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Gunshots fired at a Civil War re-enactment may have reopened centuries of festering tensions after a New York native was shot last weekend--with a real bullet. 73-year-old Thomas Lord, a corporal in the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry fighting as part of the Union cause, had to be taken off the Sumner, VA battlefield in a helicopter after a marble-sized bulled hit him in the back and passed though his shoulder. Guns are usually inspected before re-enactors go into battle and no one from the Confederates has admitted that they fired the weapon in question. John Jobe, a fellow re-enactor portraying a sergeant alongside Lord, says that he is eager to find out just who shot him and wants to press charges, telling the NY Times that "some yahoos are still fighting the war." Mr. Lord sounded equally disappointed that his injury forced a temporary truce, just when the Union soldiers had arrived in a trench where "the rebels were dug in and we had taken their earthworks."
Civil War's Wounded Total Continues to Rise
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Wasn't this an episode of Psych?
This kind of thing is bound to happen, the way the s'more-flavored schnapps flows at those re-enactments.
Pickett was charged.
Let's leave the reenactments to Ken Burns or some other film maker. Grown men playing Cowboys and Indians should look for other types of playmates.
beaten to the South Park reference.
Considering how many reenactments occur every year I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Boys will be boys.
Isn't 73 a bit old to be in the armed services? I mean really did he think if he re-upped he would make sergeant? I hope he gets disability pay and retires on three quarters.
The thing about black powder weapons is, obviously, you load the powder, slug and patch down the barrel and if you forget the weapon is loaded, you might just pack a parade round down on top of it. It's a pretty bad mistake of weapon handling to do that, but it's an easy enough mistake to make. I'm certain this was an accident.
It wasn't uncommon during the muzzle loading war days that in the heat of battle soldiers would reload without even firing the first load.
I had a friend that was dealing with antique firearms and he said that there were quite a bit of firearms that dated from around the civil war era that people would bring in loaded and they didn't know it because it was sitting over the mantel piece for generations.