The Confederate Retreat Back South - Williamsport & Falling Waters: Gettysburg 158 Live! 

Who's watching in (159th Anniversary) 2022?!!! Can't get enough of Gettysburg/Civil War History! Great job ABT!

The treat of Gettysburg 158 was the lead in to July 1-3 video series and the path the Confederates took leaving the battlefield to get back to Virginia. Wonderful job to all involved, future generations will thank you.

I’ve always thought that Lees retreat from Gettysburg to Williamsport was one of the most Masterful Campaigns in American History! Fighting torrential rains, fighting the Federals, thousands of soldiers, wounded and some dead, 17 mile wounded Wagon train, Hundreds of prisoners, thousands of sheep, thousands of cattle, hundreds of wagons with the horses And cattle pulling them!

When my dad was a kid he used to go listen to the civil war vets tell stories about the war....this was in Hopewell VA. back in the 20s n 30s.

Outstanding work and greatly appreciated. "Liberty for All!

My 4th Great Grandfather Silas Hampton was with the 52nd North Carolina Company K. He was captured at Falling Waters

My wife and I like stopping in Williamsport when we travel to DC twice a year. We stop to have lunch at the park and walk around read the civil war signs about the battle. Thank you.

Conococheague Kah nah ka CHig (or Ka ne ka Jig) emphasis on the first and last syllables. I grew up there and worked on the Canal for about 10 years before I headed out to the Western Theater. BTW, the C&O Canal was a heavily armed line during most of the war. There were frequent Confederate raids to destroy the canal, the B&O Railroad went through Martinsburg and so was an easy target, and the other railroads hadn't been built yet so the canal was an important transportation line. Of course every time the ANV crossed the river they crossed the C&O Canal. So there are countless events along the C&O Canal. Add to that Henry Kyd Douglas's home, Ferry Hill, is right next to the canal at the Shepherdstown crossing (my office was once in what had been his bedroom). More engagements were fought on or adjacent to the C&O Canal than in any battlefield park. If you're a Civil War fanatic and you haven't sought out the Civil War history of C&O Canal National Historical Park, you need to change that. But Champion Hill and Vicksburg remain the best. Gary can probably figure out who I am.

Thanks for all of your hard work. Everyone that contributed. Extremely educational and entertaining. watched every episode at least once. looking foward to 159!

Gary , thank you and everyone for the continuous coverage. It was been a pleasure watching the uploads and the knowledge you have shared .

These uploads are better than anything I’ve ever watched on television…well done to all involved from a history fan in the UK 🇬🇧

Thanks Gary and Chris on following up on Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg and ending the campaign after crossing the Potomac . You bth did an excellent narrative on what happened. Thank you again.

I would love to travel around battlefields but I get it getting tired! Thank The ABT for all their videos lately! We need to keep the history alive!

I have enjoyed the series this year and the -40- videos with Gary yelling at the camera.

Now I'm looking forward to next year for 159, this was fantastic.

excellent job guys

Thank you!

I Love History...!!!

Thank you for all the videos.

First one.... ABT, thanks for the coverage. See you next year... tio Jimmy

This was 1st time to watch a lot of this live! Great series and much kudos to Gary and Chris and all the special guest stars great job! Thank you

Keep doing the good work guys 🔥🔥🔥

Great series of videos for the 158th! Appreciate all of your time and efforts. I enjoyed all the different commentaries, artifacts, the locations, etc. Thank you.

You win. Just joined at the "Cavalryman" level. Great job. Kudos to all.

Very Awesome, Thanks for the Videos

Thank you for the information, really good.

Very insightful. Thank you.

Thank you for all for your Gettysburg 158 episodes. I’ve been following them throughout and have learnt a lot from them. Looking forward to my next Gettysburg visit even more now!

You've done a brilliant job with the whole series this year. A particular shout-out to Chris and his encyclopedic knowledge of arms and armaments. Well done all around.

Great video and thanks for the mention of the C&O Canal. When I'm not on a battlefield, I'm on the Canal. Thanks for all that you do to preserve our history!

Good job, as always. The story of the retreat and escape is as interesting as the battle at Gettysburg. Crazy feat of logistics and chance in a very tight spot. Falling waters is an interesting staff ride. Not well marked on the various lines leading up to it, but you can access the crossing site via the canal trail at the rod and gun club down there.

I've been enjoying these videos.

Outstanding job! Thanks for your hard work Garry and team!

Wonderful job y’all

I have been watching, and getting caught up on all the videos from earlier this weekend. You guys have done an awesome job. I have only been to Gettysburg once when I was a kid. Hope to go back soon. Thank you for sharing all this great history of the battlefield I love civil war history. Keep up the great work guys

Just subbed glad I did getting a lot of great information . Saw you with JD The history Underground, and had to sub to your channel. Great job guys!!!!

Have really enjoyed the series. Keep up the good work. If I may make one suggestion: please reference which direction the camera is facing so those not familiar with the area can get some sense of bearing. Lot's of interesting facts.

Y’all did a great job!!

so well done. amazing the depth of knowledge the scope of the battles my new 4th of July tradition. BZ!

Outstanding job gentlemen, certainly the best video series ever done on the battle of Gettysburg. The amount of information that was imparted by all of you is staggering, the video very well done, thank you.

Great job as always keeping the information flowing. Can't get enough of it :)

Great rendition of the battles end. Thanks very much.

You guys do a great job on the videos and do a great job explaining all that happened at Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Campaign.

just a superb job on this series by everyone involved. Garry and Kris, you two excelled. You really helped clarify some of the movement on the battlefield and strategy (or lack there of). I appreciate that you bought the battle to the granular level of some of individual combatants. The upgrade of your camera equipment was very helpful, although a better wind guard could still help. Thanks from California

Another Outstanding video !!!

I think the Erie Canal has an aqueduct over a road in the middle of NY.

Loving every second of these videos! Arousing thank you to all involved! This is wonderful!

Fantastic work--thanks to you and the entire crew for great content and education!

Absolutely Amazing, guys. Thank you SO much. This is groundbreaking stuff Shelby Foote would have LOVED this! I even found out that Iverson played a key role. Wow!

Great job!

I live right around their and the canal is very nice and it is really close to a lot of cool battle fields. I like that the canal and the retreat is getting more attention

Thank you for posting this video. My GGG grandfather was in Co F of the 6th Mich Cav and may have participated in the charge at Falling Waters. He survived the war and is buried in Cedar Springs, MI.

Great job guys! We really appreciate your passion!

This is the most interesting video yet

I would love to see you all go to Shiloh and Chickamauga and give them some in depth treatment. Thanks for all the videos!

I've saw a raised canal going over a river in France.

Would love to see you do some videos of the Prisoner of War camps like Point Lookout Maryland, where one of my Confederate ancestors died.

Why didn't they just take Rt 81 Bridge?

Excellent!

Great stuff fellas. Definitely on the bucket list to do some battlefield tours, ESPECIALLY Gettysburg. Love the presentation.

As Lincoln believed, could Mead's army finished off Lee and brought the civil war to an end? This is what I keep hearing of quotes from Abraham Lincoln after the main battle at Gettysburg.

Well, I made it this far. Found Garry Adelman and Kris White quite informative. Finally have pieced together Lee's retreat from Gettysburg listening to these two into something tangible, lol. Actually seems Lee's retreat was quite as formidable a battle as Gettysburg. Gives Lee more credibility in my eyes to a degree. Enjoyed this very much. Next, Shelby Foote and the noble honorable confederates. What?

In France there is a canal called the Canal Du Midi, there is a crossing like that. Canal Du Midi was constructed in 1667-1680 to connectToulouse to the Middeterranian

Thank you for this, great work! Did you guys do an episode at Funkstown? I lived there and never got a good sense of what happened there.

My neighborhood, cool!😎

There is an Erie Canal aquaduct reminent in Oriskany N.Y. Was built so the Erie Canal could pass over the Oriskany Creek about 1/2 of a mile south of the Mohawk River. Probably others along the Erie Canal.

the planning ,speed and execution of the retreat from gettysburg must be one of the greatest military manoeuvres in history

its been a pleasure to listen to an honest look at the civil war....I am afraid critical thinking on our nations history will become a thing of the past with the current political climate

love these videos! Just filled up with great historical information.I always wondered what occurred on Lee's retreat.

I would love to come up to Williamsport and experience the reenactment and history. My ancestor was killed at Williamsport covering the retreat from Gettysburg. His name was 1st Lt John C Calhoun and he was a member of the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry Company "I". He was killed on July 6, 1863 from a shell fragment and served with General Imboden. I recently found a photo of him and would love to come up dressed in my 1st Lt uniform to honor him and to all those who fought a courageous battle.

I'm English and I have watched this series, excellent. By the way what do US canal boats look like.

still awaiting for cold harbor video. 2nd CT heavy artillery and the 18th NY got mauled

Pont Du Gard?.....I've been there. I've also been to Williamsport.... Call me 'Mr Duh' for not making the obvious connection there. (All kidding aside; you guys have done an amazing thing here. 5 days, 40 presentations-each of which are jaw-dropping-and the most profound Civil War series I've ever seen on the internet). If your goal was to take the ABT to a whole new level, you didn't just hit the ball out of the ballpark. You hit it out of the town where the ballpark is.

West Virginia was a state before the battle of Gettysburg June 20 1963

Suck it up Gary stay the course keep making outstanding vids for us. Quit ya bellyachin

Here in Williamsport, and surrounding area we pronounce it Kona-ka-jig creek. 2:25

Have you guys checked out the podcast 1865? Or and History that doesn’t suck? I’ve learned so much from those and I’m not even a Citizen of the USA.

Iverson. Beverly Robertson. Pettigrew. Sounds like if Lee's B-team hadn't bailed him out, none of 'em would've made it back. Thanks guys. The war in the East always fast-forwarded to Overland after Gettysburg for me. Obviously, there was a ton of other stuff going on.

My gggrandpa joined the 11th Corps at this point in the war.

I found the historical marker of the crossing along the C&O Canal. The marker itself is one of the oldest I’ve seen. C&O Canal is a towpath journey through history.

Gary, get in the Shade, we can't have you getting Overheated,take good care, with Gary in Front of the Camera, I can feel the Passion, of the Man when he's Talking! Sharpsburg Cemetery' the Statute of ( Old Simon ) What's the History?

I live near there and visited once

what was the name of that stream again under the aqueduct

Option 2, flank the position on the right and see how much panic and abandonment of equipment you can cause, not attacking works was a smart decision. I think the Union slowly moved and hoped for stupidity or mistakes, otherwise let them go.

As a Civil War historian might you tell me what area would you settle in to retire and study the Civil War for a life time?

Hey Gary, I recently posted this on another video under ABT but I have something they may be of interest to you. Or not lol. If anyone has any suggestions please by all means, comment. I metal detect as a hobbie. I won't mention where exactly, but you might be able to know where I am talking about. Living in Delaware there is a specific battlefield around Newark that took place in 1777 during September. There was a skirmish between the continental army of the United States and the British and Hessian armies. Detecting in this specific field by the bridge where said skirmish happened, I dug up a Hessian dog tag. The name reads: German, HALL. Its pewter and has two makeshift tiny holes for the neck string portion to go through. Now I know that officially, there were no dog tags implemented in the military until 1899 officially, during the spanish/American war.. With that being said, ive researched site after site online for any information on possible identification tags soldiers would make circa the American Revolution and to no avail still. I am 100% certain this identification tag reading: GERMAN HALL, is exactly that. A makeshift id tag. Does anyone have any idea who I can speak with in regards to this piece? I have not been able to find a single person or website. If anyone could maybe hook up with me online in private to find out more information about this, let me know. Thanks! -Jesse.

This is a question with more of an opinion. If General Grant had been in charge of the Union Army at this time do you think he would have succeeded in capturing Lees retreating army and taken Lee prisoner?

Do you guys set up meet and greet battle walks? I know i'd love to pay a fee to be there to listen.

Falling Waters is acutually 6 mi. downstream from this point....I know it well. cycle it a lot

Could Meade have flanked the itintial line that Lee had built up ? Could he have taken away one of the exit routes ? Why wouldn't he beat up the pinned enemy with his artillery ?

I've been setting fence posts in the hot sun, sorry sir, I don't feel you pain.

Uh, (8:28) the 58th North Carolina served it's entire career in the western theater. It was never with the Army of Northern Virginia.

B&O didn't destroy the canal, the canal over mountains was stupid idea and it bankrupted state gummint of Maryland in the 1840s....

the you tube commercials assigned to this video are disgusting ........ just sayin' ....... ;-p

We shall return.

So, are those of you at the Battlefield Trust concerned at all with what's been going on in society the last two years? With all the revisionist history and tearing down of historical American monuments , whats to say places like this won't be labeled offensive and done away with? It's not out of the realm of possibility unfortunately.

Screaming at cameras and being attacks by cicadas must be absolutely horrendous, compared to those Civil War wimps, who just trotted around on horses all day,,,

You are one of those guys who can't talk without his hands! LOL

After watching this and other documentary’s on Lees retreat, I conclude that the Union army didn’t win Gettysburg. The Union army won the battle of Pickets charge. The Army of Northern Virginia escaped intact. All in all, a draw.

To much talking...get to the point ..please..thank you