The VERY LAST Battle At Narcoossee Mill - After 30 Years The Civil War Reenactment Comes To An End
The End of Battle At Naroossee Mill
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welcome everyone out of the wooo here as
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the recording of this it is Sunday March
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24th 2024 got my piping hot caffeinated
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beverage I just stopped at the 7-Eleven
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here on nusi road on the outskirts of St
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Cloud and East Orlando kind of in
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between the two and there is an event
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that has transpired right off this road
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at Chism Park for the last three decades
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30 years the Battle of nusi Mill has has
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been a recreation a very dramatic
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Recreation of sorts I have attended it
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in the past three or four times many
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years ago from the '90s through the
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2000s and I did a video I believe in
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2017 2018 19 that was the last time I
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attended it but I really wanted to go
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today because is it is the last time
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ever it is happening it is going to be
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erased the recreation any way from
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existence from now on this will be the
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last time they ever do it and I want to
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document it for
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posterity woo that's warm I'm inviting
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you to join me shall you now I was
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looking online a little bit and doing a
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little reading on why this is going to
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be going away and I'm sure everyone will
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formulate their own
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opinions but basically the consensus
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from what I was seeing is because the
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development of Chism Park but I don't
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know if that's true or not
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maybe events like this are kind of going
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by the wayside for good or bad reasons
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again that's in the eye of the beholder
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I'm just here to to document the
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experience and film the last day also
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keep in mind there's going to be some
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loud noises and Pyro and things like
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that so if that's not your thing keep in
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mind you know these birds have the
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rideway true story here in Florida these
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birds these Sand Hill cranes have the
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rideway just got to wait patiently for
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them to go by these sandill cran they
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know what they're doing I know why the
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chicken crossed the road but I don't
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know why the Sand Hill crane across the
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road all right I have arrived here at
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Chisum Park parking is complimentary and
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the admission into the event $10 from
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what I was kind of reading online they
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got the camp set up over here and
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everything I think I hear a banjo for
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than Thank You Soldiers flag this was
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just a flag used on the field to
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identify and have rally spots you
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got lost from
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your guys you look for this a good all
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right made it in $10 I got a program
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walking along the booths
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here or the setup
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I didn't say I didn't say you I
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said
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money you come pick up hey y'all come on
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over here and spend some of that Yankee
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money y'all got don't be trying to take
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where my I believe the starts all right
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come on that pretty woman your let take
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a picture I'm here by myself by yourself
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yeah hi by myself hey y'all yall
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looking a lot of people put a lot of
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time and effort and work and they're you
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know showing up out here in the the
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period Garb to get it all set up and it
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really is and from what I was also
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seeing they are really going to go above
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and beyond kind of with the Pyro and
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stuff today so it's probably get pretty
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loud as it happens this is put on by
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Summerland Jacob Jacob Summerland right
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here there's like a little a little
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store over in here as well and they got
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some
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BBQ as well going on I can smell it I'm
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not going to be not going to be
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consuming any of the uh any of the
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barbecue just uh just surveying this the
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scene here $5 for the US flag
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there look at this bat over here look at
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this
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bat it's like a little inflatable
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bat this is a great little Twisty Treat
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popup ice cream
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stand okay so this actually started
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yesterday today is the 24th It's the
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final day on the 22nd they
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had they they just had basically them
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setting up you can come out like a
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learning day where you could go around
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to all the the camps and things opens at
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9:30 I got here a little later and and
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it starts at 2:00
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p.m. 30th 30th annual so three decades
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non-stop of this happening not sure if
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they did it in
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2020 they probably did this is
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Florida but for 30 years this has been
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going on and it will be the final year
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so I heard this is the the final year
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they're doing this out here yes
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unfortunately it is a lot of years
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they're going to go you're going to go
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above and beyond today we're going to go
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all out you have you selling a bat house
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here if I put that in front of my house
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will bats go inside of it I guess you mm
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you got you got to hang it up 12T or
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higher cuz when they they swoop in and
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swoop out they got to have enough room
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so they don't hit the ground
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okay I think I'd feel more comfortable
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with birds in my yard than bats person
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these are cute though you hand paint all
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these yourself my dad does nice that was
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Dawn very nice lady lives in St Cloud um
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here's a little we're going to come back
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and play after the Washington
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artillery group finishes their talk and
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this band is called 7 lbs of bacon you
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got time to go get some barbecue some up
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over here boiled peanuts some ice cream
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and especially down at Forest Brew Mr
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Dale and missan they got the best uh SAS
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Barilla and root beer and cream soda ER
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anything old
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time turn this
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over
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oh here's called top hats sutlery out of
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sumterville Florida oh speaking of Duke
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aaz that looks like Boss Hog's dog right
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there or no it looks like Rosco's
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dog fest fashion starts breaking oh yeah
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see
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bud bye all the period
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neat sun and SCS right here I hear a a
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drummer playing what they called the F
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and
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drum how you
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doing little wash boards
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there old doll is similar to oh that's
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like very similar to ragged and guess
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you would juggle those I got my coffee
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so I'm not going to be doing any root
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beer but they have sasparilla we're
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drinking root beer
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now little carasol progress reference
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and this is showcasing when the town had
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a population of only
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five you have to believe so you got the
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lake over there Chism
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Park rumors they're going to be
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redeveloping it and there's this bridge
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here I was just alerted that they're
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going to be utilizing the
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Cannons very very soon this is the nusi
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Milt ruins foot Bridge reconstructed in
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2019 by the Jacob Somerville camp the
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union field Hospital you got the
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sturgeon over here or the Sur am I
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saying not it's not a fish the surgeon
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also a
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dentist right here and I believe the
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recreation of nusi Mill is
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fictional I don't I don't know if there
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really was something that transpired
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there other ones across the
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US it's like a little medical tent
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here are I had to clean this oh my gosh
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are there
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back then you had to use you had to use
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leeches to get out the poison and stuff
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so you take a
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leech there also syrup of
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squill
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turpentine again just a heads up there
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going to be a lot of loud noises
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explosions pyro things like that so if
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you're sensitive to that kind of
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stuff be for wared it's going to get
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loud in the blood
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of I am in grind in the hearts of
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millions living and dead pleas Salu me
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with affection and reverence keep
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undying devotion in your hearts I the
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Southern Cross I am
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history I am Heritage not hate I am oh
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my God I am the
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inspiration of Bor from the past
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Look Away Dixie Land hide the Southern
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Cross I
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am their play God bless you God bless
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thank you for allowing me to come over
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here if you like you like my my
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donation I am in lawsuits from all
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across the south lant of America I'm in
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a lawsuit now at uh our International
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Cemetery where these folks took down the
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reconciliation
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Monument so if you can help us pleas
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though God bless you and thank you hey
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do a re yell do a reel yell
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okay good Round of
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Applause
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God bless you all
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than now me like probably a lot of
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people when you hear the terminology
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Rebel Yell I always think of the Billy
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Idol song I don't know if I've ever in
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person or even you know looked up what a
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Rebel Yell really was but I think they
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just gave
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one and from what I do know which is not
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much about
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these the people that are recreating
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them travel to a lot of different ones
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across the US and I'm sure there's
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probably some locals too but they have
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to purchase and create all their outfits
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themselves they're
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volunteers and they usually will Camp
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here for a series of days get fully into
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the
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experience yeah here's the here's the
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ruins nusi Mill
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ruins prior 35 years prior to sugarcane
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being grown commercially 1888 Hamilton
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dist of Philly saw a manufacturer
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acquired 4 million Acres of Florida
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land I can hear the drums the camp
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needed a name oh wait a second 94 Jacob
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Summerland Camp proposed to sponsor war
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between States battle reenactment CH
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Park battle will start up about 2:00
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we'll be forming up around 1:30 okay
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little before 1:30 of which then we'll
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have to ask you to leave the camps
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because we'll be doing our uh
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inspections and our pre inspections and
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stuff and and also get you out to The
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Spectator line so you can watch the that
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makes sense thanks for the info problem
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did you guys stay here overnight the
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last couple nights my tent was right
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there okay I'm the chaplain of the
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Brigade by the way you're the chaplain
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all right I'm the chaplain and I'm a
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true chaplain I'm a deacon with my
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church in Hicks Road Baptist is down up
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in Hudson okay and uh I have full
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support of my church in coming here
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because this is my
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Ministry these guys all right sounds
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good well I appreciate you talking to me
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thanks for the thanks for the heads up
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and I'll check out when it happens at
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two all right no problem I'll clear out
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of here before then yeah you'll need to
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be out of here probably next 15 20
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minutes or so just so when we uh form up
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to do our inspections all right and
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stuff sounds good nice meeting you thank
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you nice meeting
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you Wheeling it in bringing in the heavy
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artillery
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Pack-a-Punch we will go in and remove
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the old friction
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hole good lord well maybe I was wrong
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maybe it was a live
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shell was a
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Yankee yeah the only problem with that
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shot was that there wasn't any Yankees
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out there there a squirrel over there
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wreckage of a squirrel you got a
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squirrel out there maybe it was a Yankee
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squirrel their regression they invaded
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us we didn't invade
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Tru my f left
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merch
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to the
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left 1
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2 on the other
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side
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it is
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our we ask God you streng
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our
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wead
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for we are Victory today we are that
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living or dying we do so For Your Glory
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in the mighty name Jesus Christ pray
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amen
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W these two guys are reading from the
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good
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book see you could be a part
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of
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a oh I hear harmonica he's got a
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harmonica battle you start thinking you
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know about blood and gut and glory and
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after the battle I just want to warn you
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there'll be a big formation right in
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front of the stands and they're going to
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shoot a final salute Came In Harm's Way
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and they'd have to
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P
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nice Engage The Enemy Engage The enimal
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up up load you're not
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loading we're against alen
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so we're not going to do fire by
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in
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oh
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oh no
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way
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definitely there
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be man they
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where just
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all right that's it a reenactment IIT to
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use the word reenactment because it was
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an event that really didn't transpire so
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they could kind of mold it whichever way
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maybe each year is different can't
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recall who won the last year but but the
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last time I was here have that soon as I
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get formed up they're going to give a
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final salute and then you don't want to
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you don't want to forget to go to the
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hospital scenario down there across the
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bridge all packing it up and we want to
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we want to do a special thing for uh the
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summer the camp before you you break
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away so bear with
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might
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ladies and
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gentlemen have your
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attention
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unfortunately this is the end of the
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nusi mill raid it appears we will not be
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back here to do reenactments in the near
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future it's been 30 years we've done a
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reenactment on this very
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field
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today we're going to fire a
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salute in honor of the over
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600,000 Americans that died in the war
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between the
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states I also fire this salute to honor
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every American that has given their life
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for this country we call
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home I also bu this salute in honor of
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you and thanking you for supporting us
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for 30 years on this site
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and the last one the last one of 30
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years tradition here we'd like to thank
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the Jacob Summerland camp for all their
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work how about three cheers for Jacob
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suland hi
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help hip let him hear you
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hip and that's going to do it for for
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today interesting interesting uh
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experience I'm here on the last day I'm
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glad I was here to document it I'll see
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you in the next video the
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