And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host

licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my

co-host licensed battlefield guide Jim Hesseler Jim, we're beginning a two-part series.

What's it going to be about and who are we bringing on with us?

Well, Eric, for many decades the Battle of Gettysburg was interpreted primarily through combat weapons tactics

but as I think more students become interested in the human interest

aspects of the battle the stories of the wounded in their medical treatment at field hospitals are receiving a renewed interest.

So what was once limited to the groundbreaking work by the late historian Greg Coco has been expanded upon recently by several successful books that focus on this topic and among the licensed battlefield guides, retired medical professionals, Rick Schrader and Fran Fiac bring their own unique perspectives to the medical treatment of Gettysburg's casualties.

So we're going to welcome to the show our friends and colleagues, Rick Schrader and Fran Fiac. Now Rick has been a past patron

of several recent episodes and probably many of you all know Fran who runs 763 leadership and the Thursday night free Zoom to Gettysburg on which

both Eric and I have appeared in the past.

So we're going to welcome Rick and Fran to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast.

And it is somewhat fitting that we're talking about medical care during the Civil War during the

greatest medical crisis of our lifetimes

with the COVID-19 crisis.

So we did bring Rick and Fran on via Zoom.

So if you do hear some maybe less than usual sound quality, is why it was frankly the safest way to keep our

social distancing so everybody stays safe during this time so we want to be safe and we want to keep

our guests safe as well.

The socially distanced

podcast. So before we get into the housekeeping I should note that Jim and I are

speaking for ourselves and even though we are licensed battlefield guides

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