Grab-N-Go History

Enjoying a quiet yet windy morning on Little Round Top

So, yesterday, I had a few hours in the morning while in Gettysburg. I decided to try and visit some of the markers that were "off the beaten path." This one is on the northern end of the battlefield, by what is known as Barlow's Knoll.
A short distance from the auto tour location, one can walk down the hill to Rock Creek, and there will find the regiment marker for the 54th New York infantry. Part of Von Gilsa's brigade of Barlow's division of Howard's XI Corp. It was where the union attempted to halt the advance of confederate infantry of Gordon's brigade of Early's division.
Note, this is not the actual 54th New York monument, which is actually on Cemetery Hill to the south. Where the regiment eventually fell back to.
I went to the auto stop and was about to head down the hill to the creek. Then I remembered how the park guides have asked that people respect the farmland of the area and not walk through except during the off-season.
So, I wound up having to drive to the Benning Farm (3rd image) just north of the creek. Then cross the bridge (4th image) and begin to try and find the 54th marker. I wound up trudging through 1/8 of a mile of mud and thorny bushes (some actually ripped holes in my pants) until I finally found it.

Always love passing through Gettysburg in the autumn

In dealing with some of the steeper hills, I like to come prepared with a walking stick.
I was asked several times where I got it. To receive the anticlimactic reaction when I tell them that I got it at a truck stop just outside of Pittsburgh. 😁

In dealing with some of the steeper hills, I like to come prepared with a walking stick.
I was asked several times where I got it. To the anticlimactic reaction when I tell them that I got it at a truck stop just outside of Pittsburgh.

More D-DAY Ohio. What was most curious was seeing a Japanese imperial soldier.

Just spent the last hour arguing with a number of woke youth over the Vietnam War...

It kills me how many young people consider themselves historically educated by watching a few agenda motivated tiktok videos...

While on Culp's Hill today, the guide mentioned that when the different regiments were placing their monuments on this particular part of the battlefield, that there were indeed two regiments with the name 1st Maryland Infantry. One for the Union Army of the Potomac and the other for the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. As the north won, they had the final say on keeping their name as such, and the Confederate regiment agreed to change their name on their memorial to the 2nd Maryland Infantry.

One hundred years ago, on June 2, 1924, the United States government conferred citizenship on Native American people by passing the Snyder Act, also known as the Indian Citizenship Act. Prior to that time, Native Americans had been explicitly denied citizenship—first in the United States Constitution and, later, through the 14th Amendment. However, while the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 ensured that all Native Americans born within the United States had citizenship, the Act failed to fulfill the promise of citizenship because Native Americans were not also granted voting rights. It would be decades before all 50 states granted Native American citizens the right to vote. And even today, due to the inequities that Native Americans endure when accessing registration, early voting, and Election Day polling places, the promise of full citizenship remains broken.

While the 15th Amendment declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race, many states were able to find other ways to deny Native American people the vote—residence on a reservation, tribal enrollment status, taxation, and incompetency were all used by states as reasons to disenfranchise Native people. One tragic outcome was that thousands of Native American veterans— including American Indian Code Talkers returning from World War II— found themselves prohibited from participating in basic civil liberties in the nation that they had risked their lives to protect.

Taken from narf.org

Absolutely appalling

This was one of the main reasons I chose to not teach professionally. I would have refused to mold history to fit within the narrow mold of political correctness.