150th Anniversary of Gettysburg

[rocketsocks]

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/reenactors/event-schedule/

http://ydtalk.com/rocks/?p=76

[litefoot2000]

I would love to go, but it just ain't in the cards.

[FarmerChef]

I just got a free 5th of July PTO day. Might have to take the kiddos.

[rocketsocks]

I would love to go, but it just ain't in the cards.have a friend that's a reenactor...says "it's gonna be a good one" If the wind is blowing right, we might even be able to hear it here in NJ.

[rocketsocks]

I just got a free 5th of July PTO day. Might have to take the kiddos.

22262 what is it...:D PTO

[FarmerChef]

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...

[rocketsocks]

http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/spectators/


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...
hmm, not sure now...found this on there Home page

[rocketsocks]

and for thems that can't make it...like me


http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/spectators/live-battlecast/

[doritotex]

I'd go but my hoop skirt won't fit in my pack.

[FarmerChef]

http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/spectators/


hmm, not sure now...found this on there Home page

Ah, ok. I see. Cost is $35 adult and $15 child for one day admission. Looks totally worth it to me.

[litefoot2000]

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.

[rocketsocks]

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.
and creepy...in a respectful historical way.

but no, never heard that before.

[Tuckahoe]

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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[rocketsocks]

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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cool, are you standing on dirt? marble? pond?

[Tuckahoe]

cool, are you standing on dirt? marble? pond?

That was in a sandy yard of a house on the Bentonville battlefield in North Carolina.

[litefoot2000]

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.
22266

Neat picture. Why did you stop being a re-enactor?

[litefoot2000]

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.

[MyName1sMud]

and for thems that can't make it...like me


http://www.gettysburgreenactment.com/spectators/live-battlecast/

thank you so much! I was mad as heck that I couldn't make it.

[WingedMonkey]

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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.

[coach lou]

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.