Welcome to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast.

This is your podcast focused on all particular aspects connected to the Gettysburg campaign of 1863.

I'm your co-host and licensed battlefield guide James Hessler and I'm coming to you live

from the Reliance Mind Saloon in Historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

I'm joined by my co-host and colleague licensed battlefield guide Eric Linblade.

Eric this is our inaugural episode. What's the topic this week?

Our topic is just a basic introduction, who we are, why we're doing this podcast, and give our

listeners kind of a sense of what they're going to expect moving forward.

So kind of getting to know us?

Exactly. I think this is kind of, this is a book. is a book introduction very good this is where we

give our reasons for doing this very good so I guess the initial question is

who are we so Jim who are you who am I well my name is James Hesseler and I'm originally from Western New York, but I have been a licensed

battlefield guide at Gettysburg National Military Park since 2003. I'm also the author or co-author of three books on the Gettysburg

campaign that I'm proud of, Sickles of Gettysburg, which I wrote and was published in 2009. I co-authored with Wayne

Moths and Steve Stanley Pickets charge at Gettysburg in 2015 and at the time of

our recording here just a few weeks ago in June of 2019

I co-authored and released Gettysburg's Peach Orchard with Britt Eisenberg.

I'll talk a little bit more about my background as we continue with the episode here,

but Eric, how about you tell us a little bit about yourself?

My name is Eric Linblade. I'm also a battlefield guide here at Gettysburg National Military Park where I've served since 2016 as a guide.

I've written a book, Fight as long as possible, The Battle of Newport Barracks, which is about about a ballot took place February 2,

1864 in my hometown of Newport, North Carolina, and

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