Pickett's Charge - The Cannonade 145th Anniversary

Prelude to the Grand Assault. The reenacted Cannonade lasted for 45 minutes as Confederate reenactors formed up for the final charge.

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[Haloskulls117]

do you think that the ghosts of either side are looking at the reenactment like, what the fuck? again?

[E2theSamps]

(I'm going to regret entering this debate.) Granted, the North wasn't hard-intent on abolishing slavery. But if slavery wasn't an issue, there would have been no war. Slavery had been the biggest divisive issue of the early 19th century. After 'Bleeding Kansas,' John Brown's raid, & wild, false rumors of Northern-backed slave revolts, many southerners believed that all Yankees wanted to free the slaves through violence. The plantation owners had the votes that counted, & they voted to secede.

[E2theSamps]

@Darthbelal

Precisely.

And going back to what I said about 'Bleeding Kansas', the Union believed that the South started the fighting, and that rallied the North against the South politically. Each believed the other wanted to start a war. And as any historian can tell you: what makes history is not what is happening, but what the people *think* is happening.

[Darthbelal]

@E2theSamps the South had a static agrarian society that was dependent on cotton, and slaves. Take away the slave, you demolish that society. The South was aware that the North was growing in terms of population, industry and westward expansion.

Rather than be a part of a Union that seemed bent on disrupting/destroying their society, they felt it was better to just get out.

[ffairlane57]

This is why I love Gettysburg.

[canonsburgman]

This is just great! I had family death at Gettysburg, in the Wheatfield, the 140th Pa Vol. Thanks for posting.

[2006nationalchamps]

your leaving one thing out , northern states had slaves , the slaves had no choice but to work under federal rule ! the southern slaves that were on plantations took care of the white folks also and each other many southern slaves fought along side confederate troops and plantation owners , the yankees raped, burned and stole things from the plantations in the south . learn your history on your own NOT in the lies of federal school books !

[E2theSamps]

@EpicTrollBeastMan

Not sure if trolling (hmmm), or just didn't read my comment.

[EpicTrollBeastMan]

@E2theSamps Your comment is narrow minded as is anyone who argues the same case. For your statement to hold weight you must first assume that all the movers and shakers of the secession movement had no foresight. Slavery was one issue in the power struggle between state and federal government. If the federal could start to dictate policy to the states regarding slavery, what would come next? That was the issue, and we now live in a country where the federal government hold too much sway.

[techygrrlkush]

@SamuelDMorgan This a free country and the people who write the history books are: the people who write the history books. They are not "written by the north" they are by whomever from whatever state, or country, they hail from. The documantation that is present and archived from the period is amazing and all arguments must come from it.

gwen

[Haloskulls117]

@E2theSamps true

[E2theSamps]

@Haloskulls117

I think they'd be thinking, "Who are all these fat guys and why are they dressed like us?"