The Confederate Retreat Back South - Williamsport & Falling Waters: Gettysburg 158 Live!
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- Did General Robert E. Lee “escape” from Maryland? Could General George Meade have stopped it? How strong was Lee’s position around Williamsport and Falling Waters, Maryland? Did Meade try to break these lines? Join the Trust’s Kris White and Garry Adelman as they break down the end of the Gettysburg Campaign.
This video is part of our battlefield tour series commemorating the 158th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. You can view the entirety of the playlist here: • 158th Anniversary of G...
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The treat of Gettysburg 158 was the lead in to July 1-3 video series and the path the Confederates took leaving the battlefield to get back to Virginia. Wonderful job to all involved, future generations will thank you.
Who's watching in (159th Anniversary) 2022?!!! Can't get enough of Gettysburg/Civil War History! Great job ABT!
I’ve always thought that Lees retreat from Gettysburg to Williamsport was one of the most Masterful
Campaigns in American History!
Fighting torrential rains, fighting the Federals, thousands of soldiers, wounded and some dead, 17 mile wounded
Wagon train, Hundreds of prisoners, thousands of sheep, thousands of cattle, hundreds of wagons with the horses
And cattle pulling them!
Beg to differ. A troop of only 50 Union cavalry broke into the middle and almost captured Gen. Garland. Meade's cowardice made Lee look good, as was the case during most of the war.
@@georgelevy1189 dude you don’t know much about his retreat. He was attacked and nearly beaten more than once but he made it across the Potomac
My 4th Great Grandfather Silas Hampton was with the 52nd North Carolina Company K. He was captured at Falling Waters
Did he survive the War?
@@carywest9256 yes he did. He was in a Prisoner exchange in March of 1864
Gary , thank you and everyone for the continuous coverage. It was been a pleasure watching the uploads and the knowledge you have shared .
These uploads are better than anything I’ve ever watched on television…well done to all involved from a history fan in the UK 🇬🇧
100% mate.
Thanks for all of your hard work. Everyone that contributed. Extremely educational and entertaining. watched every episode at least once. looking foward to 159!
My wife and I like stopping in Williamsport when we travel to DC twice a year. We stop to have lunch at the park and walk around read the civil war signs about the battle. Thank you.
When my dad was a kid he used to go listen to the civil war vets tell stories about the war....this was in Hopewell VA. back in the 20s n 30s.
I lived in the Woodlawn area of Hopewell for half my life. My Dad told me where Food Lion is you could walk through the field and pick up civil war bullets laying on top of the ground during the 50’s. He lived on Oaklawn blvd near the firehouse.
I would love to travel around battlefields but I get it getting tired! Thank The ABT for all their videos lately! We need to keep the history alive!
Outstanding work and greatly appreciated. "Liberty for All!
I have been watching, and getting caught up on all the videos from earlier this weekend. You guys have done an awesome job. I have only been to Gettysburg once when I was a kid. Hope to go back soon. Thank you for sharing all this great history of the battlefield I love civil war history. Keep up the great work guys
Been to GB a number of times and always learn new things. It requires at least three days minimum there to get a good grasp of the battle and battlefield.
I would like to stay at least 2 weeks
Now I'm looking forward to next year for 159, this was fantastic.
Thanks Gary and Chris on following up on Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg and ending the campaign after crossing the Potomac . You bth did an excellent narrative on what happened. Thank you again.
I have enjoyed the series this year and the -40- videos with Gary yelling at the camera.
Conococheague Kah nah ka CHig (or Ka ne ka Jig) emphasis on the first and last syllables. I grew up there and worked on the Canal for about 10 years before I headed out to the Western Theater. BTW, the C&O Canal was a heavily armed line during most of the war. There were frequent Confederate raids to destroy the canal, the B&O Railroad went through Martinsburg and so was an easy target, and the other railroads hadn't been built yet so the canal was an important transportation line. Of course every time the ANV crossed the river they crossed the C&O Canal. So there are countless events along the C&O Canal. Add to that Henry Kyd Douglas's home, Ferry Hill, is right next to the canal at the Shepherdstown crossing (my office was once in what had been his bedroom). More engagements were fought on or adjacent to the C&O Canal than in any battlefield park. If you're a Civil War fanatic and you haven't sought out the Civil War history of C&O Canal National Historical Park, you need to change that. But Champion Hill and Vicksburg remain the best. Gary can probably figure out who I am.
Good job, as always. The story of the retreat and escape is as interesting as the battle at Gettysburg. Crazy feat of logistics and chance in a very tight spot.
Falling waters is an interesting staff ride. Not well marked on the various lines leading up to it, but you can access the crossing site via the canal trail at the rod and gun club down there.
You can also go and see the actual falling waters on the West Virginia side, not that they are much to look at. There was a very early skirmish in that area that included Jackson and Stuart. Didn't amount to much. Johnston referred to it as " that affair at Falling Waters."
If you keep following it, you will come to McCoy's Ferry where McCausland crossed on his way to shake down Chambersburg for protection money and ended up torching the town.
You've done a brilliant job with the whole series this year. A particular shout-out to Chris and his encyclopedic knowledge of arms and armaments. Well done all around.
This was 1st time to watch a lot of this live! Great series and much kudos to Gary and Chris and all the special guest stars great job! Thank you
You win. Just joined at the "Cavalryman" level. Great job. Kudos to all.
Thanks!
Thank you!
excellent job guys
Great video and thanks for the mention of the C&O Canal. When I'm not on a battlefield, I'm on the Canal. Thanks for all that you do to preserve our history!
Great series of videos for the 158th! Appreciate all of your time and efforts. I enjoyed all the different commentaries, artifacts, the locations, etc. Thank you.
Thank you for all for your Gettysburg 158 episodes. I’ve been following them throughout and have learnt a lot from them. Looking forward to my next Gettysburg visit even more now!
Thank you for all the videos.
Thank you for the information, really good.
I've been enjoying these videos.
I Love History...!!!
just a superb job on this series by everyone involved. Garry and Kris, you two excelled. You really helped clarify some of the movement on the battlefield and strategy (or lack there of). I appreciate that you bought the battle to the granular level of some of individual combatants. The upgrade of your camera equipment was very helpful, although a better wind guard could still help. Thanks from California
First one.... ABT, thanks for the coverage. See you next year... tio Jimmy
Outstanding job! Thanks for your hard work Garry and team!
so well done.
amazing the depth of knowledge
the scope of the battles
my new 4th of July tradition.
BZ!
Just subbed glad I did getting a lot of great information . Saw you with JD The history Underground, and had to sub to your channel. Great job guys!!!!
Very insightful. Thank you.
Keep doing the good work guys 🔥🔥🔥
Great rendition of the battles end. Thanks very much.
Very Awesome, Thanks for the Videos
Great job as always keeping the information flowing. Can't get enough of it :)
You guys do a great job on the videos and do a great job explaining all that happened at Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Campaign.
Loving every second of these videos! Arousing thank you to all involved! This is wonderful!
Thank you for posting this video. My GGG grandfather was in Co F of the 6th Mich Cav and may have participated in the charge at Falling Waters. He survived the war and is buried in Cedar Springs, MI.
Outstanding job gentlemen, certainly the best video series ever done on the battle of Gettysburg. The amount of information that was imparted by all of you is staggering, the video very well done, thank you.
Have really enjoyed the series. Keep up the good work. If I may make one suggestion: please reference which direction the camera is facing so those not familiar with the area can get some sense of bearing. Lot's of interesting facts.
Absolutely Amazing, guys. Thank you SO much. This is groundbreaking stuff
Shelby Foote would have LOVED this! I even found out that Iverson played a key role. Wow!
Y’all did a great job!!
Fantastic work--thanks to you and the entire crew for great content and education!
Wonderful job y’all
I think the Erie Canal has an aqueduct over a road in the middle of NY.
Great job guys! We really appreciate your passion!
Great job!
I live right around their and the canal is very nice and it is really close to a lot of cool battle fields. I like that the canal and the retreat is getting more attention
I would love to see you all go to Shiloh and Chickamauga and give them some in depth treatment. Thanks for all the videos!
Thanks Tom. Three years ago we did a series for Chickamauga/Chattanooga on our Facebook page. You can view it here: facebook.com/watch/21813808850/332647433961858
Would love to see you do some videos of the Prisoner of War camps like Point Lookout Maryland, where one of my Confederate ancestors died.
I've saw a raised canal going over a river in France.
Another Outstanding video !!!
Why didn't they just take Rt 81 Bridge?
Closed for construction that year😁
Great stuff fellas. Definitely on the bucket list to do some battlefield tours, ESPECIALLY Gettysburg. Love the presentation.
This is the most interesting video yet
As Lincoln believed, could Mead's army finished off Lee and brought the civil war to an end? This is what I keep hearing of quotes from Abraham Lincoln after the main battle at Gettysburg.
Meade had some great logistical problems in chasing down Lee. The region was plundered of forage and the Union could not keep their horses fed and maintained. He was chasing Lee into a dangerous bog.
@@timfrye3586 So it kind of sounds like President Lincoln didn’t know much of the situation and was being unfair attacking General Mead. I think Lincoln’s patience with the monumental failures of his generals up to then and the unbelievable cost in human life the past couple years including this battle had to be driving him crazy.
@@timfrye3586 Not at all. Meade did not need cavalry. The 107th NY Infantry, for example, caught up with Lee at Williamsport and took 2,500 prisoners without even trying, according to Sgt. John D. Hill (KIA 5/24/1864). These included two Mississippi slaves, that Hill appropriated and put to work as cooks, not realizing that they were freedmen under Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1 Jan. 1863. Hill also reported that prisoners bore no ill will toward the blue coats.
@@georgelevy1189 I think Meade needed horse and mule for movement -- not just cavalry, and the lack thereof hampered his scouting. Remember, Lee was able to move from his position twice via subterfuge (fake emplacements, quaker guns, etc). I think this was made much easier because of Meade's lack of horse
In France there is a canal called the Canal Du Midi, there is a crossing like that. Canal Du Midi was constructed in 1667-1680 to connectToulouse to the Middeterranian
Well, I made it this far. Found Garry Adelman and Kris White quite informative. Finally have pieced together Lee's retreat from Gettysburg listening to these two into something tangible, lol. Actually seems Lee's retreat was quite as formidable a battle as Gettysburg. Gives Lee more credibility in my eyes to a degree. Enjoyed this very much. Next, Shelby Foote and the noble honorable confederates. What?
Excellent!
love these videos! Just filled up with great historical information.I always wondered what occurred on Lee's retreat.
still awaiting for cold harbor video. 2nd CT heavy artillery and the 18th NY got mauled
Search the channel and facebook where we gave many CH vids
I would love to come up to Williamsport and experience the reenactment and history. My ancestor was killed at Williamsport covering the retreat from Gettysburg. His name was 1st Lt John C Calhoun and he was a member of the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry Company "I". He was killed on July 6, 1863 from a shell fragment and served with General Imboden. I recently found a photo of him and would love to come up dressed in my 1st Lt uniform to honor him and to all those who fought a courageous battle.
the planning ,speed and execution of the retreat from gettysburg must be one of the greatest military manoeuvres in history
Thank you for this, great work! Did you guys do an episode at Funkstown? I lived there and never got a good sense of what happened there.
There is an Erie Canal aquaduct reminent in Oriskany N.Y. Was built so the Erie Canal could pass over the Oriskany Creek about 1/2 of a mile south of the Mohawk River. Probably others along the Erie Canal.
Thanks for your video. Maybe one thing you neglect to give a mention is the condition of Meade's army. Before the battle of Gettysburg both men and animals have not been fed for a couple days. With masterful leadership of Meade himself they win the battle then are following Lee's army. The situation of feeding horses mules and men is still not corrected. The army of the Potomac is taking their time to try to preserve the horses mules and men. Lee's big problem is that he has a tremendous sized wagon train of goodies taken from Maryland and Pennsylvania. I suggest you check out Kent Masterson Brown's video on the true condition Meade inherited when he was ordered to take command. The rebs come to the battle well fed with a lot of purloined goods and the army of the Potomac comes in hungry trying to get feed enough to keep their horses and mules from dropping dead. By the end of the campaign the union army loss in horses is 16,000 and a countless number of mules. Lee was lucky to get across the river with all of his purloined goods produce and acquired livestock. If the union army and it's mounts were in better condition the situation might have ended differently. Also the misinformed Lincoln and his war hawk friends were a bunch of armchair leaders who had no concept of the true condition the army of the Potomac has to fight and win at Gettysburg please do more research and record a more balanced video with the correct mention of the realties of the situation.
My neighborhood, cool!😎
Pont Du Gard?.....I've been there. I've also been to Williamsport....
Call me 'Mr Duh' for not making the obvious connection there.
(All kidding aside; you guys have done an amazing thing here. 5 days, 40 presentations-each of which are jaw-dropping-and the most profound Civil War series I've ever seen on the internet). If your goal was to take the ABT to a whole new level, you didn't just hit the ball out of the ballpark. You hit it out of the town where the ballpark is.
its been a pleasure to listen to an honest look at the civil war....I am afraid critical thinking on our nations history will become a thing of the past with the current political climate
Here in Williamsport, and surrounding area we pronounce it Kona-ka-jig creek. 2:25
West Virginia was a state before the battle of Gettysburg June 20 1963
I'm English and I have watched this series, excellent. By the way what do US canal boats look like.
Google C&O canal for some pictures. My grandfather John Crampton was one of the last canal boatmen.His home was on the bank of the Potomac below Georgetown.He had 13 children.
@@markcrampton5549 thanks I will. Over here people who lived on and worked the boats were called bargees.
I found the historical marker of the crossing along the C&O Canal. The marker itself is one of the oldest I’ve seen. C&O Canal is a towpath journey through history.
My gggrandpa joined the 11th Corps at this point in the war.
I was also born in Williamsport Pa
Iverson. Beverly Robertson. Pettigrew. Sounds like if Lee's B-team hadn't bailed him out, none of 'em would've made it back.
Thanks guys. The war in the East always fast-forwarded to Overland after Gettysburg for me. Obviously, there was a ton of other stuff going on.
Suck it up Gary stay the course keep making outstanding vids for us. Quit ya bellyachin
Have you guys checked out the podcast 1865? Or and History that doesn’t suck? I’ve learned so much from those and I’m not even a Citizen of the USA.
Hey Gary, I recently posted this on another video under ABT but I have something they may be of interest to you. Or not lol. If anyone has any suggestions please by all means, comment. I metal detect as a hobbie. I won't mention where exactly, but you might be able to know where I am talking about. Living in Delaware there is a specific battlefield around Newark that took place in 1777 during September. There was a skirmish between the continental army of the United States and the British and Hessian armies. Detecting in this specific field by the bridge where said skirmish happened, I dug up a Hessian dog tag. The name reads: German, HALL. Its pewter and has two makeshift tiny holes for the neck string portion to go through. Now I know that officially, there were no dog tags implemented in the military until 1899 officially, during the spanish/American war.. With that being said, ive researched site after site online for any information on possible identification tags soldiers would make circa the American Revolution and to no avail still. I am 100% certain this identification tag reading: GERMAN HALL, is exactly that. A makeshift id tag. Does anyone have any idea who I can speak with in regards to this piece? I have not been able to find a single person or website. If anyone could maybe hook up with me online in private to find out more information about this, let me know. Thanks! -Jesse.
Gary, get in the Shade, we can't have you getting Overheated,take good care, with Gary in Front of the Camera, I can feel the Passion, of the Man when he's Talking!
Sharpsburg Cemetery' the Statute of
( Old Simon ) What's the History?
I live near there and visited once
what was the name of that stream again under the aqueduct
Option 2, flank the position on the right and see how much panic and abandonment of equipment you can cause, not attacking works was a smart decision. I think the Union slowly moved and hoped for stupidity or mistakes, otherwise let them go.
As a Civil War historian might you tell me what area would you settle in to retire and study the Civil War for a life time?
Do you guys set up meet and greet battle walks? I know i'd love to pay a fee to be there to listen.
Over the summer we hosted tours for members. You can sign up for our newsletter to keep up to date with offerings in the future! www.battlefields.org/email-signup
This is a question with more of an opinion. If General Grant had been in charge of the Union Army at this time do you think he would have succeeded in capturing Lees retreating army and taken Lee prisoner?
Very possibly not. What a lot of the posters are not considering is that, they had that driving rain, and while both armies had to travel in it, the Confederates had the lead, which means that the roads were not as bad for them. A combination of rain and troops and wagons made the roads much tougher to use for the Union. I believe the difference would have been the aggressiveness that Grant likely would have displayed in his pursuit once he was back in Virginia on Lee's tail.
No
Could Meade have flanked the itintial line that Lee had built up ? Could he have taken away one of the exit routes ? Why wouldn't he beat up the pinned enemy with his artillery ?
They didn't have enough battlefield intelligence. Plus, Lee faked them out. He lined his defenses with Quaker guns and flew red squares of cloth made to look like battle flags which really slowed Meade down while trying to figure out if the Confederate lines were actually manned or not. That alone bought Lee some extra time.
Falling Waters is acutually 6 mi. downstream from this point....I know it well. cycle it a lot
Uh, (8:28) the 58th North Carolina served it's entire career in the western theater. It was never with the Army of Northern Virginia.
I've been setting fence posts in the hot sun, sorry sir, I don't feel you pain.
B&O didn't destroy the canal, the canal over mountains was stupid idea and it bankrupted state gummint of Maryland in the 1840s....
So, are those of you at the Battlefield Trust concerned at all with what's been going on in society the last two years? With all the revisionist history and tearing down of historical American monuments , whats to say places like this won't be labeled offensive and done away with? It's not out of the realm of possibility unfortunately.
We shall return.
Screaming at cameras and being attacks by cicadas must be absolutely horrendous, compared to those Civil War wimps, who just trotted around on horses all day,,,
the you tube commercials assigned to this video are disgusting ........ just sayin' ....... ;-p
You are one of those guys who can't talk without his hands! LOL
After watching this and other documentary’s on Lees retreat, I conclude that the Union army didn’t win Gettysburg. The Union army won the battle of Pickets charge. The Army of Northern Virginia escaped intact. All in all, a draw.