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PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: The Wiekert, Trostle, and Klingle Farms 
Studio : Pennsylvania Cable Network
by Pennsylvania Cable Network
Brand : PCN Tours
Release Date : 2006-06-01
Publisher : Pennsylvania Cable Network
Released : 2006
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours and eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0879930000097
UPC : 879930000097
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 2 reviews)
Our Price : $19.99
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The Pennsylvania Cable Network presents a series of its award-winning PCN Tours - Gettysburg Battlewalks for purchase on DVD. Since 1996, PCN's cameras have followed Gettysburg Park Rangers on walking tours of America's most famous battlefield. The legendary exploits of the Union and Confederate armies come to life with these informative and entertaining tours of Gettysburg National Park and its surrounding community. |
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SAVE YOUR MONEY |
SAVE YOUR MONEY..NUMBER ONE I CANT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THE TERRIBLE PRODUCTION PCN DOES ON THESE BATTLEFIELD WALKS..I WAS ENTICED TO BUY THESE WALKS BECAUSE THE FIRST ONE I BOUGHT WAS "FIRST SHOTS
" AND WAS DONE WITH RANGER ERIC CAMPBELL..HE WAS A PLETHORA OF INFORMATION AND EXCITING AS HE TOLD THE STORIES OF THE INITIAL CLASH..SO I BOUGHT MORE OF THESE AND WHAT A DISSAPOINTMENT..RANGER BARBRA SANDERS IS TERRIBLE IN THIS...I FELT LIKE I WAS A 3RD GRADER AND GETTING A TOUR OF THE FIELD FROM BARNEY..THE ADULTS IN THE BACKGROUND ARE FALLING ASLEEP AND PICKING AT THEIR FINGERNAILS..BORING..IS THE BEST I CAN DESCRIBE THIS AT BEST..MAY APPEAL TO A 6 YEAR OLD BUT IF U WANT TO REALLY LEARN SOMETHING GET THE ONES THAT ERIC CAMPBELL ARE IN...
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Walking Gettysburg's Battlefield: The Weikert, Trostle and Klingel Farms |
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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