Licensed Battlefield Guides: A History at Gettysburg (Lecture)

Licensed Battlefield Guide Fred Hawthorne delves into the history of guiding at Gettysburg, from its origins after the end of the battle to the introduction of automobiles in 1915. Fred focuses on four early guides, John Bachelder, William Holzworth, James T. Long, and Luther Minnigh.

[@badvoodoo4044]

Excellent presentation, many thanks! My hat is off to all the park guides and rangers who keep this history and importance of this history alive. A battlefield of this scale is impossible to come to terms with without the knowledge and perspective of these amazing men and women.

[@miketaylorID1]

Huzzah! I echo your sentiments, wholeheartedly! The Battlefield guides - each with their own particular knowledge - are an invaluable resource. Be it tactics, or weaponry. Battlefield medicine or how beasts of burden were utilized by the competing armies. Or whatever their expertise, there is no way one person can know everything there is to know about this seminal event in our National history.

[@twinsboy_3410]

I would love to see more oral histories like that of Mr. Fuss I believe his name is. Fascinating life story before becoming a guide.

[@TheJoan48]

Very animated and well worth watching and I learned alot. It didn't seem almos two hours long. Great experience!

[@Jess-bs2jw]

Very good. Thanks

[@jimkadel3003]

When I was 8 yrs, I was driven by my parents into Gettysburg to visit an old man there I didn't know. Upon leaving I shook this man's hand, and later told that this man was William C. Storrick. He had been at Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and as a boy of approx 8 years, he had shook the president's hand. So the purpose of that visit was to have me shake the hand of one who shook Lincoln's hand. Later, I learned that W.C. Storrick co-wrote the first Battlefield Guide exam. A Gettysburg resident, and uncle of mine, John Howard Kadel, took the Battlefield Guide test and had the highest score, so he became Head Guide at that time.

[@antares4s]

Very informative presentation. Even as an historian of the battle I have learned much about the history of Gettysburg from this presentation.

[@edschermer]

Very informative, and insightful to “How we got to now.”

[@cwb0051]

This was so Very Interesting..thanks for posting..

[@ftffighter]

Amazing amount of knowledge here!

[@jbsnyder3477]

Gettis burg!

[@marymoriarity2555]

Very well fonr

[@marymoriarity2555]

Very interesting presentation

[@jaywinters2483]

My boloved son was enjoyfilly conceived on Valentine's Day 1991- even though it was a great fu*k. Now,....30 years later,...he can't stand her even though she is his beloved mother. But.. nevertheless because I have something negative to say about a woman I assume that makes me a sexist ,...? After all,.. if you disagree with the liberal then you're automatically called " race.i...its". ...(shame on you if you even dare think for yourself.)

[@OldHeathen1963]

Hey Jay! Therapy could help. 😏

[@jaywinters2483]

Who cares about the history of the guides?