Gettysburg Reenactment

[texascavcadet]

Try and imagine 30'000 reenactors. 15,000 confederate and 17,000 federal firing volley after volley at each other and charging and counter charging.. If you havent been you havent lived.


has anyone ever been to one bigger than that?



cadet garrett estey
11th texas cav

[texascavcadet]

and 8,000 civilian reenactors!

[manofdreds]

Quite mind blowing! I attended this years reenactment and it totally blew my mind how everything transformed to that period. Quite an experience indeed.

[lrd89]

Isn't that about how many were there for the filming of the movie in the mid 1990's?

[unionblue]

Ird89,

Not even close! The 135th Gettysburg reenactment was the tops for any National event I have even been to. I was in Picket's Charge and man! Was it something to have the actual numbers of Confederate infantry, same as they did back in 1863!

And the cannon fire! Man oh man! You really lost it and thought you were 'there' just for an instant. It was well worth being there.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[tomh]

Unionblue,

I live about two miles from the field that they used for the 135th re-enactment and on Friday night when they fired the artillery in sequence and volley my windows shook!

I attended day 2 and watched Longstreet's assault. Quite impressive.

TomH

[unionblue]

tomh,

It was really something, wasn't it? I was serving with the 7th ANV in the 17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, under the command of my dear friend, Ron Goodwin. My wife was the 'Widow Bloomfield' who cooked for our entire reenactment group during that wonderful weekend.

Her tent was next to General Lee's (the fellow who was portraying him) and Col. Freemantle too. We met so many fine folks doing such excellent civil war impressions.

As for those cannon, wow! I was shaking in my brogans when we began Picket's Charge and when the Union artillery opened up, it was really something. I do not think I will ever attend such a National event in my lifetime.

Sincerely,
Unionblue