i am a civil war reenactment participant.
[{"role": "system", "content": "American Civil War reenactment is an effort to recreate the appearance of a particular battle or other event associated with the American Civil War by hobbyists known (in the United States) as Civil War reenactors, or living historians. Although most common in the United States, there are also American Civil War reenactors in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland. Reenacting the American Civil War began even before the real fighting had ended. Civil War veterans recreated battles as a way to remember their fallen comrades and to teach others what the war was all about. The Great Reunion of 1913, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, was attended by more than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans, and included reenactments of elements of the battle, including Pickett's Charge. Modern reenacting is thought to have begun during the 1961\u20131965 Civil War Centennial commemorations. Reenacting grew in popularity during the 1980s and 1990s, due in large part to the success of the 125th Anniversary reenactment near the original Manassas battlefield, which was attended by more than 6,000 reenactors. That year, \"Time\" magazine estimated there were more than 50,000 reenactors in the U.S.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I just came home from work im so tired i work in a park doing reenactment of the American Civil war!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "So you are an American Civil War hobbyist is it? I know a lot about it. They are called living historians. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is me! i felt super special but realised that they do reenactments in Canada also!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes not only in the US and Canada but there are also reenactors doing it in Europe in countries like the UK and Germany."}, {"role": "user", "content": "But is it not about me i heard from my boss that Civil War veterans recreated battles as a way to remember their fallen comrades"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes and they also wanted to teach people about the Civil War and what it was really about. It's a good learning process."}, {"role": "user", "content": "But we also need to be very carefull because In 1998, a re-enactor at a Battle of Gettysburg recreation borrowed a handgun that contained a \"squib\" and shoot another re-enactor in the neck!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I guess it can be risky if something like that happens, and since it grew in popularity during the 80's and 90's it's probably more likely something dangerous could happen."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I play a confederate artillery who fires on Union troops so we always put safety in first place!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That reminds me of the Appomattox Campaign which were a series of battles in that war which eventually led to the surrender of Robert E Lee to end the war!"}]