Uncle Rico's World

This past weekend we went to a

Civil War Reenactment

One of the first tables we stopped at 

displayed civil war items 

that two men had found using metal detectors.

Look at the knife!

Bonnie Belle....

it's a southern name

she's a southern gal

Kitschy

This fellow was a swearin' it was about to snow.

But we enjoyed watching him making something...

The American Flag

alongside the "Stainless" Flag

A replica of the H.L. Hunley

the civil war submarine

that was recently found...

this replica was only 4" too long and 4" too tall

but otherwise was just like the real one.

Remarkable considering the man who drew the dimensions

had been in the actual Hunley 60 years before.

A classic campsite

the lengthwise banner shows which group it represents...

see the mirror hanging up?  

One of the creepier displays...

bone saws in the medical tent...

I have a bunch of pictures with 

nasty little instruments

like these...

The poor Union soldiers...

they told my husband that they had read the script

and knew they were going to win....

Rebel soldier up in a tree...

a sharpshooter

Notice the rebel soldiers' uniforms don't always match...

very realistic

isn't that a gorgeous horse?

Clever rebel soldiers...

sneaking around back to surprise the Union

A rebel soldier goes down...

Medic!!

Ah, the beauty of the "Stainless" Flag

in the gun powder haze of the woods...

The Broxton Bridge Battle is well known...

as a fight that occurred late in the Civil War

during Sherman's march to the sea...

AND

it is well known that

The North won this battle.

But

last weekend...

the South won.

It seems that the Southerner's

are a lot like Uncle Rico in the movie "Napolean Dynamite."

They have to play the tapes over and over

and get frustrated over and over...

wondering over and over..

thinking...and discussing whether

if this or that had happened...

they would have won...

and gone pro...

ah...I mean...been their own country.

Ahem.

It's okay that people reenact the Civil War...

but to pretend over and over

that they won...

is bordering on 

so.

very.

sad.

My daughter has two acquaintances at school, 

both young men, who do civil war reenactments.

One was there at the battle at Broxton Bridge last weekend.

Obviously, on the Rebel side...duh.

When my daughter told him it was perplexing that the 

South won the battle on Saturday...

he retorted...

"The North won when we did it again on Sunday!"

:: sigh ::

Ah yes...

speaking of snow...from an earlier picture...

this young man also claimed that

"it snowed Saturday at the battle!"

Um.

We were there.

No.

Snow.

Perhaps he saw a piece of ash from a fire?

Know what we love about Southerners?

Southerns love them some snow!

Now THAT'S something we can agree upon!