THANKS FOR SHARING HwW!! Can't wait to see LRT again all spruced up. Some of my friends are Gettysburg LBGs and they are raving about it. Nice to see that the NPS & the Gettysburg Foundation pumped money into LRT & CULP'S Hill recently. GREAT JOB!!
I haven't been to little Round Top since May of 2003. Thank You for the tour. One of the things that impressed me the most while visiting Antietam and Gettysburg is how Peaceful, Quite and Serene the Battlefields are today. I remember crossing Burnside Bridge at Antietam and sitting on a bench looking across the creek at the bluff where Confederate Soldiers were raining down lead on Union Troops crossing the bridge and trying to visualize what it must have been like. But to no avail, it is impossible today to realize while listening to birds tweeting overhead and the peaceful silence in these Battlefield Parks all of the Noise, Smoke, Death and Destruction that would have been all around where I was sitting.
Thank you, when you get to round top I suggest parking immediately to the right near the 20th Maine trail if it’s open. If spots are closed there and up top, whip back towards devils den and turn left just before you get there, there’s parking right down from the 44th New York monument along that one way road. You can walk from the bottom and take Texas and Alabamas path to the top. Great hike
I doubt I will be able to return there but I know a man who is visiting there right now. I will share this video with him. Thank you for all you do to keep these important battlefields of the Civil War alive. I had ancestors at Gettysburg. My 2x great grandfather Elijah Hayden died July 3 during Pickett’s Charge. He was with the 8th Ohio.
Your video's are so conclusive and very interesting good coverage on these battlefield's the best I know of you show things like they should be , i wish that I could see Gettysburg in reality but you do a good job at explaining the parks . Thanks alot , Great work and time you put into to this.😊
Thanks for the video. My wife and I venture down from NH a few times a year and planned to go down the first week of July but we ran into time off issues from work. Can’t wait to see it in person but this was very nice.
The stone bars in the pathway are to redirect water runoff during rain to protect the path and vegetation. The NPS did some nice videos explaining the restoration.
You must really love watching little round top restoration videos. Thanks for watching. I’m sure Gettysburg NMP has very nice videos but, your tax dollars didn’t fund the production of mine so win win for you. Lol
@HistorywithWaffles LOL! No, just saw them when I was curious about what they were doing. As a USAF officer, I'm anxious that people know and appreciate our history. Yours is the first one to show the finished product and it looks great. Nice job! Thanks!
It's not dirt. It's a compound and the rocks crossing the paths every so often are for water channeling so that the mountainside doesn't erode away which was happening before the restoration.
Haven't been to the Gettysburg National Battlefield since the late 1960's, so I'm sure there have been many changes. Thankfully they took down that horrible observation tower, even back then I was offended by it, and I was maybe ten years old. I do remember climbing around on the rocks at Devils Den. Probably can't do that anymore.
Very nice. Thankyou. i wished though that you had taken a moment when you passed a monument to stop and show us and explain it. That would have made this much more meaningful.
Wikipedia: At Gettysburg, Col. Patrick O'Rorke was back in command of his (NY) regiment while Brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed commanded the 3rd Brigade. The 140th New York arrived in time for the second day of fighting (July 2, 1863). Brig. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren was desperately searching for units to defend Little Round Top, and he encountered O'Rorke's New Yorkers, the rearmost regiment in Weed's brigade, on their way to reinforce the III Corps. O'Rorke initially declined Warren's request for assistance because he was under orders to follow his brigade. Warren told him, "Never mind that, Paddy. Bring them up on the double-quick and don't stop for aligning. I'll take the responsibility." O'Rorke rushed his men to the crest of the hill and plunged down its western face without pause, driving the attacking Confederates back down the slope. During the counterattack, O'Rorke caught up his regimental colors and, mounting a rock to urge on his men, was struck in the neck and fell dead. The Comte de Paris in his Histoire de la guerre civile en Amérique (VI, iv, 379) says this was one of the most striking and dramatic episodes of the battle. A decorated member of O'Rorke's command, Lieutenant Porter Farley, in his noted work An Unvarnished Tale: The Public and Private Civil War Writings of Porter Farley, described O'Rorke's action on Little Round Top as among the most instrumental of the entire civil war, and many respected military historians have further commented that O'Rorke's service, heroism and selflessness, at such critical time in the battle, were at least equal to that of the much better known, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
O’rorke was a pretty cool dude. Caution, Wikipedia is often flawed and it’s because the sources are pretty much anyone and everyone. I never use it for research.
Excellent video. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for watching
The long granite stones in the pathway are called water bars. They are used to divert rainwater off the path to help control erosion.
@@Captkman I kinda figured but hadn’t done my homework and didn’t want to mislead, thanks for adding to the conversation and for watching.
THANKS FOR SHARING HwW!! Can't wait to see LRT again all spruced up. Some of my friends are Gettysburg LBGs and they are raving about it. Nice to see that the NPS & the Gettysburg Foundation pumped money into LRT & CULP'S Hill recently. GREAT JOB!!
It really was a great job, I had low expectations but they knocked it out of the park.
I haven't been to little Round Top since May of 2003. Thank You for the tour. One of the things that impressed me the most while visiting Antietam and Gettysburg is how Peaceful, Quite and Serene the Battlefields are today. I remember crossing Burnside Bridge at Antietam and sitting on a bench looking across the creek at the bluff where Confederate Soldiers were raining down lead on Union Troops crossing the bridge and trying to visualize what it must have been like. But to no avail, it is impossible today to realize while listening to birds tweeting overhead and the peaceful silence in these Battlefield Parks
all of the Noise, Smoke, Death and Destruction that would have been all around where I was sitting.
Thank you for watching the tour.
Very informative! On my way to Gettysburg tomorrow and cant wait to see the improvements and additions!
Thank you, when you get to round top I suggest parking immediately to the right near the 20th Maine trail if it’s open. If spots are closed there and up top, whip back towards devils den and turn left just before you get there, there’s parking right down from the 44th New York monument along that one way road. You can walk from the bottom and take Texas and Alabamas path to the top. Great hike
Thank you for taking us with you to check out Little Round Top. I can't wait to go back to see it!!
Thank you for going on the tour with us. Can’t wait till you see it yourself! Please let me know what you think!
I doubt I will be able to return there but I know a man who is visiting there right now. I will share this video with him. Thank you for all you do to keep these important battlefields of the Civil War alive. I had ancestors at Gettysburg. My 2x great grandfather Elijah Hayden died July 3 during Pickett’s Charge. He was with the 8th Ohio.
@@marthahenrich1185 thank you for sharing and watching.
Your video's are so conclusive and very interesting good coverage on these battlefield's the best I know of you show things like they should be , i wish that I could see Gettysburg in reality but you do a good job at explaining the parks . Thanks alot , Great work and time you put into to this.😊
Thank you so much. I appreciate you enjoying my efforts. That means a lot. Please sub and share with friends.
Thanks for the video.
My wife and I venture down from NH a few times a year and planned to go down the first week of July but we ran into time off issues from work.
Can’t wait to see it in person but this was very nice.
@@williamhallett5657 thanks for watching. Hope your trip is a blast.
It looks like they did a great Job! - Hope to see in person some day!
@@joanpellillo2981 they did for sure. Hope you get there soon.
Very nice video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching
The stone bars in the pathway are to redirect water runoff during rain to protect the path and vegetation. The NPS did some nice videos explaining the restoration.
You must really love watching little round top restoration videos. Thanks for watching. I’m sure Gettysburg NMP has very nice videos but, your tax dollars didn’t fund the production of mine so win win for you. Lol
@HistorywithWaffles LOL! No, just saw them when I was curious about what they were doing. As a USAF officer, I'm anxious that people know and appreciate our history. Yours is the first one to show the finished product and it looks great. Nice job! Thanks!
Great video, I'm shocked by the lack of people. And how quiet it was.
@@scott2582 oh that was at 0600. lol I rise early
There is always a very strange silence on the field..very uncanny
It's not dirt. It's a compound and the rocks crossing the paths every so often are for water channeling so that the mountainside doesn't erode away which was happening before the restoration.
@@ericsanger4408 cool thanks, thanks for watching.
Haven't been to the Gettysburg National Battlefield since the late 1960's, so I'm sure there have been many changes. Thankfully they took down that horrible observation tower, even back then I was offended by it, and I was maybe ten years old. I do remember climbing around on the rocks at Devils Den. Probably can't do that anymore.
Thanks for watching and sharing memories.
Which observation tower are you referring to? The "Longstreet Tower" is still there looking to the West from LRT.
Very nice. Thankyou. i wished though that you had taken a moment when you passed a monument to stop and show us and explain it. That would have made this much more meaningful.
Well glad you liked it
I waited 35 years to go on top of LRT, but of course it was closed when I was there in April of this year. 2024.
Sorry to hear that. Hope this video brings you something. Please consider subscribing. More Gettysburg videos to come.
Wikipedia: At Gettysburg, Col. Patrick O'Rorke was back in command of his (NY) regiment while Brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed commanded the 3rd Brigade. The 140th New York arrived in time for the second day of fighting (July 2, 1863). Brig. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren was desperately searching for units to defend Little Round Top, and he encountered O'Rorke's New Yorkers, the rearmost regiment in Weed's brigade, on their way to reinforce the III Corps. O'Rorke initially declined Warren's request for assistance because he was under orders to follow his brigade. Warren told him, "Never mind that, Paddy. Bring them up on the double-quick and don't stop for aligning. I'll take the responsibility." O'Rorke rushed his men to the crest of the hill and plunged down its western face without pause, driving the attacking Confederates back down the slope. During the counterattack, O'Rorke caught up his regimental colors and, mounting a rock to urge on his men, was struck in the neck and fell dead. The Comte de Paris in his Histoire de la guerre civile en Amérique (VI, iv, 379) says this was one of the most striking and dramatic episodes of the battle. A decorated member of O'Rorke's command, Lieutenant Porter Farley, in his noted work An Unvarnished Tale: The Public and Private Civil War Writings of Porter Farley, described O'Rorke's action on Little Round Top as among the most instrumental of the entire civil war, and many respected military historians have further commented that O'Rorke's service, heroism and selflessness, at such critical time in the battle, were at least equal to that of the much better known, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
O’rorke was a pretty cool dude. Caution, Wikipedia is often flawed and it’s because the sources are pretty much anyone and everyone. I never use it for research.