Perry's Florida Brigade Attacks - Gettysburg Battle Walk with Ranger Daniel Welch
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- Ranger Daniel Welch leads a battle walk following the Florida Brigade during their attack on July 2, 1863.
Ranger Welch and the NPS hold the rights to the lecture and notes.
SO GRATEFUL that you make the effort to shoot and post these, Stuffwriter. I get to see and hear tours that I'd have NO SHOT at otherwise. THANK YOU!
You'd have to go to Gettysburg for years in order to attend all the possible walking tours, campfire programs the Park has accumulated. The talks are rotated season-to-season; probably a few years for all to cycle through the seasons.
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION..This Ranger did a GREAT JOB
The Ranger quotes a passage from a letter by my grandmother's grandfather Benjamin Franklin Page at 11:05. His 5th Florida group fought at 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Harpers Ferry and Gettysburg. By Gettysburg his company and group were fairly decimated. He was wounded on the 2nd day of battle near the end of the day at Gettysburg and pulled from the field. It was his last battle. He survived the war and lived until 1918. The letter the Ranger quoted from was written in 1912, 6 years before his death. He wanted the future generations of the family to understand what he and others went through during that war.
Where are you located? B F Page lost an arm in that battle. He later served in public office in Leon Co.
M and R Lutz hi, not an arm, he lost two fingers. My grandmother said she remembered as a child him patting her on the head with the hand missing the fingers. I am in Nevada, most of the rest of our family is in Tennessee, Florida and Texas. He had quite an illustrious life.
@@ChrisHillOlympicRecurveArchery I'm still here in Tallahassee. B F Page was the longtime Justice of the Peace in Woodville and also served on the Leon Co. School Board. One of his constables was W F Page, C R Langston, P D Lewis, and T L Lewis. I think all are buried in the Woodville Cemetery.
There's also a street named after B F Page: www.google.com/maps/place/Page+Rd,+Woodville,+FL+32305/@30.3177385,-84.2368048,3a,37.5y,185.02h,98.12t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swartkVrXkGiLxzxAn2ptTw!2e0!3e11!7i3328!8i1664!4m5!3m4!1s0x88ec618e81eadb89:0xc5e045db8a50c5a9!8m2!3d30.3177945!4d-84.2438454
@@mandrlutz6081 Yes, he also surveyed the land plots for Woodville. His son had the general store for many years with the only phone. My family still has roots in Woodville and Tallahassee. But i dont think any of the family still lives in Woodville. We have copies of the letter they reference. He is still remembered and talked about in our family.
Lewis Powell of the 2nd Florida infantry and one of the people who helped Boothe, was shot in the wrist and injured on July 2nd. He was captured in the morning on July 3rd.
More blessings your way for posting these. Thank you!
Love the battle walks.. thank you for posting these.
Thank you Dtufferiter for posting the videos. All the rangers do s great job. I used to be able to visit Gettysburg but no longer. My enjoyment of the place to learn more history and see the actual places is indescribable.
StuffWriter, thank you for documenting and posting this. Being a small outfit from a sparsely populated State, there isn't much literature about the Florida Brigade. The falsehoods created and
perpetuated by Gen. Wright remained to be the popular narrative until only about 8 years ago and still cloud the unit's perceived conduct and the South's perception of Florida's contributions to
the conflict. My son and I visited the battlefield just last week and it is difficult to find evidence of the Florida Brigade's footsteps.
I’m a huge Florida brigade fan but hardly see much nor tours. This is great! Thank you
Paul Robert Baltzer we just portrayed them at GAC, and the Campaigner Bristoe Station event in October is portraying the 8th Florida
Thanks for posting this. Enjoyed it.
I am a Floridian who moved to PA it was very cool seeing this
I went in this same walk Saturday. It was awesome.
Great Video!!
Thank you for this video. Excellent content! I have watched almost all your videos. One suggestion would be to check the framing of the camera during the talk, since in several sections the camera is skyward and the context of the talk is diminished.
Attended the 2018 tour which lasted 4 hours.
One of the prisoners taken from the 2nd Florida was Lewis Powell, one of the Lincoln assassins.
Outstanding national park rangers / historians.
Where is the second stop in relation to the Florida monument?
Lewis Thornton Powell, who stabbed (edit, Seward) as part of the Booth conspiracy, fought with the 2nd Florida (Company I), and was wounded on July 2, and captured on July 3, 1863.
Powell's assassination target was William Seward, U.S. Secretary of State. He forced his way into Seward's home, injured several people, and actually entered Seward's sick room. Seward had been in a carriage accident a few days before and had a steel brace around his neck, head, and shoulders, which turned aside Powell's numerous knife strokes.
I'd love to see these Battle walks done with a real camera, instead of someone's cellphone. Great narrative though.
Around 27:00 the gentleman asks which unit Westwood Todd was in. He was in the 12th Virginia (Malone’s Brigade), which did not take part in the main assault on the Peach Orchard.
Myeeeah! Malone's Brigade along with Posey's Mississippi Brigade further north along Seminary Ridge plays an important role in how and why the Confederate attack-in-echelon that had been progressing northward came to a screeching halt and then inexplicably dissolved in a matter of minutes during the late afternoon/early evening hours of July 2nd. After Perry's (Lang's) small Floridian brigade advances across the Emittsburg Road after Wilcox's brigade had moved forward Wright's Georgia Brigade followed suit crossing the Emmitysburg Road advancing into a massive void that had opened in the Federal Center! A fortuitous circumstance that Wright was keen to exploit with the help of the next brigade that should be following close behind on Wright's left rear. That would be Posey's brigade but for some reason they're not where they need to be to help blast open the Union Center, possibly causing Federal dispositions nearby to collapse, etc. Posey has somehow lost control of his brigade in the protracted fighting that had raged in and around the Bliss Farm!?! Holy Shishkabobs are you serious!?! Oh well, no matter we'll just skip Posey's hopeless brigade and get Mahone's brigade of some 1,450 Virginians to enter the fray a little earlier than the plan called for, hustle across Emmitsburg Road and the Codori Farm to reach Wright's brigade and hopefully arrive in time to salvage the chance to turn the Union Center inside out as well as maintain the continuity of the attack-in-echelon assault sequence! Myeah....Mahone had other ideas. He straight up wasn't budging from his perch on Seminary Ridge coming up with several absurd reasons why he wasn't moving forward. And just like that Mahone's insubordination snuffed out the possibility of pulling off an incredible victory on Day 2 just as Wright's brigade was on the cusp of opening up the entire Federal Center which was wide open and vulnerable at that point in time. Yeah, Naaah! Mahone couldn't be bothered so there you go! Was Mahone strung up in a tree and hung for nearly single handedly snatching defeat from the Jaws of Victory? Nope. In fact we barely hear anything of the issue. It's always baffled me how this critical point of the battle and the collapse of the Confederate assault on Day 2 just never gets much play.
@@RobbyHouseIV Day 2 just shows us how close the Confederacy was to winning the whole battle. It seems there were so many what-if’s and almosts and could-haves...
Excellent narrative! But the cameraman could help our perception if he would not span the top of the narrator's hat and the sky! It would help perception if more of the battlefield itself could be taken into scope. The audience does not have to stare at the narrator the entire time. Still, I understand that there are problems with logistics at times. Very informative information!
God bless FLORIDA,from a new yorker
We've seen sky before.
Thanks for posting these studies of individual units! But is there NOTHING that can be done to minimize the wind, motorcycle, and general traffic noise that is so distracting?
Michael Patterson not unless you bar all traffic traveling in and out in of Gettysburg. It’s s town you know not a museum
@@marymoriarity2555 I think the wind can be minimized with a mic cover; obviously the rest is beyond his (or anyone else's) control.
No...the traffic is just one of those things. The price of progress as-it-were! Better mic filters can reduce some of that noise pollution but it is what it is as they say!
He counted out too many Brigades..... Longstreet= 8 brigades from two divisions (4 Hood and 4 McLaws).....AP Hill provided 4 brigades from Dick Anderson's division...... 12 is the total number....... (Mahone was also adjacent to Posey on the left but he would not help.)
You forgot Pickett’s division which had three brigades.
Anderson's Division was composed of 5 Brigades: Wilcox, Lang, Wright, Posey, and Mahone.
My great. Great. Father. Name. Was. John bunnyon. Blanton. He lived in. Luther. Florida. Born in 1840.died.1907.he.was.a.farmer.he.was.in.company.d. fifth. Florida. Infantry. He. Fought. At.gettysburg
Tick check?
Florida should secede now
Good information - thanks. Can always count on the video dude to shoot up in the air. Pretty consistently awful videography in these presentations. Just doesn't seem to get it ...it'd be great to see the landscape!! Most viewers will already know what the presenter's head looks like and also what the sky looks like. Get with it!!
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzz. Ask for a refund.
@@bryanfields5563 What? Like looking in the air do you? When you visit battlefields do you look into the sky? Seems like we could do that at home. Thanks for your "comment?"
@@Rogijimbex Yeah...I've seen this happen intermittingly in other battle walks. One video in particular the "skycam" videography was pretty bad and you just wonder what in the hell is going on! I mean it's not a frivolous or prickly complaint...I'll vouch for you here. Might want to dial down the sarcastic tone which will be sure to only attract quarrelsome commentary, etc. Yadda Yadda. Hopefully the people that put these things together is aware of the problem and it won't be an issue in the future...or maybe the right Vertigo Medication has been procured at the pharmacy and everything is good for GO in the future!!! 🪖
@@RobbyHouseIV Thanks Robby - good advice (toning it down). Just saw it too many times and was very frustrated. Should count to ten first. Best
Floridians fighting and dying to preserve slavery.
Maybe they were just fighting for there state? Ever consider that?
And will outlaw trolling to preserve the Democratic party... MAGA
@@fourtomidnight no they werent
@@fourtomidnight Yeah and that state was fighting to preserve slavery.
Ever think about looking at history objectively?
@@roygoode679 The Democrats were the bad guys back then. Now we're the good guys -- fighting the filthy traitorous Rethuglican maggots. Phuck the ignorant orange savage and his cultists.