Excellent video and well done. Boy do I have a ton of questions.

Thank you for making these videos. I’m a huge CW history buff. My dog and I travel to battlefields all over the east coast. Seeing you standing in the same places we’ve been is pretty neat. Please keep it up, even though I’ve read, re-read and listened to as many CW books as humanly possible I can still learn new things at any time and your videos are a huge help!

Do you have emphysema?

You got me and I'm spreading the word. Nice work, thanks for doing it.

Well done.

Well said sir...

We've certainly allowed the memory of those great men who served to be erased by cultural revisionists...and weak minded legislatures.

Eric, what is your mother's name? And her grandfather's name? I wrote a book on the farm and am always looking for descendants.

I worked a girl whip has the last name of Codori. She is a great great granddaughter of the Codori family during the battle of Gettysburg. Very cool.

Interview her please!!

@@pastorrobbgoodman5084 I'm sorry, but I have to ask: what is a "girl whip"? Thank you before hand for answer..

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Thanks. Learned a lot there.

I just did the same for my son for his 12th birthday. He’s quite the history buff and so am I. I think it was my 4 to trip there.

I bet that was a trip you won't soon forget.

It is certainly an awesome place to visit firsthand...

Awesome place to visit for sure, and my spouse went back for second time, but I was busy with work. Worth a visit.

I was there twice years ago. This farm would have been privately owned at the time. I would love to go back to Gettysburg and if I ever do I want to see this farm, it is a beautiful place and so very historic.

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Appreciate it. Before I started, I was expecting that people were going to tear me apart over my treatment of it.

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☑️ Yeah, he does a great job. However, I'm surprised he didn't take this opportunity to talk about how the actions ^here led to the creation of one of America's best known patriotic songs. In a nutshell, one of the union flags had been shot up so badly by confederate cannon fire that the stars on its upper left hand corner had been blasted clean off. Mrs. Spangler witnessed this travesty, whereupon she immediately broke out her sewing machine and repaired that flag, replacing all of the missing stars. A spectator named Francis Scott Key was so moved by this, that he penned the famous patriotic hymn that we know today as "The Star-Spanglered Banner".... {😉}

Seriously!! Loping off arms and legs like it was nothing at all. Thank GOD they had ether and chloraform..

@@jeffdarnell7942 Then comes the “Soldiers’ Disease “ that bastard of Opiate addiction that most would never completely get rid of . Laudenum was legal and somewhat available but it was no walk in the park

@@oceanhome2023 I never though of that aspect, war is hell indeed.

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I fully concur! You have a long road ahead JD! Haha, let’s go! 🍻

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Can you please tell us why its called a "bank barn"?

@@billd.iniowa2263 Watch the video again. When JD is talking about the threshing floor notice the grassy strip leading up to the threshing floor. This is literally a bank of ground the barn is built up against. So you can drive the horses , now tractors right up to the second story of the barn. Pennsylvania is known for our hills. The early settlers utilized every bit of land they could. Many different styles can be found throughout this state. Food storage on top. Animals in lower levels. The barn I speak of fondly in my childhood was a dairy barn. You could throw hay into mangers below from the barn floor. Hope this helps a bit Bill.

@@dawndickson2156 Very well described. I'm in Indiana and most of the large barns were built with the "ramp" up to I the 2nd floor. I spent several happy seasons helping a childhood friend harvest straw and throwing bales into the loft.

I love the series and the Gettysburg movie is one of my favorite movies. I love history, especially American history and the Civil War. It is so tragic yet so interesting and needs to be remembered and glorified by every American. The people who fought the war should be honored for their importance which should be realized by every American.

Makes that part where he says “Father into your hands I commend my sprit” really heartbreaking

It's all covered in this 2019 book about the George Spangler farm: www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Human-Endurance-Gettysburg/dp/1611214513

It smelt like death and decay.

Ha! I’m hoping that people won’t hate me when this thing is finally over.

@@TheHistoryUnderground Not a chance. ;-)

Thanks! I really appreciate that. Hope that you continue to enjoy the channel. Feel free to help a few others find it too :)

Just too awful to think about.

All of that is covered in this 2019 book about the George Spangler farm: www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Human-Endurance-Gettysburg/dp/1611214513

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Very interesting place. Really enjoyed my visit there.

The craftsmanship is just as impressive as the history to me.

There's a chapter on Armistead's time at Spangler in this 2019 book: www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Human-Endurance-Gettysburg/dp/1611214513

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Yep….As a child we cousins witnessed slaughtering of animals. When the

We use a system like that now to field dress deer

Definitely need to visit that one day.

Good thing there was no statue of him erected.....it would have been torn down.

@@ericc9664 they were insurrectionists and traitors. Why should they have a statue?

@@XxBloggs Why were they traitors? 11 states got together to legally withdraw from the United States that they saw as over reaching their Constitutional power, sounds a lot like our problems today. The issue of succession was argued back and forth since the signing of the Articles of Confederation in 1777, and even argued in the Supreme court, with no legal opinion given either way. Read the 10th Amendment of the Constitution as this is what their argument was based on, though the Constitution does not specifically address the issue of succession. Remember that the individual states had much more power and "pride" about them from the residents of the states, as this is before the power grab of the Federal Government starting with the Civil War. The US Senate as originally written in the Constitution was elected by the state legislators, not the "people", which is why the House of Reps was supposed to do. This was changed by the 17th amendment which took away the direct representation of the individual states from the Federal Government. This is why you see through out any war before and during the Civil War how the vast majority of units were from the individual states, like the 1st Pa. Cavalry, etc. The Civil War was not entirely based on slavery, though it was an issue. After 1808 and the banning of the importation of slaves to the US, and prevailing culture and technology, slavery was seen as on its way out. Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation until 1863, almost 2 years after the start of the war, and only did to undermine the southern economy, not because slavery was a big issue of the war. The south only fought back after the Union invaded the southern states, to try to keep them in the Union, against their will, which is why in the south it is known as the War of Northern Aggression. Not sure how old you are, I am 50 and this is how it was taught in my history classes back in school, and that was in PA, actually 30 minutes east of Gettysburg. Try to read some books published before 1980's on the causes of the Civil War, and don't listen to the whitewashing of history by the history books in schools today, and the media. There was bravery and heroes on both sides.

@@XxBloggs If they were traitors, you should be able to quickly assemble a list of Confederate government officials and army officers who were tried and convicted of treason. I'll wait ...

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No its not!! You can't change history.

The radical left is so far successful in destroying our country

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Amen I know people who think if you had a Confederate Ancestor. You should be ashamed. I am proud of mine.They felt their duty was to their home state

General Lee statue was pulled down in Charlottesville the other day. They won’t get away with the attempt To erase and rewrite and cover the real engineers of the profiteering puppeteers. Freemason. Jesuit. Rothschild payseur Vatican London slavers. Pick one or all of the above.

Fort Morgan really is a creepy yet cool place to visit.

I reside close to Ft. Morgan. My mother lives on Ft. Morgan Road. The fort is a must see for anyone visiting Gulf Shores, Alabama. A major naval battle was fought between the Union Navy and Confederates just off of Ft. Morgan in May, 1864. The Union ironclad, Tecumseh, hit a mine and sank off of the beach in front of Ft. Morgan. The wreck remains to this day.

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Not yet. Need to pick that one up.

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Awesome. Need get out to the west coast myself at some point.

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Richard Jordan did a phenomenal job with that role. I was shocked to find out that he had been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour prior to taking that role. Sadly he passed away 5 weeks before the movie premiered.

It's been said, as mentioned in the movie. Before they left California to go their seperate ways. Armistead told Hancock "May God strike me dead if I ever raise a hand against you." They were said to have been as close as brothers, Armistead and Hancock. Also present at the farewell party was Albert Sidney Johnston. Sadly neither he or Armistead survived the war. In the scene where Geneal Armistead is wounded and laying against the fence. When C. Thomas Howell asks Richard Jordan about his condition. That is genuine concern as the cast knew of his condition and were worried about him. Like the trooper he was. Richard Jordan finished the movie. RIP Richard Jordan and all the men of Gettysburg.

@@mako88sb Sad, wasn't it, sir??😣 It was his final, but most memorable, performance as an actor. I remember when he passed in August, 1993 when Gettysburg was in post-production. It was tragic seeing him posthumously in it when it was released. He never got a chance to see his great performance in the final product, sir

@@mako88sb I do recall him in Mario Van Peebles film, Posse, as the wicked sheriff. It was kinda hammy. I liked it😊 R.I.P. Richard Jordan

@@mako88sb You're right it was a brilliant performance. I have often wondered (and I think it probably did) whether his medical situation added to the emotion he wax able to put into a very moving role?

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There must have been thousands of vultures feasting on the dead after the Battle. I read a book once, where it was reported that there were over a thousand cultures present after the Alamo battle.

@@wilburshuman I have read witness accounts of the battle and the aftermath. They said almost all of the ground seemed to be covered in blankets from a distance. Up close, it was dead animals and soldiers . In the July heat, I cannot imagine.

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The family's story is told in this 2019 book: www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Human-Endurance-Gettysburg/dp/1611214513

Thanks! Glad to share the experiences.