Never saw such a thing before. It was very loud and a bit silly, but fun.
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You tell them never fight uphill me boys?
I was not giving a Republican campaign speech.
Here in Texas, my grandpa used to participate in these when I was a kid. He would set up a tent in the main camping area and chill out with everyone else partaking. When the event happened they would go act it out, but otherwise it was one big camping day/weekend at a park.
When I was kid in Florida there was enough overlap between Boy Scouts camping and Battle of Olustee reenactment camping that I'd hear stories about the folks involved in the latter. Don't remember much, just that they could never, ever find enough Yankees, and they always made sure they had their battle flags.
Did they shoot any pumpkins out of the cannons? This used to be a thing when I was involved.
They did not. It was all just smoke and noise. Sometimes people fell over and apparently died, but not too many and I'm not sure how they decided.
The guys on horses occasionally sort of charged at each other and clashed with swords and no one "died" and then they wrote away again.
It looked neat, but it was all a bit silly.