Episode 51: The Wheatfield at Gettysburg - Part Three
The Battle of Gettysburg Podcast
Jim Hessler and Eric Lindblade
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Eric, Jim, and Jody continue their multi-part deep dive into the fighting in and around the infamous Wheatfield at Gettysburg. The hosts shift their focus to the Stony Hill on the western edge of the Wheatfield and the fighting between the Fifth Corps brigades of Tilton and Sweitzer of James Barnes's Division and the South Carolina brigade of Joseph Kershaw. If you would like to donate to the show, you can do so via the following:
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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'm joined by my co-host Jim Hesseler. Jim tell the |
| 0:40.8 | listeners out there tonight what our episode is. |
| 0:42.6 | Hey Eric, thanks and welcome back everybody. |
| 0:45.2 | So we are going to cover tonight part three of our deep dive on the wheat field |
| 0:50.4 | and specifically we're going to move over to the action on Stony Hill. |
| 0:55.0 | So part three of the Wheatfield, Stony Hill. |
| 0:58.0 | I believe this is episode 51 of the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the amazing 51st episode. I had a guy on tour last weekend who |
| 1:06.8 | swore he had already listened to the 51st episode. I don't think so. |
| 1:10.8 | No, we had a champagne last time. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. |
| 1:13.0 | Do we have bootleg podcast going out here? |
| 1:16.0 | I mean so many people have ripped us off it might as well be bootleg. |
| 1:19.0 | I just thought maybe I had lost count. |
| 1:21.0 | You know it's been a while since we've done in the studio, so... |
| 1:23.2 | And it's not like we haven't had anything going on in life, work and such, but we're glad to be back here. |
| 1:28.8 | And speaking to being back, where are we right now? |
| 1:32.1 | Well, let's turn it over to Jody from Savage. |
| 1:35.0 | Jody, where are we recording from today? |
| 1:37.0 | We are recording again from Getty's Gear. |
| 1:40.0 | And it's a bright and sunny wonderful day in Gettysburg. You can come to Getty's gear and get all sorts of things. |
| 1:48.0 | They have cigars, they have, I think they have some podcast merch up there. |
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