Addressing Gettysburg

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Over on our Patreon feed, Matt sat down with Noah Andre Trudeau for an interview about his career writing history books like "Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage."

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Chris Army is joined by Jerry Hahn, the newest Licensed Battlefield Guide on Addressing Gettysburg. 

In this episode, we discuss Willard's Brigade, a.k.a. "The Harpers Ferry Cowards"/"The Harpers Ferry Brigade" and "band box soldiers." Willard's Brigade was the 3rd Brigade,3rd Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac. They took part in stopping the advance of Barksdales Brigade on July 2 as well as helped to repulse the Longstreet's Assault on July 3. 

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We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. Can you imagine what it's like to be "free" while not enjoying the same rights as the majority of the population or fearing that at any moment raiding parties from just over the border might capture you and sell you into slavery? How about having to choose between protecting your fellow man or obeying Federal law? What was in like to be black and free in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. These are just SOME of the things we cover in this episode with John Hoptak. John Hoptak is a native of Pennsylvania. Hoptak serves as an interpretative Park Ranger with the National Park Service and teaches courses as an adjunct instructor at American Military University. Hoptak has written articles for America's Civil War, Civil War Times, and Pennsylvania Heritage. He is also the author of several books.

  We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.   Can you imagine what it's like to be "free" while not enjoying the same rights as the majority of the population or fearing that at any moment raiding parties from just over the border might capture you and sell you into slavery? How about having to choose between protecting your fellow man or obeying Federal law? What was in like to be black and free in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. These are just SOME of the things we cover in this episode with John Hoptak.   John Hoptak is a native of Pennsylvania. Hoptak serves as an interpretative Park Ranger with the National Park Service and teaches courses as an adjunct instructor at American Military University. Hoptak has written articles for America's Civil War, Civil War Times, and Pennsylvania Heritage. He is also the author of several books.   

We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.

What a treat I have for fans of the movie Gettysburg! In October, 2018, the cast of the 1993 movie Gettysburg came to town for a reunion and screening of the director's cut of the film. I arranged to have Patrick Gorman, who played Major General John Bell Hood, and Bo Brinkman, who played Lee's aide, Major Walter Taylor, sit down with me and my buddy Pete at my friend Tami's farm. We set up in her summer kitchen and just talked about their careers and the making of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. This was great fun for two guys like Pete and I who have seen the film 3000 times. I hope you enjoy it.

 

We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.

What a treat I have for fans of the movie Gettysburg! In October, 2018, the cast of the 1993 movie Gettysburg came to town for a reunion and screening of the director's cut of the film. I arranged to have Patrick Gorman, who played Major General John Bell Hood, and Bo Brinkman, who played Lee's aide, Major Walter Taylor,  sit down with me and my buddy Pete at my friend Tami's farm. We set up in her summer kitchen and just talked about their careers and the making of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals. This was great fun for two guys like Pete and I who have seen the film 3000 times. I hope you enjoy it. 

 

  We hope you enjoy this free episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.   Yianni Barakos was told by his doctor that he might as well get on disability because he'll never be able to work again. Yianni said, "Yes, I will", became his own advocate and found a doctor who said "i can help". Now, Yianni is the proud owner of the successfully delicious Mason Dixon Distillery in Gettysburg. What does this have to do with the battle? Only the fact that Mason Dixon grows much of what goes into their liquors right on the battlefield. Did you know that the Park Service allows this? Well, they do.    Yianni is a very interesting guy and he and I sat down to talk without any particular direction or subject matter in mind. It kinda gets a little personal at points, but, Addressing Gettysburg is more about human interest than anything else; whether it has to do with the Battle of Gettysburg or the people who help you enjoy learning about it or visiting the battlefield. Enjoy and please check out Mason Dixon Distillery on your next visit to Gettysburg  

We hope you enjoy this free Patreon episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education. From Scott Hartwig: "During my 31 years with the National Park Service at Gettysburg NMP it has remained a mystery where Alexander Gardner took his famous series of photographs of Union dead on the battlefield. Gardner seemingly offered a clue when he labeled one of the images in his 1863 catalog of photographs as a 'View in the field on the right wing where General Reynolds fell.' There were two stereo views of the same image but their captions did not mention Reynolds. One read, 'View in the field on right wing,' and the other, 'Federal soldiers as they fell.' Gardner also shot two other images of this same grouping of soldiers from a different camera position. He labeled these 'A Harvest of Death,' and 'Evidence of how severe the contest had been on the right.'" Scott kindly sat down with Bob and I to discuss the three articles he wrote for GNMP's blog back in 2011. No one has been able to figure out where these famous photographs were taken. Even the Godfather of the field of Gettysburg photography, William Frassanito. In fact, the two photos in question (see attached) were the two photos that Mr. Frassanito said he couldn't place. After years of trying to figure it out, Scott Hartwig thinks he may have found the place.He says he's 98% sure, but is open to compelling evidence to the contrary should it ever present itself. As always, we had a fun time talking with Scott as you'll be able to tell as soon as the show begins. Become a Patron to access high resolution scans of the photos in question. I HIGHLY recommend that you print them out and come to Gettysburg to do your own investigation. So what do you think? Is Scott right? Email us at [email protected] and let us know! https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/a-mystery-solved-part-i-2/ https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-2/ https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-3/

  We hope you enjoy this free Patreon episode as our holiday gift to you for listening to Addressing Gettysburg. This episode and many more like it are available on our Patreon feed. Patreon is one of the ways to support the show that enables us to produce more material for you. In appreciation of the support our patrons give us, we produce exclusive content for them. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021 and expand your Gettysburg education.     From Scott Hartwig: "During my 31 years with the National Park Service at Gettysburg NMP it has remained a mystery where Alexander Gardner took his famous series of photographs of Union dead on the battlefield.  Gardner seemingly offered a clue when he labeled one of the images in his 1863 catalog of photographs as a 'View in the field on the right wing where General Reynolds fell.'  There were two stereo views of the same image but their captions did not mention Reynolds.  One read, 'View in the field on right wing,' and the other, 'Federal soldiers as they fell.'  Gardner also shot two other images of this same grouping of soldiers from a different camera position.  He labeled these 'A Harvest of Death,' and 'Evidence of how severe the contest had been on the right.'"   Scott kindly sat down with Bob and I to discuss the three articles he wrote for GNMP's blog back in 2011. No one has been able to figure out where these famous photographs were taken. Even the Godfather of the field of Gettysburg photography, William Frassanito. In fact, the two photos in question (see attached) were the two photos that Mr. Frassanito said he couldn't place. After years of trying to figure it out, Scott Hartwig thinks he may have found the place.He says he's 98% sure, but is open to compelling evidence to the contrary should it ever present itself.    As always, we had a fun time talking with Scott as you'll be able to tell as soon as the show begins.   Become a Patron to access high resolution scans of the photos in question. I HIGHLY recommend that you print them out and come to Gettysburg to do your own investigation.  So what do you think? Is Scott right? Email us at [email protected] and let us know!    https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/a-mystery-solved-part-i-2/   https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-2/   https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/a-mystery-solved-part-3/