WBritain
Master Sergeant
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During the American Civil War armies often faced off in open country or the edges of towns where there were working farms. 19th century crops were planted very differently than the way we plant today. In the pre-mechanization period of agriculture, workers needed to move through the field to weed and tend crops. In many cases more than one crop would be planted in one field, with corn and squash being a popular pairing. The check row planting of corn allowed men to move through a crop field in a way that would be impossible to do today. I just finished building this display base for a friend that we be at our Gettysburg Symposium this weekend, which he has patiently waited for. I set it up with Texans advancing for one photo and Federal Iron Brigade pushing back the other way for another. I plan on having a similar display set up at Chicago this year now that we have our new flexible injection molded corn, which allows both figures and corn to set up touching without damaging either…
