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Short answer: yes.
I've often wondered about how "authentic" it is to have hundreds, even thousands, of male reenactors portraying Civil War soldiers while wearing gold wedding bands on the ring finger of their left hand. I've seen reenactors rake each other over the coals regarding authenticity, but many don't realize they're sporting a glaring anachronism.
I've never been in a unit or heard of a unit that asks its members to remove their gold wedding bands for authenticity purposes--there might be some that do, but I've never seen it in more than 20 years of Civil War, Rev War, even F&I. Certainly there were men who wore rings during the Civil War, maybe even a few wore some kind of wedding band, but you can see from pictures that it wasn't the widespread practice it is today--it didn't really take off with men in the US until WWII.
I've often wondered about how "authentic" it is to have hundreds, even thousands, of male reenactors portraying Civil War soldiers while wearing gold wedding bands on the ring finger of their left hand. I've seen reenactors rake each other over the coals regarding authenticity, but many don't realize they're sporting a glaring anachronism.
I've never been in a unit or heard of a unit that asks its members to remove their gold wedding bands for authenticity purposes--there might be some that do, but I've never seen it in more than 20 years of Civil War, Rev War, even F&I. Certainly there were men who wore rings during the Civil War, maybe even a few wore some kind of wedding band, but you can see from pictures that it wasn't the widespread practice it is today--it didn't really take off with men in the US until WWII.
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