Gettysburg Staff Ride - Background, insights, cause and objectives.

[@douglas1391]

Succinct, insightful and entertaining. Hope more of his lectures are posted.

[@campbelltown3065]

This is an excellent presentation given by an extremely knowledgeable briefer.

[@ChuckLiebenauer]

This an excellent presentation of the civil war political considerations and military objectives. Thank you

[@aug853]

Pure Brilliance! Outstanding.

[@SN-xk2rl]

It is formally true that Lincoln "freed no slaves with the EC" but he sure as hell encouraged at least 250K (probably far more) to either actively run away, & or start becoming obdurate, oppositional, less obedient etc. to their owners. In labor relations terms the EC encouraged the largest wildcat strike in US history. Slaves were already becoming contrabands. The EC opened up the flood gates for contrabands, which significantly diminished the CSA war efforts, contributed troops and teamsters to the USA efforts and (oh gee) helped a250K (and up) to escape chattel slavery - a just cause no matter the other consequences. The EC wasn't foolish - it was genius. Thanks for this. It is excellent. Both intellectually serious and practical.

[@McNair39thNC]

Not immediately but as the Union army advanced into more Confederate territory it did free slaves. Your SCV NeoConfederate leanings are showing through. Always trying to deminish the accomplishments of our greatest President!

[@McNair39thNC]

And what the hell does “formally true” mean?

[@michaelgonos3165]

Thanks so much for this. Am making my first visit this autumn, and treating it as my own personal staff ride, if you will.

[@colinadevivero]

Excellent work. Keep it up

[@mohsinsyedain1754]

I am an Indian and have nothing to do with Army, yet the Amirican Civil War facinates me..Its causes, the ideals for which it was fought and the planning and execution that went into it..I find the idealism of the north very soul stirring to say the least.. I am a little confused about the inner thought of the soldiers of the Union Army though...Were they fighting to preserve the Union or were they fighting to free the slaves and abolish slavery..? Could someone through some light on this..?

[@aaronfleming9426]

Every man had his own motivations, but generally speaking...early on, there were less men motivated by abolition, and more motivated by preserving the Union. As time went on and northern men got to see the results of slavery up close and personal - and as black men joined the army and proved themselves on the battlefield - abolition became a stronger and stronger motivation. Here's an anecdote that demonstrates the shift: “We found the two men handcuffed and tied with a log chain, in the cane break, and the other lot in a swamp where the water was half-knee deep in the shallow places. They had been in this condition for forty-eight hours without fire or food. They were the most miserable looking lot I ever saw. They scarcely had any clothing at all, ragged, dirty, and barefooted; it had snowed that morning and that night it froze hard. So I think that you will not blame us for taking pity on them. I wouldn't see a dog treated so. It made abolitionists out of Wils Payne and several other Democrats.” - Captain Jacob Ritner, Co. B, 25th Iowa, quoted in Iowa and the Civil War Volume 2, Kenneth L. Lyfrogt

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