Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge - by tour guide Gary Kross - this guy is captivating

Civil War Tour Guide Gary Kross Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg - We lucked out a few years ago and got Gary Kross as our tour guide. He was so good I pulled out my camera and grabbed this video. I missed the first minute or so of his battlefield talk. If you like this, search for little round top, I recorded him there a little later in the tour, just as good, if not better. We're planning another trip sometime in the future...and if Gary Kross is still giving tours we'll schedule him for sure. He stood at the front of our tour bus and gave a driving tour as we went from site to site. His knowledge level is astounding.

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[colordojoe]

The bravery those men on both sides exhibited is just unfathomable.

[tettrish]

outstanding! He told the story very nicely.

[ryko26]

@bluegrassreb1 you should read "Confederates In The Attic" by Tony Horrwitz - a very interesting book, not least as it shows how united the actual veterans of both sides were after the war and shook hands honorably etc. Nowadays, however, there seems to be a burgeoning resentment from some voices in the south that the Confederates lost - the same voices who are often racists, gun ownership nuts, Obama haters etc etc. The war is being hijacked for modern agendas.

[bluegrassreb1]

@ryko26 to a Southerner he soundslike a yankee that knows his history!!

unlike most today who think the whole war was over slavery. and every rebel should be called a traitor. this guy would argue with u a long time and put u in ur place even though he is a Northener.

[bluegrassreb1]

been there , a very sacred place.

as a Rebel, makes me sad to hear this guides story. LONG LIVES DIXIE!!

a forced union is an oxymoron...

[ryko26]

Sounds like this guy sounds sad that the Confederacy lost

[ganglymoose01]

This is very nice! I'd kill to visit Gettysburg. Nah, that'd probably just defeat the purpose. :P

[lifeguard1975]

How could such an esteemed and brilliant tactician as General Lee have ordered the charge over 1 mile of open ground against well entrenched Union forces who had the high ground? The poor brave reb's never had a chance. Even an idiot, a moron, an imbecile like me could see that charge was doomed to fail.

[09ZXfg]

Gen Armistead was born in New Bern NC, he was not fro Va

[brian93ist]

it would be something to own ground here

[brian93ist]

@colordojoe i would not say both sides?

[KayBeeEee1983]

General Lee is overrated. He benefited from having the best tactical general of the civil war, Jackson, and the best strategic general of the civil war, Longstreet. Lee was far too aggressive. After 2 years of fighting, he still didn't understand the huge advantage defenders had. After Gettysburg, Longstreet got himself transferred to the Western theater where he was instrumental to victory at the battle of Chickamauga, by far the greatest Confederate victory in the West.