Behind The Awkwardness: Seeing Red
September 27th, 2011
“This is a picture of my mom & I at a Civil War reenactment. To this day I cannot understand why we would want to take a picture with a man who is wearing an apron covered in fake blood. I was just as freaked out then as I am now. Oh, and loving the outfit, Mom!”
(submitted by Jenna)
something about this really made me laugh…I think it is the poor little girl staring at the blood smeared apron…how do you explain this to a child?? Why would you take this picture????
That beard is amazing enough to have lines in the reenactment!
The pretend doctor got pretend blood on him from the pretend injuries of the pretend soldiers….or he made blackberry cobbler for everyone while the pretend fight was going on.
Nice. I always love a good Civil War reenactment.
Please tell me you’re joking!
I’m a Civil War reenactor
Culottes!
The “blood” isn’t all that scary looking to me…..it looks more like he just finished canning a big batch of strawberry preserves!
He is a Union Surgeon. Surgery back then wasn’t neat and tidy.
Obviously that’s the intention, but it looks more like he had an accident with a couple of bottles of blush.
Carrie, My whole point was that he wasn’t delivering a calf, as someone commented. As for the color of the blood– men have no color sense, I guess.
He wasn’t actually delivering a calf? Now if someone can just clear up whether Strawberry Shortcake was actually injured.
Perfect!
Ok, I get the surgeon part but…. why would you need to “re-enact” a Civil War surgery? Are they re-enacting amputations?? Are they re-enacting a surgeon saying “well, there’s not much I can do for you, sorry you’re going to die.”?? I just don’t get that part of a so-called re-enactment.
Actually, yes they do reenact amputations. It is more for show and fun, I guess, because they get some of the young boys from the military camps to play the patients, and those boys will holler and carry on while the surgical assistants hold them down and the surgeon “amputates” the leg and then throws it in a basket off to the side. The entire time, the surgeon or an assistant is explaining 1860s surgical techniques to the crowd watching – a lecture that inspires more horror than the faux amputation ever will.
Keep your eye on him, Baby… keep your eye on THAT one for sure!
So … what was this guy’s job in the war? Did he slice, dice and sautee his enemy?
The little girl is the only one in the photo making any sense. Her “HUH?” look says it all.
Bring Your Kid to Work Day 1864? @_0
The baby is thinking, “That’s what I look like when I spill my cherry Koolaide….”
To this day he cannot look at a jar of Smuckers without thinking about the war.
Jesus, what did he do? Saw off Strawberry Shortcake’s arm?
Yes, and in a very authentic way, I am sure.
Outstanding! Apparently she bleeds kind of pink.
Doc Sawbones.
Did he just deliver a calf or something! Gross!
Probably amputated a few limbs.
The South shall… pretend to rise again.
Bwahahahaha!
That just about sums up the importance of civil war reenactments.
True! And when are we going to get some good Korean Conflict or New Mexico Trinity Site reenactments? Why should the Civil War have all the fun?!
I witnessed a WW2 reenactment a couple weeks ago along with a Revolutionary War one and a WW1 trench battle. The Civil War guys by no means have all the fun, lol.
LOL!