The Second Day at Gettysburg: A Rolling Thunder July 2, 1863

Join this channel to support Civil War storytelling and to get perks: On Thursday, July 2, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg tumbled into its second day. What on Wednesday, the 1st, had been a meeting engagement was now a set battle one with far more men on the scene and still much at stake. On this day, Robert E. Lee and George Gordon Meade would experience the crushing weight of responsibility and loneliness of command both issuing orders which placed tens of thousands into harms way. And when those orders were misinterpreted or went awry: anguish from thousands who suffered the convoluted and bloody consequences. Such were the clashes this day that geographical features, fields, and orchards would be added to this nations list of iconic landmarks the Round Tops, Devils Den, the Peach Orchard, Cemetery Ridge, Culps and Cemetery Hills. This is the story of some of those men and their units that transfo