New York City and The Civil War
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Garry Adelman and Kris White head up to the Big Apple to discover some of the sites associated with America's defining conflict. Locations include Union Square, Mathew Brady's Photography Studio, Winfield Scott's House, the site of the New York Draft Riots and Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb.
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One of my college professors said that only real life could have created Dan Sickles because if he was a character in a book he'd have been too unbelievable.
Now I’m dying to read that book.
NYC is my home town. Down the block from Cooper Union is McSorley’s Ale house, the second oldest saloon in NYC. It has not changed much since 1860. You should have stopped in. Inside you can imagine men coming from Lincoln’s speech to discuss it over an ale. McSorley’s did not allow women in until 1970 and then under court order. Great historical building and watering hole.
There's still photos and mementos on the wall from patrons who went off to France in 1917 and never came back.
My G-G-Grandfather was one of the last, (3) surviving Civil War Veterans in the state of NJ (enlisted in the 95th NY) in 1941 when he ultimately passed away at the age of 93. He had _NEVER_ spent a day in a traditional hospital (like many of the time; was born @ home) until the age of 91, when he fell and injured his hip! I had his original enlistment/discharge papers from 1861/4, and many photos & articles documenting his life, including his actual/formal....invitation from The United States Government,...to attend the 75th Anniversary Ceremonies of the Battle of Gettysburg. He couldn't attend because he was convalescing from his broken hip. He entered the army at the age of 13 (he lied about his age),...as he _FORGED_ his mother's signature!! He entered as a guidon/drummer boy and was held prisoner at Andersonville Prison, where...as some of you may know,...only an estimated 1:3 Union prisoners ever made it out, alive!! At any rate,...proud, honored, & humbled that I, too....served our *GREAT NATION* !! (As did every subsequent generation of my family, save....for my grandfather who was of the WWII generation with 2 young children).
That's a very interesting story & thanx so much for sharing it (& of course, for ur family's tradition of military service, I say thank you from Tennessee)!😃🇺🇸
Amazing.
Was his name, " Collecting Cardboard" also
This is a great video. New York is not the first place I think of when I think of Civil War history. Such great stories. Thank you!
Awesome historical work!
Gary... another great video...one of your best..great job
There’s a lot more too. From recruitment locations to Robert Gould Shaw’s families home on Staten Island, NYS and NYC is actually packed full of civil war history, even though there was no battle fought here.
The only thing Civil War I knew about in NYC was Grant’s Tomb and the Riots. Mathew Brady’s Studio wasn’t even a thought and he’s my favorite photographer🤷♀️😅.This was fun because you never think Civil War and NYC together. Thank you for the fun and educational video.👍
This was great. Glad that you came up North.
Very interesting! I was surprised by this video; no battlefield! However is was great as usual.!
This is so cool! I love seeing the map first.
You guys missed one important location on 7th street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues…. McSorleys Old Ale House. I know it’s not documented, but it is said that after Lincoln’s speech at Cooper Union, he walked over to McSorleys and continued the dialogue!
Another location would have been the location of the Colored Orphan's Asylum. Kudos to the NYC fireman who fought off the rioters and saved the children. But not the building.
Im surprised also this video didnt feature the Whittemore mansion, at 45 grove st in the west village. This is where John wilx booth attempted to recruit samuel chester in on his plot to kidnap president Lincoln. it is absolutely still there, and its annoying to see that down the block so many tourists gather to see the "friends" apartment, and no one knows or cares much that steps away is this incredible historical place
@@garrettshore Wilkes
Awesome as always.
This is an amazing video!!!
Could you please at some point do a video journal of the American revolution battle sights around New York?
I’m a huge rev. War buff
Superb content.
You guys rock!
Great video!!! Hope you do what you can for revolutionary war sites while you are there, to include Brooklyn and stony point and West Point.
SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS AMERICA 🇺🇸
Here is a fact from Cosmo Kramer, Central Park was designed in 1850 by Joe Pepitone. It was built during the Civil War so the Northern Armies could practice fighting on grass.
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And around park benches.
Well said
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Appreciate the video.
😂🤡 I don't appreciate this video because he didn't mention me,so I give it a thumbs down.
That was great man thanks.
Good video, glad I found your channel
Thank you for going to new places as you explore the Civil Wat.
Sorry…War not Wat.
I've been to Mount McGregor to see Grant's cottage. It was on the grounds of a state prison. I heard the prison closed. I hope ABT does a video there. I have never been to Grant's Tomb. I'll go some day.
Yes, indeed ... go to Mt. McGregor and see Grant's Cottage. They have created a time travel experience to Grant's time there. It's really close to the Saratoga Battlefield, also
There's a city I never thought I'd see do a shoot from.
Super video gentlemen! Another bucket list box I need to check off soon. (I can’t wait to stump folks about who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb. 🤣)
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
George Thomas' grave is located north of NYC in Troy, NY.
When I was with the NY National Guard I was in the 69th.
Every year we walked down Broadway and 5th Ave during the parades.
The troops came to 'quiet things'....with army cannons firing down NYC streets.
Grant's $50,000 in 1885 would be worth about $1,526,000 in 2022.
At 12:48, photo of Grant (his accountant is visible to Grant's right, seated in the house).
Thank you I am from New York City and enjoyed your presentation.Excellent!
If only I had known these things when I visited New York……….need to go back!
Great job Guys 👍
Glad to see you talked about the draft riots. I always wanted to see where the black orphanage was that was burned. So horrible. Besides the Civil War, the New York draft riots was the largest insurgency in US history.
The BLM/Antifa riots of 2020 were way worse.
Until January 6th….
@@scottberge6286 Yeah a crowd of patriots demanding their elected leaders serve them. How terrible. What happened there pales in comparison to the nationwide left wing terrorism in our cities over a span of 7 months.
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This was extremely interesting & such a nice surprise, to be able to "tour" these historic sites in New York City with such knowledgeable & entertaining hosts; while these sites are certainly important historically, u guys made it fascinating with both ur knowledge & enthusiasm; thanks to all of u for doing this, for making the tour not just informative but lotsa' fun too!😃🇺🇸
What about what they showed
What did you like
A sad fact: to this day I still nail my younger out of town guests with "who's buried in Grant's Tomb?"
We had a NY chapter here in Anderson CA a couple of weeks ago. Had a great day at a re-inactment. Nice job guys.
My ancestors fought for Stonewall Jackson, they were from Shenandoah Virginia.
Thank you for an amazing story. I have never (and I consider myself as reasonably educated about the War Between the States) considered the back story you have presented. Good job!
Great content! Thanks as always 🖤
Didn't John Wilkes Booth have an Apartment in N.Y.C. during the war ? I remember something about his roommate declining to join him I believe.
Clearwater 🌈 Rainbow Madonna --The Confederate
secret service in New York City called "The Knights of the
Golden Circle, a masonic organization was located in Flatbush Brooklyn.Booth used to come here all the time.They were called Copperheads(The
devil snake of the Bible's book of Revelations(Apocalypse).
God bless General Grant,amen.
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Nice Ghostbusters reference on the zoom out.
From Gettysburg ---Excellent Video.
This is my city! I would have taken you to lunch and talked battlefields if I knew you guys were here
Would be great if you guys came to San Diego and Los Angeles, there's some great Mexican War historical sites here(some of the only battles fought in what became modern American territory) as well as some interesting Civil War connections, such as how veterans and common people, including Ulysses Grant Jr. who lived through the Civil War settled in Southern California after the war
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@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust Oh good! You guys did come to the San Pasqual Battlefield. I used to work right there at the Safari Park, which is where part of the engagement probably took place. A lot of us employees had eerie stories about that area at night.
Fun fact. In 1864 Grant went to have his picture taken by Brady. While he posed the skylight broke and fell almost killing Grant. It just missed him and his head.
Grant sat absolutely still while it rained down about him.
@@salamanca1954
That's right. Brady was far more disturbed as he should be. Could have killed Grant slicing an artery.
@@douglasturner6153 It goes to illustrate Grant's imperturbable nature in a crisis, which he famously displayed at Shiloh and many other battles.
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He must have thought his fate was destined. Lee had amazing self control too. Even in very precarious situations
@@douglasturner6153 I think Grant felt truly at home in the army. It was where his mind worked best. Lee was similar, but in the end he feared Grant because he knew Grant did not fear him.
LOVED the video guys!!! Would love to see another video of the incredible statues of Farragut, Seward and Sherman (my favorite)....and the 7th Regiment in Central Park!!
I’m sorry I missed this. I live in nyc.
Another excellent video!
You missed McSorley's and Governors Island!!!!!
Ulysses S. Grant’s Presidential Library is located at Mississippi State University. A ten million dollar expansion was made to the Mitchell Library about six years ago.
The Sherman monument in NYC is magnificent. He was a relative, but my hometown hero in Virginia was Robert Lee, sad that was taken down I thought the two bronzes balanced each other for all time! Thanks for this insightful history video!
Actually by the time the Army of the Potomac regiments arrived in New York City from Gettysburg, the New York State Militia had pretty much put down the Draft Riots.
I have been to Grants tomb in New York. Never realized that there were many more sites I missed. Thank you for sharing! His tomb had gang graffiti painted on it. Kinda of sad.
"Kind of sad"???
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The Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library is located on the campus of Mississippi State University. A ten million dollar addition was made to Mitchell Memorial Library about six years ago and currently expansion is ongoing.
A serious question:
Dan Sickles marched out into the Peach Orchard and into history. He has been scorned ever since. But, is there an argument to be made that poor old, much maligned, Dan Sickles, by marching out without orders, actually placed his regiment in the path of Longstreet’s unhindered march to the Roundtops? Thus, allowing Strong Vincent the time to get his regiment up on the heights to successfully defend the Union flank.
I'd say nay. Sickles should have stayed. He could have attacked Longstreet from the flank or rear.
If he stayed he could have flanked Longstreet and liquidated his division.
Thanks; this was interesting!
A very good post.
The Sherman monument in Central Park is very cool
According to Ranger Nick at White Haven, the Grants had planned to be buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in North St. Louis but no one really knows what happened as to why they weren't buried in St. Louis, where, as Grant himself said, was the only place that felt like home.
Fantastic work!
Im surprised this video didnt feature the Whittemore mansion, at 45 grove st in the west village. This is where John wilx booth attempted to recruit samuel chester in on his plot to kidnap president Lincoln. it is absolutely still there, and its annoying to see that down the block so many tourists gather to see the "friends" apartment, and no one knows or cares much that steps away is this incredible historical place.
We'll keep it in mind for a return visit thanks!
I’m astounded that the building housing Brady’s studio is still standing. I wish you had revealed what it’s used for. Clearly it should be a museum of photography.
What was Wellington thinking when he made that comment about Scott. Apparently an exhibition of extreme modesty!
The Grant and Sherman equestrian statues are great. The Sheridan and Schurtz statues as well. Will Grants Tomb or the 69th NY Armory ever reopen for tours?
@@bryanfields5563 Historical facts can be inconvenient. Grant - Sherman - Sheridan ALL responsible for campaigns of raping, pillaging and murder of Southerners and Indians. Facts are facts. Those marches to the sea, and later to the West came at a heavy cost. I do not blame you for your ignorance of this...you have been heavily propagandized. The only question is....will you stay propagandized?
10:40, I love the mention of the GONY movie depiciton of the riots. Up to that point, and still, I loved the vivid period recreation of what a Union rifle volley might have looked like. Erin go bragh!
Great job Garry 😎👍
i love my city but hate how its been destroyed the past few years 😤
I’m 71 yrs old and NYC has been “ destroyed the last few years” as long as I’ve known it so don’t worry about it.
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Well, you better have your head on a swivel.
@@emintey nah it's def very different now over the past few years, can even go back as far as acouple decades, where are you from my friend?!
Yes, NY troops responded to the riots. Some NYC based troops who fought at Gettysburg like the 69th NY. Others were NY National Guard regiments. LIke the 7th NY under Col. Marshall Lefferts who arrived in NYC with almost a full regiment. Other troops were the four companies of the 12th US based at Fort Hamilton. And cavalry under Kilpatrick and Mott.
Great exposition as usual.
Well done
Soldiers from the VI Corps disembarked from ships and restored order, in places firing cannister from field artillery down the street.
I wish you guys would have talked about Dan Sickles sister Tess.
Very nice presentation...As an "Original Transcon RR" fan, I enjoy Grant, as he looms large, in it's construction. Grant was running for President in 1868, and was on a fact finding tour with other generals, at Denver, when he caught wind of trouble brewing. Grenville Dodge, Chief Engineer of UP RR construction, informed him that he, Dodge, was going to quit if UP Vice Pres. Thomas Durant, and his lackey, Silas Seymour, kept engineering more miles, in favor of ill-begotten moneys' gain, from Congress. Durant was threatening to fire Dodge. Interested history buffs, can see the aftermath of their meeting at Ft. Sanders, that hot July day, in photos by A.J. Russell, UP's photographer. In Russell's photo's, are also Sherman, Harney, and other notables. Dr. Durant, and Silas were put in their place, and the rest is history. Thanks.
I believe Mark Twain lived across the street from Sickles in NYC.
you forgot the gilt-bronze William Sherman equestrian statue at Grand Army Plaza.
I reenact one of the companies that were sent into NYC to put down the Draft Riots.
Co. C, 4th Inf. Reg't [or '4th US Inf.']
After literally being decimated at Gettysburg, Second Division/Fifth Corps [the Regulars Division] was reassigned to the Military District of Washington in an effort to recruit up. When the riots broke out, the 4th Infantry entrained to the City and spent over a month pacifying the poorer districts, the Five Points, Bronx, Little Italy. This is one of the events that eventually led to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1876.
Hicks you got your history wrong again.They had to send
in the Second Nevada California regiment and don't augure with me because I know what I'm talking about and I hate to be wrong.
The building in Downtown Manhattan on Murray Street where Confederate Prisoner Exchange Commissioners had an office is still there! The Church of the Ascension on 5th Avenue and West 9th Street is where Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Mass. was married a few months before he was killed. A great equestrian statue of Sherman is located at 5th Avenue and Central Park South, right next to the Plaza Hotel. The majestic Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side is under restoration. In Brooklyn, there is the impressive monument to the Union soldiers and sailors at Grand Army Plaza next to Prospect Park. It is modeled after the Arc de Triomph in Paris. Many Civil War personalities are buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, including Confederate General Richard Garnett and a Union drummer boy who was killed in an accident. There is a large Civil War Parrot cannon in Brooklyn on 4th Avenue and 101th Street in John Paul Jones Park, right near Fort Hamilton, where both Lee and Jackson were stationed. Both were vestryman at the nearby Episcopal Church of the Generals, which sadly is now closed but still there.
That’s cool I didn’t know that
Who’s in Grant’s tomb? Robert E. Lee of course, always on time.
Very interesting video, but you missed at least two places/events:
1) the attempt by Confederate agents to burn down the city by setting fires in hotel rooms. Turned out that setting a fire was harder than it looked.
2) my favorite: Novelty Iron works fabricated the turret for Monitor, which was built across the river in Brooklyn. I share a birthday with John Ericksson.
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"Pop" Sickles was a great father.
What's up with the hand motions?
🤡 He took my seminar.I'm sueing you for trying to ruin my seminar.
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And I thought it was gonna be about the greatest loss of life in the North… the draft riots…
He geekin.
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Don't why one of Dan Sickles soldiers took care of him some more of them didn't die.
Hard to believe Grant was 5'2 at 17 and 5' 8" at 21.
Peter Cooper statue being taken down .
GOD bless general Robert E. Lee!!
What's on the top of your head, Kris?...
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Why are you dancing around the fact that the Draft Riots were started by Irish immigrants? The Irish were being drafted while black freemen in NYC didn't have to worry about the Draft. In addition, Irish workers were being paid less than even black freemen.
@@A-PatrioT And you're not special because you want to act like a pompous jerk. Nobody said there weren't other immigrant groups that fought in the Civil War. I was talking specifically about the Irish because they were at the bottom of the pay scale, but also had to worry about the Draft. This is what caused their resentment towards free black men in NYC and, eventually, the Draft Riots. Never claimed I was "special", Irish and only saw Gangs of NY once so get off your high horse and read what I wrote.
Is it true that Yankees have tails?
🤡 Clown ---Answer-- We have coat tails.I wanted to apologize for leading my regiment in Birth of the Nation Part Two called "March of the Wooden Soldiers" were my boogie men carried off the white women of the south while burning and looting plantations while I shouted
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U sirs say Umm, Ahh, And too much. Using unnecessary filler words is a bad public speaking habit. Ur both probably unaware of it, not hating just pointing it out.