World History

Aside from being an excellent read on so many levels about Southern culture and why so many are still fighting the "War of Northern Agression" the author follows some diehard reinactors who are obsessive about re creating the conditions of the average person, primarily soldiers but others also from that time period.

I recently completed building a re creation of a rifle that would have been in use during that time period. One of the things a number of my friends commented on was how small and tight the butstock was. It didn't make sense until I learned from this book that the average soldier in that time weighed about 130#.





it's the one on the top.