160th Anniversary of Gettysburg Driving Tour
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Hop in the car and join Garry Adelman and Kris White for this guided tour of the Day 1 portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield, as well as Benner's Hill and East Cavalry Field. This video fills in the gaps of our existing Gettysburg Driving Tour: • Gettysburg | Civil War...
This video is part of our tour series commemorating the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. View the full series here: • Gettysburg Campaign: 1...
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. We permanently protect these battlefields for future generations as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.
Me being a disabled veteran that lives on the other side of the country I really appreciate what Gary and Chris do for me with these tour's.
I concur
I watch from the UK, so I'm indebted to them, too.
I was there with my kids on July 1st, 2023. Absolutely awe inspiring and reinvigorated my love for my country, even though I'm Black.
Out of curiosity how crowded was it? I’ve always wanted to go on that date but was afraid it’d be too crowded to enjoy.
@@BostonSmitty To put it into perspective, I didn’t feel like other your groups were on top of us, but we didn’t get to see The Round Tops. We toured Culp’s Hill mostly and the Pennsylvania monument
God bless you for what you said!
. Yes it's crowded but you will be glad that you came!!!!😊
I am a descendent of Irish slaves so I get it. Have you traced your family history yet? It was a pretty daunting task because family records had been burnt in fires. I know slavery is a touchy subject but it still needs to be taught in our schools. I would say we need to not repeat history but unfortunately there are still slaves here. Sad but true.
Love these drives through the battlefield.
As always, Kris White did a great job . I suggest that you occasionally switch back and forth the box of Kris talking with a map showing your location on the battlefield.
Yes! Keep these impromptu driving tours coming … I find them extremely well done, and highly educational. Great job (as always) guys!!
Amazing how you two ( and others) can hold all that detailed information in your heads. Makes me proud to be a member of the Trust. Thank you so much!
Keep these drives,they are AWESOME 👌
Love these types of videos!
I enjoy the car tours as a way of showing the scale of the battle. We can see things on maps but seeing the 4 or 5 minutes to get to a place really helps bring home just how far apart things are.
Absolutely love the in-car videos with accompanying maps! Keep em' coming! 🚗
My wife and I had our honeymoon in Gettysburg in 1995. We went out to east cavalry field and mr. Hoffman who owned the Rummel farm then came out to us and took us into the barn and showed us the shell and bullet holes, then took us into his house and showed us other artifacts he found while farming. It was an incredible opportunity he gave us! My wife and I will never forget it and we feel truly blessed.
I enjoy these driving tours of the battlefields. There is so much information thrown at you but you can go back over the video as many times you need to "digest" all the information. Btw, I have lived 15 miles away from the Gettysburg battlefield all my life, and have visited the National Park more times than I can remember. I didn't realize that the battlefield extended out that far. I learn so much more because of your videos. Thank you Kris and Garry.
Being a Gettysburg enthusiast i really appreciate you guys putting this into perspective Great job Thank You
On our 2nd trip to Gettysburg, we visited Barlow and East Cav field. Those spots rounded out our understanding of the battle. These "casual" drives are great. The 30-minute length is perfect, BTW.
Love these driving tours. The one Garry did awhile back was entertaining, informative, and well done.
Keep 'em coming.
Always a pleasure listening to Gary and Kris and this format adds to the other excellent videos you guys do. I’m from the U.K and have been interested in reading about the period for over 30 years and I was blown away with how your battlefield’s are preserved after visiting many of the Eastern battle sites. Thank you for all that you do from someone across the pond.
Same here from The UK son and I was in Gettysburg for one week in October last year and one of my aims was to to go and visit East Cavalry Field , still didn’t see everything in that week
@@trevornewman2147 we’ve been a few times to Gettysburg and each time we see and learn something different. Can’t wait to go back at some point 😁
Have you been any were else we have done tours with Ledger in both Eastern and Western Battlefields although but you are always on the go and not much time in each location.
@@trevornewman2147 yes, we’ve been to both Bull Run battles, Fredericksburg, Antietam and many battlefield throughout the Shenandoah valley (really liked Winchester and Harpers Ferry). We’ve not done Ledger for our U.S trips as we planed our own, although we have used Ledger for some European tours.
This is soo appreciated. I was at the battlefield about 5 years ago and stayed a week. Ran out of time to go to the cavalry battlefield.
Keep up with both walking and driving battlefield episodes, both offer a unique experience. One being more focused and in depth with the other covering more area and giving a general exposure to the area!
As usual, your team does a great job!
You asked for feedback. I like the walking tour videos better than the driving tours.
The best videos are not produced in a rush, but take time for plenty of post production, with plenty of maps (this one has a few good maps), some period photos (this has a few), edit out pauses and tech glitches. You have fantastic maps! Use more of them!
Often your team does live streaming on the exact anniversary. I usually don’t watch these. By all means, film it on the anniversary (so the foliage is appropriate) and take weeks or months for post-production as described above, before posting. It’s been 160 years, what’s a few more months going to matter?
If you could put a compass heading at the top of the screen, that would be awesome.
Thanks again for the educational and accurate videos! Keep up the good work.
Hippy Chris here. I just noticed this on the map during 160 so thank you guys once again. My two favorites at it again
Love you guys. Nobody does it better. Kudos to ALL of the guides who contribute and add to these stories. Just simply outstanding work.
Keep the car tours! I learn new things with every video from the ABT no matter what format you use.😊
I was in Gettysburg once. Very moving experience.
We’ve been going for years and have had our camper down there since 2022 and videos like these are things I point new visitors to.
These battlefield tours are truly amazing and wonderful. Thank you Gary and Chris for sharing your knowledge of the battlefield! God bless you both 🙏 ❤️
I love the driving tours of the battlefields, especially Gettysburg! Very well done.
Garry....love your video tours. The Gettysburg video tour you did previously was awesome, and this one is no exception. You and Kris did a great job on this one. Love being able to see my favorite spots even when I can't be there in person. Keep 'em coming, guys.....very much appreciated.
Yes keep these tours coming. 👍😁
If y’all would ever like a southern perspective feel free to invite me along! Love everything you guys do!
I like the driving tours for a quick overview. I really enjoy the small less famous battles. Loved the videos on Carlisle, Wrightsville. The information on Hanover, Sporting Hill, ect. Keep up the good work,you all are amazing wealth of knowledge and entertaining.
The Dynamic Duo strike again! Thanks guys! A free education! You can’t beat that anywhere! 👍🤗👏
I do love this format! I was there for the 160th, and this is the next best thing!
Love any tours! Thank you all!
I love this. The more videos I see from y'all, the more I want to go here and check it out personally.
I love these driving tours,both of you do a great job!
Thanks for the 2nd Va and JQA Nadenbousch mention. I studied that unit heavily years ago. Thanks for all you do!
Every time a video pops up with Garry I want to donate $$.
Garry and Chris, This is the next best thing to having a personal guided tour!!! It's so Ironic that ya'll stopped at the Plaque of my Gr-GR-Grandpa (on my mother's side of the family) fought against Gen. Custer. He was in the 2nd Appomattox Calvary Raiders, He was under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and survived that battle. His family farm was right behind the Mclean house in Appomattox and is buried there too. I found this marker late in the evening just by chance and mapped in from where you'll stopped at and went there after visiting my other Gr-Gr-Grandpa's Monument on my Daddy's side at The Peach Orchard of The 7th New Jersey Vol.!!! Many thanks too you and Chris for a very well explained tour and look forward to more!!!. Thanks will never be enough for the devotion and the sincerity and the Love you and the other great historians that travels and speaks on the video's will burn into my memories forever.⚜
I love these drive arounds. We can see so much more of the town and battlefield. Thanks so much.
I wouldn't be surprised if the michigan calvary were supplied with horses from my hometown! My hometown also sent an artillery battery raised and paid for by one man, named Loomis, Cyrus I think ! The guy that raised horses has a road named after him ! His house still stands for now ! Ever since they started developing that end of town the city has been desperately trying to get rid of the house! The is beautiful ornately decorated, 2 story italian eight style! 12' ceilings in it ! A beautiful staircase! It was an expensive coffee house up until 2020! It never reopened !
Yes, really like these and they not only teach but inspire me to crack open a book and get further in depth. Would love to see a video following the route of the old Stonewall Brigade and the spot across Rock Creek where Company D, 2nd VA Inf was sent. It’s always eluded me. Thanks Chris, Gary and ABT!
Awesome Guys!!!! Please Keep Doing These Types of Tours! Learn So Much!
I like this idea. Most visitors who visit battlefields do the driving tour. Some battlefields, even the first ones, were laid out with that in mind. So doing an ABT windshield tour is a valuable approach.
I’ve wondered about the pronunciation of Mumma. I wonder because I grew up with a descendant of the Mumma family whose family farm is part of the Antietam battlefield. He and his family pronounce the name Moo mah, not Muh muh. There are a lot of family names that are pronounced differently for reasons that are lost to history. One of those reasons is that people didn’t ask the family or the family moved and weren’t there to ask. I don’t know what the Pennsylvania Mummas did, but the descendants of the Maryland Mummas I knew pronounced it as I described.
At least around Antietam it’s moo-maw.
Thank you Gary and Kris for this driving tour. Great Job guys . Had a diving tour there in my trip there years ago. Nothing like the area you covered.
17:22 I really enjoy these driving tours. The fact that you’re moving around really helps put the battlefields in perspective.
That said, the possibility of a car accident is always somewhere in the back of my mind, making these videos a tad bit nerve wracking.
PS - I think a helpful tool would be a periodic map display to show where you are. I find myself pulling up Google Maps a lot to see exactly where you are in town.
We have GPS maps that pop up on our two heavier produced driving tours. This one was done in a shorter amount of time for 160. Also, we would never post a video that included a car accident, so no need to be on edge 🙂
I love this type of tour!
I really, REALLY LOVE these driving battle field tours. Helps to gain the big picture Tiny suggestion occasionally show where on a map the car is. I tended to get lost as to where you were traveling!More car tours please! ❤️ Thanks uk
The car tours are fun, even if I can get out to a battlefield, to see it the way an expert does in enlightening...can't believe it's already been 3 months since the 160th. I was there and had an absolute blast.
Great job as always. Enjoy both walking and driving tours. Appreciate your enthusiasm. You bring history alive for all of us.
I love it!...Please do more. Going to remembrance day in November, so the more I learn about the battle the better, and I always learn the most from the ABT videos...All the best...Tim H..
Excellent "hands on" tour of the battlefield.
Thank you
I can't think of a battlefield that doesn't need this level of explanation!
I've been to Gettysburg twice, and I didn't realize the battlefield was this big. Amazing.
These videos are superb! I have read some of the books, looked at the maps, and even driven around some of the battlefields. It is incredibly frustrating to not know what it is that I am seeing through the windshield, especially because I am driving safely. These videos put it all together!
These driving tours are awesome 👏👏👏👏
YES!!! I love the driving tours.
Enjoying you, both walking and driving the Field! Thanks!
Gary and Kris, your knowledge of the battle is absolutely amazing. Great video!!
Great way to help explore the battlefield. Before my visit of last week i used you’re previous cartrips to get acquinted with the surroundings. Very useful. I'm sure many visitors took the same roads and will recognize the scenes. Keep up the great work!😊
More, More , More please. Love the driving tours,
Next year, more of East Cavalry Fields please! I’m a Brit who has visited Gettysburg four times over the years including West Cav, but never got to this location ❤
I enjoy your driving tours.
I like the driving tours. My first video I watched from American Battlefield Trust was Gary's long driving tour.
Love these battlefield tours!! You both have an incredible wealth of knowledge!! Thank you for sharing it with all Americans!!
Great job! Thoroughly enjoy all the videos from ABT.
Love this format. You guys are great.
Love You Guys Doing These Drive Around Tours! Thanks Alot!
It’s a pleasure to ride along with you both. [The two views are great.] All the best!
Yes more of these would love to see one of Chickamauga for the 160
Stay tuned 👀
We love the driving tours like this. 🎉
Love this format! More please! Thanks for posting!
Nice job guys. The driving tours are a great supplement to your walking tours.
These talks are so immersive, the drive is a great way to give a ground-level perspective of the battlefield. I still struggle to understand how those cannon can be effective from that distance! Just a thought: is it possible to include a small map screen and a moving icon to show the car in relation to the battlefield? Great work, yet again, guys. Regards, from the UK.
Love these drives to give a different perspective. Enjoy seeing the city too. With a map as you progress in the inset so I can follow along on my own map. Thanks for all you do!😊
love the drive alongs
I did the same thing with my Nikon, taking East Confederate to the Round Tops and back to the Visitor Center, but I would have loved to have you guys with me offering commentary. Well done!
Great tour! The only thing that would make it better is if there is some way to show a split screen of your car moving on GPS. That way we would always have a clear picture of where you're at. I've yet to go to the battlefield, so I quickly get confused about where you are. Either way, great job!
Absolutely loved this!
Really love the driving tour format!
Hey Guys just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. IIN MY OPINION GARY, XHRIS SND HISTORY UNDERGROUND ARE THE BEST HISTORIANS FOR CIVIL WAR BATTLES. I am fascinated by the Civil War, really don't know why, but I love how you bring the Civil Ear battles to life. You really made my day...Thanks So Much. Warren Armour
I really do love these car tours! I always learn something new and make sure to hit the spots I haven't been to. Will be there next weekend and will def hit up East Cavalry Field! Keep them up! Thanks!
Thanks for the shout-out! :)
Enjoyed the tour, great job by Garry and Kris. I'll add a thumbs up for the licensed battlefield guides who've explained the East Cavalry Field and site of Farnsworth's Charge to me in the past. Hard to beat walking the ground with someone who's been there before and can explain it!
Every time I've been to Barlow's Knoll and looked over to Oak Hill and seen those dominating Confederate batteries I've had to ask "General Barlow, what were you thinking?" Now after Garry's explanation of how it may have seemed like a good idea to Barlow I'll at least take another look next time I get out that way, hopefully in a couple of montha.
More driving tours and more battle maps please 🙏...Great work!
❤ it. Impressive amount of knowledge shared. Thank you
I am enjoying all of your videos. This format helps us familiarize ourselves with the area. We are getting excited about our trip to Gettysburg next spring
Love this format Gary… very cool! Hope you do more…
Absolutely love the drive tours! Kris and Garry's knowledge is amazing.. enjoy all ABT videos
Love the driving tours! Keep them coming.
thanks.
As always an excellent presentation. Really enjoyed the driving/talking touring.
Love this driving tour! You two are the absolute best! Thank you so much! Hey Kris...here in Irwin, Pa 👍
Loved this perspective. Hope to see more!
I definitely dig the format. It helps me orient where ya'll are pretty well since I generally am driving the battlefied when I visit since I have family that's not the most mobile.
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for making it.
What would be cool if we can auction off an opportunity to sit in the back row and just listen to these two gentlemen talk. I would even take the third row if I could😊
Like the drive around with the commentaries. It was previously mentioned of the possibility of a walk around the perimeter of the Wheatfield? Would appreciate that type of mini tour, too.
Well done. I really liked the driving tour. Keep them coming,
I really really enjoy this format. Too bad you couldn't have Go-Pro cameras aimed out the sides of the car too so we had a look at what you were talking about as you drive. Great stuff!