Si Klegg
Corporal
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2018
- Location
- Bedford UK
I've just come across this detail of a famous image made at the Appomattox Court House surrender on the American Battlefield Trust website.
Most re-enactors will have practised either of the two versions - Casey's/Gilham's or Hardee's/Ellsworth's ('The Kentucky Swing'). The fourth piece -the rear rank number one man's rifle - is usually just leant into the stack made by the front rank one and two and the rear rank two's three rifles.
Usual Stacked Arms:
Then I saw this ...
I believe there's four pieces in the stack on the right where the fellow is leaning on the bayonet, but only three pieces in the stack on the left where the soldier is holding the bayonet. I reckon these lads are having a laugh at the Photographer's and the Army's expense
Most re-enactors will have practised either of the two versions - Casey's/Gilham's or Hardee's/Ellsworth's ('The Kentucky Swing'). The fourth piece -the rear rank number one man's rifle - is usually just leant into the stack made by the front rank one and two and the rear rank two's three rifles.
Usual Stacked Arms:
Then I saw this ...
I believe there's four pieces in the stack on the right where the fellow is leaning on the bayonet, but only three pieces in the stack on the left where the soldier is holding the bayonet. I reckon these lads are having a laugh at the Photographer's and the Army's expense