Action in The Peach Orchard: 157th Anniversary of Gettysburg Live! (Day 2)
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2020
- Garry Adelman, Doug Douds and Chris Mackowski detail the fall of the Union Peach Orchard Salient at Gettysburg. Then, special guest Dana Shoaf from the Civil War Times shows off an exclusive artifact that was found on the Gettysburg battlefield.
This video is part of our commemoration series for the 157th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Wish more young folks were so enthusiastic about our national history, thanks again battlefield trust great documentary.
I wish more old folks were more enthusiastic about our national history.
@@mthompson0331 wish more folks in general of all ages were..
Excellent commentary! Gives me a renewed interest in Gettysburg
105th PVI Co. E reeanactor here, happy to see Peach Orchard discussion on here.
My 4x great grandpa was in the 105th wildcat regiment. Alexander G. Dias from out in western Pa. He may have been a Cpl. But I'm not sure. His son in law my 3x great grandpa was in the 139th.
Love your enthusiasm, great job
Amazing delivery guys! Thank you all.
Thanks l never get bored hearing the stories of Gettysburg my favourite is the 9th Massachusetts retreat by recoil was meant to be there August well maybe next year look after yourselves everybody
Continued... You speakers talk quickly and this is great. This said, one of the very first questions George Mead asked when he arrived at Gettysburg the night of 7/1/1863 was "Is this good ground?" The Gettysburg Battlefield is BIG. On your first or second visit you have to orient yourselves.
The absolute best teaching aid for understanding the battle was/is the old "Electric Map". That display gave the visitor the geologic contours and an accurate scale to the "ground" of the battlefield. With the new Visitors Center, we swapped the Electric Map for that half-A multi-media fiasco of the "Cyclorama"... You move from the theater to the Cyclrama room, wait for 5 minutes in the dark for everyone to file in, see/hear the multimedia thing which is just OK, then they hustle you out as soon as the program is over; you can't even look at the art?!? What the...?
Meanwhile the best teaching tool for understanding the Battle of Gettysburg, the "Electric Map", is s-canned, go figure?
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Love your videos, but please orient your viewers with an overhead shot from a drone. Drones are very affordable nowadays. Thanks again for the great videos and the preservation work you do at ABT.
I'm amazed that you guys did this in one long take! I can't travel to the battlefield right now because of the pandemic, but this video gave me the feeling of being on a guided tour like I was there. Thanks for putting this out!
As an English reb that will never be able to visit the battlefield sites, i just love these videos. thank you
Best description I’ve seen‼️ The narraters are wonderful❣️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So interesting! You guys rock! ❤️🇺🇸❤️
Excellent video. I enjoy seeing what the terrain looks like from the individual point of view
Wow. Well done sir. That was impressive. This channel is awesome.
These guys r great if you’re in this learning for the long haul!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for bringing this to us online. Wish I could be there right now. Good stuff gentleman.
Great presentation!! Love the different people telling the story!
Last trip, I spent afternoon there, playing this video. This is understandable, it is the wheat field that I can’t master.
My 4x great grandfather fought in the
139th PA! Great to hear about their escapades at Gettysburg. Of course my ancestor wasn't on the field because he was a POW at the time of the battle, but still very cool!
Salute from Alabama to your ancestor
You guys are awesome!
You guys have done a great service to everyone watching this stream/video!! I've always been really confused about the second day's fighting, and I even read Harry Pfanz's book! nice job... let's see what you can do with Antietam in the Fall.
very informative from a Union perspective. would like to see/hear a similar approach to the Southern side of things.
The cause of the CSA is badly misrepresented and misunderstood, as is the role of Lincoln and his cabinet in amplifying the division and igniting the war.
@@danpatterson6937 no the slaveholding southern traitors wrote down exactly why they seceded . Slavery .
@@TM-vq1bf No question but that was not my point. Secession was clearly anchored in cost of production (hence slavery), division of class (again slavery), and the interference of national governance with state matters; slavery is immoral and wrong but it was not illegal and wasn't until the late 1860s. The correction for the matter would have been a tangle and a difficult unraveling of social construction but not a genocidal war, a war which Lincoln nurtured and executed by his direct action.
@@danpatterson6937 blah blah blah
@@TM-vq1bf Exactly as i expected. Read and learn.
Thanks Great stuff!
Dynamite ! Great chemistry
Dana Shoaf's claims that Gardiner exploding bullets are only found in Chancellorsville and at the Gettysburg Peach Orchard are not complete. From my research other locations they have been found include the Seven Days battles on the Virginia Peninsula , South Mountain, the Wilderness and Cold Harbor. I have one from South Mountain. I published a small book about exploding rounds through Amazon. It is interesting to note that the south had manufactured an exploding round also and these were apparently prevalent at Vicksburg. Although I disagree with his statement, Dana is a great historian along with all of the others in these great videos.
love this!!
Looking back it is so obvious that Sickles was going to lose the high ground of the Peach Orchard anyway so he should have just stayed where he was supposed to be. It is quite clear that if he had the Confederates would have had to cross even more ground to get to him and the other Union forces, the CS artillery, got on the high ground anyway would have been under fire from Federal artillery anyway, but not so close, AND there is the chance the CS artillery rounds would have had similar trouble as they did during the barrage pre-Pickett's charge. Sickles gave the Confederates the opportunity to flank the Union line, caused a huge number of casualties, took men from other partsof the field (may have happened anyway though as he probably would have still needed support.
Great job guys
I like the part where he is really animated and excited.
Not to mention the stench that lingered for MONTHS.
Thank Gawd Sickles did what he did
the real problem is that meade didn't take his left seriously enough and should have sent FAR more troops to the round tops much earlier
I agree
You other fellas are pretty dang good too
Thanks Billy Yank!
Pouring over ordinance and Quartermaster records oughta be fun to figure out what unit was using those exploding bullets.
Gary is THE MAN
My Great Great Great uncle Captain Wesley Mellard of Co D 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment of Barksdales brigade fought in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg
A link to the animated maps would be appreciated. Thanx for your work.
being on your own land makes so much difference, up till this point (in Virginia) the union army had always fled the field when things went bad
Sickles was a crazy guy.
Not crazy. Just self absorbed with political aspirations.
Surprised you guys did not show and discuss the location of the dead Union soldiers that were photographed and the location just recently discovered. They were a recon in force and ran into the Confederates as they came out of the woods.
I love history, I love Battlefield Trust and I love your videos especially on/at Gettysburg.
If I might add a humble suggestion; get yourselves a video drone and start each video with short aerial view of EXACTLY where on the field of battle you are talking, and which way you are facing, pointing and walking .
I just watched the 2020 video on fighting at the Peach Orchard. I have been there. One thing that I don't believe anyone speaking understands is that the video viewer has NOTHING but a vague idea just where the hell you are on the battlefield and more importantly no idea of orientation (i,e. N, S, E or W). I have visited Gettysburg 3 times for multiple days and I thought the road in the background of the video (United States Avenue) was Emmitsburg Road... but the Union cannon displayed there were facing the wrong direction.
I chose the Peach Orchard because my ancestors were there with Porter Alexander.
Walking the ground where my paternal gr-gr- fought. Company I 8 Alabama (emerald guards). Ild love to see where the Madison light artillery was… another relative- gr-gr uncle killed with them
Awesome series. South will win next time
You’re a traitor .
Dan Sickles was a bad commander. He disobeyed orders, was a fool and an egotist who cost many men their lives in the peach orchard and the wheat field. He should have been court martialed.
Sickles also disobeyed Meade's order the day before, when he decided to obey Reynold's and Howard's orders to come to Gettysburg. Meade hated Sickles and wasn't professional enough to get past it. Sickles repeatedly tried to communicate with Meade but got blown off every time, even when he reported heavy skirmishing in his front. Meade completely ignored his left flank, even when Sickles repeatedly asked for help in adjusting his order to the swamp he'd been assigned to hold. Even if he had extended his line to cover Little Round Top, his 3rd corps would have been spread thinner than any other on the line, and his corps would still have been first in line for Longstreet's flank attack. While Meade was making clear his unwillingness to help Sickles, even while Sickles' skirmishers are being attacked, the cavalry protection on Sickles' left was ordered away.
Meade has to share the blame. He let his hatred of Sickles rule his every thought for his left flank. Sickles tried to communicate, but Meade snubbed him every time. Sickles would not have acted alone if he had any other commander. I think that's why Meade was essentially demoted to a desk job. His leadership was a problem here.
"a fool and an egotist"? You're half right. He was an egotist with a long list of other bad and much worse qualities, but he was no fool. Any quick look at his life will prove that.
"cost many men their lives"? Or he may have saved more than he cost. That's a long, complicated debate. Here are some casualty rates for comparison and perspective: Ist corp: 50%. 2nd corp: 39%, 3rd corp: 39%, 5th corp: 20%, 6th corp: 1.8%, 11th corp: 41%, 12th corp: 11%. 3rd corp Artillery: 18%.
Longstreet 1st corp: 37%, McLaws Div.: 32%, Hood's Div.: 32%. P.E. Alexander's Artillery: >24%.
Sickles has so many bad qualities that we all want to think the worst about him. He was the only corps commander who never went to West Point, so all WP grads are reluctant to give him any credit, especially because it would have to come at Meade's expense. And the officers of the Army of the Potomac were then split into McClellan and Hooker factions. There has always been too much bias against Sickles for him to get a fair shake.
@@dinahnicest6525 Sickles brought most of that on himself for the decisions he made and his whole demeanor in general, continuously ignoring orders and striking out on his own, can't blame much of that on Meade, at the very least Sickles should have been severely reprimanded and stripped of rank if not court marshald.
If sickles didn’t do what he did Lee would’ve had all that ground with no casualties for the full assault . Sickles stymied Lee no doubt
The simple story of Dan Sickles...Money talks.
Sickles helped win Gettysburg
8:32 Hooker???
I wish these guys were less like Beastie boys and little bit more like Walter Cronkite.
These guys are better than the stiff dude guide I got stuck with
The one question not being asked is…
Why would these stupid ignorant tactics be allowed to follow threw when common since would tell you its a stupid idea.
Gawd will you cool down Mr Adelman and stop flailing and jumping around! Dang! Otherwise good
Enjoy those those Canons and monuments while you can since your Government is about to make 'em disappear. :(
So its OK that you can have an artifact that can be honored, but no one else can have a piece of history... what a hypocrite
It's illegal to relic hunt on national park property. This was found when the peach orchard was still private property. I dont see what your deal is here.
@@ltrain4479 No kidding. He pretty much explained it.
That was your takeaway from this. Nice job, Brent.
@@ltrain4479 Brent needs to remain focused on what is being said in the commentary.
@@johnnystir9796 I was replying to the orignal poster who obviously didn't listen or didn't know. Did you even read the comment I replied to?