00:12 - >>HELLO AND WELCOME

00:13 - TO THE 100 57TH ANNIVERSARY OF

00:15 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

00:16 - MY NAME IS RANGER STEVE

00:17 - ASSEMBLE JOINING YOU FROM THE

00:19 - SECOND FLOOR PORCH. THE

00:20 - TRUSSELL FARMHOUSE ON JULY

00:22 - SECOND

00:23 - 1863. UNION GENERAL DANIEL

00:26 - SICKLES MOOSES ENTIRE 3RD CORPS

00:28 - FROM

00:28 - CEMETERY RIDGE TO A RIDGE LINE

00:31 - ALONG SURE FEES PEACH ORCHARD

00:33 - IN THE SAME POSITION

00:35 - SICKLES RECEIVES HEAVY FIRE

00:36 - FROM CONFEDERATE FORCES LAST

00:38 - RISK OR AROUND 04:00PM.

00:40 - THE MEAT OF RESERVE ALONG THE

00:41 - WE FEEL ROAD ROAD SICKLES CALLS

00:44 - FOR REINFORCEMENT FROM THE

00:45 - ARTILLERY. VOLUNTEER OR TORY

00:47 - RESERVES UNDER THE COMMAND OF

00:49 - MAJOR.

00:53 - MCGILL RECALLS UP ON THE

00:54 - KNIFE MASSACHUSETTS BATTER TO

00:55 - REINFORCE THE POSITION ON THE

00:57 - RESELL ROAD.

00:59 - THE KNIFE MASSACHUSETTS UNDER

01:00 - THE NEW COMMANDER.

01:02 - >>A 22 YEAR-OLD CAPTAIN JON

01:04 - BIGELOW IT'S CALLED AND

01:06 - ACCEPTING ORDER.

01:07 - >>BIGELOW WITH HIS 6.12 POUND

01:10 - THE POLL ENDS.

01:12 - >>MOOS 400 YARDS ON THE RIDGE

01:13 - BEHIND LET'S GET YOU SEE OFTEN

01:16 - THE DISTANCE.

01:18 - BIGELOW IS ORDER TO FOCUS HIS

01:19 - FIRE ON THE ROSE BAR WORKER

01:21 - SHAS BRIGADE THE STATION.

01:24 - >>AS THE FIGHTING CONTINUES.

01:25 - THE MAJOR MCGILVRAY STARTS

01:27 - PULLING THE ARTILLERY RESERVES

01:29 - FROM THE WHEATFIELD ROAD.

01:30 - BACK TO CEMETERY RIDGE WITH A

01:33 - KNIFE BEING THE LAST ONE ON THE

01:34 - LAWN.

01:36 - AS THE 3RD COURSE CRUMBLING

01:37 - AROUND HIM KATHRYN BIGELOW

01:40 - THE SURPRISE IT'S COME TO A

01:42 - SURPRISE FINDS OUT HIS THE LAST

01:44 - A MAN ON THE FIELD LAST UNIT ON

01:46 - THE FIELD. AROUND

01:48 - 06:00PM ON

01:48 - JULY 2ND. A MAJOR MCGILL

01:51 - RECALLS JON BIGELOW TO RETIRE

01:53 - FROM THE FIELD AND LIMBER UP

01:55 - HIS GUNS.

01:57 - REALIZING THE SITUATION

01:59 - AT HAND A SMUG OVER A NOT TO

02:01 - LIMBER UP HIS GUNS BECAUSE IT

02:02 - WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME AND

02:04 - COST MICHIGAN CASUALTIES.

02:06 - INSTEAD BIGELOW REQUEST TO FIRE

02:08 - BY A

02:08 - PRO LONG OR RECOIL 400 YARDS TO

02:12 - THE TRUSSELL GATEHOUSE TO

02:13 - LIMBER UP THERE.

02:16 - >>BIGELOW'S GRANTED PERMISSION

02:17 - AND BEGAN TO PREP HIS GUTS.

02:19 - THE NICE PASS TO CHOOSE ITS.

02:22 - EXECUTED HIS ORDERS PERFECTLY

02:25 - MOVING ACROSS THE FIELD SLOWLY.

02:27 - BUT EFFECTIVELY FIRING ON THE

02:28 - ENEMY. BIGELOW ORGANS,

02:31 - 3, 4, UNDER THE COMMAND OF

02:32 - LIEUTENANT MILTON TO FIRE

02:34 - CANISTER. I THINK APPROACHING

02:36 - CONFEDERATES OF KERSHAW'S

02:37 - BRIGADE FROM THE WHEAT FIELD.

02:38 - THE REMAINING 4 GUNS

02:40 - ORDER THE FIRE SOLID SHOT A

02:42 - BARK SALES BRIGADE COMING FROM

02:44 - THE PEACH ORCHARD. AS

02:46 - SOON AS THEY ARRIVED AT THE

02:47 - GATE HOUSE. THEY WILL ORDER HIS

02:49 - MEN TO LUMBER THE GUNS. BEFORE

02:53 - THEY COULD EXECUTE THIS ORDER.

02:55 - A MAJOR MAKEOVER ARRIVED AT THE

02:57 - FARM. AND ORDERS

02:58 - BIG LAW, THE HOPE AND HOLD THE

03:00 - ENEMY IN CHECK SACRIFICING YOUR

03:03 - BATTERY IF NECESSARY UNTIL HE

03:05 - GUNS IN THE POSITION TO

03:06 - HIS REAR. AS THE WINDS WERE

03:08 - OPEN FROM THE FOOT A LITTLE

03:09 - ROUND TOP TO LEFT IN THE 2ND

03:11 - QUARTER.

03:12 - THEY'LL ACCEPT THESE ORDERS AND

03:14 - REALIZE THEY SEALED THEIR FATE

03:15 - FOR THIS BATTLE.

03:18 - HE ORDERS HIS 6 GUNS THEN A

03:20 - MOST SALIENT POSITION ON THE

03:22 - STONE FENCE BEHIND ME JUST IN

03:24 - THE FIELD ACROSS FROM THE POOR

03:25 - ROAD. AND HOLD THE POSITION.

03:29 - AROUND 06:00PM ON JULY

03:30 - SECOND OF 30 OR GENERAL

03:32 - BARKSDALE THE MISSISSIPPI

03:33 - BRIGADE ORDERS THE 21ST

03:35 - MISSISSIPPI TO REMOVE THE

03:37 - BATTERY FROM THE SOUTH OF THE

03:38 - PEACH ORCHARD REMOVE IT FROM

03:40 - THE FIELD, THE

03:41 - 21ST MISSISSIPPI USES THE

03:43 - TRUSSELL FARMLAND WHICH IS NOW

03:45 - UNITED STATES AVENUE TORE ROAD.

03:48 - AS A GUIDE TO

03:49 - THE HOUSE. BUT ALSO WITH THE

03:51 - AID OF COURSE OSCAR MUSHERS

03:52 - COMING ACROSS THE RIDGE FROM

03:54 - THE WEAK FIELD.

03:56 - THEY ALL WITNESSED THIS ISSUE

03:58 - WITH THE PRESIDENT REALIZED AN

03:59 - ISSUE WITH THIS POSITION.

04:00 - AMONG SO FOLDERS

04:01 - BEHIND ME MILTON'S 2 GUNS WERE

04:04 - TANGLED AMONGST THOSE BOULDERS

04:05 - AND COULD NOT BE MOVED OR USED

04:07 - EFFECTIVELY. ALSO ANOTHER ISSUE

04:10 - A ROSE.

04:11 - FOR THOSE GUNS ONLY HAVE 50 TO

04:13 - 60 YARDS. THE SIDELINE. AND A

04:15 - QUICK DECISION. THERE ARE NO

04:17 - ORDERED LIEUTENANT MILTON TO

04:19 - PULL HIS 2 GUNS FROM THE

04:20 - BOULDERS AND RETIRE THEM TO

04:21 - CEMETERY RIDGE IN ORDER TO SAVE

04:23 - PART OF HIS BATTERY.

04:25 - AS HIS ORDERS BEING EXECUTED

04:27 - ONE OF THE GUNS OVERTURNS ON

04:29 - THE STONE FENCE. THERE'S ABLE

04:31 - TO RECOVER TO MIX THE BULLETS

04:33 - AND RETIRE BACK TO

04:34 - CEMETERY, RICH REMAINING 4 GUNS

04:37 - UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT

04:39 - WOULD OCCUR AND LIEUTENANT

04:40 - ERICKSON ORDER TO BRING THEIR

04:42 - AMMUNITION FROM THEIR LUMBERS

04:44 - UP TO THE MUZZLE OF A GUN.

04:45 - SO IN ORDER TO FIRE AS FAST AS

04:47 - POSSIBLE.

04:48 - THE MENLO DOUBLE CANISTER AND

04:50 - WAIT FOR THE ENEMY TO APPROACH.

04:53 - AS THE CONFEDERATE

04:54 - THE 21ST MISSISSIPPI AND CURSE

04:57 - OSCAR MERGERS APPROACH FROM THE

04:58 - RIDGE LINES THE BIG IN THE OPEN

04:59 - FIRE. STALLING THE ADVANCE AS

05:02 - MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

05:04 - AND A PENSION HOWEVER, BECAUSE

05:05 - OF RUNNING OUT OF

05:08 - CANISTER ROUNDS.

05:09 - THEY DECIDE TO USE K SHOT AND

05:11 - SHELL TO CUT THE FUSES DOUSED

05:13 - THEY WOULD EXPLORE WITHIN 50

05:14 - YARDS. FIRING OF A GUN.

05:17 - THIS POSITION, THERE'S A DIRE

05:20 - SITUATION.

05:22 - CHARLES READ THE VIEW OR OF THE

05:23 - KNIFE MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY

05:25 - ACCOUNTS. BUT THE SHRINKING

05:27 - HISSING CEILING THAT HE NEVER

05:28 - DREAMED THE MANAGEABLE

05:30 - IT SEEMED AS THOUGH IT WAS THE

05:31 - WORK OF THE VERY

05:32 - DEVIL HIMSELF. THEY BROUGHT

05:34 - ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE KNIFE

05:36 - MASSACHUSETTS ACCOUNTS THAT THE

05:38 - BULLETS FLEW BECAUSE HAILSTONES

05:40 - THE FIGHTING WAS FIERCE

05:42 - THE POINT WHERE CONFEDERATE

05:43 - STRIP APPROACH 6 PACES IN FRONT

05:46 - OF TORMENTS GODS THEY CONTINUED

05:48 - TO FIRE.

05:50 - ALAS THE POSITION CANNOT BE

05:52 - HELD AS LONG AS

05:53 - THEY THOUGHT CC COFFIN ROAD OF

05:56 - THE UNITS COLLAPSE, THE 3RD

05:57 - MEMBER ACCOUNTED FOR THIS A

05:59 - PORTION OF THE BATTLE UP

06:01 - THROUGH THE WEEK, KIM BARK

06:02 - STILLS MISSISSIPPIANS GREAT

06:04 - CAST FROM MADE IN THEIR RANKS.

06:06 - BUT STILL THEY PRESSED ON

06:08 - REINFORCED BY WOLF. WELL FIRST

06:10 - BRIGADE. THE REBELS

06:13 - WERE DESPERATE. THE REBELS

06:14 - RUSHED UP ON HIS GUNS,

06:16 - HE BLEW THEM FROM THEIR MUZZLES

06:18 - AND FILL THE AIR WITH A

06:19 - SHATTERED FRAGMENTS OF HUMAN

06:20 - BODIES. STILL THEY CAME WITH

06:22 - THE MONOCLE SCREAMS CLIMBING UP

06:25 - ON THE MUSLIM BURRS THE

06:26 - SHOOTING HAS HORSES.

06:28 - YOU'RE TOLD AND GRAB THE

06:29 - IMPLEMENTS AROUND THEM AND USE

06:30 - THEM AS WEAPONS. ACCOUNTS.

06:35 - THAT THEY ARE TOLD

06:35 - ONE NEWS IRON SPIKES.

06:41 - AND ANY IMPLEMENTED USED TO

06:43 - DEFEND THE GUN FROM FALLING

06:44 - INTO FEDERAL HANDS.

06:48 - CASUALTIES BEGAN TO MOUNT.

06:50 - GUN NUMBER 5 THAT WAS IN THE

06:52 - MIDDLE OF THE SALIENT.

06:56 - HAS ONE ARTILLERY MEN LAUGHED.

06:58 - AND ALL THEIR HORSES

06:59 - SHOT OUT THEIR COMMANDER

07:01 - LIEUTENANT ERICKSON. RECEIVE

07:03 - THE SHOULDER, THE CHEST EARLY

07:05 - IN THE BATTLE. WE'LL CONTINUE

07:07 - TO RECEIVE WOUNDS TO HIS WRIST

07:10 - AND COOL. HIT BODY BUT WAS

07:12 - ULTIMATELY KILLED BY 2 SHOTS,

07:14 - THE HEAD.

07:16 - THE TENANT WHAT OCCURRED THE

07:17 - COMMAND OF THE REMAINING 2

07:18 - GUNS, THE SEVERELY WOUNDED IN

07:20 - THE CALF AND UNFORTUNATELY

07:22 - SUCCUMBED WAS LOANS LATER ON

07:23 - THE BATTLE.

07:25 - KATHRYN BIGELOW'S AMIDST THE

07:26 - CHAOS ONE VIEWER REALLY REALIZE

07:29 - THAT SEVERAL OF KERSHAW

07:30 - SKIRMISH ERS LEVEL THE RIFLES

07:32 - OUT. AND THE QUICK REACTION

07:35 - BUEHLER EITHER HOLD ON THE

07:37 - REINS OF THIS HORSE LIFTING OFF

07:39 - TO HIS HAUNCHES TO

07:40 - PROTECT HIMSELF. UNFORTUNATELY

07:42 - KATHRYN BIGELOW HAS HIT TWICE.

07:44 - THIS HORSE IT TWICE WHICH

07:45 - CAUSED HIM TO THROWN FROM HIS

07:47 - HORSE.

07:48 - IF YOU ARE READING IMMEDIATELY

07:49 - REACTED GOING TO THE AID OF HIS

07:52 - CAPTAIN AND TRY TO BRING HIM TO

07:53 - THE

07:54 - NEAREST HORSES READ ONE OTHER

07:56 - FELLOW SOLDIER PUT CAPTAIN BILL

07:58 - ON REID'S HORSE. RE GRABBING

08:00 - ANOTHER HORSE AT A WALK.

08:03 - RETIRING KATHRYN BIGELOW

08:04 - HIMSELF FROM THE FIELD.

08:07 - CAPTAIN DALE WAS SO MOVED BY

08:08 - THE ACTIONS OF BUEHLER WHO

08:09 - LATER RIGHT. HILLARY DID NOT

08:11 - FLINCH BUT STILL HAS SUPPORTED

08:13 - ME TOOK THE HORSE IN A WALK,

08:15 - ALTHOUGH.

08:16 - ALTHOUGH BETWEEN 2 FIRES AND

08:18 - GUIDED ABOUT.

08:20 - THE SACRIFICE OF THE BATTERY

08:22 - BOUGHT TIME FOR THE ARMY.

08:25 - HOWEVER, AFTER 5, 3, TONS OF

08:27 - AMMUNITION. THE ONLY DELAY THE

08:29 - CONFEDERATE VANCE BY 30

08:31 - MINUTES.

08:34 - THE KNIFE

08:35 - MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY BOUGHT

08:36 - TIME FOR MCGILBER TO BRING TO

08:38 - GUNS TO REINFORCE POSITION AND

08:40 - DRIVE BACK CONFEDERATE FORCES

08:42 - FROM A PORTION OF THE FIELD.

08:45 - THE MISSISSIPPI IS CAPITAL FOR

08:47 - GUNS LEFT BEHIND BY BIGELOW'S

08:49 - MAN. THE LATER RECAPTURED BY

08:52 - UNION FORCES. THE CASUALTIES

08:54 - WERE. HORRIFIC IN SOME SORT OF

08:56 - WAY. THE BATTERY LAST

08:58 - 10 MAN KILLED 20 WOUNDED AND

09:01 - 80 OF ITS 88 HORSES KILLED.

09:03 - AMONGST THE CAVS.

09:06 - BRETT WELL EARLIER

09:07 - BROUGHT UP. THE FLIGHT THAT

09:09 - WE'VE LOST SO MANY OFFICERS, A

09:10 - MAN THAT IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE

09:11 - THE SAME BATTERY.

09:13 - THE SOCCER FAR AS OF ABOUT IT

09:14 - WAS NOT DONE

09:15 - IN VAIN. UNION SOLDIERS

09:17 - REINFORCE A POSITION ON

09:18 - CEMETERY RIDGE AND PUSH BACK

09:20 - THE FED OR FORCES THAT WAS

09:21 - CAPTURED THAT RUSSELL FARM

09:22 - PROPERTY. NELSON'S REMAINING

09:25 - 2 GUNS HAS SURVIVORS

09:26 - APPROACHED THEM. THEY WERE

09:28 - LATER PLACED ALONG CEMETERY,

09:30 - RIDGE AS A RESERVE BATTER THE

09:31 - NEXT DAY. THEY

09:33 - PARTICIPATED BRIEFLY AND

09:35 - PICKETT'S CHARGE AFTER THIS

09:37 - POINT.

09:39 - YOU KNOW THE BATTERY CONTINUES

09:40 - TO SERVE AFTER THE BATTLE OF

09:41 - GETTYSBURG IT WAS NEVER THE

09:42 - SAME.

09:46 - CAPTAIN BEN WILL CONTINUE TO

09:47 - WRITE NUMEROUS ACCOUNTS OF THE

09:49 - BATTLE, INCLUDING THE STORY OF

09:50 - CHARLES FREE. HE WAS

09:52 - SO MOVED. I READ STORY THAT HE

09:55 - DECIDED TO NOMINATE CHARLES

09:56 - REED FOR THE MEDAL OF HONOR.

09:59 - ON AUGUST 15TH.

10:01 - 1895. CHARLES READ RECEIVES THE

10:04 - MEDAL OF HONOR FOR SAVING

10:05 - CAPTAIN BAGEL.

10:07 - THE ENGAGEMENT US FURTHER

10:09 - AMPLIFIED BY THE PICTURES OF

10:11 - THE CASUALTIES LEFT BEHIND.

10:13 - ALEXANDER

10:14 - GARDNER'S TEAM CAPTURE THE

10:16 - PHOTO OF THAT ROSS A PROPERTY

10:17 - WITH ALL THE HORSES BIGGLES

10:19 - BATTERY SCATTERED THROUGHOUT

10:20 - THE FIELD.

10:22 - WHAT IS NOT NORMALLY SEEN AS

10:23 - THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE

10:24 - SOLDIERS THAT ARE BURIED ON THE

10:25 - PROPERTY BUT THEY'RE LATER

10:27 - REINTERRED ELSEWHERE.

10:29 - AS THE CITY OF THE FIELD BEHIND

10:31 - ME WITH SOME ON A SCATTERED

10:32 - ACROSS THE WAY THEY MAY NOT

10:34 - LOOK MY MUCH THE

10:36 - STORY OF THE NIGHT

10:37 - MASSACHUSETTS BATTER SHOULD BE

10:38 - REMEMBERED. THOSE STORIES OF

10:40 - TROLLS READ AND SEVERAL OTHERS

10:43 - SHOULD BE REMEMBERED. THEIR

10:44 - STORIES FOR YEARS. SO GIVE A

10:47 - VOICE TO THOSE THAT CANNOT

10:49 - THOSE THAT GAVE THEIR LAST FULL

10:50 - MEASURE.

10:52 - I LIKE TO THANK YOU FOLKS FOR

10:53 - COMING AND LISTENING TO THIS

10:54 - THIS TALK ABOUT THE KNIFE

10:56 - MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY ON THE

10:57 - 100 57TH ANNIVERSARY OF

10:59 - THIS ACTION. MY NAME IS STEVEN

11:01 - SOMEONE, I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE

11:02 - REST OF YOUR EVENING.