On June 30, 1863, the Battle of Hanover delayed Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and a 17-mile long column of supplies from getting to Gettysburg. Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. Elon Farnsworth (who died three days later at Gettysburg) arrived to stand in his way. Brig. Gen. George Custer also joined the fray, delaying Stuart's arrival at Gettysburg until the afternoon of July 2, to the consternation of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
00:28 - >>HELLO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
00:29 - AND WELCOME TO BATTLEFIELD
00:31 - PENNSYLVANIA. TODAY WE'RE ON
00:32 - LOCATION IN HANOVER, YORK
00:34 - COUNTY.
00:35 - IN THE SUMMER OF 18. 63
00:37 - CONFEDERATE GENERAL JEB STUART
00:39 - WAS DESPERATE TO REUNITE WITH
00:40 - THE ARMY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
00:42 - TO DO SO. HOWEVER, WE HAVE TO
00:44 - FIGHT HIS WAY THROUGH THE CITY
00:45 - OF HANOVER AND WAITING UNION
00:46 - FORCES. I'M YOUR HOST BREAK,
00:49 - RIGHT, SIR. JOINING ME TODAY
00:51 - TO DISCUSS THE BATTLE OF
00:51 - HANOVER ARE AUTHORS ERIC
00:53 - WITTENBERG AND JD PATRISSE.
00:55 - IT. GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU BOTH
00:56 - FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU,
00:57 - BRADY. THANKS, BRADY. WE'RE
00:58 - HAPPY TO BE HERE. TELL US FIRST
01:00 - A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR
01:01 - BACKGROUND. ME. I WAS I MEAN,
01:03 - ACTUALLY NATIVE PENNSYLVANIA,
01:04 - ALTHOUGH I'VE LIVED IN
01:05 - COLUMBUS, OHIO, FOR 29 YEARS.
01:07 - I A
01:08 - >>GREW UP IN THE READING AREA.
01:10 - I DID MY UNDERGRADUATE
01:11 - DICKINSON COLLEGE IN CARLISLE.
01:14 - WE HAVE A MASTER'S DEGREE IN MY
01:16 - LAW DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY
01:17 - OF PITTSBURGH AND MIGRATED WEST
01:19 - FOR JOB PURPOSES. SO I'VE BEEN
01:20 - OUT THERE EVER SINCE.
01:23 - I'M THE AUTHOR OF 19 PUBLISHED
01:24 - BOOKS ON THE CIVIL WAR. MY
01:26 - SPECIALTY IS SOME WERE CAVALRY
01:28 - OPERATIONS AND THE GETTYSBURG
01:30 - CAMPAIGN.
01:33 - ALSO NATIVE PENNSYLVANIA.
01:34 - IN 1987 GRADUATE OF PENN STATE
01:37 - UNIVERSITY. BUT
01:40 - >>SCHOOL BACKGROUND WERE OR MY
01:42 - MY LEARNING BACKGROUND IS NOT
01:43 - EXACTLY HISTORY. MY DEGREE FROM
01:45 - PENN STATE IS AN INSURANCE
01:47 - WHICH IS WHAT I ACTION
01:48 - INSURANCE BROKER. IT ACTUALLY
01:51 - MAKES A KIND OF NICE BECAUSE IT
01:52 - GIVES ME THE FLEXIBILITY AND
01:53 - THE FREE TIME TO PURSUE
01:56 - HISTORICAL PURSUITS. BUT SO
01:59 - YOU'VE GOT AN INSURANCE
02:00 - SALESMAN, AN ATTORNEY HERE, I
02:01 - THINK, FOR A USED CAR SALESMAN,
02:02 - YOU PROBABLY HAVE THE TOP.
02:03 - WE HAVE IT ALL MOST POPULAR
02:06 - PEOPLE.
02:07 - >>TELL US A LITTLE BIT OF A
02:08 - HANOVER IN THE TIME OF THE
02:09 - CIVIL WAR. WELL, HANOVER IS A
02:12 - VERY OLD IT WAS A FIRST SETTLED
02:16 - IN THE 17 50'S AND WAS LAID
02:19 - OUT BY A FELLOW NAMED RICHARD
02:20 - MCALLISTER.
02:21 - >>AND I THINK 17 63 SO 100
02:24 - YEARS, ACTUALLY BEFORE THE
02:25 - BATTLE, NO, FOR HANOVER,
02:26 - GERMANY, RIGHT?
02:29 - THERE'S THERE'S THOSE GERMAN
02:30 - ROOTS AND SCOTCH IRISH AND SO
02:32 - FORTH. IT WAS KNOWN AS HICKORY
02:36 - TOWN ACTUALLY BEFORE HAND OVER
02:37 - BECAUSE HERE IN THIS AREA.
02:38 - AND YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IT TODAY.
02:39 - BUT THE AREA WAS POPULATED BY
02:43 - HICKORY SWAMPS AND HAVE VERY
02:44 - HEAVILY FORESTED AREAS AND SO
02:46 - FORTH. BUT RATHER OLD TOWN OR
02:49 - OTHER ETHNIC TOWN AND SET UP ON
02:53 - THE SAME TYPE OF BRIDGE.
02:56 - SO WE SAY IS WE KNOW A LOT OF
02:57 - THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL
02:59 - PENNSYLVANIA TOWNS. WE HAVE A
03:01 - TOWN SQUARE ROADS RADIATING
03:03 - OUT OF THE TOWN. YOU KNOW WHAT
03:04 - YOU'RE USING NAME FOR THE OTHER
03:06 - TOWNS THAT THEY GO TO. AND
03:08 - BECAUSE OF THAT, THAT'S REALLY
03:09 - GOING TO PLAY A PART IN HOW
03:10 - THIS BATTLE UNFOLDS. THE WAY
03:12 - THAT I WAS LAID OUT. MUCH LIKE
03:14 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
03:15 - THIS IS ALL DRIVEN BY ROAD
03:16 - NETWORKS.
03:18 - WHAT'S THE STATE OF THE CIVIL
03:20 - WAR IN THE SUMMER OF 18?
03:21 - 63? WELL, THE CONFEDERATES HAVE
03:24 - SOUGHT TO REMOVE THE WAR FROM
03:26 - VIRGINIA TO GIVE THE FARMERS
03:27 - A BREAK.
03:28 - >>THEY HAVE AFTER MUCH
03:30 - DISCUSSION JUST ELECTED TO
03:32 - INVADE PENNSYLVANIA.
03:34 - THE LEADING ELEMENTS OF THE
03:35 - PAIR OF THE CONFEDERATE
03:36 - INVASION CROSS THE MASON-DIXON
03:38 - LINE INTO INTO PENNSYLVANIA AS
03:40 - EARLY AS JUNE 22ND ELEMENTS OF
03:42 - HIS THE ARMY OF NORTHERN
03:44 - VIRGINIA 2ND QUARTER. MAKE IT
03:45 - ALL THE WAY THE OUTSKIRTS OF
03:46 - HARRISBURG.
03:48 - WHERE THERE'S A SKIRMISH AS
03:49 - LATE AS
03:51 - JUNE. 30TH PLACE CALLED
03:53 - SPORTING HILL IN CAMP HILL.
03:55 - LEE HAS ORDERED THE
03:57 - CONCENTRATION OF THE ARMY AT
03:59 - GETTYSBURG. ONCE HE'S LEARNED
04:00 - ABOUT THE PRESENCE OF A UNION
04:02 - FORCES NORTH OF THE POTOMAC
04:04 - RIVER.
04:06 - THE ARMY. THE TIME IT'S CLOSING
04:07 - IN ON LEE'S ARMY AND THE
04:11 - CONCENTRATION POINT CHOSEN HIS
04:13 - CASH DOWN. BUT BECAUSE OF THE
04:15 - ROAD NETWORK IN GETTYSBURG.
04:18 - 10 MAJOR ROADS COME TOGETHER.
04:19 - THERE. IT BECOMES A NATURAL
04:21 - FOCAL POINT BECAUSE THE
04:23 - DISPARATE ELEMENTS OF LEE'S
04:24 - ARMY. WE HAVE TO USE THAT ROAD
04:27 - NETWORK TO GET TO CASH DOWN.
04:29 - SO CONSEQUENTLY, THE UNIT YOU
04:31 - NEED HIGH COMMAND HAS ELECTED
04:32 - TO SEND UNION CAVALRY FORCES
04:35 - TO SEIZE AND HOLD GETTYSBURG
04:37 - NEW ORDER TO BLOCK THAT ROUTE.
04:38 - AND THAT SETS THE STAGE FOR
04:40 - WHAT WILL BECOME THE BATTLE
04:41 - OF GETTYSBURG. IN THE MEANTIME,
04:43 - STUART IS CAVALRY HAVE BEEN OFF
04:44 - ON AN EIGHT-DAY EXPEDITION.
04:46 - AND THEY'RE THEY'RE RUDE OF
04:48 - MARCH IN SEARCHING FOR EWELLS
04:50 - INFANTRY. BRINGS THEM RIGHT
04:51 - THROUGH HANOVER ON THEIR WAY
04:53 - FROM WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND.
04:55 - THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO NEW
04:55 - YORK. ONE THING WE'VE LEARNED
04:58 - ON THIS PROGRAM, ESPECIALLY IS
04:59 - THAT LEE'S INVASION OF
05:01 - PENNSYLVANIA HAS MANY
05:02 - OBJECTIVES IN MIND. ONE OF THE
05:04 - TARGETS HE LOOKS AT, WHAT ARE
05:06 - SOME OF THE MAYBE LESS
05:08 - CONSIDERED ELEMENTS OF HIS
05:10 - INVASION THAT HE TALKED ABOUT?
05:11 - WELL, I THINK DEFINITELY
05:12 - PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, THE THE
05:14 - THE MORE WELL-KNOWN AND
05:16 - IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHICAL TARGETS
05:18 - THAT HE'S LOOKING AT.
05:18 - HARRISBURG, YOU KNOW, FOR ONE
05:21 - >>BALTIMORE.
05:22 - PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON AND
05:25 - I AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO
05:26 - KEEP IN MIND THAT NOT ONLY, YOU
05:28 - KNOW, THE YOU KNOW, FALL OUT OF
05:32 - RESULTS THAT IF THE CONFEDERATE
05:33 - ARMY WE'RE ACTUALLY LAY SIEGE
05:35 - UPON THESE AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE
05:38 - SOME SORT OF A MILITARY
05:40 - DOMINANCE OF THOSE ARE JUST THE
05:42 - PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT, YOU KNOW,
05:43 - FROM THE NORTH AND I THINK
05:44 - REALLY IS VERY, VERY AWARE OF
05:46 - THAT.
05:47 - >>AS WELL AS THE NEW FEDERAL
05:48 - ARMY COMMANDER, GEORGE ME.
05:49 - BUT ALSO VERY IMPORTANTLY,
05:51 - ABRAHAM LINCOLN. YOU KNOW, THE
05:52 - PRESIDENT, I THINK THERE'S A
05:53 - THERE'S DEFINITELY A
05:54 - PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF THAT.
05:56 - >>IF A LEAD, WE CAN GET SOME
05:58 - TYPE OF A VICTORY HERE IN
06:00 - PENNSYLVANIA THAT HE WAS ALMOST
06:02 - AT THE DOORSTEP. 2 IN MARYLAND,
06:05 - YOU KNOW, THE PREVIOUS FALL,
06:06 - CULMINATING IN THE BATTLE THAN
06:07 - 10 WITH YOU CAN GET SOME TYPE
06:08 - OF VICTORY HERE IN
06:09 - NORTHERN SOIL.
06:11 - >>THAT WILL POLITICALLY MAKE A
06:13 - LOT OF THE THE NORTHERN
06:15 - CITIZENS AND POLITICIANS WHO
06:18 - ARE ALREADY TIRED OF THIS WAR
06:19 - AND MAY BE CONSIDERING SUING
06:21 - FOR PEACE. YOU KNOW, REALLY
06:22 - RETHINK THIS STRATEGY OF OF
06:25 - LINCOLN IN THE FEDERAL ARM.
06:26 - SO THERE'S THERE'S THAT
06:28 - PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF WHICH
06:29 - IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS
06:30 - ANYTHING MILITARY OR STRATEGIC.
06:33 - >>YOU ARE BOTH CONSIDERED
06:35 - EXPERTS IN THIS FIELD. WE
06:37 - ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT WHAT IFS
06:39 - PHILADELPHIA BEING A TARGET IN
06:40 - YOUR OPINION. COULD ROBERT E
06:42 - LEE'S ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
06:44 - HAVE ACTUALLY TAKEN
06:45 - PHILADELPHIA WOMAN. AN ATTACK
06:46 - ON PHILADELPHIA HAVE LOOKED
06:48 - LIKE. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN
06:50 - LOGISTICALLY VERY DIFFICULT
06:51 - BECAUSE HE AT THAT POINT IS
06:53 - MORE OR LESS HAD TO CUT OFF
06:55 - HIS. WE'RE JUST TICKLED SUPPLY
06:57 - TALE AND LIVE OFF THE LAND AND
06:59 - HOPE THAT HE'S GOT ENOUGH
07:00 - AMMUNITION. IT'S
07:03 - I THINK A HIGHLY UNLIKELY
07:05 - SCENARIO. HARRISBURG IS A MUCH
07:06 - MORE LIKELY TARGET BECAUSE
07:08 - THAT'S WITHIN HIS SUPPLY CHAIN.
07:10 - BUT IT TO THE MARCH ALL THE
07:12 - WAY TO PHILADELPHIA ATTEMPT TO
07:14 - ATTACK PHILADELPHIA IS. REALLY
07:17 - ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. I THINK NOT
07:20 - LEAST BY THE ROUTE TO BE TAKEN.
07:21 - HAD HE COME UP A DIFFERENT
07:22 - ROUTE, PERHAPS FROM BALTIMORE.
07:24 - THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY.
07:26 - BUT BY COMING UP VIA
07:27 - WILLIAMSPORT, MARYLAND, AND
07:29 - THEN COMING THROUGH THE
07:29 - CUMBERLAND VALLEY, HE'S CUTTING
07:31 - YOURSELF OFF FROM THE SUPPLY
07:33 - CHAIN. IF HE TRIES TO GO ALL
07:34 - THE WAY TO PHILADELPHIA, IT
07:35 - DOES. IT DOES SEEM
07:36 - EXTRAORDINARY. CERTAINLY IT
07:38 - WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ENORMOUS
07:39 - MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
07:41 - JB, WHAT DO YOU THINK? I THINK
07:42 - IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT
07:43 - THAT ERIC JUST TOUCHED THE FACT
07:46 - THAT HE MENTIONED THAT ELEMENTS
07:47 - OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY
07:48 - CONFEDERATE AVERAGE
07:49 - SPECIFICALLY HAVE CROSS
07:51 - MASON-DIXON AS EARLY AS JUNE
07:52 - 22ND
07:54 - >>REGULAR GENERAL ALBERT
07:55 - JENKINS CONFEDERATE EVERY DAY
07:56 - FOR ONE AS WELL AS SOME OTHER
07:58 - ELEMENTS.
07:59 - >>ONE
07:59 - OF THEIR PRIMARY DUTIES BESIDES
08:02 - CLEARING THE WAY IN
08:03 - PENNSYLVANIA FOR ROBERT E LEE
08:05 - AND HIS CONFEDERATE ARMY IS
08:07 - ALSO FOR THEM TO BEGIN
08:08 - GATHERING SUPPLIES. AND THIS
08:10 - WE HAVE THIS FROM THEIR DIARIES
08:11 - AND OF COURSE, LETTERS FROM
08:13 - CITIZENS AND THEIR THAT THE
08:15 - CONFEDERATE CAVALRY HAS BEEN
08:17 - GATHERING. ALL THE HORSES, ALL
08:19 - THE FOOD, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING
08:20 - THEY CAN.
08:22 - I TOO HELP FEED AND EQUIPMENT
08:25 - SUPPLY LEE'S ARMY. ONCE IT GETS
08:27 - INTO PENNSYLVANIA, THE FURTHER
08:28 - HE GETS FROM HIS BASE THE MORE
08:30 - THAN HE NEEDS TO DO THAT.
08:31 - AND I THINK BECAUSE OF THAT,
08:34 - IT CHANGES ARE OUR PERCEPTION
08:37 - OF WHAT THE CITIZENS HERE IN
08:38 - THIS AREA HAVE BEEN GOING
08:40 - THROUGH FOR THOSE WEEKS AND
08:41 - MONTHS PRIOR TO THE BATTLE
08:43 - HANOVER, THE BATTLE OF
08:44 - GETTYSBURG. WE GET THE IDEA
08:46 - SOMETIMES THAT ON JULY 1ST,
08:49 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG FALLS
08:50 - ON AND THEY'VE NEVER BEEN
08:53 - TOUCHED BY THE CIVIL WAR BEFORE
08:55 - JUNE. 30TH HERE, THE BATTLE
08:56 - OF HANOVER, THEY CERTAINLY HAVE
08:58 - ALREADY FOR FOR DAYS AND
09:00 - SEVERAL WEEKS BECAUSE OF THE
09:01 - THREAT OF AN INVASION AND NORTH
09:03 - BY THE CONFEDERATE ARMY
09:04 - CITIZENS HERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN
09:06 - SENDING THEIR HORSES AND
09:07 - LOADING WAGONS WITH ALL THEIR
09:09 - POSSESSIONS AND TRYING TO SEND
09:10 - THEM EAST TOWARDS PHILADELPHIA.
09:11 - THE SUSQUEHANNA IN ORDER TO
09:13 - PROTECT THEM. SO IN DIRECT
09:15 - CONTRAST TO THESE PEOPLE, YOU
09:17 - KNOW, NOT BEING TOUCHED BY THE
09:18 - CIVIL WAR. THEY'VE BEEN VERY
09:19 - TOUCHED BY VERY AFFECTED BY IT
09:21 - LONG BEFORE THESE BATTLES EVEN
09:23 - HAPPEN.
09:24 - >>OBVIOUSLY, LOGISTICS ARE
09:25 - IMPORTANT. LET'S TALK ABOUT
09:27 - INTELLIGENCE GATHERING. HOW DID
09:28 - THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
09:30 - AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
09:31 - KNOW WHERE THEIR OPPONENTS
09:33 - WERE, WHAT METHODS THAT THEY
09:34 - USE. THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS.
09:37 - FIRST PELOTON'S GATHERINGS, ONE
09:39 - OF THE PRIMARY ROLES CAVALRY
09:41 - IN ITS TRADITIONAL ROLES.
09:42 - AND AND IT'S THE CALORIES JOB
09:45 - TO GO OUT, FIND THE ENEMY AND
09:46 - FIND THE ENEMY'S DISPOSITIONS
09:48 - AND REPORT BACK. SO THAT'S ONE
09:49 - WAY. ALSO GETTING A LOT OF VERY
09:51 - USEFUL INFORMATION FROM THE
09:52 - CITIZENRY.
09:54 - THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC HAD AN
09:56 - EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL
09:58 - ORGANIZATION CALLED THE BUREAU
10:00 - OF MILITARY INFORMATION WHICH
10:02 - IS. SHORT HAND FOR SPY NETWORK
10:06 - THAT WAS EXTRAORDINARILY
10:08 - SUCCESSFUL THE MEN OF THE BMI
10:11 - REALLY WORKED HARD AND REALLY
10:12 - DID A GOOD JOB OF GATHERING
10:13 - INTEL. SO WHEN YOU WHEN YOU
10:15 - COMBINE ALL OF THOSE THINGS
10:16 - BETWEEN THE INTELLIGENCE
10:17 - GATHERED BY THE CAVALRY.
10:19 - >>THE LOCALS IN REPORTS OF THE
10:21 - CITIZENRY IN THE WORK BEING
10:22 - DONE BY THE BMI.
10:24 - >>THE UNION HIGH COMMAND
10:25 - ACTUALLY HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA
10:27 - OF WHERE THE DISPOSITIONS OF
10:28 - THE CONFEDERATE ARMY WORK.
10:30 - BY CONTRAST, WE REALLY DIDN'T
10:31 - KNOW WHERE THE UNION ARMY WAS.
10:33 - AND THAT'S IN PART BECAUSE OF
10:35 - THE POOR DECISION WE MADE AND
10:37 - ALLOWING STEWART TO GO OFF ON
10:39 - THIS EXPEDITION THAT WE'RE HERE
10:41 - TO TALK ABOUT TODAY. YOU
10:43 - MENTIONED CAVALRY AND THE
10:44 - IMPORTANCE OF INTELLIGENCE
10:45 - WOMAN INTO BEING A CAVALRY
10:47 - OFFICER.
10:48 - >>IN THE 19TH CENTURY. COVER
10:50 - IS DEFINITELY THE INTELLIGENCE
10:52 - ARM OF EITHER ARM.
10:54 - >>THEY ARE THE EYES AND EARS OF
10:56 - THE ARMY. AND I THINK IT'S
10:57 - IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND COVER
10:59 - HIM AND IS REALLY TO ANSWER TO
11:01 - SOMEONE THE MAN IN THE HORSE,
11:03 - IF THE CAVERN AND DOES NOT HAVE
11:04 - A HORSE. WHAT IS THESE THE THE
11:08 - 4 STEPS TO AND MOBILITY?
11:11 - AND THOSE THAT ARE ABLE TO
11:13 - ACTUALLY INTERPRET INFORMATION
11:15 - HE GETS FROM THOSE SOURCES THAT
11:16 - ERIC MENTIONS, WHETHER ITS
11:18 - CITIZENS, YOU KNOW, CAPTIVES.
11:23 - CONFEDERATE KEPT US SAFE, FOR
11:24 - INSTANCE, ON THE UNION THEY'RE
11:26 - GOING TO TRY TO GET AS MUCH
11:27 - INFORMATION AS THEY CAN OUT
11:28 - OF THEM. IT'S IT'S A VERY
11:30 - IMPORTANT FOR THOSE CARRY
11:31 - OFFICERS TO BE GOOD AT WHAT
11:33 - THEY DO. AND PERCEPTIVE.
11:36 - ANALYZING THAT INFORMATION THEY
11:38 - RECEIVE AND SO MUCH OF YOU, THE
11:40 - GOOD ANALYSTS ATION OR OR THE
11:43 - BAD ANALYSIS, YOU KNOW, PLAYS
11:44 - INTO HOW SO MANY BATTLES AND
11:46 - SKIRMISHES END UP TAKING PLACE.
11:49 - >>ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT
11:50 - THE BATTLE OF HANOVER ARE THE
11:51 - BIG PERSONALITIES. WE AFTER ONE
11:53 - OF THEM UNMISTAKABLY AS JEB
11:55 - STUART, WHO IS HE AND WHAT HAS
11:57 - HE BEEN DOING AS LEE'S ARMY
11:59 - INVADES PENNSYLVANIA? WELL, AS
12:01 - YOU SAY, QUITE CORRECTLY, BRADY
12:03 - STEWART IS ONE OF THE BIG
12:04 - PERSONALITIES OF THE WAR.
12:06 - JAMES EWELL BROWN STEWART.
12:09 - BORN IN SOUTHERN PORTION OF
12:10 - VIRGINIA NOT FAR FROM THE NORTH
12:12 - CAROLINA STATE LINE. WEST POINT
12:16 - TRAINED. CAVALRY OFFICER.
12:19 - KNOWN FOR BEING. A FUN-LOVING
12:23 - GUY. WE LIKE TO SING. WE LIKE
12:26 - TO TELL JOKES HE LIKED TO LAUGH
12:30 - A WHOLE LOT. SO HE KIND OF HAS
12:32 - THIS IMAGE BECAUSE OF THAT.
12:34 - AND HE'S THE THE THE HAT WITH
12:36 - THE OSTRICH PLUMES THAT HE WORE
12:38 - OF BEING SOME WHITE. FRIVOLOUS
12:41 - AND LIGHT HEARTED. BUT THE
12:42 - REALITY OF THE SITUATION IS
12:44 - THIS WAS ONE EXTRAORDINARILY
12:45 - CAPABLE, PROFESSIONAL,
12:47 - COMPETENT SOLDIER.
12:50 - DESCRIBED BY JOHN SEDWICK TO
12:52 - FORMER COMMANDER AND THE FIRST
12:54 - THE REGIMENT A CAVALRY BEFORE
12:56 - THE WAR. AND NOW THE COMMANDER
12:57 - OF THE 6 CORE, THE ARMY OF THE
12:59 - POTOMAC AS BEING THE FINEST
13:00 - CALVARY NEVER FOLD ON THE NORTH
13:02 - AMERICAN CONTINENT. STEWART WAS
13:05 - 33 YEARS-OLD. HE WAS AT THE
13:07 - HEIGHT OF HIS FAME. HE WAS AT
13:08 - THE HEIGHT OF HIS GLORY.
13:10 - AND HE WAS AS GOOD AS THEY
13:11 - CAME.
13:13 - IAN LEE READ A VERY CLOSE
13:14 - PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. WE
13:16 - RELIED ON HIM PERSONALLY TO
13:18 - BE HIS EYES AND EARS. AND WHEN
13:22 - STEWART.
13:23 - WAS GONE LONGER THAN WE
13:24 - EXPECTED HIM TO BE. AND NO WORD
13:27 - FROM STEWART WAS WAS RISING
13:29 - ARRIVING AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
13:31 - WE BECAME EXTREMELY NERVOUS
13:32 - ABOUT IT BECAME VERY CONCERNED
13:34 - ABOUT IT. I DON'T KNOW THE WAS
13:36 - NECESSARILY CONCERNED SO MUCH
13:37 - ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS CAMRY
13:39 - FORCES. HE WAS RECOGNIZING HOW
13:41 - BLIND HE WAS WITHOUT THE MAN HE
13:43 - RELIED ON HIS EYES AND EARS.
13:45 - SO STEWART IS IS ONE OF THE
13:46 - TOWERING FIGURES OF THE
13:47 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. HE'S A A
13:50 - GUY THAT'S ALMOST IRREPLACEABLE
13:52 - FOR THE CONFEDERACY. CERTAINLY
13:53 - WOULD HAVE BEEN IN 18. 63.
13:56 - CAVALRY MEN ENJOYED A LEVEL
13:58 - OF CELEBRITY. THAT BY TODAY'S
13:59 - STANDARDS, FOLKS IN THE
14:00 - MILITARY JUST DON'T HAVE.
14:02 - >>ALMOST ALMOST HOLLYWOOD'S
14:04 - CELEBRITY LEVEL. I TO FIGHTER
14:07 - PILOTS WE TALK ABOUT THAT.
14:09 - HOW PEOPLE VIEW IN ESPECIALLY
14:11 - STEWART.
14:12 - WELL, LIKE I SAY, STEWART WAS
14:14 - KNOWN AS AS BEING A GUY WHO.
14:17 - WHAT WAS LARGER THAN LIFE
14:19 - BECAUSE HE HAD THIS BIG,
14:19 - OUTGOING PERSONALITY AND HE
14:22 - LIKED TO SAYING HIS THEME SONG.
14:24 - IF YOU WANT TO HAVE SOME FUN
14:25 - JOINING THE CAVALRY.
14:28 - WE LIKE TO LAUGH. YOU LIKE TO
14:29 - HAVE A GOOD TIME. HE WAS A A
14:31 - WEED FROM THE FRONT SORT OF GUY
14:33 - WHO ALWAYS LED HIS MEN. WITH
14:36 - A SMILE ON HIS FACE. SO HE.
14:40 - WAS SORT OF THE THE ANTITHESIS
14:43 - OF STONEWALL JACKSON WITH WHOM
14:45 - HE HAD A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP.
14:47 - JACKSON WAS QUIET, DOUR AND
14:50 - SHY. AND STEWART WAS BEGIN
14:52 - OUTGOING. IT WAS REALLY AN
14:54 - INTERESTING.
14:56 - OPPOSITES. ATTRACT TYPE OF THE
14:58 - SITUATION. LET'S GO TO THE
15:00 - OTHER SIDE. THE UNION SIDE,
15:01 - JUDSON KILPATRICK IS NAMES ON
15:03 - THE MONUMENT. JAY DETAILS ABOUT
15:05 - WE LOVE THE STUDY. JOHNSON
15:07 - KILPATRICK AND PROBABLY FOR FOR
15:09 - VARIOUS REASONS. HE'S HE'S VERY
15:11 - ATTRACTIVE TO MANY STUDENTS
15:13 - OF THE CIVIL WAR.
15:14 - >>IN MANY WAYS, VERY MUCH THE
15:16 - OPPOSITE. YOU KNOW, THE JEB
15:18 - JUSTIN KILPATRICK IS MOURNING
15:19 - DECKER TOWN, NEW JERSEY.
15:21 - HE'S A GRADUATE OF THE MAY 8,
15:23 - 2, 61 WEST POINT CLASS WEST
15:26 - POINT AT THE START OF THE WAR
15:27 - WAS GRADUATING. THOSE, YOU
15:29 - KNOW, YOUNG OFFICERS OR TO GET
15:30 - THEM OUT OF THE FIELD EARLY
15:33 - ONE OF BRIGADE COMMANDERS.
15:35 - THAT, OF COURSE, WILL BE
15:36 - TALKING ABOUT A LITTLE GEORGE
15:37 - ARMSTRONG, CUSTER GRADUATED AND
15:40 - IN THE JUNE 18 61 CLASS.
15:42 - SO YOU'RE RIGHT, RICK, RIGHT
15:44 - NOW YOUR SO KILPATRICK IS
15:46 - YOUNG. AT THE START OF THE
15:48 - CIVIL WAR. HE OUR FRESH OFFICER
15:51 - OUT OF WEST POINT HE SPENDS
15:53 - TIME IN BOTH THE CARRY IN THE
15:55 - INFANTRY EARLY IN HIS CAREER
15:56 - AND PROBABLY A GOOD
15:57 - FORESHADOWING OF HIS CAREER
15:59 - IS HE IS ARRESTED EARLY IN HIS
16:02 - CAREER FOR SOME SHAME
16:04 - SHENANIGANS INVOLVING THE SALE
16:06 - OF HORSES AND SPEND SOME TIME
16:08 - IN THE OLD CAPITOL PRESENT BUT
16:10 - DESPITE THAT, HE GETS BACK OUT
16:12 - IN THE FIELD. WE IN EARLY 18,
16:17 - EVENTUALLY A COMMANDO REGIMENT
16:20 - BRANDY STATION
16:21 - AND IMPRESSES ALFORD.
16:23 - PLEASANTON FEDERAL CARRY
16:26 - COMMANDER SO MUCH THAT SHOW
16:28 - PATRICK, AS ONE OF SORT OF
16:30 - THOSE EARLY BOY GENERALS WHO IS
16:32 - PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL
16:33 - SKIP SEVERAL DAYS IN MID-JUNE.
16:36 - HE'S PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER
16:37 - GENERAL TAKES COMMAND OF THE
16:39 - 3RD DIVISION SHORTLY AFTER
16:41 - THAT.
16:42 - SO HE IS ONE OF THE 3 DIVISION
16:44 - COMMANDERS ALONG WITH JOHN
16:45 - BUFORD AND DAVID, GREAT IN THE
16:48 - ARMY. THE POTOMAC DISCOVERY.
16:51 - HE IS IN COMMAND HERE AT
16:52 - HANOVER HE IS KNOWN AND PROVED
16:55 - HIMSELF AS A VERY IMPETUOUS
16:57 - COMMANDER IN MANY WAYS,
16:59 - PROBABLY A PRETTY GOOD FIT.
17:00 - YOU KNOW WHAT CUSTER?
17:02 - EVEN THOUGH HE IS MARRIED EARLY
17:04 - IN THE WAR, HE'S KNOWN AS A
17:06 - HOPELESS WOMANIZER OR ONE OF
17:07 - THE MOST FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS
17:09 - OF KILPATRICK SHOWS HIM AND HIS
17:11 - STAFF AND KIM, I THINK IT'S
17:13 - FROM 18, 64. AND IT ACTUALLY
17:15 - SHOWS ONE OF HIS MISTRESSES.
17:18 - HE HAD SEVERAL TRAVEL ALONG
17:19 - WITH HIM. IN A CARRY UNIFORM
17:22 - WITH THEIR HAIR TUCKED UP UNDER
17:25 - SO HE WAS IN SHOCK, EVEN ABOUT,
17:26 - YOU KNOW, IS AND THEN ERIC ROWE
17:29 - TO BROOK, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS CUP
17:31 - ACTRESS CAREER TOWARDS THE END
17:32 - OF THE WAR, WHICH DEALS WITH
17:34 - HAS WOMANIZING AND SO FORTH.
17:36 - BUT
17:37 - NOT TO BE OVERSHADOWED. I SAY,
17:39 - BY THE WAY, SOME COMMANDERS
17:40 - ACTUALLY DID FEEL ABOUT WILLIAM
17:43 - TECUMSEH. SHERMAN IN FACT, I
17:45 - THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT
17:48 - THE WAY HE PATRICK AND HE SAYS
17:50 - KILPATRICK IS A HELL OF A DAM
17:52 - FOR, BUT JUST THE SORT OF THEM
17:54 - FOR THAT. I WANT COMMANDING
17:55 - MIKE AVERAGE. SO WHEN HE GOES
17:57 - WHERE SHERMAN'S ARMY HE'S STILL
17:59 - BACK IN HIS OLD WAYS. BUT HE IS
18:01 - EFFECTIVE AS A COMMANDER EARLY
18:03 - IN THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN.
18:04 - HERE IS THE NICKNAME KILL
18:06 - CAVALRY, SORT OF A PLAY ON HIS
18:08 - LAST NAME. WHICH POINTS TO THE
18:11 - FACT THAT HE IS KNOWN FOR USING
18:13 - UP MEN AND HORSES, ALMOST
18:14 - IMPETUOUS LATE. HE IS NOT
18:17 - AFRAID TO ATTACK WHAT ONE OF
18:19 - HIS SHORTCOMINGS IS. HE VERY
18:21 - RARELY COORDINATES WITH THE
18:22 - OTHER COMMANDERS ON THE FIELD.
18:24 - AND THAT WILL SHOW SOMEWHAT
18:26 - HERE, YOU KNOW, I CAN OVER,
18:27 - BUT IT'S ALSO GOING TO SHOW
18:28 - VERY MUCH DURING THE REST OF
18:30 - THE CAMPAIGN. AND DURING THE
18:31 - BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG AS WELL,
18:33 - HE SEES HIMSELF AFTER THE WAR
18:35 - IS EVENTUALLY THE GOVERNOR OF
18:36 - NEW JERSEY. THEN EVENTUALLY
18:37 - THE PRESIDENT, HE'S FULLY
18:39 - CONVINCED HE'S GOING TO GET
18:40 - THERE ONE DAY, BUT HE IS
18:42 - APPOINTED A MINISTER TO CHILE.
18:46 - ONE OF THE THINGS HE IS
18:47 - REMEMBERED THOUGH FOR AND I
18:48 - FIND IT VERY INTERESTING IS HE
18:50 - WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ORGANIZERS
18:52 - ARE CIVIL WAR REENACTMENTS AND
18:54 - ON HIS FARM IN NEW JERSEY.
18:55 - IT THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS
18:57 - THAT HE DID IN THE DECADES
18:58 - AFTER THE WORSE, HE WOULD
18:59 - INVITE BOTH FEDERAL AND
19:00 - CONFEDERATES TO COME AND
19:02 - REENACT BATTLES ON HIS
19:03 - PROPERTY. SO I FIND IT VERY
19:05 - INTERESTING. THE WAR NEVER LEFT
19:07 - HIM TO BE SURE WAS A WONDERFUL
19:09 - QUOTE BY CAPTAIN CHARLES
19:10 - FRANCIS. ADAMS OF THE FIRST
19:12 - MASSACHUSETTS CAVALRY. WHO WAS
19:13 - THE
19:14 - >>GRANDSON OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
19:16 - AND THE GREAT GRANDSON OF JOHN
19:17 - ADAMS HAD THE ADAMS FAMILY GIFT
19:20 - FOR FOR AN ACID TONGUE AND HE
19:22 - SAID ABOUT KILPATRICK. YOU
19:23 - CALLED HIM A BRAVE IN JUDICIOUS
19:25 - BOY MUCH BLOWN TO HALF A FOOT.
19:29 - CAVALRY REALLY DOES TAKE CENTER
19:30 - STAGE HERE AT THIS BATTLE.
19:32 - YOU MENTIONED CUSTER WHO WERE
19:33 - SOME OF THE OTHER YOUNG
19:35 - OFFICERS INVOLVED.
19:37 - WITH PATRICK, FOR LONG FARMS.
19:40 - >>WAS ONE OF THOSE 4 GENERALS
19:42 - WHO WAS PROMOTED ALONG WITH OUR
19:43 - CUSTER AND ALSO WESLEY MERRITT
19:46 - WAS GOING TO BE IN COMMAND OF
19:47 - THE RESERVED FOR DATE NIGHT
19:48 - HERE AT HANOVER. BUT BUT IN
19:49 - GETTYSBURG.
19:51 - THOSE BOY GENERALS ARE GOING
19:54 - TO PROVE VERY POLL HERE DURING
19:56 - THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN IN
19:58 - FARNSWORTH CASE, THOUGH,
20:00 - BECAUSE OF THAT DECISION, THE
20:01 - KILPATRICK MAKES A LAUNCH A.
20:04 - PROBABLY ILL-ADVISED MOUNTED.
20:07 - WE HAVE EVERY ATTACK ON JULY
20:09 - 3RD, JUST FOLLOWING PICKETT'S
20:10 - CHARGE FARNSWORTH U.S. KILLED.
20:13 - SO HERE AT HANOVER, ELON
20:14 - FARNSWORTH, UNFORTUNATELY, JUST
20:16 - HAS 3 DAYS TO LIVE BUT VERY
20:19 - GOOD. YOU KNOW, BRIGADE
20:20 - COMMANDERS IN BOTH FARNSWORTH
20:21 - IN CUSTER BECAUSE OF THE FACT
20:23 - THIS IS A 2 PHASE BATTLE
20:24 - FARNSWORTH IS REALLY GOING TO
20:25 - TOUR THE FIRST PHASE OF A
20:26 - BATTLE OF HANOVER AND CUSTER IS
20:28 - GOING FOR THE SECOND PHASE
20:30 - THEY'RE GOOD AT THE REGIMENTAL
20:33 - THAT THE LEVEL AS WELL. ONE
20:35 - THAT I CAN MENTION THE VERY
20:36 - INEXPERIENCED 18 PENNSYLVANIA
20:38 - CARRY, WHICH IS IN FARMER'S
20:41 - WORST BRIGADE. AND THEY'RE
20:42 - ACTUALLY GOING TO OPEN THE
20:42 - BATTLE WITH THE CONFEDERATE.
20:44 - YOU'RE ON THE MORNING OF JUNE.
20:44 - 30TH IS BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL
20:48 - WILLIAM PENN BRENT.
20:50 - AND IF YOU NOTICE HIS MIDDLE
20:51 - NAME BECOMES FOR QUITE A
20:52 - PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY PET.
20:55 - VERY GOOD ON THE CONFEDERATE
20:58 - SIDE. IT WON'T TALK
20:59 - ABOUT THOSE
21:00 - >>THERE ARE EQUALLY EQUALLY
21:02 - IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW,
21:03 - COMMANDERS, ONE OF WHICH IS
21:04 - GOING
21:07 - >>FACE QUITE A TWIST HERE IN
21:08 - HANOVER AND A RATHER
21:09 - EMBARRASSING WAY. HAHA THAT
21:11 - HE'S GOING UP GOING DOWN.
21:13 - WE'VE GOT IN ON THE CONFEDERATE
21:15 - SIDE. YOU HAVE BRIGADES
21:16 - COMMANDED BY FITZHUGH LEE, WHO
21:18 - IS THE
21:18 - >>FAVORITE NEPHEW OF ROBERT E
21:20 - LEE AND STEWART'S.
21:23 - SO MAY I GUESS IS THE BEST WAY
21:24 - TO DESCRIBE THEM SINCE LEE WAS
21:26 - CALLED THE LAUGHING CAVALIER.
21:27 - I'VE ALWAYS SAID ABOUT HIM,
21:28 - THOUGH, THAT HE'S THE GREATEST
21:30 - EXAMPLE OF THE PROOF OF.
21:33 - NEPOTISM IN IT THAT YOU COULD
21:34 - ASK FOR THAT. HAD HE NOT BEEN
21:36 - THE FAVORITE NEPHEW OF THE
21:37 - COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE ARMY
21:38 - OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA. YOU MIGHT
21:39 - HAVE MADE A PRETTY GOOD
21:40 - REGIMENTAL SERGEANT MAJOR
21:43 - SO YOU'VE GOT SITS. LEE AND
21:44 - HIS VETERAN FOR GAY TO
21:45 - VIRGINIANS. YOU HAVE WADE
21:46 - HAMPTON, THE 3RD REPUTEDLY, THE
21:49 - THE MOST THE WEALTHIEST MAN IN
21:50 - THE SOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
21:52 - WHO WILL ULTIMATELY SUCCEED HIM
21:54 - AS STEWART IN COMMAND OF THE
21:55 - CAVALRY CORPS, THE ARMY OF
21:56 - NORTHERN VIRGINIA WHEN
21:57 - STEWART'S KILLED IN 18, 64.
22:00 - HAMPTON, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NO
22:01 - FORMAL MILITARY TRAINING WAS
22:03 - EXTRAORDINARY CAPABLE OFFICER.
22:05 - AND THE 3RD BRIGADE IS
22:07 - COMMANDED BY A FELLOW NAMED
22:08 - JOHN RANDOLPH CHAMBLISS JUNIOR
22:10 - CHAMBLISS IS
22:12 - THE SENIOR COLONEL OF A BRIGADE
22:13 - THAT'S NORMALLY COMMANDED BY
22:15 - GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH
22:17 - LEE, THE SECOND SON OF GENERAL
22:18 - ROBERT E LEE. BUT REALLY AS HE
22:21 - WAS KNOWN TO HIS FRIENDS, WAS
22:23 - THIS PRETTY SEVERELY WOUNDED IN
22:25 - THE CLOSING ENGAGEMENTS, A
22:26 - BRANDY STATION ON JUNE 9 AND
22:28 - ULTIMATELY ENDED UP BEING
22:29 - CAPTURED. SO HIS BRIGADE IS NOW
22:30 - COMMITTED BY HIS SENIOR COLONEL
22:32 - CHAMBLISS IS A WEST POINT
22:34 - CLASSMATE OF AND BEST FRIEND OF
22:36 - DAVID GREG COMMANDS. THE SECOND
22:38 - DIVISION IS THE ARMY, THE
22:40 - POTOMAC CAVALRY CORPS GENERAL
22:42 - SAYS A VERY CAPABLE OFFICER IN
22:43 - HIS OWN RIGHT GOING UP BEING
22:45 - PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL
22:46 - DURING THE WINTER. A 63 64 AS
22:48 - KILLED IN ACTION. AND 64 SO
22:50 - HERE HE IS A CAPABLE OFFICER
22:52 - COMMANDING A CAPABLE BRIGADE
22:54 - MADE UP MOSTLY OF VIRGINIANS.
22:56 - BUT WITH ONE REGIMENT OF NORTH
22:57 - CAROLINIANS. IN THE LEAD-UP TO
23:00 - THIS BATTLE MOVING INTO
23:01 - PENNSYLVANIA. JEB STUART FIND
23:03 - HIMSELF IN SOME PRETTY
23:04 - UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATIONS, KIND
23:06 - OF PROBLEMS THAT WE FACE COMING
23:08 - TOWARD HIS HIS RIDE. YEAH,
23:09 - UNFORTUNATELY GETS OFF THE
23:10 - TRACKS AND ON THEIR WAY FROM
23:12 - THE VERY
23:14 - >>RATHER WELL CONFEDERATE CARRY
23:16 - MOSEBY WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL
23:18 - IN LAYING OUT A TRACK FOR
23:21 - STEWART. ANOTHER FOLLOW NORTH
23:22 - INTO PENNSYLVANIA. BUT STEWART
23:25 - IS GIVEN.
23:27 - MONUMENTAL TASK. WHEN YOU THINK
23:29 - ABOUT IT WHEN HE IS ORDERED
23:32 - TO PROCEED ON HIS OWN THROUGH
23:34 - VIRGINIA, MARYLAND
23:35 - AND PENNSYLVANIA. SEVERAL TASKS
23:39 - FELL UPON HIS ONE OF WHICH WAS
23:42 - TO TRY TO KEEP CONTACT, YOU
23:44 - KNOW, AND PROTECT THE RIGHT OF
23:46 - THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AS IT IS
23:47 - FOR SAYING YOU'LL SCORE IN
23:49 - FACT, IS IT'S PROCEEDING IN THE
23:51 - PENNSYLVANIA TO GATHER ALL OF
23:53 - THE SUPPLIES THAT HE CAN CLOSE
23:54 - IN MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA AND
23:57 - ALSO TO ALL THE DAMAGE THAT
23:58 - WE CAN, YOU KNOW, TO THE ENEMY
24:00 - AND 2 AND A SUPPORTS AND SO
24:02 - FORTH THAT THEY MAY HAVE IN
24:04 - PENNSYLVANIA. ANY OF THOSE TASK
24:07 - IN AND OF THEMSELVES BY
24:08 - THEMSELVES. YOU KNOW WHAT THE
24:10 - QUITE A TASK, STUART. INSTEAD,
24:12 - HE'S GIVEN ALL 3 AND IT'S NOT
24:14 - MADE ANY EASIER BY THE FACT
24:16 - THAT YOU'LL AS HE IS PROCEEDING
24:18 - NORTH.
24:19 - ACTUALLY IN VIOLATION OF THOSE
24:21 - ORDERS, DOES NOT PROCEED EAST
24:23 - OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. HE GOES
24:24 - WEST.
24:26 - >>SO HE'S EVEN FURTHER FROM
24:27 - STEWART AND DOES NOT MAINTAIN
24:29 - ANY CONTACT WITH HIM AT ALL.
24:30 - IN FACT, ON JUNE,
24:34 - GENERAL, YOU'LL PROBABLY HEARS
24:36 - THE NOISE OF THE CARE AND SO
24:37 - FORTH HAPPENING HERE AT HANOVER
24:39 - WAUKEE'S NORTH. AND YOU'LL
24:42 - NEVER SENT ANYBODY TO THE SOUTH
24:43 - HERE TO FIND OUT WHAT'S
24:44 - HAPPENED. SO STEWART'S TASK
24:47 - IS DEFINITELY NOT MADE ANY USE
24:49 - YOUR BY ANY OF THAT. COUPLED
24:51 - WITH
24:51 - THE FACT THAT HIS HIS MARCH IS
24:54 - MADE MORE DIFFICULT BY ELEMENTS
24:56 - OF THE FEDERAL ARMY THAT HE
24:57 - ENDS UP RUNNING AGAINST.
24:58 - WE CAPTURE SOME WAGONS IN
25:00 - ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, OUTSIDE
25:01 - THE SAME.
25:04 - A LOT OF CONTROVERSY WEATHER
25:05 - THAT SLOWED HIM DOWN OR SPEND
25:06 - HIM UP. WE ARGUE IN OUR IN OUR
25:08 - BOOK, PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO
25:10 - AROUND THAT, IN FACT, CAPTION
25:11 - THOSE WAGONS ACTUALLY AIDED
25:14 - HIS MARCH NORTH BECAUSE OF THE
25:16 - FACT THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF
25:17 - GOOD FODDER FOR THE HORSES.
25:19 - YOU CAN JUST RAISE YOUR HORSES
25:20 - ON NOTHING BUT GRASS FOR FOR
25:22 - DAYS AT A TIME.
25:23 - >>SO HE'S GOT THOSE WAGONS IN
25:24 - TOW. HE RUNS FEDERALES IN BOTH
25:29 - WESTMINSTER
25:33 - FAIRFAX. STATES ARE FACTS.
25:34 - YES, THANK YOU. IN VIRGINIA.
25:36 - SO EACH OF THESE IS GOING TO
25:38 - SLOW HIM DOWN BY THE TIME IT
25:40 - GETS TO HAND OVER HERE, THE
25:41 - BATTLE OF HANOVER ON JUNE, THE
25:42 - 30TH BECOMES AN ENORMOUS
25:45 - CHAPTER IN THIS SAGA OF HIS
25:47 - RIDE NORTH WHEN IT'S GOING TO
25:48 - SLOW HIM DOWN.
25:49 - >>FOR AN ENTIRE DAY, THE
25:51 - FEDERALS ARE GOING TO GET IN
25:52 - HIS WAY TO ALL THE WAY INTO
25:53 - PENNSYLVANIA.
25:55 - >>WHY HANOVER, OR DECIDE A NEW
25:59 - BATTLE WITH THE FEDERALES.
26:00 - HEAR WHAT HE DID DECIDE TO DO
26:01 - BATTLE WITH ANYBODY. IT'S THIS
26:03 - IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF WITH
26:05 - MILITARY PERSONNEL LIKE TO CALL
26:07 - A MEETING ENGAGEMENT, WHICH IS
26:09 - AN ACCIDENTAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN
26:11 - 2 FORCES. DID IT DEVELOPS INTO
26:14 - A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT AND THAT'S
26:15 - EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
26:17 - STEWART'S ON HIS WAY FROM
26:19 - WESTMINSTER MARYLAND TO YORK,
26:20 - WHICH IS WHERE HE BELIEVES HE'S
26:21 - GOING TO FIND. YOU WERE ALWAYS
26:22 - DIVISION. HANOVER IS THE ROUTE
26:24 - TO DO THAT. THE DIRECT ROAD
26:27 - FROM WESTMINSTER TO HANOVER
26:28 - HANOVER DIRECTLY TO YORK.
26:31 - USING THE SAME ROAD NETWORK
26:33 - COMING FROM LITTLESTOWN,
26:34 - PENNSYLVANIA AND HEADED IN THE
26:36 - GENERAL DIRECTION OF YORK.
26:38 - HE'S COME PATRICK'S DIVISION.
26:41 - THE ROAD FROM WESTMINSTER RUNS
26:42 - RIGHT INTO THE ROAD FROM A
26:43 - LITTLE TOWN JUST EAST OF
26:45 - DOWNTOWN HANOVER TO PLACE AT
26:47 - THE TIME WAS CALLED. BUT TOWN.
26:49 - AND THAT'S WHERE THE BATTLE
26:50 - BEGINS. WHEN THE TAIL AND OF
26:53 - FARMS WHERE IT'S COLUMN, WHICH
26:54 - IS AT THE REAR OF KILPATRICK,
26:56 - STU VISION.
26:59 - IS CROSSING THROUGH THE
27:00 - INTERSECTION IS THE HEAD OF OF
27:02 - STEWART'S COLUMN ARRIVES THERE?
27:04 - AND THAT'S WHAT CAUSES THE
27:05 - FIGHT TO BEGIN. SO THE FEDERALS
27:07 - AND OF TURNING AROUND A
27:08 - COMEBACK.
27:10 - FROM BSA COME PATRICK HIMSELF
27:12 - WITH SEVERAL MILES BEYOND THE
27:14 - TOWN. IT HAD TO TURN AROUND
27:15 - GALLUP BACK IN ONCE HE HEARS
27:18 - THE COMMOTION IN HIS REAR AND
27:21 - KILPATRICK FORCES WERE WERE
27:22 - VERY SPREAD OUT HERE. EVEN EVEN
27:24 - MORE SPREAD OUT.
27:25 - >>THEN WE SUSPECTED, YOU KNOW,
27:27 - SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN WE WERE
27:28 - DOING RESEARCH FOR FOR OUR
27:29 - BUCK, PLENTY OF BLAME.
27:31 - WITH HIS MICHIGAN REGIMENTS
27:33 - HAVE ALREADY PASSED THROUGH THE
27:34 - TOWN OF HANOVER ABOUT 2 HOURS
27:35 - BEFORE THAT BEFORE DAYLIGHT
27:38 - WENT THROUGH THE PIGEON HILLS
27:39 - AND WAS HEADING TOWARDS ABBOTT
27:40 - ON ATTACK TO THE HEAD OF HIS
27:41 - COLUMN HAD JUST ABOUT REACHED
27:43 - AT THIS TIME. SO HE WAS SEVERAL
27:45 - MILES TO THE NORTH. REGIMENTS
27:49 - UNDER FARNSWORTH WERE PRETTY
27:50 - WELL SPREAD. SPREAD OUT FROM
27:52 - POTS TOWN ALSO HAS MY TOWN HAS
27:54 - HAS A LOT OF LITTLE NAMES.
27:56 - THIS LITTLE SETTLEMENT, WHICH
27:58 - ASAFA HANOVER, ABOUT 3 MILES
28:00 - ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE TOWN
28:01 - SQUARE HANOVER. AND THEN A
28:03 - COUPLE RESTAURANTS WERE
28:04 - ACTUALLY WORKING THEIR WAY
28:05 - NORTH LOT OF SELF-HELP
28:06 - PATRICK'S FORCES. WE'RE SPREAD
28:08 - OUT OVER SOMETHING LIKE 5 OR
28:09 - 6 MILES. BY THE TIME THIS
28:11 - BATTLE HAPPENS, HE'S GOT TO
28:12 - BRING THOSE FORCES TOGETHER
28:14 - IN ORDER TO FACE WHAT HE SOON
28:15 - FINDS OUT IS AROUND A LARGE
28:17 - THREAT.
28:17 - >>WHEN IT APPEARS THAT THE
28:18 - BATTLE IS, IN FACT, GOING TO
28:20 - HAPPEN HERE AT HANOVER, WHAT
28:21 - STEPS TO BOTH GENERALS TAKE TO
28:23 - MAKE SURE THEY PUT THEIR BEST
28:24 - FOOT FORWARD
28:25 - >>WELL, ON PATRICK'S ASIDE,
28:28 - HE FIRST HAS TO ASSESS EXACTLY
28:30 - WHAT THREAT WE FACE IS AND THE
28:32 - FACT THAT HE'S ALREADY NORTH
28:33 - OF TOWN AND HE HAD ACTUALLY
28:35 - ALREADY CROSSED THE PITCHING
28:36 - HILLS NORTH OF TOWN WHEN HE
28:39 - HEARS THE SHOOTING. AND AS ERIK
28:40 - MENTIONED, THE VERY REAR OF
28:44 - HIS CALL AT THE VERY FRONT OF
28:47 - STEWART'S COLUMN APPROXIMATELY
28:49 - 08:30AM, IN THE MORNING ON JUNE
28:50 - 30TH. AND THAT'S WHAT STARTS
28:51 - THE BATTLE. WHAT TURNS
28:53 - KILPATRICK AROUND IS THE FACT
28:55 - THAT BY THIS TIME SHORTLY AFTER
28:57 - THE OPENING, IT STARTED GENERAL
28:59 - JEB STUART WAS ABLE TO GET SOME
29:01 - OF HIS ARTILLERY ON A COUPLE
29:03 - OF PROMINENT HILLS JUST SOUTH
29:04 - OF THE TOWN OVERLOOKING THE
29:05 - TOWN. SO IT'S CA PATRICK IS
29:07 - RIDING ALONG. HE SUDDENLY HEARS
29:09 - THIS JUST SOUTH OF THE TIME.
29:12 - IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THOUSANDS OF
29:14 - FEDERAL CARRY REALLY IN THE
29:16 - STREETS RIGHT NEXT TO US HERE.
29:18 - ALL THOSE THOUSANDS OF HEADS
29:20 - ALTERNATIVE ONCE FACING BACK
29:22 - WHERE THAT ARTILLERY BOAT HAD
29:23 - JUST COME FROM, OF COURSE, COME
29:24 - PATRICK CAUGHT AND HE'S HERE.
29:26 - HE TURNS AROUND. HE IMMEDIATELY
29:28 - STARTS SENDING RUNNERS AND
29:29 - COURIERS TO FIND OUT WHAT'S
29:30 - GOING ON. TURNS HIS HORSE
29:32 - AROUND SPURS OFF SO FAST THAT
29:35 - HIS HEADQUARTERS GUARD COUPLE
29:37 - OF COMPANIES, THE FIRST OHIO
29:38 - CAVALRY. I'M ACTUALLY INJURE
29:40 - SOME OF THE HORSES JUST TRYING
29:41 - TO KEEP UP WITH PATRICK.
29:42 - THIS IS GETTING A TIME AS SOON
29:44 - AS HE GETS INTO TOWN, HE'S GOT
29:46 - TO GET HIS MEN TOGETHER.
29:47 - HE'S GOT TO ASSESS WHAT'S GOING
29:48 - ON, GET AS MUCH INFORMATION
29:50 - AND INTELLIGENCE AS POSSIBLE
29:51 - AND SET UP A HEADQUARTERS,
29:53 - WHICH IS WHAT HE DOES OBVIOUSLY
29:55 - ON THE CONFEDERATE SIDE BECAUSE
29:57 - NOW JEB STUART'S PLAN ROUTE
30:00 - THROUGH HANOVER THROUGH THE
30:02 - PIGEON HILLS AND THEN NORTH TO
30:03 - TRY TO FIND YOUR HAS BEEN
30:05 - COMPLETELY DISRUPTED. HE HAS
30:07 - TO ASSESS WHETHER HE WANTS TO
30:09 - ENGAGE HERE. YOU KNOW, IF IT'S
30:11 - SOMETHING THAT HE'S EITHER
30:13 - GOING TO BE ABLE TO MEET THIS
30:14 - THREAT. PUSH IT ASIDE. HOW MANY
30:16 - FORCES ARE IN FRONT OF ME AND
30:17 - THESE ARE DECISIONS HE HAD HE'S
30:18 - HAD TO MAKE FOR THE PAST FEW
30:19 - DAYS IS HIS ROUTE BLOCKED OR IS
30:22 - HE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND AN
30:23 - ALTERNATIVE? SO THERE ARE VERY
30:25 - IMPORTANT SNAP DECISIONS.
30:26 - ALL OF THEM BASED ON AS MUCH
30:29 - AND AS QUICK INTELLIGENCE IS,
30:32 - THEY CAN GET TO ASSESS WHAT
30:33 - THEY'RE GOING TO DO. IT.
30:34 - THE BEARS NOTING THAT WIND
30:36 - CHILL PATRICK FINALLY ARRIVED
30:37 - IN THE TOWN SQUARE. FROM RIDING
30:39 - HIS HORSE SO HARD. THE HORSE
30:41 - DROP DEBT. IT'S PRETTY WELL
30:43 - DOCUMENTED. THIS BATTLE BE
30:46 - PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY. YOU HAVE
30:48 - HUNDREDS OF HORSEMEN IN AN
30:50 - URBAN SETTING.
30:52 - LARGELY UNSEEN IN THE IN THE
30:55 - GREATER CONTEXT, THE CIVIL WAR.
30:56 - TAKE US THROUGH THE BATTLE OF
30:57 - HANOVER. ROLAND, LET ME ADDRESS
30:59 - THAT POINT. BRADY AND IN ALL MY
31:01 - YEARS OF STUDYING CAVALRY
31:02 - OPERATIONS.
31:03 - >>IT'S ONE OF ONLY 2 EPISODES
31:05 - THAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY
31:07 - OF MOUNTED STREET FIGHTING IN
31:09 - THE TOWN DURING THE WAR.
31:10 - AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THEY
31:12 - BRACKET BOTH SIDES OF THE
31:13 - BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG AT HAND
31:14 - OVER YEAR ON JUNE. 30TH IN
31:16 - HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, ON JULY
31:18 - 6, BOTH INVOLVING KILL
31:20 - PATRICK'S DIVISION.
31:22 - BUT WHEN THE BATTLE BREAKS OUT.
31:26 - IT MOVES FROM THE BUCKS.
31:28 - COUNTY INTERSECTION IN THIS
31:30 - DIRECTION.
31:32 - ONE OF THE OFFICERS THAT JD
31:34 - MENTIONED EARLIER THAT FOLLOWED
31:35 - BY THE NAME OF LIEUTENANT
31:36 - COLONEL WILLIAM H PAIN. PAIN
31:38 - IS AS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM
31:41 - SOME TROOPERS IN THE 5TH NEW
31:42 - YORK CAVALRY WHO ARE CHASING
31:44 - HIM AND HIS HORSES SHOT AND IT
31:46 - THROWS HIM. AND THE HORSE
31:48 - HAPPEN TO BE RIGHT NEXT TO A
31:50 - TANNERY. AND HE HAD THE HORSE
31:52 - ENDS UP THROWING PAIN INTO THIS
31:54 - VAT OF TERRY GOU.
31:58 - ANIMAL HIDE ITS BEEN SOAKING
32:00 - IN ACID AND HE ENDS UP IN THIS
32:02 - FOUL SMELLING DISGUSTING MASK.
32:06 - AND ENDS UP BEING CAPTURED.
32:07 - IT'S ABOUT AS HUMILIATING AS
32:09 - OF A WAY OF BEING CAPTURED AS
32:10 - YOU'LL EVER FIND IN THE WHOLE
32:11 - CIVIL WAR. STEWART HIMSELF,
32:14 - ALONG WITH HIS ENGINEERING
32:15 - OFFICER CAPTAIN WILLIAM W
32:16 - BLACKFORD GET CUT OFF BY SOME
32:19 - TROOPERS OF THE 5TH NEW YORK.
32:21 - AND STEWART AND BLACKFORD END
32:22 - UP HAVING TO JUMP ACROSS WHICH
32:23 - STEWART LATER DESCRIBES A 15
32:25 - FOOT WIDE EDGE. 2 ESCAPED.
32:29 - FARNSWORTH BRIGADE ACTUALLY HAS
32:31 - TO TURN AROUND WITH THE 5TH NEW
32:32 - YORK CAVALRY COMMANDED BY MAJOR
32:34 - JOHN HAMMOND. WELL, ACTUALLY
32:36 - MAKE A CHARGE AND WILL WILL
32:38 - CRASH INTO THAT. THE HEAD OF
32:39 - THE CONFEDERATE COLUMN. AND
32:41 - THAT'S WHERE THIS STREET
32:42 - FIGHTING BACK AND FORTH MOUNTED
32:44 - CHARGES AND COUNTER CHARGES
32:46 - RIGHT THROUGH THIS THAT THE
32:47 - STREETS OF THE TOWN OF HANOVER
32:49 - TAKE PLACE. IT REALLY IS A
32:50 - REMARKABLE SITUATION. IS.
32:53 - AS OF THAT MOMENT, IT WAS
32:54 - REALLY PRETTY MUCH
32:55 - UNPRECEDENTED IN THE COURSE OF
32:56 - THE WAR
32:57 - >>IF WE WERE ABLE TO BE HERE
32:59 - ABOUT 10 OR 10, 30 ON THE
33:00 - MORNING OF JUNE, 30TH, YOU
33:01 - KNOW, 18 63.
33:03 - >>THE STREETS WITH LITERALLY
33:05 - THUNDER ON A CARRY COUNTER
33:08 - CHARGES. WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN IN
33:12 - A TIME LIKE THIS. WE'RE VERY
33:13 - FORTUNATE THAT WE GOT A LOT
33:14 - OF ACCOUNTS, CITIZENS, THE THE
33:17 - CITIZENS HERE HAD TO DEAL WITH
33:19 - NOT ONLY THE CONFEDERATE
33:21 - CAVALRY LITERALLY RUNNING
33:22 - ROUGHSHOD, YOU KNOW, THROUGH
33:23 - THE STREETS THROUGH THE BACK
33:25 - ALLEYS IN THEIR YARDS ON THEIR
33:29 - THEY MANY OF THEM LOCKED IN
33:31 - CELLS AND BASEMENT. WATCH FROM
33:32 - THERE. IT WAS SO LOUD AND THERE
33:34 - WAS SO MUCH MAYHEM.
33:36 - >>THAT IT JUST LITERALLY SCARED
33:38 - THAT THE CHAMBERS OUT OF JUST
33:39 - ABOUT EVERY CITIZEN HERE IN
33:40 - TOWN. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH,
33:42 - THERE WAS A THERE ARE SOME JAIL
33:43 - CELLS UNDERGROUND HERE IN TIMES
33:45 - SQUARE.
33:46 - >>SO IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THOSE
33:47 - PRISONERS AND HAVING THIS GOING
33:49 - ON OVER YOUR HEAD
33:52 - >>WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT A
33:53 - CAVALRY BATTLE TYPICALLY LOOKS
33:55 - LIKE AND THEN WHAT PUTTING THAT
33:57 - IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY WOULD
33:58 - DO TO THE PEOPLE INVOLVED?
34:00 - >>WELL, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS
34:02 - TALK ABOUT HOW TO REIN DRIVERS
34:04 - BATTLES, WHETHER ITS INFANTRY
34:05 - OR OR CARRY OR WHATEVER, BUT
34:08 - IT'S IT'S PROBABLY, YOU KNOW,
34:10 - PARDON THE PUN HORSE OF A
34:11 - DIFFERENT COLOR. WHEN YOU'RE
34:12 - TALKING ABOUT AN URBAN STREETS
34:14 - SETTING AND MOUNT CALVARY.
34:16 - THEY ARE SO HEMMED IN BY THE
34:17 - STREETS, BY THE FENCES, YOU
34:19 - KNOW, BUILDINGS. IT'S ONE OF
34:21 - THE REASONS WHY SO MANY
34:22 - TROOPERS ON BOTH SIDES ARE
34:23 - GETTING AMBUSHED. YOU KNOW,
34:25 - WE SOME OF THESE VERY DETAILED
34:27 - ACCOUNTS ABOUT SEEING, FOR
34:29 - INSTANCE, A CONFEDERATE CAVERN
34:31 - MEN IN FRONT OF SOMEBODYS HOUSE
34:33 - WHO LITERALLY IS JUST AMBUSHED
34:35 - AND AND IT RECEIVES A DELUGE OF
34:37 - LIKE A DOZEN FEDERAL TROOPERS
34:40 - ARE AFTER WHEN, OF COURSE HE
34:41 - CAN'T GET OUT OF HIS WAY OUT
34:43 - AND PEOPLE ARE WATCHING OUT
34:44 - THEIR BASEMENT WINDOWS AND JUST
34:46 - SEEING TROOPERS FALL. BOTH
34:47 - SIDES FALL OFF. THE HORSES ARE
34:49 - BEING SHOT. THEY'RE BEING
34:52 - STRUCK BY A SAVER. SO IT'S AN
34:55 - ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SITUATION
34:57 - WHEN THEY ARE STUCK HERE IN THE
34:59 - STREETS IN AMONGST THE
35:00 - BUILDINGS.
35:01 - ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH THE JUST
35:04 - AS THIS IS WINDING DOWN IN THE
35:06 - TOWN HERE. IN FACT, THE
35:08 - CITIZENS, THE ONES WHO ARE
35:09 - BRAVE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY COME
35:10 - OUT IN THE TOWN SQUARE AND SOME
35:12 - OF THE STREETS AROUND THE
35:13 - SQUARE AND START THROWING
35:14 - FURNITURE AND PIECES OF IRON
35:17 - AND WAGONS OVERTURNING WAGONS,
35:19 - ANYTHING THAT THEY CAN FIND
35:21 - IN ORDER TO TRY TO BLOCK THE
35:22 - CONFEDERATES FROM MAKING ANY
35:23 - MORE CHARGES IN THE TOP.
35:26 - >>THIS IS DESCRIBED OFFENSIVE
35:27 - TO PHASE BATTLE. HOW DOES THE
35:29 - FIRST FACE OF THIS FINALLY WRAP
35:30 - UP?
35:32 - THAT MOUNTED PHASE OF THE
35:33 - FIGHTING? MORE OR LESS PETERS
35:34 - OUT.
35:38 - PULLS BACK A LITTLE BIT.
35:39 - KILPATRICK ALSO PULLS BACK A
35:41 - LITTLE BIT TO REORGANIZE THEIR
35:43 - COMMANDS BY THIS TIME. CUSTER'S
35:45 - FORCES ARRIVED ON ON THE SCENE
35:47 - AND THEY ADVANCED IN THE
35:50 - DIRECTION OF THE BUCKS COUNTY
35:51 - INTERSECTION. ALL OF THE 5TH,
35:54 - MICHIGAN CAVALRY IN 4 COMPANIES
35:55 - IN THE 6, MICHIGAN CALVARY
35:57 - CUSTER'S BRIGADE WERE ARMED
35:58 - WITH SPENCER REPEATING RIFLES.
36:00 - WAY DOWN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT
36:01 - OF FIREPOWER. SO TO TAKE
36:03 - ADVANTAGE OF THAT CUSTER,
36:04 - DISMOUNT SAYS TROOPS AND THEY
36:06 - BEGIN TO ADVANCE TO ATTACK
36:08 - STEWART'S POSITIONS, A
36:10 - DISMOUNTED FASHION. AND THAT'S
36:12 - HOW THE SECOND PHASE OF THE
36:13 - BATTLE PLAYS OUT.
36:15 - >>AND THIS, TOO, I YOU KNOW,
36:16 - I THINK IT'S VERY TO READ THE
36:20 - ACCOUNTS OF CUSTER IN COMMAND
36:21 - HERE DURING THAT SECOND PHASE
36:24 - OF THE BATTLE. KEEP IN MIND,
36:25 - THIS IS THE VERY FIRST TIME
36:26 - THAT MANY OF THESE MICHIGAN
36:27 - TROOPERS HAVE EVEN SEEN COST
36:29 - OR, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE NEVER
36:29 - MET HIM. ONE OF HIS TROOPERS
36:31 - RIGHTS, WHO IS THIS MAN?
36:33 - COSTA? WE DON'T KNOW HIM.
36:35 - WE KNOW HIM SOMEWHAT BY
36:36 - REPUTATION, BUT CUSTER FOR ALL
36:40 - OF WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIM AND
36:41 - HIS FAMOUS AS HE BECOMES LATER
36:43 - DURING THE BATTLE OF
36:43 - GETTYSBURG. AND OF COURSE,
36:45 - MEANING HIS AND AT THE LITTLE
36:46 - BIG HORN HE IS GREEN. TODAY'S
36:49 - MICHIGAN TROOPS AND THEY DON'T
36:51 - KNOW WHO HE IS. THEY DON'T KNOW
36:53 - OTHER THAN REPUTATION. YOU KNOW
36:54 - MUCH ABOUT IT. PLUS, HE'S
36:56 - WEARING A RIDICULOUS OUT FOR
36:58 - THAT THAT THE DESCRIPTIONS ARE
36:59 - DESCRIBED BY BY ONE OF HIS
37:01 - TROOPERS IS LOOKING LIKE A
37:02 - CIRCUS WRITER GONE WEARING THIS
37:04 - BLACK VELVET TEEN SAILOR SUIT
37:06 - WITH STARS ON THE LAPELS
37:09 - >>IT'S JUST REALLY RIDICULOUS.
37:10 - LOOKING OUTFIT, BUT HE WAS HE.
37:11 - HE ALWAYS SAID HE WORKED.
37:13 - SO AS MEN COULD FIND HIM EASILY
37:14 - ON THE BATTLEFIELD. BUT THEY'RE
37:16 - NOT USED TO THIS LINE. AND THIS
37:18 - ALREADY, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
37:20 - VERY
37:21 - >>PAIN AND GLORY U.S. BRANCH,
37:22 - YOU KNOW, THE CAVALRY,
37:24 - ESPECIALLY ON THE CONFEDERATE
37:25 - SIDE WITH JEB STUART AND HIS
37:26 - OSTRICH CLUE IS, YOU KNOW, RED
37:28 - VELVET CAKE.
37:29 - >>WE HAVE COST ARE
37:30 - PULLING UP.
37:31 - >>WHO IS ONLY ELEVATED TO
37:33 - BRIGADIER GENERAL JUST A COUPLE
37:34 - OF DAYS BEFORE THIS, BUT HE
37:35 - MUST HAVE KNOWN THAT IT WAS
37:37 - CALM AND VERY LIKELY THROUGH
37:38 - HIS BENEFACTOR OFFER PLEASANT
37:39 - THING. THE CRANDALL RECOVERY
37:40 - CORPS THAT WAS COMING BECAUSE
37:42 - BY THE TIME HIS COMMISSION
37:44 - ARRIVED AS GENERAL
37:46 - >>AS ERIC SAYS, CUSTER ALREADY
37:48 - HAD HIS BLACK VELVET UNIFORMS
37:50 - TRIMMED IN GOLD RED BANDANA.
37:53 - YOU KNOW, BEAUTIFUL HAD.
37:55 - AND THIS IS HOW HE APPEARS ON
37:56 - THE FIELD AGAIN FOR THE VERY
37:58 - FIRST TIME TO THESE TROOPERS
37:59 - ECO. IMAGINE WHAT THEY MUST
38:00 - HAVE THOUGHT THEY SAW ONE OF
38:02 - THE BRIGHTEST GUY AS A CIRCUS
38:04 - WRITER GONE MATT. AND THAT'S
38:06 - PROBABLY A GOOD DESCRIPTION AND
38:08 - SAYS YOU CAN COME UP WITH THE
38:09 - WAY HE MUST HAVE LOOKED AT.
38:12 - >>AS THE SECOND PHASE OF THIS
38:13 - BATTLE BEGINS, WHAT BECOMES
38:14 - STEWART'S NEW OBJECTIVE?
38:16 - WHAT DOES HE DO TO ACHIEVE
38:17 - THAT?
38:18 - HIS OBJECTIVE IS REALLY TO GET
38:20 - OUT OF HERE WITH HIS COMMAND
38:21 - INTACT. KEEP IN MIND, HE'S GOT
38:23 - 150 WAGONS THAT HE'S BRINGING
38:25 - WITH HIM. SO HE'S HE'S
38:27 - OBJECTIVE.
38:28 - WAS NEVER TO FIGHT HERE IN THE
38:30 - FIRST PLACE IS OBJECTIVE IS TO
38:32 - FIND A WAY TO EXTRICATE HIS
38:33 - ENTIRE COMMAND, INCLUDING THE
38:35 - WAGONS AND TO GO ABOUT HIS
38:37 - APPOINTED ROUNDS, WHICH IS
38:38 - APPOINTED ROUNDS OR TO TRY AND
38:39 - FIND EARLY'S COMMAND, WHICH HE
38:41 - BELIEVES IS IN YORK. EARLY, IN
38:43 - FACT, WAS 8 MILES AWAY FROM
38:45 - HERE. HEARD THE GUNS BARKING
38:46 - AND DID NOTHING TO TRY AND FIND
38:48 - OUT WHAT THE COMMOTION IN HIS
38:50 - REAR WAS. BUT STEWART HAD NO
38:51 - WAY OF KNOWING THAT. SO STEWART
38:52 - IS IS LOOKING TO GET AWAY FROM
38:54 - HERE TO TRY AND LINK UP WITH
38:55 - HER LEAST DIVISION. AND THAT'S
38:57 - WHAT HIS OBJECTIVE IS. WE GO
38:59 - THROUGH THE SECOND PHASE OF
39:00 - THE BATTLE.
39:03 - THE SECOND PHASE BASICALLY
39:04 - TAKES PLACE TOWARDS STORAGE
39:06 - POSITION TO THE SOUTH.
39:08 - >>AND WHAT WAS THEN REALLY AN
39:09 - AREA OF OPEN TODAY. IT'S PRETTY
39:12 - RESIDENTIAL IF YOU GO AND LOOK
39:15 - AT THOSE AREAS TODAY, WHETHER
39:17 - IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE START OF
39:18 - THE BATTLE HERE IN THE MAIN
39:19 - PART OF TOWN OR THE SECOND
39:21 - PHASE IN THAT AREA SOUTH OF
39:23 - TOWN IT'S IT'S A RESIDENTIAL
39:26 - AREA, BUT IT WILL GIVE YOU
39:27 - SOMEWHAT OF AN IDEA OF THE
39:28 - TERRAIN BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE
39:30 - THOSE ELEVATOR RIDGE'S TOP OF
39:31 - THAT. I'M GOING TO WHICH STORES
39:33 - POSITION AND VERY MUCH IN
39:35 - CONTRAST WITH THE WAY CUSTER
39:37 - IS GOING TO CONDUCT HIMSELF
39:39 - LATER ON AT THE BATTLE OF
39:40 - GETTYSBURG. YOU KNOW, LATER ON
39:41 - DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND
39:42 - BASICALLY THE BALANCE OF THE
39:43 - WAR, AS ERIC SAYS, CUSTER
39:46 - CONDUCTS THIS SECOND PHASE OF
39:47 - THE BATTLE ENTIRELY. DISMOUNT.
39:49 - THIS IS NOT CUSTER ON
39:51 - HORSEBACK. THIS IS NOT CUSTER
39:52 - MAKING AN ON A CHARGE. HE'S
39:55 - GOING TO COMMAND HIS MAN IN
39:57 - THIS MINE AND FASHION TO TRY TO
39:59 - MAKE INROADS TOWARDS STEWART'S
40:01 - POSITION TO THE SOUTH. SOME
40:03 - WILL BE BRIEFLY SUCCESSFUL,
40:05 - BUT THOSE FEDERALES ARE GOING
40:07 - TO BE TURNED BACK RATHER EASILY
40:09 - BECAUSE STEWART DOES CLAIM THE
40:11 - HIGH GROUND HE'S GOT ARTILLERY
40:13 - UP THERE ON THOSE THE 2 CALLED
40:16 - RICE HILL AND KELLER. HE'LL
40:17 - STILL KNOWN BY THOSE NAMES
40:18 - TODAY. THEY ARE VERY RING WITH
40:23 - ARTILLERY BY STEWART AND THE
40:24 - FEDERAL TROOPERS ARE NOT GOING
40:26 - TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY INROADS
40:27 - UP THERE. IT'S A VERY TOUGH
40:30 - SLAW. YOU KNOW, THERE.
40:32 - SOME OF THEM WITH A SPENCER.
40:34 - SO THEY'RE ABLE TO SHOOT A
40:35 - LITTLE BIT QUICKER, BUT IT'S
40:37 - NOT A POSITION THAT THEY'RE
40:38 - GOING TO BE ABLE TO CARRY.
40:39 - THEY EVENTUALLY START PULLING
40:40 - BACK AT AT CUSTER'S COMMAND.
40:43 - AND LIKE SO MANY CIVIL WAR
40:45 - BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES,
40:47 - DARKNESS IS SOMETHING YOU KNOW,
40:49 - THAT REALLY IS GOING TO END
40:50 - THIS AS WELL WHEN THE FIRING
40:51 - AIR BEGINS TO PETER OUT.
40:53 - AND AS ERIC SAYS, THE VERY NEXT
40:54 - DECISION THAT STEWART'S GOT TO
40:55 - MAKE IS HOW DO I GET OUT OF
40:56 - HERE AND HOW DO I FIND HOW DO I
41:00 - CONTINUE MY MISSION OF TRYING
41:01 - TO LINK UP WITH THE CONFEDERATE
41:03 - ARMY. KEEP IN MIND HERE, JUNE
41:05 - 30TH. IT'S ABOUT A WEEK NOW
41:07 - ALMOST A WEEK THAT HE'S BEEN
41:09 - OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE
41:09 - CONFEDERATE ARMY. HE'S IN
41:10 - PENNSYLVANIA. HE'S GOT INTO
41:12 - SEVERAL BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES
41:14 - AND HE HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO TALK
41:15 - TO ONE FELLA CONFEDERATE
41:16 - BEFORE, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE OF
41:18 - HIS COMMAND TO FIND OUT WHAT'S
41:19 - GOING ON AND WHO IS WHERE?
41:21 - >>HOW TO STEWART ESCAPE THIS
41:24 - PRETTY BAD SITUATION. WELL, AS
41:26 - JD SAID, DARKNESS CAUSED THE
41:28 - FIGHTING TO END PATRICK IT
41:31 - AGAIN. THIS IS A MEETING ENGAGE
41:32 - IN WASN'T PLAYING. KILPATRICK
41:33 - HAS ORDERS TO GET ABBOTTSTOWN.
41:35 - SO AS THE DAY FINALLY BEGINS
41:38 - TO GROW DARK.
41:40 - KILPATRICK BREAKS OFF AND GOES
41:42 - TO TABLETS. TIME LIKE HE'S BEEN
41:43 - ORDERED TO DO IN STEWART'S
41:44 - PERFECTLY HAPPY TO LET HIM GO.
41:47 - THEY BOTH HAD OTHER THINGS TO
41:48 - DO IN OTHER PLACES TO GO.
41:50 - THIS WASN'T A PLANNED
41:50 - ENGAGEMENT WAS NEVER INTENDED
41:52 - TO BE ONE. SO THEY'RE THERE
41:54 - A GOOD WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.
41:55 - IS THAT THE END OF THE DAY THAT
41:57 - THE 2 FORCES MUTUALLY REPELLED
41:59 - FROM EACH OTHER? AND THAT'S
42:00 - ONE OF THE GREAT CONTROVERSIES
42:02 - ABOUT HANOVER, TOO. SHORTLY
42:04 - AFTER THIS BATTLE IN IN THE
42:05 - DARK STEWART'S COMMAND AND HE
42:08 - ENDS UP HAVING TO GO FURTHER
42:09 - EAST AND THE NORTH IN ORDER
42:10 - TO GET AROUND TO PATRICK AN
42:12 - ACCOMPLICE, HIS OBJECTIVE OF
42:13 - GETTING NORTH OF HERE.
42:15 - >>HE'S FALLEN FOR A TIME BY
42:16 - SOME REGULAR AVERAGE WHO COME
42:19 - ON THE SAME TO SUPPORT CARE.
42:21 - PATRICK, OF IT. BUT THAT'S ONE
42:22 - OF THE INEXPLICABLE CONTROVERSY
42:24 - ABOUT THIS IS THE FACT THAT
42:25 - KILPATRICK, LET'S STEWART
42:27 - LITERALLY OUT OF HIS GRASP AND
42:29 - YOU NEVER FOLLOW HIM.
42:30 - >>HE DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO
42:32 - KEEP TABS ON.
42:34 - AND INSTEAD ENDS UP SPENDING
42:36 - THE NEXT DAY, JULY FIRST, WHICH
42:37 - IS, AS WE ALL KNOW, IS THE
42:39 - FIRST DAY IN THE OPENING OF THE
42:40 - BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG ITSELF.
42:42 - HE SPENDS ALL OF THAT DAY
42:43 - RIDING AROUND NORTH OF HERE IN
42:44 - THE ABBOTTSTOWN AREA LOOKING
42:46 - FOR CONFEDERATE ELEMENTS AND
42:47 - MAY BE SIGNS OF STEWART AGAIN.
42:49 - >>CAN YOU ONLY IMAGINE? AND
42:50 - THAT'S SOMETHING WHICH HAS HAS
42:52 - JUST GOTTEN PLAGUE HISTORIANS
42:53 - EVER SENSE. WHAT WAS HE
42:55 - THINKING? YOU KNOW?
42:57 - >>IS THAT TYPICAL IN THE CIVIL
42:59 - WAR FOR A BATTLE TO END IN THIS
43:01 - FASHION AND FOR THE CONTROVERSY
43:02 - TO FOLLOW IT.
43:04 - >>UNFORTUNATELY, BUT THEN
43:06 - AGAIN, THAT CONTROVERSY GIVES
43:08 - GUYS LIKE JD AND THE PLENTY
43:09 - TO WRITE ABOUT IT DOES. IT'S
43:11 - A TOTALLY DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW,
43:12 - TO TO TAKE OURSELVES BACK 150
43:14 - YEARS. I THINK TODAY BECAUSE
43:16 - OF, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION IS IS
43:18 - LIGHTNING FAST AND WE FIND OUT
43:20 - LIKE HOW ARE TROOPS WITH ALL
43:22 - OF THAT? THE TECHNOLOGY AND
43:24 - EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE,
43:24 - THEY'RE ABLE TO OPERATE TODAY
43:26 - AND ALL THE INTELLIGENCE THAT
43:27 - WE GET WHEN WE'RE SEARCHING
43:29 - OUT THE ENEMY. WHEN WE GO BACK
43:32 - 150 YEARS, SOMETIMES IT'S
43:34 - DIFFICULT TO PUT YOURSELF IN
43:35 - THAT PLACE AND UNDERSTAND, FOR
43:37 - INSTANCE, IN STEWART'S CASE,
43:39 - WELL, OVER 5,000 CONFEDERATE
43:41 - TROOPERS COME MARCH SEVERAL
43:44 - 100 MILES.
43:45 - >>INTO ENEMY TERRITORY AND NOT
43:48 - BE KEPT TABS ON. NOBODY KNOWS,
43:50 - YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE
43:52 - THE THE SAME WITH THE WE HAVE
43:55 - TO TAKE OURSELVES BACK IN TIME.
43:57 - I THINK TO REALLY UNDERSTAND
43:58 - THE ENVIRONMENT, THERE'S NO
43:59 - HELICOPTERS. THERE'S NO WALKIE
44:01 - TALKIES. YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO
44:02 - CELL PHONES. THERE'S NO GPS,
44:04 - I GUESS IT JUST RIGHT.
44:06 - EVERYTHING IS DONE AT EYE
44:07 - LEVEL. YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF
44:08 - THE WAY I DESCRIBE IT AND
44:10 - FOR EVERY ONE OF THE SOLDIERS,
44:12 - THEIR ENTIRE WORLD IS ALL
44:13 - AROUND THEM. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
44:14 - NOT LOOKING AT A COMPUTER
44:15 - SCREEN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
44:17 - AND AND FOR US TO UNDERSTAND
44:20 - HOW THEY CAN OPERATE, HOW THEY
44:22 - CAN MOVE THEIR TERRITORY LIKE
44:23 - THIS.
44:24 - >>BATTLES CAN HAPPEN BY
44:26 - ACCIDENT. HOW FORCES CAN RUN
44:27 - INTO EACH OTHER IS REALLY ALL A
44:29 - FUNCTION OF THAT LACK OF
44:31 - TECHNOLOGY.
44:32 - >>150 YEARS.
44:33 - >>WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR
44:34 - MINDSET. I
44:36 - >>NOW THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
44:37 - OBVIOUSLY FOR US IS LOOMING
44:39 - LARGE. WHAT IS JEB STUART DO
44:41 - AFTER THIS?
44:42 - >>WILL STEWART WILL ARRIVE ON
44:44 - WILL ACTUALLY GO ALL THE WAY TO
44:45 - CARLISLE WHEN HE GETS TO.
44:46 - YOUR KEY. FINDS OUT EARLY IS
44:47 - GONE. HE KNOWS THAT THE OTHER
44:49 - 2 DIVISIONS OF YOU'LL SCORE
44:51 - WERE SUPPOSED TO BE OPERATING
44:52 - SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CARLISLE AND
44:54 - HARRISBURG. SO THAT'S WHERE
44:56 - HE'S GOING TO GO. HE'S GOING TO
44:57 - MAKE A BEELINE TO CARLISLE.
44:58 - LUCKILY FITS LEE. IT SPENT MOST
45:00 - OF HIS PRE ARMY CAREER PRE
45:02 - CIVIL WAR, REGULAR ARMY CAREER
45:04 - AT THE CARLISLE BARRACKS AND
45:05 - KNEW THE AREA WELL AND AND ONE
45:08 - OF THE COLONELS OF OF SHAMELESS
45:11 - RICHARD BIEHL WAS AN ALARM OF
45:13 - DICKINSON COLLEGE, WHICH IS
45:14 - LOCATED IN CARLISLE. SO HE GOES
45:17 - THEY'RE EXPECTING TO FIND
45:18 - CONFEDERATE INFANTRY THERE AND
45:20 - INSTEAD FINDS UNION INFANTRY
45:22 - FROM THE DEFENSE'S OF
45:23 - HARRISBURG AND HE ENDS SHOWING
45:26 - CARLISLE THAT EVENING AND
45:27 - ULTIMATELY FINALLY GETS AS
45:30 - STAFF OFFICER THAT HE HAD SENT
45:32 - TO TRY AND FIND THE ARMY HEARD
45:34 - THE FIRE, THE GUNS AT
45:35 - GETTYSBURG AND ROAD TO THE
45:37 - SOUND OF THE GUNS FOUND MULE
45:39 - YOUR IN TURN SENT OF THE WAY
45:40 - WE GAVE HIM ORDERS TO TELL
45:42 - STEWART TO COME TO TO
45:44 - GETTYSBURG.
45:46 - HE ARRIVES BACK IN CARLISLE
45:48 - AND TIME.
45:49 - ABOUT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE STEWART.
45:52 - WEBBER'S UP HIS GUNS.
45:55 - HEADS OFF, LEAVING THE TOWN
45:56 - OF CARLISLE BURNING BEHIND HIM
45:58 - WITH THE GAS WORKS IN THE
45:59 - BARRACKS ON THE BLAZE.
46:02 - CAST ACROSS SOUTH MOUNTAIN IN
46:03 - MARCH, THE 30 MILES 2 TO CAR TO
46:06 - FROM CARLISLE, GETTYSBURG.
46:08 - HE'S SO EXHAUSTED. THE HAS TO
46:09 - STOP SLEEP FOR A COUPLE OF
46:10 - HOURS BECAUSE HE JUST CAN'T
46:11 - FUNCTION ANYMORE. FINALLY GETS
46:13 - TO GETTYSBURG 2 IN THE
46:14 - AFTERNOON. THE REST OF HIS
46:16 - FORCE ARRIVES ABOUT 6 HAMPTONS
46:19 - BRIGADE HAS THE ENCOUNTER WITH
46:20 - CUSTER AND FARNSWORTH OF AGAIN.
46:23 - IT AT A PLACE CALLED HUNTERS
46:25 - AND THEN THEY HAVE A A LARGE
46:26 - SCALE ENGAGEMENT.
46:28 - ON EAST CAVALRY FIELD ON THE
46:30 - 3RD OF JULY WHERE THEY TAKE ON.
46:34 - CUSTER'S BRIGADE. AGAIN, ALONG
46:36 - WITH ONE OF THE BRIGADES OF
46:37 - DAVID MCMURTRY, GREG SECOND
46:38 - DIVISION AND
46:41 - IT'S ALL THE DRAMA AND ROMANCE
46:42 - YOU WOULD EXPECT OF A OF A
46:43 - CAVALRY BATTLE.
46:45 - >>THE POLITICS OF THE CIVIL
46:47 - WAR AND BATTLES I THINK ARE
46:48 - VERY INTERESTING. THERE'S A LOT
46:50 - OF CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING JEB
46:51 - STUART'S ROLE LIKE GETTYSBURG.
46:53 - WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE
46:54 - BLAME. THAT'S MAYBE A SIGN
46:55 - THEM. AND IS IT FAIR?
46:58 - >>WELL, AND I THINK THAT'S ONE
47:00 - OF THE REASONS WHY WE COME UP
47:01 - WITH THE TITLE, THE BOOK.
47:02 - AND WE DID THAT. THERE'S PLENTY
47:03 - OF BLAME TO GO AROUND. WE WE
47:05 - ARGUE SEVERAL SIDES OF THE
47:07 - QUESTION PRESENTING BASICALLY
47:08 - THE EVIDENCE SHOWED TO THE
47:09 - READER TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES
47:13 - IN GENERAL STEWART DOES RECEIVE
47:15 - A LOT OF THE BLAME FOR WHAT
47:16 - HAPPENED TO CAGED BIRDS SIMPLY
47:18 - BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT HE
47:19 - DOES TAKE THAT RIGHT. HE'S OUT
47:21 - OF TOUCH WITH THE ARMY AND IT
47:23 - SHOWS UP ON JULY SECOND AFTER
47:24 - THE BATTLE IS UNDER WAY.
47:25 - AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE
47:26 - QUICK AND DIRTY. YOU KNOW THAT
47:27 - THAT MOST PEOPLE GET OUR MOST
47:29 - PEOPLE STUDY WHAT WE OFFER
47:31 - BECAUSE OF THINGS THE BATTLE
47:34 - OF WESTMINSTER, THE BATTLE OF
47:36 - HANOVER HERE, THE WAY THINGS
47:37 - PROCEED. FAIRFAX STATION IN
47:39 - FAIRFAX, WE WE BASICALLY
47:41 - OFFERED THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST
47:42 - CONSIDER.
47:43 - >>AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE,
47:45 - WHAT HIS MISSION WAS, THE
47:46 - DIFFERENT TASKS THAT HE WAS
47:48 - GIVEN TO ACCOMPLISH OPERATING
47:50 - IN A MEAT OR TERRITORY ON A
47:52 - NEARLY 200 MILE RIDE AND
47:53 - ACCOMPLISH ALL THIS. ALL THE
47:55 - WHILE GETTING INTO THESE
47:56 - UNEXPECTED ENGAGEMENTS, YOU
47:58 - KNOW, WITH THE FEDERALES, HE
47:59 - DOES SEVERAL THINGS TO TRY TO
48:01 - DO. HOWEVER, FACILITATE MAKING
48:04 - HIS RIDE.
48:05 - AND NOT SO MUCH EASIER. BUT
48:07 - LET'S A LITTLE MORE EFFICIENT
48:08 - WHEN HE CAPTURES THOSE 150
48:10 - WAGONS. DONNA ROCKVILLE,
48:11 - MARYLAND, ONE OF THE THINGS HE
48:13 - DOES IS HE DETACHES HALF OF THE
48:15 - MULE TEAMS OF EACH OF THOSE
48:16 - WAGONS IN ORDER TO SPEED THEM
48:18 - ALONG. HE USES A VERY GOOD
48:20 - HORSE FATHER. YOU KNOW, THAT'S
48:22 - IN THERE FOR HIS HORSES.
48:23 - MEALS, SOMETHING WHICH PROBABLY
48:25 - HELPS HIM COMPLETE THAT RIGHT.
48:27 - YOU KNOW, RATHER THAN SLOWING
48:28 - HIM DOWN AND PROBABLY ACTUALLY
48:29 - HELPS HIM TO FINISH IT. HE
48:32 - MAKES SEVERAL THOSE TYPE OF
48:33 - DECISIONS, YOU KNOW, TOO, TO
48:35 - ACTUALLY FACILITATE MAKING THIS
48:37 - RIGHT. THERE'S A LOT OF
48:39 - ARGUMENTS ON BOTH SIDES.
48:41 - I'M NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH IS I
48:42 - ALSO MENTIONED BEFORE IS THAT
48:44 - YOU'LL DID NOT MAKE IT ANY
48:45 - EASIER FOR STEWART TO TRY TO
48:46 - LINK UP WITH HIM. WE ARE ONLY
48:48 - BY 4 OR EARLY RIGHT AS WE
48:50 - MENTIONED A COUPLE OF TIMES
48:52 - ALREADY DURING THIS BATTLE ON
48:53 - JUNE, THE 30TH WE KNOW THAT
48:56 - THAT THEY HEARD THE SOUND 7 OR
48:59 - 8 MILES NORTH OF HERE, BUT THEN
49:00 - DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO FIND
49:02 - OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON THAT.
49:05 - >>WORLEY EARLY HAD A REGIMEN.
49:07 - HALF OF CAVALRY WITH HIM.
49:09 - HE EASILY COULD HAVE SENT.
49:12 - SOME SCOUTS DOWN HERE TO FIND
49:13 - OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. HAD HE
49:15 - DONE SO PUT A LINK UP WITH
49:16 - STEWART. STEWART WOULD HAVE
49:17 - ESCORTED OR LEASE DIVISION TO
49:19 - GETTYSBURG AND IMAGINE EARLY'S
49:21 - ATTACK ON JULY. FIRST, THE
49:23 - GETTYSBURG CRASHING INTO THE
49:24 - 11TH CORPS FLAG WITH STEWART'S
49:26 - TROOPERS LEADING THE WAY.
49:27 - NOT ONLY COULD THAT HAVE
49:28 - HAPPENED, THAT SHOULD HAVE
49:29 - HAPPENED EARLY. THAT'S ON JUBAN
49:31 - WORLD WRITERLY COULD HAVE
49:32 - TROOPERS HERE WITHIN THE HOUR.
49:33 - >>YOU KNOW THE FINAL WHAT WAS
49:34 - GOING ON? WHAT WHAT? WHAT IS IT
49:35 - BACK HERE? IS THAT, YOU KNOW,
49:38 - CONFEDERATE COMMANDER RAN IN
49:39 - THE LOCAL MILITIA, WHICH WAS
49:40 - HAPPENING QUITE A BIT, YOU
49:41 - KNOW, THROUGH SOUTHERN
49:42 - PENNSYLVANIA OR IS IT AN
49:44 - INDICATION OF SOMETHING BIGGER?
49:46 - HAD HE SEND SOMEBODY DOWN HERE
49:47 - TO FIND OUT? IT WAS CERTAINLY
49:48 - SOMETHING BIGGER COULD
49:49 - ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL OF GETTING
49:51 - STEWART AND AND EWELLS COMMAND
49:53 - TOGETHER. HOW IT WOULD THE NEXT
49:56 - COUPLE OF DAYS. YOU KNOW,
49:57 - THAT'S THE BIG QUESTION.
49:59 - >>THE PROFESSIONALS LIKE TO
50:00 - CALL IT THE FRICTION OF WAR.
50:02 - YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE NOTHING EVER
50:03 - GOES ENTIRELY AS PLANNED.
50:06 - I LOVE ALWAYS WHAT I WANT TO
50:07 - TALK ABOUT THIS. I WAS LIKE TO
50:09 - BORROW A LINE FROM GEORGE
50:10 - PICKETT WINNING WHEN ASKED
50:11 - ABOUT WHY, WHY THE CONFEDERATES
50:13 - LOST THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
50:14 - PICKETT'S IT WITH THE YANKEES
50:15 - HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT.
50:17 - YOU KNOW, CLEARLY THIS.
50:19 - THE CONFEDERATES HAD JUST TO
50:21 - GET TO THE CONCEPT OF THE UNION
50:23 - CAVALRY WAS ON A PAR WITH THEM
50:25 - AT THIS POINT. THEY WERE
50:26 - AGGRESSIVE. THEY WEREN'T
50:28 - PASSIVE. THEY WERE GOING TO
50:29 - TAKE THE FIGHT TO THEM AND I
50:31 - THINK STUART WAS FINALLY COMING
50:33 - TO THAT REALIZATION BECAUSE OF
50:35 - THESE ACTIONS WERE DESCRIBING.
50:37 - AND IT'S IT REALLY IS A SEA
50:38 - CHANGE. FOR THE UNION AND
50:40 - CONFEDERATE CAVALRY BECAUSE
50:42 - REALLY UP UNTIL THE SPRING OF
50:43 - 18, 63, THE CONFEDERATE CAVALRY
50:45 - HAD ITS WAY WITH THE UNION
50:47 - TROOPERS TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
50:49 - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THAT
50:50 - CALCULUS HAS CHANGED. AND
50:53 - THAT'S A DIFFICULT SITUATION TO
50:54 - GET BEYOND SURE. AND I THINK
50:57 - I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW
50:58 - WHAT KIND OF CONDITION ERIC
51:00 - TOUCHED ON IT. YOU KNOW THAT.
51:01 - >>ON THE CONFEDERATE COVERAGE
51:03 - SIDE, JEB THE CONDITION OF HIS
51:05 - COMMAND. YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S
51:07 - HOT. IT'S RAINING AT TIMES.
51:09 - IT TURNS THE ROADS IN THE MUDDY
51:11 - GROHL LITERALLY LIKE TRYING TO
51:12 - MARCH TO OPEN OVER, TRYING TO
51:14 - GET YOUR HORSE THROUGH OATMEAL.
51:16 - THEY HAVEN'T BAYS. THEY'RE NOT
51:18 - EATING WELL.
51:19 - THERE ARE BEING ARRESTED,
51:21 - RIGHT? THE HORSES HAVE TO BE
51:23 - REST OF THE HORSES ARE DYING
51:24 - LEFT AND RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WE
51:26 - DON'T HAVE GOOD NUMBERS, BUT
51:27 - I'M QUITE CERTAIN THAT AT LEAST
51:29 - HUNDREDS OF HORSES ARE FALLING
51:30 - OUT AND THAT'S ONE OF THE
51:32 - REASONS WHY THE NEW TO CAPTURE
51:33 - AS MANY AS THEY CAN BECAUSE
51:35 - THEY'RE CONSTANTLY TRAINING
51:36 - HORSES OUT FOR TROOPERS WHO'S
51:38 - WHO'S MOUNTS ARE LITERALLY JUST
51:40 - FALLING DOWN THE ROAD THEY'RE
51:42 - THEY'RE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT
51:44 - STEWART'S ROAD ALL THE WAY UP
51:45 - FOR JIM FROM VIRGINIA, THE DEAD
51:47 - HORSES TROOPERS THEMSELVES
51:49 - FALLING OUT HEAT EXHAUSTION.
51:51 - YOU KNOW, IT'S HOT. I THINK TO
51:53 - APPRECIATE THE CONDITION OF
51:55 - SOMETHING THAT'S ALSO A MAJOR
51:56 - FACTOR IN HIS RIGHT AND HOW
51:58 - WELL HE'S ABLE TO THE PROGRESS
51:59 - WITH THAT. IF VISITORS CAME
52:01 - TO HAND OVER TODAY, WHAT
52:03 - LANDMARKS CAN THEY LOOK FOR
52:04 - FROM THE BATTLE? WELL, RIGHT
52:06 - BEHIND US HERE WE HAVE WHAT'S
52:08 - CALLED THE PICKET MORNING AND
52:10 - THIS MONUMENT REPRESENTS
52:12 - FEDERAL SOLDIER ON PICKET
52:14 - BASICALLY GUARDING IN WATCHING,
52:16 - YOU KNOW, FOR THE ENEMY COMING.
52:18 - IT WAS INSTALLED HERE IN THE
52:20 - TOWN SQUARE IN 19. 0, 4,
52:22 - ACTUALLY IN THE CENTER OF THE
52:23 - SQUARE AND IT'S BEEN MOVED OFF
52:25 - TO THE SIDE SINCE HANOVER TAKES
52:28 - ITS HISTORY VERY SERIOUSLY.
52:30 - AND THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE
52:30 - CONGRATULATED.
52:32 - >>JUST IN THE PAST 5 OR 6 YEARS
52:34 - ALONE, THEY PUT UP A NUMBER
52:35 - OF WAYS SIDES. ALL THROUGH
52:37 - DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OF WHERE
52:39 - THE THE BATTLE AS HAPPENED.
52:40 - WHEN THE FURY OF HIS LAWYER TO
52:41 - HER RIGHT AND EXCELLENT WALKING
52:43 - TOUR. WE WE HAVE A TOUR IN OUR
52:45 - BOOK, BUT THEY THEY'VE ALSO
52:46 - PUBLISHED A GOOD LOCAL WALKING
52:47 - TOUR.
52:48 - >>THE VISITORS CAN TAKE AND
52:50 - ALSO WHEN YOU'RE IN THE TOWN
52:51 - SQUARE HERE, THEY HAVE A KIOSK
52:53 - WHICH HAS WAYSIDE NOT ONLY ON
52:54 - THE BATTLE, BUT ALSO ON THE
52:56 - HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND IN THE
52:57 - AREA AS WELL. THE REALLY BE
52:59 - CONGRATULATED FOR HOW MUCH
53:01 - PROGRESS THEY'VE MADE HERE JUST
53:02 - IN THE PAST 3 YEARS AND WALKING
53:04 - TOURS REALLY EXTREMELY WELL
53:06 - DONE. AND ANYBODY WHO AT ALL
53:08 - INTERESTED IN VISITING HERE.
53:10 - >>IT'S WELL WORTH IT TO PICK IT
53:11 - UP. I BELIEVE IT'S AVAILABLE ON
53:13 - THE CITY'S WEBSITE. YOU CAN
53:14 - DOWNLOAD IT PARK YOUR CAR, GET
53:16 - OUT. WALK. THERE'S STILL PLENTY
53:18 - TO SEE IF YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE
53:20 - OF THE SQUARE AS AN EXAMPLE
53:22 - THERE ARE A COUPLE OF ARTILLERY
53:24 - PIECES THAT INTERESTINGLY
53:26 - ENOUGH THERE TO PARENT GUNS
53:27 - AND ONE OF THOSE 2 GUNS IS
53:29 - LITERALLY PARENT GUN NUMBER
53:30 - ONE, SERIAL NUMBER ONE WITH
53:33 - RICHARD PARENT, THE INVENTORS
53:35 - INITIALS CARVED INTO THAT
53:36 - RUNYON. THERE'S ALSO A MARKER
53:39 - OVER THERE FOR WHERE THE TREE
53:40 - WAS. THE MAPLE TREE THAT CUSTER
53:42 - TITUS HORSE TOO. THERE'S
53:44 - ACTUALLY 4 HORSESHOES IN THE
53:45 - SIDEWALK MARKING THAT SPOT IS A
53:47 - PLAQUE ON THE WALL OF THAT.
53:49 - THE BANK BUILDING ON THE CATTY
53:51 - CORNER FROM WHERE WE'RE SITTING
53:52 - AND SO WE NEED WE NEED TO ADD
53:54 - THAT WITH THE PICKET MONUMENT
53:56 - BEHIND US.
53:57 - >>AND THE WALKING TOUR THAT THE
53:58 - CITY OF HANOVER IS DEVELOPED.
54:00 - YOU CAN GET A VERY GOOD SENSE
54:01 - OF WHAT TOOK PLACE HERE.
54:03 - >>ON THAT NOTE, I'D LIKE TO
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