Ft.Fisher

ord.sgt.26NC

ord.sgt.26NC

Gott mit uns!
Joined
Mar 23, 2005
Location
Goldsboro
need something to do? Come down and watch the reenactment sat. and then go drive on the beach. We gonna have a large time assualting the works.
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Your post reminded me of a couple civil war guns I saw for sale the other day. This is only some of them the guy has.
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Wish it was next weekend or the one after.
 
Jimmy keeps teasing me....been wanting to go watch for about 3 years now! somehow i cant ever find the time.
 
reenacting and 4wheelin in the same day seems like a win/win to me. Unfortunately it looks like sunday is gonna be a washout with rain starting shortly after midnight and running through lunch time. This is the 150th ann. of this battle. This one and Bentonville hit home for me with a direct ancestor and his brother being captured when the fort fell...both sent to Elmira New York but my G-3 grandfather luckily got in on a feb. prisoner exchange as he had been wounded.On the way home,he got caught up with Braxton Bragg and fought at Wise's Fork (Kinston),Bentonville,and then surrendered a second time at Greensboro. His brother Pinkney didn't take the oath till late july and then he was set free. I'm really not thrilled about doing this one Federal but rather fight with my "brothers" as opposed to forming up with folks I don't know.
 
so seriously how's this all work? History tells us how the battles turned out and in lots of cases very specific troop movements and strategies. What I don't know outside lookin in is: who knows when to fall, who shoots who sorta? Well scripted? More highly improvised? Commanders surely are shouting, guns reloaded, lines filed and ranked and so on, but what's the skinny? I also understand you guys march encamp and live the days just like the era, True?
 
ah grasshopper,I could tell you but to experience it would be all the better... I can hook ya up if you would like to give it a try.

but in all seriousness we do 2 types of battle senarios... scripted and tacticals.Scripted battles are what the public sees.They sit all the commanders down and go over what parts of a certain battle we will be doing. The order of battle,casualty counts and when they need to be lite or heavy, and your objectives. Then that info filters down through a chain of command till it gets to the boots on the ground. At Ft.Fisher,we were portraying a New York regiment that assualted near the sally port at what is known as Shepards Battery. There were 3 brigades of us federals who assualted the fort.One brigade through the sally port guarded by a company of confederates and a 12 pound cannon.Us at Sheppards Battery where they have a 32 pounder stationed,firing heavy I must say, and another company of confederates ,and lastly the third brigade of infantry with a detatchment of navy and marines mixed in.They went in against 2 companys of Confederates. We had roughly 400 to 500 federals against a couple of hundred confederates.Now when the battle took place in 1865,Ft.Fisher was defended by 1400 troops but the federal assualt was nearly 10,000 men not to mention the 60 ships of the line firing artillery in before and during the assualt. Only once have I done a battle scenario that was 1 to 1 scale and that was Gettysburg in 1998 and we had roughly 27,000 reenactors there.
So yes we try to do the scenarios as best we can to what went on. We are told when we need to take hits and if we need lite or heavy casualties. Sometimes you will take hits and then a little while later rejoin the fight so you can keep the numbers up to have the appearance of more troops for the spectators.Sometimes you just get plan tired and need a break so you take a hit.
Some units concentrate on looking good in the field with their drill and being able to manuvor troops in the field same as they did back then. Other units worry more that the stitch count is correct on the jacket than the drill.I have no use for stitch counters.
Tactical scenarios are pretty much for us. Get up,form up, and do a cat and mouse hunt through the woods till you slam into your opponents and then use the tactics of the times to "one up" the enemy.Guess it would be like a paint ball fight but with a military structure and Napoleanic tactics.
 
cool, nice paintball reference. I played a good bit 15 ish yrs ago. I loved woods and tactical ball. I hated speedball. It became all the rage and I got out. Now my adult status.... family and income doesn't do well with the way to many hobbies I'd like to support. But that stuff has always intrigued me.
 
the only time you have much freedon of play is when you are on a skirmish line in front of the battalion but still it's structured and done orderly.
To fall in the ranks with us to give it a try would cost minimally.We have enough gear to outfit 6 men completely plus we can scrounge up more.
 
found a Go-Pro video done by a corpral in the 6th N.C. that brigades with us as one of our companies. This is as close as you can get without smelling burnt powder and having ringing ears.
 
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