Battle At Narcoossee Mill 2019 Reenactment - They Let Me Fire The Cannon / Into The Camps & MORE
A visit to the Battle at Narcoossee Mill reenactment just outside St Cloud Florida . A yearly event the last weekend of march that features detailed camp sites and an incredible amount of action .
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today's adventure brings us to Chism
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heart trail for a yearly event known as
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the battle at Narcoossee mill parking
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area straight ahead and a little camping
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spot for those participating in the
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event not watching but full-on immersing
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themselves the re-enactors do not take
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this casually they're very serious about
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what they do parking is free there is a
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small admission to watch from afar as a
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from a viewpoint but it's not much it's
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a very very small fee very quiet and
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peaceful out here for the moment it's
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gonna get loud you guys bring your
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earplugs
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here with
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Jackie super enthused this takes place
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on the last fourth weekend of every
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March and it is a 26th annual occasion
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of this particular event and this is a
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fictional recreation of historic battle
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what would have taken place had it been
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here Florida admission stand right over
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there I'm inviting you to join me shall
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you for future reference these are the
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admission prices adults eight dollars
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five dollars for children
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one of my favorite areas to step into
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are the authentic camps the town of
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Narcoossee population used to be
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population - or was it a hundred and
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twelve scratch the two out and now it's
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eleven was it 2 to 11 or was it a
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hundred and twelve and now it's 11
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hard to say some accommodations from
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that time period
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tense and the items they use like
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washboards the glass medicine bottles
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and other accessories in case you are
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wondering where this area got its name
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this is the original Narcoossee mill
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ruins behind this fence line you can see
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segments of the old brick right down
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there the sign designates all the
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information historical facts and figures
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there it is
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that's where it got its name it's not
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for general consumption though it's only
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for the wounded sir if Jackie Jackie has
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everything she has a shin splint get
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over there and get your son get over
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there and get your son I share the bacon
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absolutely hop on a piece of hardtack
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for you
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I would love a piece I would love a
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piece of hard to make fresh as I say
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just I just made it Thursday now which
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do you prefer the hard tack or the bacon
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I like um pulse coffee over the fire
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they would take the heart and they put
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it in we need coffee mm-hmm tell us
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about the coffee I don't know if I get
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each other off they just pull up pull up
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my cargo pants and just dip it in there
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I'm gonna go to the polling and dynamite
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style and just kind of tuck away that
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that's for later attack yeah tuck it in
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there right there can it go not give me
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some of your tots consume you
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the tacker title is attack attacked hard
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hard tack tack give me some of your tack
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and you cook this right on this flame
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right there Walter I mean obviously I'm
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not gonna he put it in a pan I was I
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mean yeah you don't want you probably
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like scald your fingers there it's bacon
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time oh my gosh that's good mmm I like
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this better
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I like just better than the first option
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much better much better than the hard
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time hush this is good I learned a long
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time ago I was making a heart attack put
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a teaspoon of sugar in a batch of flour
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flavor well I think that South may have
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a better chance because they lost
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yesterday but I really don't know what's
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going to happen
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standardized cap right there and now
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that's on safety I'm gonna go all the
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way back ice-cold the trigger and she
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flies for gonna be firing that today yes
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you're looking anywhere eight eight or
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nine hundred dollars how many times have
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you fired since she bought it I went
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through six milligrams yesterday oh wow
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she got pretty used to it pretty clean
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this barrel gets hot boy I got a wrap
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really adds to the ambience the location
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underneath these majestic trees getting
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a little thirsty here at this stand they
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serve some sarsaparilla I need to think
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I need to get me a bottle sugar if
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sarsaparilla it's got a full up like
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crazy you see that bottle right there
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and be half foam right now if you have
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sarsaparilla itself oh yeah there's the
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phone right there so you don't want high
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fructose sarsaparilla in a bottle
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definitely not you want to do the honors
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yes thank you I was hoping to try
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sarsaparilla for the first time I've
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never tried it but he said close enough
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and this is authentic homemade real it's
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supposed to be good good stuff let's be
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tasty and full of natural ingredients
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mmm that is delicious that is really
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delicious I kid you not
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you got to make the slurping noise oh
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yes no way that's why that's why they
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did it boom boom where
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oh here mm-hmm mmm $5 hmm for the first
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full bottle refills are like a buck 50
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what I'll buy your refill in this cream
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soda the next time we shoot the cream
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soda get something different there's
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like a black cherry no sarsaparilla yes
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in a bottle we're gonna go ahead and
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we're gonna place that in the flash hold
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of the gun and just the side note it's
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1700 degrees when that goes off at 1700
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degrees all right so you notice my guys
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are standing in a position to cover in
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their ears they're scanning the horizon
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making sure everything's safe to fire
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the gun so if everybody's ready if you
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want to cover your ears we're gonna fire
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the gun yeah you have it they'll do
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their thing now they know what to do
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a lot of times we needed to cut our
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steak it's just most of the time the
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soldier out there gets a bullet in his
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arm I take that point I just puppet oh
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my god I don't want a medical here
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starting to get a little on the hungry
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side this place sells pork sandwiches
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spelled s a.m. mich and tater chips and
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you can see I have to drench the the bun
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partially but the meat itself changed
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yeah you'd be drenched yours I think you
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might have used a little bit more is it
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proper to cheers a sandwich
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yeah Cheers it
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pure
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the throwing eggs it's an egg fight
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it's not the safest zone you'll be
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walking across with her going up
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okay I'm gonna need the sutures we'll
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tie off this artery to stop the bleeding
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another one coming in there for that
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weapon it could be hot please be careful
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I gotta hear the vote this is what fires
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the cannon this pin is down in here and
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that's filled with actual actual powder
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and when you pull the lanyard this will
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pull out and ignite this powder and
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it'll fire the cannon so I'm gonna be
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pulling this yeah you'll pull the cord
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okay I pull on that yep and that pulls
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out of this yep that'll pull out of this
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and this will shoot into the air about
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30 feet and fired a cannon they're gonna
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let me fire off a round is it called a
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round or just a charge a charge ii
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florida light artillery battery beam on
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it and he'll step away and then i will
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tell you
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load no I like you here do you got the
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technique down thanks you thanks guys
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alright no ready fire yeah there you go
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you did it good job buddy I'm Stardust
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when we built by so this is a restored
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unit and that when do you built from
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scratch for the barrel in the wheel Wow
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we bought them brand new and just like
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that this year's event is over
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pretty dang exciting they always do it
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two times once on Saturday once on
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Sunday and each side wins on alternate
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days thanks for watching if you're new
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