159th Anniversary of the Peach Orchard - Gettysburg Battle Walk with Ranger Matt Atkinson

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159th Anniversary of the Peach Orchard - Gettysburg Battle Walk with Ranger Matt Atkinson

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2 жыл бұрын

Ranger Matt Atkinson leads a hike about General Barksdale and the battle for the Peach Orchard on July 2, 1863.
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@bradbalderson8172 2 жыл бұрын

Man I can't get enough of Matt and his walking tours plus a Ken Rich spotting is a win win!

@geraldpawlish6775 2 жыл бұрын

We were there and boy was it a hot battle walk! Good job for sticking it out Stuff Writer!

@karlatessitore2484 2 жыл бұрын

How hot was it Gerald?

@MrBossman87 2 жыл бұрын

We decided to do some exploring in Virginia that day, brandy station, cedar mountain, Kelly’s ford and Balls bluff. It really was too hot. First thing I thought when I started this video, you poor people. Would love to have been there tho.

@thirdgen377 2 жыл бұрын

When I visited Marye's Heights in Fredericksburg, VA last summer in June the temp was 97, felt like 104, and as I walked the stone wall road I was sweating so bad, even worse than when I stopped at Appomattox Court House earlier in the afternoon, I wanted to just leave but I said to myself, "These boys fought and bled in this type of weather wearing wool uniforms, the least I can do is suffer the heat to honor them. It kept me going, and boy was I tired but glad I stuck with it.

@TheWeatherbuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you StuffWriter, from all of us who couldn't get there. Did I see the Mysterious Red-Shirt Man? Glad he's OK. We can't compliment you enough for doing these vids!!

@davidheyssel7884 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting! This was the first time I ever went on a Ranger Matt tour in-person. I had a difficult time hearing every once in a while so having the ability to go back and watch is really awesome!

@IndyRickHikes 2 жыл бұрын

After 159 years, this Hoosier with Yankee great grandfathers is thrilled to see Mississippi Matt in the Peach Orchard! Imagine that! It boggles the mind! 😂🇺🇸🙏

@jacobmasters438 2 жыл бұрын

It truly does boggle the mind. Me and my Dad are from Wayne County Indiana. Back in early June we visited Gettysburg for a few days. I was actually able too see Matt Atkinson on our way out from the National Park visitors center. I thanked him personally for all that he does.

@MorgansRaiders23 2 жыл бұрын

Another great presentation by Matt, even including the mysterious red shirt man.

@frankofva8803 2 жыл бұрын

Matt Atkinson-The Great One!

@jamesa.7604 2 жыл бұрын

My Thanks To Mr. Stuffwriter for a fine video. Matt's Battlefield walks are always entertaining and educational. I was also happy to see The Mysterious Red Shirt Man in the tour group. Thanks very much for posting these!

@jacobmasters438 2 жыл бұрын

I was in Gettysburg early last month. My Dad and I were visiting for a few days. We drove past the old train station and I couldn't believe my eyes. There next to the building was The mysterious red shirt Man! I laughed at the thought of seeing him in real life instead of in miniature, on a display screen. Lol

@jupite1888 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks StuffWriter from Australia for the Great History Lesson and The Great Teacher Matt!!!!

@sparkey6746 2 жыл бұрын

Another outstanding presentation by a genuine legend.

@charlesfritz7131 Жыл бұрын

Matt Atkinson is the best Civil War presentator around.

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

matt is great. i really like garry a too. . good good 😄

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

Different but both are great.

@ronalddesiderio7625 2 жыл бұрын

Matt’s a RockStar! For the Parks Dept! Talk about I guy that loves his job. God Bless Matt 🙏🏼 Give him a Raise$ Bonus$ A true history guy. Love ❤️ it

@JakobTermansen 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻 For sharing this 👍🏻

@daytonlights-peterwine468 Жыл бұрын

Ranger Matt is such a great story teller, especially on these battle walks. For one who has never been there in person (yet,) it helps to gain a bit of perspective for what happened there.

@mhmt1453 2 жыл бұрын

Matt is a treasure

@kreedur 2 жыл бұрын

Love Matt Atkinson

@karlatessitore2484 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so Much Stuffwriter for all you do! I Love watching my Southern Gentleman Matt Atkinson!!! Great Battlefield Walk as always 👌

@MrChappy39 20 күн бұрын

Until watching your videos about Gettysburg, my knowledge about the battle was shaped by the accounts of Pickett's Charge. The info contained in your videos are magnificent and helpful to reorient my understanding of this historical event.

@ktd9 2 жыл бұрын

Great presentation….I learned so much…🙏😍🥰👀

@paulstan9828 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for posting these for us who can’t be there. Always enjoy listening to Ranger Matt.

@JackFlemingFan1 2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@jalspach9215 2 жыл бұрын

I now have PTSD from enduring the excruciating road noise. But it's Matt & I persevered.

@Uncle_Remus420 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks StuffWriter. Always awesome.

@patrickancona1193 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Stuff writer! Means a lot to all of us & especially those of us that air travel has become a out of reach luxury, y’all have a happy 4th!!!

@beckysteinmiller338 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! How I wish I was there!

@buckwaddell301 2 жыл бұрын

Hope to make it out to G'Burg next year and catch a tour with Matt !! Thanks for keeping him around for perpetuity !!

@patrickancona1193 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Going to wait till tonight after I get the grandkids down & can watch & really absorb it, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

@battlewagonmclaren8004 2 жыл бұрын

StuffWriter you and Mat never disappoint!! Thank you for making these videos. I dis the 130th reenactment and the movie, so I really did not get the chance to view a lot of the Battlefield. I would rather your videos then the American Battlefield trust !!! Stay hydrated my friends!!!

@Sheilamarie2 2 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this, since Matt mentioned doing this (Barksdale) walking tour last night at his lecture.. Thank you for this, Stuff Writer and Matt, my entire 4th weekend has been the best due to ABT, Addressing Gettysburg, and you all!

@undergroundphilly3118 2 жыл бұрын

32:36 The 68th Pennsylvania Infantry is my Grandfather somewhere down the line’s Regiment. He was Captain of Company K during Gettysburg. Later he was wounded during the final assault (in the head no less) but somehow survived the battle and the war. These brave men of this war don’t get enough attention. Thank you so much for what you do, I live in Philly and am trying to get up there this summer, haven’t been to Gettysburg in 10 years I think.

@undergroundphilly3118 2 жыл бұрын

@Iron Brigade Thank your Grandfather for his service as well. The Iron Brigade was one of the Army of the Potomac’s best. These men went through a lot to say the least and too many Americans take it for granted. History isn’t taught or emphasized enough in this country, and when it is by the mainstream or corporate media it’s put in a negative light, which is ridiculous.

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

matt is quite knowledgeable but is a great communicator. great teacher.

@michaelswayze5568 2 жыл бұрын

Matt your too good! Thx for posting

@cyndiebill6631 2 жыл бұрын

Great job done by Matt as always. Thank you for making history enjoyable and interesting.👍😁

@dennisprehn5702 2 жыл бұрын

Love listening to Matt describe the battle.

@wes2262 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been waiting for a Matt 2022 video

@bethluther3950 Жыл бұрын

There are many of us who will never have the opportunity to visit Gettysburg or take battle field walk. As I young girl I loved to read historical fiction. I am a Hoosier - but have appreciated learning more and more about the entire Civil War ….. saying thank you to StuffWriter and Ranger Matt Atkinson can’t begin to express the depth of my feelings to have this unique way to ‘be there’ ! Thank you. May God bless you mightily for taking on this task. It reaches so many more people than you can imagine!!!

@stevenmay2937 2 жыл бұрын

matt is the best !!!!

@OldePete 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reminder to stay away during "Bike Week".

@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf 2 жыл бұрын

HE LIVES! Don't think I saw a single tour with him on pcn this year and not gonna lie got a little worried lol😂 love this guy he's a great presenter. Hell pcn give me a camera next year I'll go follow this guy if you won't.

@johnpowers3947 2 жыл бұрын

This is from about a month ago. Enjoy! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qcB5ddFlmMnDXYU.html

@michaelpatterson2955 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting information, but what were the planners thinking when they placed him right next to Emmitsburg Road and the heavy traffic?!

@ronalddesiderio7625 2 жыл бұрын

You could see him back in time 1863 yelling at commanders and soldiers to get in there proper places🤣

@allanburt5250 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic job 👏 thank you

@StabbinJoeScarborough 2 жыл бұрын

Well done

@Alex-ej4wm 2 жыл бұрын

YES!!! I was hoping a new ranger Matt would be up after the anniversary. Thank you

@americanschweitzer45 Жыл бұрын

Awesome crowd for this one!!

@thomaswiseman1171 2 жыл бұрын

Great thanks for posting!

@ParanormalBrew Жыл бұрын

I love the peach orchard. I have two pictures in a tour guide book written by Ralph Siegel and Mike Vallone . So cool this is!!

@brianpickering4941 2 жыл бұрын

Any Chance you filmed Troy Harman's Cemetery Hill program. PCN was to but didn't

@Gloriosus 5 ай бұрын

Mr Atkinson really earns his money, competing against all that traffic noise. Some of it sounds like a tank unit on the move.

@owryan1 2 жыл бұрын

Woohoo my night sorted now

@panzerdeal8727 6 ай бұрын

12.15, 525 yards to the Warfield house 606 to the Madison light Artillery monument [ Google maps distance meter.]

@shannon7733 2 жыл бұрын

Does everyone in Gettysburg drive a LOUD vehicle? I love these videos but for the LOVE of PETE why does everyone want to drive an obnoxious vehicle through the battlefield park? Tractor? I get it. Farmers, not even slightly perturbed. But motorcycles, garbage cars, obnoxious pukes driving past so disrespectfully? Nope... Matt has incredible patience.

@eziehm 2 жыл бұрын

Such is life.....

@davidfeador4125 2 жыл бұрын

been there numerous times and it gets worse with each visit

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

anyone know the speed limit through there?

@timsickles6572 Жыл бұрын

I'm the great great grandson of Daniel e Sickles

@chrispedraza4140 Жыл бұрын

Come out this year to the 160th in uniform. People would love it.

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

Well that is an interesting ancestor!!

@travisbayles870 11 ай бұрын

Salute from Alabama

@cowdudeable 2 жыл бұрын

Do you think Barksdale was wearing his hairpiece when he was rallying his troops?

@joslynscott466 Жыл бұрын

If he was, he would have died with it on.

@johnashton485 Жыл бұрын

No he was not wearing his wig but had shoulder length white hair. Please check out my detailed biography WILLIAM BARKSDALE, CSA released by McFarland Publishers in March 2021.

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

i think he lost it in his congressional wrestling match 😂

@awitchlikewethought 2 жыл бұрын

Please tell me the speaker system is bluetooth enabled

@travisbayles870 11 ай бұрын

My great great great uncle Captain Wesley Mellard Co H 13th Mississippi Infantry Barksdales brigade fought at the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg July 2 1863

@carywest9256 4 ай бұрын

Did he survive the battle ?

@travisbayles870 4 ай бұрын

@carywest9256 yes he did

@josephsmith742 Жыл бұрын

At 1 hour 45 minutes and 3 seconds. You can here men or a man screaming faintly, but clearly. Don't know why anyone would be screaming on the battlefield like that. Maybe a reenactment. Idk. Maybe a ghostly residual of battle?. I've got ear phones on and here it clear. Can here it without them also.

@robinqm Жыл бұрын

I saw police cars...at least 4 pull up next to the house....wondering if something happened

@jliller 11 ай бұрын

Probably a tourist with heat stroke.

@snake316171 Жыл бұрын

What kind of hat were you wearing at this battle walk? Never seen that broter l before and it looked useful.

@jeffhester1443 2 жыл бұрын

Where was the rifle and artillery fire by reenactors?

@WindersRanger Жыл бұрын

Artillery would be down near Pitzers woods, infantry demos over behind the PA monument.

@johnreilly6630 2 жыл бұрын

Hey I see me!

@jackhays1194 Жыл бұрын

can these rangers accept tips? i cant imagine the gubmint pays folks like matt what hes worth in the private sector.

@kzeich 5 ай бұрын

Having a brigade available to fill a gap in the line is not luck. It's funny if you notice, Matt does this all the time. When the Confederates are doing well Matt attributes it to Passion and skill; but when the Union successfully counter charges?.... well in that case it's luck! Makes me laugh. He says the same thing about Greene's Traverse on July 2nd. On his Culp's hill tour he is describing how Greene's line has to fall back to the Traverse they made just for that reason. Matt says, "that's how you get lucky folks, the Brigade is saved by a Traverse". It's funny and I don't think he realizes he's doing it. He does it all the time though

@emonokari82 4 ай бұрын

He knows, and its part of the joke.

@poopmcgee3826 Жыл бұрын

56:15 highlight of the tour

@jonnyy4088 2 жыл бұрын

I know the chap in the red shirt sitting down behind matt's right shoulder around the hour mark.He's a tv personality or something.Can't quite place him.The older man not 'tache.

@WindersRanger 9 ай бұрын

Eye spy the mysterious Red Shirt Man

@greenwave819 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for the HOT SAUCE

@kennkid9912 Жыл бұрын

Ranger Matt is a dead ringer for RIP FORd the famous Texas ranger. The resemblance is uncanny. I watched A Gettysburg tour by Matt and then saw a thing on RIP FORD Texas Ranger. OLD RIp looked so familiar and I realized who he looked like.GGrandpa on wifes side was in CO I, Daniels Brigade, Rodes Division at Gett.. 53 NC. from Union County. LT. Joshua LEE.Not at the Peach Orchard. At the RR cut on July 1. 45% casualties At Gettysburg.

@patrickhamos2987 2 жыл бұрын

that road sucks man

@Baseballnfj 4 ай бұрын

It's a really really busy road. It's difficult to concentrate out there even standing by the road trying to read something.

@vinceo1058 Жыл бұрын

So Barksdale entered the CSA as a regimental commander and rose through the ranks to brigade command. I'm not real good at math, but isn't that a single promotion?

@johnashton485 Жыл бұрын

Actually Barksdale began as Quartermaster General of Mississippi when the state seceded. He soon resigned and enlisted in the 13th MS and was elected Colonel of that regiment. When the Brigade Commander Brig. Gen. Richard Griffith was mortally wounded at the Battle of Savage Station during the Seven Days battles, Barksdale as senior regimental colonel within the brigade was promoted to Brigadier General in command of the Mississippi Brigade. He served in that capacity until his death at Gettysburg. Learn all about him in my definitive biography (first ever) WILLIAM BARKSDALE, CSA published by McFarland Publishers. Regards, John Douglas Ashton

@levigallup9360 2 жыл бұрын

12th NH

@b.l.6299 7 ай бұрын

Ranger Matt Atkinson is sooooo attractive to me. ❤

@mattjones8254 6 ай бұрын

You're pretty yourself!

@JohnnyRebKy 2 жыл бұрын

Wish I coulda been there. 5 dollar gas just wouldn’t allow it 🤦‍♂️. My trip has been ruined by something the last 3 years straight.

@tombuzzguy 2 жыл бұрын

Thank stuffwriter and Matt for such great presentations.

@michaelhenry8890 2 жыл бұрын

Dead Rebs. A wonderful thought.

@williammurray8060 2 жыл бұрын

Where's all the killings now? in Yankee states.

@michaelhenry8890 2 жыл бұрын

@@williammurray8060 iron brigade smoking Rebs for breakfast. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opN8ksJ1mceqqY0.html

@markperrault5678 2 жыл бұрын

Dead Yankees. EVEN BETTER

@dindu551 2 жыл бұрын

Barksdale is a legend. God received him personally at the gates.

@willoutlaw4971 2 жыл бұрын

Confederates were fighting to preserve and expand African American slavery. Read Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens "Cornerstone Speech" made in March of 1861. They tried to destroy the USA to achieve their goals. Thank you Generals Meade, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan for your service.

@mmmm66 2 жыл бұрын

and cast him directly into hell where he is still being whipped, raped, and forced to work the Devils sulfur fields

@johnashton485 Жыл бұрын

David: If you want to learn all about William Barksdale please check out my definitive biography (first ever) WILLIAM BARKSDALE, CSA published by McFarland Publishers in March 2021. It covers his entire life in detail including his military career in the Civil War including Gettysburg. Best Regards, John Douglas Ashton

@cannae216 Жыл бұрын

And God said, "Passionate supporter of slavery and died fighting to preserve it? Yeah, there's been a change in your housing assignment, but you can't be surprised. I mean come on, you're called a fire-eater already..."

@manilajohn0182 Жыл бұрын

Barksdale was also an enemy of the United States of America. I'm not sure why you would want to put him on a pedestal of sorts by calling him a legend and invoking God himself- but you do you.

@panzerdeal8727 6 ай бұрын

And people clain Congress don't have a sense of humor...

@willoutlaw4971 2 жыл бұрын

Three Confederate armies surrendered to Union General Grant: Fort Donelson in February 1862 Vicksburg in July 1863 Appomattox in April 1863 How many Union armies surrendered to Confederate General Lee? ZERO!!

@mattjones8254 6 ай бұрын

Lee was the Superior commander..... Any way you cut it.... I'm not taking away from Grant but he was no Robert E. Lee.... On paper or anywhere else.

@johnhoffman2745 2 ай бұрын

If you're counting the 12k who surrendered at Fort Donelson as an "army", then surely you're counting the 13k who surrendered at Harpers Ferry to Lee's wing as a Union "army", right?