Episode 4: The Peach Orchard at Gettysburg - Part One
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The first of a two-part series which will focus on the ferocious, yet often overlooked, fighting in and around the Peach Orchard owned by Joseph Sherfy and his family. In part one, Eric and Jim give background on the property and discuss the plans of General Robert E. Lee and his army for the Peach Orchard and the Emmitsburg Road on July 2, 1863.
They also detail and discuss the motivations for Major General Daniel Sickles and his Union Third Corps to move forward to the position in one of the most controversial decisions of the battle, and the disruptions they will cause to not only the Union battle line but to the Confederate plan of attack as well.
Since there was so much material to cover the decision was made to turn the Peach Orchard into a two-part series with Episode Four covering the background and planning on July 2, and Episode Five a detailed look at the fighting in the area.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I am your co-host Eric Lindblade, licensed battlefield guide here at Gettysburg National Military Park. |
| 0:08.0 | We are coming to you from the world famous Alliance Mine Saloon in Gettysburg. |
| 0:12.0 | I am joined today by my co-hosts Jim |
| 0:14.8 | what's our topic today? Hi Eric and hello everybody today Eric we've got a |
| 0:19.2 | peach of an episode tonight is Gettysburg's peach Orchard, Long Street Sickles, and the bloody fight for the |
| 0:26.1 | commanding ground along the Emmetsburg Road. We're going to cover what I think is some of the most critical |
| 0:31.6 | yet underappreciated combat during both July 2nd and |
| 0:35.4 | July 3rd at the Battle of Gettysburg. Now that title sounds kind of familiar |
| 0:40.2 | Jim where did you get that title from? Well, Eric, since you asked, that is the title of my most recent book, which I co-wrote with |
| 0:48.0 | Licensed Battlefield Guide Britt Eisenberg, and was released in June of 2019, about a month or so ago. |
| 0:55.0 | The book has been doing very well, |
| 0:56.0 | but what we wanted to do when we wrote the book |
| 0:58.0 | was really give the first full-length detailed account of the fighting for the peach |
| 1:04.4 | or orchard in the Emmitsburg Road that we think the topic warrants and |
| 1:08.0 | thanks for asking by the way. |
| 1:09.4 | No problem. Had to give you a plug there. |
| 1:11.0 | Well I appreciate that. |
| 1:12.1 | So before though we get into the topic, I think we're going to kind of go to our listener |
| 1:16.3 | mailbag and I think Eric you're going to just sort of talk a little bit about some of the |
| 1:20.3 | feedback we've had on recent episodes and how has everything been going? |
| 1:24.2 | What kind of feedback are we getting? |
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