Ranger John Hoptak did a good job on this one. I watch another Wheatfield tour he did were every movement was preluded each units full designation. that took more time to say than the actual movement. I've heard the miscommunication of Roberts men 4 or 5 times and Hoptak's explanation this time put it all together. His whole explanation put the Wheatfield in text. A complicated event put in a understandable way. at least for me.
Hi, John Hardtack. At 34:35 you said, "This is the farthest west we will go." I heard Bill Howes say, "Good. I'm tired". Don't listen to anything he says. He was sitting in an easy chair viewing this on uTube. He is a wise ass. -Sir Lord William Howes. By the way. You do a good job explaining this complicated "Wheatfield" Battle.
Gen. Sickles move helped BLUNT the attack by Gen. Longstreet, end of story. Gen. Meade SHOULD have beefed up his LEFT FLANK and NOT LEFT it to Gen. Sickles. Sickles FIXED a Gen. Meade screwup.
MEADE DIDNT SCREW UP SICKLES DID HE MOVED HIS TROOPS BELOW LITTLE ROUND TOP CAUSING THE WHOLE TO THE EAST 1st MINNESOTA HAD TO DO BAYONET CHARGE TIL REPLACEMENT TROOPS COULD GET THERE 180 1st MINNESOTA MEN WERE SLAUGHTERED 47 MEN LEFT NEXT DAY CAPTURED LEES BATTLE FLAG OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA AMEN 🙏
Dan Sickles movement is like getting hit in the head with a bat and breaking the bat with your head😂. It's was an asinine movement..... But it worked lol.
I couldn't keep up either and I would have been disappointed if I could. The information crammed into these two hours greatly exceeded my saturation point. I'll just have to watch it again and read some more and watch some other ones until I can digest it all. Excellent Job, Ranger Hoptak.
@@dinahnicest6525 Best way to understand these walking tours is having battle maps in hand to refer to while the ranger describes what's happening where you're standing or watching on RU-vid.
