For our final look at the 150th-anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Perryville, here are a few scenes from the reenactment itself:
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
October 22, 2012
the Battle of Perryville
Posted by Jennifer under history, the Bluegrass | Tags: postaday |1 Comment
October 21, 2012
the old caisson
Posted by Jennifer under history, reference, the Bluegrass | Tags: postaday |1 Comment
[Hey, I found an Internet connection!]
We’re (still) back at the Perryville reenactment for two more days …
While we were visiting with some of the folks in the horse-drawn artillery unit, we walked with a couple of them to meet another artillery unit and see their pieces, which were on display but not being used.
Over the course of the day, we learned that a unit of horse-drawn artillery would’ve had six or eight cannon, each pulled by six horses. As you’ve seen in the previous artillery photos, each cannon is attached to a limber (the front wheels of the four-wheeled device) with a box on top. That box carries the cannon’s ammunition (thirty-nine shells in the case of the twelve-pound howitzer we saw).
Each cannon, then, would’ve been accompanied by a second horse-drawn limber with a caisson attached, and each caisson carried another two boxes of ammunition. As you can see here, a spare wheel was carried on the back of the caisson.
.
.
.
Portions of this particular limber and caisson are original, and it has all sorts of nooks and crannies and carrying cases for a spare pole, an ax, a hatchet, etc.
.
.
.
Each unit also had its own blacksmith, who would’ve had a setup like this:
.
.
October 19, 2012
It’s late (about 10:30 p.m. now), and I’ve been working since 8:00 a.m. … setting up and running the CAA booth at this weekend’s Martin Auctioneers carriage auction and then, for the past couple of hours, downloading and editing photos and posting them in various places (but not here, sadly).
All of which means that this isn’t the blog post I intended to write today. But I’m about to fall asleep on my laptop. So my intended post won’t be written today after all.
If you’re on Facebook and want to see some photos from the auction, head on over to the CAA’s FB page. Otherwise, stay tuned here for the final two installments from Perryville and several posts about my (first ever!) trip to Martin’s fall auction.
Good night!
October 18, 2012
let’s shoot this thing
Posted by Jennifer under history, the Bluegrass | Tags: postaday |Leave a Comment
As you might guess, the most exciting (and loudest) part of the horse-drawn-artillery demonstration at Perryville was when they shot the cannon, which they did several times.
.
the gray-haired man (far right), a special-guest member of the horse-drawn artillery unit for the weekend, also participated in the 100th-anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Perryville … in 1962
.
.
By the final time they fired the cannon, I was able to capture the entire sequence. This looks really neat when you’re able to scroll quickly through all three.
.
.
.
.
October 17, 2012
the artillery at rest
Posted by Jennifer under history, the Bluegrass | Tags: postaday |Leave a Comment
[Still at Perryville …] Between their 11:00 a.m. demonstration and the 2:00 p.m. battle reenactment, the artillery horses had a bit of a rest:
.
.
.
The Slower Road 