Artifacts from Pickett's Charge Return to Gettysburg

The West Point Museum brings artifacts out to the Gettysburg Battlefield for the first time since the battle itself in 1863.
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[@goodday5570]

I work with Picketts great - great grand son. His father was a colonel in the Nam.

[@chestophercolumbo4561]

Tell us about him...does he talk about him?

[@conhallows]

So awesome

[@franklubbock8400]

Did he enjoy eating shad?

[@briannapickett8670]

George Pickett was my great great great grandpa. Love learning abt this stuff 🥹

[@delwilber1893]

My Great Grandfather Corporal Henry Wilber, 108th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was at this location, and was severely wounded when one of the caissons of Woodruff’s Battery that he was next to exploded. After the battle he was transferred to the Invalid Corps, later renamed the 18th VRC.

[@terryeustice5399]

Totally cool relic from Picketts Charge.Thank you very much! 💯👍👊

[@emilioalcazar-su9vi]

Awesome items,impressive good condition..honour to the braves of Pickett's charge!!

[@fredjasper7378]

The ghostmarks on that holster are incredible! Thanks again guys

[@jameswalters8755]

Howdy from south Texas! Awesome artifacts with incredible preservation.

[@lawrencemyers3623]

Small error: Lt. Woodruff led Battery I of the 1st United States Artillery, not the Second.

[@JeffreyLang-j5i]

APPRECIATE YOU ABT!!!!!

[@jleechadwick]

I had two great great uncles and three of their brothers in law from North Carolina joined the Union Army. Being of Scottish descent, they believed that slavery was wrong. Their last name was Gillespie, and their father (my three times great grandfather) made rifles that many Confederate soldiers took into battle as they were extremely accurate rifles. Phillip Gillespie, one of his sons who joined the Union Army, was as good as his dad at making rifles. Even as a kid, I knew I supported the Union side (and I have deep Southern roots. I knew that slavery was wrong.

[@fredtaylor9792]

Virtue signaling level 100.

[@donb7113]

I was in Gettysburg two weeks ago, and I need to go back.

[@stevencassel5680]

Pickett's Charge relic revolver returns to Gettysburg battlefield.

[@thurin84]

youd have to know way more about the provenance of the revolver and its journey through time to speculate that the cylinder fouling is from the time of the civil war, let alone the battle of gettysburg. lot of time between then and now. great group of artifacts. especially love that cane.

[@marvwatkins7029]

"Good Good" in action. And that's good.

[@mwdjr3158]

Fantastic! Thanks

[@terryl7874]

Interesting artifacts!

[@DonaldKDever]

Really cool!

[@cynthiacronin2794]

Wow. People were very slim then.

[@robertclark3013]

Or we're fat now.

[@floridaman1483]

They weren't fed processed garbage back then. Plus they were way more physically active than most folks are these days.

[@ahorsewithnoname773]

It's more that more people tend toward obesity now. Military personnel however are still on the thin side, since their profession requires some degree of physical fitness. The average weight of a U.S. soldier today is 165 lbs. I imagine that is probably a little heavier than their civil war counterparts, but modern people are also taller on average.

[@timsterrett2417]

That holster must have been for left hand or did it he flap go on either side ?

[@slimfire5475]

2417 That looks to me to be a left handed holster .

[@davidhaugen9966]

Many black powder or Cavalry holsters with cover flaps were intended to be worn on the left side(even if right handed) and withdrawn in a cross-draw fashion. That would be across the body. These were not fast draw or "cowboy" revolvers.

[@tberkoff]

0:40 ​​@@davidhaugen9966A left handed holster on the right side for a right handed shooter wouldn't work well as the grip would be facing in the wrong direction and difficult to draw. Right handed holsters were worn on the left side, with the grip facing toward the front.

[@NDB469]

Great video

[@bigsarge2085]

✌

[@CollegeFootballPOV]

Those are such great artifacts, too bad that this guy has the speaking skills of a lawmower. I was excited to hear the story but listening to this guy was like letting myself on fire

[@user-tp4fr4ij1p]

LT with stripes?

[@lawrencemyers3623]

It's his cadet coat from his time at West Point. He wouldn't have a lieutenant's rank insignia until he graduated in 1862.

[@martindriver6026]

Awesome job gentlemen 😊

[@BradyA1124]

Dude, can I be your guys’ media guy? The video and audio of this awesome history are captured so great but then it’s uploaded chock full of compression artifacts at 720p. Please have someone upload the files in their full, original quality which I’m sure is much higher res? Even if the original file is 720p why is it totally compressed into blurry artifacts? Is it something in the exporting of the file, or the uploading of it? Give me this job

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

This was clipped from a KZbin live during our 160th anniversary coverage and produced on the spot using an app. That is the highest the quality gets streaming from the battlefield. Thanks.

[@m60a3tts1]

5:35 what? is the 4577?????

[@outdoorlife5396]

I was just thinking, that might have been a damn if you do and damn if you don't situation. Damn you for not joining the Confederacy and damn you for being a southerner who stayed with the Union. Are you a spy? I can only think what was thought about them.

[@pilsplease7561]

My ancestors were 100% confederate and I dont like the Union myself.

[@outdoorlife5396]

@@pilsplease7561 If you don't like the Union, you don't like the country. There is the door, don't let hit you were the good Lord split you.

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[@scotttilson8876]

I have zero respect for the traitors of the south.

[@10_a_see]

Ok

[@josephfuller9366]

Not ALL southerners had family trees that didn't branch out. Not every southerner believed the propaganda. Fast forward 160 years...many northern cities have socialist liberal progressive traitorous scum.

[@therabbitify]

I hate George Thomas too!

[@jonathanbaggs4275]

I have zero respect for the union traitors to the constitution. Then or now.

[@sheepsfoot2]

You mean the chambers in the cylinder were a little dirty ? If his revolver hadn't been cleaned after firing be more than a little dirty mate > chambers and the rifling in the barrel totally rusted out !