Episode 18: The Union 11th Corps Before Gettysburg with Stuart Dempsey
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast co-hosts Eric and Jim are joined by their colleague and friend Stuart Dempsey to discuss the fascinating and unique history of the Union 11th Corps before Gettysburg. Dempsey, a noted expert on the 11th Corps, explains the background of what became the 11th Corps from the European Revolutions in the 1840s to the outbreak of the Civil War, and through campaigning in the Shenandoah Valley, Second Manassas, and finally Chancellorsville.
Throughout the episode, long-held myths and misconceptions about the 11th Corps are discussed and dispelled in addition to answering super fan questions! If you would like to donate to the show, you can do so via the following:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:04.0 | licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and today we are coming to you from the |
| 0:07.6 | historic George Spangler Farm on the Gettysburg National Military Park. |
| 0:11.4 | As always I am joined by my co-host, |
| 0:13.7 | licensed battlefield guide Jim Hesseler. |
| 0:15.3 | And today, Jim, what's our topic? |
| 0:17.4 | Well, Eric, today we are joined by special guests, |
| 0:21.0 | licensed battlefield guide, historian, and all-around good guy, Stuart Dempsey. |
| 0:26.7 | Now, Stu is probably known to many in our audience as an 11th Corps expert, and not surprisingly, today he will be giving us a deep dive on the 11th Corps at |
| 0:36.2 | Gettysburg that you won't want to miss. He's really going to cover the 11th Corps before, during, and after the battle. |
| 0:43.4 | So really, stay tuned. |
| 0:45.0 | You're gonna learn almost everything |
| 0:46.8 | you wanna know about Oliver Howard's 11th Corps. |
| 0:49.9 | And as Eric said in the intro, |
| 0:51.2 | we're coming to you from the Historic George Spangler Farm, we should add that was an 11th Corps field hospital after the battle. |
| 0:58.0 | So we're gonna, you know, make some personal connections to the site and our topic today. So once again it's going to be great. |
| 1:04.6 | Eric, before we go any further, do we have any housekeeping or anything to take care of? |
| 1:09.2 | Well, in terms of housekeeping, it's like the great American philosopher Dusty Roads once said, hard times. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah. Right now we're in a state of flux as a country, as a world, dare I say, as a podcast. A lot of things are closing down, a lot of things |
| 1:24.9 | aren't going on, a lot of folks are staying at home because of the global health crisis that |
| 1:29.2 | we're seeing with the coronavirus. So really a lot of people have asked us, hey, what's the status for Sickles |
| 1:35.4 | mania? What if Jackson was at Gettysburg, May 9th tour? Right now we're in a |
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