Monuments and Soldier Accounts on Culp's Hill: 159th Anniversary of Gettysburg
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- Kris White checks out the monument to the 123rd New York on Culp's Hill before diving into some more history and soldier stories. #GettysburgTour
This piece is part of our coverage of the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. You can find all of the videos here: • 159th Anniversary of G...
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Thank you for sharing the story of the 123rd NY and this monument. My 2X's Great Grandfather (Russell Smith) fought with the 123rd Co.F which included volunteers from the area of Argyle NY in Washington County. You really do a great job of sharing of many battles of the Civil War....thank you so much!!!!
My reenactment group portrays the 123rd NY. We erected a monument to them here in Resaca, GA. We had numerous descendants come down during the ceremony and made lifelong friends with them.
@@rc648 My wife and I visited Resaca, GA in August of 2020 and the monument for the 123rd NY. We met a gentleman by the name of Tony Paton (I believe is his name) while we were there and he shared a wealth of information with us and gave us direction to get to the monument. We live in Colorado so Tony took our name and address and sent us battlefield pictures and a nicely done book called "Letters Home - The 123rd New York Infantry in the Atlanta Campaign". Y'all have done a fantastic job of preservation at the Resaca battlefield....we certainly enjoy our visit!!!!
@@scornell66 Thanks. Yep, Tony is my good friend. Glad you met him. We've reenacted together for 30 yrs. Our unit wrote and published the book to help pay for the monument. We tried to place it as close to their unitlocation and still open to the public.
Fighting wasn't enough for these poor guys, they also had to perform all this manual labor to protect themselves, in that heat. Unbelievable. What fortitude.
Maybe they just identified as cool and safe lol
That's just life as a soldier unfortunately and has been from the days of ancient Rome, as well as before, and into the modern era. The spade has always been as important an implement of war as swords, or later firearms.
The monuments and soldier accounts are so interesting; I love the monument to the 123rd NY and the muse Cleo, writing History for us future generations, the soldiers having such forethought to design such a monument in memory! @1:05, did I sneak a peak of Gary in the background?!! You guys (and gals!) did/do such a great job covering Gettysburg, we thank you so much!
Agree. I live just 10 minutes from Gettysburg going toward Littlestown and even though I have lived here nearly 41 of my 48 years of life and go to Gettysburg all the time and study the Civil War religiously I am still learning something new from these videos every time.
It isn’t a Gettysburg video, until Gary pops up and sees his shadow!
Gary. The Phantom of Culps Hill.
Good job. Can't wait for ABT to spend plenty of time at ALL the Battlefields!
Thanks Kris.
Another great one. Enjoyed this year hearing more individual stories. There's really and infinite number of stories to learn of when it comes down to it.
Thank you for sharing Culp's Hill! I enjoyed all the stories you guys shared.
Thanks for All the Hard Work
Covering the History.
I appreciate all the work you guys put in to educate yourself and share that information to the rest of us for free. It’s pretty awesome. Also the video and audio quality have been great
Excellent video. Thank you
Great video as always
Good stuff Kris! Thank you! 👏👏👏
The 1st MD Eastern Shore has an interesting story at Culps Hill. The regiment fought against another Maryland regiment, and many of the MD soldiers were literally fighting their own friends and family members.
As the Bible prophesied...and it is happening again. Shake my head. We never learn that evil is never satisfied with blood shed.
You really have done the battle and the soldiers proud with these videos guys on this anniversary..... interesting information educational and you guys really know your stuff ... thank you for sharing
Happy July 4th weekend. Stay safe and enjoy
Peek-a-boo, Gary! 🫣
Lower Culps Hill is one of my favorite spots on the field. My distant relatives were with Co. K, 145th NY. As skirmishers, they were deployed out to Rock Creek and no one happened to mention that the rest of the regiment pulled out to reenforce the center left. Must have been an unpleasant surprise when they fell back in the face of the Confederate attack to find that there was none to fall back on...
Finally the 150th NY got a shoutout! Never though the boys from Dutchess County, New York would be mentioned on this channel!
The 123rd was made up of men from Washington County NY. The county was and is still somewhat a rural county. Most of these men were farmers, laborers; they erected one of the most unique monuments on the battlefield. Wash. Cty is just across the Hudson where the Battle of Saratoga took place.
My great-great grandpa Capt. Thomas J Box was somewhere there with the 27th Indiana
He’s in Wikipedia!
1:08 sighting of the rare specimen Garryius Adelmanius in his natural habitat. Something must have spooked it.
The old saying Sweat saves lives is so true
The earth works were a basic defensive maneuver. Continuing until today.
This thing was horrific enough when the two adversary's were going at each strategically...The insanity, or over use of opiates rose when Lee sent Pickett on that walk...absolutely logic defying at any point...
the trees didn't have a chance.
Happy Independence Day dear ally United States of America! Huge thanks to the American people for supporting Ukraine. God Bless America!
@@robynperdieu3434 We, too
As an American I wish the US government would do more.
Slava Ukraini.
It’s weird they built those breast works expecting canon fire. How would the Confederates get cannons through those woods? I walk in the woods a couple weeks ago seems impossible.
The terrain is more thickly wooded today than it was back then. In the mid 1800s the locals used to graze farm animals in the surrounding area so there was not a lot of thick vegetation and the trees were also not as densely packed together, because saplings often ended up in the bellies of those grazing animals.
@@lycaonpictus9662 I knew that was the case for little round top. But still the confederates didn’t bring up cannons to help the Infantry there or Culp’s hill as I understand it. They didn’t even bring guns up a devils den. And the photos of Culp’s Hill in 1863 although not as thick as today still looked too thick to bring up batteries. Batteries took a lot of horses. They don’t move in wooded areas too well. But I agree it definitely wasn’t as thick as it was these days.
Why only Union monument?
'Abatis' is a French word which means, 'fallen things'.
# where's Garry (lol)
I think he was doing pickets charge
@@MayoFilms83 you can see him in the background trying not to get in the video , I think it was him where's Waldo lol
Nice accounts of the earthworks. The Google earth images are small, brief and not real useful.