Debacle at Balls Bluff: The Battle that Changed the War (Lecture)

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• MO

  @movieklump · 6 years ago

  As one in ten union generals were killed in the civil war, even more that fought the whole war like Stone, it is not impossible that Balls Bluff saved Stone's life.

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• AL

  @alanaadams7440 · 3 years ago

  You would have thought Stone would have told Baker that he wasnt coming

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• RE

  @rebeccabsomanybooks3558 · 8 years ago

  Thank you for presenting this insightful lecture. It is timely for me as I am reading about the Civil War. Thank you Ranger Gwyn

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• JR

  @jrg7951 · 6 years ago

  Great battlefield to visit and get a look at the Ravine.

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• SK

  @SkeptiGed · 8 years ago

  Thank you for doing this, it was a pleasure to watch. <br><br>Also, congratulations on almost reaching 10k subscribers. <br><br>Cheers from Denmark.

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• XM

  @XM-qk5sh · 5 years ago

  Very interesting presentation. Thank you

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• DO

  @dougsmith8430 · 1 year ago

  This presentation on Balls Bluff was very well done! This young Man was very well read on the subject matter. Though it may have been one of the smaller battles in the Civil War, what it brought about with the committee on the war’s affairs had an impact on all the generals in the union Army from that point in late 1861, &nbsp;through the end of the war.

• TR

  @travisbayles870 · 1 year ago

  My great great great uncle Captain Wesley Mellard Co H 13th Mississippi Infantry Barksdales brigade CSA fought at Balls Bluff A sad and a terrible day for both sides Thanks for sharing this program It was very interesting

• MA

  @markchristman1076 · 2 years ago

  Went there in the 80&apos;s with some family on a fall afternoon, very quiet, isolated. Not now houses fill the area, really a shame, such a difference.

• RO

  @robertalpy9422 · 5 years ago

  Poor man. He fell afoul of the radical Republicans like Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, Senator Wade From Massachusetts and worst of all Secretary of War Stanton who destroyed men who disagreed with him openly.<br>He was right and was following President Lincolns orders by returning runaway slaves from Maryland to their owners. Lincoln was nervous to lose the border States to the confederacy which is why he specifically left those states out of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln wanted to avoid losing the border States at all costs but could not be seen to openly challenge the radical Republicans by saving Stone who was doing exactly what Lincoln wanted but exactly what the radical Republicans did not want. This was one of the rare instances where Lincoln showed cowardice and let a subordinate take the fall for carrying out his policy. The radical Republicans could not punish Lincoln who they thought was too moderate so they went after guys like Stone in his place almost daring The President to save him and open himself up to retribution and perhaps even being replaced on the republican ticket. It wasn&apos;t until his reelection and his plans to introduce the 13th amendment that the radicals finally trusted him and stopped trying to sabotage President Lincoln.

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• KA

  @kaewonf8 · 5 years ago

  A swamp, even then.

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• IN

  @indy_go_blue6048 · 8 years ago (edited)

  Baker was a Pygmy thinking he was a Watusi at Ball&apos;s Bluff. He was largely responsible for getting the Union men into a totally untenable situation that caused a huge amount of unnecessary death and suffering.

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