Using then and now photos to locate where the Confederates from Semmes Brigade were alighned for burial near where they fellon the Rose Farm in Gettysburg
Nice... I was there in July, and couldn't find access to where you're filming. I took a tour there once, but that was back before the fencing was added. I just assumed it was off limits now... Guess not. Is there a gap in the fence, or did you go over it? Good video... Gettysburg is an amazing place...
Thank you for sharing this. :) I dont know why it's so interesting to look at where the bodies lay - perhaps it is like a mobid curiosity and "virtual rubbernecking", or maybe it is because it tends to make the stories more realistic. There does seem to be an element of detective work as well, as in pinpointing the exact locations +150yrs later, so solving riddles seems to be another facet of learning about the war. Your videos are awesome to watch because you're relating terminology, landmarks and different moments in time in a way that just brings it altogether. That said, you may want to consider a quick revision on this particular piece, as some of the text overlays and title screens are a little distracting. I think you could probably do it in CZcams's online video editor pretty by like just removing the length of the blue section and one little misplaced text box. Anyway, I would like to ask two questions: 1.) Is the Rose Farm private property that one needs to get permission to go there? When it is called someone's farm, it seems to indicate private property, but perhaps it is now owned by the park service itself and is open to the public? 2.) I wonder if the bodies are buried around there? A lot of those soldiers were buried in unmarked graves. And, if I have it right, a lot of the confederates were more likely to be buried in unmarked graves rather than the marked ones up in the graveyard, where the union soldiers would have been buried. The reason is, the confederates were basically looked upon as traitors, especially around Pennsylvania, which was a Union state. So locals wouldn't have been as sympathetic in burying them, as they would in tending to the Union soldiers, who were defending the country. In any event, whether one sees a gravestone of not, the whole battlefield seems to be one large graveyard to me, so I wonder if there might be a concentration of bodies buried there? Thank you again for sharing! Keep up the awesome work.
Thanks Greg, I was a little off when I tried to line up the second shot. i didn't realize that the split rock was literally right behind the camera position. I will have to check that out the next time I visit GBurg.
Are you familiar with the shot of Union Dead taken at Gettysburg that Frass was not able to identify? Some feel that the area you shot towards at 1:04 is where they were... course we will probably never know for sure. Is this park land?
A surveillance Balloon from the 24 Iowa Cavalry Regiment; they were skirmishing that day towards the front of the line, and had been lent a balloon from Strong Vincent.
There must of been Yankees in the woods to their front and they must have taken a volley from them at close range. When you see all the bodies, have to remember that for every dead soldier there were probably two or three others wounded. From your video you can see they were shielded from the artillery on the peach orchard. So they must have walked right into a Yankee volley in a reverse slope defense.
Dude, we get 10 seconds of looking at a Blue Backed information slide, but the actual War photo you only show for a fraction of a second even. I quit looking at this about halfway through.
Excellent video.
Nice... I was there in July, and couldn't find access to where you're filming. I took a tour there once, but that was back before the fencing was added. I just assumed it was off limits now... Guess not. Is there a gap in the fence, or did you go over it? Good video... Gettysburg is an amazing place...
Thank you for sharing this. :)
I dont know why it's so interesting to look at where the bodies lay - perhaps it is like a mobid curiosity and "virtual rubbernecking", or maybe it is because it tends to make the stories more realistic. There does seem to be an element of detective work as well, as in pinpointing the exact locations +150yrs later, so solving riddles seems to be another facet of learning about the war.
Your videos are awesome to watch because you're relating terminology, landmarks and different moments in time in a way that just brings it altogether. That said, you may want to consider a quick revision on this particular piece, as some of the text overlays and title screens are a little distracting. I think you could probably do it in CZcams's online video editor pretty by like just removing the length of the blue section and one little misplaced text box.
Anyway, I would like to ask two questions:
1.) Is the Rose Farm private property that one needs to get permission to go there? When it is called someone's farm, it seems to indicate private property, but perhaps it is now owned by the park service itself and is open to the public?
2.) I wonder if the bodies are buried around there? A lot of those soldiers were buried in unmarked graves. And, if I have it right, a lot of the confederates were more likely to be buried in unmarked graves rather than the marked ones up in the graveyard, where the union soldiers would have been buried. The reason is, the confederates were basically looked upon as traitors, especially around Pennsylvania, which was a Union state. So locals wouldn't have been as sympathetic in burying them, as they would in tending to the Union soldiers, who were defending the country. In any event, whether one sees a gravestone of not, the whole battlefield seems to be one large graveyard to me, so I wonder if there might be a concentration of bodies buried there?
Thank you again for sharing! Keep up the awesome work.
Matsuo Basho wrote a poem:"Summer grass, that's what remains of the soldiers' dreams".
Thanks Greg, I was a little off when I tried to line up the second shot. i didn't realize that the split rock was literally right behind the camera position. I will have to check that out the next time I visit GBurg.
Are you familiar with the shot of Union Dead taken at Gettysburg that Frass was not able to identify? Some feel that the area you shot towards at 1:04 is where they were... course we will probably never know for sure. Is this park land?
You really need to split-screen that shot in order to fully compare photos.
Absolutely
In the second pic with the dead soldiers, what is the large, dark thing on the horizon on the left side of the pic?
A surveillance Balloon from the 24 Iowa Cavalry Regiment; they were skirmishing that day towards the front of the line, and had been lent a balloon from Strong Vincent.
Is it not the photwagon?
There must of been Yankees in the woods to their front and they must have taken a volley from them at close range. When you see all the bodies, have to remember that for every dead soldier there were probably two or three others wounded. From your video you can see they were shielded from the artillery on the peach orchard. So they must have walked right into a Yankee volley in a reverse slope defense.
wonder if some of the solders are still buried there?..cause not that long ago some farmer found bones in his field..
Dude, we get 10 seconds of looking at a Blue Backed information slide, but the actual War photo you only show for a fraction of a second even. I quit looking at this about halfway through.
If the rocks could talk.
almost good
More like split rock and cow splatter rock
nice video, but stop taking.
Shaky! Too long holding camera & shaking! Headache
Too much walking and jiggling.
lame