860.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian 1. For 1864 the raw cotton production was World diversificated!
2. The flax and wool industries were behind the cotton industry during the industrial revulution so the 1861-1863 cotton shortage helped these industries to develop quicklier.
You mispronounced Mobile! You must be a Yankee. LOL. 😂
"Mobile" is hard for me. I have heard "Moe-bull" and "Moe-beel." Yes, I am a Yankee.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian , no worries. Moe-beel is what we say in the Deep South. Think of automobile next time. Hope that helps.
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I'm a Yankee and also, New Orleans will always be New "Or-leens" 😂
@@snapmalloy5556 , I think the test for proper or at least acceptable pronounciation of Southern locales is to follow how they are prounced in popular song. If Bob Dylan did it that way, you are safe.
@@leonardyoung6821 Arlo Guthrie?
I believe you are referencing Arlo's "City of New Orleans"
Huh? "Maryland's loyalty?" Lincoln's Government quickly invaded the State with its military machine, and threw almost the entire State Legislature in cells, locked down Baltimore, its citizenry heavily pro-Confederate, and created a puppet Legislature which it moved to Frederick. It is stretch to suggest Hicks was "working heavily for the Union." The State government was unable to produce a single regiment made up of county militia and tender it to Lincoln for his use in invading Virginia.
Outside of Baltimore, the citizenry was largely loyal to the US. Western Maryland, like western Virginia, had nothing to do with the landed gentry of the east, and thus, no interest in the Confederacy. In 1862, Lee got the cold shoulder in Frederick, while the crowds came out to welcome McClellan's army as it passed through. The Park Service database shows 35 Maryland regiments for the Union, and 15 Maryland regiments for the Confederacy, more than a 2 to 1 ratio for the North.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Yes, most of us know that, in the sparsely populated western region of the State, the population was about evenly divided in sentiment between Union and Confederate. An example of this is the tension that developed among the congregation of the Frederick First Presbyterian Church, during the Antietam Campaign, over the fact the pastor, Dr. Ross and his wife Mary McDowell, were known to be pro-Confederate.
There were twenty infantry regiments formed, one way or another, during the war, in Maryland. The first ten were formed by the Legislature with the mandate that they serve only _in_ Maryland; they were nominated "Potomac Guards" and "eastern Shore Guards." Several regiments were underwritten privately by non-Marylanders and the ranks filled with non-Marylanders. In 1863, several regiments were formed in Maryland composed of Africans, and one of these was present at the Surrender. Another regiment, the 8th Maryland, was formed in August 1862, served with the Union Army in 1863 and was present at the Surrender. In 1864, another ten regiments were formed which did join the organization of the Union Army but their service was limited to occupying places in Western Virginia. They were rushed to Appomattox to be present at the Surrender.
The British working class was extremely against a war to uphold slavery, which is why the British government's only options were to support the Union or remain neutral.
Britain had already emancipated the empire's slaves, so the slave issue was a major barrier to the Queen supporting the south.
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This is a great military summary. I wish there were political summary as good as this, which would reveal how much more nuanced the war was, rather than just black and white, like hearing you say “Missouri rebels” when Missouri voted to remain in the Union. There’s a difference between rebelling against your government and wanting to stop your government from going to war against its own people. If the federal government marched troops into Missouri today in order to wage a war against its own people and opened fire on a crowd of civilians (killing 28 and wounding 90)… yeah that’s going to be a tipping point where people want to rebel against the responsible government.
The "Missouri rebels" were attempting to seize the arsenal at St. Louis, that's what prompted Lyon to capture them. After the secession crisis began, taking up arms against (or seizing arms from) the US can really only be interpreted as pro-Confederate. Lyon's men would have been Missourians themselves.
"Maryland's loyalty?" Yeah, sure, at the point of a Northern bayonet.
Outside of Baltimore, there was widespread Union support in Maryland, as seen during McClellan's 1862 campaign. Lee got the cold shoulder in Frederick, but McClellan was treated like a liberator.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Still a distortion, and you've already demonstrated your bias, had Union troops not intervened, Maryland likely would have left the Union. One could play the same games with Northern states. It would be like preventing Virginia from leaving, then saying Virginia was loyal when only portions of it were (Western Virginia).
Long live the south
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