Hand to Hand fight for the Flag at Minooka 2010

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Uploaded by on Oct 18, 2010

'The Orphan Boys Mess' of Austin's Battalion and the 10th Illinois Infantry once again got to fight over the flag during one of our events. More practice -- about an hour -- and more planning went into this one all of which paid off because everything was executed perfectly and the crowd really loved it. Hopefully we will be able to do this more and more at events because we all feel that showing a fight like this for a flag really helps people understand how important the flag was to the soldiers who fought under them, and how they would fight tooth and nail to keep it in moments like this.

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  • Wow, still getting emails from people saying we should never touch another units flag. First: IT WAS OUR FLAG! Second: IT WAS ALL PLANNED OUT! Sheesh. And this stuff happened during the war so it should be shown to the public.

  • It was all planned out of course and the event asked us to do it. Flags should be taken at more reenactments. It happened a lot during the Civil War and is something the public should see.

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  • @WLM113005 Right on man, I reenact in Michigan and heaven forbid if we do hand to hand combat. The most I've ever gotten away with is "bumping" a Union officer after being captured and attempting to escape.

  • Good video but, I'm from the south and I think it's kinda funny that the union won.  Definitely good that slavery was banned though.

  • @legoking58 why?

  • AWESOME! We (the Mo. Guerilla's) LOVE coming to this event. Keep those moments real... see you in October!

  • Yeah Florida does sound like farb ville. Wish I coulda gone to this one. it woulda taken a whole division of yanks to take me down, haha jk.

  • HAHa thats cuz Florida is full FARBS! HAHAHAH! HAHAHAH! U crack me up! Hey Bill, at 1:59 The Volley there. U all were aimin at me... That was Bob Welch yellin to me to fall back! hahahahhahahah O yeah.. did i mention Florida is full farbs! Come to Illinois and u will get your ass kicked for sucking so bad!

  • No flag grabing

  • that was funny but if you did that at fl reenactment you would get your ass kicked and your ass kicked out of the reenactment

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