Red Two

RN; 19yr L&D RN; Gettysburg College/Johns Hopkins U SON; from Herndon, VA. (Billy was right.) All sides must be at the table; not just a select few...

[Red Two @heehee3]

Happy Father’s Day!
Dad meeting President Reagan when he won a WH News Photographers Assoc award for editing @nbcwashington (~1980 WRC-TV). Also won 4 local Emmy’s (3 w/Byline Lea Thompson). Didn’t know he was meeting Reagan, so we had 2 meet my dad in Tysons w/his suit!

[Red Two @heehee3]

@achdidaho can you give westbound Victory at Meridian just 10 more seconds for a green light in the morning? Only 8 cars making it through the light is ridiculous. I know a mile south, westbound Amity has a longer light. Please, make them the same!!

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

The Union troops by way of fife & drum try to renew the spirit of the town & encourage the citizens to come out of hiding

They march thru town on Independence Day celebrating a victory

But, when the citizens emerge...they find there isn't much to celebrate
#Gettysburg

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

🔵Independence Day 1863

It's raining at 6am

Wounded soldiers still on the battlefield are getting their first drink of water from the skies

A cool rain was surely a welcome thing for them after lying out there all night

More rain ...torrential rain is coming

#Gettysburg

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

Goodnight all from South Central PA!

Thank you again for following along the past 3 days

Your support means the world to me & to all of those who lost their lives 162 years ago

You are keeping their memory alive

#Gettysburg #Gettysburg162

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

Lee is back at his headquarters

It's time to get the hell outta Pennsylvania

He summons Gen Imboden

"We must return to Va...you will guard our train....I am afraid you will be harassed by the enemy's cavalry..." -Lee to Imboden

#Gettysburg

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

I must admit every "last day" I get quite sentimental

No 3 days in the 365 that we're given ea trip around the sun move me more than July 1st, 2nd & 3rd

I'm 1 of those saps who stands out at the stone wall & looks across the field & cries

This battle is significant

Period.

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

The flickering lanterns on what once were just farmer's fields & are now battlefields look like fireflies hovering above the dead & wounded

Tonight, the citizens of #Gettysburg are either still underground...
or tending to the wounded...

sleeping, most wouldn't be doing

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

#Gettysburg went from a population of 2,400 to about 15,000 in a matter of 72 hours

The citizens were now left with thousands of wounded soldiers spread out through town in barns...

sheds...

private residences...

churches

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

Day 3 last time

Whose campfire are you sitting around tonight and what are you discussing?

Please join in!

Thank you!

#Gettysburg #Gettysburg162

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

THANK YOU to my new followers from the coverage over the last 3 days!

I'll be covering the retreat & The Burning of Chambersburg later this month so don't go anywhere!

Keep #History alive for the NEXT 162 yrs after us!

Thank you, from South Central Co. PA!

#Gettysburg162

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

By the numbers:

Lee sent 15,000 (approx) soldiers across the field on this day 162 yrs ago

6,000 were killed, wounded, captured in 45 min

that's 133 losses per min

#Gettysburg

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

#Gettysburg citizen WB Bayly recalls on the evening of July 3

"Wagon trains, stragglers & camp followers began drifting back in the direction whence they came, our host visitors are folding their tents & quietly slipping away..."

#thecivilwar #Gettysburg162
#AmericanHistory

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

As darkness fell over #Gettysburg this evening, the screams & moans of wounded & dead soldiers filled the air

Screaming for help for water or food for God for someone to just put them out of their misery

Flickering flames on the fields could be seen this evening...

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

The Battle of #Gettysburg162

Forces Engaged: 165,620

Union Losses-23,049 (3,155 killed, 14,529 wounded 5,365 missing/captured)

Confederate Losses-28,063 (3,903 killed, 18,735 wounded 5,425 missing/captured)

7 mil. bullets fired

1,200 horses/mules killed

1 citizen killed

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

There's a new air blowing this evening & it carries the screams & cries of wounded & dying soldiers from both sides

It carries the smell of lingering smoke

It carries the smell of bodies & carcasses baking in 80 degree heat

"You could smell #Gettysburg before you saw it."

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

Lee thought the Union may counter attack but it didn't come

The only thing left for Lee to do...

...was to retreat

and he would

The one maneuver he would execute successfully in North country

#Gettysburg #Gettysburg162

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

As Confederates retreat to the line of trees there's still a war waging in town

Citizens remain underground

They aren't sure what's happening above

Jennie Wade's body lay in her sister's basement w/her fam, her hands still covered in flour

#gettysburg

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

"It's all my fault." - Lee

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#Gettysburg162

#Gettysburg

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

The 3/4 mile stretch of field looks different now

Dead soldiers
Wounded soldiers missing arms, legs, parts of their faces, some ripped in 1/2 screaming & crying for help for God, for it to be over

Body parts broken fences dead horses

The horror has just begun #Gettysburg162

[𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢𝚜𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐, 𝙼𝚊’𝚊𝚖 🗯 @gettysburgmaam]

Let us remember & honor at this time Alonzo Cushing who was killed at the height of this charge

Fighting to the last, wounded & still requesting orders

He was 22 when he died on the field

He would posthumously receive the Medal of Honor in 2014

#Gettysburg162 #Gettysburg