1st Massachusetts Infantry Monument | Monuments Monday in Gettysburg
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In this video, ACHS Historian Tim Smith discusses the construction and dedication of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry Monument located along the Emmitsburg Road, south of Gettysburg.
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What a treasure Monuments Monday is. I enjoy freezing the video just as it starts to try to figure out where the monument is before Tim starts talking. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Tim is a great historian and presenter
Tim has phenominal knowledge of the Gettysburg battle field and battle. Love these monument mondays. Thank you Tim (from uk)
I always look forward to Mondays and learning about the monuments. Thanks Tim and ACHS!
Tim, this is one of the best Monument Mondays to this point. The story of Josephine Miller was the kind of nugget that I love to get from battlefield guides or postings of this type. Also, interesting photos of the monument construction process as well as a couple of great shots of old Daniel Sickles. Great job and keep them coming!!!
Thanks to the ACHS and 'Professor' Smith! I'm always using satellite mapping on my second monitor as I listen.
I love the added context Tim provides on the monuments, especially the information on Josephine Miller. You can't beat fresh-baked bread!
Thanks again Tim - always a first rate education with you!
Great job Tim! Love these videos, as they are always extremely detailed
Thanks Tim a nuther great presentation.
Thanks Tim
Awesome photographs! Make me wonder how many more are yet to be found. Especially loved "a buxom girl" quote. Soldiers are Soldiers no matter what time period.
Tim that is a pretty Monument to the 1st Massachusetts Regiment. Thank you very much! 💯👍👊
very well done ànd this is what draws me to Gettysburg. there's so many stories can't wait for my trip in June will definitely be looking up 1st Massachusetts monument
Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic content! Thanks
Most underrated channel on youtube!
Interesting to see children in the one photo.
I love Monument Mondays...I've already been out to locate "hidden or rarely visited markers or monuments...awesome job Tim can't wait for the new video
@timothysmith7742
4 ай бұрын
Today's monuments Monday will again feature a rarely visited marker.
Phenomenal again Tim! Thank you so much for the incredible information to go along with these vids! It was interesting when speaking of the 1st Massachusetts monument makers, that you mentioned the Smith Granite Co. from Westerly RI. Interesting (to me) because as a current long-time resident of the state of Indiana, I don't hear that town name much anymore. Yet I spent about 7 years in Westerly RI and it's sister city directly across the Connecticut River (Pawcatuck CT) in my youth over 50 years ago. Very cool.
A long time ago he did about markers in cemeteries made of zinc! I actually found a couple of those in a couple of really old grave yards on the road I live on ! Actually, about 3mi apart!
Great presentation!
Liked & already subscribed!!!
Another good one sir, always enjoy them. Just finished Hopkins book on the reunion yesterday. Also interesting to see the photos of the monuments being erected. I don’t think they were following OSHA guidelines.
GREAT presentation! We've painted that picket fence at Rogers House several times through Adopt-A-Position program. I'm researching the 26th PVI whose monument is just across the Emmitsburg Rd. (same Brigade as 1st MA Inf]. Would love to find info/pics of the 26th PV monument dedication in Sept 1889 - (know it was a rainy day) so not sure any pics were taken. Maybe a descendant has one!
Can’t wait for Monday’s now just because of Monument Monday!!
Excellent story.
A video about the July 4 marker not far from there would be interesting
@mjciavola
4 ай бұрын
I'm not aware of a July 4th marker to the 1st Mass. Would you please give me some info as to its location?
@timothysmith7742
4 ай бұрын
@@mjciavola He is referring to a marker to the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry located along the Emmitsburg Road a short distance north of 1st Massachusetts Monument. It is an interesting monument to point out, and I have thought about that one for a future video.
You could say: I thought of the bread in the place.....with apologies to Scott Hartwig.
Thank you Tim for another great episode! I was wondering if the local paper(s) and photographers covered every single regimental monument dedication on the battlefield? If so it would seem to be have been very busy in the late 1880s and early 1890s!
@timothysmith7742
4 ай бұрын
They did not cover every single one, and their are frustrating gaps. There were some days, like Pennsylvania Day or Maine Day in 1889, or New York Day in 1893, where multiple monuments were dedicated at the same time. And those are not a well covered. But there is a lot of interesting notes about the construction of monuments in our local papers. And there has never been a book written on this subject.
@JeffL-rj1xq
3 ай бұрын
Thank you Tim! Much appreciated! Hopefully there will be a book out someday about this subject. It would be an interesting read! @@timothysmith7742
Wish i knew how to purchase his books and find out how many he has written
@AdamsCountyHistoricalSociety
4 ай бұрын
Hello - if you're referring to Tim, many of his books are available in our online store here: adams-county-historical-society.square.site/. Some of his books can also be found on Amazon.
Wonder where her stove is now?
@timothysmith7742
4 ай бұрын
Not sure. But under magnification, you can see it is a David Sterner Stove, manufactured in Gettysburg.