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- Feb 23, 2013
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- East Texas
After a two-week hiatus to attend the September to Remember gathering at Gettysburg, Throwback Thursday's back! This time the subject is what may have been the first "living history" event ever held at Chickamauga - Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia. (That's me at left center with my hand on a stack of rifles.) This was back in the early 1980's when there were then only four groups of Western authentics, George Derenburger's Union Mudsills, the Tennessee-based Cleburne's Command, the Kentucky-based Breckinridge's Brigade, and the largely Trans-Mississippi Confederate Guard.
Somehow Derenburger had wangled an invitation - which was absolutely necessary - from the NPS to hold a living history encampment over, as I recall, Labor Day weekend at Chickamauga, and he in turn invited the Confederate Guard with which I occasionally served to attend representing a company of the 4th Texas Infantry of Hood's Texas Brigade. The Mudsills had their camp at the Snodgrass Cabin and ours was at the Brotherton House; on Sunday morning we marched together for a color ceremony.