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Invasion of the North
Ohio Village Columbus, OH June 21-22, 2014 (June 21-22, 1864) Plans were made leading up to the assault against a little village around the area of Columbus Ohio. General Johnston formed a small battalion to attack Ohio Village for its strategic importance, brevetting Captain J.R. Sharp of the 1st Tennessee Co B to the temporary…
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The Captain in Blue at the Reformatory
Ohio State Reformatory Mansfield, Ohio June 7-8, 2014 The Ohio State Reformatory has come into a bit of fame for a few reasons, including being the filming location of “The Shawshank Redemption”. This weekend we were there to hold a Civil War living history.Being the first year, numbers were small, but the huge old building…
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On the Lake in Blue
Painesville OH May 24-25, 2014 Capt Trent Boham of the 4th OVI contacted me about an event up on Lake Erie in Painesville, Ohio. He was going up with a few of the 4th to consolidate with the 25th OVI and the 83rd PVI to form a decent-sized Yankee unit, and invited me to tag…
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Yankees in Gray
Conner Prairie May 17-18, 2014 Everything written here are my sole opinions and observations and do not represent the opinions or observations of anyone else or any organization. Conner Prairie gained a reputation for being very strongly favoring of Yankees and not so supportive of Confederates. In the past, the Yankees placed pickets to prevent…
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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…