Civil Warriors

[CarterFamilyForever]

great job!!!!!love it! was wondering i was going to get involved with this yr.s brooksville raid and was wondering what do the women do for authentic campping?any advice/knowledge you have i would appreciate!!thanx!

[sanddemon51]

i saw the dead guy move............he is not really dead...........i want an investigation.......just kidding, great job

[Voodeux]

Thanks...I don't have power to bring back anyone from the here-after. I don't blame those guys for not wanting to 'die' during battle. Warm temps and wool clothing do not make for a good match.

[Maximus214]

Great movie. Lighten up and enjoy the passion people share!

[pakieire]

Would you agree with that statement if it had been made by someone born in and living in Nazi Germany? "My country right or wrong" is for people who don't like to think.

[pakieire]

It's inaccurate for an older woman to wear a white blouse with a different color skirt. This is a style for younger women. When older women would step outside convention and wear this style it was called "dressing a mutton to look like a lamb." The blouse part should be connected to the skirt part to form a dress, not to serve as 2 different pieces of clothing.

[SouthernBelle1861]

While you're right that it is inaccurate for those women to be wearing the white blouse and skirt thing, one other thing must be noted. The outfits worn then were (as you said)were worn by younger, more fashionable ladies. The problem with anyone wearing this sort of thing is that its usually seen made with a muslin blouse and a cotton calico skirt. The outfits of the period were VERY high fashion and made with fine cotton (almost sheer in some cases) and nice silks and wools.

[pakieire]

Although I do rev war I believe that the snood the old lady is wearing is a *Northern* style for young women, not older ladies.

While I don't like "stitch nazis" I also don't approve of lazy "reenactors" who would rather do something the easy way than the correct way.

[SouthernBelle1861]

"Snoods" of the period were nothing like the ones seen in this video. The modern "adaption" to the snood is chunky and usually made in bright colors of nylon/rayon thread. Hairnets of the period were made of thin thin silk thread or human hair in a Is was a purely fashionable thing.

[milo1047]

OH MY GOD IT'S RUMPELSTILSKIN! I know that guy (not by name, only by sight). He's in the same reenacting organization I'm in. His guys NEVER take hits and are horrible lot of farbs.

[2ndky]

one word FARB *run away*

[nearadyn]

Very good video. I've been a reenactor for 3 years now. I'm with the Federal Signal Corps in Oklahoma. It's one thing to watch a movie about the civil war. But when you put on the uniform, carry the guns and other gear, and march onto the battlefield, you get a different perspective entirely. It can be described, but it can be experienced!

[COFFIN1863]

Yes, billandersen, there is farb (although there is no polyester). And yes, chase196126, Rob Hodge does a great job. Fortunately, most of us are content to do what we can to educate the public and honor the people of the CW era with the resources we can muster, and spend little of our time worrying much about what stich Nazis such as yourselves think. We'll camp in our A tents, put insoles in our brogans and do our best. You go ahead and stay home.

[RiverBirch1967]

Can anyone please point me in a direction of someone willing to help me learn to reenact as a woman? Someone with advice for me?

[CivilWar1863]

Us reenactors' go to great lengths to help the public be more aware of the history that America was involved. People like billandersen here doesn't really know anything about the weapons, the uniforms or the gear that a soldier had to carry in the Civil War. I'll ask Mr. Andersen this question: "Do you know the difference between a polyester costume to a reproduction of a wool uniform?" Clearly he doesn't so he doesn't know jack about his own family history.

[yark640]

Very nice, And billandersen if you don't have anything nice to say, Shut Up!! Loser

[chase196126]

Dude, if you want to see good reenacting videos go to wide awake films. Rob Hodge does a great job. And yes those guys are VERY farby

Chase Pinkham

[2ndky]

yep those are some big time farbs. wide awake films is alot better

[Spanaway55]

not necessarily true, there are plenty of civil war journals of soldiers who very clearly state that they carried a dog tent/shelter half on campaign with them....of course its not an A-frame, but shelter halves would be ok

[freton13]

well done

[billandersen]

Love the fat guys, the modern eyewear, the seas of tents (nonexistent in the field post-1861) and the polyester costumes. Stuff like this makes all reenactors look like dorks, when in fact only a lot of them are.

[NevadanTanker21]

Polyester uniforms? AHEM What?

[drube77]

Oh geeze , most folks in this hobby are over wieght its a national problem if they werent on the field you would have a dozen or so people reenacting and that would look silly and Farby now wouldnt it. As far as dorks ..well fox smells his own hole right?