Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Pennsylvania Cable Network
• DVD Release Date: June 1, 2006
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GGTM3Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,565 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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The Pennsylvania Cable Network presents a series of its award-winning PCN Tours - Gettysburg Battlewalks for purchase on DVD. Since 1996, PCN's cameras have followed Gettysburg Park Rangers on walking tours of America's most famous battlefield. The legendary exploits of the Union and Confederate armies come to life with these informative and entertaining tours of Gettysburg National Park and its surrounding community.

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1.0 out of 5 stars ABBOT AND COSTELLA RANGERS, August 12, 2007

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S. Minnella "Fast Draw" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: Rose Farm (DVD)

PCN DOES A TERRIBLE JOB ON ITS PRODUCTIONS FOR THESE WALKS..THIS ONE I HAD TO WATCH 45 MIN OF RAIN DROPS ON THE LENS..WHO EDITS THIS STUFF? AND IF THAT IS NOT BAD ENOUGH LBG TIM SMITH AND GARY ADELMAN ARE TERRIBLE..IF YOU THOUGHT THAT FIGHTING AT THE ROSE FARM AND WHEATFIELD WAS CONFUSING TRY WATCHING THIS DVD..INSTEAD OF TRYING TO LAY OUT THE EVENTS OF WHAT HAPPEND THERE I FOUND MYSELF WATCHING GUYS HOLDING UP PICTURES OF MONUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MOVED..I REALLY DONT CARE IF THE MONUMENT WAS MOVED, JUST TELL ME SOMETHING OF THE BATTLE HERE...AGAIN PCN DOES NOT PAN TO ANYTHING AS THE GUIDES ARE TALKING SO YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE..THESE GUIDES KEEP TURINING OVER TO EACH OTHER AND EACH ONE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS SO CONFUSING YOU WILL NEED SOME TYLENOL AND SOMEBODY THAT REALLY KNOWS THE STORY TO SORT IT ALL OUT..SAVE YOUR CASH ON THIS ONE..

5.0 out of 5 stars Walking Gettysburg's Battlefield: The Very Bloody Rose Farm, March 9, 2007

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Rea Andrew Redd "http://civilwarlibrarian.blo... (Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PCN Tours Gettysburg Battlewalks: Rose Farm (DVD)

Walking Gettysburg's Battlefield: The Rose Farm

Gettysburg Battlefield Walks: The Rose Farm, Tim Smith and Gary Adelman, Pennsylvania Cable Network, 2003. DVD format, $[...].

The Pennsylvania Cable Network, owned and operated by the Commonwealth, broadcasts NPS Rangers' and LBG tours of the Gettysburg National Military Park. There are over sixty tours available on DVD format available from www.pcntv.com. At $[...] to $[...] each, they are an affordable means of learning more about the battle. These tours,filmed on the battlefield,work best with a battlefield map on your lap as the tour plays on your television. Recommended are the McElfresh water color maps that show only the roads, fences, buildings and crops at the time of the battle.

The Rose Farm tour, presented by Licensed Battlefield Guides Tim Smith and Gary Adelman, focuses on the bloodiest farmstead in the Civil War. The Rose Farm is located on the southern end of the battlefield, between Devil's Den an the Emmitsburg Road. The program is an enjoyable 70 minute tour of that portion of the battlefield and covers: the owners and tenants of the farm, Longstreet's attacks on the Wheatfield and the Stoney Hill, the successive attacks by U.S. through The Wheatfield and the Stoney Hill, the burials around the Rose Farm buildings, the post-battle photography on the farm, the first monuments and their mistakes, early tourism and the creation of the National Battlefield Park by the U.S. War Department.

Adelman and Smith, support and interrupt each other. At times the tour becomes a conversation between them; their congeniality avoids the common pitfall of 'the talking head' or 'the monotone' of public discussions presented in video format. Their tour offers period photography, maps, and portaits, enlarged for the audience. Anyone preparing for the Licensed Battlefield Guide exam would do well use this PCN tour in their studies.