00:12 - >>HELLO MY NAME IS PHIL BROWN

00:14 - AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER VIDEO

00:15 - INSTALLMENT FOR THE 100 57TH

00:17 - ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF

00:19 - GETTYSBURG. RIGHT NOW I'M

00:21 - STANDING ATOP. KILL ON

00:23 - THE EXTREME NORTHERN END OF THE

00:25 - GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. WELL

00:27 - BECOME THE SCENE OF ONE OF THE

00:29 - MOST ONE-SIDED COMBAT ACTIONS.

00:32 - THE ENTIRE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

00:33 - ON THE AFTERNOON OF JULY

00:35 - FIRST 1863. INVOLVING THE

00:37 - BRIGADE OF ALFRED AYA PERSONS,

00:40 - CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS FROM NORTH

00:42 - CAROLINA. TO BEGIN WITH ALL THE

00:44 - TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

00:46 - ALFORD

00:46 - IVERSON HIMSELF.

00:48 - >>IVERSON WAS BORN IN GEORGIA

00:50 - HIS FATHER ALFRED SENIOR

00:52 - WAS A SENATOR REPRESENTING

00:54 - GEORGIA AND THE YEAR BEFORE THE

00:55 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

00:56 - AND WAS KNOWN TO BE AN ARTIST

00:58 - SECTION US AS MOTHERS NAME WITH

00:59 - CAROLINE HOME, THEIR SON ALFORD

01:02 - IVERSON JUNIOR WAS EDUCATED AT

01:04 - THE TUSKEGEE MILITARY

01:05 - INSTITUTE, AND THE STATE OF

01:07 - ALABAMA, HE PARTICIPATED IN THE

01:08 - MEXICAN WAR.

01:10 - >>AFTERWARDS HE DECIDED TO

01:11 - PRACTICE LAW BUT THAT ONLY

01:12 - LASTED FOR A

01:13 - SHORT WHILE EVIDENTLY LIFE AS

01:16 - AN ATTORNEY SHE WASN'T EXCITING

01:17 - ENOUGH

01:17 - FOR HIM. SO HE DECIDED TO USE

01:19 - THE POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF

01:20 - HIS FATHER. THE GAME COMMISSION

01:23 - AND THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN

01:25 - 1855. THERE'S REGULAR ARMY

01:27 - CAREER AS AN OFFICER HE WAS

01:28 - POSTED FOR SHORT WHILE IN

01:30 - CARLISLE PENNSYLVANIA BEFORE

01:32 - SEEING COMBAT ACTION.

01:34 - >>SOME OF THE EARLY CONFLICTS

01:36 - BETWEEN UNITED STATES

01:37 - GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIVE

01:38 - AMERICAN POPULATION THAT THE

01:40 - OUTBREAK OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL

01:41 - WAR HE DECIDED TO RESIGN HIS

01:43 - COMMISSION IN THE UNITED STATES

01:44 - ARMY AND USE HIS FATHER'S

01:46 - POLITICAL INFLUENCE. AGAIN A

01:48 - COMMISSION IN THE CONFEDERATE

01:49 - ARMY AND SOON HE WAS MADE

01:51 - CAPTAIN AND THE 20TH NORTH

01:52 - CAROLINA INFANTRY REGIMENT.

01:55 - SHORTLY AFTER HE BEGAN HIS

01:57 - CAREER AS A CAPTAIN IN THE

01:58 - CONFEDERATE ARMY, THOUGH

01:59 - IT WAS REALIZED HE WAS THE ONLY

02:00 - OFFICER IN THE ENTIRE REGIMENT

02:02 - THEY HAD ANY COMBAT EXPERIENCE

02:03 - AT ALL. SOON HE WAS MADE THE

02:05 - COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT, THE

02:07 - LEADER.

02:08 - THE 20'S, NORTH CAROLINA

02:09 - INFANTRY JOINED THE ARMY OF

02:11 - NORTHERN VIRGINIA IN JUNE OF

02:13 - 1862 AND SHORTLY AFTER ALFORD

02:16 - IVERSON WAS WOUNDED SEVERELY

02:18 - THE BATTLE OF GAINES MILL.

02:21 - LATER ON

02:21 - THAT YEAR. THE 20TH NORTH

02:23 - CAROLINA'S BRIGADE COMMANDER

02:25 - SAMUEL GARLAND WAS KILLED.

02:27 - >>THE BATTLE SOUTH NOW CREATING

02:29 - A VACANCY AND THE BRIGADIER

02:31 - GENERAL SPOT WITH A BRIGADE.

02:34 - ONCE AGAIN HIS FATHER POLITICAL

02:36 - INFLUENCE WOULD COME INTO PLAY

02:38 - AS WELL AS THE RECOMMENDATIONS

02:40 - BY STONEWALL JACKSON PH HILL

02:42 - AND EVEN ROBERT E LEE SO BY

02:44 - NOVEMBER FIRST TAKING 62 YOUNG

02:47 - ALBERT IVERSON WAS MADE A

02:48 - BRIGADIER GENERAL.

02:50 - >>AND THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF

02:51 - NORTHERN VIRGINIA. THE BRIGADE

02:53 - WAS PLACED IN COMMAND OF

02:54 - CONSENT OF THE BEST. WHEN HERE

02:57 - 23RD.

02:59 - >>AND 12 NORTH CAROLINA

03:00 - INFANTRY REGIMENT BY THE SUMMER

03:02 - OF 1863. THESE ARE ALL HARDEN

03:05 - COMBAT TROOPS OF THE EASTERN

03:07 - THEATER OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL

03:09 - WAR.

03:10 - THERE WAS A BIT OF A PRE BATTLE

03:11 - KERFUFFLE IN THE RANKS OF

03:13 - IVERSON BRIGADE WHEN THEY PASS

03:15 - THROUGH CARLISLE PENNSYLVANIA.

03:17 - THE SEA IVERSON TOOK IT UPON

03:18 - HIMSELF TO VISIT SOME NORTHERN

03:20 - FRIENDS THAT HE HAD MADE WHILE

03:23 - HE WAS POSTED THERE DURING IS

03:25 - REGULAR ARMY CAREER. THE COUPLE

03:27 - THIS WITH THE FACT

03:28 - THAT THIS FROM GEORGIA IN

03:31 - COMMAND OF AN ALL NORTH

03:31 - CAROLINA BRIGADE. IN ADDITION

03:34 - TO THE FACT THAT HIS FATHER'S

03:35 - POLITICAL INFLUENCE HAD HELP

03:37 - THEM OUT THERE WHO THROUGHOUT

03:38 - HIS CAREER AND IN THE END HIS

03:40 - MEN DID NOT HAVE A VERY HIGH

03:41 - OPINION OF THEM ONCE THEY

03:43 - ARRIVE TO THE SPOT WHERE I'M

03:44 - STANDING HERE ON THE GETTYSBURG

03:46 - BATTLEFIELD.

03:47 - IVERSON BRIGADE ARRIVED HERE ON

03:49 - THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD,

03:50 - SPECIFICALLY RIGHT HERE ON THE

03:52 - OAKHILL IN THIS GENERAL

03:53 - VICINITY, THE EARLY AFTERNOON

03:55 - HOURS OF JULY FIRST 1863.

03:59 - THERE OF COURSE A PART OF A

04:00 - LARGER UNIT ROBERT RHODES

04:03 - RICHARD YOU'LL SCORE.

04:05 - ROADS DIVISION NUMBERED ABOUT

04:07 - 8,000 SOLDIERS AND WHEN HE

04:08 - ARRIVED HERE ON THE HILL RHODES

04:10 - WAS OF THE UNDERSTANDING THAT

04:12 - HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY

04:13 - BEFORE HIM AND ITS BEST SCENE

04:15 - IN THE GROUND BEHIND ME.

04:17 - ROADS BELIEVED HE HAD THE

04:18 - OPPORTUNITY TO STRIKE IN CRUSH

04:20 - THE RIGHT FLANK OF THE UNION

04:22 - FIRST CORPS WHICH HAD ALREADY

04:23 - BEEN ENGAGED HERE THROUGHOUT

04:24 - THE MORNING.

04:26 - >>MIDDAY HOURS OF JULY FIRST

04:28 - 1863. THE ROADS THOUGH RATHER

04:30 - THAN TAKING ALL 8,000 THE

04:31 - SOLDIERS AND ATTACKING AT ONCE

04:33 - WE'LL SEND HIS BRIGADES AND

04:35 - KIND OF ONE AT A TIME, THE

04:37 - FIRST TROOPS FROM ROADS

04:38 - DIVISION OR ATTACK

04:39 - WILL BE ALABAMA SOLDIERS

04:40 - COMMANDED BY EDWARD O'NEILL AND

04:43 - WITHIN THAT BRIGADE

04:44 - THAT ATTACK WOULD BE PEACE

04:46 - DEALS WELL EACH REGIMENT GOING

04:47 - IN ONE OF

04:48 - THE TIME THAT COMBAT ACTION

04:50 - WILL HAPPEN OFF TO MY RIGHT

04:52 - YOUR LEFT AND GROUND THAT'S NOT

04:53 - REALLY EASILY SEEN FROM HERE ON

04:55 - THE OTHER SIDE OF OAK HILL.

04:57 - THE ATTACK DOES NOT GO WELL

04:59 - AT ALL. INSTEAD HENRY BAXTER'S

05:02 - UNION BRIGADE COMES UP AND

05:04 - QUICKLY REPOLE

05:04 - SAYS THEM. MEANWHILE ALFORD

05:07 - IVERSON HAS BEEN IN THE WOODS

05:09 - OFF TO MY LOOK IN THIS

05:10 - DIRECTION OVER HERE YOU'RE

05:11 - RIGHT, REPAIRING HIS MEN FOR

05:14 - THEIR ATTACK. EVENTUALLY

05:16 - THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD

05:17 - ACROSS THE GROUND SORT OF

05:19 - MOVING RIGHT TO LEFT ACROSS THE

05:20 - SCREEN AND INTO THE LOW GROUND

05:22 - BEFORE US. THEY'RE GOING TO GO

05:23 - INTO RIGHT NOW AND CONTINUE OUR

05:25 - STORY THERE.

05:26 - >>SO WE HAVE MOVED DOWN INTO

05:28 - THE LOWEST GROUND IN FRONT OF

05:30 - OAK RIDGE OAK RIDGE IS KIND OF

05:32 - OFF TO MY RIGHT IS MARK TODAY

05:34 - BY THE OBSERVATION TOWER THE

05:36 - STRING OF MONUMENTS AS WELL AS

05:38 - THE ROADWAY WHICH IS NOT

05:39 - VISIBLE TO THE CROPS AT THIS

05:41 - TIME

05:41 - OF YEAR. WHAT'S IMPORTANT

05:43 - UNDERSTAND ABOUT OAK RIDGE IS

05:44 - IT'S THE LAST PIECE OF HIGH

05:46 - GROUND BETTER AFTER CROSS

05:47 - BEFORE DESCENDING INTO.

05:49 - >>THE TOWN OF GETTYSBURG

05:50 - ITSELF. SO AT THIS POINT

05:52 - THE STORY, THE PARTY OVER AGAIN

05:54 - HAS BEGUN TO DESCEND THE HIGH

05:56 - GROUND LOCATED BEHIND THE

05:58 - CAMERA ADVANCING

05:59 - TOWARDS ME ACROSS THESE FEEL

06:01 - THEY'RE LINED UP WITH THE 5TH

06:02 - NORTH CAROLINA ON THE LEFT

06:04 - FLANK OF THE BRIGADE THEN

06:06 - MOVING TO THE RIGHT WAS THE

06:07 - 20TH TO 23RD AND I KNOW THAT

06:10 - BOTH NORTH CAROLINA ON THE

06:11 - SCREEN RIGHT OTHER BRIGADE.

06:13 - >>WHAT THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND

06:14 - WHAT'S GOING ON.

06:16 - >>WAS TAKING PLACE ON THE

06:17 - BACKSIDE OF OAK RIDGE OUT OF

06:18 - SIGHT FROM HERE ON THE BACKSIDE

06:21 - OF OAK RIDGE HENRY BAXTER'S

06:23 - UNION BRIGADE HAS JUST RIPPED

06:24 - OFF O'NEILL THE FALL AND

06:26 - THEY'RE ACTUALLY QUICKLY

06:27 - REALIGNING

06:28 - THEIR REGIMENTS NO LONGER

06:30 - FACING FORD WHERE O'NEILL CAME

06:31 - FROM OVER HERE, BUT NOW THEY'RE

06:33 - COMING UP READY TO DEBATE

06:34 - IVERSON MAN JUST AS YOU'RE

06:36 - PASSING THROUGH THE LOW GROUND

06:37 - HERE THE MEN OF THE BRIGADE

06:38 - WOULD TALK YEARS LATER ABOUT

06:40 - HOW THE BRIGADE FORMATION THE

06:43 - ALIGNMENT SPECIFICALLY WAS FALL

06:45 - THAT'S THE WORD THEY WOULD

06:46 - CONSTANTLY USE AND THEIR

06:47 - RECOLLECTION OF THE EVENT SO

06:49 - WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN THEY SAY

06:51 - THAT THE LINE WAS FALL. I THINK

06:53 - WHAT THE RIGHT THING THERE'S

06:54 - THE FACT THAT MANY LEFT OF THE

06:56 - BRIGADE ENDED UP BEING MUCH

06:58 - MUCH CLOSER TO THE UNION LINE

07:00 - THEN THE RIGHT THERE KIND OF

07:02 - ADVANCING AT AN ANGLE,

07:03 - THE COMPARISON WHERE THE UNION

07:05 - SOLDIERS WILL BE ALONG THE

07:06 - SPINE OF OAK RIDGE.

07:08 - >>NOW WHEN ALL THIS IS GOING

07:09 - ON. WHERE'S ALFORD IVERSON AND

07:12 - THIS IS ANOTHER THING THE

07:13 - VETERANS WILL TALK ABOUT FOR

07:14 - YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS TO

07:15 - COME. IVERSON IS NOT ON THE

07:17 - SCENE. HE'S REMAINED BACK ON

07:20 - THE SUMMIT OF OAK HILL,

07:21 - ALLOWING HIS MEN TO GO INTO THE

07:23 - FIGHT WITHOUT THEM. APPARENTLY

07:26 - AT SOME POINT IN THE FRAY.

07:28 - HENRY BAXTER'S UNION BRIGADE

07:30 - WOULD REDEPLOY ALONG THE TOP OF

07:31 - THE CREST OF OAK RIDGE HAVING

07:33 - JUST THIS BATCH. O'NEILL'S

07:35 - ALABAMIANS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF

07:36 - THE RIDGE THEY'RE GOING TO COME

07:37 - UP RIGHT HERE TO FACE EYE

07:39 - VERSUS MEN AS THEY ARE DANCING.

07:41 - AT SOME POINT THE 11

07:43 - PENNSYLVANIA, FIRED A VOLLEY

07:45 - AND DIVERSIONS MEN

07:46 - PROBABLY ONLY CALLS MINOR

07:48 - CASUALTIES IN COMPARISON TO

07:49 - WHAT'S ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE.

07:50 - BUT THE REACTION WAS THAT THE

07:52 - REBEL YELL.

07:53 - >>RIPPLE UP AND DOWN THE RANKS

07:55 - OF IVERSON BRIGADE AND IT BEGAN

07:57 - TO QUICKEN THEIR PACE.

07:59 - WHAT THEY DIDN'T REALIZE WAS

08:00 - THEY WERE ACTUALLY QUICKEN

08:02 - THEIR PACE RIGHT INTO DISASTER.

08:04 - JUST ABOUT WHEN THE 5TH NORTH

08:06 - CAROLINA GOD WITH HIM ABOUT 75

08:09 - YARDS OF THE UNION LINE THE

08:11 - ENTIRE LINE EXPLODED AND ONE

08:13 - HUGE VOLLEY OF MOSS COUNTRY

08:15 - CUTTING DOWN HUNDREDS OF NORTH

08:17 - CAROLINIANS OUT ONCE

08:19 - THEIR ADVANCE WAS VIRTUALLY

08:21 - STOPPED COLD IN ITS TRACKS.

08:24 - AS THE SURVIVORS OF THE INITIAL

08:25 - VOLLEY HIT THE GROUND AND THEN

08:28 - SHORTLY AFTER

08:29 - BEGAN WAVING WHITE FLAGS OVER

08:31 - THEIR HEADS

08:32 - IN SURRENDER.

08:34 - >>MEANWHILE IVERSON IS BACK ON

08:35 - THE SUMMIT OF OAK HILL.

08:38 - AND HE BELIEVES IS MEN ARE

08:39 - ACTING COWARDLY AND HE HAD

08:41 - SOMETHING OF A

08:42 - NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. MEANWHILE,

08:44 - ALL THIS IS UNFOLDING THE 3RD

08:46 - ALABAMA, ONE OF O'NEILL'S

08:47 - REGIMENTS ACTUALLY COMES UP ON

08:48 - THE SCENE THANKING THEY CAN

08:50 - HELP OUT THE TROUBLE IS THE

08:52 - SITUATION IS RAPIDLY CHANGING

08:54 - BECAUSE AS I VERSUS MINUTE HIT

08:56 - THE GROUND BEGUN TO WEIGH THEIR

08:57 - WIFE LIVES OVER

08:58 - THE HEADS, SEVERAL UNION

08:59 - REGIMENTS THE SEND-OFF OF OAK

09:01 - RIDGE TO CAPTURE THE PRISONERS

09:03 - NOW THAT ARE SURRENDERING TO

09:04 - THEM. SO IF YOU'RE IN THE RANKS

09:05 - OF THE 3RD ALABAMA JUST AS THEY

09:07 - COME ON THE SAME. THEY'RE

09:08 - SUDDENLY CALL WITH

09:09 - THE DILEMMA. STOP THE UNION

09:12 - ADVANCE BY OPENING FIRE AND

09:13 - POTENTIALLY WOUNDING

09:15 - CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.

09:16 - >>YOU SIMPLY HOLD YOUR GROUND

09:17 - AND WAIT FOR THE CAN BETTER TO

09:19 - GET OUT OF THE WAY

09:20 - IN THE END, THE 3RD ALABAMA

09:22 - DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND OPEN

09:23 - FIRE IN AND OUT OF A HAT THEY

09:25 - STRUCK SOME OF THEIR OWN MEN ON

09:27 - CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, MANY WAYS.

09:28 - >>IN

09:28 - THAT BALL. JOHN COGHILL A

09:31 - SOLDIER AND IVERSON BRIGADE

09:33 - SPECIFICALLY IN THE

09:34 - SHARPSHOOTER BATTALION FOUND

09:36 - HIMSELF IN THE UNFAVORABLE

09:37 - POSITION OF HAVING TO WRITE

09:38 - HOME TO THE FAMILIES OF HIS

09:39 - COMRADES CONCERNING THEIR

09:41 - DEMISE HERE GAVE HER QUOTE

09:44 - HOWEVER GRECH TO TELL YOU THAT

09:45 - RILE STEWART WAS KILLED.

09:47 - >>AFTER HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER.

09:49 - THE YANKEES TOOK THE BEST PART

09:51 - OF OUR REGIMENT AND BRIGADE AND

09:53 - WHILE THERE WAS CARRYING THEM

09:54 - ON THEIR TO

09:54 - THE REAR. WE HAD ANOTHER LINE

09:56 - OF BATTLE MARCHED UP AND SHOT A

09:58 - VOLLEY INTO THE YANKEES AND THE

09:59 - PRISONERS AND A BALL HIT RIGHT

10:01 - ON

10:01 - THE SIDE. THE BALL WENT IN 1

10:04 - ONE SIDE AND CAME OUT THE

10:06 - OTHER. ANOTHER SOLDIER

10:08 - WJ O'DANIEL.

10:10 - >>WOULD LATER PROVIDE A LITANY

10:11 - OF CARNAGE TO HIS COMMUNITY

10:13 - BACK HOME AND A LETTER TO A

10:15 - FAMILY MEMBER SAYING

10:16 - ABOUT AS FRIENDLY UNITED SCORE,

10:18 - HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE THIGH

10:19 - AND HEAD. THIS TIE WAS NOT

10:21 - BROKE BUT I COULD NOT TELL WHAT

10:23 - WAY THE SHOT HIM.

10:24 - >>THE BALL IN HIS HEAD WENT IN

10:26 - BETWEEN HIS EYE.

10:27 - >>AND THE YEAR I THINK THAT

10:29 - STOP SOME PLACE NEAR

10:30 - THE BRAIN. SL MCCLURE HAD 3

10:33 - BALL SHOT THROUGH HIS BODY AND

10:35 - TEAR THROUGH HIS LEFT ARM.

10:36 - >>THIS LEFT ARMS CUT OFF ABOVE

10:38 - THE ELBOW. HM WALL HEAD HIS

10:41 - RIGHT WRIST, BROOKE, HIS LEFT

10:42 - ARM WAS CUT OFF.

10:44 - I THINK YOU WILL DIE SAND YOU

10:46 - OR HAS LEFT BY SHOT, IT WAS

10:48 - CUT OFF. I WAS SHOT IN THE

10:50 - CHEEK WITH A BUCK SHOT.

10:53 - >>IT WOULD TAKE THE ASSISTANCE

10:54 - OF UNITS FROM 3 OTHER AND

10:56 - FEDERER GATES TO RESCUE THE

10:58 - SURVIVORS OF IVERSON MAN.

11:00 - ALL OF THIS DEAL. HE LOST

11:03 - APPROXIMATELY 900.

11:05 - >>OF THE ONE NOW 300 SO YOU

11:07 - BROUGHT WITH YOU, YEAH

11:08 - THEY ARE OR REMAINED OF HIS

11:10 - COMMAND WOULD SPEND THE REST OF

11:11 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

11:13 - THAT ACTION IS NEEDED RAM

11:14 - AGAIN. IVERSON CELL WOULD LOSE

11:17 - HIS JOB NEVER COMMANDING FOR

11:19 - HIM THE ARMY OF NORTHERN AND

11:20 - YET. AGAIN.

11:22 - >>THESE FIELDS.

11:23 - >>WERE LITTERED THAT WITH THE

11:25 - DEAD OF THE UNION IN BETTER

11:27 - ARMIES AND YET THE FIRST DAY

11:29 - THE BATTLE WAS NOT YET OVER.