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Descubre la historia fascinante de Gettysburg, un hito crucial en la Guerra Civil Americana. En este video, exploraremos a los héroes de Gettysburg que lucharon valientemente por sus ideales, así como a los mártires que sacrificaron todo en esta batalla decisiva. Acompáñanos en un recorrido por los monumentos en Gettysburg y conoce las lecciones que esta historia nos deja. Desde la valentía de los soldados hasta el impacto duradero en la historia de Estados Unidos, este contenido educativo ofrece una mirada profunda a uno de los episodios más significativos de nuestra nación. ¡No te lo pierdas!
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00:00:00The battles of the civil war released huge armies at a very high price.
00:00:06There are scenes that can disturb the viewer. Use your discretion.
00:00:14The nation is being destroyed with the same passion that was built.
00:00:20The most violent battle ever delivered in American territory
00:00:23begins accidentally by a skirmish.
00:00:26The two armies face each other in a small town in Pennsylvania.
00:00:35Soon there would be 50,000 casualties, between dead, wounded and missing.
00:00:40This is the story of eight men who fought here.
00:00:44Of the three days that changed the fate of the nation.
00:00:48The battle of Gettysburg.
00:00:58It's been two years since the beginning of the civil war
00:01:01and the Confederate army invades the north.
00:01:06A group of rebels is recognized as resistant to the union to the west of Gettysburg.
00:01:11There is an uncontrolled military escalation.
00:01:26Gettysburg. First day. Ten in the morning.
00:01:42Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Dawes, 24 years old,
00:01:45commands the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of the Iron Brigade.
00:01:51They are the elite troops of the Potomac Army.
00:01:55420 volunteers from the western border.
00:01:59They face the Confederates in Antietam.
00:02:02They are tough and fierce in the fight.
00:02:05The Confederates double them in numbers,
00:02:08but Dawes and his men manage to make them flee.
00:02:16The rebels in their retreat
00:02:18take refuge in a 200-meter-long railway sluice.
00:02:23The advantage is now for the rebels.
00:02:31At first I thought it was a retreat maneuver,
00:02:34but I missed the intense fire
00:02:36that they began to launch on us from their refuge in the sluice.
00:02:41The retreat does not fall into the calculations of Dawes.
00:02:46Heroism came from family.
00:02:50His great-grandfather, William Dawes,
00:02:52rode with Paul Revere.
00:02:56Of all the people we did not want to face in a battlefield,
00:02:59Rufus Dawes and his men stand out.
00:03:02They were tough soldiers. Dawes was tough.
00:03:05And most importantly, he had experience.
00:03:07Nothing can replace that in the battlefield.
00:03:14Charge!
00:03:21There are 170 meters to the sluice of the railroad.
00:03:28Dawes will lose a man for every advanced meter.
00:03:33The land we leave behind
00:03:35is covered with agonizing men
00:03:37who sink into the darkness of death.
00:03:48Due to the fragility and the thick smoke,
00:03:50to lead the troops,
00:03:52Dawes trusts in the flags of the regiments,
00:03:55in their signs.
00:04:03But the flags are a magnet for the enemy fire.
00:04:26The men fell wounded in dozens.
00:04:28But the boys clung to the right and left of the signs
00:04:31and continued to advance.
00:04:38In a matter of minutes,
00:04:40Dawes loses 10 men who bear the banners.
00:04:59Finally, the men of his iron brigade
00:05:02manage to get hold of the Confederate flag.
00:05:16Captain Eggleston advanced to put an end to it
00:05:19and received a deadly shot.
00:05:23Soldier Anderson, furious at the death of his comrade,
00:05:26took a brutal blow to the head of the rebel
00:05:29who had killed Eggleston.
00:05:46Captain Francis Waller
00:05:48took advantage of the tumult
00:05:50to capture the rebel flag.
00:05:57You, throw the mosquitos!
00:06:12The retreat lasts less than 20 minutes.
00:06:20There are 600 rebels dead, wounded or missing.
00:06:26Dawes loses almost half of his men.
00:06:30Dawes was one of those few soldiers
00:06:32who are able to see clearly in the midst of chaos.
00:06:36Able to find a purpose.
00:06:38He understands that his presence
00:06:40must be an inspiration for the soldiers.
00:06:48But Dawes's victory in Talluz is an exception.
00:06:52The 28,000 rebel soldiers
00:06:54in the vicinity of Gettysburg
00:06:56are besieging the 20,000 soldiers of the Union.
00:07:02The Confederate army of 75,000 men
00:07:04is heading for Gettysburg.
00:07:08The army of Virginia del Norte
00:07:10is commanded by a legendary commander
00:07:12in the battlefield, Robert Lee.
00:07:16Lee's strategy is to take the battles from the south
00:07:19and move them to the north
00:07:21like Harrisburg and Washington.
00:07:24He meets the army of Potomac in Gettysburg.
00:07:30This is where they will fight.
00:07:33If we look for Gettysburg on the map,
00:07:35it looks like a wheel of a car
00:07:37with the town in the center
00:07:39and all the radios that go in different directions.
00:07:41Robert Lee and his troops ended up in Gettysburg
00:07:43but that was not what they had expected to happen.
00:07:45The battle began accidentally
00:07:47because of the roads
00:07:49and it intensified until it became the largest
00:07:51ever fought in the Western Hemisphere.
00:07:56Lee's army, after a series of victories in the south,
00:07:59invades the north at the culminating point of its strength.
00:08:05There is a word that sums up the feelings
00:08:07of Robert Lee on the way to Gettysburg.
00:08:09Trust.
00:08:10They saw the end of the tunnel.
00:08:12They knew that a victory in the north
00:08:14could mean the end of the war.
00:08:16The time was in 1963.
00:08:18Lee knew it and did not want to let it pass.
00:08:21We must not forget that Lee did not intend to win another battle.
00:08:24Lee had gone to win the war.
00:08:35The troops of the Union receive a beating
00:08:37in the far north of Gettysburg.
00:08:42The Eleventh Corps is the only thing
00:08:44that interposes between the people and the rebellious attacks.
00:08:49Among them is Sergeant Amos Hammiston,
00:08:52ex-Bayern player and father of three children.
00:08:56He took up arms when he learned
00:08:58that President Lincoln had asked for 300,000 recruits.
00:09:03Amos Hammiston was like many soldiers of the Union,
00:09:06with a great love for his family and his home.
00:09:09But he was also very committed to the army and his nation.
00:09:14Six weeks before the war,
00:09:17he was shot in the ribs in Chancelorsville.
00:09:25I only ask to die in battle like a man.
00:09:33I hate the idea of dying here like a dog.
00:09:41The possibilities play against him.
00:09:47Fire!
00:09:51The enemy of the Eleventh Corps
00:09:53on the hill that dominates the town
00:09:55is Lieutenant General Dick Ewell,
00:09:57recently appointed by Lee.
00:10:00He is a tenacious, eccentric and irreverent man.
00:10:03Ewell lost his left leg last summer
00:10:05fighting the Iron Brigade
00:10:07in the second battle of Bull Run.
00:10:09Now he seeks revenge.
00:10:12Stonewall Jackson, the legendary lieutenant of Robert Lee,
00:10:16had died a month before in the battlefield.
00:10:19Ewell was his replacement.
00:10:21He had a lot to prove.
00:10:29But today Ewell manages to escape.
00:10:35The soldiers of the Union, who have suffered 9,000 casualties,
00:10:39retreat from Gettysburg.
00:10:50Hammistong has orders to cover the retreat.
00:10:57But they are under intense fire.
00:11:02At four in the afternoon,
00:11:04his unit is flanked and returns to the city.
00:11:07But they have nowhere to go.
00:11:14Ewell's Confederate troops spread throughout the city.
00:11:28It is a crushing defeat.
00:11:37Amos Hammistong is surrounded.
00:11:40He has to fight for his life.
00:11:57The army of Virginia del Norte is on the move
00:12:00and crushes Union troops with deadly precision.
00:12:04After 10 hours of combat, the Unionists retreat
00:12:07with 9,000 casualties.
00:12:11The rebels are close to the victory that Lee longs for.
00:12:15All the battles that Lee fights,
00:12:17all the victories that he achieves or does not achieve,
00:12:20are aimed at the destruction of Potomac's army.
00:12:23He has raised the stakes without a strategic effect.
00:12:26Lee knows that the clock is ticking.
00:12:28He wants to chase them to destroy them.
00:12:33Sergeant Amos Hammistong puts his life at risk
00:12:36by covering the retreat of the Union.
00:12:41While Confederate troops invade the city.
00:12:46Of the 270 men of Hammistong's regiment,
00:12:49all but 18 end up dead, captured or wounded.
00:13:00Hammistong is trapped.
00:13:04My dear wife, you have already laid your little ones to sleep.
00:13:07You have caressed them with affection.
00:13:09My Frankie, my Ali and my Fred.
00:13:11They will have said their prayers.
00:13:14They may have pronounced the name of the one who is far away,
00:13:17in the southern lands,
00:13:19and they may have wished he were there to join the group.
00:13:33Move!
00:14:03Move!
00:14:34When will this rebellion come to an end?
00:14:37When will this damned war end?
00:14:39And will the loved ones not have to remain apart?
00:14:52The terrified people of Gettysburg hide where they can.
00:14:58Even in the safe of the bank.
00:15:00Others flee before the arrival of the rebels.
00:15:09Especially the Afro-Americans.
00:15:12To prevent them from being captured by the rebel army.
00:15:22Ten kilometers north of the Mason-Dixon line
00:15:25is the underground railroad of Gettysburg.
00:15:28A safe house network for the fugitive slaves who fled to the north.
00:15:32Their destination were cities like New York and Philadelphia,
00:15:35where the activists provided them with food and protection.
00:15:40The reprisals were brutal if they caught them.
00:15:43They cut off the ears or ligaments of the pants.
00:15:48It is not surprising,
00:15:49since the slaves are the largest financial asset of the United States.
00:15:54The enslaved population of the south
00:15:56has more intrinsic value than all the railroads, factories and banks of the United States together.
00:16:02It is a business of more than 3.5 billion dollars.
00:16:07The wealth of the south depends almost entirely on the slaves.
00:16:14Whether we analyze the rights of the state or the political aspects of the problem,
00:16:17everything leads us to slavery.
00:16:19Slavery is at the center of all the causes of the civil war.
00:16:22When night falls in Gettysburg, the Confederate flag waves.
00:16:34Public buildings turn into improvised hospitals
00:16:37to face the torrent of wounded.
00:16:41Fanny Buehler, mother and housewife,
00:16:43serves the wounded soldiers of the Union, putting her family in danger.
00:16:48I had never seen a group of uglier men,
00:16:50with dirty uniforms and twisted,
00:16:52without hats, without shoes, with wounds on their feet.
00:16:55I feel sorry for them with all my heart.
00:17:00Until now, the bloody matter of the infirmary had been a matter of men.
00:17:05But during the Civil War,
00:17:06there were 20,000 women who committed to take care of the wounded.
00:17:11A nurse of the Union, Clara Barton,
00:17:13would found the Red Cross.
00:17:19The rebellious soldiers go door to door
00:17:21in search of the soldiers of the Union,
00:17:23hidden throughout the city.
00:17:29Lee has no place for the prisoners.
00:17:31During the war, so many are captured
00:17:33that both sides fulfill a code of honor.
00:17:37The freed prisoners swear not to return to the battle
00:17:40until there is an official exchange.
00:17:43The liberation is simple.
00:17:45I give you a piece of paper that says,
00:17:47do not fight again, and if I catch you fighting,
00:17:49then something serious will happen to you.
00:17:52Then what is done is that men of our army
00:17:54and men of your army meet in a neutral place.
00:17:58We exchange soldiers,
00:17:59just like children exchange cromos.
00:18:02I exchange three generals for four colonels,
00:18:04and nine lieutenants for 15 soldiers.
00:18:06The punishment for infringing the conditional is death.
00:18:22Amos Hamiston is injured and alone
00:18:24in a courtyard in the middle of the city.
00:18:36He takes an ambrotype,
00:18:39a photograph of his three children
00:18:41on a glass plate.
00:18:46A gift from his wife when he went to war.
00:19:01The story of Amos Hamiston
00:19:03is similar to that of any soldier.
00:19:05If we go today to an American army unit,
00:19:07we will find active members
00:19:09with photographs of their children,
00:19:11their wives, their girlfriends,
00:19:13because that is a tangible link with normal life.
00:19:17Combat is not a normal condition.
00:19:21You are there serving your country.
00:19:23You do what the country asks you to do.
00:19:35But both the North and the South
00:19:37raise the stakes.
00:19:40Rufus II and the Union Army
00:19:42dig in the hills surrounding the city.
00:19:49This is where the battle of Gettysburg
00:19:51will be won or lost.
00:19:53Gettysburg, the city of war.
00:20:02Unionist troops with numerous casualties
00:20:04leave Gettysburg.
00:20:07They leave the city under Confederate control.
00:20:14It might seem that the first day of battle
00:20:16was a great loss for the Union.
00:20:18They received a beating,
00:20:20but the intense combat that took place
00:20:22and the resistance of some
00:20:24in the streets of Gettysburg
00:20:26allowed them to occupy the chosen positions.
00:20:29They retreated to a series of hills
00:20:31about 250 meters high.
00:20:34The altitude of the terrain
00:20:36gave the Union a crucial military advantage.
00:20:52Rufus II and what is left of his iron brigade
00:20:54dig in Coulbes Hill.
00:20:59They use a new weapon, the bullet.
00:21:03They are building parapets,
00:21:06a form of fortification that goes back
00:21:08to the Romans.
00:21:13Some officers believe that the parapets
00:21:15produce cowards.
00:21:17But II does not.
00:21:19He has lost half of his men
00:21:21and seeks as much protection as possible.
00:21:29Below, Ewell has orders from Robert Lee
00:21:31to occupy the hills of Cemetery and Coulbes,
00:21:34but with few casualties if feasible.
00:21:38Ewell decides to wait for reinforcements.
00:21:41It is a decision of serious consequences.
00:21:44Look up, see the amount of work
00:21:46that is up there.
00:21:48Your men are tired of the march
00:21:50they have made since the last battle.
00:21:53And there was something that led him to say,
00:21:55I will not do it, or now I can not do it.
00:21:58But at the end of the day, your commander
00:22:00and he himself would be disappointed.
00:22:02The Confederates will pay for it
00:22:04during the next three days.
00:22:07It is one of the great issues of the battle.
00:22:10Of having occupied and controlled Coulbes Hill,
00:22:12the army of the Union would have had to leave
00:22:14and the battle would have been fought elsewhere,
00:22:16perhaps with fewer advantages for the Yankees.
00:22:33In the fields of Gettysburg
00:22:35a new and frightening gathering is made.
00:22:39The dead and wounded of the first day.
00:22:43Dr. Legrand Wilson
00:22:45attends to the wounded of both sides.
00:22:49He is a very religious confederate,
00:22:51natural of Jackson, Mississippi,
00:22:54and educated in the north.
00:22:56His family has 40 slaves in Mississippi.
00:23:02This was my first experience
00:23:04in the battlefield.
00:23:08And I felt an indescribable horror.
00:23:12If all human beings could be witnesses
00:23:14of the result of their passions,
00:23:17as I was last night,
00:23:20the wars would end,
00:23:22no more battles would be fought.
00:23:26It is difficult to assume the chilling number
00:23:28of deaths in the Civil War.
00:23:30The most common figures of dead soldiers
00:23:32range between 620,000 and 630,000.
00:23:36Today that figure would be equivalent
00:23:38to 6 million dead Americans.
00:23:43There was an innovation that made
00:23:45this war so deadly.
00:23:47The Minier bullet.
00:23:5190% of the soldiers attended by Wilson
00:23:53are wounded by the Minier bullet.
00:23:59It has a hollow base and notches
00:24:01to stabilize the flight
00:24:03and achieve more range and precision.
00:24:07The Minier bullet is the most powerful
00:24:09and most powerful weapon in the world.
00:24:13After the impact, it is flattened
00:24:15and causes wounds much larger
00:24:17than the traditional musket bullets.
00:24:21That deformed bullet makes bones
00:24:23whose splinters destroy the body.
00:24:26The bullet's notches carry lethal bacteria
00:24:28that cause gangrene.
00:24:31The only solution is amputation.
00:24:43The Afro-Americans pretend to be chameleons.
00:24:49Some slaves take advantage of the invasion
00:24:51to escape.
00:24:55At the end of the war, half a million
00:24:57of the slaves fled to the north,
00:24:59150,000 of which enlisted
00:25:01in the Union Army.
00:25:07Dr. Wilson loses a member of his family
00:25:09on the first day of the war.
00:25:13Among the dead was my nephew,
00:25:15Lieutenant George Adrian House,
00:25:17who received a bullet in the enemy's offensive
00:25:19this morning.
00:25:23Stephen, his faithful servant,
00:25:25went to the battlefield,
00:25:27looked for his body,
00:25:29and returned with him to the hospital
00:25:31to give him a burial.
00:25:35Often members of a family fought
00:25:37side by side.
00:25:39That's why the fight was so fierce.
00:25:42In some states,
00:25:44the fourth part or more of the soldiers died,
00:25:46and there were hundreds of thousands more wounded.
00:25:48In certain cases,
00:25:50all the young people of a city
00:25:52disappeared during the Civil War.
00:26:07The hills on the outskirts of Gettysburg.
00:26:10In the last year, President Lincoln
00:26:12has dismissed five commanders
00:26:14of the Union Army.
00:26:16The sixth commander is George Meade,
00:26:18a proud and explosive soldier
00:26:20who graduated at West Point,
00:26:22just like Robert Lee.
00:26:24He has only been in office for three days.
00:26:26When the messenger arrived
00:26:28with the news of his promotion,
00:26:30he thought he would be arrested.
00:26:32But Meade has an advantage.
00:26:34Elevated terrain.
00:26:37As a topographer engineer,
00:26:39he knows how to use it.
00:26:41He places the troops to take advantage of the terrain.
00:26:43He occupies Little Ground Top,
00:26:45Cemetery Ridge,
00:26:47Cemetery Hill, and Colts Hill,
00:26:49forming a defensive line
00:26:51in the form of a hook.
00:26:53When the Confederate troops arrive in Gettysburg,
00:26:55Meade will be able to move his men
00:26:57to respond to attacks
00:26:59from any direction.
00:27:01The Union troops had internal lines
00:27:03in their defensive positions,
00:27:05so that their right flank
00:27:07was very close to the left
00:27:09and they could send reinforcements
00:27:11from one flank to another.
00:27:13It was a perfect defensive position.
00:27:24The rebel troops of the city
00:27:26do not focus on Amos Hammiston.
00:27:28The wound is fatal
00:27:30and he is willing to die alone,
00:27:32for the photograph of his children.
00:27:36I can not express how much I wish
00:27:38to see them and their mother.
00:27:41I hope we can see each other again.
00:27:43The first time I see you,
00:27:45I will tell you more things
00:27:47than I can think of now.
00:27:49Be a good girl.
00:27:52Goodbye.
00:27:56Amos Hammiston dies of bleeding
00:27:58and unidentified.
00:28:03The fear of an anonymous death
00:28:05chases the soldiers of both sides.
00:28:09Some sew the name on the uniform.
00:28:13Forty years to the identification plates.
00:28:15During the war,
00:28:17400,000 soldiers will disappear in combat.
00:28:21It is impossible to imagine
00:28:23the magnitude of death,
00:28:25of suffering.
00:28:27It is impossible to imagine
00:28:29a carnage of such caliber.
00:28:33The second day in Gettysburg
00:28:35provokes more devastation
00:28:37and a daring and open rebel assault.
00:28:41Victory is at stake in Gettysburg
00:28:43and perhaps in the civil war.
00:28:45Victory is at stake in Gettysburg
00:28:47and perhaps in the civil war.
00:29:01Gettysburg.
00:29:03Second day.
00:29:0512 at night.
00:29:07The rebels set off.
00:29:11They prepare a surprise attack
00:29:13on the soldiers.
00:29:16Their mission is to break
00:29:18the iron control of the Union
00:29:20in the highlands
00:29:22attacking the flank of the Amid.
00:29:24The goal of the Confederates
00:29:26on July 2 is to seek
00:29:28the left flank of the Union,
00:29:30destroy it,
00:29:32tear its defensive position
00:29:34and win the battle.
00:29:36The general of the rebel brigade
00:29:38William Barksdale
00:29:40is a Southern patriot
00:29:43from Columbus, Mississippi.
00:29:49Barksdale was a man
00:29:51who defended the ideas
00:29:53of the Confederation
00:29:55with great aggressiveness.
00:29:57He felt an endless hatred
00:29:59for the Yankees.
00:30:01But there is a problem.
00:30:06They did not recognize
00:30:08the terrain ahead
00:30:10because there is not
00:30:12the cavalry of Lee.
00:30:14It is 20 kilometers south
00:30:16collecting supplies.
00:30:18The cavalry,
00:30:20the eyes and ears of the army
00:30:22is not in contact with Lee.
00:30:26Lee is blind in the battlefield.
00:30:28In reality he does not know
00:30:30what the Union is up to
00:30:32and that ends up
00:30:34disabling any army.
00:30:37The rebel troops
00:30:39without the cavalry that guides them
00:30:41march within sight
00:30:43of the Unionist position.
00:30:45Barksdale and his men
00:30:47have to look for another route.
00:30:52It is a costly delay
00:30:54that adds two hours to the march.
00:30:57A time that allows
00:30:59Meade to reinforce the defenses.
00:31:02They often ask me
00:31:04what happened to having machine guns?
00:31:06I always answer
00:31:08the result would have changed
00:31:10with a couple of walkie-talkies.
00:31:14George Meade,
00:31:16five kilometers away,
00:31:18also has a problem.
00:31:20He has been in office for three days
00:31:22and has lost telegraphic contact
00:31:24with Washington.
00:31:26The telegraph,
00:31:28invented 25 years ago,
00:31:30is changing the development
00:31:32of the Union.
00:31:34Meade likes to receive
00:31:36the news of the battles quickly.
00:31:38The transmission unit
00:31:40usually uses time lines
00:31:42to communicate with the generals
00:31:44in the front,
00:31:46but the field material
00:31:48has not yet reached Gettysburg
00:31:50and the rebel forces
00:31:52have cut the lines.
00:31:54During that time
00:31:56he had to be thinking.
00:31:58Lee has beaten us
00:32:00and if he does it here,
00:32:02nothing will be interposed
00:32:04between him and the capital.
00:32:06It is clear,
00:32:08we cannot lose.
00:32:10Meade uses an innovation
00:32:12based on the Morse code
00:32:14to send orders to the front.
00:32:16The signals with flags.
00:32:18The flags move
00:32:20to form letters
00:32:22like the dots and lines
00:32:24of the Morse code.
00:32:26It works!
00:32:28Meade intercepts
00:32:30the rebel movements
00:32:32and responds with his own.
00:32:42Meanwhile,
00:32:44in Culp's Hill,
00:32:46Rufus II is waiting
00:32:48with what remains
00:32:50of his iron brigade.
00:32:52Yesterday they massacred
00:32:54and today they are
00:32:56with 11,500 men
00:32:58defending the right flank
00:33:00of the Anzuelo.
00:33:04The Anzuelo of Meade,
00:33:06which is 5 km long,
00:33:08is formidable.
00:33:10It has heavy defenses
00:33:12in the points
00:33:14of attack
00:33:16and it has a
00:33:18large number
00:33:20of soldiers.
00:33:22It has heavy defenses
00:33:24in the high points
00:33:26that make the line
00:33:28almost impenetrable
00:33:30as long as the troops
00:33:32remain in their position.
00:33:34But there is a commander
00:33:36of the Union
00:33:38who does not follow
00:33:40Meade's orders.
00:33:42General Dan Sickles.
00:33:44A rich and arduous
00:33:46vagabond.
00:33:49After having been acquitted
00:33:51of the murder of his wife's lover
00:33:53using the first allegation
00:33:55of temporal madness in the history
00:33:57of the country,
00:33:59he will leave Gettysburg
00:34:01with greater fame.
00:34:03Dan Sickles only cared
00:34:05about Dan Sickles.
00:34:07If something did not benefit him
00:34:09or helped him,
00:34:11he was not interested.
00:34:13He lacked military experience
00:34:15but he knew how to use money,
00:34:17he knew how to make money
00:34:19and he knew
00:34:21how to make money.
00:34:23Sickles did not follow
00:34:25Meade's orders
00:34:27and he advanced too much
00:34:29his third body,
00:34:31which broke the hook
00:34:33and exposed the flanks.
00:34:35A stumble that could cost
00:34:37the Union the battle
00:34:39and perhaps the war.
00:34:41The rebel forces
00:34:43finally reach
00:34:45their position
00:34:47with several hours of delay.
00:34:49But Lee has lost
00:34:51the surprise factor.
00:34:55The Union knows what is coming.
00:35:15In Culp's Hill 2,
00:35:17the assault begins.
00:35:19At this moment,
00:35:21the fervor of the battle
00:35:23was finally broken.
00:35:25The cannons and the muskets
00:35:27thundered unison.
00:35:29The rebel troops
00:35:31in Olenna
00:35:33and the Union
00:35:35are ready
00:35:37to attack.
00:35:39They are ready
00:35:41to attack
00:35:43The rebel troops
00:35:45in Olenna
00:35:47launch one of the epic
00:35:49attacks of the Civil War.
00:35:51Barksdale is about to
00:35:53deliver the battle
00:35:55that he had always wanted,
00:35:57but he is ordered
00:35:59to maintain the position.
00:36:01He is ready to act,
00:36:03anxious to do it,
00:36:05but he has to wait
00:36:07a little longer.
00:36:09The plan is to take
00:36:11ten Confederate brigades
00:36:13and attack with them,
00:36:15two by two.
00:36:17A brigade is launched
00:36:19against the enemy.
00:36:21Between 15 and 30 minutes later
00:36:23the next one intervenes
00:36:25and then another and another.
00:36:27These are battles that are recorded
00:36:29for history.
00:36:31Devil's Den, Little Round Top,
00:36:33Wheatfield, Pitch Orchard
00:36:35and Cemetery Ridge.
00:36:37It is the great opportunity
00:36:39for the victory of the South.
00:36:41But he still has orders
00:36:43to maintain the position.
00:37:0860 minutes have passed
00:37:10and the Barksdale regiment
00:37:12is still waiting.
00:37:14The air is filled with shouts
00:37:16of the rebels.
00:37:18Each unit has a unique sound.
00:37:20Ferocious, wild
00:37:22and terrifying.
00:37:28With Barksdale
00:37:30is the soldier Joseph Lloyd,
00:37:3221 years old,
00:37:34native of Big Hawk, Mississippi.
00:37:40As a bearer of the banner
00:37:42he is a coveted piece
00:37:44for the Union shooters.
00:37:56Finally, 90 minutes after
00:37:58the attack has begun,
00:38:00Barksdale and his men advance.
00:38:04They are thrown to the position
00:38:06of Sickles under enemy fire.
00:38:34What happens next
00:38:36could change the course of the war.
00:38:58William Barksdale
00:39:00and his Mississippi brigade
00:39:02full of adrenaline
00:39:04and sure of their cause
00:39:06finally attack.
00:39:12These 1,600 men
00:39:14are part of a general offensive.
00:39:1621,000 soldiers
00:39:18attack the line of MIT
00:39:20from Little Round Top
00:39:22to Cemetery Ridge.
00:39:24A total assault
00:39:26to win the civil war now.
00:39:28Barksdale's mission
00:39:30continues.
00:39:34The time has come
00:39:36for his opportunity.
00:39:38The General of the Union
00:39:40Dan Sickles has disobeyed
00:39:42the orders and has moved
00:39:44from his position.
00:39:46They are vulnerable.
00:39:48The perfect target
00:39:50for Barksdale and his men.
00:39:54If Barksdale and other Confederate brigades
00:39:56manage to take advantage
00:39:58of the Unionist lines,
00:40:00the army of the Union
00:40:02would be split in two.
00:40:06Barksdale's troops are unstoppable
00:40:08and overwhelm Sickles' men.
00:40:16The defenses begin to give in
00:40:18and then it will be the turn
00:40:20of the MIT line.
00:40:22Barksdale and his troops
00:40:24hit the Yankees like a hammer.
00:40:26Over the Union troops
00:40:28hundreds of enemy prisoners
00:40:30continue their march in different directions
00:40:32towards Cemetery Ridge.
00:40:34Rufus Dawes,
00:40:36who observes from Colts Hill,
00:40:38knows that Potomac's army is in trouble.
00:40:40We saw that our troops
00:40:42were giving ground.
00:40:44There were thousands of them
00:40:46going to the rear.
00:40:48There was a lot of tension
00:40:50and anxiety about the advance
00:40:52of the rebel line.
00:40:54You could only hear the screams of the rebels.
00:41:00Lee's offensive is working.
00:41:02If he succeeds,
00:41:04it could be the final victory he longs for.
00:41:06Meade has no choice
00:41:08but to send 8,000 reinforcements
00:41:10from Colts Hill
00:41:12to stop the rebels.
00:41:20Barksdale and Lloyd
00:41:22continue their march towards Cemetery Ridge.
00:41:24They travel 550 meters
00:41:26under enemy fire.
00:41:38The General of the Union, Dan Sickles,
00:41:40is not so lucky.
00:41:46A gunshot amputates one of his legs.
00:41:52A Yankee officer is joking.
00:41:54It's bad news for Sickles,
00:41:56but good news for the Union.
00:42:04The Mississippi Brigade,
00:42:06sent by Barksdale,
00:42:08takes almost an hour,
00:42:10but manages to break Sickles' line.
00:42:14Union troops flee.
00:42:16Barksdale's men
00:42:18approach Cemetery Ridge
00:42:20and caress the victory.
00:42:22But they come across
00:42:2420 Union cannons
00:42:26350 meters away,
00:42:28capable of firing
00:42:30two shots per minute.
00:42:50A bag of gunpowder
00:42:52shoots a 4-kilogram iron bullet
00:42:54at a speed
00:42:56of 425 meters per second.
00:43:12At this distance,
00:43:14Barksdale and Lloyd
00:43:16will be destroyed.
00:43:18Barksdale is seriously
00:43:20injured during the attack.
00:43:22He's hit in the left thigh.
00:43:24It's a dangerous wound
00:43:26that bleeds abundantly.
00:43:28He's asked to leave the battle
00:43:30and he refuses.
00:43:32He continues to lead the attack.
00:43:34He loses part of his left foot,
00:43:36but he continues to lead the attack on horseback.
00:43:40He knows what's at stake.
00:43:42The Mississippi Brigade
00:43:44is about to cross the Union lines
00:43:46when Meade's reinforcements
00:43:48launch on Barksdale and Lloyd.
00:43:52I turn to the front and see
00:43:54that the enemy comes out of the bushes
00:43:56and shoots us.
00:43:58They come from the top of the hill
00:44:00and they're fresh.
00:44:02Our brave Barksdale
00:44:04came to us and said,
00:44:06go straight to the bushes.
00:44:08Barksdale's exhausted men
00:44:10end up breaking the formation
00:44:12and losing combined power.
00:44:16The rebellious insignia
00:44:18makes Lloyd a magnet for the bullets.
00:44:22A shake,
00:44:24as if he had a bar in his left hand
00:44:26and he had nailed himself to the ground.
00:44:46gunfire
00:44:48horse neighs
00:44:50gunfire
00:44:52horse neighs
00:44:54gunfire
00:44:56horse neighs
00:44:58gunfire
00:45:00gunfire
00:45:02gunfire
00:45:04gunfire
00:45:06gunfire
00:45:08gunfire
00:45:10gunfire
00:45:12gunfire
00:45:14The Union troops
00:45:16run over us.
00:45:20One of them blindfolds me
00:45:22and wishes me luck.
00:45:32half of the Barksdale's Brigade
00:45:34are dead,
00:45:36injured or prisoners.
00:45:44Lloyd is by chance with his wounded commander.
00:45:54I hear a lament on my right. I turned and it was General Barksdale.
00:46:04What a disappointment when I put the cantimplora in his mouth for him to drink.
00:46:08And I saw that it was hollow and empty.
00:46:11He gave me one last message for the brigade.
00:46:14And I left with the promise to send the chameleons.
00:46:18Barksdale's battle is over. His last thoughts are for the family.
00:46:24I have never regretted the steps I have taken.
00:46:28And I will not do it now, despite being dying.
00:46:32Sir, take care of my dear wife and children.
00:46:36Tell them that I have died as a brave man.
00:46:49You have to think, I'm going to put an end to the war.
00:46:53I'm going to be the great instrument that breaks in two the lines of the Union.
00:46:57That destroys Potomac's army.
00:47:00And make it disappear once and for all.
00:47:04The performance of his men was extraordinary.
00:47:07And they were about to succeed.
00:47:12Meade's hook has resisted and the offensive is over.
00:47:17For the Confederate General Longstreet,
00:47:20it was the three best hours of battle ever fought by two armies.
00:47:25There are 16,000 dead, wounded or missing, between the two sides.
00:47:30But the second day is not over yet.
00:47:33Meade has withdrawn men from Colts Hill to stop the rebels.
00:47:37Night falls and there are only 1,400 defenders of the Union.
00:47:41It is an opportunity that the Confederates will not let pass.
00:47:45It's time.
00:48:04In Colts Hill, Robert Lee sees a new opportunity for victory.
00:48:09Meade has withdrawn 8,000 units from the hill to stop the rebel attack.
00:48:13There are only 1,400 soldiers left of the Union.
00:48:194,500 rebels are ready to kill.
00:48:34In the rebel attack on Colts Hill, the soldier Risley Howard participates.
00:48:3933 years old, with slaves at his disposal.
00:48:43From an important family in Maryland.
00:48:46Natural from Baltimore.
00:48:49His grandfather fought with Washington in the Revolution.
00:48:52Now he fights to divide the nation they created.
00:48:57For Howard's displeasure, Maryland aligned with the North.
00:49:04Maryland was very divided.
00:49:07Slavery was deeply rooted in the eastern part of the state.
00:49:11Risley Howard came from that economy of plantations.
00:49:15From a slave class.
00:49:26Howard and the rebels of Maryland attack the defenses dug by the Union in the south.
00:49:30The first parapets are 350 meters.
00:49:40It's chaotic.
00:49:43Bullets and horses fly in all directions.
00:50:01There were federal soldiers trenched behind parapets made of logs, rocks and dirt.
00:50:14You've got to think, this is my last battle.
00:50:18I'm not getting out of here alive.
00:50:20How do you do that?
00:50:22This was made of wood.
00:50:24We went up the hill.
00:50:26There were huge rocks that we had to flank, and they broke our lines.
00:50:33Howard attends a battle so fierce that a rebel defines it as a slaughterhouse.
00:50:40It was not a comfortable position.
00:50:43Continuous shouts were heard because we shot our men.
00:50:56The rebels cross the first stretch of Culp's Hill, but they have many casualties.
00:51:02The prize is theirs.
00:51:05Behind Culp's Hill is Baltimore Pike, the main supply and withdrawal route of the Union.
00:51:11If the Confederates conquer Culp's Hill and control that point, the Union's army has to leave.
00:51:16After two days of battle, the hospitals are full of wounded from both sides.
00:51:23Soldier Joseph Lloyd is in one, about to lose an arm.
00:51:28He is accompanied by the Black Helmsman of Barksdale, who is 23 years old.
00:51:33During the Civil War, for each soldier who was wounded,
00:51:37the Black Helmsman had to go to the hospital.
00:51:40He was the only one who survived.
00:51:42During the Civil War, for each soldier who died in combat,
00:51:46two will die of illness after receiving medical attention.
00:51:50The fastest solution for almost all wounds in the limbs is amputation.
00:51:56The medicine is in diapers, but they have anesthesia.
00:52:02Chloroform was recently discovered, and morphine with profusion is administered.
00:52:07There are also 4,000 liters of whiskey.
00:52:11Legrand Wilson, the Confederate surgeon, has been attending to the wounded all day.
00:52:20The patient can be sitting in a chair or on the edge of the bed, while I put the torniquet.
00:52:29An assistant holds his hand while another holds it by the forearm.
00:52:41The average amputation lasts 12 minutes.
00:52:47There are no antibiotics or knowledge of the infections.
00:52:51They do not even bother to wash their hands or the instrument.
00:52:55Surgeons work against the clock.
00:52:58Hence the expression, medical butcher.
00:53:02Lloyd will be one of the lucky ones.
00:53:05The probability of surviving an arm amputation is 77%.
00:53:10If you are lucky, you will survive.
00:53:31Rufus II and his men are among the defenders who remain in Golfs Hill.
00:53:40They descend to counterattack.
00:54:10When we approached the parapets, the Union Mosquitos sounded to our right.
00:54:28The darkness and surprise of our arrival made the enemy shoot at random.
00:54:41Two of his men win the skirmish.
00:54:45But they are the exception, just like the first day.
00:54:58Nearby, the Rishley-Howard unit takes a fundamental part of the parapets.
00:55:03They continue to advance under intense enemy fire.
00:55:07The Federals opened fire on us from the left and the rear.
00:55:11An intense fire that increased with each step we took.
00:55:15Even so, we continued to advance.
00:55:37They are only 450 meters from Baltimore Pike.
00:55:41A position that would threaten all lines of the Union.
00:55:49But the night and an unknown terrain make a great opportunity to be lost.
00:55:55They would be in the rear of the Union Army, even on the left flank.
00:55:59But because of Adelaide, they would not be able to advance.
00:56:02They are in the rear of the Union Army, even on the left flank.
00:56:06But because of something as simple as the darkness, they did not know how close they were.
00:56:11They stop shooting, unable to distinguish the friend from the enemy.
00:56:15If the Confederates had taken Colts Hill on the night of July 2 and continued to advance,
00:56:20they would have captured the lines of communication of the Union in Baltimore Pike.
00:56:24There were the supply cars, the reserve artillery.
00:56:28That would have forced Meade to withdraw.
00:56:30It would have been a crucial factor for the Confederate victory.
00:56:40As the fighting in Colts Hill goes out, the Union wins a different type of battle.
00:56:48Its newly created espionage agency, the Department of Military Information,
00:56:52tries to discover the war plans of Ellie.
00:56:56The Yankee agents interrogate the Confederate prisoners
00:57:00and see that there are captives of all the rebel divisions of infantry except one.
00:57:05George Pickett's.
00:57:08He has Ellie's only refreshment troops.
00:57:13Meade expects the rebels to attack tomorrow with everything they have.
00:57:17Most likely, the attack will be directed at George Pickett.
00:57:26Tomorrow, Risley Howard will face his neighbors in a close combat.
00:57:32And Robert Lee will launch an open and definitive assault.
00:57:36Pickett's charge.
00:57:55The stakes had never been higher.
00:58:04Yesterday, Robert Lee was close to winning.
00:58:08The Confederate troops attacked the left flank of the Union
00:58:12and almost crossed it.
00:58:17Robert Lee knows he was close, but there was no prize.
00:58:21General Meade is a little nervous.
00:58:23He knows it was a close victory that saved the disaster for little.
00:58:28The rebel troops gain ground in the lower stretch of Colts Hill
00:58:32and are ready to threaten the rear lines of the Union.
00:58:39Meade sends reinforcements.
00:58:44One of those brigades is commanded by Colonel James Wallace.
00:58:48Wealthy and with studies, also from Maryland.
00:58:51He is the only colonel of the Union who has slaves.
00:58:55A doctor, quick!
00:58:57During the Revolution, his grandfather and Risley Howard fought in the same regiment.
00:59:02Today, the two natural of Maryland will face each other.
00:59:06Maryland, like other border states, was divided between two loyalties.
00:59:11Its inhabitants had to choose one of the two sides.
00:59:15Maryland is one of the five border states that remained loyal to the Union.
00:59:18But slavery is legal.
00:59:21Positions in favor and against are passionate.
00:59:24Federal troops occupied Baltimore during the war
00:59:27to avoid the Confederate uprising.
00:59:34In Colts Hill, the unit of Risley Howard is ready to attack.
00:59:41Its objective is the defenses occupied by Unionist soldiers
00:59:45natural of the same state.
00:59:48Let's go!
01:00:18Let's go!
01:00:42It seemed that men felt the solemnity of the occasion.
01:00:45That they understood the desperate nature of the attack that was approaching.
01:00:50I asked God for strength to fulfill my duty.
01:00:54Last night, the rebels outnumbered the defenders of the Union 3 to 1.
01:00:59Today, the situation has turned around.
01:01:16It seemed that my whole company had been swept away
01:01:19by a deadly rain of bullets and horses.
01:01:27It is as if a demon took hold of me.
01:01:30I only thought of one thing.
01:01:32To avenge my comrades.
01:01:40Fire!
01:01:46Fire!
01:02:05Howard receives a shot from the 1st Unionist Regiment of Maryland.
01:02:11I noticed a burn on his thigh.
01:02:13As if all the blood of my body was concentrated at one point.
01:02:19It is difficult to know,
01:02:21but I am convinced that the Federals shot us on purpose
01:02:24while we were lying on the battlefield.
01:02:27They shot a soldier on my left.
01:02:31And they shot me in the hip.
01:02:35Injuries to the hip are almost always fatal.
01:02:39I was hoping that each moment would be the last.
01:02:42So I regrouped.
01:02:44I folded my arms over my chest
01:02:46and waited for my time to come.
01:02:51Time slows down
01:02:53while Richly Howard is about to die.
01:03:04James Wallace will not let a comrade die.
01:03:06Even if he is on the other side.
01:03:09The 1st Unionist Regiment of Maryland that we saw
01:03:12was made up of kids.
01:03:16With great sadness,
01:03:18we gathered our old friends and acquaintances
01:03:21to take care of them.
01:03:37I don't know how long I was lying there.
01:03:40The seconds felt like minutes
01:03:42and the minutes like hours.
01:03:47Howard's help included the soldiers he least expected.
01:03:52The same Union troops that shot him.
01:03:56I was asked which regiment I belonged to.
01:03:59I answered that I belonged to the Battalion of Maryland.
01:04:02And they told me,
01:04:03Do you know that you are fighting against your people?
01:04:06I answered, yes.
01:04:08And we plan to finish them.
01:04:19With the rebellious attack on Culp's Hill on a dead road,
01:04:22Robert Lee prepares another total offensive.
01:04:25It will be one of the symbolic battles of the Civil War.
01:04:29There are 12,000 Confederate soldiers and hundreds of cannons.
01:04:33The largest artillery discharge seen in North America is about to begin.
01:04:57After two days of offensives and counter-offensives,
01:04:59Robert Lee is ready to launch the attack that will decide the battle of Gettysburg
01:05:04and the course of the war.
01:05:12He sends 12,000 soldiers,
01:05:14supported by George Pickett's division,
01:05:17his only refreshment troops.
01:05:19His mission is to attack the Union center
01:05:21and divide Potomac's army into two.
01:05:24Lee puts all the chips in the middle of the table
01:05:26because he knows it is the last chance he will have.
01:05:29It was a calculated decision, well thought out,
01:05:32it had a reasonable probability of success.
01:05:37One of the rebel brigades is commanded by General Joe Davis,
01:05:41an aristocrat and slave trader.
01:05:43His uncle is Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
01:05:48His hometown, Vicksburg, Mississippi, is besieged by the Union.
01:05:57To weaken the Unionist defenses,
01:06:00the Confederates mount 160 cannons,
01:06:03a three-kilometer artillery line.
01:06:09In front of them are 100 Union cannons.
01:06:16There are 30 degrees and a brutal humidity.
01:06:22Fire!
01:06:26Fire!
01:06:32It is the largest artillery discharge in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
01:06:57The noise would shake the internal organs,
01:07:02which in some cases would tear.
01:07:09The membranes of the ears would break,
01:07:12and that would make a bloodbath
01:07:15on the face of the gunmen.
01:07:20The sound of the cannon would be heard
01:07:22in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
01:07:25at a distance of 65 kilometers.
01:07:29Stop the fire!
01:07:31Fire!
01:07:33Fire!
01:07:35The Union commanders order to silence the cannons
01:07:38to make Ali believe that he has destroyed the artillery line.
01:07:42It is the last chance he will have.
01:07:45It is the last chance he will have.
01:07:48Fire!
01:07:50Fire!
01:07:52Confederate artillery.
01:07:55At 3 p.m. the Confederated artillery also stops.
01:07:59An unsettling silence was seizing the battlefield.
01:08:02It was a windless day and the smoke of artillery was still present.
01:08:05The Yankees expected a brutal attack from the Southerners.
01:08:08And the Southerners knew what they were going to do.
01:08:11What were they going to face?
01:08:13It must have been an intense moment as they crossed their eyes.
01:08:22The Confederacy believes that it is safe to send its troops
01:08:28It is time to start one of the great symbolic battles of the Civil War
01:08:43Joe Davis and his men advance as part of a rebel offensive that is one and a half kilometers long
01:08:52The Confederacy is in the lead
01:09:02To reach the lines of the Union, they must travel 1,500 meters of open field and climb a hill
01:09:14But the Confederate leaders ignore that the artillery of the Union still has a lot of firepower
01:09:19They are just waiting for the rebels to start shooting
01:09:28Joe Davis and his men go towards a hellish artillery discharge
01:09:49First there is the regulatory cannon, manufactured with several layers of forged iron of 12 centimeters
01:10:00It is a hard and reliable cannon, invented only two years ago
01:10:03and designed with a striated caliber of 7 and a half centimeters to increase range and precision
01:10:11This cannon fires projectiles that explode when they hit
01:10:19and machine guns that explode in the air over the heads of the enemies
01:10:30A shot can kill ten men
01:10:34Being in the sight of one of the projectiles of the regulatory cannon would be terrifying
01:10:39You do not know what awaits you, you only imagine it
01:10:43Suddenly the men who were on your side have gone, they have evaporated
01:10:50The Confederacy is in the lead
01:10:56Stopping in the open field to shoot is a suicide
01:11:05And it is useless, with the mosquitos it is impossible to reach them
01:11:11Davis knows they have to keep moving
01:11:15After each step we were less
01:11:17Because of the destructive fire that engulfed the front and the left flank
01:11:24The soldiers deployed with great coldness
01:11:27Disposed and determined to continue advancing
01:11:30Filling the gaps that occurred in our ranks
01:11:34On the way to Cemetery Ridge
01:11:36The rebels reached the old Napoleon cannon of smooth cylinder
01:11:44The most popular piece of artillery of the Civil War
01:11:47It fires four types of projectiles
01:11:49Among them a solid ball of 5 kilograms
01:11:53If it falls in front of the advancing troops
01:11:55It can kill a row of men as if they were balls
01:11:58It is difficult to imagine how they could continue advancing against the opposition
01:12:02A great level of courage is needed
01:12:06Until Davis and his men can respond
01:12:09They make Diana for the artillery of the Union
01:12:12The attack of the advance that will be known later as the load of Pickett
01:12:17Jumps made to pieces
01:12:29The offensive of Lee approaches the enemy troops at Cemetery Ridge
01:12:34The Union artillery is massacring them
01:12:40It is the moment of truth in Gettysburg for both armies
01:12:47Joe Davis and his men are 350 meters from the Unionist artillery
01:12:52At the reach of the machine gun projectiles
01:12:55The cartridge is the most devastating weapon of the time
01:12:58They are metal cans with 28 iron balls inside
01:13:22When the cartridge explodes, it throws the iron balls on the troops at hundreds of meters per second
01:13:30The cartridges make that cannon a giant shotgun
01:13:33It is capable of annihilating 20 men at once or more
01:13:37The men are destroyed
01:13:39Heads, legs, arms
01:13:42For the other soldiers it will be demoralizing to see the result
01:13:47Davis regroups on a dirt road
01:13:50Emmetsburg Road, 180 meters from the Union line
01:13:56They are within reach of the enemy mosquitos
01:13:59Davis regroups on a dirt road
01:14:01Emmetsburg Road, 180 meters from the Union line
01:14:08They are within reach of the enemy mosquitos
01:14:30In a fence they use to protect themselves, they receive more than 800 rifle shots
01:14:39The brigade of the left flank of Davis has not managed to reach
01:14:42There is a hole in the rebel lines
01:14:45A few men arrive with Davis to the Union lines and place the flag on a wall
01:14:48A few men arrive with Davis to the Union lines and place the flag on a wall
01:14:51It is a brave but useless gesture
01:14:54It is a brave but useless gesture
01:15:15The rest of the unit of Davis gives in and retreats
01:15:30The rebel troops led by George Pickett manage to make their way through the Union lines and jump on the wall
01:15:33The rebel troops led by George Pickett manage to make their way through the Union lines and jump on the wall
01:15:36The Union gunmen shoot at close range
01:15:39The Union gunmen shoot at close range
01:15:45This is the moment of close combat
01:15:48It can not be more brutal
01:15:50They fight with the back of the muskets, with knives
01:15:53They use bayonets as offensive weapons
01:15:59The rebels destroy three cannons, but they are crushed
01:16:02The rebels destroy three cannons, but they are crushed
01:16:04It is Lee's last chance to win in Gettysburg
01:16:07But it is not enough
01:16:11They almost manage to split the Union army in two
01:16:14Robert Lee's great victory quickly became his most resounding defeat
01:16:17Robert Lee's great victory quickly became his most resounding defeat
01:16:26The rebel forces retreat
01:16:29They are compelled to return to their footsteps
01:16:32To travel the same terrain by which they advanced with such courage
01:16:35To travel the same terrain by which they advanced with such courage
01:16:39More than half of the men who started the Pickett charge are dead, wounded, captured or missing
01:16:42More than half of the men who started the Pickett charge are dead, wounded, captured or missing
01:16:48Lee loses the third part of his army in Gettysburg
01:16:51Lee loses the third part of his army in Gettysburg
01:16:54It is the bloodiest battle fought on North American soil
01:16:57There are more than 50,000 casualties
01:17:00The bold invasion of the North by Robert Lee has failed
01:17:03The bold invasion of the North by Robert Lee has failed
01:17:09The day of Independence
01:17:12The day of Independence
01:17:15Rufus II of the Iron Brigade turns 35 today
01:17:18Rufus II of the Iron Brigade turns 35 today
01:17:25What a solemn birthday
01:17:28My little group, now with only 200 men
01:17:31Has been burying the bloodied corpses of friends and enemies
01:17:34Has been burying the bloodied corpses of friends and enemies
01:17:38Today has not been fought
01:17:41The Civil War will last two more years
01:17:44Gettysburg was not Lee's last victory, but it was the best
01:17:47Gettysburg was not Lee's last victory, but it was the best
01:17:50It will never be so close again
01:17:53It gave Northern men the belief that the high military command of the Union
01:17:56It gave Northern men the belief that the high military command of the Union
01:17:59Could rival Robert Lee on the battlefield
01:18:02Nobody thought that the end of the war would come
01:18:05But in the North, many took out of Gettysburg
01:18:08The hope that the wind could change
01:18:11And blow in their favor
01:18:17This battle is a crucial and significant event for the nation
01:18:20This battle is a crucial and significant event for the nation
01:18:23Rufus II left the army in 1864
01:18:26Rufus II left the army in 1864
01:18:29with symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress syndrome
01:18:32with symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress syndrome
01:18:35with symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress syndrome
01:18:38His son Charles would become US Vice President
01:18:41under the mandate of Calvin Coolidge
01:18:44under the mandate of Calvin Coolidge
01:18:47Calvin Coolidge's son was killed in a plane crash
01:18:51When Joe Davis woke up, he knew that Ulysses Grant
01:18:54When Joe Davis woke up, he knew that Ulysses Grant
01:18:57had conquered Gettysburg, his hometown
01:19:00He fell seriously ill, but he continued at the foot of the canyon
01:19:03He fell seriously ill, but he continued at the foot of the canyon
01:19:06He accompanied Lee to Appomattox to sign the surrender of the South
01:19:09He accompanied Lee to Appomattox to sign the surrender of the South
01:19:16The Union troops razed the farm of Legrand Wilson
01:19:19The Union troops razed the farm of Legrand Wilson
01:19:22With the sale of the last cotton cobs, he launched his consultation
01:19:25With the sale of the last cotton cobs, he launched his consultation
01:19:31Risley Howard recovered from the wounds and returned to the war
01:19:34Risley Howard recovered from the wounds and returned to the war
01:19:37In 1864, he lost a leg in Coal Harbor
01:19:40In 1864, he lost a leg in Coal Harbor
01:19:43The legend says that his ghost is still in his house in Baltimore
01:19:46The legend says that his ghost is still in his house in Baltimore
01:19:52Fanny Buehler and the inhabitants of Gettysburg
01:19:55took care of the wounded soldiers and fixed the damage
01:19:58took care of the wounded soldiers and fixed the damage
01:20:06The town of Gettysburg was flooded with wounded for months
01:20:09The town of Gettysburg was flooded with wounded for months
01:20:12The smell of death persisted there for weeks
01:20:15The smell of death persisted there for weeks
01:20:18The horrors after that battle did not match in the war
01:20:21The horrors after that battle did not match in the war
01:20:26A girl finds a dead soldier in a courtyard
01:20:29She has no identification
01:20:32But she clings to a photograph of three children recorded in glass
01:20:35But she clings to a photograph of three children recorded in glass
01:20:38The image becomes famous and is published in many newspapers
01:20:41The mystery of the unknown soldier captivates the imagination
01:20:44The mystery of the unknown soldier captivates the imagination
01:20:48After four months, a woman from New York recognizes the children
01:20:51After four months, a woman from New York recognizes the children
01:20:54and solves the mystery
01:20:58The soldier is Amos Hamiston
01:21:01She is the widow
01:21:05They bury Hamiston in a new cemetery in the battlefield of Gettysburg
01:21:08They bury Hamiston in a new cemetery in the battlefield of Gettysburg
01:21:12President Abraham Lincoln speaks for two minutes at his inauguration
01:21:15President Abraham Lincoln speaks for two minutes at his inauguration
01:21:19This battle and this speech will resonate through time
01:21:22This battle and this speech will resonate through time
01:21:29We are determined that these deaths have not been in vain
01:21:35That this nation, with the help of God, light a new freedom
01:21:38That this nation, with the help of God, light a new freedom
01:21:41So that the government of the people, for the people and for the people
01:21:44So that the government of the people, for the people and for the people
01:21:47Do not disappear from the face of the earth
01:21:53Gettysburg was a crucial moment in the war and decided the future of America
01:21:56Gettysburg was a crucial moment in the war and decided the future of America
01:21:59Preserved a nation conceived in freedom
01:22:02And delivered the idea that all men are born equal
01:22:08And delivered the idea that all men are born equal
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