I enjoyed this show the most! Finally lots of questions of why Lee didn’t fall back to a better position other than Gettysburg

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Thanks! I had fun with this. I think we’ll bring it back now and then

The Longstreet defence I’ve never heard before. Gr8 work thanx

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👍

This is probably my favorite episode.

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Yeah it’s one of mine.

Love the Pittsburgh accent. Great episode. I listen on Patreon and then I listen again on KZread.

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Thank you for listening wherever you listen!

Great show!

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Thank you

Is there any historic information about Pitzer's Run as far as it being the "dry ravine" and "ravine road" General Pendleton will refer to in his O.R. in relation to his morning reconnaissance of Willoughby's Run/Marsh Creek? If I have read the account right Lee will meet Longstreet's column just as the counter-marchers reach the Millerstown road, ride on with Longstreet a bit, then turn up the lane(?) at the ravine and follow it until turning into the wood line on Seminary Ridge where he will observe the assault. Would there have been a farm lane extending almost all the way to the Seminary HQ of Lee? Pendleton seems to imply this was his original route of his morning recon of the 2nd and that he returns via the same path along Willoughby's Run - thereby skirting the rise at Bream's hill had he continued up the Black Horse Tavern road. I wonder because Captain Samuel Johnston will write later that of the 4 miles his reconnaissance covered, he will estimate the first 2 mile will be "within our pickets". He also refers to a bridge "you (McLaws) crossed, I turned left". It seems in the letter he is referring to this to fix McLaws memory about the path in relation to the march that will follow, possibly a bridge over Old Mill road or the Fairfield road McLaws saw when he deployed his division on arrival, before the movement. Sorry for the Wall of text, I'm trying to picture the route as shown following along the west side of W.R. because I think the marchers would have crossed over the Fairfield road on the west, but then forded the run (you can see the lane to and from a ford via Google Earth) and followed it down to the confluence of Marsh creek while deploying units. Make sense? Thanks in advance, you really piqued my interest in this mystery, now back to listening.

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Жыл бұрын

Jim Hessler does a tour on the counter March. I’d ask him. He might be able to answer you better

1:01:15 My lady friend here says that she has "taken it up the flank" a few times and it keeps working better... 😁🎉

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🤦🏻‍♂️ lol

I was expecting some C + C Music Factory intro and outro music for this one. 😊

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Lol I would have if doing so wouldn’t give me a copyright strike.

It worked out for the first two days that suckered lee into the big gamble of day three

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👍

Hmm, had Lee had a traffic cop on the Chambersburg Pike and roads leading into it... Johnsons division held up Longstreets command for hours and hours when IF Johnson had entered east of the mountains both could have been on the day one field hours earlier. That would have no doubt affected day 1 history.

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Shoulda, woulda, coulda, but they didn’t. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@jumpmaster82nd.

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@@addressinggettysburg We could have either won it all for Lee or saved the Union that week had we been there...

My chin is raw now thanks!

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?

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Oh from rubbing it while saying “hmmm”? 🤔

@PeachOrchardPublishing

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Wait??? What????

It wouldn’t have been such a problem in lee continued north instead of being diverted to Gettysburg by an excursion gone wrong

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Then the problem would have been that the ANV would be waaaayy far from their silly base and could have been starved out or surrounded or who knows what? He had to hold the mountain pass in order to protect chambersburg and his route home. In my opinion.