Military history ping (the ping list is back in action and with the same old management...LOL)
Outstanding
My favorites have become not the posed pictures - or dramatic or grim after-action pictures - but instead the most mundane pictures of camp and soldier life. After a year or two of reenacting and Civil War camping it is fun to “recognize” scenes, and relate those to my own experiences.
I enjoy too, not the sweeping historical accounts of battle, but the letters to home or narratives describing the tedious drilling and day-to-day garrison life. I was at the State museum last year and they showed some of the content of a Civil War soldier's haversack - and I had to laugh because I carried many of the same items in my reenacting to make my own camp life a little more comfortable.
Hardtack, anyone?
Thanks for the pics. I’m currently playing a terrific strategic level civil war game from Ageod, and am re-reading Shelby Foote’s trilogy. I shouldn’t be surprised to find Free Republic as a resource for great civil war info.