Gettysburg: America’s Deadliest Battle

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel  4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

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    • @brianwilliams9813
      @brianwilliams9813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ok

    • @kulturfreund6631
      @kulturfreund6631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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      @FerrisMacWheel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @kulturfreund6631
      @kulturfreund6631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@FerrisMacWheel It´s bald, but you're right.
      Cheers.

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      @QuizmasterLaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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  • @MewxPro
    @MewxPro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    Lest we forget the Civil War was a battle of brother against brother. Not just metaphorically, but literally. My third great grandfather was drafted in the Missouri Guard for the Union while his brother joined the Confederacy.

    • @jasondouglas6755
      @jasondouglas6755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That would be one hell of a family reunion.

    • @The_Conqueeftador
      @The_Conqueeftador 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Missori was neutral and were called the bushwackers. They hated the Union after the Union backed Kansas Jay hawkers abducted the wives and daughters of the bushwackers and imprisoned them in a hotel basement. Then they burned the hotel down claiming it was an accident. ( a cowards tactic because women and children were supposed to be left alone ) and lead to the retaliation by the sacking and pillaging of lawerence Kansas. Which then kicked off bleeding Kansas. They did it to themselves. It had nothing to do with slavery like this alternative history peddling channel. Your family were likely not enemies.

    • @paulceglinski3087
      @paulceglinski3087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I understand completely. My Mother's great grandfather joined the Confederacy in Missouri along with a brother. While 3 other brothers joined the Federals. Only 2 returned unhurt, while one came home missing a leg and a hand. Of the others, one is buried in Tennessee and the other in Georgia. My great grandmother, his daughter, was old when I was a little boy and she told me some stories about him and his brother, the Federal. They bought property together and were nieghbor's all the rest of their lives. Odd how they fought against one another, but after it was business as usual.

    • @avenaoat
      @avenaoat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@The_Conqueeftador Almost all border states (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and the new states in 1863 West Virginia), except for Delaware, which was almost 100% unionist the people were divided between the unionists and confederats. West Virgina was 50-50% and the others had unionist soldier majority. However the Confederat Tennessee gave 30 000 WHITE unionist soldiers, the confederat Arkansas 9000 WHITE unionist soldiers and the confederat North Carolina gave 10 000 WHITE unionist soldiers. Alabamian (white) unionist cavalry regiment was the bodyguard of Sherman's headquarter during the Georgia and Carolinas campaign! Except for South Carolina white unionist soldiers were in all deep south states!
      Missoury was the only SLAVE HOLDIND STATE where Abraham Lincoln won 2 (TWO) COUNTIES ! Gasconade (with 0.9% slave population) and St Louis (with 2.3% slaves) counties at all! Missouri gave 10,9% votes for Abraham Lincoln in 1860!
      Missouri had areas with unionist and confederat majority sentiment! St Lous and near counties (as Gasconade), the Iowa border counties (with low slavery population) and the Ozark region counties were the stronger unionist areas. The strongest confederat sentiment area was the Missouri river area's counties. It was called Little Diexie with higher slave population between 37,1% - 10,3% slaves! BTW the Arkansas unionists lived in the Ozark region of Arkansas next to the unionist Ozark region of Missouri with low% slave population!
      Interesting Mark Twain had confederat sympthy untill 1863, he was the member of the confederat sympthy militia in Hannibal Missouri, but this sympathy was not too strong because his brother could bring him to Neveda. Mark Twain became unionist in 1863 in Nevada!
      South Illinois had a little confederation sympathy movement in 1861, but during the Civil War this became marginal!

    • @williambrock3534
      @williambrock3534 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Similar story in my family. I think most people forget how literally the brother against brother part was.

  • @milan190291
    @milan190291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +529

    Verdun could be an interesting Geographic subject

    • @331coolguy
      @331coolguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Milan Van der Graaf a very interesting one.

    • @AMX-30B
      @AMX-30B 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Milan Van der Graaf yes

    • @oweno4478
      @oweno4478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Fields of Verden, and the battle has begun, father and son fall one by one under the gun

    • @darknet180
      @darknet180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Agreed. The Somme would be a good one as well. If we are going WWII, the battle of Stalingrad would be a good one

    • @anthonyskrinjar8375
      @anthonyskrinjar8375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes!

  • @gunnarhakonsson2477
    @gunnarhakonsson2477 4 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    Aaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy
    I live in Gettysburg.
    And if you dont love history or drinking it sucks.
    Good thing I love both

    • @NappaSaiyanGames
      @NappaSaiyanGames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I don't know man summer traffic sucks. and the influx of people who cant navigate a roundabout doesn't help. but hey we got a taco bell now.

    • @IC3DZOMBIE
      @IC3DZOMBIE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NappaSaiyanGames the squares circle makes me wanna die but everything is else cool plus that cool candy shop has something cool to try whenever I go

    • @NappaSaiyanGames
      @NappaSaiyanGames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@IC3DZOMBIE Yeah, try some of the lennin-ade or the rootbeer in the back that stuffs fantastic.

    • @IC3DZOMBIE
      @IC3DZOMBIE 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NappaSaiyanGames that's what I got first time I went

    • @DanielBannon
      @DanielBannon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NappaSaiyanGames ...to the latter, now we know why Pickett-Pettigrew were 'chargin'!

  • @jediknight131
    @jediknight131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Simon, thanks for that video. I have been a Civil War Re-enactor for 18 years, and have been to Gettysburg many times. This battle never fails to leave an impact on me. Every year in November, during the week in which the Gettysburg Address was delivered, re-enactors from both sides march through Gettysburg in remembrance, and deliver speeches at the Gettysburg National Cemetery in memory of the fallen on both sides.

    • @donrowe8022
      @donrowe8022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No re-enactments this year i heard. Thank god, it would be great to have a summer where tourists went someplace else to visit and cause traffic jams. Bad enough we get the biker douches in town for a week. I hate living near gettysburg

    • @misledprops
      @misledprops ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Should probably stop honoring both sides. Nobody needs those martyrs. Teach history without glorifying racists.

    • @Squidgawddd96
      @Squidgawddd96 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@misledprops lol they should find something better to do with there time than playing dress up 😂 losers

    • @jessicataylor4071
      @jessicataylor4071 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@misledprops not everyone in the Confederacy was pro-slavery nor was everyone in the union anti-slavery. Some like General Lee joined the confederacy specifically because they did not want to fight against their brothers but would rather fight side by side with them.

    • @maxfullerton5228
      @maxfullerton5228 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@misledpropsNo. U are wrong. These were soldiers. They fought for what they believed in. Even if it was racism , they DIED for what they believed in. Can you say the same ?

  • @anumeon
    @anumeon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    For anyone who finds the battle interesting. Watch the movie "Gettysburg" by Ronald Maxwell. Truly a masterpiece of storytelling and cinematography. (Not to mention actually filmed on the historic battlefield. As well as having thousands of volunteers helping out

    • @clairenollet2389
      @clairenollet2389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I saw the movie when it came out; I lived in Delaware. There were knots of excited guys in the seats laying out maps of the battlefield before the picture started, and enthusiastically taking out the maps again at intermission. Some of them were in Civil War replica uniforms. I know that almost all the soldiers in the movie were Civil War re-enactors. I often wondered how many of the men studying the maps had been extras in the movie. I just adore it when people are enamored by history.

    • @pyromania1018
      @pyromania1018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      As well-made as the film is, it's heaped in "Lost Cause" BS, though not as much as its thoroughly disgusting prequel.

    • @6j6666
      @6j6666 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wildy inaccurate though.

  • @Lint6
    @Lint6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I live about 45 minute away from Gettysburg and...yea...going there you just feel something. Walking around the battlefield, seeing the High Watermark of the Confederacy, reading all the markers about the units that fought there. Its really incredible and I'd highly advise anyone who can to go there

  • @lindseyrollins9441
    @lindseyrollins9441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +922

    Would a video on the Trail of Tears interest anyone else? I think it is tragically under taught subject in American History.

    • @coreytaylor447
      @coreytaylor447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      the first and hopefully last time a president overruled the supreme court. lets hope nothing like this ever happens again

    • @ceirwynsinclair4198
      @ceirwynsinclair4198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I would cry through it, but I think it should be talked about more!

    • @TERoss-jk9ny
      @TERoss-jk9ny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      My grandmothers grandma died on the Trail of Tears, they just pushed her into a ditch.

    • @jeffbrooks5580
      @jeffbrooks5580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yea I'd like to see a video on the trail of tears in school in Florida they only briefly talked I think they said the Seminoles did something maybe they dident want to go idk

    • @suzyq2389
      @suzyq2389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TERoss-jk9ny , I am so sorry for your horrible loss. My grandmothers were priceless in our families. I never studied this history (was a poor ztudent so dunno if it was or wasn't taught. But there are signs where i lived in Chattanooga by the river that spoke of the T of T and i had sense to look up what happened.

  • @williamparks2203
    @williamparks2203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    My great-great-great grandfather, George Whitlock, fought at Gettysburg for the 54th New York Infantry. The unit roster said he was 18 years old when he enlisted, but he was actually only 15 years of age.

    • @RodolphosTechchannel
      @RodolphosTechchannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That’s illegal, he should be sued

    • @steveconsultant4523
      @steveconsultant4523 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      A lot of people had family at Gettysburg, some on both sides. It was that kind of war.

    • @steveconsultant4523
      @steveconsultant4523 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The European Powers (England, France, Austria, etc) Sent observers to both sides of the battle. They were appalled and horrified at the death tolls in Civil War battlefields. After the war was over, they wrote papers saying that level of death was strictly an American perversion.
      In the next major war, (WW I) fout sixtyyears later, they sadly learned otherwise.

    • @Colonel_Overkill
      @Colonel_Overkill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@steveconsultant4523 you sell them short. They learned many a lesson from the meat grinder, sadly every lesson they learned they drew the wrong conclusion from.
      The reality was Getty was the first full battle on that scale to occur after the industrial revolution. The supply techniques used by the north and idiotic charges by the confederacy were noted and eventually applied to the European wars.

    • @charbella3753
      @charbella3753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm "Getty's People, too, like YOU! My great great grandfather was John McQuire. And all I know from my research is that he fought in the war. And was hanged by his thumbs. And that the census bureau stated that hat he didn't have a family. But he DID or I wouldn't be here!

  • @WhiteRabbit1209
    @WhiteRabbit1209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I’ve lived in MD my entire life, and my house is less then an hour from Gettysburg. I take my children to the memorial every year, and we are still fascinated with its history to this day.

  • @rufousdederp
    @rufousdederp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My dad was born in Gettysburg and I have been there so many times I have lost count. I don't regret a single trip. Even if you aren't a war nut it is still a neat place to visit. Thanks for the great video Simon 👍

  • @jellysharkbat
    @jellysharkbat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    Simon: Time to talk about the other thing everyone thinks about when talking about Gettysburg!
    Me: The ghosts?
    Simon: The Gettysburg Address.
    Me: ...Oh.

    • @MrTradisrad
      @MrTradisrad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was super happy he didn't say ghosts hahaha...I expected it too

    • @MrTradisrad
      @MrTradisrad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Having lived there and having taken hundreds of 3 mile runs at night through the battlegrounds...I can promise you ghosts aren't real...the people who go on ghost tours in Gettysburg are pretty freaky though

    • @calwianka
      @calwianka 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great topic!

    • @shindari
      @shindari 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MrTradisrad Kind of like the people who believe that Aliens are responsible for Human civilization on Planet Earth. It takes a weirdo to come up with weird ideas, after all.

    • @boomznbladez405
      @boomznbladez405 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      dead ass me too

  • @BioHazard82
    @BioHazard82 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We recently covered the Civil War in school and my teacher finds the Gettysburg Address so profound that he apparently can’t read through it without coming to tears. Goes to show how impactful Lincoln’s words are still today. Great Video!

    • @Superbatmanbro
      @Superbatmanbro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can't fault them for being in tears about the war. It was a horrific thing that happened and many family members fought on opposite sides and a lot of people died and Towns fight against each other and were burner down.

  • @MGSSAB
    @MGSSAB 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Will never forget reading the stories and personal accounts of survivors of the Union Artillery Battery Regiments and them loading "Double Canister" during Pickett's Charge and them just seeing clouds of pink mist, body parts and chunks of meat from the charging lines of Confederates flying above the clouds of smoke from the cannons at point blank range. Absolutely mental. American Civil War has always been one of my favorite topics. More on the civil war please! Maybe Harper's Ferry or the Battle of Antietam?

    • @scoobycarr5558
      @scoobycarr5558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's said that canister was the type of shot that made howitzers and cannons into big rifled shotguns and thereby inflicting maximum casualties on the enemy.

  • @texastmblwd69
    @texastmblwd69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Simon, I want to compliment you on this video. I know American history is not taught in UK schools, so awesome job with your research. Also, you speak with great feeling and passion and these are the feelings that every American feels when thinking about the sacrifices made at Gettysburg. Well done, sir!

    • @garylancaster8612
      @garylancaster8612 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm British and was taught American history at High School. It fascinated me and I've made two trips to the USA to visit historical sites, including many battlefields. The first one I went to was Gettysburg.

    • @stuartmorris6299
      @stuartmorris6299 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shows what 'you know'. We are taught American history, what little there is.

    • @ManiaMac1613
      @ManiaMac1613 ปีที่แล้ว

      We Americans are taught shamefully little of our own history in schools. State governments and families like to punish teachers for telling kids parts of our history they don't like.

  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access 4 ปีที่แล้ว +421

    Humans are always fighting, that's why we bigfoots just stay deep in the forest

    • @70snostalgia
      @70snostalgia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Smart.

    • @mrswampgass2186
      @mrswampgass2186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Just seen him in a Michigan brewery

    • @Ruby321123
      @Ruby321123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good to see you again! Sasquatch & supermodels have been haunting my dreams of late. I have strange dreams.

    • @AnnabelRoss6789
      @AnnabelRoss6789 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a great philosophy to live by.

    • @jamesflynn4741
      @jamesflynn4741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Biggy, where’s my $20? You owe me bro.

  • @philbuglass4857
    @philbuglass4857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my favourite places. I live about 15 miles away, and as a transplanted Brit, the history of the place just pulls me... Most Americans are fascinated by castles and other old history, but to me, the history in places like Gettysburg is so recent that you can almost hear the echoes of the cannons...

    • @italia689
      @italia689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gettysburg is ours so of course we would be a little more interested in castles. I am not surprised you are fascinated about one of the U.S.'s deadliest battles. I'm not saying castles are a shrug for you.

    • @italia689
      @italia689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also, look up the battle of Franklin, Tennessee. You'll be flabbergasted.

  • @breeb2993
    @breeb2993 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    your way of telling stories grips the listener simon, love your work! keep it up

    • @breeb2993
      @breeb2993 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bubby Zack hopefully if he keeps atter he’ll get a break

    • @brianbreen1026
      @brianbreen1026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Breen er,.Is Breen your surname?If so your name is Irish.The name means sorrow.Dan Breen was a prominent Irish commander who fought during
      The Tan war,in Ireland.The Irish were the first to break from the British empire.They invented a new type of war fare urban guerilla war.

    • @breeb2993
      @breeb2993 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brian Breen yessir i’ve looked into the origins as well, it’s super interesting to know where you come from and to meet another Breen!

  • @FoolOfATuque
    @FoolOfATuque 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If you are near Gettysburg go and see it. In the museum they have the cyclorama which has been restored to its original glory. It is a 360 degree painting that was painted after Gettysburg. Cycloramas were the way they would communicate major world events to towns all across the US. After an event happened painters would paint these paintings, cut them up and ship it all over to describe the event to different towns. You can see pictures of it, but you have to see it in person to really appreciate the scale of it.

  • @Ruby321123
    @Ruby321123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Bravo to Morris for writing this one! The closing remarks were particularly poetic.

  • @grugnotice7746
    @grugnotice7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    That one hair sticking out of the left side of your head should be removed on camera by your sponsor.

    • @hlakegollum1
      @hlakegollum1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      He should use the dollar shave club.

    • @Aramis419
      @Aramis419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      That was driving me nuts, too!

    • @17HMR
      @17HMR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Once seen, can never be unseen.

    • @regulator7332
      @regulator7332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Made me chuckle

    • @jerelull2619
      @jerelull2619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Thomas, once you pointed it out, I found it impossible not to see, darn it.

  • @lostsoldier212
    @lostsoldier212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The Wordsmithing in this video was great...tedsybear's picnic and Clay's hemroids...dog's breakfast bagged kibble...great job on this video.

  • @joshperry7236
    @joshperry7236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I lived in Pittsburgh and used to visit Gettysburg all the time years ago. I find it the most interesting battle in US history. It’s weird standing on a place that so many people parished. It’s strange.

  • @jmonsted
    @jmonsted 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I got insanely lucky when the Rotary Youth Exchange program chose Gettysburg as my destination. I didn't just get to experience the American life i had requested on the forms, but i got an incredible historical lesson to go along with it. Besides that, the people there are just plain lovely.
    If any Gettysburg residents see this, thank you.

  • @jaytrace1006
    @jaytrace1006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    “ that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth,”-mic drop

    • @TheWolfsnack
      @TheWolfsnack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Y'all think the Charge of the Light Brigade was dumb ass? ...here...hold my beer....

    • @69johndz
      @69johndz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I read that Lincoln dabbed afterwards.

    • @philgiglio7922
      @philgiglio7922 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheWolfsnack...90 years later, same day 25 Oct there was another famous/empty charge.
      As one wag included a 'padding' that included the line from the poem: " the whole world wondered" regarding Bull Halsey's run toward the decoy Northern fleet. Needless to say Bull wasn't happy.

    • @chrisharmon8858
      @chrisharmon8858 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Only having two parties in charge of our federal government since the civil war I think is causing us to loose the OF, BY and FOR. It seems like they've been creating their own little kingdoms for quite some time. From time to time they like to make us think we matter but then quickly take even that away. Makes me a little sad.

  • @clintlewis8122
    @clintlewis8122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The actual death toll was much higher than 7K. In the Civil War only those who were killed outright were counted as killed. The toll was over 10,000 when you realize the badly wounded soon died and gangrene took many more directly from the wounds from the battle is counted. I have visited the battlefield 5 times and counting.

  • @zachruby270
    @zachruby270 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've lived near Gettysburg my whole life and have been there multiple times for school field trips, passing through to other areas, and just driving around because of the history. It's easy to forget such an important part of history when it's in your backyard.

  • @jpjpjp453
    @jpjpjp453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    "The men of the 1st Minnesota are most remembered for their actions on July 2, 1863, during the second day's fighting at Gettysburg, where the regiment prevented the Confederates from pushing the Federals off of Cemetery Ridge, a position that was to prove crucial in the battle.
    Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, commander of II Corps, ordered the regiment to assault a much larger enemy force (a brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox), telling Col. William Colvill to take the enemy's colors. The fateful charge bought the time needed for other forces to be brought up. During the charge, 215 members of the 262 men who were present at the time became casualties in five minutes, including the regimental commander, Col. William Colvill, and all but three of his captains.
    The unit's flag fell five times and was raised again each time. The 47 survivors rallied back to General Hancock under the senior surviving officer, Captain Nathan S. Messick. The 82% casualty rate stands to this day as the largest loss by any surviving military unit in U.S. history during a single day's engagement,"

    • @Russo-Delenda-Est
      @Russo-Delenda-Est 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Minnesota was the first state to send troops to answer president Lincoln's call. My great, great, etc. uncle was deployed from Fort Snelling, by barge, down the Mississippi, to the battlefields of the south.

    • @DanTaninecz
      @DanTaninecz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Russo-Delenda-Est I grew up in Virginia. I love Minnesota and am planning to move there in a few years.

    • @Russo-Delenda-Est
      @Russo-Delenda-Est 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DanTaninecz It's gorgeous country, at least it is once you adapt to 100° in the summer and -30° in the winter. Still no place I'd rather be though. 😊👍

    • @shindari
      @shindari 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And yet, they would be tragically overshadowed, on that same afternoon, by the heroics of the 20th Maine, who actually ran out of ammunition against a relentless Confederate assault that threatened to take "Little Round Top" and completely cave in the Union's Eastern Flank, thus losing them the battle, and probably the war. Instead, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (a simple college professor prior to the Civil War's outbreak) ordered his men to "fix bayonets" and essentially charge down the hill, AT the enemy, who was fervently and relentlessly rushing up to meet them. The Confederates were so utterly flabbergasted at the union regiment charging down upon them with bayonets, that they promptly turned tail and fled back down the hill, never to go up it again. In an engagement that was doomed to failure before it began, and yet got turned into a highly improbable victory, the mini-battle of "Little Round Top" is the reason that Pickett's Charge needed to even happen on July 3rd in the first place. Hence... it is quite simply the reason Gettysburgh was won.

    • @jeremyperala839
      @jeremyperala839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Great place if you're a liberal and love high taxes.

  • @willysweetwonkajoe1432
    @willysweetwonkajoe1432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Damn Simon, those last words u gave at the end made me shed a tear for hope...Simon is like the British Lincoln

  • @AcktongueBaby
    @AcktongueBaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    I recommend Ken Burn's Civil War documentary series on Amazon Prime Video as of 3/2/2020.

    • @warwickeng5491
      @warwickeng5491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's a very well done documentary, it gives a comprehensive look into the war, in a very impartial way. Plus that soundtrack, damn it's good.

    • @chinaski6593
      @chinaski6593 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't find it. Is it regional locked? I live on Chile btw.

    • @AcktongueBaby
      @AcktongueBaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@chinaski6593 It's possible; different countries have different access to Netflix content. A way around this is with a reputable VPN service.

    • @AcktongueBaby
      @AcktongueBaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Giulio Ricciardi Oh no!!!!

    • @the_exegete
      @the_exegete 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just remember as you're watching it that Shelby Foote is 100% on the side of the Confederates.
      Also, when you get to the end and (spoiler!) they show the reunion of the soldiers years after the war, take careful note of what kind of soldiers were not invited to that lovefest between yanks and rebs. Here's a hint: not a lot of contrasting skin tones at that parade. Ask yourself why that might have been.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1:40 - Chapter 1 - Birth of a town
    4:40 - Chapter 2 - Birth of a nation
    8:50 - Mid roll ads
    10:10 - Chapter 3 - Death of an union
    14:25 - Chapter 4 - Before the battle
    18:05 - Chapter 5 - The battle
    21:35 - Chapter 6 - "Four score & seven years ago"

  • @JSkyGemini
    @JSkyGemini 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I'm a Canadian who's family took 2 weeks every summer to drive down to Myrtle Beach SC, and almost always would stop & stay in Gettysburg the first night. We did it for decades. Very interesting history there and some people say you can still find arrow heads if you know where to look.

    • @roydrink
      @roydrink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Arrowheads?

    • @deeplorable8988
      @deeplorable8988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why would you find arrowheads? Certainly not from the battle of Gettysburg.

  • @chuckmcdiscs4586
    @chuckmcdiscs4586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a Mainer, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is an absolute legend. You shouldn't have glossed over Little Round Top so quickly, but good video otherwise. I just about threw up in my mouth when I talked to a high school student in my town and realized that they had no idea who he was and they weren't teaching anything about him in history class. Real Mainers will never forget the "Lion of the Round Top". He was wounded several times during the war and basically considered on his deathbed after the 2nd Battle of Petersburg. His story is very interesting, I encourage fans of history to check it out.

    • @deborahparr3451
      @deborahparr3451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm glad you were nice while voicing your preference. Simon does a marvelous job and can't include everything.

  • @lylet100
    @lylet100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks for making History so much more interesting then my High School days. My wife and I visited Gettysburg and they have done a fantastic job making it come alive. A definite item for everyone's BUCKET list.
    Again Thankyou

    • @AndrewVelonis
      @AndrewVelonis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I brought my Boy Scout troop there. First-rate experience.

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Super, a non emotional concise assessment of the American civil war:
    No singing, flutes, drums or fanfare
    No grand statements, excellent.

    • @loriwatt1269
      @loriwatt1269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just Deck the Halls.
      24:00

  • @jebbroham1776
    @jebbroham1776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Standing atop Cemetery Ridge and looking out over the many other places there where American blood was shed brought me to tears just visualizing the slaughter that happened all around me in only 3 days that summer in 1963. I found the monument erected in memory of my fellow Texans who fought in the Texas Brigade alongside general Hood's forces during the battle and paid my respects. I did that at every single monument I came across while I was there, and there are a lot of them scattered about the battlefield. It was a very moving experience to have stood at the high water mark of my southern brethren. I couldn't stop the tears.

  • @eds7033
    @eds7033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good global perspective about Gettysburg and Lincoln’s address. Thanks! Having visited twice, I have two take aways. First, the meaning of Hallowed Ground becomes clear. And a visit to Gettysburg’s should be on every American’s bucket list.

  • @equalityforallhumans
    @equalityforallhumans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    When I went there...you could feel the death. My heart went out to those who fell on that ground. It definitely weighs heavy in the soil. May peace be within their souls. Be free from pain my brethren. Humans be free.

    • @Jen39x
      @Jen39x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Coexisting Reality And for me Antietam is even worse than Gettysburg. That’s one place I’m willing to believe there are ghosts.

    • @TheMCD1989
      @TheMCD1989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Sam Armstrong It was the Confederate invasion of Maryland, fought near Antietam Creek I think. It's famous as the single bloodiest day in US history. Bloody Antietam. The precursor to Gettysburg in a way.

    • @joshuanida5457
      @joshuanida5457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Only the dead have seen the end of war" -Plato

    • @AttyDouro22
      @AttyDouro22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Sam Armstrong After the Seven Days and Second Manassas, Lee felt confident enough to invade Maryland. A copy of his orders, showing his force was split, was captured by the Union. McClellan chased him and Lee made a stand at Sharpsburg, or Antietam, and his army fought for its life, timely arrival by AP Hill, and McClellans timidity, saved Lee who was able to leave the field, claiming stalemate

  • @duckydarrick7460
    @duckydarrick7460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've been to Gettysburg and it's very powerful. Great job, Simon, one of your best.

  • @1993ka24det
    @1993ka24det 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That fuzz above your left ear is mesmerizing, I can't stop looking at it

    • @carlswenson5403
      @carlswenson5403 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah one more shout out to dollar shave club

    • @dansecor8753
      @dansecor8753 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you meant mesmerizing, and yes that fuzz had me transfixed. If someone ever later mentions Gettysburg I will partly associate it with Simon's fuzz.

    • @1993ka24det
      @1993ka24det 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dansecor8753 Ya auto correct

  • @charlesstuart7290
    @charlesstuart7290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Everett admitted to Lincoln he had done in a few minutes what he couldn't do in two hours.

  • @NegiTaiMetal011
    @NegiTaiMetal011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I got to be interested and fascinated in Gettysburg from listening to Iced Earth's epic Gettysburg trilogy from their Glorious Burden record, which to me is among their best. From then on, I got to read books about Gettysburg, including The Killer Angels novel, and watched the epic movie. I would love to go to Gettysburg one day.

    • @williamkoscielniak820
      @williamkoscielniak820 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imo that is by far the greatest piece of music they ever recorded. The third part in particular is just sublime.

    • @AndrewVelonis
      @AndrewVelonis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, you would.

  • @AskAScreenwriter
    @AskAScreenwriter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Very moving, especially coming from a non-US citizen. Thank you!

  • @boomznbladez405
    @boomznbladez405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Good video man. I know you have someone research these topics from you, but coming you being from across the pond, it was nice to see such depth and respect for the topic.

  • @JohnDoe-pv2iu
    @JohnDoe-pv2iu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whenever I visit Gettysburg, I always pay my respects at the state memorials of North Carolina and New York. I have family who died fighting for bith sides. That's not unusual. A lot of Americans who have a long family tradition of military service have family members that fought on both sides. Great Video, Thank You.

    • @JohnDoe-pv2iu
      @JohnDoe-pv2iu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Zen Master I'm sorry you are unhappy. I agree the current wars that are fought are more about money than honor.
      I was simply remembering and proud of My family members who stood up for and fought a fight they felt was right, from America's Independence, to my Native American family fighting to not get screwed over again to my Poor relatives who fought for both their rights on one side and preserving the Nation on the other.
      I had family in WW1 and a lot in WW2!
      I served My country and did so Honorably.
      I believe in respect and gratitude for those that served for their Country.
      I will NEVER trivialize their service because politicians picked a bs war...whether it was in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan!
      Try to make peace with your demons My Brother, you deserve Peace.
      And You are right that the soldier doesn't make the call, it's the politicians.
      Take Care and Rest, Thank You for Your Service, John

    • @stevenlornie1261
      @stevenlornie1261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Zen Master but they're not created equal. Some are born with breathing problems, heart issues, wonky legs or arms. Some are short, some are tall. Some are as thick as a 2020 liberal and others are intelligent. Realistically, not a single one of us is born equal. The equality you're talking about is a man made concept, one I do really agree with, to a point, but at the same time, we've got to accept that not everyone is technically the same. We all have our different strengths and weaknesses.

  • @cthulhu8977
    @cthulhu8977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Having been there, and stood both where the north was dug in atop hills, and the south in low open fields... You really get a sense of just how bad Lee's decision making was there. Many of his subordinates begged to change plans after the first big day. His remarks had something to do with God will protect us.

    • @mwalker.81
      @mwalker.81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not exactly where he chose to attack but when, the confederates actually won the first day and his subordinates were upset they didn’t take the high ground, after that their chances dropped again because the union both reinforced and fortified little and big round top along with the fish hook formation making it easy to run supplies anywhere on the line. By this time lee didn’t want to back down because they were already there. Lee was extremely smart and the south actually came quite close to winning the second day as well, if the Unions left flank had fallen which it almost did the Union army would have been demolished. Joshua Chamberlain’s bayonet charge saved the battle. First and second day were very probable for the south, third not so much.

    • @thewilytroutesq5260
      @thewilytroutesq5260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mwalker.81 Chamberlain is a hero to me.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      he said "by God's will."

    • @mwalker.81
      @mwalker.81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      TheWilyTrout ESQ from school teacher to American hero, it really inspires me and I believe exemplifies the American spirit.

    • @craiga2002
      @craiga2002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      General Bernard Montgomery took one look at the battleground and said, "What on Earth was Lee thinking?!"

  • @carlmarburger7513
    @carlmarburger7513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    About five years ago, my employer sent me from California to Pennsylvania and New Jersey for work. I was there about four months. I spent most of my free time visiting Valley Forge, the site where Washington crossed the Delaware to attack Trenton, and Gettysburg. Walking the battlefields of Gettysburg was humbling; the valiant dedication to cause, the death, sacrifice. It brings history to life, so to speak. While on my historical four month journey, I also visited the sites where my three, four, five, and six times great-grandfathers lived. It was an amazing four months.

  • @JordanR1621
    @JordanR1621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Simon, how much is the Gettysburg Historical Society paying you to keep quiet about the battle of Schrute Farms?

    • @TheNewThrone
      @TheNewThrone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'll admit that Gettysburg was the second most northern battle. But first, No!!!

    • @yannicknaert
      @yannicknaert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Jordan R stop using fake accounts we know it’s you Dwight. Identify theft is not a joke!

    • @user-nq5be9fz1g
      @user-nq5be9fz1g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I get ur joke now i had to find out what the H u were talkin about but dam thats funny

    • @italia689
      @italia689 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or Franklin...

    • @loriwatt1269
      @loriwatt1269 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Turnips.
      It's what's for dinner.

  • @hungrysoles
    @hungrysoles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A very good account of the Battle of Gettysburg. My great-great grandfather fought in it and was captured by the confederates two weeks later in Virginia. He spent a year at the horrible Andersonville Prison camp in Georgia before he was released. . The prison camp would be a good subject for a future video.

    • @charbella3753
      @charbella3753 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm "Getty People, too! Descendant of J. McQuure. Fought in the war. But later hanged by his house thumbs. Census didn't record of hat he had a family. But he did or I wouldn't be her.

  • @thatoneweirdrandomguy4766
    @thatoneweirdrandomguy4766 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The last time I was this early Fort Sumter was still being shelled

    • @jerelull2619
      @jerelull2619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you're over 150 years old, you really *ARE* one weird random guy.

    • @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718
      @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's what you @lso s@id on your m0m's H0rnpvb video when she was getting shelled.

  • @nugsymalone1247
    @nugsymalone1247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of the many people that took photos and helped out after the battles was an old relative of mine. He brought home a cannon projectile and multiple journals describing the scenes in the following days after the battles. I still have all of that, and actually live right near Marsh Creek. Weird that he mentions that

  • @chipmunkhunt
    @chipmunkhunt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I've spent a lot of time in and around Gettysburg. The battlefield with its cannons and monuments must be preserved as they tell a story of sacrifice and valor on both sides. Let alone what the civilians had to deal with during the battle and the gruesome aftermath that was left to them after the battle with the dead and caring for the wounded from both sides.

  • @JetsBauer
    @JetsBauer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    My father designed our states monument on the battlefield at Gettysburg. my name is in the monument along with my father mother and sister in a small hidden box built into it

    • @DannyMorrs
      @DannyMorrs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mine too, but he will never know where

    • @robsimer9296
      @robsimer9296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I visited Gettysburg and was given a very long and detailed solo driving and walking tour by one of the Park Managers. Took pictures of all the monuments on and around the battlefield and town.

    • @matthewfoster3780
      @matthewfoster3780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is amazing

  • @izzojoseph2
    @izzojoseph2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Everett even commented that Lincoln successfully said in 2 minutes what he tried to say in 2 hours.

  • @mrmadness2699
    @mrmadness2699 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People back then had LONG attention spans. Sitting through a 2-hour speech from a talented orator was something to be enjoyed.

  • @vampiregirl310
    @vampiregirl310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I was there lots of times since it's in my state and my third great grandfather was in that battle and he lived he was very lucky.

    • @UnimpressedGoose
      @UnimpressedGoose 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Stumpy Stump you should go. I’m Canadian so the civil war isn’t super relevant to me but it was still super interesting n really puts the battle into perspective

    • @anthonydivon5571
      @anthonydivon5571 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Been there first when I was a child and that visit propelled me into being a history fanatic. Making me a proud Pennsylvania native

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Serenity Knights, what side did your ancestor fight on?

    • @vampiregirl310
      @vampiregirl310 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theawesomeman9821 north

    • @musicmaniac0
      @musicmaniac0 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I had 2 ancestors in the battle, both fighting for the Union at little round top. One was injured, so his name is in one of the memorial buildings there. Pretty neat to see in person for sure. Gettysburg’s great views make it easy to picture the various battles. Some of the other civil war sites I’ve been to (Antietam, Wilderness) are a bit harder to visualize when you’re there in person, at least for me.

  • @MrTradisrad
    @MrTradisrad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Long time fan of your content who also grew up 15 minutes from Gettysburg...looking over the fields in person and taking in the scale really takes abstract away from the fact that it was once a carpet of corpses. That said I enjoy the birds eye view, whole scope approach of how you tell the story of a place...glad you didn't get too bogged down in battle specifics...well written

  • @LarryHatch
    @LarryHatch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well done. My first trip to Gettysburg battlefield was on a very foggy day and I walked the main fields. You would come upon a monument or cannon as if by accident in the fog, many of these grand monuments (usually contributed by individual US states) absolute works of art. The shear number of names written out is staggering.

  • @robertedmond6596
    @robertedmond6596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was in Virginia the other day driving into PA, I saw a sign saying Mason Dixon Road, then a few miles up I saw a sign for Gettysburg and then I realized what I was driving through, a place of civil war history! It was pretty cool seeing the landscape and wondering where soldiers once marched.

  • @alexbarbre7181
    @alexbarbre7181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    14:00 I had my ear buds cranked up and I thought that something outside blew up lol

    • @EMurph42
      @EMurph42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Appreciate the warning, thank you

    • @alexandraa8683
      @alexandraa8683 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I did, too.

  • @mcwilliams9607
    @mcwilliams9607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. I live in Mechanicsburg, PA, and parts of Stuart’s Calvary under Jenkins fought in mechanicsburg and camp hill on June 30th.

  • @patrickcleary8384
    @patrickcleary8384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You have so many phenomenal channels! Thank you for all your great content. I’d love to see a biographic on stonewall Jackson. I went to his grave sight today and I would love to learn more about him as a man and military genius. Again, thank you for everything !

  • @oughv
    @oughv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live 45 minutes from Ghettysburg and I have to tell you the battle reenactments are worth a nice road trip to experience.

  • @steveallred1330
    @steveallred1330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I've been to Gettysburg I would not walk that Battlefield at night even during the day you can just feel the presence of the battle

    • @tyranosurasmax
      @tyranosurasmax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dummy

    • @GHustle4
      @GHustle4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      seriously it is a bunch of dead idiots been there and was bored out of my mind!!!

  • @kimhohlmayer7018
    @kimhohlmayer7018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Andersonville Prison would make an excellent subject. It was the South’s big prisoner of war camp and it was abysmal. Also, for Biographics, do one on John Hunt Morgan and his raiders. Fascinating subjects.

  • @theonlyantony
    @theonlyantony 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I felt that this was a particularly good programme, in your cannon (if you’ll forgive the unintended but afternoticed pun.Hussah, from England! Just enough detail and a beautifully wry delivery. Tragedy is oft salved by folly’s spastic dance.

  • @cskarbek1
    @cskarbek1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    really appreciate you posting this! this chronicle of us history with its appropriately soaring words and tone is what should be shown in every american classroom!

  • @davyt0247
    @davyt0247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful work as usual Simon and team. I would definitely like to see more video about places like Gettysburg, famous battlegrounds

  • @SerDuncanMaybals
    @SerDuncanMaybals ปีที่แล้ว

    my father brought my family and i here as a kid during the anniversary. got to see the reenactments and walk the battlefields. such a cool experience.

  • @gemman1
    @gemman1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This by far, is one of my favourite episodes

  • @ScottPlude
    @ScottPlude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such amazing content! When my family sees your face, they stop in their tracks and sit down to watch whatever you have decided to create. My daughter knows to watch everything because she will never see historical content in school that is created this well. My wife loves it just because you could discuss a steaming pile of crap in a way that grabs her attention for an hour!

  • @julieortega4461
    @julieortega4461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon, I am subscribed to all of your channels and have watched a lot of your videos. But this is by far my favourite. Thank you and your staff for making this. Well done sir 🙂❤

  • @karenmickens4854
    @karenmickens4854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You truly have got me hooked Simon. The good thing about what you're doing is that you never run out of content. 😍

  • @CFG-eb3my
    @CFG-eb3my 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    as a Yank often righty shamed through Brit perspective on my history, this obviously well researched accurate presentation cannot but be but applauded. Outstanding job, thank you.

  • @mikahjohn2809
    @mikahjohn2809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Among your consistently superb work at Geographics, I think this video stands as one of the best, if not THEE best video on this channel. Almost choked me up a couple times. Keep up the great work!!

  • @sergeantassassin3425
    @sergeantassassin3425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To give a further idea of just how devastating Pickett's Charge was, when Robert E. Lee found a distraught Pickett wandering aimlessly around camp, he is quoted as saying, "General, you must tend to your division."
    To which Pickett, after a long pause, replied. "General Lee... *I have no division* ."
    Pickett lost over HALF of his troops. Entire regiments had been obliterated, with not a single member surviving. So much grapeshot and canister shot had been used that entire battle lines had been reduced to *pink mist* with only fragments remaining.
    Lee had made the crucial, fateful, and idiotic mistake of having a good bulk of his forces march across OPEN TERRAIN, with NO COVER, in FULL VIEW of enemy artillery, across ground that HAD ALREADY BEEN SCOUTED DAYS EARLIER. Every inch of that land was within range of fire, and he had them march across it.
    They stood no chance.

  • @Jillian2900
    @Jillian2900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As you are covering aspects of the American Civil War, maybe you can do a short video about the Anderson POW camp. A hidden horror of the war few people know about, but should. Loving your Geographics and Biographics videos. Thank you for your effort.

    • @whateves5369
      @whateves5369 ปีที่แล้ว

      Watched the movie about it. And it gave me straight up ww2 concentration camps vibe. Just horrific

  • @maineshire
    @maineshire 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You missed the little round top battle at Gettysburg.

    • @AndrewVelonis
      @AndrewVelonis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He could only cover so much.

  • @tcofield1967
    @tcofield1967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Couple of small things.
    1. Lee was not initially interested in fighting at Gettysburg. He was somewhat drawn into the fight, partially by his commanders like Heath who clashed with Buford's Cavalry. Lee's Army was still strung out and actually separated by a day's march when the first day came to a close. Some units, like Pickett's division, were only completely available for battle on the third day. This was one of the reasons Lee used them as the base of the attack, although two other divisions were involved in the attack on the Union Center.
    2. You didn't mention Lee's lack of intelligence at the beginning of the battle. One of the reasons Lee was reluctant at first to attack units coming into Gettysburg was because he had little information on the disposition of Union forces in the area. In fact, on the first day he wasn't sure if AP Hill was going to face Union Cavalry, a Union Corps or multiple Union Corps. There were two reasons why he lacked such information. The first is the famous (or infamous) ride of Stuart's cavalry. Jeb Stuart, who was the primary military scout for the Army of Northern Virginia, was mildly embarrassed a the Battle of Brandy Station three weeks earlier and was trying to make up for it by riding around behind the Union lines causing mischief wherever he could. While he did scare a lot of people in Pennsylvania he also lost contact with Lee's command and failed to give adequate reports on Union forces or their locations. He was not present for much of the fighting in the first two days and the loss of intel meant that Lee had to guess as to what the Union was doing. There is well known report that Lee dressed Stuart down, something he rarely did to his officers directly, due to his actions. One thing that isn't often mentioned is that Lee couldn't rely on information from the local population like he could when he was fighting on the defensive in Virginia. Much of his information could be gleaned from local reports, something that was absent at Gettysburg.
    On the second day the attacks on the Union flanks, while mildly successful, didn't really throw the Union forces back from their positions in array. The northern attacks on the 'Fishook' were only mildly successful and the Union kept control of its northern flanks for the entire time. The only reason the Confederates had such success on the left flank of the Union forces was because General John Sickles pulled his IV Corps out of good preset positions and moved into a place called the Peach Orchard because he thought it was a better defensive position. What he did was actually put his Corps completely at risk and out of continuity with the rest of the line and when attacked they fell back in disarray. Most of the Union casualties from day 2 were in his corps. If he had stood fast he probably would have weathered the attacks much better. In fact, if it hadn't been for quick thinking by several Union leaders and the rushed deployment of James Barnes's division to Little Round top the whole union flank would have collapsed and the battle would have been over. A lot of well deserved fame was given to Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine for their defense of the end of Little Round top. The bravery of those men saved the left flank of the Union line and prevented a rout like at Chancellorsville.

    • @jim2376
      @jim2376 ปีที่แล้ว

      ". . . like a swinging gate . . . ." It swung, and the Confederates collapsed.

  • @Archaeopteryx128
    @Archaeopteryx128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As is common with Americans, ancestors of mine were on both sides of the American civil War.

    • @54032Zepol
      @54032Zepol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So were mine! One side was free and the other side enslaved.

    • @Archaeopteryx128
      @Archaeopteryx128 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@54032Zepol A real historical irony is that an ancestor of mine in Maryland belonged to a slave owning family, but he volunteered for the Union Army and fought for the Union. But Maryland was a border state and such a decision was not unusual there.
      Ancestors of mine in Virginia fought on the Confederate side, but were too poor to have owned slaves.

    • @jiveassturkey8849
      @jiveassturkey8849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. I had ancestors on both sides, but my 3x great grandfather that had my last name was in the 15th Alabama and fought against the 20th Maine on Little Round Top at Gettysburg.

    • @joshuanida5457
      @joshuanida5457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In Gettysburg at one of the main tourist centers you can enter your family's name in the registry and see if any of your family fought there. Turns out I had 2 cousins fight there, one on the northern side, and one on the southern side. It is truly a humbling experience to walk upon that hollowed ground.

  • @Bl2861
    @Bl2861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Great Great Grandfather, Daniel Melvin Santmyers, was involved in this battle. He served under Lee with the 7th Virginia Calvary. Had his mare shot out from under him the day before the main battle when his scouting unit ran into the Federal army.

    • @charbella3753
      @charbella3753 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm "Getty's People," too. Descendant of John McQuire, who fought in the war. And later hanged by his thumbs.

  • @uprightape100
    @uprightape100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    "We exist"- Henry Clay's Hemorrhoids.

    • @petej8556
      @petej8556 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is that something you spend much time on?
      Thinking about the intimacies of other men's rear's?

    • @theothertonydutch
      @theothertonydutch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@petej8556 For all you know he is a doctor.

    • @basstard4639
      @basstard4639 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That hemorrhoids comment had me dying.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @ryandoubleu.
    @ryandoubleu. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pickets charge wasn’t soldiers sprinting towards the union center line. They marched ever so slowly, in tight formation, over vast open farmland, and still almost broke the line. But god did they die. So many died. I live a couple hours away and try to get out to the battlefields every couple years. Just sitting in places like Devils Den as the sun starts to go down is an amazing experience. I highly recommend visiting if anyone ever has the opportunity.

  • @tommylee2894
    @tommylee2894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love the historical gold this channel presents!

  • @Jaysin412
    @Jaysin412 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, i e visited Gettysburg a few times over the year, its haunting and creepy in a lot of places. You can still walk around and find bullets in the dirt, or stuck in trees.

  • @AeeanPlays
    @AeeanPlays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    so! I was in the national guard in MN and our history is to "The Last Man" and our history is from this battle.

  • @eds7033
    @eds7033 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Having visited Gettysburg three times there are two take away impressions. It truly is “Hallowed ground”. And it should be on every American’s bucket list.

  • @theinfiltrator100
    @theinfiltrator100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    once again simon has something on his head lmao please tell me yall see it too

    • @Yorkil
      @Yorkil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Saw it, got distracted by it, commented on it. Then saw your post two seconds later

    • @southernkiwi8720
      @southernkiwi8720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      saw it, looked like an alien spacecraft hovering just off the side of his head

    • @mattylove6447
      @mattylove6447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup. Quite distracting. Think if he wore a Carhart beanie we'd still take him as seriously?

    • @beefkilla
      @beefkilla 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      lint i think

    • @trashyhobo4957
      @trashyhobo4957 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mattylove6447 I feel attacked

  • @bocorley4468
    @bocorley4468 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve put my fingers in the musket ball divets of the rocks at Gettysburg.. it’s an Eire feeling to be so close to something so long ago.

  • @McVet3
    @McVet3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Very well done! We all have ideals we like it live up to but often fall short. My Country is not perfect, nor do we try to be. But at our core we do offer a different way to live. 🇺🇸🤘🏻🇺🇸

  • @jesusbeloved3953
    @jesusbeloved3953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You did a very good job with this, Simon. I live in eastern Pennsylvania. But, this terrible battle affected our whole state. Pray nothing like this happens again.

  • @alexbarbre7181
    @alexbarbre7181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    10:35 "Kansas Nebrasker act" 😂

    • @zerovcd2151
      @zerovcd2151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CANS ASS

    • @SigEpBlue
      @SigEpBlue 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They tend to say "banarna," too.

    • @maximeprometheas
      @maximeprometheas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Russiar", "arse"

    • @michaels7325
      @michaels7325 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      On that subject....why do people who speak the kings English add the r sound to any word ending in an a. I've heard it alot when they say places like Chinar and Cubar to name a few. And it's not just the ones who speak the kings english. I've heard Bernie speak like that as well in debates.

    • @alexschenewerk7436
      @alexschenewerk7436 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They say “ nore “ instead of “no”

  • @stevenbingham859
    @stevenbingham859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A very poignant and powerful presentation of the significance of Gettysburg. Thank you.

  • @Vice_Spiel
    @Vice_Spiel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Kansas State history is mandatory in middle school but it was probably my favorite

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No gal Watson
      I bet that sucked compared to the Texas History I studied in 7th grade.

    • @dmcgee3
      @dmcgee3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh look a Texan, acting all Texan. Yeah Mexican history is a lot more flashy than Kansas’s it’s true

    • @Vice_Spiel
      @Vice_Spiel 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dmcgee3 well if it makes you feel better we had to learn about mexico because of the Alamo.

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz8413 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My family farm was on Gettysburg in the Peach Orchard. Dozens of men from both sides were buried on the farm following the battle along with their horses.

  • @JosephHourany
    @JosephHourany 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The metaphors in this episode 😂😂😂

  • @TheStapleGunKid
    @TheStapleGunKid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Roughly 1/3 of all troops at Gettysburg were casualties. Can you imagine any battle today where 1/3 of the participants are killed, wounded, or captured? It's practically unthinkable.

  • @lakobause
    @lakobause 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Before we go on to the deadliest war in American history, here's a word from our sponsors!"

  • @oneshucklak6021
    @oneshucklak6021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its basically mandatory for every kid to go to gettysburg and washington dc when theyre in school on a field trip, the place is so powerful i could feel the atmosphere as a 13 year old kid

  • @niekriemens1316
    @niekriemens1316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice to see this! I visited the town and battlefield two years ago.
    Somehow I still don't understand why people living in the US are still considering themselves as north or south.
    Here in Europe we got over WW2, time for the Muricans to follow up.

    • @joshuanida5457
      @joshuanida5457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In a strange twist of irony, before the war people usually associated themselves with their state. Example, Virginians, Pennsylvanians, Floridians and so on. Even General Lee decided to side with his state. He was approached by the North to fight for them, only to say "If Virginia stands by the old Union, so will I. But if she secedes then I will follow my native State with my sword, and, if need be, with my life.”
      It wasn't till AFTER the war that we (Americans) began to shed the states titles and call ourselves Americans. I was born a Virginian, I grew up as a West Virginian, I am now a Texan, but I will always be an American.

    • @joshuanida5457
      @joshuanida5457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For deciding to side with Virginia, the Union used his plantation as a cemetery for the Civil War. If you haven't heard of it, it is better known as Arlington. Just outside of Washington DC.

    • @justinsutton5005
      @justinsutton5005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you identify as your country's citizen or as a European first.

    • @Carlton_Wilson
      @Carlton_Wilson 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Geography has no bearing on the ideological controversies which are propelling Americans towards a second civil war.
      Oh, it's coming. Soon too.

    • @justinsutton5005
      @justinsutton5005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Carlton_Wilson No we are not heading towards a civil war. We are too ideologically unified to have one.