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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Living the Civil War [Watch (HLS stream): Living the Civil War](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IEYQ5Ca0.m3u8) (6:44)  _Published 2011-04-11. Photographer Gregg Segal spent a year getting to know the world of Civil War re-enactors. In a series of photographs, he shows how development has affected Civil War battlefields today_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:11 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) ['Captain America- Civil War' - International Trailer](/video/npuyoZhs/) ### 'Captain America- Civil War' - International Trailer [Civil War Exclusive](/video/3Qio23wF/) ### Civil War Exclusive [Reliving Gettysburg: My Weekend As a Civil War Reenactor](/video/nUpzTDB5/) ### Reliving Gettysburg: My Weekend As a Civil War Reenactor --- ## Transcript >> My name's Mark Tuliman and I'm from Texas County, West Virginia and I've always been interested in civil war. My ancestors signed up with the beginning of [ unk ]. I think one of the most important battles of the world is Cedar Creek. It's kind of a forgotten battle in some ways to a lot of people, but I think one of the reasons it's so important is that sort of turned the tide for Lincoln and that battle building great danger at the moment [ unk ]. >> I'm Greg Seigle, photographer in [ unk ]. Over the past year, I travelled to this historic battle war battle sites across the United States where I met dedicated civil war re- enactors, that large pillar men. >> I'm just interested in the time period. >> It's such a pivotal point. You know, we- people who are willing to slaughter each other like we [ unk ]. >> Many civil war battle sites have been overrun right now by commercial development, leaving no choice of what happened here a 150 years ago. >> I photographed living history re- enactors at battle sites that have been lost to development in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Kentucky. In these photographs, the re- enactors themselves have almost left the past. >> I've run into a lot of people who don't really get it because like I'm really into the civil war. I can [ unk ] respect people that, you know, some people, it's just not their thing. I think that Americans, as a whole, should probably have a little bit more of eclectic practices of the civil war. >> The men I met, Paul, had a deep devotion to history and an urgency to preserve what's left of these historic places. This parking lot was once a confederate [ unk ] with over 40, 000 soldiers, spent a long winter in 1862. To pass the time, the men have [ unk ] snowball fights. >> The thing is is that, we need to destroy something of historic nature, cultural nature. I just- it's destroyed or erased with time to save as much land as we can, as quickly as we can. It's a coping mechanism. >> Uh- huh. >> There's no solutions to the- any anxiety issues. There's too much money to be made off it, letting things just go as they have gone. You know, the concern is, you know, the alibis and, as population expands and explodes, what kind of world are we gonna have? >> Many of the re- enactors withdraw into the civil war at a young age. For Brent Fado, the energy of recreated battles fired the imagination. And he says, it made him a better American. >> My mom, when I was young, took me on a battlefield. You know, I was pretty interested by, you know, [ unk ] like a 9- year- old kid. And then, one time, we saw like a small civil war reenactment and I just like, oh, this is a really, really cool and, I guess my mom [ unk ] say to be like, oh, this might be good thing for him to do. And then, from there, she's been doing it ever since. >> Hardly has to do with the fact that understanding your history makes you just better citizens. [ unk ] like it. It's obviously [ unk ] with this, you know, man I guess. >> The 15- year- old Addison Sphere, even his name connects him with history. >> My name is Addison Forester Sphere. That name is a forest like a general forest for the Capara Calvary. >> Yeah, I wanted to name him Stonewell Jackson, Robert [ unk ], Spirit of the White. But she put the [ unk ] on that so the best I could do is put Forester as a middle name. >> This father and son share a hobby with a deeper purpose. >> If you wonder why most of us do the hobby, the whole thrust is honoring the deeds and the memory of the common [ unk ] soldiers. Again, we tried to make sure that their whole accomplishments and achievements are never forgotten because the common [ unk ] soldiers have been trashed. >> The civil war was 550 years ago. And even though many of its battle sites have been lost, the world's legacy is still very much alive. There are struggles, too, that the world failed to resolve and those struggles are felt even today. >> We had a catastrophic event as a nation. We shared this experience as a whole. It decimated the lives of so many people. And then, we didn't really fix it, you know, even now. You go into the deep south and there's still segregation, if not by mandate, by people's personal choices, sort of. I would say that we're still in some ways fighting it. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Living the Civil War","description":"Photographer Gregg Segal spent a year getting to know the world of Civil War re-enactors. 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