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Incredible Animated Steampunk Film From Scotland: "Widdershins"

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ckkatz7/03/2022 4:04:03 pm PDT

re: #129 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, I was reading it yesterday and set out right away to the library to get Gettysburg only to arrive and find that they are taking the whole weekend and Monday (of course) off.

re: #129 Barefoot Grin

re: #136 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Yes, as noted by “A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!” above, some libraries provide online charging out of electronic books. Additionally I think that Amazon Prime users can sign up for a 90 day trial of Audible. One just has to remember to cancel before the end of the trial period.

There are indeed some excellent books on the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War as a whole.

However, one thing that I have noticed is that the Southern pro-Confederate crowd has much greater interest in the time period than the rest of the nation. And many authors write to that audience.

Years ago, I worked with a guy who did a lot of Civil War re-enacting. The re-enacting was also far popular with the Confederate side of things. For example at a Gettysburg re-enactment, as a Union re-enactor you could sign up the day of the reenactment. But the Confederate side was filled almost a year in advance.

I went to one of the historical e-enactments he was participating in. The final part of the historical battle involved the outnumbered Confederates withdrawing from the battlefield being pursued by the much larger Union forces.

The finale of the re-enactment involved close to 1000 Confederate re-enactors retreating from, perhaps, 200 Union re-enactors. As the narrator described the vastly outnumbered Confederate “forced withdrawal”.