Posted on 07/03/2016 11:22:22 AM PDT by Beowulf9
"Historian Garry Adelman describes the events that took place during the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1-July 3, 1863."
I found this video very well done in just 4 minutes. Gave me a good start to understanding this complex battle and also something to think about on this day of Pickett's Charge.
I don't know how many of you here are well versed with the way the battle went but for me it's still a learning experience.
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America never had a “civil” war.
750,000 causalities in four minutes.
Of course that is probably more than the average high school student gets in four years.
Thanks for the post.
Subscribed to the YouTube channel and tweeted the link.
Exactly. There was a war of northern aggression against southerners who wished independence. It ended very badly for the southerners.
Unbelievably, there are quite a few on the right who seem to want an encore performance. I guess having Richmond and Atlanta burnt to a crisp and the destruction of large parts of the south wasn’t enough of an object lesson.
Pickett’s Charge, 153rd anniversary today!
The planners of the Battle of the Somme should have considered the results of Pickett’s Charge.
Seems more the Democrat crony capitalists and the GOPe crony capitalists are ones sewing the seeds of discord.
Whether it was Mr. Lincoln’s Pennsylvania Steel Co., or the now uniparty’s Goldman Sachs.
Oh, and make sure there’s a likeness of Mr. Lincoln in every government indoctrination center to remind young minds government is trying to shape that you can NEVER question government. If you do, risk it all.
Regardless, American never had a “civil” war.
Haven’t made it to Gettysburg yet, but have been to Antietam several times. Spirits are strong there & I’m not normally into that sort of thing. I an deeply moved/affected every visit.
An encore won’t be quite the same considering that the south now has a way larger population and that the north no longer has any manufacturing base at all.
The southern states would run roughshod over the north.
With the loss of tea,as refinery capacity alone the north would have a large die off in 60 days.
The southern national guards would thunder run dc in weeks
Lincoln didn’t have nukes.
While you're at it, stop off at President Eisenhower's ranch. It's well worth the visit.
That battlefield looks pretty much as it did in 1862. Corn still grows in the famous Cornfield, and you can still stroll across Burnside's Bridge. By contrast, the Gettysburg battlefield is strewn with monuments.
God saved the Union. Every battle that the South could win that had no lasting impact, it won. Every battle that was decisive and meant something was won by the Union. God had plans for this country and he saw to it that his plan had a chance to work.
Imagine for a moment that Lee won Gettysburg? Where would his Army have gone next? Certainly they would have moved on to Harrisburg and camped there, replenished supplies and cut the rail line between Philly and Pittsburgh. But then where? Philly? Back to Baltimore and DC? I think just capturing Philly would have won the war for the South because NYC, New England and all the western states would have been cut off from DC. Fun to speculate 150 years later.
” Every battle that the South could win that had no lasting impact, it won. Every battle that was decisive and meant something was won by the Union”
Err, that may be correct but it is circular reasoning.
Every battle the Union won was decisive because they were fighting a war of attrition. With overwhelming advantages in resources they only needed a few victories and could withstand many defeats.
That it is interesting — I have never thought more beyond “Lee counts on victory in Northern Invasion to break will of the Union” narrative.
You are correct, a victory followed up action could have cut the Union “in half”
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