The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 2)
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The Confederates: THEY'RE GONNA TAKE OUR SLAVES!
Joseph, an Intellectual: THEY'RE GONNA TAKE MY BEANS!
That One Guy On South Park: THEY TOOK ER JERBS!
What if you. wanted to go to heaven.
But god said.
*THEY GONA TAKE MEA BEENS*
He's a Joestar
@@MrBoogamin OH MY GOOOD
Martha: WE’RE GONNA GET RATS!
Me: happy for Lincoln because he is happy
Oversimplified: he then went to see a play
Me: Oh shit
Daniel O’Ray yeah
Not gonna lie, I teared up because I knew what was gonna happen next :(
Daniel O’Ray Same
@@SnowyElephant but if you look in conspiracies, he knew in some way that he is going to die
hello daniel. btw diesel patches is daddy
It's cruel how Lincoln was killed right after his victory. He and his wife had a chance to finally regroup and heal, and that was cut short.
HE MASSACRED THOUSANDS OF NATIVE AMERICANS during before and after
yeah really cruel for john wilkes booth to end lincoln's break from managing an entire war
what an asshole
Really¿?🤨
¡!i
@@MrSlushie6000 Yes, really.
I didn't cry at the end,I merely failed to stop my tears
You and me both! LOL!
McClellan moment
Same with me bro
LOL WE GOT MCCLELLAND HERE
i never cry, just that when im sad, WATER COME OUTTA MY EYES
Fun fact: Grant was supposed to go to the theater with Lincoln, boothe planned to stab him and Grant always blamed himself for Lincoln's death.
damn.... thats actually really sad.
Not just an incedible General. But also an incedible sporting man who wasn't bitter about the war.
I also found it really sad when he blamed himself for that time so many of his soldirs died.
@Lime Green Dude, wtf are you on about? This isn't a Joker review, it's a bomb-ass history video.
@Lime Green nobody cares
Sarcasms Agent he’s a bot
General Grant was in need of back surgery after carrying the entire Union.
Grant was the equivalent to a blue paint brush in MSpaint.
Grant was like the Asian player in a Call of Duty Lobby who carries the entire team.
Could say the same thing about Lee, one can't help but wonder what the outcome would've been if Lee had the same resources as Grant
@@raoshahbakht5679 yeah but I don't really wanna respect a confederate general, do you?
@@Zzzz-jn1xt You can respect someone's accomplishments without advocating for their cause.
Fun fact: the word “sideburns” actually originated from General Burnside’s name!
What do you think they were called before sideburns?
Peripheral flames
@@FlyingCaesar316or maybe partial side beards?
Mutton chops
Similarly the term “hooker” came from, well, hookers that followed General Hooker’s army
Fun story: during WW2 Britain bought some M3 “Lee” tanks from America, but didn’t like them very much, so they modified them and named the new version the M3 “Grant”.
Based limeys
And some of M3 Lee was imported to USSR and used by the red army. But it was very unpopular due to it's poor performance against German weapons, and it earned the nickname "coffin of 7 brothers" given by the Red army
BURN
The Sherman tanks needed more r&d though. Every time one was built it would head toward Atlanta on its own
@@tonyjoestar2632hilarious!😂
Grant is the player who carries the whole team
Would you argue that he and Washington would have gotten along well?
@@cruizy5955 That's an interesting question. On a cultural level, there would be barriers. Grant was born to a family that was only 1-2 generations into the middle class, whereas Washington was from as close to an aristocracy as there was in Virginia colony.
Grant was a salt of the earth kind of a guy. It's true that he inherited slaves through his wife, but he caused a small scandal by doing manual labor with them in his farm. The video also makes his taste for liquor a thing. But he was also easily led by the hand. (His administration is historically remembered as one of the most corrupt, and the word "lobbyist" was wrongly claimed to have been coined during the Grant administration.)
Maybe the greatest difference between Washington and Grant is their military record. Grant's successes were the result of his taking chances, which he could afford to do for the resource and people rich Union. Unlike Grant, Washington lost more battles than he won, often due to lack of resources and low morale. What made Washington brilliant was he had a big picture understanding that Pyrrhic victories for the English, and not strategic defeats, would win the war for the colonies.
As was mentioned in the Revolutionary War video, Washington's strength was he made the most of his advisors--which was a characteristic of the Washington presidency as well. (It also tends to be the characteristic that the most successful blue bloods have in common.) And it also contrasts with Grant--who had the personality of a bold maverick. He was at his best when he stood out of a crowd. Washington was at his best when he brought people together.
Their ideals may also have been different. Washington was shrewd and cynical, which probably permitted him to do immoral things--slavery, adultery, etc. Washington also famously believed the US would not last 20 years under the 1786 Constitution--he believed Civil War was inevitable. Grant was a kind of lazy idealist and only began to sympathize with Abolition in the late 1850s. But Washington was moved by the occupation of Boston, which was when he began to identify with the Revolutionaries. At that point, he believed the colonies finally had a just cause for rebellion.
This is why I think Washington would not have sided with the Confederacy. Washington, mind you an elitist, was reserved and conservative with regard to when a people can revolt from their nation. He would have seen the Confederacy, which seceded before Lincoln was sworn in, as merely criminals.
So I think Washington and Grant's political views would not have separated them, they may have hypothetically brought them together. And I will say that Washington did play favorites in his army, and he favored bolder generals.
My belief is that Washington could have brought the best out of someone like Grant. But their relationship would never have been equals. Washington had a more continent leadership style, whereas Grant had a sensitivity that could be taken advantage of--and probably was what led him to drink. But it is an unlikely friendship that hypotherically could have lasted a long time, despite some huge differences in the men themselves.
@@davewolf6256 Im glad i came to your TED talk
Oh hi USA
@@cruizy5955 LAMO
Grant: carried the team
George: failed to win
Lee: says gg after losing
Joseph: has beans
Martha: is cleaning
We can’t forget Sherman tho. Him and grant carried the war
@@gloriaborger5760 Exactly
@AUser 009 NO
@AUser 009 Fsr I hate this meme
The context of Lincoln's death is so upsetting. I can't imagine Reconstruction being easy but i feel like under Lincoln, it would have gone so much better. The more you learn about the assassination, the sadder it gets. Booth, as an actor, knew Our American Cousin by heart so he intentionally choice to shoot during one of the funniest lines in the play and Lincoln was laughing, so at least his final moments were happy. May his memory be a blessing
Booth, blinded by his quest for some vengeance and glory in the sputtering final years of his life, doomed his countrymen to over a century of strife. Like you said, I don’t think the job was small enough for one man to accomplish in one presidency, but I hope booth is reminded of the consequences of his action every moment of his time in hell, assuming such a place exists for me to lodge such a request.
Sad indeed. Just sad :(
its really tragic though as an Indian I found this history very intriguing except for the wars over stupid things like pigs but I was always in the false thought that america gave freedom to the blacks just after their unification it is very great to know this civil war
American or not, the respect I hold for Lincoln and his close ones is unimaginable
I feel the same. Washington and Honest Abe are probably the most well liked presidents in the US ... everywhere except the south east that is. The best are always those that lead out of necessity or duty instead of lust for power.
@@jeremyrichey4243 Lincoln, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt are the three best Presodents the US has ever seen
They called Grant a butcher, then voted for him to be president in the next election. What winning a war does to your popularity
He also had to mostly carry the Union during the war
@@The_whales lets be fkin honest grant and sherman did 75% of the work
@@joeljustjazzing ye
Not only winning a war, but Lincoln being cowardly murdered made him into a mártir, so elect a harsher in the edges comrade was the expected outcome cause that’s how usually History repeats itself.
Also Andrew Johnson was impeached and not very popular by the end of his presidency, and Grant and his opposition to Johnson was seen as a link to Lincoln and return to the good old days
“I didn’t lose, I merely failed to win”
McClellan 2020
George McClellan *HOW DARE YOU EXIST*
I'm sure you told everyone "Lincoln didn't fire me, he simply told me I failed to stay hired"
Your still alive? It says on Wikipedia you died in 1885
Coco Wang it’s just fakes
@@adawm what does "r/woosh" mean? "im a retard"or someing?
Saying "Long Live the Confederacy" is a slap to the face to the legacy of Lincoln, no matter if it is joking or not. This man fought for our freedom, he should be respected.
*Long Live the Confederacy*
@@Doogalebot12 wow, look who's an edgelord. you want a golden razorblade or something?
@@ECWPlays It was funny and you made it too easy cmon
He was a good man with good intentions, but the end of the day his actions have only made things worse. A lot of our problems these days stem from the severe cultural differences between the South and the rest of the United States. Besides if he truly fought for freedom, he would have left the Confederacy alone and recognize that it is for the best. I wonder what he would think if he was alive today. Perhaps he would recognize the damage that his actions have caused. I should note that I do not want another Civil War or secession of Southern states again. I want a unified United States. But what I want and what needs to happen are two different things. Lincoln should have recognized that what he wanted and what needed to happen were two different things.
@@chrisberrios5857you just redefined the tolerance paradox. Sure, if you're a liberal who cares about the process of tolerance rather than the goal of tolerance, then leaving the slave states alone would seem like the 'good' choice. But if your goal is tolerance, then you should serve to fight against institutions causing inequality.
As a native Austrian, that end part hit me hard. I’ve never really read into American history or anything, but it’s easy to tell how much of a good man and leader Lincoln was.
The people who should read most into American history are my fellow Americans. Either way, thanks for the kind words! Cheers from Jersey! (New Jersey, sorry force of habit)
yo and I'm German seems likes we have a similar interest in the Deutsches Kaiserreich long live the kaiser!
@@williamhiley6943 Es lebe der Kaiser!
@@German_Empire_EnjoyerThe Austrian Kaiser, of course. German Empire sucked.
The south lost because they tried to take Joseph’s beans
Der gunna taek r beans!
To be honest, they looked REALLY tasty...
Nicholas Bender CEO of beans
If those beans were seized by Confederate forces the Northern economy would have collapsed
Nicholas Bender poor Joseph I wouldn’t want my beans to be take I sympathize with him
Never have i heard someone make a president's death so sad. even after hearing it a million times
I felt the exact same way. He really set the mood for that part.
Sameee
Darius Canta agreed
He was a tyrant and war criminal.
You know what death was sad? Stonewall Jackson. I knew about him and his fate before the video and that death just ruffles my feather.
Fun fact: It is traditional to put a penny with abe side up on John Wilkes Booth grave when you visit. Even in death he is taking the L for his horrendous act.
Sounds like he is still getting paid to me...
@@darricshhhconsidering that he can’t spend a cent, doesn’t seem like he’s getting paid
@@darricshhh what the hell is he gonna buy with it, hes literally dead
@@Jeff_Biden your mom
@@darricshhhyour dad
My father grew up in Vicksburg. He used to pick up Civil War bullets and other little things from his backyard. He thought nothing of it at the time. No one told him to save the things he found. We visited Vicksburg when I was 9 years old. We walked on the battlefield and I could just feel the history. Standing on the battlefield that day was the beginning of my love of history. 💙 I've been to Fords theater and then across the street where Lincoln died. I saw the bed. Of course, I am sure many other subscribers have been to these places, too. 😁
He took it for what, now?
@@azurezzz 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've been to Gettysburg, and what really struck me was just how small the whole battlefield seemed. Part of that was just my inherent perspective as someone who has lived her entire life on the West Coast, where hills and mountains are on a completely different scale than they are out east; Big Round Top would be considered a pretty small hill out here, and Little Round Top wouldn't even warrant a name as a geological feature. Trying to wrap my mind around them being important strategic points that thousands of men fought and died for was...challenging. Or standing at Devil's Den and seeing just how small of a place it was, and then remembering that 1,800 casualties were suffered between the two sides there; it would be a challenge just to fit 1,800 people there at once. The place is so small and saw so much carnage. It was really sobering.
@@Beljeth you couldn't have said it better. I was just a kid so I saw it through the eyes of a kid, when everything looks bigger than when you are an adult, and I don't remember it being as large of an area as you'd think. I never thought about the size and the soldiers before. Puts it into a new perspective. I want to visit Gettysburg but I am not sure that I will ever be able to afford to travel again in this lifetime. I want to visit Boston and Salem, too. I want to visit the UK, which as you know is a very small country, but I won't hold my breath. 😂 Imagine fighting a battle in a country that small. Yikes! 😬
Fun fact: Before the assassination, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Lincoln was nearly crushed by a train after he accidentally fell between the platform and the train, but was saved by a man he recognized as a popular actor of the time. The actor was Edwin Booth, John Wilkes older brother.
One dies so another can live
A soul for a soul
Idk how lincoln would've made it through the death of another child. I'm sure he would've wished it was himself instead
In this case the brothers are nothing alike but could you image John hearing his brother say that and just go "you did what!?"
Tf 🤯🤯🤯
Lee: Sorry boys, it's my fault that we lost the battle
McClellan: Congratulations boys, we've retreated successfully from the cowardly enemy yee-haw!
Muhammad Rizka This enraged Lincoln. Who punished him severely.
LOL
Ethan Jay Norman lol
hello riz. btw diesel patches is daddy
He's not texan dude
Lincoln was a good man. Never deserved to die.
I truly believe had he lived, he would’ve been opposed to segregation, but been uneasy at first given the hell he went through in the Civil War
If Lincoln had lived segregation likely never would’ve happened in the first place.
Yeah it would, tbings were okay for about 20 years after the civil war, blacks had seates in the house ans stuff, but it fell apart@camerondisser4390
On this channel we do mostly like to poke fun at General Winfield Scott, but he was crazy impressive. He held the position of top general for the longest time yet. He had several honourary degrees. While the Seven Days battles were happening (McClellan's retreat after he attempted to take Richmond from the southeast) Lincoln actually visited Scott, who had retired from service, at the latter's home in New York, to ask for advice on the course of the war. Scott also wrote memoirs in his retirement, and sent them to Grant, with the message "From the oldest general to the greatest."
Scott died in 1866, just two weeks before his 80th birthday. He was buried in New York, in the town he lived in, and the funeral was attended by several of the top Union generals, including Grant.
George McClellan didn’t get fired, he merely couldn’t keep his job.
When he died, he didn’t die, he merely failed to continue living.
I didn't get older, I merely failed to stay young
@@iminediamonds omg LOL
He didn’t hate the president, he merely looked at him unfavorably.
I didn't get depressed, I merely got very very sad!
White men: I fight for the Union's life
Black men: I fight for my freedom
Joseph: They're gonna take my BEANS!
You eat all my beans.
Billy-Bob: THEY GON TAKE ME BANJER!!
Sorry for asking but is that a real story?
TheRagingInfernape Our beans? Our beans?! Protect the beans!
God save the beans!
For the record, you could argue that Lee's generalship was more deserving of the title of "Butcher" than Grant's ever was. Lee often incurred far greater casualties than he inflicted, especially compared relative to the number of men he could stand to replace, opposed with the Union who could always field far more. He was always quite the romanticist, and he saw poetry in tactical brilliance, which is why he always tried to be good at it and win victories that would look cool and make for good press.
Grant was a pragmatist more than anything else, and the way he conducted his battles was consistently steak over sizzle (more substantive gains). He always tried to ensure that his battles were a net gain. He never seemed to see the poetry in being good at war, but he tried to conduct the war in terms of cost efficiency. He wanted the battles he fought to be worth something.
Atun-Shei did a pretty good breakdown of the generalships of Grant and Lee in his Checkmate, Lincolnites video about whether or not the Confederacy had better Generals.
Also, just as a side note, when you read General Lee's quotes, he'll say some stuff like "Always do the best you can! Always work hard, be honest, and never compromise your principles!" but then after he says "Slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country," he's like "Meh... I'm not gonna do anything about ending slavery because that's in God's hands, not in mine." Just ridiculous. The math doesn't add up, Bobby.
I 1000% agree with this comment
Not only does Oversimplified have the entertainment levels, he doesn't have an annoying voice. Could watch for hours
Dig at extra history?
@@revwolfeheyyyy, extra history does not have an annoying voice. He’s one of my favorites
@@Thepeanutcollector mine too! But the og voice for them def annoyed a lot of people.
@@revwolfeyeahhh I guess I could see that for some people haha
Fun Fact: General Grant originally was going to go to the theatre with Lincoln but his wife (Julia Grant) disliked Lincoln’s wife (Mary Todd) and refused to go
I knew grant was going to go, but didn’t- but not this exact reason. Thanks you for sharing, very interesting!
Did you know Lincoln wrote about a dream of his death weeks before it happened? He dreamed he woke up in the middle of the night and found a crowd clad in black weeping downstairs. He asked “What’s happening?” They said “Haven’t you heard? The President’s been shot.” Hearing this Lincoln walked down the hall to the very wing his body would placed in after his actual death and saw a casket in the exact same place he would be put with his own corpse inside of it.
@@aglock9193 if this is true that is very cool and fascinating thanks for sharing this fun fact
@@aglock9193 yeah,im alr know and that interesting
@@solipsistinen7662 Also I read that Booth given the chance, he would have also attempted to take Grant's life as well. Considering he managed to escape from Rathbone, I can only imagine how it could have gone either way.
Not-so-fun fact: Until the day he died, Ulysses Grant said that he wondered if Lincoln would have been assassinated if he had gone to the play with Lincoln (he had politely denied the offer.)
And the military leader who did go with him, Major Henry Rathbone, actually went insane because of his perceived failure to save Lincoln. I'm glad that didn't happen to Grant, in all honesty.
@Meadowfrost Definitely.
@@Angry5704 I mean he was destined to be a shit president to begin with lol
@@Will-jk6nw He's been getting more favorable historical reviews recently. His administration was scandalous, but Grant himself was dedicated to racial equality, unlike Johnson before him.
@@thekingofracoons He's talking about Grant's presidency, not Lincoln's.
As an African American I see the American Civil War as an absolute victory.
To me the similarities between the kind of fighting seen in the U.S. Civil War and WWI despite being over 40 years apart is kind of scary. Both wars lasted four years, and saw the a major political assassination and the use of:
Machine guns, barbed wire, artillery, tele-communication sabotage, bayonets attached to almost all rifles, shotguns, prolonged siege tactics, trench warfare, ironclads (primitive submarines in the case of the USS Monitor and CSS Hunley), chemical weapons (only proposed, not used), armored trains, spotter balloons, and total war.
The Civil War was basically the trailer for what modern warfare would be.
Its ironic even considering many of the European Powers that saw the Civil War sent attaches to see the strategy and style of fighting the Confederates and Union practiced and all they saw and thought was they were barbaric or unimpressed with the quality they saw.
How ironic merely 40 years later, they too would be the ones to do the same fighting on their own continent.
Democrats, 1800s: Republicans want to take our slaves!
Republicans, 2010s: Democrats want to take our guns!
Joseph, 1860s: THEY WANNA TAKE MY BEANS
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
I want bean
OMG LOL
I am dying of laughter
WHO TOOK ALL MY BEANS NI-
*Nobody is born cool, Except of course*
CZcamsrs that post part 1 and part 2 of a video at the same time
And Baberaham Lincoln!
It was a premiere
What about in the same 20 minutes... Todd in the shadows
except*
@@uniquename6260 he makes videos every 4 months. Let him have this small victory.
I still believe this was the best two videos Oversimplified had done. He wasn't rude with his jokes, he just tried to make a good video, and gave it the best ending out of all his videos in my opinion.
I wish I knew the music at the end it's so beautiful
As someone who spent 20+ years of his life learning about and becoming an expert on the civil war chapter of this country- I do appreciate the details and information you gave. You correctly stated areas that are often left out or that people just get plain wrong. Especially in this day in age where giving credit to anyone who's ideals you dont believe in is considered taboo. Before the civil war we were a group of united states... after the civil war we were a nation- ideologically speaking.
Grant is one of the best generals in American history.
So is lee. Despite his side no denying he was a genius.
@@npc2153 yep even Grant himself gave him his respect
@@npc2153 unfortunately you're right
He is pretty cool, his only downfall was his waste of lives. He got trained in 1840’s warfare which was very different, meaning he was kind of in the same boat as old WW1 generals. Still really good through, we needed more generals like him.
Lol the originally simp Abe simped to grant
I'm not even american, but Lincoln is a true inspiration. To suffer through the ultimate sorrow of losing a child and still finding the strength to continue the fight to end slavery and win the war... it's simply awe-inspiring.
Even 3 years later. I rewatch this video a lot because I have such a love for America’s 16th president and his amazing care towards his presidency and the people that helped and followed him along the way. Damn Booth for murdering him, even now. I really wished Lincoln could’ve gone out a better way. Thank you for the stern yet comforting tone at the end. It really shed light on how even the most silliest, could be some of the most caring. Yet again, thank you.
McClellan didn’t get fired, he merely got promoted to being unemployed.
lol
more of a DEmotion... You do know "Demotion" is a word... Right?
@Mega Chad What does that have to do with what I said?
@Mega Chad When did they say "promoted"? Huh?
@@flanimgo1504 you can't be serious
This was not OverSimplified, it was *ExpertlyExplained* .
lol he should change his name to that
OverLoaded
Lol. He kind of had to. So many things.
You are 1000% correct.
How long were u sitting on that
In all seriousness Lincoln’s life was cut way too short, and he didn’t didn’t deserve to die way too soon, and I also feel bad for his wife, at the moment she was genuinely happy her husband dies, I feel bad for them both, it had a bad ending..
lincoln's death at the end actually had my eyes watering a bit
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The real winner of this war is the guy who didn't let them take his beans
FAX DUDE
Fax indeed
Bruh
yeah 100%
Amen
1:31 “Hey God! Whose side are you on?”
🎵 And then along came Zeus
He hurled his thunder bolt!🎵
I won't say I'm in love with how this comment goes the distance
Thank you for your service o7
Dude, uncool
You forgot mention how Lincoln in his spare time hunted Vampires.
Lee: Hey you guys, have you seen Jackson? I can’t find him anywhere
CSA Soldiers: We...may have accidentally shot him...
Lee: *YOU WHAT*
*my guy you W H A T*
Mama
This angered Lee, who punished the soldiers severely.
CSA Soldiers have left the chat
U guys done goofed up
I’m now convinced that the only reason Gettysburg was involved at all was for the sole purpose of stealing Joseph’s beans
Yup
How many times do I have to tell you, they aren’t here, *FOR HIS BEANS!*
YES
LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣
'Unconditional surrender' Grant would be a badass thing to be able to put on one's business card.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16. Jesus of Nazareth, The Messiah, died for the remission of sin, including yours, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day, and whoever believes on him shall live forever, even if they die.
That ending..right in the feels. Awesome. All these should be shown in History class.
I feel so bad for Lincoln's wife. Lost her son watched her husband suffer through the war only to lose him too
Exactly, I can't imagine what she felt when he was shot.
@@jamesfisher5285 That's people like this are considered heroes. If America had not been born much of the world would still be enslaved. It was our freedom that was the example to other nations. That's why we are called the leaders of the free world. But we didn't get it right the first time. This war had to happen to wash our nation clean of it's first attempt. I hope one day that everyone here realizes that we are one people stop all the dividing. Left from right, white from black and man from woman. It needs to stop. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I did my college thesis on Mary Todd Lincoln. She was one tough cookie!
He dodged the war and still got shot, wild shit mane
Im glad
The Confederates: THEY'RE GONNA TAEK R SLAVES
Joseph: THEY'RE GONNA TAEK MA BAENS
@Azreal Cinder *OUR BEANS*
@@justaguywithamask6505 *SOVIET ANTHEM*
Wait until the Kids realize the North had slave too...
@@darkahrenn1570 alot of kids already now they had slaves
@@darkahrenn1570 everyone already knows that..
Southerns still try to claim the civil war was not about slavery even though every state's succession letter mentioned slavery as a reason and the Confederate constitution included slavery as a right..
That last part where u talked about Lincoln, was heart-warming. it was beautiful, how you manage to make your videos both funny and serious is what makes u such a great channel, i'm on a spree to watch all your videos.
i have respect for lincoln, as a non-american
Really sad how the man died right around the time he could finally start being happy :(
At least he didnt die when the war was still raging. You could say that he died a fulfilling death
True, and I have no real clue as to what happens after we die but, I like to think he was reunited with his son.
And for it he is honored with an S tier rank among the presidents, rivaled only by George Washington in greatness and leadership.
@Jason Bailey nah. They aren’t on the same level as Washington and Lincoln
@Jason Bailey
Well who missing, thats 4
I’m not American, but I definitely got sentimental at the end.
Gabriel Nadeau I don’t want to be American rn
Grady Pytlinski wait why not?
priya moorthy yeeeea so theres, protests for blm. Trump deployed secret police in organ who are kidnapping said protests. We’ve hit 4 mill in covid cases, and now trump is trying to send us back to school and some states are reopening and there is now a word for people who don’t refuse masks which is anti masks which the fact that there’s a name makes it a problem, we’re basically turning into a parks and rec episode and it’s horrifying
I ment do refuse to where masks not don’t refuse, sorry
Same
I love the homage to Lincoln at the end. Truly one of the greatest human beings to ever live 😢
“ Never Gave Up on the Darkest of Times. Stands as a symbol of Honesty , Empathy , Humility Perseverance and Courage - a continuous reminder of what has forged America , and what it should strive to be .”
Fun fact: they turned Robert E Lee's home into Arlington national cemetery where nearly every american soldier to die in combat has been buried there since the civil war
How... How is that a fun fact
@@jesusolguin5896 don't worry about it
it was actually his wifes, who was the granddaughter or great granddaughter of some george washington relative
Yea the pricks
@@WellingtonLee573 lmao
I love how Grant and Lee absolutely carried their respective armies
Sherman and Johnston were no slouch either though.
True, but Jefferson Davis hated Joseph Johnston
But grant was terible president
@@agnieszkaszymendera8803 that has nothing to do with him being a general
@@agnieszkaszymendera8803 no he wasn’t, he used troops to protect black people’s voting rights in the South.
I find it funny how there are always people on Twitter who act as if the Civil War wasn't about slavery, even though the Vice President said they were doing it because they wanted to keep slavery
The conferency:this is about slavery! Twiter:NUH UH
Sherman used to have his men bend the rails from railroads and tie them around a tree, wait until they repaired it and then ordered his men To do it again.
What a prank
Robert E Lee carried the confederates so hard it's almost unbelievable.
*General Grant has joined the game*
The guy had great military tactic, but he owned and beat about 200 slaves, and was fighting for the state right to own slaves, so that he and his people (the white rich) could continue to benefit off free labor at the cost of jobs for poor white people. Nothing to admire about him. He was certainly a formidable bad guy. That's about it. He was no hero.
And don't forget that for all his military "heroics", it was US Americans he was killing, and he was part of a foreign enemy nation that attacked the US first.
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"Lee’s heavy hand on the Arlington, Virginia, plantation, Pryor writes, nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them."
- The Atlantic
Lee's words: "The painful discipline they [black people] are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence."
Lee's words: "that unless some humane course is adopted, based on wisdom and Christian principles, you do a gross wrong and injustice to the whole negro race in setting them free"
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"Lee worked the slaves for about five years in order to pay off legacies associated with his father-in-law’s estate. “He was utilizing the slave labor in order to pay the legacies,” Reeves explained.
Lee wanted to work the slaves beyond the five-year limit stated in his father-in-law’s will. Lee fought in court to keep the slaves working because he didn’t know if he would be able to pay off his legacies.
Wesley Norris was born a slave on the plantation that Lee managed after his father-in-law died. Norris testified during the court fight that Lee beat him when he tried to run away. “Every one of the facts in Wesley Norris’ account has been shown to be true,” John Reeves [historian] noted. " - AP news
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"Robert E. Lee personally owned slaves that he inherited upon the death of his mother, Ann Lee, in 1829. (His son, Robert E. Lee Jr., gave the number as three or four families.) Following the death of his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis, in 1857, Lee assumed command of 189 enslaved people, working the estates of Arlington, White House, and Romancoke. Custis’ will stipulated that the enslaved people that the Lee family inherited be freed within five years.
Lee, as executor of Custis’ will and supervisor of Custis’ estates, drove his new-found labor force hard to lift those estates from debt. Concerned that the endeavor might take longer than the five years stipulated, Lee petitioned state courts to extend his control of enslaved people.
The Custis bondspeople, aware of their former owner’s intent, resisted Lee’s efforts to enforce stricter work discipline. " - the American Civil War Museum
@@georockstar09 This, imagine if Robert E Lee fought with the north. The war would have been over in 6 months. Besides, at the end of the day he was American so he's not exactly the villian. Seems more like misguided rivalry if this was a book.
@@funmitalabi9607 Well, the same argument could be said about certain Nazi generals.
He was a villain. He stood for slavery and disunity. The south had seceded, so he was no longer US American during the war. He was a Confederate. Confederate = /= US American. Misguided rivalry? No. Desire to keep a population enchained to profit off them, more likely. That's all the North really wanted, was to end slavery. Rich white southerners could have given those jobs to poor white people instead of owning black slaves. They chose not to do that.
@@georockstar09 The war was not about slavery at all until making it about slavery benefitted the North by keeping Britian out of the war. The war was about the North wanting to keep the colonies united and the South wanting to be separated because they fully believed the north was trying to undermine their success by taking away thier biggest source of income. (Which is the slaves who worked for free, so more money. Why would anyone want to pay the poor anything when they can have free labor?) Does that make it right? Absolutely not, but it's far from the absolute evil that was the Nazis.
This is a time where humans had just discovered their *basic human rights* because human nature is truly evil. Before the colonies, mercantilism was the prime system which is literally the country with the most money is the most powerful. It creates stingy people, and the colonies originated from Britian who fit money hungry to the letter T. Evey country at the time had enslaved people even if slavery was banned. (The Berlin Conference). The North was demanding the South to do something out of the social norms at the time. To be fair, I'd be hesitant too to take up such a deal just cause it's fair when history makes it very clear what European countries like Britian and France do to underdeveloped countries they think they can imperialize and control just cause they have the power to. Especially with the way Britian monitors the colonies despite them gaining independence.
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Finally youtube.
hello slant. btw diesel patches is daddy
@Fuert Neigt In what way shape or form does any of that have to do with my comment.
@Fuert Neigt That's a bit extreme
Yes...
*Good.*
@Fuert Neigt I understand your hate, I don't have any love for the rebel flag, but for quite a bit of the people who use the flag still, they fly it for Southern Pride. People in the South are a proud traditional people, some don't even know that it is currently a hate symbol.
Im not even american but i seriously started to cry silent tears for Lincoln as soon as it was shown the theater...
R.i.p Lincoln
That ending and describing Abraham Lincoln was incredibly beautiful and did just to the life of Lincoln
John Wilkes booth: *gets drunk after two glasses of brandy*
Grant on his second bottle of whisky: Pathetic
Not even two bottles of Brandy...
Two glasses
Well, he didn't want to get drunk- Lincoln's assassination was a well-planned conspiracy. As Wilkes killed Lincoln, the Secretaries of War, State, and the Treasury were also attacked. Two attackers screwed up, and soldiers discovered and chased down Secretary of War Stanton's attacker after he clubbed Stanton's young son in the head with a pistol.
@@Nmille98 I it's think he was saying something called a joke
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Why though? Why was Wilks so willing to do something so horrible? Something so horrible it would make him the Praeha of the entire country? Is...there any resources on why he did this?
@@kyokyoniizukyo7171 he was from the South. His co-conspirators were from the South. Small groups of people killing important people for their birthplace and associated ideals are hardly rare throughout history.
i'm not american so i never thought much of abraham lincoln's assassination, but hearing it being talked about like this actually makes me kinda sad. the man had been been through so much since the start of the war, including the loss of his son and the stress of the presidency and when the war finally ended he had no time to have a well-deserved rest before being suddenly shot in front of his own wife by some washed-up actor
Me too.
The actor was actually quite famous at the time, not washed up. Doesn't make him any less of a bastard though.
My mom was also slave like me and a 13-year-old sister (to 12 February)
I think it’s interesting and sad. I think ultimately Lincoln’s death helped to create an event that the entire country could mourn and bring us together.
When a tyrant gets shot😭😭🤣🤣
"Sleepy eyes Joe" did this guy predict the future?
as a non-american, I learned so much on McClellan in this video. Now I can proudly say I didn't failed my licensure exam, I merely failed on passing it.
Starving soldiers, Union or Confederate, would've definitely taken Joseph's beans.
Yeah I'm with Joseph on this one!
Would've ? THEY WERE THERE FOR IT !
Lincoln: Joseph... *Get the gun*
Yup they will take this mr beans
WALN Zell And nigerundayo
Imagine having to tell General Lee that you just shot *Stonewall Jackson*
He'd probably be like
"Ya know what, I don't even need to do anything. Just gonna let you think about that. You just fked the war for us. Think about that."
@@spiffygonzales5899 I don't think if he were still alive they would have won the war.
@@drethethinker6418
I agree, but you gotta admit that Jacksons death greatly hurt the Confederate army as well as the general southern moral. Heck that news even spread throughout Europe.
Spiffy Gonzales yes I agree but if he was still alive the war might have turned into a peace agreement or perhaps a victory based on how well the generals where stratagy wise
@@drethethinker6418 mh jackson was basically lee's assistant and helped him think, he probably would have convinvced him not to have fought the union at gettysburg. As well as jackson was a man who knew how to keep his men in line and disciplined so when he was in command his men were basically immune to charges. Lol commanding buff. Gettysburg may have never happend. As for lee's other defeats..... yeah blame the fucker who lost the fucking battle plans
Press f to respect Abraham Lincoln 💔😭😢
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Begging for likes is a good way to get reported as spam.
Dude Uncool
Why did I cry at the end? lol
😂😢 same
Part one: “Damn we’re really kicking the North’s ass!”
Part 2: *North Removes Training Weights*
hello ren. btw diesel patches is daddy
Part 3 rko outta no where by vintage randy orton to mark his entrance.
Or Lincoln fires his soy boy generals
forgive me sensei washington but just this once i must go all out
JODisHere i knew it was some livestream when i saw the check mark and a random phrase
Imagine losing a Battle so hard, you apologized to your injured and broken men as they fell back, the emotions behind it must have been brutal
I think moments like these are what makes you truly respect him. He was a military genius but he also clearly cared for his men and admitted and had remorse for his mistakes.
@@Fexisepic i agree in that you can respect him for being a genius and care for his men, but he was pro slavery which in 9/10 cases is a red flag lmao
Edit I’m a retard and didn’t know that lee wasn’t necessarily pro slaver so stop yelling at me please 😭😭💀
@@chickenwiggies4365 It's much more complex than that
@@chickenwiggies4365 Being a confederacy military leader doesn't make you pro-slavery.
@@chickenwiggies4365 actually he was one of the few Confederates who wasn't necessarily pro-slavery but he did do what he did to defend his State as people didn't identify with the country at that point. Based on his life he may have actually been in favor of abolition
Im not even american but lincoln seems like a rlly good guy this is a rlly sad war
yes but that sidebones and jawline would have got lincoln more fame today if wasnt murdered ofc
@@ShonPatil-eb3ir girll lmfaoo
Sherman shouldn't have stopped until he was knee deep in the ocean.
I don’t know why but it makes me feel better when Oversimplified mentions that President Lincoln was enjoying the play
Angelica Schuyler i like to think he died happy
He died happy, and enjoying himself, surrounded by the people he loved as a President of a Nation he fought tooth and nail for. He may have been shot, yes, but Abraham died a happy man.
@@FeatKanye It's too early to cry today :(
But were you satisfied?
Missing97 of course not! She has never been satisfied
Everybody gangsta until oversimplified hit serious tone
Indeed.
true
:(
Yep I teared a bit at that last Lincoln history. Such a great man
I cried over the description of Lincolns suffering family, and how his wife had to suffer all of that.
This is extremely well done. Surprisingly in-depth, it is better than most high school history books. My hat is off to you.
The north: we will end slavery
The South they will take our slaves away
Joseph: BEEEEEEAAAANSSSSSS
This really is proof that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
bruh i thought you died so what do you think of the new cod warzone
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a house divided against itself cannot party rock - Abraham Lincoln
Nice Bible quote, Abe. Matthew 12:25
A house divided by a nation?? my friend,look at the border in Belgium and The netherlands,Or Maybe malaysia or indonesia,tho it may not exist in your era,malaca and dutch hindia sound a bell??
I have a thought, Lincoln finished what the founding fathers wanted it the original constitution. Lincoln is the last father of America.
Considering one of the original founding fathers wanted to abolish slavery as well, not too surprised you see Lincoln as a founding father (that and he’s the founder of the modern union)
Lincoln is more of a founding father than most of the actual founding fathers
great way to put it man, props to you
Damn, that’s genuinely beautiful
I'm your 400th liker! What do I get?
Thanks Oversimplified, in English we had to do a presentation about a famous person so I chose Abraham Lincoln and I went ahead and got top marks + highest mark you can get on the presentation thanks! :)
America after losing in Vietnam :- I didn't lose I merely failed to win
Little known fact: Lincoln was also an accomplished vampire hunter. There is a great documentary about it starring Rufus Sewell and Daniel Day Lewis.
raven lord
That was a good documentary.
raven lord hahaha I remember that movie
Edit: “documentary”
Skipii Clan documentary*
He was also a good wrestler at his youth and even invented some famous moves
Sewwfffyhjijui all facts, he indeed killed many vamps
Lincoln had such a rough presidency and life. The part where he was starting to get used to being in peace and then getting assassinated made me genuinely tear up.
Ya ever think about the people in forced labor camps or who were slaves? Yeah, they were never happy after they had been unfairly captured.
@@helo6824 regardless, his point about Lincoln still stands
@@Joelc0715 true
@@helo6824 dude
@@helo6824 lincoln tried his best but he very depressed epically his wife after losinf his son and her husband
FUNFACT!!!!: at abraham lincon's funeral at near the end of the video look at last building on the left then look at the Window at the side you can see two boys looking out of the windo and one of the boys are acctually a future US president Theodore Roosevelt and beside is his brother (also im commenting 3 years after the videos publishing)
If this ever gets remade, it needs to have one of the most influential men of the civil war included that has been forgotten for too damn long.
Cassius Clay. The man who not only used his position as ambassador to Russia at the time to convince Russia to threaten France and the UK with war if they acknowledged the confederacy, but was the man who bullied Lincoln into signing the Emancipation Proclamation before he wanted to.
The way he described Lincoln right before he was murdered actually made me really sad. Never really considered after all my history classes he never really got to enjoy a time of peace as a president and the insane amount of stress he was under
In hindsight it's pretty bizarre how well he kept it together under the circumstances. Compared to someone like Robespierre if we stay in OverSimplified territory who completely unraveled under the pressure of a revolution.
@@AliceDiableaux its why he is remembered as one of the greatest Presidents of all time. Other presidents saw us through world wars, but they never had to deal with a war in their back yards against people they once called countrymen. To see a nation through a civil war like that, its nothing short of miraculous
Jrey1803 I got chills
The way he posses as we think there will be a gunshot. Then to only have his voice come back is a powerful move. From that, you know that Lincoln is his all-time favorite president.
You wanna know something about John Wilkes Booth he was DEMOCRAT
“That’s just Princess Leia with a mustache”.
Had me in tears.
Oof the likes, thx so much!!
DaShinyJolteonArtist “ET phone the doctor” is the one which got me.
Timestamp?
@@EliStettner 5:16 onwards.
Skillshare
Oversimplified has a way with words lol
Why am i in tears that's not even a history of my country 😢 , no one could have made a video so good imagine the hardwork that has been put into it plus its been a year since he has uploaded. Are you alright 🥺
11:12
U.S Grant: "Can u just GRANT me my wish first? I really wanted more Whisky"
Abe Lincoln: "Bruh"
😅😅 I couldn’t stop laughing great work OverSimplified!
Literally any major historical event:*exists*
The price of bread: “I’m gonna do what’s called a pro gamer move”
keep it at that many likes
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hhahha You talking about the French revolution video
@@moneyman2980 nope he talking about pretty much every historical event
LOL
The amount of times the union came within an inch of their lives is insane
Same with the confederacy
So meny times if the union had COMPETENT generalls richmand would have fallen
Wow, I'm not American and I haven't learnt about the American civil war but this was a great video to learn from ❤
Lee: We're gonna invade the north
His Amry: So we can capture DC?
Lee: No...
*I hear they have a man with beans*
THOSE BEEEEANS I NEEEEED THEM
I love amries
IM NOT GONNA LET THEM TAKE MY BEANS
Plot Twist: those are senzu beans
*Ah yes beans*
Fun Fact: Ya’ll remember when Lincoln was assassinated? Well, he and his wife Mary actually invited Grant to the play where he died. However, Gen. Grant’s wife HATED Mary Lincoln. So, General Grant has no choice but to withdraw the President’s invitation. He did this by pulling out the worst excuse in American history: “I can’t go because of the kids.” LOL
Oh wow😂😭
This is very sad.
Sad..
Prageru right
Is it possible that Grant could have saved Lincoln if he hadn't rejected the invitation?