PREVIEW: #GETTYSBURG: Conversation with colleague Jeff McCausland, CBS News, re the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and the hesitation and decline of General Ewell to assault and capture Cemetery Hill at the cost of the day. And what
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
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1913 Gettysburg 50th Reunion.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good friend and colleague Jeff McCausen, United States Army |
| 0:08.2 | retired artillery men, CBS News and Dickinson College Visiting Professor about the Battle of Gettysburg. |
| 0:17.0 | July 1st to July 3rd, 1863. Jeff and I touch upon the first day's events. |
| 0:24.0 | We'll do the second and third in subsequent weeks. |
| 0:28.0 | The first day's events, and what was the critical moment when Lee could have won the first day? |
| 0:35.6 | What was the critical moment about the second and third day? |
| 0:38.8 | What did Lee believe could have happened on the second day. |
| 0:43.0 | Jeff is very careful. |
| 0:45.0 | He knows the battlefield extremely well. |
| 0:48.0 | I know it from reading. |
| 0:50.0 | Here's Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired, visiting Professor Dickinson College, |
| 0:56.0 | Diamond Six Leadership CEO, most importantly, the author of Battle-tested Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg. First day, Gettysburg, boots and |
| 1:07.6 | saddles. More of this later tonight. I think he still thought he could be in the battle in the morning. |
| 1:15.0 | He began, of course, an effort to outflank the Federal Army on the second day, |
| 1:20.0 | and if the Confederates had moved more quickly, they moved slowly. |
| 1:22.0 | He thinks they're going to move about eight, prayer for that attack. And if the Confederates had moved more quickly, they move slowly. |
| 1:22.7 | He thinks they're going to move about eight, |
| 1:24.2 | prayer for that attack. |
| 1:25.5 | Long Street doesn't move till noon. |
| 1:27.5 | And if they had gotten in position earlier |
| 1:30.3 | and begun the attack, I think they might well |
| 1:32.2 | have taken a little round top on the |
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