Ask A Gettysburg Guide #56- The 26th North Carolina with LBG Eric Lindblade

[@bradleycred99]

I thoroughly enjoy this session! Eric is a trip!

[@addressinggettysburg]

Always makes me laugh

[@bradleycred99]

@@addressinggettysburg His 26th NC history would make a great podcast as he said he might do. He’s got the voice for it.

[@233monte]

“Take em from the rear” had me rolling. Great timing

[@addressinggettysburg]

😂😂😂

[@richsnyder8015]

Great intro. Cracked me up and made my Monday. Well done Eric Linblade.

[@addressinggettysburg]

Lol

[@lewistrott417]

Wow, great episode. Eric speaks with clarity of thought that I envy. I sound like a mumbler bumbler too often (maybe because that's really what I am). I think this may be the best AAG guide episode yet. The content was really outstanding, thank you.

[@addressinggettysburg]

Laying it on there a little thick, aren’t ya, Lewis? But you’re right

[@lewistrott417]

@@addressinggettysburg Ha!! Not at all, I always make a point to give credit where it's due. Now if I were saying "Man those Lewis Trott episodes are the bees knees!"....that would qualify for laying it on thick...Just a really great, very informative episode.

[@edouardrobert160]

First time hearing your podcast very entertaining!

[@addressinggettysburg]

Thank you very much

[@richsnyder8015]

Just tremendous. A great episode.

[@addressinggettysburg]

Thank you

[@TheBassPlayer100]

I bid on that letter - was written from Nashville where the federals had a series of hospitals. The dealer who had it is one of, if not the most, respected around. It was a seriously raunchy letter and quite revealing that these were normal average young men away from home and living it up - like any modern day Chad, Tyrone or Ray Ray.

[@addressinggettysburg]

lol “peoples is peoples.”

[@vincentbergman4451]

Check out the battle of Borodino. 70,000-80,000 casualties in 12 hours I just found this episode, my ancestor was in the 24th Michigan so this one hits home. Thanks fellas. Great show, 2nd episode listening and I can’t wait to visit the battlefield. Thank you guys for the knowledge and entertainment.

[@addressinggettysburg]

Thank you very much. I’m glad you found us

[@Bunny-qt4hv]

Great episode. Do you happen to know where the majority of the 26th NC wounded ended up field hospital/farm wise ?

[@addressinggettysburg]

My guess would be the McPherson Barn but that also doesn’t make sense to me because the wounded prior to the confederates taking that area, the wounded had to go somewhere. I’ll see Eric this weekend. Hopefully I can remember to ask him this

[@Bunny-qt4hv]

@@addressinggettysburg awesome thank you so much for the response ! I’m a big fan of the 26th and will be up there on the anniversary So was hoping to know where or what farm most of their wounded went to so I could check it out so I appreciate it. Podcast is great too keep up the good work

[@refugeeca]

01:24:00 I agree that too many folks treat the tragedies of the past like a big lark and it gets worse as time passes. I've even heard some deadly battles in the Civil War coined "America's finest hour." lol

[@addressinggettysburg]

Lol yeah I get what they’re saying when they say that, but as the population grows increasingly soft and less aware of the true hardships that life has to offer, it sounds tone deaf.

[@paulabelton9928]

I admit when I sat down to listen to this episode I was a bit on the cautious side hoping Eric did the 26th NC justice, and not disappoint. A lot of the information he presented on NC holds true to what I have experienced being from NC. I am glad he is not just presenting information on NC, but putting the effort to present correct and accurate history. I could go into a lot of other details about all that I liked and loved about this episode. Great work and I look forward to the day his book is done and published.

[@addressinggettysburg]

I do too. And I had no doubt that he’d knock it out of the park. I wanted to do a 26th NC episode since before the first episode came out and knew it had to be Eric that did it

[@timothycline9909]

Is there an episode of the Ohio 8th and 10th regiments???

[@addressinggettysburg]

In the can. Probably won’t be out until late spring

[@melissapollom427]

I think the Civil War has been romancized throughout history and Hollywood. I have never celebrated Memorial Day, D-Day, and the battle of Gettysburg. Me personally when on those anniversaries I reflect on the horror those men and boy went through. I wholly agree with you silly guys. Eric, the guest, did you work at The Mine?

[@addressinggettysburg]

Yes he did. I agree. For the longest time I romanticized war but that’s because I was a shallow young feller. Now that I’m old and realize the fragility of life, I think there’s no redeeming quality to wars. Even just ones, when you think about it. It’s an exercise in the stupidity of mankind

[@K8E666]

I’m a newer listener from Wales UK but I’m an historian at heart. I say this because despite my degree in history I work in Pharmacy on the front line. We try to keep people off drugs instead of throwing them out !!! But I’ve studied Welsh History (obviously) WW1 WW2 Napoleon The Russian Revolution - with a focus on Lenin himself The English Civil War (1642 - 1651) between The Royalists and The Parliamentarians under Oliver Cromwell. The English Civil War had different origins to the American Civil War as ours was fought primarily over the correct balance of power between Parliament and Charles I. It ended in June 1646 with Royalist defeat and the king in custody. King Charles I was then beheaded. Cromwell turned out to be just as bad as he was no fun, ran England as a dictatorship and he even banned Christmas ! (although Christmas wasn’t celebrated like it is today, but still…). He became just like the King and wanted his son to take over his position upon his death (nepotism)…. This didn’t happen and Charles II was brought back to rule. We’re now on Charles III - this was one of the reasons they asked him if he wanted to change his Royal name to something other than Charles, because of the connotations of the Civil War and the execution of Charles I. He chose not too and I think, after all this time he was right to bring it full circle. Anyway I’ve been binge listening to all of your episodes and now I’m starting to build up reading material on the American Civil War - so thanks for peaking my interest. I’m fascinated by all of the battles, the leaders and their relationship with each other especially between Lee and Jackson and how his death might have impacted Lee’s decision-making…. But I realise that you can study Gettysburg itself for years and just when you think you have a grip on it you learn something new that topples it and pulls the rug out from underneath you !!! Anyway I’m going to get studying and as an ‘outsider’ maybe I’ll have different perspectives to offer than someone born in the US. Love the episodes - keep them coming !!

[@addressinggettysburg]

Thank you! I see what you mean. And, yes, just when you think you have a firm understanding of the battle, you learn something new that totally shakes your confidence and you realize that, no matter how learned you may be, you'll never be more than a student of the battle and the war. I'll keep making them if you keep listening and spreading the word! Cheers!

[@potbelliedslim7645]

Humor... Humor always makes a story better to listen to. If both podcast sites could always be delivered like a Patrick McManus book they would be gems indeed! Not a very valuable gem mind you, but a gem anyway. Well, maybe like quartz.

[@addressinggettysburg]

Thank you?

[@jagsdomain203]

Talking about towns being destroyed. Battle of Kasserien Pass in North African in WW2. The unit that had very casualties was from 1 town in OH. The town something like half there men in 1 day.

[@addressinggettysburg]

That’s devastating for one town to endure.

[@jagsdomain203]

@@addressinggettysburg this show was fascinating. We talk about number but realise where they came from. It was not living in Boston and traveling through New England it hit me. Monuments with a marker for 100 dead hear. Another small town with 25 did not come back. A lone marker for Arthur MacArthur. My town in Butler and Lyndon have monuments for a few here and a few there. A son of the Black family that fought at the railroad cut at Gettysburg wounded 2 times. These are real people thay had friends and family that missed there presents.

[@BJNich78]

I used to call my shot in Little League. I'd point to the dugout. Three pitches later, I was headed that way.

[@addressinggettysburg]

Hahaha

[@addressinggettysburg]

That actually made me laugh out loud

[@mikaelpettersson5916]

Having a competition between each show listeners could be fun. But maybe with trivia instead of wrestling. (have a park ranger ask the questions).

[@addressinggettysburg]

But it can only involve the listeners that won’t let go of their need to hate the show they don’t listen to. They need to be humiliated. I mean, brought I to the fold.

[@mikaelpettersson5916]

@@addressinggettysburg Of course there will be some form of punishment. like an electric shock or a bucket of cold water (or combination) 😈

[@mikedesil23]

Top 5

[@addressinggettysburg]

Awesome!

[@IndyRickHikes]

Great episode. The focus on the tragedy of the sacrifices might seem dark at times. But that’s the feeling I always get when visiting these battlefields. Just got back from the 160th commemoration at the bloody fields of Shiloh. A terrible sacrifice with many many more to follow. Seemingly beyond endurance. Well done Eric! 👏👏👏

[@addressinggettysburg]

👍

[@jagsdomain203]

I boston we would tell a story at Hookers statue that it waa because of him we get the word

[@addressinggettysburg]

But perhaps not, as we learned in this episode.

[@jagsdomain203]

@@addressinggettysburg you know how tour guides tell storys. The guests loved it so it became fact!

[@youtruckrek5121]

you are not talking about nothing but you and how funny you are

[@addressinggettysburg]

🙄 live a little

[@anotherpr]

There’s only one football sad to say

[@addressinggettysburg]

What’s this in reference to?