Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode 316 of our Civil War Podcast.

I'm Rich.

And I'm Tracy.

Hello y'all.

Welcome to the podcast.

After the great and terrible battle was over, Lieutenant Frank Haskell, a federal officer

serving in the second court at Gettysburg and an eyewitness to Pickett's Charge said,

quote,

Many things cannot be described by pen or pencil.

Such a fight is one.

As we've drawn closer and closer to the start of the battle of Gettysburg here on the

podcast, we've found our thoughts returning again and again to Haskell's words.

He stressed that quote, he who never saw can have no adequate idea of what such a battle

is.

No one Haskell declared would ever be able to write a complete history of the battle of

Gettysburg.

Quote,

A full account of the battle as it was will never, can never be made.

Who could sketch the changes, the constant shifting of the bloody panorama?

It is not possible.

Haskell pointed out that even the eyewitnesses, those like himself who had survived the

tempest of death and destruction, would have a difficult time making sense of what they'd

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