Addressing Gettysburg

Pat Bauer and Dave Geister were the artists in residence at Gettysburg National Military Park last year. While here, they stayed for five weeks in the Klingel Farmhouse and expressed their unique experience on the battlefield through the arts of poetry, music and paintings.

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Ranger John Heiser talks about the Battle of Gettysburg's neglected heroes: The Army Mules.

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Ranger John Heiser talks about the Battle of Gettysburg's neglected heroes: The Army Mules.

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Everyone is a "phan" of Steve Phan. He visited Gettysburg on January 25 to deliver a lecture about the role the Civil War Defenses of Washington played in the Gettysburg Campaign. Did you know that some of the units that fought here were pulled from the forts to join the Army of the Potomac?

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Everyone is a "phan" of Steve Phan. He visited Gettysburg on January 25 to deliver a lecture about the role the Civil War Defenses of Washington played in the Gettysburg Campaign. Did you know that some of the units that fought here were pulled from the forts to join the Army of the Potomac?

Licensed Battlefield Guide and Author Tim Smith presents lectures at the Farnsworth House on Sundays during the Winter. On this episode, Tim sits down with Matt and goes through the topics yet-to-be-covered in his lectures.

Just some of the topics we touch on here are:

-Jennie Wade (January 26)

- Pender's Assault on Seminary Ridge

- "25 Hours In Gettysburg" about Lincoln's stay in November, 1863

And more!

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Licensed Battlefield Guide and Author Tim Smith presents lectures at the Farnsworth House on Sundays during the Winter. On this episode, Tim sits down with Matt and goes through the topics yet-to-be-covered in his lectures.

Kent Gramm received his PhD in Creative Writing and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). He has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing in Germany as well as in the U.S. He directs the annual Seminary Ridge Symposium in Gettysburg and has published several nonfiction books on Lincoln and the Civil War -- one of which, November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also published a novel and a volume of poetry. His play, Lincoln Lives, was performed in Baton Rouge as part of the Lincoln bicentennial inauguration ceremony. The graduate program at LSU awards an annual Kent Gramm Prize in Creative Nonfiction.

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LBG Jim Pangburn (of the Patreon episode "The March North" fame) joins us for his first ask a guide.

Some of the topics covered in this episode are:

-Are there instances of officers having to kill or maim their soldiers in order to get them to fight?

-What are some good ways to study weaponry?

-The 24th Michigan vs. the 26th North Carolina and the number of color bearers to go down in that fight

- Barksdale's Charge vs Pickett's: which one was more impressive?

- Do the guides have a least favorite monument?

- Were there Regulars in the Confederate Services?

- The assault of Daniel's Brigade

- Lyme disease during the Civil War?

and more.

Questions submitted by Instagrammers:

@historywithbrad

The Great Tronetti

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@civil_war_nerd

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@beltonsthebestisyet

@Rickyfowler63

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