General Hood's Charge at Gettysburg: A Walking Tour from West Confederate Ave to Devil's Den

[@alfonsocandela2250]

Gary been listening 2 ur wonderful stories, tales & history of the battle of Gettysburg? It seems like forever. I love ur enthusiasm & ur passion 4 this remarkable time in America's history. BUT this trek that u r on with these remarkable people in this feed is the 🍒 on top of the whip cream on a chocolate fudge sunday. Fantastic!!! In late 2021 l flew 2 Georgia to visited my daughter for 21 days. I'm from Southern California. My eldest grandson Nathaniel & l drove from Burford 2 Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Marvelous trip. Four days three night trip. Very emotional & very high on my bucket list. Because of u & other experts like yourself l have fallen in love with the Civil War history. I'm going back 2 Burford 2023 & taking a trip down 2 the Confederates Anderson prison. Love what u do, don't loose ur zest 4 the Battle of Gettysburg & l will visit one more time b-4 our heavenly Father takes me home. Thank u sir. (by the way l believe the tall older gentleman took Nath & myself on our three hour tour) Fantastic! See-ya

[@pc7339]

Gary Adelman is a national treasure. I recently visited Gettysburg and had a much greater understanding of the battle because of his videos. And after having visited, and gaining a better understanding of the terrain, his videos are much easier to understand.

[@mr.breeze8796]

Wow. You read books, you watch documentaries and movies and play video games and think you know alot about it but seeing you guys moving across the actual ground and how long it takes and to be able to see what the soldiers actually saw brings a whole new perspective.Thanks guys I'll be watching all of these. Very very interesting to a lifelong Civil War buff

[@toddhiett9034]

This battlefield walk and your car tours of the entire battlefield are two of my favorites.

[@matthewbarnum5792]

Great video. I have watched many on this battle action. By far this is one of the best in detail/presentation and also views.

[@joemoore5763]

I've been to the battlefield at least ten times and always stood in the tourist spots. This view was the best. Thank You

[@sloneyfly2922]

Amazing to see hOw bad the terrain was to cross. Probably one of the best Gettysburg videos I’ve seen. I applaud the knowledge of everyone here. As a Texan, this area of the battlefield hits close to home. Great job!

[@auditoneusa747]

Ya gotta love a guide who delivers the facts with excitement. It puts me in the battle back in 1863. I didn’t know you could walk through fields at Gettysburg. Next time I’m there I’m doing it.

[@louisdemoss6215]

Loved the video by the way, never seen Hood's attack explained so well.

[@pherylihy58]

This was so informative and interesting. Thank you for all you do.

[@jonathanbaggs4275]

Thank you folks so much for doing this. Especially in real time. Please do other battle walks like this. I was w/an Ala regt in 1988 for the 125th - and only had a few hours to spend at the battlefield proper. somehow I got old and have to use a cane mostly now - have always dreamed of being able to return to these fields for a proper tour. You folks' efforts are the next best thing. It means a lot to some of us. Please do other real-time walks and tours.

[@donaldmoore4412]

Love this piece! God Bless to all those that gave their lives for our country.

[@arthurskim7898]

The knowledge of the entire group was outstanding. The walking of the field, as difficult as it was for them, was a great idea for us to learn the type of topography they had to cross, you can't put a price tag on it. Bravo Zulu

[@terryeustice5399]

That was very informative and really a good demonstration of what the troops did crossing the terrain to get to Devils Den. Thank you for sharing

[@herman1850]

This is an altogether awesome video. Thanks for making it.

[@chrismiller8959]

Ive walked this ground. Out of all the fields and ground in Gettysburg I’ve walked, this is the nastiest, foulest, most difficult and dangerous. Every step can be treacherous. Rocks, roots, sticks, thistles, thornes and swamp. How did these Texans do this? They were tough and determined fighters.

[@jumpmaster82nd.]

And alot of it is unseen until your right up on it. An admirable assault for sure.

[@tumbleweedweed3691]

You forgot snakes! I stepped on one near Plum Run

[@acousticshadow4032]

How did they do it? That's the very point - they DIDN'T do it, or the Federals would not have kept the High Ground.

[@vivians9392]

Texans are tough. These multiple types of land are common to Texas.

[@leonardroman6544]

I am a member of the Battlefield Trust. I found this video and a few others while I was on "Stay at Home" status during this Pandemic. I found this video to be very interesting and informative. I hiked that Boy Scout trail that you showed as a teenager. It also helps make my cardio on the the stationary bike more enjoyable. Thank you.

[@eeyore1197]

omfg I LOOOOVE these folks! it'd be so much fun to wander an old battlefield with them!

[@tmknolBashore]

That might have been one of the best video tours I've ever seen. You really can't understand what happened there until you walked that ground. I did the Scouts hike through that area but this whole walk is new territory for me. Much thanks to all for sharing your expertise.

[@RovingRegions]

Love it, great enthusiasm, and it is contagious!

[@AlGreenLightThroughGlass]

Just wonderful, thank you, great work from all involved.

[@jpkjpk11]

good job to the whole team; very informative and enjoyable battle walk.

[@paparude7724]

Absolutely LOVED THIS!!! This is what the public needs! Walking the actual field is key and I hope to do the same this summer! I will be looking for ya'll on Facebook! Much love and respect from the wooded outskirts of Raleigh, NC!

[@blukeblue1235]

Geez that was the best dang informative tour I've ever seen! Wish I was there.

[@marklysogorski4631]

Great commentary on the 124th NY. The man who assumed command after Ellis and Cromwell were killed and Col. Frank Cummins was wounded was, Captain Charles Weygant of Co A, from Newburgh NY. At the end of the war the 124 was the highest decorated regiment from NY with over 6 MOH winners in their Ranks. Not bad for a Regiment was commander once referred to them as his "Bullfrogs".

[@atg323bc]

The best part of this this video is fabulous energy of all the participants. It’s intense. Huzzah!!!

[@David-lu4gq]

"Hope you had a good sleep, hope you enjoyed yesterday" I have just woken up from my snooze after the last night shift of the week. It was pretty good. 😊

[@bradleycred99]

Your historically accurate hikes really brings my reading on the battle to life. Please keep them coming! I always come back to solid recon that Jeb Stewart should have provided and how that would have surely changed the Confederate battle plan. What is that badge that Doug wears on his belt? Gary has the energy of the Rick Morenis character hosting the party in “Ghostbusters.” 😏

[@heynowls3058]

Incredible enthusiasm. Thanks

[@acousticshadow4032]

Yeah, like a speed-freak dancing around & waving his hands like Blanche during a shootout in "Bonnie & Clyde".

[@tooter1able]

Tim, Garry, General Lee , our gracious female guide Mary--kudos to all for the clarity of this crucial 2July movement--the en echelon attack.

[@jeremydes100]

the robert e lee here sounds like he could be hawking dogs at Fenway Prk

[@BilgePump]

Little known fact, he did have a side hustle selling hot dogs 🌭 all through the war. Made a good chunk of change. called his stand Bobby’s Weiners.

[@xxTOTEMxx]

Great work!!! Amazing walk!!

[@JimJonesKoolaid]

Love your work!! So many collective history minds walking through it. What a job! My favorite part though may be when you fell right as you were talking about being emasculated!

[@lawrencemyers3623]

It's great to see the NPS trying to return the battlefield to its wartime appearance. Books are great, as are lectures, but nothing beats walking the actual ground where it all occurred.

[@tamiramos5873]

I love Patrick Gorman's movie line as General Hood about rocks rolling down on them because it was always a potential event.

[@billbrenneman334]

I STILL LIKE YOU GUYS good info Thanks a lot

[@alexdejesus62]

Loved the video!

[@CrazySC833]

More of this please! Love these battlefield walks!

[@josephmcgrath3152]

This is great , thank you .

[@justinmiesse5240]

Have you guys done Shiloh? I’d love to see that one. You should also do intensive tours! I’d love to accompany your crew on walks like this.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

We are heading to Tennessee this fall!

[@toddhiett9034]

Oh my darn. I am so dumb. I've been watching your battlefield walk videos for 4 years and I just realized rewatching this video in 2024 that I've watched many times that there is a Snyder farm AND a Slyder farm. That's why I've been so confused about Hood's attack on day 2!

[@rc59191]

The disrespect for General Longstreet is sad to see and my family fought for the Union. Man doesn't deserve the hate that he gets.

[@academyofshem]

Meh, that Bobby Lee had a Yankee accent. What do you expect? Longstreet probably killed more Union troops than any other Confederate general.

[@vivians9392]

@@academyofshem I noticed the accent, too.

[@toddhiett9034]

This is my absolute favorite battlefield walk! Can you please do it again now with the better tech available?

[@Ronaldl2350]

Gary and the battlefield trust are fantastic! Lee does not sound like he is from Virginia though. 😃 The terrain alone was a battle to get through.

[@herman1850]

Perpetuating the myth of Longstreet's insubordination? He made the March in the same relative time as Jackson at Chancellorsville.

[@herman1850]

And consider the troops who marched 20 miles to get there, starting at 3 AM. But no, Longstreet's dragging his feet.

[@emintey]

It seems to me that what Longstreet or at least Hood wanted to do was repeat the flank attack to roll up the Union line as Jackson did at Chancellorsville but to do that he needed to keep out of sight which explains the countermarching, Lee however had something else in mind which was the en echelon attack as a frontal assault. Lee never really made public a detailed critique of the battle from his point of view which leaves a big gap in our understanding.

[@rc59191]

I'm surprised a channel as good as this is letting that "General Lee" get away with saying something as ridiculous as Longstreet being insubordinate and childish. He was the smartest man in the Confederate Army he knew Lee's plans were gonna get them killed and had he listened to him they wouldnt of been nearly annihilated. Lee isn't the demigod Southerners make him out to be.

[@academyofshem]

Had Longstreet been on time and had attacked when Lee had wanted him to, then Sickles would have the Third Corps were it was supposed to be, with its right flank anchored to the Second Corps on Cemetery Ridge and its left on Little Round Top. Please explain why this would have been a better situation for Longstreet?

[@gsimon4173]

This is great! General Lee sounds like he's from North Jersey.

[@stalinsghostux3318]

Straight up knowledge these bois spitting

[@apope06]

MORE WALK THROUGHS!

[@marktewes7308]

Love Your videos

[@mikeburch2998]

Great Job Gary! Any chance that you could pursue the Western theater? Have U.S. Grant show up for a discussion. Keep up the awesome efforts. Greetings from Arizona.

[@willoutlaw4971]

If Longstreet was so bad a General why did Lee keep him as his closest adviser right up until Lees surrender to Grant in April, 1865?

[@rebelsoul5980]

@@rc59191 "revisionists"🤣🤣you mean people who understand what the war was fought over and don't obsess over the slavery narrative! I do agree with you about Lee, he was stubborn and should have taken advice at Gettysburg. They were supposed to be fighting a defensive campaign, not offensive. The Union was fighting the offensive campaign, the Union was the aggressor! May i ask what you mean by "revisionist" as I am genuinely curious?

[@RobertPaskulovich-fz1th]

Loved watching Robert E. Lee.

[@decimated550]

41:10 Gary Adelman is one unique dude. He quoted from memory a survivor's account of the attack on the hill. He does this while stumbling across steep, marshy ground on a hot day . what a mind!

[@brettanymichellelawson-top5197]

Also very stubborn

[@margospringer9082]

Vcry Nicely Done!

[@stevemueller3705]

Nice potshot at GMOs. Also, how did you get Joe Bosnall to join your group?

[@randyl4092]

Good stuff

[@paulkeniston5699]

Longstreet and his men performed exceptionlly well under the circumstances. This battle plan of Lee was prone for failure almost as bad as his plan for July 3. Too bad for the South that Longstreet was not insobordinate and carried out his orders to the best of his ability

[@markmcdonald5419]

6.10 in to the program, why would General Hood want to go around to the right instead of to the left, what am I missing in topography, and I hear again and again this Emestburg Road, it is ti the left..please advise

[@willoutlaw4971]

Did Hood let out the rebel yell when that hot shrapnel tore into his arm? Kabooooom!!!!

[@frankgioia514]

outstanding ! the gentleman portraying lee slamming longstreet! if lee had anyone else to resort to longstreet should have been relieved for insubordination !

[@rc59191]

General Longstreet was trying to save the Army of Northern Virginia from total annihilation which is what General Lee almost led it to between his attack's on little round top and Picketts charge.

[@zettle2345]

I usually like these Gettysburg videos. But, at 2:50 a man says, "If Jackson was here?"... and then to read the comment section. Just another "Lost Cause" hype game for the youngsters who don't know any better. Listen to the Confederate General who was there if you want to know the truth... He said that he always thought the Yankee's had something to do with the Confederates losing. Blind obedience is not a good thing. A complete and total lack of intel, which could have been continually gathered from the Seminary that day. And your still trying to blame General Longstreet for this. LOL

[@willoutlaw4971]

If StonewallJackson had been there he would have been one more dead Confederate.

[@Artymofo13]

Exactly.

[@ripp846]

The Army of The Potomac was a different animal in July of 1863, than it was in 1861. Better trained, equipped, and certainly more experienced. It was also better led. Rebel generals were surprised at the tenacity of this Union Army, and their generals leading it.

[@joijaxx]

What book are Gary and Tim talking about towards the end of this video?

[@tumbleweedweed3691]

Haven’t watched the entire video yet but they have a great guidebook and history of Devil’s Den.

[@ltrain4479]

I wonder how many ticks you guys had to pull off of yourselves after that trip. Especially Connor who is wearing shorts.

[@stanmohr8601]

Walked pickets charge a few years ago. Left the trail (cut grass). Covered in ticks.

[@bigapplebucky]

Did you guys pick up a lot of ticks walking through that brush?

[@Gravelgratious]

33:31 the bee looks like a Union Shell coming in lol.

[@brianwolle2509]

better than any book.

[@wanderdworld]

If Genaral Longstreet got the nod, we might have a very different landscape than the one we have today. God did not want men in chains IMHO

[@colemanspinks2339]

TRUE. Longstreet was an amazing, under appreciated General. Ive always felt Longstreet would have prolonged the war and quite possibly get the Union to settle for peace and possibly could have kept Lincoln from a second term by threatening Washington.

[@rebelsoul5980]

The civil war was not fought over slavery, slavery was a socially accepted practice around the entire world. The civil war(2nd war for independence) was fought over the aggressive implementation of a Nationalized Federal Democracy. America was established as a Constitutional Confederate Republic built on the principles of decentralization with self governing nation state's. Lincoln offered the Confederacy to KEEP its slaves if they would surrender and rejoin the Union and the Confederacy DENIED the offer. The war was not over slavery, it was over self governance and denying a centralized gov't to be implemented! Here we are in 2021 and the "glorious Union" is 100% centralized and tyrranical!!

[@rebelsoul5980]

Check out Donald Livingston The Real Reason The South Seceded

[@rc59191]

Slavery was still going on in Brazil until the 1890s and continues to this day. Just saw videos of slave auction's in Libya and Qatar kidnaps people and puts them into slavery all the time.

[@IndyRickHikes]

No snowflakes entering that triangular field on July 2, 1863. Whatever their why, their deeds are awe inspiring. Of this stuff, generations of Americans were made.

[@vtwin03]

I think a lot of terrain is missed when walking by camera shooters trying to keep the speakers in view. We are here to see the terrain, not speakers.

[@BLUEYENKO]

General Lee using a football analogy 13 years before football was invented was weird.😂

[@kevindecoteau3186]

Funny moment at about 28:20 " enjoy the silence" and someone immediately starts talking.

[@gregtravis84]

General Lee got the date of his appointment to the command of the Army of Northern Virginia wrong by a year.

[@davejones52]

The Confederates should have gone around Little Round top, and got into a better Battle position between Gettysburg and Washington, Like Longstreet said all along.

[@HemlockRidge]

2nd, 3rd, and 4th guessing. It was not their orders.

[@willoutlaw4971]

But General Lee, the best general of all time, was directing the action at Gettysburg. Lee is especially effective when he stumbles into a battle without the benefit of his cavalry, no planning, and pissed at his opposition.

[@markcrampton5549]

Great plan if the Union Army sat and did nothing!

[@jumpmaster82nd.]

@@markcrampton5549 Exactly. They'd have been smashed.

[@frankgioia514]

outstanding. there is no doubt that hood did very poorly when he replaced johnston at the head of the army of tennesse in 1864 but he was absolutely correct in protesting that attack order on the afternoon of july 2. and outstanding retort by gary when he reminded the uniformed guide how poorly longstreet performed when given independent command!

[@tberkoff]

Well, Sickles is wounded so there is command chaos on the US side too. And multiple US corps--2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th Corps--operating in a small area with no clear overall commander.

[@andrewguthrie2387]

Whys it sound like General Lee spent a long portion of his childhood in the Bronx?

[@michaelpeffer8517]

Was ok till Lee spoke. That was not needed......Read Helen Longstreets book. Not once did Gen Lee lay blame on Longstreet.

[@bobbybell4974]

I wish you guys would tell about Indiana regiments a little bit more

[@billhowes5871]

Civil War soldiers were so hardened that by the time they reached Gettysburg. If, while eating lunch if a cannonball came in and splattered the brains of the soldier they were talking to all over the place. They'd calmly continue eating their cheesesteak sandwich. -Bill Howes, Civil War historian.

[@Renfield37]

there are in that tranglular field in different places holes in the ground not little holes but it more like craters i was thinking it sp[ossible it could be impact craters from artillery that are there

[@jamesrichardson3322]

It would have been great if you had Confederate Battilion reenactment unit follow with you. Give perspective of what was like going a cross thoses fields with full battle gear and wool uniforms and etc. Have them march a cross in a battle line and maintain it.

[@robrussell5329]

The Confederates wore cotton uniforms. The North wore wool. Advantage Confederates in summer and advantage Union in winter.

[@jamesrichardson3322]

@@robrussell5329 The Confederate soldiers wore Cotton or Jean Wool. Federal Army wore wool it depends on what type of jacket your unit wore. Some had Frock Coat, Sack Coats, Fatigue Sack Coats, Shell Jackets and etc. Some wool was heavier than others. Union men got Great Coats for the winter, and other cooler months.

[@the1magageneral323]

Hood's idea to flank around the RoundTops is a bad idea.

[@catman8670]

Stonewall may have been the difference at Gettysburg for the south. Obviously!🤦🏼

[@jacobcook8740]

Was there a issue of dehydration for the men how did they March and than go into the attack

[@jacobcook8740]

That is easy to say go around the right the conferates had no idea what was in even on the right no idea of topography the Confederates did not want to split up in enemy territory this is not Virginia where they know the lay of attack

[@BlazeCore99]

War may be terrible, but terribly fascinating as well! I wonder what would have happened if Benning had attacked little round top.... Bad news for the union I think 😱

[@P366y]

Do you still do tours?

[@rc59191]

Lol yes it's a National battlefield they got tour's all the time in the summer.

[@deadstars7643]

I thought General hood was wounded in the left arm not the right?

[@TheWhitehiker]

These guides are big on arm gestures!

[@theunfortunategeneral]

3:35 If thats true I can only imagion how he felt when John hood took command of the Army of Tennesee.

[@markcrampton5549]

Lee said Hood was all Lion and no Fox.

[@waynelayton8568]

He wasn't a lady's man after he lost his arm,then his leg,then his love of his life after he lost the battle of Franklin and Nashville. Hood totally destroyed his army. Nathan Bedford Forrest said,he was a whole man he would have whipped him until a inch of his life!!" That's John Bell Hood. Great Division Commander,horrible Corp commander

[@frapesketo]

So many nerds in one video :)

[@kevinahern7818]

I don't think Gen. Lee is from VA, it sounds like he is from Jersey.

[@brettanymichellelawson-top5197]

General lee is from va

[@kevinahern7818]

@@brettanymichellelawson-top5197 It was a joke.

[@chrismiller8959]

This man looks like Lee but Lee was too much of a gentleman to say the things this man said. During and after the war, Lee didn’t expose or talk down about his subordinates.

[@markholbrook3949]

Did the girl in shorts not get the memo? Hope she checked for ticks!!!

[@paparude7724]

Marse Robert with a yankee accent just seemed comical lol. Good visual impression though!

[@chuckmallard75]

I love the Robert E. Lee replies to the questions of how he felt about Longstreet. If only Thomas Jackson was alive during the battle.

[@ericcole182]

We love connor!

[@ObiWanColby_]

Question: why the name change?

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Hi Colby, Check out this video for information on our name change. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ7ci4iuf5arhpI

[@ObiWanColby_]

American Battlefield Trust incredible! I love it.

[@edwincathey5260]

Longstreet was right.