The Gettysburg Discussion Group Forum Digest for July 1, 2014 To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit arthes/mailman/listinfo/gettysburg_arthes or, via email, send a message with subject or body help to gettysburg-request@arthes You can reach the person managing the list at gettysburg-owner@arthes When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Gettysburg digest... Todays Topics: 1. Re: Ed Bearss (Dean Shultz) 2. Re: Ed Bearss (Mike Barry) 3. Re: Ed Bearss (Donald L. Mahnken) 4. Re: Ed Bearss (TangoGee@aol) 5. Re: Ed Bearss ([email protected]) 6. Ed Bearss & Dean Shultz (Jack Lawrence) 7. Re: Ed Bearss & Dean Shultz (TangoGee@aol) 8. Re: Ed Bearss & Dean Shultz (keith mackenzie) 9. Re: Gettysburg The High Water Mark (Nancy Householder) 10. Baltimore in peril (John Lawrence) 11. Re: Ed Bearss (Chuck May) 12. Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Nancy Householder) 13. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (John Lawrence) 14. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Walter Wells) 15. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Gettysburgerrn@aol) 16. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (George Connell) 17. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Walter Wells) 18. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (George Connell) 19. Official Civil War Trust Announcement About Lees Headquarters (Mark Campi) 20. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Walter Wells) 21. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Tom Miller) 22. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (John Lawrence) 23. Re: Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters (Mike Barry) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:18:27 -0400 From: Dean Shultz To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Hello, Yesterday Judy and I took Eds car back to his home in Arlington. Ed was discharged from the hospital with his new pacemaker on Saturday and is recovering at his home. He is doing fine and looked great. He is ready to get back on the battlefields as soon as the doctor gives his approval. I am sure we will seen him and hear his booming voice in the very near future as he gives his famous tours. Judy always called him the energized bunny and now he only needed his battery charged a little to get gone again. He turned 91 on June 26. Regards Dean Shultz ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:26:20 +0000 From: Mike Barry To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Youre a good man Dean. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:32:35 -0400 From: Donald L. Mahnken To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hes going to outlive us all. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:51:17 -0400 (EDT) From: TangoGee@aol To: gettysburg@arthes Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Gad to hear that Dean. Pass him my best wishes from this side of the pond, Best regards to you and Judy Granville ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:56:49 -0500 (CDT) From: [email protected] To: gettysburg@arthes Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dean, You and I should look so good at 91. What an amazing guy! Regards, Jack Kelly ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:57:17 -0600 From: Jack Lawrence To: GDG Subject: GDG- Ed Bearss & Dean Shultz Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Guys Ed Bears and Dean Shultz and Ed Bearss do more than interpet the battles for us. they pass on memories of the fields They pass on things. they preserve things and make them better, be it Ed Bearss unearthing (unwatering?) a civil war navalsteam vessel or Dean Shultz saving the copse of trees. Or preservation down at fairfield. They pass on the knowledge and memories of previous generations that have lived on the field. Who can forget Deans ancestor who saw the slave catchers coming up Roch Creek at night going after a runaway. I think about that every time I pass by there come into Gettysburg. Ed Bearss and his interpretation of Oates assualt? They pass on things to us that were passed onto them. Things we would not have had. And we get to talk about them in the present tense. They are living history. Thank you both of you. Regards, Jack ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:43:59 -0400 (EDT) From: TangoGee@aol To: gettysburg@arthes Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss & Dean Shultz Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Very well said Jack. I was fortunate a few years back to spend the day in their company and I realised just how lucky I was. I bumped into Mr Bearrs a couple of years later at Antietem and was blown away to realise he remembered me and said hello, not only a genius but a gentleman genius. As for Dean if you have never met him or Judy you simply must make the time. If youre lucky youll get a view of what Gettysburg was really like in 1863 and hear facts, stories and tales youll never read in all the volumes written about Gettysburg, It a wonderful experience listening to either of these masters of the art of bringing a story to life. Granville ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:13:47 -0700 From: keith mackenzie To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss & Dean Shultz Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I second that. Hello! Im The Doctor. (Dr. Who) ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:31:26 -0700 From: Nancy Householder To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Gettysburg The High Water Mark Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 There is a book, by Troy Harman, in which he gives that same theory. It is called The plan remains unchanged, or Lees plan remained unchanged. I have it but not at my reach at this time. Troy talks about how Zieglers Grove was the prominent feature of trees in 1863 and was nearer to Cemetery Hill, and the center of the Union line. The Copse of trees was very small and not a landmark at that time. It became a landmark after the war by John Bacheldor, the official battle historian. Nancy H ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:35:39 -0500 From: John Lawrence To: Gdg Subject: GDG- Baltimore in peril Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 BALTIMORE BE ATTACKED? THE DEFENCES OF BALTIMORE. Published: June 30, 1863 From the American of Yesterday. This was the predominant question among our citizens yesterday, and all shades of opinions were expressed on the subject. The object of Gen. LEEs campaign we apprehend to be the capture of Washington, and until he encounters the army of Gen. HOOKER, which is now understood to be pressing upon him, we may neither look for him at Baltimore or Washington. If he moves on Baltimore it must be in force, as we are now, thanks to the vigilance of Gen. SCHENCK, too well protected to be visited by a mere cavalry raid. We learn that Gen. TYLER, of Connecticut, has been assigned by Major-Gen. SCHENCK to the charge of the fortifications and defences of Baltimore, and yesterday visited and examined the different works. Gen. TYLER had command of Maryland Heights after the evacuation of Martinsburgh, and was highly complimented by Gen. FRENCH, on assuming command of that post, for the fine condition for defence in which he found it. New works, of a most formidable character, had been erected by Gen. TYLER during his brief command there, and every day was adding to its impregnability. We may, therefore, expect the most thorough completion of the works already in progress, and the addition of others of a more formidable character in and around Baltimore. ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:23:24 -0400 From: Chuck May To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Ed Bearss Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dean, Is there any truth to the rumor that this pacemaker is the one that should have been given to Bobby Lee before the battle, but Lee said to hold on to it in case Ed Bearss might need it someday? Chuck May Pittsfield MA ChuckMay@may-engineering may-engineering ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 05:14:32 -0700 From: Nancy Householder To: Gettysburg Discussion Subject: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I just read an announcement on Facebook that the Civil War Trust will be buying Lees Headquarters building and the Quality Inn, and the Appalachian Brewing Company, all located on that site. They plan to tear down the two modern buildings and restore Lees headquarters. Nancy H ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:51:17 -0500 From: John Lawrence To: Gdg Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Maybe they will put a Thaddeus Stevens House sign outside. :>). Regards, Jack ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:04:36 -0400 From: Walter Wells To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 philly/philly/news/20140701_Civil_War_Trust_to_buy_Gen__Lee_s_HQ_at_Gettysburg.html ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:21:35 -0400 From: Gettysburgerrn@aol To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii So what happens to the people who work there God bless America ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:53:19 -0400 From: George Connell To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Thats good, but Im gonna miss that beer. George ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:57:35 -0400 From: Walter Wells To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 No need to miss it - they opened a second location to the east of Gettysburg within this past year. I wondered why but I think perhaps we know now: abcbrew/brewpubs/gettysburg-gateway/ ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:22:31 -0400 From: George Connell To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Were saved ! George ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 07:24:09 -0700 From: Mark Campi To: gettysburg@arthes Subject: GDG- Official Civil War Trust Announcement About Lees Headquarters Message-ID: Check out the full announcement , maps, and photos on our Facebook page.?? https://facebook/gdg.org?ref_type=bookmark (Gettysburg, Pa.) ? For decades, the small stone house on Seminary Ridge from which Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee commanded his army during the Battle of Gettysburg has been unprotected and surrounded by commercial development. But thanks to a national fundraising campaign announced today by the Civil War Trust and other national and Pennsylvania conservation leaders, permanent preservation of General Lee?s Headquarters may soon be realized...... ------------------------------ Message: 20 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:28:33 -0400 From: Walter Wells To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Amen, brother, amen!!!! ------------------------------ Message: 22 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:58:10 -0500 From: John Lawrence To: Gdg Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Thanks Walter. Nice article. I always assumed that the widow owned the house, but I have seen it stated that thus was an early day duplex. Was a member of the Stevens family living in the other house. I wonder if anybody told Lee that Stevens was an owner there? Regards, Jack ------------------------------ Message: 23 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:15:19 +0000 From: Mike Barry To: GDG Subject: Re: GDG- Civil War Trust buying Lees Headquaters Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ive read or heard that the other side was vacant at the time so that made things convenient for Lees staff. I know he ate a couple meals there. Supposedly with Longstreet, Ewell and Early on the evening of 7/1/63. Is that myth or fact? There was a painting in the old museum there that depicted such. Ive also read that Lee slept for a few hours on the night of the first at the Lady Farm. Someone needs to write a book tracking the movements of these commanders . Lee, Longstreet, Ewell, Hill, Stuart, Meade, Doubleday, Hancock, Sykes, Slocum. What happened to Hill after Cashtown on day one? Ive read or heard he spent the next 2 days laying in bed with prostatitis the farm west Seminary Ridge near the monument to the 11th Miss. Whats the name? Its a beautiful place. Regards, Mike Barry
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