America's Bloodiest Battle: 1863AD Historical Battle of Gettysburg | Total War Battle
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- The Battle of Gettysburg was a major battle in the American Civil War fought by Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This battle has often been described as America's bloodiest ever battle...
Game - Napoleon: Total War
Mod - American Civil War Mod
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Army Compositions
01:20 Confederates discover Union troops
02:04 Fighting starts west of Gettysburg
03:49 Confederates attack from the North
04:01 Fighting continues in the west
04:27 Union troops run to Gettysburg
05:09 Union army reforms
05:45 Battle at the Peach Orchard
07:07 Union plan
07:35 Battle at Devils Den
08:06 Battle at Little Round Top
09:35 Battle at the Wheat Field
10:38 Battle continues at the Peach Orchard
11:20 Assault of Cemetery Hill
12:14 Assault of Culps Hill
14:21 Artillery Bombardment
15:05 Confederates launch a massive attack
17:04 Cavalry engagement
17:50 Impacts
I just want to clarify 2 things:
1 - Some aspects of this battle have been simplified and some aspects aren't included this is purely down to the fact soo much happened and I couldn't fit everything in
2 - Some names may be pronounced incorrectly, this is due to the narration being generated using AI and so I apologise for this
Thanks for watching!
Why use AI for the narrative? No humans near by? It's kind of important to get that right don't you think? Further, leaving out (important) details/events merely because you couldn't figure out how to present them is, well, unprofessional. And many events you did manage to squeeze into this massive historical presentation were just wrong or inaccurate. Hopefully this was a good learning experience for you (I admit I couldn't do it) and your next effort will prove easier for you to get right. Sorry for being a bit harsh, but I am a serious student of the battle. 🙁
R u planning on doing one on Antietam, sir??
what game and mod is this ty
Its Napoleon Total War with the American Civil War mod installed @@itsnay7382
oh thats awsome does it have a campaign or is it custom battles ?@@cinematicbattles559
Just a note… Union Cavalry fought on foot on the morning of July 1st. They were not mounted.
Darn, I was going to point that out.
@@jefforyrichardson9479 And there were several hot dog vendors that completely sold out on July 1st as well. Where's the attention to detail?!
You are correct. Buford had them dismount in a withdrawing skirmish line. Gen. Reynolds was on his horse and shot and killed.
Yep
Australia became directly involved when the Confederate navy visited in order to repair one of their warships. This led to protests from the Union representative at Melbourne, while the citizenry of nearby Williamstown entertained the Confederates and some Australians joined the crew.
Go Australia, y'all!
Th Russians sent in a naval squadron into NY I think. It was warning to England and maybe France to avoid getting into the war in the Confederacy side too. Consider that the U.S. Civil War was only 6 years after the end of the Crimean War and Russia wanted to get even with the European powers for saving the collapsing Ottomans
That can't possibly be true?
@@Davemurray2880isaindian and you know that for a fact?
@@casedismissed8581 that's why I'm asking the question numnuts, is English your second language?
I enjoyed watching that, great work,thank you!
Meade did a superb job here.
A whole lot of courage to walk across open fields with no way to dodge cannon balls. Just march straightforward and hope for the best.
Awesome film making skills you have, Sir. Thoroughly enjoyable and thrilling to watch your cinematic art. I think as AI gets more and more advanced this art and technology will be very much life like.
Cheers NZ.
Thanks means a lot
The whole battle was an intense bloodbath. Imagine the combat amidst the suffocating heat followed by the rot of battle in the aftermath. Fields and other places where said to be tinged red with blood. Still the battle sure had sharp political ramifications and it can be said the beginning of the end was here.
Wool uniforms and the stink of dead bodies in the heat of July.
5,000 dead horses and mules were left after the armies departed. Gettysburg's population was 2,000. @@paulmicheldenverco1
I absolutely love these videos don’t stop. Maybe next cover the battle of waterloo or maybe Antietem
Thanks I'm glad! Yes these are certainly battles that I am considering making in the future
Great vid, really entertaining! You should do more war explanations with these animations. Very informative
Thanks! Yes true you are right
Buford's was the first Union unit to reach Gettysburg and he saw that slowing the Confederates might deny them the high ground that would give them visibility and add range to Confederate artillery. His troops were cavalry, but fought here dismounted. Their advantage was the repeating rifles which multiplied each man's fire power by a factor of 5. Heth's men still should have rolled over Buford's except Heth dithered, based on Lee's orders to avoid engaging the Union forces until the majority of the army was together. Buford's men held long enough for Reynolds to arrive and the Confederate's chance for favorable ground was lost. The biggest blunder of the battle was Stewart's absence. Lee went into the battle knowing that if he got there first, he could choose the terrain of the battle. If the Union arrived first, on the high ground, He might be able to sweep to the south east at night and get on the road to Washington. But without knowing, he would risk being caught between two Union forces on terrain that was not familiar to him. Washington was only lightly defended and its capture might have encouraged Britain to enter the war, as Britain was suffering a depression without cotton from the southern states. Because Lee didn't know where the Union army was, he lost both favorable alternatives. After losing both possible advantages, Lee should have passed on Gettysburg.
Lee, after the first day, could have swung around the Union high ground and moved directly towards Washington...and then picked better ground on the way, to meet what would be THEN pursuing Union Army
I was wondering who’s Stewart and then I realised you meant to say Stuart.
@@krismurphy7711 The Pipe Creek Plan.
IF Lee moved fast enough he could have gotten "ahead" of Meade on the way to DC. There was no deception at Gettysburg. I always think of Washington evacuating away from New York and deceiving the British. If I was Lee, I would have declared victory on Day 1 and then kept marching....and finding a better spot to dig in and let Meade attack....or just make a run for DC
@@montarakid1943
Grew up in Pennsylvania, have been there probably 5 times, your summary is very good. I think if you look at the big picture the South was run by the Virginians and centered on protecting Richmond. Big picture, the siege at Vicksburg was more important. Losing that cut the South in half losing control of the Mississippi. In fact Lee’s idea was pressure the North and force them to back off Vicksburg by attacking in the North. Gettysburg is such a beautiful place like much of Pa. especially in the fall , hard to comprehend the carnage there when the streams ran red from the blood shed by so many.
New sub. I have loved Napolean Total War and others. This is great and professional content! Inspiring.
Thanks a lot 😊
I think Pickets charge was a mistake
Brilliant, really enjoyed that thank you! Hope TW series covers ACW at some point!
Thanks I'm glad, so do I, I think it would be a really interesting time period to cover
Great entrainment for the holidays!
Great vid mustve taken ages to put together!
Cheers
Very well done indeed!
Thanks 😊
A lot of musket stroking going on there!!
Superb.
I think this should be Bufords Union cavalry encountered the forward elements of AP Hills infantry. Heth assumed it was militia at first, so piecemeal Heths brigades were fed into the battle. The Cavalry held until Reynolds union infantry came onto the field. So despite Lees orders to not start a major engagement, the battle started.
Some aspects have not been included, to make the video shorter and easier to make. Look at pinned comment
My buddy (retired history teacher Mr. Wilson) and I found the grave of John William Hart a Medal of Honor winner on July 2 1863. He was one of six volunteers who charged a log cabin full of Confederate sharp-shooters near Devil's Den and compelled them to surrender. He is buried in a cemetery in Cumberland Md. The Union and Grant gained another great victory on July 4 1863 by capturing Vicksburg. It was downplayed because of the coincidence of it happening on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
It took a lot of guts for those men (both sides), to stand there, maybe 50/60 yards apart and just let the other army shoot at you; without trying to take cover behind anything.
Conveys the brutality and desperation of those battles.
Thanks glad you enjoyed
No. BG John Bufords's cavalry fought dismounted. As most cavalry fights did.
While correct about it being America's deadliest battle, it was not the _largest_ ; Fredericksburg certainly saw more men engaged in fighting, and Chancellorsville at least saw as many men, if not more, than at Gettysburg.
Yes you raise a good point, I definitely want to cover these in the future though
Lee said if he had Stonewall Jackson he would have won Gettysburg . I agree . Ofcourse Stonewall was killed by one of his own men , by mistake at Chancellorville .
He was blind without cavalry. Lee also failed to listen when Longstreet objected to his idea for Picketts Charge. If alive, unless Jackson talks him out of this charge, the CSA troops still get decimated. That charge was a horrible decision strategically and tactically.
Antietam holds the record as worst day in our history.😢
Madness.
I've been to this battlefield before it's the only one I've been to I remember being on little round top looking into devil's den seeing a union trooper looking at me i went down to see him but he was gone I don't know if it was a ghost or not but it sent chills down my spine
R.i.P. Soldiers🌹🌹🌹
I was there! Remember the Titans #14
Buford's cavalry had the new Spencer Carbines, Breech Loading, not muzzle loading. Plus they DISMOUNTED before engaging...there was no way for his small cavalry force to charge a numerically superior enemy.
You need to keep consistent in these portrayals. You have Union forces attacking left to right then right to left. Confederate forces moving right to left, left to right, then right to left again. This is 2024, computer graphics will do whatever you tell them to do with one click. I’ve noticed this in your other battle imaging too. Figure this shit out.
The dragoons should have been dismounted. It's possible with ETW/NTW.
Like watching a movie.really good video.all are
This conflict was the birth of enduring American military doctrine: combining effective leadership and overwhelming firepower.
Have we got our history right? I always was taught that Antietam was the largest loss of American life in history
Largest single day loss. Gettysburg was 3 days long.
Had Lee had some of his cavalry or more in troops deployed ahead there, they might have secure better position in the first day forcing the Union to do most of the attacking.
Had Lee had ANY of his cavalry at the start of the engagement he would have had a clearer picture and better intel of the Union forces disposition. His cavalry General JEB Stuart was away from the army trying to win fame and glory by riding around the entire Union army. His selfishness at that moment in history deprived Lee of his eyes and helped seal the Confederates fate.
While the scale of the casualties and the artillery bombardment was great is would have paled in comparison to the battle of the Somme in WW1. On the first day alone there were over 60,000 allied dead and wounded. Before the attack on the German lines the British and French guns pounded the German lines for hours with hundreds of guns, but its not the number of guns that is important, it must be taken into account the fact that the guns would have been firing shells that were far more powerful than anything in the American civil war.
With no maps showing army movements, this is all bling.
The Union and Confederate armies counted casualties differently. A wounded Confederate that was treated and then immediately sent back to his unit wasn't listed as a casualty. In the Union army it would have been counted.
Ohh!!
The Humanity!!
😢
Wait, it was seminary ridge not cemetery, It was on cemetery hill that Pickets charge occurred, my ancestor fight in this war.
9:53 So this is Fog of War?
I thought that it was Custer's cavalry charge that stopped Stewart.
True but that was on day 3. Pickett had already been repulsed.
Custer and Stuart did fight but it was just cavalry skirmishes and not a significant part of the battle. They were both guarding the flanks and supply wagons. Stuart had alread screwed Lee out of pre battle intel by his absence. He was glory hunting miles away from Gettysburg when they really needed him. Lee ripped his butt and sent him to guard the flanks.
Custer and his Michigan Brigade were part of the East Cavalry Field fight, there were other units engaged, but Custer's courageous charges, in front of his men and sometimes far out in front, were a big part of inspiring all the Cavalry forces. They handed Stuart's larger force of "the Invincibles" its first real defeat. Though Stuart had no orders to do so, knowing him, it's certainly possible that, if he had driven the US Cavalry from the field, he would have continued on and swept up behind the US troops from behind, as Pickett's division was attacking. I've heard very knowledgeable historians differ as to the importance of the East Cavalry Field fight. Some believe it was basically a footnote to the battle, while others believe it was significant to the outcome. Regardless, it was huge to the morale of the US Cavalry, because they had proven they were good enough to defeat Stuart's Invincibles. Before then, the US Cavalry had been used primarily for scouting and for escorting supplies and dignitaries. They had proven they were a force to be reckoned with in their own right.
Honest Trailers voice!
the Battle of Antietam was America's bloodiest battle
Right, and McCellan let Lee escape because they were West Point friends, he could have destroyed Lees Army and Lincoln was furious
@@zaurakdigis Lee didn't attempt to "escape". He could command troops in his sleep better than McClellan could wide awake. Little Mac was scared to death of Lee and that made him too cautious. For example, Lee sent in his entire force into battle and Mac committed less than 75% of his in a piecemeal fashion. He could have won a great victory if he wasn't so cautious. AP Hill's division arrived after a forced march from Harpers Ferry and halted Burnside's advance.
@@ronlackey2689 well, you say yourself McCellan could have defeated him easily. Escape or retreat is there a difference, it is true commanders on both sides were friends at West Point.
Bloodiest one day battle. Gettysburg was fought over three days
At any rate or version of events, Lincoln was furious and fired McCellan
To think, this civil war was mainly thought over the right to have slaves or not.... craaaaazaaaay
It's a little more complex than that.
@ronlackey2689 that was one of the main arguments in this war. Pro-slaves, Pro-Abolishment! (As all wars there's more but that was one of the arguments, craaaaazaaay!)
Are you serious? If the South had freed all of their slaves and seceded, Lincoln still would have attempted to reunify the country through force. Look up the Corwin Amendment, the War Aims Resolution of 1861, the Hampton Roads Conference, etc. Hell, some Union stats had more slaves than many Confederate states. The Union did not fight the war to emancipate slaves. No serious history would contend otherwise. No a single abolitionist received a vote from a Northern state in the 1860 election.
Read a book. Even Washington D.C. allowed slavery.
All of the Confederate States mentioned slavery prominently in their Articles of Secession, all of them. Many, if not most, of the common soldiers had few if any slaves, they were too poor. Slavery was, however, important to the politicians and wealthy men who influenced the politicians. Once again, rich and powerful men started the war, and poor men fought it.
@@retriever19golden55 read the War Aims Resolution and the Corwin Amendment. The North did not fight to emancipate slaves. If the South seceded and emancipated everyone, the North still would’ve invaded the South. Indisputable fact.
humans still had a long way to go in their evolutional development phase, especially the Americans!
Are you using the Honest Trailers Epic Voice guy as an AI voice? holy shit this AI is getting out of contorl LMAO
This video seems to have missed one important detail. Who won?
Yes true, this was a decisive Union victory
Ask Ken, he was there, he's in the movie!
But Early was late!
US Civil War of 1861-1865 is a continuation of armed conflict over unresolved political issues of their time. According to Major General Carl von Clauswitz to quote: War is the extension of politics by other means, unquote. In terms of strategy and tactics, it's fundamentally Napoleonic in character. Heavy used of single shot long firearm with bayonet firing at densely-pack line formations where infantry assault is supported by wheeled-batteries that fired either solid cannon balls, or canisters; Uniform styles and colors of opponents north and south; Organized in Corps comprising Divisions with Regiments then Battalions that composed of Companies and containing Platoons that had Squads as the lowest tactical unit. While as military necessity dictates the Area or Theater Command was invented to mobilize men tens of thousands and large amount of equipment; centralize authority; coordinate attacks on one large geographical area each is autonomous from the other for maximum efficiency.
Anteitam was America's bloodiest battle.
There were significantly more casualties during the Battle of Gettysburg, Antietam did indeed have the most casualties in a singular day though.
I have this game, how did you get so many troops??
Using the American civil war mod, the mod increases the size of units
@@cinematicbattles559 i know, i had that mod 2 . Your using the ultra setting for unit size but it seems like you have more men than that, maybe im wrong
before that was a failure . Can't remember battle .
Maybe Fredericksburg.
What game is this from or is it a mod
It’s the American civil war mod for napoleon total war
@@cinematicbattles559 very kind of you to reply
I thought Antietam was the bloodiest battle.
Pickett's charge was so stupid. What the hell was Lee thinking?
His men had always risen to the occasion before. He believed they could prevail. Also, the attack should have commenced earlier in the day; the delay gave the US Army more time to prepare. As Longstreet argued, a flanking maneuver would have been more practical. I'm always amazed, especially there looking at the ground, that these men had the raw courage and belief in Lee that they were able to implement that charge, and held together as long as they did, it's mind-numbing. They truly believed God was on their side, but he clearly was not.
@@retriever19golden55 Very well stated.
Meade predicted Lee's action. Therefore, Lee screwed up because he was supposed to be a fox.
This became a buzz saw.
The high water mark of the CSA's strategy to get the Union citizens to give up on the war effort.
To basically just tell their son's and husbands, just come home and let the south be. That actually would never happen with Lincoln who won reelection.
I guess this was all for the best. It got the war over that much. Quicker. Two years later.
Total war mod was this??
Just search American Civil War mod for Napoleon Total War and its the first one that comes up
Where did the Spanish(language) go in Texas?
Is there a gore mod to go with the ACW 2.6 Mod?
Not that I’m aware of unfortunately
I have the Mod, i don't remember the blood splatters @@cinematicbattles559
La guerra de los estados , mas conocida como guerra de secesion , fuè la mas sangrienta que tuvo los estados unidos en vidas se cobrò mas de tres cuartos de millon solo en los campos de batallas , sin contar civiles y desaparecidos
A lot of ram rodding,
i believe Antietam was the bloodiest day?
I thought Antietam, or called Sharpsburg by the Confederates was " the bloodiest battle " .
Very entertaining CGI, but lots of inaccuracies. Buford's men fought dismounted, and not on horseback. Lee ordered Longstreet's attack on the Union left on Day 2 long before Sickles advanced his corps up to the Peach Orchard area and Lee issued no further orders that day once the battle on the Union left commenced. The Peach Orchard and the Wheatfield are not located north of Little Roundtop as indicated, but west of it. The video correctly notes that 4,500 Confederates were going to attack Culp's Hill, which was defended by only 1,300 men under General Greene late on Day 2, but then skips to Day 3 without mentioning that Greene's men repulsed all of the Confederate attacks. Day 3 was presented reasonably accurately, although the number of Confederates in Pickett's Charge is believed to have been more than just 12,000, probably more like at least 13,000.
Thanks man, it’s difficult to do some of the exact details as it’s just a game and things don’t always work the way I want them to👍
Bet this is Putins favourite CZcams video
Antietam was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
There were significantly more casualties in the Battle of Gettysburg however both were devastating
Antietam was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War, in American History as well, with roughly 25,000 casualties. Gettysburg was the bloodiest single battle at 50,000 casualties over 3 days.
@@vaesel7146 " The two armies suffered between 46,000 and 51,000 casualties. Union casualties were 23,055 (3,155 killed, 14,531 wounded, 5,369 captured or missing), while Confederate casualties are more difficult to estimate. Many authors have referred to as many as 28,000 Confederate casualties, and Busey and Martin's more recent 2005 work, Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg, documents 23,231 (4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded, 5,830 captured or missing)..." - Gettysburgpa.gov
Antietam was the bloodiest single day battle.
Pretty stupid to try to attack an enemy holding the high ground. After the first wave they should have regrouped. Fight another day.
Man i do wish i had this mod but last time i installed a mod i accidentally broke my ui by misclicking
You’ll easily be able to download this, just delete napoleon and try again, if you need help let me know
Ill let you know then@@cinematicbattles559
I havnt done modding in a while so i think i need some help xD@@cinematicbattles559💀
I thought 1/6 was the largest battle in history…
Hi
I think the king Phillip war had more casualties 🤔
The Confederacy needed this win, as they had British observers who said Great Britain would recognize the Confederacy as both a country and a government. They also needed a win because the Confederacy had trouble recruiting men as the desertion rate was high in the Confederate South. The Confederacy created Conscription Laws, but this in turn created civil unrest within the South, and anti-conscription/pro-Union groups popped up everywhere in the South. Local Home Guards in the Confederacy were tasked with apprehending deserters, but this proved to be futile. Jefferson Davis knew a win at Gettysburg may in fact involve Great Britain ending the war and ending Conscription Laws, which made him unpopular within the Confederate Government.
Ο αμερικανικός εμφύλιος ήταν ότι το χειρότερο στην ιστορία των ΗΠΑ εθελοντές πήγαν και από τις δύο πλευρές.
Lincolin the First Republican President!
these simulations ALWAYS portray far too many individuals in the massed forces.
Wasnt Franklin the blodiest battle?
Largest artillery barrage the western hemisphere had ever seen? Don't think so. At the third day of the Battle of Nations, the allied forces attacked Napoleons positions with 300.000 men and 1400 cannons.
Western hemisphere
Leipzig lies east of the prime meridian, meaning that It is not in the western hemisphere
@@cinematicbattles559 Leipzig is in Germany.
Yes Germany is east of the prime meridian meaning Germany is in the eastern hemisphere
why do you say some names may be mispronounced due to AI??!! Mistakes ok then are they? DON'T use it, simple remedy
Still whining
@@vargthevast it's called criticizing, historical facts are there to be reported as accurately as possible, as education, otherwise don't bother. Sorry if unwanted
@@brianbanks703 erm actually🤓☝️ is what you’re doing. Stop whining over mispronunciation, it’s AI voice. It can’t do everything, does that effect anything? No people are still entertained and used there brain to figure it out. God do you have balls Brian? Feel between your legs or push them out of your stomach.
@@brianbanks703 but also cry more, it’s funny
Shame it went the Wrong way.. To bad they cuddnt set up a Bigg drive in type movie screen? & See into the Future! Wbere we are today? They May have crossed to the Middle of the field & Shook Hands? Just a thought...😊
They weren't content fighting the indians so they had a go
At each other!
Educate yourself please
There was plenty of "Indian" fighting going on at the same time (look up Little Crow's War in Minnesota), but *not* in Pennsylvania.
No Stars and Bars Battleflags.Political correctness strikes again.
The Stars and Bars was the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, not of the Confederacy. Notice that Pickett's Virginia troops were carrying the Stars and Bars in this video. Other states, and individual units, had their own flags. There was no designated flag of the Confederacy. If you're going to glorify the (very) short-lived CSA, learn something about it.
Lincoln and Putin have a lot in common. Both invaded and waged a war against those that wanted their independence under the guise of, "preserving the Union".
The Confederacy had attacked and seized a number of Federal armories well before Fort Sumter. Those were acts of war. Lincoln had little choice but to respond in kind.
"Never fart uphill, me boys!" - Donald Trump, Professor of History, Trump University
This film is bull crap
Cheers man🥰
Grest
This vid blows DOG!.................where is Super Mario when ya need him?......keep yer day job there skippy!......
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"If ya can't say nothin' nice, don't say nothin'!" Thumper, quoting his mama, in Bambi.