The Civil War in four minutes

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[Von Mudra]

Whoa, awesome! The Civil War was always my favourite part of history since I was a kid, in fact, its what got me into history

[[130.Pz]W.Fuchs]

Excellent find!
Very interesting to watch, since I don't know much about the US Civil War

[stylie]

Seriously, I love these breakdowns. I know it sounds funny but they really do help to understand how it all unfolds, even if its compressed like that.

[Uberhauptstormfuhrer]

One thing i found weird was why they never cut the bulge on the Mississippi river? Because a few months later they reunited with the forces in New Orleans.

No troops?

Also the front line seems to be shifting alot

[Von Mudra]

Its the CSA, they had frew resources. Kirby, the confederate general in Texas, ended up basically creating his own nation, and defending it damn well with the scarce resources he had, but never ventured out.

As for frontline shifting, that was due to the many independent units that were around, especially for the confederates.

[Admiral Donutz]

Originally Posted by Uberhauptstormfuhrer

One thing i found weird was why they never cut the bulge on the Mississippi river? Because a few months later they reunited with the forces in New Orleans.

No troops?

Also the front line seems to be shifting alot

I guess they tried and failed or didn't have the resources to do so.

I don't know jack shit about the american civil war, why is the west coast (hell pretty much everything west of centre) not in the animation? No wars there? Not enough data?

[Von Mudra]

There was no fighting on the west coast, Donutz. The entire pacific coast was Union, and there were only a few random forays in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico, with nothing really ever happening.

[[130pz.]Kading]

the glorious california republic, wise beyond its years, decided to remain relatively neutral throught the war until it was clear that the union had far better drugs (morphine! WOOO!!!) and dispatched its finest unit of Camel Cavalry from the bowels of the mohave desert into the fighting in arizona! CAMEL CORPS FTW!!

based on a semi-true story. but muddy is right, all the fighting took place on the east coast and the midwest, the united states wasnt always as complete and pretty looking as it is now. back then it was like this


PS, YAH!! UNION FOREVER! HOORAH BOYS, HOORAH!!

[FlyGuy45]

Shokan Farewell is pwn music.

Great find.

I did not know the war went like this.

Why did random battle appear up North? Revolts?
How close did the CSA come to Washington?

[Cadyshack]

@FlyGuy: There's a myth that if true, would put the CSA practically on White House grounds (as in Lincoln's horse trail or something like that). The myth is that a Confederate guy hid along the trail, and attempted to shoot Lincoln on his morning ride.

He would miss, possibly going through the hat.

Fantastic find. I thought Sherman was farther south than he had actually gone, and I didn't really know about many of the beachheads other than New Orleans.

[[130pz.]Kading]

the confederates made several pushes well into the north, in fact, the two bloodiest battles in american history were fought in the north: Sharpsburg (known in the north as the battle of Antietam Creek) in Maryland (fun fact, the bloodiest day in american history with 23,000 casualties on both sides, comparable to the total american losses on Iwo Jima), and of course, Ghettysburg, the single bloodiest battle in american history with 50,000 dead or wounded.

however, the south did have a generally defensive strategy, as it required less output of industry and manpower. ironic as those filthy traitors started it.

[LIGHTNING [NL]]

Originally Posted by Admiral Donutz

I don't know jack shit about the american civil war, why is the west coast (hell pretty much everything west of centre) not in the animation? No wars there? Not enough data?

You also have to remember that the US only annexed the current western US in 1846 - 1848. That's only 15 years before the Civil War broke out.

[Wilhelm]

It was also interesting to see a relatively long 'stalemate' near the start of the war. The animation showed a little fighting along the border of the North and Confederate lines, but then they seemed to stop fighting for several weeks/months.

I really like this presentation of the war. Awesome find!

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

Originally Posted by Wilhelm

It was also interesting to see a relatively long 'stalemate' near the start of the war. The animation showed a little fighting along the border of the North and Confederate lines, but then they seemed to stop fighting for several weeks/months.

Fighting tended to slow in the winter as heavy rains turned roads into a cold muddy impassable mess.