Hike Kennesaw Mountain with the American Battlefield Trust

We decided to give our main coverage of Kennesaw Mountain the royal treatment by making our second GoPro Walking Tour style video. Join Garry Adelman, Kris White, Chris Mackowsi and special guest Ranger Kyle Carlson for a two-camera walking tour of the Dead Angle portion of the Kennesaw Mountain battlefield. This video serves as tour stop #28 for our Georgia series. #KennesawMountainTour
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The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. We permanently protect these battlefields for future generations as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Love this place. My 3x great grandpa was in the assault at the Dead Angle with Harker's Brigade, 27th Illinois Regiment.

[@GuyPipili]

Makes you want to go back to doing Civil War squirmishes again JD.

[@fishinglunkies3629]

I’m from Peoria Illinois and learning about all of this in the last 2 years has been AMAZING!!! It all started when I was gifted a bayonet from an ancestor of the 86th Illinois!! Keep up the great work JD

[@patrickmjenkinsmusic]

@@fishinglunkies3629 I’m from Canton, IL with an ancestor in the 85th and just learning about this, too!

[@johnnystir9796]

I love these. Puts us in the place of the soldiers.

[@philmeister41]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! It is so awesome that you're doing this video in my hometown at "my" National Battlefield Park. This very spot "Cheatham Hill" is what inspired me as an 11 year old boy to become interested in the Civil War and American history. I have hiked these trails so many times in my life and have studied and researched this campaign for 40+ years. I had to laugh out loud at myself as I was watching and listening to your interpretations while making comments of my own 🤣. I have really enjoyed your road trip through North Georgia and the Atlanta Campaign. Please continue to inspire, educate and preserve our history! Well done!!

[@burningspirit7874]

Amazing. Love this.

[@astaboy]

LOVE the dual perspectives.

[@bf9414]

great videos love the camera work I had just read Sam Watkins depiction of this battle and you guys nailed it thank you

[@spikejonze6182]

Really, Really enjoy this kind of video! Makes you feel as you are right there. Great work.

[@jacobtrujillo9469]

Agreed this is a great idea it's something I've never seen on any of these videos I hope they do more

[@kirishima2370]

One of the best videos to date, really captured the atmosphere. Thank you

[@drpeterc12]

Great camerawork. It is always good to mix things up with different techniques. Some work that's great, and if they don't they still produce variety, which is always good. We'll done, great innovation.

[@tommythuntdeer]

I enjoyed and appreciate the filming style in this video. Thanks for sharing the details of this battle.

[@jimmyjames9752]

SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS AMERICA 🇺🇸

[@fatheremmons85]

I've read Sam Watkin's Company Aytch a couple time's and his telling of what happened at the Dead Angle is horrifying. So hard to picture just how awful the scene really was. Cant imagine what was constantly going thru the minds of any Civil War soldier throughout the entire war. They participated in brutal warfare of that nature. They witnessed and experienced such terrible things and still somehow retained the mental and physical ability to keep marching to the next battle to relive it all over again. It just blows my mind. Unbelievable determination and courage.

[@russellhodgkiss7494]

Great video! Dan McCook, the 52nd Ohio and that whole McCook crew were from our area here in Eastern Ohio. Well done all

[@chiefnoahbamaguy]

Enjoyed watching the split screen while "walking" along with you guys!

[@takyram96]

Really enjoying this format. Thank you for labeling the cameras at the start of the video and keeping them in the same spot on the split screen during editing. It was very helpful. Loved the first person account and quotes. Great job Ranger Carlson for your first video outing.

[@dennisfaught]

Enjoyed the reading of Watkins' account. On my first visit to the site many years ago, the (relative) silence of the day was broken by the sound of a woodpecker in a nearby tree. Sent chills down my spine, having just recently read that book. My only complaint with your coverage thus far: You couldn't visit Pigeon Hill? Cockrell and his Missourians are ignored once again.

[@dadsongs]

Got to be one of the best presentations yet of this theater. Great work! I'm starting to get the multiple camera thing. It just a little practice, folks.

[@drpeterc12]

Fascinating story of the battle for Cheathamhill. We have a Cheathamhill rising gradually to the north out of Manchester City Centre (UK). Our Cheathamhill is a highly urbanised late Victorian (19th century) commercial centre nothing like your wonderful forrested landscape. Next time I'm up in North Manchester I will think of your programme!!!

[@bigsarge2085]

Poignant recounting!

[@jyoung2393]

I've been there many many times as it's practically in my backyard. To see it in person is incredible. The entire area is rutted with places where troops where supposedly trying to retreat the assault. It would've been hellish for sure

[@earlyriser8998]

i would have hated to make that climb up to that ridge! I loved the walk in the foot steps format and long format of this episode. A costly battle for the Union but they could afford it and every loss for the Rebels was hard to replace.

[@The_PaleHorseman]

I don't always comment on all these but I do watch all of them when they release and I appreciate every single one of these!

[@lizlittle1641]

I love the camera views! Thank you for reading Sam Watkins' diary entry about the battle. It was beautiful! I have been reading his diary.

[@charlescritchfield8199]

In memory of the 121st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Mitchell’s Brigade, who attacked at Cheatham’s Hill.

[@kennethnew3075]

I did that walk last summer. I spent the whole day exploring. It was wonderful walking in such amazing history. I like the go pro split screen . Good stuff thank very much.

[@fishinglunkies3629]

86th Illinois checkin guys…This was our GRANDEST assault!!! Many of Peoria County, Illinois finest died that day…rest in peace brothers

[@stevemilam1747]

One of my ancestors fought with the 27th Tennessee.

[@matthewhill1284]

Great video!...Were the federal troops in columns and then roughly where the fence is at the foot of the hill is where they went into line of battle?

[@travisbayles870]

I had two Confederate ancestors who fought at Kennesaw Mountain

[@Grizz-db4ui]

had ancestors in the 32nd Mississippi.

[@rjj08]

i actually live about 55 - 56 miles south of kennesaw mountain

[@Bfnnature]

I have been there many times. One of the more fascinating things I heard was that on Sundays both sides would hold a truce and both union and Confederate soldiers would walk together to the Presbyterian church in Marietta (the older, still used sanctuary) for church services, then return to their units

[@dabig_sho6684]

Any source to this? Thanks!

[@Bfnnature]

Yes, the history of the First Presbyterian Church Marietta and the original sanctuary

[@frankchisman7188]

Love the dual camera work. Gave the viewer an awesome way of seeing more of what you guys were seeing, and more of what the troops on the field would have seen. Great work, Kyle will get smoother as he does more presentations, it's not as easy as everyone thinks and you "old hands" make it seem.

[@ChrisfromFL]

Love watching your videos and learning so much about the American Battle Fields. Could you let me know how I can purchase the same reference books you use while walking these sites. It would help me to better understand your topics. Thanks!

[@Bob.W.]

Thx.

[@noodicus1]

Great job Chris. Please maintain those narratives when ever you can it really helps to get something of a perspective.

[@beister21]

Awesome

[@keithanderson6465]

Just watched this after watching the dual cameras at 2nd Manassas. I am not sure how I missed this video back when it first came out. At any rate, now you'll have to go back and do this at Pigeon Hill as I had a GGF in the 116th Illinois. You need someone like myself, a Deep South Southrener, to read Sam Watkins! Just sayin'.. Good try Chris M! Once again the dual cameras give this much more dimension!

[@kevinrandolph8816]

Like the split view.

[@josephcolflesh6367]

General Nathan Kimball! Buried in Ogden Utah.

[@LeeHoFooks]

I don't like the 2 go pro camera approach. It's hard to focus.

[@connorm4938]

Enjoying this type of format. Will you be doing the go pro approach at Antietam?

[@Mom2020xstitch]

I loved the video and so enjoy the passion when reading the words! Keep up the great work!

[@stacyvonn8036]

Thomas Jonathan Jackson Lost the Battle at Kernstown due to technicalities.... In the defense of Sandy ridge Old Blue Light was Grossly Outnumbered and 1/3 of his troops were absent on furlough and also the Stonewall Brigade under Richard B. Garnett was out of Ammunition which ultimately resulted in that route.... Also Turner Ashby let half his men wander south of Kernstown aimlessly because he didn't think they would be needed.... I don't believe it was because of Kimball's Arithmetic for Battle.... Just my opinion there Kris...😊

[@jasonmchaney133]

I very much enjoy the walking aspect of these videos, but the dual cameras add nothing but confusion. Stick with one camera in my opinion

[@buckwaddell301]

Would love to see you guys do a Knoxville segment someday

[@michaelpatterson2955]

This dual approach to filming is very useful, I think, as it gives us an alternative view of the surroundings. All too often, the otherwise excellent videos lock in on the narrator's face with little camera movement. No offense, but I think most of us would like to see the surrounding fields as well. Thanks for the inspiring material, but PLEASE include more information on the Confederates! Too often they are referred to in a light, dismissive, passive form. They deserve more than that.

[@sbishop6450]

I personally find the two camera thing distracting. I loose my sense of direction! Might look at it twice looking at top screen first time and bottom screen second time! Just me. Others probably love it.

[@DeepRiverAsheville]

Reminiscent of Malvern Hill on the Peninsula…

[@Assdfgresa]

gro pro is the way to go my friends

[@HighVelocityRips]

The cameras are a great experience to me- Karlson has to go though 😂chronologically of course

[@mykofreder1682]

It seems to be an obligation of commanding generals to have that frontal assault. I suspect in a large engagement they would be criticized and maybe be demoted if they skipped this due diligence of battle. Everyone has these assaults on their resume because I suspect it is doctrine or some type of requirement through WW1, the thought that maybe their weak at this point and you didn't even find that out. It probably was a distraction while it happened and gained focus on that day, it could have reduced the resistance and line movement when they crossed the river. The problem for the confederates is the Union seemed to have so many troops and the lie so long they got stuck behind their lines and cannot react, everyone's engaged, the troops you want to use to extend the lines south are miles to the north. Its not Gettysburg where you can march people under 5 miles and put them where they are needed.

[@WindersRanger]

Swing like a doah

[@michaelwalker8671]

The two camera split screen is annoying and confusing. Nice trying innovative methods, but this doesn't work. It's a distraction from the presentation.

[@bigreddog502]

More walkie less talkie love the idea though

[@WindersRanger]

Swing like a doah