Defending Against Pickett's Charge | Account of Union General John Gibbon

[@isaacwoodside3131]

My goodness, i cant help being pulled in by this narrative. Thank you for sharing this. Amazing story.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

You are very welcome.

[@jerroldbates355]

Great story! The fog of war was on full display that day.

[@Rick-Rarick]

You sir, are dedicated to your work! Thank you for putting out so much content, and high quality content to boot!

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

Thank you for the kind words. Keep an eye out for some KZbin shorts coming out from my time in Gettysburg.

[@Rick-Rarick]

@@HistoryGoneWilder I look forward to them.

[@marksandor2830]

My wife and 5 children ranging from 7 to 18 years old, visited and walked this ground. I kept thinking, what a terrible ordeal and how it should have been avoided. Yet, when someone answers a call of duty and pays the ultimate price, we must never forget them. Thanks for this work.

[@kidmohair8151]

I am always delighted by the eloquence with which these memoirs of battle are written.

[@UncleSasquatchOutdoors]

Excellent account of the charge. Thanks for the hard work it took bringing that to us.

[@volslover1504]

My friend your content is the best. Nothing ever beats a first hand account and that is what you use a lot from the participants. You are never persuasive with trying to get people to believe a certain way. You share first hand accounts from both sides. Thank you for your hard work. We must never let history die.

[@andygossard4293]

*Best Civil War Channel*

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

Thank you so much!

[@andygossard4293]

@@HistoryGoneWilder I always think of the Charge as the most forelorn of hopes and feel sad for those who tried. Sometimes a very good firsthand account is priceless

[@lurking0death]

John Gibbon should have been a writer. I have seen this area of the battlefield many times. Gibbon's account fits what I have seen with my eyes.

[@curtgomes]

General Gibbon gives and electrifying account of the action he was part of. It's as well told as any account I have ever heard or read. What an incredible loss of life.....

[@289kcode7]

They spoke with such elegance back then.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

They definitely did. Please check out my other videos, I've got lots of first hand accounts.

[@289kcode7]

@@HistoryGoneWilder I was lucky enough to visit the Shiloh battlefield when I was a kid, left an impression on me. Such a sacrifice for the freedom of this country.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

@289kcode7 I live Shiloh. Best preserved Battlefield in the nation. I've got an animated battle map for Shiloh. Check it out.

[@tttyuhbbb9823]

Teaching was real; learning was more than 200% real! Not anymore nowadays!

[@timmylee41]

Once again you deliver with amazing clarity, one can only imagine the carnage...and yet you put forth a first person description. Intriguing, just Intriguing.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

Thank you so much!

[@michaelhenry8890]

Thank you for this content. Truly.

[@RebHawkins54]

This narrative is a great example of why I love studying history. Thanks Dr Wilder.

[@missmissy2490]

This is incredible. Thank you so much.

[@patjacksonpodium]

This may be a strange thing to bring up but I just have to thank you for not using a computer voice for these videos. So many channels do, and I am always intensely irritated by them. You have a good speaking voice, I'm glad you use it.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

Thank you so much! It will always be my voice.

[@kaz5707]

reading his book right now =)

[@2gpowell]

Fascinating, great presentation!

[@PickleishBILL]

Great video! Love this channel

[@johnzajac9849]

At 2:13...'whose shells were bursting in and around them....' So much for the rebel shells, which we are always told were 'overshooting their targets'.

[@cent-kz2ti]

the way people wrote back then paints an almost perfect picture

[@LesHaskell]

General Gibbon mentions Lt. Haskell. That's his aid-de-camp, Lt. Franklin Aretas Haskell. Lt. Haskell also wrote an account of the battle and sent it in a letter to his brother. It was later published as the book, Battle of Gettysburg. You may have heard excerpts narrated by Garrison Keillor in Ken Burn's documentary, The Civil War. Lt. Haskell was later killed moments after taking command of the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864.

[@johngibbons2858]

Another Great reading. THANK YOU

[@sparky11976]

What a site all that must have been…wow.

[@OhioDan]

General Armistead is mounted in the painting used in the final scene ... interesting.

[@aaronfleming9426]

Yes, I thought he was on foot?

[@OhioDan]

@@aaronfleming9426 Right, that's the way it's usually portrayed. Armistead leading with the hat on the end of his sword.

[@glennwood3912]

Everything I’ve seen says he was on foot.

[@nathanappleby5342]

The words of a true artillery officer and tactical commander. It was nice of him to have his aide help the soldier with the wounded man over the stone wall.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

What an incredible narative!

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

Thank you so much! Please check out my other videos

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

@@HistoryGoneWilder I have.

[@cuman7637]

what background soundtrack do you use?

[@PuckerFactor10]

Excellent! My compliments!

[@beansmalone1305]

I've stood at both the high-water mark and the lines where the charge began, and both are completely frightening. One side you're looking at a wide expanse and thinking of all the territory you have to cross under murderous fire and the other you're seeing a mass of soldiers bravely attempting the nearly impossible to dislodge you from your now meager looking defenses. It must have been awful.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

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[@josephkelley8634]

My great grandfather was in the Mass 20th and killed in Pickets charge.

[@orgafelaforeginatum]

You’re old.

[@ervintorres1200]

Thank you for sharing! What a brave man and great honor to give all he had. Part of the last full measure🎖 God bless you and your family 😊

[@jim2376]

Marching into cannister to Union shouts of "Frederickburg! Fredericksburg!" A mocking reminder of frontal assault folly. Then "red mist". All done to preserve slavery. Waste of life for an immoral, stupid cause.

[@DB-hb1go]

"It's fate, It is useless to try and avoid it." Respect to those ponies

[@nyworker]

"Four Score And Seven Years Ago" On June 7 1776 Richard Henry Lee a founding father from Virginia, also a distant relative of Robert E Lee presented the first motion of American Independence to the Second Continental Congress. Robert E Lee perhaps understood how these circumstances of fate met in the very state where the subsequent Declaration of Independence was conceived.

[@65U512]

Super!

[@amadeusamwater]

I'm wondering if the unit he was trying to shift out on his left was Stannard's Vermont Brigade. They did make a flanking charge. Stannard was from 1st Corps which was also in that part of the line.

[@jamesmskipper]

I think you must sound like General Gibbon. I enjoyed your two videos on Pickett's charge.

[@HistoryGoneWilder]

Thank you so much! Please check out my other videos. I will be animating Chickamauga in September.

[@jamesmskipper]

@@HistoryGoneWilder I'll subscribe and hit the bell.

[@dabeast13ify]

where do you find all of these firsthand accounts?

[@Paul-lm5gv]

Lee ignored his generals’ pleas not to launch a front assault over a mile of open ground! For supposedly being a brilliant military tactician, Lee ended up sending his young men to slaughter in Pickett's Charge! They were cannon fodder for the Union guns on the high ground! The battle - and the war - were lost in one fateful decision!

[@williamashbless7904]

Gibbon was the most well known for forging and tempering the Iron Brigade. Likely the most celebrated and finest body of men on either side of the conflict.

[@picklerix6162]

The Confederate forces had artillery but didn’t know how to aim properly and obviously didn’t know that they were overshooting the Union front lines. I suspect that many of the Confederate cannons were captured in earlier battles and the artillery crews were poorly trained. It seems that the Union used canister to great effect against the unprotected Rebel soldiers as they attempted to cross open fields and scale fences.

[@Lard-j8j]

What delayed Picketts arrival at Gettysburg ?

[@bradbradshaw-i4n]

didn't general longstreet try to talk lee out of it. i have been to the spot and i can't imagine having to go through that. if you did live i don't think you would ever be the same.

[@davidbowman4259]

I feel for all of the innocent horses killed because of humankind's stupidity, violence, cruelty, greed, avarice and treachery.