Gettysburg Videos

[close] Who IS the visitor -- and when does he come from?

[close] The quiet tells it all...something is happening on the battle field at Gettysburg -- something quite unexpected.

[close] Here's two dead guys and a traveller through time. A tongue-in-cheek doggerel about a book, Not a terrible rhyme. It's worth a look be ye a cook or a crook. So give it a whirl be ye a boy or a girl.

[close] Part 2 of 2. Director Rob Child speaks on his two films on Gettysburg at the Lotos Club in NYC in November 2004. The Lotos Club, one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States, was founded on March 15, 1870, by a group of young writers, journalists and critics. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), an early member (1873), called Lotos "The Ace of Clubs." Had you visited Lotos a century ago, you would have rubbed shoulders with journalists, scholars, musicians, painters and sculptors, art collectors, historians, novelists and college presidents, just as you do today. Decade after decade of Lotos history is filled with magnificent entertaining, sharp-witted oratory, grand food, concerts, art shows, evenings with presidents and mayors, literary roundtables and lavish State Dinners. (from Lotos Club)

[close] Part 1 of 2. Director Rob Child speaks on his two films on Gettysburg at the Lotos Club in NYC in November 2004. The Lotos Club, one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States, was founded on March 15, 1870, by a group of young writers, journalists and critics. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), an early member (1873), called Lotos "The Ace of Clubs." Had you visited Lotos a century ago, you would have rubbed shoulders with journalists, scholars, musicians, painters and sculptors, art collectors, historians, novelists and college presidents, just as you do today. Decade after decade of Lotos history is filled with magnificent entertaining, sharp-witted oratory, grand food, concerts, art shows, evenings with presidents and mayors, literary roundtables and lavish State Dinners. (from Lotos Club)

[close] The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses is a full-color master work decades in the making. Presented for the first time in print are comprehensive orders of battle for four dozen engagements both large and small waged during the five weeks of the Gettysburg Campaign (June 9 – July 14, 1863). Each presentation includes a synopsis of the engagement; photos of the commanders; original maps of the fighting; an order of battle with numbers and losses (including killed, wounded, captured, and missing); charts and graphs (where appropriate) of relative strengths and losses; and a conclusion of how the fighting affected each side and the course of the campaign. J. David Petruzzi and Steven A. Stanley used a staggering array of primary resources gathered over a lifetime of study to compile the text and craft the original maps from the Official Records, soldier letters and diaries, period newspapers, regimental histories, reminiscences, muster rolls, and other published and unpublished sources.

[close] The Cause: Love & War is a historical fiction that tells the civilian side of the Civil War. Interacting with historical characters of Gettysburg, Emilie Prescott shows you the war from both sides, north and south.

[close] Book trailer for Widow of Gettysburg, Book #2 in the Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War series by award-winning author Jocelyn Green

[close] Editors David Detweiler and David Reisch discuss the process and inspiration behind GETTYSBURG: THE STORY OF THE BATTLE WITH MAPS.

[close] Author Tom Huntington discusses Meade's role at Gettysburg.

[close] Quick excerpts from the DVD version of the book. There are 18 videos whose standard length is 3.5 minutes.

[close] One of this video's lessons is to play by the rules or suffer the consequences.

[close] The author runs into the perils of shooting a video live and on location.

[close] In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Pennsylvania in a daring offensive to win the Civil War in a single campaign. They met the Union Army at a quiet crossroads town called Gettysburg and engaged in the greatest battle ever fought on American soil. Three days of combat ended on July 3 with Pickett’s Charge, a heroic assault by nine of Lee’s brigades against the Union defenses on Cemetery Ridge. Their repulse at the stone wall became known as the “high-water mark” of the Confederacy. At the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery that November, Lincoln used the occasion to deliver his Gettysburg Address, a short, two-minute speech that became the most famous in American history. In this original retelling of the Gettysburg story, Iain Martin draws upon firsthand accounts—from the generals to the lowly privates and civilians caught in the epic struggle. Readers will discover history through the experiences of two Gettysburg teenagers.

[close] Two boys, two fathers scarred by war. Who will survive? Junior Thompson, son of a freed slave, and Webbie Henderson, son of a wealthy family, cross a forbidden boundary between their properties and forge an unlikely friendship in the years that culminate in the Civil War. Young as they are, both must become the men of their families when their fathers are called to battle. When the war comes to their hometown of Carlisle and nearby Gettysburg, will they survive? An historically authentic, fast-paced, multicultural family saga, Soldier's Heart takes place over a fifteen-year period, culminating on April 9, 1865: Junior Thompson's twelfth birthday, and also the day General Lee will surrender, formally ending the Civil War. Though the victory of the war may be at hand, this unforgettable story reveals how the private battles of the heart rage on. Soldier's Heart is inspired by the untold true story of the Thompsons, a black family, and the Hendersons, a white family, who lived as neighbors i

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[close] Famed for the depth of his thought and the gracefulness of his writing, Garry Wills has penned more than 30 celebrated and sometimes contentious books on American culture, Catholicism, and politics. His Lincoln at Gettysburg close textual analysis of the Gettysburg Address won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. One of today's most prominent cultural historians, he is also a frequent contributor to the nation's foremost newspapers and magazines. In spellbinding language, Wills moves with ease between American politics, ancient history, and medieval philosophy, and "his thinking often takes him, and us, to unexpected and delightful places" (New York Newsday).