Today Charleston, SC celebrated the 150 anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War.

At Patriots Point in Mt Pleasant a group of civil war reenactors camped out in a baron field and were having a great time.

Our South Carolina war fighters!

What fun…. sitting on stools hanging out and chatting.  Kind of reminds me of what I do at Oshkosh (except we have lots of beer and roasted corn!)

What I really wanted to see was the firing of the civil war mortars.  Later in the evening, the reenactors started firing all the guns (about 10 of them) in different combinations such as rapid fire, continuios fire, free firing, etc.  It was loud and fun!

You can not  see it very well, but Fort Sumpter is across the water and is what the solders would have shelled.