- Joined
- Feb 23, 2013
- Location
- East Texas
This week marks the anniversary of Grant's Vicksburg Campaign and the beginning of the 47-day Siege, so Throwback Thursday revisits the May, 1983, reenactment of Champion's Hill, Mississippi, largest battle of the campaign. Above, in a steady drizzling rain that reminds me of the past week here in Texas, I'm trudging uphill at left along with a color-bearer behind the advancing Union cavalry while clad in my dark rubberized poncho and white havelock trying to keep the water off. Below, my friend Marty Brazil of Biloxi, Mississippi channels General Grant mounted upon his steed. By the next day the creeks had overflowed and many of the reenactors required for their cars to be towed by tractor from the sodden fields where they had parked! For more photos of this soggy event, please see:
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/champion-hill-mississippi-may-1983.158132/
Anyone Else having (preferably) old Civil War-related photos, mementoes, or memorabilia from reenactments, living history, or other events or vacation or other travel they would like to share with us is welcome and heartily encouraged to do so in this weekly thread!
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