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Video showing what it is like to be on the receiving end of Civil War artillery fire
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:21 pm
Old video. This is what it would look like and sound like to receive cannon fire during the War Between the States:
Imagine marching into this. Times 20 (or more)
Imagine marching into this. Times 20 (or more)
This post was edited on 1/5/26 at 4:57 pm
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Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:25 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 1/5/26 at 4:29 pm to weagle1999
Imagine shooting your opps with civil war artillery fire
have them bleedas scared off the streets!
have them bleedas scared off the streets!
Posted on 1/5/26 at 5:37 pm to weagle1999
Imagine any of that any time. Charging lines with a sword and being hacked to bits, storming a gate and being scalded by oil. Marching in formation with vollys of .50-.68 cal rounds incoming.
Imagine storming beaches in Europe and the pacific with a steel helmet and a cotton short for protection.
Imagine combat in 115 degree temps with 60 pounds of body armor and gear on. Imagine engaging the enemy from a trench in the woods just to have a drone buzz kill you.
War is hell. The type of hell evolves.
Its ultimately the same hell, just in different flavors.
Imagine storming beaches in Europe and the pacific with a steel helmet and a cotton short for protection.
Imagine combat in 115 degree temps with 60 pounds of body armor and gear on. Imagine engaging the enemy from a trench in the woods just to have a drone buzz kill you.
War is hell. The type of hell evolves.
Its ultimately the same hell, just in different flavors.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 5:49 pm to weagle1999
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Imagine marching into this. Times 20 (or more)
Thats how dodgeball was invented
Posted on 1/5/26 at 5:53 pm to terd ferguson
Mate we called it "Blitzkreig Ball" at the Devon School
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:07 pm to Usmc
In BoB when Spears explained to the private that he needed to accept that he was already dead. Only then could he function as a soldier.
I would imagine that in actual combat your mind goes to a place that has permanent affects. Some never recover from.
I would imagine that in actual combat your mind goes to a place that has permanent affects. Some never recover from.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:09 pm to weagle1999
Was that long whizzing sound it skipping off the ground?
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:11 pm to weagle1999
This is bullshite. Somebody overdubbed some Bugs Bunny sound effects in that video. Pretty sure I heard a pew pew pew pew in there
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:13 pm to weagle1999
Seems all cannon balls ended up stuck in attic of every historical home that I have toured in St Francisville, LA.
Every one of them.
Every one of them.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 6:18 pm to junkfunky
Probably.
Imagine a bunch of these shot at you from cannons:
Imagine a bunch of these shot at you from cannons:
Posted on 1/5/26 at 8:14 pm to weagle1999
Imagine 150 cannon firing virtually non stop for 2 hours. That's the artillery barage from the Confederate guns prior to Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.
Posted on 1/5/26 at 10:25 pm to weagle1999
Doesn’t look that bad compared to the Middle East in 2004-05 (personal experience). Yet many more casualties in the civil war. What is the disconnect? I’ve no clue or opinion. Legit question.
This post was edited on 1/5/26 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 1/5/26 at 10:53 pm to p0845330
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Yet many more casualties in the civil war. What is the disconnect? I’ve no clue or opinion. Legit question.
Early on in the war they were still using antiquated military tactics (the old line up and march towards each other). The civil war was the first major war where large armies fought primarily using guns with rifled barrels, which were far more effective from a longer range, and more accurate. A lot of people died before they realized the old ways were obsolete.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 5:51 am to weagle1999
The swirling sound and tink on contact. Just a big bullet.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:11 am to weagle1999
Thinking about that time period is insane, the amount of nuts it took to march toward that, seeing your buddys head or leg explode and to keep going?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:21 am to SouthernHog
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insane, the amount of nuts it took to march toward that, seeing your buddys head or leg explode and to keep going?
Imagining WWI gives me the willies much worse. Weapons with higher cyclic rates than we use today, pre-set to fire on an open field, where you have to cross to get to the other guy's trench...
It's utterly insane to me that armies advanced rank and file into gunfire at any point in history. Basically the same tactics the romans used, except with guns, and up into world war 1 machine guns and very effective artillery.
Europe is in the state it is today because of how many men it lost in WW1.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:24 am to weagle1999
Surprisingly more accurate than I imagined they were.
They hit that target several times in the couple minutes I watched.
They hit that target several times in the couple minutes I watched.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:26 am to weagle1999
One of the most terrifying spot to be in during the civil war must have been the Union position in the Hornets Nest at Shiloh when the confederates amassed both captured Union guns and confederate guns to form Ruggle's battery of 53 cannons at not that far of a range.
I bet the Yankees were eating pine straw when that got fired up. It forced their artillery in the Hornets nest, that was still active, to withdraw.
I bet the Yankees were eating pine straw when that got fired up. It forced their artillery in the Hornets nest, that was still active, to withdraw.
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