Laurel Hill - Spotsylvania Court House Tour | Overland 160

This video is part of our series commemorating the 160th Anniversary of The Overland Campaign. You can view the full series here: • The Overland Campaign ... #spotsylvaniacourthousetour
We begin our tour of Spotsylvania Court House with the beginning of the battle at Laurel Hill.
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[@nathanappleby5342]

This battle, like so many others fought in the state as well as in Maryland, is a testament to the stubbornness of the Army of Northern Virginia.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Love the work you guys do. The preservation. The knowledge you give. Thank you thank you.

[@annmcgehee1728]

Excellent video as always, need to go back and visit this battlefield!

[@nathanv2882]

Spotsylvania Courthouse is one of my favorite battles read about. I am looking forward to the rest of the videos.

[@vickistevens423]

Another outstanding video. Great job, everyone.

[@enduringhope6859]

So great learning this battle history. My GG Grandfather, Valentine Vogt Company D 99th Pennsylvanie, fell at Spotsyvania Courthouse May 12, 1864; bullet through his head. No burial records; surely buried in a mass grave. He left behind his pregnant wife and 2 young girls in Lancaster Pennsylvania.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

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[@garys.4789]

Another great video guys keep em coming 😎👍

[@terryeustice5399]

Thank you Garry and Kris for your documentary on Laurel Hill and Spotsylvania Court House

[@richardglady3009]

Thanks for covering this topic. Laurel Hill will continue to play a role in the battle. Thank you for the video and for showing the geography associated with this part of the campaign.

[@richardh.5404]

Thank you guys so much for doing all of these videos! I am thoroughly enjoying them all.

[@ronyantz7349]

Thanks again team trust!

[@legiox3719]

Spotslyvania battlefield has always interested me more than any battlefield. I mean the accounts of the confederates holding off the Union attacks while Lee builds a 2nd defensive line behind the mule shoe is just crazy. Accounts of bodies being piled 3-5 high, and Union/confederates a mere 5 feet from each other shooting over the other side of the earthworks. And the tree at the Smithsonian that was literally cut in half by the volume of bullets hitting it on display.

[@herberthinton1499]

I echo your comments about Spotsylvania....I cannot imagine the carnage and horrors these soldiers endured.

[@2210courtney]

140th NY again, “Rochester Racehorses”, lost their colonel at Gettysburg and lost another colonel at Spotsylvania Court House. Very interesting history for this Regiment

[@derekrupert2013]

Any good books on them?

[@2210courtney]

@@derekrupert2013 there is a book called “sons of old Monroe” but it’s very rare and often expensive (Monroe is the county where 140th formed) There are some books of the first Colonel Patrick O’ Rorke, 1st in his class at West Point. “The beau ideal of a soldier and a gentleman” both are very good reads if you can’t find them There is another great book called “where they fell” which discuses all the regiments from Monroe County in NY, it’s also a bit expensive

[@karenowen9365]

Sons of Old Monroe by Brian Bennett is on the 140th. Major Milo Starks killed here was from my town.

[@fwenfwemer2145]

Happy to see y’all engaging here! I’m commenting to boost the algorithm a bit, and to say peace to y’all.

[@rayhallett]

I'm not American, but am learning a lot more about the particular battles of the Civiil War from your videos for quite a while. Keep it up! ( A small suggestion for dimwits like me---is it possible to mark camera location even on the maps showing the displacements of the troops during battle? When I look at the view the camera give, it would help me to picture the battle and the location of troops. Ain't complaining, ........sorry, eh?)

[@HistoryBoy-ui5nb]

I have a direct ancestor who was at Laurel Hill. He was in the 6th SCV Band, Bratton's Brigade, Field's Divsion, Anderson's Corp, Army of Northern Virginia. Bratton's Brigade was at that location at that time.

[@kimberforrester7341]

When did you film this series? You are all wearing coats and even gloves. I am pretty sure that it was pretty warm these days. Excellent content as usual.

[@williamolenick7798]

My home county Luzerne in Pennsylvania, had a company in the 11th PVI. They were at Laurel Hill with the V Corps. I think they fought against Kershaw Division of the Confederate ANV.

[@larrydemaar409]

Wouldn’t it be nice to see Gordon Rhea for Overland 160?

[@ericrobertson843]

I have to admit the overland campaign is one of my favorite campaigns to study from the Civil War. It really the beginning steps to the end of the war. Yes terrible casualties would amount in the length of a month but eventually Grant would lock Lee into a siege around Petersburg and Richmond for the next 9 months. And finally ending the bloody and costly war that plagued this country for four long years. I could only imagine how Americans felt back then. The war probably felt like it lasted a hundred years for them.

[@jamsineath]

It has lasted that long. Still is happening

[@8CountAudio]

Slightly bummed that you didn’t mention Colonel James Rice and the most badass quote of the war: “Turn me so I may die with my face to the enemy” (as he’s laying mortally wounded at Laurel Hill)

[@user-st3vd5bf6g]

Please do a video on Harris Farm! Gary can line up some photos of the burials at the Alsop Farm!

[@garandguy101]

My relative who was in the 149th Pennsylvania Bucktails lost both legs to artillery at Spotsylvania.

[@normanridgwayofficial]

I’ve watched all of your videos this last week. You all are awesome but Chris’s mic is annoying. Are you recording internally? I’m wondering if that audio is also bad.

[@danielfaflik4545]

Almost sounds like even with all the major top brass losses the rebs have taken to this point they are still very much an affective fighting force. This strategy the rebs took during the overland seems like a strategy they should have taken during gettysburg.

[@chriswhitehouse9137]

An ancestor died in this battle. He's buried at Fredericksburg.

[@larrystanley5370]

When was this video taken?

[@derekrupert2013]

Warren got screwed.

[@CSDonohue11]

I thought it said Lauren Hill at 1st 😁

[@dano5080]

Let's go diggin' and recover some relics

[@Bodiddley788]

I'm confused. I thought the North, after the Wilderness Battle, went south and lured Lee. So here the Confederates are fighting the North, who are heading south. How did the Confederates get ahead of the Union, after the Wilderness?

[@Bodiddley788]

Hope that made sense.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

This video in our series explains how/why the armies moved to Spotsylvania from The Wilderness: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWaXaYWmpZuNf8U

[@Bodiddley788]

@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust Thanks! I guess I'm getting old. "I don't know how I missed it."

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

@@Bodiddley788 No problem, you can make use of our Overland 160 playlist and stay in order with the numbers in each thumbnail. Thanks for watching! kzbin.info/aero/PLZrhqv_T1O1tKyZN4crbGNRJTUXGNTuXS

[@Skipping2HellPHX]

$90 for a coat! that was a fortune in 1864!

[@griffinclary61]

I hope eventually u guy s could use ai to show the battle as you tell us about it