Never saw such a thing before. It was very loud and a bit silly, but fun.
As far as I know nobody reenacts korea, vietnam, war of 1812, the iraq war, etc. Whats up with the civil war fetish?
I’ve attended a few medieval joust and battle reenactments at renaissance themed faires. Its just a niche thing people like to do
This is wild speculation, but I have two guesses:
- The battlefields are right here at home.
- The civil war post-dates the switch in manufacturing to interchangeable parts with defined tolerances. This makes it a whole lot easier to build and maintain the firearms.
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Here in Texas, my grandpa used to participate in these when I was a kid. He would set up a tent in the main camping area and chill out with everyone else partaking. When the event happened they would go act it out, but otherwise it was one big camping day/weekend at a park.
You tell them never fight uphill me boys?
I was not giving a Republican campaign speech.
When I was kid in Florida there was enough overlap between Boy Scouts camping and Battle of Olustee reenactment camping that I’d hear stories about the folks involved in the latter. Don’t remember much, just that they could never, ever find enough Yankees, and they always made sure they had their battle flags.
Did they shoot any pumpkins out of the cannons? This used to be a thing when I was involved.
They did not. It was all just smoke and noise. Sometimes people fell over and apparently died, but not too many and I’m not sure how they decided.
The guys on horses occasionally sort of charged at each other and clashed with swords and no one “died” and then they wrote away again.
It looked neat, but it was all a bit silly.
