The Confederates smash into Georgia: 1863 Historical Battle of Chickamauga | Total War Battle

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  • The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18-20, 1863, between the United States Army and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a U.S. Army offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It was the first major battle of the war fought in Georgia, the most significant US defeat in the Western Theater, and involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg.
    00:00 Introduction
    01:32 Moving forward
    02:24 Rosecrans deception
    03:29 Pre-battle movements
    04:37 Scouts briefly engage
    05:02 The armies improve their dispositions
    05:48 Day 1: Battles at the river
    07:03 Rosecrans movement
    07:18 Day 2: Battle begins to the North
    08:08 Both armies commit more troops
    08:43 Confederate centre attack
    10:03 Vineyard flank attempt
    10:20 Battle continues at the centre
    11:45 Day 3: The final Confederate attack
    12:17 The battle continues
    13:06 The Unions confusion
    14:24 The Confederates attack
    15:17 The Union right flank breaks
    15:30 Battle at the field
    16:18 The Union begins the mass retreat
    17:00 Aftermath

Komentáře • 66

  • @logicaredux5205
    @logicaredux5205 Před 3 měsíci +27

    My great great grand uncle was killed at Chickamauga. Thank you for staging this.

    • @mikecooper7978
      @mikecooper7978 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Was he Union or Confederate? It doesn’t matter, just curious.

    • @logicaredux5205
      @logicaredux5205 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@mikecooper7978 65th Ohio Infantry. Harker’s Brigade, Wood’s division. XXI Corps.

    • @Wildcat_Shenanigans
      @Wildcat_Shenanigans Před 3 měsíci

      @@logicaredux5205 L man

    • @mikecooper7978
      @mikecooper7978 Před 3 měsíci

      @@logicaredux5205 Very cool

    • @davec8730
      @davec8730 Před 2 měsíci

      @@logicaredux5205 one of the 300,000 then, WISH WE'D GOT THE LOT'

  • @manuelacosta9463
    @manuelacosta9463 Před 3 měsíci +25

    The gap being left in the Union line is among the greatest 'oops' moments of the Civil War. The Union troops desperately holding the line as Confederate forces exploited their lucky find was heroic.

    • @feudinggreeks3316
      @feudinggreeks3316 Před 3 měsíci

      I wonder, why is it a tactical brilliance when the Union exploits the South's weaknesses, but "luck" when the South Exploits Union weaknesses? It's almost like people undermine the Confederacies successful tactics by dismissing it as just luck.

    • @CamdenIrwin
      @CamdenIrwin Před 3 měsíci +3

      I feel like the greatest oops moment was the battle of the crater. They sent the soldiers into that hole without a ladder

    • @JamesJones-cx5pk
      @JamesJones-cx5pk Před 2 měsíci +1

      Another cluster was when Gen. John Pemberton in the battle of Vicksburg, set up defences East of the Big Black river on the flat ground and got routed, while Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston didn't even show up.😮

  • @jimhoffmann
    @jimhoffmann Před 3 měsíci +15

    My great, great grandfather fought here with the 1st Louisiana Cavalry Regiment.

  • @mikecooper7978
    @mikecooper7978 Před 3 měsíci +7

    The bravery of those men on BOTH sides is astounding. To just stand in a line while 10,000 guns are firing in your direction must’ve been horrifying.

    • @-GEZtapo-
      @-GEZtapo- Před 2 měsíci

      This tactic comes from the Napoleonic Wars, where they fought with smooth-bore muskets. With rifled barrels and Minié bullets this line formation was suicide

    • @travisdonaldstanley6420
      @travisdonaldstanley6420 Před měsícem

      I believe most had mad piece with their maker by then. They had already went throught all of the stages of grief.

    • @jimmystrickland1034
      @jimmystrickland1034 Před dnem

      There were snipers and special operations soldiers in the tree lines and behind enemy lines. They wore hunter green fatigues.

  • @t.a.169
    @t.a.169 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I was born in Lafayette,Ga and grew up in Chickamauga . The battle field and museum are a great place to visit and explore.

    • @dcs5343
      @dcs5343 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Very cool. Lots of history there!

  • @davidanthony4845
    @davidanthony4845 Před 2 měsíci +2

    The Rebs were IN Georgia ; Rosecrans had maneuvered Bragg out of Tennessee. Bragg wanted OUT of Georgia. As Bruce Catton put it ' In the effort to keep Rosecrans out of Chattanooga Bragg had shoved him back into it.'

  • @henryb9720
    @henryb9720 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I absolutely love this! If the animations could be changed to keep troop numbers but form them into columns of 4s and in two to four ranks, then this would be nearly perfect for teaching a history class!

  • @travisdonaldstanley6420
    @travisdonaldstanley6420 Před měsícem

    well done.
    Thanks!

  • @jerryumfress9030
    @jerryumfress9030 Před měsícem +1

    My gg granddad fought in the Battle of Chickamauga. He was in Company H, 5th Alabama Cavalry. His name was Joseph Howard Powell and my granddad told me about the Battle when I was about 10 years old. I just recently found a war time picture of him. He was wounded in the Battle, my granddad told me that Joe Howard had told him that a cannon shell exploded near him, and shrapnel was in his foot. He survived the war, but when he returned home, everything was destroyed and gone. He took his wife and moved to Itawamba County Mississippi. He passed away in 1923 at the age of 92 and is buried at White Church Cemetery in Fulton Mississippi, next to my gg grandmother.. al my kinfolks are buried There including my granddad and grandmother, Rupert Powell and Effie Powell

  • @terpentoon
    @terpentoon Před 3 měsíci +8

    Would be great if maps were integrated into the explanation. Without maps I have not the faintest idea of the strategic game.

  • @wyatthen55
    @wyatthen55 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow just found the channel as a historian this was truly fun to watch, I will surely check out the other videos

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Well, this is something. Narration was well done. No AI. Though the Confederates won the battle, Bragg failed to pursue the Union when he had the chance. The Union was mauled, but escaped intact.

    • @castercamber
      @castercamber Před 3 měsíci

      Bragg was an idiot, tee'd off his own subordinates.

    • @CamdenIrwin
      @CamdenIrwin Před 3 měsíci

      Bedford Forrest threatened to kill Bragg after the battle for not taking advantage of the victory but to be fair, they were in a wooded landscape with confused reports and tired and disorganized regiments. His blunder is easy to call out with hindsight

    • @davec8730
      @davec8730 Před 2 měsíci

      bragg hadn't troop number superiority and thus couldn't force the issue without excessive losses, losses the CSA could not afford in ANY theatre.

  • @vix4631
    @vix4631 Před 3 měsíci +7

    These videos are great. Where do you get information from to script/show the battles?

    • @BadPeanutgames
      @BadPeanutgames Před 3 měsíci +2

      THe game iis called napoleon total war and he is using a mod

    • @cinematicbattles559
      @cinematicbattles559  Před 3 měsíci +2

      For the script I just use various online sources, the game is Napoleon Total War with an American Civil War mod installed

  • @Exyster
    @Exyster Před 3 měsíci +3

    these videos are so good
    I bugged my NTW so I can't play it
    But its nice to see these videos

    • @cinematicbattles559
      @cinematicbattles559  Před 3 měsíci

      Thanks a lot!
      Have you tried uninstalling it and then deleting all the files? Because sometimes when you uninstall it through steam it doesnt actually delete all the files which might be causing your problem

    • @Exyster
      @Exyster Před 3 měsíci

      I deleted my files then uninstalled it@@cinematicbattles559

    • @Exyster
      @Exyster Před 3 měsíci

      I have already tried but I deleted my files then uninstalled the game
      Does it make a differance

    • @cinematicbattles559
      @cinematicbattles559  Před 3 měsíci

      @@Exyster I'm not sure, what is wrong with your game exactly?

    • @Exyster
      @Exyster Před 3 měsíci

      So basically when i load the game is just shows the License menu and I cant get onto the main menu or anything else@@cinematicbattles559

  • @user-jap84tlv24sq
    @user-jap84tlv24sq Před 2 měsíci

    Hello, i think your videos would benefit with just small addition of some kind of "global map", like when talking about east and west etc. would be nice to have a map with some lines on it. Just a thought

  • @Mulberry2000
    @Mulberry2000 Před 2 měsíci

    What game is this?

  • @budgewilliams9019
    @budgewilliams9019 Před měsícem

    Errr! What are trees flying around in the area?

  • @MountainRaven1960
    @MountainRaven1960 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Looks like a Zombie Civil War. But still good! Most enjoyable.

  • @RobertCampbellroberrific
    @RobertCampbellroberrific Před 3 měsíci

    the wheat fields are huge. How wide were the grain heads on the combines back then?

  • @rudolfrednose7351
    @rudolfrednose7351 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Nice game graphics, but without regiments symbols moving across a map of the battlefields …..no idea what the computer voice is talking about.

  • @Minnesota.Highlander
    @Minnesota.Highlander Před 3 měsíci

    Spencer repeating rifles and Alexander's Bridge - I am here to today because of my ancestors (John,Wade,Levi) surviving the battle with Wilder's Lightning Brigade. The 92nd Mounted Volunteer Infantry. Then "On to the Sea"

  • @donaldgrant9067
    @donaldgrant9067 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Well in your animation I saw one union soldier out of a thousand get hit, while the rebels had half their numbers hit in each of the battles. So how did the union lose 16000 troops, did they stub their toe on the way back and fall over dead?

  • @matthewclark6871
    @matthewclark6871 Před 3 měsíci +1

    What game is this

  • @travisdonaldstanley6420
    @travisdonaldstanley6420 Před měsícem

    Well, I guess the TN battle flag was right this time.
    lol

  • @JeddieT
    @JeddieT Před 2 měsíci

    The problem with this otherwise well-produced video is that there is no ariel or map view to really grasp and understand the strategies of these two opposing forces. All you really see is one braw after another with no sense of how or where these forces are fighting. What a waste.

  • @mustlovedogs272
    @mustlovedogs272 Před 3 měsíci +6

    The Confederate army numbered 50,000 not 65,000. As the decades go by the history books inflate more and more the number of Confederate soldiers at each battle and deflate more and more the number of Union soldiers at each battle.

    • @kisstherain73
      @kisstherain73 Před 3 měsíci +1

      The south still lost.

    • @user-qq2vq4fv8b
      @user-qq2vq4fv8b Před 3 měsíci +3

      Why would any serious historian do that ? I have checked several sources , all of which give 65,000 Confederate against 60,000 Union . And the Confederacy winning the battle , ( IE , remaining in control of the battlefield) but suffering slightly higher casualties , 18 and a half thousand , all told . If the army had been as few as 50,000 , they would have been routed .

    • @mustlovedogs272
      @mustlovedogs272 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-qq2vq4fv8b Don't act stupid. Just like yourself most historians are from north of the mason dixon line and they re-write history a little at a time in order to belittle the incredible accomplishments of the Southern armies while amplifying those of the Union. You comment that "had they been 50,000 they would have been routed" is all the evidence needed to know what you are all about. You Are The Problem.

    • @phann860
      @phann860 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I doubt that any historian would do something so stupid.

    • @mustlovedogs272
      @mustlovedogs272 Před 3 měsíci

      @@phann860 I've watched it happen the last 50 years. For example, around 1970 the Union force at Gettysburg was put at 120,000 to Lee's 60,000. Gradually, that has changed to as low as 90,000 for Meade and as much as 75,000 for Lee. Don't tell me that I didn't see the GOP poll watcher get illegally kicked out of the precinct in Phylli and that cardboard was then put in the windows in November 2019 either. Don't tell me I didn't see a Trump lead by 100,000 +/- votes in 4 states gradually change to a slight lack of votes over a six week period as cheat by mail votes were manufactured either. Don't tell me I did not see things that I actually saw.

  • @JamesJones-cx5pk
    @JamesJones-cx5pk Před 2 měsíci

    This sux. They should have showed some maps.

  • @louispetherbridge9754
    @louispetherbridge9754 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Once again the rank and file soldiers suffer because of the Staff Officers cock ups