Friday, April 21, 2006

Here's a picture from Rendezvous. You can see more at http://sdcml.homestead.com/.
You might wonder what I actually do there. I mainly just hang around and talk to people there, other than play Poker, shoot my gun and work strenuously, that's it.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Here's a picture I took in 1900! Just kidding, I took this photo but I changed the coloring. You can even see the Capital in the back.
A picture taken by me from the Cold Harbor National Battlefield. One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, in which over 13,000 Union and 2,500 Confederate soldiers died. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a hopeless assault against the fortified troops of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Grant said of the battle in his memoirs "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made." At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss sustained among Union troops, about 12,000 of them died in the first 20 minutes, while hoplessly charging heavily entrenched Confederate positions.

Sunday, April 16, 2006


If you saw the movie "Gods and Generals", you saw part of the Battle of Fredricksburg. Remember that wall that the Confederates used to shoot at the Union army when they crossed that wide open field? This is a picture of it now, a.k.a. the Sunken Road. (now it's a bit lower) Pretty cool huh? That field the U.S. soldiers crossed is now a bunch of houses and building.
I took this picture myself.

This is us visiting the Chancellorsville battlefield in Virginia, a site of one of the many bloody battles of the Civil War. The Civil War is the time period most (or at least a lot of) reenactors represent. This is one of the artillery positions of the Confederate army. I took this photo.