Excellent presentation! Pap Greene saved the Union's bacon. If the rebels had taken Culp's Hill, they'd gotten onto the Baltimore Pike, grabbed all the Union's supplies and rolled down the entire length of the "fishhook." I can't say enough praise for Gen. George S. Greene!
I enjoy this story every time I see/hear it. I have the benefit of numerous trips to Culp's Hill that help me visualize the difficult terrain crowned by breastworks. The Confederate troops on the left of their attack faced significant obstacles.
It's so hard to isolate one engagment or one group of people when we dicuss the union's succes at Gettysburg. You could fill volumns of books just covering the ehroic actions on those days and still leave somebody out.
I hadn't heard of the 137th NY til earlier this year, i was more familiar with the union left and center at Gettysburg, but didn't look into details of the right, fascinating stuff, i wonder why its not as well known as little round top
Colonel David Ireland's 137th New York on the Union's far right flank played a pivotal role similar to Colonel Chamberlain's 20th Maine in the Union's far left flank. Difference is that 20th Maine only faced the15th Alabama regiment and 137th faced at least 4-5 regiments. Another difference between them was that Joshua Chamberlain was a better diary writer than David Ireland, who died in 1964. Some heroes dies twice in obscurity... Until they are resurrected by Civil War researcher's finding their footprints on history's paths.
Excellent presentation!
Pap Greene saved the Union's bacon.
If the rebels had taken Culp's Hill, they'd gotten onto the Baltimore Pike, grabbed all the Union's supplies and rolled down the entire length of the "fishhook."
I can't say enough praise for Gen. George S. Greene!
Possibly! It certainly would have changed the landscape.
I enjoy this story every time I see/hear it. I have the benefit of numerous trips to Culp's Hill that help me visualize the difficult terrain crowned by breastworks. The Confederate troops on the left of their attack faced significant obstacles.
It's so hard to isolate one engagment or one group of people when we dicuss the union's succes at Gettysburg. You could fill volumns of books just covering the ehroic actions on those days and still leave somebody out.
I hadn't heard of the 137th NY til earlier this year, i was more familiar with the union left and center at Gettysburg, but didn't look into details of the right, fascinating stuff, i wonder why its not as well known as little round top
Rich School Teacher -vs- Regular Guys...not as much "prestige.
Colonel David Ireland's 137th New York on the Union's far right flank played a pivotal role similar to Colonel Chamberlain's 20th Maine in the Union's far left flank. Difference is that 20th Maine only faced the15th Alabama regiment and 137th faced at least 4-5 regiments.
Another difference between them was that Joshua Chamberlain was a better diary writer than David Ireland, who died in 1964.
Some heroes dies twice in obscurity... Until they are resurrected by Civil War researcher's finding their footprints on history's paths.
The line of heroic performers at Gettysburg and the list contnues to grow. Truely a heroic time in our history.
Greene was a TOUGH old bastard
That he was!