Kicking Off Unknown Antietam LIVE in The Cornfield: Unknown Antietam 159

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Due to connectivity issues the stream ends abruptly. Luckily we have a hard copy of the rest of the stream saved so we will be able to bring it to you at a later time!

[@williamsherman7811]

Right during the best part iron brigade. On Wisconsin!

[@ricjon3621]

My 4th great grandfather Pvt Jacob D Welsh fought in the Cornfield with the 107th Pennsylvania Volunteers, part of Duryea's Brigade, Ricketts' Division, Hooker's 1st Corps. This was the first brigade to advance through the corn. The 107th suffered 64 casualties of 190 men engaged in approximately 20 minutes of combat. Jacob was a brave man, and certainly lucky. He saw much combat, was wounded and captured but survived the war. He suffered from his wound for the rest of his life until his death in 1928.

[@kzeich]

Theres something tragic about Antietam. I can feel it like a veil whenever i visit.

[@missmissy2490]

Fantastic! Thank you!

[@mhollman8650]

This should be played in every school in America…. Drags shows are more important I guess.

[@evanflax2492]

I love this channel

[@vickistevens423]

Great start to an awesome day of coverage of Antietam 159. Thanks to Garry and co.

[@V1Speed360]

I am so happy I discovered this channel

[@shiningstaer]

Ya it’s changed my life haha

[@fredv7487]

Great job everyone. Please keep up the good work. Love the video's. Also glad to see more folks getting involved.

[@joshuaglaude1549]

I love your videos! Thank you for bringing good, informative and entertaining education about these battles and battlefields.

[@GeneMThompson]

I’ve always been a history buff, but my late Dad is who got me into the Civil War specifically. How I wish he were here to see the fantastic work you guys do - he would LOVE it! Thanks so much.

[@leonidaslantz5249]

My experience and sentiment exactly.

[@jimrutherford2773]

Thank you Brian for giving us the other sensory experiences of a battle on a battlefield like the time of year to visit, temperature, humidity, and smells. These are often overlooked by visitors.

[@jontaylor1652]

I absolutely love how 'exited' Garry Adelman gets, for me this make everything much easier to understand. Being from the UK we hardly ever learned very much of your civil war and this guy really brings it home to me what must have been going on... Great team all around to be honest but this Garry bloke is nailed on doing what he loves and I benefit from that.

[@meeofcourse4152]

Toured area just a few years ago- glad I did. Learned about SHARPSBURG. ALL THESE BATTLEFIELD have such an eerie feeling about them. It was drizzling when we were there... As it was during battling.

[@TooFarWest1]

Heading to Antietam tomorrow. It's been three years. Too long.

[@GeneMThompson]

Who, in God’s name, could give this a thumbs down? 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@russellhodgkiss7494]

LOVE the Homestead Grays hat!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@bac6253]

Good eye!

[@tristangraham2326]

Just out of interest, have any of you read the Bernard Cornwell series The Starbuck Chronichles and if so what are your thoughts ?

[@Daina1278]

Happy to have finally met you today Garry right across the cornfield this morning!

[@tommytodd9073]

I would love to know the location of the farthest Extent into the Wheatfield by the 1st Texas.

[@delstanley1349]

I'm anxious too see how the new battlefield acquisitions fit in. I first went to Antietam in 1994. Three years later I went back to a reenactment for the 135th anniversary. The reenactment was held about ten miles north of the actual battlefield. Antietam to me has that quintessential look of what I thought a US Civil War battlefield would look like before I had ever seen one. Even the Antietam name that I always have trouble spelling has a quaint and antique ring to it. I remember driving around the place in 1994 in late evening as the sun was setting and those distant silhouetted rolling hills, wood rail fences and farms, old bridges and cornfields seem to transport me back to the mid 19th century as though time had stood still. It gave me such a melancholy feel, especially stopping by the Mumma cemetery. Except for cars I would have thought the town Sharpsburg was still existing exactly like it did the centuries before. That it was only a museum. In those days I never saw a person come out of their homes. Where is everybody I thought? It was if anybody/outsider came around all the citizens went scramble inside and shut their doors. This place was a set on "The Twilight Zone!" The only people I ever saw in that town in 1994 were two workers at the national cemetery, and one guy working on the road. The last time I was there was in 2008. It was certainly astir then, at least slightly so in Sharpsburg. About the only thing I didn't like that time at the battlefield (and that is a small matter) was that it was getting too saturated with monuments. Yes, I know all the states are proud of what their citizen soldiers contributed in that war and must be honored, I just wish it looked more toned down, like say Sharpsburg as an example. I guess after the Ken Burns public TV series many states got motivated in adding monuments. A braggart state like my own Texas had only one simple monument when I first went there, and it included all regiments in one slab. Hurray! I think it is still the same with no added adornments, but I haven't been back in 13 years. Yeah I know it is not too politically correct to complain about over adornments on the battlefield, but it is just one man's opinion, and no disrespect is intended. Before I leave this earth though I intend to go back to Antietam and take a more extended tour since the most recent land acquisitions. Thanx guys! I don't think the Visitor Center needs to be relocated to the "center of action," however as one guide suggested. Leave it be! Take a cue from your own attitude about building placements. If the new land acquired is THE center of action why put anything on it other than a plaque indicating that fact? As you say we can then "see exactly what the soldiers saw." No need to include a new building when one already exists AND parking spaces in the center of action! I believe where the current VC is now saw plenty, plenty of action and a heap of bodies. Let's leave it alone. Thanx again!

[@Baseballnfj]

Visitors center was the center of the action.

[@johnyannelli2480]

So I was at Antietam on Friday looking for you guys. All I can say is while it was my third visit, because of the hard work you guys do I got so much out of this last trip. It is finally coming together for me, and again, because you guys do such a great job. I can't wait for your Little Bighorn videos. I wish that were a drivable trip from Kentucky.

[@quietsloop3980]

I like Bryan’s talk on Confederate recruitment/conscription. Really interesting contribution!

[@ciarandoyle4349]

The Trust ought to do a video segment on the construction of the wooden fences that are found on so many civil war battlefields. I haven't seen this kind of fence in Europe.

[@joshuaglaude1549]

If you're talking about the fences with the gaps between boards, they were easier to build fences the farmers used that were cow shoulder height and the bottom board was no higher than a hogs shoulder. They were meant to keep the free range cattle and live stock of the time out of the crop fields. How they were made in not sure. But I am with you on having a video on that aspect. I guess I never thought to ask while on your of any of the sites I've been to. I live within a few hours of several battle fields.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

See our Fences In4 video

[@joshuaglaude1549]

I couldn't remember at the time I first commented, but they call them split rail fence.

[@joshuaglaude1549]

@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust I'll check it out

[@terrywalters6578]

Is that a Homestead Grays cap Bryan?

[@bac6253]

Yes it is!

[@liamlad1]

Sharpsburg 159!

[@davegoodridge8352]

I love these videos, thank you. Question for Mr. Garry Adelman. I also like hats please tell me about this hat your wearing. Also the hat band. Thanks

[@k.w.1775]

I think it's an officers slouch hat

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

It is actually an officer‘s pillbox hat but I have shaped it into any number of various looks over the years. :-) and these can be purchased at dirty Billys hats in Gettysburg and of course elsewhere. GA

[@davegoodridge8352]

@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust thank you

[@kevindecoteau3186]

I do wish Gary would be more passionate!

[@greenriverviews6819]

haha : )

[@gerggerggy7757]

I agree…hes not enthusiastic enough in any video

[@Quentin217]

When I was there in 1991, I learned that if one would sleep in the tall grass on the night of 17 September of any year, he or she can hear the ghostly cries of the wounded. The sound was a cacophony throughout all of that night on 17/18 September, '62.

[@jeremyguerrieri3854]

I visited Antietam in August a few years back, it was 105°, I almost passed out from the heat but I wanted to see as much as I could in a short period, I definitely need to go back. Maybe in October.

[@MayoFilms83]

One of my great great uncles was killed at Perryville 8th Kentucky Infantry Co B. Shot by Bushwhackers.

[@jcksnghst]

That's not a girl, that's a young boy.. people didn't have pants,, to make a "dress", as we would say, is far easier than sewing a pair of britches... Lol true story

[@meeofcourse4152]

Yes. We have photographs of my oldest brother, as a toddler, in a "dress". Far easier to care for the child.

[@needmorecowbell6460]

It would be a lot better if more black folks could get themselves educated like this man about the civil war instead of hollering racist and destroy monuments and history of what they too have so much pride and history in.

[@shiningstaer]

“Tour the war” video series . 4 year long journey to see the weather and such on those days!!

[@needmorecowbell6460]

Well its not really in its war time appearance … its lacking the trees out front and to the side of the house.

[@matttillman7097]

I have never heard or read anything about how bad the Confederate soldiers smelled. Very interesting stuff.

[@johnzajac9849]

Western MD was not a successful site for Confederate army recruitment. The area was mostly German-American, pro-Lincoln, or neutral in its political leanings. 'Two corps'? Is that the second corps?

[@Baseballnfj]

Yes... hence West Virginia. Many of the same belt of German migration that made up the great majority of South Central PA extended into western Maryland and WV.

[@SusanTaft-o2x]

Get out of here boys,you are n a bad fix should have said on every battle

[@slimsuits3231]

A cartoon talking about a human shredding device all "hunky dory" like? What?

[@GarrettRC5thscaler]

Black dude just debunked climate change in less than 2 mins. Yeeeesh.

[@davidstotsenburgh4510]

How so? Just because the weather is about the same?

[@bac6253]

"Black dude?" I guess Garry Adelman and Kris White wasted their time using my name....

[@jcksnghst]

Climate change is a religion. Wtm

[@davidstotsenburgh4510]

@@jcksnghst No it's science, there's a difference.

[@jcksnghst]

@@davidstotsenburgh4510 you must not know/realize that They are controlling the weather.. They started speculating/gambling with catastrophe bonds and weather derivatives in the mid 1990's on the CME. If you know when/where the weather will happen then it's a good bet. They steered their first hurricane in the 1950's (project cirrus). They use ulf, vlf, and wsr88d(doppler radars) to control the moisture (this is why your ears ring). There was a 10 year "drought" in hurricanes where, after Katrina, not one named storm made landfall in the states. If you'll remember, it wasn't until after the 2016 election that magically hurricanes started coming again. Wake up, People.