150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

[nikimcbee]

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html

http://july1863.homestead.com/home.html

I wish I could be in Gettysburg this week:-?, good luck finding a hotel within 100 miles of there.:dead:

10,000 reenactors!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10150071/Ten-thousand-people-take-part-in-re-enactment-of-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html

Huzzah to the 1st Minnesota!:salute::salute::salute:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/1st_Minnesota_Monument_Gettysburg.jpg

http://www.assonetart.com/lastfullmeasure.jpg


Pickett's Charge:
http://july1863.homestead.com/files/the_high_water_mark_lg2.jpeg
http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/Civil-War-commemoration-Picketts-charge-631.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9I8JAtdH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPdNeXQRO8

Reform your division....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGv1VKAybcI


Charge of the 20th Maine:
http://armystrongstories.com/blog-assets/jonathan-bratten/images/20th-maine-round-top.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

I wish I could be in Gettysburg this week:-?
I'm surprised you're not.

I'll be content with watching the movie again. Especially the reenactors' parts. :sunny:

[August]

RIP to those brave souls who gave their all on both sides.

[Cybermat47]

The obligatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1yPoAaKL0&feature=plpp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67kvgDDOKg&feature=plpp

:salute: to all those who died in the American Civil War.

I'm going to have to watch Gettysburg and Gods and Generals again :yep:

[Armistead]

We planned on going this past week, mainly to listen to all the historians, but my father has been ill, so we had to change plans. CSPAN did show all 8 hours of the historians. We usually leave NC, head to Richmond, then Bull Run, Gettysburg, then come home down the valley to Sharpsburg, Harper's Ferry. It's a fun overall cheap trip, bout $1000.00 plus wifes shopping. I know many of the actors from Gettysburg movie were there this week.

It's sad that during the "War of Northern Aggression" so many lives were lost.

Being a reenactor and partaking in the movie still remains one of the best experiences I've ever had.

[Jimbuna]

That must be one re-enactment well worth seeing....nothing even approaches those numbers here in the UK.

[soopaman2]

May America never do such a thing to one another again. :(

As much as we are regionally different, deep down inside we love each other, we just have a sick way of showing it.

The North and South are like rival brothers, Kinda like how in the movie Boondock Saints, the brothers always got into arguments and fist fights, but stuck together when needed, and got crap done!:up:

War of northern agression? Troll much?

[August]

May America never do such a thing to one another again. :(

As much as we are regionally different, deep down inside we love each other, we just have a sick way of showing it.

The North and South are like rival brothers, Kinda like how in the movie Boondock Saints, the brothers always got into arguments and fist fights, but stuck together when needed, and got crap done!:up:

Like the great Charlie Daniels said in the song "In America":

From the sound up in Long Island out to San Francisco Bay
And every thing that's in between them is our home
And we may have done a little bit of fighting amongst ourselves
But you outside people best leave us alone.

'Cause we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank
That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks
You just go and lay your head on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan
And I think you're gonna finally understand

War of northern agression? Troll much?I've heard the civil war called that by my southern friends on many occasions. It's difficult for us Yankees to understand that loosing such a war still stings them a bit even after so many years. After all they are the only Americans to ever loose a war.

[Armistead]

We was fit'n fer steak rits! Now we has a federal monopole and steak rits are long gone.

[Schroeder]

After all they are the only Americans to ever loose a war.
I don't want to derail this but do you call Vietnam a victory?:doh:

[Oberon]

I don't want to derail this but do you call Vietnam a victory?:doh:

Wasn't expecting you to bite that hook. :o:doh: Have fun with that. :haha:

[Schroeder]

Wasn't expecting you to bite that hook. :o:doh: Have fun with that. :haha:
Always expect the unexpected. Besides, I'm bored.

[August]

I don't want to derail this but do you call Vietnam a victory?:doh:

Definitely not, but I wouldn't call it a lost war either, at least not in the sense and extent that the south experienced loosing a war, or for that matter our German elders lost their wars. Vietnam was a case of burned fingers, not the total and complete defeat that the CSA endured.

And the loss does still effect them to a degree. Not that they're planning to rebel again (in spite of their claims that the South will Rise Again!) but telling a southerner stuff like...

"That was about as bright at Picketts Charge"

or

"Better watch out, Sherman may return and wipe you out"

...might not be the hilarious joke a Damned Yankee like myself might take it to be at first! :D

[August]

Wasn't expecting you to bite that hook. :o:doh: Have fun with that. :haha:

I hope I disappointed you.

[Schroeder]

OK, so by loosing you mean facing occupation of your own turf by hostile forces. In that case you're almost right then. But there were Americans who faced that before 1864 and that were the natives (whole new can of worms here.:D). But I see where you are coming from.:yep:

[August]

OK, so by loosing you mean facing occupation of your own turf by hostile forces. In that case you're almost right then. But there were Americans who faced that before 1864 and that were the natives (whole new can of worms here.:D). But I see where you are coming from.:yep:

You knew where I was coming from before you tried to troll an argument with me over Vietnam.

[Cybermat47]

Being a reenactor and partaking in the movie still remains one of the best experiences I've ever had.

You were in the movie? Awesome! I take it you were a CSA soldier, not a Northener?

[Armistead]

You were in the movie? Awesome! I take it you were a CSA soldier, not a Northener?

I died both blue and grey, but I came CSA...:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

I died both blue and grey, but I came CSA...:yeah:

I know a guy that played a Roman soldier in the film Gladiator and after the first day of filming he was really having a fantastic time...till the next day when he was 'killed off'. :)

[Armistead]

We came back to life over and over.

Most of the filming was done on a nearby farm, but Pickett's charge was done on field. It was awesome to walk across that field the same as my gggpappy did. It was electric, even acting, a sense of fear took over.

[Jimbuna]

We came back to life over and over.



In the days of the Roman Empire medical science was nowhere near as advanced as that :)

[Armistead]

In the days of the Roman Empire medical science was nowhere near as advanced as that :)

:haha::haha:

Well, we didn't shed blood, just died. Except for a few staged scenes, there was no blood or gore, just watch the charge. no blood. They did supply a rubber bayonet for many due to several getting poked.

It was also strange being watched by Jane Fonda. She mostly stayed out of the way sitting on a tower. There were actual rumors of her getting fragged on set. Many reenactors actually use real relic working muskets, these weren't allowed there, but some still had them.

Our family has my gggpappy's sword. I wanted to carry it across the field as he did, but my uncle wouldn't let me then...

[Jimbuna]

Our family has my gggpappy's sword. I wanted to carry it across the field as he did, but my uncle wouldn't let me then...

That's a real shame I'm sure he would have been overjoyed at the thought.

My wish is to sail into Arctic waters on a cruise liner holding my fathers Russian Convoy medal.