Institute. Here is what some of the veterans had to say. Matt is a gentleman who knows more about this battle than any anyr man living, more than man who ever did live. He can tell more of what i did there then i can tell myself. Henry slocum was the commander of the 12th army corps at gettysburg. Acquainted a few months after the battle of gettysburg. I consider him the best authority in this country as regard to detail with that action. Hes sketched every part of the field and is familiar with the holder. Lastly, the kernel of the 33rd in the battle of gettysburg writing to the governor of massachusetts in 1878 rights the kernel i believe knows more about the battle of gettysburg than any officer in it on either side. He was not in the battle of gettysburg. He was not a soldier. Perhaps the most important person gettysburg you may never have heard of. Batchelor. S john why is he important to gettysburg and what was his vision . Bachelder,tigate because you cant understand him unless
Accurately mark the battlefield itself. This hour and 15 minute event is part of the annual summer conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Good evening. Carmichael, professor of history here at Gettysburg College. It is my pleasure this evening to welcome Scott Hardwick. I hope everyone is familiar with them. A longtime historian at Gettysburg National park. During that time, as you will know he has given the American Public fantastic and engaging viewers tours. We are fortunate to have him about. Talk to us we honor scott with the Scott Hardwick fellowship given to four historians from the National Park service. The National Park service sorry to say, they provide very little training for their frontline historians. They have a lot of training money for their superintendents, but not many for their historians. We are ablee that to enable these historians to come here and engage and converse with these dollars, to meet the general public. It is one of the thing
Discusses this in massachusetts for 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. Its an honor to be introduced by a fellow nantucketer both of our kids were educated by them and it is great to see you here in brookline and its wonderful to be in the Coolidge Center theater with this great bookstore and cosponsored with the massachusetts historical society, which has been an institution that has been absolutely essential to my life as a historian. I sometimes sort of feel like ive taken up residence in the archives there, and every book ive done there has been a Central Information that has come from there but among the more so than bunker hill. One of the characters i delve into, the papers are there at what we call the mhs and it is an organization that is essential to anyone that is looking into not just the history of boston, but this country. And the genesis for a bunker hill really goes back to the summer of 1984. My wife and i had just moved to boston fulltime. We were living on prince stre
And thus paralyzing the whole machinery of our government. Captain alfred lee fought at gettysburg and dreaded the prospect of the northern sympathizers with secession, establishing rule over the whole chain of cities, tearing up the railroads, destroying supplies, cutting off reinforcements. As it was, new york city blew up in draft riots 10 days after the battle. If robert lee had been crossing with the army of Northern Virginia, the susquehanna on that day, instead as he was crossing in retreat, that might now have been the army of Northern Virginia, which was called in to restore order in new york city ,com,com ma rather than Union Veterans fresh from their victory at gettysburg. Gettysburg did not end the war in one stroke. But it was decisive in us to restore the sinking morale of the union. To keep at bay the forces that hope that lincoln could be persuaded to revoke emancipation. Decisive enough to make people look back and understand that the confederacy would never be able to
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