Episode 41: George Meade at Gettysburg - Part One with Kent Masterson Brown
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Eric and Jim have long wanted to do an episode (or two) on George Meade and who better to join them than the author of "Meade at Gettysburg" Kent Masterson Brown to discuss Meade's role in the Gettysburg Campaign. Part One begins with Meade taking command of the Army of the Potomac on June 28, 1863, and follows him through his arrival in Gettysburg early in the morning of July 2.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:35.3 | Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my co-host Jim Hesseler. Jim what's |
| 0:40.1 | tonight's topic? Eric and welcome back everybody. |
| 0:42.8 | We have a really special show on tap for tonight. |
| 0:46.8 | Eric and I have been waiting for quite some time |
| 0:49.6 | to do a topical episode on George Mead. |
| 0:52.4 | And frankly, we were waiting to get |
| 0:53.9 | Camp Masterson Brown on. |
| 0:55.3 | So tonight, we're going to interview |
| 0:57.1 | esteemed author and historian Kent Master Sim Brown |
| 1:00.6 | on his award-winning book, Mead at Gettysburg, A Study in Command. |
| 1:05.0 | And of course we are tonight playing a home game in the friendly confines here at Getty |
| 1:11.4 | gear. So I want to thank them again for being very gracious |
| 1:15.0 | hosts as they always are. Welcome us back here at the home studio of the show. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, we haven't been in the home studio in a while and Carrie the owner proprietor who many of you have |
| 1:24.5 | come in and met says that he has actually been now the COVID is knock on wood |
| 1:28.8 | passing by hopefully Carrie's been using the home studio a little bit more for dinner and banquets and events and stuff like that. |
| 1:36.5 | So imagine you could actually come and eat in the Battle of Gettysburg Podcasts Studio. |
| 1:41.2 | What would be better? |
| 1:42.1 | Or even pay money to just sit in here and look at where we sit. |
| 1:45.2 | Look at where we're sitting. |
| 1:46.2 | I can't think of a better dinner date than coming to see us. |
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