I do Civil War re-enactments, and before you laugh and call me a freak, I just wanna say that it's kinda the same community as the Renaissance Festival.
im not laughing at all , american civil war reenactment is an effort to recreate history bruh
Thank you, yes, someone gets it. Honestly people are too quick to be mean-spirited. Plus when you have 100 other people into it to, those battles...
there is also civil war reanactments in canada , united kingdom , autralia, italy, denmakr and sweden
Wait, re-enactments of the American Civil War in all those different countries? Or are the re-enacting their own civil wars?
they are reanacting the american civil war , lifes a trip , reenacting the american civil war began even before the real fighting had ended
Wow, I genuinely learned something new tonight, how cool is that? There is something kind of nostalgic and glorious about it, isn't there?
yes there is my brother is a marine, and other brother in the air force , so i can understand why civil war veterans recreated the battles to remember their fallen comrades 
Oh wow, well thank them for their service, whatever me saying it might mean to you or them. Battles back then were bloody and awful.
. Civil War veterans recreated battles as a way to remember their fallen comrades and to teach others what the war was all about. The Great Reunion of 1913, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, was attended by more than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans, and included reenactments of elements of the battle, including Pickett's Charge. 
Modern reenacting is thought to have begun during the 1961–1965 Civil War Centennial commemorations. Reenacting grew in popularity during the 1980s and 1990s, due in large part to the success of
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