Just in time for St. Patrick's Day 2020, this video walks you through the fight of the Irish Brigade in the bloody Wheatfield on July, 2nd 1863 during the battle of Gettysburg. It covers the operational context, the organization of the brigade, their approach to The Wheatfield and how their initial success turned into an eventual rout of the Union forces fighting there. We make sense of the confusing and ferocious fighting that happened while honoring the Irish Brigade and the roughly 37% casualties they suffered in their march to immortality.
