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Re: Top Five of Picketts Mill
I had a great time, though having been out of action for a while the heat and exertion wore on me a mite. I think many of us could improve our authenticity by losing some weight and improving our physical conditioning, especially me.
1. Hooking up with old friends and meeting new ones (quite a few people that I did not recognize saying hello, hopefully I will either remember you next time or meet you again). Speaking with Coley Adair on Sunday morning as he is now retiring. Say it ain't so Coley...
2. Serving as staff cook (0kay I know this is lame but read the first entry). Cooked my first cobbler out of hard tack, dried apples and currants, rock sugar and water and a stew of dried beans rice, dried veggies and jerky, both seemed palatable to those you tasted them.
3. The fifing of young David French and the comraderie of same at the rear of the column. He was always piping a tune as our troops advanced to the fight.
4. Watching the attack Saturday mid-afternoon as the Rebs were first pinned in their works by "suppressing" fire and then flanked out of their possition and being in a position to watch for a change rather than being so far into the action that all I see is what is directly in front of me.
5. Watching the pioneers at work be it from building a ford of the stream, to building breastworks, to running to their muskets to shore up the right flank at the last moment on Sunday morning. Salute to you Mr. Craddock and Petersburg you guys did great!
Jerry Gouge
I had a great time, though having been out of action for a while the heat and exertion wore on me a mite. I think many of us could improve our authenticity by losing some weight and improving our physical conditioning, especially me.
1. Hooking up with old friends and meeting new ones (quite a few people that I did not recognize saying hello, hopefully I will either remember you next time or meet you again). Speaking with Coley Adair on Sunday morning as he is now retiring. Say it ain't so Coley...
2. Serving as staff cook (0kay I know this is lame but read the first entry). Cooked my first cobbler out of hard tack, dried apples and currants, rock sugar and water and a stew of dried beans rice, dried veggies and jerky, both seemed palatable to those you tasted them.
3. The fifing of young David French and the comraderie of same at the rear of the column. He was always piping a tune as our troops advanced to the fight.
4. Watching the attack Saturday mid-afternoon as the Rebs were first pinned in their works by "suppressing" fire and then flanked out of their possition and being in a position to watch for a change rather than being so far into the action that all I see is what is directly in front of me.
5. Watching the pioneers at work be it from building a ford of the stream, to building breastworks, to running to their muskets to shore up the right flank at the last moment on Sunday morning. Salute to you Mr. Craddock and Petersburg you guys did great!
Jerry Gouge
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