Ask A Gettysburg Guide #47- The Bloody Wheatfield with LBG Lewis Trott (VIDEO VERSION)
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Licensed Battlefield Guide Lewis Trott drove up from Ol' Virginia to help us make sense out of the back-and-forth action in The Wheatfield on July 2, 1863. Also, "Six-Questions" Lentz lobbies to be renamed "Ten Questions."
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Great Ask A Guide episode on a confusing part of battle. Also Father Corby statue is nicknamed "Father Faircatch" due to his right arm extended as if fielding a punt.
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@@addressinggettysburg Just watched the Sickles episode.
Seems we may have to have a conversation on the opinion of New Yorkers with youse guys .
Since I was a re-enactor of the 2nd us infantry, I have been extremely interested in the regulars during the pre war years and the us civil war!
Yeah they don’t get enough attention. Do they? We’ll have to do some shows in them if I can find someone to speak with authority on the matter.
@@addressinggettysburg I REALLY hope you do! That would be so awesome if you could find anyone who could do a podcast, unfortunately there is not a lot of information on the regulars. Sad but true.
It's been a long minute since I've watched and listened to them, but The Gettysburg Daily's website had some good coverage of the Wheatfield fight. The multi-episode version on the Irish Brigade specifically comes to mind in describing the hectic, last-second nature of that shootout.
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Thanks for asking my questions. Awesome program. I learned a lot.
Our pleasure. Thanks for submitting them.
I think he meant to say Rorty was S of the copse of trees.
Sickles was a genius
Lol
Yes, his hotly debated most ballsy move of the battle, threw the rebels into confusion, and thus a delayed attack. Which then led to daylight issues at end of day 2.
@@jasonroberts6080Sickles also put George Meade in a dangerous position with that maneuver.... He got lucky. It wasn't brains.
well he needs crutches !!!!
Um July is the slowest month? It’s the anniversary of the battle!!!
Right. It’s also hot as hell. Americans are fatter and lazier than ever before. October has taken o er as busiest month. Also there are more events going on in October. Unfortunately, history doesn’t draw the crowds like it used to
Now that’s extremely sad to hear! I always wanted to go to the 150th reenactment but as I live in Nevada it was too far. Now it seems as if most history is just gone! What will that bring on now?
Alder not adler but when your in a swamp getting shot, what difference does it make
Lol
"walking from one end of the field to the other without stepping on the ground" - maybe more of an "allegory" or "expression"? I don't think it's a metaphor, which is usually expressed with "Like a" language. So if they said the dead were like a bridge that allowed me to cross the meadow without touching the ground" - THAT would be a metaphor. I think. Ah, what the hell...
Considering the massive amount of hot projectiles being shot at each other it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the description is literal. Men fighting while bunched together means the dead and wounded also fall in bunches. The back and forth in the wheat field may indeed left a bridge across the field of dead 💀. But who knows 🤷♂️. We don’t fight wars like that anymore and it’s hard to wrap our head around.
Yeah you’re probably right. Hard to always think of the right words on the fly
@@addressinggettysburg No doubt! I've always found those descriptors confusing.
Didn't Albert Sidney Johnson also carry his own tourniquet with him at Shiloh?
I think he did. The problem is he didn’t realize he needed it until it was to late
Wasn’t it his personal surgeon that he sent to help a Yankee, who had his tourniquet with him?
@@addressinggettysburg yep 👍. Forgot about that
I tyne in for Gettysburg Info, not to listen to you cgat about nothing
Want your money back?