The Union Advance | Battle of Gettysburg with Tim Smith

[@michaelhoffman5348]

Excellent presentation Tim. Looking forward to the next installment.

[@K_Type]

This is AWESOME!!! More of these on KZbin please

[@Michaelrowedtheboatashore]

Very informative. My dad and I went to Gettysburg in 1994. I’d like to visit again.

[@gwensimmons9155]

Great presentation! Thanks for the emphasis on Frederick before the Gettysburg Battle. Quite a few important events happened in and around Frederick during the Civil War.

[@danielkeating1201]

Superb presentation ! Years ago, the Gettysburg Foundation had Guillermo Bosch lead 2 buses from Edward's Ferry to every stop Meade made to Gettysburg. At each stop, he read Meade's letters to his wife or combat reports indicating his state of mind. It appears that while Lee had Hotchkiss maps of PA..., Hooker had "no" maps of Pennsylvania, causing a Mead-Hooker argument ! Tim..., you could do this same bus trip as a money raiser for the Adams County Historical Society. I would be first in line to sign up.

[@mwdjr3158]

Fantastic as always

[@bobo12055]

Thanks. Wonderful presentation.

[@edouardrobert160]

Thanks Tim

[@philspaugy1756]

very nice !!!

[@greenshades1234]

The rapid and well organized advance and immediate decision to concentrate on contact by the Union won the battle. Confederates at full strength on day 2 would have been victorious.

[@baltimorelimolady]

hey Tim you might not be old enough to remember, but frizzellburg was the home of the willow farms dairy. our family got our milk from them. milkman delivered several times a week. i believe they closed in 1965.

[@horizon42q]

The problem wasn’t Hooker, it was the 2 knuckleheads in DC. But, I must say this, Meade was a great pick. Halleck hated Grant too. Butterfiled and Sickles were out to get Meade thrown out.

[@josephwurzer4366]

Agreed but Hooker had burned bridges at Chancellorsville.

[@josephwurzer4366]

Yes Hooker had a good plan. Covering Washington & Baltimore though. The real fear of DC though is letting Hooker Fight Lee.

[@timothysmith7742]

Perhaps so.

[@sidk4515]

Trying to find Frizzelburg on the map?????

[@timothysmith7742]

Love it.

[@ThePrader]

I lived at the War College at Carlise barracks, and lived at 4 Reynolds Ave on Ft. Leavenworth- ( I am sure you recognize that address? My house was down the street from the Ft. Leavenworth museum, and across the street from the CGSC) as well as in family quarters on Lumpkin road on Fort Moore. (fka Ft. Benning) The benefits to a history nut like me I got to visit numerous battlefields. We went on "Staff Rides" at Gettysburg. In my opinion , Lee lost Gettysburg on day one. He failed to "order" Ewell in positive terms to " take Culps Hill by all means". He suffered losses he could not afford. He failed to use the cavalry he did have sans JEB Stuart. He retained almost 40% of the total mounted horse in the ANV and failed to use it to scout, or screen his dispersed Army. Finally, on day two he ignored "Pete" Longstreet's , and Hood's appeals to "go around the right flank," not directly at the hills at Little Round Top. Lee was at times too audacious. Then finally, he ignored Longstreet on July 3, when Pete told him that "no 15,000 soldiers ever arrayed for battle can march across that field". Even E. Porter Alexander had his doubts on July 3. The South needed a scapegoat after the war and it wasn't going to be Lee. Longstreet did two things the South could never accept in the 1860's, he converted to be a Catholic and he became a Republican.

[@dennismatthews7060]

Did Gouverneur K. Warren establish the Pikes Creek Line at the direct order of Meade? Is the original map available? Are there primary sources describing how and by who this line was established? I am just curious. Thx.

[@timothysmith7742]

It's more of a plan that was never put into action. There is no map and it was never occupied except in a general sense as the troops moved forward.

[@willoutlaw4971]

MAPS??😊

[@johnzajac9849]

IMO. Joe Hooker, like several other Federal generals, suffers a bad reputation to this day, because of the clever and cynical political manipulation curated by Secretary of War Stanton and Gen. Halleck.

[@clydeosterhout1221]

The Army of the Potomac moved too fast. If they had delayed a couple of days they could have caught Lee up against the mountains between Cumberland and Perry County. With the route back to Virginia (modern Re 11) cut Lee would have no where to go, even if he had taken control of Harrisburg. Similarly is the bridge at Columbia hadn’t been burned Early would have been trapped across the Susquehanna. Lee’s attempt to take Harrisburg was doomed, and only his loss at Gettysburg saved his army.