Civil War Series - Episode 7 - Petersburg: Graveyard of the Confederacy

Feels lost-cause-ish

As I understand it, what happened at the crater was even worse than what you described. Ferarro's division WAS specifically trained in post-detonation maneuvers; at least as well-trained as anyone could be for those circumstances. But the Union was hesitant to use their black troops in active combat of any kind. Credit actually goes to General Burnside, as he was the only general among the Union command who supported its use. Even General Grant caved in to the pressure placed upon him not to use it. Worse than that, I believe the real reason why the Union didn't want to use black troops for combat purposes is NOT it was afraid they would fail, but just the opposite; it was afraid they would succeed. There were plenty of racists in the north as well as the south. If the black troops actually performed well in combat, they'd be forced to rethink their entire racial philosophy and God forbid that should happen. I believe one Confederate politician said it best about blacks in combat, "If they should make good soldiers, then our entire theory of slavery is wrong."

What if Custer was commanding?

Trump said he would have negotiated the end of slavery

As brilliant as he was, I will never understand why Robert E Lee. stayed at Gettysburg. Pickett's charge? Just stupid.

Many years ago, I was NCOIC of 30 enlisted Marines who were attending the Army Bulk Fuel School at Fort Lee Virginia, (right next to the Petersburg National Battlefield). One afternoon my troops were on the regular "policing the area" detail, picking up everything that wasn't growing or mineral, and one Private picked something he thought was a cigarette butt. He brought it over to me, and asked, "What is this Gunny?" It was an old .58 cal Minie Ball. It had rifling marks on it, so it had been fired from a Civil War rifle. Even after over 100 years, there are still Minie Balls from the Siege of Petersburg being discovered in that part of Virginia. You're forbidden from picking up that kind of object in the Petersburg National Battlefield, but this was on Fort Lee property, so I told him to keep it.

I am not who wants to favor traitors. Confederate leaders were lucky as President Johnson & General Grant were not interested in prosecuting traitors as most of Confederate leaders had sworn allegiance to the USA. I am a veteran and know what it is to support our USA.

No I am pleased. Who wants traiitors to win

Well, Longstreet did warn Lee and his fellow Generals after The Wilderness, that unlike the other Union Commanders, Grant would not retreat back to Washington, and would fight every day if he had to.

I don't see why the South didn't put slaves in the army before it was too late

Lee was a seditionist and a traitor to the Union. Loser that faded into history as a nobody

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This is Lost Cause propaganda.

What a great Civil War series! Major kudos to Virginia Tech and all parties involved in its creation. It warms my heart to see people so dedicated to documenting and preserving our shared national heritage. In these troubled times the importance of doing so has never been higher.

Great! To say the least

right there in that building they practiced there witch craft the troops who took it should have razed it to thhe ground talking aout a church when everything going in kept men as slaves them and their christian BS for i don't recall the one they call christ having kept slaves but now the woe comes both militaries better try and prepare for the chariots of the most high which advance party is already and set to go the civil war is a scratch to what about to happen to them that took this land through blood

The crossing of the james is the most criminally underrated moment of the war

You would have to starve them out cut off their water and food cant go that long without water destroy all the supply trains and wagons and railroads

How did the confederates get their supplies during this siege

The confederates should have moved the confederate capital further south

Lee was also called Granny Lee and The King of Spades. Realistically known as the Confederate General, who was soundly defeated at Gettysburg in 1863 and finally surrendered his army to the victorious Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.

"Any heroism of the Confederates was stained by the unjustness of their cause."
I think Winston Churchill said that.

Lee should have surrendered at Gettysburg.
There were no great generals in the Civil War.
Grant just engaged in the obvious war of attrition against a vastly out-numbered out-supplied out-gunned starving Confederacy at a huge sacrifice of death and carnage to his own troops.
The fault really lies with Lee who surely must have known the futility of the Lost Cause after Gettysburg.

Let him up easy, let um up easy.

Thank you, Generals Meade, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and all the Union soldiers who fought to save the USA. Thanks to the 200,000 United States Colored Troops who fought to end African American slavery. Thank you, Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Thanks also to all of the abolitionists who labored to end slavery in the USA.

love James accent. could listen to it all day

ALL OF THAT DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BECAUSE LINCOLN DEMANDED REVENUE TAX MONEY!


English author, Charles Dickens, author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist:
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for ECONOMIC CONTROL (cotton and other raw materials) of the Southern states." (Google: Charles Dickens, piece of specious humbug).
Dickens owned a magazine called All the Year Round. In it, an article attacked the tariff . “…under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the TWO CHIEF MOVING CAUSES of the struggle,” it said. “Union means so many millions ($$$) a year lost to the South; SECESSION means the loss of the same millions ($$$) to the North. The love of money is the root of this, as of many other evils…”

Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO. 81, April 19, 1861, just five days after the evacuation of Ft Sumter.
"Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE (TAX MONEY) can not be effectually executed therein comformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires DUTIES (REVENUE TAX MONEY) to be uniform throughout the United States:...
NOTE: President Abraham Lincoln blames the "insurrection" (secessiin) on the collection of REVENUE TAX MONEY. Not on States Rights, politics, slavery or any other reason. In none of these documents does the Union Executive or Legislature refer to the secession of States as unconstitutional or illegal! Lincoln KNOWS that secession IS A RIGHT (9th & 10th Amendments) but because of REVENUE TAX MONEY, he refuses to allow the South to secede peacefully.

Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO. 82, April 27 1861, a week after the previous Proclamation as more States seceded from the Union.
"Whereas for the reasons assigned in my Proclamation of the 19th instance., a blockade of the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, was ordered to be established, and whereas, since that date, public property of the United States has been seized, THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE (TAX MONEY) OBSTRUCTED, and duly commissioned officers of the United States, while engaged in executing the orders of their superiors have been arrested and held in custody as prisoners, or have been impeded in the discharge of their official duties, without due legal process, by persons claiming to act under authority of the States of Virginia and North Carolina. An efficient blockade of the ports of those States will therefore also be established. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 27th day of April, A.D. 1861, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-fifth."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO 89, May 12, 1862: (third paragraph)
"Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in me vested by the fifth section of the act of Congress approved on the 13th of July last, entitled "An act further TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF "DUTIES ON IMPORTS" (REVENUE TAX MONEY), and for other purposes," do hereby declare that the blockade of the said ports of Beaufort, Port Royal, and New Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the 1st day of June next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on subject to the laws of the United States and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order of this date, which is appended to this proclamation."

Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO. 91, July 1, 1862
......"(Specific locations in the South) --are now in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is obstructed so that the provisions of the "Act to provide INCREASED REVENUE FROM IMPORTS, to pay the INTEREST on the PUBLIC DEBT, and for other purposes," approved August 5, 1861, CAN NOT BE PEACEABLY EXECUTED; and that the TAXES legally CHARGEABLE UPON REAL ESTATE under the act last aforesaid lying within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together WITH A PENALTY OF 50 PER CENTUM of said TAXES, shall be a lien upon the TRACTS or LOTS of the same, severally charged, till paid.

Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO. 105, September 24, 1863
"An act further to provide for the collection of duties (REVENUE TAX MONEY) on imports and for other purposes," do hereby declare that the blockade of the said port of Alexandria shall so far cease ...."

Crittenden-Johnson Resolution issued by the US House of Representatives, 25 July, 1861 four days after the defeat of the invading US Army at Manassas, VA (Bull Run).
"Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, WILL RECOLLECT_ ONLY_ ITS DUTY (REVENUE TAX MONEY) TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established INSTITUTIONS (slavery) of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to PRESERVE THE UNION (TREASURY), with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.

Virginia: Graveyard of the Army of the Potomac.

How we now need a HUMBLE MAN AS GRANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!

Don't understand why Fredericksburg is not included. The bluebellies took a drumming up agin that stonewall. Burnside was incompetent, but at least not a drunk! The Mud March was a fiasco too. DEO VINDICE

Ulysses made Lee his boy 🐣

Oh dear all conferdate officers are geniuses. Who won the war. I have no side. I am not American but this is so biased as to be almost ridiculous.

This is one of the best Civil War Series I’ve ever watched.

Very well done, thank you.

in 1864 the greatest country in the history of the world died. it was started by thirteen colonies and those colonies especially those of the south loved freedom and self determination. but it was a country that lived by the sword and thus died by the sword.

This documentary is biased as hell. Grant was the first of the new aged Generals and captured Three Armies including Vicksburg. Give that man his due! Lost Cause propaganda is BS.

Thos series is very good

Lee never stung Grant; at Cold Harbor; because no man wants to die or kill another..and then Lee was defeated..

After considering the great battle of the beards that they called the American civil war I would have to say that after much consideration I think the best facial hair belongs to JEB Stuart. There are longer beards and bushier beards but no beard is as biblically epic as Stuart's.

Lee did not learn the lesson from George Washington: Keep your army intact to fight another day even if it means giving up a certain place, despite Lee`s successes he allowed his army to become bottled up to protect Richmond, where as Washington allowed the British to take towns and cities, he kept his army intact and not with the dogma that Lee had to protect a City, the British took New York City and Philidelphia, the seat of Congress, but the American army abandoned these areas to fight another day.

God bless Virginia Tech. And thanks for the great videos!

My great great grandfather fought with k Company 51st NC. Confederate Stars

So much jerking off of Confederates here. They "won" all the way to the graveyard of history. Losers.

I hate to say it but lee failed when Grant crossed the James River in 1864 if the crossing of the James was stopped who knows what could have happened the crossing of the James should be remembered along with Washington crossing the Delaware

I see by the thumbs, there are two very ignorant people that watched the video. Perhaps they were expecting the s.j.w. version of events since the video bares the name of the liberal snot rag PBS. The best strategist, is a general who can win against overwhelming numbers and arms, as did Lee, Jackson, A P Hill, A S Johnston, Beauregard, Longstreet and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Which explains why they have been studied by military scholars worldwide. Good honest objective video Sir.

What a racist pro confederacy video. To hear these experts talk you would think the south one. Robert e lee won some battles while the genius grant could conceive grand strategy.

The name of the episode is wrong. Episode 7 is Robert E. Lee. Episode 9 is Petersburg: The Graveyard of the Confederacy.