The Importance of Spotsylvania Court House | Overland 160 Bonus Episode

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

This concludes the first part of our Overland 160 coverage. We'll be back on May 25 from North Anna. See you then!

[@vmimid09]

I’m a simple man, I see Gary Gallagher I click like.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Love this. The very Civil War battlefield that I visited was right there at Spotsylvania. The man leading the tour: Gary Gallagher.

[@Chiller11]

Gary Gallagher is my favourite American Civil War historian. He integrates impeccable scholarship with the ability to effectively communicate with a lay audience better than anyone Ive encountered.

[@TheIrishvolunteer]

I just wanted to say, as a young person an entire ocean away from the Americas, that I love this channel! Some people have comfort shows like friends, but I have this! Your work is fantastic, informative and entertaining. I sincerely hope one day I shall be able to visit many of the astoundingly well preserved battlefields you have conserved.

[@jima3345]

America also had in its armies "The Gallant Irishman" Captain Miles Keough. I wish you a warm welcome should you make it here.

[@Chiller11]

And the Confederacy had Major General Patrick Cleburne, one of the finest military commanders on either side of the conflict.

[@frankofva8803]

Gary Gallagher is a treasure to students of the Civil War. I would encourage all to watch his Darden Leadership classes on KZbin discussing leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg.

[@vmimid09]

I had the good fortune to take that class. It was awesome!

[@Tomatohater64]

Dr. Gallagher had a great idea. Take one regiment that fought here and make a movie about it. Great idea. 👍👍

[@craigcolandro2781]

@Tomatohater64 Not one Unit, a Unit from each side would make a far better miniseries in my opinion. Especially here at Spotsylvania where both sides experience and saw absolute horror.

[@Tomatohater64]

@@craigcolandro2781 Or two.

[@richardfish3650]

Wow, Garry and Gary! What a bonus!

[@jimstanko9352]

I just visited Spotsylvania earlier this month. I just left in total awe of the bravery of these men Keep up the great work battlefield trust

[@peterdefabio9470]

This was a wonderful discussion on a solemn battlefield with two legends of Civil War knowledge.

[@JeffreyLang-j5i]

Both of you need to do more together!!! REALLY ENJOY THE EXPERTISE!!

[@terryeustice5399]

Thanks for sharing Garry Adelman and your guest Gary. For insight into this battle. Thanks for sharing. 💯👊👍💕

[@jankovarik9714]

Garry and Gary...don't get much better'n that!

[@annmcgehee1728]

Great video- the movie needs to happen!👍

[@dennisquelch588]

Two of my favorite people. Thank you for the bonus episode in this tremendous series!

[@jankovarik9714]

Garry makes a salient point. We visit battlefields for an hour, maybe two (or three...or all day for we diehards), but the men who fought there spent whole days, sometimes more, holding a position, firing, redeploying, firing, amid chaos that really cannot be imagined when you stand on that ground, with quietude surrounding you.

[@beerye9331]

Thank you for this Bonus Episode. It was worth the wait!

[@shealey9763]

Just received my copy of Wilkinson, looking forward to the read.

[@bottomlesspit7]

I'll have to get that book. And I'm for that as a movie!!!!

[@davidwilhelm3431]

Absolutely outstanding.

[@philipryan25]

Always interesting, Thank you 👏

[@ronyantz7349]

Outstanding work! Team Trust

[@cinaedmacseamas2978]

At least two of my paternal ancestors were at this battle for the Army of Northern Virginia. My direct paternal ancestor, my 2d Great grandfather, was part of the unit ordered by Lee to stem the breach of the mule shoe salient. He survived the fighting that day, and would survive the war. He was one of Lee's "scarecrows" as they came to call themselves, because the army couldn't get resupplied regularly.

[@keithhuotari2571]

Another awesome video. You guys make the confusing sound a lot less confusing!! :)

[@briantaylor7307]

Very good to know Dr. Gallagher is is in good health. Great historian and s nice guy

[@NicoRusconi49]

The Garys and Stephen Kotkin are my favorite historians to listen to.

[@Shawnroberts1980]

Wait. Did I just get a history lecture from TWO Garry's? lol. Thanks to the both of you.

[@BlueEyedColonizer]

Thank you Gentlemen

[@NDB469]

A movie would be great, a follow up to Gettysburg, the last full measure would be great.

[@ricopaulson1]

Isn't the civil war "a social justice" story? Or are the "woke" people in the room with you now? BOO! GTFO out of here dude.

[@ricopaulson1]

My ancestor Francis Bishop received his Medal Of Honor at the angle. Aged 17 he captured the enemy colors. It's been described to me passed on by my grandmother that every man who took the flag fell almost instantly. My teenage great grandfather x5 took it and kept it. I grew up looking at the medal.

[@jima3345]

A man's breakdown is a forever life changing event.

[@michaelzacharko5097]

The slaughter at this battle was so great that a union officer wrote the Melodie for “TAPS “ that evening and had it played by bugle for the first time, that evening, to honor the masses of fallen.

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍

[@enduringhope6859]

My GGGrandfather fell at Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12th.Washington Worrell signed his death paperwork. My GG Grandfather was in D Company 99 Pennsylvania l. Where are the bodies buried in those mass graves?

[@daviddifonzo7938]

Bonus!

[@mykofreder1682]

This and Fredericksburg were the speed bumps to Richmond and the end of the war. Lee had no choice but treat 64 as if it were 62/63, hope to have that decisive summer battle or 2 and hold your lines. The manpower and supplies were not the same and Lee probably realized that as the last battle at Richmond started. The muti-front losses made a Memphis or Chattanooga fallback from Richmond not possible, it was last stand and certain loss. Everything done after the fall of Atlanta and start of Shermans march was Davis probably fearing for his sociopathic life doing a Hitler to the end, with 10s of thousands of dead, probably over 1 or 200 thousand if you counted non-combatants.

[@b.pullin574]

44th Georgia was there. My people.

[@jima3345]

Looking at the men on the cover of Warren Wilkinson's book, it's no wonder I've heard of Massachusetts referred to as bad a** Mass.

[@colinwolf9730]

Maybe it's time to put the last full measure into a Band of Brothers styled documentary- just so long as it's not approached like Gods and Generals, I think we can do it justice. Maybe even bring Jeff Daniels back for Chamberlains final visit to Little round top in 1913.

[@cmdrflake]

Success here was not a matter of possession of the field. Rather, Grants goal was to wear down the Confederate forces. He was successful even if he “lost” a battle.

[@johnmassoud930]

Cold Harbor excepted of course.

[@runtoth3abyss]

Can anyone place where the famous Smithsonian tree shot in two was located on the battlefield? Now that is some Civil War nerd knowledge! ABT I hope someone has tried to answer this!

[@vmimid09]

There’s a plaque at the spot where the tree stood so it’s well marked

[@flintlockhomestead460]

For a movie from the Wilderness to Petersburg following one regiment, pick one from Lane's brigade; 7th, 18th, 28th, 33rd, or 37th North Carolina. God bless Jeff Davis and the Southern Confederacy. Tear down their monuments. Rename their schools and buildings. Directly because the union won that war Minnesota has become Somalia.

[@craigcolandro2781]

@flintlockhomestead460 I think a miniseries using a unit from both sides would be great, more drama, more scenes better overall than following just one Unit.

[@wes2262]

Overland campaign movie: people just dying. It would be too depressing

[@crippledcrow2384]

How about a double unit in the movie, one Union, one Confederate. And tell the truth and not try to make heros of the righteous Union troops. Gary A. is too Union to pick an outfit.

[@craigcolandro2781]

@crippledcrow2384 A Unit from both sides would be better, more drama, more scenes and perspectives, etc... all around it would be better following a Unit from both sides.

[@davidlavin3492]

A movie wouldn’t be able to do justice to how gruesome the fighting was here

[@jadedvinos2229]

10 th Mass is my choice

[@TermiteUSA]

A movie would be great if they don't turn it into a social justice seminar.

[@KYPopskull]

And there’s the catch, Hollywood says “how are we going to insert a warrior princess into the fight?”

[@clarkbuckner4900]

You know they would, look at pretty much everything, movies, sports,.....

[@ReadyForSummerNow]

It must be exhausting constantly thinking about how you can insert your dislike for “social justice and/or DEI” into unrelated KZbin videos. Just relax and enjoy the video.

[@Chiller11]

Oddly enough “Social Justice” was a major etiology of the American Civil War. I guess it was considered more of a priority back then.

[@wes2262]

Grant would be a women. Lee would be black. Ewell would be Chinese.