Episode 39: James Longstreet at Gettysburg - Part Three
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
To kick off Season Four of The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast, Eric and Jim return to a familiar topic and continue their deep dive into James Longstreet and the Gettysburg Campaign. This episode will focus on Longstreet's role in the Confederate attack plan of July 2 and more importantly on the famous, or infamous, countermarch later that afternoon. The hosts will dissect this complex and often misunderstood aspect of the battle and its impact on the fighting of the second day at Gettysburg.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast coming to you from Cemetery Hill here in Gettysburg |
| 0:37.2 | live at the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast studios here at Gettys gear. I am your co-host, historian and license guide Eric Lindblade, and as always I am joined by my co-host historian |
| 0:48.0 | license guide Jim Hesseler. Jim, what do we have on tap to start off season four with? |
| 0:53.0 | Well, hello Eric and hello everybody. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to season four episode one and we're going to be doing |
| 0:59.0 | Long Street Part 3. |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to conclude the heartbreaking trilogy of James Long Street |
| 1:05.4 | that we began in season 3 with Long Street Part 1 and Part 2. I think we're going to |
| 1:10.6 | start off tonight Eric right at the beginning of July 2nd. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, lot to cover so I think let's get right into it. |
| 1:18.0 | All right, it is the morning of July 2nd. |
| 1:21.8 | So before we get into the activities of really everything of James |
| 1:26.2 | Long Street before about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of that day, Jim do you |
| 1:31.2 | want to just catch the listeners up real quick to kind of what Longstreet has been doing |
| 1:36.0 | on the battlefield in the previous day? |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:39.0 | So I think where we left off last time, it was the evening of July 1st. Lee was considering his options for the second day. |
| 1:48.4 | Longstreet, as we know, or at least as the historical record tells us, |
| 1:52.8 | Longstreet was extremely concerned |
| 1:55.6 | by the idea that Lee was going to commit the army |
| 1:59.2 | here at Gettysburg. |
| 2:00.6 | And that, you know, Longstreet goes back to his camp, out towards Marsh Creek, out towards |
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