Addressing Gettysburg

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, is back to, hopefully, put an end to the "shoe myth" for once and for all. At least in the minds of our audience. Here's the blogpost that inspired this episode Part 1 Part 2

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.

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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 for this brigade. So why don't most people hear a lot about it? "Because they were placed in line next to the Iron Brigade, as Charlie jokes in this episode. Perhaps there's some truth to that.

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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 of it, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.- The "Hay Copy"

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 gettysburg Campaign and more.

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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."

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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 works as a librarian. Lewis has also been a consultant during the writing of the narrative episode, "INVASION! June, 1863". In the last few weeks, Lewis has been researching connections between the Battle of Gettysburg and the Lincoln Assassination. Say what? Yes indeed. This is some pretty interesting stuff here.

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.

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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 good number of people about their service and why they're an Irreverent Warrior.

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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 agencies called "intelligence offices," institutions of dubious character that nevertheless served the military and domestic necessities of the Union army and Northern households. Northerners condemned labor agents for pocketing fees above and beyond contracts for wages between employers and employees. Yet the transactions these middlemen brokered with vulnerable Irish immigrants, Union soldiers and veterans, former slaves, and Confederate deserters defined the limits of independence in the wage labor economy and clarified who could prosper in it. Men Is Cheap shows that in the process of winning the war, Northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by helping to staff the Union military and Yankee households, did indispensable work that helped the Northern state and Northern employers emerge victorious. They also gave rise to an economic and political system that enriched the managerial class at the expense of laborers--a reality that resonates to this day. Available here "Men Is Cheap" is published by the University of North Carolina Press.