In the footsteps of Longstreet's July 2 Assault // Gettysburg Battlefield Tour
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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I've never been too big into civil war history but seeing the actual battlefield and hearing the history broken down. It makes it pretty interesting thanks for the video!
💓 A purple heart needs to be rewarded for this Vlog!!!!
I have lived right outside of Gettysburg between it and Littlestown almost my entire life and I love going to the battlefield. No matter how many times I have been there in my life it is always an enjoyable time going and just wandering over the place.
And I agree completely, when you go there during off peak tourist seasons the battlefield is such a peaceful place when few people are around. Almost seems eerily quiet at times in some areas.
i lived in town back in late 99-01 right on Buford ave loved living there, 1 of the places i wouldn't mind moving back too. the battlefield is amazing no matter what time of the year loved walking /biking it
Excellent video! I've read several books about the battle, and visited the battlefield four times, but somehow I never got over to that side. It's incredible, how rugged and rocky it is. Thanks for giving such clear and vivid perspective.
I always love these types of videos. It’s one thing to hear of a battle and it’s another to see the current day battlefield and imagine all the people that you would be seeing all over the place. Pictures of historical battles next to the modern day view is what I find most fascinating when it comes to history
Thanks so much for providing this wonderful experience.
This and your Fredericksburg content is about the best one can find on either of those two subjects in this medium. And I'm just getting started. With your narrative and visuals you've totally mastered the educational, engrossing and fun trifecta. And made history very real in your intrepid trek around these battlefields. In fact, I felt a little winded myself climbing Little Round Top up from Devil's Den with you.
Bravo.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m hoping to continue to improve and make future content event better!
It's absolutely insane how they expected their men to attack on that ground, When you were walking up that hill you were exhausted so imagine how they wouldve felt when they were trying to get up as quickly as possible as well as already having marched over similar hills not to mention they would've had fire reigning down on them from above. I'm Australian so unfortunately I don't think I could just pop up to the battleground but its definitely one for my to do list. Great video!
I’m near WV so if you ever do stop by id be glad to give you a place to stay!
Longstreet: “Sam, if the Yankees place a battery up there, we will need buckets to catch the lead, you need to take that hill.”
Hood: “They don’t even need GUNS to defend that hill. All they need to do is roll rocks down on ya!”
I love Gettysburg. 😂
I actually got a book called Lincoln On The Verge Thirteen days to washington about his journey to the inauguration in 1861 just before the war broke out and all the stops along the way excited to start reading it .
As allways, Thanks for doing these.
When I went, I KNEW so much more, and where to look, and understood the battle, all bc of your videos!.
Putting maps, books, and pictures, to life.
It takes alot to make them with strangers staring lol.
Keep it up.
American Battlefield Trust taught me the macro. You teach me the micro...and the human. I thank you for that.
I was there last summer and the towers where closed to the public due to covid. I was pretty bummed out. Great video!
Amazing to be able to explore the battlefield with someone so knowledgeable from my sofa!
I have already seen this video multiple times before this, but I have to rewatch it all the way through again, its so good
I went with a buddy and his wife to Gettysburg yesterday. I climbed down from Little Round Top to the memorial for the 16th MI Infantry. Climbing down from the top of the hill and back was freakin' exhausting; I didn't dare try what you did. That was some great footage you shot!
Wow this was great! Fantastic camera work and story telling. Thank you for the great content!
I have 86 known blood relatives that served in the Confederate army...many more relatives by marriage. Gettysburg is sacred. Excellent video. My walk across pickets charge field was life changing...my next visit ill walk the same route that you have shown in this video.
The way you talk about history makes me interested in the theme so much that I would nerd about it right now if it wasn't 12AM here in my timezone
Appreciate that! Get some sleep!
@@VloggingThroughHistory yeah I should probably do that xD
Wow the battlefield is a lot smaller than I expected, never expected you could see everything
I really enjoy your videos simplistic and informative. Great approach
Absolutely great work!
Been on that battlefield and this is the best way to try to understand what happened to Lee
Tx Chris, nicely explained- as someone who would normally have gravitated to CW history it was easy listening to you describe the action.
I can even understand that climb up the hill, have done some historical reinactment on the Hastings battlefield (yes that of 1066) some 30 years ago; as a Norman foot soldier....that hill is brutal for it's inclination especially when you have to do it 7 times !
It is such a shame that these things are no longer taught in our school system. Such bravery, on both sides, and our youth have no idea. Thank you for the excellent videos.
I have five unread books on the Battle of Gettysburg in my humble library of the War Between the States. My approach to educate myself about this conflict has been to read it chronologically by reading three tomes concurrently. They are:
The Civil War by Shelby Foote
The Centennial History of the Civil War (trilogy) by Bruce Catton
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas S. Freeman
As I finish their accounts about a battle, I then read a book about the battle. If I don't have such a book, I seek out what can be found on the internet. As you may surmise, it's a slow but rewarding process. It will be some time by sticking with this method before I get to Gettysburg. However, after watching this video, you have inspired me to skip ahead by reading all five Gettysburg books concurrently.
"Gettysburg" by Stephen W. Sears
"Gettysburg - A Testing of Courage" by Noah Andre Trudeau
"Gettysburg - The Second Day" by Harry W. Pfanz
"Gettysburg - Culp's Hill & Cemetery Hill" by Harry W. Pfanz
"The Maps of Gettysburg - An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3-July 13, 1863" by Bradley M. Gottfried
In addition to these reads, I intend to break out my wargame "Gettysburg" by Avalon Hill (1977), which has a beautiful mapboard* of the battle. As I read along, I can place the unit counters on the mapboard and maintain a perspective of the events.
* www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1243354/gettysburg
Pfanz's The Second Day is on my shelf and one of my favorite reads on the battle.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Is there another book on Gettysburg you would recommend for me to add to my collection? Additionally, I've nothing regarding the Battle of the Second Manassa/Bullrun. Do you? If so would you recommend it.
Just finished reviewing your videos. You have been busy in the last 10-months. Just about everything you've posted has some interest to me. You now have a new subscriber. Thankfully, I'm retired and now have the time to watch them.
Virginia Beach via the U.S. Navy
Formerly from Marietta, Georgia next to the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park.
Amazing!! Great video. I learn a lot from you 😊
Love this channel and all that you offer us viewers.
What a great video stream. I have read books but your stream coverage of the union line to little round top and beyond.
Your walk up the hill brings some sense of how hard it was for the Confederate forces.
Lee made a war losing mistake and clearly by not looking at the lay of the land cost him.
Again, being in Europe and not able to visit , your stream really makes history come to life.
Always appreciate your comments, Jackie!
I walked that very ground myself many years ago when my 6th grade class took a 3 day trip to visit the battlefield. Devil's Den in particular blew my mind, there's absolutely no way in hell that any unit going in there could maintain any kind of formation or battlefield awareness. To then have to attack up the slopes of little round top after taking, losing, and then retaking the devil's den, being there in person it's plain to see that it was just too much to ask of those men to take that hill after all they had to fight through already.
My GGG grandpa was in C company of the 5th TX and was bayoneted in the chest there at Gettysburg. Family lore says he was injured at Devil’s Den (which is possible I suppose), but from every battle map I’ve studied, he’d have assaulted Little Round Top. I wonder if it’s possible he was tangled in with the 1st TX or possibly wounded during a retreat through Devil’s Den....? His POW record says he was captured in a nearby town (not Gettysburg); somewhere west of Gettysburg. He was fighting with his brother and he it’s likely that he got my grandpa as far as the town, but then was forced to leave him behind during the retreat.
I’m 16 min in right now and can now see how close and tight it is between Devil’s Den and Big Round Top. I always thought it was more spread out than that.
This was great! Thanks!
I'd really love to go to Gettysburg one day.
Also might I recommend listening to Iced Earth's Gettysburg trilogy. It is immensely epic and you won't be disappointed.
Fantastic Video!
Watching you climb Little Round Top and witnessing how difficult it was just for you. Geeze Imagine wool uniforms, full pack covering that rock filled ground. Geeze what the heck were Lee and Longstreet thinking sending men into well shear death?? I bet the Union troops picking them off on the hill had great sympathy. How could you not. Those Southern Troops on that hill had no chance of any sort of victory, having just covered all that ground. It was a literal shooting fish in a barrel. You couldn't miss!
Amazing tour!
Great video
Zero dislikes, the way it should be
I thought Robert E. Lee was playing out a standard Napoleonic set battle plan.
Great stuff. More down to earth and real than flashy documentary with everything staged. Obviously the time of year to visit. One can "hear" the silence and better image the horror of these days. Avoiding the crowds in flashy summer clothes "blocking" views and all the buses must be a new feeling.
Love your battlefield visits. Thanks.
Thank you for the video!
Wow, what a great video, thanks! My 4th great grandfather (one of 10 who served in the war, 5 on each side actually) served in the 11th Georgia during this battle, under Tige Anderson. I've been trying to better understand what he faced, I believe he fought in the wheatfield? It seems his regiment faced 67% casualties in one day during this battle. He survived this battle (as he did on battles before, like Antietam, and after) though he died on June 1st in the battle of Cold Harbor.
Here's a great write up on Anderson's brigade on July 2. www.gdg.org/research/Authored%20Items/jorg.html
@@VloggingThroughHistory Thanks, that's a great writeup. I also found a great ranger tour video of Gettysburg focusing on the Wheatfield. Seems Tige Anderson's brigade (and my ancestor) were heavily involved. At least according to that tour guide he mentioned that GT Anderson's brigade was the only unit, north or south, to be engaged with every moment of the 3 hour Wheatfield fight.
I was right were he is standing good place to visit
Well... History hits differently when you see the real place..
Thanks. For those who lives in Europe (Spain) this is a gift. In My next trip I want to be in USA. I Know better western coast but now... I don't know, maybe East is not a bad idea. Now I must change my Wife's mind... She wants to visit Arizona... and we want to do a magnificient wedding in Vegas (me as Elvis and she as... I don't Know yet).
Welp, you visited the place my grandfather was stationed as a sharp shooter in the union army in this battle.
Your Grandfather? I’m 64. My Grandfather was born in 1900. When was yours born?
Came here after the oversimplified react video 👍
Love your vids.
Next time you go to Gettysburg let me know. I'm a Gettysburg native. Currently live in Chambersburg. Would love to tour Gettysburg with you.
P.s. Have you ever walked where Pickett's charge took place?
Great video. Good to see the Minnesotans get their just praise. Another candidate for savior of the Union that is a certain Mr. G Warren?
Let's be clear, there is no record that Lee ordered Longstreet to conduct his assault on the morning of July 2. Lee was aware of where Longstreet had bivouacked the night before and would be marching to the battlefield in the morning. No orders had gone out to Longstreet the night before. Lee had not decided on a battle plan for July 2nd until mid-morning. It would have been completely unrealistic to think that Longstreet could have been in position to assault the Union left flank by mid-morning, given that Lee had no idea where the left flank was before that time. Had Longstreet attacked up the Emmitsburg Rd. in the morning, Sickles would have been in the proper position on his flank to counterattack as Longstreet passed his front so I disagree that an assault at that time had a good chance of being successful. The only attack Longstreet could have launched in the morning was a frontal attack on West Cemetery Hill. Lee chose to replicate his Chancellorsville tactics and conduct a concealed flank approach march, which caused a lot of daylight to burn.
I remember being on Longstreets tower and my legs were jello because the tower was moving with the wind…
jesus christ last time i was this early, Antietam was still going on
you so have to go back on the actually days of the battle asee all the CW camps and the Battle and then walk Pickett's Charge on july 3rd , also in Sept they do the WW2 weekend at Ike's Farm with a full WW2 encampment and USO dance in town.
can you react to How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think
? great video :)
May I suggest putting some time stamps in the video? Makes it easier to find information that one’s interested in.
Good idea.
You look like the guy from all star song but skinnier
Hey, why don't you do a reaction video of oversimplefied, telling about the Russian Revolution?
Just a small piece of advice your music is too loud in your opening. I had to turn down the volume then turn it up for your voice
Well done. Good time of year to get best views of the field. Have to constantly remind oneself of how open the grounds actually were.
Wish some computer whiz could come up with a program that couuld show the frontages of units overlaid on the ground as you scan the landscape...
To early to read comments
Can you react to Uprising by Sabaton, its really good
That was one of the first ones I did.
@@VloggingThroughHistory oh ok
I was just wondering, you seem to like the movie Gods and Generals was wondering if you had seen this youtube video of this guys criticism of the movie and how much you agree and disagree with it. Why Gods and Generals is Neo-Confederate Propaganda (and Objectively Sucks) - UA-cam
Longstreet's attack was an ambitious move but incredibly hard to pull off
His troops had no time to rest after an exhausting march
And then immediately had to execute a complex enveloping maneuver
He ended up over-stretching his troops ..