EoT Painting and Adventure Club part IV

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i totally forgot about this adventure. we went on this adventure in January. we loaded up in the jeep and drove to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia to visit the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. i know, our adventures are badass. Part of this Civil War battlefield is in Chickamauga, Georgia and it goes all the way over to Chattanooga, TN. it is wicked huge. because of it’s hugeness it is impossible to see everything in one Adventure Day. so we did the museum (with a short movie presentation) and then drove to about three sections of monuments. there are over 700 monuments/statues around the battlefields. like i say, it’s impossible to do it all in one day.

oh, but Eric, there is a marathon that takes place over there, and that would probably be a cool one.

the museum had loads of cannons and guns and of course:

dioramas!


i thought this one was great seeing as how it was made out of popcicle sticks, macaroni, and tempera paint.

 


hey, that’s the face i make! no fair, Johnny Reb. now i’ll have to make a dumb face.


see?!

i happen to not be an expert on Civil War statuary. i know that stacks of cannonballs mean something. if it’s a short stack it means one thing, if it’s a tall stack it means something else. one means it was the site of an HQ the other means a general died there. that’s my dodgy knowledge of CW statuary.


see? that’s a short stack out in the middle of somewhere marking something.

one thing that i did not notice until i came home and started looking at my pictures is that acorns seem to feature in lots of monuments. i’m not good at symbiology (or nameology) (ha!) so i don’t know what the hell they mean. i could take a guess though, and better yet, i could totally just make up something: These acorns are not regular acorn size. they are big. and they are probably modeled after the acorns that fall from the Great Southern Colossal Oak tree. it’s common knowledge that these large acorns (or megacorns, as they were called back in the 1860s) were often used as ammunition in the Confederate trebuchets. this led to the popular phrase, “the acorn don’t fall far from the tree, it falls far from General Beauregard Culpepper Jackson, you cussed Yankee reprobates!”

my public school education has served me well.


can you spot the acorn in this one? it’s either an acorn or one of the Confederate army’s flying saucers. what? you’ve never heard of H. L. Hunley and his secret saucer Hunley II which was part of the CSS Saucer Brigade? for crying out loud, did you even go to school?

“but you ain’t got no hands, Lieutenant Dan!”


there’s no acorn on this statue, it merely portrays a soldier who had his hands blown off my a megacorn.

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