Reenactment Crossing the Rappahannock

[smoke329]

Union Forces crossing the Rappahannock river with pontoon boats at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg. Taken on 12/8/2012 by Joshua Eller.

 

[unionblue]

This shot is totally awesome!

That folks who reenact would put the time and effort to construct and use such boats to recreate that battle is really something!

Thanks for sharing it with us here.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[Ray Ball]

We were some of the Engineers in those boats portraying the 15th NYVE. It was an incredible experience. Pete Berezuk deserves a great deal of credit for getting those built. We got the blueprints for him but his crew put in the hard work to get them built. I've never seen such a dedicated reenactor or suport group. I don't have all their names but they were an extraordinary group. Huzzah to them all.

There are more photos of the crossing on our web site if anyone is interested.

 

[Union_Buff]

This an amazing photo! Well done!

 

[unionblue]

We were some of the Engineers in those boats portraying the 15th NYVE. It was an incredible experience. Pete Berezuk deserves a great deal of credit for getting those built. We got the blueprints for him but his crew put in the hard work to get them built. I've never seen such a dedicated reenactor or suport group. I don't have all their names but they were an extraordinary group. Huzzah to them all.

There are more photos of the crossing on our web site if anyone is interested.

Ray Ball,

You guys did a great job in getting those plans to Pete Berezuk and the folks who built the boats.

How incredible it must have been to have recreated that one scene from that battle. Great job.

I very much enjoyed touring your unit's website and the fantastic pictures there! Thanks for sharing with us here at the forum.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

 

[Ray Ball]

Ray Ball,

You guys did a great job in getting those plans to Pete Berezuk and the folks who built the boats.

How incredible it must have been to have recreated that one scene from that battle. Great job.

I very much enjoyed touring your unit's website and the fantastic pictures there! Thanks for sharing with us here at the forum.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

Thanks for the kind words unionblue. Much appreciated. It really was our honor to be a part of it. I doubt that another reenactment will have such a place for the Engineers so we were thrilled to be there. Another set of kudos really needs to go out to the region and city of Fredericksburg. They were so very welcoming, friendly and helpful that it was incredible.

 

[smoke329]

We were some of the Engineers in those boats portraying the 15th NYVE. It was an incredible experience. Pete Berezuk deserves a great deal of credit for getting those built. We got the blueprints for him but his crew put in the hard work to get them built. I've never seen such a dedicated reenactor or suport group. I don't have all their names but they were an extraordinary group. Huzzah to them all.

There are more photos of the crossing on our web site if anyone is interested.

You guys did a fantastic job! It was amazing to actually see the boats in action.

Thanks for posting the link to your units website. There are a lot of nice photos on there. I especially liked the smoke and fire with the Fredricksburg artillery photo.

 

[Ray Ball]

I can't claim credit for that one- but it is a stellar photo. I think someone sent it to me but I'm not sure anymore.

Thanks also for the kind words on the website. Its a work in progress, but we like to think we're getting better.

 

[curtis payne]

Union Forces crossing the Rappahannock river with pontoon boats at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg. Taken on 12/8/2012 by Joshua Eller.
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why did you decide B&W? One of my reasons to reenact is to see all the color missing in the orginal photographs. Good photo which would have been better in color.

 

[smoke329]

why did you decide B&W? One of my reasons to reenact is to see all the color missing in the orginal photographs. Good photo which would have been better in color.

It was just a personal preference. I love working with both color and B&W. In this case I just felt the B&W brought out more detail than the color version of the photo.