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Dude looks like a real Confederate!

You can never blame the CSA enlisted men for being too GQ, Dandy, Metro Sexual, etc.

Actually, it is the left trunnion which is missing. The gun is placed upside down (touch hole down). I assume that it was placed in that position in 1899 for esthetic reasons to somewhat hide the damage. Also, do you know what documentation exists for the trunnion to have been knocked off as a result of federal gunfire rather than done by confederate action when abandoning Spanish Fort. Using another gun to knock off a trunnion was a fairly common way of "spiking" a gun during the Civil War.

Admiral Semmes.

I want one!!

Of this is about Francis Marion Cockrell, I was adopted by one of us ancestors

"trousers" ? I thought Americans used the term "pants" ? Trousers is a British name for them.

I heard stories that after some battles it was common to take clothing items off the dead. Stuff like hats belts and shoes were the most popular.

Thak you for the correction! I would like to know who is in charge of that plaque.

Hobo canon just like the Aussies cardboard drones, cheap and effective! Gotta model this one for my flea circus, 4 inch diameter barrel and a 1 inch bore.

Thank you! Reading a book on the Continental Navy during the Revolution and it has several references to spiking the guns, perfect explanation. Will check out your book as well!

Wow! You guys look authentic. Straight out of a civil war tin type.

Interesting...and as a student in military history and artifact accuracy it always seemed that there was regression in general uniform appearance from the mid-18th century and Napoleanic era to the American CW. By the CW era it was almost rag-tag compared to baroque style and fashion.

Can you please post the website they referenced?

Heh, I worked artillery in a reenactment group. We had a limber with all the stuff you'd find in one. Powder, shot, tools, extra picks, primers, etc. One item was the gun spike which was glued in the tray it sat so no one could use it to actually spike the gun. I guess the story was a decade or so prior one of the gun crew was demonstrating and would slap the spike to show how much force it would need (you need a club or hammer of some sort). He managed to slap it hard enough one time it wedged in the vent. They had to send the gun to a smith to have the spike milled out

Excellent video. I always thought spiking was done to the barrel, not the vent. Great to know.

My wife and I visited his assassination site in 2016. The site where the peace conference occurred is located inside the Lava Beds National Monument in Northern California. We visited Edward Canby's birthplace last week in Piatt's Landing near Rabbit Hash, Kentucky. I visited Canby's grave in 2020.

Looking forward to the new book.

When's the release date for the book?

Very nice presentation. As a reenactor myself, supplied from the Richmond Depot for the Army of Northern Virginia, we wear the imported dark charcoal gray Kersey wool Type II shell jackets. A very different look for sure. From a distance, I'm often mistaken for a Federal.

The uniforms of the losers.

Long live you boys😊

Let’s pretend we’re fighting for our state’s right to have its citizens own human beings! It’s our heritage! Tards.

Thank yall

GET DOWN OFF THE WALL

Where are you guys at Blakely ?

All Democrat politicians should wear Confederate uniforms. Call them throw back uniforms.

Early camo - much harder to see than the bluecoats uniforms. Specially once they got some mud on them.

Thank you for sharing...

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Thank you for keeping the WBTS history alive!

Where's their white dish towel of surrender?

That painted cloth now appearing on car seats and interiors as leather since 2020.

I didn't know anything had been recovered from the wreck. Thanx for making this short.

Great video. Detailed information. Thanx for sharing.

Thanx for preserving this history on video.

No sound.

It's amazing that they survived this long

Interested in joining you guys, how do I get in touch? No FB, sorry.

Great history.

We have a swamp horse shoe down at the museum in New Orleans

Authentic looking uniforms! I'm not on FB how do you go about looking into joining?

Thanx for sharing the history.

Good job! Thank You.

I believe that soldier is a time traveler 😂

My gg granddad was Joseph Howard Powell. He was in Company H, 5th Alabama Cavalry. Fought at the Battle of Chickamauga, and other smaller scermishes. I imagine that he wore pretty much whatever he could get a hold of. He mustered out in May 1865, and took his family (what was left of it) to Itawamba County Mississippi, where my great granddad was born, and later my granddad. Everything I learned was from my granddad

Good presentation Brian.

I know I come with a British perspective, but when I see the Confederate soldiers against the oppressors, I think it’s in Eastwood and the film the outlaw Josey Wales it was several films within one, but it led a very interesting tale?🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸

Keep it going. Need it

Very authentic look. Impressive. Thx for keeping the history alive.