I have a great uncle who was in the 16th Michigan, Co B at Gaines Mill. He was listed as missing in action. He later returned to his unit after being captured and jumping off a prison ship and swimming to freedom. He was injured near FredericK, MD and spent the rest of the war in the Veteran Reserve Corps. Thank goodness, because the 16th Michigan was decimated at Gettysburg and he may not have survived. I have no idea if the prison ship story is true or not, but he is buried at the Cemetery at the Michigan Home for Veterans (formerly “The Soldiers’ Home”) in Grand Rapids, MI. His grave is in the second row in front of the monument statue. RIP Uncle Peter! I tip my cap when I run by in the morning.

@lukesmith1003

Жыл бұрын

very cool stuff. my 4x great grandfather was in Conpany E the 13th NY of Morell’s division. crazy to think that John Bell Hood’s own brigade was in contact with my relative

Good presenter, no distracting arm waving, etc. Good voice and inflection.

The gentleman presenting this, knowledge, the “casual confidence” shown that one knows he KNOWS this history…..his voice alone should be used in others!….a EXCELLENT presentation! 👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺!!

Glad this is preserved. In goochland by the country club in tuckahoe plantation there were lots of earth works in the woods unfortunately it is now a neighborhood

My ancestors were with the 4th NC infantry, D Co at Gaines Mill. My 5th Great Uncle was killed during the charge while other family members including 5th great grand father was wounded for the second time. Great uncle rests in the family cemetery. His body was shipped back home.

All those Cicadas; reminds me of summers growing up in the deep south.

In May 2016 I was traveling from MD to visit my parents in Greensboro, NC and stopped here around dusk. I was the only person around and will never forget the sense of awe as I walked along the stream bed path where so many had sacrificed so many years before. Thank you for this informative video.

Thank you, saluting the fallen on both sides, and the wounded, mentally and physically.

No matter how big or small, where someone fought and gave there life for the cause should be remembered and protected. Small sermirmishes in the American wars might also lead to what happens in a bigger battle. Thanks A.B.T you guys are AWESOME for saving and helping remember history👍

Thanks for sharing this..

Great work! I played in woods just like these as a kid in Atlanta. We would find rusted bayonets and Minie balls all the time - and we found a shallow grave in what would have been the Confederate rear. Keep up the good work with the Trust! Best wishes!

@malg7322

Жыл бұрын

I think that is pretty awsome for u and other kids finding artifacts. Hope u still got them. History in your own backyard.

@Shaymuhs

Жыл бұрын

That's really cool!

@Wilders53

Жыл бұрын

That is pretty cool! I've always been into hunting native American artifacts myself. That said no major battles really happened in my area of east Tennessee

@101st_AB

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool. I worked as a surveyor when the I-75/I-20 interchange near the capital building in Atlanta was updated in the 80's. When we would dig out holes for the bridge foundation, without fail, about 8' down we hit old, charred Atlanta. After work I would go back and dig around. I found a lot of hand blown glass, ink wells and such. And like you, I found all kinds of projectiles. I found what I thought at the time were clay marbles, only to find out later they were musket balls made of chert. Lots of history under our feet here!

I grew up in Fredricksburg va, we had a farm on the Rappahaock river i still remember cannon emplacements over looking the river , found a cannon ball many bullets , wish we could have had a metal detector back in the late 60,s but they were very expensive then..there was a lot of fighting done there..,

I haven't seen Krick in awhile..he never ages..and still one of the best.

@robbayless9529

Жыл бұрын

I Went on civil war field trips when he was a young guide. Years before I went on field trips with his father, who was terrific!

SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS AMERICA 🇺🇸

Thanks. My great great great grandfather lost an eye fighting in Picket’s division at Gaines’s Mill. Always glad to hear about the battle.

I have been there two or three times. I have never seen anybody else on the battlefield One of my favorites places when visiting Richmond. I sometimes get that eerie feeling that some body is watching me. This is the time of year I like to visit the battlefields. Good video. I'm going to Gettysburg next month for a few days. Always something new when I go there.

lol @3:06 The confederate drone leads the way! I love this channel! I often wonder how similar the battle fields look compared to the 1860's

I love ❤️ Gaines’ Mill, out of all the Civil war parks in 804 it has the most charming landscape. It’s a nice place to get away from all the pervasive ugly neighborhood subdivisions, strip malls, Big box shopping centers, park lots. Besides being next to 295 and hearing the roar of the highway, it’s a nice place to step back in time.

Thank you very much! It's important to know and remember our history.

A wood unsightly??? That’s literally a insane sentiment. No where in the world is a wooded area unsightly. Parking lots and strip malls are unsightly. Cookie cutter subdivisions are unsightly. Woods give people good feelings, feelings of wellness. Shinrinyoku, forest bathing is a studied therapy, it just means taking a walk in the woods.

@junkyardjedi7706

Жыл бұрын

Now imagine those woods you are bathing in full of men who want to Kill You...

Great narrative on this battle. Never really heard of this site. So proud that your preservation of this site. Thank you for sharing!

This is what I been needing to see, I think I need to go traveling and see these old sites. Cold harbor had 17,000 casualties and gaines mill has about 14,000. The things those brave men fought for was more virtuous that any other conflict outside WW2. They loved our land and our people, they loved everything that made us united. now we are more divided, imagine if the south hadnt been able to "fully agree" on secession. Thats how we are today, so if we had another civil war, it would be city against city or just person against person in the same city. We must all remember what transpired for us to be free, for all people to be created equal. A land of liberty and love, a land of hope and aspirations, a land of dreams that are meant to come true.

My gg grandfather was with the 60th Virginia. Thank you for your presentation and maps.

The cicadas are like a Ken Burns sound effect gone out of control.

@dennisyoung4631

Жыл бұрын

I’ve never heard those things before this instance. It sounds like a vast army of peeved rattlesnakes!

I spent three months on the Coast Guard LORAN station on the island of Iwo Jima and was fascinated that the entire 7 sq. mile island was totally pockmarked by ordinance damage and the soil everywhere contained metal fragments. That must have been a horrible place to be during the month long battle.

Very well presented. Congrats

I just returned from a private tour of the Seven Days Battles with noted author Doug Crenshaw. It was a great experience. The Gaines Mill battlefield is remarkably well preserved, The area around the creek where Hood's Texans broke through the gap in the Union lines is impressive. It is even more impressive when one realizes that the hills on either side of the depression from which the Union soldiers were firing down were probably much higher during the battle and the depression the Confederate soldiers charged up was much lower. Thanks for a great day, Doug! Mike Wilson

Excellent description of events

Nice job by Mr. Krick. Great presentation. I really enjoyed it. Good stuff!

I grew up about five miles from where you're standing, and rode through the area near every day on a school bus, and later drove by on my way to high school. My grandfther and I relic hunted all over the area in the 60's I suppose it was. Us and a lot of others of course. I can't begin to list the amount of "stuff" we found with those old Fisher "machines" as we called them. Buttons and bullets, belt buckles and cartridge box plates, and I can't even remember what all else.

@JamminClemmons

Жыл бұрын

Is your stuff worth any $$$? Just curious. Great finds, friend.

@richardjohnson4238

Жыл бұрын

I doubt it. Most of what I personally found were just minnie balls and eagle buttons. My grandfather always found the "good stuff." He'd hunt every square inch of a patch of woods. I was always ready to move "over there." He would tell me I couldn't find a railroad track if I tripped over it. "Slow down and HUNT!" When he knew he was dying, he sold off a lot of his stuff, some of it gave to friends, and some was passed down to his son. I haven't seen it in years,.

@Ja2808R

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the area also. Studley & 360 My uncle relic hunted in the 70’s and has a great collection as well. I am glad at how well the American battlefield trust is managing our area for preservation. Been to most all important sites in VA and of course many of the small local ones home & near Richmond. Few in NC. I always thought the Garthright house was rather chilling part of the area, along with the field of fog every night at C. Harbor.

I have always enjoyed all of these videos starting with the PBS/Ken Burns miniseries. The one thing I would like to see on the maps presented is a graphic scale .... just a horizontal line representing 1 mile would be so useful in understanding the battlefields so much better.

The first big battle my GG grandfather and his 3 brothers fought in and somehow survived the Bloody Angle till the end..

@tberkoff

Жыл бұрын

Wrong battle.

@kenthonea3251

Жыл бұрын

@@tberkoff so I misworded it… the first big battle they fought in and survived the next few yrs till the bloody angle and Petersburg till the end

@williammurray8060

Жыл бұрын

What side, what companies

@kenthonea3251

Жыл бұрын

@@williammurray8060 1st SC Infantry Orr’s rifles

That was an amazing video. Thanks for showing the geography. I love the video of the woods. Robert Krick is a great historian and speaker. Thank you.

Bravo, Bob! Well done. Thank you for all you do to preserve our history and protect these hallowed grounds.

I love the Civil War era drone. 😉

Before Gaines Mill there was Beaver Dam Creek...searched all those areas for artifacts as a young teen before the widespread use of detectors..back then you could find items just laying there,washed up from storms over the years...

I would love for this gentleman to be my history professor!

My 4th great grandpa Pvt john H Pepper fought with the 1st South Carolina Rifles, Orrs Rifles. He was wounded on the 27th of June and died of his wounds on 19 August.

Wrong: no woods are unsightly.

Outstanding as usual. Learned alot.

So good to see and hear RELK in his native habitat. A great tour leader and cool guy.

Thanks for the excellent, engaging talk.

Very interesting. Thanks for showing where Roberdeau Wheat died and an excellent picture of him. I've never seen a daguerreotype of him before, just drawings that didn't do him justice. A very romantic figure of the 1840's and 1850's adventurers, he fought for Walker in Nicaragua among other wars.

@carywest9256

9 ай бұрын

When l saw Wheat's photo, the first thought was, he looks like Pablo Escobar the Columbian.

Thank you! Interesting, stirring and poignant.

Fantastic job!!! And thank you! So fascinating

Thanks

Very interesting. Thank you.

Can we see the spirits during the night time

Thank you

Thank you very much!!!!

It's nice to see and hear these forgotten stories from our past. Very well presented and informative. 👍👍💯

@jamesdeen3011

Жыл бұрын

@@amytaylor21395 I'm having a good day just having my breakfast and a cup of coffee. Wish you a great day too 👍

@jamesdeen3011

Жыл бұрын

@@amytaylor21395 South central GA near the FL line. How about you?

@jamesdeen3011

Жыл бұрын

@@amytaylor21395 not FL, in GA near FL line. Visited VA. Several times with my work.

@jamesdeen3011

Жыл бұрын

@@amytaylor21395 my goodness, your very inquisitive. Not married and happily so. Children are grown. Grandkids are great. They live in Panama city FL.

@jamesdeen3011

Жыл бұрын

@@amytaylor21395 my apologies, wasn't trying to be rude. It's just I've never receive personal questions from the internet. But I don't sence any deceitful intentions from you. I am 59 years old. My careers were military and construction. I've worked on the pentagon (before 9-11) and Langley along with numerous other bases up and down the east coast. I've visited Manassas and other civil war sites in that area. What about you What do you do?

Hay at least the trees survived

Maybe I missed something. Imo I’m not sure I would describe any 75 acre tract of land with a forest of tress and undergrowth as ‘unsightly’.

An authorized person with metal detectors could have a field day collecting buttons, bullets, buckles, guns, canteens, knives, etc.

I visited this area in 1986 I think. Across the creek on the union side were many depressions in the ground that looked like old earthworks. Don't know if they were but they were in the right places. where the yankees dug in. Great video! Thank you!

@tommyjenkins7453

Жыл бұрын

Great grandpa fought for the confederacy at olustee just north of lake city Fla, didn't work out so good for the yanks . He didn't have slavery on his mind I can promise you that, he was so poor his boots didn't match in photos I have saw of him

Thanks!

Interesting story…thanks! Going to visit there someday

Captain Henry Harper Bibb, Alabama Partisan Rangers, Confederate Cavalry, was wounded at that battle.

Are there any standing trees that are actual "witness trees" of the battle?

Interesting!

well presented!

Biggest charge of the Civil War.

So, I'm seeing a lot of 60, 70, and 80 year old trees, but none that would have been around *back in the day*.

Well done 👍

Great presentation, American battlefield trust gets the facts out. I can't figure out how the individual soldier fought. In a line or behind fortifications. I guess the attacking force would be in the open

An interesting thing of note: Some of the men from the 4th Texas (one of the regiments of Hood’s Texas brigade) are buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Albert Polk Brown, Pleasant S. Wood, and John T. Young were all wounded at Gaines’ Mill (all from leg wounds), treated in one of Richmond’s hospitals, and then buried in Oakwood Cemetery with numerous others from the battlefield.

So many cicadas!

I always take walks on the malvern hill battlefield as it is very close to me. I always close my eyes as I come out of the woods and into the clearing where so many confederates were mowed down by union cannons. So sad. So much death. I feel it. Every time.

Who ordered the withdrawal from the Virginia Peninsular? Was it McClellan, Lincoln, or the Secretary of War? The Confederacy was close to collapse by most measures. The Confederates had smooth bore muskets while the Union soldiers had riffled muskets that had about four times the range.

It was a hard battle there. Many died . Why were people ready to kill each other for something today seems so stupid. It so sad. War sucks so bad. Lord save us from thinking that this is the anwser to such things.

It just sounds hot and humid.

those trees behind you are pretty young, right? that's what i thought visiting gettysburg, where are all the older trees? i saw a whole lot trees under 12" diameter.

Cold Harbor is where trench ware fare of WW1 originated. It’s creepy how close the lines really were.

Gettysburg after the weekend, trees were cut down, literally. Over 50k dead, 17k horses…. Thanks

I'm going to research what state and county this is in as it is not mentioned in the video.

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

Жыл бұрын

The location is tagged above the title (in the description on mobile) but the Gaines' Mill Battlefield is in Mechanicsville, VA.

I,live 5 mins from these battle fields.

I heard some civil war trust bought land at Piedmont battlefield in New Hope VA. A monument was erected on the site. Was this your group?

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

Жыл бұрын

It was not, you can learn about that deal here: www.nps.gov/articles/000/-hallowed-ground-at-the-battle-of-piedmont-now-protected.htm

did a history course included Am civil war. the prof wrote a book about the advances in plastic surgery during the conflict. she also asserted historical casualty figures were low.

Sir whats the integrity of the ground? Thanks.

Fantastic. I just found your sight. Im from Vicksburg/Bovina. You have probably been here. If not, I can show you around.🤣 The battle of "Big Black River" isn't even marked. The only Plaques/Markers are at Champions Hill. That's 20 miles East of downtown Vicks

Hmmnn both of the hidden hand.

Stop by Chickamauga. The timber there weren t sawed weren’t 60 years……

what a shame the south didn't have a couple of machine guns

The orchard at Hougoumont farm at the battle of Waterloo 1815... or basically any wooded area in a major battle on the continent prior to that time.

Geaux Tigers!

They should have used that drone for reconnaissance.

“No place just like this.” Why “ just”? It has n meaning here. Do you mean “ there’s just no place like this.” meaing it’s unique and incomparable?

Never been to a Civil War park. Sigh.

Gen grant said he had nightmares about cold harbor for years after the war.......

That would be a great place to metal detect. Just kidding. 😁

Scores highLY. HIGHLY.

Looks like they smoked some trees 😂

So how does Cold Harbor fit into this?

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

Жыл бұрын

You can learn more about the land during Cold Harbor in these two videos: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnmtlKiehs2TXbw.html and kzread.info/dash/bejne/fZ5ozLGImZeuYLw.html

He's going to talk about something talk about all the little stories of this and that

I have my greatest bank of knowledge on WW 2 and then WW 1, however, I Must begin some real research upon the Civil War because of this video. For in this video I see the photographs of McClellan and Porter with the so-called "Hidden Hand" that I didn't see in Lee's photo or Any of the other Confederate Soldiers. This can only signify One thing, and may be a significant reason that somebody who irregulary produces a On Line publication where he has written many times in reference to the Civil War that the 'Wrong Side Won that one.' And for what I have just learned from seeing those photos of McClellan and Porter may now understand Why he makes this statement. For if the meaning of the "Hidden Hand" had them in both the Union and Confederacy then I guess membership in that fraternity made No difference in Why the Civil War took place at all or did it? So I have lots of history to uncover in regard to the Civil War and why it really happened as I thought at first that it was that fraternity Only existed in the North only to find that is Not true whatsoever. To the Drawing Board then!

Funny title as most of those trees would not have been there based on their size.

Lmao rebs owned E: seriously tho, great work protecting the site and a fantastic video explaining it

@teddyhaynes9876

Жыл бұрын

They was just protecting there homes from domestic invaders period , you would’ve did the same as would any other in there right mind , but when someone has more people/supplies it’s hard to overcome that . If the south has unlimited guns/ammo and same amount of people south wins easily no doubt , they was better fighters and that’s a known fact

What about juarez!!!

It’s called gorilla warfare a very tactically sound action

So, it would have been nice had you shown 'a bullet-riddled tree' to embellish your insightful narrative.