Episode 45: John Sedgwick and The Union Sixth Corps - Part One with Carol Reardon
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Eric, Jim, and Jody are joined by esteemed Civil War historian Dr. Carol Reardon as she discusses John Sedgwick and the Union Sixth Corps in the Gettysburg Campaign. Part One covers the background of John Sedgwick, a discussion of the composition of the Sixth Corps during the campaign, and a detailed look at the critical, but often overlooked, role the corps will play on July 2 and 3.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host |
| 0:35.5 | Eric Lindblade and as always I am joined by my co-host Jim Hesseler. Jim what's our |
| 0:40.9 | episode tonight? Hey Eric, welcome back. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:45.0 | We are going to begin tonight with a two-parter |
| 0:48.0 | from esteemed historian Carol Reardon, |
| 0:51.0 | covering of all things John Sedgwick in the Sixth Core. |
| 0:55.8 | Now you know when you come to Gettysburg, you do your deep dive, you take a tour, you don't |
| 1:00.9 | hear a lot about the Sixth Core, so people might be surprised to find out |
| 1:04.8 | that there's going to be a lot to unpack tonight. So with that coming to you from |
| 1:09.6 | the content capital of the free world in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:14.0 | We are also joined by Superfan Jody. |
| 1:17.0 | How you doing Jody? |
| 1:18.0 | I'm doing great. It's been a busy time around here in Gettysburg. |
| 1:21.0 | It has. We've been doing a lot of stuff, huh? |
| 1:24.0 | Every month we've pretty much had things going on. We had, well actually in February, |
| 1:29.2 | over with you at the World War II experience, a great event there with a number of our friends and colleagues |
| 1:36.4 | there, a good time. |
| 1:37.4 | Was it that cool to do some World War II stuff? |
| 1:40.7 | It was, who would have thought? |
| 1:41.9 | A Civil War podcast ends up talking about World War II at Gettysburg. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I mean you are historians. |
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