Pinning this response from other comments since Kris's pronunciation of Gettysburg has become such a debate! It's not worth getting all worked up over, we promise! While "Gettys-burg" has become the more popular pronunciation, the town was named after Samuel Gettys, pronounced "Gettis." Thus, some historians and locals prefer the "Gettis-burg" pronunciation.
This young man did great, I was more concerned about the mowing in the background, lol You would think they would see the filming and get some southern sweet tea for a 30 min break, lol!
In July of 2008, a good friend and I went to Gettysburg to participate in the 145th anniversary reenactment. Afterward we toured the battlefield, in particular those parts were our ancestors in the 52nd North Carolina fought. Upon leaving, we went to Cashtown and not only got to see the inn, we ate dinner there. The perfect way to say goodbye to Gettysburg.
Kris White you are AWESOME!! Love listening to your commentary on all these battles and formations! You not only tell a great story on how these battles came together, but you make it exciting!! I feel like iam there witnessing this as it happens! You and Garry have a wonderful gift for this! Looking forward to all your videos! 🤗🤗
Had my wedding reception at the Cashtown Inn. Talked to the owner about the ghosties as this was a few days after the airing of that particular ghost show. The owner said he needed publicity and the ghost team needed a story and then gave me the wink and the nod. Always love Gettysburg.
@@McNair39thNC Not at all. Did all the goofy ghost tours as well over the years. Nothing. My wife and stepdaughter claim they saw an apparition in the rest room in the Inn. But it's a cottage industry and folks need every penny they can get at this point, so God bless them.
I was just standing in front of the Cashtown Inn last week when I was on vacation. It’s so beautiful in this area and I love the history. This is my favorite UA-cam channel! Thank you!
Wow! That was a cold burn for no reason. He in no way make the comments about himself. He said it was a beautiful place. IT IS!!!! Pennsylvania has many, many beautiful areas and voicing his opinion of how beautiful is making the story about himself? He loves history especially the history of the area. Pennsylvania has deep and very interesting history. That's making it about himself? I see you commented so that implies you watched the video as well. So either you're a hypocrite or you just a jagoff. He commented that this is his favorite UA-cam channel. He's giving encouragement to the guys who give their time, talents, and treasures to educate us about an amazing time in America's past. That's making it about himself? Looks like the one making it about themselves is you. Are you that starved for attention?
I have shuddered to think of how horrible that retreat from Gettysburg just had to be for the Confederates. Thousands of terribly wounded men in pouring down rain, without any pain relief medications being jostled about in rudimentary wagons on those terrible roads, shrieking and crying out in their agony, some begging for a comrade to mercifully put them out of their misery with a quick bullet. I have been overwhelmed sometimes thinking about the post traumatic stress and emotional trauma that the Civil War generation of veterans just had to suffer through for the rest of their lives.
Well if the Founding Father's would have listened to PROGRESSIVE, Thomas Paine ( Common Sense & The Rights if Man) , the Civil War could have been avoided! Paine wanted to free the slaves and give women the right to vote in the 1700's. Then over 750,000 soldiers would not have perished in 4 years! But then Americans have to do everything the gard way! PROGRESSIVES are rarely acknowledged in the USA . Follow the $$$$$! And to quote Republican President and General Dwight David Eisenhower/ Commander of the D-Day Invasion June 6,1944" Beware the military industrial complex!" Should have listened to General Ike! Eisenhower had a home right next to the Gettysburg battlefield ! Another good place to visit!
@@darensmith5270 Yes, people won't act on intellectual analysis of almost certain conclusions of events and consequences of lessons that history teaches from the past. I and Obama are about the same age. We grew up in a society that was administrated by veterans of the second world war. Our generation was keen to study the historical record of how the war occurred, it's causes and consequences. The consequences of appeasement fiqured largely in the equation of how the war developed. Not a fan of war. I want that understood, it's the worst thing people do, but in some cases we should learn that it is necessary. What I am getting at is that we seem to go to war when we shouldn't and fail to go when we should. Vietnam, Iraq, and spending 20yrs occupying Afghanistan are examples of that but when Putin invaded Crimea and started his underhanded war against Ukraine in the Don bass regions we should have stopped him by any means necessary. As Chamberlain appeased Hitler. Hitler only grew bolder and I am afraid that Putin will cost us a compounded rate of intrest payable only in blood and strife in the future. Obama probably knew this at the time but also knew the he could not convince the Country and our Allies solely on the lesson of Hitler and Chamberlain. So, we shall see. I hope I am wrong, but human nature and history suggest other wise.
Whoah, Camp Verde. I was just doing family research and found that one of my ancestors was stationed at Camp Verde in the early 1870s. Is there still the remains of an Army base there?
Really enjoyed this account together with a mention of my favourite Confederate General, Johnston Pettigrew, killed during Confederate retreat when acting as rearguard seeing the Army of Northern Virginia safely across the Potomac. Thanks from UK.
Gary, I can't wait to hear more stories about the retreat and chase through Monterey Pass, through the town of Funkstown, the square of Hagerstown, and the river crossing at Williamsport.
There was also Fairfield and the occupation of waynesboro which local history lore says Lee stopped in on his way out of Gettysburg and let his horse drink water
Thank you thank you thank you for this informative video. I will be there in Mid April for my driving tour and hopefully more guided tour if that is possible to purchase.
I've stayed at the Cashtown Inn a few times. I love the history of the place and according to Jack, the owner, it is haunted. I got some interesting sounds overnight while staying there. I have a youtube video of the recording I made if anyone is interested. Lots of bumps and bangs and me and my dad were the only guests staying there at the time. Some sounds are hard to explain. You hear what sounds like a cork being popped out of a wine bottle very near my recorder which was on the table near the little refrigerator, the place where someone would open a bottle, and strange clicking within the room. There is even a gunshot sound towards the morning as the sun is coming up. Take it for what you will. If you like Civil War history, this is a great place to stay as you visit Gettysburg.
Great series, great review. It cracks me up though how everyone so upset about how Gettysburg is pronounced, and how the narrator is trying to be vocally correct. But when it came to the correct pronunciation of Staunton, he was caught offguard. It has to be understood that until you go to a place and talk to the people who actually live there you're going to make mistakes. And what's important is that you care about the correction.
No one should expect non-locals to pronounce it correctly! LOL As long as the money is green and the credit/debit cards go through i cant imagine too many people would care!
Great history guys. What I would find very interesting is if someone were to fire a cannon on the grounds of Gettysburg what would it sound like here at Cashtown. I can only imagine the sounds of the July 3rd Cannon campaign to those staying at Cashtown Inn.
Well thanks for solving a small mystery for me. When I would watch the movie Gettysburg it always bugged me when I saw that scene where Lee is going through Cashtown, and he stops to chat from asride his horse with a guy in a red shirt who apparently gives him assistance by answering his question. I thought if that's a local Pennsylvanian, doesn't he realize he's giving aid and comfort to the enemy? I was not aware that this scene portrayed a historic event where General Lee was talking to A.P. Hill.
Many northerners fought for the Confederacy! The civil war was not as black and white as the public indoctrination system's portray it as! It was ideologically fought over the illegal and treasonous implementation of a Federal Nationalized Democracy. The Union in 1776 was established as a constitutional Confederate Republic built on the principles of self governing Nation State's free from Federal tyrrany! Geographically it was fought over westward expansion by the North. Not only did the Union want to conquer Confederate Territory, but also Native American territories! The last Confederate General to surrender was a Native American who lead the Cherokee territory into battle. The father's of the Confederacy believed in private property right's and would have never stolen native land like the Union has done! 20,000 black men also fought willingly for the Confederacy! Around 15,000 Hispanic men fought for the Confederacy!
The whole problem with the South's position at Gettysburg was that Lee made a grand sweep of his army and he expected the union army to be sent piece meal after him where his Calvary would ride around them and harass their stores as usual and the smaller units could be eliminated one at a time. But the Union army got dispatched in force and made Jeb Stuarts ride around them almost impossible and took the south's Calvary out of the strategic game plan which allowed the union to do what all battle field commanders want to do...get there the soonest, with the mostest. Once it became a set piece battle the unions far superior numbers and equipment (artillery) made the outcome almost a fait accompli. The South's chances of winning the war on the field were never going to happen as they just had no manufacturing and limited population. There only chance was for a political settlement. Lee knew this and thus this campaign was a strategic roll of the dice to try and faint to Washington in an attempt to get the north to ask for terms
Great presentation by Kris White. Will you guys please tie Mr. Adelman's hands behind his back when he speaks...and maybe attach him to the ground somehow to stop his bouncing all over the place. As always when I watch these great presentations I enjoy them and learn something but the man drives me nuts!!
Not sure now but I think it was in Freeman’s Lee’s Lieutenants that I read where the invasion Lee decided on in 1863 was first proposed by Stonewall Jackson in 1862. The idea to take Harrisburg which would have been a grievous blow to northern train traffic.
Jackson wanted to head North to Harrisburg with his Army of the Valley with only 18,000 effective available to go North with. But there was a Union Army attacking way down in the Southern Shenandoah Valley coming from Ohio through what later became Charleston West Virginia. Lee felt that had to be stopped and was a much more important item at the time. So in the 3rd or 4th skirmish or battle Stonewall Jackson completed his infamous Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Also it became apparent that the Union was loading large amounts of troops onto Naval transports and taking them to Fotress Monroe, so McClellan had his mind on capturing Richmond and the worst thing that could happen was for Jackson to be in Scranton, Pennsylvania with Lee needing him to form the largest Army that Confederacy ever had and the Invasion was pretty damned large as well.
I am Asian American but I love the Civil War era since it is one of the first US wars in which Asian-Americans were recorded to have been involved: there were a handful of East Asian-Americans who fought on both sides. I find it humorous that there were people that looked like me who were fighting both for and against slavery in the US.
@@bullhead900 I know. The vast majority of Confederates fought to protect their homes and didn't own slaves. There were a variety of factors involved in the war.
@@kevinpark55 I feel the same way- I’m Latino, and am also descended from Confederate soldiers. My mother’s grandmother (who was a kid during the war) used to tell my mom about how “the Yankees” would come onto their farm sometimes and steal almost everything they raised, causing them to not feel too much sympathy for the “Yankees”. They lived right across the river from Maryland so the area was a frequent target.
@@historyandhorseplaying7374 Might they have been confederates dressed in stolen northern uniforms? It was far more common for the confederates to forage, especially near the end of the war.
@@inconnu4961 A) Everyone knows everyone in the Northern Neck, even today. In a small area, it’s obvious who’s a stranger. B) You can see the shore of Maryland from the Northern Neck, you can actually watch people get onto boats and row across the Potomac. C) It was thousands of troops, including black troops, and their Yankee officers.
My husband lived in Fairfield and ate at the Cashtown Inn many times. (Notice nothing was said about The Cottage just down the road! ---look that up on your own,)
Indeed, Davis was perplexed over the situation at Vicksburg. Vicksburg had been described as the linchpin of the Confederacy over the Mississippi River, it's defense was critical. Davis had discussed the need to transfer troops to Vicksburg and the Western theater, to parry Grant's thrusts and lift his siege of Vicksburg with Lee. Lee counsels Davis not to take troop strength from him in the East in an attempt to shore up the situation on the Mississippi, but rather to approve his audacious plan for an invasion of Pennsylvania. This campaign will have the quicker result for Vicksburg as the Federals will be compelled to redeploy East, and thus, relieve the pressure on Vicksburg indirectly, sooner than Lee's troops could travel there and make their weight felt. Davis agrees and decides to cast the dice on Lee's plan. As we now know, and as Davis perhaps should have known, the Federal's had enough strength to cover both regions adequately, and Lee's Pennsylvania incursion did not have the desired effect as Vicksburg surrendered about the same time as the Battle of Gettysburg. In a short time, Longstreet's Corps would be fighting in the Trans-Mississippi. Looking back on it, with the benefit of hind sight, one can say that the Confederacy should have surrendered in July 1863. With the loss of Vicksburg in the West and Gettysburg in the East it was definitely a lost cause.
But politically, even after mid-'63, Lincoln believed himself in trouble all through 1864 (with massive casualty rolls pouring in from heavy - handed offensives by Sherman into Georgia from Tennessee and by Grant into Virginia) until Atlanta fell.
@@teller1290 Resouces X Will = Victory. Such is the basic equation of making war. If either values drop to Zero ( or near zero) defeat occurs. The North had the vastly superior resources, The South was trying to exhibit the superior will, ( or commitment to the struggle .) Militarily the South's chances from the outset were slim to none. The best element they had was for the political situation in the North to sour with the people demanding an end to the blood and suffering. So yes, the political cards were still in play as you say. But the North did not lose the will to fight and if that was a known quantity than defeat for the Confederacy was certain, having the inferior resources, and not destroying the North's will to continue.
@@celticman1909 just saying if Davis doesn't fire Joe Johnston and replace with PTSD burned- out J.B. Hood (who squandered irreplaceable troops as fast as he could), Atlanta may not have fallen before the election. And to northern voters, who had watched many a trip down south over years end in defeat or continuation of fighting, close might not have convinced them war had turned decisively, esp as casualty rates rose.
I notice you Texans fail to mention how a brace Union Educator from the state of Maine and the 20th Maine captured many Texans at Little Round Top ,July 2,1863! They were running low on supplies and Col Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a fellow teacher ordered a bayonet charge! ( Teachers have to be creative and running low on supplies is a common problem) ! The Union Forever!!!;👍👍👍💙💙💙💙🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Did they film next to this when they made the Gettysburg movie? I’m guessing they put a bunch of dirt over the paved road and made a few other alterations
Yes. One of the few places that had not changed much. I think the innkeepers at the time of the movie in the early 1990s actually got to stand on the porch steps and be on film.
Yes i remember my dad complaining about how it messed up his commute to work and the dirt they put on the roads. Also the smell of horses. I unfortunately was too young to remember but I wish I could .
@@ronaldrenegade8519 I watched another where they pronounce mumma phoenetically and i had to think about what he was saying! The locals pronounce it 'moomaw'!
Early never was north of York or Adams Counties. Rodes and Johnson stayed in the Cumberland Valley. Rodes went as far as Carlisle and Johnson to Shippensburg. Jenkins cavalry was on the outskirts of Harrisburg.
Lee lost too many experienced officers and veterans at Chancellorsville. He didn't have the same army after that and Lee knew it. He gambled going North to win the war, not another battle. The North was growing too strong for Southern resistance to win the war on the battlefield.
According to a fairly new book, written by a Gettysburg Park Ranger, Troy Harman, ‘Lee’s Real Plan’, Lee did not want to,attack the Round Tops on the 2nd. He was unaware that they were occupied. A reconnaissance done in the early morning of the 2nd showed the Round Tops unoccupied. Lee wanted a converging attack from the 2nd Corp in conjunction with Longstreets 1st Corp moving south down the Emmittsburg Road on Cemetery Hill. It is only when Hood see’s the Round Tops occupied that he is forced to attack it which changes the original plan of attack. The book is an excellent read and makes things that happened on July 2 much clearer.
Please say Gettysburg the way the rest of us say it at least once. I know Mr. Gettys founded the town, but so what? Do you also say Pá-toe-Máck in the authentic Indian way instead of Potomac?
Pinning this response from other comments since Kris's pronunciation of Gettysburg has become such a debate! It's not worth getting all worked up over, we promise!
While "Gettys-burg" has become the more popular pronunciation, the town was named after Samuel Gettys, pronounced "Gettis." Thus, some historians and locals prefer the "Gettis-burg" pronunciation.
Thanks, I heard the difference in pronunciation and wondered.
This young man did great,
I was more concerned about the mowing in the background, lol
You would think they would see the filming and get some southern sweet tea for a 30 min break, lol!
When in Rome.....
In July of 2008, a good friend and I went to Gettysburg to participate in the 145th anniversary reenactment. Afterward we toured the battlefield, in particular those parts were our ancestors in the 52nd North Carolina fought. Upon leaving, we went to Cashtown and not only got to see the inn, we ate dinner there. The perfect way to say goodbye to Gettysburg.
Cash Town Inn has great food! I laughed when I saw a sign that said " Dogs welcome, people tolerated!!!! 👍😂🤣😂
I really like this young man.... very knowledgeable. Great presentation guys!
Kris White you are AWESOME!! Love listening to your commentary on all these battles and formations! You not only tell a great story on how these battles came together, but you make it exciting!! I feel like iam there witnessing this as it happens! You and Garry have a wonderful gift for this! Looking forward to all your videos! 🤗🤗
Had my wedding reception at the Cashtown Inn. Talked to the owner about the ghosties as this was a few days after the airing of that particular ghost show. The owner said he needed publicity and the ghost team needed a story and then gave me the wink and the nod. Always love Gettysburg.
Did you actually believe the “ghost stories”?🤣
@@McNair39thNC Not at all. Did all the goofy ghost tours as well over the years. Nothing. My wife and stepdaughter claim they saw an apparition in the rest room in the Inn. But it's a cottage industry and folks need every penny they can get at this point, so God bless them.
Always love the on-site battlefield locations vids 👌
Great presentation! Thank you guys!
Fantastic. I love listening to folks that obviously know and love this stuff.
I was just standing in front of the Cashtown Inn last week when I was on vacation. It’s so beautiful in this area and I love the history. This is my favorite UA-cam channel! Thank you!
It's good you had a fine vacation modern american, but people died there, its not about you you bisquit.
Wow! That was a cold burn for no reason. He in no way make the comments about himself. He said it was a beautiful place. IT IS!!!! Pennsylvania has many, many beautiful areas and voicing his opinion of how beautiful is making the story about himself? He loves history especially the history of the area. Pennsylvania has deep and very interesting history. That's making it about himself? I see you commented so that implies you watched the video as well. So either you're a hypocrite or you just a jagoff. He commented that this is his favorite UA-cam channel. He's giving encouragement to the guys who give their time, talents, and treasures to educate us about an amazing time in America's past. That's making it about himself? Looks like the one making it about themselves is you. Are you that starved for attention?
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Thank you guys for all you do,,,,,
Great vid. Started watching and couldn't stop. Fascinating information.
The three words of the motto certainly apply to videos like this. Wonderful narration and anecdotes.
So good these battlefield trust videos. They certainly know their history. Brilliant
I enjoy your videos. Especially now in rememberanc of Gettysburg. I wish I had half the passion about many things I do as you show in your videos!
As always, very well done! You guys do quality, informative/entertaining work every time!
Thank you 😁 we're always happy to hear that our hard work is appreciated!
I have shuddered to think of how horrible that retreat from Gettysburg just had to be for the Confederates.
Thousands of terribly wounded men in pouring down rain, without any pain relief medications being jostled about in rudimentary wagons on those terrible roads, shrieking and crying out in their agony, some begging for a comrade to mercifully put them out of their misery with a quick bullet.
I have been overwhelmed sometimes thinking about the post traumatic stress and emotional trauma that the Civil War generation of veterans just had to suffer through for the rest of their lives.
The old story - war is the product of stupidity, greed, and hate. It seems we’ll never learn
Well if the Founding Father's would have listened to PROGRESSIVE, Thomas Paine ( Common Sense & The Rights if Man) , the Civil War could have been avoided! Paine wanted to free the slaves and give women the right to vote in the 1700's. Then over 750,000 soldiers would not have perished in 4 years! But then Americans have to do everything the gard way! PROGRESSIVES are rarely acknowledged in the USA . Follow the $$$$$! And to quote Republican President and General Dwight David Eisenhower/ Commander of the D-Day Invasion June 6,1944" Beware the military industrial complex!" Should have listened to General Ike! Eisenhower had a home right next to the Gettysburg battlefield ! Another good place to visit!
@@darensmith5270 Yes, people won't act on intellectual analysis of almost certain conclusions of events and consequences of lessons that history teaches from the past.
I and Obama are about the same age. We grew up in a society that was administrated by veterans of the second world war. Our generation was keen to study the historical record of how the war occurred, it's causes and consequences. The consequences of appeasement fiqured largely in the equation of how the war developed.
Not a fan of war. I want that understood, it's the worst thing people do, but in some cases we should learn that it is necessary.
What I am getting at is that we seem to go to war when we shouldn't and fail to go when we should. Vietnam, Iraq, and spending 20yrs occupying Afghanistan are examples of that but when Putin invaded Crimea and started his underhanded war against Ukraine in the Don bass regions we should have stopped him by any means necessary. As Chamberlain appeased Hitler. Hitler only grew bolder and I am afraid that Putin will cost us a compounded rate of intrest payable only in blood and strife in the future. Obama probably knew this at the time but also knew the he could not convince the Country and our Allies solely on the lesson of Hitler and Chamberlain. So, we shall see. I hope I am wrong, but human nature and history suggest other wise.
there was war long before there was man and I believe pride was the cause....
There were plenty of Union soldiers who were willing to oblige their wish for a bullet to put Confederates out of their misery.
Great job guys.
Well done! I look forward to the next installment.
The personal and humorous anecdotes are quite interesting. Thanks very much for all your work. Cheers from San Diego.
Watching from Thailand
Good info
Thank you
Outstanding, Thank You!
Thank you all for efforts! Thanks from Camp Verde Arizona..
Whoah, Camp Verde. I was just doing family research and found that one of my ancestors was stationed at Camp Verde in the early 1870s. Is there still the remains of an Army base there?
Wow thanks for doing this. Looking forward to enjoying more of your work
Great narrative gents. Thanks for sharing.
Grew up about half of a mile from there. Parents still live there.
Have you gotten a traffic light yet? Will be so exciting when you do! Your friend from St Thomas, Pa! LOL
I remember watching the filming of the movie Gettysburg when I was younger and getting to meet some of the actors.
Lovin' this series
So cool ........thanks!
Really enjoyed this account together with a mention of my favourite Confederate General, Johnston Pettigrew, killed during Confederate retreat when acting as rearguard seeing the Army of Northern Virginia safely across the Potomac. Thanks from UK.
Gary, I can't wait to hear more stories about the retreat and chase through Monterey Pass, through the town of Funkstown, the square of Hagerstown, and the river crossing at Williamsport.
And Falling Waters
There was also Fairfield and the occupation of waynesboro which local history lore says Lee stopped in on his way out of Gettysburg and let his horse drink water
Great job Kris.
You guys are brilliant!
Another stellar post! Thanks
Thank you thank you thank you for this informative video. I will be there in Mid April for my driving tour and hopefully more guided tour if that is possible to purchase.
Outstanding
Awesome I've always wondered if it was still standing
Well done. Keep up the good work.
I've stayed at the Cashtown Inn a few times. I love the history of the place and according to Jack, the owner, it is haunted. I got some interesting sounds overnight while staying there. I have a youtube video of the recording I made if anyone is interested. Lots of bumps and bangs and me and my dad were the only guests staying there at the time. Some sounds are hard to explain. You hear what sounds like a cork being popped out of a wine bottle very near my recorder which was on the table near the little refrigerator, the place where someone would open a bottle, and strange clicking within the room. There is even a gunshot sound towards the morning as the sun is coming up. Take it for what you will. If you like Civil War history, this is a great place to stay as you visit Gettysburg.
Awesome video thanks
Great series, great review. It cracks me up though how everyone so upset about how Gettysburg is pronounced, and how the narrator is trying to be vocally correct. But when it came to the correct pronunciation of Staunton, he was caught offguard. It has to be understood that until you go to a place and talk to the people who actually live there you're going to make mistakes. And what's important is that you care about the correction.
I guess he didn’t feel it was important. “Stanton/Staunton whatever”!
And who mispronounced Gettysburg wrong?
I like when gettysburg is pronounced correctly, thanks
Get-us-burg. The black hats from the 16th Michigan pronounced it Get-ease-burg.
No one should expect non-locals to pronounce it correctly! LOL As long as the money is green and the credit/debit cards go through i cant imagine too many people would care!
Awesome history lesson.
Great history guys. What I would find very interesting is if someone were to fire a cannon on the grounds of Gettysburg what would it sound like here at Cashtown. I can only imagine the sounds of the July 3rd Cannon campaign to those staying at Cashtown Inn.
This is a great job,.
nice to see this detail before the battle of Gettysburg
This is excellent 👍🏼😎
Well thanks for solving a small mystery for me. When I would watch the movie Gettysburg it always bugged me when I saw that scene where Lee is going through Cashtown, and he stops to chat from asride his horse with a guy in a red shirt who apparently gives him assistance by answering his question. I thought if that's a local Pennsylvanian, doesn't he realize he's giving aid and comfort to the enemy? I was not aware that this scene portrayed a historic event where General Lee was talking to A.P. Hill.
True, but in that part of Southern PA there were some pro-Confederates, because a lot of the economy of their area depended on trade with the South.
Many northerners fought for the Confederacy! The civil war was not as black and white as the public indoctrination system's portray it as!
It was ideologically fought over the illegal and treasonous implementation of a Federal Nationalized Democracy. The Union in 1776 was established as a constitutional Confederate Republic built on the principles of self governing Nation State's free from Federal tyrrany!
Geographically it was fought over westward expansion by the North. Not only did the Union want to conquer Confederate Territory, but also Native American territories! The last Confederate General to surrender was a Native American who lead the Cherokee territory into battle. The father's of the Confederacy believed in private property right's and would have never stolen native land like the Union has done! 20,000 black men also fought willingly for the Confederacy! Around 15,000 Hispanic men fought for the Confederacy!
The whole problem with the South's position at Gettysburg was that Lee made a grand sweep of his army and he expected the union army to be sent piece meal after him where his Calvary would ride around them and harass their stores as usual and the smaller units could be eliminated one at a time. But the Union army got dispatched in force and made Jeb Stuarts ride around them almost impossible and took the south's Calvary out of the strategic game plan which allowed the union to do what all battle field commanders want to do...get there the soonest, with the mostest. Once it became a set piece battle the unions far superior numbers and equipment (artillery) made the outcome almost a fait accompli. The South's chances of winning the war on the field were never going to happen as they just had no manufacturing and limited population. There only chance was for a political settlement. Lee knew this and thus this campaign was a strategic roll of the dice to try and faint to Washington in an attempt to get the north to ask for terms
The south never had a chance…a society gone with the wind.
Awesome job fella's
Great presentation by Kris White. Will you guys please tie Mr. Adelman's hands behind his back when he speaks...and maybe attach him to the ground somehow to stop his bouncing all over the place. As always when I watch these great presentations I enjoy them and learn something but the man drives me nuts!!
That's a good one, Garry. It's good good.
Not sure now but I think it was in Freeman’s Lee’s Lieutenants that I read where the invasion Lee decided on in 1863 was first proposed by Stonewall Jackson in 1862. The idea to take Harrisburg which would have been a grievous blow to northern train traffic.
Jackson wanted to head North to Harrisburg with his Army of the Valley with only 18,000 effective available to go North with. But there was a Union Army attacking way down in the Southern Shenandoah Valley coming from Ohio through what later became Charleston West Virginia. Lee felt that had to be stopped and was a much more important item at the time. So in the 3rd or 4th skirmish or battle Stonewall Jackson completed his infamous Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Also it became apparent that the Union was loading large amounts of troops onto Naval transports and taking them to Fotress Monroe, so McClellan had his mind on capturing Richmond and the worst thing that could happen was for Jackson to be in Scranton, Pennsylvania with Lee needing him to form the largest Army that Confederacy ever had and the Invasion was pretty damned large as well.
Nicely done gentleman, listen to the cicadas!
Sounds like the Cicadas are still quite active!
Other than the unfortunate mispronunciation of Staunton, great job Kris!🤣
I am Asian American but I love the Civil War era since it is one of the first US wars in which Asian-Americans were recorded to have been involved: there were a handful of East Asian-Americans who fought on both sides. I find it humorous that there were people that looked like me who were fighting both for and against slavery in the US.
The war wasn't all about pro slavery and against slavery. It is not as simple as that.
@@bullhead900 I know. The vast majority of Confederates fought to protect their homes and didn't own slaves. There were a variety of factors involved in the war.
@@kevinpark55 I feel the same way- I’m Latino, and am also descended from Confederate soldiers. My mother’s grandmother (who was a kid during the war) used to tell my mom about how “the Yankees” would come onto their farm sometimes and steal almost everything they raised, causing them to not feel too much sympathy for the “Yankees”. They lived right across the river from Maryland so the area was a frequent target.
@@historyandhorseplaying7374 Might they have been confederates dressed in stolen northern uniforms? It was far more common for the confederates to forage, especially near the end of the war.
@@inconnu4961 A) Everyone knows everyone in the Northern Neck, even today. In a small area, it’s obvious who’s a stranger. B) You can see the shore of Maryland from the Northern Neck, you can actually watch people get onto boats and row across the Potomac. C) It was thousands of troops, including black troops, and their Yankee officers.
Do y'all ever do Chickamauga? I have an ancestor that fought at Chickamauga.
Search our Facebook page when we covered the battle about three years ago.
My husband lived in Fairfield and ate at the Cashtown Inn many times. (Notice nothing was said about The Cottage just down the road! ---look that up on your own,)
Great history on the civil war
You have to meet up with Park ranger Matt Atkinson!! Wonderful person
He’s an American Treasure for sure
Now you did it: I have another Civil War Jennings to research! Keep me busy! And thanks!
Keep an eye out for the ghosts there at the Inn.
Indeed, Davis was perplexed over the situation at Vicksburg. Vicksburg had been described as the linchpin of the Confederacy over the Mississippi River, it's defense was critical. Davis had discussed the need to transfer troops to Vicksburg and the Western theater, to parry Grant's thrusts and lift his siege of Vicksburg with Lee.
Lee counsels Davis not to take troop strength from him in the East in an attempt to shore up the situation on the Mississippi, but rather to approve his audacious plan for an invasion of Pennsylvania. This campaign will have the quicker result for Vicksburg as the Federals will be compelled to redeploy East, and thus, relieve the pressure on Vicksburg indirectly, sooner than Lee's troops could travel there and make their weight felt.
Davis agrees and decides to cast the dice on Lee's plan. As we now know, and as Davis perhaps should have known, the Federal's had enough strength to cover both regions adequately, and Lee's Pennsylvania incursion did not have the desired effect as Vicksburg surrendered about the same time as the Battle of Gettysburg. In a short time, Longstreet's Corps would be fighting in the Trans-Mississippi. Looking back on it, with the benefit of hind sight, one can say that the Confederacy should have surrendered in July 1863. With the loss of Vicksburg in the West and Gettysburg in the East it was definitely a lost cause.
But politically, even after mid-'63, Lincoln believed himself in trouble all through 1864 (with massive casualty rolls pouring in from heavy - handed offensives by Sherman into Georgia from Tennessee and by Grant into Virginia) until Atlanta fell.
@@teller1290 Resouces X Will = Victory. Such is the basic equation of making war. If either values drop to Zero ( or near zero) defeat occurs.
The North had the vastly superior resources, The South was trying to exhibit the superior will, ( or commitment to the struggle .) Militarily the South's chances from the outset were slim to none. The best element they had was for the political situation in the North to sour with the people demanding an end to the blood and suffering. So yes, the political cards were still in play as you say. But the North did not lose the will to fight and if that was a known quantity than defeat for the Confederacy was certain, having the inferior resources, and not destroying the North's will to continue.
@@celticman1909 just saying if Davis doesn't fire Joe Johnston and replace with PTSD burned- out J.B. Hood (who squandered irreplaceable troops as fast as he could), Atlanta may not have fallen before the election. And to northern voters, who had watched many a trip down south over years end in defeat or continuation of fighting, close might not have convinced them war had turned decisively, esp as casualty rates rose.
no need for Adelman to jump in and ruin this great video the man is hyped up
I notice you Texans fail to mention how a brace Union Educator from the state of Maine and the 20th Maine captured many Texans at Little Round Top ,July 2,1863! They were running low on supplies and Col Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a fellow teacher ordered a bayonet charge! ( Teachers have to be creative and running low on supplies is a common problem) ! The Union Forever!!!;👍👍👍💙💙💙💙🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Lol! BRAVE!
This is the highlight of Maine's contribution to the country! Its been all down hill for you boys ever since! LOL
The way he says Gettysburg is funny
Did they film next to this when they made the Gettysburg movie? I’m guessing they put a bunch of dirt over the paved road and made a few other alterations
Yes. One of the few places that had not changed much. I think the innkeepers at the time of the movie in the early 1990s actually got to stand on the porch steps and be on film.
Yes i remember my dad complaining about how it messed up his commute to work and the dirt they put on the roads. Also the smell of horses. I unfortunately was too young to remember but I wish I could .
@@codygreene3776 you live near there? That’s super cool! I wish I lived near a historical site, be connected to history
@@calvin5541 Move to Virginia or West Virginia, you will literally be near a historical site no matter where you live!
Cicada!!!
Get-ISS-burg? Where's that?!
@@ronaldrenegade8519 I watched another where they pronounce mumma phoenetically and i had to think about what he was saying! The locals pronounce it 'moomaw'!
YES SO AWESOME CONFEDERATES WERE THERE, and the borderlands were full of rebs, WOW? Yes im a chicano historian, interesante??
I’m Latino myself, but also descended from Confederate soldiers- interesante tambien, e?
What did the historical sign along the road just west of the Cashtown Inn say?
Great history lesson ! Say , do I hear cicadas singing during that whole video?
Yup!
I was wondering what that noise was.
Is that the sound of cicadas?
Yes!
macadamised road is an eastern term not used much in midwest or at least west of Mississippi R.
"Breastworks without charging"👏
Never heard it pronounced Gettisberg what accent is that? You said it 3 times in the 1st 50 seconds, Gettisberg, is that the proper pronunciation?
Texans first in war and humor.
What is Get-is-burg? Is it a place?
Early never was north of York or Adams Counties. Rodes and Johnson stayed in the Cumberland Valley. Rodes went as far as Carlisle and Johnson to Shippensburg. Jenkins cavalry was on the outskirts of Harrisburg.
@@ronaldrenegade8519 LOL nobody local calls it that! We simply call it 'The Burg'!
Great stories! Charge the breastworks!
What is up with Gary Adelman?
Lee lost too many experienced officers and veterans at Chancellorsville. He didn't have the same army after that and Lee knew it. He gambled going North to win the war, not another battle. The North was growing too strong for Southern resistance to win the war on the battlefield.
According to a fairly new book, written by a Gettysburg Park Ranger, Troy Harman, ‘Lee’s Real Plan’, Lee did not want to,attack the Round Tops on the 2nd. He was unaware that they were occupied. A reconnaissance done in the early morning of the 2nd showed the Round Tops unoccupied. Lee wanted a converging attack from the 2nd Corp in conjunction with Longstreets 1st Corp moving south down the Emmittsburg Road on Cemetery Hill. It is only when Hood see’s the Round Tops occupied that he is forced to attack it which changes the original plan of attack. The book is an excellent read and makes things that happened on July 2 much clearer.
Is that cicada in the background?
Yes! Brood X
Gettisburg?
So, the roads in Pennsylvania have always sucked, eh?
They are nice for about a month or so, before PennDot ruins them again! Welcome to Pennsylvania! come visit one of our expert mechanics!
People think times are bad now lol.....Glad I was not alive in the civil war era or say 1941.
Please say Gettysburg the way the rest of us say it at least once. I know Mr. Gettys founded the town, but so what? Do you also say Pá-toe-Máck in the authentic Indian way instead of Potomac?
I agree. It will always be Gettysburg to me and never Gettisburg.
Yeah it’s annoying
@@oriole21bird This is how we know you arent local! Kindly tell us where you are from so we may mangle the names of your locale!
IS ADELMAN WIRED? IS HE HIGH ON SOMETHING OR IS HE JUST HYPERACTIVE?
High on History
roque cicada attack on the Cashtown road.
Was it really true how many Confederates had no shoes - fought barefoot ? 🤔
Some. Not that many.
Would have been great if throughout you had maps and graphics to illustrate this narration, instead of having the camera fixed on the narrator.
9:35 Quick Joe! Roll out of bed so we can take your picture!
The more I learn about the civil war there was one major thing in common on both sides, a hair dresser much needed. Its the war of bad haircuts.
Gettis or Gettyburg?
Gettis is correct. Gettys is more popular!
@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust Been there numerous times, never heard the locals use that term.
Hill gets a "pass" 'cause he was smart enough to get himself killed before the war ended.
Gettesburg?
You could always tell when A.P. Hill was going to be incapacitated by illness because he would wear a red shirt.
James Longstreet taking the blame for “dragging his feet” is utterly wrong. Confederates needed a scape goat, and refused to use Lee.
Is the Inn really haunted?...what is all the background noise?...
cicadas
@@marshja56 It’s so weird that their presence is so local. I live in WV not too far away and we have zero cicadas.
@@marshja56 I thought that might have been the case...