Episode 27: John Bachelder and Gettysburg... The Man, The Myth, The Papers! Part Two
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast, Eric and Jim continue their two-part deep dive into the life and legacy of the artist turned-historian, John Badger Bachelder. In this episode, the hosts discuss some of the controversies that Bachelder was a part of, give insight on how to best use the Bachelder Papers as a resource for studying the battle, and share a few of their favorite accounts from the Bachelder Papers.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:36.3 | licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my |
| 0:40.0 | co-host licensed battlefield guide Jim Hesseler. So Jim, we are back. What's our topic tonight? |
| 0:46.7 | We are doing part two on the Life in Times of Historian, Official Government Historian, John historian, official government historian John Badger Batchelder. |
| 0:56.7 | Now in part one we talked about Batchelder's life, his commercial ventures, |
| 1:01.6 | and his influence here on the early history. his part of that we're going to deep dive more into some of the controversies |
| 1:15.7 | that Batchelder got involved with with some of the veterans, talks specifically |
| 1:20.6 | about some of his more lasting influences. |
| 1:24.2 | We're going to talk about kind of the legacy and the rediscovery of John Batchelder. |
| 1:29.9 | And last but not least, we are going to talk about the Batchelder Papers, which were recently reprinted, |
| 1:36.2 | long out of print, they've been reprinted by publisher Savas Bady. |
| 1:40.3 | Eric and I are going to share our thoughts on how to use the batch elder papers. |
| 1:44.0 | So I think we got a wide range of badger, |
| 1:48.0 | batch elder to cover tonight and can't wait to get into part two and see what we come up with. |
| 1:53.0 | And if that's not enough, you probably noticed in episode one, we are kind of light on listener questions. |
| 1:59.0 | This episode that we asked about, you know, the two batch-held Elder episodes, generated, I believe our most listener |
| 2:05.2 | questions we've ever had. So we incorporated a lot of those into the life of Batch Elder. |
| 2:10.4 | All the ones that we did not cover, we going to be putting into this one as well. |
| 2:14.0 | So if you ask your question, wait a minute. |
| 2:16.0 | Where's my question? |
| 2:18.0 | We got you. Don't worry. As we say, your questions help drive the show. |
| 2:22.0 | Sometimes even if we don't answer them directly. your questions help drive the show. |
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