Gettysburg Civil War reenactment footage

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[ZeitgeistWI]

Unless we are knowledgeable of our history and learn the lessons we need to from it, we are surely doomed to repeat those mistakes. Seeing a life of a soldier lived as it was during the War Between the States or the Revolution allows us to associate with them and know them and more importantly, understand why they were there and what it meant to them. You can't get that from a history book or lecture, you need to experience it. That's what reenactors do.

[SuperHaloStarwarsFan]

@TitaniumPlatnium War is bloody. There cannot generally be a war "bloodier" than another. Trust me, wars before the Romans were as bloody as the Colonial Age, and are just as bloody as wars of today. The varying weapons - swords, spears, cannon, musket, rifle, machinegun, laser - they will all be bloody. War is hell.

[901MovieMaker]

How do you stab a bayonet into someone in reenactments?

[KaiserReich98]

Sorry to ruin your words of wisdom or whatever the hell those were, but yes, one war can be much much bloodier than another

[barfyspitz]

@ThePimpycat I carry a .58 cal musket. They are real rifles and cannon, they just fire blanks. In the morning inspections the captain or other ranking officer inspects you and your epuipment,often slipping a dummy cartridge in your cartridge box without you noticing (they can be sneaky) During the re-enactment, you will will eventually pull out the dummy cartridge when loading your weapon and know it's your turn to die or fall down wounded. Black means dead. Red means wounded.

[AUG351]

@ThePimpycat Some times they tap you on the shoulder or you just choose when to get hit.

[AUG351]

@ThePimpycat They arn't airsoft guns they are real guns but loaded only with powder but no minie ball. You bite off the end of a cartridge and pour the powder down the barrel then usually you would place the bullet in the barrel then take out the ramrode and ram the powder and minie ball down the barrel then place a percussion cap and pullback the hammer and fire.

[ThePimpycat]

What do they use in the guns in civil war reenactments? And how do they ppl now when they die in the baatle? Do they get hit by an airsoft pellet? Plz answer my questions!

[amitus8]

How could the men charge so without athletic supporters? Or did they have athletic supporters in them days?

[PhilipMitchellGraham]

Reenactment are nothing like war. They recreate all the meaningless details without considering the bigger picture.

Reenactments create an exciting sensitised spectacle, devoid of fear, the stench of violent death, and the madness and sorrow of those who survive... which makes the whole exercise a dangerous sham.

Wars are disasters created by politicians who fail in their primary duty to maintain peace and prosperity for all.

[studysync]

It's important that we remember how divided our country was during the civil war, and these reenactments serve to remind us all.

[CrimsonEmpire]

kill them ignant confederate bastards!

[Lildeathdude25]

@Lildeathdude25 Sorry.. next year :P

[Lildeathdude25]

I am suppose to be reenacting shiloh this year and there is suppose to be 5,000 to 6,000 men plus 50 cannons.. I maybe wrong about the cannons this time though.

[ZeitgeistWI]

@mike88189 You won't get a sense for what it is or isn't by listening to me tell it to you. Go and find a reenactment group around your home and ask them if you can see what it is all about and experience it for yourself. What you take away from it is up to you ultimately but I think your eyes will be opened to a new experience and you will see what I am talking about. Believe me, when you are standing next to a 12 pound artillery piece, surrounded by men firing rifles, you get a sense of it.

[ZeitgeistWI]

@mike88189 In the sense that we live as they lived in the field, do the same things that they did and more or less put on a persona while reenacting, it is very real. There is the obvious difference that at the end of it, we know that we can go back to our homes and our jobs and we won't have suffered serious wounds or death. But in a sense, that is what they did as well. Some lived, some were wounded and some died. Those who survived went home after the war.

[ZeitgeistWI]

@mike88189 Depends on what you consider, "truly experiencing". Do we actually shoot at each other? Do we face the possibility of death? Of course not. We are there as historical role players, trying to give the public some sense of what the conflict was like and the day to day life of a soldier. It's like reaching back to them through time and seeing things through their eyes, as much as we can anyway. We eat the same food, play the same music, live in the same tents and sleep as they did.

[mike88189]

@ZeitgeistWI yes but reenacting it isn't truely experiencing it though its just a false image you attempt to portray when the real one's who experienced it truely felt what it was like

[ActorAdn]

This has got to be the biggest waist of time that I've ever seene anybody doing.....yet scary, nothing like a few thousand red neck inbreds running around crazy TRYING to believe the year is 1863 and that there in danger while holding weapons. Oh and to the person that MADE this video......it must be nice to want to eat the corns off of an old mans foot but you do it anyway.

[darthjamula]

@NaStyleJaa Are you kidding?......

[NaStyleJaa]

i feel like this video would be more enticing if it had rap music playing in the background

[MeAtLoAfInTime]

@TitaniumPlatnium The civil conflicts in 20th century China come to mind....

[BlueBig22]

@TitaniumPlatnium well that is because we ARE IN THE USA... no shit we mainly hear about this war because it was with our own country... you dont see people in AFRICA learning about the American Civil War... are you really that dumb?

[jpb951128]

@micahemeyer bull



[jpb951128]

-.- suck balls everyone america is the best so bull crap