October 19, 2012

giving up and going to sleep

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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October 17, 2012

the artillery at rest

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[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:

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October 16, 2012

the artillery harness

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Last summer, I posted a series of old (but unfortunately, I don’t know how old) hand-drawn images of artillery harness. If you missed those, you can click back to see parts one, two, three, and four of that four-part series.

Today, I offer a few more photos from Perryville. Except for the one that is obviously a cannon, these show the Civil War-style artillery harness on the horses we met.

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October 15, 2012

the horse-drawn artillery

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While I prepare for my impending trip to Pennsylvania for Martin’s Auction (you’ll no doubt see more on that, later this week), I’m still stuck in “1862” here on the blog. Yes, I’m still working my way through our photos of the reenactment of the Battle of Perryville. If you haven’t visited here in a while, you can scroll back through last week’s posts to read / see more about our visit to Perryville.

Around 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, before that afternoon’s big battle reenactment, we watched a demonstration by the one horse-drawn artillery unit in attendance. Not quite a full unit, in reality, as they had only one cannon, but you get the idea. And that one horse-drawn cannon (and several stationary versions) still made a powerfull (booming, you might say) impression during the battles.

Before the cannon could be delivered to the center of the field, dropped off, and put through its paces, we had to wait for a unit of Confederate infantry to finish their drill and clear the field …

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… before all of us spectators could move higher up on the hill … you know, out of range, and all that.

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Next, we’ll look at the artillery harness. And then stay tuned for some explosions!

 

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