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Addressing GettysburgThe Gettysburg Address: Then, Now, and For All Time | with Bob Steenstra🇺🇸 **The Gettysburg Address: Then, Now, and Forever** 🇺🇸 In this powerful episode of **Addressing Gettysburg**, Licensed Battlefield Guide **Bob Steenstra** joins Matt and Mikey B for an in-depth exploration of Abraham Lincoln's timeless masterpiece—the **Gettysburg Address**. 🔥 **What did Lincoln really mean in 1863?** 🔥 **Why do his 272 words still resonate today?** 🔥 **How did the weight of the war—and the death of his own son—shape the President who delivered them?** Bob and Matt break down the brilliance of Lincoln's language, uncovering layers of meaning that speak not only to the Americans of the Civil War...
2025-11-202h 20
Addressing GettysburgGettysburg National Cemetery | Tim Smith & Roy Frampton | Ask A Gettysburg Guide #15- Classic RewindJOIN US FOR TACOS AND TRIVIA at the Seminary! February 15, 2025 https://www.seminaryridgemuseum.org/events/tacos-and-trivia-0215 This week's classic AG episode is from the bleak restriction-laden year of 2020. Bob Steenstra, Tim Smith, Roy Frampton and Matt braved the chilly air and sat atop East Cemetery Hill near that tree in front of Rickett's Battery and behind the Howard statue to record an show about Gettysburg National Cemetery. Perhaps the piece of information that blew listeners' minds at the time was the melody that the poem "The Bivouac of the Dead" fits percfectly with. ORIGNAL SHOW...
2025-01-201h 18
Addressing GettysburgAsk A Gettysburg Guide #4 with Tim Smith- AG ClassicsORIGINAL AIRDATE December 23, 2019 This is the continuation of Ask A Gettysburg Guide #3 with Tim Smith. Apparently, back then it didn't occur to me to make a long episode and instead I split it in two. Or maybe there was another reason that I've forgotten. Either way, enjoy.  There original shownotes: Merry Christmas! It's time for the final Ask A Gettysburg Guide of 2019. Bob Steenstra and Tim Smith continue with the questions that we couldn't fit into the previous Ask A Gettysburg Guide. Instagrammers who answered the call for questions in this ep...
2025-01-0157 min
Addressing GettysburgAsk A Gettysburg Guide #3 with Tim Smith- AG CLASSIC REWINDAs we take a backward glance at our extensive (dad)body of work for the sake of our new listeners who might not go all the way back to the beginning and work their way forward, we chose this episode to be our first. Back in the old days, when Ask A Gettysburg Guide began, we hadn't, yet, fleshed-out the format of the show. Back then, it was a shotgun-approach: listeners sent in questions and I asked the guides for the answers. LBG Bob Steenstra was my cohost and would be until The Rona hit. Tim Smith was a f...
2025-01-011h 21
Addressing GettysburgA Beginner's Guide to the Battle of GettysburgIf you're visiting Gettysburg soon, you might want to listen to this episode (and all our others) before taking any tour. History podcasts, like this one, like to get deep into the weeds. While that might be good for the lifelong Gettysnerdâ„¢, most visitors to Gettysburg have never even seen the movie, let alone read a book about it, so they are coming at it cold. Where did I get that statistic? Totally made it up, but I made it up based on meeting thousands of visitors over the last 18-20 years. Anyway, I asked LBGs Bob St...
2024-06-052h 16
Addressing Gettysburg159th Anniversary Special- July 3, 1863- with Deb Novotny and Bob SteenstraThis episode is brought to you without commercial interruption by our Patreon account. Becoming a Patron enables you to join our growing community of #Gettysnerds, gives you access to special episodes and information before the general public and, most importanly, helps keep everything going. Please consider becoming one today. https://www.patreon.com/addressinggettysburg Bob Steenstra and Deb Novotny join us to discuss Day 3 of the Battle of Gettysburg. This year we focus a bit more on the actions on Culp's Hill, but don't worry, we still included Pickett's Charge. Â
2022-07-031h 33
Addressing GettysburgKilled at Gettysburg with Dr. Ashley Whitehead LuskeyNOTE- Beginning with this episode, Addressing Gettysburg will release two old Patreon episodes a month, in their entirety, FOR FREE. It won't be all Patreon episodes and it won't be any recent ones. Why are we doing this? Because we need your support to make more! Therefore, we're doing away with 15 minute previews. What's unique about our Patreon feed is that you're actually get something in return like interviews with authors, historians, actors from the movie Gettysburg and more. Depending on the tier you choose, you can get 2-4 episodes a month, videos and other special episodes created just...
2021-08-0957 min
Addressing GettysburgBattle of Gettysburg 158th Anniversary Special- June 30, 1863- with LBG Tracy BaerIt's the 158th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, this year, Addressing Gettysburg has added two extra shows to our traditional anniversary shows. June 30, 1863 is an important day for the Gettysburg Campaign. Why? Because it sets the stage for the big battle that gives the Campaign its name, of course! Join LBG Tracy Baer and returning champion cohost, Bob Steenstra, as we discuss June 30, 1863. Please support the show by supporting this episode's sponsor, GettysBike Tours. Call 717-752-7752 to book a tour today and make sure you mention Addressing Gettysburg to get 15% off.Â
2021-06-302h 41
Addressing GettysburgNARRATIVE EPISODE 2- INVASION! June 1863- Chapter 3 "The Eve of Battle"The final chapter of Episode 2 Chapter 3 takes you up to the night of June 30, 1863, the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg. Where Are The Armies Now? General Hooker spent June 26 moving his army across the Potomac. By nightfall, everyone was in Maryland except John Sedgwick's Sixth Corps and a portion of the cavalry. Frederick, Maryland, Hooker decided, would become the army's point of concentration. The first wing of the Union Army to cross the Potomac, were the three corps under the command of Major General John F Reynolds. Contrary...
2020-10-1452 min
Addressing GettysburgPATREON PREVIEW- Gettysburg Civilians and The Armies That Lived Among Them- with Tim Smith  Patron "Balthazar" took us up on the offer to take your requests for topics or guests. His is the first one that was easily fulfilled. So Bob, Tim Smith, Eric the producer, patron Veronica and a cast of bikers and reenactors met at the beer garden of The Farnsworth House to talk about what the civilians experienced with the units that came through or occupied the town from June 26, 1863, on.  Become a Patron today by clicking here Matthew Callery, Bob Steenstra, Timothy H. Smith. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved Â
2020-05-2917 minAddressing GettysburgAsk A Gettysburg Guide #13- From McPhersons/Herbst/Reynolds Woods- with Tim SmithLicensed Battlefield Guide Tim Smith joins Matt and Licensed Battlefield Guide Bob Steenstra at Reynolds Woods in GNMP to answer your questions about the First Day's fighting in that area. Here are just SOME of the topics covered: -the 147th NY -Buford's Cavalry - Where was Henry Burgwyn wounded - Where exactly is "McPherson's Rdge"? - the 151st Pa -"The Color Episode" of the 149th Pa AND MORE!  We had a lot of fun recording this one. The qu...
2020-04-122h 11Addressing GettysburgNARRATIVE EPISODE 2: INVASION! June, 1863- Chapter 1- "Lee Slips Away"As 1863 began, the Union Army of the Potomac found itself in a general malaise. Its failed attempt at another push towards Richmond, known as the "Mud March," had served as the nail in the coffin of army commander Ambrose E Burnside. When Joseph Hooker took his place as commander of the Army of the Potomac, the changes he implemented helped boost the morale and confidence of his troops. But Hooker squandered that goodwill by bungling the Chancellorsville Campaign, in the early days of May 1863. While many believed that drunkenness or the artillery round that knocked him out for a...
2020-01-1359 minAddressing GettysburgAsk A Gettysburg Guide #4 with Bob Steenstra and Tim SmithMerry Christmas! It's time for the final Ask A Gettysburg Guide of 2019. Bob Steenstra and Tim Smith continue with the questions that we couldn't fit into the previous Ask A Gettysburg Guide.  Instagrammers who answered the call for questions in this episode are: @Soldier_Up_ @SJcolmus @Mrsmaestas2 @civil_war_Nerd @Cwhitt @Tylerfashistory  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and if you want to book a tour with any of the guides you hear on our podcast, email matt@addressinggettysburg.com...
2019-12-2354 minAddressing GettysburgAsk A Guide 1- with Bob Steenstra and Jessie Wheedleton- BONUS EPISODE!Licensed Battlefield Guide Bob Steenstra is back and, this time, he's joined by fellow LBG Jessie Wheedleton for her debut on Addressing Gettysburg. Together, they ask YOUR questions pertaining to the Battle of Gettysburg in this inaugural episode of Ask A Gettysburg Guide. From time-to-time we will solicit questions from out social media followers that we will ask guides to answer.  We'd like to thank the following Facebook and Instagram followers for their questions: Bill Etzkorn III, Lanson Morris, 230_grain, gpaint1977, J.D., Dannymusclehed, Anna_Storm, PvtTaylor Bishop and OfficialPearleShannon. If you submitted a...
2019-11-2452 minAddressing GettysburgGettysburg Campaign Overview- Appendix #2Licensed Battlefield Guide Bob Steenstra sits down with Matt to give an overview of the Gettysburg Campaign. This is done with the newbie in mind, but should be just as interesting to the veteran student of the battle. The narrative episodes of Addressing Gettysburg (like "Antietam to Chancellorsville" and the upcoming "June 1863- INVASION!") go into more detail on everything covered in this upload. Our soon-to-be-launched Patreon page will contain micro-histories with only the best and brightest Licensed Battlefield Guides, Park Rangers and authors. Be sure to become a Patron when it launches.  Follow us on...
2019-11-191h 02