Born and raised in Chancellorsville and have many ancestors in Wilderness Cemetery. Thank you! For your dedication, remembrance, and great contextualization.

Overland 160 coverage has been terrific so far. Every speaker giving great content. As i always comment, i love the personal stories

Mr. Adelman is a great advocate of history. A very knowledgeable person. Mr. White gives us a historical perspective with skill.

Chris White really knows his stuff. Very knowledgeable guide. Thank you so much.

Thank you for covering the Vermont Brigade, i had uncle there later wounded at cold harbor and many original photos of soldiers from vermont killed and wounded in the wilderness. "Put the vermonters' ahead"

@kjmav10135

Ай бұрын

My great great grandfather died in the Wilderness Campaign and I have a great great uncle who enlisted in 1861 and was killed in action a week before the war ended. They were both from the Ryegate area in Northeastern Vermont. I wonder if your Uncle knew my relatives.

Thank you for these great videos! I have been to the Wilderness twice, and I had four ancestors fight for the Union there. Looking forward to Spotsylvania!

Thank you for keeping American history alive.

Excellent. Wish I had more time to spend there on my last visit

Thank you for spotlighting the more unknown participants and monuments here, such great tidbits of information!

Living near Todd's Tavern for many years, that intersection is very familiar. The history in this area is some of the best for Civil War enthusiasts.

Excellent job - so proud to be a long time member of the ABT.

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

Ай бұрын

Honored to have you as long time member Michael!

Can’t wait for your spotslyvania court house videos. Such a gruesome struggle along the mule shoe

Brilliant Content!! As a Green Moutain Boy and Marine Veteran I would love to one day visit there! Semper Fi

Thank you for the history lesson!

Thank you for this coverage!

Good work as always. The sign at the crossroads really show how important this whole road network was in ‘64 and ‘63

Love your videos, thanks

Thanks to the Roving ABT Video Crew for stopping at sites such as this that many have never seen...and for those of us who will likely never have the opportunity to visit personally. This adds to my body of knowledge about the Civil War, and through ABT, I will continue to learn.

Y’all MOTIVATE the heck out of my heart and soul!!! Thanks for the upload

you guys really paint a great picture of the battle. thank your for this knowledge. I would be lost without it.

Outstanding overview of a complex engagement...thanks to the ABT Team!

Congratulations, excellent content 👍

Thanks again Gary and Kris, the fighting nesr Orange turnpike, the Federals have won the race now to hold the road, the vermonters come in and Gen. Alexander Hayes, is killed was he a sharpshooter commander? Was he related to later POTUS Hayes? The stacking of federals in interesting II, V,, VI, WOW!!! Battles are fought by roads snd terrain geography and la naturaleza the road networks are crucial to the flows of battle, the Brock road is taken by the 2ndVT brigade, they suffered 1,000+ , May 5-6, yes I've heard about the VT brigade, 1/10 of casualties oh my......the dense vegetation and trees block the view, the father and son is touching... Sarah Kay, your tying up the home front and the impact is amazing.. gracias I never knew the battle was heavily intense w battle 💥 and fires on the earhworks gracias maestros y maestra...👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽

Fabulous. Harrowing history of course. But this Western man from far far away appreciates your effort. The US Civil War had ramifications across the Western World.

Put the Vermonters ahead. The roads do a wonderful job of explaining the Wilderness’s. I took my kids to these battlefields of Chancellorsville/ Wilderness

Outstanding! Thank You Gentleman and Cheers 🍻

Another GREAT presentation.

3:51 George Washington Getty is tasked to take control of the intersection. 4:32 Henry Heth is the first officer to contest Getty here. Wow! I wonder what Heth was thinking-------anytime the name "Getty" is involved it is he who kickstarts the big engagement. It was Heth's vanguard that started the battle in Getty-sburg. A little note to trivia I guess

I have visited that very intersection several times and can't begin to imagine the amount of inhuman carnage that occurred there on May 6, 1864.

@zachsmith3376

Ай бұрын

Represent my friend RTR

Hays had an epic beard. 😂

I like how no one comes to a complete stop at the intersection

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Man, I wish I could be there and ask you a dozen questions. We donated my great great grandfather’s letters to the Vermont Historical Society. He Was a US First Sharpshooter, Birdan’s Uhit, and he died, supposedly, at the Bloody Angle. it seems to me though, that in his letters he talks about a plank road. I always assumed it was literally a road made of planks! He couldn’t have written about it during this battle, though, because Grant cut off the mail about a month or so before this. His guy who was the hard drinker/friend of Grant’s. Was he himself a sharpshooter? Is that why he was wearing Sharpshooter pants? I thought the Sharpshooters’ uniforms were ALL green. Were they? I think My GGGfather was with Hancock at this point, but I’m not sure. Whose unit would a US First Sharpshooter have been in at this point in the war? So many questions!! This is really interesting. Thank you!

My Great Great Grandfather stood there with the 8th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.

The Getty stand story got to me.

You guys film this in early spring?

@AmericanBattlefieldTrust

Ай бұрын

Indeed

@j.j.guerrieri5257

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@@AmericanBattlefieldTrust Great work, I love the videos👌

Great information. Please replace Kris's mic or find a solution that doesn't peak.

For those who know, was the spacing of trees during the battle about what we see in the video or was it a lot more dense? Also, I'm guessing this video was made in March or April. Would trees in early May have leaves on them adding more concealment?

@TimDavis-gr5jn

Ай бұрын

My guess it’s not as dense seeing the fires would have served to clear the underbrush and resulting regrowth would come back thicker. Park Service keeping it cut back for path and Vt monument. But I’m no forestry major.

@dsmonington

Ай бұрын

The wilderness of the 1860s had huge swaths of thickets and underbrush and a high density of small thin trees with probably very few big old trees since all timber would have been cut to fuel the furnaces and smelters. So in your minds eye add in a lot more thinner trees and a lot more underbrush. Photos from the time do a good job of showcasing the thickness and density of foliage, just look at the background of the photo @21:35.

@swlc5555

Ай бұрын

@@TimDavis-gr5jnThanks for the response. I agree that there would likely be a lot more undergrowth in 1864. I think the Park Service is generally big on trying to recreate the landscape as it looked at the time of the battle. But if that meant letting the forest grow wild, it would probably make it difficult for visitors to see much.

@swlc5555

Ай бұрын

@@dsmonington From photos I've seen I also had the impression that there was a lot more undergrowth. From what I've read it seemed it was often described as almost impenetrable with soldiers barely able to see things in front of them. One thing I hadn't considered was that most of the old trees would have been cut down by locals in previous years as you stated. That makes sense. I think I was influenced by the painting "Skirmish in the Wilderness" by Winslow Homer which shows soldiers huddled around a huge tree. But that was more likely the exception. Thanks for your input!

Oh I have to be first

@71avalon36

Ай бұрын

I'm 4th. I guess that doesn't qualify me even for the bronze medal does it? Maybe lead? 😂 😂 😂 😂

@stevent9179

Ай бұрын

You're the third loser.

You guys need to think about walking in the trenches in a different way: BECAUSE we're not allowed to walk in them is precisely the reason they are disappearing! We need to walk in them like they did to keep them around! Without walking in them they get filled up over time and gradually disappear. I mean, it's not like you'll have hundreds of thousands of people walking them anyway, you might get a couple of dozen a year. Seriously, they are going away BECAUSE we aren't allowed to walk in them! Think about it!

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