Addressing Gettysburg

  A very Happy Thanksgiving to y'all!  After starting out by thanking many of the people who have helped us throughout 2020 (fair warning, we probably missed a few as the list was compiled literally minutes before the show started, so thank you if you were missed), we introduce you to our new guest LBG, Chris Army. Many of you may know him from the assistance he lends to the Apsiring Licensed Batt...

      I really enjoyed this interview with Colonels McCausland and Vossler about their new book "Battle Tested!" In this interview, we focused on chapters 2 and 12 about Brigadier General John Buford's and Abraham Lincoln's (respectively) leadership skills and qualities. You can get your copy of the book by clicking here     From the Diamond6 wesbite: JEFF MCCAUSLAND, FOUNDER & CEO Since 2000, bot...

  Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin visited the area and was astounded at the damage done to property and life. Shallow graves in the fields surrounding the town revealed decaying human limbs and faces after rains had washed the meager layer of soil over them away. Their air was thick with swarms of flies and the stench of rot. Curtin described it as "the...

  "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 on a great battle-field of that war; we have come to dedicate a portion of it...

  During the 2020 Winter Lecture Series, John Hoptak delivered a great lecture about South Central Pa men who joined the famed 54th Massachusetts (available on this feed). After COVID shutdowns and a busy Summer, Matt and the gang finally got to sit down with John to further discuss the information he shared in his lecture, in addition to pointing out what the movie got right and got wrong. I hope...

  Craig Rupp is a battlefield photographer and author of romance novellas based in Gettysburg. He moved here 8 years ago and hasn't regretted one day of it, like most of us transplants. I sat down with Craig for this, the first Patreon interview done in our new studio, to talk about why he writes, what he writes, how he writes and who he is as a person.  Follow him on social media: @craig_rupp Ins...

Two years ago I asked songwriter Billy Webster to work my favorite Civil War song (which predates the Civil War) into a song to play at the open of our shows. Modern meets traditional. I think Billy did a great job and so I thought I'd share it with you without me gabbing over it.    Check out more of Billy's Music here

  THANKS TO OUR LISTENERS FOR GREAT DOWNLOAD NUMBERS AND TO OUR PATRONS AND OTHERS WHO HAVE SENT US SOMETHING FROM THE AMAZON WISHLIST FOR THE STUDIO ALSO WE'RE SCHEDULING GUESTS FOR THE WINTER WHEN WE PLAN TO CHURN OUT LOTS OF CONTENT. SO IF YOU'RE A LICENSED GUIDE, AUTHOR, RANGER, ANYONE WHO CAN SPEAK WITH AUTHORITY ON A GIVEN TOPIC RELATED TO GETTYSBURG, CONTACT ERIC AT eric@addressinggettysbur...

  Matt and Eric the Producer recap the 2020 tourist season and give you a peek at what to expect for the Winter of 2020-2021.   Topics include: #GetOutOfTheCar2020 tours The Today Show shoot The new studio The new Logo Booking Tours through our website Possible tour collaborations with the Aspiring Licensed Battlefield Guides Facebook page  questions from Patrons and more! You might be wondering a...

  The final chapter of Episode 2 Chapter 3 takes you up to the night of June 30, 1863, the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg.  Where Are The Armies Now? General Hooker spent June 26 moving his army across the Potomac. By nightfall, everyone was in Maryland except John Sedgwick's Sixth Corps and a portion of the cavalry. Frederick, Maryland, Hooker decided, would become the army's point of concentrat...

  Jennie Wade was the only Gettysburg civilian to die during the battle of Gettysburg. The house she died in, "The Jennie Wade House" (actually the house her sister was residing in and not Jennie's) is a museum you can tour today. Matt, Bob, Tim Smith and special guest Cindy Small circled their chairs around the statue of Jennie outside the house and dug into the story of her family, what we know...

  October 17's tour  is in conjunction with our adopt a position clean up. Meet at the North Carolina monument and follow the path of North Carolina troops as they marched over the smoldering ruins of the Bliss Farm. At the Bliss Farm we will pause to see the ruins and talk about what happened there on July 2 and 3. Then, we'll make our way to one of our adopted positions, that of the 111th NY and...

  In this special edition of Ask A Gettysburg Guide Actor, we put our study of the Battle of Gettysburg on hold to talk to Bo Brinkman, one of the cast of the movie Gettysburg , about the making of the film that brought so many of us Gettysnerds to become students of the battle. This is brought to you without commercial interruption by the good folks over at the American Battlefield Trust. I'm sur...

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  Here is the first installment of a new feature of Addressing Gettysburg. We get many questions from listeners and social media followers about what the Park Service is doing in relation to this or that. While I'm flattered that people turn to us for such information, we really are no more "in the know" than you are. Ok, maybe a touch more. So, we decided to change that by inviting Chief of Inter...

  September 19 at 10am:  "Drive them out at daylight" and "It is murder, but it's an order." We'll explore the Union's effort to push the Confederate forces off their foothold on lower Cup's Hill on the morning of July 3, 1863, with particular focus on the fight of Maryland versus Maryland, and the fight for what we now call "Pardee's Field".   Follow the steps of Lt. Col Charles Mudge and the 2nd...

  Rain. Thunder! A gift from a listener and a shocking gift for Eric the Producer, from Matt. That's how this episode starts off before LBG Jim Pangburn takes questions about Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a good way to start your journey into history, but it doesn't replace touring the battlefield yourself, or, better yet, with a Licensed Battlefield Guide....

  Jari Villanueva is the director of the Federal City Brass Band/ 26th North Carolina Regimental Band . He was kind enough to send me two of their CDs last year for use in our narrative episodes. We'd been trying to coordinate our schedules for about two months now for this interview and finally made it happen. I thought it would be fun to go through the songs I chose for the narratives and, first...

  Matt, Tim and Bob discuss the fateful decision of Major General Francis CHANNING Barlow to move his division to the Knoll that now bears his name. In comparison to other locations like The Peach Orchard or Little Round Top, Barlow's Knoll is one of the lesser-talked-about phases of The Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening helps, but visiting places like Barlow's Knoll and hearing or reading t...

  We asked our Patrons to send in a recording answering the question "Why Gettysburg?" There was no explanation by what we mean by "why". The exercise is to see how the person interprets the word and to see what they come up with. The answers are interesting for many reasons, but there seems to be a thread of spirituality running through it. People love Gettysburg for more than the Battle of Getty...

  Licensed Battlefield Guide Rich Kohr makes his debut on Addressing Gettysburg to talk about Colonel Roy Stone's Brigade (The "Bogus" Bucktails?) and their fighting on McPherson's Ridge, including the famous "Color Episode" of the 149th Pa, one of the most unique stories of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a great way to start or enhance your studies of this battle. Checking out our...

  August 15th's tour  begins later in the day. Join us  at 5pm for "Wait a little, we are all going on presently". Learn about the charge of Barksdale's Mississippians as they smashed the Peach Orchard salient on the evening of July 2, 1863. We will also follow events of that same evening as  Union forces retreated towards the Trostle Farm where a certain General last commanded troops in the field...

  LBG Jessie Wheedleton came to us and said she'd like to do a show about how to prepare for the Licensed Battlefield Guide exam. We thought it was a great idea and booked her. The are many ways to learn about the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is a fantastic way to do it when you can't be here. So if reading and watching ranger programs online. Of course the best way to learn is to visit...

  Whether you recognize it from your pre-movie-era childhood visits to Gettysburg National Military Park or from the unforgettable scenes in Ron Maxwell's Gettysburg featuring the great Sam Elliott, the Cupola of the Litheran Theological Seminary is an iconic structure to those who study The Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast guest, historian Codie Eash, returns for the first Ask a Gettysburg Guide of...

  Nancie Gudmestad is the owner of The Shriver House Museum. Her book, "The Shrivers' Story: Eyewitnesses to the Battle of Gettysburg tells the story of the Shriver house and family as well as other civilians. Nancie sat down with mein the front parlor of the house to discuss the chapter in her book about the aftermath of battle. The Shriver House is a MUST SEE on your next trip to Gettysburg. Jus...