Episode 5: The Peach Orchard at Gettysburg - Part Two
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eric and Jim continue their dive into the actions in and around the Sherfy's peach orchard. In this episode they delve into some of the most intense, yet overlooked fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. They also cover what became of the property after the battle, and answer listener questions.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast coming to you from the Reliance Mine Saloon in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:06.3 | I am your co-host licensed battlefield guide Eric Lindblade and I am joined by my co-host James |
| 0:12.4 | Hesseler also a licensed battlefield guide. |
| 0:15.0 | Last week, we had a first in the history of the podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | We have gone to a part two for an episode. |
| 0:21.0 | The Peach Orchard, we had so much material, we had to break it up. So, Jim, where did we last leave off talking about the peach orchard? |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, so Eric, where we last left off, there was a whole lot of stuff going on. General Meade had more or less just found out |
| 0:35.2 | that Sickles in the Third Corps had moved forward |
| 0:37.6 | into the advanced position, and Longstreet and his Confederates |
| 0:42.0 | were just coming to the stunning conclusion that the |
| 0:44.8 | union left flank did not resemble what they thought it was going to |
| 0:48.4 | resemble when they decided on their plan of attack. So there is chaos, |
| 0:52.0 | confusion, artillery shells flying back and forth, |
| 0:55.7 | all because Dan Sickles and his third core are not where anyone expects them to be. So we've |
| 1:00.9 | established that Sickles and his men are occupying the peach orchard. Most of this |
| 1:05.5 | ground is going to be defended by one particular brigade in the Third Corps, General Charles |
| 1:11.3 | Graham's brigade of about about 1,600 men. |
| 1:14.2 | But as they get into this position, |
| 1:16.0 | they're in Joseph Shurfe's orchard, |
| 1:17.6 | they're along the Ametsburg Road. |
| 1:19.3 | Eric, what are some of the strengths and weaknesses |
| 1:22.4 | of the peach orchard as a defensive position. |
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