Civil war battle reenactment @ Genesee Country Village (GCV)

[bullyboy1863]

I was there last year and this year. I was with the Union artillery 

[RangerCaptain775]

i was at this reenactment

[buffcleb]

@RangerCaptain775 you guys were great... the canon fire was impressive... I could have watched for hours... but my youngest daughter is sensitive to loud noise so I only got to watch for 30 minutes or so... boy I would love to fire off one of those canons...

[buffcleb]

Our area has lots of civil war reenactments... not some many WWII...

I really have no idea how they got anyone to stand there in lines... seems totally insane...

[hollywoodwerewolf]

@buffcleb The armies of the world, not just Union and Confederate, still drilled and fought in the Napoleonic style. The tragedy was that the weapons had advanced in the 50 years since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Even tho they saw the loss of life and terrible wounds no one said "Let's change our tactics."

[237th]

Never watched a Civil War reenactment in person. I've seen a WWII reenactment in Dennison, Ohio a few years ago. It was pretty cool.

[237th]

Imagine fighting that way; Just standing on line and firing at the advancing enemy then they do the same back. No taking up covor and concealment. After each shot, you gotta reload (and that takes a good minute or so). You'd have to be one hell of a speaker to motivate your troops to stay put and get shot at!...and your troops would need to have balls of steal to comply!

[celticdragon153]

@237th Last year the museum made them do the battles in the old parking lot for the reenactors instead of the village because some windows were shattered due to canon fire the year before. Normally they're running around a lot but due to there being no real cover in that area other than the trees, it was hard to really do anything