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I found this video this morning and rather speachless. I will just say, if you are into Civil War weaponry, you may want to sit down when you watch this.
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Andrew Gale
21st Arkansas Vol. Inf. Co. H
Company H, McRae's Arkansas Infantry
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Cpl. George Washington Pennington, 171st Penn. Co. K
Mustered into service: Aug. 27, 1862
Captured: Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 12, 1864
Died: Andersonville Prison, Georgia, Sept. 13, 1864
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Pards,
I don't have words to express how very much that sucks.
I pity the woman's students.
Mark Warren
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Interesting. Someone obviously put some time into putting this together but the information is indeed terribly mixed up and erroneous.
The sad thing, in listening to her explanation, is that it sounds like she picked up bits and pieces of here misunderstanding from some of the many, many incompetent reenactors out there educating the publik.:sick:Troy Groves "AZReenactor"
1st California Infantry Volunteers, Co. C
So, you think that scrap in the East is rough, do you?
Ever consider what it means to be captured by Apaches?Comment
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I hate to say it, cause I'm sure she's a nice lady. But it sounds like somebody gave her some kind of long script to memorize, then got her intoxicated and asked her to repeat it.... And that's all she could remember. Like Troy said, there are actually "reenactors" out there telling the same sort of BS to school kids. I know of one fella who makes this lady sound like Shelby Foote !!
D.W.(Trace) ScalfD.W.(Trace)Scalf
19th Alabama Infantry(Australia)
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Easy to see why so many kids come out of school dumb as a brick.Jim KindredComment
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I want my 1:20 back. I learned nothing of value from that video. ;)
Her body language tells me she was either uncomfortable with the topic, or she had to use the restroom badly.Ron Mueller
Illinois
New Madrid Guards
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Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
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Apparently its so bad that my computer won't let me view it. Perhaps computers are beginning to think for themselves ...Garrett W. Silliman
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I like how the video has a five star rating, meaning people actually think what she said was correct.
here's a youtube link that may be easier to view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IujT8Pza6rs
ps. I find that the envelop of my knapsack is good for storing my pre loaded barrels.Last edited by stx; 06-20-2009, 11:32 AM.Tim KoenigComment
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OMG that was terrible. To think she's a teacher is is more scary than her having no clue about CW weapons. ~GaryGary Dombrowski
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As a History teacher at the college level, I never could understand why the kids didn't know anything about American History after graduating from High School with mandatory American History requirements, and this is why. This is typical of history teachers that don't do their own research, but spout what they hear somewhere else or fake it when they don't know the materiel. And so the students walk away thinking that is it, and by the way most hate history because of teachers who don't have the passion to know the materiel.Frank Siltman
24th Mo Vol Inf
Cannoneer, US Army FA Museum Gun Crew
Member, Oklahoma Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission
Company of Military Historians
Lawton/Fort Sill, OK
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty.— Robert A. HeinleinComment
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"And often times the calvary officers would take a pre-loaded muzzle, and attach it to the gun so that it could be faster to reload".
Obviously a plain muzzle would have worked best in her case.
Even ministers adapted their firearms for greater killing effect.... who knew?Last edited by Gallinipper; 06-20-2009, 05:00 PM.Rich Croxton
"I had fun. How about you?" -- In memory of Charles Heath, 1960-2009Comment
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This video defies words. I'm speechless! :confused_[COLOR=Blue][SIZE=2][FONT=Book Antiqua]Ken Raia[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]Comment
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My daughter was studying the Civil War in her history class (think it was 6th grade) and the teacher had the kids watch the video of the movie Gettysburg. OK, not a bad move, you can learn some good things from the movie. She then had a quizz for the kids to tell a little bio on the Civil War personalities presented in the movie. So here was the list she generated. Longstreet, Lee, Chamberlain, Hancock, C. Thomas Howell, opps wait a minute. I ask my daughter why a movie actor was mixed in with these famous military men. She told me the teacher thougt that this was a historical figure. I almost had a fit. You gotta be kidding. This person doesn't teach anymore.Originally posted by Pennvolunteer View Post[COLOR=Blue][SIZE=2][FONT=Book Antiqua]Ken Raia[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]Comment
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That was utterly pathetic! My history teacher would get mad at me when I would correct him I can't imagine what this lady would do.Andrew Turner
Co.D 27th NCT
Liberty Rifles
"Well, by God, I’ll take my men in and if they outflank me I’ll face my men about and cut my way out. Forward, men!” Gen. John R. Cooke at Bristoe Station,VAComment
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Such is the public school system today.
Now, I dont know where many of you stand in the terms of the causes behind the war, slavery etc, but im sure you'll all love this.
I had to sit in a history class listening to a teacher proceed to tell us that Lincoln told the south that they had "to give up their negros and start paying men to do the farming" and that "those people in the south, they were racist, and still are very much so today. So them southerners didnt like that" And thats why the left the union, which according to him was illegal and there was a law against it...You can see where im going with this.
About the time he started on the "Racist South" card I excused myself from class.
In the whole year of American History, we spent a week on the war? We spent more time covering civil rights and the great depression etc...Weeks on both subjects.
Dont ya love government education at its best!!!Travis Franklin
"Patrick Fhailen"
The Missoura Shirkers
4th Mo. Inf.
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862Comment
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