Boston Corbett - Abraham Lincoln's Avenger (Reaction)

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  • @galindoof
    @galindoof Год назад +30

    Kinda refreshing I knew something that VTH didn't. Like the whole Mercury thing. Great to see that he is equal parts student and teacher.

    • @VloggingThroughHistory
      @VloggingThroughHistory  Год назад +18

      Absolutely! I’m always learning from other videos and from comments!

    • @kylejohnson3889
      @kylejohnson3889 5 месяцев назад

      The only thing I know for sure Is that I know nothing at all about

  • @JevArchives
    @JevArchives Год назад +28

    I think there’s more than just some redeeming qualities about the man, I genuinely believe that if he wasn’t just given a terrible hand with hat making and losing his wife, I think he would’ve been able to be a very well respected historical figure

  • @faeembrugh
    @faeembrugh Год назад +18

    I wonder what the doctor who examined him at enlistment thought when he asked Corbett why he had no testicles: 'I cut them off to avoid temptation'. Clearly Section 8 wasn't a thing then.

  • @cervanntes
    @cervanntes Год назад +13

    Mercury poisoning wasn't just a problem for hatters even if they are the best-known example due to "mad as a hatter." Placer mining operations also made extensive use of mercury to separate gold from other minerals. It not only affected those doing the separation but could also get in the water where it could build up in the food chain, notably fish. The Sacramento/San Francisco area is still having problems because so much mercury was left behind during the gold rush that some still gets into the water due to erosion of old mines and tailing piles. There was also a major case of mass mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan where mercury from a factory got into the water and from there into the fish the villagers ate. People began to exhibit a variety of symptoms such as unsteady walking, slurred speech, and fits of uncontrolled trembling. Over a thousand ultimately died from the effects. I have to wonder how many of the old west miners were "mad as hatters" in a literal sense.

  • @andrewfelsher7872
    @andrewfelsher7872 Год назад +12

    "Cavalry, not Calvary."
    Preacher status confirmed.

  • @Aabil11
    @Aabil11 Год назад +17

    8:57 I like how Chris makes this face because he knows exactly what's coming next

  • @Raymond.Butler
    @Raymond.Butler Год назад +28

    He really was a very simple man, you could pretty much predict his actions completely through his life after his conversion. We had people like him, in nearly every unit I was part of, while in the Army.

    • @hughtube5154
      @hughtube5154 Год назад +4

      You had eunuchs in your unit?

    • @eliu868
      @eliu868 Год назад +1

      @@hughtube5154 OP means people who were eccentric, not that they were strictly "like" him in a physical sense.

  • @big8dog887
    @big8dog887 Год назад +32

    Makes me wonder two things:
    1) What was mercury used for in the hat making process?
    2) Were the people who eventually wore the hats affected in any way?

    • @celston51
      @celston51 Год назад +27

      Mercury nitrate was used to stiffen the fur/fibers in a process called 'carroting' which produces a better pelt for the hat itself. The problem is that breathing in the mixture in a confined hat-making/factory space would lead to mercury poisoning. People wearing the hat wouldn't have to breathe in the mixture since that was only used in the hat-making process.

    • @davidburroughs2244
      @davidburroughs2244 Год назад +3

      Made em tougher and firmer, so kept their shape better and last longer. Grandpa says they did it for about a hundred years, but he didn't remember why they changed or what they switched to using instead, he wasn't a hatter.

    • @NoBandwidth-0
      @NoBandwidth-0 Год назад +1

      ​@@celston51 Hence, when hats are made today.
      They make sure the workers wear respiratory equipment.

  • @alexwest2573
    @alexwest2573 Год назад +9

    The guy in charge of the Northwest Conspiracy Captain Thomas H. Hines of Kentucky almost lost his life due to resembling John Wilkes Booth

  • @nomad4876
    @nomad4876 Год назад +8

    I have to chuckle. I am surprised you never knew the phrase Mad as a Hatter came from mercury poisoning. It shows how simple things then are considered common knowledge to some isn't as wide as we think.

  • @nathanielthomasXV
    @nathanielthomasXV Год назад +9

    I have been loving your videos recently. You’re understanding of the Bible is also very enjoyable. That story of Edwin Booth is just absolutely shocking and to me can be only chalked up to a divine encounter. The mercury exposure to cause such damage and reek havoc on on Boston’s life and deep paranoia reminds me of the lead poisoning of Roman emperors and elite.

    • @ryanprosper88
      @ryanprosper88 Год назад +2

      Lead poisoning wasn't much of a factor, if at all, in Roman society. Romans weren't anymore violent or cognitively degraded in the latter Empire than they were in the early Empire. Mineralization of the pipes would have prevented the lead from having much exposure to the water itself

    • @nathanielthomasXV
      @nathanielthomasXV Год назад

      @@ryanprosper88 researcher looking at the deposits of the Tiber river and the pipes at the time have come to the conclusion that Roman water had 100 times the lead of natural spring water. They also consumed this syrup preserver by the name of Defrutum or Sapa that was made in a lead vessel which this syrup was often drank up until the 3rd century. To discount lead poisoning have effects on the Roman elites all together is just wrong.

    • @nathanielthomasXV
      @nathanielthomasXV Год назад

      It was essentially a wine preserver made in lead vessels which would equate in each bottle of wine more then enough lead to lead to poisoning and if the Roman aristocracy Drank three bottles of wine a day as mentioned by many historians, it would have like 5 times as much lead necessary to have negative effects.

    • @andrewpestotnik5495
      @andrewpestotnik5495 Год назад

      The late Western Roman Emperors were (if it contributed) had much more problems than lead poisoning 😒😒😒

  • @magarthur3420
    @magarthur3420 Год назад +1

    He looks like the curator of the Gettysburg Museum of History that is featured on The History Underground 😄

  • @stephenparker6362
    @stephenparker6362 Год назад +8

    Hi, Chris, that was very interesting and sad in many ways. I do find biographies a good way to learn. I was pleased to read you'll be doing the Extra History series on Frederick the Great. It's very good.

  • @johnhalstead5938
    @johnhalstead5938 Год назад +1

    Noticed your 3ID shirt... "Rock of the Marne" & "Send Me"

  • @redefv
    @redefv Год назад +1

    Crossing that deadline took some balls!!!

  • @jpbreeze44
    @jpbreeze44 Год назад +8

    Boston Corbett
    Also, got a suggestion. React to The Iroquois Confederacy by Historia Civilis. I think it'd be interesting to see what you have to say about it.

    • @attigator
      @attigator Год назад +4

      He also needs to finish Historia Civilis’ series on Rome.

  • @larrybird8655
    @larrybird8655 Год назад +5

    Great video! Always enjoy learning about interesting historical figures like Boston Corbett.

  • @svenrio8521
    @svenrio8521 Год назад +1

    A great new up and coming channel

  • @douglasmijangos3327
    @douglasmijangos3327 Год назад

    Funny that when they said he was a Hatter 🎩 as a profession I thought of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland 😂

  • @MrCerealcowflakes
    @MrCerealcowflakes Год назад +2

    Love that you’re shining light on these incredibly talented creators

  • @mattjohnson180
    @mattjohnson180 Год назад

    Chris your face got me laughing at 14:40 😂😂

  • @jacksonlord8297
    @jacksonlord8297 Год назад

    Resyndicated is awesome I was probably recommended his channel off watching all of your ur videos and his sub count is growing rapidly

  • @IDKeffect82
    @IDKeffect82 Год назад

    Nice. I was looking this guy up a few weeks ago. Keep up the great videos my man.

  • @Squillem
    @Squillem Год назад

    Great video and story. Always love your vids man. Thank you

  • @drinks1019
    @drinks1019 Год назад

    16th New York Cavalry trooper- circa 1864: "I tell you what, I hate those goddamn reb bastards" *takes a swig of whiskey*. Boston Corbett: *Faints*

  • @MalikF15
    @MalikF15 Год назад +12

    Hey Chris, when you get a chance react to the extra history series on Fredrick the Great the series last episode comes Saturday. It’s crazy and I would love to hear commentary on it

    • @VloggingThroughHistory
      @VloggingThroughHistory  Год назад +10

      I’m waiting until the series ends to do a reaction to it.

    • @MalikF15
      @MalikF15 Год назад +4

      @@VloggingThroughHistory That's awesome. Fritz's story is so bonkers. History does suppress fiction in a lot of ways.

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 Год назад

      @@VloggingThroughHistory Good. I didn't want to press the issue after asking you about it a couple of weeks ago when you said you were interspacing the EH content with other stuff, but it's nice to know you're going to do this series, because it's pretty good so far.

  • @gkiferonhs
    @gkiferonhs Год назад +7

    Some historical cases of mercury poisoning: Both Isaac Newton and Michal Faraday suffered from exposure to mercury used in their experiments. Faraday used mercury as a movable electrical contact in motors and generators and Newton was an avid alchemist. When Newton began to show clinical signs he left for the only other job suitable for the mentally deficient - he went into government service (he did become secretary of the treasury or its English equivalent, I just had to add the other for fun). Faraday continued to work in his lab and his condition worsened until his death.

    • @graffitisamurai
      @graffitisamurai Год назад

      Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China is infamously known for using mercury as an elixir for immortality.
      Insidiously, mercury exposure causes your skin to appear paler and your cheeks and nose to flush. So throughout history, people have used it in beauty products.

  • @msbhicks8358
    @msbhicks8358 Год назад

    5:54 You were about to say John Wilkes Booth weren't you lmao

  • @onepcwhiz6847
    @onepcwhiz6847 Год назад

    I saw The Elephant Man at the Boothe Theatre on Broadway back in 1980.

  • @titanschannel585
    @titanschannel585 Год назад +2

    I think the reason people kept trying to help him is because he changed the lives of lots of peoples, the video says that he preached for the alcoholics and also helped them get back up

  • @thatnnoob6109
    @thatnnoob6109 Год назад +1

    Hey VTH, would you ever consider doing some videos on a RUclips channel called real time history?

  • @danielstarr9037
    @danielstarr9037 Месяц назад

    He seems like he was a good man deep down, but driven mad by the horrors and toxins of the pre-contemporary life 💔. Truly a complicated man

  • @MCKevin289
    @MCKevin289 Год назад +1

    We shoulda gave this man the Medal of Honor.

  • @Somerandomguy524
    @Somerandomguy524 Год назад

    May I suggest reacting to History matters videos? I love that channel.

  • @jacob4287
    @jacob4287 Год назад +1

    I really appreciate your point on not forcing faith (or any views/opinions for that matter) onto others. I am very much of the "live and let live" opinion. If people want to learn they will seek it out themselves

  • @michaelberry1382
    @michaelberry1382 Год назад +5

    This what I love about Chris(at least I think that’s his name)- I don’t know what his profession is or was prior to RUclips. But he would be a fantastic teacher. He gives facts and let’s you form your own opinion. And except for RazorFist- I’ve never seen him really “dog” someone else’s opinion. We need more of that in the US. I have really grown to like this channel. He’s a couple years younger than me- but it reminds me of watching things with my uncle or grandad- A lot of fill in detail and backstory and they would word things in a way to make me think and form my own opinion. That is a lost art with the evolution of Social Media. And this guy nails it perfectly.

  • @krowely1528
    @krowely1528 Год назад

    Hey I love your videos! Could you make one dedicated to your favourite historical movies/ books? Maybe the civil war specifically?

  • @jamesearly8518
    @jamesearly8518 Год назад

    Chris, when you looked up Corbett's war record, what website did you use?

  • @bub9875
    @bub9875 Год назад +2

    I was wondering if you would consider doing a reaction to the S4e2 Unsolved Mysteries segment about the supposed escape of John Wilkes Booth that night at the barn. It’s more conspiracy based, but I think it would be fun to hear you either agree/ disagree with the information in it. I also don’t know what the copyright rules are for something like that, but I figured I’d just throw it out there. They are free to watch on RUclips.

  • @AndyHoward
    @AndyHoward Год назад

    The title is a common colloquial phrase, “mad as a hatter”, used to describe someone insane. The original phrase comes from hatters (i.e. people who made hats) who worked with mercury based substances for coating felt hats, and consequently were driven slowly insane by the constant exposure to the chemical.

  • @berniegores2083
    @berniegores2083 Год назад +1

    bme pain Olympics is older than i thought lol

  • @redefv
    @redefv Год назад +1

    The second the video mentioned that he made hats I knew this was going to take a turn for the weird. Much like the fates of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus crews. Metal toxins are real bad.

  • @gyo900
    @gyo900 Год назад +21

    Boston Corbett

  • @heck3270
    @heck3270 Год назад +2

    One thing I love is that most of the country's reaction to Lincoln's assassination was negative, including confederate generals and soldiers. I guess even the rebels felt "malice towards none... and a just and lasting peace" were preferable after four years of the country tearing itself apart. I believe JWB even wrote in his diary a few days before his death how upset he was that most people, including pro-confederates, condemned his actions

  • @kevinwebb283
    @kevinwebb283 Год назад

    Hey Chris great video as always I have two channels that might be interesting to react to canadiana which is about some interesting Canadian history and voices of the past which is more pov of people from the past.

  • @zacharygrouwinkel1534
    @zacharygrouwinkel1534 Год назад

    If you take suggestions, a 2 off series would be Hickok45 videos on the history of US Military rifles and US military pistols.

  • @CTESPNNetwork
    @CTESPNNetwork Год назад +1

    Yeah Chris if you ever go back and watch/read “Alice in Wonderland” watch or listen to the Mad Hatter. That character expresses all the symptoms named in this video especially Depp’s portrayal. The chemicals including mercury cause one to go “mad as a hatter”. Pretty interesting. Great vid🫡

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Год назад +1

    That man was crazy. Good story.

  • @BadHairdayKimmie
    @BadHairdayKimmie Год назад +1

    One easy way to prove right off the bat whether it was Corbett or not... I mean... snip snip

  • @Alec0124
    @Alec0124 Год назад

    hehe I just learned about the mad hatter thing recently. Interesting how phrases come about.

  • @omalleycaboose5937
    @omalleycaboose5937 Год назад +2

    John Wilkes booth as actually the lesser actor the brother, mainly known for being handsome and having women fans that fauned over him, critics seemed to say he just belted his lines out with little understanding of Shakespeares meaning where as Edwin was seen as a genius and the true successor to their fathers genius. Edwin very well could have been the greatest american actor of the century while John coasted by on the prestige of the Boothe name.

  • @boopdino8053
    @boopdino8053 Год назад +1

    "The glory to god man"
    Awesome nickname

  • @iristhundercloud9684
    @iristhundercloud9684 Год назад +2

    You should do internet historian he’s awesome

  • @LordBaldur
    @LordBaldur Год назад

    I find it interesting that the two most infamous presidential assassins died before ever having a trial. The other interesting thing I find about this is how the assassin-killers were portrayed. Corbett was regarded as a hero whereas Jack Ruby is portrayed as a criminal and was ultimately given a life sentence for killing Oswald.

  • @taylorhagen3916
    @taylorhagen3916 7 месяцев назад

    I remember learning about his castration, I was so interged by the Lincoln assassination when I in my preteens still am, and my dad got a 12 year old me on Booth Escape Tour. With Historian Ed Bearss, a historian my dad really liked and had done several tours with, Mr. Ed was getting older, and this was going to be and was his last tour. So my dad worked with them to let 12 yo me, 4 years to young go. I followed along pretty well, learned some things but nothing shocking until this. I had never heard the word so, i asked my dad what it meant. He went red and told me i tell you later. He finally did a few dats later, i has shocked and horrified. And of course told my friends the next couple of days. The man who shot Booth, lincolns assissnator, cut off his own **.

  • @Urlocallordandsavior
    @Urlocallordandsavior Год назад

    Edwin Booth also had a voice recording you can find on RUclips.

  • @dylanhunsel5489
    @dylanhunsel5489 Год назад +1

    I think you should react to Internet historian, its not really historical but its hilarious and very funnily edited

  • @1984isnotamanual
    @1984isnotamanual 3 месяца назад

    I didn’t know VTH was a pastor as well. Does he have a church?

  • @mraustinworking
    @mraustinworking Год назад

    9:53 Well, this puts my own mental health journey into some perspective 😧

  • @marbelz7
    @marbelz7 Год назад

    Thank you for saying that you cannot force your beliefs on others, it must come from within.
    My late Aunt believed it was her mission to convert family and friends to her belief system and only her particular church was the right one to attend.
    Needless to say this caused great harm.

  • @trinaroe5132
    @trinaroe5132 Год назад

    I didn’t know much about him other than his name, but did know about mercury poisoning causing mental illness among those who worked in the hat making trade and the origin of the Mad as a hatter phrase. As soon as you mentioned his mental illness at the beginning of the video and then saw he worked as a hatter I was not surprised. As far as extremes of ME church, the only thing I know is that they didn’t believe in drinking, card playing or dancing, which technically I guess was true after it became UMC, but I don’t know many Methodists who keep to that.

  • @cyberus1438
    @cyberus1438 Год назад +14

    You still get super religious soldiers today in my experience. You want to respect their dedication, but they sure get old real fast
    Edit: hey that’s a 3 ID shirt, I served with that division for a time

    • @godwarrior3403
      @godwarrior3403 Год назад +1

      Truth doesn't get old. You just get tired of hearing about it. Doesn't mean it should stop being spoken. You don't get to talk like you're in the position that needs to be tolerant, it's the truth that tolerates those who don't yet know it.

  • @costellotocustelow03
    @costellotocustelow03 Год назад

    Chris where did you get your shirt from? I like it!

    • @VloggingThroughHistory
      @VloggingThroughHistory  Год назад +1

      Got it on amazon. I had great uncles in the 3rd Infantry Division in both WW1 and Korea.

  • @AAXS-op1vo
    @AAXS-op1vo Год назад

    I did not know about the connection of the mad hatter. Interesting

  • @ianadam2303
    @ianadam2303 10 месяцев назад

    I love your videos 💙

  • @warlockpure1687
    @warlockpure1687 Год назад +3

    This was so interesting, I always figured the guy who killed booth just went on with life.But nope this guy was a complicated story.

  • @mercy514
    @mercy514 Год назад

    deeply strange and yet a very interesting man.

  • @glstka5710
    @glstka5710 Год назад

    2:31 The 16th New Yout Calvary regiment - a bunch of "Holy Rollers" preachin' JEEEzus... you corrected it 2:35. 7:12 He did make it the 16th New York Calvary.

  • @RDA000
    @RDA000 Год назад

    Mercury is a helluva thing. Never knew Hatting made you mad because of it.

  • @corneliaaurelli1603
    @corneliaaurelli1603 Год назад

    Pleaase do CGP Grey's Americapox. It's not just historical but also anthropological.

  • @OGxMINI
    @OGxMINI Год назад

    The Dollop Podcast episode 117 you can hear lots more about Boston (just starting this video so I don’t know what is said in this, though)

  • @adammoyer129
    @adammoyer129 Год назад +2

    VTH video of his 10 best and 10 worst presidents

    • @Avatar1977
      @Avatar1977 Год назад +1

      Can probably get an approximation of his worst 10 (in no particular order after number 1)
      1. WILSOOOON!!!!
      2. Andrew Johnson
      3. James Buchanan
      4. Warren Harding
      5. Franklin Pierce
      6. Herbert Hoover
      7. John Tyler
      8. Andrew Jackson
      9. Martin Van Buren
      10. John Adams (probably a stretch but I'm struggling to remember who Chris ranked lower last year)

    • @adammoyer129
      @adammoyer129 Год назад

      @@Avatar1977 Probably. Would be interested to see though

  • @Artist-Tyrant
    @Artist-Tyrant Год назад

    any chance you can do a reaction video to all those uncanny similarities / coincidences between Lincoln's assassination and JFK's some time ?

  • @zaffarismail1508
    @zaffarismail1508 Год назад

    Hey Chris you might want to check out one of Simon Whistler's other channels, Warographics. He has some really detailed videon on the US Civil war, WW2 and the Invasion of Ukraine

  • @Sigil_Firebrand
    @Sigil_Firebrand Год назад

    Is it just me or does young Boston Corbett kind of look like current Ian McCollum? That aside this is actually my first time hearing the story of this guy, interesting to learn about.

  • @nucklechutz9933
    @nucklechutz9933 Год назад

    So, I probably misinterpret the passage, but I always thought the admonition to remove a body part 'if it offendeth thee', was meant to be taken in context with Jesus' message that you can't be good enough to deserve Heaven. In other words, 'there is no way to the Father but through the Son, otherwise you'd have to cut off every body part that makes you want to sin.' I mean obviously the various sects of Christianity aren't filled to the brim with half-blind, one-armed people so, I can't be alone in this interpretation right?

  • @glstka5710
    @glstka5710 Год назад

    9:58 the Early Church Father Origen also did that.

  • @everburn
    @everburn Год назад

    Could you please react to wondrium's video on, "how should the constitution be interpreted?"

  • @andrewfelsher7872
    @andrewfelsher7872 Год назад

    16:58. Did not expect to hear Culpeper, for all I knew various Civil War actions happened there. I grew up there and had no idea it had any particular connection to the Lincoln assassination.
    It's where George Washington had his first job as a surveyor.
    On an unrelated note, what's with the long-haired Jesus thing? Do people just conflate Nazarenes and Nazirites?

  • @ericnorman5237
    @ericnorman5237 Год назад

    10:36 perhaps back then, ME congregants were more “over the top”. Maybe?

  • @08yankeefan
    @08yankeefan Год назад +1

    Boston Corbett looks A LOT like Rasputin

  • @phantomtitan9792
    @phantomtitan9792 Год назад

    Interesting video

  • @AlexKawa20
    @AlexKawa20 Год назад

    You should react to Resyndicated's latest video, "Presidential Family Facts from Washington to Biden."

  • @banjo9ine395
    @banjo9ine395 Год назад +2

    Love it

  • @aryehtoren_thorne4679
    @aryehtoren_thorne4679 Год назад

    Also in the IDF, every other agetive is a swear word.

  • @Monkofmagnesia
    @Monkofmagnesia Год назад

    SSince you are a christian Pastor and an historian, I would be interested in on your take of The Chosen. I have a lot of issue with it historically.

  • @JaketheMovieGeek
    @JaketheMovieGeek Год назад

    Can you try to get your OverSimplified reactions back on RUclips?

  • @pierredelasalle4731
    @pierredelasalle4731 Год назад

    I hope you watch Ted Ed's (history vs Nixon).

  • @KevinReynolds21
    @KevinReynolds21 Год назад +2

    looks a little like Rasputin

    • @08yankeefan
      @08yankeefan Год назад

      Without seeing this comment I just said the same thing haha

  • @sageg58
    @sageg58 Год назад

    mercury poisoning+ptsd seems like a bad combo

  • @scottbivins4758
    @scottbivins4758 7 месяцев назад

    As a southerner i personally agree he hurt the south more than he helped. Dont get me wrong as a southerner i personally dont care for Abraham Lincoln he not to high on my best president list but i cant help but think maybe reconstruction wouldnt have been as bad... Guess thats something i an every Southerner will never know...

  • @mikejohnson9606
    @mikejohnson9606 6 месяцев назад

    I disagree with your assessment that Lincoln assassination hurt the South more.

  • @Gingerchalky
    @Gingerchalky Год назад +1

    I don’t know why but he looks like Rasputin 😅

  • @traviskrzemienski5745
    @traviskrzemienski5745 Год назад

    You should react to Louis C.K and Shane Gillis “The Presidents” podcast series. A little inappropriate but unbelievably hilarious!

  • @polumathes9729
    @polumathes9729 Год назад

    Very bizarre guy, but based on this video, I kind of like him. He seems very honorable, at least until the end.

  • @carlo6670
    @carlo6670 Год назад

    please react to Thoughty2's video on "How The Italian Mafia Conquered America"

  • @DoctorElk
    @DoctorElk Год назад

    So I guess during the Civil War they were not picky about medical exams before letting people enlist? I wonder when the military started disqualifying people who performed self castration?

  • @jankusthegreat9233
    @jankusthegreat9233 Год назад

    U are awsome

  • @ronicacrutchfield2920
    @ronicacrutchfield2920 Год назад +1

    Nice reaction! I feel you getting closer and closer to doing a Black History Reaction!

  • @ShivamR34440
    @ShivamR34440 Год назад

    W