I hate how all the Confederate statues have been removed. We had so many in town and in Mississippi as a whole but they just had to remove them cause people blamed a statue for what happened over 100 years ago. History deserves to be out in the public. People needs to know history is history and leave it at that. Why do we have to take history away from people who learn wanna learn about it.

I really enjoy your content. Keep up the great work.

Mathew Brady was never at Gettysburg he sent one of his photographers that worked for him his name was Alexander Gardner. Mr. Gardner took all the pictures Gardner was under contract with Mr. Brady that gave the credit to Mr. Brady. Mr. Gardner had enough and broke the contract with Brady, Mr. Gardner opened a photography shop 3 blocks from the white house. He became the official photographer to Abraham Lincoln and he took the famous cracked plate photograph and the famous picture of Lincoln sitting at a table with his son tad with his elbow on the table. Alexander Gardner took all the photographs at the Gettysburg battlefield and Brady gets the credit mr. Gardner took the picture of a soldier dead at a snipers nest as well. But the soldier was not killed there mr Gardner found this boy and the body not decomposed yet he brought the soldier to the nest and posed the soldier with a rifle he found for effect. He is the photographer that was the beginning of the whole aspect of posed photography.

@@harolynallison6889 Gardner was one of the first on the scene but Brady himself was there two weeks after.

@@TheHistoryUnderground Gardner took the photos Brady got the credit no wonder Gardner left Brady employment

I wanted to be there on the anniversary

I went there as a child but I didn't understand what I want to go back to the town bi want to see the things I've seen on this video back when I was a kid one could walk on the battlefield

Wow! That is incredible.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Appreciate that! And I agree. It’s a good work that they’re doing there.

Wow! Thank you 🙏🏼

The American Battlefield Trust has just put out a number of videos on the Petersburg Campaign and the Ft Fisher and the Wilmington campaign. Lots of great videos. Check them out.

I'm a big fan of what they do. Hope to do some more collaborations with them in the future.

@@TheHistoryUnderground The Trust has just put out a large number of videos on the Petersburg campaign and the Ft Fisher and the Wilmington. campaigns. Great organization for you to collaborate with.

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Agreed!

Agreed. Thanks!

Yeah to bad the evil democratic party and the far left are trying to burn are history down 😠

It has been something else watching the Battlefield go from what it was when I moved here to Gettysburg at 7 yrs old from Michigan to what it is now with all the restoration going on. I am now 48 and the amount of work they have done at restoring and not destroying this battlefield over the years is nothing short of amazing.

They’ll leave Albert Pikes statue up. And in another 100 years the battle was won on the back on Dan Sickles courageous charge unanimously nominated by his peers for the CMH and conveniently absent for many of the battles leading up to Gettysburg.

@@marcuslaker5876 - General Sickles' corp commander level battlefield memorial remains uncompleted to this date as the funds for the memorial, approximately $5,000 in late 1800s money, mysteriously vanished and was never found or applied to the memorial's completion. Another fun fact is that Congressman Sickles also sat on the US Congresses Battlements Commission during which time the money went missing. General Sickles has other notoriety after his push forward from Cemetery Ridge toward the Devil's Den during the battle and his wounding by Confederate cannon fire. While Sickles was later a New York Congressional representative, he shot and killed Francis Scott Keys son, Philip Burton Key, who was rumored to have had a 'dalliance' with Sickles' wife. Sickles was seen to have shot Key in the street bordering DC's Lafayette Park within a block of the White House, later standing over Keys to give him a final and conclusive head shot. Sickles was then successfully defended in the first US recorded use of the Temporary Insanity defense for his killing of Phillip Key. History is strange, isn't it? Mstrdiver - US Army - 1973 to 1995 -- Amatuer CW historian

Thanks for watching!

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You can not but Cry! Nothing but senseless killings and dying.

Me too! Thanks!

Yes it was. Glad to see the work that they’ve done.

Glad that you’ve donated! It really is a great organization.

Thank you for your service

Agreed. They do a good work.

Thank you. Hopefully, people are sharing these videos out and helping to spread the history.

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I think you visit 100 times and still learn new things.

Go to Stone wall and do a complete 360 degree view of the entire battle field.. It is sobering. The Confederate arny came on the battle field from the West. And the Union entered the field from the South. And Jeb Stuart had been battling Custer North of battle field a number of days.

No other place like it 🇺🇸

I agree with this! Grew up going there and don’t live that far from there

I retire soon. I plan to visit all the battlefields then.

Thanks so much for sharing that.

Praying for you and your Dad. God bless.

Need to get down there. Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very much so.

Definitely plan to support what the American Battlefield Trust is doing wherever I can.

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Indeed, Mr. Strevig👍 It's dying a slow death moreover with each passing year, sir. Public schools don't delve into it like they used to when I was a student. It's a sad state of affairs, sir😣

Agreed. Love what they've done there.

I thought the same thing.

Agreed.

Agreed.

Oh wow! That is amazing.

Completely agree. It really is something else.

I stayed in the motel just before the destruction of it.

I agree!

The statues are all still there because when "they" were coming to tear them down ... a huge group of law abiding local citizens showed up with many, many weapons ... and the park service praised them for their courage! No one was messing with our little town! 😇😂 Yeah 2nd Ammendment!

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Pretty amazing work that they’re doing there.

Great stuff that they’re doing!

Agreed!

Agreed.

Walking around Culp’s Hill at 3:30 am. That was fun.😉

Awesome! Thanks so much!

Thanks! It’s quite the place.

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Agreed!

They have a lot of great things that they’re doing!

Thank you for sharing that!

Well the Thompson house renovation to what it looks like in this video did not start until 2015 when the Civil War Trust acquired the property and ended in 2016. So the way it looked prior to how it is now with all the modern buildings was what it looked like in 2000. I live right outside of Gettysburg and am so glad to see all these renovations being done to preserve history and not destroy it under modern stuff

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That would be cool. Supposedly he slept in a tent outside.

His entire headquarters element was tented across the Cashtown Pike from the Thompson house on the reverse military slope of Seminary Ridge to forestall any enemy [Union] observation and possible artillery fire from Cemetery Ridge emplaced to the south of the town proper. That headquarters placement is denoted by the upsidedown cannon barrel monument commonly erected for any general officer headquarters during the battle.

100% improvement

@@TheHistoryUnderground yes, yes it is!

AMEN!!!😎

One man's "tourist trap' is another man's favorite hotel. Please note that because of the limited restoration that took place here, the Civil War Trust [CWT] of which I continue to be a contributing member, did not restore the Widow Thompson's barn [now only a partial stone wall shell] behind the house as it had been converted to a two-story set of king suites for the former Larson's Inn at Seminary Ridge [A Choice hotel facility]. That barn is significant in that it was the structure to which General Lee took his wayward Cavalry leader, General J.E.B Stuart for a 'solo nighttime discussion' after the Confederate Cavalry made a second ride around the Union Army, finally rejoining the main body of Confederate troops at Gettysburg. The significance here is that General Lee wasn't receiving intelligence reports from Stuart while he on this flamboyant ride. As the 'nighttime discussion' between these two generals remains unrecorded, as even their aides were excluded from the meeting, several theories have been pushed forth as to the depth of the conversation with some speculation postulating that the meeting was more akin to a 'woodshed' gathering where General Stuart was possibly chewed out thoroughly for his liberal, and oftimes cavalier 'stretching' of General Lee's orders once Stuart was outside of Lee's general control. Lee was known to be 'loose' in his command structure and allowed his senior subordinate officers to make tactical field decisions, but it was also reported that General Lee was furious with General Stuart's actions and his lack of intelligence reporting during this crucial time leading up to Gettysburg Battle. That 'woodshed' meeting took place in your 'tourist trap' barn and remains a matter of extensive debate for many historians on what actually took place during that meeting. Mstrdiver - US Army - 1973 to 1995 and amateur CW historian

They belong in national parks or museums. He stood for preserving evil and must not be in the public square where everyone is forced to see them.

I agree, Ross, with all my heart. Thank you.

Amen Ross! One of the Greatest Military minds ever to come out of West Point. Never received a single demerit at the Academy.

Interesting figure for sure.

Very much so. I could spend an endless amount of time there.

Me too!

Thanks!

Thanks! Pretty amazing that you had an ancestor in the final charge.

Well said 👏, very enjoyable viewing, and hearing about your GGGreatgrandad was lovely story, they don't make ppl like him anymore, sad really

Your GGGrandfather was on the losing side, ICYMI.

@@thiest1205 Sad that people that endorsed slavery aren't around these days, you mean?

@@ivanlowjones i don't blame one individual for the actions of a government, slavery was wrong, you know the Irish were slaves in America before Black slaves became popular, 1776 they no longer wanted convicts working on the plantations so out with the Irish, ln with Africans

Agreed!

Me too!

The American Battlefield Trust is the best!

I was there when there was a hotel and the gift shop I was just a kid and I happened to walk towards the grass from where the Parking lot for the hotel was and I found a giant screw and a giant nut I don’t know if they were from artillery or what but I brought them back home with me because I thought It was interesting.

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Yes, that’s true. Decent chance we’ll hear more about that story in the future 🙂

It was Jennie Wade who was killed and a musket ball penetrated the wooden door of the house. The last time I was there the bulletin hole was still in the door.

@@johnkeenan5404 Ah, thanx for that.

I’d say that it looks better now 🙂

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Late March. The weather was great!

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Awesome! Thanks and have fun! Be sure to check out the Seminary Ridge Museum and Shriver House while you are there.

Thanks!

100%. Thanks!

They’re the best!

Ha! Absolutely.

It’s a great resource!

I agree!

Awesome! I hope that he enjoys it!

Agreed!

Thanks!

That was the plan, but it was shut down due to Covid. Gives me a good excuse to come back.

I hope so!

That is the province of the National Park Service [NPS] who now controls the property. Previously, when the house was under the control of the hotel owners, it held several walls of displayed weaponry and other battlefield artifacts which I found fascinating to view. The now sterile walls really hold minimal interest for me and in fact when I was last there at New Years, 2020, pre-COVID, access to the building was not allowed by the NPS but I hope that policy changes soon when tourism picks back up after the pandemic.