Oversimplified - US CIVIL WAR - Part 2 - Historian Reaction

welcome back everybody to part two of my reaction to oversimplified the american civil war if you didn't see part one the link is in the description it will take you back to that as i mentioned the beginning of part one of all the areas in my history background that i've studied over the last 30 plus years including majoring in history in college the american civil war is probably by far the area of most expertise that i have so i'm excited to dive into part two and see what he has to say so let's go ahead and jump right into it as the union struggled to take control in the east continued elsewhere the war raged on the confederates attempted an invasion of kentucky hoping the state as a whole would join them but they were pushed back the indian territory saw native american tribes ally with one side or the other in the hopes of securing rights after the war along the mississippi general ulysses s grant remained one of the few union generals scoring major victories with his best pal general sherman by his side grant led his armies down the mississippi so let's talk about these two in their partnership for a minute because it definitely was uh a partnership sherman at the beginning part of the war dealt with some very serious mental health issues he was a brigade commander at the first battle bull run in the eastern theater and sherman was one of those guys with a lot of political connections his brother was a u.s senator from ohio his uh adopted father was also a u.s senator uh senator ewing uh and sherman comes into the war dealing with these mental health issues deals with serious thoughts of suicide and of course grant with his well-known uh alcohol issues and sherman would go on to say later on he said grant stuck by me when i was crazy and i stuck by him when he was drunk and now we stick together always or stand together always and uh grant at one point after the vicksburg campaign when halleck comes down and takes command before the siege of corinth and basically relegates grant to a role that he feels is meaningless grant thinks about packing it in and going home and sherman who convinces him to stay with it and so we can thank general sherman uh for grant sticking with it and and ending up getting into the position that he was in confederate stronghold of vicksburg both sides knew that if vicksburg fell the confederacy would be split in two and the confederates prepared for an intense defense of the city but back in the east lincoln still wanted somebody to march south and take richmond having given general mcclellan the boot he needed a new man in charge all right mr president option one is general hooker bit of a nutcase but a good general option two his qualifications are his name is burnside and he is freaking dope as sideburns so general burnside was put in charge of the army of the potomac and sent south and burnside had actually rejected the command a couple of times and it was said that when burnside was finally ordered to take command that he wept like a child see burnside was a very very good division and core commander but he was not cut out for army command and nobody knew that better than general burnside he would actually go on he was one of the few people that was put in command of the army of the potomac and then fired from that role who went on to actually do really well afterwards so did hooker uh for the most part and hoped he finally had a general who could succeed burnside met general lee at the city of fredericksburg where he intended to rapidly cross the river and take the city but the union war department was too slow in delivering the pontoon bridges and the two sides were forced to camp across from each other close enough to speak hey yankee ready to get your butt kicked yeah right rebel god is on our side no way god's on our side oh you think so well why don't we ask him hey god whose side are you on pretty much dude uncool with over 100 000 men the union army finally launched their massive attack on the 11th of december but by now the confederates had amassed their forces during the battle wave after wave of brave union men marched headlong into a brutal confederate onslaught even the confederates couldn't believe what they were seeing and in one moment of camaraderie a confederate sergeant richard kirkland the angel of mary's heights he was later killed at chickamauga the union troops held their fire still burnside and his forces were soundly defeated at fredericksburg and forced to retreat lincoln's popularity and northern morale continued to plummet especially as the winter heading into 1863 was bad the winter camps were rife with disease the food was less than appealing on both sides men began to leave hey where do you think you're going i'm deserting what don't you love your country yes i do and i'm trying to get back to it as quick as i can lincoln now contrary to popular belief the vast majority of men who deserted were not executed in fact in my own research into folks who were in the various armies i would guess it was something like one in seven one and eight men deserted at one point or another but most of them actually came back eventually a lot of them would go home for a couple of months and then come back and most of them were just sentenced to a forfeiture of pay and an extension of their enlistment period they really didn't do more than that it wasn't this mass executions lincoln actually voided most of the executions some men were branded like with a d on their cheek or something like that but for the most part most men who deserted really very little was done for the kind and caring man he was spent much of his time pardoning deserter's death sentences oh my here's a 17 year old boy sentenced to be hanged well i'd better suspend his sentence or he'll be suspended tomorrow to try to keep the numbers up both sides had introduced conscription there was controversy in the north however since rich men could simply pay to have someone else fight on their it was a bounty it was like 400 new york city with enraged mobs furious at the idea of going to fight for slaves an idea that many of them simply did not support the movie gangs of new york shows that pressure the union had finally begun allowing black men to enlist and these men knowing what they were fighting for signed up by the end of the war nearly 200 000 troops 10 of the union army would be black the valor and bravery they showed throughout silencing critics and lincoln actually credited those men of color with uh turning the tide of the war uh interesting thing i found out in doing some research everybody knows about the 54th massachusetts which was that unit that fought in the movie glory goes down and fights in fort wagner and really kind of shows everyone that black soldiers could fight and fight well which i don't know why they had any doubt about that but believe it or not most of the men in those massachusetts units the 54th to 55th massachusetts were not from massachusetts because these were widely publicized it's kind of the first real well-known volunteer regiments people came from all over the country here in northeast ohio in my own research i found dozens of men from ohio who enlisted in the 54th and 55th massachusetts including several from right in my neighborhood here in the area around youngstown uh so it was really a national unit the 54th massachusetts okay well that last guy was useless let's try this hooker fella general joseph hooker was put in charge of the army of the potomac and once again he called him fighting richmond hooker met lee at the battle of chancellorsville where hooker had over twice the men leaded lee was forced to defy all military convention and split his smaller force into two lee had absolutely no chance of winning and lee won it was his masterpiece and he actually split his force into again during the battle though as his right-hand man stonewall jackson was riding back to the confederate lines at night the nervous confederate troops unable to recognize him opened fire you boys done goofed up jackson died eight days later as for lincoln now jackson uh did not die from the wounds he died from pneumonia and it might have been uh exacerbated by the fact that he was a hypochondriac uh so he had he had an army amputated but he was healing from that wound uh but one of the things he did was when he would sleep at night he would he would lay with cold rags on his on his head on his chest sometimes and one of his aides actually noticed that as he was recovering he wasn't doing that and so he laid those rags on him and they think that may have contributed to the fact that he developed pneumonia and died from that interesting that the top three i think uh confederate commanders who were killed or wounded during the war all probably the result of friendly fire stonewall jackson definitely shot by friendly fire uh james longstreet in 1864 during the overland campaign is severely wounded by friendly fire and it's most likely that albert sidney johnston was killed at shiloh because of friendly fire that's debated but i think the evidence points in that direction if you visit the shiloh battlefield the evidence that they give kind of says that as well that it was probably friendly fire he couldn't believe it it was yet another loss and northern support continued to waver while the union kept on struggling in the east out west unconditional surrender grant was making moves as always in an attempt to take vicksburg on the mississippi he made a series of risky and bold movements brilliant brilliant campaign more brilliant than anything lee did aided by a fleet of ironclads on the river he raced his army south to cross the mississippi aware that the terrain to the north was restrictive instead he strategically moved north east hitting vicksburg's supply line and defending his rear from confederate armies in jackson once he reached vicksburg the confederate defense became hardened and grant was forced to settle in for a month-long siege during which time he got rather bored despite not taking the city lincoln loved it and encouraged grant to hold firm it would only be a matter of time before the mississippi was in union hands around this time the people in the west of virginia who had remained loyal to the union throughout finally broke away to form their own state they could have named it anything in the world but the creative minds at the time came up left virginia west virginia back in washington lincoln once again wanted a new general to take command oh my goodness why do all these 19th century generals look so bust look we got sleepy eyes joe here that's princess leia with a mustache that's devil daddy from the dog butler fine why don't we give snapping turtle mcgee here okay so it's interesting they call him snapping turtle mcgee because the nickname that george mead's men had for him the people who served with him was a damned old goggle-eyed snapping turtle because he looked like one but he also had a really vicious temper but it was a very competent commander he was in command of the fifth corps at the time uh and uh you know people forget that the battle of gettysburg is fought like a week after mead takes command of the army so general snapping turtle mcgee was put in charge of the army of the potomac and it was a crucial time for the union because once again the confederates decided to go on the attack so far they had done exceedingly well militarily but as the war kept going the confederate economy was crumbling riots broke out in the streets of richmond as the price of bread skyrocketed supplies were dwindling jefferson davis wanted to send men west to rescue vicksburg but general lee knew the longer the war lasted the worse their chances got and he still hoped if he could just threaten dc the already demoralized north would surrender so in june 1863 with the momentum behind him general lee once again entered the north fighting his way through maryland and into pennsylvania general mead set out to meet him for what would be the most significant battle of the entire war if the confederates won dc could fall if the union won it would be a turning point as the confederates would run out of steam and the small town that was to get caught up in the crossfire of the largest battle in american history all right we're gonna stop right there because everybody says this and it drives me nuts this was not the largest battle in american history it was the bloodiest battle in american history it was not the largest i mean unless you're by saying largest you're talking about the most number of casualties uh by my account i think gettysburg in terms of number of men who fought was like the fourth largest battle of the civil war fredericksburg was the largest battle of the american civil war in the largest battle in history at least in north america uh there were almost 200 000 men at fredericksburg there weren't nearly that many uh gettysburg but it was by far the bloodiest but there were several battles i think in 1864 that were also larger than this was gettysburg pennsylvania on june 1st units from each army encountered one another and skirmished through the town itself july 1st refuge except for one man who reportedly ran outside for a strange reason joseph what are you doing i'm not gonna let them take my beans how many times do i have to tell you they're not here for your beans by the second day over a hundred thousand men stretched for miles across the battlefield lee took the initiative deciding to hit the enemy's flanks and he came very close to breaking through the union's disorganized left but union colonel joshua chamberlain ordered a desperate bayonet charge smashing into the confederates and forcing them back now that's the one that gets all the press but equally as important um equally as important was something that happened up here and that was that i'm not gonna get into the whole battle of gettysburg because this is about the whole civil war um but dan sickles had advanced his third core out to this position here uh and kind of created this gap in the line and when sickles was broken at the pete george or the wheat field that area and fell back there was a gap that opened up here in the union center and the confederate third corps had a couple of brigades that were marching toward that gap and general hancock who commanded the second corps who was right there had called for reinforcements over here from culp's hill to come across they weren't there yet and so he rides over to the position and he finds a brigade of minnesota men the first minnesota like 260 men colonel william coleville is the name of the commander and he tells coalville he points to these confederate brigades that are marching toward the gap something like one to two thousand men and he says i want you to take those colors and colville charges headlong with 260 men into this brigade of confederate troops uh 80 casualties for the first minnesota but they buy time for uh the reinforcements to come up and plug the gap and i think that is every bit as important if not more important than what happened down on little round top with the 20th main in fact when president calvin coolidge came to gettysburg during his presidency he actually said something to the effect that the first minnesota is rightfully entitled uh to the label saviors of the nation and they absolutely were and that's something that never really gets the press that the 20th maine does on the final day lee believed the union army had fortified its flanks so he decided to finish them off with one mask and mead knew that was coming the confederates rushed at the union lines during general pickett's charge and this time it was the union's turn to unleash health mead had correctly guessed lee's strategy and the confederates were decimated forced to turn and flee a devastated general lee called out to his fleeing and wounding it's all my fault telling them it was his fault and after holding for and he offered his resignation to he ordered davis after that to virginia the north had just managed to score it was turned out that's a victory and one they desperately needed and if that wasn't enough in the west after a month-long siege vicksburg finally fell the north now and honestly you could argue vicksburg was more important but it got overshadowed by gettysburg mississippi union forces moved into arkansas and tennessee tennessee in particular saw heavy fighting with union general rose crans masterfully pushing braxton bragg's army of the tennessee out of tennessee he suffered a major setback however at the bloody battle of chickamauga and ended up under confederate siege at chattanooga here comes grant to the rescue again a temporary truce was declared so that wounded men could be recovered and often in the civil war during these small truces men from both sides would meet in the middle to trade things like tobacco coffee and maybe even honey 4th of july and the siege of chattanooga thankfully general grant now in charge of all western union armies showed up and karate kicked bragg right back into georgia like this sherman and hooker grant took on confederation this was a brilliant victory as well including the famous battle above the clouds and mission ridge grant missionary rage lincoln's number one guy with these victories lincoln hoped the war was finally turning back in gettysburg the entire town had been turned into a hospital to care for the scores of wounded men throughout the war on both sides women such as clara barton rose to the occasion doing crucial work on the home front yep and volunteering as nurses my great great great great grandmother was a nurse during the civil war and her father was in the 20th ohio in grant's army traveled out to attend the opening ceremony at the event the main speaker spoke for two hours edward everett abraham lincoln was called forward to give some brief appropriate remarks in just two minutes he masterfully and poignantly iterated america's national purpose and the need to continue the fight the gettysburg address would become one of the most famous speeches in american history while they were now making but at the time a lot of newspapers actually wrote it off as being terrible and kind of not very good uh in lincoln when he was done giving the speech actually turned to someone and basically said that he thought that it was not a very good speech um edward everett though wrote a letter to abraham lincoln the guy who had spoken before him for two hours and said i i i wish that i could have come as near to the the central point of why we were there in two hours as you were able to do in two minutes and interestingly there's no copy of edward everett's speech that remains in existence but everybody knows abraham lincoln's speech the gettysburg address progress the north still couldn't find a decisive victory in the east and that was bad news for lincoln because his presidency was now in its fourth year in 1864 there was an election coming the confederates knew this too and with little hope left of being able to threaten the north militarily they believed their last shot at victory maybe in the election since lincoln emancipation and the war itself weren't exactly popular people in the north were sick of war and wanted to put it behind them robert e lee hoped that if he could just hold out and continue to inflict more defeats the people of the north would vote lincoln out and replace him with a southern sympathizer who may be willing to negotiate lincoln knew now he desperately needed a victory now i know what you're thinking but oversimplified if lincoln loves general grant so much then why doesn't he put him in charge of the campaign in the east well guess what loyal subscriber you've hit the nail on the head you're bold grant i'll grant you that i'm promoting you to general in chief and i ain't taking you for granted now i want you to go to grant me my wish please stop so grant was put in charge and he came up with a new plan he wanted to press the confederates on all fronts with general at the same time mobile alabama general sherman moving south to atlanta and grant joining the army of the potomac as they advanced through virginia in may 1864 that plan went into action sherman steadily advanced on atlanta facing off against the smaller confederate army under general joseph e johnston in addition a cruel yet highly skilled cavalry general and winner of the funniest confederate statue award nathan bedford forest was also nearby doing his best to threaten sherman's advance but in a series of battles sherman dominated and pushed johnson back to the city but he was held just outside of atlanta itself and was forced to lay siege meanwhile the main show was happening to the east in virginia the union's top general was finally about to face off against the confederacies lincoln hoped grant would bring something new to the eastern theater and bring something new he did as grant began moving south lee still regularly outmaneuvered him and inflicted heavy casualties hoping to demoralize the north as much as he could but here's what set grant apart from others he knew lee was running out of men and that the north by comparison had plenty brandt would throw his forces at lee and even when lee repelled them grant move left move left move left to keep moving forward and flank lee again and again in under six weeks eighty thousand men would be killed wounded or missing in dc grant was criticized for being a butcher at the battle of the wilderness the union casualties were so heavy that grant reportedly began to weep but still grant could replace his losses lee couldn't and he was being pushed all the way back to richmond lee knew once he got there he'd be under siege then it would only be a matter of time and he said that too grant again suffered horrific casualties in a miscalculated assault at cold harbor then trying to be a trixty trickster instead of moving on richmond directly grant moved towards petersburg and this was brilliant capital and cut its supply line but just like sherman grant was halted outside of the city and he too was forced to settle in i don't remember the exact details but grant getting across the river and getting into petersburg uh by some fluke uh one of the confederate divisions that was in the area uh didn't obey the right orders or didn't get their orders in time or whatever happened because they didn't do what they were supposed to they actually ended up in position to stop grant from taking the city of petersburg uh he almost took the city of petersburg in the summer of 1864 and it very quickly could have been a matter of time from there but unfortunately that didn't happen but the reason he was going after petersburg is because it was this rail hub where all of the rail lines came in from other places in the south and so the reason that richmond ends up falling right after petersburg is that eventually uh in in late march beginning of april 65 the union army takes the last railroad going into petersburg and at that point lee's army couldn't hold the position for a siege two identical sieges would not be good enough for lincoln's re-election the people of the north saw the casualties grant had been taking and they weren't happy to make matters worse lee had sent jubal early north to threaten dc with the hope of forcing grant to withdraw troops from richmond early was repelled on the outskirts of the city with president lincoln battle of monocacy blue wallace and command there so with the war currently in a stalemate who was to be lincoln's opponent in the critical 1864 election little man with the democrats choose guess what baby i'm back that's right general george b mcclellan would run for president against abraham lincoln my fellow countrymen if you elect me i the great general george mcclellan will fearlessly and valiantly win the war unlike this douchebag many democrats however including mcclellan's running mate wanted to end the war so it's possible mcclellan may have ended up fearlessly and valiantly making peace with the confederates which is exactly what they were hoping for with the warnings yeah the democrats as a party wanted peace but mcclellan personally said he was going to keep fighting the world have a chance at surviving after all lincoln himself said that without some kind of major victory it seemed exceedingly probable that this administration will not be re-elected well fret not abe because if it's a major victory you want it's a major victory you'll get atlanta had been under siege by general sherman for just over a month after a number of battles around the city sherman sent to force south to sever the city's supply line and confederate general hood was forced to abandon it atlanta one of the confederacy's most important cities had fallen into union hands now interestingly atlanta is not the large city that it is today in fact i think it was only like the fifth largest city in georgia at the time uh atlanta's importance was because of its position because like petersburg it's a rail hub it's a supply hub uh it's not because it was a large city uh like it is today where it's the largest city in the south now for many it was clear that the confederacy's defeat was now inevitable and the war would soon be over when the finals i guess houston's bigger than texas with an electoral college landslide with the troops in particular voting overwhelmingly for lincoln yep which must have been touching for their commanders they had to have felt good yeah hey man looks like you lost no hard feelings i didn't lose i failed to win i merely failed to win in january lincoln involved himself heavily in ensuring the 13th amendment made it through that's what the movie lincoln is about check it out if you haven't seen it the amendment passed slavery would now be constitutionally banished throughout the nation black men and women watching the vote from the galleries knew the work had only just begun a couple months later at his second inauguration with victory right around the corner he didn't celebrate he didn't gloat this was lincoln's best speech better than the gettysburg address i think binding up wounds to him americans north or south were to again be compatriots however so yeah john wilkes booth is there so this is my favorite one of lincoln's speeches and if you go to the lincoln memorial on one side inside you have the gettysburg address on the other side you have the second inaugural and just a beautifully written speech where he talks about uh with malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right and then he talks about striving forward to to finish the work and to care for those who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan uh it's just an amazing speech already talking about reconciliation wanting to put the country back together listening to lincoln's speak that day was a man who had no idea you can see him in the picture john wilkes booth an actor living in dc was also a deep southern sympathizer and as the war turned against the confederacy depressed and full of hate he was already plotting his revenge on the man he held responsible with further confederate losses it was pretty clear at this point who would win but still jefferson davis showed no sign of giving in the north were frustrated to see the conflict being dragged out why waste more lives in atlanta general sherman believed he had the key to forcing the confederacy's hand he had an unusually modern concept that an army could only survive with the support of the people strike at the people and the army collapses sherman decided to do something unprecedented he would remove his 62 000 men from their supply line and march through the heartland of the confederacy where they would live off the land there they would wreak havoc as they marched they tore up railroads burned farms and destroyed communication lines they also liberated what you call total war the damage done it's the norm now 1.4 billion dollars but it was new at the time were cruel but to sherman it was better than losing yet more men in battle in december he reached savannah georgia but he wasn't done yet next he turned north to inflict his punishment on the first state to secede south carolina as he moved he came ever closer to general lee's army still holding out at petersburg the siege of petersburg had lasted for 292 days 60 000 of these men had deserted numerous union attempts to break through had failed but when the breakthrough finally came it came quick on april 2nd a union assault finally pushed the confederates from their defenses hey man there's no need to evacuate right you'll rescue us like last time jefferson davis was in church when he got the message telling him you need to evacuate the city right now able to meet up with general johnson and continue the fight grant chased him down richmond was evacuated and jefferson davis went on the run as they left the confederates set fire to military buildings but the flames burnt out of control and as the union troops arrived they became firefighters a couple of days later abraham lincoln visited the war-torn city he did grant caught up to lee at appomattox courthouse where he trapped his forces he was here yeah it was actually he sent phil sheridan to get on the other side of lee because what lee was trying to do is he's trying to get to lynchburg and he he wanted to then march south uh he had a bunch of supplies in lynchburg and if he could get to those supplies and then he could march south he could link up with joe johnston and together hopefully uh turn and try to defeat grant's army uh but obviously that wasn't to be april 9 1865 that lee saw no point in continuing uh sir listen bub i drank a bit too much he had a really bad migraine that morning so whatever it wasn't drinking it was a migraine uh generally he says he wants to surrender he said instantly it was gone when he found out of a nearby farm family owned by a man who had tried his best to escape the civil war years earlier wilmer maclean all right can we all just hurry up and get this over with martha not now i'm cleaning do you want us to get rats grant and lee after years of war now spoke respectfully to one another when lee left his face filled with emotion grant's men began to cheer but grant ordered them to stop he knew that now was the time for reconciliation just over two weeks later grant was such a great dude i mean honestly one of my favorite people in all of history 1 000 confederate soldiers in the largest surrender of the war not every confederate state had surrendered but the war was as good as over across the north church bells rang out and celebrations erupted in washington lincoln gave a speech from the white house to a jubilant crowd in which among various things he expressed his support for black voting rights lincoln had seen the nation through its deepest crisis the presidency look how much older he looked this was just a week or two before he was killed i think i am the tiredest man on earth i'm not sure tiredest is a word but jeez the man's exhausted cut him some slack on a carriage ride with mary lincoln clearly was looking forward to being a president in a time of peace he was apparently very cheerful surprising his wife and he told her that between the war and the loss of their son they'd both been very miserable now it was time to be happy on the evening of april 14th lincoln attended a play with his wife and some friends at ford's theater it was a comment now interestingly it was supposed to be the grants who accompanied them to the theater that night but they wanted to go and see their children and let's be honest mrs grant was no fan of mrs lincoln because mrs lincoln had been pretty awful to mrs grant and some others and i noticed that burnside's sitting in the crowd down here i don't think he was there but so henry rathbone is the guy and clara harris who i believe was the daughter of a senator accompanied them and a lot of people don't know this but later on a couple of years later rathbone actually murdered clara harris and then i think committed suicide or ended up in an asylum or something but just a tragic story there as well and so john wilkes booth actually knew this play it was called our american cousin and he knew when the big laugh line was it was something like uh i know enough to turn you up inside out old gal you sucked ologizing old man trap something of that effect and when everybody laughed that was when he fired and the president appeared to be enjoying it very much in a nearby bar john wilkes booth swallowed two glasses of brandy he slipped quietly into the president's booth and awaited for the audience's laughter to rise [Applause] the president was shot in the back of the head booth fled the city soldiers carried lincoln to a boarding house across they had also attacked the secretary of state there was nothing they could do you're supposed to kill the vice president broken wife son and members of cabinet at 7 22 the next morning president lincoln passed away never before had a president been murdered a shocked nation so interesting that they showed this picture uh let's talk about this picture this is new york city right over here in this window i believe it's been confirmed that is young theodore roosevelt and his brother um who i think elliot but the brother is the is the father of future first lady eleanor roosevelt who was teddy's niece but that's them in that picture right there birthday funeral procession carried lincoln back to his home in springfield illinois on april 26th union cavalry found john wilkes booth in a barn in virginia where he was shot not long after confederate president jefferson davis was also tracked down and arrested he was caught in georgia and future president woodrow wilson as a child in georgia jefferson davis at the time had in fact been legal to ensure reconciliation other confederate generals and politicians were allowed to re-enter life in the now restored union scattered fighting continued into may when the last confederate forces in texas disintegrated the southern states came under northern military occupation to prevent any further rebellion and a very difficult era of reconstruction began over 3 million americans had fought brother against brother the civil war remains the bloodiest conflict in u.s history but the union had been preserved you could say the real winners were those who were to never again be slaves further amendments passed by congress gave black individuals the right to citizenship and to vote significant progress had been made however entering into the 20th century it was clear the fight for equality would continue in modern america the man who fought to preserve the nation and never gave up in 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 ever strive to be [Music] so um i don't really have a lot to add to that um we could talk about reconstruction and what a disaster that was uh for the former slaves mostly because in my mind andrew johnson oversaw it and and really did everything he could to keep it from being effective i think in hindsight the decision to put johnson on the ticket with lincoln was one of the worst decisions in american history of course nobody knew that lincoln was going to die and that that was going to happen but that's the unfortunate reality but let me know your thoughts use the comment section below if you hit that like button i greatly appreciate it we'll be back again tomorrow with another video thanks for watching

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