I feel as if mocking people for differences in speech is discrimination. No one can help the way their mouths are formed at birth. This man is very professional and obviously cares a great deal about his topic and his job. Nicely presented sir!!
@kenny desee According to Stephen Sears it's Ay-gee. All I can say is I'm always glad to get past his part of the campaign because I'm reading it as Hugee, Hueger, Aygee, Hugs... hell I watched this video in part to get the right interpretation... fail.
Karlton Smith is one of my top 3 favorite Gettysburg rangers because of his depth of knowledge, fluidity of overall presentation, and dry sense of humor. I'm 100% certain all you haters who can't get over the way someone talks, when it's not even hard to understand what he's saying 95% of the time, would make a sorry spectacle if you tried to do what he has been doing successfully for many years. Here's to you Ranger Smith, keep up the great work.
Johnston and Longstreet screwed the pooch in this battle and made Huger the fall guy. This incident foreshadowed some of the difficulties Lee would have with Longstreet.
Good job sir, I live in the north east part of Richmond, a stones throw from 7 pines. Actually I live on the Totopotomoy battlefield (union side), close to Cold Harbor. I find bullets on my property. I really enjoyed this lecture. Thanks!!!
At that stage of the war command and control and staff work was a big problem for the confederates and to a lesser degree the union troops too. Longstreet again messed up his march and failed to achieve his objective much like Gettysburg.. The best thing to come out of the Seven pines battle for the south was the wounding of Joe Johnston and the appointment of Robert E, Lee as commander. D.H. Hill was an under appreciated general look at the Red River campaign in 1864. Had Hill been the commander instead of Sterling Price an even greater victory could have been won by the south. .The two most self servings books i read from southern commanders was Longstreet's and Joe Johnston.
I find that I often struggle with/through several of these speakers and their presentations due to their annoying ramblings, cadence, etc....The only speakers that I really enjoy and find consistent, whether lecture or battle walk, (1) Matt Atkinson and (2) John Hoptak. I would enjoy the time/information much more enthusiastically with, and cannot seem to get enough of, presentations by the previously mention.
Bingo. I find it very easy to fall asleep listening to this fellow. The subject matter is so powerful and calls for all the drama an individual can muster but this fellow has two sounds in his voice for every sentence. The result is a boring drone.
Oh hell, Matt rambles like a drunk trying to walk a straight line. But he has such a fantastic sense of humor... I'll agree though this man's a little hard to listen to because he seems to be reading his script which I find annoying. But I agree with macvoutie about the subject matter; it's pretty hard to find anything about what historians tend to regard as "minor affairs" like Seven Pines, Perryville, Mill Springs, etc.
I don’t understand all the criticism of this Ranger. I had no problem understanding and soaking up the information. If you people can do so much better why don’t you get a history degree and see if you can do his job better!
At the beginning of this video l notice on the map that the western counties of Virginia have already been separated, and formed into the seceded state of West Virginia.I won't go into that debate.The other mistake on the map is the 34th parallel boundary from the Texas state line to the Colorado river boundary at California.
Good lecture, though I don’t understand why so often civil war history concentrates on commanders and battle tactics ad nauseum. I would so much rather hear a talk about personal accounts at the soldier or civilian level. But no, it will be general so and so, graduated from West Point and was actually in a class with general so and so. You can insert any name in that statement, they aren’t materially different.
A map of Fredricksburg makes me want to cry. I have a map of the Seven Days oriented onto a contemporary map; I-64 runs right through the middle of the area where Jackson's men were. I won't even mention the Chancellorsville/Wilderness battlefield. Sad.
My comment is not meant in any to detract from the excellence of this talk. Th name Huger is pronounced with a soft g, [ hoozhay ] with the accent on the last syllable.
Ok can't listen to any more of this..... "the Monitor is going to win"...... Excuse me it was a draw...... I'm out..... Go find videos that Matt Atkinson has for good battlefield history
I'm sorry but this rangers lack of proper preperation before his presentation is clearly evident. He's merely reading, poorly, his notes in a sing song fashion. I find all the lectures presented on this channel very facinating and all the other speakers quite suited for this and quite entertaining. I wish it were the case here but this ranger managed to make a very exciting topic quite dull and tedious.
@@johnryan8533 Ok buddy, be so affected by a difference in speech you act the fool. Sheltered? Don't get around much? It's cool not everyone gets the chance to hear different tones.
I cant get enough of these lectures.
Same! It's awesome they put them up here for us out-of-towners.
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I feel as if mocking people for differences in speech is discrimination. No one can help the way their mouths are formed at birth. This man is very professional and obviously cares a great deal about his topic and his job. Nicely presented sir!!
I always like it when an expert knows how to pronounce the names of the commanders in a battle he's speaking about.
@kenny desee So how do you pronounce your last name?
@kenny desee According to Stephen Sears it's Ay-gee. All I can say is I'm always glad to get past his part of the campaign because I'm reading it as Hugee, Hueger, Aygee, Hugs... hell I watched this video in part to get the right interpretation... fail.
And almost any other word he chews as a cow chews its cud
Karlton Smith is one of my top 3 favorite Gettysburg rangers because of his depth of knowledge, fluidity of overall presentation, and dry sense of humor. I'm 100% certain all you haters who can't get over the way someone talks, when it's not even hard to understand what he's saying 95% of the time, would make a sorry spectacle if you tried to do what he has been doing successfully for many years. Here's to you Ranger Smith, keep up the great work.
You folks are doing great work, thank you!
Johnston and Longstreet screwed the pooch in this battle and made Huger the fall guy. This incident foreshadowed some of the difficulties Lee would have with Longstreet.
Good job sir, I live in the north east part of Richmond, a stones throw from 7 pines. Actually I live on the Totopotomoy battlefield (union side), close to Cold Harbor. I find bullets on my property. I really enjoyed this lecture. Thanks!!!
Must be awesome to find bullets on your property.As a huge civil war buff I would be like a kid in a candy shop.
This is absolutely superb.
on a pound for pound basis, The fight at seven pines stands as probably the most viscuous fight of the war.
I often forget that there was no such thing as a Confederate corps at this point in the war.
Very good lecture in my opinion. Well done video
At that stage of the war command and control and staff work was a big problem for the confederates and to a lesser degree the union troops too. Longstreet again messed up his march and failed to achieve his objective much like Gettysburg.. The best thing to come out of the Seven pines battle for the south was the wounding of Joe Johnston and the appointment of Robert E, Lee as commander. D.H. Hill was an under appreciated general look at the Red River campaign in 1864. Had Hill been the commander instead of Sterling Price an even greater victory could have been won by the south. .The two most self servings books i read from southern commanders was Longstreet's and Joe Johnston.
I find that I often struggle with/through several of these speakers and their presentations due to their annoying ramblings, cadence, etc....The only speakers that I really enjoy and find consistent, whether lecture or battle walk, (1) Matt Atkinson and (2) John Hoptak. I would enjoy the time/information much more enthusiastically with, and cannot seem to get enough of, presentations by the previously mention.
Bingo. I find it very easy to fall asleep listening to this fellow. The subject matter is so powerful and calls for all the drama an individual can muster but this fellow has two sounds in his voice for every sentence. The result is a boring drone.
Oh hell, Matt rambles like a drunk trying to walk a straight line. But he has such a fantastic sense of humor...
I'll agree though this man's a little hard to listen to because he seems to be reading his script which I find annoying. But I agree with macvoutie about the subject matter; it's pretty hard to find anything about what historians tend to regard as "minor affairs" like Seven Pines, Perryville, Mill Springs, etc.
Look for Ed bearss
When this guy gets drunk does he stop slurring his words?
Nice work as always Karlton
Great job!
I don’t understand all the criticism of this Ranger. I had no problem understanding and soaking up the information. If you people can do so much better why don’t you get a history degree and see if you can do his job better!
At the beginning of this video l notice on the map that the western counties of Virginia have already been separated, and formed into the seceded state of West Virginia.I won't go into that debate.The other mistake on the map is the 34th parallel boundary from the Texas state line to the Colorado river boundary at California.
One doesn’t need accents. The normal French pronunciation for Huger is ‘oo-ZHAY.
Read the accounts of history recorded at the time. Any thing that comes later are fogged by the advance of time.
Good lecture, though I don’t understand why so often civil war history concentrates on commanders and battle tactics ad nauseum. I would so much rather hear a talk about personal accounts at the soldier or civilian level. But no, it will be general so and so, graduated from West Point and was actually in a class with general so and so. You can insert any name in that statement, they aren’t materially different.
All that area has been
destroyed its ashamed
A map of Fredricksburg makes me want to cry. I have a map of the Seven Days oriented onto a contemporary map; I-64 runs right through the middle of the area where Jackson's men were. I won't even mention the Chancellorsville/Wilderness battlefield. Sad.
it's said - HUE GEE not hue ger
Thanks for the reminder; I had heard that from a park ranger, but couldn't remember exactly how he said it was pronounced.
If it’s truly French the letter combination of. ER sounds like “ay” as in day
My comment is not meant in any to detract from the excellence of this talk. Th name Huger is pronounced with a soft g, [ hoozhay ] with the accent on the last syllable.
Ok can't listen to any more of this..... "the Monitor is going to win"...... Excuse me it was a draw...... I'm out..... Go find videos that Matt Atkinson has for good battlefield history
I'm sorry but this rangers lack of proper preperation before his presentation is clearly evident. He's merely reading, poorly, his notes in a sing song fashion. I find all the lectures presented on this channel very facinating and all the other speakers quite suited for this and quite entertaining. I wish it were the case here but this ranger managed to make a very exciting topic quite dull and tedious.
His wisp... I just can’t listen. Call me mean, I just can’t.
This man's superiors should pay for elocution training for him.
Or just not let him embarrass himself by speaking publicly.
Or not let him speak in public
They need speakers who do not have a speech impediment.
Is it Huger or Huge?? WTF is wrong with this guy? Is he drunk?
@@johnryan8533 Ok buddy, be so affected by a difference in speech you act the fool. Sheltered? Don't get around much? It's cool not everyone gets the chance to hear different tones.