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The Wilderness
150th Battle of the Wilderness Spotsylvania, VA May 3-4, 2014 The trip was long. I set my tent in a tight corner by the Colonel’s tent. The Independent Guard had two of the their companies—the 50th Virginia and the 5th Kentucky—in attendance, and the 2nd Florida joined us. The morning was early. I woke to…
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Start of an Alliance
Spring Drill Huddleston FarmhouseCambridge City, IN April 27-27, 2014 Reenacting season started this year with spring drill, but this year was different. This year we cooperated with the 4th Ohio Company B and with the 7th Kansas to drill at the Huddleston Farmhouse in Cambridge City Indiana.We began with setting up camp. I rode in…
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The Barn that Wouldn’t Die
Perryville Cleanup WeekendPerryville Kentucky April 5, 2014 More and more the 1st Tennessee is progressing into battlefield preservation. This weekend the Perryville Battlefield held a cleanup day where we assisted.Over coffee and donuts we discussed the plan for the day where we would work on cleaning out an old barn and tearing it down. The…
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The Battle in Winter
150th Battle for Olustee February 15-16, 2014 Sgt Jeff Carte, his wife Trish, and I packed together in our horseless SUV on our trek for reenactment during the worst part of winter. The ground was white and the weather maps showed that the worst part of the latest storm would be gone in North Carolina…
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How to become a Reenactor Part 4
Everything written here are my sole opinions and observations and do not represent the opinions or observations of anyone else or any organizationEach and every reenactor has their own story of how they came into Civil War reenacting. Now that I’ve covered my own story of how I became a reenactor, starting with Revolutionary War…
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How to Become a Reenactor Part 3
It was a sunny day in September, sometime around 2003 or 2004. My wife outfitted me in some borrowed clothes to make me look like I belonged to the 1860s–or at least make me think I looked like I belonged to the 1860s. I wore a borrowed bowler, a borrowed civilian coat falling apart at…