I took my children to the event at Lagrange yesterday because we wanted to see the advertised Civil War reenactment. The only thing they did was lie around under a tree and smoke cigars. Does anyone know what happened to this event? I do appreciate the few reenactors who took up time with the children and actually allowed them to fire their guns.
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Just a guess here, but those soldiers probably did spend quite a bit of time in camp smoking cigars, gambling, singing, just every day stuff. They didn't fight all the time.
Well, maybe they shouldn't of advertised a reenactment then.
You should have saved yourself a trip. You can see lazy old white guys anywhere in Northern Alabama.
I went several years ago and they reenacted a skirmish. The Union soldiers came in with drums and a bagpipe players. The Confederates taunted the Yankees and then the two camps shot at each other and pretended to be wounded while medics scurried around and carted them off. The sounds and scent of gunpowder was pretty cool in itself. I know the guys at Wide Awake who film a lot of reenactment footage for Civil War documentaries and they gripe about all the overweight ones and "farbs" who don't look authentically like the soldiers during that time who were starved and hollow eyed. What makes me laugh is the grown women who show up to living history events in modern prom dresses.
What makes me laugh is the grown women who show up to living history events in modern prom dresses.
