Thoughts on a Civil War reenactment....

Ok so first off I'm just tickled that I got to meet one of my historical character heros....none other than the reenacting version of....MATTHEW BRADY!! Ok so I love a reenactment, I find them to be such an interesting sector of southern culture. So this reenactment not only had the basic stuff (blah blah soldiers and a cannon and stuff like that) but also Matthew Brady...who for those who don't know him was one of the first well know photographers and could be called one of the first photojournalists...come on folks he took that really famous photo of ol' Abe Lincoln. So I took a little time to talk to Matthew and found out that this gentlemen is from what he knows the ONLY reenacting Matthew Brady..and he had the whole get up too. This was no second rate Brady.

The rest of the reenactment was very similer in feeling to some other reenactments I've photographed. They again picked a battle where the north loses and then when the yankee's ran with there tails between there legs a spectator leans over to me and said, "Looks like we're winning." To which I kind of looked at him a little confused and shrugged. He later commented, "Don't you wish all wars could be faught this way," to which I again game him a confused glance, trying my best to hide my star of david and distinctive yankee accent. I also thought it was a little strange that they asked the children who were watching the "battle" to help and remove the dead bodies from the battle field after the reenactment had ended. All in all I felt as though I had been transported to some alternate universe.