For those wishing to come off trail and take in a reenactment, I'm told there will be close to 9,000 actors.
http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com...vent-schedule/
http://ydtalk.com/rocks/?p=76
For those wishing to come off trail and take in a reenactment, I'm told there will be close to 9,000 actors.
http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com...vent-schedule/
http://ydtalk.com/rocks/?p=76
I would love to go, but it just ain't in the cards.
I just got a free 5th of July PTO day. Might have to take the kiddos.
2,000 miler. Still keepin' on keepin' on.
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I'm confused. Are those events listed only for reenactors or is that open to the public? I don't see that listed on the NPS website...
2,000 miler. Still keepin' on keepin' on.
http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/spectators/
hmm, not sure now...found this on there Home page
and for thems that can't make it...like me
http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com...ve-battlecast/
I'd go but my hoop skirt won't fit in my pack.
I have been told that the hallowed ground there absolutely resonates with energy. Do you know that turkey vultures still return every year in search of the decaying horse flesh? After 150 years! That is truly amazing.
Sometime I find myself thinking about my days as a CW reenactor. Its now been 11 years since my last living history up at Harpers Ferry.
Here is an old picture with yours truly in it. Hard to believe its about a 20 yo photo.
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igne et ferrum est potentas
"In the beginning, all America was Virginia." -William Byrd
150 years ago today, Gen. George Pickett lost half of his division in the fateful charge at Gettysburg. Combined casualties for the three day battle were 52,000. It was the turning point of the war and the beginning of the end for the South.
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This is my great great grandfather Alexander D. Grant. The chair he is sitting in does not have five legs, The extra one is his peg leg.
Alex was a private in Company C, 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. While engaging in battle at the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg he was wounded and captured on July 3, 1863. Surgeons amputated his leg below the knee.
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This is his prosthetic on display at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room.
As for reenactments, it is my opinion if grown men want to dress up and play war;
They should walk hundreds of miles over and around mountains and rivers and swamps to where they want to play war.
They should use live ammunition while shooting at each other.
They should have field surgeons cut off any injured limbs without anesthesia.
I'd buy a ticket to watch that.
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
My step daughter the Civil geek, is writing a running report as the battle rages over these 3 days. Today's casualties alone, will be the 10th largest rate of all our battles.