Addressing Gettysburg

Mike Rupert returns as he takes Matt and Court on an exploration/overview of The Wheatfield. If ever you found this particular part of the battle too vast to wrap your head around, Mike does a pretty good job of breaking everything down, if we do say so ourselves. Not convinced? After this episode you just might be! SuperChats of $10 or more are read on the air. Call in at 717-420-1978. It's free! Support the Show: Addressing Gettysburg Patreon: Join Today! www.patreon.comAddressingGettysburg  Get 15% off an ANNUAL 2nd Lieutenant membership with promo code 2LT15 at checkout Grab some merch:  Addressing Gettysburg Heritage Depot Shop Get yer Little Ground Top and start your day the Gettysburg way: www.addressinggettysburg.com/cafe Donate to The Digital History Pioneers Foundation: https://dhpioneers.com Get all your Gettysburg and Civil War books at For the Historian - Mention Addressing Gettysburg to get 20% off www.forthehistorian.webstoreplace.com  Addressing Gettysburg is recorded at the Gettysburg Museum of History Studios www.gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com

🔴Raising the White Flag with David Silkenat Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War - David Silkenat https://uncpress.org/9781469672519/raising-the-white-flag/ Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History - John Fabian Witt  Lieber Code: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the field https://www.loc.gov/item/2011525467/ The 1863 Laws Of War: Articles of War, General Orders 100, General Orders 49 and Extracts of Revised Army Regulations of 1861 - US War Department  Sincerely, Jeffrey Pasnik  AG LOTY 2025

Sign up to become a patron of Addressing Gettysburg from October 7th through November 6th, and recieve 15% off when you become an annual 2nd Lieutenant member. Go to https://www.patreon.com/AddressingGettysburg and use promo code: 2LT15 at checkout. Reminder, the discount only applies to annual 2nd Lieutenant memberships. We look forward to seeing you there! In this episode, Matt is joined by James Marten on a discussion about the 6th Wisconsin at Gettysburg

🔴Somewhere Toward Freedom with Bennett Parton  Topics Discussed: About the author Bennett Parton and his educational and professional background The inspiration the lead Bennett to write the book  Bennett discusses his approach to writing the book and his desire to cover the campaign differently then it was previously written  The size of the enslaved refugees following the Mach versus the size of the city or Savannah  The role Henry Hitchcock had during the campaign and how his journal was used as a primary account for the Book When did Sherman start encountering enslaved people that wanted to follow his Army as refugees?  Definition of a driver was on a southern plantation and the difficulties  they found themselves in Moments that showed the brutality of slavery for Hitchcock and the Union Stories of how the enslaved people found along the way helped Union soldiers during forging expeditions  The role of forgers during the campaign The biblical view of Sherman's march from the enslaved perspective as Jubilee  Discussion on if the Union knew before the campaign that formerly enslaved would follow the Army The Union Armies refugee policy  Stories plantation owners told the enslaved about Sherman's Army and what exactly the enslaved knew to be true through secret word of mouth communication systems  Jefferson C. Davis's actions at Ebenezer Creek that stranded hundreds of refugees  Sherman's reputation after the war in the South  Surprising revolutions that the author found while researching this book and his next project Show References: Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation - Bennett Parten The March - E.L. Doctorow Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow Gettysburg  - 1993 Movie Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong - James W. Loewen The Port Royal Experiment: A Case Study in Development - Kevin Dougherty Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment - Willie Lee Rose  Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory - Anne Sarah Rubin  A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration - Steven Hahn  Support the Show: Addressing Gettysburg Patreon: Join Today! www.patreon.comAddressing Gettysburg  Grab some merch:  Addressing Gettysburg Heritage Depot Shop Get yer Little Ground Top and start your day the Gettysburg way: www.addressinggettysburg.com/cafe Donate to The Digital History Pioneers Foundation: https://dhpioneers.com Get all your Gettysburg and Civil War books at For the Historian - Mention Addressing Gettysburg to get 20% off www.forthehistorian.webstoreplace.com  Addressing Gettysburg is recorded at the Gettysburg Museum of History Studios www.gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com

Sign up to become a patron of Addressing Gettysburg through the month of September, and recieve 25% off when you become an annual 1st Lieutenant member. Go to https://www.patreon.com/AddressingGettysburg and use promo code: 1LT25 at checkout. Reminder, the discount only applies to annual 1st Lieutenant memberships. We look forward to seeing you there! Alys Beverton returns to Addressing Gettysburg as she and Matt discuss the way other parts of the world viewed the American Civil War