Mainstream 150's Schedule.

[Joey12thga]

Just for those who are interested in more Sesquicentennial Mainstream events...

http://www.150thcivilwarevents.com/

http://www.150thcivilwarevents.com/Blue_Gray_Alliance_150th_Anniversary_Events.htm

http://www.wilsonscreek150.com/

http://www.shiloh150.org/



I am not in the BGA but some people have messaged me asking about events and this is the best list I can find.

 

[MarkWay]

Just in case these events are not on the lists that Joey sent. The Blue Gray Alliance is also hosting the Vicksburg/Raymond event in October 2012 and the Chickamauga event in September 2013 along with another visit to Brice's Crossroads in 2014. Gen King is also planning another Red River Campaign in the spring of 2014 which should be a dandy, twenty five miles on the March from Old Washington AR...

 

[Fifer]

It's my understanding there will be no big Antietem in 2012. Perryville Kentucky and a Vicksburg campaign in Mississippi will be held in October. Blue Gray Alliance has a Fredricksburg listed on their website for December, but I'll believe that when I see it. The last national event that late in the year was Nashville in 1989, which saw record breaking below zero cold, frostbite cases, and a man even froze to death.

 

[firefite44]

It's my understanding there will be no big Antietem in 2012. Perryville Kentucky and a Vicksburg campaign in Mississippi will be held in October. Blue Gray Alliance has a Fredricksburg listed on their website for December, but I'll believe that when I see it. The last national event that late in the year was Nashville in 1989, which saw record breaking below zero cold, frostbite cases, and a man even froze to death.

oh wow no way fifer!

 

[Joey12thga]

It's my understanding there will be no big Antietem in 2012. Perryville Kentucky and a Vicksburg campaign in Mississippi will be held in October. Blue Gray Alliance has a Fredricksburg listed on their website for December, but I'll believe that when I see it. The last national event that late in the year was Nashville in 1989, which saw record breaking below zero cold, frostbite cases, and a man even froze to death.

Trust me, the "Big East" fans would not let a Sharpsburg event pass by. I don't know about the Mega-fest but I know Chris Anders is doing a battle reenactment and I know there is at least one History Heavy Living History in the works. I know that most of the Easterners would not cross the Big Scary Mountains to do Vicksburg or Perryville.

 

[Sagebrush]

It's my understanding there will be no big Antietem in 2012. Perryville Kentucky and a Vicksburg campaign in Mississippi will be held in October. Blue Gray Alliance has a Fredricksburg listed on their website for December, but I'll believe that when I see it. The last national event that late in the year was Nashville in 1989, which saw record breaking below zero cold, frostbite cases, and a man even froze to death.

Now, there's an event for the "real" authentic campaigner!

 

[turner ashby kidd]

It's my understanding there will be no big Antietem in 2012. Perryville Kentucky and a Vicksburg campaign in Mississippi will be held in October. Blue Gray Alliance has a Fredricksburg listed on their website for December, but I'll believe that when I see it. The last national event that late in the year was Nashville in 1989, which saw record breaking below zero cold, frostbite cases, and a man even froze to death.

Froze to death? I was at that event and it was really, really cold, but I don't remember anyone freezing to death, not that they couldn't. And too, I don't know everything.:laugh1:

 

[Fifer]

Froze to death? I was at that event and it was really, really cold, but I don't remember anyone freezing to death, not that they couldn't. And too, I don't know everything.:laugh1:

He died of hypothermia, of course he'd been drinking, or so went the story. But they found him dead at the campfire. I wasn't in camp at the time. I ran to a motel. I wasn't going through those nights with just one blanket. So I just heard about it.

 

[Fifer]

Trust me, the "Big East" fans would not let a Sharpsburg event pass by. I don't know about the Mega-fest but I know Chris Anders is doing a battle reenactment and I know there is at least one History Heavy Living History in the works. I know that most of the Easterners would not cross the Big Scary Mountains to do Vicksburg or Perryville.

People from the Mid Atlantic and New England don't even know where Kentucky even is. Mississippi may as well be in the outer planets of the solar system. I can count on one hand the number of reenactors from those states I've ever met at an event west of the mountains.
No doubt we'll be doing those events without them.

 

[wilber6150]

People from the Mid Atlantic and New England don't even know where Kentucky even is. Mississippi may as well be in the outer planets of the solar system. I can count on one hand the number of reenactors from those states I've ever met at an event west of the mountains.
No doubt we'll be doing those events without them.

And how much support do eastern events get from reenactors in Mississippi and the deep South? Its all about economics and driving distance..Going to an event that far away means extra time off from work going to and from the event, so instead of looking at a weekend event, it ends up taking 4 or 5 days away from family and work..

 

[Joey12thga]

And how much support do eastern events get from reenactors in Mississippi and the deep South? Its all about economics and driving distance..Going to an event that far away means extra time off from work going to and from the event, so instead of looking at a weekend event, it ends up taking 4 or 5 days away from family and work..

Actually a lot more than Easterners coming West. Most Hobbyists have this fascination with the Eastern events.. Lee, Grant, "burgs" and such. I know guys who live in Alabama who would pass up going to Shiloh to save money to go to Sharpsburg, or guys in Mississippi who will pass up a Wilson's Creek to do Manassas.

Just like most Armchair Historians....people are just fascinated with the "Big East" and it carries over into the hobby. Heck look at California. Outside of a few exceptions most everyone I talk to says all they reenact out there is the 63-64 Eastern Theater every year.

 

[STRI Volunteer]

Actually a lot more than Easterners coming West. Most Hobbyists have this fascination with the Eastern events.. Lee, Grant, "burgs" and such. I know guys who live in Alabama who would pass up going to Shiloh to save money to go to Sharpsburg, or guys in Mississippi who will pass up a Wilson's Creek to do Manassas.

Just like most Armchair Historians....people are just fascinated with the "Big East" and it carries over into the hobby. Heck look at California. Outside of a few exceptions most everyone I talk to says all they reenact out there is the 63-64 Eastern Theater every year.

The schedule of Eastern Theater mainstream hoe-downs feature more mid-size (1500+) to larger events. The Western Theater events tend to be smaller, more fragmented and having done both--f a r b-ier. I would do Antietam (Sharpsburg) 10x before Shiloh, for one thing Shiloh is actually two separate events whose various troubles have been beaten to a pulp here already.

Also, since the mainstream hobby is 75% (or more) CS, it helps that more of the Confederate
battlefield successes were in the East.

 

[Joey12thga]

The schedule of Eastern Theater mainstream hoe-downs feature more mid-size (1500+) to larger events. The Western Theater events tend to be smaller, more fragmented and having done both--f a r b-ier. I would do Antietam (Sharpsburg) 10x before Shiloh, for one thing it is actually two separate events whose various troubles have been beaten to a pulp here already.

I agree. Honestly if it wasn't that a friend paid my reg fee and has begged me to ride the boat adjunct at Shiloh I wouldn't be going but it's a free ride to see a place I have yet too. Shiloh will most likely be my only Mainstream Mega-fest during this cycle.

I actually am looking more forward to some High end living history at Sharpsburg next summer, Chickamauga the following summer, Picket's Mill etc.. The battles just don't do it for me anymore.

 

[STRI Volunteer]

I agree. Honestly if it wasn't that a friend paid my reg fee and has begged me to ride the boat adjunct at Shiloh I wouldn't be going but it's a free ride to see a place I have yet too. Shiloh will most likely be my only Mainstream Mega-fest during this cycle.

I actually am looking more forward to some High end living history at Sharpsburg next summer, Chickamauga the following summer, Picket's Mill etc.. The battles just don't do it for me anymore.

Well if you do like the battle reenactments, the big Eastern Theater events can be pretty good.
The biggest Western event I did was 145th Atlanta in 2009 and it was maybe 3,000? Cedar
Creek the year before was probably 2 x the size, and on the actual battlefield.

 

[Fifer]

The schedule of Eastern Theater mainstream hoe-downs feature more mid-size (1500+) to larger events. The Western Theater events tend to be smaller, more fragmented and having done both--f a r b-ier. I would do Antietam (Sharpsburg) 10x before Shiloh, for one thing Shiloh is actually two separate events whose various troubles have been beaten to a pulp here already.

Also, since the mainstream hobby is 75% (or more) CS, it helps that more of the Confederate
battlefield successes were in the East.

75% of course, in Tennessee and rest of the south, but not throughout the nation. In 20 plus years of reenacting I can't count on one hand the number of times I've seen more CS than US at an event north of the Ohio river. 60/40 around the country, maybe.