Ask A Gettysburg Guide #47- The Bloody Wheatfield with LBG Lewis Trott (VIDEO VERSION)

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  • @robertschultz6922
    @robertschultz6922 Рік тому +2

    Since I was a re-enactor of the 2nd us infantry, I have been extremely interested in the regulars during the pre war years and the us civil war!

    • @addressinggettysburg
      @addressinggettysburg  Рік тому +1

      Yeah they don’t get enough attention. Do they? We’ll have to do some shows in them if I can find someone to speak with authority on the matter.

    • @robertschultz6922
      @robertschultz6922 Рік тому

      @@addressinggettysburg I REALLY hope you do! That would be so awesome if you could find anyone who could do a podcast, unfortunately there is not a lot of information on the regulars. Sad but true.

  • @thomascanavan8686
    @thomascanavan8686 3 роки тому +4

    Great Ask A Guide episode on a confusing part of battle. Also Father Corby statue is nicknamed "Father Faircatch" due to his right arm extended as if fielding a punt.

    • @addressinggettysburg
      @addressinggettysburg  3 роки тому

      👍

    • @thomascanavan8686
      @thomascanavan8686 3 роки тому

      @@addressinggettysburg Just watched the Sickles episode.
      Seems we may have to have a conversation on the opinion of New Yorkers with youse guys .

  • @bryanfields5563
    @bryanfields5563 2 роки тому +2

    It's been a long minute since I've watched and listened to them, but The Gettysburg Daily's website had some good coverage of the Wheatfield fight. The multi-episode version on the Irish Brigade specifically comes to mind in describing the hectic, last-second nature of that shootout.

  • @philphucas3663
    @philphucas3663 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for asking my questions. Awesome program. I learned a lot.

  • @blackrocks8413
    @blackrocks8413 6 місяців тому

    I think he meant to say Rorty was S of the copse of trees.

  • @raypaul5504
    @raypaul5504 Рік тому +2

    Sickles was a genius

    • @addressinggettysburg
      @addressinggettysburg  Рік тому +1

      Lol

    • @jasonroberts6080
      @jasonroberts6080 Рік тому

      Yes, his hotly debated most ballsy move of the battle, threw the rebels into confusion, and thus a delayed attack. Which then led to daylight issues at end of day 2.

    • @mattjones8254
      @mattjones8254 Рік тому

      ​@@jasonroberts6080Sickles also put George Meade in a dangerous position with that maneuver.... He got lucky. It wasn't brains.

    • @dks13827
      @dks13827 4 місяці тому

      well he needs crutches !!!!

  • @patrickmcelhone1446
    @patrickmcelhone1446 2 роки тому +1

    Alder not adler but when your in a swamp getting shot, what difference does it make

  • @robertschultz6922
    @robertschultz6922 Рік тому

    Um July is the slowest month? It’s the anniversary of the battle!!!

    • @addressinggettysburg
      @addressinggettysburg  Рік тому +1

      Right. It’s also hot as hell. Americans are fatter and lazier than ever before. October has taken o er as busiest month. Also there are more events going on in October. Unfortunately, history doesn’t draw the crowds like it used to

    • @robertschultz6922
      @robertschultz6922 Рік тому

      Now that’s extremely sad to hear! I always wanted to go to the 150th reenactment but as I live in Nevada it was too far. Now it seems as if most history is just gone! What will that bring on now?

  • @bryanfields5563
    @bryanfields5563 3 роки тому

    Didn't Albert Sidney Johnson also carry his own tourniquet with him at Shiloh?

    • @JohnnyRebKy
      @JohnnyRebKy 3 роки тому +1

      I think he did. The problem is he didn’t realize he needed it until it was to late

    • @addressinggettysburg
      @addressinggettysburg  3 роки тому +1

      Wasn’t it his personal surgeon that he sent to help a Yankee, who had his tourniquet with him?

    • @JohnnyRebKy
      @JohnnyRebKy 3 роки тому +2

      @@addressinggettysburg yep 👍. Forgot about that

  • @bryanfields5563
    @bryanfields5563 3 роки тому +1

    "walking from one end of the field to the other without stepping on the ground" - maybe more of an "allegory" or "expression"? I don't think it's a metaphor, which is usually expressed with "Like a" language. So if they said the dead were like a bridge that allowed me to cross the meadow without touching the ground" - THAT would be a metaphor. I think. Ah, what the hell...

    • @JohnnyRebKy
      @JohnnyRebKy 3 роки тому

      Considering the massive amount of hot projectiles being shot at each other it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the description is literal. Men fighting while bunched together means the dead and wounded also fall in bunches. The back and forth in the wheat field may indeed left a bridge across the field of dead 💀. But who knows 🤷‍♂️. We don’t fight wars like that anymore and it’s hard to wrap our head around.

    • @addressinggettysburg
      @addressinggettysburg  3 роки тому

      Yeah you’re probably right. Hard to always think of the right words on the fly

    • @bryanfields5563
      @bryanfields5563 3 роки тому

      @@addressinggettysburg No doubt! I've always found those descriptors confusing.

  • @josephsteele2498
    @josephsteele2498 Рік тому

    I tyne in for Gettysburg Info, not to listen to you cgat about nothing