shrapnel
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I find it flawed too and don’t mean to detract from your OP, but while we’re on the subject, it was rolled paper cartridges for Springfields. It’s the lack of credibility today that gets me. Like those reenactors could still be alive so where’s the interview on the History channel? And those rolled cartridges, did they just do a Rust target practice before filming with blanks again?It’s highly unlikely that really happened. The only cartridges that would have been used would be for a Henry or Spencer rifle. The only thing similar in the Civil War would have been paper cartridges, which would not work in a movie set other than one with Alec Baldwin in charge…
Hiked that one as well. I don’t remember all the details, but there were patches we got in the Boy Scouts for hiking these various battlefield trails. I think there were 2, maybe 3, at Gettysburg, and one for Antietem. Boy was it a doozy, though! IIRC it was about 12 miles in full sun on a hot annd humid August day.
Bloodiest day in U.S. history. Unimaginable carnage that we cannot fully appreciate in today’s day and age.
Bloodiest day in U.S. history. Unimaginable carnage that we cannot fully appreciate in today’s day and age.
Wild to think that even in this technological age that the war in Ukraine is in trenchesI astounds me how technology has immensely improved ordinance but casualties have declined so much. Medical advances account for some of that, but not all, I think.
Back then soldiers actually aimed their rifles, and knew how to shoot. They were hunters and rifleman.I astounds me how technology has immensely improved ordinance but casualties have declined so much. Medical advances account for some of that, but not all, I think.
I had several relatives in the war. Including one of the generals. I'm content to leave it in the past as history and not go that route. There is enough current issues to focus on.Every relative of the civil war soldiers deserves reparations.