This re-examination of the Battle of Antietam is both informative and deeply, deeply moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejZIHTtdkwM

Bill, thanks for posting that. That documentary was very well done. I have always found it amusing (if that's the right word) that the anti gun legislation crowd has considered black powder weapons as "non guns". But I'm not complaining on that front; heaven knows they have too many restrictions on everything else. We don't need them getting any more ideas.

I enjoy learning more about the Civil War. I had never heard of "Buck & Ball". I wasn't aware they had rifled cannons at that time either.

Thanks

Ken, that buck and ball load was widely used in the Model 1842 .69 smoothbore musket. It was a load of buck and ball fired by a Confederate soldier at a misidentified horseman that ended the life of Stonewall Jackson.
It was exactly three weeks after this horrible bloodbath that two of my great great uncles would meet 500 miles to the west at Perryville, Kentucky, Frank Wood (Dad's side) with the First Wisconsin and Matt Hague (Mom's side) with the 44th Tennessee Infantry, on Oct. 8, 1862. Matt was 19 years old when he died that day, but Frank managed to survive the war.

Pssst, Randy, mum's the word all right. God save us from giving the leftos any more bad ideas.

Bill, I have a copy of a letter that one of my ancestors wrote to his brother (the original my aunt gave to the Gettysburg museum) after the battle of Gettysburg, describing the conditions of the battle + aftermath. He was a field surgeon + his descriptions were interesting to say the least. At one point in the 3-page letter, you realize that the battle had occurred 3 months prior to the penning of his letter + they were still catering to the wounded.

Randy, yes. It took another great-great uncle of mine nearly three months to die of his musket ball wound.
By the way, if anyone noticed the comments about minute 37 on the potential the rifle musket had to change the tactics of war, Capt. Brett Gibbons, U.S.A, wrote a wonderful book on the subject, "The Destroying Angel, the Rifle Musket as the First Modern Infantry Weapon." Cannot recommend it highly enough.

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