Addressing Gettysburg- Culp's Hill with Charlie Fennell

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.

[@melissapollom427]

This is the first time I have listened to this specific episode. Culps Hill is one of my favorite spots. I have gone up there to be alone and listen to the wildlife. I sit down on the mound where the tower sits and think about the fight there. One time a van stopped, I heard people scream, "...are you OK you need help?". I popped up and said I was fine just resting. Lol

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[@JeffreyLang-j5i]

Dr. Fennell is a true national historic treasure. JUST TERRIFIC!

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Yes he is

[@K8E666]

Don’t forget that there wasn’t really a ‘truce’ along the western front in WWI as such. There were many small areas where a truce was observed for burial of the dead in no-man’s land on Christmas Day and in a FEW area’s, mostly up North, the troops actually met each other and shook hands and exchanged gifts as well as singing hymns together. But there were just as many areas where no truce existed at all, in fact British snipers actively shot German lanterns down on Christmas Eve and wouldn’t even attempt to stop for Christmas, mostly because the losses were so great that many couldn’t and wouldn’t forgive. The Northern most lines were mostly made up of ‘green’ conscripts who didn’t want to be there anyway whilst the further south you went there were more professional soldiers so a truce wasn’t considered.

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and that's why we do a Gettysburg podcast lol

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[@mariehoney31]

Bahahahaa, love the Stillwell Angel reference. That's exactly where my mind went as soon as I heard it!

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Wait. How did that part of the conversation play out?

[@mariehoney31]

What do you mean, Matt?

[@garysmith4403]

The cleft rock that Charlie was talking about where the Union soldier shot four Confederates, is that rock located near the 12th Corps marker on the loop between the hills? The one that is split in two, maybe the location is unknown?

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[@davidspencer6384]

A really interesting episode. Culp's Hill is so confusing on the ground. Flank markers, breastwork remains, park roads ... I ended up taking it all on faith. Like Catholicism or rugby union.

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lol we’re going to do some more Culp’s Hill episodes this year because it confuses a lot of people.

[@davidspencer6384]

That soundsgood! (Big thanks to LBG Dean Harry for bringing some order to the engagement last October).

[@jimmytimeoutdoorz4907]

The cause of the shoots being too high on Culp’s hill is a geometric phenomenon. There’s a lot that goes into calculating point of impact when either shooting up or down hill with a rifle/bow that is zeroed on a level plane. A short google search can explain it better than I. I’m todays world we use range finders that do the math an compensate for the difference in point of aim and point of impact.

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[@jumpmaster82nd.]

Merry Christmas AG! Just finishing up the Phanz book on the subject. Had 3 GG Grandfathers on that hill and another riding in Jenkins Brigade.

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