I just recognized her from “The Great Commanders” documentary series on US Grant. She’s a legend. Now if I could only forget that West Point Captain from the same episode that kept using the word “warrior” while doing knife hands.
Sarah - My 3 year old daughter was at the Generations event on the 30th. She saw you on the TV in this video and said, "It's Sarah!". Thanks for making an impact!
I’ve been watching and loving your videos for years Thank You for taking me to Gettysburg and other battlegrounds many times!!❤ I’m handicapped so it helps for you Gary & Chris for doing the walking it for me and for your charming passion for history that is as strong as mine!! ❤️ also I feel I’m the “viewer” that voted for the Vincent beard that Gary alluded to , it made my day Thank You 🙏
I should have said something. I watch your videos all the time and appreciate all the work the crew puts in. Great stuff. It's definitely the best stuff you can find on RU-vid.
Well, I am immortal now, Garry mentioned my name on a Trust video! :-) Thanks. We have succeeded in seeing to it the 11th Mississippi got their due for what they did in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg: 86% casualties for the Regiment, and 100% casualties for Company A, University Greys, 11th Mississippi. Good job as always Garry!
Thank you all so much for these videos and keeping history alive. My mother was an American history teacher and retired at 70, 27 years ago. She would have enjoyed this so much. Prayers for Jeremy. Hope he is doing well.
Kris White thanks for your dedication. Gary, great idea and your beard looks great. My wife told me when I got back from Afghanistan (six years), only a goatee would do. Thanks for talking about Ike.
I love American History, I have dreamed of being a guide at Valley Forge. Thanks for this fantastic podcast on our birthday, July 4th, 2023. I can never get enough Gettysburg, PA. battlefield. I live neat Hancock's Grave.
Thank all of y’all for your efforts & expertise today. I’ve walked part of that ground years ago when my daughter was in grade school, but my husband has never been to Gettysburg. We’re going to have to change that! Thanks again, and our best to Jeremy.
Thank you all so much for sharing your knowledge with us! Especially the experience of walking the battlefields for those of us who cannot physically! Happy 4th to you all!
Hello from Belgium..... Thank you for sharing this with thé World Iam living in Ypres Battlefield of ww1 in follow alot of history and thé civil war and your Channel is great thank you for al you're work
Albert Woolson's funeral was held at the Duluth Armory. 4,000 attended, including both Minnesota senators and the Minnesota governor. The crowd sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the close of the ceremony.
Outstanding video. Beautiful coverage of walking Pickett's Charge and great historical content from y'all. Tops on my bucket list is to get there and walk Pickett's Charge and reflect.
Can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed all of this. My thanks to the entire team!! Gary’s beard will be in my memories of Pickets Charge until the end of my days!! Ed from Lynchburg
My husband and I are too old now to walk the battlefield and we thoroughly enjoyed this video! I am going to be sure our children and grandchildren see it too!
Reading suggestion: Earl Hess's book, 'Pickett's Charge: 'The Last Attack at Gettysburg'. On 3 July 1863, at about 4 pm, if Kris and Garry had walked across the Emmitsburg Road, they would have walked on or over the many bodies of wounded and killed rebels, as well as other rebels taking cover in the then sunken road. No one mentioned that the rebel army maintained its position on Seminary Ridge most of the next day, the 4th of July, awaiting a Federal counter-attack. Hess writes that DURING the extremely close fighting on 3 July, several rebel artillery shells hit the mass of Union soldiers near the 'copse' and caused many casualties.
"Oh yeah Im going to get divorced if this stays." LOL!!!!! Prayers and good thoughts for you Jeremy. Cancer isn't fun. I myself have been a victim of it 5 times now since 2009. I am on the tail end of my 5th fight now. Ended up moving me from Texas to Nebraska to be closer to family. Just stay the course and don't lose hope. Keep the positive thoughts with you and you can beat it! That is great Kris is wearing a Black Shirt for you 😀
My Great-Great Grandfather was in the 14th Tennessee in Fry's (was Archer's) Bigrade. He was wounded during Picket's Charge. He fought more battles until he was captured very late in the war.
I'm 68 years old. When I was about 9 I met an old woman of about 105. As a child she lived on a road that Lee used in retreat from Gettysburg. When the Rebs went past her house it took all day and she said the wagons were piled with wounded like cordwood. All day long she ran out with fresh bisquits her mother had cooked and held them up to the troops who grabbed them and then rubbed her head and "God Blessed" her. In between oven loads her mother brought up pitchers of water on the front porch and the girl poured them into cups and the soldiers came up and gulped them and thanked her. Then, later the Union troops marched by but her mother kept her indoors and they watched from closed blinds. Guess what ... here in 2023 ... there are people like me that have had an actual conversation with someone who had actively participated in the Civil War. It wasn't that long ago.
I'll be traveling from Washington state to take this tour in June. So excited for my 3rd visit to Gettysburg but never have I seen the battlefield as you have shown me on RU-vid and soon in person
i just think about walking across the field in woolen uniforms, carrying a full load of gear on like a 90 degree day while opposing troops tried their darnedest to kill me. how do you muster the courage to walk a mile across an open field in that line of fire? i don't think i could do that. those troops had such courage. never forget that.
Those good old boys was looking for a fight. Plain and Simple.... they got what they wanted...... very sad day in World History...men would die, so that others would live.
My biggest problem with the American Battlefield Trust videos (I've probably seen portions of 10 of them), and what gets me to turn them off in frustration, is they mostly don't tell us what direction the camera is pointing. Just doing this would allow us to follow with maps or just visualization etc. rather than it being this big guessing game. Ideally they would have an arrow constantly on screen. With this improvement these would be the greatest videos, just like visiting the site .... Also, would note this comment is not really on this video. I only saw the first 10 mins or so, but on all the ones I have seen in last year or so from the past.
12th MA Vols. were in Ziegler’s Grove during Pickett’s charge if I’m not mistaken. Part of Baxter’s Brigade who slaughtered Iverson’s men on July 1st. Their commander Lt. Col. David Allen Jr. was a carpenter from my hometown of Gloucester, MA. He was severely wounded but survived Antietam and wounded again at Gettysburg only to be KIA in the Wilderness in 1864. I’d love to hear Dr. Reardon speak about Lt. Col. Allen and the 12th MA Vols.
I had to laugh just a bit when the lady talked about the Confederate Soldier. I am a retired MI Army National Guardsman and a Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. When we got activated in 2003, we were detached from our Michigan 156 Signal Battalion and attached to Iowa's 234th Signal Battalion. We stayed Alpha Company.
On June 30, 1863, John Buford (Brigadier General US Cavalry) was commanding two brigades (approx. 2,700 troopers) that were the eyes and ears of the Federal army shadowing General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, as they journeyed north through the Pennsylvania mountains. John Buford took unequivocal and brilliant leadership and forged a sound battle plan that worked better than expected and worked against overwhelming odds. He explained to his officers what was at stake: the culminating battle of the war that, should it produce another northern defeat and southern victory, the United States would not tolerate the war any longer. Papers for an armistice had already been drawn up and were waiting to be placed on President’s Lincoln’s desk for his signature should news of another Federal debacle in Pennsylvania become known. Speaking to his men (and half aloud to himself), he rhetorically scolded the army leadership and the politicians behind them. He told his men they must prevent the South from seizing the high ground. Conferring with his junior officers was also sound leadership. It ensured buy-in of his chain of command. Explaining that the high ground just might be saved if ...they can hold and if ...the 1st corps arrived in time in the morning, and if ...ammunition holds out - three 'IFS' they bet their plan on the slim odds against them. Buford's men adored him, tolerating his musings out loud. He had gotten them to throw away their sabers that he said were useless and their revolvers as well. Carry extra carbine ammunition for the same weight he preached, and his men enthusiastically agreed. There is some speculation that he may have issued his 2 brigades with new repeating carbines though this has never been verified. If not his men undoubtedly had breech loading carbines with three times the firepower of the muzzle loading muskets of Lee's infantry. Besides greater firepower, breechloaders had the added advantage of being able to be loaded in a prone, hidden position. His men were deployed behind low stone walls topped with whatever rails and logs they could find. Most of Buford’s casualties sustained head and neck and shoulder wounds. The southern infantry had none of these advantages and two disadvantages: attacking upright in a line formation firing with slower loading muskets that could only be reloaded while standing up. The Southerners had little or no cover to hide behind while advancing. The lines were at times one hundred yards apart. But more importantly Buford expedited correct intelligence to leading infantry corps (1st and 11th) with requests for all possible speed and reinforcement. He simultaneously did the same through the night to 4 other corps; to come to Gettysburg where he was "...in possession of good ground." He slept little, perhaps an hour and less than two, off-and-on before waking his men well before first light on July 1st. Despite the Federal 11th corps' rout on that 1st day, and with the stalwart toughness of the 1st corps, despite this fragmented situation, the coveted high ground was saved and decisively reinforced over the next two days to the disadvantage of the attacking southerners. Although Lee could have, (should have?) abandoned his position at Gettysburg and forced the Federals to relinquish their advantage of the high ground and pursue Lee elsewhere, Lee did not; though he was advised by his most respected 2nd in command, James Longstreet to do exactly that. Lee's hesitation at the end of the 1st day in failing to pursue the fleeing Federals to the high ground they had retreated to; on the 2nd day, slow to move and failing to coordinate his forces, plus failing to outflank the Federal position (though advised by Longstreet to do so several times), as well as failing to take advantage of the cover of night to maneuver into position by daybreak as he had so often done - all these allowed the Federals to hold that high ground. Lee's errors in judgment on all three days, were completely uncharacteristic of him. They ensured the Federal victory on that fated July 3rd, when Longsteet was ordered by Lee, over Longstreet’s objections,to assault with 17,000 men, an estimated 50 -60,000 dug in troops with superior artillery: the Federal center on Cemetery Ridge. On the morning of July 4th, in a drenching downpour, Lee's shattered army mournfully retreated on their way out of Pennsylvania, with a wounded ambulance train twelve miles long and dripping blood. They were headed back to Virginia. The casualty lists that were being calculated and drawn up - then published in the papers, stunned civilians and military alike in both halves of the country. The tide of the Great Rebellion's strings of victories up to and including July 1, ebbed on July 2 and reversed on July 3rd. Lee never again held the initiative he had kept throughout the Democrat slave holder's war of rebellion, up until those 3 fateful days at Gettysburg. The turning of the terrible and merciless fortunes of war was decided man to man, company to company, brigade to brigade and division to division on the fields, woods and ridges of the fruitful Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On the very next day, July 4th, Vicksburg on the Mississippi surrendered and the Confederate 'nation' was cut in half. The strategic soundness of the Great Rebellion was no more and it could only linger floundering and hopeless. The final collapse which would bring peace, was still 22 long and bitter months away.
The Confederates had not seen such a concentrated field of fire before, but the federals had - at Fredericksburg - and that's what they screamed as they tore the Confederate assault apart.
