Addressing Gettysburg

Chris Army is joined by Jerry Hahn, the newest Licensed Battlefield Guide on Addressing Gettysburg. In this episode, we discuss Willard's Brigade, a.k.a. "The Harpers Ferry Cowards"/"The Harpers Ferry Brigade" and "band box soldiers." Willard's Brigade was the 3rd Brigade,3rd Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac. They took part in stopping the advance of Barksdales Brigade on July 2 as well as helped to repulse the Longstreet's Assault on July 3. Patron Extraordinaire Michael Lentz joins us in studio to ask his many questions in person to our guides. Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Sit in for a show and ask your own questions like Mike Lentz by becoming a Patron Help complete the studio so we can do live videos on YouTube and Facebook by sending us something off of our wishlist. (Make sure include a note with your name so we know who to thank!) Donate directly via PayPal

We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. Can you imagine what it's like to be "free" while not enjoying the same rights as the majority of the population or fearing that at any moment raiding parties from just over the border might capture you and sell you into slavery? How about having to choose between protecting your fellow man or obeying Federal law? What was in like to be black and free in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. These are just SOME of the things we cover in this episode with John Hoptak. John Hoptak is a native of Pennsylvania. Hoptak serves as an interpretative Park Ranger with the National Park Service and teaches courses as an adjunct instructor at American Military University. Hoptak has written articles for America's Civil War, Civil War Times, and Pennsylvania Heritage. He is also the author of several books.

We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. What a treat I have for fans of the movie Gettysburg! In October, 2018, the cast of the 1993 movie Gettysburg came to town for a reunion and screening of the director's cut of the film. I arranged to have Patrick Gorman, who played Major General John Bell Hood, and Bo Brinkman, who played Lee's aide, Major Walter Taylor, sit down with me and my buddy Pete at my friend Tami's farm. We set up in her summer kitchen and just talked about their careers and the making of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. This was great fun for two guys like Pete and I who have seen the film 3000 times. I hope you enjoy it.

We hope you enjoy this free Patreon episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. From Scott Hartwig: "During my 31 years with the National Park Service at Gettysburg NMP it has remained a mystery where Alexander Gardner took his famous series of photographs of Union dead on the battlefield. Gardner seemingly offered a clue when he labeled one of the images in his 1863 catalog of photographs as a 'View in the field on the right wing where General Reynolds fell.' There were two stereo views of the same image but their captions did not mention Reynolds. One read, 'View in the field on right wing,' and the other, 'Federal soldiers as they fell.' Gardner also shot two other images of this same grouping of soldiers from a different camera position. He labeled these 'A Harvest of Death,' and 'Evidence of how severe the contest had been on the right.'" Scott kindly sat down with Bob and I to discuss the three articles he wrote for GNMP's blog back in 2011. No one has been able to figure out where these famous photographs were taken. Even the Godfather of the field of Gettysburg photography, William Frassanito. In fact, the two photos in question (see attached) were the two photos that Mr. Frassanito said he couldn't place. After years of trying to figure it out, Scott Hartwig thinks he may have found the place.He says he's 98% sure, but is open to compelling evidence to the contrary should it ever present itself. As always, we had a fun time talking with Scott as you'll be able to tell as soon as the show begins. Become a Patron to access high resolution scans of the photos in question. I HIGHLY recommend that you print them out and come to Gettysburg to do your own investigation. So what do you think? Is Scott right? Email us at [email protected] and let us know! https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/a-mystery-solved-part-i-2/ https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-2/ https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-3/

We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. CONTENT WARNING: Soldiers in the Civil War were young men. Young men use foul language and do some pretty messed up stuff. We touch on some subjects that might not be approriate for young ears or people who can't handle the facts of life. Listener discretion is advised. Have you ever had the chance to talk with Dr. Peter S. Carmichael? Well, Bob and I did it for you. We discuss The War For The Common Soldier... with Dr Carmichael. If you think this is just another book about eating hardtack and what soldiers carried in their knapsacks, you're gravely mistaken. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.

**This episode is brought to you without commercial interruption by our Patreon Patrons and Ploughman Cider. Become a Patron today and order Ploughman's delicious Adams County hard cider online with promo code CIDERPOD for 15% off. Merry Christmas!** Matt Borders is one of the hosts of The History Things Podcast. I wanted to do a Christmas episode that talks about what Christmas was like for the common soldier serving in the armies. I couldn't think of anyone else who would be able to pull it together with little warning like Matt Borders can. This is the last new free episode of 2020. We want to thank you all for listening. Since last winter we've had 1000% download growth. That's crazy and it makes us happy to know that this show resonates with you. We hope we've been able to entertain you while expanding your knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. May your holidays be COVID and stress-free and as close to normal as you can manage. Here's to a normal 2021!

On this Ask A Guide, we move away from the battlefield for a spell to discuss The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a very important event which helped to shape the narrative, in part, for generations to come, of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is one way to learn more about this dramatic time in our nation's history, but don't stop there! Read and visit! Joining us on this episode are LBGs Lewis Trott and Mary Turk-Meena. Support the Show! Please welcome our new advertiser, Ploughman Cider. Our listeners will receive 15% off their purchase by using the promo code CIDERPOD at checkout. Help support Gettysburg buisnesses during this coming Winter of lockdowns and restrictions. You can have Ploughman's cider shipped right to your door! Must be 21, state and local restrictions apply. Click here to place your order. Order a book! (and do the rest of your last minute Christmas shopping while you're at it) Order some merch! Donate via PayPal Become a Patron and really learn

THIS EPISODE IS NOW AVAILABLE OVER ON OUR PATREON FEED! Donny Copper is a mild-mannered helicopter EMT by day and a wild and cray Civil War buff by night. He runs the very popular @americancivilwar_IG on Instagram and you most likely follow him. The New Yorker called him "an international man of mystery" in an article I read in a dream I had last September. Time Magazine almost considered him for its "Person of the Year" in 2019 after I suggested it, but "we really don't think he fits the criteria for our Person of the Year," according to the email they sent back to me. In all seriousness, Donny has become a good friend of mine since we met via our Instagram accounts in 2018. He has been supportive of the show, come to our Get Out of the Car tours and joined us on the Today Show (I still don't know when it will air). It occured to me about a month ago that I never invited Donny on the show. I coouldn't believe it. He's a very interesting and funny guy. We talked for three hours (2:36 of it being actual show stuff) and covered topics from educating the masses, the pitfalls of managing a successful social media account, bagpipes, the Boston Tea Party, Robert Smalls, anxiety and a ton more. We hope this light-hearted conversation entertains you during the hectic days of the holiday season. Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Becoming a Patron Help complete the studio through our wishlist Donate directly via PayPal

John Brown Gordon was a brigadier general at Gettysburg and commanded a brigade in Early's Division of Ewell's 2nd Corps. His brigade was comprised of 13th Georgia 26th Georgia 31st Georgia 38th Georgia 60th Georgia 61st Georgia But his life did not begin or end at Gettysburg. LBG Jim Pangburn joins us for this, the first biographical Ask A Gettysburg Guide, and tells us about the exciting life of General John B. Gordon. Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Becoming a Patron Help complete the studio by sending us something off of our wishlist Donate directly via PayPal

We had a fun afternoon hanging out with Darrell Rivers for this Patreon episode. Darrell joins us to talk about foreign observers with the Army of Northern Virginia, namely Arthur Fremantle. How close did the movie get to the real Fremantle? Take a listen to find out. Darrell Rivers is an historian and consultant specializing in the American Civil War and Victorian Britain. He also runs two of the largest Civil War and American Revolution living history events on the West Coast annually in Huntington Beach. In living history, Darrell portrays a British officer in Confederate service and frequently speaks on the complex relationship between Britain & America during the Civil War. He also has a line of genteel historical clothing & accoutrements. YouTube: FTG Military History https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOEK1XVCx5sdvZyPipzbSag Instagram: @Lord.Rivers Information & Shop SUPPORT THE SHOW! Become a Patron Recommended Reading

Ronn Palm runs a very interesting museum on Baltimore Street. It is the Museum of Civil War Images and you must check it out the next time you're in town. Ronn began collecting Civil War images over 30 years ago, purchasing his first one at a whopping $1.25! Now, he has nearly 10,000, that's right, TEN THOUSAND in his collection. Almost half of those are on display in his museum at 229 Baltimore Street. The museum is opened Friday evenings through Sunday. We had fun talking with Ronn and you will too when you visit the museum. Check out its website here

A very Happy Thanksgiving to y'all! After starting out by thanking many of the people who have helped us throughout 2020 (fair warning, we probably missed a few as the list was compiled literally minutes before the show started, so thank you if you were missed), we introduce you to our new guest LBG, Chris Army. Many of you may know him from the assistance he lends to the Apsiring Licensed Battlefield Guides Facebook Page. We got to know him a little bit more while learning about Pender's Attack and answering questions from our Patrons. Enjoy! Support The Show By: Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know) Becoming a Patron Help complete the studio so we can do live videos on YouTube and Facebook by sending us something off of our wishlist Donate directly via PayPal Advertise with us Email [email protected]

I really enjoyed this interview with Colonels McCausland and Vossler about their new book "Battle Tested!" In this interview, we focused on chapters 2 and 12 about Brigadier General John Buford's and Abraham Lincoln's (respectively) leadership skills and qualities. You can get your copy of the book by clicking here From the Diamond6 wesbite: JEFF MCCAUSLAND, FOUNDER & CEO Since 2000, both domestic and internationally, Dr. McCausland has conducted numerous executive leadership development workshops and consulted for leaders in public education, US government institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army and former Dean of Academics at the U.S. Army War College. He is a Visiting Professor of National Security at Dickinson College. During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety of command and staff positions both in the United States and Europe during the Kosovo crisis and Operations Desert Shield and Storm. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools, and the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Dr. McCausland is the co-author of Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, available September 1, 2020. COL. TOM VOSSLER (RET.) | AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Colonel Tom Vossler, U.S. Army (Ret.) served in the U.S. Army from 1968 thru 1998. He commanded an infantry platoon in the Vietnam War and a Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force in Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Soviet regime. His military education includes graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. Tom taught military history, strategy and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and he is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Tom is the co-author of A Field Guide to Gettysburg and A Field Guide to Antietam. His latest book, co-authored with Jeff McCausland, Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders is available September 1, 2020.

Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin visited the area and was astounded at the damage done to property and life. Shallow graves in the fields surrounding the town revealed decaying human limbs and faces after rains had washed the meager layer of soil over them away. Their air was thick with swarms of flies and the stench of rot. Curtin described it as "the devil's own planting... a harvest of death." Many, many more people were just as appalled as Governor Curtin was. And, so, a handful of local leaders approached the governor with a proposal to establish a cemetery to properly bury the Union dead of the Battle of Gettysburg. Curtin not only agreed with this proposal, but he also secured State funds for the establishment and reinternment of roughly 3600 bodies. David Wills, a local attorney, was appointed the agent of the state to secure the land, which was a 17 acre plot adjacent to the already establish private Evergreen Cemetery atop Cemetery Hill. Architect William Saunders was hired to design the layout of the new cemetery. Soon, the governors of other Northern States, such as New York, Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana and Massachusetts pledged support and sent agents to assist and oversee the burial of their states' loyal sons. Reinternments began in the Fall. Edward Everett, a famous orator of the time, was invited to speak at the consecration ceremony, slated to take place in October. He was invited in September but asked that the date be pushed back as he needed more time to prepare. His request was granted and the date was changed to November 19, 1863. On November 2, Abraham Lincoln was invited. In his letter to Lincoln, David Will said, "It is the desire that, after the Oration [Everett's], you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks." As we know, no event in life is clean and neat. Few things go as planned or expected. And history is made when the participants are either unaware that they're making it or underestimate the true value of their contribution. The days surrounding Lincoln's visit to Gettysburg and the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery is no exception. LBG Tim Smith joins us again to answer our Patron's questions about November 19, 1863. Enjoy and learn! Recorded at the GettysBike Tours Studios Become a Patron to submit questions to an Ask A Guide and more! Studio construction wishlist.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war; we have come to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, but, in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us here to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation shall, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth!" -Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

During the 2020 Winter Lecture Series, John Hoptak delivered a great lecture about South Central Pa men who joined the famed 54th Massachusetts (available on this feed). After COVID shutdowns and a busy Summer, Matt and the gang finally got to sit down with John to further discuss the information he shared in his lecture, in addition to pointing out what the movie got right and got wrong. I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed recording it. The full interview drops on November 16 over at our Patreon page. Please support the show and become a member today!

Craig Rupp is a battlefield photographer and author of romance novellas based in Gettysburg. He moved here 8 years ago and hasn't regretted one day of it, like most of us transplants. I sat down with Craig for this, the first Patreon interview done in our new studio, to talk about why he writes, what he writes, how he writes and who he is as a person. Follow him on social media: @craig_rupp Instagram Craig Rupp on Facebook Find his books on Amazon or at www.addressingGettysburg.com

Two years ago I asked songwriter Billy Webster to work my favorite Civil War song (which predates the Civil War) into a song to play at the open of our shows. Modern meets traditional. I think Billy did a great job and so I thought I'd share it with you without me gabbing over it. Check out more of Billy's Music here

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Matt and Eric the Producer recap the 2020 tourist season and give you a peek at what to expect for the Winter of 2020-2021. Topics include: #GetOutOfTheCar2020 tours The Today Show shoot The new studio The new Logo Booking Tours through our website Possible tour collaborations with the Aspiring Licensed Battlefield Guides Facebook page questions from Patrons and more! You might be wondering after listening to us discuss the generous donations from our Patrons for the new studio, "just how can I donate to the cause?" Well, if you go to www.addressinggettysburg.com and scroll to the bottom, you can make a Paypal donation by clicking the "Donate" button. OR click here and send us something from our Amazon Wishlist.

The final chapter of Episode 2 Chapter 3 takes you up to the night of June 30, 1863, the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg. Where Are The Armies Now? General Hooker spent June 26 moving his army across the Potomac. By nightfall, everyone was in Maryland except John Sedgwick's Sixth Corps and a portion of the cavalry. Frederick, Maryland, Hooker decided, would become the army's point of concentration. The first wing of the Union Army to cross the Potomac, were the three corps under the command of Major General John F Reynolds. Contrary to their orders, Confederate Cavalry commanders, Beverly Robertson and Grumble Jones failed to report this movement to JEB Stuart. Back in Washington, Lincoln began showing signs of doubt in Hooker, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, when he said, "Hooker may commit the same fault as McClellan and lose his chance." But Lincoln quickly added a sign of hope when he said, "We shall soon see, but it appears to me he can't help but win."... CREDITS INVASION! June, 1863, was written, narrated and produced by Matt Callery DIRECTED BY: Matt Callery and Pearle Shannon FEATURING THE VOICES OF: Bradley Lee, Pearle Shannon, Patrick Gorman, Denise Chain, Bob Steenstra, Kelly Steenstra, Ron Bailey, Trent Walker, Brayden Border, John Heckman, Dave Wilson, Keith Harris, The History Dame, Ray Chancellor, Dustin Smith, Keith Harvey, Matthew McClanahan, Steven Byers, Constantinos Hasapis, Bo Brinkman, John Thurston and Katie Vondeetum. HISTORICAL CONSULTATION BY: Licensed Battlefield Guides Bob Steentsra, Lewis Trott and Tim Smith, with additional assistance from Matt Atkinson, John Hoptak and Ken Rich. MUSIC BY: Dusty Lee Elmer, Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart, Kelly Shannon, Cody Tinin, The California Consolidated Drum Band, Federal City Band Some sound effects courtesy of QuantumEra and Ty DeWitt. Additional voice recording engineered by Paul Kirby A deep thanks to all who helped in the production of this podcast. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Victorian Photography Studio Mason Dixon Distillery GettysBike Tours Gettysburg: A Nation Divided (use referral code GBURG1863 when prompted) SOURCES: The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, Edwin B. Coddington Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, Noah Andre Trudeau Lee's Cavalrymen, Edward G. Longacre Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, Abner Doubleday Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide, Champ Clark/Time-Life Books The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart : Commander … Henry B. McClellan. Days of Uncertainty and Dread by Gerald R Bennet Firestorm at Gettysburg: Civilian Voices by Jim Slade and John Alexander Lincoln by David Herbert Donald "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour by Eric J Wittenberg Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory By Brian Steel Wills https://www.americanheritage.com/destruction-fighting-joe-hooker-0 https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/spring/gettysburg.pdf https://www.armywarcollege.edu/history.cfm https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=ach

Jennie Wade was the only Gettysburg civilian to die during the battle of Gettysburg. The house she died in, "The Jennie Wade House" (actually the house her sister was residing in and not Jennie's) is a museum you can tour today. Matt, Bob, Tim Smith and special guest Cindy Small circled their chairs around the statue of Jennie outside the house and dug into the story of her family, what we know of her short life, her death and new details from recently uncovered letters that shed a brighter light on what the nature of Jennie's relationship to Jack Skelly may have been. Our Patrons know that something doesn't sit right with Matt regarding the circumstances surrounding her death. In this episode he tries to get to the bottom of it as well. Join our community by clicking here The subject of Jennie Wade is one of the more popular, imagination-capturing aspects of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is just one aspect of learning more. Nothing beats visiting Getttysburg, walking the fields, exploring our museums and taking a tour with a Licensed Battlefield Guide. This episode was co-executive produced by Tim Smith. Special thanks to the good folks over at the Jennie Wade House for meeting with us after hours to record the show. Be sure to take a tour of the house when you visit!

October 17's tour is in conjunction with our adopt a position clean up. Meet at the North Carolina monument and follow the path of North Carolina troops as they marched over the smoldering ruins of the Bliss Farm. At the Bliss Farm we will pause to see the ruins and talk about what happened there on July 2 and 3. Then, we'll make our way to one of our adopted positions, that of the 111th NY and hear what they did during the battle of Gettysburg. Then we'll see what the Park Service needs help with and get our hands dirty doing some light yard work. Be sure to stick around for our traditional wet-plate group photo taken at the monument by Dave Wilson from Victorian Photography Studios on Steinwehr Ave. But the day isn't over yet. Take a few hours break and meet up with us at Mason Dixon Distillery for lunch and mingling. (You're responsible for your own food and drink once we get to the distillery.)

In this special edition of Ask A Gettysburg Guide Actor, we put our study of the Battle of Gettysburg on hold to talk to Bo Brinkman, one of the cast of the movie Gettysburg, about the making of the film that brought so many of us Gettysnerds to become students of the battle. This is brought to you without commercial interruption by the good folks over at the American Battlefield Trust. I'm sure you already know what great work they do in saving the sacred ground of our country. Well they also did your buddies at Addressing Gettysburg a great favor by allowing us the use of General Lee's Headquarters on Seminary Ridge. The ABT preserves battlefields and educates the public about America's formative conflicts and why they matter today. You can visit them at battlefields.org for videos, maps and thousands of articles. Besides the Lee's Headquarters site (which they preserved and restored) they have preserved more than 800 additional acres in and around Gettysburg. They are currently trying to preserve land along the Baltimore Pike on Cemetery Hill and at the base of Big Round Top. Find more Information and donate to the cause at www.battlefields.org. And I'd like to personally thank Tim Smith for getting us in touch with Garry Adelman and also Garry Adelman for setting this up with a day's notice. SOMEDAY we will get Garry in the show. He is highly requested by our listeners. If you're a patron of ours, you've heard our guest on the show before alongside Patrick Gorman. You, of course, know him as Major Walter Taylor, who apparently had a love of flapjacks in small mountains, in the movie Gettysburg. But he is also a writer, director and producer known for the 2016 film The Last Man Club, starring the late Morgan Sheppard who you know as General Isaac Trimble,he was in Swing State and produced and directed the upcoming film The Bay House among many others. Welcome, the great Bo Brinkman.

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Here is the first installment of a new feature of Addressing Gettysburg. We get many questions from listeners and social media followers about what the Park Service is doing in relation to this or that. While I'm flattered that people turn to us for such information, we really are no more "in the know" than you are. Ok, maybe a touch more. So, we decided to change that by inviting Chief of Interpretation and Education, Christopher Gwinn, to come on the show once a quarter for recaps of the last quarter and a preview/updates on the quarter to come in relation to the interpretive programs GNMP will offer. We hope you find this informative and that it further inspires you to visit Gettysburg National Military Park.

September 19 at 10am: "Drive them out at daylight" and "It is murder, but it's an order." We'll explore the Union's effort to push the Confederate forces off their foothold on lower Cup's Hill on the morning of July 3, 1863, with particular focus on the fight of Maryland versus Maryland, and the fight for what we now call "Pardee's Field". Follow the steps of Lt. Col Charles Mudge and the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, along with the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment as the charged across the open ground of Spangler's Meadow on the morning of July 3, 1863 as part of a Union attack before Pickett's Charge. This tour is free to all and is put togethe by LBG Lewis Trott

Rain. Thunder! A gift from a listener and a shocking gift for Eric the Producer, from Matt. That's how this episode starts off before LBG Jim Pangburn takes questions about Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a good way to start your journey into history, but it doesn't replace touring the battlefield yourself, or, better yet, with a Licensed Battlefield Guide. Shoot us an email at [email protected] if you'd like to book one of our guides for a tour. Questions cover: Vincent's Brigade Crawford's 5 acre memorial to his troops Captain Johnston's Reconnaisannce Paddy O'Rorke's Nose The March of Law's Brigade Restoration proposals for Little Round Top Was Little Round Top really that valuable for the Confederates? and more! Questions are submitted by Patrons in the 2nd Lieutenant tier right here.

Jari Villanueva is the director of the Federal City Brass Band/ 26th North Carolina Regimental Band. He was kind enough to send me two of their CDs last year for use in our narrative episodes. We'd been trying to coordinate our schedules for about two months now for this interview and finally made it happen. I thought it would be fun to go through the songs I chose for the narratives and, first, explain my thinking behind the choice from an artistic standpoint and then follow it up with Jari giving a history of the song. Turns out, I unwittingly chose songs that were more appropriate than I was aware of, in some cases. Jari is also "instrumental" in the popular and moving "100 Nights of Taps" here at Gettysburg National Cemetery. Check out Jari's website www.jvmusic.net If you enjoyed this preview and want to hear and learn more, as well as support the show, then you need to become a Patron by clicking here

Matt, Tim and Bob discuss the fateful decision of Major General Francis CHANNING Barlow to move his division to the Knoll that now bears his name. In comparison to other locations like The Peach Orchard or Little Round Top, Barlow's Knoll is one of the lesser-talked-about phases of The Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening helps, but visiting places like Barlow's Knoll and hearing or reading the story of it makes it come alive. Be sure to include a trip to Gettysburg in your travel plans. This episode is bright to you without commercial interruption thanks to the generosity of our Patrons. By the way, we reached 100 as of the uploading of this episode. Join our community by clicking here!

We asked our Patrons to send in a recording answering the question "Why Gettysburg?" There was no explanation by what we mean by "why". The exercise is to see how the person interprets the word and to see what they come up with. The answers are interesting for many reasons, but there seems to be a thread of spirituality running through it. People love Gettysburg for more than the Battle of Gettysburg. That might start them off, but, once they visit, something invades their souls. Some call it the "Gettysburg Bug". We call it the "Gettysbug" because we're cheesy like that. We hope you enjoy this one-off episode and that you'll consider becoming a Patron

Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr makes his debut on Addressing Gettysburg to talk about Colonel Roy Stone's Brigade (The "Bogus" Bucktails?) and their fighting on McPherson's Ridge, including the famous "Color Episode" of the 149th Pa, one of the most unique stories of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a great way to start or enhance your studies of this battle. Checking out our Recommended Reading list on our website can help you deepen your knowledge even more. And it helps support the show. Submit your questions for every Ask A Gettysburg Guide by becoming a Patron. Click here!

August 15th's tour begins later in the day. Join us at 5pm for "Wait a little, we are all going on presently". Learn about the charge of Barksdale's Mississippians as they smashed the Peach Orchard salient on the evening of July 2, 1863. We will also follow events of that same evening as Union forces retreated towards the Trostle Farm where a certain General last commanded troops in the field. Along the way you'll see the Sickles wounding marker, a cannonball hole in the Trostle barn, Cora the cannon, a witness tree, plus be among the first to hear from an unpublished letter written by Malbone Watson and find out why Watson's Battery's Monument is not exactly in the right place!

LBG Jessie Wheedleton came to us and said she'd like to do a show about how to prepare for the Licensed Battlefield Guide exam. We thought it was a great idea and booked her. The are many ways to learn about the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a fantastic way to do it when you can't be here. So if reading and watching ranger programs online. Of course the best way to learn is to visit and walk the grounds and, when you visit, you MUST, in our opinion, hire a licensed battlefield guide to take you around. Just listen to what it takes to even become licensed. Sounds like it's easier to get into the CIA! To take a tour with any of the guides you hear on Addressing Gettysburg, contact [email protected] and he will put you in touch with your requested guide. If you're considering taking the guide exam, or just curious about what a prospective candidte must go through, click here. LISTENER QUESTIONS PROVIDED BY THE FOLLOWING PATRONS: Serge Paula Matt Jamie Julie To learn more about the battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg itself, the Civil War in General, to submit question for Ask A Gettysurg Guide episodes and more, please become a patron by clicking here

Whether you recognize it from your pre-movie-era childhood visits to Gettysburg National Military Park or from the unforgettable scenes in Ron Maxwell's Gettysburg featuring the great Sam Elliott, the Cupola of the Litheran Theological Seminary is an iconic structure to those who study The Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast guest, historian Codie Eash, returns for the first Ask a Gettysburg Guide of Season 2. This was an extremely fun episode to record because we were able to do it from The Cupola, itself, after hours with Cody. We can't stress this enough: if you have been to Gettysburg a million times or are planning to visit some day, and a few hours at the Seminary Ridge Museum, including the Cupola Tour, is not on your itinerary, you've done yourself a disservice. Codie answers, in fine detail, questions about the use of the Old Dorm building as a hospital during and after The Battle of Gettysburg, the Seminary as a station on the Underground Railroad, who actually used the Cupola to observe the enemy during the Batle of Gettysburg, battle damage to the building, the conditions wounded soldiers had to endure while waiting for care while the battle still raged and much more. Codie is Operations Manager at the Seminary Ridge Museum. LINKS Keep up with Codie's work at www.codieeashwrites.com For more information about the Seminary Ridge Museum or to book your tour click here or call 717-339.1300 Cover photo courtesy of Rob Williams

Nancie Gudmestad is the owner of The Shriver House Museum. Her book, "The Shrivers' Story: Eyewitnesses to the Battle of Gettysburg tells the story of the Shriver house and family as well as other civilians. Nancie sat down with mein the front parlor of the house to discuss the chapter in her book about the aftermath of battle. The Shriver House is a MUST SEE on your next trip to Gettysburg. Just listen to the episode to find out why. Expand your knowledge of the WHOLE Gettysburg story. Get "The Shrivers' Story..." here Stop by next time you're in town: 309 Baltimore St, Gettysburg, PA Give them a call for more information: (717) 337-2800 As always it is our Patrons that keep us going. The more we have, the more we can accomplish. Please consider becoming one today. Click here!

Augmented Reality is the wave of the future. QuantumERA's Gettysburg: A Nation Divided is a new AR360 app for your Android or iPhone and is an exciting educational tool for students of the battle, young and old, green or veteran. Michael McGar is the creator of the app and President of QuantumERA. Michael was kind enough to give me some of his time to answer my questions about the app. We cover a range of topics such as the accuracy of the map and how they got it, just how immersive the app is and how they got actor Scott Eastwood to do the narration. FULL DISCLOSURE: Gettysburg: A Nation Divided is an advertiser on the show. So, support Addressing Gettysburg, QuantumERA and your own family's study of the Battle of Gettysburg by downloading the app from the App Store or Google Play Store and be sure to enter GBURG1863 in the referral code box when installing. We hope you enjoy the app. Let us know what you think of it!

FROM QUANTUMERA: We know, keeping kids engaged at home can have its challenges. We're here to help students of all ages get excited and immersed in Civil War history in a fascinating new way! Simply download the new AR360 app, Gettysburg: A Nation Divided, and bring the history of Gettysburg to life right there in your home! This app revolutionizes the way you and your family can learn about the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a great way to fill in the details, but this app will bring the story to life and reach your children in the way that they're conditioned to learn. Support your family's learning and Addressing Gettysburg by entering referral code GBURG1863 when you download the app. Get it now at the Google Play Store or Apple's App Store

Beat the July heat and follow the colors of the 2nd Wisconsin and 149th Pennsylvania as we explore McPherson's Woods and farm on July 18 for our tour entitled "Good morning Archer! How are you? I am glad to see you!". We will discuss the action of the various regiments who fought on both sides in this area, and show you hidden gems like soldier graffiti on the McPherson Barn as well as the barn's use as a field hospital, the quarry, Reynold's death location, learn about the 151st Pa and more. This tour also begins at ten.

We offered a platform to Historian and Writer Codie Eash here on our feed to present lectures or, frankly, anything he wants because we love listening to him. This one is about the Blue-Gray Reunion of 1869. Enjoy. Codie Eash currently serves as Operations Manager at Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center. He is a 2014 graduate of Shippensburg University, where he earned a bachelor degree in communication/journalism and a minor in history. Codie contributes to the blog "Pennsylvania in the Civil War"; serves as a co-host on Battles and Banter Podcast, a military history podcast; and maintains the Facebook page "Codie Eash - Writer and Historian," which primarily focuses on the Civil War era. As always, this free material was made possible by the generous and fun group of Patrons over at our Patreon Page.

On this special episode, recorded at the Copse of Trees, Licensed Battlefield Guides, Tim Smith, Jim Hessler and Jessie Wheedleton join Matt and Bob to talk about July 3, 1863 and the days following the battle. Click here for more information on Pickett's Charge; Here for Longstreet at Gettysburg; and HERE for Culp's Hill Become a Patron here. Cover photo by Paul Philippoteaux

In this episode, Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith, Jim Pangburn and Charlie Fennell join Matt and Bob on Little Round Top at the 155th PA Moumument for a discussion on July 2, 1863. Learn more about the important actions on Day 2 of the battle with these books on: Devils Den The Peach Orchard Day 2 Become a Patron here. Cover photo by Mort Kuntsler

In this episode commemorating the 157th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Licensed Battlefield Guides Jim Pangburn and Charlie Fennell join Matt and Bob atop Oak Hill in our secret hiding place behind the Peace Light to break down July 1, 1863. Want to learn more about the First Day? Click here and here Become a Patron here Cover photo by Dale Gallon

#GetOutOfTheCar- JUNE 20- Their music was deadly while they struggled to hold on in the Valley of Death. Join us as we share the story of the "Mozart Regiment", the 40th NY Volunteer Infantry Regiment as they tried to stem the Confederate onslaught on the afternoon of July 2, 1863. you'll also see features, some hidden in plain sight and some a bit more hidden like Horse-Trough Rock, Elephant Rock, Acheson Rock and the 93rd Pa Monument. This tour is on June 20 at 10am.

I feel like a broken record, but what a great time I had inertviewing Jim Broomall about his book "Private Confederacies". We met near the monument of the 111th Pa on Culp's Hill, in the shade, with a nice, gentle Pennsylvania breeze which seems to be a rarity for these in-the-field recordings in 2020. Anyway... How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations together--all the while being separated from suffering families. Military service provoked changes that escalated with the end of slavery and the Confederacy's military defeat. Returning to civilian life, Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before, sometimes suffering from terrible self-doubt. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women. On the one hand, war led men to express levels of emotionality and vulnerability previously assumed the domain of women. On the other hand, these men also embraced a virulent, martial masculinity that they wielded during Reconstruction and beyond to suppress freed peoples and restore white rule through paramilitary organizations and the Ku Klux Klan. James J. Broomall is assistant professor of history at Shepherd University and director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War. Get Private Confederacies from UNC Press here

LBG and Author Jim Hessler joins us from the Peach Orchard to answer your questions. Jim is not only an award-winning author and Licensed Battlefield Guide, but he is also co-host of the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. Be sure to get your hands on a copy of all of Jim's books Gettysburg's Peach Orchard Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg Sickles At Gettysburg

Keith Harris is a historian, an educator, an author, a runner, a social media aficionado, and an animal rights advocate. He received his BA at the University of California at Los Angeles (summa cum laude) and his Ph.D. in United States history at the University of Virginia. He has taught courses in United States history at the University of Virginia and the University of California at Riverside, and currently teaches at a private high school in Los Angeles. His work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century American history with a special emphasis on the Civil War, Reconstruction, historical memory, the Progressive Era, and national Reconciliation. His first book, Across the Bloody Chasm: the Culture of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans, is available from the Louisiana State University Press. He is currently researching for a project on the making of the controversial silent film, The Birth of a Nation. He lives and works in Hollywood, California. Matt was a guest on Keith's show in 2019 and Keith reads for Professor Michael Jacobs in Addressing Gettysburg's INVASION! June, 1863, Part 2. Check out his website. Follow him on social media and subscribe to his podcast

Rob Gibson is a wet plate photographer known for once having had a studio here in Gettysburg, taking wet plates on dozens of historical films and riding around town on an old Harley Davidson with a darkroom for a sidecar. We sat down with Rob at Dave Wilson's Victorian Photography Studio to discuss Rob's career and the science behind photography. Oh, and pizza! Be sure to schedule a shoot with Rob or Dave next time you're in Gettysburg. Rob Gibson:[email protected] Dave Wilson: www.victorianphotostudio.com

JUNE 20- "Their music was deadly" while they struggled to hold on in the Valley of Death. Join us as we share the story of the "Mozart Regiment", the 40th NY Volunteer Infantry Regiment as they tried to stem the Confederate onslaught on the afternoon of July 2, 1863. you'll also see features, some hidden in plain sight and some a bit more hidden like Horse-Trough Rock, Elephant Rock, Acheson Rock and the 93rd Pa Monument. This tour is on June 20 at 10am. Park in Devil's Den lot and meet at Devil's Den sign.

Patron "Balthazar" took us up on the offer to take your requests for topics or guests. His is the first one that was easily fulfilled. So Bob, Tim Smith, Eric the producer, patron Veronica and a cast of bikers and reenactors met at the beer garden of The Farnsworth House to talk about what the civilians experienced with the units that came through or occupied the town from June 26, 1863, on. Become a Patron today by clicking here Matthew Callery, Bob Steenstra, Timothy H. Smith. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved