1st Texas at Antietam

Mannie Gentile plants the Museum of America cameras down range for a Yankee-eye-view of the firing line of the First Texas Regiment at Antietam National Battlefield in Fall of 2006. This short, non-narrative video provides an exploration of firing by both rank and file...all to the tune of fiddles!

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Travel & Events

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• Civil
• War
• Antietam
• reenacting
• Texas
• Mannie
• Gentile
• infantry
• oprah

[mannie1952]

mmsmikey,

Thanks for your comment. Reference  a standard text on the war; "Battle Tactics of the Civil War" by Paddy Griffith, as well as a newer study :"The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat" by Earl J. Hess, I think you will find that you are mistaken.

Best wishes,

Mannie

[mannie1952]

Dear Mr. Vindice

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at,

However, I hope you enjoyed the video.

Mannie1952

[mannie1952]

As you can see from this and my other Antietam videos, living history groups provide the bulk of costumed interpretation at Antietam National Battlefield and are considered a valuable educational asset by the park staff.

Not sure what you mean about any Papal dispensation, maybe that's in Virginia.

Best wishes and thanks for tuning in,

Mannie1952

[mannie1952]

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

Best wishes,

Mannie

[iLikeGuns88]

So whose going to the 150th Antietam?

[AUG351]

@MMSMikey Yeah, and many fired from cover and fortifications, they almost never stood still in open ground and fired volleys in formation. The reenactments really don't ever show the real chaos of Civil War battles.

[ussr19411945]

what about the 6th WI

[Greenhornet270]

I served in Vietnam; why does anyone want to reenact the hell of war? I hope to hell 100 years from now they dont reenact Vietnam.

[MMSMikey]

whats with all these videos about regiments firing by file in the civil war? rarely if ever happened. Regiments were ordered to fire a volley or 2, then fire at will.

[haynes1776]

The first Texas suffered heavily at Antietam. in fact it was virtually destroyed as they under Gen hood's division under Jackson' corps fought to drive attacking union troops in the cornfield. Around 90% casualties. Very brave and determined men from the Lone star State.

[ke4bss]

God Speed boys....Texans ALWAYS move them.....

[PeterRye58]

The 1st Texas fought so hard and so well at

Antietam,that even the Union soldiers,who fought

against them, boasted that they had "faced the

fiercest fighters of Lee's Army"

Indeed the Texas Brigade were known for their

bravery and fearless style of fighting.

[PNZV]

You take the pale and gaunt comment out of context, but for fun in Reductio ad absurdum lets use your own criteria lean suntanned and fit on minimal rations. As they would call it "deprivations." Granted they were a hardcore breed but on "minimal rations and marching miles a day in bare feet and on minimal rations" do you think they would get better or worse over time. The evolutionist would say better the physicist would say worse. What do you say. I say they would wear down and did.