Summer Trip · 12:13am Jun 16th, 2013
To friends, followers, and people who stumbled upon my page,
In about a week and half I will be vanishing from the interwebs for a week as I set out for the reenactment at Gettysburg. As a Civil War reenactor I do feel that I have to be there for the 150th Anniversary of the battle that took so many of my fellow Americans. I will be joining The Descendant up there as well. After the the reenactment ends however things will be interesting, as I will not be rushing back home to Texas.
So I ask you... well those who live in Virgina, what sights are there in your fair... state... commonwealth...whatever... for this traveling Texan to see? I do want to try to see Antietam, Manassas, Petersberg, Chancellorsville/Spotsavania/Wilderness, and Appomattox. What else there is there for me see?
Signed in the Name of Their Equestriani Majesties,
Celestia's Paladin
Gettysburg huh.
One thing that has always amazed me is how that the Civil war actually foretold the way how the Great War would be... look at say siege of Petersburg. Radio and telegraphs saw their introduction...
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My dad tells me that when the US became involved in WWI, General Pershing took one look at the battle plans done by the Brits and French ans said Hell No we learned out lesson at Petersburg. Not sure how true that is but I did know that trench warfare is a bloody way to fight.
1146748 It was during the Civil War that a weapon that really changed war, especially in WW1, first showed up: The gatling gun. By WW1 the Germans found out how to best employ them and could mow down infantry like grass.