The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
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- The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 comprises two documentaries in one! Part one vividly recounts the months-long military campaign along the Shenandoah Valley. Part Two presents an intimate behind-the-scenes look of the massive 130th anniversary reenactment, staged in May 1994 in Memphis, Tennessee. Long unavailable, now you can experience this classic title from the Wide Awake Film's library.
This film is part of Wide Awake Films' Classic Collection. These films were produced by Wide Awake Films and were available for purchase on DVD. They've since been digitized and made available in full on CZcams for your viewing pleasure. Please enjoy.
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Drove through the Valley heading up to Antietam and then Gettysburg in JUN 2010. I had just returned from a combat tour in Afghanistan. That was ONE HELL OF A MONTH LONG TRIP. Virginia to NY. Great memories.
I’m a combat infantry veteran. 11b. 2-22 infantry 10th Mountain.
I live outside of Harrisburg PA just 30 miles North of Gettysburg. If you ever want to get back up to Gettysburg and want a pretty airtight battlefield tour message me on this.
I am the Infantry.
I am the Queen of Battle.
My bayonet…on the wings of power…
keeps the peace worldwide.
And despots, falsely garbed in freedom’s mantle, falter…hide.
My ally in the paddies and the forest…
I teach, I aid, I lead.
FOLLOW ME!
And Semper Fi to you.
Thank you for your service,
I did the reverse trip NYC to Virginia, taking in Gettysburg, the wildernesses and Manasass, you can really feel something at these fields of glory.
This why love this hobby, I been reenacting for 16 years. The people in the hobby are very good people, and you make life long friends.
It is I believe a most noble pursuit of truth and realism, reenacting that is. They recreate these tragically beautiful and horrific extreme events of human experience. Animals too. Without them there would be no profound, magnificent documentaries such as this. A visual art form that makes other visual art seem trivial in comparison. It should be recognised and revered.
@@monumentstosuffering2995 Thank you for your appreciation for what we do, it time, passion, love, money and research and effort to do what we do. We try re create the period and give the public what it was like to live in this period.
Great documentary, good presentation, gives a detailed account, tells the truth, and gives due respect to both sides. Just fantastic.
Sheridan was the missing puzzle piece for the Union forces. There was General Grant, General Sherman, the great Cavalry officer General Sheridan. This Triple Threat was something the Confederacy could not overcome
It was mostly the numbers they couldn't overcome.
@@stonewalljackson5692 Whatever. They get no pity from me. They are the ones who wanted to keep people enslaved. They got what they deserved.
I know what you're thinking. No, I'm no SJW and will be voting for the orange man. The Confederacy with it's slavery had to be dealt with for this nation to go on.
@@stonewalljackson5692 I completely agree. However, the south (especially in the beginning) had as much trouble finding qualified officers to lead their army as the north did.
Both sides had some complete bozos in command (again, at the beginning of the war especially.) At the beginning of the war. There were VERY few officers that had commanded more than a battalion of troops under fire, even fewer that had commanded at the battalion, regimental, and brigade levels of command and still fewer at the division and corps level.
Finally. More to your point, the south could not replace their most valuable commodity.... manpower. The south three men into the meat grinder of battle just as bad as the north did and could not replace the fallen whereas the "damned Yankees" could and did.
Had the south been able to supply and resupply their armies like the yankees.... it is my belief that no nation or army could have come close to defeating the rebs.
@@stonewalljackson5692if it was so obvious then they never should have started the war.
@@stevestringer7351the south was outthought and outfought.
Don’t start what you can’t finish.
Thank you for all your enthusiastic hard work. I'm in Yorkshire UK a passionate historian. learning and understanding the back ground to present and historical events, social, economical, and cultural backgrounds. Thank you.
My Paternal Grandmother's Father was 13 years old at the Battle of Shenandoah. He was a messenger for General Early.
He was horribly burned and crippled for life trying to get through a burning covered bridge on horseback.
What a wonderful and most important channel. Thank you. Inspirational.
At about 1:25 is most awesome and grim. The best opening I have ever seen.
Praise the Union!
Federal government is always wrong. Same as today, tyrants.
Interesting documentary. I always like to come across documentaries on the civil war.
I always wondered how the south bested the north repeatedly until I saw the 7' long map with every house river,stream, ford,road and hill on it. No wonder with that kind of information available that they maximized their forces!
I remember a article in American Heritage Magazine several years ago that stated the 3 Union Generals most responsible for the Union victory were Grant, Sherman and Sheridan.
I would add General George Thomas to that list. He ended the CSA Army of Tennessee at Franklin and Nashville.
If Lee had had half as many more men and equipment, the north would never have won this war against the Conferates.
my personal opinion! But what an absolute treasure this channel is that I just found! Wonderful
If Jeff Davis had listened to General Patrick Cleburne and emancipated the slaves if they fought for the South, they would have had the men. The rich planter class determined politics and doomed the South.
Grant kicked lees a$$
@@liberalman8319 We know that today! No surprise
I think Sheridan is the 2nd best cavalry leader, next to Bedford Forest, of the Civil War. I would even rank him above J.E.B Stuart. He was by far the best by the final year of the war.
Forrest is completely overrated.
Love it.
Family owned Blue Ridge Produce been farming and doing business in Sperryville since 1750s and still farming the bull run Mts
It’s a hobby of mine to study modern warfare, my lineage come from south of the border and consequently some European due to the conquest that happened in the early 1500s. Reason I’m mentioning this, is that when we read about thousands who died in battle, numbers are so large and as horrible as the losses were in the civil war, I try not to imagine the horrors that occurred in the 1500s when millions of my ancestors were slaughtered. The numbers are just beyond imagination.
The most American indians were killed by the contegiouse illnessess! The American continents had very few contigous illnessess, but the European and African people brought the contigouse illnessess.
Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Measles, Tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, Malaria, Mumps, Plague, Etc.
In the Mississippi valey the indian culture was killed by the illnessess before the American settlers!
The Measles is low dangerouse below 20 years old, but high death percentege illnessess above 20 years old. In the XVIIIth Century in the Faroer Islands were free from Measles and the people were not immunis so about 25% of the people dead in Measles, but the kids and young lived!
It is also a bit of a myth that organized scorched earth tactics were a new form of warfare. As I sure I don’t need to tell you, European settlers and soldiers used these tactics in early conflicts with native populations of the Americas, and they in return. Burning crops and other means of production are as old as war itself. Hell the Russians did it to themselves in order to starve out Boney and his Grande Armee in 1812.
We must never forget the sacrifices made here.
Amen
Problem was, according to my great grandfather, the CSA would not pay for anything. The troops were supposed to find food, shelter, guns/ammo, by themselves. He started out as a Captain with Stuart, lost his horse at Gettysburg, and then was told to walk the rest of the way.
Interesting. The Confederate calvary and artillery used their personal horses for the most part. Replacement mounts were secured through purchase, capture, requisition and "finding" suitable mounts.
The army was supposed to be supplied by the government.... however, their was so much "me,me,me" going on within the southern states that much supplies and equipment was withheld, lost or never aquired.
As we all know, the south was an almost ENTIRELY agricultural society. There were very few factories, ship builders, arms makers, railroads, etc in the entire south. The agricultural might of the south was, for the most part, centered on "cash crops". Much of the food grown in the south was for personal consumption. Most of the larger planters were interested in making money rather than feeding the army or another state.
So, the big downfall of the confederacy was that there was no unified effort to actually found a new nation. There were no great statesmen leading the cause. They were all too busy boasting of "honor" and "glory" and their own personal interests.
Now, of the south had waited to fire on fort sumpter say maybe 10 years in order to build the necessary infrastructure they might have had more of a chance. Also, they should have freed the slaves before the first shot was even fired. I believe that this would have shown their sincerity in forming their new nation.... also, this would have been an easier sell to other nations of the world who might have seriously considered support of the Confederacy..
Sorry for the "dissertation". I too have a passion for history (civil war especially). I have basically spent my entire life studying it. To be honest, that war still makes no sense to me. It should not have happened.
None of this would be history if it wasn't for the Union's greed for REVENUE TAX MONEY, and Dixie supplied 70% of the Union Treasury before secession.
@@stevestringer7351 Because the war was manufactured. When you take the truth off the table, and try to figure things out, you have no chance. Put it back on the table, and it is obvious what happened.
@@stevestringer7351This is the inherent flaw in trying to wage a war as a CONFEDERACY and why federalism eventually won out in early US governance. You just cannot run a country, let alone a war effort, without some centralization of command.
@@Zarastro54so much for the states right theory.
I know there's no way to change it now, but *9:05 "Monasee" is actually pronounced "Muh-knock-uh-see" and spelled Monocacy.
Thanks for letting us know! We always want to be as accurate as possible.
I caught that too!
One soldier has a Henry lever action repeater rifle .
Must be a rich guy.
15:14
Sheridan had asked Grant for as many Henrys as Grant could spare. They made a difference.
Replicas of the original Henry Repeating Rifle are still available to buy today. A replica in .44 Mag. caliber costs new $1,125.
That was the first reenactment that I participated in. I was with the U.S.V. under command of Colonel Dana Heim.
35:45 what a beautiful confession by the single mother how she loves coming to these events as a civilian reenactor and her kids are taking care of by all the wonderful male role models
"There's no phones...ah, halcyon days of yore...
That intro music and imagery starting at about
Early had 16,000 men that is a full confederate corps in three divisions not one division as it states in the documentary.
If you watched the explained it all, you are cherry picking an early line.
That was the first reenactment I participated in. The U.S.V. under command of Colonel Dana Heim.
how can you misprounoune "Monocacy"?
Maps? Maneuvers?
Confederates were fighting to preserve and expand African American slavery. Read Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens "Cornerstone Speech " made in March of 1861. Read Edward Bonekemper's book " The Myth of the Lost Cause". Read also Garry Gallagher's insightful works on the Civil War.
I like Dr. Gallagher too. However, you do know that the northern "fight to end slavery" only came about to stop foreign intervention on the behalf of the Confederacy. Lincoln said that he had no desire to end slavery where it existed. He also said that those that states in rebellion where slavery was legal could keep their slaves (of they re-joined the union) .... this was the foundation of the emancipation proclamation. Hell.... there were union states that kept theornslaves until they outlawed it across the nation. (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island also had a long history of slavery.) (Wikipedia).
Now, I too take a very dim view of slavery.... however.... my question is..... if the majority of the United States were anti-slavery..... why wasn't it outlawed BEFORE the civil war?
Of course, we all know that the ones that were making all the money during the time are the ones that "allowed" and even called for the war to even happen in the first place. The rich planters that depended on slave labor to plant and harvest their cash crops are certainly to blame..... however, they were doing building with a lot of rich yankees who (believe this or not) were just as dependent on slavery for their riches as anyone.
Finally, most of the men who fought for the union didn't care one way or another about the "rich man's war"... they 9nly knew about "the poor man's fight." And of course, the poor, ignorant dirt farmers who barely scraped by to feed his family didn't own any slaves..... the slaves (in many cases) are better than they did!
No, you have been brainwashed. They left the Union because the North was attempting to dictate to the South on the issue of slavery. The war was the North attempting to use force to deny the South leaving the Union. The south had already left, so without war, the Union was screwed. They needed war to force them to stay. They fought to "preserve" the Union, so to speak. The South fought for the right of self determination. Slavery was tacked on later by Lincoln as an issue when the war was not going good, and they needed a cause, because they had none.
“The North was attempting to dictate to the South on the issue of slavery.” How can you literally admit this then deny that slavery was the primary cause? The double-think of lost causers is truly astounding. As YOU said, the only “self determination” that was under threat was the ability to own slaves.
Maps? I seen enough "bad" Civil War Re-enactments. More info would have been nice....
We need to be able to see and hear all history knowledge of the civil war and how it's us to day for all Americans have have come over the future ours please and I hope that works people are strong person and blessed with people who are the most highs and the good Americans.
The piece that came America is still spirit of Truth for my own place within America how's the free black man with all of the black and white and red make the truth of the American people remember the soccer place within the hour of the world
12 min of information in a one hour video. Tedious and soooo slooow
HOW do they simulate smoke and noise from guns
Powder, but no shot.
the narrator mispronounced Monocacy at 9:05 mark,
I've often found that this is one of the hardest words to pronounce to non-Maryland native Civil War "scholars"
What happened to the 2nd half? The content went to video about reenacting and never got back to the Shenandoah Valley campaign. Poor video! Mislabeled. Find something else to watch!
And a Russian fleet protected northern ports !!! anyone know that ?
If you can ask a "resident of the valley in 1864" a question, you might want to talk to a psycharitrist first.
The bias doesn't even try to hide
A few maps would have been nice.
😢
42:00 --- News flash! If these guys actually wanted to fight, there is a real army today that could join... These are just wanna be people playing children games. And that is ok...But don't say they want action... This is a game where no one gets hurt...
En castellano hablado 😡😈🇨🇱
custer , when he outnumbered enemy was ok
glad he got slughtrered
Thank you for your service General Phil Sheridan. Fighting for the USA against those traitors trying to destroy America.
Wrong. They weren't trying to destroy America.... they were just trying to take the part they owned and do what they wanted to do.
You are a product of the American education system, well done. Lmao!
Battle of Winston- 8000 Southerns v. 30,000+ Yankees- that's No proud victory!
I thought the johnnies could whip the Yankees 12 to 1. Guess not.
I think this film is very weak. The scripting is awful. And the waaaay too long "battlefield scenes and very damaging to the effectiveness of the film.
typical of north ,when shiveraly fails be a bastard
That black woman hears voices. Lol. Not something anyone would brag about these days.