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The Best and Worst of Times, Part 3
GAC 150th Commemoration, The Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg, PA July 3-7, 2013 Day 5: Bivouacked Saturday arrived, and we had already fulfilled a normal reenactment, but we were only halfway through this one. I again fried up my bacon and eggs—I brought a lot of bacon and eggs with me—and enjoyed a quiet morning. One…
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The Best and Worst of Times, Part 2
GAC 150th Commemoration, Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg, PA July 3-7, 2013 Day 2: The Tour Joe Bellas giving the tour. Courtesy Cookie Owens Most of the rest of the 1st Tennessee arrived around 3 am Wednesday morning, renting a hotel room for a couple of the wives to stay at, but crashing there until they…
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The Best and Worst of Times, Part 1
GAC 150th Commemoration, Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg, PA July 3-7, 2013 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…” That quote from Dicken’s A Tale of Two…
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Can I Pet the Horse?
Greenville, OHJuly 28-29,2012 The horse was called Norman. I arrived at my usual time Friday evening at the Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio. Being the first to arrive and the contact for the unit with the event coordinators, I met with the blacksmith, who (with one other) was the living history organizer for the event.…
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Where’s the Park?
Fort Wayne, IN July 14-15, 2012 We had never been to this event in Fort Wayne, known as the Camp Allen Muster. I stumbled across this one by accident looking for alternative events last year. It was scheduled the same time as our usual event at McConnelsville, OH, but when it came up for a…
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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…
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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…
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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…