Help Us Preserve A Missing Piece of Gaines' Mill & Cold Harbor
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2021
- Historian Gary Gallagher shares why this site--the 'Intersection' around the site of the original McGhee farmhouse-- is at the top of his priority list to ensure it is preserved forever. To learn more or to donate, please visit: bit.ly/3n7M6fO
In addition, Mike Gorman, Ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park, reveals what makes this tract, including the McGhee Farm lane, so important to the history of these battles.
Great to see Dr. Gallagher!
did my part yesterday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for all you do
Great stuff! I've always been drawn to this lot. Every time I visit CH/GM, I try to visit it. I'm excited to see it preserved forever.
My husband's great, great grandfather fought at Cold Harbor, so I plan to help preserve this missing piece of the battlefield. Thank you for this video!
Gary Gallagher- I think that counts as a celebrity sighting!
Thanks, Dr Gallagher, for your work. I’m only sorry our paths never crossed while I was in Charlottesville back in the 1990s.
Thanks for the maps, ariel views, and speakers! Seeing the land and hearing from the experts makes everything real!
Nice. You guys at ABT got Gary Gallagher to do the video? There simply is no greater, heavy hitter, Civil War scholar than him alive today. That's it...I'm donating. Today!
Gary was the first president of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (which later became the Civil War Trust) and he is also a former board member!
The American Battlefield Trust should request all monuments and confederate statues handed over to them and display them on the battlefields.
Usually monuments on the battlefield have to do directly with the battlefield and the battle. They aren't just put there for no reason.
@@johnnystir9796 Are you kidding me? Robert E . Lee was involved with Petersburg Va. , Appomattox Va. , Antietam Court House , Mechanicsville Va.,Chaffins Farm Va., Chancellorsville Va. Cheat Mountain Va., Cold Harbor Va. ,Cumberland Church Va. ,Darbytown and New Market Va.,Deep Bottom Va. Stonewall Jackson was involved in Bull Run , Antietam , Manassas , Chancellorsville and Seven Days Battles. Those statues could go on any one of those battlefields!
@@73beetle19 if you tried to compile a list here of the engagements those two general officers were involved in you'd break youtube.
This is awesome, I actually came over from the UK in 2019, and visited most of the VA battle sites (including CH/GM). Amazing to think how many men fought in actually what is not a really large battle site/area (from what I could tell anyway). Only thinking of the campaign itself as one huge battle site, considering the close proximities of other battles in this campaign.
They are missing some pieces. The land beyond the pond at CH, I believe was where a lot of the fighting was….I hope those people will donate to the ABT. Or atleast allow them them to buy it.
@@derekrupert2013 it's the same thing in the UK Derek. Sadly quite a few of our battlesites are either housing estates, or land you can't access.
Great video. I must admit though, as it stands today, Cold Harbor is so difficult to understand. Antietem, Shiloh, Gettysburg can be understood to a degree, the way they r preserved. Maybe it’s because I visited during pandemic but Cold Harbor is tough to visit and understand. But then, so is Chancellorsville. Now Fredericksburg, again, well marked, easy. I wish our country would embrace history and help these guys do what they are so dam good at, preserving, interpreting and teaching. Dr. Gallagher is awesome as is so many other historians and of course, Gary the animated Adelman! Wish I could share a beer with these guys and just listen:).
Gaines Mill/Cold Harbor are my home base. I’d love for them to combine the fields and then have dual placards since they share some land.
Thanks for the hard work
Had a ancestor in 22nd va there
I am Australian, what are sunken roads?
Sunken roads are depressions in the land from what I have learned were well traveled by farm wagons, livestock, and farm equipment between places where farmers were tending their crops or other roads
More impressive than the sunken road at Antietam ?
Since my ancestor owned that land and Gaines Mill can I have it back and preserve it my self? Dr William Fleming Gaines was a 1st cousin to my great great grandfather William H Gaines, from hot springs Arkansas he was a confederate officer for General Kirby Smith. Susan Lee was also their 3rd cousin who married Robert E Lee's 1st cousin General Edwin Gray Lee.
How many people would go to the battlefields if all the Confederate statues were placed on the battlefields? Tourism would definitely pick up in your state. I know it would. There’s a lot of people are interested in the civil war.