What Did Confederate Soldiers Leave Behind at GETTYSBURG??? | American Artifact Episode 32
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2024
- In episode 28 of American Artifact, we told the story of how Fred Pfeffer (who is the great great grandfather of Erik Dorr) accidentally unearthed the graves of soldiers from the 11th Mississippi who died in Pickett's Charge on Day 3 of the Battle of Gettysburg. In this episode, we're telling a little bit more of the story of the Pfeffer collection and how some extremely unique artifacts ended up being left behind by the Confederates after the battle.
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So .. there really was a sgt pepper .
Can't get enough of Gettysburg
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I agree. I can’t get enough!
If you can't get enough...!! You have to go there..truely a unforgettable experience..!!
@@runninonmt8259 I’ve been there 3 times already! I need to go back! So much to see.
It's a good thing Erik took such an interest and decided to turn the collection into the museum so we can all have a chance to see the artifacts in person. Not to mention the additional artifacts he has added. I know he has plans for a bigger space. Can't wait to see that happen.
Completely agree.
Literally insanely cool how Erik’s family kept all the artifacts and the passion it sparked in Erik at a young age! It’s people like Erik and yourself that keep history alive and I greatly appreciate the both of you for doing that
Pretty amazing. Thanks!
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I'm always staggered by the sheer amount of expended ordnance found on Civil War battlefields. Bullets, shells, shell fragments, cannonballs, cannister shot, you name it.
It's a miracle anyone lived through those battles.
That was so fascinating! Can't get over the Pfeffer's coming home to find a gun on the kitchen table that is now in the Gettysburg Museum, and that Eric remembers touching it as a child!
Pretty wild!
Very interesting, I loved taking another look at some items! But Erik sharing his family’s story-so cool!
Agreed.
I love this story of this family collection and farm turning into museums of our history. As a direct descendant of a Mississippi confederate soldier who survived that war, I have great respect for you guys on this channel.
Thank you!
What an amazing collection of American History. "NEVER FORGET".
Local here, love the Museum of History! Every time I go there, I seem to always discover something new. Thanks for the video and sharing some awesome history about my favorite place!
Tons of cool stuff there!
That had to be quite a moment when the Pfeffer family returned to their home to find that revolver lying on their kitchen table! Great video, thanks.
I know it's a wonder if it weren't stolen by some of the union soldiers and turned in !!!
This is the stuff You don't read about in books and usually only hear about at a Family's kitchen table- this kitchen table just happened to have a Colt revolver on it!!! LOL You can say what You want, but what all this really shows is that the only difference between people was there uniforms, This is truly AWESOME. Thank You for Your devotion and dedication to History.
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I'm gonna say, the museum curator knows his stuff! Very impressive how much he knows, how many artifacts he has, and how much passion he has for his job. Great videos!
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This last weekend I was detecting in the area there on private land with permission. I made an amazing confederate discovery. I recovered a confederate South Carolina button with some of the uniform still attached. If you would like to see it, I have a video on my channel. Loved the video you did of Erik's museum. I personally know him.
Thanks for another great episode JD. On another note congrats on your interview on the Today show this morning. You are heading for the big time my friend. It's sad for the reason for the interview. I hate seeing all of the greatest generation passing away.
I hope to visit Gettysburg some day
I’d spend hours in the museum for sure, drinking it all in 👍🏻
You’ll love it!
I visited this museum with my wife and children in the 1980s. I've studied the Civil War since I was a kid in the 1960s, and I absolutely fell in love with this place! We also visited President Eisenhower's farm in Gettysburg. I'm a disabled army veteran of the Vietnam War, and I was like a kid in a candy store as I looked over everything on display here. The stories behind the artifacts is what really grabs you. The offense was so far ahead of the defense during the Civil War that most of the battles were nothing but human slaughter.
The Gettysburg episode gave me chills. When we were young, we took our two oldest all over the country to historic sites to instill a love of history. Since I was put in a wheelchair I can't do it anymore and that's the saddest part of me now.
More great items and family related can't get much better than that
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Thank JD. Always interesting to hear the family side of things. So tragic but yet interesting. Thanks again for all of y'alls hard work.
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Erik is so knowledgeable about his collection. Great work 👍
Yeah, he knows his stuff.
Cheers JD, a fabulous museum and an incredible family history, great stuff.
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I’m from York and haven’t lived there since 2008 but you literally put out the best videos! Living on the eastern shore of va and just watching everything you all do is so great! Editing too! TY!
Thanks! Appreciate that. Hopefully people are sharing these out with their friends. 🙂
Nobody does war history like you do JD! It was a brilliant move from the start when you brought people in for your videos and with the relationships you have created with people like Erik. I have not missed one episode and don't plan to.
Thanks! Definitely enjoy having other voices on the channel.
your content is always great. one of the best history youtubers and your civil war stuff is right on.
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Your an absolute legend brother! Keep up the beyond awesome work! Keep preserving history and stay safe!
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I've been to Gettysburg maybe 35 years ago. A fascinating battlefield I must say.
Hello and thank you for sharing your family history and artifacts. My great grandfather came to America in 1865 from Germany with his wife and children and owned a pistol but quite older such as in your collection. I too feel the connection to them when I hold it. Amazing stories that connect us to our past and make us the people we have became.
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"When the smoke cleared at Gettysberg" by Sheldon is a good book about the townspeople during the aftermath of the battle. They provided homes and buildings to house and care for the wounded and collected the dead. In following years tours and reunions were held. Interesting anecdotes.
I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!
I can imagine the stink. I collected my neighbour's cat from the roadway where she had been run over. She had been there for 3 days when I returned and she really smelled. I can imagine hundreds after 3 days and more before they were buried. not to mention horses etc Every fly for 50 miles must have been there.
Thanks for that good reading list addition
@@BigLisaFan I live in Gettysburg Pennsylvania and it is said that many of the citizens of Gettysburg would carry handkerchiefs soaked in lavender oil to hold over or under their noses to block the stench of decomposition of the corpses and the smell of sulphur from the black powder fired that smelled like rotten eggs that hung over the town and made worse by the rain that fell for days after the battle where the run off from the fields spread the smell around.
@@roya.cathcartjr.5042 I can believe it.
Visited Gettysburg - and the Gettysburg Museum of History - 2 weeks ago, amazing museum, don't know how I missed it before. It amazed me how many residents of the town are so uninterested/bored/sick of the history of the town and battlefield and I wish I could sell my house and move there. I was always quite jealous of folks like he late Chet Small (original owner of the Horse Soldier but I bought relics from him when his shop was a barrn in his back yard) and Mr. Pfeffer who grew up in the area and have an amzaing collection of artifacts. I really love the plates of relics, don't know what I'd give just for that case with relics from each part of the battlefield.
What a great way to learn history, from ones family. What a family tradition Erik has!
Absolutely!
Awesome video!
Thanks so much for this!
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JD I just love your channel and I hope and pray it will never end and you will never take it to a large and commercialized platform. Its perfect just the way it is. you make it like your one on one while telling the story and facts.
Appreciate that. Thank you.
Gosh, I was in Gettysburg a couple of years ago; but somehow, I did not notice the museum. I need to get back to Gettysburg in the near future and visit the museum as it sure contains a lot of historical relics.
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Excellent, as usual, JD and Erik.
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Just saw you on NBC this morning. I thought that was pretty cool👍👍
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Nothing like having a ready made museum. I now I would have loved going to visit him if he was my grandfather so I could rummage thru all of his civil war relics would have been awesome. Cool video.
Thanks! Pretty amazing place with a great backstory.
This is truly a remarkable collection of private held artifacts. Awesome video!
Another great example of Museum of Gettysburg and another great example seeing the relics of the past so we can get an idea of what happened in those times and what people done when the war was going on so take care of JD may God bless your family and be safe
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JD- you and Eric are the best American history duo on TH-cam. You've built something very special.
Never gets old. Thank you.
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JD, I had a chance to visit the museum today and meet Eric Dorr. I purchased Fierce Valor book and he was nice enough to take a photo with me. Thank you for all of your work and thank you Eric for your life long collection and sharing it with the public.
Awesome! So glad that you were able to visit!
I can't wait to get to this museum... Knowing this was Erick's great great grandfathers home makes it more interesting ♥️♥️♥️
It’s something else. And yes, the museum being a Civil War building adds to it.
Nice items. Thanks.
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Very very neat, and we are very fortunate that you guys share this priceless information. Thank you!
Thank you JD for bringing everyone all the wonderful stories and for teaming up with Erik. Plan to be in Gettysburg this fall and will be at The Gettysburg Museum of History to hopefully be able to shake Erik's hand...it would be icing on the cake if you happened to also be visiting! Love all the work the two of you produce!
You continue to put out such quality content. Very much appreciated. Thank you. Absolutely well done, everytime. I look forward to all your videos. Be well x🖤x
Erik, the passion you show for your family and it's history is impressive and the pride you have for your hometown is impressive as well.
Thank you so much! I enjoyed this!
Awesome! Thanks!
How did I miss this one ? Loved it thank you both !
I love this channel. I mean it so awesome to learn from a guy that loves Military History like I do. Heck! History in general. This guy loves it! Eats sleeps and drinks it! It's freaking awesome.
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This is my favorite history museum ever! I am lucky enough to have purchased several relics from the museum including a musket ball from the Arkansas regiment that was found on the field of Pickett's Charge. I also purchased a union bullet that was recovered from devil's den.
You never disappoint
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Awesome show. Thank you.
Outstanding presentation!!!! So cool
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Amazing historical artifacts. Really need to get to Gettysburg someday.
Absolutely. It’s an amazing place.
For now we can go and explore the history. Time will tell if the powers that be make it a restricted area and start pulling down the monuments and cancel culture is successful in erasing whatever is there. Same as they did couple years ago. It was awful.
Very cool! Thanks again for sharing.
Ive commented previously, that i really like JD's personality and humility, but i also can't help but like Eric either. The knowledge is important for the channel to work, but it's the personalities i really invest in. Are you actually friends? You really compliment each other well.
Yes, we’re good friends. Thank you.
Thanks JD for another interesting and cool video! That is so cool that Eric's family was there.
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Fascinating family story my friend! I hope to visit Gettysburg someday! I've lived in East Tennessee/Southwestern Virginia my entire life and never got to make the drive. I've hunted Native American artifacts since I was a boy in the 70s and never found anything tied to the civil war. I'd have a heart attack!
This is awesome! Relics do indeed make such a historic event more real. Eric does a great job!
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Beautiful Colt Army revolver; well preserved.
What a wonderful way to grow up. Seeing all those artefacts and learning from them. Great stuff...
that Colt is awesome
I agree.
I so wish I could of meet up with you in Gettysburg on your meet and greet. I love what you do, and it shows you love what you do! You and Erik are such a great team. This really brings the Civil War to life! I've so got to get to Gettysburg, it's been way to many years. Thank you JD, for another Great Video!
Watching these videos is way better than Watching anything on TV...this channel gives you both sides of the story. People who don't care about this history has to remember it was our ancestors fighting this war....on both sides
Another fantastic episode!
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Thank you J.D. and Erik!🙋♂️🏍💨
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Great footage. Awesome civil war relics.
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This is an exceptional episode! Well done.
Great collection!
Loving all content JD ! And Gettysburg is my cathedral and I treat it as such and love it there!
Love your American history guys I've watched this twice now 👍 would love to visit one day thanks very much Glyn uk 🇬🇧
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These videos are great man.
I have been watching your channel for quit a while now, and I am going to be honest with you, it is woefully underseen. I share with people every chance I get. You should be over a million subs by now. I appreciate and respect so much what you do. So many of the place that you have been, I would have never been able to see, certainly not in the way you present it. I wonder if you have ever considered doing a colab or visiting with The Aquachigger, Beau Ouimette. He has a channel here on YT, and is a Metal Detectorist, and a great lover of history and the Civil War specifically. He has a great collection of artifacts that he has dug up over the years, and preserved. I would bet he would take you hunting, show you how to "detect" and show you his collection. I think you could probably get a video or two pretty easy with him. Either way, please never stop what you are doing, so people like me, can enjoy and continue to learn. Thank You
Thanks. I really do appreciate that. Looking to do some collabs at some point.
Always educational and always entertaining. ❤️
Loved hearing about Erik's family history ❤️ hi from Canada 🇨🇦 would love to come visit someday
Love the history you bring to youtube, Thank you
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Awesome. Thank you for sharing.
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That revolver is an incredible piece of History! It looks like that day it was made!
Well done. My son and have learned more from you than in his history classes. We will be coming to GB this month. I hope we get to meet both of you.
How considerate of the Confederates that visited your house, to leave their Colt behind as sort of a rent payment and didn't burn it down like their counterparts visiting down South.
Very cool!! Making it up to see the Gettysburg battle fields has been on my short list for way too long
I love this so friggin much!! Thanks for sharing!!l Been to Gettysburg twice!!
Love the places you take me to! Thanks!
that is so awesome love learning all the history
Such an AMAZING collection of artefacts!! XXXX 👍💖
Thanks. This was an excellent clip. We all want to be a Pepper too! Sound like a great family, and grandfather!
Amazing video about the Peffer collection. Talk about a great pic. Like watching back to the future. Your great great grandpa and his great grandpa in the pic.
I see how he ended up a history buff. Awesome video as always
Yay more Gettysburg videos 😆
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As always,,,AWESOME VIDEO......................
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Great video!
Really interesting and well made.
Of crap I missed this one and I was very pleased to see more civil war in this channel very well done video and this information is new to me, bravo very nice
Really good stuff. I haven't been yet but my dad did earlier this year and met Eric. I was so peanut butter and jealous! He purchased a copy of Hang Tough and gave me first crack at it. I really enjoyed it. I've idolized Dick Winters since I saw BoB and subsequently read the book( I'm up to 5 times reading it.) Love your stuff HT, keep em coming.
Fascinating stuff!
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I love to visit Gettysburg and have been in that museum many times to see the relics of that war still in the hands of the family who collected them.
I haven’t been to Gettysburg for some years now. But I don’t live that far away. Very much looking forward to visiting this museum this year. Sorry I missed meeting you guys in person a few weeks ago.
You guys don't make me want to visit Gettysburg. No. You guys make me want to MOVE to Gettysburg lol. First class content. Always.
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These family collections are very rare! I'm sure Erik is very thankful that his ancestors kept the artifacts. I'm coming to the conclusion that Erik is a rather rare, living artifact himself.