The Confederate March to Gettysburg and the Cashtown Inn: Gettysburg 158 Live! 

Pinning this response from other comments since Kris's pronunciation of Gettysburg has become such a debate! It's not worth getting all worked up over, we promise! While "Gettys-burg" has become the more popular pronunciation, the town was named after Samuel Gettys, pronounced "Gettis." Thus, some historians and locals prefer the "Gettis-burg" pronunciation.

In July of 2008, a good friend and I went to Gettysburg to participate in the 145th anniversary reenactment. Afterward we toured the battlefield, in particular those parts were our ancestors in the 52nd North Carolina fought. Upon leaving, we went to Cashtown and not only got to see the inn, we ate dinner there. The perfect way to say goodbye to Gettysburg.

Cash Town Inn has great food! I laughed when I saw a sign that said " Dogs welcome, people tolerated!!!! 👍😂🤣😂

Had my wedding reception at the Cashtown Inn. Talked to the owner about the ghosties as this was a few days after the airing of that particular ghost show. The owner said he needed publicity and the ghost team needed a story and then gave me the wink and the nod. Always love Gettysburg.

I really like this young man.... very knowledgeable. Great presentation guys!

So good these battlefield trust videos. They certainly know their history. Brilliant

Great presentation! Thank you guys!

I have shuddered to think of how horrible that retreat from Gettysburg just had to be for the Confederates. Thousands of terribly wounded men in pouring down rain, without any pain relief medications being jostled about in rudimentary wagons on those terrible roads, shrieking and crying out in their agony, some begging for a comrade to mercifully put them out of their misery with a quick bullet. I have been overwhelmed sometimes thinking about the post traumatic stress and emotional trauma that the Civil War generation of veterans just had to suffer through for the rest of their lives.

Always love the on-site battlefield locations vids 👌

I remember watching the filming of the movie Gettysburg when I was younger and getting to meet some of the actors.

Kris White you are AWESOME!! Love listening to your commentary on all these battles and formations! You not only tell a great story on how these battles came together, but you make it exciting!! I feel like iam there witnessing this as it happens! You and Garry have a wonderful gift for this! Looking forward to all your videos! 🤗🤗

Grew up about half of a mile from there. Parents still live there.

Thank you guys for all you do,,,,,

I was just standing in front of the Cashtown Inn last week when I was on vacation. It’s so beautiful in this area and I love the history. This is my favorite RU-vid channel! Thank you!

Fantastic. I love listening to folks that obviously know and love this stuff.

So cool ........thanks!

Great job guys.

Gary, I can't wait to hear more stories about the retreat and chase through Monterey Pass, through the town of Funkstown, the square of Hagerstown, and the river crossing at Williamsport.

Great job Kris.

The three words of the motto certainly apply to videos like this. Wonderful narration and anecdotes.

Outstanding, Thank You!

I enjoy your videos. Especially now in rememberanc of Gettysburg. I wish I had half the passion about many things I do as you show in your videos!

Outstanding

As always, very well done! You guys do quality, informative/entertaining work every time!

Great vid. Started watching and couldn't stop. Fascinating information.

A side note.......big part of the Gettysburg movie production was covering all the roads with dirt so they could film AP Hill meeting General Lee.

Another stellar post! Thanks

The personal and humorous anecdotes are quite interesting. Thanks very much for all your work. Cheers from San Diego.

Awesome I've always wondered if it was still standing

Watching from Thailand Good info Thank you

Really enjoyed this account together with a mention of my favourite Confederate General, Johnston Pettigrew, killed during Confederate retreat when acting as rearguard seeing the Army of Northern Virginia safely across the Potomac. Thanks from UK.

Lovin' this series

Great narrative gents. Thanks for sharing.

Well done! I look forward to the next installment.

Absolutely love the battlefield videos by tour guides catered towards those that can't actually visit all of these locations. Wonderful job guys, keep up the good work!

Wow thanks for doing this. Looking forward to enjoying more of your work

Thank you all for efforts! Thanks from Camp Verde Arizona..

Thank you thank you thank you for this informative video. I will be there in Mid April for my driving tour and hopefully more guided tour if that is possible to purchase.

I've stayed at the Cashtown Inn a few times. I love the history of the place and according to Jack, the owner, it is haunted. I got some interesting sounds overnight while staying there. I have a youtube video of the recording I made if anyone is interested. Lots of bumps and bangs and me and my dad were the only guests staying there at the time. Some sounds are hard to explain. You hear what sounds like a cork being popped out of a wine bottle very near my recorder which was on the table near the little refrigerator, the place where someone would open a bottle, and strange clicking within the room. There is even a gunshot sound towards the morning as the sun is coming up. Take it for what you will. If you like Civil War history, this is a great place to stay as you visit Gettysburg.

Well done. Keep up the good work.

The whole problem with the South's position at Gettysburg was that Lee made a grand sweep of his army and he expected the union army to be sent piece meal after him where his Calvary would ride around them and harass their stores as usual and the smaller units could be eliminated one at a time. But the Union army got dispatched in force and made Jeb Stuarts ride around them almost impossible and took the south's Calvary out of the strategic game plan which allowed the union to do what all battle field commanders want to do...get there the soonest, with the mostest. Once it became a set piece battle the unions far superior numbers and equipment (artillery) made the outcome almost a fait accompli. The South's chances of winning the war on the field were never going to happen as they just had no manufacturing and limited population. There only chance was for a political settlement. Lee knew this and thus this campaign was a strategic roll of the dice to try and faint to Washington in an attempt to get the north to ask for terms

This is a great job,.

Awesome video thanks

Great history guys. What I would find very interesting is if someone were to fire a cannon on the grounds of Gettysburg what would it sound like here at Cashtown. I can only imagine the sounds of the July 3rd Cannon campaign to those staying at Cashtown Inn.

Awesome history lesson.

Well thanks for solving a small mystery for me. When I would watch the movie Gettysburg it always bugged me when I saw that scene where Lee is going through Cashtown, and he stops to chat from asride his horse with a guy in a red shirt who apparently gives him assistance by answering his question. I thought if that's a local Pennsylvanian, doesn't he realize he's giving aid and comfort to the enemy? I was not aware that this scene portrayed a historic event where General Lee was talking to A.P. Hill.

nice to see this detail before the battle of Gettysburg

This is excellent 👍🏼😎

Not sure now but I think it was in Freeman’s Lee’s Lieutenants that I read where the invasion Lee decided on in 1863 was first proposed by Stonewall Jackson in 1862. The idea to take Harrisburg which would have been a grievous blow to northern train traffic.

Awesome job fella's

Great series, great review. It cracks me up though how everyone so upset about how Gettysburg is pronounced, and how the narrator is trying to be vocally correct. But when it came to the correct pronunciation of Staunton, he was caught offguard. It has to be understood that until you go to a place and talk to the people who actually live there you're going to make mistakes. And what's important is that you care about the correction.

Sounds like the Cicadas are still quite active!

Great presentation by Kris White. Will you guys please tie Mr. Adelman's hands behind his back when he speaks...and maybe attach him to the ground somehow to stop his bouncing all over the place. As always when I watch these great presentations I enjoy them and learn something but the man drives me nuts!!

Nicely done gentleman, listen to the cicadas!

I like when gettysburg is pronounced correctly, thanks

That's a good one, Garry. It's good good.

I am Asian American but I love the Civil War era since it is one of the first US wars in which Asian-Americans were recorded to have been involved: there were a handful of East Asian-Americans who fought on both sides. I find it humorous that there were people that looked like me who were fighting both for and against slavery in the US.

Do y'all ever do Chickamauga? I have an ancestor that fought at Chickamauga.

What did the historical sign along the road just west of the Cashtown Inn say?

Great history on the civil war

Other than the unfortunate mispronunciation of Staunton, great job Kris!🤣

My husband lived in Fairfield and ate at the Cashtown Inn many times. (Notice nothing was said about The Cottage just down the road! ---look that up on your own,)

You have to meet up with Park ranger Matt Atkinson!! Wonderful person

What is Get-is-burg? Is it a place?

Get-ISS-burg? Where's that?!

Is that the sound of cicadas?

Never heard it pronounced Gettisberg what accent is that? You said it 3 times in the 1st 50 seconds, Gettisberg, is that the proper pronunciation?

Did they film next to this when they made the Gettysburg movie? I’m guessing they put a bunch of dirt over the paved road and made a few other alterations

Keep an eye out for the ghosts there at the Inn.

Great history lesson ! Say , do I hear cicadas singing during that whole video?

Now you did it: I have another Civil War Jennings to research! Keep me busy! And thanks!

macadamised road is an eastern term not used much in midwest or at least west of Mississippi R.

I notice you Texans fail to mention how a brace Union Educator from the state of Maine and the 20th Maine captured many Texans at Little Round Top ,July 2,1863! They were running low on supplies and Col Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a fellow teacher ordered a bayonet charge! ( Teachers have to be creative and running low on supplies is a common problem) ! The Union Forever!!!;👍👍👍💙💙💙💙🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

What is up with Gary Adelman?

Is that cicada in the background?

Indeed, Davis was perplexed over the situation at Vicksburg. Vicksburg had been described as the linchpin of the Confederacy over the Mississippi River, it's defense was critical. Davis had discussed the need to transfer troops to Vicksburg and the Western theater, to parry Grant's thrusts and lift his siege of Vicksburg with Lee. Lee counsels Davis not to take troop strength from him in the East in an attempt to shore up the situation on the Mississippi, but rather to approve his audacious plan for an invasion of Pennsylvania. This campaign will have the quicker result for Vicksburg as the Federals will be compelled to redeploy East, and thus, relieve the pressure on Vicksburg indirectly, sooner than Lee's troops could travel there and make their weight felt. Davis agrees and decides to cast the dice on Lee's plan. As we now know, and as Davis perhaps should have known, the Federal's had enough strength to cover both regions adequately, and Lee's Pennsylvania incursion did not have the desired effect as Vicksburg surrendered about the same time as the Battle of Gettysburg. In a short time, Longstreet's Corps would be fighting in the Trans-Mississippi. Looking back on it, with the benefit of hind sight, one can say that the Confederacy should have surrendered in July 1863. With the loss of Vicksburg in the West and Gettysburg in the East it was definitely a lost cause.

Early never was north of York or Adams Counties. Rodes and Johnson stayed in the Cumberland Valley. Rodes went as far as Carlisle and Johnson to Shippensburg. Jenkins cavalry was on the outskirts of Harrisburg.

Gettisburg?

no need for Adelman to jump in and ruin this great video the man is hyped up

"Breastworks without charging"👏

Stretched 57 miles? wow

IS ADELMAN WIRED? IS HE HIGH ON SOMETHING OR IS HE JUST HYPERACTIVE?

The way he says Gettysburg is funny

Texans first in war and humor.

Please say Gettysburg the way the rest of us say it at least once. I know Mr. Gettys founded the town, but so what? Do you also say Pá-toe-Máck in the authentic Indian way instead of Potomac?

YES SO AWESOME CONFEDERATES WERE THERE, and the borderlands were full of rebs, WOW? Yes im a chicano historian, interesante??

Great stories! Charge the breastworks!

roque cicada attack on the Cashtown road.

Would have been great if throughout you had maps and graphics to illustrate this narration, instead of having the camera fixed on the narrator.

Gettis or Gettyburg?

Was it really true how many Confederates had no shoes - fought barefoot ? 🤔

Is the Inn really haunted?...what is all the background noise?...

I'm sorry but I have to point out that your pronunciation of Gettysburg is wrong. Gettys- burg not Gettis- burg Great channel and I love ya but this had to be said

The horse bowed in the movie 😂

People think times are bad now lol.....Glad I was not alive in the civil war era or say 1941.

Lee lost too many experienced officers and veterans at Chancellorsville. He didn't have the same army after that and Lee knew it. He gambled going North to win the war, not another battle. The North was growing too strong for Southern resistance to win the war on the battlefield.

9:35 Quick Joe! Roll out of bed so we can take your picture!

Why Sennandoh walley was so importent

According to a fairly new book, written by a Gettysburg Park Ranger, Troy Harman, ‘Lee’s Real Plan’, Lee did not want to,attack the Round Tops on the 2nd. He was unaware that they were occupied. A reconnaissance done in the early morning of the 2nd showed the Round Tops unoccupied. Lee wanted a converging attack from the 2nd Corp in conjunction with Longstreets 1st Corp moving south down the Emmittsburg Road on Cemetery Hill. It is only when Hood see’s the Round Tops occupied that he is forced to attack it which changes the original plan of attack. The book is an excellent read and makes things that happened on July 2 much clearer.

So, the roads in Pennsylvania have always sucked, eh?