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PCN Call In: Battle of Gettysburg 07/01/24

Battle of Gettysburg with Gen. George Meade, portrayed by Andy Waskie; General John Buford, portrayed by Mark Leonard; and Dr. Jonathan Letterman, portrayed by Randy Krakauer

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00:09 - >>WE FINALLY GOT ONE. WE GOT

00:13 - A TIME MACHINE AND 3 SOLDIERS

00:14 - FROM THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

00:19 - IN 18. 63 JUST STEPPED OUT OF

00:19 - IT. THEN JOIN US FOR OUR

00:22 - SPECIAL CALL IN PROGRAM.

00:23 - THE UNION ARMY COMMANDER,

00:26 - GENERAL JOHN BUFORD.

00:28 - THE FATHER OF BATTLEFIELD

00:29 - MEDICINE. DOCTOR JONATHAN

00:32 - LETTERMAN.

00:34 - AND UNION ARMY GENERAL GEORGE

00:36 - MEADE, GENERAL MEADE, LET'S

00:37 - START WITH YOU. THE BATTLE OF

00:39 - GETTYSBURG WAS WAY BACK IN 18.

00:40 - 63 HERE WE ARE STILL TALKING

00:45 - ABOUT IT IN 2024, WHY IS THAT

00:47 - SIGNIFICANT?

00:48 - >>WELL, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY

00:48 - WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT

00:50 - I WILL LOOKING THROUGH THE

00:53 - PRISM OF HISTORY.

00:54 - BACK TO 18 63, A VERY, VERY

00:56 - PIVOTAL TIME IN OUR HISTORY.

01:01 - UNITED STATES AND OF COURSE,

01:03 - >>THE WAR FOR THE UNION AGAINST

01:06 - THE UNION AND FORD. THIS UNION

01:10 - BY THE CONFEDERATES LOOK RATHER

01:11 - BLEAK. WE HAD SOME FAR-SIGHTED

01:13 - SUFFERED A NUMBER OF DEFEATS.

01:17 - ROBERT E LEE AND HE'S SURGING

01:19 - FORCES WERE CARRYING THE WAR

01:20 - INTO THE NORTH, WHICH IS

01:22 - UNPRECEDENTED.

01:25 - IT LOOKED LIKE THIS NEXT ACTION

01:26 - WHICH WOODS, EVERYONE ASSUMED

01:29 - WOULD BE TAKING PLACE SOON

01:31 - WOULD BE THE DECIDING FACTOR IN

01:33 - WHETHER THAT WE WOULD BE

01:35 - DIVIDED INTO 2 COUNTRIES REMAIN

01:37 - UNITED OR SOME SOME SORT THE

01:40 - COMMISSION OF THE SOUTHERN

01:42 - INDEPENDENCE WOULD WOULD WOULD

01:43 - PREVAIL. SO THIS WAS A CRUCIAL

01:44 - CRITICAL MOMENT IN AMERICAN

01:47 - HISTORY.

01:47 - ONE WITH THAT. BUT IT COULD GO

01:49 - EITHER WAY AND OF COURSE, SO

01:52 - THE FACT THAT A COMMANDER OF

01:55 - ARMY.

01:58 - WAS FORCED TO SERVED A LONG

02:00 - STORY RIGHT ON THE IN THE

02:03 - MIDDLE OF THE CAMPAIGN. THERE

02:03 - WAS NO LATER WE WERE

02:06 - LEADERLESS.

02:08 - AND SO I WAS ONE OF THE CORE

02:08 - COMMANDERS. THE COURT UNITE THE

02:11 - ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. THE

02:12 - LARGEST SORT OF FIELD ARMY IN

02:14 - THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE

02:15 - ARMY GUARDING WASHINGTON, OF

02:18 - COURSE, AND OPPOSING LEE WAS

02:20 - COMPOSED OF 7 IT FOR TRICK OR

02:21 - EACH CALL WAS ABOUT 10 TO

02:23 - 14,000 MAYOR.

02:24 - KHOURY CORPS AND IN ORDER TO

02:27 - RECORD COLD YOUR TO RESERVE,

02:28 - I COMMANDED ONE OF THOSE CORE.

02:32 - THE 5TH CORPS AND SOME PEOPLE

02:32 - THOUGHT THAT WAS THE BEST SCORE

02:33 - IN THE ARMY CORPS SIDE A LITTLE

02:38 - BIT BY JUST ABOUT THAT. BUT

02:41 - IT DID CONTAIN THE ARMY, THE

02:42 - DIVISION OF THE REGULARS.

02:44 - SO ALL THE REGULAR U.S. ARMY

02:45 - SOLDIERS WERE IN MY DIVISION.

02:46 - WE'RE IN MY CORE AS THE SECOND

02:50 - DIVISION. SO BUT I WAS THRUST

02:51 - INTO THAT WAS SNATCHED OUT OF

02:54 - OBSCURITY.

02:55 - AND ORDERED TO TAKE COMMAND

03:00 - OF THE ARMY ON

03:02 - JUNE 28TH OF 18 63. NOW I PARTY

03:03 - DIDN'T REALIZE IT, BUT I KNEW

03:04 - THAT THE BATTLE WAS COMING AND

03:06 - PROBABLY WOULD PLAY TAKE PLACE

03:07 - SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MARYLAND

03:09 - OR IN PENCILED IN PENNSYLVANIA.

03:12 - AND WELL, I WAS QUITE SURPRISED

03:15 - TO BE THRUST INTO BATTLE 3 DAYS

03:19 - IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY. AND SO

03:20 - IT WAS QUITE A QUITE A A LOT

03:23 - OF STRESS. AND I THINK I I

03:24 - MEASURE I HOPE TO MEASURE UP

03:28 - TO THAT COMMAND. WELCOME TO

03:30 - THE PCN COLIN PROGRAM. I'M

03:31 - LARRY CASPER.

03:32 - >>OUR GUESTS ARE STANDING BY

03:33 - TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT

03:36 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

03:38 - NOW WE WANT TO MAKE THIS FUN AS

03:41 - WELL AS EDUCATIONAL. SO PLEASE

03:43 - ASK YOUR QUESTIONS IN A WAY

03:45 - THAT WILL ENCOURAGE OUR GUESTS

03:48 - TO STAY IN CHARACTER. CALL OUR

03:51 - TOLL-FREE NUMBER AT

03:52 - 1, 8, 7, 7, HEY, A 6, 5,001.

03:55 - OR YOU CAN TEXT US AT 7, 1, 7,

04:01 - 2, 1, 9, 4,001, A GENERAL.

04:03 - LET'S HEAR FROM YOU. TALK ABOUT

04:04 - THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT THRUST

04:05 - YOU INTO THE BATTLE OF

04:08 - GETTYSBURG

04:10 - >>MY DIVISION WAS LAUGHTER IN

04:14 - FRONT. OF THE ENTIRE ARMY OF

04:15 - THE POTOMAC. SO WE WERE THE

04:16 - ONES WHO ACTUALLY KNEW WHERE

04:17 - THE CONFEDERATES WERE NEARLY

04:19 - ALL TIMES AND SENDING REPORTS

04:23 - BACK TO HEADQUARTERS, WHICH AT

04:23 - ONE TIME WAS STILL A BOOK OR

04:26 - A MAN AS GENERAL MADE NOTED,

04:32 - ABOUT THE 27TH OF JUNE MESSAGES

04:34 - WERE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, AND

04:38 - ALSO GENERAL REYNOLDS, ONE OF

04:39 - THE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT

04:41 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG IS

04:42 - THAT THUS FAR UNDER THE WAR.

04:43 - THE REALLY HADN'T BEEN ABOUT

04:47 - OUR WORK THE ENTIRE DAY OF BOTH

04:49 - THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE

04:51 - FORCES WERE ALL ENGAGED AT THE

04:54 - BATTLE ITSELF AND OTHER LARGE

04:57 - BATTLE SUCH AS AND TATUM.

04:58 - WELL, SOME TROOPS HAVE BEEN

05:00 - HELD IN RESERVE BY A UNION

05:02 - COMMANDERS. AND SO NOT EVERY

05:05 - YOUR THAT WAS THERE WAS

05:07 - ACTUALLY COMMITTED TO THE

05:08 - BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG WAS

05:10 - DIFFERENT. EVERY SINGLE.

05:14 - SOLDIER ON ANY OTHER ARMY ENDED

05:15 - UP IN COMBAT DURING THE 3 DAYS

05:17 - IT'S ALSO PERHAPS THE ONLY

05:20 - BATTLE THAT WAS.

05:25 - THE OPENING CELLS WERE, IN

05:28 - FACT, A BY THE CALVARY WITH

05:30 - APPROVAL, OF COURSE, FROM A

05:32 - INFANTRY COMMANDERS. AND THIS

05:34 - CASE, GENERAL MEETING GENERAL

05:38 - REYNOLDS. BUT IT WAS

05:40 - BATTLE AND THE OPENING OF THAT

05:41 - THAT I HAD PROPOSED AND THE

05:45 - SITE THAT I HAD ADVISED

05:46 - REYNOLDS AND MADE TO BRING THE

05:48 - INFANTRY TO SO THAT WOULD BE A

05:49 - UNIQUE THING ABOUT THE BATTLE

05:52 - OF GETTYSBURG.

05:52 - >>DOCTOR LETTERMAN, WOULD YOU

05:53 - TELL US YOUR MEDICAL

05:54 - CREDENTIALS WHEN YOU WENT INTO

05:55 - THE ARMY BEFORE THE BATTLE OF

05:57 - GETTYSBURG?

06:03 - >>WELL, I I I WAS

06:04 - ACTUALLY ALREADY IN THE REGULAR

06:04 - OR BE AS SAFE AS SAYING.

06:05 - MUELLER HAS AN ARMY PHYSICIAN.

06:08 - AND I EXPERIENCED IN THE IN

06:11 - THE SEMINOLE WARS IN FLORIDA.

06:12 - A LOOK IN SOMETHING FOR TO THE

06:15 - WEST WHICH SERVED ME VERY WELL

06:22 - IN THE IN THE WAR OF THE I WAS

06:23 - CALLS TO CUT IT. I WAS CALLED

06:25 - TO A COMMAND TO THE MEDICAL

06:26 - SERVICES OF THE ARMY THAT THE

06:28 - TOLL THAT IN 18 62 TO 6 WHAT

06:31 - WAS CONSIDERED AN TO EAT REALLY

06:34 - WAS A CATASTROPHIC SITUATION.

06:35 - MEDICAL SERVICES WERE ARE BOTH

06:36 - ALI. IT KIND OF CLICKED TO WITH

06:39 - LARGE NUMBERS OF MEN AND THEN

06:41 - TO OUR AND LARGE-SCALE BATTLES.

06:42 - THEY NEVER TO DEAL WITH

06:44 - ANYTHING REMOTELY LIKE THIS

06:48 - BEFORE. I THINK CONDITIONS ARE

06:50 - AWFUL. WERE RAMPANT, INCLUDING

06:54 - THE CONDITIONS SUCH AS CURRY IN

06:55 - T 2 THIRDS OF ALL TESTS WERE

06:57 - BUT I'M NOT THAT WILL FIELD

06:59 - INJURIES, BUT THE DISEASE AND

07:01 - MUCH OF THIS WAS PREVENTABLE.

07:02 - HOWEVER, THE IMMEDIATE

07:03 - SITUATION WAS BATTLEFIELD

07:06 - MEDICINE, WHICH I HAD TO DEAL

07:08 - WITH THE ART MEDICAL SERVICES

07:10 - CAN SEE ASSISTANT REGIMENTAL

07:12 - PHYSICIANS FROM HOME, MOSTLY

07:14 - FROM WHERE THE REGIMENT'S

07:16 - RECRUITED, WHO HAD A LITTLE

07:18 - EXPERIENCE WITH MASS CASUALTIES

07:20 - AND HE WAS SERIOUS CASUALTIES

07:23 - IN GENERAL TRAINING HAD BEEN

07:24 - SET TO EXPERIENCE IT IN TOTALLY

07:28 - INADEQUATE FOR THIS AND EVERY

07:29 - SOME MEDICAL SERVICES NECESSARY

07:32 - LOOKS LIKE IT WAS LIKE WEI-YIN

07:35 - INADEQUATE AFTER A MAJOR BATTLE

07:36 - MEANT TO LIGHT ON THE

07:37 - BATTLEFIELD UNATTENDED

07:41 - OCCASIONALLY FOR DAYS

07:42 - THAT THE SITUATION WITH CLEARLY

07:45 - NEEDED IF EVERY RICHMOND'S HAD

07:48 - A REGIMENTAL SERGEANT.

07:51 - AND IF YOUR REGIMENT WAS

07:52 - INVOLVED IN BATTLE, YOUR

07:52 - SWAMPS, OTHERWISE YOU LIKELY

07:54 - HAVE VERY LITTLE TO DO.

07:57 - WHAT I TOOK COMMAND IN 18, 60 X

07:59 - 2 OF THE FORMAT THAT ONLY

08:02 - SMIKLE SERVICE. I COMPLETELY

08:03 - REORGANIZED THE OPERATIONS,

08:06 - BOTH IN TERMS OF DISEASE AND IN

08:07 - TERMS OF BATTLEFIELD MEDICINE.

08:08 - BUT IN TERMS OF THAT

08:11 - BATTLEFIELD MEDICINE.

08:12 - I WOULD BE WITH MY COMMANDERS

08:13 - APPROVAL WITH THE GENERAL THAT

08:16 - TELL US APPROVAL.

08:17 - WE TRANSFERRED THE AMBULANCE

08:17 - SERVICE TO THE MEDICAL CORPS.

08:22 - TO END COMPLETELY REVAMPED ITS

08:26 - INCLUDING TRAINING A COLLECTION

08:27 - OF BATTLEFIELD TRANSPORT AND

08:30 - TRANSPORT.

08:32 - THERE WAS NO ORGANIZED SYSTEM

08:34 - OF MEDICAL TRANSPORT PRIOR TO

08:35 - THIS. IF YOU'RE INJURED, YOU

08:37 - HAD TO MAKE YOUR WAY TO

08:39 - REGIMENTAL SERGEANT, IF YOU

08:40 - COULD. AND SOMETIMES THESE

08:41 - ISSUES WHICH YES, WITH THIS

08:42 - PURPOSE WOULD LET LET'S LITTLE

08:45 - OR NO TRAINING

08:46 - THIS PURPOSE. SO I I CREATED

08:48 - A ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF

08:50 - EVACUATION WITH THE AMBULANCE

08:53 - SERVICE TO THE COURT TO FEEL

08:55 - DRESSING STATIONS WHERE

08:56 - EMERGENCY SERVICES WERE

08:56 - REVEALED. BILLABLE NOT ONLY

09:00 - EMERGENCY SERVICES, BUT ALSO

09:01 - TRIAGE, WHICH WAS SOMETHING

09:04 - NEW ACTUALLY COMES FROM THE

09:04 - FRENCH. WE USED IT IN THE

09:08 - PULLEY ON, OF COURSE, BUT IT

09:09 - NEVER BEEN USED IN THIS TOWN

09:11 - THIS THIS WAY IN THIS BILL,

09:14 - WHICH SELECTED OUT OF THE FIELD

09:16 - DRESSING STATIONS WERE WRITTEN

09:18 - VERSION, SEE THAT IT WAS GIVEN

09:20 - TO THOSE NEEDING OF MEDIA

09:23 - ATTENTION, WHICH WERE THEN

09:24 - TRANSPORTED IMMEDIATELY BY

09:24 - TRAIN TOUR, STRONG AMBULANCE TO

09:26 - THE FIELD. HOSPITALS IN THE

09:28 - REAR WHICH WERE ORGANIZED NEAR

09:32 - US OR SUPPORTER.

09:34 - AND ON HIGH GROUND. I DOCTOR

09:35 - DIAMOND, THANK YOU VERY WE'RE

09:38 - GOING TO START TAKING SOME

09:38 - PHONE CALLS.

09:39 - >>HERE'S ONE FROM LEBANON AND

09:42 - ITS NORMAN. YOU'RE ON PCN.

09:43 - >>YEAH. HI. CAN YOU HEAR ME

09:48 - LOUD AND CLEAR? I WOULD LIKE

09:48 - THAT ALL SCHOOL. WHAT HE CALLED

09:51 - A GENTLE WELL KNOW.

09:53 - AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ASK A

09:54 - PERSON WANT TO THANK YOU FOR

09:56 - SERVICE.

09:56 - >>WHO DO YOU WANT ANSWERED THE

09:59 - NORMAN.

10:03 - >>GENERAL ME, OKAY.

10:04 - >>WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

10:06 - FOR THE QUESTION ALSO FOR YOUR

10:09 - PARTICIPATION IN THIS PROGRAM,

10:10 - A GENERAL RENTALS AND I WERE

10:12 - THE BEST OF FRIENDS VERY, VERY

10:16 - CLOSE COMRADES GENERAL REYNOLDS

10:17 - WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FINEST

10:19 - INFANTRY COMMANDER IN THE ARMY.

10:23 - HE HAD EXPERIENCE GOING FOR A

10:24 - WHILE BACK. I WEST POINT

10:25 - GRADUATE, OF COURSE, THAT'S

10:29 - WHAT IT WAS. I BUT WE HAD COME

10:32 - UP THROUGH THE PENNSYLVANIA

10:32 - RESERVE OLEN TO RESERVE CORPS

10:33 - THE PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES.

10:36 - THIS WAS A DIVISION.

10:40 - OF SOLDIERS RECRUITED AND

10:41 - TRAINED ENTIRELY IN THE

10:42 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,

10:43 - THE ORIGIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA

10:45 - NATIONAL GUARD. IN A SENSE.

10:47 - GENERAL RENTALS WAS THE FIRST

10:49 - BRIGADE COMMANDER. I WAS THE

10:50 - SECOND BRIGADE COMMANDER.

10:51 - 3RD BRIGADE WAS COMMANDED BY

10:54 - EDWARD ORG. AND SO WE SPENT

10:57 - MUCH TIME WORKING TOGETHER CAN

11:01 - FERRYING EXCHANGING

11:01 - IDEAS, SAW TRAINING PRACTICES

11:02 - AND SO ON. AND OF COURSE, WE

11:06 - WERE IN COMBAT TOGETHER.

11:08 - SOMETIMES RENTALS COMMANDED

11:11 - ME AND EVENTUALLY I'M GOING TO

11:11 - COME AND HIM, PARTICULARLY

11:12 - AFTER I WAS PROMOTED TO THE

11:14 - COMMANDER, THE ARMY, BUT TOMIC.

11:15 - HE REMAINED IN COMMAND OF THE

11:18 - 1ST QUARTER AND HE ALSO GAVE

11:19 - HIM A WING COMMAND, WHICH MEANS

11:23 - 3 CORE TO TAKE FORWARD TO FEEL

11:24 - THE ENEMY ON THE LEFT FLANK,

11:28 - WHICH WE SUSPECTED WAS WHERE

11:29 - LEE WAS EXPOS WAS WORKING.

11:31 - SO I KNEW HIM VERY, VERY WELL.

11:32 - WE WERE VERY CLOSE AND I WAS

11:35 - NEXT AND SHOCKED AND SADDENED

11:37 - WHEN HE WAS KILLED ON THE FIELD

11:39 - ABOUT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE

11:42 - BATTLE, ABOUT 10, 30 IN THE

11:44 - MORNING. AS ALWAYS BRAVE TO A

11:45 - FAULT OUT IN FRONT LEADING THEM

11:47 - AND PLACING THEM IN LINE AND HE

11:50 - WAS KILLED CERTAINLY THE

11:51 - COMMAND OF ALL THE POND, LESSER

11:55 - LEICESTER COMMANDERS.

11:58 - >>CALL OUR PROGRAM AT 1, 8, 7,

11:59 - 7, PA 6, 5,001 WEEK IN TEXAS,

12:02 - 7, 1, 7, 2, 1, 9, 4,001.

12:03 - THESE GENTLEMAN WITH US TODAY

12:05 - ARE WITH AN ORGANIZATION CALLED

12:07 - THE CONFEDERATION OF UNION

12:08 - GENERALS. AND WE'RE GOING TO

12:09 - TALK MORE ABOUT THEM LATER.

12:12 - BUT FOR NOW, LET'S GO TO

12:12 - PHILADELPHIA, JOSEPH HERE ON

12:15 - PCN.

12:17 - >>HELLO.

12:21 - >>CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

12:21 - COULD I HAVE A QUESTION FOR

12:24 - GENERAL MEADE?

12:25 - GENERALLY? DO YOU AGREE WITH

12:28 - ME THAT THE INITIATIVE SHOWN

12:31 - BY GENERAL SICKLES AND MOVING

12:34 - HIS CORE FORWARD. SHIELDED THE

12:36 - UNION CENTER AND THEREFORE

12:36 - SICKLES WAS TRULY THE HERO OF

12:39 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

12:42 - >>I DO NOT AGREE. IN FACT, I

12:42 - RECOGNIZE THE VOICE OF THAT

12:45 - MAN AND HE IS A NOTED PROPONENT

12:48 - OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND

12:50 - THEREFORE NOT A GOOD LINCOLN

12:51 - MAN, BUT I WILL ANSWER HIM AND

12:55 - SAY THAT SINGLES WHO COMMANDED

12:56 - THE 3RD CORPS WAS NOT A WEST

12:58 - POINT MAN. HE WAS NOT A TRAINED

13:01 - SOLDIER. HE WAS A POLITICAL

13:02 - APPOINTEE. HE WAS LOOKING FOR

13:05 - GLORY. AND SO ED BROWN DIES

13:06 - MEANT AND ALWAYS FELT THAT HE

13:08 - WAS SMARTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.

13:10 - AND THEREFORE, HE DIDN'T HAVE

13:11 - TO LISTEN TO COMMANDS AND BIT

13:14 - OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE. HE WAS

13:16 - PLACED IN LINE, BUT HE DECIDED

13:19 - THAT HE SAW BETTER GROUND

13:20 - TOMORROW AHEAD THERE ON HIS

13:21 - OWN, AN ISSUE THAT CONTRACT

13:23 - ORDERS. HE JUST TOOK IT UPON

13:25 - HIMSELF TO ADVANCE FORWARD,

13:27 - CREATING A GIANT GAP AND ONLINE

13:30 - ALMOST GIVING THE ENEMY IN THE

13:32 - OPEN AVENUE TO CRUSH OUR LIVES.

13:33 - I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS AFTER IT

13:35 - ALREADY HAPPENED. I RODE OUT

13:39 - TO MAKE SOME CHANGES AND SO ON.

13:40 - BUT THE ENEMY WOULD NOT ALLOW

13:43 - US AT THAT TIME TO CHANGE

13:44 - BECAUSE HE WAS ATTACKING.

13:45 - AND IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT

13:48 - UNDER ASSAULT TO MAKE CHANGES

13:50 - OF THAT NATURE. SO BUT I WAS

13:54 - ABLE TO TROOPS TO BACK UP

13:57 - SINGLES IN HIS

13:58 - 3RD CORPS EVENTUALLY AT THE END

14:00 - OF THE DAY, HIS TROOPS WILL

14:02 - BE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL LINE

14:03 - WHERE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE

14:04 - PLACED WITH 50% CASUALTIES.

14:09 - AND SICKLES MINUS A LEG.

14:10 - OF COURSE HE WILL GO TO

14:11 - WASHINGTON, YOU KNOW, TELL

14:14 - EVERYBODY HOW HE WON THE BATTLE

14:16 - BECAUSE WITH BOTH DISOBEYED

14:19 - ORDERS AND HE WAS PROUD OF IT.

14:22 - THANK YOU, SIR. COLOR. YOU ARE.

14:23 - THANK YOU FOR BRINGING OUT SOME

14:25 - STRONG OPINIONS FROM GENERAL

14:27 - MEADE. NOW I GENERAL BUFORD

14:28 - OUT. I WANT TURNED YOU. I

14:28 - UNDERSTAND THEY USED TO CALL

14:32 - YOUR OLD.

14:33 - >>STEADFAST. SO HOW WELL DID

14:33 - THAT NICKNAME FIT YOUR

14:36 - DISPOSITION?

14:37 - >>AND I'M PRETTY DIFFICULT TO

14:41 - GET EXCITED

14:44 - NOT TO VERY HIGHLY EXPRESSIVE

14:47 - OF EMOTIONS.

14:48 - AND SO I SUPPOSE THAT WASN'T

14:51 - OK NICKNAME FOR ME.

14:55 - DO THE JOB, GET THE WORK VERY

14:56 - LITTLE ATTENTION. I DID NOT

14:58 - LIKE ESPECIALLY OTHER CALVARY

15:01 - OFFERS SERVERS THAT WERE.

15:02 - SO EAGER TO TRY AND PUT EXTRA

15:05 - GOLD BRAZEN, FANCY CLOTHES AND

15:09 - HATS AND UNIFORMS ON. I JUST

15:10 - KIND OF WAR COMMON CLOSE AS

15:11 - MUCH AS I COULD AND AND GET OUT

15:14 - TO GET THE

15:16 - JOB DONE. PEOPLE WOULD

15:17 - OCCASIONALLY TEASE ME THAT I

15:20 - SPEAK SLOW, BUT I WANT TO MAKE

15:21 - DAMN SURE THEY KNEW WHAT I WAS

15:24 - SAYING. AND I'M AN ATLANTA SAID

15:25 - >>GENERAL VIEW FOR AND I

15:26 - UNDERSTAND YOU WERE BORN IN

15:29 - KENTUCKY. IS THAT RIGHT?

15:30 - >>YES, OR A BORN IN KENTUCKY IN

15:34 - 18. 26 WOODFORD COUNTY.

15:34 - >>MAYA FAMILY WERE SLAVE

15:38 - OWNERS. AND

15:41 - I HAD A LOT OF TIES TO THE

15:43 - SOUTHERN CULTURE MIGRANT.

15:45 - MY GRANDFATHER SERVED IN THE

15:45 - CALVARY UNDER LIGHTHORSE HARRY

15:48 - LEE DURING THE

15:49 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THAT CLOSE

15:50 - TIES WITH THE LEE FAMILY AT ALL

15:54 - AS MCDOWELL'S

15:56 - EARNING IMMERSED IN AMERICAN

15:59 - HISTORY AND AMERICAN,

15:59 - ESPECIALLY AMERICAN MILITARY

16:01 - HISTORY. I GENERAL BUFORD BEING

16:01 - BORN IN KENTUCKY. WHAT DID THAT

16:03 - MEAN FOR YOUR ALLEGIANCE?

16:04 - >>TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY

16:06 - DURING THE WAR.

16:10 - WELL, I'M A WEST POINTER

16:11 - GRADUATED IN 18. 48 AND UPON

16:13 - GRADUATION, YOU

16:14 - >>TO SERVE THE UNITED STATES

16:17 - OF AMERICA.

16:19 - HAS ONLY ALLOWED 3 GOALS IN

16:21 - HIS LIFE. AND THAT'S TO GOD

16:24 - AND COUNTRY AND SPELLS. I DON'T

16:25 - THINK MUCH OF ANYBODY THAT

16:27 - WOULD GO BACK ON ANY ONE OF

16:28 - THOSE. ALSO, I STAYED WHILE THE

16:31 - UNITED STATES.

16:35 - I WAS OFFERED ANY RANK AND

16:36 - COMMISSION IN THE CONFEDERATE

16:36 - ARMY THAT I WANTED. IF I WOULD

16:37 - COME HOME AND SERVE THE

16:40 - CONFEDERATE STATES AND MY

16:42 - RESPONSE WAS AND THIS MOMENT

16:43 - I'M A CAPTAIN IN THE UNITED

16:44 - STATES ARMY AND I RECKON I'M

16:44 - GOING TO STAY ONE.

16:47 - >>WELL SAID.

16:48 - >>AND DOCTOR LETTERMAN, LET'S

16:49 - GET BACK TO YOU AND TALK ABOUT

16:51 - YOUR BEING MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR

16:54 - THE WHOLE UNION ARMY.

16:56 - >>BACK IN 18, 63, JUST WHAT

16:58 - KIND OF INJURIES WERE YOU A

16:59 - CUSTOM TO SEEING? AND THAT WERE

17:03 - SOME OF THESE YOUNG SHOCKED AND

17:04 - HORRIFIED THE PALM BY SOME OF

17:06 - THE INJURIES THAT THEY HAD TO

17:07 - SUFFER. MAYBE THEY DIDN'T KNOW

17:08 - WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO.

17:11 - WHAT DID YOU OBSERVE?

17:12 - >>WELL, TO A LARGE EXTENT, THEY

17:14 - DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE

17:17 - GETTING THE THE INJURIES WERE

17:18 - WORK WORK FOR A SIGNIFICANT,

17:23 - QUITE SERIOUS THE INTO THE

17:25 - ISSUES THAT WERE USED FOR,

17:28 - QUOTE, MANY PULLS OVER LIVE

17:31 - AT A HIGH VELOCITY, CAUSED A

17:34 - TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF DAMAGE

17:35 - HITTING UNION THE EU, GETTING

17:36 - HUMAN PENETRATING WOUNDS TO THE

17:39 - CHEST OR ABDOMEN. THERE'S

17:40 - THERE'S VIRTUALLY NOTHING WE

17:41 - CAN DO ABOUT THAT. BUT THEY

17:42 - WERE ALMOST ALWAYS FATAL.

17:45 - AND THE MEN I

17:48 - KNEW THAT A PENETRATING WOUNDS,

17:49 - HOWEVER, TO THE LIVES WERE, IN

17:52 - FACT, TREATABLE, BUT THAT

17:55 - PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE THE IF

17:56 - THERE WAS A IT WAS FOREIGN

17:59 - MATTER IN THE BONES OR

17:59 - SPLINTERED BONE.

18:00 - >>THE GSA BLOOD POISONING IS

18:04 - VERY, VERY HIGH. LEAD POISONING

18:07 - IS 100% FATAL AND THERE IS NO

18:07 - TREATMENTS AND THE SYMPTOMS

18:09 - WILL OCCUR WITHIN 2 DAYS AND

18:10 - WAS THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OCCUR.

18:14 - IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE. SO AFTER

18:16 - A MAJOR BATTLE, BUT WE CAN DO

18:19 - IS IF WE SEE THIS WEAKEN AND

18:21 - IT'S A LIMB AMPUTATED AS SOON

18:22 - AS POSSIBLE. AND THEY ALL HAVE

18:26 - TO BE DONE WITHIN 2 DAYS.

18:28 - AND AFTER A MAJOR WILL TO AN

18:31 - AMPUTATION THAT EVERY 15

18:31 - MINUTES CORRECT IN SAYING THAT

18:34 - HE HAS NON STOP IN ORDER TO

18:35 - GET THEM ALL DONE IT BEFORE

18:37 - WE START SEEING BLOOD POISONING

18:39 - DURING THE COURSE OF THE WAR WE

18:42 - DID

18:46 - 60,000 AMPUTATIONS. THAT'S

18:47 - 45,000. SURVIVES. HARDLY ANY

18:48 - OF THESE 45,000 WOULD HAVE

18:50 - SURVIVED WITHOUT

18:51 - THE AMPUTATION. SO WE SAY THAT

18:56 - THAT 75% OF THESE PEOPLE

18:57 - WEATHER-WISE WEBSITE AND THIS

18:58 - IS A BETTER PERCENTAGE THAN THE

18:59 - BRITISH EXPERIENCE IN THE

19:01 - CRIMEAN MORE 10 YEARS EARLIER,

19:04 - IT WAS THE EXPERIENCE OF COMING

19:06 - HOME WITH IT WITHOUT A LIMB

19:06 - WAS NONETHELESS EXTREMELY

19:08 - TRAUMATIC. AND THERE'S NO NO

19:15 - DENYING THAT I COULD ALSO AND

19:19 - THAT THIS DRAMATICALLY

19:21 - FOR CCS, IMPROVE THAT PHYSICAL

19:22 - THERAPY AND THEY'RE STAYING.

19:24 - EVER BEEN AN EXPERIENCE LIKE

19:27 - THIS IN THIS COUNTRY BEFORE

19:30 - AND TO CHANGE THE MEDICINE AND

19:31 - THE CHANGE, THE EXPERIENCE OF

19:33 - MEDICINE FOREVER.

19:33 - >>THANK YOU, DOCTOR LETTERMAN.

19:34 - LET'S TAKE ANOTHER PHONE CALL.

19:36 - THIS ONE IS FROM GETTYSBURG

19:37 - AND ITS JOHN. YOU'RE ON PCN.

19:44 - I KNOW JOHN, THE HAT.

19:45 - >>ALL COURSES FOR A GENERAL.

19:47 - BUFORD. YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO

19:50 - THIS OR THE U.S..

19:50 - YOU MET WITH MEMBER BUT MAYBE

19:54 - TO MEET PERSONAL SELF. YOUR

19:56 - HOTEL. YOU TELL US WHAT THIS

19:57 - WELL AS THE POLITICS OF

20:00 - DISCUSSION.

20:00 - AND WHAT YOU CONVEY TO HIS

20:03 - PERSONAL AIDE.

20:06 - >>WITH THE MODERATOR REPEAT

20:06 - THE QUESTION WITH A QUESTION

20:07 - WAS, WHAT WAS THE RESULT OR

20:09 - WHAT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE EAGLE

20:10 - HOTEL? IS THAT RIGHT? JOHN?

20:15 - >>THE MOTHER, JUNE 30TH.

20:22 - I WAS VISITING WITH THAT.

20:23 - MIKE COUPE BRIGADE, COLONELS,

20:26 - BEVAN AND GAMBLE.

20:28 - AND THE CITING A FOR SURE ON

20:29 - FINAL DISPOSITIONS OF THE

20:30 - TROOPS MEAN ONE OF OUR GOALS.

20:35 - REMEMBER, WE ARE READY REPORTED

20:35 - TO GENERAL MEAT IN GENERAL

20:39 - REYNOLDS. THAT? WE KNEW THE

20:41 - ENTIRE 3RD CONFEDERATE COURT

20:43 - WAS THAT CASH COW. OUR SCOUTS

20:44 - HAVE REPORTED THAT 2ND QUARTER,

20:47 - THE CONFEDERATE AND ARE YOU

20:49 - WILL WAS CLOSE TO HARRISBURG.

20:50 - WE ALSO KNEW THE LONGSTREET WAS

20:56 - STILL PART OF HIS CORE WAS IN

20:57 - MARYLAND. SO WE DISCUSSED HOW

20:57 - WOULD WE DEPLOY OUR OUR BID

21:00 - OUT?

21:03 - IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO?

21:04 - FIRST OF ALL, CREATE THAT

21:05 - WORLD. THE IMAGE THAT WE'RE A

21:07 - LARGE FOREST AND ALSO TO

21:11 - ENCOURAGE LEAD TO CURRY HIS

21:12 - ENTIRE ARMY. BACK IN

21:14 - GETTYSBURG. OUR ONLY HOPE WAS

21:18 - WAS INFANTRY, ESPECIALLY

21:18 - REYNOLDS LEFT WING, WHICH IS

21:22 - THE CLOSEST TO US, BUT

21:23 - ESPECIALLY HOPING THEY COULD

21:24 - GET THERE ON TIME BECAUSE I

21:28 - ONLY HAD 2400 CALVARY MAN WITH

21:30 - ME. AND WHEN YOU ENTER IN THE

21:31 - BATTLE OF FORCIBLE MAN HAVE TO

21:34 - HORSES.

21:37 - AND SO WE REALLY ONLY HAVE

21:38 - ABOUT 75% EFFECTIVE SIDE OF

21:40 - THAT. SO THAT WAS OUR

21:42 - DISCUSSION WAS HOW TO OLOF OF

21:46 - CONFEDERATE CORE ABOUT 23,000

21:49 - MAN.

21:49 - LONG ENOUGH OR THE INFANTRY TO

21:53 - FINALLY ARRIVE.

21:55 - HELP US KEEP THE CONFEDERATES

21:56 - OUT OF TOWN AND OFF OF THE HIGH

21:58 - GROUND SOUTH OF TOWN. SO THE

22:01 - REST GENERAL MEADE'S ARMY COULD

22:02 - OCCUPY THE HIGH GROUND SOUTH

22:05 - OF TOWN FOR THE FIRST DAY

22:06 - BATTLE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE A

22:08 - BATTLE WHERE WE WOULD WITH THE

22:10 - CONFEDERATE. IT WASN'T ALL

22:11 - MEANT TO BE WEIGHING ACTION

22:12 - TO ALLOW THE REST OF THE ARMY

22:15 - OF THE

22:16 - POTOMAC TO, IN FACT, GET INTO

22:18 - PLACE ON CEMETERY HILL AND

22:21 - CEMETERY RIDGE. SO I A

22:24 - SOMETIMES I WOULD TAKE A LITTLE

22:25 - OFFENSE THAT FOLKS, IS THEY

22:27 - THE CONFEDERATE WITH THIS?

22:28 - AND THEY WON THE BATTLE ON THE

22:30 - FIRST DAY ONE. IN FACT, THE

22:32 - TRUTH IS WE ACCOMPLISHED

22:34 - EVERYTHING WE WANTED TO DO ON

22:35 - THAT FIRST DAY. AND I KIND OF

22:36 - MAKE ME FEEL LIKE WE WON THE

22:38 - FIRST DAY BECAUSE WE BOUGHT

22:41 - ENOUGH TIME.

22:44 - THE REST OF THE UNION ARMY TO

22:47 - GET WHERE THEY NEEDED TO BE.

22:48 - I GENERAL VIEW FRONT. THANKS

22:48 - VERY MUCH. THERE'S ANOTHER

22:49 - PHONE CALL. THIS ONE IS FROM

22:50 - LEBANON.

22:53 - >>BARRY, YOU'RE ON PCN.

22:56 - >>HEY, THANKS FOR TAKING.

22:57 - MY CALLS IS A GREAT PROGRAM.

22:59 - YOU KNOW MY QUESTIONS FOR

23:01 - GENERAL MEADE, THE KIND OF 2

23:01 - PARTS TO GET A LOOK AT THE

23:04 - CONTRIBUTION MADE OF HISTORY.

23:05 - WE'LL BE STUDYING FOREVER AND

23:07 - YOUR LEADERSHIP IS TO BE

23:08 - COMMENDED DURING YOUR COUNSEL

23:11 - WORE ON JULY 2ND, HAD THAT VOTE

23:12 - TURNED OUT TO BE PULLED BACK

23:14 - FROM THE FIELD AT GETTYSBURG.

23:16 - WHAT'S YOUR PLAN TO GO BACK TO

23:17 - PIPE CREEK? OR DID YOU HAVE

23:19 - ANOTHER PLAN?

23:22 - >>THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANALYSIS.

23:24 - I DID HOLD A A COUNCIL OF WAR,

23:28 - SO TO SPEAK, NOT KNOW THE

23:29 - ACTUAL ONE, WHICH WHERE VOTES

23:31 - WERE TAKEN IN AND ADHERE TO,

23:35 - BUT RATHER TO GET ACESS THE

23:36 - CONDITION OF THE TROOPS UNDER

23:37 - THE COMMAND OF THE THE

23:38 - LEADERSHIP OF THE ARMY. THAT

23:40 - IS THAT THE COURT COMMANDERS

23:45 - AND SO ON. AND EXPLAIN MY IDEA,

23:45 - WHICH I HAD ALREADY DECIDED WAS

23:48 - GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT I ALWAYS

23:51 - BELIEVED IN GIVING MY SON IN

23:53 - THE THIS MORNING, COMMANDERS

23:55 - TO BUY INTO THE PLANNED.

23:58 - IN OTHER WORDS, GIVE THEM SOME

24:00 - AUTHORITY, GIVE THEM SOME BY

24:03 - AND YOU KNOW, THE VIBE OF

24:05 - UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WAS

24:07 - PLANNED, WHAT WAS GOING TO

24:07 - HAPPEN. SO WE DID IT DID TAKE

24:11 - A VOTE AS IT TURNED OUT.

24:13 - THEY ALL AGREED WITH ME ANYWAY.

24:16 - AND HE PUT THE QUESTION WAS,

24:18 - SHOULD WE STAY IN PLACE AND

24:19 - AWAIT THE NEXT STATES FIGHTING

24:23 - OR SHOULD WE FALL BACK?

24:28 - THE THE AGREEMENT WAS TOTALLY

24:29 - UNANIMOUS THAT WE SHOULD STAY

24:30 - AND WAIT ANOTHER DAY WITH THE

24:31 - PUSH OF EVENTUALLY THE 3RD DAY

24:34 - OF THE BATTLE. BUT I HAD

24:36 - ALREADY SENT A TELEGRAM OFF

24:37 - TOO. GENERAL, HOW IT AND AND

24:39 - THE THE ADMINISTRATION IN

24:41 - WASHINGTON. WE DID HAVE SOME

24:43 - COMMUNICATIONS VIA WESTMINSTER,

24:44 - MARYLAND, AND I DID TELL HIM

24:47 - THAT MY PLAN WAS

24:48 - TO STAY AND FIND OUT WHAT WOULD

24:51 - HAPPEN THE NEXT DAY. WHY ASSUME

24:53 - THAT LEE WOULD KNOWINGLY AS

24:54 - WELL AS I DID BECAUSE WE HAVE

24:55 - BEEN FRIENDS IN THE OLD ARMY

24:57 - WERE BOTH ENGINEERS. WE WE

24:58 - SPENT TIME TOGETHER IN MEXICO.

24:59 - THE MEXICAN WAR. AND I KNEW

25:02 - HIM. I COULD READ HIM. AND I

25:03 - KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO COME

25:04 - AND BRING EVERYTHING THEY

25:07 - COULD. AND I COMMUNICATED THAT

25:09 - TO MY COME BY SUBORDINATE

25:11 - COMMANDERS AND THEY AGREED WITH

25:12 - ME AND THAT THAT WAS THE

25:13 - RESULT. BUT THEN THEY FELT THEY

25:17 - HAD THE ROLE TO PLAY.

25:18 - >>I GENERAL MEAN, GENERAL VIEW

25:18 - FOR AND DOCTOR LYMAN, THANKS

25:19 - VERY MUCH. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE

25:21 - YOU A BREAK JUST FOR A MINUTE.

25:23 - SO I CAN TELL OUR VIEWERS ABOUT

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25:32 - VIOLENT BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR

25:36 - WAS FOUGHT. GETTYSBURG PARK

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25:37 - IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MAN

25:42 - WHO FOUGHT AND DIED. THERE.

25:43 - BRAND-NEW GETTYSBURG BATTLE

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27:30 - SO AGAIN, HERE IN OUR COLIN

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27:36 - TAKING CALLS ABOUT BATTLE OF

27:37 - GETTYSBURG AND WE'RE GOING TO

27:38 - TAKE A PHONE CALL RIGHT NOW

27:41 - FROM PITTSBURGH.

27:42 - AND DOMINICK HERE ON PCN.

27:45 - GO AHEAD. PLEASE.

27:45 - >>THANK THANKS FOR TAKING MY

27:48 - CALL.

27:50 - I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION

27:52 - OF DAUGHTERS. LETTERMAN.

27:55 - IF I COULD PLEASE.

27:56 - >>DOCTOR LETTERMAN. THE RUMOR

27:59 - WAS THAT GENERALLY MAY HAVE

28:02 - SUFFERED A STROKE. DURING THE

28:06 - BATTLE ITSELF. AND I THINK THE

28:07 - BASIS FOR THE RUMOR WAS THAT A

28:09 - LOT OF THE DECISIONS MADE,

28:10 - ESPECIALLY IN THE 3RD DAY WERE

28:11 - MADE BY SOME OF HIS

28:14 - SUBORDINATES. THE SCENT OF HIM.

28:16 - ARE YOU PRIVY TO SUCH RUMOR AND

28:19 - TO THINK IT'S TRUE?

28:24 - >>WELL, I WAS NOT PRIVY TO

28:25 - ANY INFORMATION. ANY MEDICAL

28:26 - INFORMATION ABOUT TALKS ABOUT

28:29 - A PROPERLY, OF

28:32 - AND SIR, I I I REALLY DO NOT

28:35 - KNOW THE MEDICAL SITUATION.

28:39 - I DO NOT WHAT HIS OWN POSITIONS

28:41 - MIGHT HAVE SEEN OR WITH OR NOT

28:42 - SO I REALLY CAN'T COMMENT ON

28:46 - I HAVE HEARD THINGS LIKE THAT.

28:48 - BUT I HAVE REALLY NOT HEARD

28:49 - MUCH EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IT.

28:52 - CERTAINLY THE

28:54 - CERTAINLY HE SEEMS TO HAVE DONE

28:56 - QUITE WELL AFTER THE BATTLE.

28:58 - SO IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THERE

28:59 - WAS ANY SIGNIFICANT TERMINATE

29:02 - THEIR LOGICAL INJURY.

29:07 - I'M SORRY, I CAN'T GET A BETTER

29:09 - BETTER ANSWER THAN THAT.

29:10 - OK WITH THAT'S FINE. THANK YOU.

29:11 - DOCTOR LETTERMAN. LET'S TAKE A

29:13 - PHONE CALL FROM SCRANTON.

29:14 - >>STEPHEN, GO AHEAD. YOU'RE ON

29:16 - PC AT.

29:18 - >>OH, I'VE GOT A QUICK QUESTION

29:21 - FOR GENERAL BUFORD. TO QUESTION

29:23 - GENERAL, WHAT I THOUGHT YOU

29:23 - COULD TELL US A LITTLE BIT

29:27 - ABOUT WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF

29:27 - NEWSPAPER REPORTERS, ESPECIALLY

29:30 - AROUND. YOU CAN'T. AND SECOND

29:31 - WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD TELL

29:34 - US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOUR

29:34 - REACTION WAS WHEN REYNOLDS DID

29:37 - SHOW UP SO QUICKLY, WHAT THE

29:40 - 1ST QUARTER SUPPORT YOU.

29:42 - >>WELL, I'LL DO THE FIRST ONE

29:45 - FIRST PART OF THAT. I DIDN'T

29:49 - LIKE SPIES.

29:53 - AND I REALLY DIDN'T LIKE

29:54 - NEWSPAPER REPORT BECAUSE THEY

29:58 - NEWSPAPER REPORTERS WERE NOT

30:00 - DOING ANYTHING BE OUT OF A

30:03 - SENSE OF HONOR AND DUTY OR

30:04 - DEDICATION TO A CAUSE. THEY

30:04 - WERE SIMPLY TRYING TO GET A

30:07 - FUN STORY.

30:08 - AND IF I WOULD HAVE ALLOWED

30:12 - THEM IN MY CAMP AND SUPPLY THEM

30:15 - WITH THE PLENTY OF WHISKEY AND

30:19 - WOMEN. THEY WOULD HAVE WRITTEN

30:21 - COST ALLOW THEM IN MY CAMP.

30:25 - I DON'T ALLOW SPIES EITHER,

30:28 - BUT I HAD MORE RESPECT FIRST BY

30:29 - BECAUSE THEY WERE WILLING TO

30:32 - SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE FOR FACT

30:33 - WE DID CATCH US BY A BREAKFAST

30:35 - NEAR WEST YEAH, NEAR

30:38 - WESTMINSTER.

30:40 - WOULD MEANT TO SO MANY TOWN.

30:42 - SOME I GOT US THINK A LITTLE

30:44 - BIT ABOUT JUST WHERE WE WERE,

30:45 - BUT IT WAS NEAR WESTMINSTER

30:46 - BECAUSE BY IN OUR CAMP A

30:46 - BREAKFAST THAT MORNING, WE GAVE

30:48 - THEM A FAIR TRIAL AND WE HAD

30:50 - HIM ON BY 9 O'CLOCK. WELL, IT

30:54 - WAS A A HER EFFECTIVE

30:54 - OPERATION, WHICH WE WOULD CATCH

30:57 - ON. BUT

30:58 - WASHINGTON FROWNED ON MAY HANG

31:00 - AND SPIES ARE HANK SKEWS ME

31:03 - WASHINGTON FROWNED ON ME

31:04 - HANGING NEWSPAPER MAN. SO I

31:06 - JUST BAN THEM FROM.

31:08 - THE SECOND QUESTION ABOUT IT.

31:12 - >>REYNOLDS. DON REYNOLDS AND

31:14 - I WERE ACTUALLY PRETTY CLOSE

31:19 - FRIEND. ALSO. OLD ARMY BREWER

31:23 - ARMY. WE'RE GOOD FRIENDS.

31:23 - I WAS REALLY HAPPY THAT HE WAS

31:24 - THE WING COMMANDERS THAT I KNEW

31:27 - I'D BE WORKING WITH.

31:29 - WE'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION

31:31 - ALMOST DAILY FOR MORE THAN A

31:32 - WEEK TO THE LEAD-UP TO THE WAR

31:37 - WHEN HE WENT DOWN.

31:38 - I DID SEND A MESSAGE BACK TO

31:41 - GENERALS HANCOCK AND MADE THAT

31:44 - SAID THERE SEEMS TO BE NO

31:45 - CONTROLLING AUTHORITY ON THE

31:47 - FIELD RIGHT NOW. YOU WANT ME TO

31:48 - TAKE CONTROL IS OR WHO THE

31:52 - WORLD IS SUPPOSED TO MANAGE WAS

31:53 - GOING ON HERE AND PLEASE GET

31:53 - THE REST OF THE ARMY HERE

31:54 - REALLY QUICK BECAUSE WE'RE

31:57 - OUTNUMBERED.

31:59 - THAT TELLS YOU THE RESPECT I

32:00 - HAD FOR REYNOLDS WITHOUT HIM

32:05 - YOU KNOW, FORTUNATELY THEY

32:06 - SHOWED UP BY LATE MORNING WE

32:07 - HAVE BEEN ENGAGED SINCE EARLY

32:11 - MORNING, HE DIDN'T GET THEM

32:11 - FROM CURRENT HIS CORE THERE BY

32:15 - LATE MORNING. IT WAS A GREAT

32:17 - MAN TO HAVE SERVE AND IT WAS

32:17 - DEVASTATING PERSONALLY AND

32:21 - PROFESSIONALLY. THAT

32:24 - HAVE HIM REMOVE FROM LA HIS

32:25 - ROLE IN THE BATTLE. GENERAL

32:26 - BUFORD, THANK YOU. HERE'S A

32:26 - PHONE CALL FROM GETTYSBURG.

32:30 - >>STUART, GO AHEAD.

32:31 - >>YES, MY QUESTION IS FOR

32:31 - GENERAL MEADE. THANK YOU VERY

32:35 - MUCH FOR TAKING MY CALL.

32:35 - GENTLEMEN, I GOT A QUESTION FOR

32:36 - YOU. I KNOW YOU SAID EARLIER

32:37 - SOMETHING ABOUT GENERAL

32:38 - CIRCLES. MY QUESTION FOR YOU,

32:42 - SIR, IS WOULD YOU CONSIDER HIS

32:42 - MOVE OFF OF LITTER OR LITTLE

32:45 - ROUND UP DOWN TO THE PEACH

32:49 - ORCHARD, A BLUNDER OR A

32:49 - BLUSHING CONSIDERING THAT IT

32:50 - SLOWED UP LONGSTREET ADVANCED.

32:54 - >>THE GREATEST BLUNDER, A

32:55 - NOTORIOUS TREES ON MY CONCERN.

32:56 - IT'S SUCH A CRITICAL MOMENT.

33:00 - WE HAD ASSUMED THE DEFENSIVE

33:01 - POSITION WHICH HAVE BEEN SO

33:04 - SUCCESSFULLY.

33:06 - PRACTICE BY GENERALLY WHEN HE

33:06 - WAS IN VIRGINIA AND WE WERE

33:09 - ATTACKING HIM. AND I TURNED THE

33:12 - TABLES

33:14 - ON HIM AND HE ABANDONED THE

33:15 - LAST THE ENTIRE LEFT FLANK OF

33:19 - OUR FORCE, LEAVING THAT FLANK

33:22 - IT UP COMPLETELY EXPOSED.

33:24 - AND MARCHED HIS TROOPS OUT

33:27 - ALMOST A MILE TO THE EMMITSBURG

33:28 - ROAD OPENING A HUGE GAP ON THE

33:32 - RIGHT FLANK AS WELL INVITING

33:32 - THE ENEMY TO TO CERTAINLY WALK

33:34 - WALTZ INTO OUR LIVES. WHAT A

33:40 - TERRIBLE. EPISODE

33:43 - I DID MY INCLINATION. I FIRST I

33:44 - THOUGHT HE BUT I KNEW HE WAS A

33:47 - STUPID FOOL. I KNOW HE WASN'T

33:48 - AN ARMY MAN. I KNOW HE WASN'T

33:50 - DISCIPLINED. I KNOW HE WAS A

33:51 - POLITICAL HACK AND HE HAD

33:52 - SUPPORT FROM WASHINGTON AND I

33:56 - HAD TO BE CAREFUL. BUT MY FIRST

33:57 - THOUGHT WAS I SHOULD ARREST

33:58 - HIM. MAYBE EVEN THE SHOOT HIM

34:00 - DOWN ON THE ON THE SPOT FOR ITS

34:02 - GROSS INSUBORDINATION. BUT I

34:04 - TELL BACK AND I DECIDED THAT

34:06 - I WOULD TRY TO MAKE THE BEST

34:08 - OF A BAD SITUATION AND BRING

34:11 - SUPPORT WHERE NEEDED. AND THAT

34:13 - WORKED. BUT IT WOULD PAY VERY,

34:14 - VERY CLOSE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS

34:17 - ON THE SECOND OF JULY TO A

34:18 - CONFEDERATE VICTORY. AND IT'S

34:19 - ALL BECAUSE OF THAT. BOY WONDER

34:23 - BY A FULL ISH MAN LOOKING FOR

34:23 - SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT. THANK YOU.

34:27 - >>HERE'S A PHONE CALL FROM

34:27 - LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA. JERRY,

34:30 - GO HAT.

34:33 - >>THIS IS JERRY. I'M NOT PCN.

34:34 - SELECT MEMBER. CUSTOMER HAVE

34:35 - BEEN FOR MANY YEARS JUST FOR

34:37 - THIS VERY REASON. JULY FIRST,

34:38 - SECOND AND 3RD. THANK YOU.

34:41 - AND MY QUESTION FOR THE

34:44 - THE GENTLEMAN THERE FROM A 2020

34:45 - PER DAY WILL SAY IS WHAT ARE

34:49 - YOU DOING TO THIS REENACTMENT

34:51 - HIGH FOR THIS STORY. NARRATIVE

34:53 - TO THE YOUNGER HISTORIANS.

34:54 - ARE YOU SEEING ANY OF THE

34:55 - YOUNGER HISTORIANS TAKE THIS

34:57 - FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE?

34:58 - APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING

35:00 - AND ALL THE BEST.

35:01 - >>I THINK FOR YOU, GENERAL

35:03 - JOSEPH VISIT FROM A BOAT.

35:05 - OH, WELL, I I I MUST ADMIT.

35:10 - THAT I'M NOT REALLY GENERAL

35:13 - YOUNG PEOPLE. I RESPECT.

35:16 - I UNDERSTAND. SO I CHOSE 40

35:22 - YEARS AGO. AS A TEACHER, I

35:25 - DECIDED THAT FIRST PERSON

35:26 - INTERPRETATION OF WHAT WE CALL

35:30 - LIVING HISTORY WAS VERY

35:32 - EFFECTIVE. I SAW WHAT THAT WAS

35:37 - DONE THE THE REENACTMENTS

35:39 - MARK TWAIN OTHERS ON THE STAGE

35:39 - AND SO ON AND HOW EFFECTIVE

35:42 - THEY WERE

35:45 - IN CREATING CREDULITY AND

35:45 - BELIEVABILITY AND AND INTENSE

35:48 - EMOTIONAL RESPONSE. AND

35:50 - THEREFORE, AS DID WAS REACTING

35:54 - AND I WOULD DO THAT VISITS TO

35:55 - SCHOOL CLASSES. 4TH GRADERS.

35:56 - 5TH GRADER IS BECAUSE I WAS AN

35:59 - EDUCATOR. PEOPLE KNEW WHAT I

36:00 - WAS JUST INTERESTED IN HISTORY

36:01 - AND WAS ONLY AFTER THEY INVITE

36:02 - ME INTO THE CLASSROOM. I WOULD

36:04 - I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT 3RD

36:05 - PERSON AND SAY, WELL, THEY DID

36:08 - THIS AND THEY DID. THAT IS SO

36:11 - STALE. AND I THEREFORE

36:11 - INTERPRETED IN THE FIRST PERSON

36:13 - BASED ON MY EXTENSIVE RESEARCH

36:14 - IN LETTERS, DIARIES, REGIMENTAL

36:17 - HISTORY IS AND

36:18 - SO ON AND A MORE THEY BELIEVED

36:19 - TO BE THAT COULD THEY WERE THEY

36:22 - WOULD. I WAS CREDIBLE AND THAT

36:23 - THEY COULDN'T REALLY GET

36:24 - INVOLVED THAT WAY. AND SO I

36:27 - THOUGHT, WELL, IF IT WORKS FOR

36:29 - A PRIVATE IN THE UNION ARMY.

36:31 - WHAT ABOUT GENERAL MEAN?

36:33 - HE'S TOTALLY UNKNOWN,

36:35 - FORGOTTEN. NO ONE REALIZED HE

36:36 - SAVED THE UNION. HE WAS THE

36:37 - VICTOR, THE BATTLE OF

36:38 - GETTYSBURG, ONE OF THE GREATEST

36:39 - EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

36:42 - I WILL BUY WILL RESURRECT HIM

36:44 - AND LET HIM TELL HIS OWN STORY.

36:47 - SO

36:48 - PEOPLE APPRECIATED AND

36:49 - UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION.

36:50 - AND SO I'VE BEEN DOING THIS

36:51 - FOR 40 YEARS. I'M A FOUNDER

36:55 - OF KUZ THAT SAID CONFEDERATION

36:57 - OF UNION GENERALS, A JOY, EVERY

36:59 - ACTOR, MY IN MY CRAW OF AND

37:03 - I'VE FORMED COUP MANY, MANY

37:06 - YEARS AGO. AND IT'S BEEN VERY,

37:08 - VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL IN

37:09 - GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT TO THE

37:10 - PUBLIC, WHICH IS WHAT WE DO

37:14 - THIS FOR NOT FOR MONEY. IN

37:17 - FACT, WE SPEND MONEY TO DO THIS

37:18 - AND SHARE OUR OUR EXPERTISE.

37:19 - SO, YES, I REALLY ENJOY IT.

37:20 - AND I BELIEVE THAT WE'VE BEEN

37:21 - SOMEWHAT EFFECTIVE IN TELLING

37:24 - THIS STORY. THANK YOU.

37:26 - >>LET'S TAKE A PHONE CALL FROM

37:28 - A WESTCHESTER A JOHN, THE ASK

37:29 - YOUR QUESTION IN SUCH A WAY

37:30 - THAT OUR GUESTS WILL STAY IN

37:32 - CHARACTER PLACE.

37:35 - >>YEAH, SITE AFTER GENTLEMEN,

37:38 - JUST PLEASURE.

37:41 - >>WANT TO KNOW THESE IDOLS?

37:42 - WELL, OBVIOUSLY WAS OUT WEST

37:45 - POINT. TREY, I WAS WONDERING

37:46 - THERE MUST HAVE BEEN OTHER

37:49 - COMMANDERS ON THE FIELD IN

37:51 - WHICH SHE HAD MOST CONFIDENCE.

37:53 - AND I WAS IF YOU WOULD

37:55 - ELABORATE ON THEM. BUT AND TELL

37:58 - US WHY HAVE THEY WORKED?

38:01 - >>IT IS THAT GIVEN BY ANY

38:04 - CHANCE THAT'S CALLING.

38:06 - >>CALLERS OFF THE LINE. SORRY

38:08 - WAS OKAYED. SORRY. GENERAL

38:11 - MATE. HE WANTS TO HEAR YOU

38:12 - PRAISE SOME WELL, I I'M A WEST

38:15 - POINT

38:16 - GRADUATE A CLASS OF 98. PART ME

38:19 - 18. 35.

38:22 - I I SO THEREFORE I WENT THROUGH

38:23 - THAT. I SERVED IN THE REGULAR

38:25 - ARMY. I WAS IN THE MEXICAN WAR.

38:27 - >>I WAS IN THE SEMINOLE WAR

38:31 - AND I SAW THE DISCIPLINE AND OF

38:32 - COURSE, I WAS AN ENGINEER.

38:33 - SO I SERVED AS AN ENGINEER FOR

38:35 - MOST OF MY MY CAREER. BUT

38:37 - NEVERTHELESS, I APPRECIATED

38:40 - THE PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS AND

38:41 - WHAT WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH AND

38:41 - WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED AND WHAT

38:46 - THEY OFFER SO OBVIOUSLY, THE

38:48 - ARMY TO GRAB VAST MAJORITY OF

38:49 - THEM WERE VOLUNTEERS THAT WERE

38:51 - NOT SAYS THERE ARE CITIZEN

38:52 - SOLDIERS AND THE UNITED STATES

38:53 - HAS ALWAYS RELIED ON. THE

38:57 - CITIZEN SHOWED SOLDIERS THEIR

38:57 - VOLUNTEERISM, THEIR DEVOTION,

38:58 - THAT PATRIOTISM, THAT STEP

39:00 - FORWARD IN AN EMERGENCY.

39:02 - IT AND A FIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY.

39:05 - SO I DID APPRECIATE THEM ALL,

39:08 - THOUGH. IN THE PROCESS OF

39:08 - MAKING THEM SOLDIERS IN

39:09 - DISCIPLINING THEM, SOMETIMES

39:12 - THEY GOT OUT OF HAND. AND THERE

39:14 - WERE TIMES WHEN I WAS UPSET

39:15 - WITH. SO THE VOLUNTEER

39:16 - SOLDIERS. BUT NEVERTHELESS,

39:18 - THERE WERE SOME GOOD

39:20 - COMMANDERS. JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN

39:20 - COMES TO MIND. HE WAS NOT A

39:23 - PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER.

39:24 - BUT THEN AND THEN A GUN.

39:26 - OF COURSE, THERE WERE SOME NON

39:28 - PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS WHO ARE

39:28 - GOOD EATS AND AND SICKLES IS

39:29 - PROBABLY THE GREATEST EXAMPLE

39:34 - OF THAT. YES, I HOPE I ANSWERED

39:35 - THAT QUESTION EFFECTIVELY FOR

39:37 - YOU. SO THERE ARE MANY, MANY

39:40 - EXAMPLES OF THE VOLUNTEERS WHO

39:43 - WERE QUITE EFFECTIVE IN DID ALL

39:45 - THEY COULD FOR THE COSTS.

39:46 - DOCTOR LETTERMAN, LET'S GET

39:47 - BACK TO YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON

39:47 - THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

39:50 - YOU TALKED ABOUT.

39:51 - >>AMPUTATIONS, THAT THEY WERE

39:54 - CALM BLOOD POISONING WAS A

39:55 - SERIOUS PROBLEM. WHAT ABOUT THE

39:56 - AVAILABILITY OF A SIMPLE

39:58 - TREATMENTS LIKE DRESSINGS AND

39:59 - AND TURN IT WHERE THESE WIDELY

40:02 - AVAILABLE.

40:04 - >>WELL, THEY THEY WERE THEY

40:08 - WERE CERTAINLY SHORTAGES BEFORE

40:08 - WE REFORM THE OPERATIONS OF THE

40:12 - MEDICAL SERVICE AND GAY

40:15 - PRIORITY TO MEDICAL TO

40:20 - TRANSPORT OF EQUIPMENT AND BUT

40:20 - AFTER OUR REFORMS, ADDRESSING

40:23 - SOME CIRCUITS BECAME AVAILABLE,

40:25 - THE PROBLEM WAS A GOOD. THE

40:27 - THESE ARE THINGS THAT COULD

40:28 - BE USED IN. THAT IS AS AS AS

40:31 - URGENT CARE AND COULD I DO NOT

40:33 - GENERALLY AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE

40:36 - LYING ON THE BATTLEFIELD

40:37 - UNATTENDED. SO ONCE WE

40:37 - ESTABLISH THE SYSTEM OF THAT

40:41 - ACTIVATION OF WAS IT AND FEEL

40:42 - DRESSING STATIONS TO GIVE THESE

40:44 - PEOPLE THAT LETS ANCIENT.

40:48 - THEN WE SAW SOMEONE WITH A

40:50 - SIGNIFICANT MOVE LIVE. THEN HE

40:51 - WOULD BE EVACUATED IMMEDIATELY

40:53 - TO THE FIELD DRESSING STATION.

40:56 - A TOURNIQUET WOULD BE APPLIED

40:57 - AT THE BLOOMS APPEAR TO THAT

40:58 - THE TYPE THAT REQUIRED

41:01 - AMPUTATIONS HE WOULD BE GIVEN

41:04 - PRIORITY AND TRANSPORTED BY

41:05 - HORSE DRAWN AMBULANCE TO THE

41:06 - FIELD HOSPITAL WHERE HE WILL

41:09 - BE GIVEN HIGH PRIORITY FOR

41:10 - IMMEDIATE THE IMMEDIATE MEDICAL

41:13 - ATTENTION. AND IN FACT,

41:16 - SURGERY. SO THE SUPPLIES,

41:20 - INCLUDING STRESSES ITS

41:21 - FOOTAGE, DRESSINGS I CERTAINLY

41:21 - GETS AN END, INCLUDING

41:22 - MEDICATIONS AND OTHER SUPPLIES

41:27 - IT. BUT AGAIN, THEY WERE IN

41:29 - SHORT SUPPLY BEFORE THE MEDICAL

41:31 - SERVICES REORGANIZED AND THEY

41:34 - WERE MUCH MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE

41:35 - TO WIN. THE MEDICAL SERVICE

41:36 - WAS WAS WAS REORGANIZED THIS

41:38 - THESE REORGANIZATION WAS FIRST

41:39 - IMPLEMENTED IN AND SEE THEM,

41:42 - BUT IT WAS FIRST FULLY AFTER

41:42 - THE AFTER A NUMBER OF

41:46 - ADJUSTMENTS IN GETTYSBURG

41:49 - AND THESE OF THESE CHANGES

41:50 - REDUCED MORTALITY FROM

41:51 - BATTLEFIELD INJURIES BY

41:54 - TWO-THIRDS. SHORTLY THEREAFTER,

41:55 - IT THESE. THESE REFORMS WERE

41:57 - ADOPTED BY ALL UNION ARMIES AND

41:58 - EVENTUALLY ALL ARMIES OF THE

42:01 - WORLD.

42:03 - GENERAL BUFORD, LET ME TURN

42:04 - TO YOU. AND I UNDERSTAND AN

42:06 - OFFER WAS MADE TO YOU TO FIGHT.

42:08 - >>FOR THE SOUTH, IS THAT RIGHT?

42:08 - AND IF SO, HOW DID THAT COME

42:11 - ABOUT?

42:13 - >>WHEN THE WAR BROKE OUT, I

42:15 - WAS STATIONED AT FORT

42:16 - CRITTENDON AND UTAH TRYING TO

42:18 - KEEP THE PEACE BETWEEN THE

42:19 - GENTILES AND THE MORMONS AS AS

42:21 - A WAGON TRAIN WENT THROUGH.

42:22 - I GOT A LETTER FROM THE

42:25 - GOVERNOR

42:26 - OF KENTUCKY. I'M DARRYL GIVEN

42:28 - WAS ALSO STATIONED THERE AT THE

42:29 - SAME TIME AND HE WAS IN LIKE

42:31 - HAVING ONE EYE.

42:34 - I TOLD HIM, I SAID, GET A.

42:37 - YEAH. I GOT A LETTER FROM.

42:39 - THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY

42:41 - OFFERING ME ANY POSITION I

42:42 - WANTED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY

42:43 - OF A JUST COME HOME AND SERVE

42:47 - THE SOUTHERN CAUSE. AND

42:49 - THAT'S WHY GIVEN HER GIVEN

42:49 - SEVERAL. WHAT HOW DID HE

42:53 - RESPOND? AND I WHEN I SAID I

42:55 - TOLD HIM I WAS ALREADY

42:56 - HAPPENING. UNITED STATES ARMY

42:57 - HAD MADE IT ALL TO SERVE THE

42:58 - UNITED STATES. AND THOSE GOING

43:00 - TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT.

43:01 - HOWEVER, MY WIFE'S MAIDEN NAME

43:05 - WAS DUE THERE WERE SEVERAL DO

43:08 - SERVED VERY WELL IN THE

43:10 - CONFEDERATE SERVICES. MY FIRST

43:11 - COUSIN ABRAHAM BEAUFORT.

43:13 - ALSO A WEST POINT GRADUATE

43:16 - SERVED AS A A CONFEDERATE

43:18 - CAVALRY GENERAL GENERAL FOREST

43:22 - IN THE WESTERN ARMY. SO CLOSE

43:25 - TIES TO 2.

43:26 - MY FAMILY STANDPOINT, I HAD

43:30 - CLOSER TIES THE CONFEDERACY

43:31 - THAT I DID IN THE UNION, A

43:34 - SENSE OF HONOR AND DUTY.

43:36 - I KEPT ME IN THE UNION ARMY.

43:38 - PLUS, THEY'RE ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS

43:39 - OF THE UNION CAUSE OF SAVING

43:42 - UNITED STATES WAS THE

43:43 - OVERRIDING FACTOR. OF COURSE,

43:44 - GENERAL MEAN, YOU HEARD ME

43:45 - TALKING EARLIER TO GENERAL

43:47 - BUFORD ABOUT HIS NICKNAME,

43:50 - WHICH WAS OLD, STEADFAST.

43:51 - >>AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR

43:52 - NICKNAME, POSSIBLY NOT AS

43:53 - COMPLIMENTARY WAS OLD SNAPPING

43:57 - TURTLE. EXPLAIN, HEIDI. WE'RE

44:00 - NOT LIKE THAT NAME, BUT

44:01 - FRANKLY.

44:02 - >>I I UNDERSTAND IT ACTUALLY

44:03 - STARTED WITH A SPY FROM THE

44:08 - WAR DEPARTMENT.

44:09 - THE I FORGET HIS LAST NAME,

44:10 - BUT THAT THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT

44:14 - IT WAS DATA WHO WOULD DO WAS

44:18 - SENT TO SPY ON YOU KNOW, TROOPS

44:19 - IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND SO ON

44:22 - IN THE IN THE ARMY. AND HE

44:24 - WROTE REPORT OR A REPORT ABOUT

44:26 - HOW I WAS DESPISED BY THEM AND

44:29 - THEN THAT SHOULDN'T BE IN

44:30 - COMMAND. AND I WAS JUST AN OLD

44:33 - STOPPING TO. WELL, I I'M

44:34 - MY GRANDPA. MY GREAT

44:35 - GRANDFATHER CAME FROM IRELAND,

44:37 - SETTLED IN PHILADELPHIA AND

44:41 - I HAVE A TEMPER. AND WHEN

44:42 - PEOPLE DO NOT PERFORM UP TO THE

44:44 - LEVEL THAT I EXPECT OF THEM,

44:47 - MY TEMPER TAX, THE BEST ME AND

44:49 - I DO HAVE SUCH A CAUSE,

44:50 - SOMETIMES SNAP OUT AT THEM.

44:54 - AND I AM SOMEWHAT NEAR SIGHTED.

44:55 - NEVER SHORT SIGHTED, BUT ALWAYS

44:56 - NEW AND SOMEWHAT NEAR SIGHTED.

44:58 - AND I HAVE A SPECTACLES WHICH

45:01 - I USE AND SOMETIMES I YOU HAVE

45:03 - TO PASS A PASS NAME EXACTLY.

45:06 - AND SNAPPING OUT OF PEOPLE WITH

45:07 - A LITTLE BIT SHORT. THE

45:09 - NEAR-SIGHTEDNESS I COULD SEE

45:12 - WHERE

45:13 - THEY I ASSUME THAT NAME, BUT I

45:17 - REALLY DON'T LIKE IT.

45:18 - WELL, BUT MANY, MANY OTHER MEN

45:20 - IN THE ARMY HAVE NICKNAMES,

45:22 - TOO. GENERAL CRAWFORD, FOR

45:24 - EXAMPLE, OF A PENNSYLVANIA,

45:25 - HE WAS A MEDICAL DOCTOR.

45:26 - HE HAD GRADUATE FROM UNIVERSITY

45:30 - OF PENNSYLVANIA IN 18, 50 AND

45:31 - HE LEFT THE MEDICAL SERVICE TO

45:34 - TAKE UP A COMBAT COMMAND HIS

45:37 - MEN CALLED OLD PILLS.

45:40 - AND HE CAME TO ME ONE DAY.

45:41 - HE SAID THE MEN, THEY ARE CALL

45:42 - ME OLD PILLS, WHICH I DO.

45:43 - I SAID, WELL, YOU JUST HAVE TO

45:44 - TAKE IT. YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY

45:46 - CALL ME?

45:48 - HE SAID, NO, IT'S A COLD, SNAP

45:49 - INTERNAL. AND WITH THAT, HE

45:50 - JUST TURNED AROUND AND WALKED

45:51 - OUT. AND THAT WAS THE END OF

45:54 - THAT. WHAT IS DOES THEY MEANT

45:56 - BY OLD PILLS? YEAH. SPILLS A

45:57 - DOCTOR. HE WAS A PHYSICIAN.

45:58 - I SAY I SUNDAY. YEAH. AND UP.

45:59 - >>I GUESS THAT THAT WAS

46:02 - DEROGATORY. HAHA. YOU GO WITH

46:05 - THEM AND HAVE SOME FUN WITH IT.

46:07 - GENERAL WOULD YOU TELL US ABOUT

46:10 - THE DAY THE BATTLE THAT THE

46:11 - MOST DIFFICULT FOR YOU? BUT

46:12 - MAYBE IT WAS THE MOST REWARDING

46:14 - DAY.

46:18 - >>IT WAS AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT

46:19 - DAY. THE ONLY REWARDING PART

46:20 - WAS THAT WE ACCOMPLISHED OUR

46:21 - GOAL. WE KEPT THE CONFEDERATES

46:24 - OFF THE HIGH GROUND. OBVIOUSLY

46:25 - WE HAD HELP FROM A REYNOLDS.

46:31 - 1ST QUARTER

46:31 - AND AND THE 11TH CORPS ALSO

46:34 - MEAN WE

46:38 - KIND OF OLOF 25,000 OR SO OUT

46:38 - OF A PEOPLE'S COURT. AND THEN

46:40 - ANOTHER 20 SOME 1000 FROM

46:42 - YOU'LL SCORE COMING FROM THE

46:43 - NORTH. WE'RE GOING TO TELL THEM

46:43 - OFF OURSELVES WITHOUT THE

46:46 - INFANTRY. THERE.

46:49 - IT WAS VERY REWARDING TO SEE

46:51 - THE PLANT. THE IDEA ACTUALLY

46:52 - SUCCEED. THE MOST DISAPPOINTING

46:54 - PART OF THE WHOLE THING WAS

46:59 - THAT CALVARY COVERS THE

47:00 - RETREATS OR REDEPLOYMENT, IF

47:03 - YOU WILL, OF THE INFANTRY.

47:06 - SO AS AN INFANTRY WAS FLOWING

47:07 - BACK THROUGH TOWN AND UP ON

47:09 - MATERIAL WAS OUR JOB PROVIDES

47:11 - COVER SOME PROTECTION FOR THEM.

47:13 - IN FACT, OUR LAST CAROL LEADS

47:17 - THAT CAME OUT OF A

47:23 - THAT WAS WE'RE IN FACT,

47:24 - FRIENDLY FIRE WHO LEADS AS MEN

47:25 - WERE TRYING TO GET UP ON THE

47:29 - CEMETERY. HILL ALSO, HARDCORE

47:31 - ARTILLERY WAS FINE. HER AND NOW

47:32 - THAT KILLED SOME OF MY MEN WHO

47:35 - ARE, IN FACT, COULD SAVE THEIR

47:36 - BUTTS TOO LONG TO GET BACK UP

47:38 - ON SOME MATERIAL. AND THEN THEY

47:39 - WERE SHOOTING AT US. THAT WAS

47:44 - SADDEST PART OF THE WHOLE

47:45 - THING. WE KNEW IT WOULD HAVE

47:45 - CARED FOR THESE ACTUALLY ABOUT

47:47 - HOW WE JUST BEN THANK WOULD

47:50 - HAVE TO.

47:51 - INCREDIBLES CASUALTIES FROM

47:53 - PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE SAME

47:56 - SIDE. WE WERE DOCTOR LETTERMAN

47:57 - TO DO EXPECT TO SEE CASUALTIES

48:00 - ON THE SCALE THAT RESULTED IN

48:01 - GETTYSBURG.

48:01 - >>HAD YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING

48:02 - LIKE THAT IN YOUR MEDICAL

48:04 - CAREER?

48:08 - >>FRANKLY, NO, I HAVEN'T.

48:09 - I SEEN I HAVE BEEN TOO BAD THE

48:11 - BATTLES BEFORE PARTICULARLY

48:11 - AND TO GET HIM WHERE WE HAD

48:14 - ENORMOUS NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES.

48:18 - BUT GETTYSBURG WE HAD ABOUT

48:24 - 24 TO 20 TO 24,000 TOLD

48:27 - CASUALTY SERIOUS IN CAMPED OUT

48:28 - A LITTLE BIT, WHICH WAS THE

48:30 - BASE HOSPITAL. THE REAR REMAINS

48:33 - OPEN FOR 6 MONTHS AFTER

48:35 - THE BATTLE HANDILY, THE

48:37 - WOUNDED, THEY COULD NOT BE THAT

48:38 - STILL REQUIRED ATTENTION.

48:39 - THAT CANNOT BE TRANSPORTED,

48:44 - I DID CONSIDER ITS. SO THE

48:47 - NUMBER THE NUMBER THAT WE WAS

48:51 - IF TURNS IT INTO THE AIR FOR

48:52 - THE REORGANIZATION WERE ABLE

48:55 - TO SUCCESSFULLY HANDLE THAT

48:56 - NUMBER TO. AND ALTHOUGH THAT

48:56 - A LARGE NUMBER DID, IN FACT.

48:59 - ALL RIGHT.

49:02 - HARDLY ANY TIGHT FOR LACK OF

49:02 - MEDICAL WITH THE FLAT FOR

49:03 - ABSENCE OF MEDICAL ATTENTION.

49:06 - >>DOCTOR LETTERMAN, WHAT DID

49:07 - YOU DO AFTER THE CIVIL WAR?

49:12 - I WELL.

49:15 - >>AFTER THE CIVIL TO WIN BY A

49:19 - I WENT

49:21 - TO CALIFORNIA, A WEEKLY TRY

49:23 - CERTAINLY TRY TO SEVERAL OTHER

49:27 - THINGS. AND I EVENTUALLY WHAT

49:29 - WAS THEN CALLED THE CARTER.

49:29 - WITH THAT, YOU MIGHT NOW CALL

49:30 - THE MEDICAL EXAMINER FOR THE

49:34 - CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. AND I I

49:34 - DIE TONIGHT IN EXCUSE WITH AN

49:37 - AC 72.

49:40 - >>WHAT ABOUT YOU, GENERAL MEET?

49:41 - WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN THE DUST

49:43 - SETTLED AFTER THE WAR?

49:46 - >>WELL, I REMAINED IN THE ARMY.

49:46 - I OVERSAW THE DISBANDMENT OF

49:48 - THE ARMY, THE POTOMAC IN JUNE

49:52 - AND JULY OF 18. 65. AND THEN

49:53 - THE ENTIRE NATION WAS DIVIDED

49:57 - INTO MILITARY DEPARTMENTS TO

49:58 - OVERSEE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL

50:01 - TO SPEAK FORTS, END ARSENAL'S

50:03 - AND TRAINING CAMPS. AND SO ON.

50:06 - AND I LOOKED AT THE MAP.

50:08 - I KNOW I I WAS RANKED GENERAL

50:09 - GRANT CAME UP, BUT HE WAS

50:10 - GENERAL AND CHIEF, OF COURSE,

50:14 - AT THE TIME AND HE CAME UP WITH

50:16 - THE RANK SYSTEM FOR ALL THE

50:18 - VARIOUS SO HIGH OR HIGH GENERAL

50:20 - OFFICERS. AND HE WAS NUMBER

50:20 - ONE. SHERMAN WAS NUMBER 2 AND I

50:24 - WAS NUMBER 3 AS TOM THOMAS

50:27 - GENERAL THOMAS WAS

50:29 - NUMBER 4. SO I ESSENTIALLY HAD

50:33 - THE PICK OF THE COMMANDS THAT

50:35 - I WANTED. SO I LOOK AT THE MAP

50:37 - AND I SAW THE DEPARTMENT OF

50:38 - THE THE ATHLETIC OF THE EAST IN

50:41 - THE ATLANTIC AND DAYTON TOOK

50:42 - IN PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY,

50:43 - NEW YORK AND CENTRAL TO IT.

50:48 - AND I SAID WELL TONIGHT COMMAND

50:48 - THAT DEPARTMENT OF THE ATLANTIC

50:50 - OCEAN, CERTAINLY GENERAL.

50:51 - AND WHERE WILL THE HEADQUARTERS

50:54 - BE NASAL?

50:55 - GENERALLY? IT'S PUTTING NEW

50:55 - YORK. I SAID, WHAT CAN I MOVED

50:56 - TO PHILADELPHIA? THIS? OR YOU

50:57 - CAN PUT IT ANYWHERE YOU WANT.

51:01 - SO I COULD BE IN THE ARMY WHO

51:02 - LIVE AT HOME WITH MY WIFE AND

51:04 - CHILDREN AND ALSO SERVED THE

51:07 - NATION AND

51:09 - THE MILITARY COMMAND STRUCTURE

51:11 - AS WELL. HOWEVER, I WAS GIVEN A

51:15 - A DISAGREEABLE SIGN. IT IN 18,

51:16 - 68. AND THAT WAS AS THE

51:18 - MILITARY GOVERNOR OF THE SOUTH

51:21 - IN GEORGIA, IN ATLANTA,

51:21 - OVERSEEING THE RECONSTRUCTION

51:23 - WAS NOT A DIPLOMAT, BUT I TRIED

51:25 - TO BE FAIR AND EVEN-HANDED AND

51:27 - I WAS VERY PLEASED THAT WHEN I

51:31 - WAS FINISHED IN 18, 69 THAT

51:33 - GEORGIA FORMER CONFEDERATE

51:34 - STATE WAS THE FIRST STATE TO

51:36 - BE READMITTED TO CONGRESS.

51:37 - AND I LIKE TO TAKE SOME CREDIT

51:40 - FOR THAT. GENERAL BUFORD, WE

51:41 - HAVE ANOTHER CALL. BUT FIRST,

51:42 - WOULD YOU TAKE ABOUT 30 SECONDS

51:42 - AND TELL US WHAT YOU DID AFTER

51:45 - THE WAR PLACE?

51:50 - >>WELL, SINCE MY LAST

51:50 - PERSONALLY, MEMORY, HIS NIECE

51:54 - AMBER 16TH OF 18. 63, I SUSPECT

51:55 - FROM AN AUNT WAS JUST I'M JUST

51:56 - GOING TO KIND OF LAY AROUND AND

51:57 - WAIT FOR THE SECOND COMING OF

51:59 - CHRIST.

51:59 - >>UNDERSTOOD. LET'S TAKE A

52:02 - PHONE CALL FROM PITTSBURGH AND

52:03 - IT'S JOE. GO AT.

52:06 - >>HELLO.

52:06 - >>THIS QUESTION IS FOR GENERAL

52:09 - ME.

52:11 - YES, SIR, WOULD YOU PLEASE,

52:13 - WOULD YOU PLEASE DESCRIBE THE

52:13 - CONTRIBUTIONS OF COLONEL STRONG

52:19 - BENSON FROM THERE'S A SCHOOL IN

52:20 - MY HOME TOWN NAMED AFTER HIM IN

52:20 - ERIE PA. ONE OF THERE'S A 3RD

52:23 - VERY GOOD

52:24 - EXAMPLE

52:25 - >>IN ON A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER

52:30 - VOLUNTEERED HIS SERVICES WAS A

52:33 - BRILLIANT COMMANDER AND A GREAT

52:34 - HERO AND OF COURSE, LOST HIS

52:36 - LIFE ON LITTLE ROUND TOP.

52:37 - AND IN FACT, I HAD THE PLEASURE

52:38 - OF COMMANDING HIM. HE WAS PART

52:41 - OF THE 5TH CORPS, STRONG

52:42 - VINCENT RAZOR REGIMENT. THE

52:46 - 83RD PENNSYLVANIA IN THE ERIE

52:49 - AREA. AND WAS THIS COLONEL AND

52:51 - THEN HE BECAME A BRIGADE

52:53 - COMMANDER AND THE BRIGADE THAT

52:54 - WAS ORDERED UP ON TOP OF LITTLE

52:56 - ROUND TOP TO FILL IN FOR THE

52:58 - MISSING SICKLES AND HIS TRIPS

53:00 - WHICH ARE NOW BEING KILLED AND

53:05 - OUT OF OUT OF POSITION HE'S

53:05 - SPIERS HIS MEN BY CLIMBING UP

53:09 - ON

53:09 - A ROCK TO DIRECT THE FIRE AND

53:11 - INSPIRE THEM WITH BRAVERY AND

53:12 - HE WAS SHOT DOWN AND KILLED

53:16 - ON THE SPOT AND WE LOST A GREAT

53:17 - MAN, A GREAT LEADER, A GREAT

53:18 - AMERICAN AND A GREAT PATRIOT.

53:20 - AND I I REALLY APPRECIATE

53:24 - EVERYTHING HE DID. AND I'M

53:25 - SORRY OF HIS LOSS. THANK YOU

53:27 - FOR ASKING A DOCTOR. LET HIM

53:31 - AND NOW I'M ADDRESSING YES, YOU

53:31 - WOULD PLEASE PUT ASIDE YOUR

53:32 - ROLE AS DOCTOR. LET ME JUST FOR

53:34 - A MINUTE.

53:34 - >>AND TELL US HOW YOU GOT

53:37 - INVOLVED IN COOK. THE

53:37 - CONFEDERATION OF UNION

53:40 - GENERALS.

53:46 - >>IN 1971, I WAS A SENIOR

53:46 - MEDICAL STUDENT AND THE

53:47 - AIRPLANE CRASHED INTO A

53:50 - RESIDENTIAL AREA.

53:51 - AND TO THE NORMAL NUMBER OF

53:54 - CASH LEAST CAME INTO THE

53:54 - EMERGENCY ROOM FOR MORE THAN WE

53:55 - WOULD BE CAPABLE OF HANDLING OF

53:58 - THE NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

54:00 - HOWEVER, THERE WAS A

54:01 - FUNCTIONING EMERGENCY

54:01 - OPERATIONS PLAN THAT WAS

54:05 - DRILLED EVERY YEAR.

54:08 - AND IT WAS IMMEDIATELY

54:08 - IMPLEMENTED TO THE EMERGENCY

54:10 - ROOM AND OTHER EMERGENCY

54:11 - CAPABILITIES WERE RAPIDLY

54:12 - EXPANDED. I WAS CALLED IN TO

54:13 - MAKE AND PROMOTED TO MEET THAT

54:17 - PROMOTED TO INTERN. AND WE

54:20 - WORKED ALL IN JULIE AND JULIA

54:20 - CASH LEASING EMERGENCY ROOM

54:23 - ADMISSIONS. THE FLOORS

54:25 - DISCHARGING NON URGENT CASES

54:28 - THAT WERE ALREADY IN

54:30 - THE HOSPITAL. AND I SAW IT AS A

54:32 - VERY LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE

54:34 - SAVED BY THE EXISTENCE OF THIS

54:36 - EMERGENCY PLAN. AND I BECAME

54:38 - INTERESTED IN WHERE THIS THE

54:39 - PLANT WHERE THESE KIND OF

54:41 - PLANNING IS WHEN IT COMES FROM.

54:43 - AND I WAS SURPRISED TO DISCOVER

54:49 - MAJOR LETTERMAN. IT'S FROM THAT

54:51 - 18 63 18, 62 18. 63 WAS THEN

54:54 - ABOUT 110 YEARS OLD.

54:56 - AND THIS WAS THE ORIGIN OF MY

54:58 - INTEREST. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU

54:59 - VERY RANDY. LET'S WE ONLY HAVE

55:01 - ABOUT 2 MINUTES LEFT IN OUR

55:04 - PROGRAM. SO NOW I'M ADDRESSING

55:05 - THAT GENERAL BUFORD, BUT MORE

55:06 - ACCURATELY. I WANT TO TALK TO

55:07 - THE MAN BEHIND GENERAL BUFORD.

55:08 - >>WHICH IS MARK AND TELL US

55:11 - BRIEFLY A YEAR ASSOCIATION WITH

55:12 - THE CONFEDERATION, A UNION

55:14 - GENERALS.

55:16 - >>I BECAME VERY INTRIGUED WITH

55:18 - THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. WHEN I

55:19 - WAS 6 YEARS OLD, MY DAD HAD

55:22 - BEEN A SOLDIER SERVING IN THE

55:25 - PACIFIC WORLD WAR. 2. WHEN

55:26 - YOU'RE BEING A SOLDIER AND

55:27 - FIGHTING FOR AMERICA WAS A

55:29 - REALLY BIG DEAL. I GOT TO SEND

55:32 - A TOY SOLDIERS FOR CHRISTMAS

55:33 - THAT YEAR AFTER BLUE AND HALF

55:33 - ARE VERY I ASKED HIM WHICH ONES

55:34 - ARE THE JOBS. HE SAID NONE ARE

55:38 - GAPS OR ALL

55:41 - AS THEIR. OKAY. WELL, WHAT WHAT

55:44 - ARE THE BAD GUYS AND SAID,

55:45 - WELL, THERE ARE GOOD GUYS.

55:46 - THEN WHY ARE AMERICANS WERE ALL

55:47 - GOOD GUYS FIGHTING EACH OTHER?

55:49 - AND HE SAYS, WELL, YOU'RE GOING

55:49 - TO HAPPEN. A LOT OF THINKING

55:52 - ABOUT THAT. AND I HAVE BEEN

55:53 - TOTALLY INTRIGUED BY THE IDEA

55:54 - OF AMERICANS FIGHTING EACH

55:58 - OTHER EVER SENSE EVEN KNOW.

55:59 - I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO RESPECT IN

56:02 - A GENERAL.

56:03 - GRAHAM SAID AT MEYER WAS MAN

56:05 - WHO FOUGHT SO LONG AND SO HARD

56:08 - AGAINST SUCH GREAT ODDS WITH

56:08 - SUCH LIMITED RESOURCES FOR A

56:12 - CAUSE. THEY BELIEVED IN.

56:14 - EVEN IF IT WAS THE WORST CAUSE.

56:15 - ANYBODY EVER BELIEVE THAT YOU

56:17 - STILL HAVE TO RESPECT THEM FOR

56:19 - THE DEDICATION IS OK, MARK,

56:20 - THANKS VERY MUCH. I WANT TO

56:21 - MOVE ON TO YOUR FRIEND. I

56:24 - GENERAL MEADE PORTRAYED BY ANDY

56:25 - ANDY ALREADY TALKED ABOUT

56:25 - CONFEDERATIONS UNION GENERALS

56:26 - BEFORE. SO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR

56:28 - PERSONAL FASCINATION WITH

56:29 - GENERAL. MEAN, WHY TAKE UP THAT

56:29 - CHARACTER TAKE LESS THAN A

56:32 - MINUTE PLACE.

56:36 - >>ESSENTIALLY, THOSE ARE THE

56:40 - I

56:42 - AMONG OTHER DISCIPLINE IS I

56:44 - AM A HISTORIAN AND I WAS

56:44 - EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN THE

56:45 - CIVIL WAR. I DISCOVERED AN

56:48 - ANCESTOR HAD FOUGHT.

56:50 - >>FOR THE UNION SIDE, OF

56:50 - COURSE, ON THE PENNSYLVANIA IN

56:51 - THE WILL AS A NATIVE

56:54 - PENNSYLVANIA, AS WAS HE.

56:55 - SO I WANTED TO LEARN AS MUCH AS

56:56 - I COULD. I WENT OUT TO

56:59 - GETTYSBURG FOR THE EAST.

57:00 - THE FESTIVAL, THE THE THE THE

57:03 - FIRST

57:05 - OF JULY AND THEIR EYES MET SOME

57:06 - RE-ENACTORS AS WOW. THIS IS ON.

57:07 - BELIEVE IT WAS LIKE THE SCUM OF

57:11 - YOU COME ALIVE. I JOINED THAT

57:12 - CAME AT REACTOR AS WELL.

57:13 - THEY ACTUALLY WERE FROM BUCKS

57:13 - COUNTY WHERE I WAS LOOKING AT

57:17 - THE TIME SO AGAIN, NTI POINT

57:21 - IN EDUCATION AT A CRIME THAT

57:22 - TEACHER AND I WAS LECTURING

57:24 - TO ARE APPEARING IN CLASSROOMS.

57:26 - AND THEN I REALIZED, WAIT A

57:28 - MINUTE. WHAT ABOUT GENERAL ME?

57:28 - NO ONE HOST WHO WON THE BATTLE

57:32 - OF GETTYSBURG.

57:32 - >>YEAH, I I TOOK A POLL ASKED

57:34 - 10 PEOPLE.

57:36 - >>AND 10 PEOPLE SAID GRANT.

57:38 - SO I SAID THIS HAS GOT TO

57:39 - CHANGE. AND SO I DECIDED TO

57:44 - RESEARCH ME AND BECOME HIM TO

57:46 - EDUCATE THE PUBLIC. THANK YOU.

57:46 - OUR GUESTS HAVE BEEN GENERAL

57:47 - JOHN BUFORD, PART TRAINED BY

57:50 - MARK LEONARD.

57:50 - >>DOCTOR JONATHAN LETTERMAN

57:53 - PLAYED BY RANDY KRAKAUER AND

57:55 - GENERAL GEORGE MEADE IN REAL

57:57 - LIFE. HE IS AND THE WEST KEY.

57:59 - COMING UP NEXT, THE FIRST OF

58:01 - OUR BRAND NEW BATTLE WALKS

58:02 - RECORDED TODAY ON THE ACTUAL

58:05 - BATTLEFIELD IN GETTYSBURG ON

58:06 - THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST

58:07 - DAY OF THE BATTLE TO COMPLETE

58:10 - SCHEDULE. DETAILS AT PEACE AND

58:12 - TV DOT COM SLASH GETTYSBURG.

58:15 - THAT'S IT FOR OUR SPECIAL

58:16 - GETTYSBURG, COLIN LIKE CASPER.

58:19 - THANKS FOR WATCHING.


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