00:14 - >>PARK RANGER

00:15 - JOHN TRACY AND WE ARE HERE AT

00:17 - WHAT IS LIKELY. ONE OF THE

00:19 - LEAST VISITING PLACES AND THE

00:21 - GETTYSBURG BATTLE.

00:24 - MANY VISITORS DRIVE PAST

00:25 - BARLOW'S KNOW ON THE SLOPES FAR

00:28 - BEHIND THE CAMERA. BUT

00:30 - VERY FEW TRAVEL DOWN THE HILL.

00:33 - TO BE

00:34 - ADVANCED MARKER OF THE 54TH NEW

00:36 - YORK INFANTRY. AND

00:38 - EVEN FEWER MAKE THEIR WAY

00:40 - FURTHER DOWN TO ROCK CREEK.

00:44 - ITSELF.

00:47 - IT HAS A VERY IMPORTANT STORY

00:49 - TO TELL WHEN DISCUSSING JULY

00:51 - FIRST 1864.

00:54 - THE FIRST DIVISION OF THE 11TH

00:56 - CORPS ARRIVED TO GETTYSBURG THE

00:59 - AFTERNOON OF JULY 1ST.

01:01 - COMMANDED BY 29 YEAR-OLD

01:03 - BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANCIS

01:04 - CHANNING BARLOW.

01:07 - THE MEN WERE DISLIKED BY THEIR

01:09 - COMMAND.

01:10 - OFTEN RODE HOME DISPARAGING

01:12 - HIS MEN BLAMING THEM FOR THE

01:14 - RECENT DEFEAT AT THE BATTLE OF

01:16 - CHANCELLORSVILLE THE PREVIOUS

01:17 - MAY. HE WROTE HIS

01:19 - WIFE COMPLAINING OF THE

01:21 - INDIGNATION AND DISCUSS

01:23 - THAT HE HAD FOR THE MISERABLE

01:25 - BEHAVIOR OF THE 11TH COURT.

01:29 - CHANCELLORSVILLE THE MEN OF THE

01:30 - 11TH CORPS ONE PLACE ON THE FAR

01:33 - POINT TO

01:33 - THE ARMY. HOLDING A POSITION

01:36 - THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEND

01:38 - AGAINST OVERWHELMING NUMBERS OF

01:40 - COMPETITORS.

01:42 - AND EXTREMELY SECURE A SIMILAR

01:44 - SITUATION. AGAIN. TODAY.

01:49 - AND HIS DIVISION MOVING NORTH

01:51 - TO THE FIELDS NEAR TOWN.

01:54 - CARLA MOVED TO HIS ASSIGNED

01:55 - POSITIONS. BUT AS HE LOOKED

01:57 - FURTHER BEYOND HE SAW THE SMALL

02:00 - KNOW A BIT OF A HILLS WALKER'S

02:03 - KNOW AT THE TIME THAT NOW

02:05 - CARRIES BARLOW'S NAME THIS IS A

02:07 - SMALL HILL THAT JUTTED OUT.

02:10 - ABOVE THE PLAINS NORTH OF THE

02:11 - TOWN OF GETTYSBURG.

02:14 - AND WHEN HE SAW IT HE DECIDED

02:15 - TO LEAVE HIS ASSIGNED POSITION

02:17 - WITHOUT ORDERS AND STATION HIS

02:19 - MEN A TOP IT. INSTEAD.

02:23 - AND SO HE SET FORWARD.

02:26 - COLONEL VAN GILL SAYS BRIGADE

02:28 - A SMALL BRIGADE OF ONLY 900

02:30 - MEN.

02:32 - TO CLEAR THE GOAL OF THE

02:34 - CONFEDERATE SKIRMISHES IN SHARP

02:36 - SHOOTERS.

02:37 - AND SO 400 MEN OF THE 54TH AND

02:39 - 68 NEW YORK

02:41 - SUPPORTED BY 500 MEN OF THE 100

02:43 - 53RD PENNSYLVANIA.

02:46 - MOVE THEIR WAY UP THE KNOW

02:47 - PUSHING BACK CONFEDERATE FORCES

02:49 - OFF THE HILL INTO THE WOODS

02:51 - AROUND ME AND BACK BEYOND THIS

02:54 - VERY CREEK.

02:57 - AND ONCE THE CONFEDERATES WERE

02:58 - PUSHED BACK. THOSE NEW YORKERS

03:01 - AND PENNSYLVANIANS A STAB LIST

03:03 - THEIR OWN DEFENSIVE LINES

03:06 - ALONG THIS VERY PREPARED.

03:10 - AND THE SLOPES AROUND.

03:14 - AND ONCE THEY FOUGHT

03:15 - FOR HIM WE HAVE OUR SKIRMISH

03:16 - LINE ALONG HERE.

03:17 - WE HAD THE REST OF THE 153RD

03:19 - PENNSYLVANIA, A NINE-MONTH

03:21 - REGIMENT NEARING THE CONCLUSION

03:22 - OF THEIR SERVICE, A TOP

03:24 - AND OLD SUPPORTED BY ADDITIONAL

03:27 - UNION TROOPS UNDER

03:28 - THE COMMAND, A BRIGADIER

03:30 - GENERAL OUT OVER DAYS. AS YOU

03:32 - MOVE BACKWARDS. AND SO

03:34 - THEY ESTABLISH THEIR DEFENSIVE

03:36 - POSITIONS AND YET THERE WERE

03:37 - NOT MANY MEN STATIONED ALONG

03:39 - THE CREEK BED. THERE WAS A

03:41 - SMALL BRIGADE. THEY CAN STATION

03:43 - ONLY ONE MAN EVERY 2 YARDS

03:45 - AND THE DENSE UNDERBRUSH MADE

03:47 - IT DIFFICULT TO FIRE UPON

03:49 - CONFEDERATE FORCES UNTIL THEY

03:51 - WERE NEARLY ON TOP OF EACH

03:53 - OTHER.

03:55 - THE EXPOSED

03:56 - UNION FORCES ALONG THE DOLE

03:58 - SOON CAME UNDER CONFEDERATE

03:59 - ARTILLERY FIRE. AND THEN AROUND

04:02 - 3 O'CLOCK.

04:03 - THE CONFEDERATE INFANTRY

04:05 - BRIGADE UNDER THE COMMANDER

04:06 - BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN GORDON

04:08 - BEGAN THEIR ASSAULT ON THE

04:10 - UNION FORCES HERE. GORDON LATER

04:13 - WROTE OF HIS ATTACK ON THIS

04:14 - CREEK.

04:15 - MOVING FORWARD UNDER HEAVY FIRE

04:17 - OVER RAIL AND PLANE FENCES

04:19 - AND CROSSING A CREEK WHOSE

04:21 - BANKS WERE SO ABRUPT

04:23 - AS TO PREVENT THE PASSAGE

04:24 - EXCEPT AT CERTAIN POINTS.

04:26 - THIS BRIGADE RUSHED UP ON THE

04:27 - ENEMY WITH A RESOLUTION IN

04:29 - SPIRIT. IN MY OPINION. RARELY

04:32 - EXCEL.

04:33 - THE ENEMY MADE A MOST OBSTINATE

04:35 - RESISTANCE UNTIL THE COLORS OF

04:37 - THE 2 LINES WE'RE

04:38 - SEPARATED BY A SPACE OF LESS

04:40 - THAN 50 CASES WHEN HIS LINE

04:43 - WAS BROKEN AND DRIVEN BACK.

04:45 - AND DESPITE THE NEGATIVE

04:47 - REPUTATION THAT THE MEN OF THE

04:48 - 11TH CORPS HAD ACQUIRED

04:50 - A PRIVATE IN THE 61ST GEORGIA

04:53 - ALSO COMMENTED ON THE

04:54 - ABSTINENCE OF THE UNION FORCES

04:56 - STATIONED HERE A HERO.

04:58 - WE HAD A HARD

04:59 - TIME MOVING. WE ADVANCE WITH

05:01 - OUR CUSTOM YELL BUT THEY STOOD

05:03 - FIRM TO WE GOT NEAR THEM THEY

05:06 - THEN BEGAN TO RETREAT INQUIRE

05:08 - ORDERS SHOOTING AT US AS

05:10 - THEY RETREATED. THEY WERE

05:12 - HARDER TO DRIVE THAN WE HAD

05:14 - EVER KNOWN THEM BEFORE. THE MEN

05:17 - WERE BEING MOWED DOWN IN GREAT

05:18 - NUMBERS ON BOTH SIDES.

05:21 - IT'S LONELY BUT STEADILY ON

05:23 - GILL'S IS OUTNUMBERED BRIGADE

05:25 - WAS FORCED TO RETREAT.

05:27 - AS ONE SOLDIER OF A 153RD

05:29 - PENNSYLVANIA RETREATED LITTLE

05:31 - WOODS.

05:32 - >>AROUND THE CAMERA.

05:34 - HE REMEMBERED SEEING THE UNION

05:36 - DAD AROUND. THEY WERE PILED IN

05:39 - EVERY SHAPE. SOME ON

05:40 - THEIR BACKS. SOME ON THEIR

05:42 - FACES. AND OTHERS TURNED

05:45 - AND TWISTED IN EVERY IMAGINABLE

05:47 - SHAPE.

05:49 - AND THE SKIRMISHES WERE PUSHED

05:50 - BACK FROM THE CREEK.

05:53 - AMES AND HIS BRIGADE OF

05:54 - REINFORCEMENTS ATTEMPTED TO

05:56 - HOLD THE NOBLE THAT SCENE THEY

05:58 - TOO ARE IN RETREAT. MORE

06:00 - CONFEDERATE TROOPS HAD ARRIVED

06:02 - FROM

06:02 - THE EAST AND NOW BARLOW'S

06:04 - FORCES WERE NOW NOT ONLY

06:06 - GREATLY OUTNUMBERED. BUT ALSO

06:09 - UNDER ATTACK FROM 2 SEPARATE

06:11 - DIRECTIONS. IN

06:13 - THIS CHAOS. BARLOW HIMSELF FELL

06:16 - TO THE GROUND GRIEVOUSLY

06:17 - WOUNDED.

06:21 - WAS WAS THE ONE TO

06:22 - FIND BARLOW AND A RANGE MEDICAL

06:25 - TREATMENT FOR HIM

06:26 - THE STORY OF FARLOW IN GORDON

06:28 - REUNITING POST-WAR BOTH

06:30 - BELIEVING THE OTHER TO BE DEAD.

06:33 - IS ONE OF THE MORE FAMOUS AND

06:34 - NOTES OF GETTYSBURG. HOWEVER

06:37 - THE.

06:38 - THE TRUTHFULNESS OF EITHER OF

06:40 - THOSE TALES IS SOMETHING THAT

06:42 - HAS ALWAYS BEEN DEBATE. THE

06:44 - MARLINS BRIGADES. BACK OTHER

06:47 - 11TH CORPS UNITS WERE RUSHED TO

06:49 - THE FIELD. THE ON

06:51 - THE KNOW IN AN ATTEMPT TO STEM

06:53 - THE TIDE. BUT ONE BY ONE THEY

06:55 - TOO WERE OVERWHELMED.

06:58 - ONE UNION BRIGADE COMMANDER

06:59 - WROTE THE LINE DURING THE

07:00 - BATTLE DESCRIBING HIS MAN AS

07:02 - SWEATY A BLACKENED BY GUN

07:04 - POWDER. THEY LOOKED MORE LIKE

07:06 - ANIMALS THAN HUMAN BEINGS.

07:09 - HE WROTE THE PORTRAIT OF

07:11 - BATTLE. THAT WAS THE COURT RUNS

07:13 - OF HEALTH.

07:15 - FINALLY SCATTERED REMNANTS OF

07:17 - MANY GROUPS RALLIED INTO ONE.

07:19 - A FINAL POSITION NEAR THE ARMS

07:21 - HOUSE NEAR TOWN. THOUGH WERE

07:23 - THE EFFORT THIS LINE TOO.

07:26 - THE LAPSE AMES WROTE

07:28 - THE WHOLE DIVISION WAS FALLING

07:30 - BACK WITH LITTLE OR NO

07:31 - REGULARITY THE REGIMENTAL

07:33 - ORGANIZATIONS HAVING BECOME

07:36 - DESTROYED. SHOWN THROUGH THESE

07:39 - FIRSTHAND QUOTES THE MANATEE 11

07:41 - CORPS HAD DONE THEIR BEST TO

07:42 - HOLD THEIR GROUND THAT BARLOW

07:44 - HAD PLACED THEM IN AN

07:46 - IMPOSSIBLE THESE ISSUES.

07:48 - AND GILL SAYS BRIGADE WAS

07:50 - SPREAD FANS AND ASSAULTED ON 2

07:52 - FLIGHTS.

07:53 - AND THOUGH THEY PUT UP AS MUCH

07:55 - OF A FIGHT AS WAS REASONABLY

07:56 - POSSIBLE. THEY HAVE BEEN UNABLE

07:58 - TO HOLD THE KNOW AND HAD BEEN

07:59 - DEFEATED.

08:01 - AS MORE AND MORE REINFORCEMENTS

08:02 - WERE RUSHED TO THIS POINT THEIR

08:04 - ATTEMPTS TO STEM THE TIDE HAD

08:06 - FAILED. AND NOW BY AROUND 4

08:08 - O'CLOCK ON THE AFTERNOON OF

08:10 - JULY 1ST THE ENTIRE RIGHT OF

08:13 - THE 11 CORE AND COLLAPSED.

08:16 - THE CORPS BEGAN A CHAOTIC

08:17 - RETREAT BACK INTO TOWN AND NO.

08:20 - COLONEL CHARLES COSTNER'S

08:22 - BRIGADE MADE AN ILL-FATED STAND

08:23 - AT THE BRICKYARD TO BUY TIME.

08:26 - FOR HIS COMRADES TO RETRIEVE

08:28 - THROUGH TOWN AND ESTABLISH A

08:29 - SECONDARY POSITION ATOP

08:31 - CEMETERY TELLS.

08:34 - THE FIELDS AROUND AUSTIN HERE.

08:37 - WOULD HAVE BEEN RATHER CHAOTIC.

08:39 - DESPITE THIS VALIANT AND

08:41 - OBSTINATE EFFORT BARLOW'S

08:43 - DIVISION WAS UNABLE TO HOLD

08:44 - THIS POSITION. AS YOU LEARN

08:46 - ABOUT GETTYSBURG BE SURE

08:48 - TO CONSIDER THE SACRIFICES.

08:50 - THE MEN OF THE 11TH CORN MAZE

08:52 - AS THEY WORK TO ERASE THE STAIN

08:54 - OF THEIR DEFEAT AT

08:54 - CHANCELLORSVILLE. AND HOW THE

08:57 - EVENTS OF JULY FIRST SHAPE.

08:58 - THOSE OF THE REST OF THE BOUT.

09:02 - ON YOUR NEXT VISIT TO

09:03 - GETTYSBURG. YOU MAY WANT THE

09:05 - COME DOWN TO THIS QUIET SPOT

09:07 - AND EXPERIENCE IT FOR YOURSELF.