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- Re-enactment of 1863 Civil War battle in East Tennessee is dropped
Sponsors have dropped plans for a traditional re-enactment of the Civil War Battle of Blue Springs.
According to The Greeneville Sun, the event was to have been held either this year or in 2011.
Until last year, the town of Mosheim in Greene County had underwritten the re-enactment for 16 years. It was not held last year [...]
- Civil War groups to hold fundraiser at Applebee’s
Even during the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers sometimes came together for peaceful purposes.
So maybe it is only natural that groups like the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Sons of Confederate Veterans should offer a meal to raise money together.
Descendants of the two opposing sides from long ago [...]
- Bennett Place Program Features Largest Civil War Troop Surrender
Two hardened war adversaries who later became great friends negotiated the largest troop surrender of the American Civil War at Bennett Farm near Durham Station on April 26, 1865. A re-enactment of one of the war's last surrenders will be held at Bennett Place State Historic Site on Saturday and Sunday, April 17-18, highlighting a [...]
- Historical Society Launches Effort To Post Civil War Items Online
The Kansas Historical Society announced it will partner with other Kansas and Missouri organizations to digitize items from their Civil War collections. The Kansas City Public Library recently received a grant from the Missouri State Library and will use those funds to facilitate the planning phase of this major historical digitization initiative, called The Missouri-Kansas [...]
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Improving Your Impression: Not About Money (Reenacting Resources)
By Paul Calloway
I'm firmly convinced that a lot of folks in the hobby of Civil War Reenacting have taken the issue of the expense to upgrade and blown it incredibly out of proportion in order to validate their lack of improvement. I saw an example of this recently while visiting the showroom of a well-known mainstream sutler. I had stopped in order to pick up a copy of Casey's Infantry Tactics and was waited on by a wonderfully cordial woman we shall call herein Tammy.
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