Gettysburg Day 2: Little Round Top with Rachel Nicholas at Gettysburg National Military Park
00:13 - >>HELLO EVERYONE, MY NAME IS
00:14 - RACHEL NICHOLAS AND WELCOME
00:16 - EITHER PHYSICALLY OR DIGITALLY
00:18 - TO OUR REAL-TIME PROGRAM FOR
00:19 - LITTLE ROUND TOP
00:21 - CELEBRATING AND COMMEMORATING
00:22 - THE FIGHT THAT TOOK PLACE HERE
00:24 - JULY SECOND 1863.
00:27 - WHEN YOU THINK OF THE CONFLICT
00:28 - THAT TOOK PLACE HERE IN REAL
00:30 - TIME A
00:31 - 157 YEARS AGO OFTEN INCLINED TO
00:34 - THINK ABOUT JOSHUA LAWRENCE
00:35 - CHAMBERLAIN AND THE 20TH MAINE
00:37 - AND THEIR VALIANT THAN AT
00:38 - CHARGE ON THE OTHER SIDE JUST
00:40 - OUT OF VIEW ON LITTLE ROUND
00:42 - TOP. IF YOU WERE
00:43 - HOWEVER TO ASK THE OTHER
00:45 - VETERANS WHO FOUGHT HERE
00:46 - WHO RECALLED THIS BATTLE AND
00:48 - THIS PARTICULAR CONFLICT ON
00:49 - LITTLE ROUND TOP, THEY WOULD
00:51 - CITE NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS FOR
00:52 - PRAISE TODAY SINCE WE'RE
00:54 - STANDING I'M STANDING HERE
00:57 - ON THE FRONT FACE A WEST ON THE
00:58 - WESTERN SIDE OF LITTLE
00:59 - ROUND TOP WE'RE GOING TO
01:01 - COMMEMORATE AND DISCUSSED 3 MEN
01:03 - IN PARTICULAR. TRICKED
01:05 - 100 O'ROURKE STRONG BEEN SINCE
01:07 - AND ALSO GOUVERNEUR KAY WARREN.
01:10 - SO LET US BEGIN WITH GOVERNOR
01:12 - KAY WARREN AT 04:00PM ON JULY
01:14 - SECOND 1863.
01:17 - HE HAS RELEASES LAY RECEIVED
01:19 - HIS
01:19 - ORDERS FROM COMMANDER GENERAL
01:22 - MEADE LEADER OF THE ARMY OF THE
01:23 - POTOMAC AND HE HAS ORDERED WORN
01:26 - OFF IN THE DIRECTION OF LITTLE
01:27 - ROUND TOP TO ASSESS THE
01:29 - DAMAGE DONE WHEN GENERAL
01:31 - SICKLES OF THE 3RD CORPS MOVED
01:32 - HIS LINE FROM CEMETERY RIDGE.
01:35 - OFF IN FRONT OF ME OUT OF
01:36 - YOUR VIEW UP TOWARDS THE PEACH
01:38 - ORCHARD A PIECE OF HIGH GROUND
01:40 - ALONG EMMETSBURG ROAD.
01:43 - HEADED OFF TOWARDS LITTLE ROUND
01:44 - TOP YOU'RE RECOGNIZED THAT
01:46 - THIS HIGH BROWN COULD BE
01:47 - POTENTIALLY USEFUL FOR THE
01:48 - UNION AND DETRIMENTAL IT
01:50 - CONFEDERATE FORCES GOT AHOLD OF
01:52 - IT.
01:53 - IN HIS MEMOIRS HE WOULD WRITE
01:55 - ABOUT THE ANALYSIS HE HAD AND
01:56 - WHAT WE RECOGNIZE AS HE CAME
01:58 - TOWARDS THIS LANDSCAPE.
02:00 - HE WROTE THERE WERE NO TROOPS
02:02 - ON IT AND IT WAS USED AS A
02:03 - SIGNAL STATION. I SAW THAT THIS
02:06 - IS THE KEEPS THE WHOLE POSITION
02:07 - AND THAT OUR TROOPS IN THE
02:08 - WOODS IN FRONT OF IT COULD NOT
02:10 - SEE THE GROUND IN FRONT OF
02:11 - THEM. SO THAT THE ENEMY WOULD
02:13 - COME UPON THEM BEFORE THEY WERE
02:15 - AWARE OF IT BECAUSE OF THIS
02:17 - QUICK
02:17 - IN TIME ONLY REALIZATION
02:19 - WARM-UP PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN
02:21 - ENSURING THAT LITTLE ROUND TOP
02:23 - IS DEFENDED FROM THE UNION
02:25 - PERSPECTIVE AGAINST THE
02:26 - CONFEDERATE FORCES THAT ARE
02:27 - HEADING THIS WAY. HE WILL SEND
02:30 - A MESSENGER
02:31 - OFF IN THE DIRECTION OF GENERAL
02:32 - SICKLES OF THE 3RD CORPS AND
02:34 - GENERAL SITES OF THE 5TH CORPS,
02:36 - HOPING TO PROCURE SOME MEN.
02:39 - MANY MEN TO COME HERE AND
02:40 - DEFEND LITTLE ROUND TOP.
02:43 - THE MESSENGER THANKFULLY WILL
02:44 - COME ACROSS GENERAL SYKES
02:46 - AND GENERAL SITES WILL AGREE TO
02:48 - SEND ONE BRIGADE
02:49 - FROM HIS FIRST DIVISION UNDER
02:51 - THE COMMAND OF GENERAL BARNES
02:53 - THEY WILL SEND OUT YET ANOTHER
02:54 - MESSENGER TO RETRIEVE BARNES
02:56 - BUT TIME TIME IS TICKING AND
02:58 - ALTHOUGH WARREN HAS MADE A
02:59 - CRITICAL DECISION LITTLE ROUND
03:01 - TOP IS NOT YET DESCENDED.
03:04 - THIS IS NOW WHERE WE'LL SEE AN
03:06 - EXAMPLE NOT JUST A GOOD
03:07 - DECISION MAKING. BUT ALSO GOOD
03:09 - LUCK, THE MESSENGER THAT IS
03:11 - SENT OUT TO FIND BARNES DOES
03:13 - NOT IN FACT LOCATE BARS BUT HE
03:16 - WILL FIND AND ARE
03:17 - STRONG VINCENT WHO IS IN CHARGE
03:19 - OF THE FIRST BRIGADE THAT IS IN
03:22 - FACT LOCATED IN BARNES
03:23 - DIVISION. A STRONG VINCENT IS
03:25 - FROM ERIE PENNSYLVANIA, HE'S A
03:27 - WELL EDUCATED MAN AND HIGHLY
03:29 - RESPECTED. HE HAS COMMAND HIS
03:31 - BRIGADE HERE AT GETTYSBURG WHEN
03:33 - THE MESSENGER COMES UP TO HIM
03:35 - WITH HIS ORDERS
03:36 - A STRONG VINCENT RECOGNIZES
03:38 - ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THAT TIME IS
03:40 - PASSING QUICKLY AND THAT
03:41 - HE CAN JUST WAIT FOR GENERAL
03:43 - BARNES TO TELL HIM WHETHER OR
03:44 - NOT HE CAN GO ON LITTLE ROUND
03:46 - TOP. SO HE SUBVERTS THE
03:48 - TRADITIONAL ORDER AND PROTOCOL
03:51 - OF THE MILITARY. INSTEAD OF
03:53 - WAITING NOW FOR BARNES'S ORDERS
03:55 - HE WILL TAKE HIS MEN STRAIGHT
03:56 - UP TO LITTLE ROUND TOP. SO IT
03:58 - IS ULTIMATELY STRONG VINCENT
04:00 - WHO BRINGS UP THE 44TH NEW
04:02 - YORK, THE 16TH MICHIGAN.
04:05 - AS WELL AS THE 83RD
04:06 - PENNSYLVANIA. AND OF COURSE THE
04:08 - VERY FAMOUS 20TH MAINE,
04:10 - AND IT WILL ALSO UTLEY BE
04:12 - STRONG VINCENT WHO GIVES JOSHUA
04:13 - LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN HIS ORDERS
04:15 - TO HOLD THE GROUND BY VINSON
04:17 - SPUR AT ALL ALL HAZARDS
04:20 - WHERE HE WILL ULTIMATELY LEAD
04:21 - HIS BAYONET CHARGE.
04:25 - HAS BEEN SON GETS HIS MAN UP
04:27 - HERE. THEY ARRIVE LITERALLY
04:29 - JUST IN THE VERY NICK OF TIME
04:31 - AS ALABAMIANS AND TEXANS FROM
04:33 - PUTS DIVISION BEGIN TO ASSAULT
04:35 - LITTLE ROUND TOP.
04:36 - OVER WILCOX NORTON OF THE
04:38 - 83RD PENNSYLVANIA WILL
04:40 - ATTRIBUTE LITTLE ROUND TOP
04:41 - SUBSEQUENT DEFENSE.
04:43 - >>TO THE QUICK THINKING AND
04:44 - TIMELY DECISION. OF VINCENNES
04:47 - AND HE WILL WRITE AFTER
04:48 - THE FACT THAT I'VE ALWAYS FELT
04:50 - THAT GENERAL VINCENT SPICE
04:52 - ORDERLY COMPREHENSION OF
04:53 - THE SITUATION AND THE PROMISE
04:55 - OF HIS ACTIONS SAVED TO ARMY
04:56 - THE FIELD AT GETTYSBURG THAT
04:58 - DAY. AND I THINK SUFFICIENT
04:59 - CREDIT HAS NEVER BEGIN A
05:02 - POWERFUL HESITATED A MOMENT.
05:04 - >>OR WAITED FOR ORDERS TO REACH
05:05 - HIM THROUGH THE PROPER AN
05:06 - ORDINARY CHANNELS WHEN HIS
05:08 - BRIGADE ARRIVED ON ROUND TOP IT
05:10 - WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN FOUND
05:11 - IN THE POSSESSION OF THE ENEMY.
05:14 - OFTENTIMES WHEN SOLDIERS RIGHT
05:15 - AFTER THE WAR THEY WILL
05:16 - EXAGGERATE SO THEY CAN CLAIM
05:18 - PART OF THE GLORY. BUT IN
05:19 - THIS CASE HE REALLY IS CORRECT.
05:22 - THE 44TH NEW YORK 16TH,
05:24 - MICHIGAN 20TH MAINE. ALL THE
05:26 - REST THEY DO TRULY GET HERE
05:28 - JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME,
05:30 - THE CONFEDERATE FORCES
05:31 - CONSISTING OF TEXANS AND
05:32 - ALABAMIANS WILL STRIKE AGAINST
05:34 - THE CENTER AND THE EXTREME
05:36 - RIGHT OF INSTANCE LINE AND THEY
05:38 - WILL HOLD OFF AND FOR A TIME
05:40 - SEEMED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN
05:41 - THWARTING THIS ATTACK BECAUSE
05:44 - THE CONFEDERATES ULTIMATELY
05:45 - HAVE A DIFFICULT POSITION HERE
05:47 - THEY'RE NOT LOOKING DOWN AT
05:49 - ATTACKERS INSTEAD THEY ARE
05:50 - SENDING THE WESTERN FACE OF
05:52 - LITTLE ROUND TOP DUCKING
05:53 - BEHIND ROCKS STOPPING THE FIRE.
05:55 - AND RETREATS
05:57 - CAN YOU IMAGINE FOR SINGLE
05:59 - MOMENT, WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE
06:00 - TO RUN UP THIS HILL AGAINST A
06:02 - FORCE THAT IS FIRING UP ON YOU
06:04 - TO ATTACK IT THAT IS
06:06 - WHAT THESE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
06:07 - DO SEVERAL TIMES OVER
06:10 - AND ONE MAN BY THE NAME OF JOHN
06:12 - SEE WEST HIS SERVING WITH THE
06:13 - 4TH TEXAS. HE'LL WRITE A LETTER
06:15 - TO HIS 4 YEAR-OLD SON AROUND
06:18 - THE TIME OF HIS BIRTHDAY
06:19 - AND HE WILL NOT SUGAR COAT,
06:21 - WHAT THESE CHARGES WERE LIKE ON
06:23 - JULY 2ND. HE
06:24 - WILL WRITE THAT OUR GATE AND I
06:26 - QUOTE HAS ORDERED TO CHARGE UP
06:27 - ON ONE OF THE YANKEE BATTERIES
06:29 - WHICH WAS POSTED ON A MOUNTAIN
06:30 - IS HIGH I NOW FINAL
06:32 - WITH ANOTHER BATTERY ON A STILL
06:34 - HIGHER MOUNTAIN JUST BACK OF IT
06:35 - TO
06:36 - SUPPORT IT. WE'RE STANDING IN
06:37 - AN OPEN FIELD UNDER THE SHOTGUN
06:39 - SHELL OF THESE BATTERIES FOR
06:40 - HALF AN HOUR.
06:42 - BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD AND A
06:43 - GOOD MANY SOLDIERS WERE KILLED
06:45 - ALL AROUND ME.
06:47 - THE FELLOW HAD HIS HEAD KNOCKED
06:48 - OFF A FEW FEET IN FRONT OF ME
06:50 - AND I FELT
06:51 - ALL THE TIME AS IT I WOULD
06:53 - NEVER SEE YOU ARE LITTLE SISTER
06:54 - AGAIN. BUT WHEN THE COMMAND WAS
06:56 - GIVEN TO CHARGE WE MOVE FORWARD
06:58 - AS FAST AS WE COULD TOWARDS THE
07:00 - BATTERY AND WE DID THIS SEVERAL
07:02 - TIMES.
07:03 - THE ATTACKING CONFEDERATES FOR
07:05 - A MOMENT COME VERY CLOSE
07:06 - TO SUCCESS AS THEY GET TO THE
07:08 - 16TH MICHIGAN, WHICH IS THE
07:09 - EXTREME RIGHT OF INSTANCE
07:11 - BRIGADE THEY NEARLY TURNED THE
07:12 - FLANK WHEN THE 16TH MICHIGAN
07:14 - WAIVERS. THIS WILL PROMPT
07:16 - STRONG VINCENT INTO ACTION,
07:18 - WE'LL JUMP DOWN AMONGST HIS MEN
07:20 - AND EXHORT THEM TO BATTLE TO
07:22 - ENCOURAGE THEM TO KEEP FIGHTING
07:23 - TO HOLD ON NO MATTER WHAT
07:25 - IT TAKES. WHEN HE WAS FATALLY
07:27 - STRUCK IN THE GROIN HE
07:29 - WILL NOT DIE INSTANTLY BUT
07:31 - WITHIN SEVERAL DAYS, HE WILL
07:33 - PASS. SO NOW FROM THE UNION
07:35 - PERSPECTIVE WE HAVE A
07:36 - PRECARIOUS SITUATION ON LITTLE
07:37 - ROUND TOP THE LINE IS WAVERING
07:40 - AT THE RIGHT AND THE BRIGADE
07:41 - COMMANDER HAS BEEN STRUCK DOWN
07:43 - MORTALLY WOUNDED.
07:45 - IT SEEMS AS IF THE CONFEDERATES
07:46 - ARE GOING TO SUCCESSFULLY TAKE
07:48 - A LITTLE ROUND TOP WERE IT NOT
07:50 - FOR THE FACT BY SHEER
07:52 - LUCK AND GOOD THINKING THAT
07:53 - GOVERNOR KAY WARREN
07:54 - HAS ALREADY LEFT THE FACILITY
07:56 - TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE. ALTHOUGH
07:59 - IT MIGHT BE HARD TO IMAGINE
08:00 - TODAY IF YOU CAN THE LITTLE
08:02 - ROUND TOP THERE IS AN ODD
08:03 - LOCATED ON IT. IF
08:05 - YOU STAND ON TOP OF IT YOU CAN
08:06 - SEE THE SOUTHERN END OR BY
08:08 - COMPARISON ON THE OTHER SIDE.
08:10 - THE NORTHERN END.
08:11 - SO WHEN WARREN IS UP HERE
08:12 - DESPITE BEING EXCELLENT OF
08:14 - TOPOGRAPHY HE DOES NOT NOTICE
08:16 - BEEN SINCE THEN AND THE
08:17 - ACOUSTICS SHADOW FROM ALL THE
08:19 - NOISE THAT IS CREATED
08:20 - MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO
08:21 - LOCATE THE SOUND OF THE
08:23 - FIGHTING. SO WARREN WILL
08:24 - DESCEND LITTLE ROUND TOP.
08:27 - CROSS A BRIGADE WITH THE 5TH
08:29 - CORPS AND THIS IS NO
08:30 - ORDINARY BRIGADE PRIOR TO
08:32 - BECOMING CHIEF ENGINEER THE
08:34 - BRIGADE IS NOW LOOKING AT WAS
08:35 - THE VERY BRIGADE WARNED HIMSELF
08:37 - COMMANDED, AND THE MAN HE IS
08:39 - NOW LOOKING AT UPON LEADING THE
08:41 - 140 OF NEW YORK RIGHT BEHIND
08:43 - ME. COLONEL PATRICK HENRY
08:45 - O'ROURKE IS HIS FORMER SOLDIER,
08:48 - A MAN HE WORKED WITH THE NEW
08:50 - INTERESTED IN OVER HERE IS A
08:53 - BORN LEADER.
08:54 - >>ALTHOUGH HE IS ONLY IN THE
08:55 - MID 20'S. HE GRADUATED
08:57 - SALUTATORIAN FROM WEST POINT.
09:00 - HE COMES INTO BATTLE HERE AND
09:01 - IS REGARDED VERY WELL BY HIS
09:03 - MEN. HE MAY INDEED BE A
09:05 - DISCIPLINARIAN HE HAS NO
09:07 - PROBLEM TELLING HIS MEN
09:08 - IF THEY ABANDON THEIR POSTS AT
09:10 - THIS CRUCIAL TIME THAT THEY
09:11 - WILL BE SHOT DOWN LIKE DOGS.
09:13 - BUT HE CARES ABOUT HIS MEN.
09:15 - HE
09:15 - SUPPORTS THEM. THEY REGARD HIM
09:17 - WHILE AS AN IDEAL GENTLEMAN AND
09:19 - THEY ARE WILLING TO GO INTO
09:20 - BATTLE WITH HIM.
09:24 - HE HAS FACED AT THIS MOMENT
09:26 - WITH THE CHOICE MUCH LIKE
09:27 - STRONG VINSON'S AS HE
09:29 - APPROACHES WARREN. HE HAS
09:31 - A CHOICE HE CAN EITHER NOT GO
09:33 - UP TO LITTLE ROUND TOP BECAUSE
09:34 - WARREN IS NO LONGER HIS
09:35 - COMMANDER IN CANNOT TECHNICALLY
09:37 - TELL HIM WHAT TO DO
09:38 - OR HE CAN SUBURB MILITARY
09:40 - ORDERS AND RECOGNIZING THAT
09:41 - TIME IS CRUCIAL. HE CAN BRING
09:43 - THE A 140 OF NEW YORK. RIGHT UP
09:45 - HERE TO LITTLE ROUND TOP.
09:47 - AND ALTHOUGH HE INITIALLY US
09:49 - HAS INTENSE. HE TRUSTS WARREN,
09:51 - HE KNOWS HIM WELL AND
09:52 - ULTIMATELY AGREES TO BRING THE
09:54 - 100 40TH NEW YORK UP HERE TO
09:56 - SUPPORT BEEN SINCE MEN. THEY
09:58 - WILL SEND THE EASTERN SIDE OF
10:00 - LITTLE ROUND TOP JUST UP
10:01 - BEHIND US THEY'RE CLIMBING
10:03 - THROUGH THE TREES, THEY'RE
10:04 - CLIMBING OVER ROCKS,
10:06 - THEY'RE TRYING TO AVOID GETTING
10:07 - IN THE WAY OF THE UNION BATTERY
10:09 - THAT IS BRINGING ITSELF UP HERE
10:12 - DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING
10:13 - TO HAPPEN WILL HE FIND
10:14 - OFFENSIVE. LEE WILL BE 5
10:16 - DEFENSIVELY IS HE ON HIS OWN OR
10:18 - DOES HE HAS SUPPORT. HE GETS UP
10:21 - HERE TO LITTLE ROUND TOP
10:22 - AND HE TAKES A MOMENT TO TRY
10:24 - AND HAD HIS MEN LOAD THEIR
10:25 - WEAPONS. BUT WARREN TELLS HIM
10:27 - YOU CANNOT HESITATE AND SO.
10:32 - DOES WHAT ANY GREAT
10:33 - LEADER DOES HE GOT IN THE FRONT
10:35 - OF HIS MEN AND GIVES WHAT MAY
10:37 - BE HIS FINAL COMMAND.
10:40 - BOYS HE SAYS
10:41 - AND OVER THE SLOPES OF LITTLE
10:43 - ROUND TOP HE WILL GO IN A
10:45 - VIGOROUS CHARGE EQUALLY AS
10:47 - IMPORTANT AS THE ONE JOSHUA
10:49 - LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN WILL LEAD
10:50 - WITH HIS BAND THAT'S PATRICK OR
10:52 - WORKS MEN ARE ABLE TO FEND OFF
10:55 - THE TEXANS IN THE ALABAMIANS
10:57 - ARE THAT ARE ATTACKING AND HIS
10:58 - SOLDIERS REMEMBER IT QUITE WELL
11:00 - YEARS AFTER THE FACT, ONE AND
11:03 - WILLIAM CLARK WILL DESCRIBE
11:05 - AS HE DESCENDS LITTLE ROUND TOP
11:06 - THEY TAKE ABOUT 18 OR 20
11:08 - MINUTES TO SHOOT AND FIRE AT
11:09 - THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WERE
11:11 - ADVANCING.
11:12 - >>BUT HE'LL PAUSE A LITTLE
11:13 - LONGER TO KEEP SHOOTING AFTER
11:15 - THE REST OF THE A 140 OF NEW
11:16 - YORK HAS LEFT AND AS HE DOES SO
11:19 - HE AND HIS MAN, THE MAN WHO
11:21 - STAY WITH HIM, THEY'LL FIGHT
11:23 - THEY WILL FIRE
11:24 - AS THEY RETURN UP A LITTLE
11:25 - ROUND TOP WILLIAM CLARK WILL
11:27 - SAY.
11:28 - >>WHEN HE STARTED ON A RUN A
11:29 - BALL STRUCK ME IN THE NECK
11:31 - AND THE NEXT INSTANT TO ONE
11:32 - TOOK ME IN THE ARM BEFORE WE
11:34 - COULD CATCH UP WITH THE REST OF
11:35 - OUR MEN.
11:36 - IT SEEMS SUCH AGREE THIS WOMAN
11:38 - SHOULD HAVE KILLED HIM
11:39 - AND IT DID NOT HE LIVED UNTIL
11:41 - 1924 TO TELL THIS STORY.
11:44 - BECAUSE OVER OR COULD NOT TELL
11:46 - IT HIMSELF.
11:47 - AS O'ROURKE LEAD CLARK AND HIS
11:49 - FELLOW MEN INTO BATTLE, HE HAS
11:51 - STRUCK AND THE BASE OF HIS
11:52 - SPINE IN HIS NECK. O ROURKE
11:55 - DESPITE HIS YOUNG AGE, HIS
11:57 - PROMISE IS KILLED INSTANTLY
11:59 - AND THE UNION SOLDIERS WHO
12:01 - WITNESSED THIS TAKE PLACE
12:03 - THEY SPY A TEXAN BLAME HIM FOR
12:05 - SHOOTING O'ROURKE AND IT IS
12:06 - SAID AFTER THE BATTLE THAT THE
12:08 - JOHNNY REBEL WHO WAS SUPPOSEDLY
12:10 - ACCUSED OF SHOOTING O'ROURKE
12:11 - IT'S FOUND RIDDLED WITH 17
12:13 - BULLETS.
12:15 - THE UNION SOLDIERS TAKEN
12:17 - VERY SERIOUSLY WHEN THEIR
12:18 - COMMANDER IS WOUNDED IN BATTLE
12:20 - AND THEY MAKE SURE O'ROURKE IS
12:22 - REMEMBERED LONG AFTER THE FACT.
12:25 - FOR LEE WHO IS THE ADJUTANT OF
12:26 - THE 100 40TH WILL RIGHTS
12:28 - IN A WORD GETTYSBURG MIGHT HAVE
12:30 - BEEN THE GREATEST DISASTER THE
12:31 - WAR AND MIGHT HAVE TURNED THE
12:32 - SCALES IN THE FAVOR OF THE
12:34 - REBELLION. HOW DO WE NOT
12:35 - REACHED LITTLE ROUND TOP IN
12:37 - TIME.
12:38 - HE UNFAIRLY DISCARDED AND
12:40 - FAILED TO MENTION VINCENT
12:41 - SMITH.
12:42 - AND THIS IS A REFLECTION OF THE
12:44 - FACT HE SERVES THE ONE 40TH HE
12:45 - IS NATURALLY GOING TO BE IN
12:47 - FAVOR OF O'ROURKE BUT HE IS
12:49 - RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING
12:50 - THE A 140 OF NEW YORK TRULY
12:53 - GETS HERE IN TIME PROVING THAT
12:55 - THE DEFENSE OF LITTLE ROUND TOP
12:57 - FALL IS NOT JUST TO ONE MAN.
12:58 - BUT MANY INDIVIDUALS COMMANDERS
13:00 - LIKE O'ROURKE LIKE STROM BEEN
13:02 - SENT TO MAKE
13:03 - TIMELY DECISIONS LIKE WARREN
13:05 - WHO 6 MEN IN BRINGS THEM HERE
13:07 - ON TIME. AND THE MEN SERVING
13:10 - WITH THEM MAKE THE DEFENSE OF
13:12 - LITTLE ROUND TOP POSSIBLE.
13:13 - AND IT WILL BE THEY WILL
13:14 - SURVIVE WHO CARRY ON THE MEMORY
13:17 - OF LITTLE ROUND TOP.
13:18 - >>THEY'RE SADDLED WITH THE
13:19 - BURDEN TO TELL THE STORY OF O
13:21 - ROURKE OF A STRONG VINSON'S
13:24 - WARD AND JOSHUA LAWRENCE
13:25 - CHAMBERLAIN CAN RECALL AFTER
13:27 - THE WAR WHAT THEY DID THEY
13:28 - SHARE THEIR HISTORY THEIR
13:30 - ACCOUNTS OF IT. IT FALLS NOW TO
13:32 - QUARTER FARLEY ALL OF HER
13:33 - WILCOX NORTON TO SHARE WHAT
13:35 - O'ROURKE AND WHAT STRONG
13:37 - VINCENT HAVE DONE. THEY SHARE
13:39 - THE MEMORY. AND ALTHOUGH TODAY
13:42 - WE BEGAN WITH
13:42 - UNION QUOTES LET US AND WITH
13:44 - THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WHO
13:45 - BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURED WHAT IT
13:47 - MEANT TO BE BURDENED WITH
13:48 - MEMORY AND SURVIVORSHIP AFTER
13:50 - SUCH A GRIEVOUS CONFLICT
13:52 - LIKE THE ONE THAT TOOK PLACE
13:53 - HERE ON LITTLE ROUND TOP
13:55 - SERGEANT BRENTLY OF THE 5TH
13:57 - TEXAS WOULD WRITE A POEM OUT A
13:59 - REUNION IN 19 '06 STATING THE
14:01 - U.S..
14:03 - AT GETTYSBURG ON ROUND TOP
14:04 - MOUNTAIN, I STAND YOU THE
14:06 - MAJESTIC HILL AND FLOWERY LAND
14:09 - JUST WHERE I STOOD MORE THAN 20
14:10 - YEARS AGO, WHEN ALL EARTH
14:12 - CONVULSED AND MAN LAY IN HIS
14:14 - CORE HEAR MY HEART THROB WITH
14:16 - EMOTION GRAND BEFORE DEFYING
14:17 - FEDERAL AND HIS MIGHTY BAND.
14:19 - HOW I STOOD HERE I KNOW I
14:21 - CANNOT TELL FOR 6 NOBLE
14:23 - COMRADES BY MY SIDE FELL BUT
14:26 - LEFT THE LIKE A STATUE HERE ALL
14:27 - ALONE. THIS TERRIBLE STORY TO
14:30 - RIGHTS AND TO OWN.
14:33 - AND TODAY NOW A 157 YEARS LATER
14:36 - I STAND HERE
14:37 - PONDERING THE BEAUTY AND THE
14:39 - TRAGEDY OF THIS LANDSCAPE.
14:42 - >>WHETHER YOU'RE FAR AWAY
14:43 - WATCHING US DIGITALLY OR HERE
14:45 - ON LITTLE ROUND TOP ITSELF THAT
14:47 - YOU WILL STOP FOR A MOMENT.
14:48 - HER MEMBER MEN, YES LIKE JOSHUA
14:50 - LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN
14:52 - BUT ALSO HENRY O'ROURKE PATRICK
14:54 - HENRY O'ROURKE REMEMBER MEN
14:56 - LIKE STRONG VINCENT IN
14:57 - GOUVERNEUR CAPE HORN AND THE
14:59 - MEN WHO SERVED WITH THEM PAYING
15:01 - THE ULTIMATE PRICE TO DEFEND
15:03 - LITTLE ROUND TOP. THANK YOU.