Battle for the South ⚔️ How did the Union Strategy prevail in the American Civil War? DOCUMENTARY

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🚩 The four-year long Civil War in the United States was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. But how did the Union manage to create and execute a military strategy that played into its strengths and Confederate weaknesses, to achieve final victory?

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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[HistoryMarche]

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🚩 The four-year long Civil War in the United States was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. But how did the Union manage to create and execute a military strategy that played into its strengths and Confederate weaknesses, to achieve final victory?

[Dystopia]

That segueway into the commercial was so smooth I'm not actually sure when it began. For a moment there I was trying to understand how investments in art connected to the Northern plan to blockade the South. I had a Rick and Morty "Oh my God! It's still the commercial!" moment there, but in reverse.

[grandadmiralzaarin]

McClellan was entirely too timid as a frontline commander, but he was a genius at logistics, organization and training the forces he commanded. He laid the solid foundation of the professional fighting force that Grant successfully ground Lee down with. The Anaconda Plan was also pivotal for strangling the South.

This combined with Jefferson Davis favoritism of Braxton Bragg's incompetence and personal grudge against Joseph E. Johnston directly lead to the loss of Atlanta and the virtual annihilation of the Army of Tennessee as a viable fighting force while ensuring the crippling of what little ability the South had to continue the war.

[FlashPointHx]

Brilliantly done! I did a Civil War Battlefield tour a few years ago of the eastern battlefields . This brought me back.

[thefreeman]

I found this video to be pretty decent. It ends up demonstrating what Grant said was the reason for the union victory. In July of 1865 Grant wrote a summary of why they won the war and he said: “The enemy had far inferior resources and so I determined to make the war one of attrition so that there be no other recourse to them but surrender.” His strategy was to grind them down, as this video demonstrated.

[LighthawkTenchi]

My great-great-great grandfather signed up for the 10th West Virginia infantry in 1863 at just 16 years old. He wanted to fight for the Union, which WV had chosen to join. I also just realized that Lee’s surrender and Lincoln’s assassination took place in the same week.

[Mr_M_History]

As a History Teacher I love using History Marche in the classroom. Keep up the great work!

[spencerirvine]

As an amateur U.S. Civil War buff, I’m so happy to see an excellent overview of how the strategy played out. Superb video!

[Magnus_Opus]

“Unwilling to risk a head-on battle with the confederates with only 150k men. . .” - McClellan didn’t lose though, he merely failed to win.

[trentondamm]

Wow!! What a change of pace from European history. I am not complaining!!! This is so awesome please make some more!!!!👏👍

[Mustang-wtse]

While Grant did wear down Lee what I think is really overlooked is how each battle threatened Lee’s position and forced him to keep retreating to Richmond until he had nowhere to go, trapping him. It was surrender the Capitol or die

[flyingsquirrell]

The Union Late war strategy was brilliant: “We win by just not retreating, if we can’t lose, then we have to win.”

[charlessaint]

"General Pickett, why did your charge at Gettysburg fail?"
General Pickett replied, *I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.*

[Xennercarr]

Please please please do a whole series on the American Civil War! The way y’all make content makes me miss the old Civil War history books that had battle maps and extreme detail of every fight. This would be an AMAZING series.

[gareththompson]

0:20 Actually a numerical advantage of 3 or 4 to 1 is only needed at the tactical level, to take individual positions (and even that is only a recommendation, and you can make do with just 2 to 1). At the operational and strategic layers of war you can shuffle your troops around to get those local 3:1 numerical advantages with only a moderate global numerical advantage (sometimes with no numerical advantage (in Italy Napoleon was outnumbered overall, but always managed to fight individual battles with a numerical advantage (a lot of people think Napoleon was a tactical genius, but I think he was really an operational genius))). Of course that is difficult to do if the enemy is constantly mirroring your troop shuffling with shuffling of their own, which is why deception is often so important.

[thefifthtetrarch]

As a fan of Historymarche, it is cool to see unique videos like these about different conflicts than normal.

[AustinAOkay]

Civil war reenactor here for the 20th Maine volunteer infantry. Hearing your voice and the history you’ve covered its crazy to hear it narrate on our history which is modern in comparison

[coffeemaiden]

Its neccessary to comprehend that having a big population and industrial capabilities it's not as in a videogame, in real life it is also requires to administrate such economical forces, and then be able to supply the army, and then make plans to coordinate the movements and logistics of the army.

Logistic and strategic geniuses tend to be overshadowed by flashy tactical masters, however they are arguably more important and decisive.

[jeffk]

I’ve learned about all this before, but seeing it depicted in maps really helps understand the underlying strategy of the combatants more.

[jdtplays]

It was the transition to the ad for me. When I noticed that it was an advertisement, it was already too late. 🤣