Picketts Charge Gettysburg

A walk along the Picketts Charge Trail on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania.

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• Picketts
• charge
• Gettysburg
• Pennsylvania
• Grant
• Lee
• American
• Civil
• War
• 1863

[2008VauxhallVectra]

are people allowed to use a metel detector at gettysburg or any other civilwar locations.

[VideoHistoryToday]

@2008VauxhallVectra My understanding is that you cannot use a metal detector at all on National Park Service property. I did see someone metal detecting in Antietam but when I looked at the map realised he was on private property. Don't know about the US but here in the UK you can only metal detect legally on private land with the owners permission. Any valuable find must be split 50:50 which happened here with a recent gold horde worth about $4m.

[rackasaurus]

Excellent work. Well narrated. I used to be a Civil War Re-enactor (Union). Been to Gettysburg a few times. Never been down and out in front of the actual lines before, so I appreciate the work you've done here. Thank you.

[VideoHistoryToday]

@rackasaurus Glad you liked it. Hadn't originally planned to walk all the way across (long way back to the car etc) but as I wandered, I realised it gave me a better understanding of what happened. Although it looks relatively flat, it clearly isn't so I am sure troops of the day used the lay of the land as they moved across it. I would really love to film when Gettyburg is re-enacted. I have a brilliant idea for the National Parks about this but they just don't want to listen.

[KnightOwl2006]

Lee was a brilliant general but he must have lost his mind when he ordered that suicidal charge.

[RebelYank]

By the way, at the end of the video you are a little too far south from where the focus of Longstreet's attack was centered.

[ThePtga]

As of some knowledge i got form my tour of gettysburg

[godzillafan452]

@VideoHistoryToday Maybe they re enact domewhere else.

[Imachowderhead]

I did the 135th Gettysburg Reenactment as the 53rd Va...I tell ya it was harrowing. We actually had spectators crying. You couldnt get 10 men to do what those men did back then. Great video

[Gedoensexperte]

I am very interested in the history of the American Civil War.

This movie is excellent.

Like to howl when you think how many guys have died there.

[breezeman199]

The battlefield was used for many years as a training area for tanks. They chewed up the field real good. In Lee's time it was much more undulating.

[charliejdk]

Excellent job! I'll show this to a class of Hong Kong students visiting Gettysburg tomorrow! Good narration. Keep making movies!

[1967mustanggta]

@MatlockJack The movie was shot in large part at the place the 130th re-enactment took place. The field hospital where Longstreet visits Hood was registration for the 135th.

type in and watch -

14th Indiana

you will see what horrible duties we had to deal with during this horrific time in American history

[MatlockJack]

@SuperLpfan1

So where was the 1993 Gettysburg movie shot then? I thought that was the battlefield itself.

[Shellshock1918]

@KnightOwl2006 Not really.

He was acting with the information he had at hand. In his mind he had weakened both flanks of the union line so that reinforcements must have been drawn from the center.

[hkybballcoach]

@VideoHistoryToday

You are correct. It is illegal to use metal detectors in National Parks.