Real History You Missed in Gettysburg | Historian's Take

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  @UnMarkedHistory · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  CORRECTION: Good catch! To those who commented, Stuart did not make it to New Jersey! I meant to discuss Jeb Stuart’s engagement with the 1st New Jersey Cavalry, not that he rode to New Jersey.<br><br>The fighting lasted all day, with the central terrain feature of Fleetwood Hill changing hands several times. In the end the Federals withdrew. They suffered higher casualties and had not broken through Stuart’s screen to confirm the location of Lee’s infantry. But the fact that the Union cavalry had stood a 14 hour knockdown fight with Stuart’s finest was a tremendous morale boost. From this point on Union cavalry would become bolder and deadlier. By the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign and the 1865 Appomattox Campaign they had become an elite, decisive arm.<br><br>Stuart, in turn, felt the heat for being surprised in his camps after two days of showy reviews. The Richmond papers used terms such as “puffed up cavalry,” and “negligence and bad management.” Did this criticism push Stuart into his disastrous ride around the Union army that left Lee blind at the critical point of the Gettysburg campaign? <br><br>Whatever the answer, the effects of the Battle of Brandy Station were felt far beyond the banks of the Rappahannock.<br><br>Citation: <a href="https://stonesentinels.com/less-known/brandy-station/">https://stonesentinels.com/less-known/brandy-station/</a>

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  @Snuffy03 · 1 year ago

  As a reenactor I had the privilege of being part of this film. I got to have some conversations with Brian Mallon, who portrayed Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, and Richard Jordan who portrayed Hancock&apos;s friend, Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead. These gentlemen respected our knowledge of that period and were willing to accept advice on their characters from us as &nbsp;historians.

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  @phillipallen3259 · 1 year ago

  I have to say, the performance Jeff Daniels gave was absolutely amazing. Despite the fact that there were far more seasoned actors, he really stood out.

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  @Ronin4614 · 11 months ago (edited)

  Retired career military here. I looked into being a reenactor, but I had my fill of the military discipline I saw there. I did travel to Antietam, and Gettysburg battlefields. I did the uphill walk that was Pickett’s Charge. From the shaded roadway, to the trees at the center of the Union line. What a huge area to cover, with no cover at all, and a fence to impede the charge no less. What a deadly undertaking Pickett and his men undertook.

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  @BHuang92 · 1 year ago

  Years later in a twist of irony, Jeff Daniels discovered in the show Finding Your Roots that his ancestor fought in Gettysburg in Chamberlain’s division!

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  @cunk6721 · 5 months ago

  Criminally underrated channel. Lots of wisdom here.

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  @AdamJWest · 1 year ago

  Something I learned 10 years back while writing a paper on Lee’s Mission Command at Gettysburg for the Army Captain’s Career Course was that during the battle of Winchester just a few weeks before Gettysburg Lee had severely reprimanded Ewell for being too aggressive. I have wondered since then what kind of impact this may have had on Ewell’s hesitation at Gettysburg on day 1.

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  @OneOfAKind-jy3hv · 1 year ago (edited)

  One thing you should know, the bayonet is one of the most psychologically fearful weapons on any battlefield.

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  @HVSJR-n5q · 1 year ago

  I was one of the 120 mutineers in the film. It was a wonderful experience.

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  @salinagrrrl69 · 1 year ago (edited)

  In this film was a sad twist of irony. Richard Jordan&apos;s character Gen Armistead dies. Thus, Jordan&apos;s final role was that of &quot;General Lewis Armistead&quot; in the film Gettysburg (1993), which was a labor of love for him. He was close friends with Michael Shaara, the author of the novel &quot;The Killer Angels&quot;, which the movie was based upon, and contributed to the screenplay.<br>Soon not long after Jordan dies too.

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  @zebradun7407 · 1 year ago

  It was a meeting engagment, There is no retreat in a meeting egagment. It becomes a fight to the death.

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  @tjgoebig7058 · 1 year ago

  Gettysburg is an all time favorite film for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed your video! &nbsp;Thank you! &nbsp;Keep up the great work.

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