PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: Rose Farm Review

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(More customer reviews)PCN DOES A TERRIBLE JOB ON ITS PRODUCTIONS FOR THESE WALKS..THIS ONE I HAD TO WATCH 45 MIN OF RAIN DROPS ON THE LENS..WHO EDITS THIS STUFF? AND IF THAT IS NOT BAD ENOUGH LBG TIM SMITH AND GARY ADELMAN ARE TERRIBLE..IF YOU THOUGHT THAT FIGHTING AT THE ROSE FARM AND WHEATFIELD WAS CONFUSING TRY WATCHING THIS DVD..INSTEAD OF TRYING TO LAY OUT THE EVENTS OF WHAT HAPPEND THERE I FOUND MYSELF WATCHING GUYS HOLDING UP PICTURES OF MONUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOVED..I REALLY DONT CARE IF THE MONUMENT WAS MOVED, JUST TELL ME SOMETHING OF THE BATTLE HERE...AGAIN PCN DOES NOT PAN TO ANYTHING AS THE GUIDES ARE TALKING SO YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE..THESE GUIDES KEEP TURINING OVER TO EACH OTHER AND EACH ONE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS SO CONFUSING YOU WILL NEED SOME TYLENOL AND SOMEBODY THAT REALLY KNOWS THE STORY TO SORT IT ALL OUT..SAVE YOUR CASH ON THIS ONE..

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PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: The Wiekert, Trostle, and Klingle Farms Review

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(More customer reviews)Walking Gettysburg's Battlefield: The Weikert, Trostle and Klingel Farms
Gettysburg Battlewalks: The Weikert, Trostle, and Klingle Farms, Barbara Sanders, Pennsylvania Cable Network, 2004, 95 minutes, DVD format, $20.
Before the battle, Adams County was home to prosperous farm families. Remarks by invading Confederates are found in most books that survey the battle. Jacob Hoke's 'The Great Invasion' and Wilbur Nye's 'Here Come The Rebels' provide many instances of the surprise and admiration by the Confederates of the size and prosperity of Pennyslvania's farmsteads. Nearly forty farms were occupied by the armies on July 1, 2, 3, 1863. Entire farms were destroyed; the Harmon farm and Herbst farm buildings were burned by Rebels on the mid-afternoon of July 1. Also, the Bliss farm had all its buildings and it house burned on the morning of July 3 by Union troops who were exhausted by the constant harrassment of Confederate sharpshooters. Most battlefield first aid stations and hospitals were located on farms.
The Weikert, Trostle and Klingel farms suffered on July 2 from the advance of Longstreet's corps and the resistence of the Third Corp. These farm families had little choice but to abandon their homes when the fighting were in there farm yards. National Park Service Ranger Barbara Sanders walks, with an audience of adults and children, over these farmsteads. Few subjects are neglected; Sanders covers fences as defensive barricades and offensive impediments, barns and houses as both sharpshooter posts and first aid locations, and springs and streams as unique meeting places for enemies. She depicts the corn as being 'knee high by the Fourth of July' and the oats, barley, and orchards ripening on the farms and being destroyed by men and horses.
Sanders discusses surgery and amupation as she and the audience stands near the spot of General Daniel Sickles' wounding. She describes the withdrawal of artillery by prolong in the fields of the Trostle farm and the hinderance to the battery's escape by occassioned by the stone and rail fence behind the barn. Of the many tours in PCN Productions' Gettysburg Battlewalks series, this ranks among the most enjoyable and informative. Sanders enthusiasm, point of view, and interactions with the audience adds to her attention to detail regarding the farm families' stories give this tour distinctive.


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PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: Bucktail Brigade Review

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Gettysburg Battlewalks: The Bucktail Brigade, John Heiser, Pennsylvania Cable Network, 1 hour 35 minutes, dvd, 2005, $20.00.
Army of the Potomac, First Corps, Third Division, Second Brigade, in which 2 of every 3 soldiers are killed or wounded during the battle of Gettysburg. The Bucktail Brigade.
Like other brigades of the First Corps on July 1st, it was assigned an area too large for 1300 soldiers to cover. Assailed on both flanks by Rebel soldiers from two different divisions, this brigade of Pennsylvanians retreated to Cemetery Ridge.
The commander of this brigade, Colonel Roy Stone, orginally served with the 13th Pennsylvania Reserve, the original Bucktail Regiment. In the fall of 1862, Stone was given command of three Pennsylvania regiments un-related to the Pennsylvania Reserve division. Derisively known at the 'Bogus Bucktails' by the Pennyslvania Reserve regiments, the 143rd, 149th and the 150th Pennsylvania entered the army in late 1862 and saw their first combat at Gettysburg.
John Heiser, GNMP ranger who manages the park's library and crafts maps for Gettysburg Magazine, gives an enthusiastic tour over the McPherson Farm in the steps of the Pennsylvanians. Capturing and having their own flags captured, repulsing Daniels' CSA brigade and then being routed on two flanks, gaining a Medal of Honor and making the McPherson barn their hospital, the story of the Bucktail Brigade at Gettysburg is one of victory and defeat.
Though only about 90 minutes, this PCN tour is one of the more enjoyable. Heiser's perseverance during the July morning heat, the stories of Yankee tactics and valor are well told, and walking among the Bucktail Brigades three monuments along Chambersburg Pike, give a strong sense of place. The viewer would be well served to have a copy of the McElfresh July 1 map that shows crops, buildings, fences and woodlots while viewing the dvd. This PCN tour is recommended for both the new and more experienced Gettysburg visitors and readers.# posted by Rea Andrew Redd @ 8:26 PM 0 comments
Friday, February 02, 2007


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PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: Power's Hill Review

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(More customer reviews)If you can't get there in person for the Battlefield tours this is a very close second. The rangers are very interesting and knowledgeable in their presentations. One day we hope to actually attend, but for now these will do.

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