Daniel Klingel Describes What Happened to His Farm During the Battle of Gettysburg

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  • čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
  • The farm of Daniel Klingel (1839-1893) and his family lay along Emmitsburg Road in a conspicuous part of the Gettysburg battlefield. In 1892, Klingel shared his reminiscences of what he saw as the fighting unfolded with J. Newton Durboran, a friend who served in the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (30th Pennsylvania) and the U.S. Signal Corps. Here's Klingel's graphic account.
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Komentáře • 17

  • @carolinadog8634
    @carolinadog8634 Před 24 dny +10

    Great as always!! Very informative!

  • @nanavango9374
    @nanavango9374 Před 23 dny +5

    My go-to source for interesting Civil War stories that I can’t find anywhere else. Keep up the good work!

  • @tomjones2202
    @tomjones2202 Před 23 dny +7

    First hand account ! Love it!! Thanks for bringing it to us!

  • @jerroldbates355
    @jerroldbates355 Před 23 dny +5

    Amazing how the family roamed around the battlefield and was not hit by stray gunfire.

  • @peterschief9778
    @peterschief9778 Před 23 dny +5

    Very interesting first hand account. Thanx from Australia

  • @robluke4266
    @robluke4266 Před 23 dny +3

    What a great story, I would like to know if anyone replied to his newspaper article

  • @oldgeezerproductions
    @oldgeezerproductions Před 23 dny +3

    Such are "the horrors of war" as they are visited on ordinary citizens in their towns and farms that find themselves in "the cockpit of war."
    Of course, I am not a scholar of this war or any war, but the following is my firm opinion:
    It was to avoid this very thing, certain to occur all throughout the South that the responsible military and civilian authorities of the Confederacy almost exclusively avoided guerilla war and surrendered when they did rather than prolong a hopeless cause (hopeless once slavery was dead).

  • @clarkbuckner4900
    @clarkbuckner4900 Před 18 dny +1

    Hadn't heard any of this before. Mmmm....almost sounds too good to be true.

  • @EricRush
    @EricRush Před 23 dny +5

    A map showing the location of the house would have been nice.

    • @TheCleric42
      @TheCleric42 Před 22 dny +1

      The Klingle farm is at the corner of Sickles Ave and the Emmitsburg Rd in Gettysburg

    • @EricRush
      @EricRush Před 22 dny

      @@TheCleric42 Found it. Thank you.

  • @jamesorth6460
    @jamesorth6460 Před 23 dny +1

    is that an antenna on top of the house near the big tree in the back?

    • @65bam65
      @65bam65 Před 22 dny

      I saw that myself and was curious if it it or not.

    • @laserbeam002
      @laserbeam002 Před 19 dny

      Yes. The picture was obviously taken, i'm guessing, in the early 1950's to mid 1960's.

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 Před 17 dny

    Little round top was the worse place to go

  • @davem5308
    @davem5308 Před 23 dny

    Crazy scenarios!
    Not pleasant.