Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10150071/Ten-thousand-people-take-part-in-re-enactment-of-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html Of course, for the 150th Anniversary (1-3 July 2013) I expected some re-enactments, but Wow!, 10,000 re-enactors. Wish I could be a spectator. Loved going to the Gettysburg battlefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Only 10,000? Had about 26,000 there for the 145th. But I have heard that there was some sort of politics in the group, and that there are/were/will be 2 different reenactments. That might have led to lower numbers.It was quite a sight, 65 guns on the CSA gun line, and actual, honest to gawd REGIMENTS marching past. Blocks of 500 men moving in line, firing together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Those men not only had brass cannon, they had brass ball too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang, SASS #53480 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I don't think much about the analysis of the battle in this article . . . but good pictures. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351158/New-map-explain-Lees-decisions-Gettysburg-Americas-bloodiest-battle-remembered-150-years-on.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I am surprised the President did not make a trip to such a historic anniversary event. Wait, I forgot he's Kenyan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pay Dirt Norvelle #90056 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I wish I could have gone with the group from my unit (20th Maine), but I am just getting to old to go ontop the battlefield. I hope they and everyone had a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bowdrie Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 A few people from my group went. I had to work. I actually considered quitting to go. Then i remembered the bills. (3rd Conf inf Rgmt Co E) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I don't think much about the analysis of the battle in this article . . . but good pictures. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351158/New-map-explain-Lees-decisions-Gettysburg-Americas-bloodiest-battle-remembered-150-years-on.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 BLOODY HELL! That photo of the gun line, the guy either swabbing or worming the gun. Way the hell out in front, looks to have his body in front of the bore, has his thumbs TOWARDS the gun while using the implement. He is an accident waiting to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 A few from the 145th (2008) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 One more. The amount of smoke was amazing. So was the way it clung to the ground in the hot, humid air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 The picture of the Confederate cavalryman on his horse, with pistol at the ready is fantastic! The utter confidence on the trooper's face contrasts with the fear clearly seen on the horse's face. Great photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I leave with 23 members of our unit tomorrow driving to Gettysburg from Texas, 10 more members will join us there. We will be participating in the second reeactment that runs July 4th through July 7th, due to staffing a program at Summer Camp we could not make the first event that the video and photos are from. It will take two days to get there and two days to get home and we will tour the visitors center, museum and battle field prior to setting up camp on the 3rd. Our unit is the 4th U.S. Cavalry dismounted also known as Boy Scout Venture Crew 1872. We also do living history Indian Wars 1872-1874 as the 4th US Cav here in North Central Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I used to do the re-enacting thing back in the 70s-80s. Too old now. It was great fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I used to do the re-enacting thing back in the 70s-80s. Too old now. It was great fun. You're not too old, Bob. Just change your branch color - put on good, honest, artillery red and be an officer. Then you don't even have to shout, just tell your Sar-Major or 1st Sgt. and they yell for you. You just stand and look important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 You're not too old, Bob. Just change your branch color - put on good, honest, artillery red and be an officer. Then you don't even have to shout, just tell your Sar-Major or 1st Sgt. and they yell for you. You just stand and look important. If I can't charge the breastworks and give em cold steel, I don't want to play. Huzzah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I am surprised the President did not make a trip to such a historic anniversary event. Wait, I forgot he's Kenyan. He played it safe...he wasn't sure if the North would have joined the South this time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang, SASS #53480 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 more . . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351943/Women-went-war-Gettysburg-enactors-celebrate-milestone.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 My friend from Tennessee is heading up tomorrow to serve with Burrough's Battery. I was supposed to go but events got in the way. Should be a great event. BTW, to the author of the article with the cool photos, the bugle call is "Reveille". "Revelry" is a word meaning "boisterous festivity". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uno Mas SASS #80082 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 We've got a SASS Regulator, Desert Dawg, serving as a Louie in a Confederate artillery battery at Gettysburg. His unit commander, Gary Wear, is the subject of the last picture in Vulfie's first linked article. Too cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Lewis Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I am fortunate to be able to go Civil War relic hunting in the Culpeper, VA area twice a year. It is quite a feeling to recover a belt buckle, button, dropped three ringer and other relics that have been in the ground for 150 years. Looking at the size of those bullets, it is hard to imagine getting hit with one of those and surviving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Our PCN state cable channel is showing live and taped versions of the Battlefield toursall week. Looks like I won’t get much done here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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