Ewell Attacks! The East Side of Gettysburg

Ewell Attacks! The East Side of Gettysburg | Gettysburg 161

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25 күн бұрын

Following in the footsteps of Richard Ewell’s Confederate Corps at Gettysburg, approaching Culp's and Cemetery Hill on East Confederate Ave. We also get an awesome lesson from Tim Smith about the history of the Culp's family in Gettysburg. #gettysburgtour
This video is part of our series commemorating the 161st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. View all of the videos here: • Gettysburg | 161st Ann...

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@AmericanBattlefieldTrust 23 күн бұрын

This stream ended abruptly due to a connection loss in the field, but luckily we were able to get in a solid 30 minutes. Thanks!

@anthonyjude4726 23 күн бұрын

I was wondering what happened. Still thankful for a great half hour!

@TheBassPlayer100 23 күн бұрын

Do a part 2 and pick up where it cut out.

@sbishop6450 22 күн бұрын

Wondered what kept happening to the live content videos! ❤

@atg323bc 3 күн бұрын

Gettysburg 161 videos were fabulous… really top drawer… but this one is my favorite. Great job gang…you guys really make it come alive.

@ct9361 23 күн бұрын

My great great grandfather was the 3rd Brigade 1st Division XII Corps commander Thomas Ruger.

@davidbaker7948 17 күн бұрын

Glad to hear that a potentially devasting loss was narrowly averted when a speeding minivan avoided taking out the Battlefields Trust's 'brain trust' in one fell swope.

@robertdawson4502 20 күн бұрын

Thank you from Jomtien Thailand.

@gilllawson2214 22 күн бұрын

Thanks to you all for your time and knowledge you’re sharing

@richardyoder3646 22 күн бұрын

I love your walks I'm watching at work

@georgebeckydragan6389 23 күн бұрын

Was there on one of my last visits (of probably close to two dozen) on the way to visit the East Cavalry Battlefield site of Day 3 which, up until then, I had never seen.

@VirginiaWood-l9i 23 күн бұрын

Love you guys and all the artifacts

@sbishop6450 23 күн бұрын

This is fantastic. I always struggle to orintate when watching videos as to where and what I am looking at! (and Garry, what bright shoes!! 😎) uk

@joshua-gk4tz 23 күн бұрын

Awesome and informative videos thanks

@deansmith8609 23 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust 23 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@hockeylifestyle1452 22 күн бұрын

That was me in the tan mini van waving at you guys around 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Love your videos. We visit Gettysburg every year. I was hoping to see you guys sometime and I finally did!

@DavidRosenstock 23 күн бұрын

The all star roster of Gettysburg.

@MikeLaughlin-jt1ow 23 күн бұрын

Great content!

@Imtheworst99 23 күн бұрын

Keep it up … love it!

@jpxv2613 23 күн бұрын

There is Mike again with his awesome watch band!

@pimhoff 23 күн бұрын

It is easy to second guess 160 years later. We know where everyone is and what had happened to them that day. They didn’t. The more battlefields I walk, the more amazed that any of the leaders were able to make sense of anything that was happening on ground they hadn’t seen before. A lot of these criticisms were post war attempts to defend the Lee legacy, which could never be questioned.

@stflaw 19 күн бұрын

Some people claim that Ewell's headquarters was located as marked, but they don't have a leg to stand on.

@warrenarmour 23 күн бұрын

I love this video. I took a Civil War History course in college with Dr. Taylor and he was so excited like Gary...love it!! Not the killing though.

@johnzajac9849 20 күн бұрын

After the war, Ewell was a Federal prisoner in Fort Warren, George’s Island, which is located in Boston Harbor. He was there until July, 1865.

@sidk4515 23 күн бұрын

I heard on another sites video that Lee was not completely without calvary? Stuart took all the experienced ones away but left him with rookies that Lee refused to use?? So he chose to be blind?

@therabbitify 23 күн бұрын

Lee sent out Cavalry on July 2nd, but yes they weren’t the best of the best...

@jacobmasters438 23 күн бұрын

Army war college has a video on youtube about this.

@sidk4515 23 күн бұрын

@@jacobmasters438 I think that is where I saw it

@larrydemaar409 23 күн бұрын

Great discussion in trying to figure out who was culpable!

@tomwarner2468 22 күн бұрын

Somebody took a liking to that blue mustang that went through the intersection!!

@henryrichards1542 21 күн бұрын

I love the mention of Dick Ewell's HQ location being very questionable. The simple fact is, in my experience of studying the matter, now a whole lot of anything is known regarding Ewell at Gettysburg, beyond the afternoon July 1st. There's bits and pieces, of course, and various actions by Ewell's troops on July 2nd late) and 3rd. But having read many books, watched many videos and having been to the Battlefield multiple times...I still invariably feel as if I know next to nothing about what Ewell himself was doing (Or exactly where) those two days. Then again...where was Hill most of the time?

@dks13827 22 күн бұрын

Arizona !!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

@michaeldenesyk3195 23 күн бұрын

How many present-day US Army, Cavalry or Artillery units can trace a unit history back to the Battle of Gettysburg?

@frederickbuchanan9438 2 күн бұрын

Interesting that Heth is criticized for ignoring the order to avoid a general engagement and Ewell is criticized for following it.

@michaelhoffman5348 16 күн бұрын

I have not been there, but I own a miniature replica of that monument.😀

@couthon 23 күн бұрын

The most abrupt ending since The Sopranos finale episode in 2007!

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust 23 күн бұрын

😂

@y00h0011 22 күн бұрын

Love these Battlefield Guides. They know their stuff. It doesn't get any better than Tim, Garry, Kris, and Sarah is holding her own for being a youngster of this excellent team. I hope to meet each one of them before I pass. And Garry, even Rudolph would need welding goggles ..hanging with you!

@LensShark 14 күн бұрын

I blame the orange shoes. ;)

@tjmunros 22 күн бұрын

From the UK… been to Gettysburg (nerd) six times. Fascinated by Culps Hill/East Cemetery Hill which had fighting on all three days. I walked Wainwright Ave and East Confederate Ave for the first time in October 2022, and it all made a lot of sense. Unfortunately I was the only person walking that start off line apart from a local. If you go, get out there, it’s worth an hour or so of your time 🎉

@McNair39thNC 8 күн бұрын

Yes I’ve been there😂

@bills6963 22 күн бұрын

Another terrific presentation by the A-Team. (Kris makes a convincing argument about “what if Jackson had lived?/Ewell/AP Hill. He could have been a successful trial attorney.) 😊 PS: The Trust maps are very helpful in following your comments.

@VirginiaWood-l9i 23 күн бұрын

No I wasn’t there, well whoops for you 😂😂😂😂

@mattfaulk8724 22 күн бұрын

AP Hill was sick and Corp command was still farly new to him. Imo AP Hill was better when he was hands-on (regiment-division). Corp commanders can't really be in with the troops to micromanage during the battles(especially when your Corp is spread out by miles.

@robertlee8474 23 күн бұрын

As a distance runner with over 100,000 miles run since 1977, I have to ask, …. How much mileage did you guys walk on July 2?

@fastsetinthewest 23 күн бұрын

I've been all over the place at Gettysburg. A lot of historical controversy. Let's face it, the Trust short shifts my Southern relatives. I must commend the presenters on their enthusiasm .

@bobbyb.6644 23 күн бұрын

Blew his Big Chance on DAY 1 ? Not Stonewall 🤔

@kevinnolbert9629 23 күн бұрын

Or when Early launched his late evening attack, why only 2 brigades involved?? If this was a fight to win it all, giving up your flank guard(Walker and Smith)to pull into the attack vs a depleted 11th and 1st corp, after Hays and Avery capture ECH, you send in walker and smith to follow up the best opportunity to win this battle. My poor uneducated opinion.

@bennoe5715 22 күн бұрын

Love the channel, love what you all do, but the constant teasing of Tim Smith feels a little mean-spirited.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 23 күн бұрын

Stonewall, Stonewall, blah blah blah. Having Stoinewall wasn't necessary. Had Lee given 2nd Corps to the most experienced, best qualifified general he had available, namely Harvey Hill. He certainly would have taken the Hill, "if practicable". In fact, no order to that effect would have been necessary. He was more than aggressive enough to get the job done. Just one man's opinion...

@tomdynia9951 20 күн бұрын

But it seems that DH Hill and Lee didn't get along so he was no longer with the ANV. Although he did seem to do a pretty good job of defending Richmond against the rather halfhearted efforts of Dix while the Gettysburg campaign was taking place before being sent further west to the lovefest that was Bragg's Army of Tennessee,

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 20 күн бұрын

@@tomdynia9951 it wasn't Lee that Harvey didn't get along with. It wasn't Stonewall (his brother in law) and it wasn't Longstreet, who said that he should've gotten the Corp command. It had to be his relationship with other Generals but I have no idea who. Hill was good in the Seven Days and every battle he was in. Remember he was Major General and commanded a BIG division back then. Rhodes' Division at Gettysburg was his old Division. He was also good at Antietam despite the withdraw from the sunken road which may or may not have been on him. Though I tend to think not but who knows. In any case he was a good, aggressive fighter that I think might have been able to sieze that Hill (pardon the pun).