We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. Originally released December, 19, 2019 on Patreon. It's the holiday season and, whatever holiday you celebrate, may it be a happy one for you and yours. As an extra "thank you" for your patronage, I slapped together this little tour through the music of Addressing Gettysburg. While I get the music from various sources, I'm focusing on the music that I actually produce with musicians I know or have musicians I know produce it for me from wherever they are. This isn't all of it, though. It's mostly songs that have been used in Antietam to Chancellorsville, INVASION! June, 1863 or will be used in future episodes. I pepper in some commentary on why it's used, or how it was recorded or why I use various versions of the same tune. It's probably just boring rambling to you, but I've always loved watching or listening to "making of" vignettes, so, I figure, that someone else out there must like that stuff too...otherwise they wouldn't still make them!   Happy holidays!  

  Codie Eash is back again to tickle your ears and broaden your mind with this interesting lecture about that time when the great Frederick Douglass came and spoke at Gettysburg. So, sit back, grab your favorite beverage, get out your notebook and learn from Codie.  From Codie: "Written in Ink and Marked with Blood: Frederick Douglass's Gettysburg Address On January 25, 1869, the formerly enslaved and self-emancipated activist, author, and lecturer Frederick Douglass visited Gettysburg. There, at the site of the Civil War’s costliest engagement, Douglass delivered a speech in which he reflected upon the words spoken and deeds done on battlefields across the country during the “Abolition War” (as Douglass called it) from 1861-1865, and throughout the Reconstruction that followed. Through written word and commanding oratory, he brought meaning to the bloodletting of fallen Union soldiers and the martyred Abraham Lincoln, and placed the racial and political results of the war—constructive as well as destructive—within the context of world history. Join Codie Eash for this discussion of the motivations for Douglass’s address, how it was received by those who heard it, and what it means in our collective memory today."  Keep up with Codie here   This episode is brought to you without commercial interruption by Ploughman Cider. Get Ploughman's delicious cider delivered right to your door (some restrictions apply, must be 21) and help keep a Gettysburg business bridge the gap until Spring. Use promo code CIDERPOD for 15% off your order.    

  Jim Hessler's done many a thing: he's authored many books; he hosts the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast; he's a Licensed Battlefield Guide and, most importantly, he's a Custer enthusiast. And, so, we invited him on to talk about a rarely visited part of Gettysburg National Military Park-- East Cavalry Field-- and, more specifically, the newly-minted Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer.  Jim provides us with a background of the man and the battle that put him on the map in the national consciousness and then takes questions from our Patreon patrons.  Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Becoming a Patron Help complete the studio so we can do live videos on YouTube and Facebook by sending us something off of our wishlist Donate directly via PayPal  

  While with the Park Service, Scott Hartwig wrote an essay entitled "High Water Mark Heroes, Myth and Memory." It covers the piece of ground that includes landmarks such as "The Angle" and "The Copse of Trees" and answers some questions about just where Pickett's and Pettigrew's divisions were heading on July 3, 1863. Was their objective the Copse of Trees or Zeigler's Grove? What about Cemetery Hill?  Scott joins us to dispell the myths that have popped up over the years since the battle of Gettysburg.  There's a lot more detail in the article and we recommend you read it before you listen. http://npshistory.com/series/symposia/gettysburg_seminars/12/essay2.pdf    

  Chris Army is joined by Jerry Hahn, the newest Licensed Battlefield Guide on Addressing Gettysburg.  In this episode, we discuss Willard's Brigade, a.k.a. "The Harpers Ferry Cowards"/"The Harpers Ferry Brigade" and "band box soldiers." Willard's Brigade was the 3rd Brigade,3rd Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac. They took part in stopping the advance of Barksdales Brigade on July 2 as well as helped to repulse the Longstreet's Assault on July 3.  Patron Extraordinaire Michael Lentz joins us in studio to ask his many questions in person to our guides.    Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Sit in for a show and ask your own questions like Mike Lentz by becoming a Patron Help complete the studio so we can do live videos on YouTube and Facebook by sending us something off of our wishlist. (Make sure include a note with your name so we know who to thank!) Donate directly via PayPal  

  Over on our Patreon feed, Matt sat down with Noah Andre Trudeau for an interview about his career writing history books like "Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage." Become a Patron today to help support the show, deepen your knowledge of Gettysburg and the Civil War and be entertained!  

  We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.   Can you imagine what it's like to be "free" while not enjoying the same rights as the majority of the population or fearing that at any moment raiding parties from just over the border might capture you and sell you into slavery? How about having to choose between protecting your fellow man or obeying Federal law? What was in like to be black and free in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. These are just SOME of the things we cover in this episode with John Hoptak.   John Hoptak is a native of Pennsylvania. Hoptak serves as an interpretative Park Ranger with the National Park Service and teaches courses as an adjunct instructor at American Military University. Hoptak has written articles for America's Civil War, Civil War Times, and Pennsylvania Heritage. He is also the author of several books.   

  We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. What a treat I have for fans of the movie Gettysburg! In October, 2018, the cast of the 1993 movie Gettysburg came to town for a reunion and screening of the director's cut of the film. I arranged to have Patrick Gorman, who played Major General John Bell Hood, and Bo Brinkman, who played Lee's aide, Major Walter Taylor,  sit down with me and my buddy Pete at my friend Tami's farm. We set up in her summer kitchen and just talked about their careers and the making of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. This was great fun for two guys like Pete and I who have seen the film 3000 times. I hope you enjoy it.   

  We hope you enjoy this free Patreon episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.     From Scott Hartwig: "During my 31 years with the National Park Service at Gettysburg NMP it has remained a mystery where Alexander Gardner took his famous series of photographs of Union dead on the battlefield.  Gardner seemingly offered a clue when he labeled one of the images in his 1863 catalog of photographs as a 'View in the field on the right wing where General Reynolds fell.'  There were two stereo views of the same image but their captions did not mention Reynolds.  One read, 'View in the field on right wing,' and the other, 'Federal soldiers as they fell.'  Gardner also shot two other images of this same grouping of soldiers from a different camera position.  He labeled these 'A Harvest of Death,' and 'Evidence of how severe the contest had been on the right.'"   Scott kindly sat down with Bob and I to discuss the three articles he wrote for GNMP's blog back in 2011. No one has been able to figure out where these famous photographs were taken. Even the Godfather of the field of Gettysburg photography, William Frassanito. In fact, the two photos in question (see attached) were the two photos that Mr. Frassanito said he couldn't place. After years of trying to figure it out, Scott Hartwig thinks he may have found the place.He says he's 98% sure, but is open to compelling evidence to the contrary should it ever present itself.    As always, we had a fun time talking with Scott as you'll be able to tell as soon as the show begins.   Become a Patron to access high resolution scans of the photos in question. I HIGHLY recommend that you print them out and come to Gettysburg to do your own investigation.  So what do you think? Is Scott right? Email us at [email protected] and let us know!    https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/a-mystery-solved-part-i-2/   https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-2/   https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-3/   

  We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.   CONTENT WARNING: Soldiers in the Civil War were young men. Young men use foul language and do some pretty messed up stuff. We touch on some subjects that might not be approriate for young ears or people who can't handle the facts of life. Listener discretion is advised.   Have you ever had the chance to talk with Dr. Peter S. Carmichael? Well, Bob and I did it for you. We discuss The War For The Common Soldier... with Dr Carmichael. If you think this is just another book about eating hardtack and what soldiers carried in their knapsacks, you're gravely mistaken.    How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war.   Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.     

**This episode is brought to you without commercial interruption by our Patreon Patrons and Ploughman Cider. Become a Patron today and order Ploughman's delicious Adams County hard cider online with promo code CIDERPOD for 15% off. Merry Christmas!** Matt Borders is one of the hosts of The History Things Podcast. I wanted to do a Christmas episode that talks about what Christmas was like for the common soldier serving in the armies. I couldn't think of anyone else who would be able to pull it together with little warning like Matt Borders can.  This is the last new free episode of 2020. We want to thank you all for listening. Since last winter we've had 1000% download growth. That's crazy and it makes us happy to know that this show resonates with you. We hope we've been able to entertain you while expanding your knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. May your holidays be COVID and stress-free and as close to normal as you can manage. Here's to a normal 2021!    

  On this Ask A Guide, we move away from the battlefield for a spell to discuss The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a very important event which helped to shape the narrative, in part, for generations to come, of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is one way to learn more about this dramatic time in our nation's history, but don't stop there! Read and visit! Joining us on this episode are LBGs Lewis Trott and Mary Turk-Meena. Support the Show! Please welcome our new advertiser, Ploughman Cider. Our listeners will receive 15% off their purchase by using the promo code CIDERPOD at checkout. Help support Gettysburg buisnesses during this coming Winter of lockdowns and restrictions. You can have Ploughman's cider shipped right to your door! Must be 21, state and local restrictions apply. Click here to place your order. Order a book! (and do the rest of your last minute Christmas shopping while you're at it) Order some merch! Donate via PayPal Become a Patron and really learn      

  John Brown Gordon was a brigadier general at Gettysburg and commanded a brigade in Early's Division of Ewell's 2nd Corps. His brigade was comprised of 13th Georgia 26th Georgia 31st Georgia 38th Georgia 60th Georgia 61st Georgia But his life did not begin or end at Gettysburg. LBG Jim Pangburn joins us for this, the first biographical Ask A Gettysburg Guide, and tells us about the exciting life of General John B. Gordon. Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Becoming a Patron Help complete the studio by sending us something off of our wishlist Donate directly via PayPal  

  Ronn Palm runs a very interesting museum on Baltimore Street. It is the Museum of Civil War Images and you must check it out the next time you're in town. Ronn began collecting Civil War images over 30 years ago, purchasing his first one at a whopping $1.25! Now, he has nearly 10,000, that's right, TEN THOUSAND in his collection. Almost half of those are on display in his museum at 229 Baltimore Street. The museum is opened Friday evenings through Sunday.    We had fun talking with Ronn and you will too when you visit the museum.    Check out its website here   

  A very Happy Thanksgiving to y'all!  After starting out by thanking many of the people who have helped us throughout 2020 (fair warning, we probably missed a few as the list was compiled literally minutes before the show started, so thank you if you were missed), we introduce you to our new guest LBG, Chris Army. Many of you may know him from the assistance he lends to the Apsiring Licensed Battlefield Guides Facebook Page. We got to know him a little bit more while learning about Pender's Attack and answering questions from our Patrons. Enjoy!   Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Becoming a Patron Help complete the studio so we can do live videos on YouTube and Facebook by sending us something off of our wishlist Donate directly via PayPal Advertise with us Email [email protected]        

      I really enjoyed this interview with Colonels McCausland and Vossler about their new book "Battle Tested!" In this interview, we focused on chapters 2 and 12 about Brigadier General John Buford's and Abraham Lincoln's (respectively) leadership skills and qualities. You can get your copy of the book by clicking here    From the Diamond6 wesbite: JEFF MCCAUSLAND, FOUNDER & CEO Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Dr. McCausland is the co-author of Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, available September 1, 2020.   COL. TOM VOSSLER (RET.) | AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Colonel Tom Vossler, U.S. Army (Ret.) served in the U.S. Army from 1968 thru 1998. He commanded an infantry platoon in the Vietnam War and a Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force in Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Soviet regime. His military education includes graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. Tom taught military history, strategy and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and he is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Tom is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg and A Field Guide to Antietam. His latest book, co-authored with Jeff McCausland, Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders is available September 1, 2020.    

  Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin visited the area and was astounded at the damage done to property and life. Shallow graves in the fields surrounding the town revealed decaying human limbs and faces after rains had washed the meager layer of soil over them away. Their air was thick with swarms of flies and the stench of rot. Curtin described it as "the devil's own planting... a harvest of death." Many, many more people were just as appalled as Governor Curtin was. And, so, a handful of local leaders approached the governor with a proposal to establish a cemetery to properly bury the Union dead of the Battle of Gettysburg. Curtin not only agreed with this proposal, but he also secured State funds for the establishment and reinternment of roughly 3600 bodies. David Wills, a local attorney, was appointed the agent of the state to secure the land, which was a 17 acre plot adjacent to the already establish private Evergreen Cemetery atop Cemetery Hill. Architect William Saunders was hired to design the layout of the new cemetery. Soon, the governors of other Northern States, such as New York, Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana and Massachusetts pledged support and sent agents to assist and oversee the burial of their states' loyal sons.  Reinternments began in the Fall. Edward Everett, a famous orator of the time, was invited to speak at the consecration ceremony, slated to take place in October. He was invited in September but asked that the date be pushed back as he needed more time to prepare. His request was granted and the date was changed to November 19, 1863. On November 2, Abraham Lincoln was invited. In his letter to Lincoln, David Will said, "It is the desire that, after the Oration [Everett's], you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks."    As we know, no event in life is clean and neat. Few things go as planned or expected. And history is made when the participants are either unaware that they're making it or underestimate the true value of their contribution. The days surrounding Lincoln's visit to Gettysburg and the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery is no exception.    LBG Tim Smith joins us again to answer our Patron's questions about November 19, 1863. Enjoy and learn!   Recorded at the GettysBike Tours Studios Become a Patron to submit questions to an Ask A Guide and more! Studio construction wishlist.               

  "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war; we have come to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, but, in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us here to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation shall, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth!" -Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863      

Two years ago I asked songwriter Billy Webster to work my favorite Civil War song (which predates the Civil War) into a song to play at the open of our shows. Modern meets traditional. I think Billy did a great job and so I thought I'd share it with you without me gabbing over it.    Check out more of Billy's Music here

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  Matt and Eric the Producer recap the 2020 tourist season and give you a peek at what to expect for the Winter of 2020-2021.   Topics include: #GetOutOfTheCar2020 tours The Today Show shoot The new studio The new Logo Booking Tours through our website Possible tour collaborations with the Aspiring Licensed Battlefield Guides Facebook page  questions from Patrons and more! You might be wondering after listening to us discuss the generous donations from our Patrons for the new studio, "just how can I donate to the cause?" Well, if you go to www.addressinggettysburg.com and scroll to the bottom, you can make a Paypal donation by clicking the "Donate" button. OR click here and send us something from our Amazon Wishlist.   

  The final chapter of Episode 2 Chapter 3 takes you up to the night of June 30, 1863, the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg.  Where Are The Armies Now? General Hooker spent June 26 moving his army across the Potomac. By nightfall, everyone was in Maryland except John Sedgwick’s Sixth Corps and a portion of the cavalry. Frederick, Maryland, Hooker decided, would become the army’s point of concentration.  The first wing of the Union Army to cross the Potomac, were the three corps under the command of Major General John F Reynolds.  Contrary to their orders, Confederate Cavalry commanders, Beverly Robertson and Grumble Jones failed to report this movement to JEB Stuart.  Back in Washington, Lincoln began showing signs of doubt in Hooker, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, when he said, “Hooker may commit the same fault as McClellan and lose his chance.” But Lincoln quickly added a sign of hope when he said, “We shall soon see, but it appears to me he can’t help but win.”...   CREDITS INVASION! June, 1863, was written, narrated and produced by Matt Callery DIRECTED BY: Matt Callery and Pearle Shannon FEATURING THE VOICES OF: Bradley Lee, Pearle Shannon, Patrick Gorman,  Denise Chain, Bob Steenstra, Kelly Steenstra, Ron Bailey, Trent Walker, Brayden Border, John Heckman, Dave Wilson, Keith Harris, The History Dame, Ray Chancellor, Dustin Smith, Keith Harvey, Matthew McClanahan, Steven Byers, Constantinos Hasapis, Bo Brinkman, John Thurston and Katie Vondeetum. HISTORICAL CONSULTATION BY: Licensed Battlefield Guides Bob Steentsra, Lewis Trott and Tim Smith, with additional assistance from Matt Atkinson, John Hoptak and Ken Rich. MUSIC BY: Dusty Lee Elmer, Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart, Kelly Shannon, Cody Tinin, The California Consolidated Drum Band, Federal City Band Some sound effects courtesy of QuantumEra and Ty DeWitt.  Additional voice recording engineered by Paul Kirby A deep thanks to all who helped in the production of this podcast. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved.  PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Victorian Photography Studio Mason Dixon Distillery GettysBike Tours Gettysburg: A Nation Divided (use referral code GBURG1863 when prompted) SOURCES: The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, Edwin B. Coddington Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, Noah Andre Trudeau Lee’s Cavalrymen, Edward G. Longacre Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, Abner Doubleday Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide, Champ Clark/Time-Life Books The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart : Commander … Henry B.  McClellan.  Days of Uncertainty and Dread by Gerald R Bennet Firestorm at Gettysburg: Civilian Voices by Jim Slade and John Alexander Lincoln by David Herbert Donald “The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour by Eric J Wittenberg Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory By Brian Steel Wills https://www.americanheritage.com/destruction-fighting-joe-hooker-0 https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/spring/gettysburg.pdf https://www.armywarcollege.edu/history.cfm https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=ach          

  Jennie Wade was the only Gettysburg civilian to die during the battle of Gettysburg. The house she died in, "The Jennie Wade House" (actually the house her sister was residing in and not Jennie's) is a museum you can tour today. Matt, Bob, Tim Smith and special guest Cindy Small circled their chairs around the statue of Jennie outside the house and dug into the story of her family, what we know of her short life, her death and new details from recently uncovered letters that shed a brighter light on what the nature of Jennie's relationship to Jack Skelly may have been.  Our Patrons know that something doesn't sit right with Matt regarding the circumstances surrounding her death. In this episode he tries to get to the bottom of it as well. Join our community by clicking here  The subject of Jennie Wade is one of the more popular, imagination-capturing aspects of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is just one aspect of learning more. Nothing beats visiting Getttysburg, walking the fields, exploring our museums and taking a tour with a Licensed Battlefield Guide.  This episode was co-executive produced by Tim Smith. Special thanks to the good folks over at the Jennie Wade House for meeting with us after hours to record the show. Be sure to take a tour of the house when you visit!  

  In this special edition of Ask A Gettysburg Guide Actor, we put our study of the Battle of Gettysburg on hold to talk to Bo Brinkman, one of the cast of the movie Gettysburg, about the making of the film that brought so many of us Gettysnerds to become students of the battle. This is brought to you without commercial interruption by the good folks over at the American Battlefield Trust. I’m sure you already know what great work they do in saving the sacred ground of our country. Well they also did your buddies at Addressing Gettysburg a great favor by allowing us the use of General Lee’s Headquarters on Seminary Ridge. The ABT preserves battlefields and educates the public about America’s formative conflicts and why they matter today.   You can visit them at battlefields.org for videos, maps and thousands of articles.    Besides the Lee’s Headquarters site (which they preserved and restored) they have preserved more than 800 additional acres in and around Gettysburg. They are currently trying to preserve land along the Baltimore Pike on Cemetery Hill and at the base of Big Round Top. Find more Information and donate to the cause at www.battlefields.org.   And I’d like to personally thank Tim Smith for getting us in touch with Garry Adelman and also Garry Adelman for setting this up with a day’s notice. SOMEDAY we will get Garry in the show. He is highly requested by our listeners.   If you’re a patron of ours, you’ve heard our guest on the show before alongside Patrick Gorman. You, of course, know him as Major Walter Taylor, who apparently had a love of flapjacks in small mountains, in the movie Gettysburg. But he is also a writer, director and producer known for the 2016 film The Last Man Club, starring the late Morgan Sheppard who you know as General Isaac Trimble,he was in Swing State and produced and directed the upcoming film The Bay House among many others. Welcome, the great Bo Brinkman.  

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  Rain. Thunder! A gift from a listener and a shocking gift for Eric the Producer, from Matt. That's how this episode starts off before LBG Jim Pangburn takes questions about Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a good way to start your journey into history, but it doesn't replace touring the battlefield yourself, or, better yet, with a Licensed Battlefield Guide. Shoot us an email at [email protected] if you'd like to book one of our guides for a tour.    Questions cover: Vincent's Brigade Crawford's 5 acre memorial to his troops Captain Johnston's Reconnaisannce Paddy O'Rorke's Nose The March of Law's Brigade Restoration proposals for Little Round Top Was Little Round Top really that valuable for the Confederates? and more! Questions are submitted by Patrons in the 2nd Lieutenant tier right here.    

  Matt, Tim and Bob discuss the fateful decision of Major General Francis CHANNING Barlow to move his division to the Knoll that now bears his name. In comparison to other locations like The Peach Orchard or Little Round Top, Barlow’s Knoll is one of the lesser-talked-about phases of The Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening helps, but visiting places like Barlow’s Knoll and hearing or reading the story of it makes it come alive. Be sure to include a trip to Gettysburg in your travel plans.  This episode is bright to you without commercial interruption thanks to the generosity of our Patrons. By the way, we reached 100 as of the uploading of this episode. Join our community by clicking here!      

  We asked our Patrons to send in a recording answering the question "Why Gettysburg?" There was no explanation by what we mean by "why". The exercise is to see how the person interprets the word and to see what they come up with. The answers are interesting for many reasons, but there seems to be a thread of spirituality running through it. People love Gettysburg for more than the Battle of Gettysburg. That might start them off, but, once they visit, something invades their souls. Some call it the "Gettysburg Bug". We call it the "Gettysbug" because we're cheesy like that.  We hope you enjoy this one-off episode and that you'll consider becoming a Patron  

  Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr makes his debut on Addressing Gettysburg to talk about Colonel Roy Stone’s Brigade (The “Bogus” Bucktails?) and their fighting on McPherson’s Ridge, including the famous “Color Episode” of the 149th Pa, one of the most unique stories of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a great way to start or enhance your studies of this battle. Checking out our Recommended Reading list on our website can help you deepen your knowledge even more. And it helps support the show.    Submit your questions for every Ask A Gettysburg Guide by becoming a Patron. Click here!         

  LBG Jessie Wheedleton came to us and said she'd like to do a show about how to prepare for the Licensed Battlefield Guide exam. We thought it was a great idea and booked her. The are many ways to learn about the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a fantastic way to do it when you can't be here. So if reading and watching ranger programs online. Of course the best way to learn is to visit and walk the grounds and, when you visit, you MUST, in our opinion, hire a licensed battlefield guide to take you around. Just listen to what it takes to even become licensed. Sounds like it's easier to get into the CIA!  To take a tour with any of the guides you hear on Addressing Gettysburg, contact [email protected] and he will put you in touch with your requested guide.  If you're considering taking the guide exam, or just curious about what a prospective candidte must go through, click here. LISTENER QUESTIONS PROVIDED BY THE FOLLOWING PATRONS: Serge Paula Matt Jamie Julie   To learn more about the battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg itself, the Civil War in General, to submit question for Ask A Gettysurg Guide episodes and more, please become a patron by clicking here    

  Whether you recognize it from your pre-movie-era childhood visits to Gettysburg National Military Park or from the unforgettable scenes in Ron Maxwell's Gettysburg featuring the great Sam Elliott, the Cupola of the Litheran Theological Seminary is an iconic structure to those who study The Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast guest, historian Codie Eash, returns for the first Ask a Gettysburg Guide of Season 2. This was an extremely fun episode to record because we were able to do it from The Cupola, itself, after hours with Cody. We can't stress this enough: if you have been to Gettysburg a million times or are planning to visit some day, and a few hours at the Seminary Ridge Museum, including the Cupola Tour, is not on your itinerary, you've done yourself a disservice.  Codie answers, in fine detail, questions about the use of the Old Dorm building as a hospital during and after The Battle of Gettysburg, the Seminary as a station on the Underground Railroad, who actually used the Cupola to observe the enemy during the Batle of Gettysburg, battle damage to the building, the conditions wounded soldiers had to endure while waiting for care while the battle still raged and much more.  Codie is Operations Manager at the Seminary Ridge Museum. LINKS Keep up with Codie's work at www.codieeashwrites.com For more information about the Seminary Ridge Museum or to book your tour click here or call 717-339.1300 Cover photo courtesy of Rob Williams      

  Nancie Gudmestad is the owner of The Shriver House Museum. Her book, "The Shrivers' Story: Eyewitnesses to the Battle of Gettysburg tells the story of the Shriver house and family as well as other civilians. Nancie sat down with mein the front parlor of the house to discuss the chapter in her book about the aftermath of battle. The Shriver House is a MUST SEE on your next trip to Gettysburg. Just listen to the episode to find out why.  Expand your knowledge of the WHOLE Gettysburg story. Get  "The Shrivers' Story..." here  Stop by next time you're in town: 309 Baltimore St, Gettysburg, PA  Give them a call for more information: (717) 337-2800  As always it is our Patrons that keep us going. The more we have, the more we can accomplish. Please consider becoming one today. Click here!        

  We offered a platform to Historian and Writer Codie Eash here on our feed to present lectures or, frankly, anything he wants because we love listening to him. This one is about the Blue-Gray Reunion of 1869. Enjoy.  Codie Eash currently serves as Operations Manager at Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center. He is a 2014 graduate of Shippensburg University, where he earned a bachelor degree in communication/journalism and a minor in history. Codie contributes to the blog "Pennsylvania in the Civil War"; serves as a co-host on Battles and Banter Podcast, a military history podcast; and maintains the Facebook page "Codie Eash - Writer and Historian," which primarily focuses on the Civil War era. As always, this free material was made possible by the generous and fun group of Patrons over at our Patreon Page.   

  On this special episode, recorded at the Copse of Trees, Licensed Battlefield Guides, Tim Smith, Jim Hessler and Jessie Wheedleton join Matt and Bob to talk about July 3, 1863 and the days following the battle.  Click here for more information on Pickett's Charge; Here for Longstreet at Gettysburg; and HERE for Culp's Hill   Become a Patron here. Cover photo by Paul Philippoteaux      

  In this episode, Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith, Jim Pangburn and Charlie Fennell join Matt and Bob on Little Round Top at the 155th PA Moumument for a discussion on July 2, 1863.    Learn more about the important actions on Day 2 of the battle with these books on: Devils Den  The Peach Orchard  Day 2      Become a Patron here. Cover photo by Mort Kuntsler        

  In this episode commemorating the 157th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Licensed Battlefield Guides Jim Pangburn and Charlie Fennell join Matt and Bob atop Oak Hill in our secret hiding place behind the Peace Light to break down July 1, 1863.    Want to learn more about the First Day? Click here and here    Become a Patron here   Cover photo by Dale Gallon      

  LBG and Author Jim Hessler joins us from the Peach Orchard to answer your questions. Jim is not only an award-winning author and Licensed Battlefield Guide, but he is also co-host of the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast.  Be sure to get your hands on a copy of all of Jim's books Gettysburg's Peach Orchard Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg Sickles At Gettysburg    

LBG Roy Frampton joins Matt, Bob and Tim from near the Howard Statue on East Cemetery Hill. While this Ask A Gettysburg Guide is about the National Cemetery, we didn't think four people on lawn chairs talking into microphones would look appropriate in the cemetery itself. So, we went across the street.  In this episode, we cover topics such as: -USCT graves -the cemetery during the battle and the monuments within it -A confederate mass grave in the Annex? -Revelry in the town the night before the Dedication -Confederate soldiers buried among the Union dead -boxes containing the personal effects taken from the "Unknown" soldiers -The Bivouac of the Dead matching up with the melody of Gilligan's Island -methods used to identify the dead -families recovering their buried soldiers and which unit has the most soldiers buried in its section. As always, this is brought to you by the awesome support of our Patrons. Become one today by clicking here.  Don't forget to support our sponsors who are still doing modified-business during the lockdown.  www.gettysbike.com www.victorianphotostudio.com www.masondixondistillery.com Copyright 2020. All rights reserved

Matt, Bob and Tim Smith hunkered down around the 99th Pa monument on, yet another, cold, grey, windy day that felt more like Novmeber than late-April to answer your questions pertaining to The Devil's Den.    As always, this free content is brought to you by the generous support of our Patrons. Become one today by clicking here.      

  SARAH BROADHEAD: “To-day we heard that the Rebels were crossing the river in heavy force, and advancing on to this State.”    In the 1730s and 40s, Scots-Irish and German settlers began laying roots in what was then known as the Marsh Creek settlement. Eventually, Samuel Gettys opened a tavern on the Marsh Creek Road, the major east-west road in the area. In 1761, he was fined for running a tavern without a license. In 1769, the Baltimore-Shippensburg road was laid out and an intersection was created at the tavern. Twenty five years later, in 1786, his son James would lay out  210 lots, including a town square, referred to as “The Diamond”, around the tavern. This new town would be known as Gettysburg.   In 1800, Gettysburg became the county seat of the newly formed Adams county, named for then-president John Adams.    The 1860 census shows that Gettysburg’s population numbered around 2400 and was primarily made up of German, Scots-Irish and free blacks.    Prior to the war, the people of Gettysburg engaged in a diverse economy, the primary industry in town being carriage making which attracted related tradesmen such as wheelwrights, trim and canvas shops and silversmiths. Many of Gettysburg’s carriages were purchased by people south of the Mason-Dixon line, some ten miles south of Gettysburg. As the war loomed, the industry in Gettysburg began to tighten.  But by 1863, the war had all but eliminated the carriage industry,. Gettysburg’s port for goods and services was Baltimore, which was a city of divided loyalties and political unrest These two factors disrupted the town’s economy.   The overwhelmingly Christian population of the town worshipped in eight congregations and seven churches.    As the center of Adams County’s legal business, Gettysburg was home to several lawyers.    Education was well covered in Gettysburg. A number of primary and secondary schools, private schools including Carrie Sheads’s on the Chambersburg Pike and Rebecca Eyster’s on the corner of  High Street and Washington, Pennsylvania College, established in 1832, and the Lutheran Theological Seminary educated the youth from near and far.    To support the large amount of farms in the surrounding townships, various merchants kept shop there. Some people, such as Mary McAllister, made money by reselling cured meats she had obtained from the farmers of the area to her fellow Gettysburgians. Others owned butcher shops, like James Pierce who lived on the southwest corner of Baltimore and Breckinridge Streets; a candy store, like Philip “Petey” Winter’s on the first block of Chambersburg Street; a photography studio like Charles and Isaac Tyson had on York Street. Dry goods, general merchandise and grocers also made Gettysburg hum with activity. James Fahenstock and two of his brothers owned the largest General store in town on the corner of Baltimore Street and Middle Street. In 1860, the census listed dozens of people whose occupation was “shoemaker” or cobbler. Yet, contrary to legend, there was no shoe factory or warehouse full of shoes in Gettysburg in 1863. Tanneries, ironworks, brickyards, blacksmiths, hotels, inns and taverns rounded out the more common businesses found in town.    Local curmudgeon and former town constable, John Burns, had a few odd jobs. One of those jobs was as a cobbler at the boot and shoe shop of town council president David Kendlehart. Burns, a veteran of the War of 1812, was not known to be a friendly neighbor with a kind word to offer.   Among his other jobs, John Burns pumped water for the Gettysburg waterworks.    Gettysburg had the latest technological advances in communications, media, gas lighting and transportation. In 1858, the railroad had come to town and, by 1863, Joseph Broadhead was an Express Messenger, on the Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad. This railroad made the economy of Gettysburg boom when it was built and, in 1863, the line was in the process of being continued westward out of town. By July 1, the progress made on this extension would be forever immortalized as “The Railroad Cut.”    There were two telegraph offices in town: one at the railroad station and the other in the back of the home of John Scott on Chambersburg Street.    Gettysburg had three newspapers. The Star and Banner, edited by John T. McIlhenney [mac uhl henny] and the Adams Sentinel edited by David Buehler, both had a Republican bias. The Compiler, had a Democrat bias and was edited by Henry J Stahle [staylee].    Republicans were very pro-Union while the Democrats took a softer stance on the idea of Southern secession. Neither side was keen about the idea of equality for blacks, ironically evidenced by the fact that when, years prior to the war, free blacks attempted to join the local white anti-slavery societies and were denied entry. And, so, those who were anti-slavery and black formed the Slave’s Refuge Society. SLAVE’S REFUGE SOCIETY: “we feel it our indispensable duty to assist such of our brethren as shall come among us for the purpose of liberating themselves, and to raise all the means in our power to effect our object, which is to give liberty to our brethren groaning under the tyrannical yoke of oppression. Resolution of the Slave’s Refuge Society.”    A total of ten roads led into Gettysburg, each one leading to and coming from other important cities and towns, such as Carlisle, Harrisburg, York, Hanover, Baltimore, Emmitsburg, Fairfield and Hagerstown, Cashtown and Chambersburg and Mummasburg. All of these roads funneled, eventually, into the heart of Gettysburg.    The layout of the town was typical for that time period with the higher valued properties being in the blocks closest to “The Diamond”, with wide, tree-lined streets of dirt flanked by paved sidewalks. The streets and roads were laid out like the spokes of a wagon wheel with the Diamond being the hub. Homes along the main roads had no front yards and came right up to the sidewalks. Most of the lots in the first few blocks off the square in any direction were developed and, therefore, presented an unbroken front. Back yards were surrounded by highboard fences and contained a small stable or carriage house, a well and an outhouse, or “privy”, as well as a small garden for the kitchen. All of this restricted free movement to the streets or alleyways.    Gettysburg, by 1863, was a large town for the area with a vibrant population that loved, hated, squabbled, showed kindness, gossipped, rallied together, made local celebrities out of the best looking or most gregarious while making pariahs out of those of lesser fortune, just like any other society at any other point in history. Unlike most of those other societies, Gettysburg will endure a crucible of worry, turned to terror, turned to misery. And that all began on June 15, 1863, when Brigadier General Albert Jenkins' Confederate Cavalry Brigade crossed the Potomac and headed for Chambersburg _____________________________________ SPONSOR GettysBike Tours Victorian Photography Studio Mason Dixon Distillery Federal City Brass Band O Be Joyful   _____________________________________ CREDITS Addressing Gettysburg: INVASION! June, 1863, Part 2 was Written, narrated and produced by Matt Callery   Narration Directed by Pearle Shannon   Historical figures voiced by: Denise Chain, Trent Walker, Ron Bailey,  Bob Steenstra, Kelly Steenstra, the History Dame, Keith Harris and Pearle Shannon. Recorded at the Destination Gettysburg Studios.    Historical consultation by Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith, Bob Steenstra and Lewis Trott, with additional consultation provided by John Hoptak and Matt Atkinson. Music by Dusty Lee Elmer, Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart, Kelly Shannon, The California Consolidated Drum Band, the Federal City Brass Band/26th North Carolina Band. “Bear Waltz”- written by Sarah Larsen. Performed by Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart “Forward To The Heights’ written and performed by Kelly Shannon Special thanks to Tim Smith for assistance with script revisions.   __________________________________________________________________ To book a car or bus tour with a licensed battlefield guide, send an email to [email protected] This episode is brought to your for free by our sponsors and the generous support of our Patrons at Patreon. Click here to be a monthly subscriber and to unlock more content! Or, support the show without spending a red cent more than you want to by always going to www.addressinggettysburg.com, clicking the Amazon banner at the top of the page, and shop as you normally would.  Copyright 2020. All rights reserved       

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Licensed Battlefield Guide Tim Smith joins Matt and Licensed Battlefield Guide Bob Steenstra at Reynolds Woods in GNMP to answer your questions about the First Day's fighting in that area.  Here are just SOME of the topics covered: -the 147th NY -Buford's Cavalry - Where was Henry Burgwyn wounded - Where exactly is "McPherson's Rdge"? - the 151st Pa -"The Color Episode" of the 149th Pa AND MORE!   We had a lot of fun recording this one. The questions were particularly great! Thanks for submitting them.    As always if you have any questions you want added to the pool or want to book a tour with any of the guides you hear on the show, please contact [email protected] and he will add your question to the pool or get you in touch with the guide.  Our free episodes are made possible by our generous patrons (become one today for MORE GETTYSBURG), shopping through the Amazon Banner at the top of our homepage and getting yourself some merch at our store  

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This is a special Winter Lecture Series upload because it wasn't recorded at the visitor center with an audience. It will probably be the last Winter Lecture on this feed until this Coronavirus experience is over with and things get back to normal.  We offered a platform to Historian and Writer Codie Eash here on our feed to present the lecture he would have presented had the lectures not been canceled. This offer stands for all of the remaining lecturers.  We interviewed Codie at the Virginia Memorial about this lecture for our Patreon content  and our Patrons are really giving us good feedback about it. They're excited to hear the whole thing. Well, here it is.  Enjoy.  You can hear Codie on Avery Lentz's Battles and Banter Podcast. As always, this free material was made possible by the generous and fun group of Patrons over at our Patreon Page.