CARTHAGE , Mo . — Carthage is transporting residents back to 1861 .
   This weekend was the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Carthage .
   To remember the battle more than 500 reenactors held their annual reenactment at Civil War Ranch .
   The Battle of Carthage was the first Civil War battle that lasted an entire day .
   On the field reenactors approached each other while shooting blanks out of guns and cannons .
   “It was a very intense and scary thing for the folks around here to experience this . What you had was 1 , 100 union troops that suddenly ran into 6 , 000 of their foes on what we now call Civil War road , which is right out here . we are doing this on part of the actual battlefield . It didn’t take long for the battlefield to become a huge foggy field and you frequently couldn’t even see the enemy , ” said Steve Cottrell , Reenactor , the Battle of Carthage Civil War Museum employee .
   Cottrell says nearly 4 , 000 spectators came out to watch the two days of reenactments .
   

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