Posted on 07/01/2023 7:58:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
Reenactors are marking the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the Civil War.
Hundreds of spectators are watching history come alive at the Daniel Lady Farm.
The annual battle reenactment has brought together 2,000 Union and Confederate reenactors for the three-day event.
Some of them are in their 70s and 80s and have been taking part for forty years or longer.
The history buffs aren't just from the U.S. News 8 spoke to a man about why he came from Canada.
"As a Canadian, there were hundreds if not thousands of what are now Canadians who fought and died here. It's part of our history as much as it is America," Larry Burden said
(Excerpt) Read more at wgal.com ...
Where is Homer?
I have come to view the CW much differently than l used to. They had a right to secede. The wickedness of slavery is undeniable but if the southern states wanted to be independent that was their right. The north invaded the south.
Don’t forget that Vicksburg fell on the same day to General Grant. Vicksburg was an important victory for the Union.
Vicksburg fell on July 4th, Gettysburg ended on the 3rd.
Greatgrandfathers on both sides there.
I remember the family trip there as a child
The drive through the battlefield at night was eerie
Blood had run knee deep, and the ground knew still
Average/common age of the boys fighting was, iirc, 19. Some were 12
Ghosts
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lve—SqfsQQ
Shelby Foote said the War I’m the West, was MORE important than the one in the East. I would exempt Antitem and Gettysburgh
Till Sherman settled the matter.
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That’s nothing. This weekend in Chicago they’re reenacting the siege of Stalingrad.
Uh, the South opened fire on Ft. Sumter. They opened the ball, so to speak.
July, 4, 1863.
And for some eighty years after the City of Vicksburg didn’t celebrate July 4th.
“Blood had run knee deep, and the ground knew still”
Hyperbole much?
I’ve never heard of any CW stories where soldiers waded through”knee deep blood”
Maybe if all the blood spilled were calculated it might equal such if put into a container which allowed such measurements but no battlefield accounts exist.
His was right. The battles in the West were more consequential as it deprived the confederacy more material support from it’s own resources as well as the transportation needed to get it to where it was needed. Lincoln’s Anaconda strategy slowly strangled the Confederacy.
Blockading the important pots of New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston and capturing the waterways of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers denied cheaper transportation of men and material for the South and flipped this advantage to the Union. Same with the railways, such as they were, in Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Corinth hurt mobility of southern troops and supplies.
The war in the east was a continuous string of battles that exchanged comparatively little terrain or tactical advantage until the last year of the war when Lees army was starving for men and material denied him by Union victories in the rest of the south.
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Years ago (thanks Nikki!) re-enactors were banned from having any Southron flags on the battlefield/ park property.
So basically you have Yankees fighting some dudes dressed in gray, for no apparent reason, now.
Thought you’d wanna ghost this thread.
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Well, there is this, locally
Over 5000 casualties in a sunken road that’s really kinda smallish.
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Bloody Lane Summary: The sunken road that was later to be named “Bloody Lane” was site to some of the fiercest fighting in the Battle of Antietam. For nearly 4 hours, Union and Confederate forces fought in this sunken clay road. At the end, it was said that blood flowed like a river inside it, giving it the name “Bloody Lane.”
Vicksburg was also important as it brought Gen. Grant back east.
A few days later the Demoncrats kicked of their draft riots in NYC that hindered the persuit Lee.
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