Battle of Gettysburg 140th Anniversary Re-enactment

Footage taken by me, a few years ago on the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, between the Union States and the Southern Confederacy. The footage was taken not too far from the actual battle site, in the state of Pennsylvania, United States of America. I added the graininess in the movie for added effect, and before you ask...no, I wasn't at the original battle of Gettysburg! Enjoy!!

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[UtahMike41]

Reenactments are fun because when it is all over you get up, dust yourself off and go talk about it.

I would never consider actual battle fun. Especially with Napoleonic tactics against modern technology for the time. It was slaughter.

[UtahMike41]

These reenactments must be spectacular to see. All the noise, smoke, confusion....

[rickcee]

@fran112185 Well, I guess I just don't get anything out of military reenactment. For me, it's all about 'the place' not the act of battle. We all KNOW about the battles. To stand on those fields and imagine what happened over 140 years ago, though, is very stirring. Seeing a bunch of beer-bellied modern day men who take reenactment seriously and hold those reenactments in fields 'nearby' the actual battlefields just does nothing for me. I prefer to simply stand on the hallowed ground.

[jbjindra]

@rickcee I agree. I don't understand how people say that slavery was only a side issue. I'm no historian but I've read books and seen many documentaries about the war and everything seems to confirm that without the issue of slavery, the south would not have seceded. The south seceded as a preemptive measure to get out before the north's abolitionist gov't spread it's influence southward. The Union army's refusal to leave Fort Sumter was seen as an invasion of sorts, prompting war.

[1967mustanggta]

type in and watch -

14th Indiana

[rickcee]

@justaguyX74NJ No, no....you miss my point. I never said the war was actually about slavery. I'm painting slavery as a bottom line issue, and it is and always will be. It doesn't matter that no one went into the war with slavery on their minds as a mission. I think we all know that pretty well by now. The issue is that as long as slavery existed or exists for that matter, since it does still exist in the world today, then it will always be a bottom line issue. You can't OWN a person.

[justaguyX74NJ]

@rickcee Actually no, the war was not about slavery, it was about taxes, tariffs, and state's rights. At the start of the Civil War, the Confederacy already had laws written up to end slavery in the South. Slavery became the humanitarian excuse for the North to continue the war... just about the same way "spreading democracy" or "stopping the use of WMD's" was America's excuse to invade Iraq. Does anyone really think millions of White men risked their lives to either keep or free slaves? No.

[blitzkreig40]

we stilled marched until the field caught on fire then me and friends said fuck this and we left...

[McCbobbish]

@kglenn86

There were more american casualtys in the civil war because both sides were american.

[fran112185]

@rickcee Dude I'm a WW2 reenactor and I been to Gettysburg and your right it's emotionaly stirring considering I had family who was at the battle of Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge and I also been to Civil War reenactments and I been to WW2 reenactments and I just happen to think WW2 renactments are far more exciting then Civil War the reason I said Civil War was overrated is because it's to common.

[rickcee]

@LutzDerLurch Oh, I'd say most of them.

[LutzDerLurch]

@rickcee Still, however, many Movies are very crappy when showing historical Battles.