Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm certain Anderson Scott has it dead on. There IS that segment. They also live in Minnesota and Wisconsin, which is one of the reasons I really should be sending this conversation to forum, but so far it seems OK. You might have noticed in my photos that most of the images were of the Union soldiers. The backgrounder on that is that the Central Louisiana group often portrays a Union Regiment in regional enactments, and most have authentic uniforms for both armies. Civil War re-enactment is popular in the South because the battles, with the exception of Gettysburg, were fought in the South. (Depending on how you view Maryland.) The relics are all around us. The battlefields tend to be our backyards. A farmer friend has plowed up bits from a skirmish that happened one morning in Cloutierville, part of the Red River Campaign. It is probably more likely that you would run across a re-enactment group in your parts engaged in remembering the Revolutionary War. However, there are civil war groups up your way . . . (there are lots more) http://www.musketsandmemories.net/ http://wadehouse.wisconsinhistory.org/CivilWarWeekend/EventOverview.aspx and in the UK: http://acws.co.uk/welcome.php Germany: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/confederates-on-the-rhine/239724/ OZ: http://www.usa-civil-war.com/Submissions/queensland.html You get the picture by now. I wasn't just being grumpy at bedtime when I responded to what I thought was Jay's flippant post the way I did. There's more to it, personally for sure. My interest is certainly not to glorify any cause; The more I understand of what the machinery of Napoleonic fighting consisted of the more dreadful I consider it. ?More later if I think of it.? On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:48 AM, George Lottermoser < george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > True. > > As with every such topic, you've managed to pique my interest, so I always > find myself delving further. There's a lot "out there" on the "Civil War Re > enactors" ? and from every conceivable point of view:< > http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/05/30/anderson_scott_whistling_dixie_examines_civil_war_re_enactments_photos.html > > > > It does seem to be a pursuit which is much more popular with people from > the "South" than people from the "North." > > "Up here" we see a lot more of the "Rendezvous" type enactments or re > enactments (if there's any difference in the terms). They present a way of > life from a particular era rather than wars or battles. > > a note off the iPad, George > > On Nov 5, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Note I described the war as terrible, and the event as sanitized. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA