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Hillary Charles
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From: York, PA, USA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 06-21-2008 01:02 PM
Being about an hours drive from Gettysburg, I see plenty reenactors. My favorite are the glass plate photographers. Tim's right, the movie used plenty of reenactors, most of them more nourished than the real soldiers were, though. At least they saved plenty of uniforms and props.
quote: Joe Redifer
It's easier just to really kill each other.
It's not like nobody has tried, Joe. A few years ago, during the Gettysburg reenactment, one of the participants actually had live ammo. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) It caused excitement when the battlefield hosted its first gunshot wound in about 140 years!
Tomorrow when I go to visit my parents, I'll drive beside the remnants of the Columbia-Wrightsville (PA) Bridge. That bridge was burned to keep the Confederates from advancing toward Philadelphia. Because of that, they turned around and ended up in Gettysburg. History is fascinating.
BTW, I really like that picture Charles. If you said it was from a film, I'd have believed you.
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Charles Greenlee
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Posts: 801
From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 06-21-2008 09:45 PM
quote: Hillary Charles
A few years ago, during the Gettysburg reenactment, one of the participants actually had live ammo.
That happened at the one I was at. There were a couple fields the reenacment took place at, on the same farm. Both had a battles happening at that time, that was at the other field, so we didn't know about it at first. The are real anal about inspecting the rifles and cartridges to make sure they're clean of any debris, and no live rounds. It's amazing that slipped through inspection.
That and being that you tear the cartridge, pour the powder, and then have to RAM the round down the muzzle, I still say it had to be intentional. Even if the round was small enough to slip down the barrel without ramming, he'd still have felt it in the cartridge when he was pouring his powder.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-22-2008 01:57 AM
quote: Chris Slycord
Of course I'm not remotely implying that all are like that.
That's not much of an "out."
Chris, if you didn't believe most or all civil war reenactors were a bunch of "the south lives on" redneck hicks I don't think you would have made the sweeping judgment you did in your previous post.
The history of the Civil War really isn't exactly a great point of pride for lots of people in the south. Anyone who really knows any of the history of that period isn't going to be very fond of it. I've lived in Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina. Add my high school days in Virginia. Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas are a bit "west" of the situation. Having lived in those areas for a significant part of my life, I can say the confederate flag culture was marginal at best. Georgia even moved to change its state flag back to its original version and get rid of the stars and bars.
The Civil War was bad enough. The death toll of American fighters in that war still to this day is larger than the combined death toll of American soliders from all the wars this country has fought since then. World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and our current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan don't add up to the losses from the Civil War.
The South had to deal with the "reconstruction" period. Basically, any area south of the Mason Dixon line had to suck hind tit and it's a pretty shameful part of the history of the United States.
The United States' obsession with illegal drugs grew by a great deal during that period. The opium trade hit the big time in the late 1800s. Much of that thanks to hundreds of thousands of battle-worn civil war veterans addicted to morphine and other drugs. The horror stories from that time are a pretty good argument against the zany propositions of people these days who want to legalize hard drugs. We tried it before. It didn't work. The term "Heroin" was actually a brand name coined by the Bayer Aspirin company as a cure of morphine addiction. We all know how that backfired.
My judgment on rednecks driving around in pickup trucks decorated with "the confederate stars and bars" is not good. They're just showing a demonstration of ignorance, and possibly racism as well. However, I flatly disagree 100% with the opinions of those who want all confederate flags banned from being shown. That's just plain ignorance as well. The confederate stars and bars is not a positive symbol in American history, but it is not one that should ever be forgotten either. This country needs to keep that around to remind us of our sense of shame.
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