Addressing Gettysburg

🔴Ask a Gettysburg Guide 132 Leadership Styles Lee vs Meade with Jasan Hileman - July 8, 2026
Topics Discussed: Jasan's other shows Where the show idea came from Why start comparing them at the start of May 1863? Lee's invasion of the North Campaign purpose and goals Lee's previously hollow victories Life in Virginia up to the summer of 1863, how had the landscape been stripped of resources? Confederate President Davis's concerns about a Northern Campaign The truth behind the plan to draw troops away from Vicksburg. Lee's leadership strength of learning and understanding enemy Meade's background as leader of Fifth Corp Story or Hooker's release and Meade's promotion. Hooker and Meade transfer of command meeting and lessons learned Is Lee to blame for Stuart? Examining the orders given Lees orders on July 1 and their consequences Health impacts on both Generals Meade in July 1 choices of leadership Empowering subordinates to make decisions Meade's orders from Washington. Armies supply trains and its impact on decisions How the Civil War can be viewed as a changing of old world to new world tactics Lee's contingent plan for Gettysburg Both Generals's plans for July 3 and how leadership styles lead to the outcome
Show References: The Gettysburg Foundation www.gettysburgfoundation.org Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders - Jeffrey D. McCausland & Tom Vossler Chancellorsville - Stephen Sears The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 - Bradley M. Gottfried Gettysburg Campaign Atlas - Philip Laino Union General Daniel Butterfield: A Civil War Biography - James S. Pula
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***A brief departure from Ask A Gettysburg Guide for the 163rd Anniversary week because Gettysburg history is just too expansive and fascinating***
🔴163 Gettysburg Anniversary: Battlefield Forensics: Examining Unique Medical Events at Gettysburg with Dr. Matthew Lively - July 3, 2026 Discussion Topics: Civil War medicine: standard practices and myths Wound dressing and care War only benefits medicine: advances in medicine from Civil War Gas gang green vs Hospital gang green Is necrotizing faceitous the modern gang green? Use of a tourniquet debate How interest in civil war forensics led to writing book Jennie Wade fatal shot forensic investigation Forensic analysis of Jennie Wade bullet path Jennie Wade wound and if she would have had an immediate death Matt's Jennie Wade Theory 🤔
Show References: Gettysburg - 1993 Movie Calamity at Chancellorsville: The Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson - Matthew W. Lively The True Story of Jennie Wade, a Gettysburg Maid - John W. Johnston Addressing Gettysburg Shows on Jennie Wade: Ask a Gettysburg Guide 23 Jennie Wade and Jack Skelly with Cindy Small and Tim Smith Ask A Gettysburg Guide 23- Jennie Wade and Jack Skelly- with Author Cindy SmallYouTube · Addressing GettysburgOct 9, 2020 Who Shot Jennie Wade with Tim Smith Tim Smith- "Who Shot Jennie Wade?"YouTube · Addressing GettysburgFeb 3, 2022 Tim Smith's Sunday Storytime at Sweeney's- Jack, Jennie and Wesley Tim Smith's Sunday Storytime at Sweney's- Jack, Jennie and WesleyYouTube · Addressing GettysburgJan 31, 2023 That's What She Said- Jennie Wade with Tim Smith Jennie Wade- with Tim Smith | That's What She SaidYouTube · Addressing GettysburgJan 13, 2025. Sincerely, Jeffrey Pasnik AG LOTY 2025
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***A brief departure from Ask A Gettysburg Guide for the 163rd Anniversary week*** Man, Gettysburg history holds more than just troop movements and tactics for us to study! Our friend, Dr. Craig Miller, is back to talk about his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61585741768559 and some of the wounds he talks about on them.
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Gettysburg history is HOT this week. Once you dig deep into the Battle of Gettysburg, one thing leads to another. Today, we are led to WEATHER! ***A brief departure from Ask A Gettysburg Guide for the 163rd Anniversary week*** Was the Battle of Gettysburg even more miserable than we've been led to believe? In this episode of Addressing Gettysburg, we're joined by Jeffrey J. Harding, licensed battlefield guide, and Jon M. Nese, meteorologist, co-authors of The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign. Their book takes a fresh look at the Gettysburg Campaign through something every soldier experienced but most battlefield narratives don't fully explore: the weather. Heat, humidity, storms, mud, swollen rivers, brutal marches, and suffocating battlefield conditions all shaped what happened before, during, and after the fighting at Gettysburg. Using historic accounts, 19th-century weather observations, and modern meteorological reconstruction, Harding and Nese reveal how extreme conditions affected strategy, endurance, movement, morale, and survival during the campaign. From heat indexes that may have reached staggering levels to the torrential July 4th rains that complicated Lee's retreat, this conversation shows that Gettysburg's weather was not just background scenery. It was an active force in the campaign. Was Gettysburg hot as hell? Yes. But the real story is even more interesting.
📖 Book featured in this episode: The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign by Jon M. Nese and Jeffrey J. Harding
🔴 163 Gettysburg Anniversary: The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign - Jeffrey Harding & Jon Nese June 29 2026 Topics Discussed: The study of weather in 1863 Finding the source documents for weather observers in 1863 Instruments used by weather observers Rebuilding weather maps What is Sun Temperature? How cloudy was it during the battle Using soldiers accounts to help determine the weather June heatwave Previous interest in history for Jon and Jeff Purpose of studying weather in 19th century How did the rain on July 4th and 5th effect the weather? Have weather patterns changed from 19th century? The reliability of the Farmer's Almanac Show References: The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign - Jeffrey J Harding & Jon M Nese Civil War Weather in Virginia - Robert K Krick The Weather at Gettysburg - Weatherwise Magazine 1960 Vol 13 Issue 3 - David Leedlum Philadelphia Area Weather Book - Jon M Nese & Glenn Schwartz National oceanic and atmospheric administration https://www.noaa.gov An Environmental History of the Civil War - Judkin Browning & Timothy Silver The Medical And Surgical History Of The War Of The Rebellion (1861-65)
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Gettysburg history just gets more and more fascinating the deeper and deeper you dig. Try this one on for size. ***A brief departure from Ask A Gettysburg Guide for the 163rd Anniversary week*** Last year, one of our Patrons suggested we interview his friend Jim Smith, known as **"The Yankee Drummer Boy,"** about his work as a living historian and his remarkable tribute to Civil War history.
🔴163 Gettysburg Anniversary: The Yankee Drummer Boy with Jim Smith June 28, 2026
In this episode: Special thanks to Patron Rich Snyder for arranging this interview and bringing his friend Jim Smith to the studio. 50 years after marching to Gettysburg, beating his drum, to fight the battle, Peter Guibert marched again. This time from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg, still beating his drum. 100 years after that, Jim Smith recreated Guibert's route. Join me as I chat with Jim about Civil War martial music, drumming, Guibert and a host of other things.
Discussion Topics: Peter Guibert 1913 march from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg reunion Finding Peter Guibert's name on Pennsylvania Monument Recalling Jim's first trip to Gettysburg The use of drums at President Kennedy's Funeral Peter Guibert's Civil War Drum Reconditioning an old drum Difference in sound from a brass shell and a wood shell Jim retracing Peter Guibert's march from Pittsburgh to Gettysburg Stories from the march The power of the drum calls The use of bands in the Civil War Types of drums and their construction Origin of TAPS and the difference of how it was played in the 18th and 19th century Playing of reveille The rudiments of learning the drum The old drum and fife performance vs modern depictions Jim meeting and playing with Santana References: Elizabeth Thorn of Gettysburg: The Wartime Caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery - Kathryn Porch and Sue Boardman Bivouac of the Dead - Theodore O'Hara National Cemetery Administration (.gov)https://www.cem.va.gov"Bivouac of the Dead" poem by Theodore O'Hara Vantage Point, The Perspectives On The Presidency 1963-1969 - Lyndon B. Johnson The Drummers' and Fifers' Guide - George Bruce and Dan Emmett Howe's United States Regulation Drum and Fife Instructor - Elias Howe THE GRAND ARMY BLUE-BOOK: Containing the Rules and Regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Official Decisions and Opinions Thereon, as Reported to and Approved By the National Encampment to September 13, 1901 HathiTrusthttps://catalog.hathitrust.orgCatalog Record: Ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic The Civil War - 1990 Ken Burns Documentary Series
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