Ranger Chuck Teague leads a battle walk covering the fierce fighting within the plum-run valley between Little Round Top and Devil's Den and the Wheatfield. Ranger Teague and the NPS hold the rights to the notes and lecture.
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Interesting how pretty much every account from a Southern soldiers agrees that the face of Little Round Top was unassailable. Gives some emphasis why they pushed SO hard around the flank to take the hill. It was legitimately the only way up for them. And it’s sobering to think what damage the Union guns on the summit were able to do to any southern soldiers in the Plum Run Valley.
Very interesting tour. That last monument the the guide took them to, if he named it I must have missed that part. So if anyone knows the name of that last (the least visited monument at Gettysburg), would you please let me know.
It's the monument to the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves. It's a little out of the way but I doubt it's the least visited. There are far more obscure monuments deep in woods all over the battlefield that you'll never find without knowing they're there. The Lost Lane has several that are quite difficult to access.
At approx. 1hr 30 min into the video the monument with the soldier lying down and with the footprint is the 96th PA volunteer infantry monument located on the side of the Wheatfield road. The final monument visited that looks like an obelisk is for the 6th PA reserves which is located on a trail just off the Wheatfield road. That regiment also goes by the name 35th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Please, Please, this story could have been told with half the words this man used. I love the history and side stories(jokes etc.), but I have a short attention span. I made coffee, and lunch while this Ranger rambled on. I don't think I missed 1 word about the actual battle. Thank You NPSGettysburg, for all your effort and time posting these. I have learned a lot.
Well, looking at various videos, the scars of battle on the landscape aren't very obvious(I couldn't see any obvious marks in Devil's Den videos)...maybe they would be more evident if I was there.
An unjacketed bullet such as the lead Minie ball, would deform extensively upon impact with rock without leaving any damage. It may leave residue which would have long since weathered away. Perhaps some of the rocks have shot/shell damage (iron artillery rounds) but I can't imagine 150+ year old artillery damage being distinguishable from ordinary rock weathering. However, there is visible bullet/artillery damage in buildings such as the Trostle Barn and some of the buildings in town. Also, some of the gravestones in Evergreen Cemetery also have documented artillery damage.
I read an account of tourists who visited the devil’s den area in the 1910s and at that time they reported numerous streaks of lead still running down the boulders where bullets had deformed on the rock and the years of rains had caused lead to run down the rock as whitish, oxidized streaks. Apparently this was seen everywhere. The weather has since erased these scars but they were once very visible.
Watch FEW tours do you? Or, do you NOT KNOW quality when you see it?? BTW; Trump is a Traitor & a satanic demon, quit worshiping him! Don't you KNOW how I KNOW you are a TRUMPTURD????? YOU CALLED A TERRIFIC GUIDE TERRIBLE!!! You probable hate Matt Atkinson too & he is the BEST. He has a flaw, but, Matt is STILL the best!!!
Sorry. It's hard without a boom mic or something. In the distant future I'd like to get a dedicated camera with a directional mic and windscreen. So far, I have to rely on the iPhone camera (which is good) and its mic (which is dodgy and has little protection against the wind and it can only pick up what's ahead). I'll try a clip-on mic next time and see if that works better.
StuffWriter thanks for response. I really enjoy these online tours. I might be willing to donate if there is a way. One day I'm hoping in the next couple years I can make it out to see the battlefield.
Ok this is a loaded comment section so to answer all of you OP: do you visit a graveyard that you have no relatives in? There's 2 types of African Americans in the civil war, freedmen in the north (who were refused entry into the service due to a racist country, couldn't even fight for themselves) and Confederates were known for sending freedmen back into slavery when they went thru northern towns, by the time union had allowed the southern slavers to reach Gettysburg every black person with a brain would be miles away so far away not even in the same state.
Ranger, spare us the Gap Theory Evolution. Most rocks were never hot enough to be molten as you said. The molecular structure of the rock proves it was never in a liquid phase.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but considering that tens of thousands of white Americans died and hundreds of thousands were maimed to free black people there seems to be very few if any black people on the tours to learn the history or show their respect or even some gratitude to those who died or were maimed to set them free
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👎Classic example of getting lost in the details: 1) we don’t care about how much Massachusetts paid for a plaque 2) we don’t care about whose brigade then whose brigade and the numbers 3) wether Mozart’s brigade was xyz credited for blah blah blah.👎
