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Birddog is the best southerners ,history, and spokesman for the Confederacy,I love these videos .

Great stuff as usual.

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Now Mr. Putin ,turn yourself over to the Ukraine people .

Quick reminder for everyone talking about “how great of a general this guy was”, he was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. You can also look up “Fort Pillow” where several black Union soldiers surrendered, but Forrest ordered his men to kill them all while yelling “no quarter”. This is not someone to idolize.

In like 5 years, AI is going to be able to take videos like this and make them hyper realistic. Really excited to see historic videos in HD

Excellent

Great video!

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Eggcellent Bird dog. Keep on people..

Robert E. Lee personally owned slaves that he inherited upon the death of his mother, Ann Lee, in 1829. (His son, Robert E. Lee Jr., gave the number as three or four families.) Following the death of his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis, in 1857, Lee assumed command of 189 enslaved people, working the estates of Arlington, White House, and Romancoke. Custis’ will stipulated that the enslaved people that the Lee family inherited be freed within five years. Lee, as executor of Custis’ will and supervisor of Custis’ estates, drove his new-found labor force hard to lift those estates from debt. Concerned that the endeavor might take longer than the five years stipulated, Lee petitioned state courts to extend his control of enslaved people. The Custis bondspeople, aware of their former owner’s intent, resisted Lee’s efforts to enforce stricter work discipline. Resentment resulted in escape attempts. In 1859 Wesley Norris, his sister Mary, and their cousin, George Parks, escaped to Maryland where they were captured and returned to Arlington. In an 1866 account, Norris recalled, [W]e were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done. State courts in both 1858 and 1862 denied Lee’s petition to indefinitely postpone the emancipation of his wife’s enslaved people and forced him to comply with the conditions of the will. Finally, on December 29, 1862, Lee officially freed the enslaved workers and their families on the estate, coincidentally three days before the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. I like that you played that last part multiple times. It enforces how indoctrinated these young men were to do the biding of evil and be justified for doing it. Please, if you're reading this, know that the civil war was a war for the right to force labor. No man should be forced to work for free in America. God bless America.

Some sources have this ship decommissioned long before, and was brought out only for the exposition by towing it as a display. Note no obvious smoke out of the stack. This ship is not under its own power. Film is still neat and historic but narrative is questionable. Too bad.

In nany wats the monitors were more technically more advanced than the great white fleet ( low profile, horizontal steam engines)

wow still in service in 1907

WoW.... this is so neat. In just fifty years the mighty battleships Texas and New York would be commissioned. God bless our military heroes.

Yer directing it from a safe distance, i shall return, when it's safe and I won't get killed 😂

The first meaningful act of reconciliation was the invitation extended to the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, to represent South Carolina at the Battle of Bunker Hill Centennial. Reconstruction also ended during the same time period. The Revolutionary War and independence was part of the North's and South's shared history.

You're really going to censor the word 'negro'? Pathetic.

Birdogg, thank you for these historically factual videos. I'm especially enjoying the Civil War diaries of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a CSA military tactician and beloved calvaryman. I would love to see a similar video on Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the CSA 'Gray Ghost' calvaryman of Virginia. Hope you can also post additional videos of Civil War medicine and battlefield surgery. Love your channel ❤️ 💕

We have been lied to our entire lives ....my new understanding of WW2 is still hard to fully accept because its been so ingrained.

It might still be dangerous!! 😂

another goodun !

There is nothing more powerful than primary resources like this. Btw their were many other Confederate leaders doing similar things. General Beauregard and Senator Herschel Johnson of Georgia to name a few. Bless you and keep up the good work.

From what I have found he genuinely meant this and he did deliver the speech.

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I sent this to a personal friend who works at the park. Without giving up their title, they said, "This needs to be the park video we show to guests, its awesome" Between me and several other reenactors and visitors that frequent that site, your channel name is well known, and I believe, very appreciated by the people that work hard to preserve that site and its complete history.

Excellent was as always. This kind of material make a few other groups big time mad. Its hard to accept that the good ol US are not, have not been the gloriois liberators and peacebringers we have been told. Fun and feelgood as that is to imagine.

Biden's Civil War memories haven't materialized yet. But they are pending.

Imposter!! Biden doesn't speak as well as that 100 year old. FJB!!!

bird dog your on your game i been showing folks that speech for yrs R.I.P. OL' BEDFORD

"AtunShei sweats nervously"

I don't know where you get this articles and footage at but you are doing absolutely amazing keep it up, the truth needs to be told about the civil war. If we forget our history we are doomed to repeat it

He may have been a good soldier. He was, undeniably, a terrible person.

The unfortunate part about history is the dead can no longer defend themselves in the court of public opinion. Their reputations come and go based on the whims of the day. Just like us all, his life experience would keep him evolving as a person. So many want to pick a point in someone’s life and act as if that is who they were from cradle to grave. At sixty my thoughts are nowhere near what they were at twenty. I see the same thing being done to General Lee.

Thank you for posting this! The truth of this man needs to be told. He does not deserve to be vilified. He should be the poster-boy for acceptance, reconciliation, and equal rights

Let’s take a look at Forrest’s history, the organization he addressed, and the context in which he spoke. For him to say it had always been his intention never to depress anyone is an astonishing claim for a slave catcher, slave trader, convict labor pioneer, murderer of one of his black laborers, and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan during a time when its members terrorized black people to the point of burning down black schools and murdering black schoolteachers. He was speaking at a time when the Exoduster movement threatened to persuade the black laborers he depended on to flee the South for parts north and west. It was to dissuade black folks from leaving the south that he addressed a group that also felt threatened that the movement would reduce its political power. If he ever stood between black troops and his men it was because he regarded them as slaves and as such valuable to the Confederate cause; most of the black survivors at Fort Pillow, for instance, were put to work at building defenses in the Deep South. The only part of this speech one can take at face value is his expression of fondness for black women, which he had already demonstrated by siring a daughter by his slave cook.

My favorite speech of his and my go to to dispell the myth that continues to be perpetuted about our gallant ancestors. Deo Vindice

Always a goodun !

Your content is some of the best out there on the civil war.

Ugh, that letter touched my heart. 😔

What an astonishing find! Thank you for sharing this valuable piece of our great nation's history. This clip made me feel like l found it with you 😊

I actually have found 5 “CC BB’s”. They are super cool and really awesome find. If anyone has any questions about them please message me. Also the state of BB findings location is very important. Love to talk somewhat about it other than a really cool find… there is way more

Thank you for your videos, And the history of the south. Means so much to me. I’m a 37 year old , Mississippian Girl.. I see so much change.. and sad they changed the flag on us, but we always know the truth. And keep it in our hearts.. and I have one here ❤️

Thanks, great channel.

Music is perfect

What’s this song.. I absolutely love it..

Being a Comanche Native American I asked my grandfather if he would’ve sided with one side which one would it be ? He said the confederates without a shadow of a doubt, the mistake they made was evolving with the times but the manners, respect and loyalty they expressed towards each other and their fellow southern Americans was a beautiful thing to see. We fought more with the Yankees than the southerners but he spoke to many confederates that wished they could’ve joined forces with my elders against the Yankees.

The Germans, particularly gen Rommel, studied gen Forrest tactics and applied them to great effect