Addressing Gettysburg

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Chris Gwinn stops by to tell us: - LRT is still slated to close "Spring of 2022 AT THE EARLIEST" - The Winter Lectures are on as of now and full of great speakers and topics - PLUS two new things coming for Summer that are TOP SECRET, as of now, but you'll like them.

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This old Patreon episode is brought to you for free and without commercial interruption by our wonderful Patrons. They want you to learn so badly, that they said to me "hey, Matt. Why don't you release old Patreon episodes for free so all of your listeners can be as smart as we are?" To which I say, "Well, dear Patron, you aren't smart from our shows. You were smart to begin with, as evidenced by...

Tim Smith gives lectures every Sunday (mostly, every Sunday) during the Winter months at the Farnsworth House. We record them for you and because of you, but we are enabled by our Patron. Please become one today to help us keep this going and expand into more for you. Click here   In this one, Tim tells us about the history of the Farnsworth House and Sweney's Tavern from the beginning, through th...

This episode is brought to your for free because of our Patrons. Become a Patron and help us bring the story of Gettysburg and the men and women who helped shape its story to the masses. Click here!     Or support the show in another way. Click here!   I feel like a broken record, but what a great time I had interviewing Jim Broomall about his book "Private Confederacies". We met near the monument...

It's Winter (almost) and that means Winter lectures! Hooray! This season, we hope to be able to bring you Tim Smith's lectures from the Farnsworth House as well as the Winter Lecture Series from GNMP.  This episode is the first of Tim's and it is about the Roads of Gettysburg. How many roads funneled into Gettysburg in 1863? 7? 8? 10? 11? 12? Depends on who you ask, apparently.  Tim's lecture is a...

You asked for it and we delivered. In this episode, LBGs Garry Adelman and Tim Smith (or is it Tim Smith and Garry Adelman?) join us to talk about the history of Gettysburg National Military Park. This episode tickles the chin of 3 hours long, but we think you'll like it anyway.  In this episode we learn about: - the first properties purchased with preservation in mind - John Bachelder's influence...

The free material of Addressing Gettysburg is only the tip of the iceberg. Our Patrons get up to four episodes a month. We are making old Patreon episodes available for free in the hopes that it might make you want to support us. Please click here and become a Patron today.    Regular contributor, author and former chief of interpretation here at Gettysburg National Military Park, Scott Hartwig, i...

Matt Borders is back for his final installment of his Holidays in the Civil War series. This time it's Thanksgiving and we at Addressing Gettysburg are thankful to all of you for listening. It's because of the incredible download numbers you've delivered us that we are able to do this as much as we have been. So, from thebottom of our hearts, thank you.  May you have a happy Thanksgiving!   Please...

Charlie Fennell dropped by the studio to talk about one of the lesser-talked-about brigades of the Army of the Potomac (in spite of their high casualty rate)- Biddle's Brigade. Technically Rowley's Brigade, Biddle's Brigade arrived on the First Corps line late in the morning on July 1, 1863. It was during that fight that they would receive the majority of their 66% loss. The fighting was intense f...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion...

Everybody loves Steve Phan. His enthusiasm for American history and food is endearing to us all. Getting the opportunity to sit and talk with Steve is a real treat. In this episode, we are joined by Cameron Sauers, a fellow at the Civil War Institute and student at Gettysburg College and Matt, Bob and Cameron interview Steve about his career, the Civil War Defenses of Washington During the gettysb...

Licensed Battlefield Guide Lewis Trott drove up from Ol' Virginia to help us make sense out of the back-and-forth action in The Wheatfield on July 2, 1863. Also, "Six-Questions" Lentz lobbies to be renamed "Ten Questions." Support the Show by: Booking a tour with an LBG from the show ! Becoming a Patron- click here Grabbing some merch- click here Getting a book- click here Donate directly via PayP...

ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE December 30, 2019 on Patreon. Click here to become a Patron today and get our shows 6 months to a year before they're available for free.  Today we welcomed a new Licensed Battlefield Guide to the list of regulars to the show. His name is Lewis Trott. He's a three-year veteran of the guide force, a US Army veteran of the Desert Storm and the recent Iraq War and currently work...

Historian Matt Borders is back with his second-to-last installment of our Holidays in the Civil War series. This time, he's on to tell us about Halloween and Spiritualism in the Victorian Era. I'll bet you don't know as much about Halloween as Matt does, but you will after listening to this episode.  Check out Matt's Podcast, "The History Things Podcast"   Thanks to this episode's sponsor, TR Hist...

LANGUAGE WARNING!! LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: Earlier this year, we were contacted by someone from the Irreverent Warriors. Apparently, some of them are fans and they invited us to join them on their 9-11 Silkies Hike in Gettysburg National Military Park. We were honored and accepted the invitation. I brought along my handy recorder and roamed the line looking for interviews. I spoke with a g...

When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day," he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Union's war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment a...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine, single-handedly saved Little Round Top from capture by Hood's Confederates. Everybody knows this, for, the movie tells us so. Right? Not right. They were one part of the fight for the rocky hill. Very little is told about Eric the Producer's favorite division in the Army of the Potomac, The Pennsylvania Reserves, and how they saved the other flank on...

"It is not as hard to get there as it looks . . . The real difficulty is to stay there after you get there . . . "   The Confederate assault of July 3, 1863 is one of the most famous charges in all of military history. But it was not the first time Confederates had traversed the same ground. July 2, 1863 also saw a brigade of Rebels march across the same field to try and break the Union line on Ce...

We hope you enjoy this FREE full episode from our Patreon catalogue and consider becoming a patron today , in order to help keep the show going and growing. This episode originally aired on December 11, 2019. Patrons get to hear these episodes, recorded especially for them, long before the public.    75 years after the Battle of Gettysburg, just under 2000 Civil War veterans, who wore both blue an...

LBG Rob Abbott makes his debut on the show to talk about Confederate Artillery Leadership at Gettysburg. He is also giving a tour on the subject this month on September 26, 2021. Here's the description: " " Confederate Artillery Leadership at Gettysburg "  featuring LBG Rob Abbott The only Confederate artillery personality most people know is Edward Porter Alexander, " How old are you son?" Confed...

Chris Gwinn, Chief of Interpretation at GNMP, is back to tell us what interpretation programs we can expect this Fall and to answer your questions. And YES he does put the question of Little around Too closing to bed (hopefully) for once and for all.     This episode is brought to you without commercial interruption by TR Historical. Go to www.trhistorical.com and use promo code GBURG1863 to get 1...

Originally released on December 11, 2019 on our Patreon feed. Lieutenant General James Longstreet is one of the more controversial figures of the war and, especially, the Battle of Gettysburg. But does the blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg really rest on his shoulders? Author Cory M. Pfarr has had enough of Longstreet getting a bad rap, so he set out to set the record straight in his...

Tracy Baer stops by to talk about a fascinating, yet, rarely discussed aspect of the Gettysburg Campaign: the Army of Northern Virginia's wagon train during the retreat. The common information is that the train stretched 17 miles, but Tracy makes a good case as to why it was most likely much longer.    Support the Show by: Booking a tour with an LBG from the show! Becoming a Patron- click here Gra...