This old southern boy is fascinated with the history that most youngster know little about. Your trinket is a prize, not for the intended purpose, but for it's back story. It is sad that Gettysburg has changed so much that the history of that town is but a shadow of it's former self. I have been to the location of the battle of bull run, ( first and second battles of Manassas.) It is pretty much in a rural area, or at least it was in the late 1970s and still had a good deal of it's original look. Not as well preserved as Shiloh, but it still was close to original. Reading Shelby Foote's books on the civil war, Shelby Foote said you must go to these battle fields at the same time of year of the battle to get a true feeling of what it was like for the soldiers that fought in those battles. Shelby Foote's books are good reading. Best Regards.
A large part of the reason Gettysburg has changed so much is the same reason a battle was fought there: it sits at a crossroads. That means you had people passing through on their way to somewhere else, and a lot of Gettysburg developed to cater to travelers and traders. Later, of course, you had the tourism because of the battlefield, and you can hardly blame the natives for wanting to take advantage of the economic opportunities that afforded. But I'll admit, Gettysburg embraced tourism in a way few other towns associated with battlefields have.
You really put life and a sense of reality into the story. Really well done, entertaining and enjoyable to watch. You’ve told the story in such a way that many people should be able to easily imagine these events taking place.
Brett, you can talk about whatever and it will be interesting. Your calm logic and research help cut through the static hiss of social media grand standing by so many of the creators and commentators. Cheers, Gus
I live on the same street. Route 15. But a few hundred miles north. The changes to the town are inevitable, I think it's sad that the change makes the town so radically different, but the changes started just days after the battle. I have to regularly remind myself that they didn't mind the change so much as to prevent it happening.
what an awesome piece of historical forensics. regardless of politics, the technology, and physics of such a battle, are fascinating. thank you for sharing.
Great video! Spent a day in Gettysburg about the mid 90's, wasn't near enough time, I envy you.... the whole battlefield so close at hand. So sorry to see the encroachment right up to the park boundaries. I'm all in on any info you would want to put out concerning the sharpshooters, North or South. You have to be one busy guy... making videos and sending out orders right up to deployment! Looking forward to my order of Williams bullets which you shipped this morning, Thanks!
I think I will do one. And just for fun, I might try to recreate the stone wall on Cemetery Hill, and see if I can shoot as well as a Reb sharpshooter at 300 yards.
I did enjoy this video. I am retiring within a month or less and I'm going to be buying a reproduction 1861 Springfield rifle musket so anything and everything about this particular firearm and the paper cartridges and how to construct them for it is of great interest to me. I visited Gettysburg in October 1989 with my mother, spent two days there drove all over the battlefield in our Rent-A-Car and we actually walked Pickett's Charge
An amazing history of one bullet and calculations as well! And the musket you have there is very similar to my 1829 N. Starr (1816) model that was converted to cap lock. Thanks Much for a fascinating history! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
I got mine back in 61. I must have been tumbling as it hit something hard and mashed on its side . Grooves are still visible on one side with ojive intact. The base is crimped shut so I can’t see if there’s a star or not. We’re still suffering from that damned war. Think of all the offspring of all those men ; Americans! that are not here today. .. All the pain and suffering and ill will generationally passed down. We are still slowly healing and making up the socialogical and economical losses we suffer today but don’t realize where they are from.
I live in Kearney MO I found a Burton bullet in a tree near my place in a tree that came down in a storm the biggest oak tree I have ever seen my desk is made of a piece of the tree still got the bullet to
Super interesting find! Makes me want to head back out into the Mojave with my Springfield. I couldn't be happier to see how the channel has grown since my starring role XD. Keep up the excellent work!
I love all your videos i only live about 3 hrs from Gettysburg me and the wife love going there. I love to collect things from the civil war. You sir have taught me alot and i appreciate it
@papercartridges6705 I'd gladly appreciate it well be back down during new years I was just down there Friday- Sunday that and I would love to sit and talk as well maybe even shoot with you I have a zouave contract rifle and a 1842 springfield smooth bore. Reproduction of course 😂
That’s about right. The OD Dept estimated 4.5 million but that was just a close guess. The Rebs probably shot off another 2.5 million. That’s a lot of lead.
My great, Great GrandFather was wounded in that battle. His name was Alfred W. Landrum and he was with the 38th Regiment , Georgia infantry.. I have an original Photograph (sort of) on my wall of him and my Great Great Grandmother. I also have his military records. The wound to his hand never fully healed and you could look through the hole in his palm . He was also blinded in one eye at Fredericksburg but apparently never told anyone till after the war. He was also involved at Cold Harbor but I am not sure to what extent. There is just a notation in his records of a week in the hospital afterwards. I would love to have met him.
On every photo, might be helpful to photoshop an arrow or small thin circle at location of you shop / business. Many people experience some kind of a ‘connection’ , feeling, vision when seeing historical things or especially touching things. Don’t laugh, they say especially Welsh people. Your narrative and photos and actual item helps.
I have an unfired .69 Minie-style bullet that I got in April of1973 when my family visited Gettysburg on our relocation from NY to Texas. Due to its caliber, I assume it was probably dropped on the ground by a Confederate soldier.
Seems you are saying this bullet was fired by a common soldier, not a sharpshooter. Were there also Union sharpshooters on cemetery hill who challenged the confederates firing from the we southern edge of town? Seems like that would’ve been a great chance to get those heavy Target rifles the Berdan regiments held in reserve out of the wagons and into position.
It took a while to carefully explain what I was renting the place for… not many landlords want to rent a space for a Victorian ammo factory… but once I moved in, he brought it over to me and even let me keep it for as long as I remain a tenant. I show it to all my visitors. He’s been living here for 80 years and he says growing up here, they used to find all kinds of stuff. He also found bullets in wood when they removed an old tree that was hit by lightning, decades ago. This whole area was showered with lead and shot.
This was a great video. I really enjoy little nerd driven off the main path of history stories like this. The big story is just thousands of little stories that all happened at the same place and time.Oh and let's see those confederate sharp shooters!
Once again thank you for such a good interesting presentation. I am sure I am not the only one who would enjoy and appreciate a presentation on Confederate sniping. Please continue to take good care of yourself and please continue to make these superb presentations.👍
Please do make the video! That bullet has some super cool history to reveal! But I do think you make some jumps in your conclusion. There's few proof for the bullet actually hitting the house. Yes it was found in the house, but that's not certain a proof. A kid could have brought it there, for what we know. I find it weird nobody has cleaned the attic "good enough" to find the bullet in the time span between the 1860's and the time the owner found the bullet?
It marks where the left flank of the 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry regiment was at, one of the longer serving units in the XI Corps. Interestingly enough the 27th PA lost more soldiers killed in action than to disease (usually 2 or 3 times more soldiers died of disease in a unit than from enemy fire).
A fascinating video, Brett, thank you for sharing. Now don't read these comments, you know how you get. By the way, how do you know that bullet was hand cast by a soldier (melted from his child's toy soldier after the child was murdered by Rebel scum) and loaded with loose powder from a flask then shot from a balloon 1,000 yards away? It happened, you know! LOL!!!!🤣
You start out as a lead ingot from some mine and then are melted down to become a bullet. You spend a few weeks in a cartridge box while being shipped to the front. Then someone opens the box and you're stuffed in an ammo pouch. Then the cartridge you're in is torn apart and you're rammed into a strange metal tube. It's dark, it's claustrophobic and there are some strange grooves imprinted into the wall. Suddenly there's an immense surge of acceleration and a loud *bang* as you exit the tube you were stuffed in. You see a house racing towards you and then you hit it and everything goes dark. Then some time later, you don't know how long, someone picks you up and some more time later someone else is talking about you on some strange thing called "UA-cam".
Had Jackson not been killed and was in command instead of Early I believe he would have recognized to importance of cemetery ridge and taken it on day one. Lee wins at Gettysburg and extends the war by another year but we will never. know.
In my captains career course, during the instruction on mission command, the consequence of those two words “if practicable” was discussed. Never give ambiguous orders; give the mission objective and if it is truly not practical, your subordinates should be trained enough to recognize that, and act appropriately.
I own a home in East High Street, Civil War plaqued Home. What sharpshooters would have occupied that street?. I can see Cemetery Hill from my window.. thanks for the video it's good
This old southern boy is fascinated with the history that most youngster know little about. Your trinket is a prize, not for the intended purpose, but for it's back story. It is sad that Gettysburg has changed so much that the history of that town is but a shadow of it's former self. I have been to the location of the battle of bull run, ( first and second battles of Manassas.) It is pretty much in a rural area, or at least it was in the late 1970s and still had a good deal of it's original look. Not as well preserved as Shiloh, but it still was close to original. Reading Shelby Foote's books on the civil war, Shelby Foote said you must go to these battle fields at the same time of year of the battle to get a true feeling of what it was like for the soldiers that fought in those battles. Shelby Foote's books are good reading. Best Regards.
A large part of the reason Gettysburg has changed so much is the same reason a battle was fought there: it sits at a crossroads. That means you had people passing through on their way to somewhere else, and a lot of Gettysburg developed to cater to travelers and traders.
Later, of course, you had the tourism because of the battlefield, and you can hardly blame the natives for wanting to take advantage of the economic opportunities that afforded. But I'll admit, Gettysburg embraced tourism in a way few other towns associated with battlefields have.
It kind of made me sad, after driving halfway across country pulling into Gettysburg to be greeted with a super out of place McDonalds.
Confederate Sharpshooter Bataillons? Hell, yes!
What is a "Bataillon"....?
@@Shinzon23 A Battalion in German.
I notice your subscriber count is starting to grow quickly, congrats on that, it is well deserved.
Thanks. I’m trying to decide what to do for a 10k subscriber video… any ideas?
@@papercartridges6705 Invade Canada! (Or collab with Rob)
I'm not sure "enjoy" is quite the word for such a sobering video, but I really admire the way you link one relic into the actuality of the history.
You really put life and a sense of reality into the story. Really well done, entertaining and enjoyable to watch.
You’ve told the story in such a way that many people should be able to easily imagine these events taking place.
I had the pleasure of visiting the attic of the Farnsworth a few years back. I had an experience I will never forget.
I love that you're now in such a historical location for your area of expertise. Yes, please do a video on confederate sharp shooters!
Love the history! Keep it coming!
It's videos like this with so much research and effort that make yours my favorite channel on youtube
I sincerely appreciate the encouragement. It’s comments like this that keep me motivated! Thanks.
Brett, you can talk about whatever and it will be interesting. Your calm logic and research help cut through the static hiss of social media grand standing by so many of the creators and commentators. Cheers, Gus
I really enjoyed this. What a piece of history to own and found in your very house!
super cool to have something like that found all this time later.
I live on the same street. Route 15. But a few hundred miles north. The changes to the town are inevitable, I think it's sad that the change makes the town so radically different, but the changes started just days after the battle. I have to regularly remind myself that they didn't mind the change so much as to prevent it happening.
what an awesome piece of historical forensics. regardless of politics, the technology, and physics of such a battle, are fascinating. thank you for sharing.
Was awesome to see the bullet in person! Glad to hear the full story now :3
Great video! Spent a day in Gettysburg about the mid 90's, wasn't near enough time, I envy you.... the whole battlefield so close at hand. So sorry to see the encroachment right up to the park boundaries. I'm all in on any info you would want to put out concerning the sharpshooters, North or South. You have to be one busy guy... making videos and sending out orders right up to deployment! Looking forward to my order of Williams bullets which you shipped this morning, Thanks!
A presentation on Confederate Sharpshooters would be appreciated.
I think I will do one. And just for fun, I might try to recreate the stone wall on Cemetery Hill, and see if I can shoot as well as a Reb sharpshooter at 300 yards.
I did enjoy this video. I am retiring within a month or less and I'm going to be buying a reproduction 1861 Springfield rifle musket so anything and everything about this particular firearm and the paper cartridges and how to construct them for it is of great interest to me. I visited Gettysburg in October 1989 with my mother, spent two days there drove all over the battlefield in our Rent-A-Car and we actually walked Pickett's Charge
An amazing history of one bullet and calculations as well! And the musket you have there is very similar to my 1829 N. Starr (1816) model that was converted to cap lock. Thanks Much for a fascinating history! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Interesting thoughts Brett. I would certainly like to see something on Sharpshooters😎😎😎
I got mine back in 61. I must have been tumbling as it hit something hard and mashed on its side . Grooves are still visible on one side with ojive intact. The base is crimped shut so I can’t see if there’s a star or not. We’re still suffering from that damned war. Think of all the offspring of all those men ; Americans! that are not here today. .. All the pain and suffering and ill will generationally passed down. We are still slowly healing and making up the socialogical and economical losses we suffer today but don’t realize where they are from.
I live in Kearney MO I found a Burton bullet in a tree near my place in a tree that came down in a storm the biggest oak tree I have ever seen my desk is made of a piece of the tree still got the bullet to
Great video, amazing attic find. Would like the redel sniper video. Hunters turned snipers.
Super interesting find! Makes me want to head back out into the Mojave with my Springfield. I couldn't be happier to see how the channel has grown since my starring role XD. Keep up the excellent work!
I miss those days. There’s just no place out here to shoot with the freedom we had back there in the desert.
History is full of small places. where battles was fought. Not because themself are important. but because that was where the armies met. .
Awesome content as always!
I love all your videos i only live about 3 hrs from Gettysburg me and the wife love going there. I love to collect things from the civil war. You sir have taught me alot and i appreciate it
Hope you stop by the shop next time you’re here. I’ll show you the bullet!
@papercartridges6705 I'd gladly appreciate it well be back down during new years I was just down there Friday- Sunday that and I would love to sit and talk as well maybe even shoot with you I have a zouave contract rifle and a 1842 springfield smooth bore. Reproduction of course 😂
7,000,000 thats crazy amount for 72 hours. Thats 1,620 rounds per minute. And 27 rounds per second. That would sound like a constant roar.
Which goes to show that history is all around us 👍😉
7.000,000 rounds in 72 hours is 97,222 shots fired per hour! That bullet has a story a movie could be made from!
Great video!!!!!!!
If I was a union solider, I would of hid behind the statues or that big blue water tank. Thats what I would of done.
Great video!
Fascinating video.
Well what are you waiting for? Return fire!
Love the content
I read in ready aim fire that the union expended 5,400,000 rounds of ammunition during the battle.
That’s about right. The OD Dept estimated 4.5 million but that was just a close guess. The Rebs probably shot off another 2.5 million. That’s a lot of lead.
Great work! A confederate sharpshooter video would be brilliant.
My great, Great GrandFather was wounded in that battle.
His name was Alfred W. Landrum and he was with the 38th Regiment , Georgia infantry.. I have an original Photograph (sort of) on my wall of him and my Great Great Grandmother. I also have his military records. The wound to his hand never fully healed and you could look through the hole in his palm . He was also blinded in one eye at Fredericksburg but apparently never told anyone till after the war. He was also involved at Cold Harbor but I am not sure to what extent. There is just a notation in his records of a week in the hospital afterwards. I would love to have met him.
My ggg-grandfather was also wounded at Gettysburg. Levi Patton, 26th Alabama infantry. Maybe our ancestors wounded each other?
well, I should hope not !
Alabama and Georgia boy shooting each other ? Perish the though.
Nice to hold history in the hand rather than read about it.
I would definitely like to hear about the Confederate sharp shooters.
How cool is that? I think that one of my scout parent's car overheated in front of your shop 30 years ago on a PACKED July 4th weekend.
I might even remember that! I was going to see if everything was OK but it looked like it was well in hand.
Please Make a video on the reb sharpshooter battalions!!!!!!!!!!
On every photo, might be helpful to photoshop an arrow or small thin circle at location of you shop / business. Many people experience some kind of a ‘connection’ , feeling, vision when seeing historical things or especially touching things. Don’t laugh, they say especially Welsh people. Your narrative and photos and actual item helps.
I have an unfired .69 Minie-style bullet that I got in April of1973 when my family visited Gettysburg on our relocation from NY to Texas. Due to its caliber, I assume it was probably dropped on the ground by a Confederate soldier.
What are you drinking there? An old fashioned?
Seems you are saying this bullet was fired by a common soldier, not a sharpshooter. Were there also Union sharpshooters on cemetery hill who challenged the confederates firing from the we southern edge of town? Seems like that would’ve been a great chance to get those heavy Target rifles the Berdan regiments held in reserve out of the wagons and into position.
Hi, great info love your video. Have you thought about covering the Confederate arms.?
Please make a video on civil war sharpshooters.
oh nooo, Once you go Lebel you don't go back to paper cartridges. Where am I going to get my Enfield cartridges?
You know, I think these smokeless powder things might catch on…
How did it come up with the landlord? As soon as they knew what you do was it like "have I got a story for you"?
It took a while to carefully explain what I was renting the place for… not many landlords want to rent a space for a Victorian ammo factory… but once I moved in, he brought it over to me and even let me keep it for as long as I remain a tenant. I show it to all my visitors. He’s been living here for 80 years and he says growing up here, they used to find all kinds of stuff. He also found bullets in wood when they removed an old tree that was hit by lightning, decades ago. This whole area was showered with lead and shot.
Great video Brett. Have you tried to get into the attic to see if you can locate any damage in the existing structure of the roof?
This was a great video. I really enjoy little nerd driven off the main path of history stories like this. The big story is just thousands of little stories that all happened at the same place and time.Oh and let's see those confederate sharp shooters!
These little nerdy historic coincidences fascinate me! It’s hard to watch more and more historic space get lost to construction though.
Once again thank you for such a good interesting presentation. I am sure I am not the only one who would enjoy and appreciate a presentation on Confederate sniping. Please continue to take good care of yourself and please continue to make these superb presentations.👍
Yes, please, make a video about Blackford’s unit.
Good video
Very cool
My ancestor fought in the battle in the third mass artillery company B
Please do make the video! That bullet has some super cool history to reveal! But I do think you make some jumps in your conclusion. There's few proof for the bullet actually hitting the house. Yes it was found in the house, but that's not certain a proof. A kid could have brought it there, for what we know. I find it weird nobody has cleaned the attic "good enough" to find the bullet in the time span between the 1860's and the time the owner found the bullet?
He said it was under the roof shingle.
@@robertkalinic335 Ahh, I understod it was in the attic. Ergo inside.
What is the stone square marker at the stone wall that is marked 27 P.V. left 19:30 min on the video thanks
It marks where the left flank of the 27th Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry regiment was at, one of the longer serving units in the XI Corps. Interestingly enough the 27th PA lost more soldiers killed in action than to disease (usually 2 or 3 times more soldiers died of disease in a unit than from enemy fire).
A video on Confederate sharpshooters?!
Uh…yes please!!
A fascinating video, Brett, thank you for sharing. Now don't read these comments, you know how you get. By the way, how do you know that bullet was hand cast by a soldier (melted from his child's toy soldier after the child was murdered by Rebel scum) and loaded with loose powder from a flask then shot from a balloon 1,000 yards away? It happened, you know! LOL!!!!🤣
Yes, please do a video on Confederate Sharpe shooters.
Yes please make a video on the Confederate sharpshooters.
interesting video.
You start out as a lead ingot from some mine and then are melted down to become a bullet.
You spend a few weeks in a cartridge box while being shipped to the front. Then someone opens the box and you're stuffed in an ammo pouch.
Then the cartridge you're in is torn apart and you're rammed into a strange metal tube. It's dark, it's claustrophobic and there are some strange grooves imprinted into the wall.
Suddenly there's an immense surge of acceleration and a loud *bang* as you exit the tube you were stuffed in.
You see a house racing towards you and then you hit it and everything goes dark.
Then some time later, you don't know how long, someone picks you up and some more time later someone else is talking about you on some strange thing called "UA-cam".
Had Jackson not been killed and was in command instead of Early I believe he would have recognized to importance of cemetery ridge and taken it on day one. Lee wins at Gettysburg and extends the war by another year but we will never. know.
In my captains career course, during the instruction on mission command, the consequence of those two words “if practicable” was discussed. Never give ambiguous orders; give the mission objective and if it is truly not practical, your subordinates should be trained enough to recognize that, and act appropriately.
House shooters is more like it
I own a home in East High Street, Civil War plaqued Home. What sharpshooters would have occupied that street?. I can see Cemetery Hill from my window.. thanks for the video it's good