Confederate In Blue

Category: 2011

  • Far Away on the Mini Battlefield

    Jackson, Michigan, August 27-28, 2011 Jackson is a good distance for all of us to travel—I think it is nearly five hours for me.  This is really only worthwhile for large events.  Fortunately, Jackson is a large event.  We set up camp in a distant corner of the campground, right against where the suburban neighborhood…

  • The Red Carpet of Coshocton

    August 13-14, 2011 This was the third first-year event that I have ever attended, the first being Fort Recovery last year and the second being Nelsonville last week.  Coshocton (or “Shocatoan” as Pvt Jim Kletzli says it) was a good event.  They treated the reenactors very well.  It was surprising that they supplied T-shirts, 3×5…

  • Cavalry Raid on the Nelsonville Train (without the horses)

    This weekend was a first-year event in Nelsonville, Ohio.  We were to do an impression of dismounted cavalry and take over the train.  I did the Civil War Train Raid in Lebanon, Ohio a few years back, and it’s hard not to have this type of event be a farb fest.  But it was fun…

  • A Weekend Off to buy some toys.

    July 16, 2011 I apologize if this entry is more of a rambling, but since I can’t go to a reenactment (yeah, I’m missing out on 1st Manassas), then I should at least get some toys for one, right?  Lil’ Mary.  Ain’t she shiny? Since nothing was planned this weekend I went to the gun…

  • Raiding McConnelsville

    July 9-10, 2011 This event is one that the 1st Tennessee goes to with mixed feelings.  There are those of us that like the event, and those that don’t.  It almost didn’t make it on our schedule this year, save for a barely large enough vote. I like this event.  But it takes a lot…

  • Cump’s Backyard

    Lancaster Ohio, July 3-4, 2011 There doesn’t seem to be very many Confederate generals born in Ohio.  But there are certainly lots of Union generals born here.  Over the Fourth of July weekend, a small contingent of us spent time in a rather precarious territory in the heart of the home of one of the…

  • Home of the Tomato

    Reynoldsburg, June 25-26, 2011 I was told that Reynoldsburg has become one of the largest events in Ohio. I think it came as a surprise to some that there were enough Confederate companies to form a battalion. It was two years ago at this event that I decided to join the 1st Tennessee once and…

  • Rescuing the Rescuer

    This weekend was not a reenactment, but a rescue of sorts.  A friend of Gary Shaw’s had in his barn loft a relic of the Civil War, and offered to allow us to display it during the Lancaster event over the 4th of July weekend.  He told us it was an ambulance in the Civil…

  • Pickerington with Cubs

    I had forgotten just how short the attention span of some kids could be.  This past weekend was a living history with several Cub Scout packs of the Pickerington, Ohio area.  A small contingent of us from the 1st Tennessee held four half-hour sessions walking kids through the life of a soldier.  A few of…

  • In General Rosecrans stomping grounds

    When you go to an event in the hometown of a Federal general, you’d expect to see a decent showing of Yankees. The first and biggest mistake of the event held at Sunbury, Ohio–hometown of General William Rosecrans–was to schedule the event opposite two larger events (Conner Prairie, Indiana, and Sharon Woods in Sharonville, Ohio). …