Video Discussion 43: Pickett's Charge, The Second Wave

[JerseyBart]

Monday Night 12/5/16, 9:30pm eastern in the chatroom

 

[MaryDee]

Hopefully I'll make it this time, since I won't be driving the horrible I-5 with its numerous "racing" semis between Seattle and Portland! ("Racing" being a truck going 61 mph passing a truck going 60 mph, with the normally 75 mph traffic backed up for miles.) That trip exhausts me every time, and I'm seriously considering going by train after this (takes about the same amount of time, not counting the 1 1/2 hour bus/light rail/bus ride between my home and the downtown Portland station). I did watch the Chincoteague video again the next day without falling asleep, and also read through the discussion. I'm sorry I missed it!

I'll check out other sources on the charge, too! Should give us some fun discussing!

 

[rpkennedy]

I might actually be free this Monday. I'll try to watch the video and participate.

Ryan

 

[Jamieva]

I tried but i could only make it 25 minutes it and it's got another hour. He's way too detailed for me and he's talking about popping balloons and the golden gate bridge. putting me to sleep. Sorry I'll check out the next one.

 

[rpkennedy]

I tried but i could only make it 25 minutes it and it's got another hour. He's way too detailed for me and he's talking about popping balloons and the golden gate bridge. putting me to sleep. Sorry I'll check out the next one.

And hour and a half for an idea I don't buy? Sounds like fun.

Ryan

 

[JerseyBart]

I tried but i could only make it 25 minutes it and it's got another hour. He's way too detailed for me and he's talking about popping balloons and the golden gate bridge. putting me to sleep. Sorry I'll check out the next one.

And hour and a half for an idea I don't buy? Sounds like fun.

Ryan

I guess we'll see you next time.

 

[rpkennedy]

I guess we'll see you next time.

Don't get me wrong, my friend. I still plan on watching it and participating.

Ryan

 

[rpkennedy]

I'm listening to it now and taking notes.

Ryan

 

[rpkennedy]

This should be an interesting discussion.

Ryan

 

[bdtex]

I gotta be up super early in the morning. Doubt I can hang with it tomorrow night.

 

[War Horse]

Second Wave? If at all possible I'll be there. I hope to watch it before.

 

[MaryDee]

Interesting. I would have gotten far more out of the lecture had the video shown where the lecturer was pointing on the various maps! Frankly, I was lost during parts of it.

See you tomorrow evening!

 

[rpkennedy]

Interesting. I would have gotten far more out of the lecture had the video shown where the lecturer was pointing on the various maps! Frankly, I was lost during parts of it.

See you tomorrow evening!

I figured it out since I've been looking at those maps for much of my life but the lack of where he was pointing and the fact that some of those maps were hard to see made it hard to follow along.

Ryan

 

[War Horse]

I figured it out since I've been looking at those maps for much of my life but the lack of where he was pointing and the fact that some of those maps were hard to see made it hard to follow along.

Ryan

Well you didn't know about the golden bridge. Lee wanted them to escape. He never really wanted to destroy the AOP. He wanted to leave them a way out!

 

[rpkennedy]

Well you didn't know about the golden bridge. Lee wanted them to escape. He never really wanted to destroy the AOP. He wanted to leave them a way out!

So many metaphors.

Ryan

 

[War Horse]

Would the second line have been ordered to proceed when the first line failed?

 

[E_just_E]

I am on Mountain time tomorrow, so I might make it.

This is like preaching to the Choir as far as I am concerned about the use of contemporary sources vs later sources...

 

[War Horse]

Well I've listened to it and enjoyed it very much. All I can say is horse pucky. I mean that in the most positive way.

 

[War Horse]

I am on Mountain time tomorrow, so I might make it.

This is like preaching to the Choir as far as I am concerned about the use of contemporary sources vs later sources...

Explain E!

 

[E_just_E]

Explain E!

The later Bachelder mythology regarding the Copse of Trees being the target (*), including the whole monumentation of that garbage that has become the recent Gettysburg Canon...

Second wave or not, is another story...

(*) and of course anyone who walked the field of Pickett's charge would know that the Copse of Trees is invisible from the starting positions of half of the Confederate force.