PartywithArty
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2011
My artillery company will be partaking in the battle of Columbus-Belmont,Kentucky this weekend. This will mark the end of our 2012 season. Its been a great season. Ive made friends ill not soon forget and seen some of the most beautiful of places. Learned a great deal and made memories that will last a life time. It is a sad moment when a unit assembles for the last time for the year. A band of brothers who fight and survive the weather side by side shakes hands for the last time and says "untill next year my dear ol' pard" its a sad moment indeed when the tents get cleaned up and stowed away,the weapons get cleaned and put away,uniforms get put in the closet,boots get cleaned and slid under the bed. Its sad but abit exciting for the fact that in a few short months were gonna be back out there like a band of brothers.Together in the fight. So as I may shead a tear this weekend as I stoll that park,and as our cannon sings to the hills,but I wont be able to hold back the smiles when I think of all the children that grinned ear to ear when they saw me in my uniform,the men who yelled " git em Jonney Reb" and the women who clapped and waved as we took the battle field,Yes I will surley laugh when I think of all the smiling happy people who came to shake my hand at this years past reenactments to tell me that they enjoyed it and that they would never forget it. That is what this whole thing is about,its about fueling the fire inside the spectaters to make their love for history greater. To gie them a better understanding of what the civil war was about. To carry on the memory of the yanks and the rebs who fought so fiercley in the war betwean the states. So this is to you my brothers in arms,my fellow civil war reenactors,a proud buch we are,and i am proud to say I am a reenactor and a host of a forum that includes some of the best reenactors out there! GOD BLESS YOU FELLOW REENACTORS AND MUCH LOVE FROM THIS OL REBEL IN TENNESSEE!