The American Civil War (Part 2) - OverSimplified REACTION

and welcome back to hi train second part oversimplifies the American Civil War parts whoo and you don't know this but this is actually our first row it's that good Oh straight up a lot of people mention that we didn't know too much about slavery before we didn't know about slider we didn't know that there is some little facts in there and we don't get shown American history well if we did it was a school for me many years ago a few quite a few years ago so probably forgot half of these yeah that's pretty much sums up but that's the great thing about the oversimplified Channel yeah and there are others out there as well don't give me to watch them probably remember because that's the thing they are great very visual and short and comic engaging is the word you looking for line there and I can see some people saying the comments are they on our previous episode that's some some of the schools locally to them do actually show them oversimplified videos which is what I do and yeah we'll leave the link to this particular video in the description below by all means check out their channel if you haven't done so before and if you have and you're not done also ready be sure to support them because this channel by far is one of my most favorite up there on Eugene yeah so yeah without further ado let's go for this second part as the unions 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 son 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 to the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg both sides knew that a fix burg 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 haven't given general McClellan all right mr. president option one is general hooker bit of a nutcase but a good general option to his qualifications are his name is Burnside and his frickin dope-ass sideburns say no more so general Francois put in charge of the Army of the Potomac and sent South Lincoln hoped he finally had it 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 and delivering the pontoon bridges and the two sides were forced to camp across from each other there's 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 dude I'm cool 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 in one moment of camaraderie a competitor argent unable to take it reportedly came out into the field to tend to the Union wounded seeing this the Union troops held their fire still burns and his forces were soundly defeated at Fredericksburg and forced to retreat Lincoln's popular heroes from Turner morale continued because sir : especially as the winter heading into 1863 was bad the winter counts were rife with disease the food was less than appealing on both sides men began to leave hey what 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 ever the kind and caring man he was spent much of his time pardoning deserters 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 Oh what to try to keep the numbers up both sides had introduced conscription there is controversy in the north however since Richmond could simply pay to have someone else fight on their behalf riots broke out in 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 however after so much pressure 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 ok 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 Lincoln ordered him to move south and take Richmond Hooker met Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville where hooker had over twice the men leaving 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 Lee did suffer one significant loss during the battle though as his right-hand man Stonewall Jackson was writing back to the Confederates at night the nervous Confederate troops might unable to recognize him open fire huh finally fought you boys done goofed up Jackson died eight days later as for Lincoln 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 made Hong Kong coming in - it'll take Vicksburg on the Mississippi he made a series of risky and bold movements he sent the cavalry Rick campaigned Sherman north to confuse the enemy then aided by a fleet of iron clads 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 northeast hitting Vicksburg 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 the Union hence 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 but the creative minds at the time came up with the ingenious West Lincoln once again wanted a new general to take command oh my goodness why do all these nineteenth-century generals look so bust look we got sleepy ice Joe here that's Princess Leia with a moustache she phoned the doctor fine why don't we give snapping turtle Mickey here a shot so general snapping turtle Mickey 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 generally knew the longer the war lasted the worse their chances got and he still hoped if he could just threaten DC he already demoralized north with surrender so in June 1863 with a momentum behind him General Lee once again entered the north fighting his way through Maryland running the Pennsylvania General means set out to meet him for what would be the most significant battle of the entire war if the Confederates 1dc 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 was Gettysburg Pennsylvania On June first units from each army encountered one another and skirmished through the town itself the townspeople were forced to take 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 Union Colonel Joshua Chamberlain ordered a desperate bayonet charge smashing into the Confederates and forcing them back the Union forces held across the line on the final day Lee believed the Union Army had fortified its flanks so he decided to finish them off with one massive central assault the Confederates rushed at the Indian lines during general Pickett's Charge and this time it was the Union Stern unleash health Meade had correctly guessed Lee's strategy and the Confederates were decimated forced to turn and flee a devastated generally cold app to his fleeing and wounded men telling them it was his fault and after holding for a counter-attack that never came he ordered a retreat back into Virginia the North had just managed to score a massive victory and won they desperately needed and if that wasn't enough in the West after a month-long siege Vicksburg finally fell the North now held the Mississippi and better yet it was the 4th of July huh with control of the Mississippi Union forces moved into Arkansas and Tennessee Tennessee in particular saw heavy fighting with Union general Rosecrans masterfully pushing Braxton Bragg's army of the Tennessee of Tennessee he suffered a major setback however at the bloody Battle of Chickamauga and ended up under Confederate siege at Chattanooga at one point during the siege a temporary truce was declared so that wounded men could be recovered and often in the city during these small truces men from both sides would meet in the middle to trade things like tobacco coffee and maybe even honey do you like honey me too and you know what rhymes with honey money did you know honey can help you save the money let me explain honey is a free browser extension that automatically finds you the best coupon codes when you buy stuff online for free for example I am purchasing a hundred pepperoni pizzas because what the heck I do what I want with just the click of a button I've saved two hundred and ten dollars nice honey works with over 30 website including eBay target's Minh and Expedia and it's only for simplified subscribers over 46,000 dollars in save it takes just two clicks to install and better yet it's absolutely positively 100% free gut honey now you're looking on the link in the description below join honey calm slash oversimplified that's join honey calm slash oversimplified and as always you'll be supporting my channel so thank you now where was I oh yeah Vicksburg fourth of July and the siege of Chattanooga thankfully General Grant now in charge of all Western Union armies showed up and karate kicked brag right back into Georgia like this with Sherman and Hooker grant took on Confederate positions in the mountains around the city including the famous battle above the clouds and Mission Ridge Brandt continued to be Lincoln's number one guy with these victories Lincoln helped 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 woman such as Clara Barton rose to the occasion doing crucial work on the homefront and volunteering as nurses for those who had given their lives a new National Cemetery was to be established Gettys Mars and Abraham Lincoln traveled out to attend the opening ceremony at the event the main speaker spoke for two hours then Abraham Lincoln was called forward to give some brief appropriate remarks in just two minutes he masterfully and pointedly 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 I've heard of the place I didn't realize it was a speech which became famous for violent like very famous yeah yeah the so that's where which will English things over not the American so history in America is different in schools to what we again well was when we were growing up and learning but it might be different manner but we do get to hear some other things in history from different areas the world officers the great thing about the internet everyone hears everything now and things like this helps share that information that we're seeing that kind of side to this already where you've got like Boise the Confederates well you basically up the two sides and then they've become friends during the boulder and they where they yeah they relax the rules or the laws are there bell rings about are they notice in this particular war so like oh you you retreat a little bit and we'll but really then you can gather your resources back and help your wounded out and the injured are then I mean that other one where they're near the beginning of that we're literally War the Confederates like well they picture this jumping over the wall because there's like it was like they were going out in no-man's land mend a way that there certainly are just like saying this is just crazy what we doing and I mean he nearly took them by going up to go spoke to me so almost into their area didn't he and then sewed really all like it was save themselves he didn't lose an area I mean they could have lost the whole Walton they were the lost the whole war they going to gays Bergen going to DC they were the potentially lost that whole Ward I said Marvel would have been down and then Lincoln could have been the end of it because a picture came out that would have been I don't know who else with a took up his mantle to carry on and it seems like he was the figurehead decided to go for it well they were now making 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 as 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 promoting you to General in chief and I ain't taking you for granted now I want you to go too deeply grant me my wish please stop and he came with a new plan you wanted to press the Confederates on all fronts with general banks to capture 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 a smaller Confederate Army under General Joseph Johnston in addition a cruel yet highly skilled cavalry general and winner of the funniest Confederate statue award Nathan Bedford Forrest 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 is happening to the east in Virginia the union's top General was finally about to face off against the Confederacy's Lincoln hooked 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 lay his short term others newly 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 rather than pulling back would give the order to keep moving forward and frankly again and again in under six weeks 80,000 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 close to Richmond grant again suffered horrific casualties in a miscalculated assault at Cold Harbor then trying to be a tricks T trickster instead of moving on Richmond directly grant move towards Petersburg to fight the Confederate capital and cut its supply line but just like Sherman bombs that was halted outside of the city and he too was forced to settle in 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 nor threatened EC with the hope of forcing grant to withdraw troops from Richmond early was repelled on the outskirts of the city with President Lincoln even attending as an observer but the North had been given a fright so with the war currently in a stalemate who was to be Lincoln's opponent in the critical 1864 election who would the Democrats shoes 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 generously and valiant his 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 fearless Lee and valiantly making peace with the Confederates which is exactly what they were hoping for with the war in a stalemate and Lincoln still not popular it looked like McClellan would win and the Confederacy may 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 reelected will fret not Abe because of 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 a Forsyth to sever the city 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 for many it was clear that the Confederacy's defeat was now inevitable and the war would soon be over when the final results came in Lincoln had won with an electrode landslides with the troops in particular voting overwhelming for Lincoln which must have been touching for their commander-in-chief hey man looks like you lost no hard feelings I didn't lose a merely failed to win in January I told himself heaven ensuring the 13th amendment made it through Congress in a narrow and historic vote 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 instead he emphasized the need for reunification and binding up wounds to him Americans north or south were to again be compatriots however listening to Lincoln's speak that day was a man who had no interest in reunification John Wilkes Booth iron 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 men he held retire with further Confederate losses it was pretty clear at this point who would win but still Jefferson Davis showed no sign of giving it the North were frustrated to see the conflict being dragged down 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 on precedent 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 thousands of slaves the damage done was estimated at one point four billion dollars that's that's not tactics I know there is in these wars the tactical side of it where they can't sleep like they flank and all that and you see them taking out the supply lines I'm always done them at one point four billion in damage yeah actually use all these skills to do all that nowadays if we just drop a bomb on it but yeah you're probably like I can't go over this election thing either doing like one of the biggest wars in American history they still have an election doing this yeah that's actually I find out I'll just find out weird do you find that way those are just me um and then from McClellan to come in there yeah I guess it was that much going on in England you'd sort of you'd know yes sir I guess it being such a big country it was like the most urban areas have a calmness and then those solid battles going on so 300 mile away you'd pull a maybe even the fort maybe the election but they got postponed potentially a small with the fall with a happy to say in England you know their vote because you couldn't really have election in amazement weird but that's all see how it was there back then I said oh we got McLaren coming in there for the election I was you find that I mean he literally he got sacked he was useless he he would not do as Lincoln said we saw that in the previous episode he tried that way he were to stay there and fight from a distance then pretty much on the house the rest are tree yes go for their troops I'll stay here and tell you what to do yeah the tactics 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 afflict his punishment subsidized Scecina 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 Oh 60,000 of Lee's 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 right sorry Lee narrowly escaped the city hoping he'd be 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 competitor set fire to military buildings but the flames burned out of control and as the Union troops arrived they became fire fighters a couple of days later abraham lincoln visited the war-torn city grant caught up to Lee at Appomattox Courthouse where he trapped his forces it was here on April 9th 1865 that Lee saw no point in continuing sir listen bub I drink a bit too much last night and now I'm hanging like a fruit bat on a hot day so whatever you have to say I don't want to hear it General Lee says he wants to surrender but Diggity Dog Renton met in the home of a nearby farm family owned by a man who had tried his best to escape the Civil War year earlier Wilmer McLean all right can we all just hurry up and get this over way Martha not now I'm cleaning do you want us to get rats Branton Lee after years of war now spoke respectfully to one another when Lee left his face filled with emotion grands men began to cheer but brent ordered them to stop he knew that now was the time for reconciliation just over two weeks later general Johnson would surrender to Sherman ending the war for eighty nine thousand 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 engaged him he had lost over 20 pounds he said sometimes I think I am the tiredest man on earth I'm not sure tiredest his award but geez 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 that both Ben got miserable now it was time to be happy on the evening of April 14th and Lincoln attended a play with his wife and some friends at Ford's Theater it was a comedy 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 hmm the president was shot in the back of the head booth fled the city soldiers carried Lincoln to a boarding house across the street there doctors declared there was nothing they could do surrounded by his heartbroken wife son and members of cabinet at 7:22 the next morning President Lincoln passed away tau never before had a president been murdered a shocked nation mourned as a 12-day 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 in prison for two years he was eventually released the North didn't want to put him on trial for fear the jury may rule that southern secession 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 three million Americans had fought brother against brother the Civil War remains the bloodiest / finest but the Union had been preserved you could say the real winners were those who were to never again be slaves further a minutes 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 yeah fire of 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 oh yeah yeah here's one of the the icons that everyone knows of us quite emotional s like I never I've grown up my first faults of Abraham Lincoln when I was growing up try not the slavery of this was the film called Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure that's what I figures I'm pretty sure if I'm gonna go yeah it wasn't in that Lincoln was in there and it's why I first got because I was very young when that came out sorry Kofi not and I got to hear a little bit more of Lincoln as I grew up but not a lot and this is the first real glimpse of understanding where he was that in the years even before that might happen at the play you know and he didn't get a quiet normal if that's the right wiper net presidency and know he's always fighting sound of it and stress and sleep-deprived and he lost do you remember he lost his 11 year old son during this and to see that to see that guy at the ends here where would America be or where would the world be had he had not stood off why he believed in the search yeah he has read to turn the world and he yeah brilliant I would love to actually if I were simplified just to the video just on Lincoln's life what's still putting watch that yeah I actually don't know what no more now Abraham Lincoln there was actually thinking about those a film weren't though oh yeah Daniel day-lewis in it that was called Lincoln now I've not watched that movie I'll go I'll watch and have you seen them for the Lincoln movie on preesh that was where Steven Spielberg directed I've not watched it I ve got an Oscar for I want to be fed Daniel day-lewis an Oscar for the last one I saw was about killing vampires or sana this really weird filled with immense during the rounds leave a link it'll take a day Lewis no Abraham Lincoln killing vampires it was some weird film yeah no you know but no Sousa get back to that the war as it was that's quite striking they're free cause of a million people now you think now that might not be a lot but back then that was a huge number well I said the population was a lot lower yeah it's a strange rule when it was basically over I don't know the south and you have in there had slaves because they couldn't afford well didn't want to know can afford to play something like the continents well yes it's likely no livelihoods they were fighting for at first and some people as you mentioned it's a great way of the terminology that is the slaves don't figure slaves just people that work for your finger slaves is like land itself your they are actually a prized possession they are now worth value they are worth for money themselves so that's where it became yeah different don't think of it like I just may have a slavery and I just work but it's not just about that you know they have a work so to give up their slaves just giving up here I love that what but you know their livelihoods themselves well they could afford so tragic very misguided back then but then it was like that all the way around the world us even in the comment said we we appreciate you that everywhere has had slaves hopefully that's something which it took a long time to come I don't know I mean yeah when I'm saying yeah this is essentially slaves out there berries in its minority knowing that that long ago start to decline yeah I like any force on this part so when we mentioned that as well whack it down below like so do read them might not answer nowhere we do read them well now if you still have a face in joining us some see was a catch on the flip side

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Published: Sat Feb 08 2020