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After a hiatus, Civil War reenactors were back for the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. History buffs, gun enthusiasts, and family history aficionados return to Gettysburg Skip to ...
Reenactment at the American Museum in Bath, England Reenactor plays the fife at The Angle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.. American Civil War reenactments have drawn a fairly sizable following of enthusiastic participants, young and old, willing to brave the elements and expend money and resources to duplicate the events down to the smallest recorded detail.
Note that the caption erroneously states that Perry led the brigade at Gettysburg. Instead, it was David Lang who led the Brigade. The first unit in the brigade to see combat was the 2nd Florida Regiment at a skirmish near Yorktown in early May 1862 as part of the Siege of Yorktown. [2] In August 1862, reinforcements from Florida arrived in ...
The 5th Florida Infantry Regiment served in E.A. Perry's Florida Brigade alongside the 2nd and 8th Florida. Perry's Brigade served under Anderson’s Division of Longstreet’s First Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia. [1] They fought in the Battles of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, and Antietam from August–September 1862.
During the Gettysburg Campaign, Company H was assigned to the Second Division of the Army of the Potomac's Cavalry Corps and was present at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2 and 3 1863. It fought at the East Cavalry Battlefield on July 3. After the campaign, the company returned to Baltimore, where it remained for the remainder of the war.
As the Army of Northern Virginia began preparations for its invasion of Pennsylvania, Brig. Gen. Perry fell ill with typhoid and command of the Florida Brigade devolved to Colonel David Lang of the 8th. The Florida Brigade was engaged at the Battle of Gettysburg and participated in Pickett's Charge on the battle's third and final day.
Reenactor O.J. Fargo will present the program “Just Before the Battle, Mother — A Visit from a Civil War Soldier" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Dakins Community Center, 105 E. Main St., Zearing.
Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America.It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.