Awsome Cannon Demo at Chickamauga Park

This was part of the 144th anniversary commemoration at the park. The reenactors are the Western Independent Grays who were pretty awsome. Love the artillery especially.

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• Chickamauga
• Park
• Civil
• War
• Reenactors
• Western
• Independent
• Grays
• Artillery

[StatesRightsGist]

Asset! Asses = asset in the last post!

[StatesRightsGist]

xvoy, The narrator is Jim Ogden, Chickamauga Park historian, who was speaking to the crowd off camera. Ogden has sort of an odd style of speaking, but I think it may be that he's mainly interested in being loud enough to be heard by several hundred people at once. In any case, it's sort of endearing after a while. I wouldn't have him do it any other way now that I've grown used to it. The guy is incredibly knowledgeable, as well. A real asses to the park.

[brucec43]

It looks like Dyer field, which I believe is where Harker's brigade did indeed hold their fire due to the blue uniforms and unfamiliar battle flags of some recently arrived confederate troops.

[StatesRightsGist]

You get an A, Bruce. Dyer field, fire held, confusion. You local to the battlefield?

[missionaryridge]

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't they draw their uniforms in VA or NC?  If so they then had to ride all that way to Ringgold in those same uniforms. I guess I am being petty though, really. I actually live fairly close to the Battlefield and have walked Horseshoe Ridge countless times re-tracing the assaults made in part by South Carolinians. I certainly mean no disrespect to their memory.

[StatesRightsGist]

Sorry if I gave the impression that I thought you were being disrepectful. I totally got the joke and was just giving a little background on those new duds. And it's obvious that todays reenactor is far better fed than his 19th century counterpart!! Look for me at Chickamauga. I'll be the guy in the goofy hat with a cane. I'm out there all the time...

[jz8805]

Actually, a darned good impression. These days, I usually see at least half the soldiers over 200 lbs dripping in brass and colored trim. I had the honor of participating in the big national in the late '90s.

[xvoy2002]

What is with the narrative.. This is an american oddity.. When i watch video of the Space shuttle landing. The guy on tv is alwasy saying.. "landing gear is coming down.. the wheels are touching the runway.." .now in this video, the same thing. Why do american videos insist in telling you what you are seeing? I dont' get it. no other country does this. Thats why they say 'a picture is worth a thousand words."

[061369317]

Very interesting video, IMHO the infantry looks OK as far as reenactment goes.

The speaker would need some lessons for speaking in public though, yet he tells interesting things.

[larsjake]

wow, sounds like ogden, but not.

[bben8890]

Ka-BOOM! They don't make em like that anymore. Great video.

[rocquesbiz]

Great video. It is great to keep history alive in presented in a way that people will remember it.

Thanks for putting this on YouTube.

[biped1of1pandemonium]

Actually they may be healthy...but lets not insinuate that this is a battalion of "fat hogs"...Sorry we couldnt give a more "emaciated" portrayal for u. Next time we should limit ourselves to a diet of wormy cornmeal & rancid beef....Incidently, contrary 2 popular belief, the rebel army did not spend the entire war as skin & bones in tattered rags fighting w/ their daddies shotguns. Its no longer the 1960's we SHOULD know more now. We have books, images, & a wonderful new invention: the internet

[hoosieryank1967]

I heard that at Perryville Rebs dressed in Kersey were shot at by their own arty due to the dark gray color...