Furled and Unfurled: A History of the Confederate Battle Flag at Gettysburg (Lecture)
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- Few symbols are as recognizable or as controversial as the Confederate battle flag. From the men who carried it into battle, to its incorporation into monuments and memorials, the flag is inextricably linked with the battlefield of Gettysburg. Discover the compelling and controversial history of the flag at Gettysburg, and the on-going debate over its meaning and message.
I refer people to this lecture any time a discussion of the battle flag comes up. Thank you!
These Lecturers from the Gettysburg Battlefield, are outstanding in their delivery and the ability to absorb the listener,quite brilliant, John Anderson watching on wifes computer with permission.
As a veteran myself the point of view of the veterans that fought under it should trump all others,all other views are irrelevant, the Southern boys have every right to be proud of their banner just as anyone else would be of any other combat banner
i could not agree with you more and thank you for your service. ...the last capital of the confederacy
Thank you
Glad to see someone with common sense. Totally agree with everything you said. Thank you.
It's only right brothers
Your comments summaries my thoughts on the battle flag exactly.
Great lecture on the historical meaning of the Battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
I hope do a lecture on the Confederate Army of Tennessee, I also been bias to them. They were a fantastic group of men who ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fought in the war.
A good conclusion with one of those interesting trivia stories. I shall remember that one.
As a combat vet, with a few pelts on the wall, I can't imagine fighting my brother. Fuck that noise.
People are so stupid they don't want to educate themselves but yet they want to have an opinion when they do not know nothing about it it's Heritage not hate know your facts people
Only idiots tie their 'Heritage' to a bunch of slavers that formed a Confederacy to preserve an institution of slavery that only lasted for 4 years while ignoring your 'heritage' of over 200+ years of Union.
You all just refuse to let the Confederate States of America die like it should have 160 years ago.
As a new yorker from orange county home of the 124Th N.Y which fought the 1st Texas and 26th Arkansa at the Triangle ..my town comprised Co.H&part of Co.I ..I LOVE the FLAG of our nation and RESPECT the confederate flag ..I LOVE THE MEN of Both SIDES because before and AFTER we are ALL BROTHERS ..sorry about being long winded and GOD BLESS our BROTHERS and SISTERS in the SOUTH!
I was walking back from the monument to the 124th a year ago year this week. I met a man and woman walking towards it and we got to talking. They were from Orange County heading to see their monument. My county had our guys on Little Round Top. I think it's cool to meet people there. You learn a lot.
Outstanding presentation!
(1) Fantastic presentation that, I feel, NEUTRALLY navigates the history of the Battle Flag, as a historical presentation should.
(2) How many of the people who left comments below actually watched all 59 minutes?
Okay you did mention it.
Great ! Very informative. Speaker did a great job !
One question I have though is why is that battle flag flown over the graves of soldiers who never fought under it?
Union Soldiers get a US National flag... The Confederates don't use any of the Confederate national flags.
They do have national flags at these historic sites. The question I always wondered is after alot of these battlefields the dead were buried in mass graves some times Confederate and Union soldiers were buried side by side so alot of these graves are a hodgepodge of both .
Great presentation on a very complicated subject. Enjoyed the conclusion.
As a Minnesotan, i would be willing to return the 28th Virginia Battle Flag. However, with one demand. It may only be unfurled halfway. So to Honer those brave Men who fought under it. Who very nearly won that bitterly contested Battle.
Fantastic talk, so interesting and fluent. You're to be congratulated. Well done!
Exceptional and needed work on a complex topic. Bravo!
Best lecture on this subject I've ever seen. Bravo
Very Educational Video Well Done!
That was an excellent presentation. Job well done.
Interesting topic, good lecture.
About 1962 we took a tour of gettysburg i think it was a college kid rode with us and gave us the high points one of the things he said was three days before the soldiers arrived thousands of buzzards descended on Gettysburg ?is this correct ?
Many omissions that paint a very different picture
A lot of propaganda
But at the end of the day,
Southern history is American history,it should never be erased.
Waylen right it should be remembered in museums to let American's know that a part of its country rebeled and didn't want to be American anymore
@@metroguy4879 They wanted to be southern American. Their flag looked almost exactly like the Stars and Stripes.
Waylen can't have it both ways 😅either you with us or against us crocks
@@metroguy4879 With the people, against the government.
Waylen confederate history, how the hell you can you break off from the country and still be part of the country that don't make since, that's like having cake and eating too🤦♂️ stay over there rebel traders and fight
Fantastic lecture!!
The Confederate Battle Flag has also flown in every American war since the Civil War. Southern Boys all through history have carried their flags to foreign lands. They were even in Iraq. Its a sign of Southern Pride to us....and its flown in battle by American soldiers. It reminds them of home and tends to boost morale among southern boys who miss home. I see nothing wrong with that. I saw tanks with them in Iraq and it was great to see! You would also be real surprised how many Northern boys like it too
This is very true, I grew up in the boonies in Beaver county PA, saw it everywhere during County fairs lol
The sour attitude against the southern battle flag. Was breaking the great compromise , no country can heal when one side does not honor the other sides heroism and courage , And the battle flag is the symbol of
Great speech! Very balanced history. A little more discussion of Miles and Beaurgard and the creation of the Confederate Battle Flag, its making by the ladies of Richmond, and its first presentation would have been good.
My family history and heritage is honored and humbled by the humility of the Confederate Flag and those soldiers that were and still are American. Thank you, Robert A. Pickett.
Robert Pickett you family are rebels and the only way they could be readmitted was to denounce that fool thinking that they could leave to keep their way of life, we raise the American flag in victory of a slave holding society that shot should be remembered but not over our AMERICAN state capital only in museums so we don't forget that foolery
@@metroguy4879 History still says the issues of the American civil war still makes all of it American, so freedom of your speach and my speach, meaans I can still dispaly it, anywhere I please. It is my heritage, and right.!!!
Robert Pickett that's fine🚶♂️
@@metroguy4879 I know it is, cause to rewrite history just to ignore it is a total dishonor to those men on the other side that had kin on the other side of the equation.!!! You can snatch down every state flag you feel is symbol, but don't try to change history it belongs to all of us.!! When you start messing with graves you should go to JAIL, that's my personal feeling.!!!!
@@robertpickett2569 White men invented rewriting history. Your heritage is dieing for slavery and losing .
It has indeed become old listening to those whose understanding of the conflict is so simplistically and myopically reduced solely to the issue of slavery - regardless of how convenient and/or simple such a reductionist interpretation maybe for the simple minded.
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Trying to restart a cause of the Civil War debate on a lecture of Battle flag memory? Classic
Paul Robert Baltzer
What is truly sad is that folks like yourself continue to come along and interpret comments that lament that fact that so many HAVE indeed tried to do exactly that by attempting to reduce a complex symbol with myriad associations to a simplistic meaning that suits their myopic purposes is indeed tiresome. ...And, to paraphrase Bill Engvall , 'Here's your sign.'
+sdushdiu Ah yes, the classic historian Bill Engvall. Very good. I have not stated any opinion. To state that this complex symbol was not misused and scarred in the 20th Century truly is "myopic and tiresome"
Paul Robert Baltzer
Fuckwad, and to reduce the nature of a complex symbol to the misuse of a few derivative idiots is indeed myopic and tiresome - but then its more than a bit ironic considering that you fit right into such a crowd. Now fuck off.
It's the cross of St. Andrews always a sign of rebellion, currently being flown by rebels in Ukraine.
A fairly good presentation except for one thing. He keeps mentioning the 20th Virginia Infantry. The correct unit is 28th Virginia Infantry. The 20th Virginia was disbanded in 1862.
I think you misheard. I heard 28th the whole time.
In watching the whole lecture, I think he gave a good presentation considering the present pc environment.
The battle flag has indeed represented different things to different generations. To my generation, it represented the good ol' boys from Hazzard county, never meanin' no harm.
Agree it took on a new meaning in the 70s and 80s as just the South. I doubt Skynyrd or Tom Petty were trying to be edgy or dog whistle when they used it.
Great lecture! Completely agree with Jesse Ventura.
To me it was a flag for Southern Rock 🥁🎸
It still is. All flags have Dule meanings. To the British the US flag is a symbol of rebellion just like the Confederate battle flag is to Americans. Also I've seen BLM protesters carry the Pan African tri color flag created by Marcus Garvey who was an Antisemitic racist who embezzled millions from the US government. So flags are complicated symbols. To each his own .
Well done
Wow!
The Snowflakes need to see and to pay attention to this lecture!
Nice research and a great non biased presentation of a lightning rod of a subject.
Job well done Chris Gwinn!!
Savage Gerbil V wouldnt work they would still go reeeeeeeeeeeeee.
People who support the flag don't have the attention span to watch the whole thing.
This is very interesting if Jewish friends of the flags creator William Miles didn't ask him to change his design it would be completely different. Political Correctness 1860s style.
Sir that Flag it Minnesota has is the 28th Virginia not the 20th😊
Let it fly high
I do believe that you may be a little bias, the slave holding South? unfortunately there was a slave holding North also,and in areas occupied by federal armies it was protected,there were also slaves being sold about four blocks from the white house during the war,everybody wants to hang slavery in a four year period in the south,sorry folks it lasted far longer under the American flag than the Confederate flag,also it didn't end in 65 after the war it remained active in neutral states until 1868....just get it right, Ace Champion Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Slavery ended in DC in 1862 with compensated emancipation. I don't know where you got 1868 but slavery ended with the 13th Amendment and the end of the war in 1865.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
@@wolverineeagle I think he does have a clue.
New Jersey fought on the side of the Union in the Civil War but, according to Jim Gigantino, professor of history at the University of Arkansas, New Jersey was the most enthusiastic Northern state when it came to holding on to slavery years after other Northern states had ended it. Just before the end of the Civil War, New Jersey even voted down the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, only voting to ratify it in 1866, after the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination months earlier. One notes that the state of New Jersey failed to ratify the 13th Amendment on 16 March 1865, and did ratify only on 23 Jan 1866, after several of the "Southern" states had already done so. As noted elsewhere on IPBiz, slavery was practiced in southern New Jersey at the time the Civil War began. I don't know where the year 1868 came from.
Sloan Do you mean the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland Delaware,West Virginia?
Great lecture. I understand the pressure to remove items for sale that are solely representations of the Confederate battle flag, but I believe its unfortunate and extremely disrespectful towards the veterans of the battle.
The klan also used the Stars and Stripes, why don’t you mention this?
Did you watch?
He totally mentioned this. Duh.
Jesse Ventura's statement is perfect!
it troubles me to see the people who are supposed to be educating about history to fall into lock step with radical censorship, Ace Champion Ohio Volunteer infantry
Well done.
Removing the battle flag and monuments is PC cowardice.
It never should have been placed on any monument in the first place. It dishonors the memory of the brave GAR veterans who sought to keep it from fouling the sacred battlefield at Gettysburg.
Sionnach MacBradaigh fuck the GAR and the Sons of Union Veterans for their cowardice for keeping silent on the recent removal of ALL monuments and statues. I laughed when they pulled down Grants statue. It’s called Karma. Did you Yankees who think you are holier than thou would be exempted from the destruction of your monuments and statues? It was funny wasn’t it when the were pulling down confederate statues? Now y’all are freaking out that it’s happening to yours.
@@100texan2 monuments to “Slavers and Traitors” an ancestor of mine from Illinois , who served in the Union Army, called the Confederates he fought. The Confederacy stood for preservation of the abomination of Slavery. I’m glad they lost so miserably. I wouldn’t mind if their memory was erased, except as a warning. Germany today does not honor the memory of the “hero’s” of the Wehrmacht.
@@jonathanhansen3709 l doubt your ancestors were even on this continent, at the time The War Between the States was being fought.
With that surname, they were in the flood of the era to see The Statue of Liberty being built or finished.
@@carywest9256 my mothers side, the Primers, and Mangold’s both fought on the Union side of the Civil War. My mother’s great-grandfather Mangold was the source of the “Slavers and Traitors” quote.
Well done lecture. Seems well researched. Battle flags were used fir different things during an actual battle.
An evil man seeketh only rebellion, therfore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
it's getting deep...slavery destroyed at Gettysburg 1863? it didn't even end in 1865 at appomattox, it continued until 1868 in neutral states,this guy is way out in space slavery exists today and is rampant in Africa and the middle east,somebody better go and let the slaves know,maybe this guy can carry the word to them, Ace Champion Ohio Volunteer Infantry
That is not correct. You keep citing invented "facts". Slavery ended with the 13th Amendment. You have no clue what you are talking about.
Massachusetts represent haha
Very good presentation...
However the ones complaining about the flag didnt fight the war matter of factly if be surprised if they were ever in service
Moreover i doubt many yanks after all was said in done wouldve held the same sentiments the so called non fightin non enlisted north did
It makes no sense they would most certainly have seen the reason for it and have been absolutely ok with it
Its like a vietnam vet going back to nam nowadays finding ol charlie and them huggin it out who tf are we to say anything about such a thing
It shows how selfish and just downright ignorant we are in all honesty
War is war blood is blood and loss of life is loss of life it dont matter if its a kraut a hamass insurgent an African child soldier ect
Death is death
And history is history you may not like it nor agree with it but toure sentiment wont change history folka
Matter of factly it just closes you off to a better understanding by being closed minded
Dukes of hazzard flags are cool
FYI the US flag flew over slavery and the KKK.
Star and bars was designed after the Austrian flag by an Austrian immigrant
Please don’t forget, my Massachusetts , fellow American, your home colony,when it formed a State, it too had legal “ slavery “ and Georgia did not, @ that time… Our State’s that from the union, and our present National banner, was called Rebel by, the government we was leaving. And, all 13 new States still, had, Shantel servitude. However it’s not usually mentioned, as if they was protecting, that “ legal right “.Irrelevant? Is it ? Some people, had, felt apparently, the right to self governing, and it was by this means, and bloody war, Independence was achieved. Had it not, George Washington, would have, faced charges of treason. Ok, many of the Succeeding states, felt the same way. And most of all believed it was legal. And never got that in court, as The United States Constitution was at the time in 1861, Not with standing amendment’s made since. So ignorance, of the subject, in our latter days, and the complete misuse of the battle flag, has become a Ignorance easy, Rationalization, of why it is so hated.And that too, has also grown into, many very ignorant southerners. Why? Because it’s been constantly and continually advertised as a flag that represents racism slavery, and hatred of the Creuset to make all men free. As if our national United States flag is a flag of saints. This lack of facts, and shared responsibility’s, has not, been in anyway, relevant to Mr. Lincolns last inaugural speech bind up the nations wounds and malice towards none. Most people believe that Mr. Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is his best speech. I cannot agree since the first seven words of the speech or all lies other than the conjunctions. Four score and seven years ago these colonies form states is what he should’ve said. However after his assassination, the “ revenge “ that has been taken up against the old Slave states, that, tried to govern there own. Are forever more, traitor’s? Hmmm no wonder people pick up the old banner in defense! There’s no need for offense or defense. No Cold War, when the truth is advertised! NO Cold War, of young zealots, “Rebel’s” Can we understand together? Can we, forgive both sets of people? Can we embarrass our history, humbly? Can we have a better understanding of Revolution? I’m born in SWVA, I have been around the globe 3x’s long& short, I’m a USN vet, and I surely don’t hate “ Yankee’s “ since that name from “ The French & Indian War” So we are Yankee’s and we are Rebel’s.. The more y’all keep telling the The narrative of the war of rebellion, it is my belief the more of the same results you’re going to get. Don’t you think y’all to change the recipe so the cake don’t fall every time. Other wise, it’s an aloofness, and cause’s resentment, and sadly, many people, can’t handle there emotions. But the solution can be to share it, all of our, defects of Character as Americans. I think it would be a good idea what do you think?
and now do a lecture on the usa flag and all the evil that has been done in its name
Chief Confederate Flag Flyer,.- Sean O'Dwyer. 140 Hobson Street. Auckland 1010. new Zealand. This Flag has been Flying since 1862 so why stop now.??????????
that's awesome, no need whatsoever to stop
ACE Champion If it not the flag it will be something else they fight over. or another flag on the planet.-sic.
Absolutely it's always going to be something, who knows maybe it'll be shoes and socks because they wore those back then
ACE Champion Its a fallen world ,butt peace in your soul knowing the Confederates lost the war but their flag is still fighting on since 1862.
+Sean O'Dwyer the boys may have lost but were never out fought ,outnumbered with not half the supplies of the enemy, always up against superior numbers the lads in grey answered the call,may we never forget those brave boys sacrifice who never let being out numbered cause them to waiver,God bless them all
Nine million white southerners?
Praise our Confederate ancestors for fighting for what they believed was right. Your memory will never be forgotten.
4th NC infantry
51st NC Infantry
27th NC infantry
71st NC infantry
Roscoe Barnes anything associated with slavery should never be erased but remembered in a museum so we don't forget that foolery
@@metroguy4879 I speak of the common soldier. My ancestors owned no slaves nor had a good notion of the institution....according to their letters sent and journals they kept pre-war and war time....that my family has safe guarded for over a 150 years. There is more first hand history in those writings from actual Confederate soldiers than in any govt issued history book. Today they come for anything Confederate and it won't stop there.As a matter of fact they are already starting the assualt on our founding fathers. In a few years you will say of our founding fathers that they should be remembered in a museum....ya know..slavery and such
Yes "what they believe was right" was the enslavement and oppression of their fellow human beings.
@@sionnachmacbradaigh1010 Man the public education system has definitely failed America. According to my ancestors journals and letters they detested the institution. Now I know that goes against the official narrative but it's an opportunity for you do further research. I would suggest you research the northern attitude towards slavery and blacks in general. I think you may be upset
Rebs got whooped.