Confederate In Blue

Category: August

  • 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…

  • Jackson 2010 After-Action Report

    Yeah, it would have been nice to start this blog at the beginning of the season, with all that’s been going on.  Cpt. Evens and Lt. Sharp have had it in for me ever since Jackson, Michigan at the end of August, 2010.  Sgt Enyart and I challenged these two to several rounds of Euchre. …