The 10 WORST Generals of The Civil War - Unhinged Past Reaction
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McClellan didn’t make the worst list, he merely failed to make the best
Ah yes, a person of culture (I'm sure the joke is old by now, please don't kill me)
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"dude...uncool" - Mcclellan after getting fired by Lincoln, 1862.
Lmao oversimplified
@@Tuck5653”I didn’t fail to be the worst I merely didn’t try”
I 100% believe this civil war video is from a low effort AI channel.
I was thinking the same thing. All the mispronunciations give it away
This was my first thought as well.
At least we can get VTH’s reactions and commentary.
@@debrickashaw9387 mispronunciation, lack of focus on topic, Filled with Generated images and video clips of the wrong people. 100% indicates This video was created by a person in another country who doesn’t know the subject and put an article they found online through an AI voice generator.
Yea only a few minutes in and my thought exactly.
VTH is by far (in my totally unbiased opinion) the best history CZcamsr on this platform. This man is the sole reason why history is my favorite subject.
I 1000% agree
I literally watched every reaction he ever did at least 5 times even the one where he combined his reaction to the french, America and russian revolution in one video, even though i watched them separately i still enjoyed it
He's definitely in my top 10. Probably even my top 5. Mr. Terry as well.
@@Spartan265Mr. Terry is fantastic but there's just one thing for me about him.
He often pauses where he shouldn't or talk before the narrator finishes their point, and sometimes talk over the video and miss some important things being said
Still he provides very good points and opinions and does a good job explaining all sides of the story while also talking about controversial topics,
One of my favorites as well but he just lacks the content creator style a little bit
Just my opinion though don't crucify me...
Couldn't agree more 💯
He is in my top 5 and I found this dude less then a year ago. He reviews some of my other favorites so it's a win win
That entire original video feels like someone asked ChatGPT " give me a list of the 10 worst civil war generals and why" and then had the result narrated by a AI voiceover bot. Very strange video.
That thought occurred to me as well.
That’s exactly what I thought.Too many obvious mistakes that would’ve been caught by a human that did the level of research this video required.
@@VloggingThroughHistory I have a question about Dan Sickles. Was his decision to move forward at Gettysburg the reason Devil's Den was defended by Union troops? Or was Devil's Den already entrenched?
VTH had talked about it in his various Gettysburg videos and his reaction vid on Historymarche's Chancellorsville vid.
Basically at Chancellorsville, Sickles had Confederates on a higher ground opposite him who rained fire on his men. So at Gettysburg, when he saw the higher ground beyond his assigned position, he wanted to get it to not repeat Chancellorsville.
@@VloggingThroughHistoryAuthor of original video made a comment on it.
See? This is why you're the best. This is what you do. You didn't just "eat lunch" with someone else's video in the background. You broke it down, added to it and made it more fun. You're also, clearly, the civil war boss with all the corrections you made. Good stuff!
Hello there! Unhinged Past's author is here.
Thanks for the reaction to my video, I wrote down some tips for improving my content. Thanks for the criticism though. Obviously, I cannot make a perfect video from scratch but I am constantly trying to improve the quality of my content. For instance, I don't use AI pictures anymore, I admit that they sometimes look awful but with the help of AI, I'm more trying to create an image that fits the narrative rather than a historically accurate image. There are not many photos of some less famous generals on the Internet, so sometimes I have to use AI. The same thing with mispronunciation and various mistakes. I always read the comments and try to avoid these things in new videos. It was interesting to hear your comments. Have a nice day!
Respect to you for taking the criticism so well.
Hopefully @VTH sees this
Thanks for acknowledging this! Yeah it was confusing at first!
@Unhingedpast ai is good for ideas and scripts (sometimes) but always remember to double check!
I wish our host would quit interrupting the film and let us watch…
We all know general Chris Mowery from VTH gaming is the best civil war general.
Or second to Grant.
McClellan's not the worst, he merely failed to be the best.
I didn’t die I merely failed to live
He didn’t lose, he merely failed to win
McClellan can't be the worst, he pretty much invented the Union Army in the east. You have to give him credit for that at least.
@@josephhewes3923for sure. On my list the two worst generals on either side are Ben Butler and Bragg. U.S. Grant in my opinion was the best strategic Union commander but he is too underrated while Robert E Lee who I respect and admire for his US Army career prior to the war and is command of the Army of Northern Virginia who I consider the best tactical commander in the Confederate Army is too overrated. However I think Lee and Grant were more like great leaders not great generals. I remember when in one of his videos Chris was saying that George Washington in his opinion was a great leader but not great general, I agree with him on that.
@@arlonfoster9997Yeah, McClellan wasn’t a great tactician. But he certainly was a logistical mastermind amongst his peers.
The fact McClellan didn't win the battle of Antietam despite having Lee's battle plan, which caused the continuation of the Civil War and an additional 400,000 deaths, is the reason I feel he was the WORST general!!
Especially since he didn’t dedicate a full quarter of his men to battle and effectively let Lee go and could have inflicted a major blow to southern morale or ended the war
@clintlewis8122 McClellan had a good reason to hesitate in this case. When you find your opponent’s battle plans, you’re going to ask yourself “was I meant to find this?” “Is this an enemy ruse?” McClellan sensibly waited until he’d found one of his officers who recognized the signatures of the Confederate officers on the plans, confirming that they were genuine. But yes, McClellan was not a great field commander.
The Yankee army couldn't beat the ANV at that point in the war even with the Confederate battle plan. They weren't that good. Just a lot of them, like locust.
McClellan should have won the war during the Pennisula campaign.
I don’t really blame him for that. It easily could have been a trap. Hind sight is 20/20, today we know the plans were real, but McClellan would’ve had no way of knowing whether they were legit, or a ruse at the time. Both sides had spies, and intelligence divisions that definitely could’ve cooked something like that up. I guess the old adage is true. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky, than to be good. Except in this case, he was lucky, and it still didn’t help him lol.
This is an example of why Chris is an awesome human and what makes this channel so special. He ends the video saying “make of it what you will… it gave us something interesting to talk about” instead of bashing the creator for poor fact-checking, lack of attention to historical detail etc.
Chris, you are an awesome human.
It was also awesome to meet you in London.
As a Minnesotan i will always put Sickles on this list for what happened at Gettysburg
If Sherman had known it was Polk he would not have fired. Polk was a great asset for the north.
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Daaaaamn that’s brutal but true.
The second you said "Band of Brothers" when talking about McClellan, two words instantly popped into my head "Captain Sobel"
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My favorite Bragg story was when he was stationed at fort as a young lieutenant and was given two assignments: Quatermaster of the fort, and an infantry officer. He wrote letters to himself requesting suppplies for his men, only to turn around and reject his own requests. He complained to his superiors that he wasn't allowing himself much needed supplies.
His CO’s comment was Bragg has argued with every Officer in the Army and now he is arguing with himself.
For many years I was a prosecutor in Philadelphia, where I walked through/under city hall to get home. On the northern end of the building, there is a large statue of McClellan, where tourists often stopped to take pictures (usually, they wanted to know where the Rocky statue was). I would always steer them to the other statue a few feet away, which was Pennsylvania's own, John Reynolds. The analogy of Major Sobel to McClellan is quite apt, I often use that one myself.
I thought McClellans men loved him tho?
I think you are quite right. Unfortunately, being an overly cautious, bad general when it came to actual battles (he was very good at prepping for them) ending up costing a lot more lives by drawing the war out. Sherman, and a few others, had it right, which is you have to make war hell in order to get over with faster.
I suspect Hood's utter ineffectiveness in command of the Army of Tennessee was a combination of the fact that he was promoted above his level of competence (a VERY common occurrence on both sides during the war, especially for the South in the later stages), physical and psychological trauma from both of his severe wounds, and the fact that the only medication available to take the edge off the severe pain the wounds constantly gave him was laudanum, a powerful opium-based painkiller. The euphoria produced by the drug would have further muddled Hood's ability to properly command the army.
That has been discredited multiple times he was sober at Franklin
Vicksburg is amazing. My husband and I were there a few years ago. And when you see how the battle was played out, the ground that the North had VS the South. When you see the big plaque that shows that grant convinced navy personnel to go against orders to help him with a 2 pronged. Attack when you see the setup with where the way the river sat there. It's just brilliant.
When my daughter had a take home test and asked me, she said she had a question. What was the pivotal battle of the Civil War? I told her Vicksburg and the teacher marked a wrong and said Gettysburg period he said Gettysburg turned the war and grant even let the people in Vicksburg. Keep their personal weapons. So it wasn't a big deal period I still argued when I saw him back to school night. I told him no. Gettysburg kept Lee from scooting around North and taking Philadelphia. But vicksburg completely starved out the south by cutting off their supply route through the mississippi. Gettysburg was a bloodbath on both sides, Vicksburg was strategic. End it really damaged the souths ability to continue with the war. When it took the Mississippi away from them period I held firm, my daughter didn't hold it against me that she got marked wrong. But I still to this day. Are you with the teacher.
Gettysburg was flashy &scary( the only battle above the Mason-Dixon) & an attempt to encircle Philadelphia......... But I still believe the Vicksburg was the battle. That doomed the South period when it cut off the Mississippi from them, even though the were raged on for almost 2 years, after Vicksburg. And because of Vicksburg and general grant, the war was no longer winnable after that point for the South period so I believe that was the. Battle the change the war, the pivotal battle
I get the feeling Unhinged History is an AI channel
You are not the only one
Same. The British narration voice and bad use of pictorials and video
Might be a human feeding it the script
Always love watching Vth reacting to civil war stuff, feels like a teacher showing a video in class and explaining it to the class
I agree with you about Hood. I think we also need to consider that Hood was intimately familiar with the units he commanded in Virginia, but was given command of an army that for the most part had known nothing but defeat. It was a completely different beast. He fought like he was still in an army that believed they would win the battle, and not an army that were disillusioned with the war by this time
Peter principle. Hood was an excellent brigade commander, a good division commander, unexceptional corps commander, and utterly unqualified to command an army
I would actually compare Hood (and even more Stonewall Jackson) with George Patton of WWII fame. It's often fantastic to have a cooler head in charge of the whole army, and a subordinate be the 'attack dog', but putting the attack dog in charge of the whole force is asking for trouble. Plus, it's easier for a cooler head of the army to rein in an overly-aggressive subordinate than it is for an aggressive commander to prod a more cautious subordinate.
Recovering from major wounds plus taking laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol) for the pains they caused, could well have taken a toll on Hood's wits and judgement.
I’m 27 now but you have completely rejuvenated my interest in history. I look forward to your uploads every day. Thank you very much
VTH + Civil War content = instant watch. Heated up my lunch just in time.
How does Rosecrans not even get an honorable mention after doing his best Brave Sir Robin impression by boldly turning tail and fleeing from Chickamauga
Because other than that one battle, Rosecrans mostly did OK.
because Chickamauga was his only real blunder. And even then, he handled the battle very well up until longstreet plunged through the gap he ended up accidentally creating. The Tullahoma campaign was brilliant, and Corinth was a good example of how leadership could make the difference in the civil war.
I agree that he didn't make any other major mistakes, but when your one mistake almost gets the entire Army of the Cumberland destroyed, I would say that counts for a lot.
If it wasn't for borderline black magic by George Thomas, Chickamauga could have easily been the biggest debacle of the entire war.
It was Rosecrans's plans that won the Western Virginia campaign (McClellan was in charge so he took full credit.) And Rosecrans's planning for the Tullahoma campaign won Tennessee with limited casualties. His major failings were the battle of Chickamauga and his inability to get along with Edwin Stanton.
"Oh snap. Hey Garfield. Why don't you rally the troops while I go back and prepare some defenses? They'll be inspired to see a chief of staff."
Anytime you do civil war reactions. Your knowledge just oozes from the screen. I LOVE these kind of reactions. I learn soooo much from you Chris
Funny story, the guy who shot Polk, Hubert Dilger, was a German immigrant and something of an eccentric. He personally trained his artillery crews to respond to a series of hand claps and other signals, but they were so accurate and speedy that command didn't say anything about it. Guy won the medal of honor for holding off Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville.
I’ve been watching you for a few years now and have definitely made learning history for my young mind. just a more engaging experience and learning extra fun facts about these topics makes it more appealing, thank you for your work!
Had I been in Lincoln's position (which I do not envy) I would've assigned McClellan to train up the Union armies for the entirety of the war and leave the leading of those troops to qualified individuals, like Grant...
He did a fantastic job rebuilding morale after 1st Bull Run.
McClellan probably would have been fine as General-In-Chief also. He certainly had the organizational skills and was a good strategist. (The Peninsula Campaign was the right strategy for advancing on Richmond.) He just needed someone else to actually command the armies in the field.
Yeah, he could have been put permanently in charge of the defenses of Washington, and then give someone more aggressive the job of pursuing J. Johnston and eventually Lee.
It surprises me that Sherman wasn't moved up the chain of command more quickly and kept in the Eastern theatre, since he was at 1st Bull Run. Maybe everyone just got bad and undeserved press from being there.
@@EddieReischlI mean Sherman did have a mental breakdown while he was in charge of the Army in Kentucky during 1861. That might've held him back for a time. The breakdown actually influenced the Battle of Shiloh as he took no precautions beyond strengthening his picket lines, and refused to entrench, build abatis, or send out reconnaissance patrols. The reasoning behind it was that he'd thought people would think he was crazy again and relieve him.
The problem was that he was WAY too powerful politically, and was publicly undermining the Lincoln Administration and their war effort at every turn. There were legitimate fears of him turning the army that loved him against Washington and taking over as “Dictator”(more in the Roman sense of the term than the 20th century). He was blatantly insubordinate at times, even to the point of slowing down reinforcements (essentially from the outskirts of Washington, where this hypothetical command would be) to a fellow commander, just because he personally wished to see his failure. I can’t imagine a scenario where the EXTREMELY egotistical McClellan is just sitting in Washington going along nicely with whatever they want from him, and keeping his mouth shut about the manner in which the Administration is waging the war and handling it politically(including of course the handling of emancipation and destruction of rebel property). That was HIS army and HE was the chosen savior of the American nation. Let us remember that he ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election as well. So I just don’t see it.
@@jacklang3314 Wow, I'm sorry to hear that, but war makes people do crazy scheiß.
The reason why McClellan might be one of the worst is because he pretty much missed every chance to finish the civil war early.
Had he been more aggressive and actually USED his numerical advantages, he could have ended the war in 1862, saving thousands of lives.
That's my opinion however.
I love this stuff man. Ty for hyping me up again with my love for history.
Great video as always! I’m a History major and I love all your videos. Watching from Thibodaux, Louisiana. Which you probably know as the place where Confederate general Braxton Bragg owned a plantation a few miles north of Thibodaux. Keep up the amazing history content!
Thanks for the review. Highly informative.
Currently reading Grant's memoirs, his description of bragg was funny. Grant is such a Underrated writer I was well surprised by how good his penmanship was.
He did have some assistance from Mark Twain and friend/author Adam Badeau for a while. Though it is generally thought that it was mostly him, and he certainly was a good writer.
@@rockjohnson7980 after reading his military order which were excellently written. Whatever help mark twain did for him, it was only as an editor and fact checker.
This is why I watch your concept you give excellent context on videos that otherwise could misinform
Another fantastic video my friend
I love your reaction videos as they are like a scholarly peer review. Rather than perpetuating wrong information it’s brought to light and hopefully corrected or at least exposed.
21:02 My great grandfather was 12 years older than my great grandmother when they got married after World War II. He was I believe 27, she was only 14. And the same year, she gave birth to my granduncle, and then 3 years later, at 17, she gave birth to my grandfather.
McClellan gets a bad rap. He was not a field commander. He was a staff and logistics officer and he was brilliant at it. He forged the sword that Grant wielded.
I could not have said it better!
Problem was his arrogance and thinking he could lead an army in the field despite his failures.
@matthewdopler8997 arrogant? He complained that he was too late in the Mexican-American war. The guy wanted to fight, and then caught malaria. Wouldn't say he's arrogant. No proof of that.
???? Seriously? He had that great army by virtue of the federal government funding and raising it. He was terrible at every level. He's not the worst because he has Hooker and Burnside in front of him.
Grant was a staff and logistics guy, too, but he was also a great field commander. If McClellan had been more humble, he would've bullied Gen. George Thomas into accepting command, since Thomas was an older war dog and had actually mentored a lot of the Union and Confederate generals at West Point.
Love the content Chris keep it up ❤
I always love hearing you talk about the civil war because I always learn something new
12:28 I served on USS Asheville (SSN-758) with one of Ambrose Burnside’s descendants, Anthony (Tony) Burnside, a Nuke ET.
Already signed up for the Vicksberg tour. Can't wait!
Is your friend from the U I was the one that recommended the channel your reaction was awesome and so was your list keep up the good work
Great video. I agree with your take on John Bell Hood, who I think really confounds any list like this. That gets to a bigger issue of tactical vs. strategic ineptitude, both of which could result in a general being on a list like this.
Great video and love the west brom shirt! :D
Chris you should do your own top 10 worst (and best) Civil War generals video, I love your Civil War content! :)
OMG, finally someone knows why i don't ilke AI art, its horrendous! 😅 they made pope look steampunk pirate or just a pirate
100% agree the AI is hot garbage.
@@jlcm1984 amen!
it's the next evolution of youtube's garbage content
Dude you do a amazing job you have a new subscriber
I can't believe Nathaniel Banks isn't on this list. Confederates nicknamed him "Commissary" Banks because of all the supplies they got from him as he retreated in defeat. The Shenandoah campaign, the Red River campaign in Louisiana. A political general who was Speaker of the House in the 1850s.
He was facing Stonewall Jackson at his dynamic best in the Shenandoah campaign, which mitigates his ineptitude a little. He was bad, though.
Hi Chris. Great video again. Not sure if you have, but if you don’t you should make a video reviewing/recommending your favorite books on the civil war.
1:05 A great opportunity was missed here. The Civil War is NOT just your bread & butter. Its also your coffee & tobacco! Its your hardtack & beans. Its the bonnie blue flag to your dixie! Huzzah! 😆
I suddenly hear the tapping of hardtack.
I've made and eaten hardtack. The word "hard" is no joke.
I noticed the absence of general bloodbath McGrath....
23:45 looks like they tried to frag Bragg
Excellent. Very interesting.
Hurray 👏 love VTH civil war content
I love all the content but since you’re more educated in civil war I really like hearing your thoughts on this specific topic :)
On Bragg: as much as I don’t agree with all the name changing, Ft Bragg deserved to be changed
Hood absolutely deserves his spot there. Even Lee believed he was not fit for Army command.
He was essentially self-medicated to the point of mental stupefaction at Spring Hill where he recalled Gen. Cheatham's force, then just 200 yards away from crushing a small reserve force of Union Gen. John Schofield. That night, Schofield's entire army unified, marched past Hood in the dark and entrenched at Franklin while the bridges over the Harpeth could be rebuilt.
Hood blamed his commanders, and even worse, questioned the bravery of his own soldiers. Nathan Bedford Forrest was so furious he said to Hood, "General Hood, if you were a whole man I would whip you to within an inch of your life!" Hood sent them in needlessly to their deaths, more generals of commanding rank were killed there than any battle in the history of warfare.
I highly enjoy your civil war content
Great review, Chris. Fair and balanced critique. As a double amputee from medical reasons (not blown off and having PTSD), I can tell you it has been a long journey to heal physically, let alone, mentally. There is no way Hood was not affected greatly by his traumatic injuries. His daily struggle to just get dressed to relieving himself would have affected his mind. Perhaps it made him indecisive or the opposite. Regardless, he would not been the same combat leader. But among the worse 10? Not even close.
With Hood, I often think of what Michael Shaara wrote in the prologue to The Killer Angels about Ewell "But he has lost something along with the leg that a soldier often loses with big wounds." I think the same about Hood, and would go so far as to say he would have done much better if not for the wounds.
1) Come on You Spurs
2) I would love to see VTH release his own lists ranking generals. Top 10 Best, most underrated, most overrated, etc.
he was missing more than that according to shelby foote.. his man parts may not have worked anymore and the girl he loved would have nothing to to with him so when he was sent on a suicide mission to try and pull forces away from atlanta what happened was inevitable
@@austinlancaster7982Try reading some history before you post. After the war the man fathered eleven children in ten years including three sets of twins. That part of him clearly worked just fine.
Way to go Chris!!! Hold em to task on the specificity!
That is crazy to know Fort Bragg is named after Braxton Bragg as horrible as he was on the battlefield
Now Fort Liberty after a name change in 2023. Several other bases were also renamed recently.
Just now went and googled Fort Bragg and found out that its name has been changed to Fort Liberty.
I hope someone does a list of the most underrated generals at some point with divisional and lower commanders who didn't get the headlines but capably performed their role (George Henry Thomas, James McPherson, etc.).
Poor Gouverneur Warren and Phil Kearny, too.
Around 1900 my Grandfather married 3 women the oldest was 17. one died, he divorced my GM and stayed with the last one for near 50 years.
This is extremely fascinating.
Great reaction video. My wife always gets annoyed when I point out historical inaccuracies in movies and TV shows; however, it's important that the facts given are, in fact, facts. I appreciate your commitment to historical accuracy. I'll even forgive the fact that you're a West Brom supporter. YNWA. ✌️
With the lack of knowledge of PTSD at the time. I always felt that factored heavily into Hood's later performance. He lost a hand at Gettysburg and later a leg.
IIRC, the only long-term pain reliever available to Hood was laudenum. Being high on a mixture of opium and alcohol would also lead to poor decision-making...
@bludfyre never even considered that factor. Without any drugs I'd imagine the phantom limb pain would be terrible.
Hood was shot in the (wooden) leg while astride a horse. He remarked to a member of his staff, that he was much better suited for that kind of business, after the amputation.
@@bludfyreThough it’s often reported that Hood was addicted to opiates, there is essentially no evidence for that.
My third great grandfather was a Confederate officer at Champion Hill and Vicksburg, so Pemberton ... yeah. Spot on.
Would love to see you rank civil war core commanders explicitly.
Corps Commanders
18:30 the AI art paired with the voice acting of someone that was obviously not an older grizzled man was so cheesy. I shared your confused reaction.
That was nice prelude to Napoleon’s marshals for sure.
I am from Missouri and I have two for ya, Sterling Price and Earl van Dorn
Three minutes into the video and you said precisely what I was thinking about in terms of promotion beyond an officers level of competence. John Bell Hood also struck me as the perfect example of this.
"Well, this guy is a horrible commander, so why not make him my military advisor? What could go wrong?"
- Jefferson Davis, probably
I have been watching Unhinged Pasts content all week! It’s such a brilliant yet undiscovered channel. Please check it out everyone if you are interested in learning what civil war generals thought of one another, and other such interesting topics on the war. Keep
Up the great work brother! God speed!
Grant always goes out of his way to compliment or paint people in best light despite the fact he may not have thought very highly of them… Except Pillow. He crushes Pillow every chance he gets.
Thanks for mentioning Longstreet at Second Bull Run.
Good reaction! I appreciated you correcting the errors in a fairly impersonal way. The pronunciation errors didn’t bother me too much (though mispronouncing Antietam multiple times in a Civil War history video is really something), but getting order of events and mismatched pictures is definitely a sign of lack of proofing. Goes to show that even if you have a somewhat informed opinion you still have to pay attention to the details.
I'm laughing because how many namesake's of military bases are on this list.
McClellan was a great reformer and organizer of the Army. His reluctance to do battle may have had something to do with him being a Freemason who didn't want to wage war against his southern brothers.
Awesome video! Ever thought about reacting to Knowing Better? His video about Japan "playing the victim" is a good watch, and there's plenty of other well-researched historical videos
I think Burnsides is probably the worst one on the list. He doesn't deserve to be on this list at all. I get some of the criticism for Fredericksburg. As he tipped his hand before his logistics were in place. this is largely what lead to that failure. The other thing he is quite often criticized for is the battle of the crater. Which I feel is largely Meads fault. Mead replaced the soldiers who had been selected and trained for the attack.
At least Longstreet in the movie Gettysburg looks more like Hood than the other guy that played him in the movie.
The guy who played Hood was about 40 years too old.
Longstreet was played by Tom Berenger better known for his role in Platoon(1986) and of course for the worst prosthetic in movie history.
Well an AI can come close to pulling off portraits but you'd have to try a couple times instead of getting the first result, seeing it's a pirate, and saying "well this is close enough I'll use it in my video"
I'd love to see VTH and Dr. Alan Harrelson sit down for a discussion on Civil War History. Both are such learned CZcamsrs who really have a way with Historical discourse.
Wow, I missed this one when it came out. This is why AI won't replace VTH!
General Hood was in constant pain after his wounds and became addicted to morphine
Hey, McClellan finally won at something.
He didn't win. He merely failed to lose.
Holy cow the Vicksburg tour sounds cool.
For a controversial suggestion, I would put Robert E. Lee on the list. My reasoning is he completely failed to grasp the strategic situation.
In order to win, all he had to do was not lose and husband his strength.
Sickles didn't disobey Meade, he simply got tired of waiting for Meade to tell him no.
Disagree. He had orders on where to place his Corps. The fact that he requested to move and didn't receive a "no" doesn't free him of responsibility to obey the previous order.
@VloggingThroughHistory Factually, you are correct sir. I was trying to make an unsimplified style, "I merely failed to win" joke, but about Sickles.
In the mind of Dan Sickles, His orders as given had been fulfilled, he never received new orders and once instructed that he was in the wrong, cordially he offered to moved to his original position at which time, his commanding general told him "No, I fear they will not let you".
But that mind of Dan Sickles is a weird place to be.
If you haven't read them, I highly recommend Jim Hessler's books on Dan Sickles, he's one of the most fascinating Civil War characters.
Very good job
From what i understand about Sickles at Gettysburg is that he wanted to clame the high ground of the peach orchard. This stemmed from a previous battle where he stayed in the low ground as ordered and was shelled heavily and he wanted to avoid that at Gettysburg.
And McClellan wanted to take Richmond, but didn't.
we all love vth
Love the West Brom shirt!
Great video as always. I agree with you. I felt like John Bell, Hood, and Ambrose Burnside should not be on that list.. Felt like Burnside got railroaded because of other peoples failures. Keep up the good work.
That's hilarious you brought up Sobel with McClellan. I did the same thing when I wrote a post about why McClellan failed.
civil war content yay!
As a North Carolinian, I will never understand why [previously named] Fort Bragg was ever given that name. I get that was where the army would train for artillery and Bragg was originally an artillery commander, but he was so seemingly unanimously hated. Why not name the base Fort Pender, in honor of William Dorsey Pender? F'ing politics.
Bragg was one of the greatest assets the Union had.
Robert E. Lee had a failing that almost no one faulted him for. When he found he had a lousy general he merely transferred him to someone else. He didn't get rid of the loser, he gave him to someone else. That is not the conduct of a "great" leader or general. Like U.S. Grant I have never held Lee in awe. Sure he was audacious. He did win battles. However, his ratio of dead and wounded southern men was usually worse than Union generals. Instead of giving positive orders Lee issued "wishes" and "desires". I was an officer in the USN and my father was a career army Colonel. I knew many generals growing up and served as a Flag Lt. to a vice admiral. Real flag officers issue clear, hard , orders.
RIP my Aunty Etem
Laughing way too hard at this.
lost me on so many levels. Longstreet. Antietam. David Sickles. Watching this hurt my head.