Have you ever seen a civil war reenactment? 
i have not seen one, but i have always been very interested in them and want to see one soon. Have you ?
I actually have not, but I have seen mny in shows and movies, that was such a brutal war I do not know why we bring it back up
Yes it was brutal. I just read an interesting fact that Civil War reenacting began before the real fighting was even over !!
Wow, I wonder who thought of doing that, that must not have been a tasteful showing!
I know the battles recreated today are kind of a special way veterans can honor fallen comrades and a form of education but i cant imagine doing it while the war was ongoing.
exactly, they must have been making a mockery of the other side
the 125th Anniversary reenactment near the original Manassas battlefield, which was attended by more than 6,000 reenactors. That year, "Time" magazine estimated there were more than 50,000 reenactors in the U.S.
In 1998, the 135th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg took place near the original battlefield. There have been several estimates on the number of participants, but it is widely agreed that it was the largest re-enactment ever held anywhere in the world, with between 15,000 and 20,000 re-enactors participating. This
an enormous hit for about a year—it was made as a movie later with somebody else. He had the leading role, and I never forgot him. And through the years I'd seen him in movies—little things. And I could never forget that performance of his. He's always played very stereotyped parts in pictures but is one of the best actors I've ever known. I have such respect for him. You play next to him and you just feel the thing that you do with a big