A Day in the Life of a Confederate Soldier Part 1

Fifteen minutes total (parts 1 and 2) - no audio.
Filmed July, 1965 in Gettysburg, PA,
With the 2nd North Carolina (one of the very earliest of the authentic Civil War reenactment units), the Potomac Field Music and others.
The story behind this video is contained at http://wesclark.com/jw/k_1965.html - Ross Kimmel's memoirs.

"With our script/scenario and about 40 volunteers, mostly 2nd N.C.ers and Potomac Field Musicians, Bill, Burt, I, and perhaps a few others pooled some money, rented a 16mm movie camera and bought several rolls of black and white movie film (whether to shoot in color or black and white excited some argument among ourselves; I had no problem with color, but Burt insisted that the Civil War was fought in black and white; "just look at Matthew Brady's photos.") I secured permission from Cheryl Vernon's father to use the farm they lived on south of Gettysburg. We all converged one weekend, probably in July. I remember driving up Friday night with Bill and Barbara Brown, Roger Zook, and maybe one or two others, in my father's 1959 Ford station wagon, which was stuffed to the gills with all manner of Civil War detritus. We spent Saturday and Sunday setting up and filming all of our scenarios, then Bill later edited the results. The point of the film was to "document" a day in the life of the Confederate soldier, including a battle sequence. In fact we called our production A Day in the Life of the Confederate Soldier.'"

Ross Kimmel's complete centennial memoir is at http://wesclark.com/jw/kimmel.html

Jonah Begone
jonah_begone@juno.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• reenactment
• civil war reenacting
• 2nd North Carolina
• Potomac Field Music
• authentics

[longhunter96]

Man I wish I was with them there They were the pioneers for what we call Authentic reenacting. truely amazing. thanks for putting this up!!!

Pvt.Ben Miller

[ethanwc]

You can thank my Dad, Jonah Begone of the Camp Chase Gazette.

[AUG351]

Read The Description Before posting a comment thinking its real

[imaStonesFan]

@anotherengineer reenactment you dummy. Read where it says "show more" in the info about the video.

[BegoneJonah]

@Jubilo1 Yeah, what is it with the wearing of modern glasses in reenacting nowadays? (And cigarettes.) This was widely scorned in the Eighties, when I did most of my reenacting. A dire trend.

[BegoneJonah]

@ethanwc "Jonah Begone of the Camp Chase Gazette." FORMERLY of the Camp Chase Gazette! The new one is too humorless to run my stuff.

[BegoneJonah]

@AntipodeanAl I think he's an undertaker. Or a civilian. Not sure.

[BegoneJonah]

@civilwarstory It was a film production made in the 1960's. The whole story is contained in the links above... click on the "show more" link for the story.

[civilwarstory]

Looks pretty authentic, Ethan and very well done. Where did you come across this film, or was it something you created? If it's something you made I would like to ask you a couple of questions if you don't mind. Let me know.

Thanks,

John

[joetubealong]

This is cool!

[joetubealong]

@anotherengineer If you thin this is amazing you should see the post that says that it is authentic confederate army marching filmed by some french guy

[anotherengineer]

Pretty amazing considering the motion picture camera wasn't invented until 1880.