Gettysburg Secrets 2

[Music] [Applause] well here we are at the rose farm at least what's left of the rose barn anyway it was destroyed during the battle we're looking at some rock carvings here's a looks like maybe EA Torre eh w 1888 July 19th and HW s there might be h h w i think is what the one thing said down below here that's h HW let's see i got a they put up a do not climb fence here that's all no here's some here are e w looks like it makes me wonder if that h HW is the same guy that was up on big round top because there was a couple of HH and i think an HW that I saw up there here's another one looks like H n I don't know I all right now maybe I wish I knew who they were if I can figure out who they are if there's any documentation that these folks have been identified I'll include that later on and some subtitles or something that's the Rose House on the Rose farm one of the trees around the other side they're probably around the small stone building it's said to have what some claim to be a ramrod stuck in the tree of course the tree would have been much smaller at the time of the battle I've seen a photo of it and it's it's like a thick gauge it could be a thick gauge wire thick piece of metal maybe a little thinner than a pencil which would make it about the right size for a ramrod the question was you can't see the head end of it that would actually be ramming on the ball to seat the ball which means that would have to be either have been cut off or embedded in the tree if it's embedded in the tree the other end of the ramrod is facing the house and someone on social media where I saw the photo had argued that it's facing the wrong way to be a ramrod that maybe it's just a piece of wire but if you're ramming a ball into the barrel then the head end is going to be down towards the breach and when you fire it out the threaded end or if there were threads on it would be the end it's going to go through the tree if it was able to pass all the way through the tree that would be plausible for it to be a ramrod unfortunately I can't get to it because the Rose house has a sign that says it's still private residence and with horses fenced in I can't get around the other side of the property and I'm not going to trust pay us to do it so maybe one day I'll be able to include a photo with that okay this is the basic Culp's Hill and right at the edge of Spangler Springs these two rocks right here which are oddly enough the only two that I found so far on the battlefield that are kind of offset from everything else that the Park Service actually mode up to and maybe it's because the stone walls right here I don't know if it has something to do with the fact that the rock carvings right here I'd like to think that it does but like the David Asheton rock I couldn't hardly walk to that because the grass was so tall a good example that I mean it's obviously it's a it's not the best time of year to be doing this but since David Atchison was buried at the base of that rock and that rock was carved so his family knew where he was or where they could find him and it's turned into kind of a memorial to that one individual that fought here would make to me that would make that rock just as important as any monument that's here and why the Park Service doesn't mow a path out to it I I don't know I guess they've got a reason I'd kind of like to know what it is but either way let me walk up here to the Cobell al al Coble rock and I'll chalk that in I'll show it to you okay here it is al Coble Co ble first North Carolina regiment you couldn't really see the one I had to kind of guess this might actually be the one here but I've seen it before in better lighting and it was definitely first North Carolina so but there it is if the Park Service keeps up with there mowing practices this is going to be almost impossible to get to because even with the path mode where we came in at it's still difficult to get to but the original path came in through there from the parking area but it's it's pretty well impassable now with the tall grass and weeds which largely is because the Park Service cut down trees in the area to try to restore things to looking the way they did during the battle but because they don't have animals grazing on the ground like did back then and they don't mow it on a regular basis it's allowing the undergrowth to just take over and and grow rampant so in a few years they're going to have to come back and either cut all this stuff back down again or it's going to be nearly impassable in some spots but we'll move further up the hill on Culp's Hill and I'll show you a couple more rock carvings moving up the saddle from the lower part of Culp's Hill to the upper part of Culp's Hill and come to this rock it's kind of a flat rock with a slope facing uphill to the crest of the hill the the highest part of the hill there's actually two carvings on it because we're at about midday Sun it's going to be really hard to see them so give me a little bit to find them and I'll try to chalk them in I'll be back here shortly I don't know I can't find the other one maybe it was the date that I'm thinking of as being the second carving here I don't know but it says Lightner 1871 and the interesting thing was he carved the G and the N backwards he or she I don't know but I'm in there a little bit it's pretty cool I could have swore there was another one on this rock a little lower down maybe down over here someplace I don't I don't know but I sure can't see it and it was difficult enough just seeing the lightener and trying to get that one right so there's a couple more behind either that Monument or that monument and I remember chalking them in and photographing them whole probably ten or twelve years ago now along with Lightner here and Lightner seems to me maybe again it's the midday Sun but seems like it's a good bit harder to see than what I remember it so I don't know the other ones were hard to see then so I don't know how how we'll do but I'll go try to find them for you okay here we are I found them found what's left of them we're behind the 149th Pennsylvania curve I'm sorry 149th New York you can just make out on the rock here you can see the some impressions in there that it says something I when I talked it in several years ago I couldn't figure out what it said and was just kind of guessing then and I took a photograph of what I was able to come up with and it didn't really make any sense at the time so in the interest of putting this on YouTube and having a public video like that I don't want to put false information out there as to what I think it says cuz I'm not sure as far as the rock carvings go that's about it in Gettysburg or on the battlefield here there's a couple other little Easter eggs that that I know about I'll I'll try to go find them we're gonna break for lunch and sometime a little later on we'll come back and we'll take a look at him so I'm catch up at the end a little bit I'm gonna take a quick walk in the soldiers National Cemetery here Gettysburg show you a couple of things firstly the fence on the north east and part of the west side of the cemetery is the witness fence that was around Lafayette Square in Washington DC when general Dan sickles before the war shot his I don't if it was a girlfriend or his wife but her estranged lover I guess he tracked the guy down and shot him and killed him and that fence was on the side of the sidewalk where he did that consequently Dan sickles during his trial was the first person in I believe US history to use the defense temporary insanity we'll take a closer look at the fence we walk around in the back side here a couple things to show you okay this cannon is a smoothbore it's a bronze gun and most if not all the bronze guns that you see the ones that look green on the battlefield they're all going to be original I haven't found one yet that was modern or reproduction you can tell the black canons the Canon's the ones that are reproduction because he look in the bore and the bore won't be it will only go in like 2 or 3 inches and the bore will be filled up or basically it's not bored out as what it is but this cannon near as I can figure when you put the camera inside the the bore with a flash you can still see something about midway down about even with the trunnions where the cannon attaches to the carriage looks like it still has a cannonball inside I'll have to switch to my other camera and take a picture of it with the flash so you can see it today won't it won't show up on this camera and right next to this cannon the other cannon there there's a dent in the barrel where it was struck by a cannonball so we'll take a look at that and of course behind it is the witness Vince from Dan sickles killing of his wife's lover this tube here has a dent on the side of the barrel where presumably was struck by another cannonball whether or not it was an exploding shower or not you know who knows but it's definitely a dent in the barrel from from something if you ever get a chance to walk around the the grounds here the main monument is in the center of the semicircle and over here is the Evergreen Cemetery which wasn't nearly as big as it is today during the battle but if you can just see the American flag there on the other side of the witness fence my understanding Jennie Wade is actually buried right next to that or near there there's a statue of a woman standing but looking at photos aware the Gettysburg Address was given I would say it was probably somewhere either right about where this fence is or someplace between where I'm at now and that flag because those photos that shows that it's it's more or less on the flat portion of the hill and I think some of them you can see the markers where the soldiers were reinterred on the left side up here in the semicircle so there's no real marker to where the Gettysburg Address was given but I think it was on that level ground there's a platform on the other side of the grounds here where they give reenactments of the Gettysburg Address and that was not where the location was the best of my knowledge I believe the small white markers with the American flags next to him all the way up to the mausoleum there I think those are all the graves that Elizabeth thorne dug and buried the soldiers here [Music] you

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Length: 13min 37sec (817 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 24 2018