In this video, historian and Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Park Ranger Aaron Siever (of Aaron’s Civil War Travels) breaks down the Battles of Harrisonburg, Cross Keys, and Port Republic in Stonewall Jackson’s famous 1862 Valley Campaign.
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Hey everybody Jared Marlo here with the booing gr education society and if you watched our video on the battle McDow then you know who this guy right here is this is Aaron sver from Aaron Civil War travels for those of you who don’t know um I’m going to let Aaron introduce
Himself a little bit here before we get started for those who did who didn’t watch the McDow videoos so um Aaron is there anything you want to tell us about yourself sure uh yeah Aaron sver uh currently I’m a park ranger for the shandel valley battlefields Foundation here in the National Historic District
Uh so I get to go and be on all these wonderful Valley battlefields uh pretty much every day um you know run my own YouTube channel and Facebook page Aon Civil War travels which I like to go to places that are known and unknown um a lot of my videos
Are are just in random places that you don’t realize there’s Civil War history there um and of course you know been to Gettysburg and places like that big battlefields but I really like the the smaller things the smaller C aigns um just because they’re such an integral
Part of Civil War um also the the human interest stories you know you’ve got so many places you can go with this amazing about me and we’ll again we’ll put links to Aaron’s stuff here in the description so you can follow him on Facebook and on YouTube um I will say
Before we go on you did a video on was it Brock’s Gap recently yeah that was that that was very interesting like and it’s in one of those places that you’re driving down the road there’s like a little fork in the road and you don’t think too much too much about it but
There was there was a whole lot that happened right there there’s a whole lot to happen there yeah I uh I grew up right through there uh rode my bike through there rode the school bus through there a lot um and kind of ran around when I was a teenager back through there
So been there a lot and uh even my younger days I didn’t realize there was a battlefield till probably early 2000s I started realizing oh okay there’s something here and then the more you look into it it’s a sharp little fight but it’s a sharp fight and that’s something that only or
You would only get by watching his channel there’s no no markers there there’s nothing there interpretive wise yeah so be sure to check out his pages of somebody that knows the area is going through there or or something like that that you’d never know was there yeah
Like I said that’s that’s the that’s the appe of his pages so be sure to check him out at Aaron’s Civil War travels and that’s on Facebook and YouTube we’ll have the links below but tonight we have a really special treat because we’re GNA talk about not one not two but three
Battles that all happen consecutively yeah technically I like to make it four well there was there there was a lot going on during and right before one of the battles that did coincide with the other one there was just right in that one stretch of road right there
That was a lot going on those those three days June 6 to June 9th are kind of crazy in and to to me they’re the when people think Jackson’s Valley campaign like this is probably like the the seminal battles of it yeah and really I mean I’m
One of those that I think you could take these two battles we’ll talk about it a little bit later but I think you could take these two battles um really and what happens right before these two battles and they could be their own campaign it’s almost like it’s a different campaign in a
Way well we’ll get into that in a little bit yeah so anyway we are going to talk about tonight the battles of Harrisonburg or Goods Farm the Battle of Cross Keys and the Battle of Port Republic in Jackson’s 1862 Valley campaign and Aaron I’m going to turn it
Over you and let you take take it away all right so really the the way to understand this part of Jackson’s Valley campaign uh really you have to go back to what happened before these battles um really at the end of the battle of first Winchester or the first battle of
Winchester um say that the other way makes it sounds like there’s a ton of Winchester cities up there it’s one Winchester up there but the the first battle of Winchester um Jackson’s going to move north after he push his bank out of the valley uh out of the L Valley
He’s going to move north and kind of be up around Martinsburg for a little while and part of that is to freak out the DC Administration there um I don’t think Abraham Lincoln is quite as scared as as maybe L on to believe at some points I
Think uh he’s influenced by Edwin ston his Secretary of War um who is a fanatical crazy guy uh that uh you know he’ll run around he runs around thinking everything’s gonna blow up in his face um so when he finds out Jackson’s there he is going to lose his mind and and I’m
Sure that’s going to influence the president um because of that Jackson is going to be facing not only the he just beat with banks who’s going to reform above him but he’s also going to be facing John C Fremont and James Shields Shields had been sent away and is now on
His way back from the fredicksburg area to encounter Jackson and you have jonath freemo who at the Battle of mcdal was the overall commander even though he wasn’t on the field his his troops under Milroy and shank were involved in that battle uh so Fremont’s been in the
Western area on the Eastern side and Jackson is going to find this out and he’s going to make a big U-turn and start up the valley toward Port Republic you toward the city of Harrisonburg Port Republic Cross Keys when he does that um he’s going to
Get to a point uh kind of she can say it’s almost halfway maybe a little little less than halfway uh but the town of strawsburg uh he’s going to be there and those two armies John C Freemont and James Shields honestly could have gotten him right there um
But they don’t they don’t press their advantage they’re skirmishing on both sides Jackson just marches through the night and keeps on getting it and uh the union misses a big opportunity there and that’s kind of why I say it’s a it’s a different campaign in a way it’s still
The valley campaign but you could split it based on Jackson’s chased the union out of the Valley now they’re chasing him um and so as he’s going to move up the valley toward Harrisonburg those armies are going to want to link together Jackson when he gets to Front Royal uh
In that area the strawsburg area he’s gonna he’s gonna know that if those two armies get together he’s he’s overwhelmed it’s too much he’s GNA use the mat nutton mountain and come back down through the fade or back up through the page Valley um and keep the Massa nutton Mountain
Which I’m looking out right outside my window uh he’s going to keep that between him and Fremont which is also keeping it between Fremont and shields this way he can as Shields is coming you know pursuing him Fremont’s gonna have to stay on the other side of the mountain
Because Jackson’s going to burn all the bridges um he’s going to you know make it hard for those two armies to get together uh and he’s going to use that mountain you know we we hear in the movie Gettysburg they use the mountains to screen their movements well that’s
Exactly what he’s doing here uh he’s not using the Blue Ridge he’s using the mass nothing for that one but uh he’s going to use that mountain to screen his movements and March all the way to Harrisonburg uh you know it’s gonna be kind of a force March but he’s going to
Make it down here pretty quick and then he’s going to turn around and he’s going to determine that he’s going to fight both of these armies he’s kept them apart uh by burning the bridges and things and he knows you know they’re they’re going to be able to come together at Port
Republic um if he can if he can’t beat them uh there’s one Bridge goes across the North River there in town in the town of Port Republic of course it’s been replaced by a modern day Bridge um but he is going when he gets to Harrisonburg he’s going to send his
Calvary Commander Turner Ashby uh Local Hero kind of that calier type guy you think about U probably the Valley’s Jeb Stewart as you could say very flamboyant and um a pretty rough and tough guy not a great disciplinarian um I would say steuart’s more of a disciplinarian than
Than returner Ashby was um and that’s actually comes up during this campaign especially on on the way back um Ashby’s troops are supposed to burn one of the bridges Red Bridge they’re in Paige County and they’re unable to do so because they got into some Apple Jack
And got drunk so they can’t can’t do that so Jackson will actually there for just a little bit he’ll relieve Turner Ashby of command of the calvary and the calvary will basically revolt and say no we’re not doing that it’s going to be one of the only times that Jackson is
Going to resend that he’s he’s going to put Ashby back in command just be like hey make the discipline better um there’s really not a lot he can do with that um he needs that Cavalry and Ashby’s a good Cavalier uh he just and he’s a good leader of men it’s
Just his men are not as disciplined as Jackson play with that said uh you’re going to have the Battle of Harrisonburg on June 6th this is going to be where John C Premont Vanguard is starting to come into Harrisonburg toward Jackson uh ashy is going to see some of these troops he’s
Going to set up a little Ambush uh there at cheso Ridge Goods Farm uh also known as Battle of Harrisburg called several things uh today it is part of JMU and dream come true Park so if you go over and play in the park you’re kind of on the
Battlefield so you still get there it’s a cool part but uh he Ash’s going to set up this Ambush but the Yankees the union troops are not going to go where he thinks they’re supposed to go and so he’s going to have to kind of high tail
It and turn around and go up on the ridge um and a very sharp fight’s going to happen up there um you’re gonna have the Pennsylvania bucktales involved U you’re gonna have sir Percy winham uh he’s going to be involved matter of fact he actually says before a before U Ash
As’s untimely death that he is there he’s going to sack Ash and he actually gets captured during that battle he never sees Ashby but he gets captured during the Battle of Harrisonburg so he does not sack Ashby actually sack him um but during this battle Ashby’s horse is
Gonna get shot and he’s gonna get impassioned and he’s going to lead a charge and as he’s doing it he gets shot pierced to the heart he’s dead um and there’s a monument there on Chestnut Ridge that is pretty close to the point uh sound you from everything that’s been
Researched pretty close to the point of his demise um the Confederates will it’s basically a filling out action um so it’s not really a win or loss there um I would say the Confederates kind of win that because they they do you know capture Percy winam um and they
Kind of check the union advance in the meantime what’s happening behind the scenes before we get back Ashby is General Richard Yu has been tasked with setting up a defensive position to protect the rear of Jackson’s Army who’s going to Port Republic Yu uh has moved out for
Harrisonburg and one of his uh believe it’s Colonel Elie is going to find a great spot uh for artillery and just it’s a commanding position is a nice Ridge it’s called mil um mil Creek Ridge also known as artillery Ridge because Y is going to massive artillery
On this Ridge and it’s going to be devastating on the troops there later on but that’s happening on June 6 they’re starting to get these dispositions f up in in the area of PR little Hamlet outside of harisonburg after Ashby’s death Ashby’s body is going to be taken all the way down to
The town of Port Republic and the calvary is just going to be destroyed they’re basically going to cease to exist as a unit for a little while they don’t know what to do um you know another Commander’s going to come in but they’re just not they’re not in a
Mindset to really do anything uh they’re going to be on some picket Duty around the town of Port Republic out in the out in the shanoa river um the North and South for and they are not going to do very well uh with that so if we were to
Fast forward June 7th there’s a lot of movement uh it’s basically the Army setting up for the next day’s battle um Yu getting his 5,500 men or I think it’s yeah it might be 5800 his 50 I think it’s 58 his 5800 men up on The
Ridges ready to go for this battle while John C Fremont’s 11,500 men are advancing toward him uh the Battle of Cross Keys will start around what is now Union Church um it’s the Ruan Hall it’s on Battlefield Road there in cros Keys um the 58 or 15th Alabama will be in the
Cemetery loading their rifles and begin skirmishing with Union troop now they’re going to it’s kind of a almost like they’re they’re coming at an angle uh and Freemont is going to use some veteran troops to make this part of the advance it’s going to be Milroy and
Shane these guys been in battle with Jackson they fought him at at uh McDow so they’re going to start advancing against the artillery Ridge position uh and they’re not going to be able to make it up the ridge they’re going to get down there’s there’s the Confederates have a great position
There’s rifle pits Mass artillery it’s just the whole Maryland you’ve got a Maryland section there on M Creek Ridge that is just there’s not a lot they can do there Milroy will say you know give me these that’s let keep trying um again Milroy best haer of Civil War and um
You know a a tenacious guy especially in the 1862 Valley campaign that guy you know 1862 is milroy’s year um as a union Commander he is very good uh doesn’t make the best decisions as far as you politically and things like that at least uh but he’s he’s very he knows his
Convictions and he he sticks with him um but as a commander he is probably the best commander that Fremont has uh fighting against Jackson now of note before we get too far into that battle Jackson does not ever get on the Cross Keys Battlefield he will come up to
What’s known as mil Creek Church and meet a staff officer of un and that staff officer will tell Jackson to the disposition of the troops and Jackson very good very good back to Portu he goes the only battle that I know of that he does not actually get from the field
At some point um even at Dow even though he stayed down and shot reinforcements up he’s been up on the field he’s been up on the Ridge at singon Hill doesn’t do that at Port Republic doesn’t even get to artillery rid or anymore um and that to me that says something about his
Trust in y uh which if you know anything about Jackson him and his subordinates didn’t always get along um you know you at first thinks he’s crazy but now he’s he’s apparently got his Commander trust so that’s a that’s an interesting point there of how much Jackson trusting his
Subordinate now you also could say maybe that’s the fatigue starting to come in a little bit um because I mean this has been a grueling campaign and they just did a very big Force March from Marburg you know up the valley between Harrisburg and Stanton so as the battle across Keys is
Happening or beginning we’re going to talk about Jackson this is where that for battle comes in for me so we’ve got Harrisonburg it’s a like I said slight battle it’s not a heavy heavy battle but an important battle because of the death ATT turn then we’ve got Cross Keys starting
Now in the town of Port Republic that Calvary that is supposed to be picking and making sure that James Shield’s Army is you know they know they’re coming but kind of where they’re at and how close they might be is not doing a very good job um there’s going to be accounts of
Some of the Troopers are going to see Union infantry um moving Union Calvary moving into position near Port Republic and they’re not GNA say anything they’re just going to ride the other way um they will eventually there will be some word come to coming to Jackson that hey the
Yankees are close they’re a lot closer than we think they’re right across the river and Jackson I really believe he might have been asleep at this point um because he’s up in his headquarters house you know he’s got the stuff going on uh for harrisberg with
Yu I honestly think the man might have been you know trying to get a nap because Jackson his favorite place to nap was church but uh as religious as he was his favorite place was TP was there but I think at this point he is it’s
Known that he would he would sit down beside a fence and go to sleep so if there’s a lull he may be going to sleep and his answer finding out that there are troops you know Union troops there will fight them you know that’s what what he says so um and that’s that’s
Perfect Jackson fashion but what’s gonna happen is those Union troops um there’s gonna be a little bit debacle with them they’re under Samuel Carroll and uh Caroll had fought at the Battle of kernstown so he’s he’s a veteran officer uh he’s been in in battles and uh his fought against
Jackson and uh he the time he was the commander of the eth Ohio now he’s he’s commanding he’s still commander of the eth Ohio but he’s also got some Cavalry with him and some artillery he’s given a little command by James Shields in order to try to surprise Jackson and fill out
Where the Confederates are Carol is going to make a surprise attack on the Confederates in Port Republic they’re in Camp so the calvary is not doing his job with picking him very much because they’re they’re upset I mean it’s it’s kind of understandable you know you still do your duty but at
The same time for an undisciplined unit to lose the commander that kept them together it just at that point they were not ready um so with that Carol he’s trying to wait for the Infantry that he’s been assigned to come up with him however his artillery is going to shoot uh the
Signal shot a little early and once that happen of course that alerts the Confederates and someone’s there uh he’s going to have to dash across the South River into Port Republic with his Calvary and what artillery he has um and he’s gonna it’s it’s going to be chaos
In the town of Port Republic there’s only two roads there’s Water Street and Main Street and if you go there today there’s Water Street Main Street that’s that’s all there is um but so Jackson headquarters is up off Main Street up around the corner
And he going to be woken up by this um and you’re going to have an untrained artillery unit the Charlottesville artillery is going to be up there in Camp uh these guys have barely fired a shot in practice um they are a very new unit so couple little factors are going
To come up there uh when the union Calvary comes in they’re going to split some are going to go toward Jackson some are going to go um try to kind of go across the bridge and things Jack jaon is going to get on a staff officer’s horse first Before He’ll finally get to
Little Soro his his horse and he’s going to start Galloping down Main Street as fast as he can he’s being chased by Union troop of course again it’s Havoc it’s chaos his doctor Hunter Maguire is down uh on Main Street and he’s near uh the present day Church there and he is
Admonishing the wagon drivers uh the wagoners he is uh using a lot of cuss words and you know telling them about staying and what he will do to them if they run and all this and he feels a hand on his shoulder in the middle of all this and Jackson basically says hey
Can you use different language to get them to do what you want to do I mean that’s I’m paraphrasing but that’s basically what he’s saying the dude’s getting chased down the middle of Main Street and he stops to to admonish his his surgeon he hey don’t cuss at him you know and I
Just I’ve always thought that was hilarious um and he’ll Jackson will continue his ride and he’ll cross the North River Bridge now this is a covered bridge at the time meanwhile on Water Street you know there’s Confederates and Union Soldiers there uh there’s a union sympathizer will come out by the name of
DS and he’ll be talking with a Yankee Soldier and one of the Confederates who’s from Port Republic well actually take a shot and no one knows for sure whether he was shooting at Mr DS or he was shooting at the Yankee officer I think he was okay if he hit either one
Of them that you know he was going to be the hometown hero because no one liked Mr DS because he was a union Sy sympathizer um one thing before I get too terrible far well we can talk about that before the Battle of War Republic uh during
This Jackson when he gets across that North River Bridge he’s going to turn around and he’s going to see some troops in like this kind of bluish gray uniform and he’s going to think these might be some of his Alabama troops they got new uniform and They Se an artillery piece
And he starts yelling across the bridge for them to turn the guns and fire and all this well one of the guys that um and I may not say his name right but he’s in charge of the gun Gilda or Gilda he uh his you know unit is the ones that has
This gun he’s a Union soldier um and one of the Union Soldiers is going to look across the bridge and your Jackson’s commanding them but with all this chaos and across a cover bridge they have absolutely no clue what he’s saying one of the Union Soldiers is
Going to say all we saw was a confederate officer waving his hands looking frantic on the other side of the bridge so we shot at him and that’s exactly what they’ll do they’ll shoot a round through the bridge and Jackson will get up over the hill he won’t get
Hit by um he is going to go to another little Hamlet that is no longer really in existence today uh there’s a road named after it was called New Haven and so when he gets there that’s where his troops are Camp he’s goingon to get William Tolliver uh and again we
Talked about that in McDow if you look at his name this his talero um but it’s toer still don’t know how that that’s why I’m into the Civil War and not you know how names work uh but he’s going to get troops to come across and they’re going to start coming down
Toward the bridge Thea has has an opportunity at this point he can fire another round straight up through that bridge and take out a lot of men that are coming in and maybe even kind of stop this this new Confederate prust instead he decides he’s going to
Shoot into the bridge so he tries to shoot in the side of the bridge in an effort to knock it down to keep all the Confederates from coming across it doesn’t do anything other than throw up some splinters and things and the confed will come through come through and
Overrun his gun in him um taking that side of the field and kind of starting to reestablish their uh presence in PO on the other end up where Jackson at Madison Hall where Jackson’s headquarters was the Charlottesville artillery is gonna hold their own this is their first action they are going to
Uh start you know unloading their not going to run uh where some of these veteran artillery units and Veteran officers are going to take off they’re going to stand by and they’re going to be what kind of Beats the Union Army back on that side of the field uh is
They’re just pouring as much artillery into them as they can and that’s going to kind of uh you know Tarin them they’ll they’ll Retreat back across the Mill Race and across the South River and back for James Shields and uh that’ll end that little thing of course Jackson will then have
A Little Bit Stronger picket line around Port Republic during that time U but while all that has occurred the battle across Keys is starting to rage just east or west of them uh probably about seven miles give or take um that battle again we talked about you
Know Milroy and them coming across and attacking artillery Ridge great position to the the right still on artillery Bridge you have um one of my favorite characters of Civil War Isaac trible Isaac brid Trimble he’s a grumpy old man he looks like a grumpy old man in his
Picture you watch the movie Gettysburg the guys the gentleman I cannot remember his name the gentleman that playes crimble in there I just feel like he does he does Justice to that character um he’s just he’s absolutely amazing but uh unfortunately he’s he’s dead and gone
Now but he just does a great job and I can it’s almost you could put the voice of that guy with Isaac trimo in the field and I believe they probably said um triple is a he’s a hard fighter little cranky and he he likes he likes action
Um trible is going to see that there the hill he the part of the Hill that he is on is actually lower than the hill in front of him and he’s going to want to move out to this hill no it’s victory Hill uh there’s a place called Victory
School there he’s going to want to move to that area uh we know there was a fence line there so he is going to move his troops forward there’s going to be an account of one of the calvary officers in that area is going to ride
Up or may have just been somebody on Horseback one or the other they don’t recognize Trimble because it’s hot he’s taking his jack it off he doesn’t have his General markings and they’re moving and this guy starts kind of yelling at him about these Troop being moved up you
Know up here to Victory Hill and tremble rather than identify himself right away just kind of starts yelling back at him and then eventually the guy figures out oh this is the general I you know they they figure it out but uh it’s kind of funny he doesn’t identify himself as a
General right away he just starts arguing with the guy so uh I love the guy he’s just he’s fun um but he’s going to move out to this position and that is going to be a devastating position for the Union Army uh as the is still raging over here on
Our left uh the Confederate left that artillery Ridge more troops are moving you know East for the Confederate line they still believe tremble is back a on artillery Ridge but he’s moved forward the eth New York uh predominantly a German unit uh will be marching or Trimble um they’ll be
Laughing and singing and joking and ho-ha uh there are no flankers out and people in the sides there is no Skirmish line they’re just marching they don’t feel whether they didn’t feel they were close enough to the Confederates or not I’m not sure why their Commander never
Orders it there was a rumor that apparently he was drunk it seems to be the rumor anytime anything happens you were drunk you know anything bad that happens they were drunk um and not to say that that’s not possible but these guys are going to March and
They’re G to Mar into the teeth of about 1600 muskets um we’ll talk about a little bit later but walking that that terrain as you as they come up over the hill the Confederates who were behind this fence are going to rise up and unleash Hellfire on to the point where one of
The Confederates is going to say it looked like a flock of blackbirds just laying in the field of the clo because so many of them are going to fall at close range and it’s it’s just a devastating annihilation of a unit the eth New York basically ceased to exist
And that action only takes maybe 10 15 minutes um I’m the eth New York I’m sure at least one or two of them probably fired back but most of them probably just took off um at this point they’ve just come into a sheet of mass Confederate musket fire uh you will have
Uh a kind of a Counterattack um Trimble will move his troops out they’ll go into what’s known as trimble’s Ravine and the battle will progress from now we’ve got from artillery Ridge to Victory hill now we’re moving to our right flank along Goods Mill Road um and that is actually the best
Opportunity the Union Army has to beat the Confederates at Cross Keys is going to be on this right flank they’re going to have an artillery unit out there um and they’re gonna they’re going to be hammering the Confederates uh the Confederates are going to try to make a Counterattack it doesn’t doesn’t work
Out very well it will not be until trimble’s troops come in and the artillery ammunition starts running a little low and they’re ordered to retreat that they’re able to um able to kind of shore up that side of the line uh this will be a big Confederate Victory um Cross Keys you
Know they’re vastly outnumbered but they’re in a great position so this is going to be a big Confederate dick in the meantime Yu has been told after this battle his job is to keep Fremont where he’s at at least long enough for Jackson Jackson’s plan is to
Destroy one turn on the other and destroy that one um good plan plan but they can’t get together because he’s out overwhelmed if they do so that’s why ules at Cross Keys U’s orders now are to continue to deceive the Union Army and March to Port Republic and support
Jackson once they get into the town of Port Republic they’re burn the North River Bridge so that Fremont can’t cross and then go attack James Shields yo is going to do that he is going to Mar March out he’s going to leave his campfires burning in the meantime our
Buddy tremble is going to come to him and say you know we whooped them here let’s let’s attack them let’s go and Trimble says you know or uh y says you know our our orders are to this is our orders we did what we were supposed to do we’re
Going down here um and Trimble will keep going you know I want to go I want to go I want to go and uh he’s going to implore let’s attack him we can take them we’ve got this Victory and so y says I tell you what and again I’m
Paraphrasing but basically you go ahead the rest of the arm is going this way good luck kmo at that point will change his mind and say okay I’m going with h because now he’s gonna take his little 1600 men and face 11,000 500 or you know
By that time it’s a little less but still at least 8,000 or more um not good odds so trimo is going to uh decide he’s going to go with Y uh but the Confederates will March out they’ll leave their fires and everything going and they’re starting that PR for Port
Republic in the meantime Jackson uh who’s now very aware of where the union troops are at Port Republic he wants to start fighting at 5:00 a.m. in order to do that his troops have to March out by four at least to get onto the field correctly there’s going
To be some delays um the south river is angry and it’s going to get a lot angrier not necessarily because there was a lot of rain at that particular point it had rained but the Confederates are going to have to make a makeshift bridge now the town of Port Republic the
Reason that that is such an important place there’s a Mill Race there there’s tanneries there um gunblow boats they would use in town uh the river actually comes up to a point where the South River and the North Fork meet and then continue on up they’ll go all the way uh
Down the valley to the pomac but they would use these galow boats that there so it’s a big Transportation Hub Supply Hub uh taking things North up to Harper’s Ferry so there’s there’s another bridge that they’re going to try to use the artillery for but they’ve got to get the
Infantry across too so they make a makeshift pontoon bridge out of wagons and Boards it is a rickety rickety Bridge um there are some accounts uh you know some of the soldiers are are making bets on whether their buddi is going to fall in the river or not and some of
Them do and they drown and they die but um because of these guys marching across there the constant swaying of of the of the wagons and the boards makes Mother Nature not happy the South River becomes very angry and that’s when she really starts to shake because of the movement
Even more right around those wagons so that’s when your guys start really falling in uh but they will get across now Jackson to me makes makes a an error here um he’s going to make a lot of errors in this battle Port Republic will not be his best B
Um he is going instead of taking tolliver’s troops who are close he’s going to get the farthest unit away I think it’s the Stonewall Brigade he’s going to bring them forward second and fourth Virginia and he’s gonna make toer be the the hinge the Y rather than bringing toer whose troops
Are right there the day before saved him um he’s going to leave them there as the hinge as the connection to Yule and he’s going to bring his backwards so that delays even more time because now these guys have to March through the other guys to get onto the field uh they will
Not start arriving on the field of Port Republic until about six o’clock now uh just to clarify Cross Keys was June 8th we’re now in June 9th um the morning of June 9th so the union troops there have a great position uh they are going to be under a guy named Tyler uh
Again we back in uh you know we mentioned kown just a little bit at one point in the other video uh at kown James Shields is in command however he’s never on the field because he got injured at Port Republic he’s in command but he’s never on the field because he’s
In Elton or pres day Elton Conrad store at the time uh had he been on the field and this been a union victory he or not even on the field but had this been a union victory he’d had to taking credit for it because that’s what he did at
Kown even though he had nothing really to do with Battle Victory so 100% James Shield would would have taken him um and instead he he’s gonna blame Kyler for for losing the battle U but Tyler’s got a great position out there he’s got his his troops in the down along Leon Maine um
And the area of Lynwood he’s got his troops stretched out there in in a nice field and he has an awesome artillery position called the coing uh it’s called the coing because they would take the trees down and make coal out them um this uh is part of the Leon
Farm and they you know it’s it’s more open than than it is today um but it’s a very open area great artillery position you can see everything from there and uh with the type of guns that the Union Army is going to use um I believe there
Were seven guns there you’re going to have three under Clark which are rifled pieces at the very top I believe that’s battery fourth US Artillery um you’re going to have one under Robinson which is a mountain Howitzer um or might just be a Howitzer it’s a Howitzer not going
To be as shooting quite as far but it’s it’s still pretty effective and then you’re G to have uh Huntington’s battery battery H um these guys are Ohio troops and they uh have shells that have papier-mâché on them so they’re going to be a little delayed because it rain and
What happens to paper when it gets wet doesn’t work right they’re going to be a little delayed but they’re going to end up their pieces are rifled um they also have some uh I believe they have a Napoleon with them as well but three of his guns are going to
Be at this coling so you’re going to have seven guns fired the Jackson immediately once get once he gets on the field he’s kind of sending his units in peace me he’s trying to do this quick um I think there’s a couple reasons for that uh normally Jackson would get his units
Online and then make his attack he knows Fremont is coming even though Yu stopped him Yu is now moving toward him Fremont is going to be coming toward Port Republic he has to defeat James Shields before Fremont gets in fact that morning Fremont will March out and luckily for the Confederates
He’s going to March out in full battle line expecting to renew the fight they will it will be all the way to mil Creek Church which is a good little track before Freemont realizes Confederates are gone they’re gonna March through their campfires and everything he’s expecting a fight the
Whole time um and it’s going to take time to go from that line of battle back into coln to March down the road so that’s going to buy Jackson some time but in the meantime he’s still shuffling units in as soon as they come up he’s throwing them in your second and
Fourth Virginia are going to attack the coine first uh they are not even going to make it up the hill they’re going to get decimated by this artillery fire not even be able to make it up and they’re going to be pulled back now if you read
The accounts from those guys they are actually put to the rear and they are angry because they have never been driven from the field you know they no we’ve not done that we’ve always stood our ground so they’re unhappy because they beli they could have attacked again but they’re pulled
Back in the meantime the fighting out in the fields uh is going to be devastating you’re have the seventh Indiana on the far right flank of the Union Army and the fifth Virginia on the far left flank of the Confederate and uh as these units it’s basically going to look like a
Tennis match for a little while these units are going back and forth fighting each other across fields at one point the fifth Virginia and seventh Indiana will have their own little Civil War um because of the smoke and everything and they don’t have anybody on their flank they’re not
Noticing all these guys over here moving there’s a river on this side they’re fighting and then they kind of realize there’s nobody else here so then they will break off and kind of and go back but they’ll fight for a little while just them um in the meantime the uh a
Union Counterattack is going to push the Confederates back just in time some of your forces have got and I think it’s the uh 58th and 44th Virginia are going to slam into the flank of the Union troops that are starting to push back uh Jackson’s other Confederates they’re
Going to slam to that flank and and stop that Counterattack the rest of ‘s troops are going to start coming in line and we’re going to talk about the Louisiana tigers uh these guys are Ruffians they’re Jackson’s shock troops he’ll use them later shock troops these guys um either
Could go to prison or fight in a war so they got to kill basically they got paid to kill uh so they were very happy about them um Jackson doesn’t really they they respect Stonewall Jackson but he does not have a lot of power over them they they respect
Him but they don’t really care what anybody says however they to command these guys are two massive guys especially uh for what’s known as wheat special battal you’re gonna have a guy named uh kapam Robo wheat this guy is massive I think it said in his picture he’s like
283 he’s ever bit of 300 if not more um he’s like 6 foot4 and then you’re going to have another guy who’s going to eventually be a general uh by the name of pek who is is just as big he’s definitely 300 lb and well over six
Foot and so these are the guys they’re commanding these Ruffians these louisianians and the louisianians are going to advance through the woods and they are going to March up the coling and attack the coling now when I say they’re marching through the woods the terrain does this okay so these guys
Are they just marched you know a good little ways they’re coming into battle and they’re marching over Mountain Spurs to get to this CT because we’re at the edge um of the Blue Ridge Mountains at this point excuse me so they are uh marching and and they’re tired but they’re going
To make this charge they’re going to charge up the coling they’re going to take the guns at the col however the 66 Ohio is kind of behind that’s the unit that’s supposed to be protecting these guns they’re going to Counterattack and push the louisianians all louisianians will regroup and they’ll charge again they’ll
Hit them a second time this is the third attack on theing meantime you still have all this fighting down the foreign land below the Cole the coing is the key position it’s the hell spot on the boundle and as they attack they they will take the battery again they’ll take
All these this area again the problem is they’re not able to hold it because now another of Clark’s guns is going to come up from the river and start firing infed into them uh some of the guns are going to try to retreat and you know Huntington’s going to turn
One of his guns back around and start shooting at them and so they’re going to be pushed off but what they do is so that the union troops cannot pull those uh guns off they start slating the froats of the horses now and they just leave them lay
And they’re they’re just that’s I mean these guys are roughing they don’t care they’re just going to do what they do they come back down after being driven off again Richard Yu is gonna show up now Richard y you don’t really hear a ton of things about him about being it’s firing
General there’s a few little things before he gets married where you know he I think it one point he comes out in his pajamas and shoots at people uh in the middle of a town it was like a little raid and he’s cussing them and then after he gets married uh at Gettysburg
We see a whole different Yu who’s still more pulled back more more cautious um but when y arrives on the field in Port Republic he just look at the men and he says men you know me General Jackson wants us to take this we take this hill
And you we’re going to do it he has even ordered the louisianians to do it they just get up Rebel Yell up the hill they go again he’s not told him to do it he’s still kind of probably standing there getting ready to give them more of a
Speech and they’re running by in it um so as they go up they’re gonna take those guns for the third time and this time they are going to be fighting the artillery men the 66 Ohio is kind of moved off because of another threat so these artillery guys you got
To hand it to them they’re fighting with their Spike uh with with sponges with know the worms whatever they have small arms fire they’re going to fight the louisian they’re not going to give up their guns right away but the louisianans are going to overwhelm them and take the
Guns at that point the union position is untenable if the Confederates start firing down on them it’s over so the union is going to start retreating back to Conrad’s store and Jackson shrips will pursue him for a while but um you know he’ll Then Fall kind of
Back and uh he’ll be in command of the field now front almost at the perfect time will show up however Yu has burned the North River Bridge and the bridge over at Lynwood so all Fremont can do is come up to the river and start lobbing shells
Into the field it disgusted Jackson and I’m sure it discussed the other Union commanders as well because he is firing onto all the wounded that are out there he’s not having any effect on the battle he’s not having any effect on Jackson he’s just firing artillery shells in the
Middle of this field where there’s a you know at least 900 casualties in one spot and it’s some of his own you know his own Army’s men he’s just launching shells in there because and I think that’s an anger he’s angry because he didn’t make it there in time um but this
Is definitely Jackson’s out of a whole valley campaign I would say this is his worst battle uh because of the way he puts his units in and because of the quickness that he’s doing it with I again I think he’s got the in the back of his head that Fremont’s coming I
Think twoo we’re going to have the fatigue that’s starting to kind of kick in after a long campaign um and you know that gets brought up during the seven days campaign but I think that’s more of a not knowing the ter honestly getting ready to do a tour on
That so it seems more more I’m into the more I’m like I think he just didn’t know where he was going but maybe a little lethargic but um I think we we do see the fatigue really coming in to Jackson at this point uh but that that’s basically the
Battles in a nutshell um of course you can look at certain units and follow them uh anybody wants wants to learn about the Cross Keys Battle find the 15th Alabama on the map and just follow them they are on every spot of that Battlefield somehow I don’t know how
They do it they start the battle and they end the battle uh they’ll be on artillery Ridge for a little bit then they’re over here near near uh tremble and then they go off to the flight they’re every um and these guys are the you 15th Alabama Gettysburg um these
These are you know it’s a famous unit um but these guys are literally everywhere on the Cross Keys Battlefield um and then the one that you would probably want to study the most as far as the Confederate side would be Louisiana uh troops um coing uh as far as the union
Side you know you really you got to look at the eth Ohio you gota look at Tyler and Carol um those guys they’re not bad Fighters they’re good Fighters they just didn’t have enough resource to back them up uh their their Commander not that great in my opinion
Um because he’s never really on the field he just kind of trusts everybody else to do it for him and he never sends him good reinforcements on the other side Fremont um not the best commander in the world honestly the power behind Fremont was his wife uh Jesse um and I’ll back that
Up with anything I mean just read some of the stuff she did that’s the reason he’s a general uh so and there’s always you know the women are always the power behind the men no matter what we say Amen amen freman is definitely his power but I would uh if you wanted to
Study the union side definitely look at Milroy um study Jose uh Julius stall as well um because he’s gonna start he shows up here in N Valley a lot uh but he’s one that you know he’s kind of lost during this battle um but he’s he’s on
That U Confederate right flank so uh you know of course the E New York God love them they uh they had the worst day I think out of everybody even Jackson you know he got chased down the road but these guys basically cease to exist so um definitely definitely some units to look
Into very very cool histories with all and to add to to what you you were saying um and we can talk about this here in a sec we talk about places to visit yeah unless you actually go to the coing you don’t realize how true
Of a key position this was I mean this this wasn’t this wasn’t just some you know Hill Hill um I mean this was almost straight up if if you walk up to the top of today like the path zigzags going to the top it’s straight up and what you
See today is just a small portion um so there’s a driveway there and and the people are very nice to done the house there at the top the house of course was not there during the um very nice people though but the the driveway the hill has been somewhat altered because of
Man-made driveways and stuff if you go to that property though and you if you’re standing in the driveway you look to the left you’ll see the original Road Bend and if you turn around you’ll see a driveway it goes across from the church that is the original Road and that is
Where your flank of your Louisiana troops will be they’ll be right there on that road attacking Huntington’s guns which you’re setting at everybody thinks the guns are up on the hill there’s actually some down by the road right Robson and then you’ll have Clark and when you go there now it’s wooded
Most of it’s wooded you’ll see that little spot like we’re talking about but there’s a lot of woods up there that wasn’t like that so Clark’s guns are farther even farther up the hill so that’s uh that’s yeah it’s it’s all inspiring to go up there and look
Climbing that Hill no matter what shape you’re in suck yes amen have to weed eat and mow it sometimes so yeah it’s terrible and and that and tell me if I’m wrong but the way that they charged they they had to cross that Creek first yes so yeah Deep Run
They’re coming across Deep Run so they’re going across these these spurs Crossing Deep Run and uh I’ve been on that other side doing um some some easement things and if it’s as thick then as it is now which I’m pretty certain it probably was because it hasn’t turned changed
Much oh my gosh in the middle of that’s hor we uh myself and another guy um from a different agency um had to go up through there uh and oh oh Lord if I was everything I don’t think I made it yeah I was in long sleeves
Because I wear that for work you know because of bugs and stuff but man if I was in like all what they were wearing no no thank you so if uh people watching this want to visit the area and they’re the they’re in the Harrisonburg area what are some sites that they can
Go check out so in the Harrisonburg area um there in Harrisonburg itself if you walk around town there’s a lot of Civil War Trail signs uh especially in downtown near the library and places like that um you can still go to the to the spring where the soldiers drank out
Of still there um the courthouse that particular part of Harrison Believe It or Not hasn’t changed much since the Civil War as a matter of fact the road actually got smaller which is not normal us titer but it actually got smaller based on some of the pictures uh from
Back in the day um you can go there uh you can go to the Hardesty Higgins house a very old house used as a headquarter quarters by Nathaniel Banks um we do have a the Chand Valley battlefields Foundation does have a uh orientation in there that will uh probably be updated
Before to terrible long uh with some new new material in there uh but that’s a good little play a little coffee shop in there some good stuff um that’s just that part of Harrisonburg uh you can also just up from that is the Woodbine Cemetery there’s a uh uh Confederate
Resting place there there’s also a guy named Joseph Vladimir uh he’s called the boy major and I failed to mention him during the Battle of Cross Keys um that’s where he’s going to get his name the boy major uh because he is very good with his artillery um in commanding it and so
He’s actually buried W by Cemetery in Harrisonburg uh and then you can visit the Turner ashy Monument um up off of uh University Boulevard or is it nef I think it’s nef actually NE um but it’s across from dream come true Park it’s in their side their Brown S Turner
Ashby M um you can go to the approximate spot where Ashby’s killed there in the city of Harrisonburg and and like I said it’s not a lot safe but there is some safe so it’s definitely worth going to uh just to be able to you can walk down
The hill and then walk up as the union troops did or you can be up here with as the Confederates and and see what they’re seeing so you still get a good idea of of what was happening there um that’s just harrisberg itself um if you
Travel you want to go to cross Keys you would travel east on Port Republic Road out of the city uh as you’re going to come up to the intersection of Port Republic and Cross Keys Road if you were to look to your left and right in 1862
On June 8th you’re going to see nothing but Union troops there uh that is going to be kind of the starting point for these guys um Oak Ridge I believe it’s called that’s where these guys are going to be and they’re going to start uh moving you know toward the Confederates
If you made a right off of Port Republic Road on the Cross Keys your next left would be Battlefield Road uh you’ll see some signs along the road and then you can go to uh where the battle start uh you can pull into the ruiing club
There’s a cemetery there um with a lot of old Graves uh some Revolutionary War and this is where the the 15th Alabama is loading their weapons they’re in that Cemetery using using the uh tombstones as as cover um and then you can kind of at that point
You can look out and really see this Confederate where this Confederate line would be uh if you were to continue out Battlefield Road it’ll bring you back to Port Republic Road directly across from that to your right would be artillery Ridge directly across from that is
What’s known as the Widow Pence house up west of the Widow Pence house on the same property in the site of the eth New York there’s a civil war Trail sign out there there um and there there is a trail that goes out there um right now
It’s not necessarily open to the public 100% yet I that’s being worked on um because obviously we want people to go there I mean that’s that’s part of it you can’t learn if you can’t get on the ground uh that if you can get there um
If you’re able to go up there that Eighth New York site I’ve done both sides I’ve given tours there if you go and you walk up that crest as the union troops did you can’t see anything until you top that Hill if you’re on the Confederate side
And someone’s walking I’m GNA see you well before you see me and that’s why it’s becomes so devastating the the visual is just amazing um scary honestly uh you know I just can’t imagine what those guys went through once they got up there on on the top of that Nole
Um so you can visit that the Widow pens Farm was there um soldiers were treated there it was a hospital um great little little place uh it is privately owned so or it’s owned by the foundation but it is a private residence um at the moment
But that uh hopefully at some point all that will be opened up um you can also travel past the Widow Pence Farm if you continue East on your left you’ll see mil Creek Country Store great little store uh that has been open maybe a year I think year and a half um Good
Sandwiches very good sandwiches in there uh but if you stand there uh you are standing in trimble’s original position if you go out to the Widow of Pence Farm you’re going to his next position Victory Hill position uh but you’re standing where Trimble was his troops
And you can really see as you look out you’ll see that Victory Hill is a little bit higher um so that’s definitely a place to go uh artillery Ridge you go up artillery road to Bow Tha Lane and it’ll take you to a place called mil Creek Ridge um
Artillery Ridge is actually to the right of that although it’s the same Ridge the artillery was to the right so that’s why we we differentiate uh where mil Creek Ridge is is the uh Miss of the Maryland steuart Maryland troops were there um there is a War Monument new Maryland
There um and so you’ll see that and you can actually see the uh the old road that was there that the alabamians would have come up great story about I was giving a talk there and I’m talking about you know the alabamians are Under Fire and they’re coming up this road and
At the perfect time his dog just Jets out of the road and I’m like he’s the 15th Alabama um the other place to see in Cross Key is a place on Goods Mill Road um I don’t recall the address but you’ll see a a civil war Trail sign there’s a
Little trail that takes you several times there near tribles Ravine and that is your final attack thing um so that you can you can basically see the whole Battlefield in different sections um and if if you get a map and just follow that like I said follow 15th Alabama you’ll
Be everywhere on that ble uh you can go a little bit farther down the road and pull into the parking lot of the milk Creek Church uh that church was there now obviously it’s been updated U but that church was there and it said that
The arms and legs were stacked up to the first story window which is just I mean it doesn’t sound it’s like it’s one story Bo you started thinking about stacking arms and legs pretty gross you can be there and I can tell you the the fields behind the church
Some of the Louisiana troops are going to be staged there they don’t fight CIS but they are brought up as back um but they never have to fight in that battle they of course they’ll fight the next day um that’s pretty much most of what
You can see in Cross Key um and we do the Shanel Valley Battlefield Foundation does have some some driving guides and things um you can stop in any of our places I think they in Harrisonburg they may have them in there um I have to check and see if they need to be
Replenished or not but we try to have at least some some driving tours uh just to kind of give you an idea of where you’re at um and again hopefully what’s the plan is for that to be become more of a battlefield experience eventually um if you’re going to Port
Republic uh when you get into the town of Port Republic if you drive up Main Street and you go uh South you’ll run into the present day Madison Hall that house uh was actually burned uh after after Jackson occupied it was burned later and a new house was rebuilt there
But basically on the same foundation in the same area if you’re standing at madon Hall you’re in the area of the artillery uh reserve of the Confederate Army you’re going to see where you know Jackson was you’re going to see where the Charlottesville artillery is going to make their
Stand if you go back down the other way uh if you go north on Main Street and cross Republic and continue uh it’ll wrap around but you’ll if you stop there you will actually come up on the rim of the North River Bridge so you can walk
Out to that and see where that bridge went across to New Haven and that’s going to be you know where Jack get chased across and shot at um and yells like a frantic man on the other side to nobody that can hear him but then if you
You come on around the turn you get to go to the Frank keer house um that is now run by sh Battlefield Foundation that is the house that Turner Ash to is also the fort Republic Museum um it is really neat to go in there not just
Because of the Civil War so but there’s a lot of local things in there the town um it’s very historic the people love their history there and so going into that museum hopefully it’ll be open a little bit more this year um unfortunately we kind of took it they
Kind of took it over during Co so it’s you’re trying to revamp that and get things going um that should be opening actually fairly soon uh usually Museum season is kind of April to April to October or so um but that museum again a lot of local history there and
Uh shoot half the town’s people if you talk to them they can tell you just about anything you want to know uh about the local history there and they they know a lot um and they’re very good great resource to have if you’re especially in the Civil War uh you know
With all the Civil War stuff that happens there uh but if you continue um continue South on Water Street on your left you’ll see Bradbury Park uh you can walk down you see the Mill Race and the uh um little cement slab the slab bridge that was out there you can
Walk up to the the South River beautiful area you see where the soldiers would have swam and had their fun during Camp um you can continue up and there’s there’s signs throughout the town as well that kind of explain not just the Civil War but what’s happening in the town during this
Whole time during the whole 19th century um so there’s a lot to learn there and a lot of the houses are the same houses that were there during the Civil War I mean there’s some modern houses but there are a ton of houses that are are you know solve this battle Sol all
This activity um as far as the battlefield itself a battle report Republic if you uh once you come out of town if you turn on to I believe it says tiger Camp Road the Tigers did not Camp there I don’t know why it’s named that I think it’s just because it was popular
But the Tigers didn’t Camp anyway you can turn on that you’ll turn into what’s known as Jackson called Jackson’s way that road is uh it used to be dir right now it’s a p u man I sound old saying that it it takes you right down the
Middle of the of the Port Republic Battlefield you as you’re going up you can kind of the toing in the distance it’s unfortunately would it I don’t want to say unfortunately but their their Woods are kind of in your way on that when you come out uh if you go up that
Way you make a left you can go to the coing if you were to come straight up Port Road instead of taking Jackson’s way and go down you still looking to your left and your right you’re going through the battlefield you’ll see the open field um when you get to the on the
What’s know as Route 340 Southeast Side Highway the intersection of Orban Road and Lynwood road is where the coing is the coing is to your right on Orban Road um and you’ll you’ll notice that there’s a a marker out there um we’re going to have some more signs there’s actually a
Sign say Port Republic Battlefield marker there will be more signs out there eventually and some updated material but you can turn in there you can park at the church parking lot you can walk up uh at least a portion of the coing and when you get to the top and
Turn around you’ll see the if you look you know directly diagonal from you down toward the corner of the field that’s where your fifth Virginia guys are to start and that artillery is launching right into I’ve been on that other side may look back at the coing
And I can tell you if I was a soldier there um that would have just not been fun that would have been a terrible place to be I definitely would have wanted to keep moving um so yeah the coing is definitely a mustsee spot in Port again that’s Robert Craig says it
I’ve said that’s the hell spot every Battlefield has a hell spot but toing is the Port Republic hellot um because that that’s the anchor it’s everything for the for the Union Army there and it’s everything for the Confederate Army too because if they don’t take it they’re
Not to win um so yeah definitely a lot to see there and hopefully there will be a lot more to see uh in the coming future uh here within the next couple years maybe even the next year or so but um with you know availability and accessibility so keep
Your eyes open for that uh definitely if you can um do your viewers follow the shandel valley battlefields foundation’s uh Facebook page because there’s a lot of updates that come out on there um obviously become a member if you can it’s like 35 bucks it is nothing um but
You know we’ve got our annual conference coming up so they’re going to be going uh right now to New Market a bunch of other places but you know Port Republic is is one of those one of those places where you say something about Jackson’s Valley campaign like you were saying earlier people
Know they know Port Republican Cross Keys I think it’s because those battles happen so close together um and the funny thing is they’re not needed battles Jackson I should have said this earlier but Jackson’s already accomplished his goal by the time these battles happen right they don’t have to
But he does any um so yeah just uh I’ll get off my Soap Box on but lot to see there uh some amazing stuff and St on that ground is always H yeah AB absolutely and I was gonna if if you didn’t do it I I was going to do
The sales pitch for the shandor valley battlefields kind I’m a member myself and I I love seeing the work you guys are doing um also shout out to the battlefields and bourbon podcast I I know you mentioned mil Roy and that’s that’s Jack’s guy I mean oh absolutely
Jack um Jack Owens uh one of my co-s and one of the hosts of the battlefields in Bourbon podcast he uh he got me H midd I gota give you credit I started a little different and I was like you Jack’s right and I started into that dude is something especially in
62 yeah absolutely and you’re right best hair in the Civil War just and obviously not biased with my hair there’s nothing I can say about my best hair is right here but yeah battlefields and bourbon podcast great podcast uh getting more recognized each day yeah coming I think
A a really prominent force in Civil War history and um just to kind of throw it out there because some people don’t realize a podcast is more of a discussion um not necessarily a lecture you know a lecture you’re getting your facts you’re getting all this where in
The podcast you’re getting facts and things but you’re also getting the opinion of three historians historians or whoever their guest is three historians was just then Jack and elij to historians but you’re getting the opinions of these guys who have who have looked at this stuff and
Not only even if it’s battles they haven’t really learned about as much or haven’t been on the field I’m fortunate enough I’ve been to a lot of places um they they’re willing to learn so it’s you get to learn you get to go on that journey and learn with them and that’s
That’s why I think their podcast is becoming so successful um besides having me on there of course that oh yeah yeah um those guys are really good I enjoyed doing it with them um I’m very proud of both of them for taking The Plunge at their age to do what they’re
Doing and I I can’t say enough good things about both of those guys yeah they’re they’re great and we’re trying to get Jack on here he said he would do um I third thirdd Winchester Forte um yeah Winchester anything Winchester you get him talk about star Fort you’ll never get him off
There I’ve I I’ve actually learned that through text yes he is a big star for guy yeah well thanks for coming on Aaron we’ll put your your stuff below so people can subscribe to it um like I said it’s stuff that you won’t see anywhere else um Aaron goes where no one
Else no one else goes yeah and you know I’ve got uh I’ll have another kind of off the beaten path video coming out uh before too long um we’ll have some stuff on the seven days campaign like I said I’m I’m getting ready to do a tour on
That so you kind of hard to go there and not there’s GNA be even though we think we know all those battles there little battles we forget about down there so um you know I may sneak some of those in I’m sure I will that’s what um so
Definitely be on the lookout for that uh you know I’ll be uh editing some videos here before too long because it’s been two weeks so got to keep it going yeah I understand that well thanks for coming on Aaron we we greatly appreciate you and go check out Aon stuff go check out
The shano valley battlefields Foundation become a member and help support what they do so they can create a better Civil War experience for for everyone absolutely uh I will say for anybody that’s interested uh May 17th and 18th we’re going to have the 160th anniversary of New Market um and that’s
Going to be a pretty big deal because the battlefield is changing um going back to its 18 64 look and uh it’s just it’s just going to be amazing and and people that maybe have not been to New Market in years are just it’s G to blow your
Mind um and uh you know definitely a lot of work being put in there and can’t wait for the for the anniversary yeah um I I can’t either that’s that’s a place that’s near and dear to my heart yeah well thanks again Aaron and we’ll catch youall on the next video yep thank
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