Gettysburg 145th DVD - The Wheatfield attack

[TheCazinbih]

When will Americans have once again civil...

[Kal50BMG]

I really hate these embarrassing fat actors who spoil any historical movie.

[thehotshirtguy2008]

I thought the Rebels were going to win this time.

[daywalker1992]

is that Roosevelt at 3:58 ?

[Komotau4691]

Video not too much,BUT FUCK THE FEDERALS AND UNION SYMPATIZANTS!!LOOK AT YOUR NIGGERS GHETTOS AND ZIONIST POLITICS ON NORTH!!BITCHES GOVERNMENT OF SYSTEM!

[ConstantineJoseph]

Pickett's charge was probably one of the greatest charges in history. There are many other similar full frontal assaults, like the Normans in Hastings 1066, against a tight shield wall formation.

Another great charge was the charge of the Scots Greys into the French lines at Waterloo. The Japanese in Saipan launched a suicide 6000 man charge that overwhelmed entire battalions is to be noted as well.

[il2gambit]

huh after reading some comments here, it seems the USA are still at civil war ... great video btw and this is an reenactment and not part of a movie?

[1860george]

this was in the days before the jews got control of the united states today the american army is used as cannon fodder for israel

[ABOM420]

Becuase it would literally be,

the dead opposite.

normally idc when countries say this,

but Russia?

someone did JUST THIS to you,

they thought numbers could win a war.

but in stalingrad they were throwing rocks when they ran out grenades,

REFUSING to give up any ground.

remember thats how New York will be,

except we will never run out of ammo ; )

[dangar45]

@ABOM420 Also, I believe New-Yorkers would surrender once they saw a German tank on their land. Also many of the divisions which faught in wehrmacht was Russians, so your point is invalid.

[dangar45]

The Russian army could conquire whole America but instead they allied with the US :/

[ABOM420]

@dangar45

thats what you assume.

please understand in 1930 hitler was standing in Berline screaming "The German army could conquor whole Russia, but instead we let them unarm us, and hold us down"

what was the outcome of that?

half of Russia as dead, ALL of Germany.

they underestimated them.

Half of Russias population was killed, killing them.

anything they could do.

Russian pilots were reported flying into German planes, just making sure they didnt go down alone.

[dangar45]

@ABOM420 What?? All I said was just that Russian Imperial Navy was superior to the US/Confederate army in the civil war...

[ABOM420]

@dangar45 the point im making? that those with the most survival instincts fled to USA. we were allowed the freedom to fight as we please. and you say, that Russia will overtake us. you say this on: 1. A video of OUR war, 2. on computers we invented 3. the internet we HELPED invent 4. using intercontinental communication lines we laid down. Russia spent 2,500 years of existence riding horses and using mail. please understand what we did in 250 years before you try.

[ABOM420]

almost 8/10ths of America is armed.

10 American kids just woke up this morning.

Soccer, wheaties, and uniformed school?

contrary.

we wake up to war vidoes,

go to school to fight in social cliques,

then come home to play war games.

just,,

just think of this next time you think youll win an invasion.

[dangar45]

@ABOM420 Was there fat kids playing computer games and watching war videos in 1855? Also, why should Russian Imperial Army have been afraid of fat kids that watch war karate kid or whatever they do, even if they existed in 19th century :D

[Ulandus]

Lot of big belly middle aged men among these re-enactors. It would look more authentic if re-enactors among average soldiers would be young and slim(officers excluded). Too bad that the youngsters aren't so intersted to take part to these great shows.

[MySouthernHeart]

The south was fighting for states rights my freind the end an oppressive government and did you know that Gen Robert E Lee freed his slaves before the war? and that Jefferson Davis had a Half African American son? Well Good sir now you know.

[Kravis63]

@MySouthernHeart Fighting for the sates rights to keep slaves. Sorry, it's true.

[MrDp19]

an african american at 2:09 on the left hand side of screen, didn't expect to see that, doesn't he know what the south is fighting to protect, their way of life (thriving off of enslaved persons) or maybe forced by a slave owner

[bluegrassreb1]

@MrDp19 shows your arrogance and lack of historical knowledge! 5 yankee stateswere slave states. what were they fighting for ? it was regional hatred that fueled the war. hell every nation inthe w hemisphere had slaves but im sure u got no prob w/ them. only the South and its flags, right? ignore the fact that it was the union jack and stars and stripes that flew over slave ships for over a hundred yrs! and yes free blacks and slaves fought and died for the South. and i thank them!!!!

[Salvus967]

@bluegrassreb1 Why would you fight for someone that barely regarded you as human? Those blacks who fought for the South must have been lost souls, or fools, or both. But it was an economy and way of life that the South was fighting for. I understand why the south fought for thier own causes, but they were no friends of black people, and thier was no benefit for black people assisting them in thier aims.

[swanyAJ]

@bluegrassreb1 yeah, just dont forget britain abolished slavery in 1807 and the royal navy even acted as a world policeman against it.

[tj2tone]

@bluegrassreb1 You're telling a lie by telling only part of the truth. For one, those union slave states in several instances that I know of, both Missouri and Maryland, voted to ban slavery before the Emancipation Proc/. More importantly, the vast majority of slaves were in the South.

[bluegrassreb1]

@tj2tone 1st of all, u give to much to those 2 states. and 2nd) ur talking to an abolishnist! i hate slavery regardless of color of the slave. slavery exist today and has for 1000's of yrs. When the South was about to seceed lincoln said, "if it means preserving the union i will keep slavery, if it means freeing the slaves i will fre them." The south seceded for much more than any threat from lincoln. Taxes, support in the house and senate,cultures,etc. forced union is an oxymoron. DIXIE FOREVER

[Komotau4691]

@bluegrassreb1 YEAH,THATS A TRUTH!EXACTLY MAN!UNION BITCHES DONT WANT HEAR A TRUTH!

[ImperialGuard322nd]

@bluegrassreb1 you know, there were almost no Blacks in Cornfed service before the end of the War, and they were only actively recruited starting in March 1865. at most, there were only a couple hundred in service, and they likely never fought.

[AUG351]

@ImperialGuard322nd Patrick Cleburne wanted to recruit slaves guaranteeing their freedom aswell as their family but it was never done because they thought they might escape to the Union or turn against the South but Nathan Bedford Forrest had some black troops and they fought well and listened to orders.

[1stInLine1979]

@MrDp19

Or...maybe he is a reenactor?

[sugarfoot59]

@MrDp19 Just goes to show you, you've listened to far too much yankee propaganda! The winners teach what happened, or didn't, the Southerners tell you how it really was.

[RidingBesideMe]

@MrDp19

There were many black soldiers in the south just the same.

History has a way of accentuating the lower points of the war- slavery was an underlying issue at the time. The true, barebones point of the war? Secession. It was still a lost, stupid cause, but no man is without morals- many slavers treated their slaves with great respect.

It's just the bad stories about slavery we hear about- and history is still written by the victor. "CONFEDERACY WERE EVIL AND RACIST! RAWR". -shrug-

[Orki1998]

Das ist die beschissenste Schei'e die ich mit unter jemals gesehen habe. Bullshit!

[HILLBILLY1962]

I had family in the 110 Pa in corner during pickett's charge

[RuggedRamsQB10]

Its amazing to realize the sacrifice that went on in this little are. for over two hours this little field would change hands some six times between both armies. if you have ever been to Gettysburg (i have been there 18 times) you see that this is not a very large field so you begin to image the carnage that went on. but it also offers some heroic stories of officers charging the enemy right into their fire or like the comment below said about the soldiers trying to fend off escaped hogs

[HaggenPagan26]

After the second day, among the dead and wounded in the peach orchard and the Wheatfield. Wounded Rebs and Federals actually banded together to fight off hogs from a local farm that had come out to feast on the dead and dying. True story. Some men were actually eaten while they were wounded on the field. Many of the dead were consumed. Pretty gross, but this story was validated for me when I visited Gettysburg.

[Shafeone]

While I appreciate  re-enactors these guys are all way too fat to be Civil War era soldiers...especially half-starved Rebs.

[IronBrig4]

@Shafeone That's true with most reenactors. It's funny seeing pot-bellied Revolutionary War reenactors who are supposed to be starving and sick with typhus at Valley Forge.

[232323C]

The South will rise again!

[jekoury]

Jabba the Confederate Hutt at 3:51

[bobcanbeatyou]

@jekoury hahahahaha made my day.

[thehotshirtguy2008]

@jekoury Now we know why the south couldn't feed its soldiers... this guy ate all the rations.

[TheMooseofBattle]

*redneck points at confedrate flag* "My great great grandpappy died because of this flag!"

Black guy: "So did mine,"

[IIXXIIXX]

dumb ass union, need infantry to back up ones guns 

[pdgolf99]

i was born and raised in gettysburg. lived a football field away from the charge.

never saw a ghost.. i know how far a walk it is across that field. god bless those boys that did it in 1863

[TheCobraGunner]

2 people don't like the south.

[Tw1St3DSt33L]

As a European reading about the American Civil War, especially Gettysburg, I cannot feel any less then pure awe for the brave confederate soldiers. The last charge....I cannot feel otherwise but they somehow knew this would be their last....But they wanted that more then a Union ruled South....

Madness....

[Uberpwns1]

@Tw1St3DSt33L Hey man umm no disrespect intended, but the Confederate wanted to keep slavery, and the Union wanted to get rid of it. I have Pitty ya but the Union HAD to win for human rights :)

[crazycrows1]

LONG LIVE THE CONFEDERACY!!!

[Foreverliverpool1]

@crazycrows1 uhh the confederacy is dead..you only say that if it exists. LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!

[Butternut731863]

@Foreverliverpool1 He means live on in memory :)

[Mahbu]

@crazycrows1

You mean that poorly run, unfeasible, secessionist trash that sought to preserve slavery and maintain the power it granted them? That same Confederacy that hardly held itself together and although it had that one shining star Lee, was crumbling at the seems elsewhere and overestimated its significance in the world with its cotton? You mean that Confederacy that fell apart and ended after Lee's Surrender and Davis's embarrassing capture?

Yeah, sure. Whatever blows your skirt up,.

[legallyawesome1]

@Mahbu Actually the confederacy practically ended with Jackson's death that's when things really started to fall apart for the confederacy. Jackson was the shining star Lee really wasn't very good without him.

[Mahbu]

@legallyawesome1

Hmm, yeah. I can see that. Lee had good commanders under him and was a reasonable leader. Was Lee really the greatest general the US has ever created?

I have to lean in your direction; he was good but much of his success was in part due to the commanders under him.

[legallyawesome1]

@crazycrows1 Sorry dude but it was a lost cause from the beginning.

[billyhere436]

This was one battle in a "4" year war.  we killed brothers, to save those who would not even fight for themselves. Slavery was an abomination, but this war was about so much more. For those who served, forever are we in your debt forever, Sleep With Our Lord

[NaziZombiefan82]

looks like some re-enactment video or something

[TheCommunistColin]

@NaziZombiefan82 Uh...because it is. :P

[crazylegoproductions]

The average 8 year old would assume the Confedorate Flag was some version of Britain's-- idiots. Union all the way!

[1991jarhead]

I'm proud to be a mississippian

[galoon]

The July 2 battles for the Peach Orchard and the Wheatfield were a hell of a brawl---which always seems to be eclipsed by all the attention focused on Oates and Chamberlain and nearby Little Round Top. All this despite the fact that the bulk of that day's casualties came from these two fights. This looks like a good video.

[RebelGuy95]

@DavePerry2012 , yeah, and thinking, 'most of these dolts couldn't handle the real deal in a million years of training.'

[TheCommunistColin]

3:55 - 3:59

It's teddy roosevelt! :O

[gtaisawesome87]

@TheCommunistColin haha it does look like him

[XxxSakura101]

@TheCommunistColin lmfao...omg your right xD

[Goldclaw837]

Both sides of my Family fought for the Confederacy---I am proud of my ancestors and also proud of my White Heritage!!--When will the "The Last Full Measure" be filmed to complete the triology??

[Butternut731863]

At 2:09 you can see and African American confederate reenactor - I'm glad that he was able to look deep enough and realize the true cause :)

[chapdog82]

Are there stories of people seeing aparitions during reanactments?

I can only imagine all that noise would remind those spirits of their last moments..

[SLICSfootbaby]

@chapdog82 I've heard lots of reports of people seeing aparitions at reenactments, especially on the sides of the battles

apparently they got over their differences, why can the living?

[fordf100390]

notice the african american man at 2:08. Dont say this is incorrect the only thing incorrect it that there is not a fer more of them.

[chapdog82]

@fordf100390

the funny part is that his face is clearly painted! lmao! rotflmao!!!!!!...hahahahaha!

You couldn't find a real man of color to play a rebel I see.

[fordf100390]

@chapdog82 no dude look at his hands he is clearly african american

[chapdog82]

@fordf100390 No dude. My man is painted up..

[fordf100390]

@chapdog82 ok some one painted him to look just like a black guy with lighter color on the bottom of his hands? why? those uniforms are already hot as hell so why paint yourself? look at his facial details. he black

[TheAmerican102]

Dudes there was a new york regiement that had lost all but 11 men.

[pigurine]

I do, watch the Illumanati or Obama the deception then decide.

[pigurine]

First Minnesota & Twentieth MaineThe greatest regimental loss in any battle, in proportion to the number engaged, occurred in the ranks of the First Minnesota, at Gettysburg. ...

www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~hist­ory/civil.../newpage13.htm - Cached - Similar



[colange]

@pigurine You said it yourself, in proportion. I was simply arguing on the basis of a percentage lost which was the 26th North Carolina at The Angle.

[pigurine]

@colange The real point is as a Vietnam Vet the aspect of charging

or defending a fixed position against overwhelming odds is beyond

the call of duty. To think all the brave men who gave their life and limb

fighting for the disgrace Obama has brought upon this great nation.

[colange]

@pigurine I'm not going there. Believe what you want to about Obama.

[Butternut731863]

@colange @colange I don't think the 26th N.C. reached the angle. It was positioned in Pettigrews brigade. If I remember clearly, it stopped at the Emmitsburg Road. But I do beleive it is possible. My memory is kind of rusty on that. But weren't Trimbles and Pettigrews men stopped at the Emmitsburg road?

[corpralkirsch]

now it doesn't matter what color you where at Gettysburg for no Yankee nor rebel spilled their blood those three days it was Americans that painted the ground red

[pigurine]

Bullshit Check the facts

[mrceebees14]

How do you know if you are shot?

[pigurine]

1st Minnesota 82% casulties highest in the war.

[mrceebees14]

@pigurine 1st Maine took the highest at 82%, not Minnesota.

[colange]

@pigurine Incorrect. The 26th North Carolina took the highest casualties. 98% casualties.

[pigurine]

@colange First Minnesota & Twentieth MaineThe greatest regimental loss in any battle, in proportion to the number engaged, occurred in the ranks of the First Minnesota, at Gettysburg. ...

www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~hist­ory/civil.../newpage13.htm - Cached - Similar

[theend1011]

the 150th anniversary reenactment in 2013!!! thumb up if you are going to be in it.

[3mate1]

Wow, production value sure has increased on these Reenactment event videos... I can remember the horrible piece of crap they made of the 135th Antietam event... I vowed never to buy one again... perhaps I will break that vow...

[DavePerry2012]

For those who believe in ghosts at Gettysburg, I wonder how many are hanging around watching a reenactment like this one.

[raidereddie]

@DavePerry2012 I walked up alone from Spangler's Woods to the Emmitsburg Road in the moonlight last week through Spangler's Farm, no ghosts to be seen there, just peace and quiet. I'll bet they're all watching from somewhere though. My great grandfather was a dispatch rider in the Mass. 11th and was there.

[DavePerry2012]

@raidereddie I have Irish immigrant relatives who joined both the Union and Confederate armies when they were more or less FOB after fleeing the potato famine.

I've never been fortunate enough to learn much about them but one of them must have been cavalry because he carried a sword, which my grandfather kept for many years, though it was somehow misplaced at some point so I didn't inherit it.

[splashmountain2295]

@DavePerry2012 Probably MANY!

[Emmaolu1]

@DavePerry2012 A ghost is taken to Sheol after 40 days.

[DavePerry2012]

@Emmaolu1 Only if they are Jewish. ;-)

[markmason1000]

@DavePerry2012 When you stay on the battlefield for the history your bound to have an encounter,but when you go to find ghosts your bound to find the history

[Hardrada88]

@DavePerry2012 Well I went to Gettysburg for an event some years back to do a reenactment and also to tour the battlefield with a friend whos a guide. We walked down a field from Devils Den nicked the TF..Triangular Field. One of my friends was in a southern medical corps uniform and was in a Federal pirvates uniform. Someone or something kicked my ankle incredibly hard hard enough to make me jump and bleed. I also had a nice scratch down the back of my neck. They still dont like feds hehe

[MrRizikoo]

@DavePerry2012

And laughing their ass off ... You forgot that .. just adding

[donovanjanus]

@DavePerry2012 how many would be fighting along side the reenactors?

[PauhovXiong]

@DavePerry2012

Your comment is amazing. I was just thinking that on the last re-enactment video i saw just 3 minutes ago. LOL

I believe the ghosts would think that this is a real battle. Some ghosts don't even know they are dead and keep replaying the last few moments of their lives over and over again. Others ghosts watching this might be like "WTF, how come i do not see any spirits rising from the dead bodies?!?!" HAHAHAHAHAHA

A MAJOR WTF moment right there xD

[chidoriookami]

@DavePerry2012 they're prolly thinking...."dont they have better things to do....i mean, from experience i can say that seeing this all again is the LAST thing i want to see. "

[steve5123456789]

@chidoriookami Just forget, and not learn from it your right. Lets forget every man, and women that died idiot.

[chidoriookami]

@steve5123456789 they would prolly say that too lol

[steve5123456789]

@chidoriookami To stupid to see sarcasm o dear; we have a Justin Bieber among us.

[chidoriookami]

@steve5123456789 o_O oh. well what i was trying to say in my first comment was that this battle would be the last thing they(the ghosts of those who died) would want to see precisely because of all the people who died. >_> I didn;t mean to sound ignorant of the battle's and the war's losses. Ignorance is putting aside the losses for the sake of history--which wouldn't be history at all--

[steve5123456789]

@chidoriookami Well I don't know. What do ghosts look forward for.

[KnightOwl2006]

The re-enactors look a wee bit chunkier than the soldiers who marched up to 20 miles a day and weren't always well fed.

[2006nationalchamps]

my great great grandfather was in the 14thva in pickets charge he survived the charge and the war he spent the rest of his days after capture at point lookout releast may 14th of 1865

[Sexpistols15151]

@2006nationalchamps i give your grandfather immense respect. i always side with the union. but i respect the confederacy as an equal

[Sto20784]

@2006nationalchamps ..my gg greatfather was in the 8thva in picketts charge..he also survived was taken to point lookout n then fort delaware...he was released in 1865..our ancestors could have known one another...crazy!

[TheGorgeramirez]

@2006nationalchamps great great grandfather? nah i think hed be older at least your great great great grandfather unless your old too

[mrenemyarmy]

@TheGorgeramirez its not even 150 years ago, its possible lol

[will2679]

my great great grandfather died at this battle 10th georgia

[douiopl]

what side was he on?

[m1grand70]

@douiopl i think he's on the confederate side.

[SaintLiam78]

my great great grandfather was in hoods division and was wounded at this battle

[ussr19411945]

the unit i reeinact was in the peach orcher and stony hill wich was the 5th mich

[chezypuuf]

Nice, video... I got to see my self getting shot. I can't wait to go to the 150th. It's gunna be HUGE! 30th Infantry ANV.

[GodofEverything46239]

.???

[brokenspears]

Spoke with a guy that works for the GAC up in Gettysburg who puts on the events. They said they have no idea how they're going to get all the land to put on what they expect/know is going to be a monster of an event. George Lomas said they're expecting 40,000 re-enactors for the 150th. Where in hell they will put us all, I haven't the slightest clue! Can't wait though!

[a06xrzz]

my great great uncle wounded and captured july 3. bradley brady 26th north carolina infantry.

[24michiganironbrigad]

My relatives were in the 24th Michigan, they would have been on the other side of the field from each other on July 1. The 26th was a very brave regiment. I have the utmost respect for them all.

[douiopl]

r u a menber of the SCV

[bozboy99]

my great great grandfathers 2 cousins who were brothers were in the 17th miss and were killed on july 2 during barksdales charge one was seen to go down by his comrades the other had his leg cut off and died couple days later im proud of them

[hollywoodwerewolf]

I like the well placed vignettes placed in between shots of the reenactment

[KingdomAtWar]

statistically, in the wheatfield battle, someone was being either killed or maimed once every second.

[Steven5800]

I was there....all days....memorable it was!!

[dude853]

I bet, how long did the whole thing last? How much planning, and briefing went on?! tell me! hah hah