Addressing Gettysburg

📍 **Gettysburg 162 TOWN HALL** 📅 **July 3, 1863** 🎙️ **Featuring: LBG Jim Hessler** 📍 Recorded live at the Seminary Ridge Museum & Education Center

Join us for a powerful and engaging **Addressing Gettysburg Town Hall**, where **YOU**—the audience—are the **star of the show**. 🎤🧠

In this thought-provoking discussion, we explore the climactic **Third Day of the Battle of Gettysburg**, with insights and analysis from Licensed B...

📍 **Gettysburg 162 TOWN HALL** 📅 **July 2, 1863** 🎙️ **Featuring: Our audience and LBG Lewis Trott** 📍 **Recorded live at the Seminary Ridge Museum & Education Center**

Join us for a powerful and engaging **Addressing Gettysburg Town Hall**, where **YOU**—the audience—are the **star of the show**. 🎤

🧠 In this thought-provoking discussion, we explore the bloody **Second Day of the Battle of Gettysburg**, with insights and anal...

Interview referred to with Jeff McCausland and Tom Vossler BATTLE TESTED! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons- With Authors Tom Vossler and Jeffrey McCausland https://youtu.be/2LS1N-zXcTQ

📍 **Gettysburg 162 TOWN HALL** 📅 **July 1, 1863** 🎙️ **Featuring: LBG Jim Pangburn and Historian Codie Eash** 📍 **Recorded live at the Seminary Ridge Museum & Education Center**

Join us for a powerful and engaging **Addressing Gettysburg Town Hall**...

Join us for this episode of Addressing Gettysburg, "14th Connecticut Repels Pickett's Charge" featuring Licensed Battlefield Guide Chris Army. 🎙️ In the pivotal moments of Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863, the 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment played a vital role in defending Cemetery Ridge against the Confederate forces. ⚔️ Commanded by Major Theodore G. Ellis, they fiercely engaged troops from the 13th Alabama, 14th Tennessee, ...

🔍 This week on "Ask A Gettysburg Guide," we dive-deep into a fascinating question: Did Major General Daniel Sickles' controversial move to the Emmitsburg Road line at Gettysburg stem from his experience at Chancellorsville? Join us for an enlightening conversation with Licensed Battlefield Guide Jim Hessler as we unpack this common belief!

🎙️ Many historians suggest that Sickles's decision to advance and capture the Peach Orchard...

**"Ask A Gettysburg Guide 108: THE LOUISIANA TIGERS with LBG Mike Rupert"** 

🔥 Join us in this LIVE episode of "Ask A Gettysburg Guide" as we dive into the legendary Louisiana Tigers, a unit that made a significant impact during the Civil War!

🎖️ In 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign, Hays's Brigade distinguished itself with a pivotal win at the Second Battle of Winchester, where they captured a crucial fort and forced Union Ge...

Watch this interview here https://youtu.be/CfZAHMQFdnc

Brought to you by the Gettysburg Museum of History Foundation, we happily present to you an episode from a series of shows that we usually keep for our Patreon subscribers only. It's called "COMBAT STORIES". Typically, I interview someone affiliated with the show (Eric "The Producer" or Colby Sumner) or a listener who has experienced combat and leave those episodes on Patreon...

LBG Larry Korczyk joins us for our first LIVE Ask A Gettysburg Guide to talk about the famed Iron Brigade in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Iron Brigade sustained 1153 (61%) casualties out of the 1885 men they brought into the fight. 

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🌟 Join us for an insightful episode with Col. USMC (Ret.), PhD, and Netflix star Doug Douds as he teams up with Matt and Mikey B! Together, they dive into a fascinating comparison of Meade's and Lee's respective staffs. Discover the essence of a staff, its critical role, and how it supports its commanding officer.

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📜 **Episode 106: Ask A Gettysburg Guide - Archer's Brigade** 📜 Join us in this exciting episode of Addressing Gettysburg as our fan-favorite Licensed Battlefield Guide, Charlie Fennell, teams up with our dedicated Patron, Matt McClanahan! 🎉 In this installment, we discuss key facts about this brigade, including its formation, engagement in the battle, and its significance within the grand narrative of Gettysburg. 🏞️📚 Whether y...

Welcome to another episode of "Ask A Gettysburg Guide"! In this installment (#105), we delve into the contributions of Orland Smith's Brigade from the Eleventh Corps during the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg. Join LBG Stu Dempsey as he guides us through the historic grounds that hold so many untold stories.

Stu shines a light on the often-overlooked action on historic ground that has since been erased by the Colt Park housing develop...

Ask A Gettysburg Guide #104 – Lee’s Plan at Gettysburg on July 3rd

What was Robert E. Lee really thinking on the pivotal third day of the Battle of Gettysburg? How did he adapt his strategy when the reality of the battlefield set in? And what does his decision-making tell us about his leadership style?

In this episode of Ask A Gettysburg Guide, Licensed Battlefield Guide Lewis Trott takes us deep into Lee’s mindset as he crafted an...

Explore the history and legacy of one of the most renowned military units of the American Civil War—The Irish Brigade. This episode examines the experiences of the Irish immigrants who fought for the Union, their motivations, challenges, and the key battles that defined their service. We even take a look at the claim—popularized by Gods and Generals—that the brigade made Cobb’s Legion cry at Fredericksburg. From Antietam to Gettysb...

Ken Gavin is back with the second installment of our Valley Forge episode as our nation prepares for its 250th birthday. Just how bad was that winter at Valley Forge? Were the soldiers really "naked and starving"? If so, how badly? Well, these questions and more are answered by our pal Ken in this fascinating look into one aspect of the birth of the United States of America.

Out of all the popular actions of the Battle of Gettysburg, none was fought for as many hours as the fight for Culp's Hill. Charlie Fennell is back with the follow-up to July 2nd's Culp's Hill episode, which can be heard here https://youtu.be/bcmHdY77dtE

Listen to the remainder of the anniversary episode featured in this episode (as well as the others) here- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8wq6OC6dOz7vbHYl7P1faKV42vENiUx

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Dropping on Patreon on 2/15/25 at 8:00 pm EST

Ken Rich had an idea for a show about the infrastructure of Gettysburg that enabled the armies to converge and fight the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Roads, waterways, hills, dales--and Roys (get it?)--, ridges, all sorts of things fall into this category. To me, it says that Gettysburg is a place that Mother Nature built for WAR!

We all know that during the Gettysburg Campaign in 1863, JEB Stuart was "ridin' 'round up North gettin' his name in the papers." Undoubtedly, he ain't caused nothing but a little fuss.

But what about his foray into the Keystone State in 1862? Well, Tracy Baer joins us to fill us in on that lesser-known raid.

I'm learning. You're learning. Let's learn together. I'll continue to do the heavy-lifting finding and interviewing guests an...

Season 13 begins with LBG Deb Novotny joining us to talk about Civil War battle flags, particularly those that led regiments across the fields here at Gettysburg. Such stories involve the 26th North Carolina's boy-colonel Henry K. Burgwyn, the 16th Maine tearing their flag to shreds in order to save it from capture and more!

SUPPORT THE SHOW I'm learning, you're learning, so let's learn together. I'll do the heavy lifting by findin...