Gettysburg's Aftermath with Garry Adelman

Delve into the devastating aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg with Garry Adelman, Chief Historian of the American Battlefield Trust. This program will examine early photography at Gettysburg through the camera lens of Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady, and other early photographers who visited the battlefield in 1863.

[@terryeustice5399]

Garry heard this before. Never gets old! Thank you! ❤️💯

[@signoguns8501]

Im currently reading Shelby Footes civil war trilogy, so I've been on a bit of an American civil war binge, devouring everything I can find on youtube. These lectures are some of my favourites. Very engaging, charismatic and knowledgeable speakers. Hopefully one day I will get to go to the US and see all these places for myself. Maybe attend a few lectures like this. That would be great. Thank you for the upload. Best wishes, from England.

[@leza6288]

@signoguns8501 I want to travel around GB and have my bucket list for England, Scotland and Wales! I love Shelby Footes work! He was an amazing historian.

[@Goffas_and_gumpys]

This fella and Matt Atkinson are the reason I would come half way around the world to visit Gettysburg. The passion and the knowledge is infectious and I hope to make one day before it's too late. This was a great presentation and the hour long time just flew by. I want more LOL. Great stuff everyone involved.

[@daytonlights-peterwine468]

Thanks, Garry! I love watching your videos, as I always know you not only know what's up, and share that with us, but your enthusiasm is contagious, too. I wish I could visit one day.

[@patriciaspadea2266]

Fantastic, I'll be rewatching😮😢🎉😅❤

[@MrFrostings]

This was a ton of fun! Wonderful presentation. History should be fun, learning should be fun, and this was an hour worth spending. Thank you Garry.

[@Stiglr]

That was fantastic!!! I followed along on my wargame battle maps and on Google maps, and you have enriched my knowledge of the battlefield immensely. I have a trip planned to the town this coming July, so my battlefield tramps during that week will likely have a few more target vistas to visit!!

[@samdown1914]

Fascinating lecture, Gary is so easy to listen to

[@edouardrobert160]

Great job 👍

[@stflaw]

Garry's knowledge and enthusiasm are unparalleled. Great presentation.

[@davidbowman4259]

He's the best.

[@creechman]

Thanks Gary. That was well done.

[@loetzcollector466]

33:36 Back in 1980 as a lad of ten years old I visited the park and stood at that exact spot. It had been raining earlier in the day. That little cistern in the foreground was filled with water exactly as was in the original photo. It was almost as if someone had only just came and removed the body moments before. "4D experience" indeed.

[@philspaugy1756]

Fantastic celebration. Very happy to hav been in the house for this.

[@KingAlobar21]

Wow great presentation! Thank you 😊

[@michaelewert8310]

Mr. Aldeman's passion and expertise is on full display in this great presentation. The before and present day photos of battlefields helps to accurately locate events.

[@stevensimonson282]

Love your enthusiasm. I had the same experience as you... I got Frassinito's book when I went to Gettysburg in 1976 (age 15) and have been fascinated (some would say obsessed) with Gettysburg ever since.

[@berenke11]

Excellent as always Gary. Very well done indeed.

[@mellisapollom2241]

This lecture is wonderful! It is great crediting Frazz❤❤

[@andrewsilverstein6186]

Always a pleasure listening to Mr. Adelman

[@SpartansAndHeroes]

Garry is a treasure

[@davidmurray5399]

Looking at the "Harvest of Death" photo at 22:24, you can see a presumably white, diamond shaped badge on either the clothing or gear of one of the dead Union soldiers. This would indicate that men of the Second division of Sickle's Third Corps were fighting on and around this area. I would guess that it's likely many of the corpses in the photo are men of the 120th New York, whose regiment suffered heavy losses between the Wheatfield Road and Emmitsburg Road area.

[@deborahgibson9039]

Garry, your enthusiasm is contagious! This was so interesting! Thanks for a great presentation!

[@CrossTrain]

This was awesome! Thank you Garry!

[@keithhuotari2571]

Loved it! Thanks, Garry... :)

[@vipergtsmre]

Garry is the man. My Pops is a massive Gettysburg enthusiast and has met Garry several times. I recall walking Pickett's Charge, from the confederate side as a young lad, many times.

[@Gitarzan66]

It's a safe bet that there are quite a few nerds watching as well. Spiritual nerds sort of, there in spirit.

[@hoytoy100]

Garry is the best. Super engaging.

[@michaelhoffman5348]

Great presentation, but I am wondering why you can not access directly from your Adams county Historical Society site? I just happened to stumble on it while viewing another lecture...

[@mwdjr3158]

Fantastic!

[@davidwarr8600]

I had to watch this in two parts. The second half is hilarious.

[@bullhead900]

Garry is awesome!

[@TaaarrrrHeeeels]

"That was not videoed right?..." We're glad too Garry!!

[@billbrenneman334]

EXCELLENT !!!

[@5.56Media]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@Gramma-Bambi-Lynn]

Great job, Garry!

[@chipbleonard3]

Excellent!!

[@ourv9603]

A young soldier said the most disgusting thing he witnesses during the war was after a battle, as the dead & wounded littered the battlefield dying, vultures would gather on fenceposts & low limbs and patiently wait for the wounded to die before they descended upon the dead & feasted. !

[@6thmichcav262]

Is the background photo at 57:20 a deliberate attempt to place the Harvest of Death photo? Has anyone gone back and analyzed Coates and Mayer’s theory that the location is West of the Emmitsburg Road near the Spangler farm?

[@davidmurray5399]

Looking at the bodies that are in the photo shown at 29:08, it looks like a place where wounded men were either carried or staggered back to after being wounded. It doesn't look like bodies that fell on the line of battle.

[@jmchinch]

I love Gary’s energy when he talks about this stuff

[@buck1978]

This was great

[@kennethzullick6897]

Thanks Garry!

[@gimmethedetails7209]

Garry is the main reason I am planning a trip to Gettysburg for the 161. I hope to be able to hire him, or at least piggyback on someone elses tour. How much is Garry for a full days session with one history buff? :) The other reason is John R. Ash, whom he mentioned as an unlikely soldier identified as the rebel sharpshooter (although I disagree)

[@davidwarr8600]

Interesting talk but unfortunately I can’t see much detail in the pictures on youtube.

[@HHIto]

Pictures of the valiant horses saddens me so!

[@larryrhody8784]

Job well done. Please forward the Jennie Wade joke.

[@shealey9763]

"I found Abraham Lincoln" Got to love Garry, what a legend.

[@Tom26NC]

Garry is a treasure! I see Jim Hessler there at the very end.

[@Killswitch1411]

We're siting here analyzing individual trees being damaged during the civil war.. Seeing modern weapons damage.. We have brought down a reign of destruction those civil war soldiers never thought could be possible.

[@dreamcatcher7939]

Be careful what you click on if you're having breakfast.

[@ARDRI2009]

Why is Little Round Top closed? Will it open again?

[@bobjaissle]

Garry, Did you figure out the names of the flies (on John Burns)(yet)?

[@willoutlaw4971]

These are flies that followed the barefoot, unwashed rebel armies into Pennsylvania.

[@johnnyfarout]

Garry's gotta' be the biggest nerd ever. but then, what's with the dog house passion? the doghouse looks like it was made from farm use left over scrap lumber back in the day. that's not going to happen nowadays. kicking the doghouse around isn't going to look like that at all. leave the doghouse alone. i've no doubt the carpenters who did the work on the restoration... understood what that doghouse was and just figured make a doghouse like the restoration. no way to construct it like in 1861 other than copying what they learned and doing their best. Olde timey left over oak and pine scraps and cut offs ... that's just not in the wood, garry!

[@---------353]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@chadillac2472]

There were approximately 7000 deaths at Gettysburg. Where are the photos that document this?

[@joslynscott466]

Garry makes history fun

[@Blues4Winter]

He's the absolute best

[@tlmoscow]

Everyone is gushing over Garry, but I wish he’d stop emoting, slow down a bit, and calmly share all his interesting insights. Maybe then, he wouldn’t get so out of breath.

[@ktd9]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JonathanAgain]

I was a big fan of Garry Adelman and his natural passion - until I watched this particular video. Gaining enjoyment from posing in the death arrangement of fallen soldiers is disrespectful and demeaning to the memory of their sacrifice. Sadly, he seems to enjoy the death poses of Confederate boys the most as if their deaths offer a handy source of entertainment and humor. North or South, boy or man, the memory of these fallen soldiers now suffer the insult of laughter over their horrible deaths. Shame on you Gary. Next will you dance on their graves as well?

[@ted1091]

Poor sound

[@lindanorris2455]

another civil war episode with a pathetic microphone!

[@ronbednarczyk2497]

Why do you insist that the Devil's Den sharpshooter isn't a real sharpshooter? Yes, the gun is a prop, Gardner used prop guns all the time because by the time he got to a battle the fields had been searched and guns had been picked up. There's a prop gun ay Bloody Lane at Antietam. How come the only photo of this guy's face is at Devil's Den? His face isn't seen in the other photos. His body would have been better preserved if he was within the confines of the rocks and not laying out in the open in a field. Garry, you said it was difficult dragging a body uphill. It's easier to drag a body from Devil's Den downhill to the other locations. Frassanito isn't god. He wasn't there at the time. He isn't infallible. Accept the possibility that there could be an alternate explanation for the Devil's Den sharpshooter.

[@s.a.charles271]

I love this debate! I wonder if we’ll ever know for sure? I believe he was a sharpshooter and killed in his hide before being dragged and photographed elsewhere, I read an article once about how one of the fed batteries on little round top kept being harassed by a single sniper, once they found him, they sent a shell on his position and silenced him, insinuating he died from concussion of the round, the article then pointed out the rocks being out of place, in particular the biggest one which they believed was laying over his legs making them appear crushed, which they most certainly do, all very interesting, one of the million fascinating stories of the battle

[@ronbednarczyk2497]

@@s.a.charles271 That must be the article by James C. Groves. William A. Frassanito is an author and historian. He isn't a forensics expert. He isn't an artillery expert. He isn't a scientist. Why is his opinion taken as the only truth? The Park Service only presents his interpretation of the photo. I don't know if this soldier was a sharpshooter or not. That is the title given to him by those who viewed the photo. He may have been just another scared soldier who found a safe place. Either way, we should get the sequence of events correct.

[@6thmichcav262]

Frassanito’s reasoning is compelling to me. The rain soaked clothing in the “original” photo that is disturbed in the “sharpshooter” photo. The blanket that magically appears under him that isn’t present in the first photo. Those are just two examples.

[@donaldball9265]

A manic presentation. Disrespectful of the immense tragedy of that battle. "A ton of fun"? Good lord.

[@gerrys4822]

"The locals didn't want the soldiers bum-rushing the town"???? Poor choice of words Gary. These men (on BOTH SIDES) were heroes to their kinfolk. Scholarship or no scholarship, the pop-culture euphomisms aren't so cute to some of us historians. I understand you are a passionate researcher, but please try to be more careful with your flowery commentary in the future Sir. Some of us vets out here (still living and struggling to survive domestic hostile culture) don't take kindly to these references to "bums" etc. There are many fakers and poseurs out there giving us vets a bad name. Not our fault. Some actually do have mental issues and unresolved PTSD etc. But terms like that only muddy the waters more and feed into the media stereotypes. Those who haven't served will never understand the POST-WAR struggles vets go through (not just combat vets btw) as we attempt to reassimilate back into mundane society. Not downing your style or charisma Sir. Just pointing out your choice of wording. These brave men may have been dirty, (sweaty, grimy and disheveled bedraggled etc. better adjectives to use)... from being in the field so long, and fighting in the hot summer heat and humidity, but that's not their fault and it HAPPENS in warfare. Just saying. I'm sure the Yankee farmers there knew what that summer heat and sweat looked like being rural country folk. 🙄

[@JonathanAgain]

Bravo Sir, bravo!

[@colby25]

Bum rush.........oxford english dictionary..........suddenly force or barge one's way into.

[@willoutlaw4971]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the United Daughters of the Confederacy paid to remove the equestrian statue of Confederate traitor Robert E. Lee from the Gettysburg battlefield?

[@davidwarr8600]

What!?

[@jimminshall7449]

@@davidwarr8600 Will Outlaw is a troll.

[@THEMICROMARKSHOW]

why are we hearing about flys and maggots?