Franklin. The death knell of Hoods Army. "The tooters and the shooters" going in together (the bands and the soldiers).

I took my aging French Father-in-Law - Free French veteran and veteran of French Vietnam conflict to Gettysburg 35 years ago. On top of Cemetery Ridge he was incredibly moved and said, "Dieu voulait que ce soit un champ de bataille." (God meant this to be a battlefield.).

In a Gettysburg reenactment about 20 years ago near the battlefield (but not on it)....there were 25,000 reenactors on the field including my brother...200 artillery pieces blasted away and then 12,000 confederates stepped off to begin the charge. The historical emotion was so overwhelming many were crying.
https://arteis.wordpress.com/2012/0...-of-23000-reenactors-at-gettysburg-1998/


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Brother also was at a reenactment of the battle of Chicamagua where Longstreet's corps was sent south...the sterile victory when total victory was possible the Union army saved by Thomas. Before the reenactment (6000 Confederate reenactors suddenly appearing drawing gasps from the spectators and destroying the Union line) a steam engine chugged through the Georgian countryside with 5 cars stuffed with Confederates and artillery reenacting Longstreet's trip. People were falling on their knees and weeping at the crossings.

This 150 year history of the South is fading now. But the emotion is still there even while the "wave the bloody shirt" crowd savages the monuments. (And I won't deny the brutality of the frontier culture I grew up in though this doesn't invalidate history). Here again is the University of Mississippi band at "The Grove" playing "Dixie with love" for the last time (you can't play it anymore)...which melds with the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

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