Reply #199: Is it? [View All]

[reformed_military]

I've been accused of calling ALL reenactors freaks -- even Vivian Liegh because she starred in Gone with the Wind.

I don't think anyone claimed you called ALL re-enactors freaks, just the confederate ones.

They must have read what you wrote in post # 53.

53. you need to scroll up

and no -- it does not make you a freak.

but if you like to dress up like a confederate woman it would.

Stinks when someone reads what you wrote and calls you on it. I don't think it is BS.

I believe you are confusing the SCV, re-enactors and the people that lived Antebellum. They are not the same.

I would expect that the reason you didn't see Union soldiers is because Stone Mountain has the same rules that the NPS has re: fighting. The NPS treats all battlefields more or less like cemeteries without headstones. They do not allow opposing forces. It is also not realistic to have Union and Confederates camping together for a living history event. During the war they didn't get along.

BTW, the largest attended re-enactment every year is (usually) Gettysburg. Pennsylvania, north of the Mason/Dixon Line. Gettysburg is as far north as the Southern Army got in mass during the war. And ironically it is held on July 4th weekend.

If Lee had gotten his army to Troy, NY there would be a re-enactment there. There are still living histories events in the north. I know that Philly is having a parade this year commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Army of the Grand Republic deploying to DC.