http://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-cain-at-gettysburg.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 19 May 2013 22:40:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.historynet.com/mhq-reviews-cain-at-gettysburg.htm#comment-792458 kenneth james Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:55:34 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685087#comment-792458 reading final chapters of Pickett's Charge right now. Don't know how it will end. Hunt's welcome doesn't sound too friendly. Missed the well deserved tribute to Buford's decisive courage for first day's actions. Great read otherwise. Served with 125th Brigade at Nat. Park as Artillery Driver. Remember the Heat and the way the rolling powder smoke from single 6 gun battery hugged the swales and filled every dip in ground in front of "stone wall" I imagine the sounds and sights of the125th awakened the spirit of this Hallowed ground. A life time experience shared by only a few thousand in those pre internet days. The resources aren't available to do those demo's today or the units accurate enough to perform them. Guns aren't the problem, lots of them but they will stand static and limberpoles propped bare of their motive power and majesty. The jingle of trace chains and bang of sponge bucket swinging at the trot. That echo is gone from this sight of Artillery's awakened power. This is the place the lessons of Malvern Hill came home for good. Peters get's this right with Hunt and Porter Alexander. Both robbed in their day of the significance of their actions. The credit they were due. What courage to load a pair of coffee cans of cannister with thousand yelling grey throats not 20 paces away, then 10, then on you to exact their just retribution for murder recieved. reading final chapters of Pickett's Charge right now. Don't know how it will end. Hunt's welcome doesn't sound too friendly. Missed the well deserved tribute to Buford's decisive courage for first day's actions. Great read otherwise. Served with 125th Brigade at Nat. Park as Artillery Driver. Remember the Heat and the way the rolling powder smoke from single 6 gun battery hugged the swales and filled every dip in ground in front of "stone wall" I imagine the sounds and sights of the125th awakened the spirit of this Hallowed ground. A life time experience shared by only a few thousand in those pre internet days. The resources aren't available to do those demo's today or the units accurate enough to perform them. Guns aren't the problem, lots of them but they will stand static and limberpoles propped bare of their motive power and majesty. The jingle of trace chains and bang of sponge bucket swinging at the trot. That echo is gone from this sight of Artillery's awakened power. This is the place the lessons of Malvern Hill came home for good. Peters get's this right with Hunt and Porter Alexander. Both robbed in their day of the significance of their actions. The credit they were due. What courage to load a pair of coffee cans of cannister with thousand yelling grey throats not 20 paces away, then 10, then on you to exact their just retribution for murder recieved.

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