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A total disgrace. A lot of innocent blood running through the streets of Richmond.

My great great grandfather fought for the Virginia battle brigade and was captured by the union, fortunately he escaped and was taken in by the Islamic Gaurd corps of North Carolina

I live in Richmond and been to all these places.

Richmond was not one of Grants military objectives, Lees army was. Those troops whose line of march would take them thru the city did so. Only a part of one Union Corps entered the city and it was primarily there for humanitarian reasons. Lincolns visit was premature and probably ill advised especially when you consider he had little security around him.

Any one see a business family named Yarborough, in Richmond, Virginia, any part of Virginia?

I think we need to get along blacks and whites or we won't have a country

Well that plan backfired

3:02 if it’s around noon then it’d be 12:45pm instead of 12:45am

This is an amazing video, are there more like it? Was this work completed? I'm a Richmonder born and raised and would love to know more info on this project.

The South was very fortunate in one aspect. Not all of the Union generals were scorched earth, like Sherman.

Damn. Now if only they redistrubuted all the plantation land after the war :(

I love this content. Thank you

When Lincoln arrived at the Confederate White House, didn't he have a seat at Jeff Davis' desk to conduct his meeting? I'll bet that was a sight!😃

I don't see the purpose of this??? We all know about slavery why make a 3D computer map of Richmond? Why not point out the actual slavery that is going on in our world today? Thousands of Chinese working 18 hour days for pennies to make your cellphone. Or the thousands of women and children trafficked into our country every year threw our open borders to feed the sex industry and secret pedophile rings in places like Las Vegas! In Seattle the hot dog vendors outside the stadium are all women who have been brought here by the Cartels for prostitution after they've been used up the gangs put them on the corner selling hot dogs and other foods to hungry fans after every event, Why not point that out instead of living in the past!! We all know about African Slavery in pre civil war America but how many of you know about what is going on right now in your own cities!!

Wait... so most of the damage was done by the retreating forces? lmao

"The aristocrats of Internal Affairs are since many days meditating a movement. Oh well! They'll have it, that movement, but they'll have it against them! It will be organized, regularized by a revolutionary army that at last will fulfill that great word that it owes to the Paris Commune: Let's make terror the order of the day!" Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (10 September 1755 - 13 January 1841) -- French politician, Freemason, journalist, and one of the most prominent members of the National Convention during the French Revolution.

northern abolitionists lived off Slavery as much as southern planters. northern bankers made loans, northern insurance companies underwrote activities, northern textile mills bought slave cotton, northerners ate slave sugar and smoked slave Tabacco and before 1808, slave ships built and crewed by northerners transported slaves into the United States. Maybe the war happened because the guilty feeling of northern abolitionists and indignation of southern slavers at the hypocrisy of the abolitionists. And, what's crazy is that most people today are decedents of post-bellum immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery and just want to get on with life.

My great-great-granduncle defended the city in 1864-65. He commanded an artillery battery near where Richmond Airport is today and withdrew with his unit to Appomattox where he surrendered them.

People just making shit up nowadays lol

Confederates have been REAL quiet since this dropped

I have a great-great-grandfather who was a member of the Army of Nothern Virginia, and he was captured by the Union army while recuperating in a hospital in Richmond. He was also, fortunately, too ill to participate at Gettysburg,

A powerful account - all the more so for being understated.

Great piece. Why Richmond though? What made it so central to that trade?

The seige could have been ended much sooner. The Confed lines were stretched ridiculously thin.

this video is phenomenal, i dont know how it doesnt have more likes/views.... great job

this video is fantastic

Sad day in our history.

A quick and explanative short video.

I didn't know that Lincoln had visited

Maybe you can look at how other groups of people were handled like the Irish, Italians, Germans, etc. These groups, although not slaves, many were indentured servants and were paid little or no wages as they sought a life in America.

Watching the fires on the map kinda reminded me of SimCity.

This video really helped my understand and appreciate my city more. I know this is 5 years old, but I believe more videos like this would give people and appreciate for the history which is literally under our feet here and all over the surrounding area.

Slaves were an asset back then not just in US but in Africa, Arabia etc. In Imperial Russia serfdom was close to slavery. Greed is motive for hoarding money. Look now at BlackRock who is proclaiming diversity an equality but doing business with CCP.

It is astonishing and disturbing to read some of the comments. The war was fought because the South wanted the (states) right to extend and expand slavery. The south seceded because they thought Lincoln might prevent the south from expanding slavery. Many politicians in the south wanted to invade Cuba as part of slavery expansion. Remember that slaves constituted 3/5 of a person as far as calculation population and the number of representatives in Congress. Very Democratic !!! The south fought to preserve their “right” to have and to expand slavery. A truly noble cause. The slave trade was abolished in the UK in 1807. And slavery itself in UK 1833. So it’s not like the USA was ahead of the curve. The Barbary pirates around this time were enslaving whites and selling them to the Ottoman Empire. People throughout the USA objected to this. The “states right” the south was fighting for was slavery. If you read Jefferson Davis’ speeches in Congress in the 1850s and 1860s it is very very very clear what the conflict was about. It is about the preservation of oligarchy and slavery. Truly an exceptionally honorable cause.

Nice and short, well narrated, could of been a little Louder, and the graphics a little clearer. Thank You so much. WYO, Robert, 🇨🇦🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇲👀👀👍👍🧐🧐🙏🙏

This clearly wasn't just another military withdrawal, but a skedaddle of the guilty. Most senior members of the CSA Government, sensing the jig was finally up, had already begun to look primarily to themselves and the escape/futures of themselves and their families, rather than to the public good or the safety of the city. There were plans to meet up again farther south to "reconvene" the rebel Administration, but that happened only on a side road in GA, on the back of a wagon, and lasted less than a hour before they all took to their heels again. The whole Richmond crowd had by then degenerated into a criminal gang with a strong consciousness of guilt. Jeff Davis was captured soon after that meeting -- and, despite what you hear from Southern apologists, DID attempt to escape detention while dressed in women's clothing, having abandoned his own wife and maid to the mercy of the captors. Only his fine, heavy riding boots -- unlikely to be worn by a woman -- gave him away to a sharp-eyed Union officer.

good ol days

Just who was to compensate the Shipping Companies for the transporting of the Slaves, to North America? Who was to feed these people, clothe these people and who was to house these people, for shelter, on North America? Research the Shipping Companies dated and archived Ledgers and Manifest in the Maritime Repositories in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina? Also Research the "Virginia Common Wealths" and Counties dated and archived PLAT MAPS and Property tax records. Also Research the "Common Wealths," Dated and archived Legislatures records, for laws that they made? What were to become of these people, on the ships, if these Aristocrats and Planters did NOT want to invest in these people, to have laborers on their properties? What was to become of them?

Too bad what a shame

Excellent! The best interactive I’ve seen on the civil war and I’ve had a close interest in it for years.

What about the Confederate Government in Montreal, Canada? Now, just how much burning and looting did the Confederates do in the North? Are you sure they were Slaves ... and not just Freed men/ people? 92% of the Southerners that fought in the Civil War, were Small, individual DIRT FARMERS of 40 acre to 160 acres and did NOT own SLAVES....92%.... Just how many people can you feed on a 40 to 160 acre Farm... When the owner has 12 family members to feed? Only 8% of the Southerners that fought in the Civil War owned SLAVES.....8%.... If the War was about Freeing Slaves: Then just why wasn't there more than 8% fighting to keep their Slaves????? Research: Archived and dated Shipping Companies Ledgers and Manifest in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, in the Maritime Repositories? Research the "Common Wealths"/ States and County dated and Archived Plat maps and property tax records? Research the Individual "Common Wealths" / States archived and dated Legislatures records. And individual Representatives Journals and records? Research: the original Planters and Aristocrats Farm Ledgers...Research their Families Bibles and personal Journals. Then tell the TRUTHFUL STORY. There was NOTHING "FEDERAL," Until after the WAR... With the rewriting of the "Constitution," to accomadate the chages made because of the War. The USA was written BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR as ""THESE" UNITED STATES" and after the Civil War and the rewriting of the Constitution the USA became "THE" United States. They were "Common Wealths!" That had different geographical boundaries and borders and contained more that one state, portions of other states, than as they are today. The "Common Wealths" were SOVEREIGN and INDEPENDENT, that was governed and "financially backed" by SOVEREIGN North American Extended Families. That had made a pact with a collabration amongst the North American "Common Wealth," Extended Families, that they could FINACIALLY SUSTAIN NORTH AMERICA, as a NATION! When they wrote and signed the "Declaration of Independence," together. There was NO "ONE" CENTRALIZED Treasury for the ENTIRE USA, or one Currency that was circulated throughout the ENTIRE USA. And what Abraham Lincoln and his HANDFUL of RADICAL Republican Northern "Common Wealths" Representatives wanted was to make,a,"One" CENTRALIZED Treasury, for the USA and to introduce a "One" USA CURRENCY into circulation, for the ENTIRE Nation. There was many different Currencies, backed by the individual "Common Wealths" extended families Wealth in circulation. at that time. One of these CURRENCIES still in circulation, in the "Deep South" was the French CURRENCY the "Dix" in plural is the, "Dixie." Left over after the "Louisiana Purchase," in 1804. But! Abraham Lincoln and his Northern Radical Republican "Common Wealths" Representatives had been USURPING the Constitution, because they Held the MAJORITY in the House of Representatives and were going by a QUORUM, of whom ever was present, and doing a Majority VOTE of 51% in the Law making PROCESS and were declaring Bill's to be LAW... When the Constitution is written for a "REPUBLIC" and REQUIRES 100% PARTICIPATION of ALL COMMON WEALTHs Representatives: And for a BILL to become LAW 63% of 100% participating have to VOTE the SAME WAY: 63% SAME WAY 100% Participation. And the MAJORITY and the MINORITY have to come to a "Consensus" for the good of ALL of Americas' people. The Northern "Common Wealths" Representatives MAJORITY had been DENYING the Southern "Common Wealths," Representatives a VOTE/ a VOICE in their own GOVERNMENT since Andrew Jackson was in office. Abraham Lincoln and his HANDFUL of Northern RADICAL Republican Representatives went a head and introduced the first USA CURRENCY into circulation, with the people. With a "MAJORITY" VOTE in the House of Representatives. And they maintained it was backed by ALL the North American "Common Wealths'" Extended Families when the Southern Representatives were NOT Considered in the VOTE... "STATES RIGHTS!" The Southern "Common Wealths" Representatives responded by introducing into CIRCULATION their own "COUNTERFEIT" Currency, through out the USA and diluting all the CURRENCY INTO CIRCULATION.... MAKING ALL THE CURRENCY WORTHLESS!! It is told that Abraham Lincoln came to the House of Representatives floor and said, "That He and his Northern RADICAL Republican Representatives would have every things these Southerners OWNED, before he was through!" Lincoln thought all the North American Treasury should be controlled by the Northern Common Wealths Representatives.. Without the Southern "Common Wealths" Representatives approval... The fight is on. The Fact is: The Ohioan "Common Wealth," of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Representatives did NOT Stand with Abraham Lincoln. So, if the Southern Common Wealths Representatives were gone, out of the House of Representatives and the Ohioan Common Wealths Representatives did NOT stand with Abraham Lincoln...... Just how was Abraham Lincoln making LAW....PER the "CONSTITUTION," as a REPUBLIC? 63% same VOTE with 100% of the "Common Wealths," Representatives PARTICIPATING? example: "Emacipation PROCLAMATION Act," "Conscription Act" "Morill Tariff Act, therefore are ALL Unconstitutional!???

Great visual and content! Thank you

Ah, a nostalgic look at the "good old days"...

Kek traitors got dunked on

Great work. Thank you

So sad no one should be a Slave. It’s been going on from the beginning. The Jews were slave it’s all over the world. So Sad So Very Wrong !

What I don't understand is how europeans didn't take advantage of the civil war and invaded America

Good summary. They did however fail to mention that it was USCT troops who entered the city first, barely, it was a race with other soldiers.

Cool map action. Thanks for the hard work.

This is great