Gettysburg Hospital Complexes with Ken Rich
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2022
- Ken Rich runs Reluctant Witnesses Historic Walking Tours. He’s known as “The Man In the Red Shirt” because he wears a red shirt. Ken is the guy that guides and Rangers turn to when they need an answer. He won’t tell you that, but I’ve seen it with mine own two eyes.
We invited Ken back to talk about the hospital complexes in town during and after the battle. While there were many, we focused on those found on Chambersburg St, Middle St, High St, York St, Baltimore St and Carlisle St.
Our 1st Lieutenants get the video version of this, complete with our hands pointing to where we are talking about on a map. Some high-tech stuff there, folks.
I can listen to stories about “ amblamps” wagons all day
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The level of depth and detail being presented in this video blows my mind - in the coolest of ways. Thank you Ken Rich, and AG!
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Such a great program. incredible detail. Thank you so much.
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Ken Rich is so very knowledgeable. Thank you for having him on your podcast.
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Just watching a few months later, and want to thank you for having Ken on your program! He has such a wealth of knowledge and his Red Shirt tours are great!
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I love the stories of people. Thank you for sharing.
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Truly unbelievable performance by Ken Rich. Super-athletic move to avoid going to ground after the stool malfunction.
Hahaha it’s one for the record books
Mary Walkers, MOH, was taken when all non-combat medals were rescinded in 1917 along with 900 others. Her’s was later reinstated in 1977 by Jimmy Carter.
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You guys are awesome! Thanks for such a great podcast!
Well thank you very much for the kind words. Spread word of the show far and wide!
1st Lieutenant Joshua S. Garsed, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry ("Birney's Zouaves"). On July 3rd at Gettysburg Garsed was killed instantly when struck between the right shoulder and neck by a Whitworth shell literally tearing him to pieces. His body was buried in a shallow two foot grave on the Michael Frey Farm that evening. On July 11th his brother and father arrived in Gettysburg and had his body exhumed and embalmed. His father clipped a locket of his hair which was later encased in a gold ring for his mother. Garsed was reburied on July 23rd with military honors in Leveringon Cemetery in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia in Section 14, Lot 21.
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Thanks very much for adding to the story ,
There is a photo of a Joshua Garced of the 23rd Pa "Birney's Zouaves who was kia at Gettysburg. the story of his death and burial is out there. This is most likely the Zouave talked about at the end of this great interview.
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The one-liner at 30:58 made my day.
Would that be “it’s fun to stay there”?
@@addressinggettysburg Yes! Classic.
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2.5 hours of the mysterious red shirt man. Love to see it.
He’s a fun one
1step closer for a town map from the blue and grey mag. Gettysburg's town fight issue
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That is my go to map, I know that some of the information is dated , but a good place to start
Always great to see the mysteries red shirt man!
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Love Ken Rich and his red shirts
he's one of a kind
I remember the blood drain holes being a discussion in an earlier episode and I commented about the loss of blood being required to amass that much. As I reflect upon it a bit more, perhaps the floor was rinsed with buckets of water and the holes were to drain that water?
Could be. Makes sense. I think it was probably not an uncommon thing to do that, if it was ever really done for blood-draining purposes. And if it was, it makes sense that it might be for water. Although with water being scarce, I’m not sure they would have wasted it until fresh water arrived. Maybe they drilled the holes and splashed down the floors after the water arrived. I always thought they just threw sand on the floor to prevent slipping. So maybe to clean up all that mess they drilled?
I like your thinking on this
Thank you for this knowledge to understand the motion in time called Gettysburg.
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Is there a map of civil war Gettysburg with an overlay of a modern map of Gettysburg
I feel like I’ve seen one before or maybe heard about one someone made but hasn’t published. I’ll look around and if I find it I’ll do a show about it.
Good idea , but not at this time
Have you or can you do a show on the fences of PA and how it effected the cam pain?
I have read that the fences in PA confused the Confederates.
In VA there would have been 1 fence for hundreds of miles.
In PA it was every few acers. This effected how and where they march.
I’ve never heard that one. I’ll ask around. If I can find an answer I’ll share it on an episode of AG Today
The fences did hinder the march, the roads were fenced and too narrow, The infantry would march in the fields along the road, The fences also hindered the deployment of the troops, small fields, stonewalls, all odd shaped , pioneers had a lot of problems to deal with.
@@addressinggettysburg thanks
Oh I think I'm getting what you're asking now. There are stories of some Pennsylvania fences being so well-seated that they were hard to push over.
To clear up one misspeak, Quaker Minister John Wright, and the Thomas Cresap's War 1730 to 1738 also followed by the John Diggs Tax War
Thank you for the clarification.
Drilling holes in floor to drain blood has always seemed like overly dramatic writings to me. Finding & using an 1860s hand drill to do something that could be done in minutes with a broom & mop seems time consuming & unnecessary.
I’m with ya
Amblamps
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Where was the old hat factory!?!….. what the heck?’!?!!
Haven’t yiu even read about it?
Say what?
WHAT old hat factory? Never heard of one. There wasn’t a shoe factory either