Episode 48
The ACTUAL hero of Gettysburg never got his credit
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Brigadier General Strong Vincent played a KEY ROLE in winning the Battle of Gettysburg. We'll give you one guess who told the now-famous Joshua Chamberlain where to hold the line at Little Round Top.
Yup...(then) Colonel Strong Vincent. Join us as we explore the life and history of a lawyer from Erie, Pennsylvania - turned hero at Gettysburg.
The Life and History of Strong Vincent
Strong Vincent at Little Round Top the Battle of Gettysburg (on location)
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And they start to fall back and it's Vincent.
Speaker:exposes himself, stands up on that Boulder, grabs the writing crop,
Speaker:and says, don't give him an inch.
Speaker:Boys don't give him an inch
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Speaker:Jen, why don't you tell us what we are talking about
Speaker:tonight on Talk With History?
Speaker:We are going to talk about who I consider the unsung hero of
Speaker:Gettysburg and that is Strong
Speaker:Vincent, so, so strong, Vincent.
Speaker:Now this was actually, and you were just reminding me before we started mm-hmm.
Speaker:that this was like, like our act real first.
Speaker:. It's technically our second video, but it's our first real video
Speaker:that we did just for the channel.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:our first real video for the channel.
Speaker:So if you wa watch our YouTube channel Walk With History, our first
Speaker:video is Nathan Bedford Forest.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Because we were in Memphis and the statue was there at the time, and I wanted to.
Speaker:Inform people who he was and educate people.
Speaker:So we repurposed that video.
Speaker:This is our first video that we actually went to locations and filmed
Speaker:and told you the story, and it's because we lived in Erie, Pennsylvania
Speaker:and you had been working, you know, or doing kind of like an internship for your
Speaker:graduate program at the Erie Maritime Museum and been learning about Yes.
Speaker:A lot more history about the whole Erie
Speaker:area.
Speaker:Well, what really did it was, I think you had a.
Speaker:Enlistment at the Erie Maritime Museum and we left and there was a statue
Speaker:in front of the Erie Maritime Museum.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you had left.
Speaker:And I was like, who's the statue?
Speaker:I'm gonna look up Who's the
Speaker:guy?
Speaker:It's the statue of a guy.
Speaker:He's got like this hero, hero pose.
Speaker:He's kind of like one foot up.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Like almost on like you would see like some on the bow of a ship.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But he's got this writing crop.
Speaker:What you kinda like, you know what jockeys have when they're, when
Speaker:they're racing their horses and then big like lamb.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And definitely a soldier.
Speaker:He's wearing a, like a uniform and it said Brigadier General Strong, Vincent.
Speaker:And I was like, who is this guy?
Speaker:And it said, hero of Gettysburg.
Speaker:And I'm like, Erie, Pennsylvania has the statue to Strong Vincent here.
Speaker:You So I learned all about him and I was blown away.
Speaker:So a lot of people will, will hear Gettysburg.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:and they'll, they'll, they'll hear Hero of Gettysburg.
Speaker:So they'll think about Gettysburg, the movie.
Speaker:So Chamberlain, 1993
Speaker:movie with Jeff Daniels.
Speaker:Jeff Daniels, which actually we just watched a little bit about
Speaker:him and his family history.
Speaker:But you, so we learn about this, but the more you started learning about Strong
Speaker:Vincent who was from the Eerie area, the more you were just like, oh my gosh.
Speaker:He actually was involved at Gettysburg and so lead us up to Sure.
Speaker:How he got the statue.
Speaker:Who is, who is strong Vincent.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And what a great.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:What a great name.
Speaker:Born in Waterford, Pennsylvania, 1837.
Speaker:And his father's last name is Vincent, but his mother's maiden name is Strong, so
Speaker:that's where he gets his first name from.
Speaker:So strong.
Speaker:Vincent is his mother's maiden name and then his father's last name, and
Speaker:he becomes a lawyer and he's a lawyer.
Speaker:In Erie, Pennsylvania, and we go to not only his birthplace,
Speaker:but we go to where he practiced law in Erie, and he graduates
Speaker:from Harvard College in 1859, and then starts to practice a law.
Speaker:And then the war breaks out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And he feels very called to do his duty.
Speaker:So he joins the 83rd Pennsylvania, and he's in a couple battles.
Speaker:He's in the Battle of Chancellorville.
Speaker:He's in Fredericksburg.
Speaker:He really takes command at Gettysburg and he's, he gets to Gettysburg on
Speaker:July 2nd, like as the battle is already going on, and he's commissioned
Speaker:first as a lieutenant colonel.
Speaker:He makes Colonel in June of 1862, and then in May of 1863, he takes command.
Speaker:I wanted to get this right of the third BRI grade, first division,
Speaker:fifth core Army of the Potomac, and that includes the 20th
Speaker:Maine, which is, which is Chamberlain, which is very, very, very famous.
Speaker:Now, Rome, remind me, right?
Speaker:As, as the non-story buff of, of the duo here.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:was it still kind of back then where because he was educated,
Speaker:he already came in as an officer?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes, he came in.
Speaker:Okay, so because he was a lawyer, he was an establi, established
Speaker:as a lieutenant colonel.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:. He came in as a lieutenant colonel.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And then made colonel.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So, so quick right.
Speaker:Commission.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:Educated.
Speaker:Right, and and honestly that goes a long way cuz when we talk about what
Speaker:he did that was so instrumental in which I believe gets a lot of credit
Speaker:that he doesn't get recognized for.
Speaker:I think it's because he sees a bigger picture.
Speaker:That was incredibly common back then.
Speaker:Well that's how Nathan
Speaker:Bedford Forres did it too.
Speaker:We talk about him and you buy a commission cuz you have to pay for your commission
Speaker:That's how it was done.
Speaker:. , you have to be educated and then you have to buy your commission.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know, so you have to kind of pay for your commission.
Speaker:You have to be a, a person of means.
Speaker:It's usually someone
Speaker:educated.
Speaker:So, so he came in, educated, right?
Speaker:Was mm-hmm.
Speaker:someone who was able to see the bigger picture.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:. Got all the way out to, to
Speaker:wanna kind of set the stage a little bit more before we start talking.
Speaker:You know, totally about Gettysburg.
Speaker:We are in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Speaker:If you picture Pennsylvania in your mind, , yeah.
Speaker:Think about the top left corner.
Speaker:Not too far from Buffalo, New York.
Speaker:Think about all the snow up there.
Speaker:That's where Erie, Pennsylvania
Speaker:is.
Speaker:Yeah, it's, so basically Pennsylvania could have access to the lake.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And Gettysburg's a lot closer to like the middle southern part of the state.
Speaker:It's, yeah.
Speaker:In,
Speaker:in that direction.
Speaker:It's close to State College.
Speaker:I, I went to Penn State so it's a little bit to the, to
Speaker:the right and south of that.
Speaker:So a little bit farther To the corner.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:To the right southern corner, right in that
Speaker:area.
Speaker:They get to Gettysburg now, kind of run through.
Speaker:Kind of what happened there and what we did, what you did in
Speaker:the, the videos, cuz you did a
Speaker:couple videos.
Speaker:So if you wanna watch both videos on our channel, I do a video from Erie,
Speaker:which we follow his life from his birth to where he worked to the, and we'll
Speaker:get to the story to end of his life.
Speaker:And then I, I do Gettysburg, so I do where he stood and what happened.
Speaker:So let's get into what happened.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This is what I find so fascinating about Strong Vincent second day.
Speaker:He gets to the area where battle is taking place.
Speaker:And what has happened is Major General Sickles, who we've talked about
Speaker:before, , I, I want to learn so much more about, was it, is it Dan?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Daniel Sickles it.
Speaker:Daniel Sickles.
Speaker:. I wanna do something about Daniel Sickles because we did another podcast.
Speaker:We interviewed he's very colorful Civil, civil war, week by week.
Speaker:And he talked about Dan Sickles.
Speaker:Super interesting character.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We'll do it.
Speaker:They need to make a movie about this
Speaker:guy.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So he's kind of, we'll move past this.
Speaker:He's a man of his own you know, demise, I will say.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because he deviated from his orders.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And leaves a very instrumental location, unprotected.
Speaker:, it's called Little Round Top.
Speaker:And if you know anything about Gettysburg, it is a pinnacle point
Speaker:in the battle of that second day.
Speaker:And it's where a lot of people go to visit because of the terrain.
Speaker:And you can see it ha, it's close to Devil's Den right now.
Speaker:It's closed for renovations at Gettysburg, but Sickles leaves little
Speaker:round top exposed and the chief engineer of the army of the Potomac.
Speaker:Brigadier General Warren, who's the statue that's standing there on Little
Speaker:Round Top is the one who recognized the tactical importance of this area.
Speaker:And so he's trying to find somebody to defend it and he's trying to give orders.
Speaker:And what happens is he has an aid.
Speaker:So Warren, you know, is giving orders and he has an aide
Speaker:Vincent, without consulting his.
Speaker:Superior officers decides to take his brigade and go and defend
Speaker:little round top and he says, I will take the responsibility and
Speaker:I will take my brigade there.
Speaker:So he heard,
Speaker:he came across, or, or the, an aid.
Speaker:The aid came across, mm-hmm.
Speaker:, you know, strong Vincent.
Speaker:And he asked the aid, Hey, what are you trying to do?
Speaker:And he kind of told him, Hey, I'm trying to find somebody to go hold this position.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And strong Vincent's, like, I got it covered.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:I'll take, I'll take my folks.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Which includes Chamberlain and all the whole, all the famous stuff.
Speaker:So strong.
Speaker:Vincent was in charge.
Speaker:Of these units.
Speaker:Yeah, so he was in charge.
Speaker:I wrote them all down.
Speaker:20th Main, 44th, New York, a hundred and 40th, New York Infantry, 83rd
Speaker:Pennsylvania, and the 16th Michigan.
Speaker:So 20th Main, you're gonna know Chamberlain.
Speaker:16th, Michigan will also be significant.
Speaker:So, The 20th main led by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
Speaker:He receives his fame because this is like the left side of the flank.
Speaker:This is the far left side of the battle, and the rebels are advancing
Speaker:and they see them at Devil's Den.
Speaker:And if you know anything about little round top to Devil's
Speaker:Den, that's not much space.
Speaker:So if he can see them advancing, he's trying to get his people in
Speaker:place right as they start to come up.
Speaker:Vincent does.
Speaker:That's I think another strategic thing is he lines up his men kind of.
Speaker:At the spur of the ground.
Speaker:So rate where the ground starts to rise higher.
Speaker:He doesn't, he doesn't put them at the top.
Speaker:He puts 'em at the spur, which is strategically, we know good.
Speaker:Because if you fall back, you fall back to high ground.
Speaker:Right, right.
Speaker:And so, such a smart thing to do because at one point when I talked about the 16th
Speaker:of Michigan, they start to get hit a lot.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And they start to fall back and it's Vincent.
Speaker:exposes himself, stands up on that Boulder, grabs the writing crop, which is
Speaker:a gift from his wife who is pregnant at the time and says, don't give him an inch.
Speaker:Boys don't give him an inch.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And inspires everyone to not fall back.
Speaker:But unfortunately Vincent sent is mortally wounded in that moment.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And, and in the, the second video, so we talked about kind of our,
Speaker:our second video on the channel.
Speaker:Was really kind of our first real one, but 35 videos later.
Speaker:Yes, we, you get to, we make it to Gettysburg.
Speaker:It's so great.
Speaker:So we make it to Gettysburg and she actually walks through Devil's Den
Speaker:and I'll link to that particular video in the description of this video.
Speaker:She walks through Devil's Den, she finds strong Vincent's statue.
Speaker:So there's three things.
Speaker:If you go to Getty, To honor strong Vincent, I will tell you right now, you
Speaker:can go into every gift shop and say, do you have anything for Joshua Chamberlain?
Speaker:And they're like, oh, we have this shirt, we have this mug, we have this
Speaker:key chain, we have this postcard.
Speaker:Do you have anything for strong Vincent?
Speaker:No, but we should.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's the response I got from everybody.
Speaker:So a lot of the folks there, they know of him and they know what he did.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If you're
Speaker:a, a historian of Gettysburg, you know, strong Vincent.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But he's not revered like Chamberlain is.
Speaker:If you go to Gettysburg, there will be statues everywhere to Mark different.
Speaker:. Armies and infantries.
Speaker:And brigades.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Where they stood, where they were and each one, some of them are
Speaker:really unique and beautiful.
Speaker:And the one for the 83rd, Pennsylvania is on that spur where he, where
Speaker:Vincent was and put the 83rd.
Speaker:Now that statue is to.
Speaker:Commemorate all of the 83rd, but it looks like strong Vincent.
Speaker:It's made in his likeness.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:It doesn't say his name on it, but it has the lamb chops.
Speaker:It has the, the writing crop.
Speaker:The writing crop.
Speaker:It has the hat.
Speaker:It's, it's almost like the, the statue at Erie.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:But it's there at Gettysburg.
Speaker:Now there's another white marker, a little bit farther back, higher up
Speaker:on the slope of little round top that says, this is where Vincent fell.
Speaker:It's like a cross and it's like a white marker you can't miss.
Speaker:It looks almost like a tombstone.
Speaker:. Then if you're close to the top of little round top, there's a boulder that you
Speaker:can't see unless you know it's there.
Speaker:That's like engraved.
Speaker:That's they, it cut into the stone and they did this in 1864.
Speaker:And it says, Colonel John Vincent fell here.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So there's three things that
Speaker:you can find.
Speaker:And then he was, was it, is he posthumously promoted, or he was
Speaker:promoted just before he died?
Speaker:So to Brigadier
Speaker:General, commander of the Army of the Potomac major General Mead recommends
Speaker:Vincent for promotion to Briga General on the evening of July 2nd.
Speaker:So that same day after the battle, after he's injured, after he's taken
Speaker:back to it's the, the Bush farm.
Speaker:He recommends him for Brido General.
Speaker:And so then he's promoted on July 3rd, so Lincoln approves it That's right.
Speaker:That next day.
Speaker:And he's promoted on July 3rd, and he's commissioned to Brigadier General.
Speaker:On his deathbed.
Speaker:There is conflicting testimony whether he knew, oh, okay.
Speaker:He received the commission.
Speaker:I think he knew because he dies five days later.
Speaker:I mean, he.
Speaker:Just, he
Speaker:got shot in the leg or like in the gro
Speaker:through the groin.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So hit that artery there and that artery there.
Speaker:And so he's nursed and he's, he is lucid, he is coherent and he
Speaker:is talking until the very end.
Speaker:But he just, He lingers for those five days, it must have been just miserable.
Speaker:And then at the end when he's passing away, , he's muttering
Speaker:the Lord's Prayer as he dies.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's so, so
Speaker:it, it was powerful.
Speaker:It was really neat to kind of almost go full circle.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:with strong Vincent.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:One of the things, if you guys follow Jen on Instagram or anywhere and Gettysburg
Speaker:comes up, she will bring up Strong
Speaker:Vincent's.
Speaker:I will.
Speaker:Because I don't think a lot of people know him or give him credit.
Speaker:And there are people who will acknowledge, oh yeah, he, he's important.
Speaker:I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker:Without strong Vincent and I don't I really push this.
Speaker:An officer taking his agency upon himself to hold a line knowing that this
Speaker:is a strategic part that's important.
Speaker:We were both officers in the military.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:To, to make those determinations on your own.
Speaker:I mean, you're taught that and you're taught that there will be moments when
Speaker:you're gonna have to decide, but you're also gonna have to defend that decision.
Speaker:And he does it.
Speaker:He sees it, he knows it.
Speaker:He, he sees the, the opening, he sees the vulnerability, he sees the
Speaker:confederates coming, and he has a brigade.
Speaker:And so he's like, I'm gonna put them all up.
Speaker:It's like he gets everyone in position just as they come up.
Speaker:And I don't think people realize they do this in the 1993 movie Gettysburg.
Speaker:And it's important that he does stress to Chamberlain.
Speaker:They show that scene, they show that scene.
Speaker:That's a real moment.
Speaker:He does stress to Chamberlain.
Speaker:You have got to hold the line.
Speaker:You are the far left flank of the army, of the Potomac.
Speaker:One of the other things that I think we should talk about is there's another
Speaker:reason that you like that particular scene of Gettysburg is because the
Speaker:actor who plays strong Vincent Yes.
Speaker:In Gettysburg is an actor that you like
Speaker:Maxwell Caulfield.
Speaker:He is in
Speaker:Grease two.
Speaker:Yeah, he's,
Speaker:he's, he's, he's one of the love interests.
Speaker:He's the guy.
Speaker:He's the guy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He, he's the,
Speaker:he's the
Speaker:main guy.
Speaker:He's the main guy from Grease two.
Speaker:So we, we make a joke about that I think in our first, yeah,
Speaker:we actually show him in every we song,
Speaker:we show the greasy and stuff like that.
Speaker:I kind, I kind of cringe when I watched some of our earlier videos.
Speaker:I know, yeah.
Speaker:Because we were learning quite a, quite
Speaker:a bit.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Michael Carrington, so you might know Grease two.
Speaker:Michelle.
Speaker:That's run for early, early movies.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But you don't see Maxwell Caulfield a lot.
Speaker:He does things here and there.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's not like a, a big a list actor.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But when I watched that scene, I'm like, oh my gosh, that's
Speaker:Maxwell Caulfield from Grease two.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So he plays strong Vincent in the movie, and they do have that moment.
Speaker:He's talking to Jeff Daniels and he, who's Joshua Chamberlain, and tells him,
Speaker:you know, you, you are the fall of flank.
Speaker:You've gotta defend.
Speaker:With your death.
Speaker:Basically, this is everything.
Speaker:And he says
Speaker:, Because Chamberlain is a professor.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It's not because not because Vincent is Vincent's a lawyer.
Speaker:But Chamberlain's a
Speaker:professor.
Speaker:Well, and you have to think about it too, right?
Speaker:It's not like this is the first time he's ever two have met.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Because, and
Speaker:or fought.
Speaker:He's, he's been
Speaker:in, he's been in charge of this unit for quite a long time.
Speaker:So strong Vincent.
Speaker:Very familiar and proven with, with Chamberlain and Fredericksburg.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And so Chancellorville that these, these guys had already
Speaker:been fighting together mm-hmm.
Speaker:for, you know, weeks if not months.
Speaker:And, and longer than that.
Speaker:So these, the men like from Chamberlain and everyone else there trusted Yes.
Speaker:And knew.
Speaker:Trusted their leader, right.
Speaker:Trusted, strong, Vincent to be like, we trust him enough.
Speaker:He's been successful enough that we're gonna stay here.
Speaker:We're gonna hold this
Speaker:line.
Speaker:And I think it goes to show too, he, they're holding the line to the extent.
Speaker:where they're running out of ammunition and they're fixing bayonets.
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, that's, that's not something that you do just because you're like,
Speaker:yeah, I think this is a strategic spot.
Speaker:This is like, you hold this or we lose it all.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:exactly.
Speaker:And that's, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker:They never, the rebels were never able to advance.
Speaker:They held the line, and even though strong Vincent is, is injured early
Speaker:and brought to the back of the line and the rest of his brigade don't give up.
Speaker:They all stand their positions.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:You know, you can say you were inspired by your leader.
Speaker:We talk about George Washington leading from the front a lot.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And the inspiration that Vincent gave to his men with, getting up
Speaker:there with the writing crop and saying, don't give her an inch boys.
Speaker:Don't give her an inch.
Speaker:And then getting injured.
Speaker:A lot of people might have felt like my.
Speaker:Boss, my leader, it just got injured.
Speaker:I'm gonna fight for him.
Speaker:I'm going to defend him.
Speaker:I'm gonna protect him
Speaker:. We do visit him in this, his final resting place.
Speaker:He's, yeah, he's an Erie.
Speaker:Erie.
Speaker:He's brought back to
Speaker:Erie.
Speaker:He's, he's buried in Erie with a bunch.
Speaker:He's like a family plot.
Speaker:Yeah, it's a
Speaker:family plot.
Speaker:His wife was pregnant at the time, but she has the little girl, but
Speaker:the little girl doesn't live past the age of one cuz of sickness.
Speaker:Her name is Blanche.
Speaker:She's, he's buried right beside her.
Speaker:And then his wife never remar.
Speaker:She dies in 1914, so he's buried between the two of them.
Speaker:But his grave, if you watch our video, it is.
Speaker:Honored.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:It is an honored grave.
Speaker:He has a gar, he has the, the, the Grand Army of the Republic Star.
Speaker:He has medals on it.
Speaker:He had a ton of pennies.
Speaker:He,
Speaker:he, he was actually, you can tell in the Erie area.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:He was one of those famous historical figures Yes.
Speaker:That people just knew about.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:, they learned about kind of what he did
Speaker:at, well, there was a high school name, strong Vincent High School.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:That's where every, if you live in eer, epa, you went to
Speaker:Strong Vincent High School.
Speaker:It is now strong.
Speaker:Vincent Middle School.
Speaker:, but it was the high school for about 70 years.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And now it's the
Speaker:middle school.
Speaker:I remember we actually when.
Speaker:. It's either the first video or second video initially came out.
Speaker:People started commenting who had gone to Strong Vincent High School.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Eventually we got comments from people who had lived in e epa,
Speaker:you know, and grown up there and actually attended that high school.
Speaker:And, and there were a couple folks who said, Hey, I never knew this much about
Speaker:Strong Vincent, thank you so much Yes.
Speaker:For making this video.
Speaker:I just think he's, I mean, I don't wanna like be crass, but I think he's all.
Speaker:Badass.
Speaker:And he looks cool.
Speaker:If you can look at our videos and look at the pictures.
Speaker:He looks like a confident cool guy.
Speaker:Yeah, and even there's testimony of how he was, they said he
Speaker:was a big gentleman, but quiet.
Speaker:I just think more people need to know who he is because really he could have changed
Speaker:his decision making, if or lack thereof, could have changed the entire outcome
Speaker:of Gettysburg, which could have changed the entire outcome of the Civil War.
Speaker:So a lawyer.
Speaker:from Erie, Pennsylvania.
Speaker:When you think Josh Chamberlain, I want you to think of strong Vincent,
Speaker:because Chamberlain survives.
Speaker:We always talk about this.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Chamberlain survives.
Speaker:He gets to tell his story and Vincent doesn't.
Speaker:Who knows how much higher he would've went, but.
Speaker:I just, I'm so honored to, for him to be our real first video
Speaker:and to still tell his story.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:he's, one of those gems that you unearth and the more you learn about
Speaker:this person, the, the, the more inspired this more inspired that you get.
Speaker:So as we talk about strong Vincent, you, you think back and there are so
Speaker:many heroes throughout history that receive recognition for their heroic.
Speaker:in the United States, we look back on our relatively short history compared to other
Speaker:countries and nations around the world.
Speaker:We talk about larger than life characters like
Speaker:George Washington,
Speaker:Abraham Lincoln,
Speaker:Ulysses S, grant
Speaker:General Douglas MacArthur,
Speaker:buzz Aldrin.
Speaker:I bet you can name a hero across any age of American history but little.
Speaker:Do many folks know of the pivotal role..
Speaker:That a lawyer from Waterford, Pennsylvania played in the American Civil War.
Speaker:This lawyer served in the Army and took initiative to hold the line at Gettysburg.
Speaker:No, he didn't charge with anyone with bayonets himself.
Speaker:But how could a soldier not be inspired by a colonel rallying
Speaker:his troops from the front yelling?
Speaker:Don't give him an inch, boys.
Speaker:Don't give him an inch..
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