Confederate In Blue

Category: Spring Drill

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…