Episode 29: What Was Sickles Thinking on July 2?
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this special Super Bowl Sunday edition of The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast, Eric and Jim decided to put together a Gettysburg Halftime Event for the big game! For an event of this magnitude, they had to select an individual whose legend was equal to this monumental moment... None other than Dan Sickles! In this episode, Eric and Jim delve into the commonly asked question of what Sickles was thinking on July 2, 1863, with his controversial move to the Peach Orchard and the Emmitsburg Road. They discuss Sickles as a person, his thought process, and how he interpreted the fluid events of the morning and early afternoon of July 2 before his fateful decision. This episode might not change your opinion of Sickles the man, but it might cause you to reevaluate the way you look at this critical moment at Gettysburg!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:35.9 | licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my |
| 0:40.0 | co-host licensed battlefield guide guy, Jim Hesseler. |
| 0:42.8 | And Jim, it's Super Bowl Sunday. |
| 0:45.7 | We've got a extra special episode lined up for everyone. |
| 0:50.3 | So to give a little bit of background, |
| 0:52.0 | we had hoped that we would have had a green bay |
| 0:55.0 | Buffalo Super Bowl. I'm a Packers fan, Jim's a Bills fan. |
| 0:59.3 | Sort of. Of course that didn't happen. But we thought, you know what, why leave out a Super Bowl |
| 1:06.0 | Extravagans simply because our teams couldn't get the job done? So Jim, when you think of |
| 1:12.2 | special events, you think of big cities, you think of big bright lights, who do you think of? |
| 1:19.2 | Well, Eric, while many of you have been watching Tom Brady in tonight's big game, |
| 1:24.4 | you know what some people would consider to be the NFL's goat |
| 1:28.0 | greatest of all time, we have our own Gettysburg goat, Dan Sickles, coming off the bench for a special halftime performance. |
| 1:38.9 | So what we're doing tonight is we're coming to you live from the Broadcasting Booth at Getty's Gear, 777 Baltimore Street |
| 1:46.2 | with what we think is a special Super Bowl halftime Dan Sickles report. |
| 1:53.0 | And it's going to be in the tradition of our special season one televised what was Lee thinking episode, |
| 1:59.5 | but we're going to bring you tonight for the Super Bowl halftime. What was Dan Sickles thinking? |
| 2:05.8 | We're going to break it down for you all the exes and owes that Sickles and his staff put on |
| 2:09.8 | the board for the third core football team. |
| 2:12.6 | Now I can only imagine people got so amped up for this. |
| 2:16.6 | They're thinking what could it be? |
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