What It Was Actually Like To Fight In The Civil War’s Bloodiest Battle

How does one get one’s mind around a battle – especially one that went on for three days and involved 150,000 individuals, as Gettysburg did? Long lists of regiments and brigades, hour-by-hour timelines, and maps with blue and red blocks and arrows all over are of little value to people who don’t already know a lot about Gettysburg. But individual episodes, with well-defined stakes and memorable characters, stick in the mind.
People might forget a map showing the position of the 20th Maine on Little Round Top, but they never forget Jeff Daniels (playing Union Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the film Gettysburg) shouting “Bayonets!” as he readies his unit to charge. The danger is that we can come to mistake the stories for the history. The real history of Gettysburg is far more complex than any one narrative.
To read more actual accounts of the battle of Gettysburg, go here:
https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-from-gettysburg/gordon-cameron
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@JoeRogansForehead
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
3:01 free mason . Just like Ted Cruz . Hand in the jacket
@pixeldragon6387
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Damn traitors need to denounce their flag and failed rebellion already
@chasechristophermurraydola9314
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
My family actually knew Tillie Pierce and what I mean by that is during the battle of Gettysburg she stayed with my 4th great grandparents Jacob weikert and my grandmother Sarah Ickes Weikert and also one of my 3rd great grand aunts and her family were neighbors of Tillie Pierce.
@jesserivera6611
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
your girl voice is very delicate and on point brother. what are you doing later?
@peterfritsche1333
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Die Übersetzung ist schlimm: Union Officers = Gewerkschaftsfunktionäre!
@donny_doyle
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Going to Gettysburg for a long weekend- tours of the battlefields, ghost tour, all the museums and history was amazing. Those close proximity to each other battlelines was frightening and horrific. You'd think we'd learn a lesson…
@rickyd128
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
I’m pretty sure the Civil War’s bloodiest battle was at Antietam
@Momnpop98
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Please tell me this guy reads for audiobooks❤
@EastAsiaCreativeMedia
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
I thought that by the number of casualties Antietam was the deadliest battle
@nellyc1066
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Civil war videos are so good
@mentor397
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you. I've been dealing with quite a few medical problems and it's been keeping me mostly homebound, unless I'm in the hospital and often confined to a bed. I'd have gone insane from boredom long ago, save for channels like yours. Thank you!
@TheFern72
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Yeah…skip doing the voices. Just do you. We get the drift.
@davidleonard1278
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
I believe Jack Skelly died of wounds in Winchester Virginia, not Gettysburg
@bro90_now
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Finally, the best narrator from Weird History
@NextGenEcho
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
A lot of people don’t know how many men sacrificed themselves to save our country from the rebels
@charon669bb
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
My Great, Great, Great Grandfather was Joshua Chamberlain, on my mother's side. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
@bryanparkhurst17
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
As somebody who has lived near Gettysburg all of his life and knows a lot of the old-timers in town, according to town lore, Wesley's body is buried underneath the basement floor in the Culp farmhouse.
@solidsnake4214
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
I thought Antietam was the bloodiest battle
@cleverusername9369
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Gettysburg was the bloodiest multi-day battle and bloodiest overall. Antietam was the bloodiest single day battle. Gettysburg took place over three days.
@diannemose244
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Back when war was polite, no guerilla warfare, no fighting at night, etc
@zachschreck
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
Wasn't Antietam the bloodiest battle of the war?
@taylorrenee4880
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
A grown man attempting to sound like a 15 year old girl is creepy, yet amusing. 😂😂 I love this channel.
@youtubelicksmytaint7482
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
😂😂😂
@ThomasPrior-wv6zn
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
a few years ago i was a civil war re – enactor in uk , man i loved it , from essex to the west country , we re – enacted, not some silly buggers running around playing cowboys and indians , no
evry re -enactor will tell you how seriouse we take it , right down to the cotton holding on your button
i was union , under gen grant , after 1 weekend i tell you in summer , do you appreciate getting home and taking a shower and laying in a bed
but you take the hard ships , cause you relise how hard those men had it in the real war, and couldnt come home to a warm bed or good meal , sleeping on the cold ground , wearing same woolen uniform , winter , summer , un shaven , not in good health , depretion would have set it , so easily , then ahving to march 10 miles , to a field no one ever heard of and wait , wait wait , then in the distance the enemy , bugle sounds , men put on there pack , get into line , the order goes out , load , and you wait and wait , n c o,s to the rear , and you wait
what thoughts were going through there minds , the enemy getting nerer and neaer , they stop ready comes the call, f i r e , 100rds of balls and minni bullets go into the enemy
smoke so thick ypu cant see , throat so dry to cant spit , then it load then when you smoke clears a bit you can see what has happend , bodys every where then its there turn
the worse injury was a gut shot , soldiers if hit there new that was it lead poisening stomache intestines would explode head wounds most recoverd , arms leg bones were destroyed
imagine no anesthetic , and having your arm or leg cut off , when the minni bullet or musket ball left the barrel from the soldiers they came at all diferent hights ,
i ahd the privaledge of going to shilho, for re-enactment after the re-enact ment we went to the acutal site , none of us came out from there with out a tear in our eye
at a place they called the sunken road , later called the hornets nest cause the miini bullets , musket balls sounde like hornets flying
gen prentiss surrendered if he didnt the cannons with grape shot would be lowerd to thigh hights and all would have been slaughterd
the con feds some didnt even have shoes just rags wrapped around there feet, who had walked miles in snow to get there
bravely chrged the union line around 12 13 times piles of men slaughterd , who fell were trodden on
after the battel the confeds pulled the union , and missouri flags behind them on the wagons with the captured soldiers and gen prentiss through the mud
and dirt what they all went through was something was some thing else so many dead r i p
queen victoria wanted to side with the south, but albert said no there a young country let them deal with it
remember cotton was king england wasnt getting any mills were idol , no wages coming in , , so some war miles away over the sea , had effects on us englands trade
please please dont call the stars and bars a racist flg , it isnt it was a flag no one heard of its from a naval ship a jack , the south wanted a flag no one ever heard of the stars were added to it fron the states that left the union wow i wrote all that r i p amen
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@shypoke6027
October 27, 2024 at 6:29 pm
If they would have just sent the slaves back, no civil war.