150th annaversary of Gettysburg

[remy_lebeau8]

Is next weekend. I will be there on the artillery line. 4 days camped out in the field with battles going on all day. I plan to spend one day visiting the actual battlefield, and two days my unit will be in the reenactment. I also plan on stopping at the yeaungling factory on the way. Take the brewery tour and such. I'm excited to be a part of it

Note. There is also a Gettysburg reenactment this weekend as well but we arent doing two.

 

[islandman]

I'm jealous.

I've always wanted to go to Gettysburg with metal detector in hand and spend a week finding old bullets and the like. I'm told that you can't keep any of it, but the museum will happily accept any and all finds.

Perhaps one day.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I'm jealous.

I've always wanted to go to Gettysburg with metal detector in hand and spend a week finding old bullets and the like. I'm told that you can't keep any of it, but the museum will happily accept any and all finds.

Perhaps one day.

As far as I know, they won't let metal detectors on site unless you're part of a team brought in for research and such. I know that's the case with Shiloh and Andersonville prison camp. Anything found is roped off and a whole team comes in. They're still finding skeltions in Gettysburg. Ab few years back a groundskeeper found a skull. Thought it was a rock and kicked it out of the way..it rolled over and turned out to be a skull.

 

[KRCummings]

I've been there but didn't get to spend much time and really enjoy it. Keep meaning to go back and just never have.
Would love to see some reenactments there. I like that kind of stuff.

 

[islandman]

As far as I know, they won't let metal detectors on site unless you're part of a team brought in for research and such. I know that's the case with Shiloh and Andersonville prison camp. Anything found is roped off and a whole team comes in. They're still finding skeltions in Gettysburg. Ab few years back a groundskeeper found a skull. Thought it was a rock and kicked it out of the way..it rolled over and turned out to be a skull.

This is mostly true, though a few years back I was told that there are sections that have been combed over that are open to tourists with metal detectors. The price of entry is the turning over of anything you find. This tends to be mostly bullets, belt-buckles and the like.

Since you'll be there, if you could confirm or refute, it would be appreciated.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Is next weekend. I will be there on the artillery line. 4 days camped out in the field with battles going on all day. I plan to spend one day visiting the actual battlefield, and two days my unit will be in the reenactment. I also plan on stopping at the yeaungling factory on the way. Take the brewery tour and such. I'm excited to be a part of it

Note. There is also a Gettysburg reenactment this weekend as well but we arent doing two.

You should take the Vettebigot along for added realism. He'll soil himself and run like hell at the first sound of gunfire.

 

[Byron In Exile]

You should take the Vettebigot along for added realism. He'll soil himself and run like hell at the first sound of gunfire.

That would most likely be you, Mr. Scared-o-Guns.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I've been there but didn't get to spend much time and really enjoy it. Keep meaning to go back and just never have.
Would love to see some reenactments there. I like that kind of stuff.

If you like that kind of thing, I'm sure there are some in your area

This is mostly true, though a few years back I was told that there are sections that have been combed over that are open to tourists with metal detectors. The price of entry is the turning over of anything you find. This tends to be mostly bullets, belt-buckles and the like.

Since you'll be there, if you could confirm or refute, it would be appreciated.

If I remember ill ask as gettysburg mmay be different. I think it became a national park not long after the soldiers were burried

 

[KRCummings]

If you like that kind of thing, I'm sure there are some in your area

There are. There are a few different things like that go on around here. Some Civil War, some frontier type stuff (there's an old fort here they use), even a Scottish thing they do that isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds.

 

[RobDownSouth]

There are. There are a few different things like that go on around here. Some Civil War, some frontier type stuff (there's an old fort here they use), even a Scottish thing they do that isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds.

They do the Scottish Highland Games thing at Stone Mountain, Georgia. I remember one windy day when the drum major's kilt got a gust of wind that left him momentarily 'compromised'....for one brief moment, the sound of bagpipes was eclipsed by the sound of literally hundreds of women snapping pictures on their smartphones.....

 

[trysail]

On this day, 150 years ago, Jeb Stuart was out joy riding 'round the Army of The Potomac thereby leaving R. E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia blind as to the movements Meade's Union army.


Gettysburg was the resulting accident; the two armies stumbled into one another.


I received my high school diploma from the hand of a great-grandson of one of Pickett's brigade commanders. No one understands how his great-grandfather survived Pickett's Charge.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

On this day, 150 years ago, Jeb Stuart was out joy riding 'round the Army of The Potomac thereby leaving R. E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia blind as to the movements Meade's Union army.


Gettysburg was the resulting accident; the two armies stumbled into one another.


I received my high school diploma from the hand of a great-grandson of one of Pickett's brigade commanders. No one understands how his great-grandfather survived Pickett's Charge.

Ya stuart did that a lot but normally the armys he circled were much smaller. Plus this time around I think he ran into union cav and that slowed him quite a bit. Stuart jad a thing for theatrics

 

[KRCummings]

They do the Scottish Highland Games thing at Stone Mountain, Georgia. I remember one windy day when the drum major's kilt got a gust of wind that left him momentarily 'compromised'....for one brief moment, the sound of bagpipes was eclipsed by the sound of literally hundreds of women snapping pictures on their smartphones.....

I went to ours once thinking it would be a lot of fun. It really wasn't. Some cool stuff but overall it was sorta boring. Maybe that was just ours though. I've heard people say they love them.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I went to ours once thinking it would be a lot of fun. It really wasn't. Some cool stuff but overall it was sorta boring. Maybe that was just ours though. I've heard people say they love them.

Agreed, I only went because two of the bagpipers were from my neighborhood.

Caber toss was fun.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I've been there but didn't get to spend much time and really enjoy it. Keep meaning to go back and just never have.
Would love to see some reenactments there. I like that kind of stuff.

We have a highland festival up in Alma, Mi, but mostly we stick to civil war. We have a few Ww2 events and I know of one 1812 but that's about it

 

[bronzeage]

On this day, 150 years ago, Jeb Stuart was out joy riding 'round the Army of The Potomac thereby leaving R. E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia blind as to the movements Meade's Union army.


Gettysburg was the resulting accident; the two armies stumbled into one another.


I received my high school diploma from the hand of a great-grandson of one of Pickett's brigade commanders. No one understands how his great-grandfather survived Pickett's Charge.

Because he laid down and didn't move until the shooting was over. One of the perennial questions about Pickett's Charge has been why so many men survived fire which should have yielded nearly 100% casualties. The most likely explanation is the survivors hit the ground and didn't move until captured or were able to crawl away in the dark.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

Because he laid down and didn't move until the shooting was over. One of the perennial questions about Pickett's Charge has been why so many men survived fire which should have yielded nearly 100% casualties. The most likely explanation is the survivors hit the ground and didn't move until captured or were able to crawl away in the dark.

Pretty sure a lot of em ran too when they realized what they were walking into. I think picketts charge was going smooth till they got within canister range. Double canister is no joke. Each shot would take out about 150 men.

 

[Squibbs]

I could never understand the American love for reenacting battles.

Seems stupid and boring.

 

[bronzeage]

Pretty sure a lot of em ran too when they realized what they were walking into. I think picketts charge was going smooth till they got within canister range. Double canister is no joke. Each shot would take out about 150 men.

That is why historians believe the survivors just got out of the way. Reenactments with live fire and cardboard infantry show a casualty rate far above what actually happened. Even so, enough men reached the ridge to take the position.There weren't enough to hold against a counter attack and those left alive were taken prisoner.

I have photographs of my Great-grandfather at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. He was wounded in the campaign, but survived to quite an old age.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I could never understand the American love for reenacting battles.

Seems stupid and boring.

I don't get it, either.

 

[bronzeage]

I could never understand the American love for reenacting battles.

Seems stupid and boring.

Yeah, seems crazy.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

That is why historians believe the survivors just got out of the way. Reenactments with live fire and cardboard infantry show a casualty rate far above what actually happened. Even so, enough men reached the ridge to take the position.There weren't enough to hold against a counter attack and those left alive were taken prisoner.

I have photographs of my Great-grandfather at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. He was wounded in the campaign, but survived to quite an old age.

The history channel did that woth canister. Shot at 100 cardboard soldiers and somethin like 70 were hit

I could never understand the American love for reenacting battles.

Seems stupid and boring.

American Civil War reenacting is pretty big in England and Germany as well. I've no idea why.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

More or less cowboys and indians for a bunch of history buffs

 

[Squibbs]

Yeah, seems crazy.

I have never met anyone who has been to one or participated in one in my travels around Canada.

Never even seen a road sign saying where one happens.

 

[SexyLitForAll]

I'm jealous.

I've always wanted to go to Gettysburg with metal detector in hand and spend a week finding old bullets and the like. I'm told that you can't keep any of it, but the museum will happily accept any and all finds.

Perhaps one day.

Actually...if they catch you on park grounds with a detector, they will throw your butt in jail and prosecute you. They even have stealthy night rangers that patrol looking for diggers. The staff is very keen on keeping the grounds looking as authentic as possible. They even cut and replant trees (such as the grove at Pickett's charge) to keep up the look of July 1863.

I was there for a long weekend last month, met the head ranger (who told me what I wrote above) as well as the architects of the visitor's center and the new Cemetary Ridge Museum. BTW, the new CR Museum open this weekend.

If you have never been to Gettysburg, by all means, go. There is much to learn and admire regarding those who fought there 150 years ago, next week.