150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg
 

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/1...ettysburg.html

Huzzah to the 1st Minnesota!:salute::salute::salute:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Gettysburg.jpg

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


Pickett's Charge:
http://july1863.homestead.com/files/..._mark_lg2.jpeg
http://media.smithsonianmag.com/imag...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-as...-round-top.jpg

I'm surprised you're not.

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

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

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:

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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:

Always expect the unexpected. Besides, I'm bored.

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

I hope I disappointed you.

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: