Zoar Reenactment Photos
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Photos from the Zoar Reenactment on the 18th and 19th. Good to spend time with the 1st Ohio Battery A again... our younger members turned out for this event and we made a really excellent gun crew. I'm hoping that we have more chances to work together in the future! I also really enjoyed helping make the rounds for the gun this time around. I managed to christen my new thumbstall, finally! I bought two a while back actually but the events of last year precluded the one I bought to actually use, not just as a prop, for a long time.

The battery did well, we preformed all the demonstrations for the public of artillery, and the always spectacular night fire event. We also did well the...

A short conversation on immigrants during the Civil War

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Some of you know Chris Peeks from The Killer Angels group. Chris is from Birmingham and after some arguments with me online he asked to speak with me. Here is our conversation. Please don't make fun of my Longggg Guyland accesnt.
Black Artillerymen.
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Black artillerymen recruited from among former slaves in Tennessee. Battery A of the 2nd U.S. Colored Artillery was organized at Nashville, April 30, 1864. Attached to the Department of the Cumberland, it performed garrison duty and participated in the Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864. The company mustered out January 13, 1866.

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"Swivel breech" rifles

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Anyone come across historical accounts of these being used during the war? It'd be interesting to know how guys chose to utilize that two-shot capacity. Unlike what the fella in this video does, I would think that the smarter thing to do would be to keep firing and reloading one barrel while holding the other in reserve for an emergency...

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 ★ ★   Buford, John

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John Buford Jr.
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Born: March 4, 1826
Birthplace: Woodford County, Kentucky
Father: Colonel John Buford Sr. 1778 – 1847
Mother: Ann B. Watson
Wife: Martha McDowell “Pattie” Duke 1830 – 1903

Children:
James Duke Buford 1855 – 1874​
(Buried: Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Kentucky)​
Pattie McDowell Duke Buford 1857 – 1863​
(Buried: Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Kentucky)​

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1848: Graduated from West Point Military...​

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