Revolutionary War Reenactments

[Ohio Joe]

Last night I was surfing around Youtube and came across the Revolutionary War Reenactments...

After a'while, I started getting hooked on them... Some of them are very interesting. 

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=revolutionary+war+reenactments+youtube&qpvt=revolutionary+war+reenactments+youtube&FORM=VDRE

[Flinchlock]

Reenacting can be great. I don't like public events, but history can be great. The feeling that you're actually "there" can be very powerful... Sometimes you get it.

[Spotted Bull]

I was on a pre-1840 reenactment this weekend.

[Ohio Joe]

I was on a pre-1840 reenactment this weekend.

Spotted Bull, I'm just gonna take a shot in the dark here... Was it Texas Independence from Mexico 1836 related? 

[Spotted Bull]

no it was more mountain man related really. We did have a couple of guys that fit that time period and place. But it was mainly just general fur trade stuff. There were about 20 adult commanders and 10 boys. It was a Royal Ranger Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship Trace. Our chapter is called the Shawnee Trail Chapter.

[Ohio Joe]

That sound interesting. I'm sure everyone had a good time. 

[dave951]

I used to do Civil War reenacting back during the 125th cycle. When I was active, the spectator battles got to be a bit boring. Sometimes the "feeling" was strongest at night if conditions were right. At the 125th of Wilderness, I had picket duty and stood sentry on a ridge overlooking the camp. Nothing modern in sight, campfire smoke on the breeze, field music going on in the camp. All quiet along the Potomac tonight.

[Ohio Joe]

I used to do Civil War reenacting back during the 125th cycle. When I was active, the spectator battles got to be a bit boring. Sometimes the "feeling" was strongest at night if conditions were right. At the 125th of Wilderness, I had picket duty and stood sentry on a ridge overlooking the camp. Nothing modern in sight, campfire smoke on the breeze, field music going on in the camp. All quiet along the Potomac tonight.

Dave, I expect that was rather "telling" in its own way, and an experience you'll never forget. 

[Spotted Bull]

I used to do Civil War reenacting back during the 125th cycle. When I was active, the spectator battles got to be a bit boring. Sometimes the "feeling" was strongest at night if conditions were right. At the 125th of Wilderness, I had picket duty and stood sentry on a ridge overlooking the camp. Nothing modern in sight, campfire smoke on the breeze, field music going on in the camp. All quiet along the Potomac tonight.

That does sound like an awesome experience!

[dave951]

Like I said, the "feeling" comes at odd times.

We took the entire NC 1st Battalion (Confederate) up to a smallish reenactment in upstate NY years back. Just for grins, we all got out of the buses (about 150 of us) about a mile or so from the site. Got into uniform and heavy marching order, that is with blanket rolls, packs, etc, just like a unit on the move. We formed up in a column of fours, unfurled the colors, got the drum going and we marched the last mile to the camp with muskets at the right shoulder and fixed bayonets. I was near the rear of the column and the tramp of marching feet, the drums, the muskets swaying in time with the colors in the distance, yeah the feeling was there. We marched into the reenactment like that. The column halted, we formed into ranks and stacked muskets as proscribed in Hardee's. It brought the entire place to a halt.

Later in that same reenactment, we gave the Yankees a thrill. We treated them to a full on, by the numbers bayonet charge complete with fixed bayonets and a Rebel Yell. Done correctly, it starts slow at the half step as the ranks form, then picks up speed and pace and is done at a dead run for the last 50 or so yards. Folks afterwards told us it was chilling to watch a gray tide tipped with steel start moving forwards faster and faster with the "Seccesh" screaming all the way.

Blue or Gray, nothing can be taken from those guys for sheer guts and courage.