Addressing Gettysburg

The Coronavirus has us all left with nothing to do...except explore the battlefield. This is what the Wayside Marker entitled "End of the Second Day" says. See it for yourself and read what I omitted from this recording the next time you visit Gettysburg. All free episodes are made possible by our Patrons , shopping through our Amazon banner at the top of our home page every time you shop Amazon and purchasing Addressing Gettysburg merchandise at our store.

Near the Trostle Farm is a Wayside Marker that tells the harrowing tale of Lt. John Bigelow's desperate attempt to slow the Confederate tide until more artillery could be brought up along Cemetery Ridge. All free episodes are made possible by our Patrons , shopping through our Amazon banner at the top of our home page every time you shop Amazon and purchasing Addressing Gettysburg merchandise at our store.

In Part 2 of "The Making of Addressing Gettysburg" Pete asks Matt about the music and sound design of the narrative episodes. Here's Narrative Episode 1- "INTRODUCTION Antietam to Chancellorsville" http://traffic.libsyn.com/addressinggettysburg/Antietam_to_Chancellorsville.mp3 Here's Narrative Episode 2- "INVASION! June, 1863" http://traffic.libsyn.com/addressinggettysburg/INVASION_June_1863_FINAL_Re-edit.mp3 These free episodes are made possible by our Patrons at Patreon , doing your Amazon shopping through the banner at the top of our homepage , by purchasing our merchandise , and with the talent-on-loan from our listeners and friends. Thank you all

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A few months ago, Matt's friend and silent partner in Addressing Gettysburg, Peter Bonfanti, had an idea. The idea was to record an interview of Matt about the making of Addressing Gettysburg. So, Pete came down from New Jersey and sat down in the studio with Bob and Matt to conduct a three-part interview. In light of production being shut down during the coronavirus hysteria, and lacking sufficient toilet paper supplies (thanks, Chicken Littles out there), we figure this is the time to release part 1 of this interview. Free content isn't without cost. Becoming a Patron at www.Patreon.com/addressinggettysburg helps at least offset the costs of production. Thanks to all of our existing Patrons and to you for considering becoming one.

Ranger Carlton Smith tells us about the war that made the future generals of the Civil War, specifically, James Longstreet. This comes to you for free because of the generous support of our patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg

Seasonal Ranger Zach Siggins challenges the believe that Howard's 11th Corps "ran". This is brought to you for free by the generous support of our Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg

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Wendy Allen is a local artist who is obsessed with painting pictures of Abraham Lincoln in various artistic styles. You may have heard her Winter Lecture on our free feed. I was so moved by it that I immediately invited her to come on the show and she accepted without hesitation. Originally, we were thinking about meeting the next day until we realized the forecast said it would be 70 degrees. I, for one, wanted to be out on the battlefield, which I was able to accomplish. Check out her work at lincolnintoart.com or stop by her gallery next time you're in town and see it up close. The address is 329 Baltimore St. Make sure you call ahead to find out if it's open. 717-398-2561 Becoming a patron helps us bring Gettysburg to you more often and in more ways. If you like the free content you hear on this feed, please consider helping the Addressing Gettysburg Community grow by becoming a Patron. Patrons receive content produced especially for them they is designed to give them a deeper understanding of Gettysburg's important place in the history of the United States and to introduce you to the people and entities that make Gettysburg America's most unique small-town.

Gettysburg NPS Winter Lecture Series- Searching For The Exact Location of America's Soul: An Artist's Pursuit- by Artist Wendy Allen Wendy Allen's work can be found at www.lincolnintoart.com Follow her on Facebook www.facebook.com/lincoln-into-art These lectures are brought to you by the generous support of our patrons. Become one here to help us bring more of GNMP's free programming to you throughout the year.

Gettysburg NPS Winter Lecture Series- Earl Van Dorn: The Life and Death of A Confederate Cavalier- by Ranger Matt Atkinson These lectures are brought to you by the generous support of our patrons. Become one here to help us bring more of GNMP's free programming to you throughout the year.

Jim Pangburn is back in the studio with us for our tenth Ask A Gettysburg Guide. What do we cover on this episode? Let's see: - did Longstreet dawdle? - medal of honor winners - Doubleday's removal from command of the First Corps - substitutes - Civil War soldier basic training - Batteries on Benner's hill This is free because of our sponsors and our generous Patrons. Please consider becoming a Patron and/or supporting our sponsors to keep the show going. Outro music, "Garryowen" arranged and performed by Billy Webster.

#GetOutofTheCar2020 Join us as LBG Lewis Trott takes us across the lesser-traveled part of the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Assault field. Along the way visit the ruins of the Bliss Farm and learn about what happened there. Then pose for a wet-plate photo done by Dave Wilson of Victorian Photography Studio at the monument of the 111th NY. After that, pitch in and help keep out park beautiful by doing some light yardwork around our adopted monuments. Finally, cap off the day with a concert by Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart, "The Music of Addressing Gettysburg", and great food and drink at Mason Dixon Distillery. The Tour is free. The Music is free. You buy your own food and drink and copies of the wet-plate picture. Tour is sponsored by Mason-Dixon Distillery

Tim Smith is back for another round of questions from our listeners and followers on Facebook and Intagram. Some of the topics discussed in this episode are: - Hancock placing Colonel Eliakim Sherrill under arrest - what people REALLY think about the reenacting hobby - Tennessee at Gettysburg - The 33rd Mass and 41st NY and the fight at East Cemetery Hill - Robert E Rodes on July 2 - East Cavalry field and how to visit the George Spangler Farm This is free because of our sponsors and our generous Patrons. Please consider becoming a Patron and/or supporting our sponsors to keep the show going. Outro music, "Garryowen" arranged and performed by Billy Webster.

Civil War runs headlong into politics as politicians fight for power and breed jealousy, self promotion and self preservation among military leaders. Mary Turk-Meena is a retired lawyer and now is a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg This recording is brought to you by the generous support of our Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg

Barb Sanders is an Educational Specialist at Gettysburg National Military Park. This lecture was recorded on February 29, 2020.

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When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day," he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Union's war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called "intelligence offices," institutions of dubious character that nevertheless served the military and domestic necessities of the Union army and Northern households. Northerners condemned labor agents for pocketing fees above and beyond contracts for wages between employers and employees. Yet the transactions these middlemen brokered with vulnerable Irish immigrants, Union soldiers and veterans, former slaves, and Confederate deserters defined the limits of independence in the wage labor economy and clarified who could prosper in it. Men Is Cheap shows that in the process of winning the war, Northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by helping to staff the Union military and Yankee households, did indispensable work that helped the Northern state and Northern employers emerge victorious. They also gave rise to an economic and political system that enriched the managerial class at the expense of laborers--a reality that resonates to this day. "Men Is Cheap" is published by UNC Press and can be purchased here Brian P. Luskey is associate professor of history at West Virginia University and author of On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America.

Chris Gwinn is the chief interpretive Park Ranger at GNMP. In this lecture he shares the accounts of the fighting on Culp's Hill that the veterans who fought there left behind. Free content like this is made possible by the generous monthly donations of our Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider becoming one today!

Ranger Tom Holbrook brings our another fascinating collection of artifacts from the National Park Service's collection and tells the stories attached to them. If only they could tell us themselves. What else would they say? Free content like this is made possible by the generous monthly donations of our Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider becoming one today!

Hello folks. spring is almost upon us and with Spring comes our second season of walking tours of the battlefield. This year is the first year with a theme and the theme is Get Out of the Car. Licensed battlefield guide Lewis Trott, who you remember from AAGG #5, and Patreon Patrons will remember from the episode about Gettysburg Ties to the Lincoln Assassination, has crafted six tours of the battlefield that take you to places and things that you can only see if you get out of the car. There are layers of history to see on your national park here at Gettysburg from battle history through the parks evolution to what it is today. We kick off the season on April 18 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 about what happened the during July 2 and 3. Finally 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 tintype 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 a private concert just for you given by Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart called "The Music of Addressing Gettysburg" which feature music they record for our narrative episodes. The tour is free and sponsored by Mason Dixon Distillery. You're responsible for your own food and drink once we get to the distillery. Like I said, April 18 is just the beginning. May 16 follow the path of one of the smallest regiments, the 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, across the Wheatfield. 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... This tour is on June 20 at 10am Beat the July heat by exploring McPherson's woods and farm on July 18 for our tour entitled "Good morning Archer! How are you? I am glad to see you!" This tour also begins at 10:00. 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 the Mississippians as they smashed the Peach Orchard salient on the evening of July 2, 1863 and see the Sickles wounding marker, a cannonball ball in the Trostle barn, a cannon named Cora, a witness tree and more. "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. This tour is on September 19 at 10am. These tours will take us through tall grass and woods, so proper outdoor attire and insect repellent is recommended.

Tim is back! Back again. Tim Smith joins us for another round of our listeners' great questions. He and Bob cover subjects such as: -a mysterious African-American fighting with the 5th Ohio in Pardee Field - The Irish Brigade and other units grouped by ethnicity - Veterans of Napoleon's Wars who fought at Gettysburg - Tilton's Brigade on Stony Hill and more! Keep these free episodes coming by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg or check out our merch in AG's Sutlery found at www.addressinggettysburg.com OR click the Amazon banner at the top of the homepage at www.addressinggettysburg.com and shop as you normally would. We thank you in adnvance

Ranger John Nicholas talks about the Bureau of Military Information and the Gettysburg Campaign. The audio of these lectures is made possible by our Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg

In this lecture, Ranger Dan Vermilya from the Eisenhower National Historic Site, tells us about the WWII KIA dead buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery. We are able to bring this to you for free thanks to the generous donations of our Patrons at www.Patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider becoming a Patron to help keep these and other find programming free for all.

LBG Bruce Rice is new to Addressing Gettysburg. On this episode he and Bob answer questions regarding Culp's Hill, Favorite/least favorite generals, most important battle of the Western Theater and more. All free content is free because of the generous support of our awesome Patrons over at www.Patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider helping us grow by becoming a Patron. We thank you in advance

Tim Smith hosts Lectures throughout the Winter at the Farnsworth House. This one is about Lincoln's 25-hour visit to Gettysburg in November of 1863. We are able to record events like this because of our generous Patrons over at www.Patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider becoming a Patron so we can bring more of Gettysburg to you.

Tim Smith hosts Lectures throughout the Winter at the Farnsworth House. This one is about new information Tim has uncovered about Jennie Wade, the only Gettysburg civilian to be killed during the battle. We are able to record events like this because of our generous Patrons over at www.Patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider becoming a Patron so we can bring more of Gettysburg to you.

The 54th Massachusetts was immortalized in our popular memory by the movie "Glory", starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. But did you know that over 300 of the 1040 members of the regiment were from South Central PA, including some from Gettysburg? Or that around 30 of them identified themselves as former slaves? Ranger John Hoptak delivers a very interesting interactive lecture about South Central Pa men who fought in the 54th Mass. You don't want to miss this one. We are able to bring this and all Winter Lectures to you thanks to the generosity of our Patrons over at www.Patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Please consider becoming one today and further your education on Gettysburg and the Civil War with the premium content over there that is recorded just for you.

GNMP Ranger Troy Harman explores the question "Is Gettysburg the High Water Mark?" As always, the generous support of our Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg makes it possible for us to record these lectures for you. Please consider becoming a Patron at the link above.

Ranger Angie Atkinson tackles a heavy subject, but the undeniable cause of the Civil War: slavery. This and all of our free content is made possible by the generous support of our Patrons over at Patreon . Please consider supporting our efforts. Patrons receive access to content made especially for them as a thank you for their support. Join the crowd!

Pat Bauer and Dave Geister were the artists in residence at Gettysburg National Military Park last year. While here, they stayed for five weeks in the Klingel Farmhouse and expressed their unique experience on the battlefield through the arts of poetry, music and paintings. They came from their home in Minnesota to share with us some of the work they created during their stay here. This and all of our free content is made possible by the generous support of our Patrons over at our Patreon page where Patrons can further their Gettyscation with our content produced exclusively for them.

Ranger John Heiser talks about the Battle of Gettysburg's neglected heroes: The Army Mules. Free episodes like this are made possible by out Patrons over at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg . Please consider supporting these efforts by becoming a Patron. Patrons receive access to premium content produced especially for them.

Everyone is a "phan" of Steve Phan. He visited Gettysburg on January 25 to deliver a lecture about the role the Civil War Defenses of Washington played in the Gettysburg Campaign. Did you know that some of the units that fought here were pulled from the forts to join the Army of the Potomac? Free episodes like this are made possible by out Patrons over at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg . Please consider supporting these efforts by becoming a Patron. Patrons receive access to premium content produced especially for them.

Licensed Battlefield Guide and Author Tim Smith presents lectures at the Farnsworth House on Sundays during the Winter. On this episode, Tim sits down with Matt and goes through the topics yet-to-be-covered in his lectures. Just some of the topics we touch on here are: -Jennie Wade (January 26) - Pender's Assault on Seminary Ridge - "25 Hours In Gettysburg" about Lincoln's stay in November, 1863 And more! To see Tim's schedule, follow the Farnsworth House Inn on Facebook, visit their website or call them at 717-334-8838 As always, if you wish to take a tour with Tim or any of the guides you hear on Addressing Gettysburg, drop us an email at [email protected] and we will put you in touch.

Kent Gramm received his PhD in Creative Writing and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). He has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing in Germany as well as in the U.S. He directs the annual Seminary Ridge Symposium in Gettysburg and has published several nonfiction books on Lincoln and the Civil War -- one of which, November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also published a novel and a volume of poetry. His play, Lincoln Lives, was performed in Baton Rouge as part of the Lincoln bicentennial inauguration ceremony. The graduate program at LSU awards an annual Kent Gramm Prize in Creative Nonfiction. This free episode is made possible by our Patrons over at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg . Please consider becoming a Patreon Patron so we can bring more of Gettysburg to you!

LBG Jim Pangburn (of the Patreon episode "The March North" fame) joins us for his first ask a guide. Some of the topics covered in this episode are: -Are there instances of officers having to kill or maim their soldiers in order to get them to fight? -What are some good ways to study weaponry? -The 24th Michigan vs. the 26th North Carolina and the number of color bearers to go down in that fight - Barksdale's Charge vs Pickett's: which one was more impressive? - Do the guides have a least favorite monument? - Were there Regulars in the Confederate Services? - The assault of Daniel's Brigade - Lyme disease during the Civil War? and more. Questions submitted by Instagrammers: @historywithbrad The Great Tronetti @Darthetzkorn @civil_war_nerd @Quinn2477 @beltonsthebestisyet @Rickyfowler63 Free episodes like this are made possible by our awesome Patrons at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg . Be sure to check it out because we have a new $5 tier for students and the unemployed. Also made possible by our sponsors. Please visit them at www.gettysbike.com and www.masondixondistillery.com

Ranger Bert Barnett presents a lecture entitled: "Gettysburg- Recovery, Memorialization, Preservation and Commercialization" as part of Gettysburg National Military Park's Winter Lecture Series. Recorded live on 1/12/2020. This upload was made possible by our awesome Patrons. Want to be awesome too? Become a patron at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg

As 1863 began, the Union Army of the Potomac found itself in a general malaise. Its failed attempt at another push towards Richmond, known as the "Mud March," had served as the nail in the coffin of army commander Ambrose E Burnside. When Joseph Hooker took his place as commander of the Army of the Potomac, the changes he implemented helped boost the morale and confidence of his troops. But Hooker squandered that goodwill by bungling the Chancellorsville Campaign, in the early days of May 1863. While many believed that drunkenness or the artillery round that knocked him out for a short time were the probable causes of such bungling, Hooker himself told Major General Abner Doubleday, while on the road to Gettysburg, "I was not hurt by a shell and I was not drunk. For once I lost confidence in Hooker, and that is all there was to it." After Chancellorsville, while Hooker was looking for ways to redeem himself, Robert E. Lee was setting the wheels in motion for his second invasion of the north. Meanwhile, every day citizens in a bustling country town called Gettysburg, were going about their daily business while reading about the war in any or all of the town's three newspapers. War had not left them untouched, however. They had sent their ablest young men off to fight for the Union cause and constant threats of invasion had plagued them since they first sent their local militia, the "Gettysburg Independent Blues", to fight to preserve the Union, in 1861. By the Fourth of July of 1863, this small town of 2400 would be left with the daunting tasking of cleaning up the carnage and healing many times their number in wounded who wore both blue and gray. By mid-June, two great armies, totaling somewhere around 150,000 men, with tens of thousands of horses and mules, miles of wagons and, in one of those armies, human beings that were owned by other human beings, marched north into Pennsylvania. On the last day of June, a Tuesday, the lead elements of these two armies would be poised for the commencement of the greatest, bloodiest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere, but very few had any notion of that as they closed their eyes to sleep that night. CREDITS Written, narrated and produced by Matt Callery Narration Directed by Pearle Shannon Historical figures voiced by: Bradley Lee, Keith Harvey, Brayden Border, Bob Steenstra, John Heckman (The Tattooed Historian), Keith Harvey, Dave Wilson and Ray Chancellor. Historical consultation by Licensed Battlefield Guides Bob Steenstra, Tim Smith and Lewis Trott with additional help from John Hoptak, Matt Atkinson, and Ken Rich. Music by Dusty Lee Elmer, Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart, Cody Tinnin, The California Consolidated Drum Band and the Federal City Brass Band/26th North Carolina Band Addressing Gettysburg's Theme Song, "Bear Waltz" written by Sarah Larsen and Performed by Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart Sound Effect Recording by Tyler DeWitt Assistant Researcher- Robin Weir 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

This is the first installment of the Gettysburg National Military Park's 2020 Winter Lecture Series. Ranger Matt Atkinson kicks off the season with a lecture entitled "Free Masonry At Gettysburg: Fraternal Bonds Tested by Battle". It was an enthusiastic packed house and a very interesting talk. While I urge you to get to as many of these as possible, I know it's not realistic. Thanks to my Patrons at Patreon.com, I plan to catch AT LEAST one (though I'll be aiming for both) lecture each weekend so that I can record the audio for you. To become a Patron and support free episodes like this, go to www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg and become a patron. Every little bit helps me bring Gettysburg to you.

Jim Pangburn is a 20-year veteran of the Licensed Battlefield Guide force here in Gettysburg. Some of you may recognize his voice as the narrator during the reenactments over the last dozen-or-so years. Last week he sat down with Matt and Bob to discuss Lee's invasion, or, "The March North". To hear more of this episode while supporting the show, please go to www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg and become a Patron.

Today we welcomed a new Licensed Battlefield Guide to the list of regulars to the show. His name is Lewis Trott. He's a three-year veteran of the guide force, a US Army veteran of the Desert Storm and the recent Iraq War and currently works as a librarian. Lewis has also been a consultant during the writing of the upcoming narrative episode, "INVASION! June, 1863". In the last few weeks, Lewis has been researching connections between the Battle of Gettysburg and the Lincoln Assassination. Say what? Yes indeed. This is some pretty interesting stuff here. Enjoy this preview and, if you like it and want to learn more, please consider becoming a Patron to help support the show by going clicking here

Licensed Battlefield Guide Lewis Trott joins Matt and Bob for the first time on this Ask A Gettysburg Guide. Some of the topics discussed on this episode are: - Kemper's Brigade during Pickett's Charge -Brooke's advance through the Wheatfield - The U.S. Regulars at Gettysburg - Relatives who fought on opposite sides of the battle - Francis Barlow and his relationship with his "Flying Dutchmen" And more! Questions were sent in by Instagram users: @Darthetzkorn @Gettysburgerrn The Great Tronetti @Kentuckycivilwar @Cwhitt @Quinn2477 @Rickyfowler63 @CentralVirginiaHistorian Follow us on Instagram @AddressingGettysburg to submit questions and support this and other free episodes by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg If you'd like to book a tour in 2020 with any of the guides you hear on our show, send an email to [email protected] and I will put you in touch with him or her.

Have you ever had the chance to talk with Dr Peter S Carmichael? Well, here's your chance. Matt and Bob 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. "The War For the Common Soldier" is published by UNC Press and can be purchased at www.addressinggettysburg.com/books

Merry Christmas! It's time for the final Ask A Gettysburg Guide of 2019. Bob Steenstra and Tim Smith continue with the questions that we couldn't fit into the previous Ask A Gettysburg Guide. Instagrammers who answered the call for questions in this episode are: @Soldier_Up_ @SJcolmus @Mrsmaestas2 @civil_war_Nerd @Cwhitt @Tylerfashistory Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and if you want to book a tour with any of the guides you hear on our podcast, email [email protected] and I will put you in touch with one.

It's time for another Ask A Gettysburg Guide! This time we received so many questions that we had to make this into two episodes. That means next week there will be another just in time for Christmas! In this episode we take questions from Instagrammers: The Great Tronetti @HistorywithBrad @GrantHarvey15 @NCHistoryNerd @CWhitt @Veronica Brestensky @Civil_War_Footsteps @darthetzkorn If you would like to be put in contact with Bob, Tim or any of the guides we feature on Addressing Gettysburg, let me know! Email [email protected]

Dr Ashley Whitehead Luskey is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and heads up an ambitious project called "Killed at Gettysburg". KAG sets students on a journey back into the lives of the men killed during the battle. After their research is complete, the students create profiles on the project's website . Dr Luskey sat down with Bob and I to discuss the project's history and goals. We think you'll find this fascinating.

Yianni Barakos was told by his doctor that he might as well get on disability because he'll never be able to work again. Yianni said, "Yes, I will", became his own advocate and found a doctor who said "i can help". Now, Yianni is the proud owner of the successfully delicious Mason Dixon Distillery in Gettysburg. What does this have to do with the battle? Only the fact that Mason Dixon grows much of what goes into their liquors right on the battlefield. Did you know that the Park Service allows this? Well, they do. Yianni is a very interesting guy and he and I sat down to talk without any particular direction or subject matter in mind. It kinda gets a little personal at points, but, Addressing Gettysburg is more about human interest than anything else; whether it has to do with the Battle of Gettysburg or the people who help you enjoy learning about it or visiting the battlefield. Enjoy and please check out Mason Dixon Distillery on your next visit to Gettysburg

When thinking about the Civil War or the Gettysburg Campaign in particular, some people might not consider Pittsburgh, Pa to have anything more to do with it than manufacturing for the war effort. But that's not true. Did you know there are fortifications around the city from the Civil War? There are. Did you know that Pittsburgh isn't so far from West Virginia, which was still Virginia for a good portion of the war? Well, Rich Condon from Civil War Pittsburgh sat down with me to let you in on this little secret. Rich Condon is a public historian based out of Pittsburgh, although he began his career as a battlefield guide in Franklin, Tennessee. For nine years he has worked with a multitude of sites and organizations, including The Battle of Franklin Trust, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and Flight 93 National Memorial. Rich is a contributing writer for the Pennsylvania in the Civil War blog, and director of Civil War Pittsburgh – an organization focused on education and preservation regarding Western Pennsylvania's role in the American Civil War.

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.