Epic Civil War Reenactment [10,000+ Reenactors] -- Gettysburg 2013 Pickett's Charge 

They already had 16K in their eyes back in XiX century

How did they record it in color?

@@esco5593 America is a magical place 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Ikr my phone's camera isn't even that good

maurice perigord ikr, it’s amazing

Leopard 2A7 lmao

There's an old saying in the reenactment hobby: the ghosts come up out of the ground.

*theyve been doing this shit for 157 years, is it still going on?*

Ghosts must be shaking their heads

Leopard 2A7 I live In Gettysburg and every night I worry about that

Charley Bourne . That would've been cool to use a drone!

Charley Bourne yeah it will be very awesome ur right lol

Am wondering if the Park Service would allow spectators to use their own drones? If they do could only imagine the air traffic ... ;-)

@@paulthompson5968 Not if it's a national park unless you get permission - a part 107 makes that easier to get. You cannot fly directly over crowds.

It's recorded in 2013, so I guess the usage of Drone wasn't that wide that time? Maybe if there's a new civil war event at the future? That'll be pretty awesome to see it from above.

It gets pretty real. Sometimes, you forget the crowd is there, and it's like a time bubble. I felt it at the 130th Anniversary of Wilson's Creek in northwest Arkansas in 1991.

Well, there is real gunpowder

A period correct case of dysentery would make it danged near perfect 😄

@@TS-ef2gv lol

how can you smell through a video

committed to the role!

Yeah

General?? I usually just post a pic of you on social media that says "Happy Ash Wednesday Atlanta!" everytime that day comes around....**snorts aloud**

Burn Atlanta again, they need it

@@SStupendous pretty sure Antifa and BLM are already on the case lmao

Fuck you Sherman! You’re a disgrace to the Union Army.

Howdy there Sherman.

Franklin Clinton The volleys of Axe filled the air with harsh smoke.

haha girls boring boys cool haha funny original joke

@@Heisenberg882 k

Doomer I can’t understand what the fuck your saying

@@sgt_tyguy5930 that your joke is unfunny and unoriginal

Lol historical accuracy 😂

Welcome to america

Oh, stop it. It's not 1863, they haven't been marching for months on hardtack and beans, and they're not really being blown to bits. This is a labor of love for them, trying to keep history alive for unappreciative ignorant louts like you.

Check eyes again

And a little too old!

One day I got to be in one

@@Cellistontheinternet from the years past when I made the message, I know do reenact, it's amazing

What exact strategy did they employ? Walk, don’t run, don’t zig zag, stay in line and walk straight up to 1000 guys point blank firing at you? Completely fabricated lies and deceit. Didn’t happen like that but Hollywood loves to portray this garbage. Read my above comment. This was and is not accurate at all. History is mad of lies to make you believe what they want, time to open your eyes.

10,000 participants sounds amazing until you realize that would have been a low casualty list number for battles back then.

Agreed, I’d also add that the guys during the war also probably weren’t in very good military shape, especially near the end of the war. Most of the Confederates, well hell, both sides really, were just ordinary farmers, clergyman, railroad workers etc. Must have been so difficult leaving your regular life and family to take part in such a huge conflict like this.

Yeah, but they’d be *underweight* in 1863, and not going to McDonalds four times a week.

Wearing wool clothing in the hundred degree heat has to be absolutely unbearable.

@@ellisboucher8033 I did that hobby for ten years in the '90s during the 130th and 135th events. Wool being hot is a common misconception and was one of the most common, almost cliché questions or remarks we got from the "moderns". In reality, the right kind of wool worn the right way and in combination with the correct underclothing is actually surprisingly comfortable throughout a wide range of temperatures. A few tricks helped, too. For example, if you wet your cap and/or keep a damp cloth around your neck, the evaporative cooling effect is quite nice.

Civil War re-enacting isn’t really a dying art. I mean apparently there’s 10,000 of them there, I don’t think they’re all just going to retire from it suddenly

IceloPlayz that’s what almost every unit did they always passed the flag off

+Respect But still, “down with the traitors and up with the stars”

@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 Yankee here. My entire 4th great grandfather, and his family generation, died with the Union in the war. But today, I do support the southern cause for heritage and history preservation. All sides suffered. Nobody enjoyed the war, and nobody disagrees today that slavery was bad, to say the least. I say fly those Dixie flags high!

@★ Froggie Animation ★ wow. You’re a complete idiot. Carry on, then.

Long live the south!

WysteriaGuitar Lol

Nice

must've been terrifying, I can't imagine even being a spectator there.

@@smakkacowtherealone Definitely some glimpses of what it could have been like...yeah frightening.

You gonna be at the 160th PCWA this year?

Omg yes lol

Grass grow bees sting and Brudda i hurt people

Bro that’s sniper

@@raffs9934 fuck, you're right

thats sniper you slow burner

James Longstreet’s live reaction

They probably would of thought they traveled back in time

On the bright side hearing Napoleons go off a few feet away from you will make you insensitive to pretty much every other loud noise

That’s the fun part - they weren’t. Many an enlisted man wrote that as soon as the battle kicked off, regimental formation broke and it more or less became every company forming an independent battle line in the best case scenario. Most of the time the men broke from formation and found any small amount of cover or protection they could and immediately went for it. They fought basically blind. If it wasn’t the smoke, it was the powder and sweat getting in your eyes. It was absolute mayhem

That’s why regimental flags and drums/bugles were so crucial; they could communicate orders through the din of battle. In reality there would be so much smoke you probably wouldn’t be able to see a few yards in front of you.

Saltwater Angler it was bigger and had more artillery. Around 35,000 reenactors and 175 cannons.

I was in the 98 reenactment. To my understanding our Picketts Charge was larger than the original.

Nah the 1863 one was bigger

I lost my dad at the 98 reenactment and also lost my right leg. Damn rebs.

Saltwater Angler over 170,000 men were at Gettysburg, and there were more confederates at Pickett’s charge then this video. thats crazy

I was thinking that too.

And an ox.

Thank you

Bro its quite incredible! Id love to do this one day.

Same with me, only it was 135th GB that was my last national event before real life got in the way. Change of work schedule, two new kids within three years, etc, and the next thing I knew I had gotten too old to realistically be in the ranks. I considered taking up another more age-realistic impression just to stay involved, such as medical, but it just never happened. Still have all of my old gear, though.

I was there as well on the Union side with the National Regiment. Just got done doing the PCWA 160th, so I have seen a few Gettysburg's. This one was the grandest for sure.

I think you don't have to lay down

@@MeinungMannpaying money to go to an event. Just to lay down xd

It's quite fun, and everyone in my unit enjoys it. Even if we are chosen to "die" first. Especially bigger events it is way more realistic.

You might not find it fun but we re-enactors do

@★ Froggie Animation ★ nope just volunteering

Interesting hypothesis. I'm not a paranormal believer myself, and I'd feel the energy was due more to thousands of combustible explosions over a period of an hour or so than to anything from the beyond, but it is a neat and, admittedly, moving suggestion. 😊 Thanks!

Execept this reenactment didn't take place on the battlefield. It was near by, but not the actual site. I know because I was there.

@@ImperialGuard322nd where you one of the overfed soldiers

"Kick their asses!"

Why would you remember them? You don’t know that! You weren’t there in 1863. For all we know they could’ve all worn glasses into battle

They've discovered sunglasses as old as the 15th century. Who knows man maybe they did

Sharpshooters did

Explains the lapse in memory.

@@raspberrycrowns9494 discovered?

That's pretty much that one of scene from Trailer Park Boys: Coming to America.

Highest of Respects for your Great Great Grandfather who served and died for the Union in the civil war as a officer in arms. God Bless his soul. May he rest peacefully.

TH3 PLA1NP1L0T you should watch Brandon F.’s video explaining that.

arvinclark lina alright, I’ll get to that!

One local reenactment had a rule, three misfires and you take a hit

The rule under which I participated was that a designated individual in each unit would randomly call out the names of months. Anyone in the unit born in a month that was called would become a casualty at that point. The more intense the gunfire, and the closer the distance between opposing sides, the faster the months are called out.

The reenactment I was at had a rule if your musket fouled up, then you became a casualty

You and me both brother you and me both

Christopher Wolfe I’m a history fanatic, this would be a once in a lifetime overt unity.

Same af but I'm a female so I'd go undercover.

Christopher Wolfe : Hello from South Carolina I was there at 150 th , I'm in the 18th S.C Inf, also Macbeth lt Artillery CSA.was like I stepped back in time.. July 1863.

you can, what state do you live in?

Sgt. Skittles where are the guys killing teammates?

Not enough music being played. There is also artillery, so no.

But not Antietam

except no respawn

Piece of Schmidt games artillery is in now!!

They've been doing this for at least 150 YEARS......Way to get over Slavery or are ONLY the Blacks supposed to do that?

in the civil war era, was there really any difference in the responsibilities between a 1st lieutenant and a 2nd lieutenant?

@@JoefromNJ1 It depends on which manual is being used. In general the 1st Lt. is second command of the company. If the company commander is wounded or killed the 1st. Lt takes over. Or if the company is split into two wings the 1st Lt. commands one of the wings. The 2nd Lt. for the most part falls in line with the file closers, or if the company deploys skirmishers he may be put in command of the skirmishers. Thats what I remember of it anyway. Its been awhile.

People showing up with bagpipes is one of those reenactorisms that no one is really even sure how it became a reenactorism because it makes no sense to begin with. Like huh?

@@JoefromNJ1 Other than command succession, not really. The 1st Lieutenant’s duty varied. There were many examples of them leading companies because of shortage of officers or WIA/KIA that never got replaced. Most of the time if a 1st or 2nd Lieutenant held a proper command it more than likely would have been a temporary command over a deployed skirmisher unit.

The most interesting thing about the civil war is that many historians consider it both one of the last major linear wars and one of the first major modern wars in history. It was one of the many bridges humanity took from the old to the new style of warfare, and man was it brutal. By 1862, the stand in line style of fighting had largely vanished - at least, it didn’t last. Both sides’ tactics had become far differed and pitched battles (being battles where both armies commit to an engagement in the open) had largely stopped happening on a large scale. They became about outmaneuvering each other as quickly and slyly as possible, inflicting as many casualties as possible, and destroying an army in one go. That meant they were staying on one single field of battle for much longer periods of time to try and drain the enemy, and they were using much less refined tactics. Instead of getting their men in rows, they were throwing them at hills and ditches in big groups, leaving the division and brigade commanders to maneuver the men at their own discretion. Regimental formation rarely held more than a few minutes once the battle really started. Men began dropping from formation and no sooner than the fire from the enemy broke up the formation, the men themselves broke it up too. Men ducked desperately for any piece of cover or protection they could find. As one enlisted man described it, “…the men ducked around desperately for any cover - any rock or depression in the ground, even a pile of fence rails that could provide protection from the fire”. The civil war saw the effective end of linear combat and started the absolutely brutal and unforgiving tactics of contesting positions by sending massive waves of troops at once that would translate to the Franco-Prussian War and other Victorian wars and then WW1 as well. It’s a super interesting subject

Samuel FlaBra I smell a low budget horror movie😂

@@672nic Lol I'd watch it.

Wanna buy a Minie ball?

Have you seen Psych? They actually did that.

All reenactors gets checked for live rounds they aren't even allowed to bring lead balls and no powder flasks on the battlefield because if hit or shot at could explode

but wasn't Robert Lee that order this attack b/c he thought the center was the weak point due the battles on the 1st and 2nd day battle on the left and right side of the Union, Robert Lee thought they Union Fortified both sides so the weak spot in the Center?? and that Longstreet 2nd command of the confederate army press Lee not to this b/c he knew they would be the confederate army would be slaughter in open ground field against Unions cannons all over the field and if they were pass the fence. now they would in range of Union soldiers. it was said that Longstreet knew it was going to happen and really press hard on Robert Lee not to do this, but Robert Lee didn't change his mind. and Longstreet had a hard time to signal the attack, I don't know if that happen b/c I got 3 different answers on what happen in Gettysburg.....they won the battle on day 1 in Gettysburg. then Longstreet proposed they should go south and go east and flank the Federal army b/c the Union would have pursuit and they would abandon the high ground and the confederate can choose what ground of there choosing. and imposed Meade and Washington. meaning they would put the Federal army between the confederate and Washington City...the Confederate would have the high ground which is a huge advantage over the Federal army....now there is nothing thing guaranteed, its always 99% especially if people say oh if I done this or did that, I would of won or it would turnout different....but I do believe the Confederates would have won if they flank the army . they would surround the city of Washington and put a treaty pact on Abraham Lincoln desk and really giving Lincoln really no choice but to sign the treaty pact which is armistice and recognize southern independence.

This didn’t look like a solid line from left to right to me, I thought they portrayed it really well. In the Gettysburg movie, most of the extras are reenactors and they used their experience to help make the movie as accurate as possible. Some of the guys here might have even been in that movie, and it’s highly likely that some of the historical societies and reenactment groups they belong to would have worked with the production back in the day

Good tactics, good weapons, good equipment, and frequent training in/with them wins wars. Not General So-and-So pushing entire divisions around a map. Additionally, a division is not a fighting unit, it is 27 independent companies that just so happen to have the same patch on their shoulders.

Long story short: organizers do the best they can with what they have. They actually did portray some of your exact complaints; for example, they put dismounted cavalry reenactors in a loose formation on the left flank to simulate how Brockenbrough's brigade came apart during the artillery fire you describe. Again, you can only do so much when you have 3,000 reenactors to portray an event with 15,000.

Why do you find that funny? It was a popular tune back then, a song of war.

@@ronaldrobertson2332 Bagpipes were not, however

What was that moment

Yeah he did!

Firearms and a nice musket go hand and hand. The rest of the stuff you need is cheapish. Then just find a regiment.

@@thegeneral1955 I just bought an 1853 Enfield for shooting fun. Maybe I will get into it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@wdavis6814 do you need to be full blooded white to join a reenactment

@@pinyaaaaaaa I don't think that's true, especially since the U.S. Civil War had native Americans, Chinese immigrants, and African Americans as combatants.

@@wdavis6814 nice I can join

Yeep..plenty of scotsman fought on both sides

Those long marches get awfully boring rather quickly

To use real broad generalities: the South was predominantly a Celtic culture, while the North was predominantly an Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic culture. The North had several regiments of Scotsmen, who in the early war days wore kilts to battle and played the pipes. But most of the North's Scots and Irish were recent immigrants, while the South's were largely several generations in natural born Americans.

The ueillan pipes are irish they fought on both sides

Derek Weese most of the Irish were stuck in the factories

Yes, this is the style of fighting typical of the time, although the American Civil War was at the tail end of it and is still considered the last major war fought in the "Napoleonic" style. There are reasons for fighting like this, much of it because of the technology. Smooth bore muskets were notoriously inaccurate and the range was limited. In order to increase the likelihood of actually hitting a target, multiplying the number of muskets in a single place was an answer. Moreover, the muskets were not the decisive weapon. The idea was: we'll get off a few shots, maybe kill some of the enemy, but then fix bayonets and physically drive the enemy off the field. Elimination by firearm was not the assumption, although it is "nice" if that's all it takes to convince the enemy force to leave. Also, it is very difficult to orchestrate thousands of soldiers in ranged fighting in an era before technologies like radio which have helped facilitate ranged fighting. Keeping everyone within some sort of earshot was necessary at the time. Attempts at early ranged fighting were made during the Civil War, on small scales, but the tech just wasn't there for larger engagements which may stretch many miles. The American Civil War was the end of this kind of fighting because some new tech was just making its appearance: for example, the miniball, which now increased musket accuracy and range. But things were still wanting, and so the tactics didn't change much if at all, at least for larger battlefields, and in places where it probably should have; commanders led as they had been taught to fight and as conventional warfare wisdom had long understood. As a result, the American Civil War was and remains the costliest war in American history. I'm sure others can correct or expand on this, but this is my understanding, atm.

That's why (almost all) reenactments don't allow the use of rammers for loading! In fact, there's usually pretty stringent guidelines against even taking it out of its slot for any reason on the field.

And whipped the Rebels for good

I don't think that would work out man. Although that would be a great site

They do have these at some events. They are normally held during either the evening or the day before main battle. They are called skirmishes and is basically a capture the flag event with each side trying to get to the others campsite. Its also a great time to make sure our rifles are in working order and to blow through any extra powder we have.

@@aylaschlegel558 Sometimes called a tactical event. The best ones are run as an event of its own. I was in one in 1998 or maybe 1997 held at a KY National Guard training facility in Western Kentucky. The Union troops were brought in on one side of the facility and the Confederates were on the other side. Neither side knew the location of the other or what the mission was. The organizers issued general tasks to each side and just let it play out. It worked out as a "meeting engagement" and the battle developed as the day went on. No tents, no fixed camps, don't bring anything you don't want to carry. The site was fantastic, no artificial lights, no power lines or poles, the only modern thing in the area was a control tower the umpires used. It was a great weekend.

Would work if both sides shot paper, but muh safety guidelines

There’s two now. Daniel Lady Farm and The PCWA

You see a person aiming at your position, you just fall down. I used to take parts in war re-enactments

Mr. Mendez cant be the real weapon and sound...

Most common way is simply whoever gets tired or runs out of ammunition "takes a hit."

Most common way to do it is if you run out of ammo, if your unit takes a massive volley, you run out of water, or just whenever you feel like it

It's how the audio is picked up and received by the recording device. If you actually hear a musket live fired or blank fired, they sound very cool.

Oh thanks for telling me.

Sounds is amazing as is the smell of the powder

Mitchel Riebeek st the consert

At the concert

There's tons of reenacting groups all around the country! Just look for a group in your area; they're usually more than happy to loan you stuff to help you start out.

That’s the fun part - the government does that for you!

Actually I believe that was Garnett

Strider boi

That's crazy

Spiffy Gonzales yup😢 RIP all those who gave there life so valiantly for their cause. North or South

America vs inbred traitors

I’m not bashing those who died valiantly for the CSA but it was formed to cater to slavery