Widow Tapp's Field - The Wilderness Tour | Overland 160 

OHH MAN the seasons starts!! My favorite time of the year! I can’t wait to see you all out on the battlefields!!

Great job y'all! I've heard the Phennie Tapp stories that you can't tell on RU-vid and they are spicey! Also thanks for pointing out the 'Lacy Rock'!. I used to be the President of Friends of Wilderness Battlefield and we ran Elwood for the Park for over 20 years ... anything 'Lacy' is near and dear to me!

It's almost as if Longstreet liked to make a dramatic entrance!! Seven pines, 2nd Bull Run, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and now The Wilderness. 😊

Top notch content ans top notch presentation. Kris always is superb

Sarah is my new favorite historian great job everyone

I love A P. Hill as commander of his Light Division. One of the best in the ANV. Unfortunately higher command didn't suit him. Great job folks!!

That sky is picture perfect

Thank you, again, for the wonderful visuals. Seeing the spot where Lee watched the arrival of Longstreet’s troops, meaning, for now, the salvation of the ANV, means a lot.

Thank you Garry,Dan, Sarah and Kris. A great video. And a good documentary on the Wilderness.

Excellent Job again Guys! Grts from Belgium 🇧🇪🇺🇸

A superb collective retelling of the events in the Wilderness in early May 1864. Reminds me a bit of the Ardennes. A disadvantaged army consciously chooses a densely wooded topography in order to negate the larger opponents advantages in numbers and firepower. Didn’t really work out for either the Confederates or the Germans.

Every one of these videos you guys put out are pure gold! Keep up the great work!

Keep up the great work y’all!! I visited the Wilderness with my folks when I was 7 (33 years ago). My dad got me hooked/addicted to CW history and I’ve studied it and eventually taught it ever since. I’m hoping to take my wife and kids to the Wilderness someday as it Ft Sumter, and Gettysburg are the only ‘major’ CW sites they have left to visit. My 4 year old son is ate up with it as well and actually sits and watches these programs better than he does cartoon. His favorite is Chattanooga Campaign and US Grant. Thank you all!!

Great video. Was just up there a few months ago. Kris is becoming one of the best on screen. A solid crew the ABT has built. Shoutout to SKB as well.

My first cousin (3 times removed) was a Captain in command of the 4th US Infantry, a West Point Grad. He was mortally wounded @ the Wilderness on May 6th. Although. I learned alot about him I want to know more of where the 4US was positioned and fought that day. Another great video btw. I always learn new things with ABT.

Thanks to the entire crew for a great job. I am really excited about getting my CW battle fix today!! I am almost as excited as Gary!! Ed from Lynchburg

Very enjoyable presentation. Ive been across that ground several times and never gotten a clear understanding of the confusion.

So interesting, Kris & Gary are the best. UK fan!

Lee to the rear ❤😮

Thank you, Gary and Sarah, you guys are amazing in conveying the history of the battles and roads as well as the impact on the families and civilians, Harry Heath, engages the US calvary and the story of the Tapp family is fascinating, Phenie will live into the 1940s? WOW? her eyewitness will help shape the archival history of the Battle of the Wilderness.

Love what you folks do. Great program. Can't get enough.

Great job as always all of you. Last time I was in Chancellorsville it was getting so late in the day I just didn't have time to hit the Wilderness sites, so hope to eventually. If I see you guys in July, I want to hear those "colorful" Phenie Tapp stories Kris! :)

Amazing commentary! Thanks

I have grown up smack in the middle of the Wilderness here in Orange Co and really enjoy your in depth videos. It’s sad that my high school didn’t teach us a lick about the Civil War with so much of it happening right in our back yards. Looking forward to more

I had a 3rd great grandpa & a 4th great grandpa(1st day) pass away during this campaign. Both were under Ewell. Grandpa had another son pass during the Atlanta Campaign. All 3 men are said to be lost to the war.

Very informative. Thank you!

Awesome

Good stuff!!!!!!!

Awesome series! Learning a lot from y'all. Great job, Garry, Kris, Sarah, and Co.

Awesome video, Great Information about the battle(s).... But you got to love those Virginia Skies!!! (just look at those clouds) Good Job!!!

Thanks, it was interesting to listen to!

Great stuff everyone 👍🏻😁

Have you done Spotsylvania yet? Beautiful field. Thank you for doing this!

Love these videos 😎👍

Hello… I’m asking with the deepest respect… has anyone ever considered the “Lee to the rear” episodes as RE Lee searching for a soldiers death? I often have, considering his many comments as his comrades and lieutenants perished during the war… great work team I love the ABT and pledge money whenever I can….

Great synopsis of a very confusing battle

"Well, sir. They wouldn't leave." Henry Heath on running into Federal calvary at the beginning of every battle. 😁

Kris with the sweet Gettysburg movie reference there at 19:53 dont know if anybody else noticed! 😊

This is how you know so much of these battle histories are told and hyped up by Southern lost causers after the war. For all of Longstreet's and Lee's drama. It was no more dramatic than what the 5th NY did. In the end Longstreet and his men failed to gain the crossroads. The Union held the most important strategic and tactical spot on the field and used it to move south and out of the Wilderness. Longstreet would go down. Lee's plan to stop the Union in the Wilderness failed. They never would get a chance to try to go on the full offensive again. for all the hype and Lee to the rear and this and that, the Union still accomplished more of its strategic goals here than the rebels did. It was a hard fight and the one main takeaway is that under Grant and Meade could be blunted, but never stopped and 11 months later they would be collecting revel flags, arms and issuing paroles. The road to victory started at the Wilderness and the holding of the strategic cross roads.

The map and arrows look so neat but was it really 🧐

My ancestors were in the 10th Alabama in Perrin's Brigade, and trying to understand their role in this fight, with three brigades next to each other commanded by Perry, Perry, and Perrin (two of them made up of Alabamians), was exasperatingly confusing.

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Great narrative of the Confederate side and even a shout-out to Douglas Southall Freeman - but what about Grant and the Union side? What are they doing while Lee is passed to the rear? I want to hear more about the general who won this war especially since Overland was the campaign Lincoln had been arguing-for since 1861. And - please, please, please - fix Chris's mike, every minute or so it generates a burst of static that sounds like my speakers are going to blow out.

Chris how many times did A P Hill save the day though and how many times did Longstreet waiting for reconnaissance from screening units fall short.

Did Lee say "Texans always move them!" or "Hurrah for Texas!"?

Was the actual plank road almost like a board walk or more akin to a corduroy road?

Does anybody know where the 11th Ala Inf was during this day?

How could they have cleared a field that large ?

Great tour of the Confederate's side of the battle. Count up how many times their commanders are mentioned vs their opponents. What were the good guys doing? Why is the US army hardly part of this presentation? Lee behaving badly is not all the story.

You don't seem to acknowledge the 5th and 6th Vermont. My collateral cousins fell. Lt. Albert Crane of the 7th Vermont was killed at the battle of the Wilderness and 2 days later his cousin Sgt. Crane of the 5th Vermont fell at the Spotselvania Courthouse - GSW. I am surprised that while the Maine and the New York units are given lots of coverage, and rightfully, though the Vermont units have been ignored and are well-known to have suffered greatly. What am I missing in my genealogy research?

Oops! Typo - 6th Vermont!

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The French pronunciation of the plural of corps is confusing to the viewers.

AP Hill was ill and would have been better on sick leave.