Episode 30: East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg - Part Two
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast, Eric and Jim continue their two-part deep dive on the fighting of July 3 at East Cavalry Field. The co-hosts discuss the ebb and flow of this often confusing action, and they also take on prevailing views and theories that have arisen from this aspect of the battle that some have called "Cavalry Valhalla!"
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:35.7 | licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my co-host |
| 0:40.1 | licensed battlefield |
| 0:44.0 | part two. |
| 0:48.0 | we're now going to be into the afternoon of July 3rd |
| 0:51.0 | 1863 in part one we introduce of July 3rd, 1863. |
| 0:53.0 | In part one, we introduced a lot of the combatants. |
| 0:56.4 | We introduced you to David M. Gregg, George Custer, |
| 1:00.0 | Jeb Stewart. |
| 1:01.4 | We already knew Wade Hampton from prior episodes. Vincent, Claw Hammer, |
| 1:06.2 | Whitcher. We pretty much brought both sides, Union and Confederate, on the East Cavalry Field, |
| 1:12.4 | which is a small patch of farmland, about three miles east |
| 1:16.5 | of Gettysburg, defended along the Hanover Roadside by the Union under Generals Greg and Custer while General Stewart approached |
| 1:26.7 | from the York Pike side of the field and positioned himself on Cress Ridge |
| 1:32.2 | opposite the John and Sarah Rommel Farmer. and positioned himself on Cress Ridge |
| 1:32.7 | opposite the John and Sarah Rummel Farm. |
| 1:35.2 | So we've set the stage, and today we are going to get |
| 1:38.6 | into the combat, the aftermath, and a little bit |
| 1:42.2 | of the historiography and the legacy of East |
| 1:45.1 | cavalry fields so East cavalry field part two what I always like to call a |
| 1:49.9 | spectacular clash of cavalry talent here on the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. |
| 1:56.4 | Eric, before we go there, do we have any housekeeping or should we just talk about |
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