Your Assistance Please
Kenneth Kepf
If anyone has a camcorder regardless of regular or HD that may attend
a battlefield re-enactment soon or has this year or sometime in the
past that includes artillery firing please contact me. I've seen on
you-Tube where most people who re-enact or N-SSA members took
videos. Many artillery videos describe the firing of a Napoleon 12
Lb. as to what number 1-4 or 1-6 man or even cooler having a horse
team bring a cannon "to battery front" and unlimber the
cannon. These are exactly the type of video I'd like to have to add
to the book by adding a CD or DVD about artillery. I would pay for
everything. Given this is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War
there should be plenty of re-enactments all over although areas
experiencing a drought may prohibit such demonstration. I should
haver made this post earlier especially before Gettysburg. Whether
it involves 1 cannon or 50 doesn't matter. Please contact me for particulars.
Get out & see a re-enactment!
Be aware that depending upon wind if 50 cannon go off things will be
mighty cloudy!
I heard the last movie filmed at Gettysburg had 50 cannon total a
virtually unusual and no doubt exciting event and the person who
attended said it rumbled the ground they stood on a far ways from the
cannon. Lord only knows how much I'd like to have attended that
event and can imagine how 200 cannon firing was like in 1863 at Gettysburg.
There have been notations from soldiers from different regiments on
the way to Gettysburg who said they didn't hear cannon. Not unusual
given the contour of the lands where the cannon & soldiers were
hurrying to Gettysburg. Some heard it a long way and others didn't
hear it. Another mystifying event is that usually after battle it
would rain. A meteorologist told me that depending upon atmospherics
the sheer thunder sound of the cannon & shells would induce the
clouds to form & rain even though it usually wouldn't. The variables
were the relative humidity and type of clouds the day of
battle.--Just an FYI for any of you curious as to the aftermath of
artillery stories written by many soldiers who said it was dry during
battle but rain like torrents after battle making everyone miserable
especially the wounded where many were on the battlefield not yet attended to.
Regards,
Ken