History WebVideo / CheckmateLincolnites

* DeadArtistsAreBetter: While Billy says that "Stonewall" Jackson was indeed a matchless offensive general, even admitting he likes Jackson, he argues that Jackson's death shortly before the South was forced on the defensive and never really got back to attacking was probably the best thing that could've happened to his reputation. While Jackson's brilliance as an offensive general was unmatched, he often froze up when pushed on the defensive and would almost certainly have made huge, reputation-staining mistakes (some of which Billy points out might have already happened, largely glossed over by history thanks to his posthumous legend) had he been forced to fight in the desperate last days of the war as Grant ground Virginia's defenses into paste.

** In "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!", Johnny calls Billy a "biased, moralizing Yankee soy boy", referencing the Confederate Cavalry Officer that had called Billy a soy boy all the way back in Episode 1.

** In "Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?!", Johnny calls Billy a "biased, moralizing Yankee soy boy", alluding to how he called Billy a soy boy all the way back in Episode 1.

** An entire episode is dedicated toward examining the Lost Cause's portrayal of UsefulNotes/WilliamTecumsehSherman as a bloodthirsty war criminal who commanded his army of murderous thieves and rapists to wreak havoc across the South during his March to the Sea. Sherman was definitely an exceptionally ruthless general who was very cold and calculated in destroying the South's supplies and did a lot of terrible stuff, including after the war when he was put in charge of overseeing most of the ongoing wars against Native Americans during the U.S's westward expansion. However, Billy argues that Sherman's scorched-earth and foraging tactics were by no means atypical to line warfare in the 1800s (just look at UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars) and he can't really be put on blast for the actions of every despicable Union redleg in the same way that war criminals who directly ordered the slaughter and plunder of civilians can (if anything, Sherman can be criticized for not keeping a better handle on his men as he believed [[BlamingTheVictim the South got whatever came to them]]). Billy eventually concludes that while Sherman was definitely a morally gray figure in a lot of respects, his March to the Sea got the results that he wanted in ending the war quicker, even if there was a lot of needless violence.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The ultimate judgment of most Confederate commanders in the American Civil War. Lee in particular is singled out as a spectacular tactician who regularly won incredible field victories that military historians fawn over, without usually meaningfully advancing the Confederacy's long term or big picture war aims as he lost men and materials his army and the rebellion couldn't really spare.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The ultimate judgment of most Confederate commanders in the American Civil War. Lee in particular is singled out as a spectacular tactician who regularly won incredible field victories that military historians fawn over, without usually meaningfully advancing the Confederacy's long term or big picture war aims as he lost men and materials his army and the rebellion couldn't really spare.
* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: TheStinger for "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES RIGHTS?!" shows Klaus visiting an aged, dying AlternateSelf living in Argentina in TheSeventies.

'''Johnny Reb:''' ''[panicked]'' Oh, Billy Yank, that's not funny, put the gun down, please…\\