I'm not related to anyone who fought in the civil war, but when I watch this I feel like I'm related to every single one. We're all Americans. God bless those brave men.
I've been up that hill twice. It's damned steep coming from Devil's Den, but much less so from Big Round Top. The ground before hand sucks too. I'm in pretty damned good shape and a run up the hill left me breathless. The Rebels must have been completely exhausted by the time they began their approach toward Vincent, so I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for them to attack it.
Naomi Washinton Me and my family are planning to Gettysburg in either 2016 or 2017 and we plan to walk the same movements the Confederate Army did in 1863.
Reminds me of the scene in We Were Soldiers where the sergeant only takes his 1911 pistol. When asked if he shouldn't also have an M-16 he replies, I reckon if things get that bad they'll be plenty of em laying around.
my great great great grandfather gave his life charging up that hill, even though i dont completely agree with what he was fighting for, i cant help but feel a sense of pride when i watch this.
In the Battle of Stallingrad it was army policy, a rifle and 5 bullets to one man, followed by a second man with 5 bullets, when first man falls second man takes gun.
Dan Sickles III Corps was in charge of the flank position but he moved his entire force 3/4 mile out in front and disconnected from the rest of the line. He left LRT undefended save a few signalmen. When Meade discovered this he was furious at Sickles and immediately ordered Sykes' V Corps reserve to shore up the abandoned left. Warren called down from reinforcements from the top of the hill and Srong Vincent took it upon himself to bring up his brigade--20th ME was one of four regiments
Gen. Warren saw the exposed front from the top of Little Rock. Before this scene they have a very brief scene depicting the exact image of Warren as the famous statue of him there at Gettysburg. God bless America
Athrough Z I apologize for getting anal-retentive with the 2 of you, but Chamberlain was a colonel. :) Agree with you in spirit though, brilliant seat-of-the-pants leadership here .... later became governor of Maine ... died in 1914, allegedly from complications of a serious war wound suffered during the 1864 Petersburg campaign. A great American, well worth admiring.
+Ronald Bittner He was immediately promoted to Brigadier General upon returning to combat after Gettysburg. By the end of the war, he had been seriously wounded six times and had six horses shot out from under him. He somehow survived a shot that went through his thigh and groin, a would very similar to the one that mortally wounded Strong Vincent (the guy at the beginning of the first video that instructed Chamberlain to hold 'to the last'). When he took that wound, he put his sword in the ground for balance and remained standing until he passed out from blood loss, just to encourage his troops. Chamberlain was probably the most badass liberal arts professor ever.
@ItNice26 Chamberlain & the 20th Maine did get most of the credit for Little Round Top, but if it were not for the efforts of the signalmen on summit of LRT, that were observing & relaying the movements of the Southern army in the distance, it might have been a different outcome. That's why rebs were so tired and battle took place much later than what Lee was hoping for.They were forced to march further around than anticipated. to try to hide their position and strengh.
Gettysburg happened because Lee had the "brilliant" idea of invading and raiding the northern state of Pennsylvania. Yes, it did put him further north than Washington, and about a hundred miles from his nearest supply depot. The reason he had to withdraw July 4 and make a panicked dash back to Virginia? It wasn't just his casualties, the AoNV had literally shot nearly all its ammunition, and had no chance of resupply.
Lee was spread way to thin and it cost the south dearly .I do have certain opinions but it's best to stay still .suffice it to say if Lee had listened to general Longstreet the civil war could have had an entirely different outcome .a certain irony in the fact .
"there'll be guns available in a little while" just shows why people fighting in this time period had enormous balls made of solid brass. Nowadays, if you take one casualty, that's a failure. Back then, if you took 50, it was a good day.
Remember now that the Union pickets shown in the beginning of the movie "Gettysburg" are cavalry troops who were armed with repeating carbines some of which could hold up to seven shots.
I'm not sure why my ancestors fought for the confederacy in particular. They might have believed in slavery, but more likely they just felt compelled to defend what they perceived were their rights to other things, like property or family or what have you. Even if they believed in slavery, that doesn't mean that i do. I do believe it takes courage to risk your life to stand up for something you believe in regardless. So, my hat goes off to them for that.
Courage in politics is comparable. Watch Tommy Lee Jones in the movie, "Lincoln". He had the dedication, tenacity and courage to stand fast and GET THAT BILL PASSED. Very similar to battlefield courage; in fact, a LOT MORE! The excitement of combat is a great stimulus. BUT STANDING FAST UNDER THE PRESSURE OF POLITICAL PRESSURES IS EVEN MORE SO!
and the ultimate replacement for the 1855 springfield was...the springfield trapdoor. In fact, the Springfields were only finally replaced by the Krag-Jorgensen bolt actions in 1892. So yeah, had they changed to your supergun, everything would have been different, and if the queen had nuts, she'd be king.
@234manvswild It didn't help that the soldiers didn't get as much training as they should've, especially the target practice. General Hancock managed to gather a great many rifles that had been loaded over and over and never fired. The Civil War, many of both the men and the Officers had to learn the job as they went along.
He has a point, the South had adopted a poor strategy and one that was well behind the times. Instead of trying to use the South's interior lines to nullify the North's numerical advantages Bobby Lee was obsessed with a vainglorious grand victory on Northern soil that even if achieved likely wouldn't have changed much.
Agree. Lee could have learned a lot from the NVA and Viet Cong about how to win a war of attrition on home territory. Glad Lee's aggressive bravado kept him from accepting sometime day 2 that the Union held the far stronger tactical position atop a long ridge, instead of moving out and forcint the Union to move with him to protect Washington DC from a Confederate run-around attack.
They did fight a guerrilla war...against black people and those that tried to help them. You should watch the History Channel's two movies on the aftermath of the Civil War.
While the slope of this hill is way to long and too sharp compared to the real Little Round Top site, the video clip shown from the movie "Gettysburg" is probably a good representation of what may have actually happened.
David Frigault If you ever visit Little Round Top you would find this not to be the case. The distance from the 20th Maine monument to the saddle between the two hill is scarcely 20 yards which could be covered in but a few seconds running down the hill. Its just not as big as the movie would have you believe.
Southerners were like duuuuhhhhhh lets climb this here hill, even though we are outnumbered duuuuhhh, even though we do not have the high ground, duuhhhh we are sooo stupid, duuhhhh. We thought we were invincible duuhhh. Haha, south is better?, how much Southern Comfort have u had? Go Colonel Chamberlain, however William Tecumseh Sherman, now that guy was awesome, too bad. The South Sucks, The North Rocks.
And your stupid! You have no idea why the Confederate troops were attacking that flank. And they were not outnumbered, the Confederates had far more troops available, but the terrain didn't allow them to exploit those superior numbers. Stick to your video games and leave the serious discussion to those that understand.
Its old but one of the best movies. A question to the history: Why did nobody reinforce chamberlain? The noise of fighting or a massanger from chamberlain... or simply the neighboor regiments on the right should notice this. Why were their no reinforcements on the way? And the union had reinforcements available. Or maybe why did the neighborring not so hard fighting regiments not send some units to him. But at the end.. i do not understand why Chamberlains hold is so famous. He did not save the union army in gettysburg. Yes if he failed the battle were lost and the union had to retreat. But if Greene at Culps Hill had failed the whole escape route were blocked and the union had lost the supply train and ammo. And without a street most of the cannons. The loose of Greene would be way more citical than chamberlain. But most of the people did not know this. Reynolds yes, Buford yes, Chamberlain yes.. but Doubleday or Greene no. Doubleday was the commander of the 2nd corps after Reynolds death and he made his job really great. Maybe he saved the union at day 1. But he was wounded, replaced and forgotten.
There was lots of other stuff going on. Col. Vincent Strong's Brigade (of which 20th Maine was just a part) was on it's way to reinforce Sickles when it was intercepted by a staff officer sent by Chief Engineer Gouvenerneur Warren to deny Little Round Top to the enemy. Chamberlain DID receive reinforcements later in the battle (after his bayonet charge) by the 140th New York and Battery D, 5th US artillery.
All the regiments in Chamberlain's Brigade were equally engaged. The Confederate forces were assaulting Little Round Top all across the line, so there were initially no reinforcements available. That Brigade was not even initially sent to LRT, but as reinforcement for Sickles Corps.
Reynolds commanded I Corps not II Corps. If Chamberlain had not held, the entire Union line would have been flanked and could've been rolled up all the way down the line. The exact same thing happened when Jackson attacked the XI Corps at Chancellorsville and rolled up the Union line.
@@patrickmccrann991 yes.. but they did not defeat the entire army... only force them to retreat. If Grenee had failed, their were no escape street and they lost the whole supply and had a chaotic retreat though open fields.
My forebears carried repeating rifles to the Raid on Lawrence. The first repeating weapons in conflict. They bashed abolitionist's heads in. To save the dime it cost to fire a Henry.
South never had a fighting chance at Gettysburg. The South was fighting like the British did during the Revolution. Just keep sending waves of men over and over til the enemy runs out of ammo then you will have the upper hand. Well the north was more about planning every move they made and was countering ever move they made.
We Aussie's cant relate to civil war, thank God. We've had our stuff ups in dumb wars though. There's some grandeur abt the civil war. I wonder what it is. I'm fascinated by your history.Only just found out Gettysburg was north of Washington. Did some one get them lost?
Arthur Yagami By this point in the war, the Union was conscripting soldiers because public support had run out and volunteers were drying up. Some of the conscripts were so against the war for whatever reasons that they wouldn't fight and instead would just keep loading their muskets to make it look like they were shooting. He was telling Chamberlain to watch for that because they were so outnumbered and needed everyone to actively be fighting.
JACCO20082012 Conscripts only ever accounted for 13% of the Union Army, so you're way off there. He's likely referring to some of the poor boys losing their focus under fire and forgetting to return that fire.
Arthur Yagami It was widely believed, on both sides, that young American men were already experts with firearms and didn't need training. Even back then, that wasn't really true and it's even less true when one is faced with an army trying to kill you. So men did panic and kept right on loading their rifles without ever firing. Panicked people do dumb things. One of the Union Generals went and collected several THOUSAND rifles that had been loaded right up to the muzzle after Gettysburg. Officers on both sides of that conflict believed their men didn't receive enough firearm training. One of a myriad of mistakes made by the Government and Officer Corp on both sides. My sources come from Bruce Catton's "The Civil War" and Ken Burns" companion book to the Civil War series shown on PBS.
"the rebs really comeing?" "no you hear all that noise? it fireworks they surrendered and the war is over....NO of course there comeing no pick up a musket and defend you country."
@MultiAllenjames I'm by no means a fan of the Confederacy but your comment is without merit. They had some of the smartest most daring generals soldiers in the world.
@frontiergame Slavery and states' rights are intertwined. Slavery was the main cause of the war. Also, it is not a right to hold another person in bondage
Yes I know about the guerilla war, but it would have been 100 times worse. The gurellia war died out fast compared to what would have happened. Ask any intelligent historian with a degree.
@bobcanbeatyou Why on earth do you people insist on arguing on CZcams about a war that was over more than 140 years ago? I hardly think you can consider yourself a 'Confederate' citizen, can you? =P
@MultiAllenjames Hood didn't want to attack their position once he realized it was occupied but Longstreet urged him to under orders from Lee who was anxious and over confident at the time.
I'm not related to anyone who fought in the civil war, but when I watch this I feel like I'm related to every single one. We're all Americans. God bless those brave men.
I've been up that hill twice. It's damned steep coming from Devil's Den, but much less so from Big Round Top. The ground before hand sucks too. I'm in pretty damned good shape and a run up the hill left me breathless. The Rebels must have been completely exhausted by the time they began their approach toward Vincent, so I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for them to attack it.
Naomi Washinton I've walked that battlefield three times now, and I couldn't agree more!
***** It's amazing that the small 20th Maine could hold the overwhelming number of confederates. It's only because of the terrain.
Naomi Washinton Me and my family are planning to Gettysburg in either 2016 or 2017 and we plan to walk the same movements the Confederate Army did in 1863.
Naomi Washinton totally agree, there's a reason they lay out the tour road so you drive up to Chamberlain's position.
@@TheTwitSkits I'd like to also add courage, resolve, honor, duty to country and conspicuous gallantry.
“Just wait here and there’ll soon be guns available”.
Ominous.
Reminds me of the scene in We Were Soldiers where the sergeant only takes his 1911 pistol. When asked if he shouldn't also have an M-16 he replies, I reckon if things get that bad they'll be plenty of em laying around.
A leader must always tell the truth
my great great great grandfather gave his life charging up that hill, even though i dont completely agree with what he was fighting for, i cant help but feel a sense of pride when i watch this.
They were tough.
States Rights
Here they come!! Still sends chills down my spine.
"They told us that they'd never been whipped before, and expressed a desire to never meet the 20th Maine again."
“I suggest you find a thicker tree.”
One of many great lines in this scene.
"will you put in a kind word for me?" the most human part of all this.
John Tortorella I think "there will be guns available in a little while..." tops it. Very fine understatement.
Berzstiflag Very sobering and chilling statement indeed.
This is good commanding
"you just wait here a bit, there will be guns available in a little while." My favorite line in this film.
He's basically saying, men will die here very soon take their guns when they fall
I loved that line.
In the Battle of Stallingrad it was army policy, a rifle and 5 bullets to one man, followed by a second man with 5 bullets, when first man falls second man takes gun.
This was the best part of the whole movie.
Pikett´s Charge is also awesome, specialy the Music in this part of the movie! q^.^p
4 1/2 hours of pure awesomeness
fiction
Jimmy Walker this actually happened, although some liberties were taken, the essence is true.
Jimmy Walker idiot
do not be like that pulling your leg winding you up yank or johnny reb
+Jimmy Walker have you ever looked into American History at all, you dipshit?
The counter flanking movement was pure genius!
After the battle at Gettysburg, a rifle was located on the Battlefield that had 25 rounds in the barrel.
Contentious objector no doubt, but I wonder how many of his mates died for it
Nervous exhaustion and overwhelming anxiety of the Infa ntry soldier...waiting....waiting...for the Enemy Advance... 7:24
'No man will call me a coward'. 20th Maine.
Helluva movie. Very well told. Out of words.
The bravery is unfathomable. Both sides knew it was judgement day.
It's a damn shame brother against brother but both fighting for what they believe in. Great movie
Dan Sickles III Corps was in charge of the flank position but he moved his entire force 3/4 mile out in front and disconnected from the rest of the line. He left LRT undefended save a few signalmen. When Meade discovered this he was furious at Sickles and immediately ordered Sykes' V Corps reserve to shore up the abandoned left. Warren called down from reinforcements from the top of the hill and Srong Vincent took it upon himself to bring up his brigade--20th ME was one of four regiments
Gen. Warren saw the exposed front from the top of Little Rock. Before this scene they have a very brief scene depicting the exact image of Warren as the famous statue of him there at Gettysburg. God bless America
Chamberlain is my favorite general of all time.
Honest Heart Mine too! A valiant commander, and a respectable General.
Athrough Z I apologize for getting anal-retentive with the 2 of you, but Chamberlain was a colonel. :)
Agree with you in spirit though, brilliant seat-of-the-pants leadership here .... later became governor of Maine ... died in 1914, allegedly from complications of a serious war wound suffered during the 1864 Petersburg campaign. A great American, well worth admiring.
Ronald Bittner
By the end of war he was promoted to Brig General and brevet Maj General.
+Ronald Bittner He was immediately promoted to Brigadier General upon returning to combat after Gettysburg.
By the end of the war, he had been seriously wounded six times and had six horses shot out from under him. He somehow survived a shot that went through his thigh and groin, a would very similar to the one that mortally wounded Strong Vincent (the guy at the beginning of the first video that instructed Chamberlain to hold 'to the last'). When he took that wound, he put his sword in the ground for balance and remained standing until he passed out from blood loss, just to encourage his troops.
Chamberlain was probably the most badass liberal arts professor ever.
Didn't hurt that Jeff Daniels portrayed him; if he could only have lived to see himself on that thing we call film, Right? 😉
this is such a great movie.
When I was serving in the Army i always thought I hope to god I never fight a war when someone shouts "fix bayonets"
@ItNice26 Chamberlain & the 20th Maine did get most of the credit for Little Round Top, but if it were not for the efforts of the signalmen on summit of LRT, that were observing & relaying the movements of the Southern army in the distance, it might have been a different outcome. That's why rebs were so tired and battle took place much later than what Lee was hoping for.They were forced to march further around than anticipated. to try to hide their position and strengh.
Gettysburg happened because Lee had the "brilliant" idea of invading and raiding the northern state of Pennsylvania. Yes, it did put him further north than Washington, and about a hundred miles from his nearest supply depot. The reason he had to withdraw July 4 and make a panicked dash back to Virginia? It wasn't just his casualties, the AoNV had literally shot nearly all its ammunition, and had no chance of resupply.
Lee was spread way to thin and it cost the south dearly .I do have certain opinions but it's best to stay still .suffice it to say if Lee had listened to general Longstreet the civil war could have had an entirely different outcome .a certain irony in the fact .
i had 3 ansisters in the civil war 1 on the confedrat side 2 in the union
"But Colonel, why the fuck are we smoking pipes in the middle of a full out battle?!"
?
Because I’m in the middle of a line battle and need to calm tf down lol
I don't know why, but I love the part where the Union officers gives the order for the regiment to open up and fire on the rebss!!!!
How many brave men were lost on that hill....
"there'll be guns available in a little while" just shows why people fighting in this time period had enormous balls made of solid brass. Nowadays, if you take one casualty, that's a failure. Back then, if you took 50, it was a good day.
I've noticed that in this movie the unions at pickets charge fire a lot later then they did in the actual battle.
Remember now that the Union pickets shown in the beginning of the movie "Gettysburg" are cavalry troops who were armed with repeating carbines some of which could hold up to seven shots.
I think he was referring to the fact that there would soon be casualties who wouldn't be needing their guns and ammo anymore.
I think we got that
I keep wondering how the Merril brothers made it through Fredricksburg if they were standing the whole time.
@234manvswild A discarded rifle found at Gettsysburg had 25 rounds in the barrel.
I'm not sure why my ancestors fought for the confederacy in particular. They might have believed in slavery, but more likely they just felt compelled to defend what they perceived were their rights to other things, like property or family or what have you. Even if they believed in slavery, that doesn't mean that i do. I do believe it takes courage to risk your life to stand up for something you believe in regardless. So, my hat goes off to them for that.
Courage in politics is comparable. Watch Tommy Lee Jones in the movie, "Lincoln". He had the dedication, tenacity and courage to stand fast and GET THAT BILL PASSED. Very similar to battlefield courage; in fact, a LOT MORE! The excitement of combat is a great stimulus. BUT STANDING FAST UNDER THE PRESSURE OF POLITICAL PRESSURES IS EVEN MORE SO!
and the ultimate replacement for the 1855 springfield was...the springfield trapdoor. In fact, the Springfields were only finally replaced by the Krag-Jorgensen bolt actions in 1892. So yeah, had they changed to your supergun, everything would have been different, and if the queen had nuts, she'd be king.
@234manvswild It didn't help that the soldiers didn't get as much training as they should've, especially the target practice. General Hancock managed to gather a great many rifles that had been loaded over and over and never fired. The Civil War, many of both the men and the Officers had to learn the job as they went along.
does anyone know of other legit. sites for discussions on C.W?
I had a relative fight in the civil war. I'm embarrassed to say I don't know what unit he was with. He was born in Erie county...?
OK, in that meaning I agree with you.
If every officer had as good an NCO as Chamberlain did...
Brutal and realistic
Further proof that the Union should have equipped all their infantry with Sharps breech-loaders. Can't double load those even if you forget to cap it.
I'll bet whole damn reb army's coming this way.
He has a point, the South had adopted a poor strategy and one that was well behind the times. Instead of trying to use the South's interior lines to nullify the North's numerical advantages Bobby Lee was obsessed with a vainglorious grand victory on Northern soil that even if achieved likely wouldn't have changed much.
Agree. Lee could have learned a lot from the NVA and Viet Cong about how to win a war of attrition on home territory. Glad Lee's aggressive bravado kept him from accepting sometime day 2 that the Union held the far stronger tactical position atop a long ridge, instead of moving out and forcint the Union to move with him to protect Washington DC from a Confederate run-around attack.
There will be guns available in a while. That doesn't honestly sound too bright.
They did fight a guerrilla war...against black people and those that tried to help them. You should watch the History Channel's two movies on the aftermath of the Civil War.
is that supposed to be oates at 3:20
While the slope of this hill is way to long and too sharp compared to the real Little Round Top site, the video clip shown from the movie "Gettysburg" is probably a good representation of what may have actually happened.
David Frigault
If you ever visit Little Round Top you would find this not to be the case. The distance from the 20th Maine monument to the saddle between the two hill is scarcely 20 yards which could be covered in but a few seconds running down the hill. Its just not as big as the movie would have you believe.
True or not true you will experience things no one you have knownb or will ever know (G Watts and C Drury) about 45 years apart
ahh the confedrits is coming
Going here tommorow
Southerners were like duuuuhhhhhh lets climb this here hill, even though we are outnumbered duuuuhhh, even though we do not have the high ground, duuhhhh we are sooo stupid, duuhhhh. We thought we were invincible duuhhh. Haha, south is better?, how much Southern Comfort have u had? Go Colonel Chamberlain, however William Tecumseh Sherman, now that guy was awesome, too bad. The South Sucks, The North Rocks.
And your stupid! You have no idea why the Confederate troops were attacking that flank. And they were not outnumbered, the Confederates had far more troops available, but the terrain didn't allow them to exploit those superior numbers. Stick to your video games and leave the serious discussion to those that understand.
Music detracted from the scene
could not hear? they can clearly see smoke coming out of the barrel and also there is a little bit of recoil from musket
Its old but one of the best movies.
A question to the history:
Why did nobody reinforce chamberlain? The noise of fighting or a massanger from chamberlain... or simply the neighboor regiments on the right should notice this. Why were their no reinforcements on the way? And the union had reinforcements available. Or maybe why did the neighborring not so hard fighting regiments not send some units to him.
But at the end.. i do not understand why Chamberlains hold is so famous. He did not save the union army in gettysburg. Yes if he failed the battle were lost and the union had to retreat. But if Greene at Culps Hill had failed the whole escape route were blocked and the union had lost the supply train and ammo. And without a street most of the cannons. The loose of Greene would be way more citical than chamberlain. But most of the people did not know this.
Reynolds yes, Buford yes, Chamberlain yes.. but Doubleday or Greene no. Doubleday was the commander of the 2nd corps after Reynolds death and he made his job really great. Maybe he saved the union at day 1. But he was wounded, replaced and forgotten.
There was lots of other stuff going on. Col. Vincent Strong's Brigade (of which 20th Maine was just a part) was on it's way to reinforce Sickles when it was intercepted by a staff officer sent by Chief Engineer Gouvenerneur Warren to deny Little Round Top to the enemy. Chamberlain DID receive reinforcements later in the battle (after his bayonet charge) by the 140th New York and Battery D, 5th US artillery.
All the regiments in Chamberlain's Brigade were equally engaged. The Confederate forces were assaulting Little Round Top all across the line, so there were initially no reinforcements available. That Brigade was not even initially sent to LRT, but as reinforcement for Sickles Corps.
Reynolds commanded I Corps not II Corps. If Chamberlain had not held, the entire Union line would have been flanked and could've been rolled up all the way down the line. The exact same thing happened when Jackson attacked the XI Corps at Chancellorsville and rolled up the Union line.
@@patrickmccrann991 yes.. but they did not defeat the entire army... only force them to retreat.
If Grenee had failed, their were no escape street and they lost the whole supply and had a chaotic retreat though open fields.
My forebears carried repeating rifles to the Raid on Lawrence. The first repeating weapons in conflict. They bashed abolitionist's heads in. To save the dime it cost to fire a Henry.
South never had a fighting chance at Gettysburg. The South was fighting like the British did during the Revolution. Just keep sending waves of men over and over til the enemy runs out of ammo then you will have the upper hand. Well the north was more about planning every move they made and was countering ever move they made.
We Aussie's cant relate to civil war, thank God. We've had our stuff ups in dumb wars though. There's some grandeur abt the civil war. I wonder what it is. I'm fascinated by your history.Only just found out Gettysburg was north of Washington. Did some one get them lost?
suddenly you realize one of the officers is STILL smoking his pipe during the engagement.
The U.S. Army took the Prussian blue as the color of their uniforms during this historic era.
The South Could have Won, if they had NOT mrched in Line,But they chose to Follow The Euripian way of fighting. It cost them the War.
Realistic way of thinking.
what was the NCO's comment about the guys that just kept loading their guns and not firing?
Arthur Yagami By this point in the war, the Union was conscripting soldiers because public support had run out and volunteers were drying up. Some of the conscripts were so against the war for whatever reasons that they wouldn't fight and instead would just keep loading their muskets to make it look like they were shooting.
He was telling Chamberlain to watch for that because they were so outnumbered and needed everyone to actively be fighting.
JACCO20082012 Conscripts only ever accounted for 13% of the Union Army, so you're way off there. He's likely referring to some of the poor boys losing their focus under fire and forgetting to return that fire.
I have never heard that and a quick Google search doesn't turn up anything of that sort. Where did you get that figure from?
A google search on what the ratio of conscripts to volunteers of the Union army was. I think it was the third result down for me.
Arthur Yagami It was widely believed, on both sides, that young American men were already experts with firearms and didn't need training. Even back then, that wasn't really true and it's even less true when one is faced with an army trying to kill you. So men did panic and kept right on loading their rifles without ever firing. Panicked people do dumb things. One of the Union Generals went and collected several THOUSAND rifles that had been loaded right up to the muzzle after Gettysburg.
Officers on both sides of that conflict believed their men didn't receive enough firearm training. One of a myriad of mistakes made by the Government and Officer Corp on both sides.
My sources come from Bruce Catton's "The Civil War" and Ken Burns" companion book to the Civil War series shown on PBS.
"the rebs really comeing?"
"no you hear all that noise? it fireworks they surrendered and the war is over....NO of course there comeing no pick up a musket and defend you country."
HERE THEY COME
All these modern day punks who think they are badasses put them in the middle of this and they would be crying for their mothers
@MultiAllenjames I'm by no means a fan of the Confederacy but your comment is without merit. They had some of the smartest most daring generals soldiers in the world.
@Aronz1000 you cant help where you where from witch is north for you. but you know the south is better.
Im sure it was stressful as hell!! lol
REFUSE THE LINE!.
THEN, back then, what did that mean?
To "Refuse the Line" means to bend your line of battle back at some point up to 90 degrees in order to protect that particular flank.
@reenactor19th It's not really modern if abolitionists had already sprung up by the 1830s.
@manacaster
Well, not to be rather picky, but you DIDN'T look rather united then.
They were still in the right.
langue buster
make ready present fire 🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁🔥 🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁🔥🎁🔥
Sheild
@234manvswild no kidding man
By the 'right' do you mean the right to keep slaves?
That's what I meant when I said "That honestly doesn't sound so bright."
Do you mean "bright" as not smart, or as a pessimistic way of thinking?
there's no need for language buster
@MultiAllenjames You think the South is stupid? I am guessing that you have never heard of the Battle of Fredricksburg?
@frontiergame Slavery and states' rights are intertwined. Slavery was the main cause of the war. Also, it is not a right to hold another person in bondage
Why?
@elvishskills BECAUSE I NEED MAH FUCKIN SMOKE!!!!
Adios CSA
They were no such thing.
language Buster
Yes I know about the guerilla war, but it would have been 100 times worse. The gurellia war died out fast compared to what would have happened. Ask any intelligent historian with a degree.
@bobcanbeatyou
Why on earth do you people insist on arguing on CZcams about a war that was over more than 140 years ago? I hardly think you can consider yourself a 'Confederate' citizen, can you? =P
@MultiAllenjames Hood didn't want to attack their position once he realized it was occupied but Longstreet urged him to under orders from Lee who was anxious and over confident at the time.
Pessimistic way of thinking.