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Defencing the Line
PERRYVILLE CLEANUP DAY Perryville, KY April 23, 2016 We drove down to Perryville, KY and set up camp at the Baymont Inn in Harrodsburg, surviving the night with what sounded like someone sharpening a sword with a grindstone. We broke camp early, arriving at the Perryville Battlefield at 9 am, meeting with Chad Greene for…
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Cold and the Wet
The season of wool and gunpowder opened with battalion drill. The 44th Tennessee, 1st Tennessee, and a consolidation of the 50th Virginia, 5th Virginia, and 19th Virginia met at Hartford City, Indiana to work out the rust of the winter. I arrived at camp early Friday, finding our new 1st Sergeant, Jeff Carte, unloading some…
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The Season Begins
Spring Drill Tawawa Park, Sidney, Ohio April 25, 2015 The 2015 reenacting season finally arrived with the 1st Tennessee Spring Drill, at Tawawa Park in Sidney, Ohio. Our camp was located at the back entrance to the park, which proved a bit confusing to find. There was no sign to the back entrance, which looked…
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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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One Weekend–Two Spring Drills
April 13-14 Fort Recovery OH Do two separate spring drills in two separate locations count as two events? I have looked over my schedule and have a total of 21 events lined up for 2013. But if I can count the Independent Guard Battalion spring drill in Fort Recovery and the 1st Tennessee Co B…
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Drill, Drill, Drill
Spring Drill, April 21-22, 2012 Durbin Bean Bake site I did not really expect much for this weekend, but I was at least hoping the weather would be as nice as Hurricane. The weekend was a lot of drilling, but the weather could have been better. Hurricane had a lot better weather. Most of us…