Being born and raised in the north we had a northern prospective on the Civil War. Recently I mad a trip to Gettysburg and to the site of the Battle at New Garden and I learned that our northern troops weren't as "clean and shining" as our teachers tried to make them. It was a terrible war, but targeting non military targets and leveling farms and homes with no real military value as some of the northern troops did is as close to atrocity as you can get. I have a new respect for the southern troops and the innocent people that perished.
jay dee Exactly! I was also born and raised in the North, in the middle of underground railroad territory, but am now a Southerner and have been for quite some time. The North was brutal, cruel and racist, but few want to believe it. I will say, however, that I do believe much of the brutality was done without the consent of Grant, from some of what I've read over the years. But all in all, as long as the Northern and progressive version of the aggression is taught, the facts will always be suppressed. The North had nothing to be proud of about their "victory".
Look this song up and one of the first auto finishings you'll get on google appends RACIST to the end. First off, there's no mention of race involved in the song what-so-ever. It's a song about civil war that no way involves the idea of slaves. The civil war had to do with america's policy on slaves, but was not exclusively about it, as I understand. The song takes a humanistic point of view on the south, which I not only find refreshing, but is a damn catchy way of presenting it. I think it's important to look at both ends of a war. Especially in wars like the civil war, where it's so easy to label the other side (northerner here) as slave owners, or commies in Vietnam (where the south vietnam president could be considered more off the handle than Ho-Chi-Min), and even in WWII, with the atrocities committed under Nazi rule (without most Germans really knowing the full extent). There are horrible people in this world who do horrible things, and they know no flag, no country, and no land. They transcend race, sex, etc. To say this song is racist because it looks at the plight of southerners is just asinine. Not that it is justification for slavery, but it is important to note the south's large plantations were built on slave labor, and the economy of the region took at hit between the freeing of the slaves and aforementioned attacks on farms/civilian targets. There was loss on both sides, and this song should stand as reminder that even that "bad guys" are really just people fighting for a cause, not unlike our own side.
Of course they weren't (many of them). War is war and good people do bad things regardless of which side they are on, AND there are bad people on both sides. It's too bad the historians of today insist on being binary in their presentation of history. It's a disservice to everyone. As for the song, the overwhelming majority of poor white farmers had nothing to do with slavery and had no "cause" in the war. They were busy tilling their ground, trying to survive another winter. How would you feel if you looked out your window and saw columns of US troops going to fight invading Russian troops just a few miles away? Not too good, I would presume.
Robert E. Lee (a distant relative of mine; graduated second in his class at West Point) commented: "It is well that war is so terrible--we would grow too fond of it."
The Civil War ended 158 years ago on a warm Palm Sunday 9 April 1865 at the Appomattox Court House, Virginia. My Great Great Grandfather and many of his kinsmen fought for the Stars and Bars. Our family never owned slaves but fought to protect home and hearth from the invaders. Every 9th of April I salute the men of gray for a valiant fight against incredible odds with Joan Baez's creative and superb singing talent to remember the end of that war. Their flag has been much aligned by others and stained by the dishonor from those far removed from the field of battle. It has always been about heritage, never hate and never will be, but only honor for the fallen.
My ancestors had a cotton farm in Mississippi fought in the war. Never had Democrats and Republicans tore down our they're trying to wipe out the history of the brave men in the south and woman. God bless the Confederacy.
Correction Republicans and Democrats tore down our statues My ancestors fought for the South had a small cotton farm. paid for there labor no slaves.god bless the Confederacy.
@@sherrimolnar6560 what a convenient story. A small cotton farm with only a few human manual laborers who were paid im assuming fairly unlike the vast majority slaves and sharecroppers. I’m sure few well paid slaves were unionized and osha compliant. Not to get started on the amount they were saving by living at the jobs.
The lyrics tell of the last days of the American Civil War and the suffering of the South. The song hits me deeply as I can remember being hungry more than once in my life...hunger is a fierce thing and every war results in the defeated ones starving to death. I'm a Canadian veteran and I've seen starvation caused by war and conflict...those visions became nightmares and I am wracked by ptsd. Only thing war ever taught me is that we ALL bleed red...
That is correct. No matter what color the skin covering the innerds and skelaton are the blood is always red. Can't we just stop all this racial injustice and get along? Life's to short to spend it fighting about the color of skin.
And here we are again with another madness Europe.. What will the last man and woman on earth say to each other? Shall we start again or is humanity just a lost cause?
This is the most defiant song I have ever heard ,and the delivery stokes the urgency. I can feel the hair rise behind my neck with this powerful rendition
If your a Johnny reb not if your from the north we prefer rally round the flag and marching thru Georgia and the horse soldiers song without john wayne
Watched Gettysburg couple of days ago, now the words of this song make sense. In my life as an engineer I have visited America many times, even drove across it twice and in all those miles I never found a more welcoming people.
My G-G-Grandfather, John W. McCall enlisted as a private with Company H, 10th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Wilcox County Rifles, on 20 May, 1861. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 15 June, 1861 and to First Lieutenant on 2 December, 1864. John W. McCall saw action in the following engagements: Seven Days Battle; Gettysburg; The Wilderness; Spotsylvania Court House; and the Shendandoah Valley Campaign.
I am a Virginian. How can I not be touched by this? It is in our blood and the blood of every southern boy. You can take down the statues if you want but you cannot tale away the pride.
@@hertzvanrental100 stupidity is being aoc, or committing suicide for no reason. courage is facing impossible odds to defend the family you love and the place you call home. in other words. not being french.
@@madeinAmericasince-rz9cp a bit hard on the french there theve battled all over the world in many a war in many a century your god lee fucked up this time
Late in life I found my biological family and genealogy since I was adopted. At least three ancestors fought for the C.S.A. I will do what I can to verify my ancestry to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
There are people do searches for Civil War Abcestirs. My mother went to one in Santa Barbara. 6 brothers on my fathers side fought in Ilinois 101st Infntry with General Hooker in Battle of Tennessee. HE WOULD URGE THEM ON " COME ON, MY ILLINOIS BOYS."
Can we all just stop fighting about which side was better? Both sides had great men and both had terrible men so let’s just get along and we will never have another civil war
Crazy how most people have no problem asserting that Imperial Japan/Soviet Russia/Nazi Germany were terrible nations fighting for awful reasons, yet as soon as we get to "a traitorous country that seceded to preserve its ability own black people as chattel slaves" we get "both sides had great men and both had terrible men". _No_ war has ever been fought by the elite ideologues championing their cause--they've _all_ been fought by the common man who all suffered. Why does the Confederacy deserve rose-tinted glasses? The Confederacy was an abomination and they were allowed to flourish after losing, and we still suffer from the echoes of that decision to this day.
@ by invading to start a war and burning towns and cities raping women and children and giving reason after reason to keep fighting. contrast that with general lee who said not to inflict harm on the innocent.
@@gfoot9916 got news for you buddy. Yankees did the same thing on a bigger scale. Slaves of all races in enemy ground are considered confiscated enemy property. As bad as that was and as much as it still happens today that don't change the war none. Every soldier had his reasons to fight and the popular reason was state security. Home field protection. For every woman raped. Every child murdered. Every home burned there was more reason to fight. To end it, prevent more, or revenge for the families they lost not in open battle, but to mercenary brutality and cruelty
@@madeinAmericasince-rz9cp Yeah but I’m talking about General Lee who you say said “not to inflict harm on the innocent”. It’s BS. Don’t dodge the point.
Well first we had reconstruction, which was amazing. The South was the first with Germany to have free healthcare in the industrial world. But then Jim Crow and racist terror came and destroyed that. Its more complicated than "gracious" or not.
An amazing song with an amazing video! I have loved this song for years! I love to sing it! I think this song is one of Joan Baez's masterpieces! As an artist creates with a paint brush Joan Baez creates images with her voice and lyrics and of course her guitar too. When the chorus singers come in it sends chills up and down my back. The sound travels through my ears, straight to my heart! I love Civil War history too. The whole song and video just amazes me!
I'm born & bred Louisiana/Mississippi. My ancestors were much too poor to own slaves, as was 95% of Southern whites. We always knew the Yankees weren't these moral angels. They were savages just like the rebels. Confederate flags everywhere in 60s-80s. Nobody thought the flag meant white supremacy or supporters of slavery. Was simply honoring great-great grandpappy as a war veteran. But the Yankees to this day are too weak to handle the Stars&Bars from a war they won!! Ignorance is sad.
@@jjx9625 VAST MAJORITY , were poor men none owned a slave in their life. They fought the North dictators that wanted to take over the south land , crops everything and GENERAL LEE REFUSED TO ALLOW THE NORTH TO DO THIS TO THE SOUTH.
The Confederate Armies were OUTNUMBERED almost 2.5 to 1. However, they put up a valiant fight for the Southern Cause. If the odds had been even, it would not have even been close.
That’s a great version and I love the video. Told from a southern standpoint, but you do a very good job of showing both sides. Very well done. Hats off from a yankee in NH.
My great grandfather fought proud for the confederation States and against import tariffs and states rights. Then the government took his farm and sold it for Penny's. ??? God bless America .
Reminds me of the film The Undefeated At the begining when John Wayne says to the Confederate Soldier The war ended Why are you still fighting "Because this is our land and you're on it
My family was on all Three sides. North, south, and abolitionist. My mom's family was from Pennsylvania, some of My dad's family were from n. Virginia and others were Quaker's from kansas so my views of the civil war are mixed. I can see the rights in the wrongs, and the mistakes made before and after thry war
Corrections: Someone was asking about this movie video. If I recall , on DVD - " The Battle of Gettysburg." I picked it up at a popular store. It was Col Chamberlin who was wounded 6 times on the battle field. The rebels were so BRAVE - they marched right up to the Yankees to fight them. Robert E. Lee was the most admired General of all times even through he lost the war. More than a half million people died in the civil war. Good song with this video. Joan Baez has a lovely voice when she sings.
Civilians at the V.A. hospital ask me how long I was in the servioce and what branch,I tell the truth,I was soldier in two years ( drafted) I was in Cambodia not long by their standards 13 months was pure misery and it felt like a life time!
Gwenhamara he was against slavery and the FIRST choice to command the UNION army, but couldn't fight against his own people. You'd probably sell yours down the river if they didn't agree with you in lockstep.
His own people? He was in the United States military and decided to fight against his own country. He was damned traitor to the United States of America. If one of "my own people" decided to commit treason I probably would sell him down the river. See how that works?
Great-Grandfather was wounded at Chickamauga. Can't imagine what it must have been like for a 20 year old from Alabama in the middle of that mess. Less than a year after joining he deserted and surrendered to the Union. I don't blame him.
I've seen a lot of things happen during my life I never thought would occur.For example the breakup of the Soviet Union, fall of the Berlin Wall etc. The United States is becoming more and more regionalized and divided politically. People are polarized and anger is building. That's what "Drain the Swamp" in DC is all about. It's not happening. I would not be surprised if someday Texas and some other states secede again. This time they would be successful because the population and industry has shifted south and southwest. People in the South are more oriented to the military. If California stayed out of it, it would be a heck of a battle.
I am not American but i feel like one(maybe that is memory of my former life) and i never run away from war but that war was all about money and Washington people knew it and not about slavery.It is all history now but it would be nice if they admit the truth...Pride&Honor friends
I live in Fredericksburg I love visiting the battle fields. There are so many sites to see. Sadly the town has turned on history lovers. They equate us as racist.
I know capitulation will stick in your craws boys, but sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. General Pickett, you must look to your division. General Lee Sir,, I no longer have a division to look to. The Infantry, men that grit their teeth and just take it,, bravery? I know of none greater. Capt, I'm sceerd. That's all right boy, we're all scared, but we don't run.
Strike the colors boys, it is a very wise man indeed, that knows when he's lost. 🌙 🌴 Men of the South Carolinians, go home to your wives and kids, there's no more you can do here boys.
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Thank God for William Tecumseh Sherman, preserving the Union!
The Southerners fought not for slavery, but for the Motherland, the way of life. That is why "barely alive" Confederates attacked and had victories over Yankees, when the chances were small and only God and their bravery could help them.
My relatives fought around Vicksburg Mississippi. Some other battles beyond that. Before you criticize somebody you should really try to use your tiny little brain.
The poor of the south doing the fighting were fighting for their state-that’s what it was about. They didn’t have slaves-poor yeoman farmers protecting their homeland from an invasion. Sherman went through the south and as he said “made it howl” especially SC and burned everything in his two paths to the ground. Took everything. Could be a million died in that war if you count civilians who starved to death because of Sherman. That’s what this song is about. Sherman’s March. Read it. Sherman was a war criminal by todays standards. He burned Dixie down. The wealthy plantation owners were the slavers not the poor who fought for their state and homes. Slavery was going to end and could’ve done without hundreds of thousands dying. It was a war of attrition. Not a better army but a better supplied army and an endless supply of new troops coming into NY harbor. Slavery was wrong but these men weren’t responsible for it. The politicians were. Also don’t forget. It was the North that invaded the south.
I am reading a biography of Beauregard. He was in US ARmy and fought in Mexican-american war. Then commanded Confederates. But I like other southern leaders, he adapted after reconstruction and prospered in railroads and a Louisiana lottery.
Absolutely, one of the greatest folk songs of All Time!
Beautiful
Being born and raised in the north we had a northern prospective on the Civil War. Recently I mad a trip to Gettysburg and to the site of the Battle at New Garden and I learned that our northern troops weren't as "clean and shining" as our teachers tried to make them. It was a terrible war, but targeting non military targets and leveling farms and homes with no real military value as some of the northern troops did is as close to atrocity as you can get. I have a new respect for the southern troops and the innocent people that perished.
jay dee Exactly! I was also born and raised in the North, in the middle of underground railroad territory, but am now a Southerner and have been for quite some time. The North was brutal, cruel and racist, but few want to believe it. I will say, however, that I do believe much of the brutality was done without the consent of Grant, from some of what I've read over the years. But all in all, as long as the Northern and progressive version of the aggression is taught, the facts will always be suppressed. The North had nothing to be proud of about their "victory".
Thank you for posting this!
Look this song up and one of the first auto finishings you'll get on google appends RACIST to the end. First off, there's no mention of race involved in the song what-so-ever. It's a song about civil war that no way involves the idea of slaves. The civil war had to do with america's policy on slaves, but was not exclusively about it, as I understand. The song takes a humanistic point of view on the south, which I not only find refreshing, but is a damn catchy way of presenting it. I think it's important to look at both ends of a war. Especially in wars like the civil war, where it's so easy to label the other side (northerner here) as slave owners, or commies in Vietnam (where the south vietnam president could be considered more off the handle than Ho-Chi-Min), and even in WWII, with the atrocities committed under Nazi rule (without most Germans really knowing the full extent). There are horrible people in this world who do horrible things, and they know no flag, no country, and no land. They transcend race, sex, etc. To say this song is racist because it looks at the plight of southerners is just asinine. Not that it is justification for slavery, but it is important to note the south's large plantations were built on slave labor, and the economy of the region took at hit between the freeing of the slaves and aforementioned attacks on farms/civilian targets. There was loss on both sides, and this song should stand as reminder that even that "bad guys" are really just people fighting for a cause, not unlike our own side.
Of course they weren't (many of them). War is war and good people do bad things regardless of which side they are on, AND there are bad people on both sides. It's too bad the historians of today insist on being binary in their presentation of history. It's a disservice to everyone.
As for the song, the overwhelming majority of poor white farmers had nothing to do with slavery and had no "cause" in the war. They were busy tilling their ground, trying to survive another winter. How would you feel if you looked out your window and saw columns of US troops going to fight invading Russian troops just a few miles away? Not too good, I would presume.
to get a small idea of how bad the north was watch the clark gable movie BAND OF ANGELS
Robert E. Lee (a distant relative of mine; graduated second in his class at West Point) commented: "It is well that war is so terrible--we would grow too fond of it."
I like that quote.
Its just one big mobile camping trip.
The Band may have had it first, but Baez and her golden pipes did it best
That's not true at all. You dont know music
The Civil War ended 158 years ago on a warm Palm Sunday 9 April 1865 at the Appomattox Court House, Virginia. My Great Great Grandfather and many of his kinsmen fought for the Stars and Bars. Our family never owned slaves but fought to protect home and hearth from the invaders. Every 9th of April I salute the men of gray for a valiant fight against incredible odds with Joan Baez's creative and superb singing talent to remember the end of that war. Their flag has been much aligned by others and stained by the dishonor from those far removed from the field of battle. It has always been about heritage, never hate and never will be, but only honor for the fallen.
Mine too....brother. KIA Fredricksburg
48th Alabama Infantry 'Stonewall's' Reg.
Battle of Cedar Run
My ancestors had a cotton farm in Mississippi fought in the war. Never had Democrats and Republicans tore down our they're trying to wipe out the history of the brave men in the south and woman. God bless the Confederacy.
Correction never had slaves.
Correction Republicans and Democrats tore down our statues My ancestors fought for the South had a small cotton farm. paid for there labor no slaves.god bless the Confederacy.
@@sherrimolnar6560 what a convenient story. A small cotton farm with only a few human manual laborers who were paid im assuming fairly unlike the vast majority slaves and sharecroppers. I’m sure few well paid slaves were unionized and osha compliant. Not to get started on the amount they were saving by living at the jobs.
The lyrics tell of the last days of the American Civil War and the suffering of the South.
The song hits me deeply as I can remember being hungry more than once in my life...hunger is a fierce thing and every war results in the defeated ones starving to death.
I'm a Canadian veteran and I've seen starvation caused by war and conflict...those visions became nightmares and I am wracked by ptsd.
Only thing war ever taught me is that we ALL bleed red...
fuck canadia. america first. america and israel only
@whatajoke333 ok there Alex Jones
That is correct. No matter what color the skin covering the innerds and skelaton are the blood is always red. Can't we just stop all this racial injustice and get along? Life's to short to spend it fighting about the color of skin.
Hoo-Rah.
And here we are again with another madness Europe.. What will the last man and woman on earth say to each other?
Shall we start again or is humanity just a lost cause?
I'm a yankee from up north but i love this song...God Bless America 🇺🇸👍
1865. Fastforward 152 years later, and some people are still fighting the War.
Russian provacators
Na-na-na-na-nineteen, na-na-na-nineteen
God bless every Southern Soldier, bless your ancestors, God bless the South, from a proud WASP Canadian
William Barrett : Yeah you right.
Southern born,Southern bred
When I die
I'll be Southern dead
This is the most defiant song I have ever heard ,and the delivery stokes the urgency. I can feel the hair rise behind my neck with this powerful rendition
If your a Johnny reb not if your from the north we prefer rally round the flag and marching thru Georgia and the horse soldiers song without john wayne
Watched Gettysburg couple of days ago, now the words of this song make sense.
In my life as an engineer I have visited America many times, even drove across it twice and in all those miles I never found a more welcoming people.
My G-G-Grandfather, John W. McCall enlisted as a private with Company H, 10th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Wilcox County Rifles, on 20 May, 1861. He was promoted to 4th Corporal on 15 June, 1861 and to First Lieutenant on 2 December, 1864. John W. McCall saw action in the following engagements: Seven Days Battle; Gettysburg; The Wilderness; Spotsylvania Court House; and the Shendandoah Valley Campaign.
To the memory of all the soldiers of the South ... Thank you for your service.
4k u slavers. Burn in hell.
Very anti-American of you to thank people for killing US troops.
@@Ben00000 1. I didn't thank any 1.
2. I'm not anti-American (I'm anti-slavery)
3. Union* soldiers were US(
@@frcprc4022 Correct, I was replying to Sir Robin
@@Ben00000 Sry. YT show that as reply 2 my comment.
She had such a great voice, and the 60s won’t ever be reproduced.
She's still very much alive!
@@redparrot53, I don’t think her voice is quite the same today as it was back then.
They can tear down but you can’t change history period !
Those who do away with the truth about the past will be reliving the pain of it.
George Orwell was quite the prophet.
But they are trying awfully hard.
@@chris4235 very much so !
It does bring a tear to your eyes
I am a Virginian. How can I not be touched by this? It is in our blood and the blood of every southern boy. You can take down the statues if you want but you cannot tale away the pride.
Iam northern irish and my kin fought for both sides but i prefer the south, dont let anyone tell you what flag you can and cannot fly
The courage of those men in Picket's charge is mind blowing.
Actually a good analogy Wesley.....courage in the face of suicidal odds......
Blind stupidity......
@@hertzvanrental100 stupidity is being aoc, or committing suicide for no reason. courage is facing impossible odds to defend the family you love and the place you call home. in other words. not being french.
The good old yankee boys mowed the down Fredericksburg Fredericksburg 🇺🇸🇺🇸💪
@@madeinAmericasince-rz9cp a bit hard on the french there theve battled all over the world in many a war in many a century your god lee fucked up this time
Late in life I found my biological family and genealogy since I was adopted. At least three ancestors fought for the C.S.A. I will do what I can to verify my ancestry to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Honoring slave holders? lost cause my ass
There are people do searches for Civil War Abcestirs. My mother went to one in Santa Barbara. 6 brothers on my fathers side fought in Ilinois 101st Infntry with General Hooker in Battle of Tennessee. HE WOULD URGE THEM ON " COME ON, MY ILLINOIS BOYS."
I must be a true Rebel. That makes the hair stand up on me and teared me up.
You fly with Jim and Crow about the past.
Can we all just stop fighting about which side was better? Both sides had great men and both had terrible men so let’s just get along and we will never have another civil war
Crazy how most people have no problem asserting that Imperial Japan/Soviet Russia/Nazi Germany were terrible nations fighting for awful reasons, yet as soon as we get to "a traitorous country that seceded to preserve its ability own black people as chattel slaves" we get "both sides had great men and both had terrible men". _No_ war has ever been fought by the elite ideologues championing their cause--they've _all_ been fought by the common man who all suffered. Why does the Confederacy deserve rose-tinted glasses?
The Confederacy was an abomination and they were allowed to flourish after losing, and we still suffer from the echoes of that decision to this day.
Yeah, that sorta reminds me of a sayin' said by a former psuedo president. "There were good people, on both sides.. "
I went to MVHS (Mtn. View High School CA) the colors were Blue and Grey to symbolize the end and unity.
The Southern Man is courageous, loyal, passionate, and loves his Wife. God Bless Boys, you did well..
@ by invading to start a war and burning towns and cities raping women and children and giving reason after reason to keep fighting. contrast that with general lee who said not to inflict harm on the innocent.
@@madeinAmericasince-rz9cp General Lee watched as his troops captured Blacks in Pennsylvania to sell them in the Richmond markets. Gtfoh
@@gfoot9916 got news for you buddy. Yankees did the same thing on a bigger scale. Slaves of all races in enemy ground are considered confiscated enemy property. As bad as that was and as much as it still happens today that don't change the war none. Every soldier had his reasons to fight and the popular reason was state security. Home field protection. For every woman raped. Every child murdered. Every home burned there was more reason to fight. To end it, prevent more, or revenge for the families they lost not in open battle, but to mercenary brutality and cruelty
@@madeinAmericasince-rz9cp Yeah but I’m talking about General Lee who you say said “not to inflict harm on the innocent”. It’s BS. Don’t dodge the point.
@@gfoot9916 did general Lee burn cities? Rape children? No. The federal oppressors did
A tremendous powerful song 💙
Shite song rally round the flag now your talking🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
If only the extremists of the world would lose as graciously.
Well first we had reconstruction, which was amazing. The South was the first with Germany to have free healthcare in the industrial world. But then Jim Crow and racist terror came and destroyed that. Its more complicated than "gracious" or not.
Love this song performed by Joan Baez!
One sided song rally round the flag 🇺🇸tell her to sing about the atrocities the south commited
Excellent song , excellent singer
Watched this like 30 times straight...very powerful and moving piece of film...very sad
Southern born and bred....and damned proud!
I think Clint Eastwood's character in The Outlaw Josey Wales said it best. "I reckon we all died a little in that damn war."
joan
well put!!!!!
Aimee Ward right
this song gives such goosebumps! :) Awesome song, voice, music.....
I wudnt say it give me goose bumps or is massive song uve got johnny reb head phones on rally round the flag now your talking
My Great Great Grandfather from Ireland who moved to America was in the civil war.
I really, REALLY miss living in Georgia. I lived 80 miles south of Savannah, in Glynn county. I still consider it my home state.
No state in the south suffered quite as much as Georgia.
An amazing song with an amazing video! I have loved this song for years! I love to sing it! I think this song is one of Joan Baez's masterpieces! As an artist creates with a paint brush Joan Baez creates images with her voice and lyrics and of course her guitar too. When the chorus singers come in it sends chills up and down my back. The sound travels through my ears, straight to my heart! I love Civil War history too. The whole song and video just amazes me!
I'm born & bred Louisiana/Mississippi. My ancestors were much too poor to own slaves, as was 95% of Southern whites. We always knew the Yankees weren't these moral angels. They were savages just like the rebels. Confederate flags everywhere in 60s-80s. Nobody thought the flag meant white supremacy or supporters of slavery. Was simply honoring great-great grandpappy as a war veteran. But the Yankees to this day are too weak to handle the Stars&Bars from a war they won!! Ignorance is sad.
Yeah but still gets the lyrics wrong within the first few lines .
A great song that told the truth.
Less than 10% of the boys in that picket line ever owned a slave.
Probably less than 1%
@@jjx9625 VAST MAJORITY , were poor men none owned a slave in their life. They fought the North dictators that wanted to take over the south land , crops everything and GENERAL LEE REFUSED TO ALLOW THE NORTH TO DO THIS TO THE SOUTH.
From what I've read, actually it was around 5% if memory serves me correctly.
A very stirring song and I like it even more now than when I first heard it when I was 14.
God Bless Robert E. Lee!
I wonder if the lyrics refer to "the" Robert E Lee, the paddle boat.
Video says it all
And how!
Great editing on the video..it brings the past back to life. The song was written by a Canadian, Robbie Robertson.
Wonderful song & film, English officers who had fought in Crimean war fought on both sides.
Wonderful song and great singer. I like Joan Baez very much! Thanks!
Rally round the flag is a better song and the horse soldiers song🇺🇸🇺🇸💪
The Confederate Armies were OUTNUMBERED almost 2.5 to 1. However, they put up a valiant fight for the Southern Cause. If the odds had been even, it would not have even been close.
So powerful.
God Bless Our Soldiers in the Confederate Army 🇵🇷🌟‼️
That’s a great version and I love the video. Told from a southern standpoint, but you do a very good job of showing both sides. Very well done. Hats off from a yankee in NH.
THANK YOU...THIS is the original version I remember.
So many remakes to sift through....
Much appreciated!
Original version is by The Band not Joan. Robbie Robertson a Canadian wrote it. Levon and The Band turning it into an instant classic.
@@MichaelRublackthis version is better but you’re right
Pretty Joan Baez sang this as if she were a Southern girl, too.
My great grandfather fought proud for the confederation States and against import tariffs and states rights. Then the government took his farm and sold it for Penny's. ??? God bless America .
2022. Joan did one hell of a great job on this song
Reminds me of the film The Undefeated At the begining when John Wayne says to the Confederate Soldier The war ended Why are you still fighting "Because this is our land and you're on it
Footage from the film Gettysburg....and the suicidal Pickets charge.
God Bless these patriots of The South
This song this version nothing but nothing can better it
Except the Band
I still like her better than the band
I love johnny cash version to
Gets the lyrics wrong within the first few lines …..Levon blows this version out the water.
Good presentation, ggarlick46! ... Nobody sings this song better than Joan Baez.
Cheers mate!
Come back JIMMY dean. We need every man to stand with Christ and live for his children and wife.
Stonewall Jackson is part of the family DNA!! Thanks daddy!
First of this version, didn't like her politics but love her music.,, always have and I'm an old fart.
War is not a necessity but Weapon indeed is a necessity.
Can't we just love the song, love the way Joan Baez sang it, and not go into this which side was better fight... Love the song, PERIOD!!!!!!
Nope 👎 sorry 😢 but the south was right! The south was and is invaded
We need to keep respect for them
My family was on all Three sides. North, south, and abolitionist. My mom's family was from Pennsylvania, some of My dad's family were from n. Virginia and others were Quaker's from kansas so my views of the civil war are mixed. I can see the rights in the wrongs, and the mistakes made before and after thry war
my respect goes to the south!
Never get tired of seeing old dixie
Yes, massa!
great song
We won't be defeated again.
Well said Aimee Ward!!!!
Corrections: Someone was asking about this movie video. If I recall , on DVD - " The Battle of Gettysburg." I picked it up at a popular store. It was Col Chamberlin who was wounded 6 times on the battle field. The rebels were so BRAVE - they marched right up to the Yankees to fight them. Robert E. Lee was the most admired General of all times even through he lost the war. More than a half million people died in the civil war. Good song with this video. Joan Baez has a lovely voice when she sings.
More people died from disease and dysentery than by actually being killed on the battlefield.
I have a home in Tenn I love my souther neighbors great people I would stand tall with all of them
Love the song, its new to me....Ive heard of the title before...but not the song.
Loving the film to go with it too :)
Silverbirch4444 im the 1
I can only say that Johnny Reb were fortunate to have Duncan Idaho on their team for this one
The Song isn't about Slavery and isn't say nothing bad about Black People and they say "this song is Racist"
vive de gaulle et lincoln ! ! !
Viva Las Vegas,
This horrible war should never have been fought......700,000 lives lost and all of them American.
Just hope and pray that you never have another one.
Civilians at the V.A. hospital ask me how long I was in the servioce and what branch,I tell the truth,I was soldier in two years ( drafted) I was in Cambodia not long by their standards 13 months was pure misery and it felt like a life time!
Is this from a film? Stunning tune.
Imo Robert E Lee is "the Noblest American".
and today they pulled ol dixie down check it out and weep for your ancestors
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He was a great general and he was also a traitor to the United States. Not much nobility there....
Gwenhamara he was against slavery and the FIRST choice to command the UNION army, but couldn't fight against his own people. You'd probably sell yours down the river if they didn't agree with you in lockstep.
Crusaders hu Akbar it will all come back to bite them in the ass....mark my words....people will only take so much, then there will be hell to pay.
His own people? He was in the United States military and decided to fight against his own country. He was damned traitor to the United States of America. If one of "my own people" decided to commit treason I probably would sell him down the river. See how that works?
Great-Grandfather was wounded at Chickamauga. Can't imagine what it must have been like for a 20 year old from Alabama in the middle of that mess. Less than a year after joining he deserted and surrendered to the Union. I don't blame him.
Jeff Morse
Jeff Morse
Try being 14. By 1864 any live warm body would do.
not if that warm body was black.
My great-grandfather was also at Chickamauga. Wasn't wounded but contacted typhoid and almost died. That war was truly hell.
To all the "PCer's" out there... if the Confederate Flag in this video offends you, please take a long walk off a short pier. Thank you!
James Park AMEN!!!!!!
and just to add a little punch to that statement GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!!!!!
You a confederate? In other words, you are an enemy of the United States.
At least your a proud bigot with your defunct flag of a losing cause
It's not the flag that is hated it's the racists that have kidnapped it!
I've seen a lot of things happen during my life I never thought would occur.For example the breakup of the Soviet Union, fall of the Berlin Wall etc. The United States is becoming more and more regionalized and divided politically. People are polarized and anger is building. That's what "Drain the Swamp" in DC is all about. It's not happening. I would not be surprised if someday Texas and some other states secede again. This time they would be successful because the population and industry has shifted south and southwest. People in the South are more oriented to the military. If California stayed out of it, it would be a heck of a battle.
If General Lee had of listened to General Longstreet at the Battle of Gettysburg, "Ole Dixie wouldn't have been driven down."
True Michael...but Lee loved DC to much to allow Longstreet to burn it to the grown......
@@yankeeone5159 Did Longstreet want to burn DC down? Also, I heard Lee thought they needed a victory on Northern soil. Which is understandable.
I am not American but i feel like one(maybe that is memory of my former life) and i never run away from war but that war was all about money and Washington people knew it and not about slavery.It is all history now but it would be nice if they admit the truth...Pride&Honor friends
Great
A great historical song superbly sung, I really enjoyed the accompanying video. What film was this from ? 👍🏻
Gettysburg.
@@ggarlick46 Thanks very much 👍🏻
I live in Fredericksburg I love visiting the battle fields. There are so many sites to see. Sadly the town has turned on history lovers. They equate us as racist.
I know capitulation will stick in your craws boys, but sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.
General Pickett, you must look to your division.
General Lee Sir,, I no longer have a division to look to.
The Infantry, men that grit their teeth and just take it,,
bravery? I know of none greater.
Capt, I'm sceerd. That's all right boy, we're all scared, but we don't run.
Strike the colors boys, it is a very wise man indeed,
that knows when he's lost.
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🌴 Men of the South Carolinians, go home to your wives and kids, there's no more you can do here boys.
Thank God for William Tecumseh Sherman, preserving the Union!
Her Truth keeps marching on
Still can’t understand , America land of democracy etc, if States voted to leave The Union why weren’t they allowed to do so?
The Southerners fought not for slavery, but for the Motherland, the way of life. That is why "barely alive" Confederates attacked and had victories over Yankees, when the chances were small and only God and their bravery could help them.
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Every time I see this it gives me shivers. My ass is on my dad's side had a cotton field and also fought in the war.
Civil war Confederate side.
@@baby8dingo my ancestry line goes way before the civil war.
@@baby8dingo most of my ancestors at Vicksburg.
My relatives fought around Vicksburg Mississippi. Some other battles beyond that. Before you criticize somebody you should really try to use your tiny little brain.
The poor of the south doing the fighting were fighting for their state-that’s what it was about. They didn’t have slaves-poor yeoman farmers protecting their homeland from an invasion. Sherman went through the south and as he said “made it howl” especially SC and burned everything in his two paths to the ground. Took everything. Could be a million died in that war if you count civilians who starved to death because of Sherman. That’s what this song is about. Sherman’s March. Read it. Sherman was a war criminal by todays standards. He burned Dixie down. The wealthy plantation owners were the slavers not the poor who fought for their state and homes. Slavery was going to end and could’ve done without hundreds of thousands dying. It was a war of attrition. Not a better army but a better supplied army and an endless supply of new troops coming into NY harbor. Slavery was wrong but these men weren’t responsible for it. The politicians were. Also don’t forget. It was the North that invaded the south.
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I am reading a biography of Beauregard. He was in US ARmy and fought in Mexican-american war. Then commanded Confederates. But I like other southern leaders, he adapted after reconstruction and prospered in railroads and a Louisiana lottery.
Good ol' Beauregard! He punished Ft. Sumter for damaging hundreds of confederate artillery shells. Thus, began the the War of Northern Agression..
This is the version I have heard.
It was so much worse than anyone could've comprehended going into it...
every war is like that. WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan you name it
Hon. Can you imagine a politician hurt her... J. Xxxxx
Robert E Lee "the Noblest American"
He was/is a traitor. An old man who marched the South's youth to their deaths for evil. If there is a hell he's burning in it.
kevin, laugh my ass off! Burning anything without a good reason is stupid.
@@kevinkevin4985 george washington was a traitor as well
@@Red-jl7jj, Sherm made progress in Georgia by doing that.
@@Red-jl7jj, that is another kettle of fish...
Phoney Joanie certain has a gorgeous voice.
Pity Dixie did not win the war
up yours too