Jul 29, 2017
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Sometimes, mischief makes its way into Civil War Reenacting. We needed to move our cannon to a location up the road and the only vehicle available was this Lotus.
This is ‘Stryker’, a fully-functional reproduction of an M-1841 Mountain Howitzer. The originals had a bronze barrel. Stryker is my Confederate Artillery unit’s primary gun at reenactments. It is so popular that many of the sodomite Yankees actually come by and pay tribute to it before engagements.
Recent Civil War encampment, complete with a night barrage against Union positions, and a HUGE pot of grits.
Rank DO have its privileges. As 1SG of my Confederate Artillery Battery, I rarely get the chance to pull the lanyard. Usually, I’m the one yelling out commands. We had the chance to do a ‘Night fire’, always an awesome spectacle, and I swapped places with one of my Privates. Doncha just LOVE our M-1841 Mountain Howitzers?
My American Civil War Reenacting unit’s historian, Brad, demonstrates how to utilize an 1841 Mountain Howitzer as a La-Z-Boy
My M-1864 Remington Revolving Carbine. Although not quite ‘period-Correct’ for any Civil War impression, it’s proven to be a real crowd-pleaser at events, so much so that a few of my ‘Yankee’ friends have purchased their own. Some have even had me make crates for them like the one pictured here.
My ‘Companions’ during any Civil War Reenactment. The Colt ‘Walker’ (top) dwarfs my 1851 Confederate ‘Navy’.
Step by step documentation of the creation of an Ammunition Chest, circa 1862, Allegheny Arsenal, the site of the worst civilian disaster during the American Civil War. On September 17, 1862, around 2 pm, the arsenal exploded. The explosion shattered windows in the surrounding community and was heard in Pittsburgh, over two miles (3 km) away. 78 workers, mostly young women, were killed. The explosion at the Arsenal was overshadowed by the Battle of Antietam, which occurred on the same day near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Work at the Arsenal continued, and a new lab was constructed by the following year.
After the war, the Allegheny Arsenal served primarily as a storage facility for the Ordnance Department and Quartermaster Corps. In the 1900′s most of the land was sold off.
This chest represents one of those that the arsenal was shipping out just prior to the explosion.