Things I hate to see in Reenactments adding to Greg’s list.
Grossly Overweight “Soldiers” ( I don’t mean heavy/chubby, I mean guys who’s guts hang down to their knees and are out of breath walking from the car to the camp)
Unmounted Cavalry
Cannons on the field before anyone else shows up.
Cavalry who ride everywhere and are bullet proof
Modern Eyeglasses
Radical hairstyles and colors (Mohawks and weird colors)
Body Mods (Overly modern tattoos and piercing)
Modern Smokes
Blanket wool “regimental sack coats” and other similar products
Bad Hats
Tennis Shoes and work Boots
Half scale cannons
Mortars
Mountain Howitzers and “boat Howitzers”
Confederates with “Yankee Gear” (Less the time and place is correct”
Confederates portraying “Yankees” and making a mess of it.
1930’s Beach chairs in camps
Assassination of the Drill Manuals
Ice Angels
Women “battlefield nurses”
Doctors wandering the field behind the lines
Little Kids on the field as “runners”, Color Bearers, in the line, etc.
Family Camping in a “military Camp”
Pistols on anyone but Cavalry or Officers
More than one pistol on anyone.
“Ragged Rebels”
“Ethnic Impressions” (Scottish, Irish, Indians etc)
Specialty Impressions where they did not operate (USSS and Zouaves FL as examples)
“Black Confederates”
Marines where there were no Marines
“Skits”- Flogging, Hanging, Executions, court martial’s, duels, etc.
Those percussion cap wrist bands or pieces of leather to put caps in so you don’t have to get a Pouch
“Impressionists” of people who were never within a thousand miles of the place. Ex) Lee at Olustee.
Battles that never happened but billed as they did.
Battles that are bigger than the one they are portraying
Officers with no command
Sergeant Majors and others walking around with sticks and no weapons
Artillery with any weapons other than the cannon
Cell phones
“Sharpshooters”
USSS with Hawkins, sharps carbines, pistols, shotguns, gatling gun, henry’s. (Got pics)
Side knives for no reason but to look “kewl”
Moccasin boots
Railroad lanterns
Improperly attired women
Improperly attired civilian men
Cowboys
Playing Cards shoved in hats
Everyone Dead on the field and lack of wounded and walking wounded.
“Gun Guards”
Hawkin Rifles/Plains Rifles/Modern Henrys
Coon Phallus and other animal parts on uniforms.
Snoods
“Heritage Groups”
Armed Musicians
“Reenactments’ In towns on modern roads in modern buildings
BAGPIPERS!
Useless/non-functioning impressions (Engineers who don’t engineer, paymasters who don’t pay etc)
Non Period Music Played as if it were correct
Period Music played on Modern Instruments and billed as period correct
“Rubber Limb” Medical demos and most any other “medical Demo”
Convenience store “Mexican Blankets”
“Provosts” who think they are Modern Cops
“Kewl Gear” that is not correct but everyone in a unit has to get so the unit stands out (Straw hats, Gaiters, Red billed caps)
Friction Primers metal tabs on hats and clothing
“Fake Blood”
Medals
Midgets on the field
Crown Royal Bags used as canteen covers
Masons symbols on everything (For a private club they sure like to be seen huh?)
Women Combatants (Women in women’s clothing on the field shooting)
People who Use the ACW as an excuse to theme camp, play war, and **** on our history.
All I can think of right now. So let’s see who all I can make mad.
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Forget the modern eyeglasses.
