Lee's Headquarters at Gettysburg: Preservation and Memory
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2021
- Join us for our first ever deep-dive into the preservation and restoration efforts of one of the Trust's biggest projects to date, Lee's Headquarters at Gettysburg. Since the restoration was completed in 2016, thousands of visitors have enjoyed touring this important piece of the Gettysburg battlefield. Be sure to plan your visit today! www.battlefields.org/visit/he...
Garry Adelman is the Chief Historian at the American Battlefield Trust, and Matthew George is the Senior Manager for Land Stewardship. Tim Smith and Andrew Dalton join us from the Adams County Historical Society.
I cannot wait to get back to Gettysburg!!!
Gettysburg is a bucket list item for any true lover of history ....a beautiful historic town and battlefield that sends chills down the spine when you walk it because of all the energy you feel there . Early morning and late nights are the best times to enjoy this battlefield for sure ,afternoon for the tours ! 👍😉
I donated to General Lee’s HQ , I also was there for first cannon firing since The Civil War , Went inside the HQ walked around and even went up into the Attic, Can’t wait to get back There . 🇺🇸
These guys did an absolutely fantastic job with the restoration of Lee's headquarters. I visited Gettysburg in 2007 and remember being disappointed with all the commercial activity located immediately adjacent to it. This was in contrast to Meade's headquarters, whose setting was much more consistent with the time of the battle. Half of Lee's headquarters was a cheesy gift shop. Well done, gentlemen.
Just visited Gettysburg for the first time since 1997, and the restoration is fantastic,. Thank you battlefield trust for everything you do to preserve our nation's most important sites.
Thanks American battlefield trust for fixing it and saving this!
It’s this that makes me proud to support the Battlefield Trust. Thank you .
I was there July 1st, 2nd and 3rd 2019 Am going back July 1st, 2nd and 3rd this year. Can't wait.
AWESOME job,,Hope to vist some day soon
Hey I loved staying at that hotel as a kid and teen in the mid 1970's. Swam in that pool many a summer.
Bringing my 10 year old son to Gettysburg for the first time in June. He is so excited! The preservation work you are doing is miraculous.
Fantastic - well done folks - amazing reclaimation!!!
Was there in 2014 just before the hotel was demolished. We stayed in the hotel. Fantastic breakfast as I recall.
Back in the early 60's when I was a boy I found my 2nd great grandfathers Civil War musket at the Lee's Headquarters museum while on vacation with my family. I went back in the mid 80's to try finding it again but had no luck. He fought at Gettysburg with the 149th Bucktails and survived the war.
That is a fantastic achievement. 🇦🇺
Incredible really. Well done.
I love Gettysburg. I hope to go back at christmas
That is my favorite time of the year to go as well. Almost have the entire battlefield to yourself. - Andy
I was there in 1988. There were artifacts on display and one of the things were human skull fragments collected near Culps Hill.
So glad for the enormous efforts to overcome the unending barriers to remove the cheesy motel and restore this important site
Great video! Can't wait for you guys to get back together and bring that group energy back! We miss that!
One of my best vacations.
I love these , I think, more than most other content on this channel. The pictures that you guys have in your arsenals really brings the imagination alive in someone like myself who tries to project. Thank you
Thanks, a great presentation.
I stayed at the Quality Inn in 1963 during the 100 year anniversary of the battle with my grandparents.I have color video of the visit as well as the Sutlers Tent across the street during that time! I also have B&W film from the 1940’s of the same area when my mother visited with my grandparents.
Also, regarding the dog house, they should put a name plate over the door that reads "J.E.B. Stuart," reflecting that Stuart was in the dog house with Lee during the battle.
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Really good episode.
My great great grandfather ended up showing up near the corn field on July 3rd
Incredible job! My husband and I went up there for the 150th anniversary of the battle and it is one of the most well preserved battlefields in the country. We’re from Chattanooga Tennessee ( another civil war batttlefield and my husband was born on the Missionary Ridge part of that battlefield) but the battles around Chattanooga with exception of the Chickamauga battlefield a few miles from it are not any where near preserved as well as Gettysburg is
Great job
History is wisdom of the Future.
27:36 That face you make when the missus wants a new dining room but a few bearded guys once stayed there.
Gettysburg is a national shrine
Woohoo! I missed this live
Amazing work! time to remove that ghastly road right in front of it.
27:05 who would tear down such a historical building as late as 1950? what a shame
Hey Tim! Get my mangos ready!!
Fun fact: Alexander Riggs was Martin Riggs great-great-grandfather from Lethal Weapon.😉
Yep 👍 good news, hope that it doesn’t have to be used again.
This is so very cool, thank you for your efforts- one thing- wish you would not use the Lord’s name like that...😟
Too bad they got rid of all of the relics
Gary and team I’ve recently purchased the adjoining parcel to the Thompson home. I’ll be opening a outreach center aimed at young families with children. It’ll be dedicated to bringing back the fun of the Gettysburg Battle. We’ll have a interactive arcade and rides for fun and education. Here’s what i’m thinking.
Pickets Plunge water ride. The main concurse will be Long Street…get it!?! genius i know. For a mascot & pictures we’ll have Loopey Lee. He’ll be a happy lovable loser type thats walks around saying Where’s Stewart!?! I don’t think Tom Arnold is doing anything these days. Heres the tie in w/your organization WHERES STEWART is perfect for the mueseum and you can provide the publicity!!
Ok you better sit down here’s the hook…A haunted Volcano, Much better than a little rocky hill don’t u think? (fireworks I didn’t forget fireworks) we’ll call it Joshua’s Chamber of Secrets. Kinda a Xfiles meets Harry Potter vibe. Very popular with historical researchers these days.
I’ve already have local mediums lined up to give lectures on the Ghosts of Gettysburg. Get this the stage will be a outifitted with actual stones from the devils den with dead soldiers that suddenly rise up as zombies! Ok i know by now you’re as excited as i am and want to get this moving. Please feel free to contact me with your financial participation.
Lee got whipped at Gettysburg because he took a backseat to the fighting! Putting everything on his subordinates and never once getting anywhere near the scene of action! AP Hill was missing in action and did nothing to support Longstreet on Day 2 and Lee strangely never addresses this? Ewell with most of Stonewall Jackson’s men who had previously with Jackson at the helm won many battles sets idle after Day 1 refusing to even use his artillery on Day 3 to support Picketts division? Ewell is content to merely contest Culps hill in a fruitless and counterproductive effort that didn’t aid the rest of the army in any way! Had Lee been present to light a fire under Hill on Day 2 and send in more troops to support Ambrose Wrights Georgians breakthrough in the Center following up Longstreet’s destructive assault, things would have been much different
The Battle of Gettysburg, like the entire Civil War, was a series of “what ifs.” After Stonewall’s magnificent performance at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, what if the Confederates had marched on Washington?
The reason is that God was on the side of the North. The Confederates were losers then and are loser today. While the Confederates were “whistling Dixie,” the Northerners “have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”