5th Maine Battery and John F. Chase | Monuments Monday in Gettysburg with Tim Smith
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- čas přidán 3. 03. 2024
- On this episode of Monuments Monday, ACHS Historian Tim Smith discusses the 5th Maine Battery and John F. Chase, who was gravely wounded at Gettysburg.
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- John F. Chase's Story: emergingcivilwar.com/2022/09/...
Maine at Gettysburg: archive.org/details/maineatge...
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Thank you Tim. I love monument Mondays!!
Always interesting tim
Tim makes Monday the best day of the week!
Thanks, Tim.
Great, great grandpa was one of the members of the 94th NYVI that were attached to the 5th Maine Battery to fill their ranks after the pounding they took at Chancellorsville. He didn't make it to Stevens' Knoll because he was captured on July 1. He's included as a casualty on this monument as one of the six listed as missing at Gettysburg. After being paroled and exchanged as a prisoner, he returned to the battery. He's also included on this monument in the total wounded at Opequon.
I can't wait for next week's video!
Thanks again.
Another great Monuments Monday. Thanks, Tim!
Thanks again Tim - fabulous job!
Tim as it happens I am in St. Pete this week, so with this video fresh in mind I set out to visit Chase's grave and take pictures. Sure enough, he is buried with a few family members in a back corner of the old cemetery on the south side behind New Hope Missionary Baptist Church. Today this cemetery is poorly maintained by the Episcopal Diocese of SW Florida and a large dead tree has fallen onto his family plot. Memento mori I guess. Keep up the good work, long time viewer since the Gettysburg Daily days.
Thanks Tim!! I was just walking around that same monument today April 15, 2024. What a cool coincidence!!
Ed from Lynchburg
As someone who has an interest in CW artillery, especially Union artillery at Gettysburg, I want to thank you for this profile.
Thank you for highlighting the 5th Maine monument, Mr. Smith! My great grandpa fought with the 5th Maine Battery; he traveled in 1862 from his home in Prince Edward Island, Canada to fight for the Union, and mustered out in late 1865, having achieved the rank of sergeant.
Awesome! Stayed tuned for part two of this video next week
Another great presentation by tim
Thanks ACHS, 'Professor' Smith is always leading wonderful, and very well researched, lectures.
Thank you. I always appreciate the information provided on the Monuments.
Thanks for a nuther great program Tim.
Amazing story of John F. Chase. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us Tim. Monument Mondays are the best!
Thank you Tim. For John Case story and the 5th Maine battery. And his miracle to survive his wounds. Job well done! 👍 ❤👊
My family lived in the next county for over 25 years from the 70s through the 90s and my brother worked for the history channel and not only acted in all the Civil War Stories episodes hosted by Roger Mudd and yet I never knew this. TY Tim
While a student at the University of Michigan, I never took advantage of the Clement Library, where the Tipton photographs are archived. I need to make a field trip!
My girlfriend’s daughter is a freshman at U of M. Her dorm is basically across the street from the cemetery where Col. Norval Welch (16th MI Infantry, LRT) is buried.
Hell yeah Tim 😎 I wonder if the 5th is the only full battery in its place of battle at Gettysburg. Great video. One of my favorite spots on the battlefield 😊
I would image there are a few. In most cases in the park, 2 cannons represent 6. On the Confederate side 2 cannons often represent 4 cannons. But there is no set rule.
Thanks Tim. It was the only place I could think of where the whole battery sits in it's lunettes. BTW. I met you on little round top maybe 20 years ago when I walked to Gettysburg from Pittsburgh. Your kindness was awesome and helped me feel good about my Gettysburg journey. Thank you. Hell yeah Tim😎
I love the Stevens Knoll!
As per one historian, at Chancellorsville in early May 1863, this battery, under the command of Captain George F. Leppien, was on its way to the Federal army's position a few miles to the north of the Chancellorsville Inn, when the battery was intercepted on the road and ordered to the area of the Chancellorsville Inn. There, the battery was posted in an orchard just to the north of the Inn. Shortly afterward, Captain Leppien suffered a serious wound to his leg, which resulted in his death later in May 1863. Leppien (b. 1836) was from Philadelphia, PA, and is buried in the city's famous Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Thank you for the additional information.
Great info. Love Steven's Knoll location firing into flank of Hays attack. Any plans for info on Heckmans battery ? Well done...as usual.
Yes, I am sure that at some point, we will discuss Heckman's Battery.
Great post. Ever do anything on the Confederate monuments?
Yes, I think we will do some episodes on that subject soon. It's just that Gettysburg doesn't really have many. There are some 2,000 monuments, markers and tablets, and only about 20 of them were erected by Southern States. And of course, whatever I say, people are not going to be happy. Basically, while the northern veterans were in control, they would not allow Southern monuments.
Tim just wanted to know your thoughts on the Lincoln death photo being circulated around the internet? I watched the TV special about it and I believe that it is him.
I am not that knowledgeable about that. I'll have to ask Garry. I'll bet he has an opinion.
Could a follow-up involve Benner's Hill location? My family has Latimer's in it. Was this battery firing that direction?
Major Joseph W. Latimer was mortally wounded on July 2, 1863, commanding a battalion of Confederate artillery, from Benner's Hill east of Gettysburg.
Does anyone know which Ohio battery acted cowardly during the cannonade on July 3rd that Major Thomas Osbourne mentioned?
Perhaps you know there is an appendix The Eleventh Corps Artillery at Gettysburg, The papers of Thomas Ward Osborn as edited by Herb Crum, on this particular subject. Osborn blamed the cowardly conduct on Norton's Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, while others blamed Edgell's First New Hampshire Light Artillery. Both batteries were part of James F. Huntington's brigade of the artillery reserve, and both batteries have monumnets in the National Cemetery.
@@timothysmith7742 Thank you. I’ve been trying to find out for a while.