Event Site Pictures

[coastaltrash]

Here are a few pictures of where the Confederates will camp for the weekend.

Picture one is looking from the camp site, towards Fort Garrot.

Picture two is looking from the road, toward the Georgia Monument.

[coastaltrash]

Federal portion of the event pictures.

Pic 1- Information on Slack's Approach.
Pic 2- Blue markers show the path of Slack's Secondary Approach.
Pic 3- Federal Trench
Pic 4- View from the end of the trench toward Slack's Approach.
Pic 5- Federal Trench Again

[coastaltrash]

Pic 1- Shows the entire Federal Trench
Pic 2- Show the area we will use for the Federal Camp for the weekend
Pic 3- View up toward the trench, from the federal camp.
Pic 4- Show the view from the 56th Ohio Marker toward Fort Garrot. Fort Garrot is the high flat rise.

[Shotgun Messiah]

Thats great Pat Thanks..
I am Chompin at the bit for this one.. I can't wait for June and Muggy Mississippi Nights, Bring on the Mule meat and Pea bread..

Warren Hook
New Madrid Guards
WIG

[Kevin O'Beirne]

Pat,

Nic pics, but where's the dead bodies?

Looking forward to making this road trip.

[coastaltrash]

Kevin,
Glad you asked, I actually used Photoshop to edit those out, along with the bullet marks left on the monuments from the battle.

Hope everyone is looking forward to this as much as I am.

[huntdaw]

They got skeeters at night on top of those big bluffs in the summer time?

[Dale Beasley]

You know, its starting to smell hot.

[Alamo Guard]

Them earthworks look too high to desert to the Johnnies :). Glad to see we got some quality possums for this event.

[john duffer]

Any shots of the colonel's palace ?

[Charles Heath]

Nic pics, but where's the dead bodies?

Yet another food critic to be dealt with soon enough. I said soon....

The more we learn about what the federals were actually eating, the easier this event gets. Sure hope you like scant rations of ____ ____, and lots of _____. They were sick and tired of eating poultry, which just goes to show you surprises still exist out there in documentation land. Why, yes, they were from Ohio, why do you ask? :p

[John of the Skulkers Mess]

During the version of this event, what 4 to 5 years ago (when R. Meyer, Monkey Boy Schuller & Co. worked summers at the park) I thought it would be a fine idea to venture to no man's land (between the 22nd Iowa trench and the fort) and try to solicit trade with the Confeds (between demos). I could spark no commerce.

But I also learned that too much exertion can work against you. We shortly broke for the lunch break after which I was pretty much zapped and missed the next demo. Tom Ezell can attest as to how hot it was.

If it is hot like usual, drink water, watch out for each other and dont' overdo it.

John Pillers

[Tom Ezell]

During the version of this event, what 4 to 5 years ago (when R. Meyer, Monkey Boy Schuller & Co. worked summers at the park) I thought it would be a fine idea to venture to no man's land (between the 22nd Iowa trench and the fort) and try to solicit trade with the Confeds (between demos). I could spark no commerce.

But I also learned that too much exertion can work against you. We shortly broke for the lunch break after which I was pretty much zapped and missed the next demo. Tom Ezell can attest as to how hot it was.


Mr. Ranger said the wet bulb temperature Sunday afternoon was something like 120+ degrees. 'long about mid-day, it sure felt like it, too. We were just little puddles of indigo-tinted sweat. A good number of the Rebs were laid low by the heat,and it told on us, too.

Massa Frank did his impression of a tiger loose in the rifle pits. I burned more rounds in sharpshooting than I usually do in a year or more. With a little more than 200 yards or so separating the sides, it was the first time the NPS allowed force-on-force engagements since way back beyond most memories.

Now to finds me an Illinois jacket, and I'll head back down that ways...

[BenjaminLDavis]

Any shots of the colonel's palace ?

Sir ~ it was so far behind the lines, to protect your cultured ears from the course
language of the common soldier (hardly edifying for a man of your stirling character!),
and so vast in it's Magnificence that it would not all fit on one sole depiction, rather
it might needs be sketched by the same feller who captured the pleasure domes of
Kubla Khan!
That, plus the fact that it's last occupants were chickens, and it smells of the same . . .

[Charles Heath]

Maj. Tom,

Aren't you scheduled to give the Cold Weather Casualty Prevention briefing for this event?

Thank goodness some of us will be keeping the fire going just in case some of the of the more delicate lads from the southern climes begin to feel a touch of hypothermia should the temps stray below the triple digits. Rumor has it, Matt Woodburn has graciously volunteered his buffalo robe should someone be turning pale blue and be in need of extra warmth.

[Vicksburg Dave]

Most guys finding that the best place to toss down their bedroll is in Fort Garrott, you can catch a breeze up there at night if you are lucky. You just cannot build a fire in the fort to keep the skeeters away. Also, avoid the cannon in the fort, it is a haven for red wasps, and in past years, no matter how many times I have sprayed it with wasp killer, a few nests manage to survive. One year, every time we fired our cannon, a cloud of wasps would emerge from the orignal parked next to us. We were disciplined, however, and stood our ground.

Anon,

David Slay

[coastaltrash]

David,
For this event they won't be camping in Fort Garrott. Holding that place for other things for the event. The campsite picked isn't bad and has available shade, so that's where Confederate camp will be.

[JLHurst]

Maybe it's just me but I don't see any pics.