Thank you for all of your vids, because of you and your vids i have made the trips to gettysburg, antietam and over to europe to normandy beach and i love every mile of it, so keep up the good work
My Wife and I visited Gettysburg this summer on our vacation. I cannot describe in words the filling of great loss which took place on this most hallowed ground. I am from North Carolina but I stood on this great battlefield not as a Rebel or Yankee but as an American who will always remember the sacrifice this great generation payed for future generations. We must never forget our past or we will never know our future. Thank you GOD for this great nation.
To stand in that grove of trees, where Lee stood when he ordered Picket's Charge. To look across that VAST flat field @ the clump of trees which was their target. You can not but think one single thought. Lee was utterly, utterly mad to order this attack. He could not possibly have expected to succeed. He just knew his efforts would be an utter failure if he didn't. The South was losing by degrees. This as desperate stab at a sudden change of fortune. This was hope in the place of all reason.
@bullyboy1863 I run tours here and that's what I hear the tourists say all the time. They can't marry the beauty with the horror. I think that's what's so captivating about this place
@3ord try being on LRT in the summer to see the sun set over the mountains and all you see is the deep purple of a thunderstorm, but the sky above you is clear. Then wait until the storm comes to you and watch the lighting strike on its way across the valley. It's cool to look up and see the line between clear sky and thunder clouds. but then when the wind whips up and rain belches down on you, you wish you had parked closer!
Thank for bring back memories of touring this battlefield. I can not remember how many times I've been there but each time I visit, each time a see a video like this, I get those strong feelings of being on truly hollowed ground.
Excellent work an honor to the fallen.A Parks Guide expertle guided me to where my great grandfather fell. (Laws Brigade). I could feel his presence. Thank you.
I first traveled to Gettysburg on 7 December, 2005. It was 7 degrees, and I virtually had the field to myself for most of the day. Round about the time that I visited the High Water Mark, a troupe of 7th or 8th graders meandered through my solitude.
At the North Carolina monument (on the Union side of the lines), their instructor read the Gettysburg Address, and the shiftless, attention-deficit crowd was UTTERLY SILENT.
The BBC showed Ken Burns' wonderful documentary in the UK a few years ago and the music on this clip has haunted me since. Can anyone kindly inform me what it is called? Thanks.
Its called 'Ashokan Farewell' by Jay Ungar from 'Waltz of the Wind' by Fiddle Fever 1984. You should be able to buy the original soundtrack form Ken Burns' film online.
Much appreciated. I have never been to the CW battlefields or indeed the US, tell me have you been and is it preserved? I see from one clip that the Antietam site is much as it was and in fact the old famous cornfield remains just that. Would love to make the trip one day.
I have been to the ones in Virginia plus Antietam and Gettysburg. The National Park Service is gradually returning many of the battlefields to how they were during the Civil War. And although they are National Parks I believe the fields are still farmed privately, as is the case with the Cornfield in Antietam. If you ever get the chance to visit the US I highly recommend seeing Antietam and Gettysburg. They are both close to Washington DC.
i was trying to make my son understand how important gettysburg was/is. the only thing that got his attention, was when he realized that as many men died in 2-3 days, that died in the entire viet nam war. he is 13, i guess he didn't get the scale.
The scale of modern wars is so different isn't it. I think Antietam had the bloodiest single day in the Civil War. Not 100% sure though.
The British 'Gettysburg' is probably the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. Over 19,000 killed and another 40,000 injured or missing. In just one day!
I think a very large number of US soldiers died on Omaha Beach & in a single action in World War One in France. Its so important that we continue to appreciate these sacrifices.
@VideoHistoryToday I had a great uncle killed on the first day of the Somme battle. The carnage and waste of human life that day is mind boggling. I think in all these conflicts, the military hardware was ahead of the tactics, hence the huge casualties.
@tranurse There are so many pertinent and important differences from- and yet correlations with other American wars and battles that it's almost mind boggling. The fact that nearly as many Americans perished at Gettysburg from July1-3, 1863 as died in all the years of Vietnam is not to be overlooked, but most important to me is the fact that America has fought only 4 wars in which the participants were imbued with a sense of mission to win: Revolutionary, 1812, WWII and of course the Civil War
@tranurse (continued)...and that fact alone sets these 4 wars apart from all others. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I have to say that from the first day I arrived in Danang until today I've asked "Why the hell am I here?" I've never received a cogent answer. But every single man in uniform on that otherwise bucolic, verdant land in southern Pennsylvania on those 3 horrible days thought he knew why he was there. Half of them were wrong, but no matter. Mission is really all that is important.
@rickcee i get what you are saying. i have never been in the military, so i really don't know. i think you have to do nothing but support guys who give their lives for their country. i have a big problem with the idiots who keep sending them though. they don't seem to send these guys with a clear sense of mission. but, that is just my opinion.
@tranurse I agree totally. I was (I guess I still am) a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (yes...the group that all the right wingers love to accuse of being anti-American, which of course couldn't be further from the truth), but the reason I mention it is that VVAW has a slogan they've been using for some time now, and it's brilliant for its simplicity: "Honor the Warrior, NOT the War." The wars, obviously, can be ill-conceived, but you can't blame the soldiers for following orders
@rickcee well, i am a card carrying liberal, so i have gotten used to being told i don't love my country. i like to quote from the movie 'an american president'; the right claims to love america, but they sure hate americans. peace.
@tranurse Well, me too...bleeding heart I guess. But I have to laugh at the dichotomy, which always seems to exist. While it's off topic a bit, it's kinda like the right wingers who are so against abortion rights, yet they want nothing to do with programs that will aid the mothers and unwanted babies that are born because abortion was discouraged. They'll picket in front of the abortion clinic all day, but once the kid is born they couldn't care less. It's the height of hypocrisy.
@rickcee exactly. it drives me insane. the priest at my old church got mad at me, because i refused to join a pro-life group, on that my boss's wife started (another story in and of itself). i didn't disagree with them necessarily, but until pro-life groups start supporting EACH and every solitary piece of child welfare legislation, i want no part of them.
Thanks for the comment. I am always amazed at that speech and how, even if you change just a couple of words, it sounds fine but doesn't sound quite right. I wish I could write so well. Those five words probably sum up how Lincoln thought he (and his speech) would be remembered.
i remember playing thi song in orchestra its so beatiful this brings back memories i just saw one of these in social studies today not sure which one i mean ik which just forgot the title with john browns raid and president lincoln and secession stuff like that
Was 9 years old when this series came out. I got to stay up past my bedtime the whole week the show was on. This song not only brings back memories of the documentary, but memories of my grandparents who have since passed. Great song, and greatest documentary I've ever seen..and I'm a baseball player! Burns Baseball is a close 2nd. God bless this wonderful country. We need it.
i love that battlefield so much. i want to go back there this year. i would like to live in gettysburg one day.
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moserr11 1 year ago
Thank you for all of your vids, because of you and your vids i have made the trips to gettysburg, antietam and over to europe to normandy beach and i love every mile of it, so keep up the good work
miah022 1 year ago
My Wife and I visited Gettysburg this summer on our vacation. I cannot describe in words the filling of great loss which took place on this most hallowed ground. I am from North Carolina but I stood on this great battlefield not as a Rebel or Yankee but as an American who will always remember the sacrifice this great generation payed for future generations. We must never forget our past or we will never know our future. Thank you GOD for this great nation.
Outcast58 1 year ago 2
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Outcast58 1 year ago
To stand in that grove of trees, where Lee stood when he ordered Picket's Charge. To look across that VAST flat field @ the clump of trees which was their target. You can not but think one single thought. Lee was utterly, utterly mad to order this attack. He could not possibly have expected to succeed. He just knew his efforts would be an utter failure if he didn't. The South was losing by degrees. This as desperate stab at a sudden change of fortune. This was hope in the place of all reason.
VictorLepanto 1 year ago
hello
mortimer2100 1 year ago
to think..that such slaughter took place in such a beautiful area..
bullyboy1863 2 years ago 2
@bullyboy1863 I run tours here and that's what I hear the tourists say all the time. They can't marry the beauty with the horror. I think that's what's so captivating about this place
MattCockburn 1 year ago
To be on Little Round Top at night with snow on the ground and no one else around is ...........
hard to explain.
3ord 2 years ago 2
@3ord try being on LRT in the summer to see the sun set over the mountains and all you see is the deep purple of a thunderstorm, but the sky above you is clear. Then wait until the storm comes to you and watch the lighting strike on its way across the valley. It's cool to look up and see the line between clear sky and thunder clouds. but then when the wind whips up and rain belches down on you, you wish you had parked closer!
MattCockburn 1 year ago
Thank you for this video It brought back that feeling of being on hallowed ground. There is no other place that you can find such a peace.
COLDSHADOWPLAY 2 years ago
Thank for bring back memories of touring this battlefield. I can not remember how many times I've been there but each time I visit, each time a see a video like this, I get those strong feelings of being on truly hollowed ground.
phill1947 2 years ago
karlschlaussen
Excellent work an honor to the fallen.A Parks Guide expertle guided me to where my great grandfather fell. (Laws Brigade). I could feel his presence. Thank you.
karlschlaussen 2 years ago
I first traveled to Gettysburg on 7 December, 2005. It was 7 degrees, and I virtually had the field to myself for most of the day. Round about the time that I visited the High Water Mark, a troupe of 7th or 8th graders meandered through my solitude.
At the North Carolina monument (on the Union side of the lines), their instructor read the Gettysburg Address, and the shiftless, attention-deficit crowd was UTTERLY SILENT.
cmc10101 2 years ago
The BBC showed Ken Burns' wonderful documentary in the UK a few years ago and the music on this clip has haunted me since. Can anyone kindly inform me what it is called? Thanks.
22185046 2 years ago
Its called 'Ashokan Farewell' by Jay Ungar from 'Waltz of the Wind' by Fiddle Fever 1984. You should be able to buy the original soundtrack form Ken Burns' film online.
VideoHistoryToday 2 years ago
Much appreciated. I have never been to the CW battlefields or indeed the US, tell me have you been and is it preserved? I see from one clip that the Antietam site is much as it was and in fact the old famous cornfield remains just that. Would love to make the trip one day.
22185046 2 years ago
I have been to the ones in Virginia plus Antietam and Gettysburg. The National Park Service is gradually returning many of the battlefields to how they were during the Civil War. And although they are National Parks I believe the fields are still farmed privately, as is the case with the Cornfield in Antietam. If you ever get the chance to visit the US I highly recommend seeing Antietam and Gettysburg. They are both close to Washington DC.
VideoHistoryToday 2 years ago
@22185046 This whole documentary haunts me to this day. I live 15 miles from the battlefield.
moserr11 11 months ago
i was trying to make my son understand how important gettysburg was/is. the only thing that got his attention, was when he realized that as many men died in 2-3 days, that died in the entire viet nam war. he is 13, i guess he didn't get the scale.
tranurse 3 years ago
The scale of modern wars is so different isn't it. I think Antietam had the bloodiest single day in the Civil War. Not 100% sure though.
The British 'Gettysburg' is probably the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. Over 19,000 killed and another 40,000 injured or missing. In just one day!
I think a very large number of US soldiers died on Omaha Beach & in a single action in World War One in France. Its so important that we continue to appreciate these sacrifices.
VideoHistoryToday 3 years ago
@VideoHistoryToday I had a great uncle killed on the first day of the Somme battle. The carnage and waste of human life that day is mind boggling. I think in all these conflicts, the military hardware was ahead of the tactics, hence the huge casualties.
KnightOwl2006 1 year ago
@tranurse There are so many pertinent and important differences from- and yet correlations with other American wars and battles that it's almost mind boggling. The fact that nearly as many Americans perished at Gettysburg from July1-3, 1863 as died in all the years of Vietnam is not to be overlooked, but most important to me is the fact that America has fought only 4 wars in which the participants were imbued with a sense of mission to win: Revolutionary, 1812, WWII and of course the Civil War
rickcee 1 year ago
@tranurse (continued)...and that fact alone sets these 4 wars apart from all others. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I have to say that from the first day I arrived in Danang until today I've asked "Why the hell am I here?" I've never received a cogent answer. But every single man in uniform on that otherwise bucolic, verdant land in southern Pennsylvania on those 3 horrible days thought he knew why he was there. Half of them were wrong, but no matter. Mission is really all that is important.
rickcee 1 year ago
@rickcee i get what you are saying. i have never been in the military, so i really don't know. i think you have to do nothing but support guys who give their lives for their country. i have a big problem with the idiots who keep sending them though. they don't seem to send these guys with a clear sense of mission. but, that is just my opinion.
tranurse 1 year ago
@tranurse I agree totally. I was (I guess I still am) a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (yes...the group that all the right wingers love to accuse of being anti-American, which of course couldn't be further from the truth), but the reason I mention it is that VVAW has a slogan they've been using for some time now, and it's brilliant for its simplicity: "Honor the Warrior, NOT the War." The wars, obviously, can be ill-conceived, but you can't blame the soldiers for following orders
rickcee 1 year ago
@rickcee well, i am a card carrying liberal, so i have gotten used to being told i don't love my country. i like to quote from the movie 'an american president'; the right claims to love america, but they sure hate americans. peace.
tranurse 1 year ago
@tranurse Well, me too...bleeding heart I guess. But I have to laugh at the dichotomy, which always seems to exist. While it's off topic a bit, it's kinda like the right wingers who are so against abortion rights, yet they want nothing to do with programs that will aid the mothers and unwanted babies that are born because abortion was discouraged. They'll picket in front of the abortion clinic all day, but once the kid is born they couldn't care less. It's the height of hypocrisy.
rickcee 1 year ago
@rickcee exactly. it drives me insane. the priest at my old church got mad at me, because i refused to join a pro-life group, on that my boss's wife started (another story in and of itself). i didn't disagree with them necessarily, but until pro-life groups start supporting EACH and every solitary piece of child welfare legislation, i want no part of them.
tranurse 1 year ago
So sorry, the correct passage is "little note, nor long remember". Still and yet the message is powerful.
gdanggatto 3 years ago
Thanks for the comment. I am always amazed at that speech and how, even if you change just a couple of words, it sounds fine but doesn't sound quite right. I wish I could write so well. Those five words probably sum up how Lincoln thought he (and his speech) would be remembered.
VideoHistoryToday 3 years ago
The world will not long remember what we say here. But it should never forget what they did here.
gdanggatto 3 years ago
i remember playing thi song in orchestra its so beatiful this brings back memories i just saw one of these in social studies today not sure which one i mean ik which just forgot the title with john browns raid and president lincoln and secession stuff like that
doodlesanc14 3 years ago
God bless the South and let us out.
brainerdrebel 3 years ago
Was 9 years old when this series came out. I got to stay up past my bedtime the whole week the show was on. This song not only brings back memories of the documentary, but memories of my grandparents who have since passed. Great song, and greatest documentary I've ever seen..and I'm a baseball player! Burns Baseball is a close 2nd. God bless this wonderful country. We need it.
dimedraftdestroyer 3 years ago
Thank you
Ansalems 3 years ago
It tugs at three hundred and ninety five hearts anyway!
Lartor 4 years ago
I feal for those men who were there all those years ago
Companyman55 4 years ago 4
Such a beautiful song that makes you feel if only for a moment that the year is 1863 and you are near the front lines. Thanks!
pondmaker 4 years ago 3