Top 10 Gettysburg Myths

[@K_Type]

ACHS should do a video where Tim watches parts of Gettysburg or other Civil War Movies and comments on their accuracy

[@BritIronRebel]

He's sort of done that on the Addressing Gettysburg podcast.

[@mwdjr3158]

Happy 4th Tim and everyone at the ACHS!

[@clydeosterhout1221]

There were no ghosts until they were marketable. Now they’re everywhere!

[@michellemurphy658]

Tim, if you build the shoe factory,THEY WILL COME.

[@marshja56]

I visited Gettysburg in the '80's and loved the electric map! I'm sure Tim is correct about the inaccuracies but it was a fun show and in just a few minutes it gave a basic understanding of what happened during the three day battle - not an easy thing to do.

[@blackrocks8413]

Great video, but I admit I'm kinda stunned there is no Loch Ness at the burg

[@klausziegeler3469]

HAPPY 4th to all at the ACHS

[@michaeldouglas1243]

I remember a union reenactor actually told a group of us 35 years ago that the battle of Gettysburg was over shoes. Lol

[@frankperkin124]

I did reenacting for many years. I met so many reenactors who were where totally ignorant of their subject it was pathetic. Kind of like college professors.

[@michaeldouglas1243]

@@frankperkin124 hahaha. Yep. I agree

[@McNair39thNC]

@@frankperkin124 that’s one reason why I find the title, “living historian” silly and inaccurate! And are there “dying historians”? They’re reenactors, that’s it.

[@thomasvanetten1984]

I have long understood that the shoe story was a myth perpetrated by, among others, Shelby Foote. But, didn’t the Confederates requisition a bunch of stuff from town fathers, including shoes? I can see that contributing to the confusion. Great video!!!!!!!

[@horizon42q]

Good one

[@krisweinschenker598]

If "Extra Timmy" opens the Shoe Factory, I'll have to try to visit!

[@swampyankee]

So Tim, just to be clear, how many ghosts have you seen on the battlefield?😎

[@michaelpatterson2955]

Some of your "myths" appear to be more subjective convictions than proven fact. You sweep with too broad a brush, Tim. Don't attempt to dispel questions that are hard to answer today.

[@Zoetropeification]

Be sure to order the Shoe Leather Sandwich when dining at the Shoe Factory restaurant

[@DD393]

No ghosts? No shoes? Oh no. 😁

[@bryanhikes]

Two words: acoustic shadow.

[@timothysmith7742]

I should have put that one it. Great Myth.

[@WildaPerkins-gt2zr]

Happy 4th, Tim. Once again, I really enjoy your videos. Love watching how excited you get when you debunk these myths!!

[@rendezvous5784]

No spoiler alert, you just came out with it... THERE"S NO BIGFOOT! 😭

[@JMCAragorn]

Tim is very passionate that there are no spirits in a state of unrest at Gettysburg 🤣😇

[@chrisfreter3629]

I would eat at the 'Shoe Factory', great idea Tim.

[@johnnystir9796]

Great idea. The "Gettysburg Shoe Factory" should also have dishes named after the other myths...except for the first one, of course.

[@timothysmith7742]

A great dish maybe "The horses Hooves"

[@jefflinn6540]

Myth #11. Hood could've won the battle by going around the right

[@SMR3663]

I heard that he may have had AFIB . Not diarrhea . Oh well, speculation

[@TheLookingOne]

Hey ACHS, How important to the overall battle was the defense of Little Round Top? Did the rebels attack LRT because a low-level officer decided on his own to walk his men up to and occupy Big Round Top, and then the officer's commander came up and told him to get his men in the battle by attacking the Union forces on the ridge to the NNE of BRT, so the rebel forces had to go over LRT? If the rebels had taken LRT: - Wouldn't they have likely moved on in the overall attack's NNE direction and been stopped by the significant Union forces on the next ridge in line? - How feasible would it have been for the rebels to put artillery on LRT? Was LRT or BRT ever an objective of Lee? Of Longstreet?

[@tomwarner2468]

The shoe thing was propagated in time life book about the Civil War! I remember the commercial promoting the book saying that! One of greatest battles fought in the war ,started over shoes! I believed right up til I watched tabt show about Gettysburg !

[@ColbyHiggs]

Fun video! Thank you!

[@MickeyJWind]

What about the rebels stopped fighting early on July 2 to make their Dobbin House reservations?

[@JeagerTank]

I'd like a size 15 for my entrée.

[@terryguers3150]

"This piece of steak is as tough as SHOE LEATHER."

[@keithrayeski6417]

🤣🤣 is there a digital menu for “The Shoe Factory” available yet?!?🤣🤣😎

[@tomdynia9951]

I've also heard the claim that Napoleon lost at Waterloo because he had a tummy ache. Happy Independence Day Tim and all at the ACHS and I'm looking forward to having a steak at The Show Factory some day.

[@obxlaw]

No loch ness monster?!? Stay in your lane, Tim.

[@K_Type]

If anyone is going to Gettysburg and wants a good ghost tour reach out to Tim haha

[@shanerjedi1138]

But do the ghosts wear shoes while throwing rocks in the triangle at the battlefield?

[@8CountAudio]

Tim’s in top form in this vid! Although look out for a dis video from the Loch Ness Monster

[@MrFrostings]

Love the new graphics. Well done

[@AdamsCountyHistoricalSociety]

Thank you!

[@ronwenger5133]

The Shoe Factory Restaurant. This opens up a lot of possibilities for menu Ideas. Hmmmm, "Lee's leather Boot Munchers" as an appetizer....

[@mudman619]

Sasquatch enters the chat . . .

[@garys.4789]

Tim, your restaurant idea is brilliant 😎👍

[@patrickmcsherry6038]

The myth of the horses hooves on the equestrian statues was something that the official Gettysburg guides used to claim. I can remember that from when I was a kid decades ago.

[@maxspeed8556]

Thanks Tim⚔️ love your stuff, keep the info coming 🗡👍

[@RakkasanRakkasan]

Umm so the Confederate soldier that myself and two others saw during daylight at the highwater mark was a figment of our imagination.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I have always believed by what I have read in first person account, that Lee had had the first of his his heart trouble.

[@lawrencemyers3623]

Never heard of the vulture myth or of Meade being fired. Wow. Oh well, we all were new to the subject at one time.

[@jeffersonmahon3808]

God bless ya Tim keep up the great work! Just seen a video and the guy is so off😢 keep up the good work 😊

[@JeffBrubaker-x2l]

A battlefield guide told me Lee was suffering from dysentery

[@rickpaton7538]

I am fully on board with The Shoe Factory! Need to see a menu.

[@marcsheinberg6487]

Excellent, no shoe factory but maybe shoe stores?

[@johnzajac9849]

If all of the hooves are in the air, that means that alien spacecraft hovered over the battle.

[@meandthemrs7403]

Can I be an investing partner in your restaurant Tim?

[@v.elizabethwright8228]

120 year old vultures! People will believe anything!

[@davemi3213]

And you’ll serve tough steaks at your restaurant?

[@craigflinner6381]

Thank you for these facts.

[@joeimler9708]

Wait a minute. NO GHOSTS?

[@Nigelrathbone1]

Never heard #1 before.

[@terryeustice5399]

Very neat Tim. Some of those myths. Never heard of any of them. So, your expertise I totally have always trusted. Just overall. The Army of Lee’s had a cumulative blunder of human errors. Thank you! 💯💕👊👍🇺🇸

[@user-st3vd5bf6g]

I got a myth, the myth that Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s 20th Maine saved the free world at Little Round Top. If the 20th Maine had been driven back, there were reinforcements that would have easily swept away the exhausted 15th Alabama. I hate that movie.

[@michaeloconnell8779]

Jeb Stuart was definitely sent to attack the Union artillery from the rear on July 3rd. Lee had missed Jeb Stuart’s talents for several days as the eyes and ears of his Army. When Stuart returned to the CSA Headquarters July 2nd Lee met with him alone. Lee then had Stuart mass all 6000 of his cavalry and sent them out. They got discovered by Union Cavalry Generals Wesley Merrill and George Armstrong Custer. A large scale all cavalry fight occurred at East Cavalry Field preventing Stuart from hitting the rear of Union Horse shoe and Union reserve artillery under the command of General Henry Hunt. On July 3rd Lee was desperate because he promised Jefferson Davis to defeat the Army of the Potomac north of Washington DC because he did not wish to send Longstreet to march on Vicksburg. Lee appears to have used massed artillery, infantry and cavalry to try everything to break the Union defense on July 3rd. It was a rash decision by being pressured by time working against the CSA.

[@stephenmackey2587]

Great video! I have heard you friend Garry Adelman has restaurant experience, maybe you two can go into business together.

[@michaelhoffman5348]

Aww come on Tim... not ONE ghost on the battlefield? 🤣🤣

[@dennisatkinson5367]

My wife and I were walking close to dusk when a couple from out of town stopped and asked if we ever saw a ghost. We said no, but informed them they were driving the wrong way on a one way. That we have seen. 😂

[@michaelhoffman5348]

@@dennisatkinson5367 🤣🤣🤣not doubt - love it.

[@davidhanson8826]

Top 10 rocks please. Soon.

[@blackrocks8413]

we know #1 will be the Wheeler rock.....

[@timothysmith7742]

Ok, I like that idea.

[@Alex-ej4wm]

I love how fired up Tim gets about the ghosts 😂

[@Jennifer-ul2vz]

I've watched battlefield tours on you tube.One thing they said was that Lonstreet went MIA and put the troops out in the sun till hours later when the charge started..He was stalling hoping Lee would change his mind.Is this not true?

[@markmildorf2873]

Epic!

[@HenryHahnsRifle]

My No.1 myth is that there is a long E sound in the word Gettysburg

[@LisaStrahan]

Please make this a permanent feature. There are a lot of false claims about Gettysburg. Thanks, Tim!❤

[@brianwilliams8635]

Maybe the statement that should be made here is: take what you know about the battle of Gettysburg and discard it! I was a Civil War buff for several years and came to accept certain "truths" like Buford's men having repeaters. There are others. So now I'm feeling a little discouraged, like I've been misled.

[@campsawyer]

Thanks for the video, Tim is always good about correcting the myths of Gettysburg. All are excuses that have be embellished to explain mistakes.

[@patr0422]

Oh come on! You had me til you claimed there are no ghosts on the battlefield! 👀👻

[@mjciavola]

I'm with Tim on that one.😀

[@petercurran3723]

Thank you for your work. John Buford deserves the medal of honor here. Everything I read about Gettysburg always points to this man. He pointed out that all the southern cavalry was/were position in Virginia on parade and it soon to be on the move. Low and behold he/his cavalry/ first are now at Gettysburg and he held the line. Until Gen. John Reynolds comes up and takes command. And we know what follows. My point is he was really a great cavalry officer and was doing his job. And if he didn’t make a stand there,which he did that battle wouldn’t have happened. The rest is written. So how can we get this man the medal of honor!

[@shamusosullivan5650]

Happy 4th. Would have liked to seen a Revolutionary related video though.

[@davidwilliam9681]

9 out of 10 isn't bad. You're wrong on number 3.

[@mjciavola]

I'm giving Tim 10 out of 10. 😄

[@Netcentric-fk6ek]

....there's always one. lol

[@karlking4980]

Hi, Tim, #7 is one of my hot buttons. General Meade, like General McClellan at Antietam, let a unique opportunity to slip through his fingers. In Bruce Cotton's Glory Road, page 330, Catton wrote "Hancock was on a stretcher, dictating a note to Meade. He believed that a quick counterattack now would take the rebel army off balance and finish it, and he urged the men be sent forward without delay." I believe in a presentation by Allen Guelzo, he referred to Meade being timid in allowing Lee to escape. I doubt very much that a General Kearny or General Patton would have allowed the decimated rebel army to escape. I am always surprised when historians are apologist for General Meade's lack of aggression. Perhaps look outside the American Civil War to see examples of bold generalship. For example, General Wellington attacked the French immediately after the French Guard retreated. Wellington could have sat back and made excuses, but he finished the war by not allowing Napoleon to escape. There are many examples of bold generals, but Meade is not amongst them. I understand Meade took command two days before the battle, but he was allowed to attack, he chose instead to set the record for slowest pursuit ever. As always, just my two cents. I suspect I am wrong again. Regarding Ghosts, in a video a few years ago you said someone mailed you a stone they had taken from the battlefield and that ever since they took it, they had bad luck. You said you had the stone and did not have bad luck. But the question I have is did you ever hear from the stone robber again? Did their bad luck stop? :) Karl

[@timothysmith7742]

I would love to know who sent the stone. I have not heard from them.

[@karlking4980]

@@timothysmith7742 Thanks Tim. After returning the stone, I can only surmise the stone robber won the lottery, got a hole in one at a golf tournament, was promoted at work, and had a tour of Gettysburg by a licensed battlefield guide. The things that typically happen to lucky people.

[@karlking4980]

Tim, The video of Allen Guelzo's commentary on General Mead at Gettysburg (KZbin) is called "Robert E. Lee & the Battle of Gettysburg with Allen Guelzo | Pivotal Battles in American History #2" Start at 35.34 which is where Allen described Meade as a cautious soul, etc.

[@christopherhardy8937]

Black confederates?

[@timothysmith7742]

I guess I could do another video and add myths that the fans have suggested. I heard that one.

[@christopherhardy8937]

@@timothysmith7742 I can't remember his name, but there is a gentleman of color in the south who dresses in confederate uniform and knows the history of an ancestor who fought on the confederate side but I can't remember his name. He is all over KZbin. He knows his ancestor fought on the southern side but literally ignores the fact the confederacy didn't have an actual Negro Regiment till the end of the war, while also ignoring slaves involved in combat and free men of color fighting along guerrillas. In his mind, fighting in those stances makes someone a confederate even though there was no pay, or supporting government

[@RollTide787]

This is old material already posted about 2 years ago

[@otismygotis3670]

If Buford's men did not have repeating rifles, why do so many authors write they did?

[@martindriver6026]

I have always believed #3 as not true. What surprises me is #7 I read or heard that is why Meade is fired for not finishing the retreating south. Thanks, Tim, for enlightening your viewers. Maybe I will see you again on the 9th at Beyound the Battle.