Civil war walls

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Today I begin my attmpt at making a civil war wall...this should be interesting...and really really heavy.

My friend Pat was supposed to hook me up with a rock chisel...but he's busy off burning bridges so I think I am on my own...unless I find thirty bucks under one of those rocks *crosses fingers and prays tot he rock Gods*

[luvndrumn]

Whut?:eek:

'Splain.

[nirgal]

Civil War Walls-----whazat? Drystack sort of ......

[HoneySuckleBlue]

http://members.aol.com/lindawalcroft/wall.jpg
Don't know what they are really called but that is what my dad calls it...they are all over the place up by Antietam, Pa.

[nirgal]

Don't need a chisel for that :) Good old drystack stonewalls, just fit the pieces together, they are all over New England.
Isn't Antietam an intense place to walk....?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I also wanted to cement my fire pit while I was dismanteling the stone pile...and for that I wanted to have more skilled edeges...

Yeah I think it was a very spiritually thick area(don't know how else to describe it)...it used to freak me out when I was younger. I used to run in areas close to there and I'd stay gone for hours on Sundays.

I loved the stone bridges...when they would be having reinactments it was interesting to see soldiers wallking the stone tops of the walls, sitting on top of the bridges hanging their feet over... I wonder if the people that built the walls back then trucked the stone in or just picked off the ones out of the pathways and placed them. I did'nt pay much attention in hisory class...things out the window were far more interesting.

[mariecstasy]

OH I love those walls. they are all over the place through virginia as well.

so how is pat burning bridges? where you puttin the wall?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

He's in debt to alot of different people for alot of different reasons. (should I go talk to him...? Chew his ass and take an axe handle for back up??) I never know when to get involved with these kinds a things....

I'm putting the wall on the south side of the front yard (which world be towards the pool rooms woods.)...I'm sealing the perimeter:)

[nirgal]

To the walls! Load the trebuchet!
Most of the stone for those walls came from the surrounding fields. As the farmers cleared them, they stacked them up around the edges. I suspect the stone bridges are local stone, but they had masons come out and dress and morter it into place. No trucks and machinery in those days :)

23,000 men killed in two days at Antietam........ It's a heavy place..... :(

[mariecstasy]

have you ever gone to the reinactments?

thats one of the reasons i like going to harpers ferry..........for the gravestones and history

[nirgal]

No, I've never been to one. A friend of mine used to participate in them though. He had a bunch of original gear and all that. I like to see cannons fired and all that..... but the idea of of going and watching a re-inactment disturbs me.... it seems almost disrespectful.... I think I'm too sensitive to things :D sometimes

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Did you guys ever go to cherry lane up by south mountain?

There are supposed to be ghost troops that come and push your vehicle...up hill.

[WanderingturnupII]

23,000 men killed in two days at Antietam........ It's a heavy place..... :(
Two Days?? Which Alternate Universe are you from?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Give or take a day...I suppose.

'Established by Act of Congress on August 30, 1890, this Civil War site marks the end of General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North in September 1862. The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, September 17,1862, and led to Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.'

[qoute from Nat'l park service on Antietam battle grounds]

[luvndrumn]

Two Days?? Which Alternate Universe are you from?
This one... found by putting "Antietam" into Google. Try it some time.:cool:

http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietamdescription.htm

Taken from the link:
Quote: More men were killed or wounded at Antietam on September 17, 1862, than on any other single day of the Civil War. Federal losses were 12,410, Confederate losses 10,700.

[nirgal]

OK one day then.... :D But they were there for more than a day.....

....and my alternate parallel universe varies randomly, you can visit if you like, lotsa room :p

[mariecstasy]

i would visit you greg. i dont even need a seperate room. just dont put me in the civil war one. people get mad in there and hostile!

[luvndrumn]

Yeah, on the second day, they rested.



I guess you would have to lick your wounds after losing 23,100 men. Man, my head can't get around that. Talk about your Catalonian fields.

[crummyrummy]

"bring out your dead" *ding ding, ding ding* "bring out your dead" *ding ding, ding ding* "bring out your dead" *ding ding, ding ding*...........................

[luvndrumn]

"bring out your dead" *ding ding, ding ding* "bring out your dead" *ding ding, ding ding* "bring out your dead" *ding ding, ding ding*...........................


Ooooooooooooh, harsh.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Well that was fun...I rolled a bigassed rock on my toe, had a wolf spider run up my leg as well as three ticks and did you know that large rocks are extremely heavy??

lol, I am sweaty, filthy and I got about a three foot section layed out....I wonder if Antietam ghosts do piece work.

[crummyrummy]

are they union?

[nirgal]

Isn't it fun :D Good exercise, like lifting weights all day.

Come on in Marie, ya never know what you might find in here.....

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I thought about you alot today...I saw the size of those boulders you use in your pond scapes...I'm just amazed.

Today I found that sheer determination is often not enough in and of it's self...and after rolling the bastids and pulling them on shovels i may have to make a wench and pully system...heh, now the fun starts:D

...are they union, lol:)

[nirgal]

The big ones get a crane, then there are the two and three man ones, they get moved on a tree ball cart, then there are all the rest.... Most of the time I have no place to set up a winch (the wench is for later;))....
You'll become...Strong like bull

Watch your toes and fingers :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Facinating what length people will go to exert their will...or is it??



:)

[nirgal]

Gotta gitter done :D

The hardest part is the waterfalls themselves, I have to build them, mark how all the stones relate to each other, take it apart, put the liner down then put it back together without making any holes..... and most of the time there is no place to stand....... now my back hurts :p

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Feels good to be sore:) ...though i'm not sore yet, takes me a day or so to feel it.

The water falls soundlike a pain in the rear...

[nirgal]

Nah, it's the good part, the pain goes away fast when it turns out right :)

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Well if it all works out in the end then it must be a good thing.

[WanderingturnupII]

are they union?
Yeah, except for the ones in the grey uniforms.
Can't believe I was the first one to catch that...

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Can't believe I was the first one to catch that...


...Outloud. I got it yesterday while driving in my car.:D