that was the best part. we walked most of it with one of the head tour guides. then, once we crossed the Emittsburg Road, we ran the last 120 yards or so. that was actually pretty cool. i was the flag bearer, and I got to take a dive. (we did use a confederate battle flag, which was kinda funny, because one of the guys on our trip was this black kid from the ghetto. i got a picture of him holding the flag. not to be offensive, but it was pretty funny).
i really enjoyed my time as a reenactor, and if I had the chance I'd definately do it again. but what our teacher had us do was just ********. don't get me wrong, I love going to Gettysburg. I learned a lot more about the battle that I hadn't known before then (and thats saying something).
this was just wrong though. I mean, we're going into senior year, most of the guys didn't care enough to want to do that anyway, and what we were given as 'muskets' would've be right at home in a junk bin. he didn't even let me use the toy cap gun I picked up there ( I know, thats the little kid in me), or let us pick up a sword (only 42 bucks man! I had more that enough for that with me). basically, it just wasn't necessary. maybe for kids in 4th grade, but its not like it was 'teaching' us anything. the most it could've would have been that the men marched in columns, and attacked in solid massed lines, but we've been learning that since about 4th grade. it just fed into his ego. one of the chaperons bought him a sword (of course he got one...) and he then used that to lead us around. the guy's ego must've been about as wide as he is....