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1865 revisited
Re-enactments: chance to reflect, commemorate
Photo by Sefton Ipock
Union re-enactors charge toward a Confederate position during the Battle of Anderson Civil War Re-enactment on Sunday.$RETURN$$RETURN$
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Photo by Sefton Ipock
A member of the Confederate cavalry fires on a Union position during the Battle of Anderson Civil War Re-enactment on Sunday.
HONEA PATH — Guns popped, kids held their ears, and a few adults cried out to the smoky war scene unfolding before them.
"Take their flag," one woman yelled to a Confederate soldier.
Only a flimsy twine fence separated 1865 and 2013 on Sunday in Honea Path. On one side, soldiers wearing gray and navy charged each other on horseback, wielding swords. They occasionally broke the third wall to respond to spectators. On the other side, adults stood taking pictures with their phones, and children lay sprawled on blankets peering so intently they could have been watching a Disney movie.
But there was no happy ending to this story, and the enemy won the war.
Soldiers reenacted a Civil War skirmish between Union and Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Anderson, which ended with at least two Union troops injured or dead.
Re-enactors belonging to various Sons of Confederate Veterans camps throughout the South walked the walk of their ancestors in the tenth anniversary of the staged battle. They stayed in white canvas tents on the edge of the vast meadow where they fought, and practiced their battle in the mornings, much to the delight of Boy Scout Troop 245 in Taylors. They observed the men, and went back to the 19th century soldier life themselves, sleeping in tents and cooking their own food. They came to watch their scoutmaster, Charles Yeager, fight.
Another scoutmaster Keith Rutledge and six other adults brought 20 scouts to Honea Path. A few scouts plugged their ears as old shotguns fired blanks into the sky, creating pungent smoke.
"I thought it was very interesting," Rutledge said. "It seemed as accurate as you could get without real ammo."
For the rest: http://www.independentmail.com/news/2013/apr/14/1865-revisited/
Re-enactments: chance to reflect, commemorate
- By Jennifer Crossley Howard
- Posted April 14, 2013 at 8:20 p.m.
Photo by Sefton Ipock
Union re-enactors charge toward a Confederate position during the Battle of Anderson Civil War Re-enactment on Sunday.$RETURN$$RETURN$
Expired Image Removed
Photo by Sefton Ipock
A member of the Confederate cavalry fires on a Union position during the Battle of Anderson Civil War Re-enactment on Sunday.
HONEA PATH — Guns popped, kids held their ears, and a few adults cried out to the smoky war scene unfolding before them.
"Take their flag," one woman yelled to a Confederate soldier.
Only a flimsy twine fence separated 1865 and 2013 on Sunday in Honea Path. On one side, soldiers wearing gray and navy charged each other on horseback, wielding swords. They occasionally broke the third wall to respond to spectators. On the other side, adults stood taking pictures with their phones, and children lay sprawled on blankets peering so intently they could have been watching a Disney movie.
But there was no happy ending to this story, and the enemy won the war.
Soldiers reenacted a Civil War skirmish between Union and Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Anderson, which ended with at least two Union troops injured or dead.
Re-enactors belonging to various Sons of Confederate Veterans camps throughout the South walked the walk of their ancestors in the tenth anniversary of the staged battle. They stayed in white canvas tents on the edge of the vast meadow where they fought, and practiced their battle in the mornings, much to the delight of Boy Scout Troop 245 in Taylors. They observed the men, and went back to the 19th century soldier life themselves, sleeping in tents and cooking their own food. They came to watch their scoutmaster, Charles Yeager, fight.
Another scoutmaster Keith Rutledge and six other adults brought 20 scouts to Honea Path. A few scouts plugged their ears as old shotguns fired blanks into the sky, creating pungent smoke.
"I thought it was very interesting," Rutledge said. "It seemed as accurate as you could get without real ammo."
For the rest: http://www.independentmail.com/news/2013/apr/14/1865-revisited/
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