Re-enactors pick battles to commemorate 150th annversary

[Glorybound]

Originally published 03:43 p.m., January 19, 2010, updated 03:44 p.m., January 19, 2010

Civil War re-enactors pick 10 battles for 150th anniversary


ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Civil War re-enactors -- blue and gray -- have voted to support 10 major events to mark the 150th anniversary of the war.

Members of the Civil War 150th National Leadership Convention met in Chickamauga, Ga., earlier this month.

About 75 representatives from different re-enactment armies nationwide attended.

In 2011, the convention will support the first Manassas battle in Virginia and Shiloh in Tennessee. In 2012, the second Manassas battle and Vicksburg in Mississippi.

In 2013, it will be Chickamauga and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. In 2014, the Wilderness in Virginia and Atlanta.

In 2015, they will support Bentonville in North Carolina and Appomattox in Virginia, where the Confederate Army surrendered.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-150th-commem/

[K Hale]

Why are they doing Shiloh in 2011 and not 2012?

[Glorybound]

Why are they doing Shiloh in 2011 and not 2012?

Yeah, beats me K. Maybe it's a misprint? I dunno.





Lee

[ole]

Close enough?

Ole

[Remember1864]

Have seen a few of these type lists and I have to say I'm certainly discouraged when I notice Petersburg, Virginia is left out yet again. How can the reenacting community or the American public at large continue to blatantly ignore the longest siege in United States history?

John Marler
Franklin, TN

[catspjamas]

From what I understood from the email received from the battalion commander of our umbrella organization, who attended the meeting, this is just a preliminary list.

Cats