Gettysburg Update 7
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2013
- 1:15 PM EST, The Army of North Carolina is almost at the stone-wall, Kemper 's Brigade is being flanked on both sides, I've called for double quick, everyone is going on double-quick.
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I'm among the Yankee "background actors" ordered to "rise up" at 2:30 and pour it into the Rebs. The regiment my re-enacting club portrays, the Seventh Michigan Infantry, was the only one from my state to help turn back the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge.
I was, in one of the takes, among the first three Rebs to jump over the angle.
We had to drive out, only one time, to get our pay at a rural ranch house type place and there was a poster on display that showed myself and the two others jumping the wall at the high water mark.
I sure wish I could find a copy of that poster.
I walked that field and climbed that fence on a July afternoon. No one was shooting at me and I still nearly fell out.
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I've watched this movie countless times, and it just now occurred to me how terrifying it would be to turn your back to people who are shooting at you, and trying to reform your regiment.
The Union was on the other side of this in Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor. Moral of the story: you always want to be the one playing defense behind a stone wall.
Not only that, but never march en masse toward a well entrenched/barricaded foe.
you also want to be on the side fighting for a just cause
"I Will not be moved until this engagement has been decided" NOW THATS A LEADER!!
Hancock is the MVP!
Too bad we don’t have generals like that anymore.
@@anthonychavez1906 General Patton was a great one. The only problem was his mouth.
@@TheAmecarethI agree 👍
That volley at 2:33 is amazing
Meanwhile, here in Indiana, the boys in gray under Morgan were preparing for/fighting the Battle of Corydun against the Indiana Legion. It was a victory for him, but the next day during breakfast, Morgan received word of both Gettysburg’s loss and the fall of Vicksburg.
Well, that was one Confederate colonel who was not available to help out at Gettysburg or Vicksburg thanks to the Indiana Legion.
“Give ‘em double canister! That’s it, Cushing-double canister!!”
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I feel bad for Longstreet. He knew it would happen before it happened. And it was every bit as devistating as he predicted.
I think Longstreet called lee his old dumb ass war horse after this battle.
Even a novice could see the failure across this field .
Lee was not a genius.
We know this as dumbness. As Patton said: No one win a war dying for his country, but making the enemy die for it..
General Lee had been taking long shots for years. On this day, his luck ran out.
YEP Longstreet should have been in charge. NOT LEE.
that's the style, Lo. !!
T U R N T H O S E C A N N O N S
"Alright. Here's what we're gonna do: 1. Dismantle that fence. Scrub that. We'll just hightail it over that fence!"
Seek And DESTROY 16 right? That fence should have been taken care of early
At approximately 1:53 they pay tribute to Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Alonzo Cushing, commander of Battery A, 4th U.S. Light Artillery. KIA at Gettysburg holding that line.
Lee tossed the dice in this desperate and futile gamble. He should have withdrawn from Gettysburg as Longstreet implored him to do.
2:32 when the union line pours into the rebels, visually my favorite part
pretty much any union volley into confederate lines is my favorite
It’s both satisfying to my eyes and ears
Cast your bread upon the waters and it shall return to you after many days.
My comment------------
at the army war college you spend time at Gettysburg. one of the events is that you actually walk Picketts Charge
when you walk it you can see the bowl that the confederates walked into and their is zero cover and concealment.
Ok hero
Surgeons removed a nail and bits of wood and leather from Hancock's wound from where the bullet had hit the pommel of his saddle. Hancock wasn't quite himself during the Overland Campaign a year later, probably because his wound hadn't quite healed.
***** Totally. Worse yet, the Overland Campaign didn't let up-unlike earlier where battles would be fought every few months. Several golden opportunities opened up during this campaign where Grant actually stole a couple of marches on Lee which would have potentially ended the Army of Northern Virginia. Yet the Army of the Potomac was forever plagued by sluggishness and bad luck.
Awesome. When the union troops rise up at the stone wall. For the glory of Pennsylvania. !..Fight for your home boys. !.
For the glory of Pennsylvania. We fight for are home.
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Wasn't that the 69th New York Irish Regiment rising up? I could be wrong but that looked like the same Irish fellas
who got torn up at Fredricksburg, returning the favor on the rebs.
blkyank1. They were from Philadelphia. Part of general webbs division. Hancock's second corps.
All Pennsylvania troops. Hancock's second corps is on the line. All Pennsylvania troops and artillery.
blkyank1 i think that it was regiments from Philadelphia troops under general Webb.
Those Southern men fell in droves yet they kept coming. Such bravery.
Some combination of bravery and being tired of it all and just wanting it to end, one way or the other.
I'd call it stupidity walking across a open field the yanks cudnt miss it was like shooting rats in a barrel
THE UNION FOREVER
my favorite scene
QUICK STEP MY BOYS! GIVE EM THE COLD STEEL!
T H E D O U B L E Q U I C K
Very stirring.
Imagine the slaughter is they had Gatling guns .
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
to be honest the union's actions at Fredericksburg wasn't as stupid as lees charge at Gettysburg. At Fredericksburg, the union wasn't able to get into formation fast enough before the rebels dug in and so had to retreat back across a stream in order to pull back but if they did this the left flank might get charged and destroyed which is why the union tried to charge on the right to delay the Confederates. Meanwhile, Lee ordered an entire division to walk across open ground against nearly three union divisions dug in behind a stonewall.
De las batallas más sangrientas que han habido en la historia 🗡️
It was a great movie.
Is
I still weep.
Not a cellphone in sight. Real men enjoying the moment.
Senseless slaughter, courtesy of Robert E. Lee.
Yet nobody wants to call Lee a "Butcher" with no regard for the lives of his men. At least Grant ultimately led his men
to total victory, not total ruin.
Had the rest of his life to ponder that decision.
Courtesy of Lincoln who wanted the federal government to take over states rights.
"The enemy is there and I intend to strike him." What if Lysander had said, "Here comes the Persians. Let's charge them and end this here"?
Seems the Yankees fight well when they have no general commanders in battlefield.
We've got the wall now!
Dicipline+organisation+training/education+dedication+courage+command+skill
It looks impressive, something I always loved about this movie (and the 1970 movie Waterloo) is the visual. Seeing the Confederates march across the field, The Federals rising up from behind the stonewall and firing their volley, amazing scene.
However, something that to me is simply awe inspiring is that there were "only" a few thousand reenactors participating but in reality both armies combined to an estimated 141,000 men on the battlefield (estimated 21,500 took part in Pickets Charge).
In the movie Waterloo, thanks to the Soviet Union, 15,000 soldiers of the Red Army acted as extras. In reality, the numbers equal those to Gettysburg with both armies combined at around 140,000.
It's amazing to think about the numbers that were actually involved and knowing that the best representation is only a small percentage of that.
Yes, it must have been very impressing to see the actuall charge with 21.000 men. But now imagine what the Battle of Gaugamela must have looked like. 200.000 Persians and 50.000 Makedonians clashed on that battlefield!
Try watching Sergei Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace'.... they put a camera on tracks to cross a live-action battlefield, with tens of thousands of soldiers reenacting a multitude of scenes, and you can see, as far as the eye can stretch, formations of troops marching to battle, fighting, etc etc. It's truly epic on a scale you'll never see again.
Esp. since directors delude themselves that CGI looks just like the real thing....
I'm veryvery lovely the confederate army and very eroism for all south soldiers! W the General Lee💓💓😔😔😔🙏
Tragic.
Welcome to Pennsylvania
Adelante fuego!!! No dejeis que se acerquen los rebeldes. Si perdeis esta batalla perdereis la guerra. Fuego a discrecion!!!! Fuego !!!!!!
why didn't the first guys to the fence pull it down? It's just a rail fence the comes apart easy.
must be nice to be a general.
Uma hora de troca de tiros imagino não dava pra ver mais nada com tanta fumaça dos maquetes e canhões
what a total tragedy
whats this movie?
The whole time watching is wondering when the farmers gonna come out and say hey what are y’all doing to my Field I just planted that seed the other day they’ll stop everyone stop trampoline over my field
Wish I could be a reenactor
I think that March was such a stupid move . If anything I would’ve split my force kept my cannons exactly where they have them and flank them while they are focused on the force by the cannons . There must be a better way then marching across that field like that .
The union line was miles long. Lee tried flanking twice by this point and failed. He assumed the union had massed on their flanks and thus was weak in the center. He was wrong.
If I were the Confederacy, darn I wont even go forth with Pickett's charge. If needed be, where are the men with big axes to hack that darn fence? Also spread out the men while moving, just like the Prussians did.
the fence that was standing by the road is much stronger then you think it would have taken several men many minutes to get through it and the Confederates had to take the entire wall or union reinforcements might have arrived before the Confederates could bring up their reserves. Of course, none of that mattered because the union had put all of its reserves at the very center of the line because mead accurately predicted lee's next attack
The British Charge of the Light Brigade was small potatoes compare to Pickett's Charge folks. For when it was all over Gen Lee ask about Gen Pickett's Division . . . I have no Division Gen Lee . . . .
No small potatoes for the British army on July 1st 1916 ,with the casualty returns of just under 20,000 killed from a total of just under 60,000 casualties .I don't care who it is who is advancing into the face of musket and grape shot or machine gun fire. They died with faces the enemy, god bless their memory .....my best regards
Lions led by donkeys, a murderous idiocy not exceeded until WW 1.
Why wasn't Picket there with his boys in the charge?
It always amazes me how the Confederates could still push forward with the Union right on their flanks. Astounding
777crusader fredericksburg when the union boys did the same
@@spartanwarrior1 Fredericksburg when the union either charged or got routed and to be honest the union took fewer casualties.
I hardly consider them equals
Gettysburg Update? Uh the South lost.news flash
You know in all seriousness I'd like to see this movie remade..... just don't let Micheal Bay do it cause somehow robots, meteors and an ambulance would be involved
There's no reason to remake this classic
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Give em double cannister, thats it double cannister !!!!!!!!
Rebels should have been running up like hell, after leaving the forest. Never had a chance.
Lee got his men slaughtered why in the hell would he send his troops under all that open field with Union artillery once the Confederates lost Gettysburg it was all over
Up until that day the union lines had always collapsed in heavy fighting. Confederate troops had pretty much never failed to win a major battle. After this battle southern armies never stopped bleeding. As an American I thank God for Gettysburg, as a son of the south I understand why.
Lee is undoubtly the best commandeer the CW produced but how he could make the same mistakes twice is unfathomable (Malvern Hill and Gettysburg) At Gettysburg it seems he did everything wrong and just wouldn't listen to the advice of others.
lee was the best commander AT THE TIME, but the south's best military strategist Albert Sydney Johnson had unfortunately been killed at Shiloh. Johnson would not have done this battle the way Lee orchestrated it.
USD Grant was the best commander. Lee was the luckiest.
@@luciusjulius8320 Grant wasn't the best...that belonged to Hancock or Gibbon. Superiors to Grant in every way.
@@SoulKiller7Eternal Nonsense. Hancock's record in the Wilderness was quite spotty and, granted he was still suffering from his Gettysburg wound, he got out generaled. Hancock never commanded an Army and neither did Gibbon., The idea that Gibbon was a better General than Grant demonstrates an ignorance that is quite remarkable. You simply don't know what you are talking about.
@@luciusjulius8320 Maybe you need to look at 2nd Bull Run. Gibbon, without orders countered all of Jackson's attempts to wipe him off the field. His own Iron Brigade fought Jackson's to a standstill.
Even without support from fellow officers...he bloodied Jackson's nose and the veteran ego of the Stonewall Brigade.
Learn before you look stupid.
Gibbon out generaled Jackson.
Hancock, if he had support, could've dealt a massive blow to the rebels during McClellans initial campaign.
His stalwart defense at Gettysburg is one of his shining moments, and he never wanted to be in overall command either.
Il Popolo Italiano rende onore al Popolo della Virginia per il suo coraggio ed è vicino ai Fratelli della Confederazione
Raise up lads.....FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my respect to all those 12 k confederates who went through those 2 miles between cannons and rifles without any hesitation. they are really patriots
lianmac2001 no they are not. The union boys were patriots givin the traitors hell
Patriots? What is wrong with you.The confederates were traitors to America.
@@spartanwarrior1 Yes, it was the big win for the woke liberals and gave us another century plus of shared freedom.
Me pregunto.¿a quien demonios se le ocurrio la idea de luchar en oleadas a cuerpo descubierto y avanzar asi hacia armas de fuego? .Eso solo lleva a morir...
Andwith all that uselessexpenditureof artillery ammunition, nobody thought about breaking gain that damned fence?!
the rebels didn't have any artillery shells left after the initial bombardment plus the fence was made of hardwoods meaning you would at best-put holes in it which is honestly worse than having to climb it because bottlenecks are always heavily targeted in these situations
when people talk about reparations I say it's been paid in full.my second great grandfather Levi C. Gould fought in the 88th ohio infantry.
Thank you very much, for your grandfather service, the 88th and 89th Ohio even though decimated, where some of the bravest soldiers of the Union Army, and history tells their story
3rd great grandparents on both sides fought for the Union when they came here from Europe. They can stick their reparations up their rear.
Exactly! By the blood and hardships of those brave men!
Reparations... 2 of my relatives were killed and one was taken prisoner. July 2 1863 on Stony Hill near the Wheatfield. 28 Massachusetts Irish Bridge. Paid In Full!
Mauni is dollar you to me
Why was the fence not taken down prior to the assault. What was Lee thinking about, to even attempt this ? He knew better.
The fence was almost a mile from our lines near the Yankee lines. Thus it could not be.
@@jeffersonthomas1269 Tenia q ganar el "bien" al mal en ese momento y todos sabemos ( aunque no nacieramos en ese pais...) quienes eran los q peleaban x el mal y no eran los yanquis precisamente...
Hope the" right "people are watching this.........the monumental sacrifice these men paid for liberty etc........learn the lesson. Gratitude instead of the eternal poor me victim race card nonsense you owe me.........watch this stuff....learn !!!!! Thanks for the upload.
Best thing they should have did were giving the former slaves a mule and terrain.
How could the federals even see what they are shooting at with all that smoke?
You didn't much need to.
I'm pretty sure they just put the gun up and shoot and hope for the best
You got them slaughtered
F@&$ those fences... Talk about compounding your problems..
I was told that somehow Robert e Lee is in the family
westpoint snell: Yeah, and I'm Lincoln's grandfather. Robert E. Lee's family tree has been thoroughly researched and verified. I'm betting you're no more related to him than I am.
NeoSovrnson oh you know that do you?
I said I was betting. If you have PROOF that you are related to him, then show me. Fair enough? (And, no, I'm not from Missouri.)
NeoSovrnson I don t have proof,i was told one of my great uncles spoke to one of Lee's grandsons and had a conversation since both families were from virginia
Just kinda hot it off from there
I love my Southern Saints! Bravery and commitment; discipline and a penchant for war rivaling that of the Prussians themselves. Even today, IN GENERAL, from which part of the nation does America's best soldiery hail? I fault not an almost similar bravery which the Boys in Blue showed at Marye's Heights at Fredricksburg, only the cause. Anyway, Deo Vindice. Dixie!
The Prussians would've slaughtered Lee and his rebellion
Michael Coatney The Prussians looked at the civil war as an unorganized brawl. They found nothing of worth to be learned from it. I forget which Prussian General was quoted to say that unfortunately
Best soldiery? Hmmm the West, the south lost
army of northern virginia isnt it?
Yes.
Pretty much the whole Southern Army
Deberian haber mandado grupos de zapadores para tumbar las cercas de madera, donde tantos murieron y se expusieron mucho mas tiempo a fuego directo
Si fue asi
Malos mandos
Boss i militery star you
Yeah know what’s great, the Union artillery blows a hole in the Confederate line and the officers tell them to close up the hole. Go ahead boys stand closer together.
WTF is up with that! They want them to walk close together toward certain death. I would have said to them “you want me to do what?”
Tight formations were necessary to mass firepower, less so at this point in time but still pretty necessary. A tightly formed up group of men would be able to withstand a cavalry or infantry charge as well as deploy a devastating fusilade. That all being said they were rapidly approaching the point in time where frontal charges were starting to be a very very bad idea just due to the increase in firepower. Gettysburg is merely one example but there's plenty more through the ACW and early WW1.
Pleace mauni to easy
저때는 전술이라는게 왜 저리 무모했을지?
The rifles were a relatively new weapon
The only problem with the video (and its not fault of uploader) if you studied the battle and knew of the brigades and their flags...the Flag of green (the emerald banner) of the Irish Brigade...they were practically destroyed the day before. The entire brigade was only at regimental strength (barely) 500 strong instead of the few thousand they were before.
They marched into history...Day 2 of the fight, to assist the stupidity of Sickles'.
Ted Turner is an environmentalist commie nut but damn can he bring a production together. This movie is spectacular and sends a chill down my spine every time I watch it.
how is ted turner a communist if hes a fucking business owner?
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Слава воинам конфедерации!
Why didnt they charge at night when the union soldiers were sleeping?
They should have charged backwards so the Union would think they were retreating.
Because the Union had pickets who would have sounded the Alarm and there was no way to launch such a massive
night attack without making noise. Besides, the CSA Artillery would not be able to support that attack because they
couldn't see anything.
@@eNosArmory they shoulda charged back to virginia
Night fighting with the exception of scouts/raids wasn’t even a concept at that time
Close to a mile?? Open field? Suicidal
Io c'ero , ero un confederato.
Pleace or i is dead
This charge was done in arrogance at the believed invincibility of the Army of Northern Virginia, we all know how true that turned out to be.
It was a last resort tactic!
black dragon it wasn’t a last resort. The ANV had other options. Longstreet in oarticular warned Lee several times that the attack was suicide
patrick madden all 15,000 men should have ran to the line and saved thousands of them. They would have easily crushed that weak line.
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They would have been running in humid July heat into massed Yankee Artillery which was far superior to Confederate
cannon. Why? Because just as the southern rural life and marshal tradition were conducive to making superior infantry
the Industrial more highly educated north was conducive to producing overwhelming numbers of cannon and the
officers skilled in Engineering and mathematics who could use them to greatest effect.
No reenactment will come close to that day. There was no theme music. Only men fighting and knowing the grim reality facing them. All knew that many would die whether if was themselves or friends. Others knew that they might be wounded facing either a grueling painful death or recovery. Some would face amputations or permanent injuries. Yet they fought overcoming fear. Did they think of family or friends? Or did they ponder their lives and mortality? If you carried the flag, you could not even fight. As you march, you see men falling, the screams of the wounded or those dying men, the awful damaged inflicted on a human being by artillery or shot, and many are covered in the blood and flesh of those hit by shells. Yet they fight and die. This the story of war. Remember their sacrifice yet their sacrifice was in vain.🎉
Was Uncalled For Suicide And Waste Of A Fine Army
Fallait avoir des couilles quand même
The Confederates shouldn’t even have loaded their rifles, too many stopped and started shooting.
Even had more men reached the wall, the Union had fresh regiments of Infantry ready to push them right back out.
Lee had nobody ready to reinforce and exploit any breakthrough even had it happened.
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Rest in peace all that died in that conflict. Brave men all. I wonder how many called on the name of the Lord as they lay dying on that battlefield and other battlefields well? Rom. 10:13, Acts 22:16
Go yankees!
Bos i no mauni bos transfer mauni to mi
They were very brave! The confederates almost won the battle!
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
Not really.
Oh for the want of 2 million Springfield bolt action rifles and 3 million rounds of ammo for the Confederate army.
Matthew Rudder Ikr
And the time machine to bring it to them.
The North were making cannons better guns and artilary the south were hanging and whipping slaves and cotten tobacco and corn was all they had this battle turned the war against the horrible south just like stalingrad changed the war against the horrible nazis
stupid war strategy. modern weapons for under antique doctrine.
terrible
Not loving the pro-fascist ads running before this video