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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class, the production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hello, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

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Speaker 1: This is our show from our recent live appearance in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Sort of. We did record that show, but as we

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Speaker 1: always warned might be the case, Yes, some minor technical

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Speaker 1: difficulties with that recording. Yeah, we had some technical difficulties.

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Speaker 1: We were there as part of an event called Great

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Speaker 1: Conversations at Gettysburg. This was a whole full day of

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Speaker 1: programming that was sponsored by the Gettysburg Foundation. We had

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Speaker 1: a great time, but recording an outdoor event is always

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Speaker 1: kind of a challenge. This time we had a rain

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Speaker 1: delay followed by very breezy weather and just surprising number

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Speaker 1: of motorcycle interruptions. Yeah, and as we were outdoors, so

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Speaker 1: all of those things can fired to make kind of

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Speaker 1: a slushy sound quality. Yea, So we are going to

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Speaker 1: have a studio version of this show rather than the

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Speaker 1: live recording. Also, we didn't call it this because folks

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Speaker 1: just walking through Gettysburg wouldn't necessarily know what six impossible

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Speaker 1: episodes means. But This is basically a six impossible episodes

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Speaker 1: edition of the show. It's just focused on Gettysburg's ladies. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: for this live podcast, we wanted to focus on women

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Speaker 1: in the Battle of Gettysburg, and there are just so

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Speaker 1: many to choose from. Some of the people we are

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Speaker 1: going to talk about we're local to Gettysburg, some were

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Speaker 1: connected to the armies in some way, and some arrived

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Speaker 1: after the battle was actually over. We just picked a

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Speaker 1: few favorites. If we don't have your favorite, it's not

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Speaker 1: because that person was not any good, just that, you know,

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Speaker 1: we had a select few to twos for this time. Also,

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Speaker 1: this is not remotely all the women who were there,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to be focused mostly on the women's

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Speaker 1: connections to Getty's Berg into the battle itself. So this

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Speaker 1: is not going to be a full biography of all

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Speaker 1: the women that we're going to talk about, but we

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Speaker 1: will jump in and first we will talk about Marie Tepe,

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Speaker 1: known as Fearless French Mary, who became quite a recognizable

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Speaker 1: character during the Civil War. She was born Marie brus

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Speaker 1: probably in Brest, France, and she eventually immigrated to the

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Speaker 1: United States and once she got here, she married Bernard Tepe,

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Speaker 1: who was a tailor in Philadelphia. In June of eighteen

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Speaker 1: sixty one, Bernard joined the twenty seven Pennsylvania Infantry, and

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Speaker 1: she became a vivandiere, which is a French term for

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Speaker 1: uniformed women who traveled with the armies to kind of

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Speaker 1: bolster the troops morale. A lot of times they acted

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Speaker 1: learned about vivandiere during the Crimean War, and during the

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Speaker 1: Civil War there were women in this role on both

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Speaker 1: sides of the fighting. Marie bought things like whiskey, food, tobacco,

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Speaker 1: and various necessities to then sell to the soldiers. She

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Speaker 1: carried her whiskey in a small keg, and she filled

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Speaker 1: sold water instead. And she fought when she had to,

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Speaker 1: and she also helped care for the wounded. She was

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Speaker 1: day if she was doing hospital work. At some point,

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Speaker 1: Marie left the seven Pennsylvania Inventory and Bernard Tepe. The story,

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Speaker 1: as reported by other people, was that several soldiers, one

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Speaker 1: Irish immigrant Charles H. T. Collis had previously served in

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Speaker 1: troops known as the Zuave, patterning the uniforms after their

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Speaker 1: By the Battle of Gettysburg, Marie was a recognizable figure

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Speaker 1: But there were female soldiers at Gettysburg. There were women

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Speaker 1: the Gettysburg Women's Civil War Memorial was unveiled. It depicts

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Speaker 1: Almost thirty years after palms eighteen ninety six death, Elsie

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Speaker 1: Singmaster published A Boy at Gettysburg, which used Palm as

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Speaker 1: the inspiration for the character Maggie Bluecoat, and that fictional

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00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: character was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and wore

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Speaker 1: an officer's jacket from the War of eighteen twelve, thus

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Speaker 1: her Bluecoat nickname. It is possible that the real Margaret

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00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: was involved with the Underground Railroad and with Gettysburg's Slave

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Speaker 1: Refuge Society, which was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church,

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Speaker 1: but in some accounts her real story has been really

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00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: conflated in fused with this fictional character. If she was

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00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,719
Speaker 1: involved with the Underground Railroad, she probably would have been

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Speaker 1: a lot more secretive about it than the fictional character

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Speaker 1: of Maggie Blue Coach. We should also know that Gettysburg

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00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: was permanently altered for its black community after the battle

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00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,439
Speaker 1: was over. A lot of the people who fled never returned.

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Speaker 1: Most of the ones who did come back were people

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Speaker 1: who had property to come back to. A lot of

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00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: that property had been seriously damaged or destroyed in the fighting.

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Speaker 1: In the fall of eighteen sixty three, there were only

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Speaker 1: sixty four black residents listed on the city's tax roll,

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Speaker 1: which was a much smaller number than before the battle.

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Speaker 1: Although the abolition of slavery made Gettysburg a much less

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Speaker 1: dangerous place to live, from that perspective, it really became

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Speaker 1: more of a stopping point than a destination as freed

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Speaker 1: people moved north after the war. And we're going to

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Speaker 1: pause once again for a little sponsor break. We take

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Speaker 1: a break, and then we will come right back with

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Speaker 1: more of Gettysburg's women. Matilda Appears, known as Tilly, was

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Speaker 1: an ordinary but pretty well off civilian from Gettysburg. She

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Speaker 1: was fifteen in July of eighteen sixty three when the

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Speaker 1: battle happened. In eighteen eighty five, she published Gettysburg or

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Speaker 1: What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle, which

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Speaker 1: was her first person account. Tilly was the youngest of

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Speaker 1: four children, and she was at school at the Young

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Speaker 1: Ladies Seminary at the Gettysburg Female Institute on June when

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Speaker 1: they first heard that the Confederate army was approaching. Their

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Speaker 1: teacher told them all to run home as fast as

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Speaker 1: they could, although she was sure that some of them

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Speaker 1: couldn't have made it before the troops arrived. Her book

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Speaker 1: gives a day by day accounting of the battle. At first,

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Speaker 1: her tones pretty excited. She tacks about the insults and

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Speaker 1: indignities of the Confederate army taking her horse. She also

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Speaker 1: talks about their appearance and behavior, which she finds to

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Speaker 1: be pretty raggedy and rude, but apart from that she

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Speaker 1: sounds pretty upbeat. But when the actual fighting begins, things

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Speaker 1: quickly become frightening. She describes a neighbor passing by on

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Speaker 1: the way to Jacob White Hurt's farm south of town

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Speaker 1: and asking for Tilly to come along, thinking that she

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00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: was going to be safer there, and at first this

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00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: seemed like a perfectly good plan, but as the battle shifted,

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Speaker 1: it turned out to not be true at all. The

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Speaker 1: farm was not far from Little Round Chop and that

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Speaker 1: was the site of active fighting. She describes the house

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Speaker 1: and barn becoming a field hospital for Union soldiers and

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Speaker 1: treating at least one hundred men, and Tilly's words quote

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Speaker 1: the number of wounded brought to the place was indeed appalling.

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Speaker 1: They were laid in different parts of the house. The

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Speaker 1: orchard and space around the buildings were covered with the

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Speaker 1: shattered and dying, and the barn became more and more crowded.

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Speaker 1: The scene had become terrible beyond description. This becomes one

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Speaker 1: of those really unique insights into what the mindset of

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Speaker 1: someone is like going through trauma. Tracy mentioned just a

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Speaker 1: little bit ago that her accounts, before things really started

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Speaker 1: getting heated, we're almost kind of excited. And then in

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Speaker 1: the early part of the fighting, Tilly was terrified and

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Speaker 1: describes herself as weeping in fear. But by the third day,

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Speaker 1: she writes, quote, amputating benches had been placed about the house.

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Speaker 1: I must have become inured to seeing the terrors of battle,

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Speaker 1: else I could hardly have gazed upon the scenes now presented.

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Speaker 1: Her account also mentions the death of Mary Virginia Wade

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Speaker 1: known as Jenny, who's the only civilian known to have

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Speaker 1: been killed directly in the fighting. There were other civilians

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Speaker 1: who died as a result of the battle as well,

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00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: including at least one who gave birth and wasn't able

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Speaker 1: to get the necessary medical attention. Jenny was at the

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Speaker 1: home of her sister, Georgia McClellan, who had also given

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Speaker 1: birth just hours before the battle started. The McClellan home

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00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: was directly in the line of fire between the two armies.

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Speaker 1: Jenny was needing dough to make bread for the Union soldiers,

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Speaker 1: and she was struck by a stray bullet and killed

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Speaker 1: on the morning of July three. Tilly also writes about

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Speaker 1: the conditions after the battle as she was returning home. Quote,

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Speaker 1: as it was impossible to travel the roads on account

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Speaker 1: of the mud, we took to the fields. While passing along,

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00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: the stench arising from the fields of carnage was most sickening.

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Speaker 1: Dead horses swell into almost twice their natural size, lay

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00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: in all directions, Stains of blood frequently met our gaze,

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00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: and all kinds of army accouterments covered the ground. Fences

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00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: had disappeared, some buildings were gone, others ruined. The whole

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00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: landscape had been changed, and I felt as though we

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00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: were in a strange and blighted land. Are killed and

522
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: wounded had by this time been nearly all carried from

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Speaker 1: the field. With such surroundings, I made my journey homeward

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00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: after the battle. Once the battle was over, till he

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00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: helped care for the wounded, including several Union soldiers who

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00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: were cared for in her own family home. And her

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00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 1: book concludes with her adult self looking back on what

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Speaker 1: had happened when she was a teenager and Gettysburg's recovery

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00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: decades later. Her tone is pretty optimistic. Quote years have

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Speaker 1: come and gone since the happening of the events narrated

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Speaker 1: in the preceding chapters, but there is indelibly stamped upon

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Speaker 1: my memory as when passing before me. In actual reality,

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00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: the carnage and desolation, the joys and sorrows therein depicted,

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00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: have all long since passed away. Instead of the clashing

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00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: tumult of battle, the groans of the wounded and dying,

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00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: the mangled corpses, the shattered canon, the lifeless charger, and

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00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: the confusion of armies and a Creutermont, a new era

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00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: of joy and prosperity, harmony and unity prevails. After the war.

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00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: Tilly grew up, married, had children, and lived her life

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Speaker 1: before dying on March fifteenth n Hers is one of

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Speaker 1: a lot of eyewitness accounts of Gettysburg, including letters, journals,

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00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: and published books, but It is also a unique perspective

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00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: because it is from a civilian who was a fifteen

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Speaker 1: year old girl at the time of the battle, and

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Speaker 1: that brings us to our last women to talk about today.

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Speaker 1: Tilly Pierce was an ordinary girl whose name we remember

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00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: today because she published her experiences in a book. But

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00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: so many other women and girls had very similar experiences

549
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty three, but there's were unrecorded and consequently unremembered.

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Speaker 1: So you've probably heard the phrase well behaved women seldom history.

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00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: Most of the time people interpret this is kind of

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Speaker 1: a rallying cry celebrating the so called ill behaved women

553
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: who broke new ground and made strides in a way

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00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: that changed the world in defiance of how society thought

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00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: they should act. A lot of times, it's kind of

556
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Speaker 1: a make some noise and go make history. But that

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00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: quote didn't come from Eleanor Roosevelt, or Marilyn Monroe or

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Speaker 1: any of the other historically famous women that it's generally

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Speaker 1: attributed to. It was first published in a nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: six paper in American Quarterly by Laurel though Thatcher ull Rich.

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Speaker 1: At the time, she was studying at the University of

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire, and her intent was very different from the

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Speaker 1: way that people usually use that quote today. It was

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Speaker 1: more about all the ordinary women who lived and worked

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00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: and made a difference in their world but are not

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Speaker 1: included in history books because their lives were quiet and pious.

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00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: The full sentence from that paper is quote, well behaved

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Speaker 1: women seldom make history against antinomians, and which is these

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00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: pious matrons have had little chance at all all. Rich

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Speaker 1: eventually wrote a book exploring how this quote has spread

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Speaker 1: and evolved and what it means for a woman to

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00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: actually make history. So Gettysburg was just full of pious

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Speaker 1: matrons and other dutiful women and girls. Most of the

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00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: men who were able to fight were away fighting, so

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00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: the people left behind were mostly women, children, elders, and

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Speaker 1: people with illnesses or disabilities. So ordinary women who lived

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00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: in Gettysburg were the ones cooking for soldiers and tending

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00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: the wounded and otherwise being part of the battle, but

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Speaker 1: not necessarily with the excitement or flare or personality that

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Speaker 1: would make them memorable to history. Those who couldn't or

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00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: didn't leave ahead of the fighting found themselves in the

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Speaker 1: middle of an active battlefield, and this was of course terrifying,

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Speaker 1: with many women's journals and letters describing hearing soldiers in

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00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: their houses above them while they hid in their cellars,

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: and not knowing if those soldiers were friends or enemies.

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00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: They went through all kinds of hardships, going without food

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00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: after the armies requisitioned everything they had, or having their

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00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: homes used as sniper posts which drew enemy fire. They

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00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: all so endured the battles horrifying aftermath, with the unburied

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00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: bodies of people and animals creating a stench so strong

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00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: that they had to go around with handkerchiefs that were

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00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,239
Speaker 1: soaked in peppermint or penny royal, holding those over their

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00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: noses and mouths. This lasted for months, pretty much until

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00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: the weather got cold and the late fall and winter.

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00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: They turned homes and barns and outbuildings into temporary hospitals

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00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: and helped care for the wounded. They cleaned and repaired

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00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: and dug graves and sweltering heat and torrential rainstorms, and

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00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: often without enough food or clean beds to sleep in.

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00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: The railroads and telegraphs were destroyed, so they did all

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Speaker 1: of this without really being able to communicate with the

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Speaker 1: rest of the world. And they also gave shelter to

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00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: people who traveled to Gettysburg looking for friends and family members,

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00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: who then became part of the recovery effort as well.

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Speaker 1: And we also cannot forget the women who had made

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Speaker 1: Gettysburg their home but then had to make the choice

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Speaker 1: between leaving it behind or risking being enslaved. So we

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00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: named this episode Fearless, Feisty, and unfly the women of Gettysburg,

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00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: But a whole lot of women who were part of

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Speaker 1: the Battle of Gettysburg's history weren't necessarily any of those things.

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Speaker 1: There were so many ordinary women who were scared and

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00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: exhausted or were just doing their best in an unimaginably

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Speaker 1: horrifying situation. But their lives and their contributions still have

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Speaker 1: value and they should not be forgotten. Before we move

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Speaker 1: on to some listener mail, since this was a live show,

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Speaker 1: we just want to thank all the people involved with it,

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Speaker 1: so thanks so much to the Gettysburg Foundation and especially

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Speaker 1: events coordinator Bethany Yngling for all of their help leading

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Speaker 1: up to and during the show and for inviting us

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Speaker 1: in the first place. Thanks also to Chris Gwinn from

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Speaker 1: the Gettysburg National Military Park for leading us on a

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Speaker 1: tour of the battlefield while they we were there. That

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00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: was great, and thank you so much to everyone who

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Speaker 1: came out and bore with us through the weather. We

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00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: were getting ready, We were sort of doing our final

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00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: go over of all of our notes, having some water,

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00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: getting ready to go out there, and Holly walked into

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Speaker 1: the kitchen they had they had put us up in

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Speaker 1: a cottage that's right there um at the at the venue.

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Speaker 1: Holly walked into the kitchen and kind of went WHOA.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what what? Holly said, it's dark outside,

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Speaker 1: And it turned out there was a severe thunderstorm warning,

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Speaker 1: including the potential for a half dollar sized hail. So

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Speaker 1: thanks to everybody who didn't just immediately go home and

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00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: stay away. Yeah. I peeked out the window and could

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00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: see people running from the tent. I was, uh, they

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00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: had just postponed things. They handled the whole thing so

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00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: beautifully and just kind of had a delay for a bit.

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00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: We started about twenty minutes late after things had passed over.

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00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: Thankfully it was quick, but yeah, everyone stuck it out

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Speaker 1: and I was so so thankful for all of the

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00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: listeners that came out said hello, Uh that was a

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Speaker 1: really spectacular event. I had a fantastic time me too,

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Speaker 1: And now I have listener mail. This is from Ursula,

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00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: and Ursula says Hi, Holly and Tracy. I listened to

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00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: her Winnipeg strike episode and loved it. I am from

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all the effort, fun and passion you

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Speaker 1: you so much for this email. Ursula. We have gotten

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Speaker 1: that folks seem to have really enjoyed, So I'm glad

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Speaker 1: I stuck with it, even though I felt like we

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