Another great video Aaron. Love the detail and insight into the importance of Little Round Top.

I walked the battlefield of Gettysburg. From Little Round Top you can see almost the whole battlefield. Holding that gives a huge advantage for spotting troop movements and directing artillery fire.

Awesome that you mentioned the 6th core...that's one of those what ifs that gets over looked

One of the things that amatuer historians don't get is that taking a position is not the same as holding it. The Confederates at Gettysburg were stretched far too thin everywhere and would unlikely have been able to hold anything they took as the Federals had vast quantities of reserves behind the lines that could get to any point on the battlefield quickly.

@forwardgettysburg

5 ай бұрын

Bingo this guy gets it!

@davidharman7245

Ай бұрын

​@@forwardgettysburgThanks for this video. I just used a Blind Swords system to wargame Longstreet and Anderson's attacks. In my simulation, random variables resulted in even poorer performance by union leadership for the first 3 hours than in the battle. Sickles, Ayres and Switzer's men were smashed. The South was able to hold the Wheatfield, Houck's ridge, and Little Round Top. However, after accounting for casualties the only thing the South gained by day's end was threatening the Tawneytown road. In my simulation, the South would have to deploy Pickett on the Flank as reinforcements or else Fisher and McCandles might recapture Little Round Top the next day. This led me to your channel. Instant Sub!

Lose the hill. Lose the flank...

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@ericsilver9401

5 ай бұрын

I love you! ❤

Pretty good video but be careful in that’s there’s a handful of inaccuracies. Remember, LRT was not of interest to Lee and Meade’s focus was more on the center and the right, even considering an offensive action off of Culp’s Hill. The focus of LRT being the key to the Union line was not a thought during the battle. After the battle in 1864, Meade was called before congress (Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War) to answer questions about GB. Sickles had already begun his writing assault on Meade, accusing him of wanting to leave GB and not fight there. Meade started to focus on LRT as being critical due to Sickles not covering that part of the Union line (which he had been instructed to do). Meade communicated that Sickles was to have his left on that “Yonder Hill” (LRT). Sickles left it open and vulnerable. Meade emphasized LRT to show how Sickles left vulnerable the key to the Union line. After the war, Chamberlain’s prolific writing emphasized the importance of LRT along with others who defended Meade. Was it important? Yes! Did Chamberlains save the Union? No! He was incredible for those few hours? Absolutely! but LRT would have been re-taken if the Confederates got to the top. And remember all the other 5th Corps men who fought and secured LRT for the Union.

Thank you.

Victory in waging war has always been having the military industrial complex at your fighting force disposal, The distance form Richmond to Gettysburg was roughly 208 miles. Picture moving a large army with all of its needs over anextremely inhospitable terrain. Lee's logistics skill were amazing. Lee did not have the military industrial complex to help move The Army of Northern Virginia. Everything had to be carried. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was awesome. Now the distance from Washington D.C.to Richmond is 108 miles.Despite having the military industrial complex at the Yankee's army disposal it took the Federal Government over four years to travel that distance and capture Richmond. Wow!

Yes little round top was very important, as was culps hill, both flanks were exceptionally important. I think everything that contributed to the union victory was important.

LTR was certainly an important piece of real estate in its own right. Maybe not as important as Culp's & Cemetery Hills, but it was valuable high ground and commanded a sizable viewpoint of the Gettysburg battlefield

When you have the might of the military industrial complex at your disposal, the Union would have the final victory regardless of a defeat at Gettysburg. That plus the victory at Vicksburg and Grants rise to power insured the ultimate outcome. No revision of history can alter those facts.

No it’s been stated that it was the ONLY important point …yes it’s important very … but if the union center would have fallen it would have been the same result 🤷🏻‍♂️ but no one likes to talk about that. ( second core saving third core’s ass)