The view from the tower was outstanding. It's hard to reconcile the beauty of the land with the horrific battles there, where so many young American lives were lost.
@MrHubbmuscle5 жыл бұрын
Your vlogs are the best! TY for taking us with you!
@johnwrhel91905 жыл бұрын
The stone wall is the original from the battle...over the years people stole the rocks for souvenirs. It used to be about chest high.
@thewanderingwoodsman72275 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@LastExile19895 жыл бұрын
I was with my brother and Grandmother there back in 2000 sad to hear that.
@markzimmerman72793 жыл бұрын
John F Reynolds and I share a common ancestor.
@dakotawest67995 жыл бұрын
Rest In Peace and God bless to all of the soilders on both side union and confederates
@anthaniehenry94152 жыл бұрын
This guy definitely wants the south to rise again
@mcseiler50415 жыл бұрын
Your Gettysburg video postings are very timely for me because I'm heading to Gettysburg (from SC) this week. I'm going to definitely visit this site and the Almshouse Cemetery. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!!
@daveyjoweaver51835 жыл бұрын
Thank You WW! Iversons pit was a terrible scene back in the day. I read where after the battle, decaying bodies could be smelled 17 miles away. They were still pulling bodies out of places like Devils Den in the fall of that year. Can you imagine retrieving bodies months after, stuck in crevices in the rocks there. One night in the Wheatfield, I believe I told you before perhaps, about 9:30 on a July night, I smelled rotting flesh and gun powder, each for a few seconds. 4,000 were killed on the Wheatfield. There was a tremendous about of energy and trauma shed there and those energies come into this world at times. I believe it has to do with frequencies and times when the Shuman resonance varies perhaps. The Shuman resonance of the Earth is normally 7.8 Hertz but can change with changes in the sun like solar flares and other energies coming from the cosmos. Who is to say for sure but at times it seems the energies vary and thus, one may experience the energies of long ago. Kind of like the feelings I have experienced at times in cemeteries, a type of energy of thinning of the dimensions. I seen and recorded many things in Gettysburg. Such a beautiful place where a horrid event took place! It is hard to imagine when you visit there. Thanks Kindly WW! DaveyJO
@rayburnett32534 жыл бұрын
@cloudtoground , there is a Cemetery that I refuse to go to at night here in Alabama
@frakmaster69master114 жыл бұрын
They should had burned the bodies. More efficient way of disposal.
@karenpacker88625 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the history and the legends both!
@johnwrhel91905 жыл бұрын
Alfred Iverson, Confederate brigadier general, Rodes Division, Ewell's 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
@warmaster-13 жыл бұрын
North Carolina hates him to this day lol
@valkahaddock85803 жыл бұрын
You said Ewell's 2nd Corp. Right? Is that The Corp that a Confederate Soldier named Isaac Tremble was in? II know that Isaac Tremble was in General Ewell's Corp. But, I don't know which one. Do you know which Corp Isaac Tremble would've been in?
@guitarmandan21252 жыл бұрын
My Grandad on my dads moms side Fleming West was wounded here on the first day, he said the only thing that saved his life was he layed down in a low spot and he still got wounded
@martyjones93745 жыл бұрын
Tower view is Amazing! It does seem would have an eerie feel with such tragic happening. So many lives.just unimaginable. Hope they are at peace. Thanks Cliff always an educational and awesome adventure!
@lorrainekrauss51405 жыл бұрын
I’ve been to Gettysburg many times and the last time I went we did stop at that observation deck. My husband went to the top but I stayed down and certainly did feel a heavy feeling like something was there. I could go back there many times and see different things each time.
@StephenAndrew7775 жыл бұрын
I'm loving this civil war stuff.
@jimkadel30035 жыл бұрын
at 12:53: Errata=> that road is the Mummasburg road and it did exist (although not paved, of course) at the time of the Battle.
@stevent91795 жыл бұрын
Gettysburg, where the Pennsylvania soil drank the blood of heroes. 🇺🇸
@anaisdahle4 жыл бұрын
I am watching from Wellington, New Zealand, just to say thank you for posting your videos, you make them so interesting and enjoyable to watch. Will you be visiting any of the Revolutionary war battlefields in the future? ^^
@kathygalloway29905 жыл бұрын
It seems like if you could see spirits they would be visible day or night I don't know but I love history thanks so much for sharing!
@dakotawest67995 жыл бұрын
I love Gettysburg I tried to go there at least once a year
@SunFlower-ig2td5 жыл бұрын
That’s one of the places I would love to visit! Thanks for the video!
@steel58865 жыл бұрын
Cliff, great video of history of heroes of war ... so very sad though ...
@Lloydster455 жыл бұрын
I've seen a ghost hunters episode where they caught on video soldiers walking up a path here and disappearing into the forest, and then it repeats. And I've heard stories of people actually talking to soldiers.
@bekleidungu.ausrustung70684 жыл бұрын
Very cool tour. I can tell you love teaching.
@kimberleyannedemong56215 жыл бұрын
Good video. Such tragic ground 😢
@lilsuzq325 жыл бұрын
Love your videos, Cliff :)
@darlenegood41015 жыл бұрын
very sad indeed. I was thinking, tho. these events might not seem so devastating if we consider that hate for others was there at the very beginning of time. It does not make it right, however. We need more love, kindness and compassion, now more than ever.
@daveyjoweaver51835 жыл бұрын
Darlene Good Right on Darlene! We the human family can change all that is wrong, as a family. We need to follow our hearts and run our senses through the heart and not the brain. Indeed, never before is this needed more than now. Love, Light and Peace! DaveyJO
@angelawheeler78254 жыл бұрын
Sir please your videos are really great please keep doing these videos thank you.
@c.myesska17983 жыл бұрын
My 3rd great grandfather was in the 88th PA Volunteers. The large monument on Oak Ridge by the wall is their memorial. The wall was chest high at the time of the battle of Gettysburg. It had been decimated by souvenir takers. It's now illegal to take them. Ancestors of the 88th PA Volunteers had kept the area clean getting together every Spring and Fall. Several years ago were halted by the park. They made the decision we couldn't weed or mow. There was a rare flower/plant in our clean up area. They couldn't name this plant or identify it to us The "complete ambush" was because of the incompetency of Brigadier General Alfred Iverson. On July 1st he ordered his brigade forward in line across Forney fields without sending any scouts before hand to detect any Federals. His men in form were completely in the open. Iverson stayed in the rear and never went forward. Within 20 minutes he saw his men waving surrender. Iverson was furious calling them disgraceful cowards. He quickly sent word to his commanding General. He relayed he "saw handkerchiefs raised and my line still lying down, I characterize the surrender as disgraceful" The lying men were dead and those wounded injured waving had no white handkerchiefs but cloth torn from uniforms. Over 900 of Iverson’s 1, 384 men had been killed, wounded, or captured. Iverson was relieved of his command on July 19 and transferred to Georgia, much to the disgust of his former soldiers. They had hoped that he would be removed from any command in the Confederate army.
@nomdeguerre2473 жыл бұрын
Iverson sounds like the dumbest jackazz ever 🤣 Too bad his troops paid the price for his incompetence, even though they were traitorous jackals.
@lindamccaughey88005 жыл бұрын
What a view. Thanks for history loved it. So said the death count was hideous. Thanks for taking me along
@J.F.R.12 жыл бұрын
2:18 Iverson sent his troops in with no Skirmish line because at that early stage of the Battle, the Confederates didnt know the extent of the Union line, and especially not the extent of the I Corps Army of the Potomac. also, you're about 350 paces North of the monument to the 88th Pennsylvania, the spot marks the extent of their charge from Oak Hill. My ancestor fought with the 88th, and I visit that spot frequently. never seen any ghosts, but I was swooped on twice by a black bird once I reached the spot were you now sit.
@ryanmcgee91154 жыл бұрын
Have you visited Neill Avenue, AKA The Lost Avenue, of Gettysburg? Don't know of any ghost stories associated with it, but it's secluded and accessed by a narrow NPS path (surrounded by private land). I've visited Gettysburg many, many times over the years but only learned of it recently.
@themechanic18675 жыл бұрын
The war of northern Aggression.
@micahlamilton54424 жыл бұрын
AS A TERRORIST, LINCON MADE BIN LAUDEN LOOK LIKE AN AMATEUR.
@kimberlyg58875 жыл бұрын
Maybe the haunting stories are linked to the sad fact that few places in America were home to such brutal, tragic, horrific deaths. It’s hard to believe that each and every soul found peace... thus a story is born. So young, so sad, but part of us. #History
@nomdeguerre2473 жыл бұрын
America is soaked in brutal, tragic, horrific history. Did you honestly not know that?
@CharlieB.-5 жыл бұрын
Sad😔
@eliskagray15465 жыл бұрын
Wow what a bloody history.
@tomtransport3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking me along Cliff. As far as being haunted? I don't believe any spirit/soul would want to stay for a week let alone all eternity at a place so horrific, not only to them but everybody caught up in that horror . We have nothing to fear from the dead---the living?? That's another issue.
@LastExile19895 жыл бұрын
With an incline about 20ft yes those Union soldiers could have laid in cover behind a wall of that height as the Confederate soldiers would have been looking up grade.
@elianemedufc5 жыл бұрын
Love Pennsylvania🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
@christinedubois59542 жыл бұрын
My Mother says that War is Hell. And, I have to agree with her.
@randygunther46163 жыл бұрын
If you take a old Polaroid camera and take pictures of graveyards and old haunted houses you might catch a image of a ghost
@puppypoet6 ай бұрын
My mind thought I heard gunfire at the 6 minute mark. Probably something in the background.
@samrock76323 жыл бұрын
It could just be my imagination but at about 6:20 I thought that I heard the sirens of Confederate ambulances coming to pick up their injured! It is funny how the mind can play tricks on us.
@ctbaw94843 жыл бұрын
No, those were the sirens attached to Reynold's Stukas who were executing a dive-bomb run in support of the Iron Brigade.
@crazykansan30265 жыл бұрын
Very Sad.
@OfficialDominator103 жыл бұрын
One of my relatives got his leg blown off their and survived the war RIP Samuel eller
@SPennell5 жыл бұрын
Cliff, Have you had any paranormal experiences at Gettysburg?
@thewanderingwoodsman72275 жыл бұрын
Nope, but I enjoy researching the stories about haunted locations.
@birdman64995 жыл бұрын
Excellent video.
@debbiebeggs42562 жыл бұрын
Dirty Fighting
@francissullivan64005 жыл бұрын
The 124tg N.Y ..Orange county NY.. BRAVEST of the Brave
@andrewbolay15174 жыл бұрын
Knowing what I know now, I would have been a copperhead.
@nomdeguerre2473 жыл бұрын
What's that? A snake?
@andrewbolay15173 жыл бұрын
@@nomdeguerre247 A "copperhead " was northerner who fought for the south.
@ctbaw94843 жыл бұрын
@@andrewbolay1517 A copperhead was a "peace at any cost" coward, a southern sympathizer, and a active anti-war movement that wanted to derail the Union war effort. Reviled by the Northerners, found useless by Southern Traitors, are you sure you want to be one? That also means you are okay with slavery. Not a good look even back then.
@andrewwash80054 жыл бұрын
Your lack of research and knowledge of things Civil War related is readily apparent. It makes this difficult to watch.