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 concentration. 

The first wing of the Union Army to cross the Potomac, were the three corps under the command of Major General John F Reynolds. 

Contrary to their orders, Confederate Cavalry commanders, Beverly Robertson and Grumble Jones failed to report this movement to JEB Stuart. 

Back in Washington, Lincoln began showing signs of doubt in Hooker, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, when he said, “Hooker may commit the same fault as McClellan and lose his chance.” But Lincoln quickly added a sign of hope when he said, “We shall soon see, but it appears to me he can’t help but win.”...

 

CREDITS

INVASION! June, 1863, was written, narrated and produced by Matt Callery

DIRECTED BY: Matt Callery and Pearle Shannon

FEATURING THE VOICES OF: Bradley Lee, Pearle Shannon, Patrick Gorman,  Denise Chain, Bob Steenstra, Kelly Steenstra, Ron Bailey, Trent Walker, Brayden Border, John Heckman, Dave Wilson, Keith Harris, The History Dame, Ray Chancellor, Dustin Smith, Keith Harvey, Matthew McClanahan, Steven Byers, Constantinos Hasapis, Bo Brinkman, John Thurston and Katie Vondeetum.

HISTORICAL CONSULTATION BY: Licensed Battlefield Guides Bob Steentsra, Lewis Trott and Tim Smith, with additional assistance from Matt Atkinson, John Hoptak and Ken Rich.

MUSIC BY: Dusty Lee Elmer, Sarah Larsen and Danny Stewart, Kelly Shannon, Cody Tinin, The California Consolidated Drum Band, Federal City Band

Some sound effects courtesy of QuantumEra and Ty DeWitt. 

Additional voice recording engineered by Paul Kirby

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SOURCES:

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, Edwin B. Coddington

Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage, Noah Andre Trudeau

Lee’s Cavalrymen, Edward G. Longacre

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, Abner Doubleday

Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide, Champ Clark/Time-Life Books

The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart : Commander … Henry B.  McClellan. 

Days of Uncertainty and Dread by Gerald R Bennet

Firestorm at Gettysburg: Civilian Voices by Jim Slade and John Alexander

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour by Eric J Wittenberg

Confederate General William Dorsey Pender: The Hope of Glory By Brian Steel Wills

https://www.americanheritage.com/destruction-fighting-joe-hooker-0

https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2013/spring/gettysburg.pdf

https://www.armywarcollege.edu/history.cfm

https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=ach