Re-enacting battles increasingly popular in the US: ‘What you feel is real’ | Abroad

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American Civil War thinly redone

Gettysburg – Re-enacting battles from the American Civil War is incredibly popular in the US. The discussion about the Confederate flag and the tearing down of statues of Confederate Civil War heroes has led to an increasing number of visitors to these so-called ‘reenactments’. The same goes for Gettysburg, where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fought 159 years ago.

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