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Ermagherd!

So I'm over here by Pittsburgh having just photographed a very successful wedding for a lovely couple near to my heart, and they've just surprised me with the off-the-cuff idea of us all driving off to Gettysburgh, spending the night in the Lincoln House and doing a battlefield walkabout tomorrow. It's not the first time my friend Rachel's been there, she knows the place fairly well now, and I am incredibly excited at this sudden 'hell yeah let's do it!' proposal. If we can get everything lined up we'll be driving off in a couple of hours.

Gettysburg is very, very, much on my bucket list - the opportunity of seeing the Devil's Den, the sight of the first encounter between Buford and the Confederates, site of Pickett's Charge.... ooooh.

Kern, you've been there before, right?

Yes! Many times!
Drink at O'Rourkes.

Also, hmm.. if the Regimental Quartermaster has a pair of Union enlisted trousers (no stripes) at 36" on the rack, send me a text or PM...

Dear God, those days were fun!
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Will do. Let me know the length and I'll see if I can source some for you! Eagerly going to devour your thread on this now. O'Rourkes, eh? I will raise it. I shall message you wifi permitting.

Hurrah! And we are booked and ready to go! I think I'll be staying in the Eisenhower room at the Farnsworth, so within a stone's throw of O'Rourke's. Super-hyped. Imma gonna take ALLMYLENSES.

Have a great time, Pete.

Enjoy Pete! Please post all the pics.

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Hopefully this link will work.
It’s from the BBC archive covering reenactment in 1970

Thanks for that. Soskan is my organisation although I've been away from it a lot in recent years. Amazing to watch that and see how far the group has come (I actually know the chap they interview).

Perhaps I'll get out again next year.

BBC: Russia professor admits murder after woman's arms found in bag



WTF? Also: farb.

Really interesting piece in the Guardian about a large re-renactment of the 1811 Louisainan slave rebellion. Excellent photos too.

The ongoing turmoil in the US has also seen an acceleration of the removal (both by civil authorities and more faster methods) of Confederate monuments in the South. Just seen this tweet that provides a brilliant piece of foreshadowing:

https://twitter.com/cwbarr/status/1268164938188705794

Well I'll be damned https://t.co/o7jzPm7BCt pic.twitter.com/Ml2uV6ZDug

— Chris Barr (@cwbarr) June 3, 2020

Loads of statues across the south are coming down. The US military wants to rename its bases named after Confederate generals but Trump has said no, presumably because ceasing to glorify racist losers would set a heck of a precedent. He probably wonders why Fort Lee, Fort Bragg, etc aren't accompanined by Fort Rommel.

Maybe he's hoping for a Fort Trump.

Fort Bone Spurs

He's probably already got plans to redecorate the Lincoln Memorial.

I wonder if there will be a backlash from the "South Will Rise Again" diehards when these statues are removed.

NASCAR have banned confederate flags at race meetings, so I’d expect it’ll happen then.

The governor of Mississippi has signed a bill removing the Confederate battle flag from its state flag. Progress of a sort, but no replacement has yet been agreed. Vexillology fans have long noted how the state flag of Georgia looks suspiciously like the first Confederate flag, after all.

Guardian link on Mississippi