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For you Civil War enthusiast, I put together a little story kind've :blink: .........

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General Ray

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These first two clips are from the great documentary, The Civil War by Ken Burns, it will give you a bit of history of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg before you watch the movie clips, great documentary :thumbup:

From the Ken Burns documentary series The Civil War /Pickett's Charge/Gettysburg part 1 ...... :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upjmliBwbVU

From the Ken Burns documentary series The Civil War /Pickett's Charge/Gettysburg part 2 ...... :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUVpnM49v5A

Now some clips from the best movie I have ever watched, Gettysburg, these clips are from Pickett's Charge from the movie,
turn your volume up on your computer folks to get the whole sense for the battle as if you were there ..... :csflag:

The planning of Pickett's charge ....... :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZj48Ys25U

Pickett's Charge, the south opens up with their cannons (The Bombardment) ........... :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZWAmsdGBiE

General Longstreet gives the order for Pickett to step off ......... :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GupEJXlNKCE


Union cannon fire opens up on Pickett's 12,000 to 15,000 men trying to cross the mile long open field ......... :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iT0Hmu5bXY

Pickett's charge, the high water mark ........ :csflag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiDumCX_Pr8

I visited Gettysburg a few years ago for two days, the battle field is 28 miles around, there are more then 1000 monuments on the battle field, it was the best vacation I ever took, I walked that same mile the Army of Northern Virgina did on Pickett's Charge on a cool rainy fall day and I was the only one on that field that day, it was very moving for me to cross that field and walk at a fast clip like those brave men did way back then.

I kept looking behind me and threw the wheat field on both sides of me and then the corn field, I felt I was not alone, I felt some one or some thing was watching me, it was spooky to say the least. Now that I look back, maybe I wasn't alone because the Army of Northern Virgina was there with me.

Thanks for tagging along with me on this American history tour, here's some photos of my visit, if you have never been to Gettysburg I urge you to make the trip, you will be thankfull that you did, next time I go I will go for a week because there is so much to see and so much history to read and stand among :thumbup:

I hope you all enjoyed this post as much as I did putting it together :) ............ :csflag:

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee238/Ray1954_photo/CemeteryRidge.jpg

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee238/Ray1954_photo/SeminaryRidge.jpg

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee238/Ray1954_photo/VirginiaMemorial.jpg
 
You did a fine fine job of putting it together. I have long been interested in Civil War history and spent some quality time watching this:clapping:

Thank you very much!
 
Folks, lots of work went into putting this story together and you will enjoy seeing the video clips. Ray, you have come a long ways from a few years ago when you were posting pictures with Civil War music. You have fantastic talent. Thanks for sharing this with the Forum, it is much appreciated. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas) :)
 
imagining what bloddshed went on... very moving seeing all the monuments etc. Everyone should visit there!:thumbup:
 
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