The Fight for West Cemetery Hill (Now The National Cemetery): Gettysburg 158 Live!

hello everybody hello welcome welcome it's gettysburg 158 and we are on west cemetery hill uh a place that and i said that right by the way it's not east cemetery hill it's west cemetery hill a place people really don't talk about it was not attacked in force during the battle of gettysburg and we need to unpack that why wasn't it attacked what did happen why are there monuments here in the national cemetery because there was a fight here before it was actually a cemetery and you know we'll bring you up to speed we'll unpack some of that hopefully we'll answer some of your questions along the way i'm gary edelman this is gettysburg 158 you're with the american battlefield trust and with no further ado i'm going to hand it over to my friend and colleague chris white all right good afternoon everybody thank you for joining us we hope you're enjoying our coverage so far so please check out all of our cool videos we have at youtube and over at facebook and please do share these with your friends and family and as gary pointed out we're standing on what's called west cemetery hill at gettysburg most people have heard of the battle that took place on east cemetery hill on the evening of july 2nd 1863 that's just off to my right so folks are probably asking you know are you confused what are you doing on west cemetery hill well there was a battle that took place over here as well it's not so well known because of some of the units that fight over here don't write about it as much but more importantly battlefield preservation is a key component to interpreting any battlefield and on this side of gettysburg i'm going to just swing around for a second you notice that the town is coming right up onto cemetery hill we have restaurants back here we have houses naturally towns have to grow so that's what's going to happen out here so much of this battlefield has actually been obliterated so it's much more difficult to actually recreate what happened out here as well as tell this story but that's what we're gonna try to do today now to go from the five thousand five hundred thousand feet down to the fifty uh 500 feet let's take a step back to the morning of july first 1863. on the morning of july 1 1863 union and confederate forces are clashing along the chambersburg pike which is off out to the west of us we have john buford and his horsemen engaging with henry heath and his footmen his infantry that clash will turn into a class of infantry on infantry when john reynolds arrives with the left wing of the union army he is killed at 10 to 10 30 on the morning of july 1st but the union first corps is now online command of this field will devolve to a man named oliver otis howard he's in command of the union 11th corps and he will arrive on the gettysburg battlefield late on the morning of july 1st he'll establish his headquarters on east cemetery hill uh he is nicknamed uh oh howard by some of his men oh howard's on the field and he's also known by my friend and fellow colleague frank o'reilly that he's the pious but vapid oliver otis howard but howard when he arrives on the field establishes his headquarters on cemetery hill named for the evergreen cemetery that sits on the other side of the national cemetery annex and gettysburg national cemetery as well soldiers national cemetery so he establishes his headquarters there why we need to be in a central location easily findable for the men what howard will then do is go into town try to find a vantage point overlook the fields that he can goes to a place called the fauna stock building where we filmed some videos a few years ago go check those out and then he will assess the situation which is growing more and more dire by the hour because confederates will start to arrive from the north along the carlisle road and along the old harrisburg road we'll have more confederates coming down the chambersburg pike so we essentially have a two-sided box coming in on top of these on top of these union soldiers more union soldiers will arrive and that will be howard's 11th corps who will march north through town they will arrive on the gettysburg plane where we shot some videos yesterday and they will start to deploy around 3 15 in the afternoon the confederates will renew their assaults with vigor and the confederates will start to hit the union of 11th corps on the right flank chancellorsville style the 11th corps gets hit on the flank and starts to fold up and then more confederates will come down the carlisle road and the 11th quarter will start to be dislodged and they will start falling pell mel back towards the towards gettysburg through the streets same time over on mcpherson ridge the union first corps is dislodged pushed back to seminary rich where members of the american battlefield trust helped to preserve land at least headquarters and near schmucker hall at the lutheran theological seminary the first corps is eventually dislodged with confederates pushing in from oak hill down oak ridge and then up seminary ridge finally funneling the first quarter troops back into the town the first corps themselves unfortunately have a disadvantage their 11th court comrades have marched through the town of gettysburg to get to the northern plain but the first court troops are coming back into the town under heavy fire and now we're entering a town they have never marched through most of the first corps troops had cut across nicholas khadori's farm and had tr and and the william bliss farm and had moved north up to seminary rich they had never entered the town itself so now they're going to start falling back towards cemetery hill and some of the first core men said we don't even know what cemetery hill is after the battle we didn't know what the order was but oliveros howard turns this into his alamo this is going to be his fallback position he's going to leave one full division under alf uh adolf von steinweir which steinway avenue is named after to be his fallback position one of those brigades under charles koster moves up into town to try to help reinforce the 11th corps but kind of gets caught up in the wake of that 11th corps falling back they fight in a place called koster avenue today where there's a great mural you can go check out painted by our friend mark dunkelman then we will have another brigade over in this area commanded by orland smith smith will be the fallback position for the union forces now we'll have union soldiers coming down into the town itself some of them will start establishing a presence in what is today gettysburg national cemetery or soldiers national cemetery behind me some of them will be right here in the cemetery annex some will take up residence in the buildings the old wagon hotel where there's a gas station today at the point of steinware avenue and baltimore street will be turned into a small fortification and the 17th connecticut will start to put men behind a stone wall they're going to start putting up trip wires but more importantly and most importantly leadership will be on the field john buford knowing the status of all of rhodus howard and his worth is going to write back to george gordon said by god send someone up here send us hancock manning winfield scott hancock winfield scott hancock arrives on the field takes over this battlefield and starts to stabilize the ship thomas osborne and charles wainwright two fine artilleries to be talked about at benner's hill we'll start setting up a line of nearly 40 cannon bolstered by what's left of the infantry here then arriving on the field will be the 12th corps the third corps the union position is stabilizing but if lee goes for broke and starts pushing across the fields of from seminary ridge or down from the north this position could be tenuous but it's much stronger than most people give it credit for and that's going to be the backbone of that artillery so what we'll do is we'll switch over to doug dowells but i want to tell you one story about ed bars most of you may have known ed and ed one of my favorite stories of him the great historian who passed away recently a few years ago was on the gettysburg battlefield leading a tour and this will tell you all you need to know about oliver otis howard he'll be on east cemetery hill he'll collapse he'll look up and say by god don't let me die underneath oliver otis howard thanks chris so let's pick up this story so he talked about all the forces coming on here one of the things that hancock is supposed to do is supposed to provide mead word and he's load the step on mead's toes of whether or not to call this a battlefield or not so once he gets here and he realizes that this can you know the time he arrives it's when all this chaos is rolling back from north and west of town once they come up with the defense of this he's going to send back two of his age he sends back major mitchell and eventually major parker to inform me that it is a pretty good position to have a battle although it could be turned with that they will head south they will get to meade eventually once uh once slocum arrives on this battlefield hancock will turn over control to uh henry slocum and he too will ride back and at this point he'll now catch uh george gorde mead on the road already headed here towards gettysburg meter will arrive up here about midnight the first thing he'll do is hop off look to his generals and say is this a good place to have a battle they'll assure him that it is and he says good because the whole army of the potomac is headed this way now when i say that george gordon mead arrives here or that we are in on cemetery hill what's here as chris has pointed out we need to get rid of a lot of these buildings because the southern edge of town is actually back closer to town anybody who've been to mr g's or the rough house has a good idea of where this side of town is otherwise get rid of all these buildings and get rid of all these trees these trees aren't here for anybody that's familiar with gettysburg and you've been here you know kind of these north-south running ridge lines ripple out from gettysburg like waves on an ocean but they are rather thin ridgelines if you think about it if you've ever stood on seminary ridge or cemetery ridge you know an artillery battery in the front and the rest of the casings and the limbers on the back one of the most powerful things about cemetery hill is this idea of it is this broad flat clear high ground it makes it the key piece of terrain on this entire battlefield moreover because of those characteristics it becomes a massive artillery platform they can stack artillery up not only from the first quarter and the 11th core and parts of the 12th core but soon the artillery reserve those 118 pieces of artillery owned by the army of potomac will also send artillery onto this big platform and it will then become not only the fallback position on day one but it becomes the center of the union fish hook where the bend in the fish hook is on day two and day three so besides getting rid of all the trees and we can see just over the wall behind me that's where the soldier cemetery is when we talk about lincoln coming to dedicate this place on the 19th of november 1863. that's on the other side we happen to be in standing in the annex today the annex is a part of the national military cemetery too because we have over 7 000 soldiers from the spanish-american world world war one world war ii korea and even from vietnam who are also buried here before we finally close this cemetery this is part of this great expanse also so now we have these forces here we continue with day two about how this setup takes place we know the fighting will start south of field and it'll work its way up and earlier we shot a video that talked about how eventually that an echelon attack that wave attack breaks down about the center of the fishhook line but that doesn't mean there's no activity here in fact arguably there's a lot taking place here and so now i'm going to turn it over to gary and let's uh go ahead and talk about actually the fighting that might take place on east cemetery hill yeah thanks so much doug and thank you all for watching i'm loving the comments right now i'm looking for some better hashtags but other than that i'm very satisfied thanks to the michigan mud digger uh for uh sharing it to your uh to your fans i see the history underground on here if you don't watch jd's history at history underground or his videos you should uh you might see jd on a video with us this evening and we have a bunch of other videos in fact we haven't done any of the famous places yet but look for little round top and pickets charge and the wheat field and all sorts of other things that we're really going to be uh you know doing and we're happy to have you here we have all sorts of other people i really want to talk about but we can't get to everybody so keep making your comments now as doug set up there's all sorts of different things happening here you might not have known about and i think the main thing people don't know about is the terrible ongoing fight that lasts at least for a day or two between union forces here on cemetery hill and the confederate forces posted a ways away and there's a no man's land and everything and talk about that here's our good friend and president and ceo of the gettysburg foundation really happy to have him here again wayne martin thanks gary i appreciate it i'll try to pick up where everybody really gave a good leave off here so up here in the national cemetery as chris mentioned to you orlan smith colonel orland smith he is the brigade commander that's going to take possession here of what we call west cemetery hill right on the very edge of the tawny town road now i'm going to swing you around chris let's swing around and let's look at the 73rd ohio volunteer infantry regiment memorial here which was put here in september of and the position is right along the road so we'll haul here and we'll turn and look over here behind my shoulder now the town of gettysburg has grown up on what used to be open fields during the time of the battle you're about a mile from seminary ridge where you're here on cemetery hill and halfway in between there's a long fence that runs right down the middle of a very high ridge and it's between the union and confederate position after july 1 1863 and the confederates are going to take possession of seminary ridge the union army soldiers with the 73rd ohio and the rest here on west cemetery hill are going to take position over here behind me and in between is this area that is a high fence which both armies are going to contest probably the most contested fence on the gettysburg battlefield now in the colt park neighborhood here of gettysburg along what is now fairview avenue if you drive it along in your car on the evening of july 2nd 1863 in the 73rd ohio right out here behind me as skirmishers now what's a skirmisher a skirmisher is a group of soldiers that precede a main battle line they're out there to harass to detect the enemy to capture prisoners to collect information and generally prevent the confederates in this case from coming up against where this union line and the artillery are located and as i mentioned this fence is right in the middle so 73rd ohio sends out these skirmishers and who is one of the members that's out there fighting on the evening of july 2nd 1863 it's none other than a 40 year old private named george nixon george nixon is the great grandfather of president richard millhouse nixon and on the evening of july 2nd 1863 he's right over behind my left shoulder several hundred yards out when he's struck by a rifle bullet in the hip he is critically wounded he can't get off the battlefield and part of his company come back up here to cemetery hill and meanwhile nixon is calling the names of his comrades because he is lying out there and he can't get any help finally one of his friends richard enderlin a german immigrant a musician in the 73rd ohio volunteered several times he's denied permission at first but then after several times he'll be given permission by the company commander of company b the 73rd ohio volunteer adventure regiment to go out and get george nixon and enderlin will crawl out using only the full moon now full moon that's bad if you happen to be a union soldier out here on july 2nd good if you happen to be a confederate because you're going to have all these men that are still loaded there and so cautiously carefully methodically you're going to have richard anderlin crawl out he will find george nixon about 10 feet from one of the rebel skirmishers flip him over and start to drag him up here to cemetery hill to safety when he finally gets close enough richard enderlin will throw nixon on his back stand up of course and run up here into what is now the national cemetery area the cemetery annex and nixon's life will be saved unfortunately for george nixon that wound will prove mortal one of the records say died july 11th another say died on the 14th of july but he died at the george spangler farm the 11th army corps hospital which in 2008 was purchased and rehabilitated by the gettysburg foundation which i'm proud to be the president ceo of so great connection out here on the skirmish line with the 11th union army corps hospital owned and rehabilitated and saved by the gettysburg foundation for this act richard endland will get the medal of honor and folks he's uh born in 1843 that makes him 20 years old at gettysburg he dies when he's 87 years old in 1930 and he's one of two medal of honor recipients out on this line he's buried in grand view cemetery in chillicothe ohio which is where many men of the 73rd ohio volunteer infantry regiment are located so the battle line is right over here behind me and you're driving through the town of downtown gettysburg today and you probably don't even know it so this is a place that if you haven't explored try to understand it here the confederates want this bad that's why they're skirmishing out here and they want to mount an attack against it and to describe that sort of action or non-action we call let me call back my friend and colleague mr colonel doug dallas colonel so we talked earlier this morning about this attack that goes from south to north hoods division mcclause division anderson's division and then things break down pender doesn't go roads and then we picked up earlier we were talking about johnson this morning he's now fighting up on cults hill and then early's division will attack east cemetery hill that's what we're talking about on the other side of cemetery hill well wait we we talked about what might have happened to pender but what happens to rhodes he's been supposed to be coordinating as a member of yule's corps that's supposed to be part of this fight going up on coltsville and the eastern part of cemetery hill now remember robert emmett rhodes is a lee's only non-west point division commander he's a virginia military institute graduate i think douglas sutherl freeman describe him and lee's lieutenants as a norse god clad in confederate gray which is not a bad way to go down by the way okay so ultimately his guys fight up on oak hill we know that fight on the first day they're gonna round up union prisoners in town but ultimately rhodes's division is largely stuck in the town of gettysburg when we talk about the barricade on the inner visibility line as you go from cemetery hill down to the square uh in gettysburg today and you cross that there was a barricade there that was rhodes men on middle street in gettysburg also rhodes is men so when we have this attack by jubal early's division it almost starts at eight o'clock at night think about it sun sets at 7 44 on july 2nd 1863 no late daylight savings back then so it would be dark by 8 15. almost entirely in the dark will those two brigades attack east cemetery hill now rhodes is supposed to be coordinating with this what's going to happen is they're going to attack they're going to break through howard's line at the bottom of cemetery hill and then we'll all of a sudden we'll have men with club muskets and bayonets fighting artillers with rammer staffs and hand spikes it'll be winfield's scott hancock on the other side of the line that says man that doesn't sound right and he's going to send a brigade a red uh samuel uh sprig carroll spring carol thank you very much red carol they called him red because of his red beer and he would counter attack with ohio men uh indiana men and west virginia men drive those guys off but meanwhile we should ask where's rhodes what he would write is because his men are tangled up in town it gets them a long time to pull them out of the houses and the basements and the upstairs to get them all back online get them out of all these alleys and back roads and try and get them back into the open fields and about the time that he does get them ready to cross a line of departure that they might support this attack on east cemetery hill that attack is now being driven back in the dark and roads never gets his men going we've talked about that robert e lee would right after this battle except for a proper concert of action we would have been successful and this is true normally we refer to that breakdown of the of the an echelon attack from south to north when it breaks down at anderson and pender's division however i would argue that lack of proper coordination extends all the way up to this northern part of hill about that time that the eastern part of cemetery hill should have been attacked the western part of cemetery hill should have been attacked as well by rhodes large division and yet it doesn't happen one more opportunity lost for the confederates gary man that's great stuff doug and i just i'm so gratified to see so many great comments here we've got 270 people watching um at the same time you're with the american battlefield trust we're on west cemetery hill like that is we're talking about the fighting um here on you know july first this second-ish um and then maybe even beyond here and hopefully learning some things you didn't know about you know a lot of you are really thanking us for bringing out the content like first of all i want to say thank you first of all members and supporters of the trust are paying my chris white's salary and let me tell you that none of the speakers we have are being paid we're out here because we just adore this subject and that you are watching and hopefully sharing with the people in your lives and helping therefore to propagate you know our democracy by sharing this culture and history you're doing your job while you're at it check out gettysburgfoundation.org check out battlefields.org and check out of course nps.gov get to learn about some of the things uh that are happening so um what i'd like to do is bring on ann mitchell who's always pensive and always is coming on she's our good friend she's a family historian from ancestry fold three we have a great partnership going on with them right now and ann i don't know get ready guys she may have some questions i know her i have questions and i hope that the questions you have too so as i've been here trying to understand this battle and it is chaotic to read about it's chaotic when you're here and just to understand everything that's going on and why and i was talking to doug and i had this aha moment because doug's put it in perspective for me he started talking about objectives strategy and tactics am i right dad so yeah when we really talk about this we really want to refer to this as there's a strategic level on operational level on a tactical level and here at gettysburg at the strategic level we're talking about winning the american civil war at the operational level we want to think about the gettysburg campaign from the time the army of northern virginia starts to leave virginia june 3rd until that time they cross back over the potomac river on the 4th of july or to the 14th of july and then of course at the tactical level is every battle right this is going to be uh whether the fight for a little round top the wheat field or the p torture now within that structure though there are some imperatives everything we do at the tactical level on operational level had better get us to our strategic end and if it doesn't it's waste which means we will accept sub-optimal activities at the operational and tactical level that get us to our strategic end over optimal ones that do not moreover in this whole view we could argue there's structure given to this too uh if we use our carl von clausewitz as a professor of the army war college i have to throw this in or i lose my union card i got to mention clausewitz at least once a day and he would say uh this whole thing is bound a nation at war is bound the same way you and i if we want to lose weight how much weight will be determined by how hard we work and for how long for a nation at war clause which would argue the value of the political object determines the magnitude and duration of sacrifice how much do you want to achieve that political object that determines magnitude sacrifice for a nation at war that's the cost in lives dollars and prestige and of course time so that value of the political object bounds the strategy the strategy then bounds everything we do at the operational or tactical level does that help some that helps solve chris chris and all i add to doug because he is amazing what he does is i always put a fourth level up there and that's politics politics and policy come down to your strategy and strategy is basically us translating that political end down to the operational level which will then result in a battle and hopefully the victory of your war so what you want to do is make sure that your politics align with your strategy and vice versa and it takes a long time for both of these armies to figure this out because remember a lot of this stuff even though we drop klaus fits a lot it's still pretty new so for your average soldier like we all know i had many many soldiers who are here and everywhere else what do they know about this in 1860 and 1865 does any of that is that something they understand or are they just like i'm going to do what i'm told and i'm going to get out there and make sure that me and my brothers don't get killed so yes and no to chris's point he brought up policy i would i would say we could take this a step further right we go all the way back to enduring values and beliefs those drive interests interest drive policy policy drive strategy and then we go down here so it starts with enduring values and beliefs i would argue they're all fighting for values and beliefs that they hold dear this part they know how do we translate all those tactical activities into strategic end this is a little bit of matters of depending where you are in that chain of command what role you might have for a guy like robert e lee wears three hats here remember he's the commander of the army of northern virginia he's really the theater commander responsible for everything from pennsylvania to north carolina from the atlantic ocean to the appalachians but he's also the principal military adviser to jefferson davis i would argue that many of the decisions he makes here at gettysburg are wearing that third out as the principal adviser to military uh to jefferson davis more than the commander of the army of northern virginia and i would say that the only people who have heard of clausewitz on cemetery hill on july 2nd 1863 will be some of the men in the 11th corps uh klaus vitz even though we talk about him a lot today he is a german he's a prussian and he is not widely read mostly because he is published in german most of the men around here will have read a man named antoine andrei jamini who is a swiss-born french-speaking officer who serves on the staff of michelle nay who is the bravest of the brave according to napoleon for his actions during the russian campaign and johnny is absolutely a self-serving self-promoter but he does know military strategy and tactics because he has learned from the best and that is what crossfit's calls the god of war and that is napoleon himself now close bits is going to be studied especially today on staff rides because in 1873 he has translated after the franco-prussian war because von molko the elder makes him a household name then in 1908 uh we started having the british start taking him in but it's not until 1942 that the united states army really starts understanding who this classmates guy is and in the 1950s we start to integrate him into our larger teaching strategy here uh overall for strategic theory and he starts trumping who is this omni guy now klaus bits is the man hey chris can i give it back to you real quick i just want to assure you all that you know chris and doug were just getting started with this stuff i mean this stuff this could go on for a long time and i would find it endlessly interesting now before i kick it back to wayne anne did you have anything else i'll bet you might i do so i want to ask one more question about that and then i want to remind all of our viewers about something that they can get for free so i had an ancestor who was a captain so he was more involved with not the whole big plan but he was involved with strategy he would he he had more of a bigger picture but all my privates they were just the will to live the will not to look good to do all the right things so i would even argue at the captain level and even probably at the colonel level these are tactical levels okay when we start talking operational level fighting campaigns you're now talking about army commanders even maybe core commanders can play at that level but at some point we're talking about literally the smallest pieces that fight these battles and what we're trying to do is take these little battles aggregate them together to achieve operational effects and then put those operational effects to chief strategic ones so they aren't playing at that highest level at all so they're just technical experts operating at that lowest level of war trying to win at their assigned tasks to achieve a larger purpose and that's what they were there for that is very helpful all right we did have a question from one of our viewers she put in just this gruesome story of one of her ancestors who had been shot in the stomach and lived with an open wound for 11 years i hope you can find out more about him one place for you all to get started is fold3.com all of our civil war content is free from today to july 18th so now is the time to get on and start researching also if you are an american battlefield trust member and why wouldn't you be because we want to preserve this land this is an amazing place and you all must come you all must come but if you go to fold three slash battlefields you can get thirty percent off or thirty dollars off one of the other i can't remember off top of my head for the first year and you want to do that but go find your ancestors who fought in the civil war and then go to the battlefields i promise you it will be a life-changing experience thank you that's great anne thanks so much we've really enjoyed all the work that ancestry fold 3 did to help prepare us i hope you're looking in the comments when we have artifacts out there posting memorial pages to to the people that we talked about and family tree pages and i think you're gonna like what you see i wanted to say that way after the fact that i think it was jay from manchester maryland needs to watch our video from the other day with tim smith talking about pipe creek and pronouncing it manchester mill and because that's how he talks so make sure you do that and i'm seeing all sorts of other good friends that makes me really happy so thank you all for watching now we've talked about a lot of the fighting but i think we might have left off the most famous part of west cemetery hill and that is a big set of booms that are going to occur right before the most famous attack at gettysburg so wayne motts yeah thanks a lot gary i just want to kind of rotate chris right over here to where the 73rd is because the position of two of these regiments for july 3rd 1863 during this great candidate at 1 o'clock in the afternoon is right on this side our side of the uh tawny town road it goes all the way down to 55th ohio and the 73rd ohio and then on the other side of the road we'll you'll have 136 new york and these units have to be under this tremendous artillery fire keep in mind where is the artillery some of the artillery is right up against where this infantry line is there's a great story here and i gotta say listen everybody if it's not true it ought to be true and it's a story written by a soldier in the 136 new york volunteer infantry regiment he says on the e on the afternoon of july 2nd his command which is right up here over my left shoulder back behind us on the um west side of where the uh tony town road is located they're up against those troops are up against the stone wall and he says that the artillery is right behind them firing artillery shells over the heads of the troops this soldier claims after the battle of gettysburg the troops were so rattled that one of the soldiers along that stone wall every one of his teeth fell out a week after the battle and this soldier claimed that was because of the candidate so it's one of those stories that if it isn't true it certainly ought to be true because it's it it shows you the amount the concussion and the amount of gunfire that's over here from the artillery every foot of ground over here in the annex just about was struck by an artillery shell and if you're here in the annex where we are here on this part of cemetery hill when you all did your video over at benners hill you're going to have crossfire between all of yule's artillery and along with hills artillery crossed right into this apex of where this line is so for many of these union soldiers they got a front row seat to pick its charge but it's going to be a bad situation for them because they're going to be under two hours of this heavy cannon fire between 1 and 3 p.m they're going to get to see the repulse but they're going to have to take a lot of knocks over here i also want to say we are in this in the national cemetery it is my privilege and pleasure along with some of us here to decorate the graves with the licensed battlefield guides they have decorated the graves here at the national cemetery over the anniversary of the battle for my recollection 33 years and this year they not only did the graves uh for uh the battle of gettysburg they did all the graves including the annex which as mentioned earlier was seven thousand graves it took us about an hour there were well over 50 people to volunteer to do that and of course i just want to thank everybody because what a what a great honor to the veterans here that's what you that's why you see all the flags that are in the national cemetery today so uh gary i just want to say on behalf of the gettysburg foundation myself thanks for letting us be part of this thanks so much wayne uh you know i've known wayne for going on 30 years i think it'll be 30 years uh oh it's actually more than 30 years now i think i met you in late 91 so what a quality guy i'm so happy for you wayne to be heading up the gettysburg foundation now and you know that you were heading up uh you know putting out the placement of these flags just says a lot about you so thanks so much um you know great job everybody and what i want to say real quick is that you know we're posting so many videos i think some of you are missing them we covered the campaign before july 1st we covered on the first day yesterday today we've been to benners hill we shot two videos along the emmittsburg road our devil's den video has posted on facebook and youtube and now this cemetery one and i think there's four or five more to go today we shot that everything that we can shoot live we shot live but we're also posting some where we have bad connectivity so you'll see them they might overlap with one another but we appreciate you engaging we love your comments thanks wayne thanks chris thanks and thanks doug and thank you all for supporting battlefield preservation and education you

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