The "Jackass Battery" Monument and Stonewall's March from Harpers Ferry: Unknown Antietam 159
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- Garry and Dennis come to you from the southern most monument on the Antietam battlefield, the Ohio Battery Monument. Then Dennis details why the position of these Ohioans was so important, and how it relates to Stonewall Jackson and his 30,000 men arriving from Harpers Ferry.
Frye is a retired Park Ranger and is a Co-Founder of the American Battlefield Trust. Garry Adelman is the Chief Historian at the American Battlefield Trust.
This video is part of our battlefield tour series commemorating the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. You can view the whole playlist here: • Unknown Antietam: 159t...
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. We permanently protect these battlefields for future generations as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.
My great, great, great grandfather’s brother served with that Ohio battery. Thanks for bringing it to life.
Anytime I see a video with Dennis Frye, I click!
As a CW artillery enthusiast, I appreciate this video in particular as part of this series on the unknown Antietam.
We love these presentations, not just on the Antietam battlefield, on all of them. I never knew about this monument and my husband and I have been to Antietam several times from Chattanooga Tennessee. We just visited the Chickamauga battlefield for the “millionth “ time yesterday for the 158th and hope you all come down here for the Chattanooga and Chickamauga 159th next year. These videos are very informative and we enjoy watching them. Keep ‘em coming.
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Love your videos. Very interesting and a great way to start a day with some coffee in hand
Yet another insightful presentation in this series about little known Antietam locations. Well done gentlemen!
Several great-uncles and cousins were in the 1st OLA. Thank you for this great history lesson.
I've been to Antietam every year for the past 20. I keep finding places and fights that I never knew existed. Across the Hagerstown pike are the remnants of one of the Poffenberger farms. Right across the road from where the 15th Mass monument is.
That place was one of the bitterest fights at Antietam and nobody knows about it or goes there because it's across the road. The SC brigade that fought there under Semmes remarked constantly about the "natural fortifications" they had. This was common throughout Antietam but these were special. There's a literal rock ledge with firing slots that exists on a 100 yard front there.
I've been to battlefields all over the world. Never in my life have I seen a more difficult position to attack in an infantry maneuver engagement.
Great. Another place I did not know about. Very interesting.
Guys these less traveled areas of Antietam series has been fantastic. I feel as if I’ve been able to as a novice educate friends quite well on Antietam visits due directly to Your Videos. Love to meet you both someday. I’m fortunate enough to live within 35-40 minutes of Antietam and visit at least a dozen times a year (on my Sr lifetime Natl. Park Pass). Thanks so much for your contribution.
We live what you guys do
Again you’ve explained some of my biggest questions. I do understand the idea of the fog of war but I can’t help but wonder why McClellan now that I know that he knew about Harpers Ferry couldn’t have massed more men to the South.I have heard of Fitz John Porters quote to him at the end of the day that he represented the last available corps of the A.O.P. but still can’t help but wonder. Thank you so much again for filling in so many blanks
McClellan did not expect Harpers Ferry to capitulate so quickly. Even so, he failed to use his cavalry to guard against such a possibility that A.P Hill would force march back. And like they mentioned in the video, McClellan believed he was outnumbered even before the battle began, he only trusted two of his corps commanders, and he spent most of the battle at his headquarters without overseeing the army's deployment more thoroughly.
Another great video, guys!
Good show Gary and Dennis
Thank you !
I call Dennis Frye and Gary the dream team of civil war interpretation.
You guys do such GREAT work !! I wish you would look into buying Malvern Hill before the big farm is sold and they build homes! That battlefield is NOT spoiled at all right now. But it is in danger !
It would be nice to put the largest General Lee Statue that came from Richmond Virginia on one of those battlefields and they have a General Stonewall Jackson.
Thanks for referencing the animated maps… It would be great if they could be edited into your presentation…
Kanawha division thanks for talking about them they get overlooked at the base of Antietam
So much better to understand this. Than trying read this in worn out school book outdated missing pages. And teachers reading romance novels all class long in very small coal camp in Southern WV. Was Va. Like I had to do.
This guy is starting to grow on me. All that jumping around and hand waving makes me dizzy, but I love to see someone that enthusiastic about his work. Maybe he's part Italian.
I’ll take even grudging acceptance in the right direction. 😊 GA.
@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust Not grudging at all. Admiring and a little amused. Man, you do get around. I took particular interest in your visit to the Manassas battlefield. I grew up right smack in the middle of it. A mile from the visitor center, 7/10th of a mile west of Stone House, at the base of the hill of Groveton.
Thanks. (And I’m not Italian-rather from a family of Jewish storytellers)
Gary is #1
Did not know the battle grounds, reach in to Ohio, thanks.
That's hills n' hollars in WV.
Huzzah for my fellow buckeyes!!!!
I wish to part of the help to teach, I know this battle, it's personal. Don't beat a mule when a
horse is available..... The Harper's ferry road was an obvious.
Another great obscure spot.
Disliked by seven horses.
May be a tad beside the point, but I heard the Yankees could have easily waded across the creek under the Burnside Bridge rather than fighting so long and hard for it. Water was ankle-deep to waist-deep.
Great info! Didn’t the confederates also use jackass batteries when campaigning in the Kanawha Valley in the fall of 1862?
So what route did Jackson/AP Hill take from Harpers Ferry ? Wouldn't this road have put them at serious risk of federal troops ?
Did this Jackass Battery somehow miss the arrival of AP Hills troops on the forced march up from Harpers Ferry at the end of the battle day? If Hills troops did somehow avoid taking this "most direct route" to the battlefield, is there any insight on how Hill knew to take another way?
I can't even think of what would be westernmost. Maybe that lion along the Pike? Or the Confederate thing by the Piper driveway.
"Single file. I'm sorry to be so pedestrian about this..." 🤦🤦
Iffen anyone remembers Festus Haggin from Gunsmoke, he had ol, Ruth and him a being an Arkie from them mountains, he knowed about mules &sech. I'm here ta told ya...
Mosby said the only thing a sabre was good for was beating a mule across a river.
There should be a memorial to, for example, mules sabre - slaughtered by the thousand at Chatanooga, all in harness and train, I believe. To poor jackasses everywhere.
Heehaw:P
No swears
next stop: Chancellorsville, more Beth Parnicza please.