Have You Really Been to Devil's Den? A Gettysburg Battlefield Guide Explains.

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  • Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
  • Devil's Den is one of the most famous sites on the Gettysburg Battlefield - but have you actually visited the "Den?" ACHS Historian Tim Smith, who literally wrote the book on Devil's Den, offers his take on the legendary rock formation.

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  • @connett06
    @connett06 3 роки тому +15

    I have heard Tim talk in numerous videos and never get tired of the way he pronounces devil's den.

    • @Dave_Lakin
      @Dave_Lakin 3 роки тому

      DEV-ils DEN!!!

    • @mcmulcat
      @mcmulcat 3 роки тому +1

      How else would it be pronounced?

    • @connett06
      @connett06 3 роки тому

      @@mcmulcat 1:13 the way he says it here. He says it this way in a couple other videos. No there is no other way to pronounce it to be technical.

    • @VictorLorenz-vl9yp
      @VictorLorenz-vl9yp 10 місяців тому

      I honestly think I know who you are after seeing your channel and I’m not even fkng joking… 😅

    • @VictorLorenz-vl9yp
      @VictorLorenz-vl9yp 10 місяців тому

      OSU is tied w Michigan right now. 3rd quarter.
      (At Michigan)

  • @gerardjoseph17
    @gerardjoseph17 3 роки тому +4

    Tim, awesome informative program. Excellent!

  • @44thala49
    @44thala49 Рік тому +2

    My ggg grandfather and his brother fought in the same unit and company for the state of Alabama. My ggg grandfather was killed a Suffolk Va, and a short time later his brother’s face was horribly disfigured at devil’s den. After returning home his wife left him and he committed suicide in his later years.

  • @michaelpatterson2955
    @michaelpatterson2955 3 роки тому +3

    Excellent video! Thanks, Tim.

  • @dadsongs
    @dadsongs 3 роки тому +3

    Excellent, and so clear. Thank you.

  • @timmadden5004
    @timmadden5004 3 роки тому +2

    Great , informative presentation! Thanks !

  • @gerrys4822
    @gerrys4822 Рік тому

    Very interesting and INFORMATIVE! Thank you Sir. I was not aware of that hole or gorge under that structure. Wow! I bet there is still alot of stuff artifacts buried under it.

  • @michaelamanek8908
    @michaelamanek8908 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for the history lesson.

  • @parkestanley2436
    @parkestanley2436 3 роки тому +2

    Great work, thanks!!!

  • @JohnJohn-wr1jo
    @JohnJohn-wr1jo Рік тому

    As a Civil War history buff in my 70s who has studied this war for 60 years and read hundreds of soldier accounts from both sides. The more I learn about this period and the 50 years post war, the more skeptical I have become. It was a period in time when embellishment, especially decades after the fact became the norm. So many of these personal accounts have become very suspect as to the accuracy and truth.

  • @midnitemike
    @midnitemike Рік тому

    Some Corporal and a couple privates put it there because some Lieutenant didn’t know were to put it and that spot looked good to him.

  • @BeytekinConstructionMachinery

    👌👏 Thank you!

  • @agent_ninety9
    @agent_ninety9 2 роки тому

    Sorry for the second comment !! Paul was our tour guide & he was fantastic and I should have asked at the time but when we were on little round top looking down to the left is that devil's den? I've been to it but, I just wasn't sure at Little round top looking down if that was it or not.

  • @AlcyoneSong
    @AlcyoneSong Рік тому

    So you gonna go in there and give us a shot of the spring then?

  • @katrinascreationscrafting
    @katrinascreationscrafting 3 роки тому +2

    There is a UA-cam channel called The Wandering Woodsman who went into the cave. He was crawling on his belly most of the time and he came out at a different location than he entered. But there was no water or spring where he was at.

    • @TaaarrrrHeeeels
      @TaaarrrrHeeeels 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for sharing that! I watched and it was very cool, next time I'm there, I'm going to be looking for that. Not sure I'll go through but at least want to check it out.

    • @katrinascreationscrafting
      @katrinascreationscrafting 3 роки тому +1

      @@TaaarrrrHeeeels I'd be afraid of snakes myself, but I'm going to bring a flash light the next time I'm over at that point of the battlefield and look inside. I live in Gettysburg so I'll have to check it out.

    • @TaaarrrrHeeeels
      @TaaarrrrHeeeels 3 роки тому +1

      @@katrinascreationscrafting I'm not too far from you! The snakes don't bother me so much, it's the hands and knees part that'll keep me out!

  • @travisbayles870
    @travisbayles870 Рік тому

    I had two Confederate ancestors who were part of the 20th Georgia Infantry Regiment part of Bennings brigade who fought at Devils Den A tough fight for both sides

  • @johnmills3205
    @johnmills3205 3 роки тому +1

    "Lurking places!!!"
    General Hunt

  • @agent_ninety9
    @agent_ninety9 2 роки тому

    Yes. Last week & 20 years ago at night.

  • @johnnowakowski4062
    @johnnowakowski4062 3 роки тому +2

    Remember in the movie "Gettysburg", Hood says to Longstreet, "See that rockey ridge over there? They call it the "Devils Den"...

    • @barryrickert6544
      @barryrickert6544 3 роки тому

      unfortunately that hollywood, it was not called that intil years later after the battle.

    • @NKDuisburg02
      @NKDuisburg02 2 роки тому +1

      @@barryrickert6544 Actually, people from the area called it Devils Den before the battle happened. Its been home to a very big snake. /watch?v=ZZ1g8eq9INo

  • @wolfgangholtzclaw2637
    @wolfgangholtzclaw2637 Рік тому

    Yes, I have been to Los Angeles Downtown, New York City Downtown, and San Francisco Downtown... yes I have been to the actual Devil's Den.

  • @sampsellmark
    @sampsellmark 3 роки тому

    that is very interesting but makes sense I wish you could have found the spring and the hole and showed it.

    • @blukeblue1235
      @blukeblue1235 3 роки тому +1

      I've heard on a different video of theirs that the spring used to flow from the "Den" but has dried up.

    • @sampsellmark
      @sampsellmark 3 роки тому +1

      @@blukeblue1235 oh ok thank you now I know not to look for it

  • @mch12311969
    @mch12311969 3 роки тому

    Fascinating

  • @andreamarin4296
    @andreamarin4296 Рік тому

    Interesting!!

  • @kalicokathy1944
    @kalicokathy1944 3 роки тому

    Been to Devils Den in Arkansas looks just like this one

  • @kathycasey9153
    @kathycasey9153 3 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @garysteinert8040
    @garysteinert8040 3 роки тому

    Not destroyed yet? I went there around 68/69 on class field trips.

  • @matthewmoneypit1558
    @matthewmoneypit1558 3 роки тому

    Just been learned

  • @charliet1535
    @charliet1535 3 роки тому

    Cool!

  • @robertsanzotera9591
    @robertsanzotera9591 2 роки тому

    no spring????? do you have the right place??????

  • @donhinchey9148
    @donhinchey9148 Рік тому

    No surprise the government would screw things up 😡

  • @davidhibbs6989
    @davidhibbs6989 Рік тому

    Who gave him the authority to call it devil's den!

  • @tweeky2893
    @tweeky2893 Рік тому +1

    Well that was a loud, annoying,history nerd rant