Episode 42: George Meade at Gettysburg - Part Two with Kent Masterson Brown
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Eric and Jim continue their conversation with Kent Masterson Brown about all things George Meade and Gettysburg. In this episode, they pick up on the morning of July 2 and continue to the end of the battle on July 3, with some discussion of the logistical challenges faced by the Army of the Potomac in the wake of their victory. And yes there is some talk about a certain Union general...
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:35.9 | Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my co-host Jim Hesseler. Jim what do we |
| 0:40.8 | have on tap for today? |
| 0:42.6 | Hey Eric, welcome back and welcome back to all the listeners. |
| 0:45.8 | We're back with part two of Mead at Gettysburg |
| 0:50.5 | with our friend, esteemed historian and author Kent Masterson Brown. |
| 0:56.2 | So we left off on part one, if I recall, kind of at the end of July 1st. |
| 1:00.8 | And I think we're going to pick up the story on July 2nd. |
| 1:03.4 | Kent will walk us through the closing of the Battle of Gettysburg a little bit on the post- battle |
| 1:09.4 | campaign itself. |
| 1:10.8 | And dare I say, we may see an extended Dan Sickles report for not too long. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah as many people that get really triggered by Dan Sickles I'm sorry you cannot talk about George Mead on July 2nd |
| 1:24.1 | 1863 and not mention Dan Sickles. Well that's the million dollar |
| 1:28.2 | question. Can you or can't you and should you or shouldn't you I'd love to see and I'm putting a call out there |
| 1:35.7 | folks I'd love to see a George Mead historian come bursting onto the scene here that doesn't have to compare Meade to Sickles, |
| 1:45.5 | or Lincoln was unfair to Meade, or Halleck was unfair to Meade, or Sickles was unfair to Meade. |
| 1:52.1 | Damn it, can we just get Mead on his own merits? |
| 1:55.0 | Well, we can't get Longstreet on his own merits. |
| 1:58.0 | You replace Mead, you've got Longstreet people there. |
| 2:01.0 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 2:02.0 | So, well, in between the two episodes came out, I happened to be on the battlefield and |
| 2:07.6 | happened to be at the hallowed ground where Dan Sickles was severely wounded in defense of the United |
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