OUTSTANDING!! This is an absolute must-see for anyone who has watched "GETTYSBURG" more than once... From experience I can visualize and admire the quantity and quality of the work that you had to do to produce what appears on screen. *Your research + your analysis/processing of your research + your presentation of your findings, both your maps & your narration =👍👍👍(Yes:3 thumbs up) PROPS
@@gettysburgminutebyminute8607, I have a question. I know that they were Confederate forces Northwest of cemetery Hill that had positions in the town. Why did they not take part in the charge too? I forget what brigades and divisions they belong to but they just sat there. Maybe if they had advanced then the 8th Ohio wouldn't have been able to devastate the Left flank of the attacking Force. What can you tell me about that? Who is in command? Why didn't they go where the regiments in bad combat shape?
I looked at my Day 3 map (online here: www.clarksoncs.com/Gettysburg/dayThreeV1_1.html). It looks like you're talking about 5 brigades lined up just N of the Bliss buildings: Thomas' and Perrin's brigades from Pender's division, and Ramseur's, Iverson's and Doles' brigades from Rodes' division. I don't know the answer to your question. Speculating - maybe they were kept in mind as a 2nd wave in case the charge was successful? There's been lots of talk about a second wave but I do not remember what units that was supposed to be. But apparently Longstreet saw (or decided) pretty quickly that the attack had failed, and did not follow up, other than with Wilcox and Lang on the right flank. I don't know. Good question!
Excellent! It is a joy to watch the battle unfold is such a calm, clear headed series of lectures. Wow. This was a complex, slow motion frontal attack across open space without artillery support against a better equipped, dug-in opponent of at least comparable size. Surely Lee did not think that the Union would catch a glance of them approaching and cut and run. People talk about how high the rebel morale was ... but the did fresh troops of Mahone and Posey demand to redeem their honor by joining Pickett? Well, my bet is that they would have, if they saw a reasonable chance of success.
interesting what you showed with terrain cross section about picketts division not being able to see pettigrews or trimbles.. i believe Kemper said he did not recall ever seeing any confederate units other than picketts division throughout the whole assault
I've walked it- probably took 10 minutes to reach Emmitsburg Rd and another 10, because of heavy fire, to reach Cemetery Ridge. 20 minutes total plus or minus a few minutes.
Thanks! Close - for everything except day two. Im onto the Vicksburg campaign now and sorely miss the depth of documentation you see with Gettysburg. Ahh Philip Laino...yes!
'General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know as well as anyone what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no 15,000 men ever arrayed for battle can take that position' Longstreet (even without Rittenhaus's enfilading 6 guns or McGilvery's oblique 41 guns)
Lee was right in that the Union line was weakest in the center... but weakest doesn't mean weak. If the assaulting force HAD penetrated the first line, I don't think it would have changed the result except possibly to make it even worse. Meade's use of terrain, interior lines, and ample reserves made attacking the Union position anywhere along the line a very, very bad idea.
Great work! This deserves one billion views.
OUTSTANDING!!
This is an absolute must-see for anyone who has watched "GETTYSBURG" more than once...
From experience I can visualize and admire the quantity and quality of the work that you had to do to produce what appears on screen.
*Your research
+ your analysis/processing of your research
+ your presentation of your findings, both your maps & your narration
=👍👍👍(Yes:3 thumbs up)
PROPS
Thnk you!
@@gettysburgminutebyminute8607, I have a question. I know that they were Confederate forces Northwest of cemetery Hill that had positions in the town. Why did they not take part in the charge too? I forget what brigades and divisions they belong to but they just sat there. Maybe if they had advanced then the 8th Ohio wouldn't have been able to devastate the Left flank of the attacking Force. What can you tell me about that? Who is in command? Why didn't they go where the regiments in bad combat shape?
I looked at my Day 3 map (online here: www.clarksoncs.com/Gettysburg/dayThreeV1_1.html). It looks like you're talking about 5 brigades lined up just N of the Bliss buildings: Thomas' and Perrin's brigades from Pender's division, and Ramseur's, Iverson's and Doles' brigades from Rodes' division.
I don't know the answer to your question. Speculating - maybe they were kept in mind as a 2nd wave in case the charge was successful? There's been lots of talk about a second wave but I do not remember what units that was supposed to be. But apparently Longstreet saw (or decided) pretty quickly that the attack had failed, and did not follow up, other than with Wilcox and Lang on the right flank. I don't know. Good question!
Excellent! It is a joy to watch the battle unfold is such a calm, clear headed series of lectures. Wow. This was a complex, slow motion frontal attack across open space without artillery support against a better equipped, dug-in opponent of at least comparable size. Surely Lee did not think that the Union would catch a glance of them approaching and cut and run. People talk about how high the rebel morale was ... but the did fresh troops of Mahone and Posey demand to redeem their honor by joining Pickett? Well, my bet is that they would have, if they saw a reasonable chance of success.
interesting what you showed with terrain cross section about picketts division not being able to see pettigrews or trimbles.. i believe Kemper said he did not recall ever seeing any confederate units other than picketts division throughout the whole assault
I've walked it- probably took 10 minutes to reach Emmitsburg Rd and another 10, because of heavy fire, to reach Cemetery Ridge. 20 minutes total plus or minus a few minutes.
Holy S*it I’m so glad I stumbled onto your channel! Did you use the Laino campaign atlas as your main source? Great work!
Thanks! Close - for everything except day two. Im onto the Vicksburg campaign now and sorely miss the depth of documentation you see with Gettysburg. Ahh Philip Laino...yes!
Clear. Concise. To the Point. Excellent videos. I hope to make WWII videos similar to this
Thank you!
'General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know as well as anyone what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no 15,000 men ever arrayed for battle can take that position' Longstreet (even without Rittenhaus's enfilading 6 guns or McGilvery's oblique 41 guns)
love it! where did you get this map?
never mind i saw your link at the end
It's online a bunch of places. Try Library of Congress, or the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
Lee was right in that the Union line was weakest in the center... but weakest doesn't mean weak. If the assaulting force HAD penetrated the first line, I don't think it would have changed the result except possibly to make it even worse. Meade's use of terrain, interior lines, and ample reserves made attacking the Union position anywhere along the line a very, very bad idea.
A morbid coincidence that there is a Cemetary Ridge.
was LONGSTREET RIGHT MOVE AROUND MAKE UNION come from the heights to follow - LEE was wrong - no fan of LONGSTREET but in this instance LEE was wrong