Addressing Gettysburg

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. CONTENT WARNING: Soldiers in the Civil War were young men. Young men use foul language and do some pretty messed up stuff. We touch on some subjects that might not be approriate for young ears or people who can't handle the facts of life. Listener discretion is advised. Have you ever had the chance to talk with Dr. Peter S. Carmichael? Well, Bob and I did it for you. We discuss The War For The Common Soldier... with Dr Carmichael. If you think this is just another book about eating hardtack and what soldiers carried in their knapsacks, you're gravely mistaken. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.

  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.   CONTENT WARNING: Soldiers in the Civil War were young men. Young men use foul language and do some pretty messed up stuff. We touch on some subjects that might not be approriate for young ears or people who can't handle the facts of life. Listener discretion is advised.   Have you ever had the chance to talk with Dr. Peter S. Carmichael? Well, Bob and I did it for you. We discuss The War For The Common Soldier... with Dr Carmichael. If you think this is just another book about eating hardtack and what soldiers carried in their knapsacks, you're gravely mistaken.    How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war.   Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.     

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. Please consider becoming a Patron during 2021.   Dr. Charlie Fennell is a Licensed Battlefield Guide and known around here as the expert on Culp's Hill. If you haven't heard of or taken a tour with Charlie yet, you're in for a treat in this interview.    This was originally recorded in June of 2018. The format and personnel are a little different, but it's basically the same as it is now. I hadn't released the early recordings because I just knew there was something more in me besides the standard two hosts and a guest set-up which I had been doing for four years at that point. Hence the gap between the recording of the "GettysBike Tours" episodes and the release of the first narrrative episode a year later. Anyway, this was recorded at GettysBike Tours, so you get the added bonus of the sounds of Summer in the background to get your through what's left of winter.   

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Matt Borders is one of the hosts of The History Things Podcast. I wanted to do a Christmas episode that talks about what Christmas was like for the common soldier serving in the armies. I couldn't think of anyone else who would be able to pull it together with little warning like Matt Borders can.

This is the last new free episode of 2020. We want to thank you all for listening. Since last winter we've had 1000% download growth. That's crazy and it makes us happy to know that this show resonates with you. We hope we've been able to entertain you while expanding your knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. May your holidays be COVID and stress-free and as close to normal as you can manage. Here's to a normal 2021!

**This episode is brought to you without commercial interruption by our Patreon Patrons and Ploughman Cider. Become a Patron today and order Ploughman's delicious Adams County hard cider online with promo code CIDERPOD for 15% off. Merry Christmas!**

Matt Borders is one of the hosts of The History Things Podcast. I wanted to do a Christmas episode that talks about what Christmas was like for the common soldier serving in the armies. I couldn't think of anyone else who would be able to pull it together with little warning like Matt Borders can. 

This is the last new free episode of 2020. We want to thank you all for listening. Since last winter we've had 1000% download growth. That's crazy and it makes us happy to know that this show resonates with you. We hope we've been able to entertain you while expanding your knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. May your holidays be COVID and stress-free and as close to normal as you can manage. Here's to a normal 2021!

 

 

THIS EPISODE IS NOW AVAILABLE OVER ON OUR PATREON FEED! Donny Copper is a mild-mannered helicopter EMT by day and a wild and cray Civil War buff by night. He runs the very popular @americancivilwar_IG on Instagram and you most likely follow him. The New Yorker called him "an international man of mystery" in an article I read in a dream I had last September. Time Magazine almost considered him for its "Person of the Year" in 2019 after I suggested it, but "we really don't think he fits the criteria for our Person of the Year," according to the email they sent back to me. In all seriousness, Donny has become a good friend of mine since we met via our Instagram accounts in 2018. He has been supportive of the show, come to our Get Out of the Car tours and joined us on the Today Show (I still don't know when it will air). It occured to me about a month ago that I never invited Donny on the show. I coouldn't believe it. He's a very interesting and funny guy. We talked for three hours (2:36 of it being actual show stuff) and covered topics from educating the masses, the pitfalls of managing a successful social media account, bagpipes, the Boston Tea Party, Robert Smalls, anxiety and a ton more. We hope this light-hearted conversation entertains you during the hectic days of the holiday season.

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On this Ask A Guide, we move away from the battlefield for a spell to discuss The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a very important event which helped to shape the narrative, in part, for generations to come, of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is one way to learn more about this dramatic time in our nation's history, but don't stop there! Read and visit!

Joining us on this episode are LBGs Lewis Trott and Mary Turk-Meena.

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  THIS EPISODE IS NOW AVAILABLE OVER ON OUR PATREON FEED!   Donny Copper is a mild-mannered helicopter EMT by day and a wild and cray Civil War buff by night. He runs the very popular @americancivilwar_IG on Instagram and you most likely follow him. The New Yorker called him "an international man of mystery" in an article I read in a dream I had last September. Time Magazine almost considered him for its "Person of the Year" in 2019 after I suggested it, but "we really don't think he fits the criteria for our Person of the Year," according to the email they sent back to me.    In all seriousness, Donny has become a good friend of mine since we met via our Instagram accounts in 2018. He has been supportive of the show, come to our Get Out of the Car tours and joined us on the Today Show (I still don't know when it will air).    It occured to me about a month ago that I never invited Donny on the show. I coouldn't believe it. He's a very interesting and funny guy. We talked for three hours (2:36 of it being actual show stuff) and covered topics from educating the masses, the pitfalls of managing a successful social media account, bagpipes, the Boston Tea Party, Robert Smalls, anxiety and a ton more.    We hope this light-hearted conversation entertains you during the hectic days of the holiday season.   

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Getting a book! (the holidays are coming, you know)

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On this Ask A Guide, we move away from the battlefield for a spell to discuss The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a very important event which helped to shape the narrative, in part, for generations to come, of the Battle of Gettysburg. Podcast listening is one way to learn more about this dramatic time in our nation's history, but don't stop there! Read and visit!

Joining us on this episode are LBGs Lewis Trott and Mary Turk-Meena.

Support the Show!

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John Brown Gordon was a brigadier general at Gettysburg and commanded a brigade in Early's Division of Ewell's 2nd Corps. His brigade was comprised of

• 13th Georgia
• 26th Georgia
• 31st Georgia
• 38th Georgia
• 60th Georgia
• 61st Georgia

But his life did not begin or end at Gettysburg. LBG Jim Pangburn joins us for this, the first biographical Ask A Gettysburg Guide, and tells us about the exciting life of General John B. Gordon.

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