American History: July 1-3 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg | PENNSYLVANIA
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “Pickett’s Charge,” managed to pierce the Union lines but eventually failed, at the cost of thousands of rebel casualties, and Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4.
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Gettysburg: The battle that saved America
Gary Roche has been a battlefield guide at Gettysburg for 18 years. His tour focuses on one man, his great grandfather Sergeant Patrick Delancey, who served in the Pennsylvania 143rd infantry during the battle. 150 years later, Roche makes the place where so many died come alive. Chip Reid reports.
The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Federal and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. Federal Major General George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.
Monuments at Gettysburg - Context and Beyond (Lecture)
Ranger Troy Harman takes the blinders off, explaining the layered meanings behind the monuments of Gettysburg National Military Park in his winter lecture. Monuments discussed include the Pennsylvania Memorial, the 26th North Carolina monument on Cemetery Ridge, and the Eternal Light Peace Memorial.
Confederates at Gettysburg Parade
This is a clip of the Confederates who participated in the annual event at Gettysburg PA Saturday November 19, 2011
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Gettysburg Monuments 053 - General Winfield Scott Hancock
Gettysburg Monuments 053 - Equestrian Monument Statue to Major General Winfield Scott Hancock on East Cemetery Hill, Democratic nominee in 1880 for president of the United States. Hancock the Superb ran for president as the Democrat Nominee against Civil War Veteran James Garfield in 1880. He lost the presidential election in one of the closest electoral contests in history. Hancock was also a Mexican War veteran. This monument stands honoring those who served in the American Civil War from July 1st-3rd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg. Statue is at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
This series of b-roll footage from the Civil War Minutes documentary series (on DVD) is like a virtual battlefield tour of this historic American national park. Planning a vacation to Gettysburg? You should. Get a glimpse of the historic monuments here during the winter months.
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Photos of Civil War Veterans at the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
A collection of photos of Union and Confederate veterans of the American Civil War and other attendees at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Photos are from the book Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Report of the Pennsylvania Commission published in 1914.
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Grand Review Parade
Published on May 22, 2015
This Grand Review Parade took place on May 17, 2015, at the sesquicentennial of the Grand Review held in 1865, when United States Colored Troops (USCT) were not allowed to participate. In order to recognize and honor their service, reenactors and descendants of these USCTs were invited to march up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to a reviewing stand that was set up at Freedom Plaza.
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Welcome to the central information web-site for the Nation’s Closing Sesquicentennial events to be held in the spring of 2015 in Washington DC. These events have been designed to be educational and to honor those who gave their last full measure for what this nation is and could be.
This site has been provided by the African American Museum of the Civil War, located in Washington, DC. If you are interested in participating in . . . the Grand Review Parade down Pennsylvania Ave., the requirements of this site apply to all Reenactors (Military and Civilian) and to all USCT [Descendants] participating in the parade march. . . .
All military and all parade participants will be under the command of Maj. General Jake Jennette, the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV), acting as Sherman and /or Col. Dave Childs, the 1stRegiment, United States Volunteers. . . .
On May 10, 1865 Johnson had declared that the rebellion and armed resistance was virtually at an end, and had made plans with government authorities for a formal review to honor the troops. One of his side goals was to change the mood of the capital, which was still in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the month before at Ford's Theater. On May 18, 1865 the army issued Special Order No. 239, calling for a Grand Review, a two day parade in Washington, D.C., of the main Union armies.
On May 23, 1865, the Army of the Potomac would march down Pennsylvania Avenue. Soldiers of the armies of Georgia and the Tennessee would take center stage the next day. In all, more than 150,000 soldiers would parade through the nation’s capital, filing past the President and his cabinet as well as Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant positioned on a special reviewing stand in front of the White House.
At 9:00 a.m. on May 23, a signal gun fired a single shot and Maj. Gen.George Gordon Meade, the victor of Gettysburg, led an estimated 80,000 men of Army of the Potomac down the streets of Washington from the Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue past crowds that numbered into the thousands. The infantry marched with 12 men across the road, followed by the divisional and corps artillery, then an array of cavalry regiments that stretched for another seven miles. The mood was one of gaiety and celebration, and the crowds and soldiers frequently engaged in singing patriotic songs as the procession of victorious soldiers snaked its way towards the reviewing stand in front of the White House, where President Johnson, general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, senior military leaders, the Cabinet, and leading government officials awaited. At the head of his troops, Meade dismounted when he arrived at the reviewing stand and joined the dignitaries to salute his men, who passed for over six hours.
On the following day at 10:00 a.m., Sherman led the 65,000 men of the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia, with an uncharacteristic semblance of military precision, past the admiring celebrities, most of which had never seen him before. For six hours under bright sunshine, the men who had marched through Georgia and those who had defeated John Bell Hood's army in Tennessee now paraded in front of joyous throngs lining the sidewalks. People peered from windows and rooftops for their first glimpse of this western army. Unlike Meade's army, which had more military precision, Sherman's Georgia force was trailed by a vast crowd of people who had accompanied the army up from Savannah—freed blacks, laborers, adventurers, scavengers, etc. At the very end was a vast herd of cattle and other livestock that had been taken from Carolina farms.
Within a week after the celebrations, the two armies were disbanded and many of the volunteer regiments and batteries were sent home to be mustered out of the army.
The disbandment of the Union armies and the return home of fathers, brothers, and sons signaled to the population at large that they could begin their return to a normal life and that the end had come for the American Civil War.
Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This video is shot from the top of the Pennsylvania Memorial in Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Gettysburg National Battlefield & Historical Downtown & Night Walking Tour
Gettysburg National Battlefield...Night walking tour...Historical Downtown.
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Cenotaphs - The Monuments of Gettysburg
A short video featuring the Monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park
Gettysburg Monuments 051 - General Winfield Scott Hancock
Gettysburg Monuments 051 - Equestrian Monument Statue to Major General Winfield Scott Hancock on East Cemetery Hill, Democratic nominee in 1880 for president of the United States. Hancock the Superb ran for president as the Democrat Nominee against Civil War Veteran James Garfield in 1880. He lost the presidential election in one of the closest electoral contests in history. Hancock was also a Mexican War veteran. This monument stands honoring those who served in the American Civil War from July 1st-3rd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg. Statue is at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
This series of b-roll footage from the Civil War Minutes documentary series (on DVD) is like a virtual battlefield tour of this historic American national park. Planning a vacation to Gettysburg? You should. Get a glimpse of the historic monuments here during the winter months.
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III% Militia Training Camp - Exclusive Documentary Video, Day 2 - Part 1
The III% Security Force is one of the largest militia organizations in America. Our Ford Fischer was given exclusive access to record documentary footage as over a dozen state chapters assembled for a weekend-long Field Training Exercise (FTX).
Here's what we saw on the first half of the second day, as the group began a live-fire guerrilla combat exercise. The first iteration of this exercise included a simulated land-mine explosion, in which the organization's nurse, April Smitley aka Staff sergeant NiteWolf1 applied a tourniquet.
Georgia State Chapter General Blood Agent - Chris Hill used the opening ceremonies of the day as an opportunity to promote some members of his group.
The organization's structure is based on the United States Marine Corps.
A holster company called Cowboy Leather set up a store on location, and the store's founder ended up participating in a pistol-shooting exercise.
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The burials were far from complete when the Gettysburg National Cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863. The honorable Edward Everett was committed to deliver the keynote address while President Lincoln was invited to give a few appropriate remarks for the occasion. The president accepted the invitation, knowing full well that his presence would provide his political foes with plenty of fodder though he was more concerned with the human cost of the bloody war and the anxiety of the war weary northern people, anxious as to what course would then be followed.
Hotels and lodgings in and around Gettysburg were filled to capacity the day before the dedication. Under a gloomy sky, the president arrived in Gettysburg on a special train from Washington and was greeted by a throng of well wishers. Escorted to the home of attorney David Wills on the town square, Lincoln spoke briefly to the crowd and soon after retreated to a second story bedroom where he worked to complete the second half of his address begun while still in Washington. The Wills home was soon filled to capacity with dignitaries and prominent citizens. Every bedroom was taken by the time Governor Curtin arrived, so he was resigned to get a few hours of sleep on a living room sofa.
Morning dawned bright and clear on November 19, disturbed only by the booming of signal cannon from Cemetery Hill. The processional began at 10 o'clock, the participants marching south on Baltimore Street to the cemetery grounds where a special platform had been constructed at the edge of the new cemetery. The president rode a horse in the procession, followed by dignitaries in carriages, military bands and soldiers in their finest dress uniforms. Arriving at the cemetery, the officials were welcomed by a massive crowd of over 10,000 people, pressed tightly around the speaker's platform and ready to hear patriotic hymns and Mr. Everett's address. After a brief delay, Everett was introduced and looked over the hushed crowd. His voice filled with emotion, he recalled the history of the locale and compared the honoring of deceased Union sons to the funerals held for heroes of ancient Greece. The elderly speaker gave a brief history of the great battle, the country's close relationship with current affairs in Europe, and his view on the eventual outcome of the war. Nearly exhausted after two hours of speaking, he closed with a strong sentiment for once again raising the flag of the Union over southern capitols.
There was a brief musical interlude. The president rose and faced the crowd, now pressed close to the front of the platform. He spoke steadily for two minutes and then returned to his chair, accompanied by polite applause.
Many listeners were stunned. The speech was so short and many near the back of the crowd had not heard a word of it. Yet, what they did hear was poignant. The president spoke of the honored dead who gave the last full measure of devotion to the nation, and how the memory of that devotion should inspire the northern people to support the Union cause, a devotion that would result in a nation that few could actually comprehend- one with a new birth of freedom with a government run by the governed- the people of the United States.
The ceremony ended with a prayer and music. The president attended a church service in Gettysburg before leaving on his special train for Washington and a return to the business of what seemed to be an endless war. While Democratic newspapers ridiculed the president's speech, others hailed it for its simplicity. Lincoln and some of his closest aides doubted the effectiveness of the speech while others found the remarks to be inspirational. Perhaps the kindest compliment came from Edward Everett who wrote the president: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
III% Militia Training Camp - Exclusive Documentary Video, Day 1
The III% Security Force is one of the largest militia organizations in America. Our Ford Fischer was given exclusive access to record documentary footage as over a dozen state chapters assembled for a weekend-long Field Training Exercise (FTX). Here's what we saw on the first day.
The group assembled in West Virginia on a private property that the Ohio chapter of the III% Security Force uses for their FTX's on a monthly basis.
The overall organization was founded by Marine Veteran Chris Hill, who leads the Georgia chapter and is the only individual granted the rank of General in any chapter. The organization's structure is based on the United States Marine Corps.
As the groups assembled on the first day, they split off into a number of small seminars, including quick-draw pistol training, and an exercise in firing rifles while moving through moderate brush.
The group concluded and celebrated the first day by firing Dragon's breath shells into a paper target dosed in flammable liquid.
Dragon's breath is an incendiary round for a 12 gauge shotgun.
Chapter 1 (Day 1):
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American Civil War Monuments 1
This video displays American Civil War monuments throughout the United States of America. From Charleston, South Carolina to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee to Vicksburg, Mississippi to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Please remember our fellow fallen Americans (Union & Confederate) from this bloody conflict in our nation's history.
GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY
Overview of Gettysburg National Cemetery
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