Gettysburg, Day Three - Pickett's Attack: to Emmitsburg Road

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• DA

  @davidpitchford6510 · 3 years ago

  Great work!  This deserves one billion views.

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• MA

  @matthewkeaneone · 1 month ago

  I love the detailed analysis. Exactly what am interested in. Thank you

• KE

  @kenbash2951 · 3 years ago

  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.

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• MI

  @michaelnaretto3409 · 2 years ago

  A morbid coincidence that there is a Cemetary Ridge.

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• PE

  @persimmontea6383 · 3 years ago

  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.

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• CH

  @cheister97 · 1 year ago

  I just walked Picketts Charge twice yesterday. It took me 22 minutes, although I didn't climb over the four fence rows—two in the field and two at Emmitsburg Road.

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• DA

  @davidmurray5399 · 1 year ago

  Two of Pickett's brigades, those of Micah Jenkins and Montgomery Corse, were left behind in Richmond. Probably wouldn't have done much except increase the casualties if they'd been there.

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• KR

  @krismurphy7711 · 1 year ago

  When you look at the Starting Positions of both sides, it was utter suicide for Lee to order the attack.  Did Lee not know...have a good idea...of how many Union troops were ALL arrived and arrayed opposite his forces??????

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• CA

  @carrickrichards2457 · 2 years ago (edited)

  '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)

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• MI

  @michaelvaughn8864 · 1 year ago

  Very detailed account presented here👍 My compliments

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• RS

  @rsfaeges5298 · 3 years ago

  OUTSTANDING!! <br> &nbsp; This is an absolute must-see for anyone who has watched &quot;GETTYSBURG&quot; more than once... <br> &nbsp; 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.<br> &nbsp;*Your research <br> &nbsp;+ your analysis/processing of your research <br> &nbsp;+ your presentation of your findings, both your maps &amp; your narration<br> =👍👍👍(Yes:3 thumbs up)<br>PROPS

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• WI

  @williewonka6694 · 1 year ago

  By the disposition of Federal troops on the chart, and the distances, that attack across open fields was a suicide mission.

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