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That would be fun watch! I enjoyed visiting Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield.

Amish John wrote:

2nd Kentucky wrote:

I hear ya, I have watched that movie so much, I had a dream in which I was in the 20th Maine and eveybody said exactly what they did in the movie.

It was my privilege to have been part of a color guard in Kemper's brigade in the Pickett's Charge scenes in the movie. We advanced across the ground of the Spangler farm on the actual location where it happened 128 years earlier. Also I switched uniforms and was a soldier in Hay's division waiting behind the stone wall near the Bryan barn to receive our Southern "guests". Quite an experience. Anyone else here participate in the movie?

Yep! Along with North & South Pts. 1 & 2, The Blue and Gray; Son of Morning Star, Dances With Wolves; and a few of the old Classic Images films including Shiloh and Gettysburg, both at the 125th anniversary's. In the Shiloh film, I reversed roles and was a (SHUDDER) Nationalist First Sgt. in a company commanded by Cal Kinzer (for those old reenactor heads). At the Classic Images GB I was a Company Commander in the 6th Brigade.

J :woohoo:

Was in the Classic Images film also -

1st. Corporal, 1st. Company, (Made up of elements of the 47th, 44th, 55th, 8th and 9th. VA regiments), 1st. Battalion, 3rd. brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.

You can see my company sweep across the camera from left to right about halfway through the film in 2nd. Day action. Fought through the whole weekend. Our Battalion formed on the right of the brigade line in the 3rd. wave of Picketts assault. Our Company went in with 3 Officers and 31 Men. We came out with 8-9, of which 4 were wounded, 3 being carried. Once we were in action, we were flanked on the right, wheeled right and opened fire. Our firefight lasted literally less than 5 minutes. Men fell faster than I could keep track. We broke, falling back carrying what wounded we could pick up. Brutal.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

bfrusa/Jack O'Neill