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Gettysburg – The Ted Turner Movie

| April 30, 2011

Part 25 of ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post features the trailer for the Ted Turner movie, Gettysburg, as well as the title theme and some favorite scenes.   Soundtrack:  Title Theme   1st Day – Reynolds Arrives   Killer Angels   Pickett’s Charge – The Plan   Soundtrack:  Reunion & Finale

Civil War Descendants of Nathaniel Gist

| April 29, 2011

Christopher Gist, an immigrant from England around 1682, settled in the Baltimore area of Maryland in 1891.  His marriage to Edith Cromwell had connected him to one of the prominent lines of English descent, that of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector.  The son of this marriage, Richard Gist (1684-1741), was the father of western explorer […]

98th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg

| April 28, 2011

(Part  24 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg).  Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]

95th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg

| April 27, 2011

(Part  23 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg).  Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]

96th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg

| April 26, 2011

(Part  22 of an ongoing series on the Battle of Gettysburg).  Around the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg are a series of plaques which, by regiment and company, note the names of every soldier who was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.  This post will present the plaque recognizing the men who served […]