As a former UPMC physician and Gettysburg history student I have placed a candy cane on Dr. Letterman's grave in Arlington National Cemetery to wish him MERRY CHRISTMAS. I have done so on every Xmas Day since 2009. It's an absolute honor as I can't imagine what he and his team went through during the Gettysburg Campaign. VALOR RESTS AT ANC!!!!

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

It’s hard to imagine what those people witnessed and endured. I believe there should be a statue to Letterman here at Gettysburg.

@4141relee

2 ай бұрын

Cool I went to his college, went to his medical school and worked at a hospital from his hometown. Also, I eat a lot of Sarris candy from his hometown. :)

@marily8182

2 ай бұрын

@@addressinggettysburg100%-for what he did during the war and its profound lasting impact. (And would be good to see Henry James commemorated in some way too.) It was great to learn more about the hospital.

Outstanding episode, very informative the camera work is tremendous great job, very enjoyable to watch. Thanks.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Fantastic program, and I'm glad it's here on KZread; I'm temporarily back in Carlisle and wanted to attend this in person, but couldn't make it down. Looking at the overlay maps, it appears that more than half of the camp's land is pretty much vacant and conceivably COULD be reclaimed, and I keep hoping that the American Battlefield Trust or a similar organization will find a way. In the meantime, whenever I'm down there, yes, I do stop and pay homage to Janes and what he and his people did there. Many thanks! :)

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

I think it would take a miracle to save that land. The ABT does battlefields, so they’re out. I don’t know why no one has been able to save it over the last 16 decades.

@maxshenkwrites

2 ай бұрын

@@addressinggettysburg Sadly, it's emblematic of what Mr. Gwinn was saying at the end of his presentation about tours ending at the cemetery and how the hospitals don't get nearly the recognition they warrant.

@maxshenkwrites

2 ай бұрын

Depressing footnote: Boatner's CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, which is usually a nice go-to first resource for finding quick information on leaders, battles, weaponry, etc, has NO entry on Camp Letterman, or on Jonathan Letterman, or on Henry Janes.

Thank you so much!!!

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

I can trump Chris Gwinn arranging to give a presentation on his wife's birthday. I arranged my Gettysburg holiday during the week of my wife's birthday. Am still reminded of that periodically. (Mind you, it was a damned good holiday!)

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Lol

Thank you Chris.for this lecture and all the valuable information you have provided. You have given me details that.have added to my own knowledge base, and that will help me better share the Camp letterman story to visitors as a docent at the museums for which I volunteer. I appreciate all the research you have done and the. clear manner in which you presented it. As an added anecdote, I worked as an RN for 10 years at Dr.Janes' medical school alma mater, Columbia Presbyterian's College & P.& S., NY. Now I have even more respect for him! Thanks again, Lynn.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

We’ll pass this along to him!

@lynnheller7641

2 ай бұрын

@@addressinggettysburg thanks!

I’m fascinated by the Letterman site, wish they could preserve what’s left. I had an ancestor in the 45th NC that spent time there before being shipped to Baltimore as. POW the rest of the war.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, I think it’s lost

@McNair39thNC

2 ай бұрын

@@addressinggettysburg the area across from Walmart behind the little monument is a remaining area of the hospital. I believe the spring area still exists too back there. I took a tour of the area a number of years ago. It would be better than nothing.

Great talk, very informative! Great work guys thank you

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

You’re welcome

This was very interesting. The soldiers were lucky to have such great care,North and South. And l'm a Texican. Kinfolk were in Hood's Texas Brigade 4th Texas Co.K.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

👍

To bad more of Letterman hasn’t been saved. Thanks Matt for filming the winter series, enjoyed them. The challenge coin is a sign of respect well earned sir.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! I wish more of it was preserved too. But unfortunately it lost.

I really enjoyed the episode on Camp Letterman. I have always wanted to know more.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Me too. I’m putting an episode together about it.

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks for watching

Good work. Thanks.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great presentation, enjoyed it very much. Thank you

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

This was so informative and enjoyable. Job well done!! Thank you

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Congratulations Matt. Great job!

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, McNair

Wonderful program! A very important aspect of the battle of the war.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

👍

Great presentation

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

i'd rock that "challenge" coin in my wallet all the time and use it for challenges. Congrats Matt

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Haha thanks! I just might. I also just might lose it because I lose everything.

What happened to the cemetery snd the remains of those who were buried there?

@addressinggettysburg

Ай бұрын

They were reinterred in the national cemetery. I’m sure there’s a more specific answer. Maybe some were recovered by family, etc., but generally I think they went to the national cemetery

dzidziso yakanaka kwazvo.

@addressinggettysburg

2 ай бұрын

Totally. Except on Sundays