Well since this excellent thread has had life breathed back into it, I'll throw in a vendor review:
Dixie Gun Works
Before anyone gets bent out of shape, here me out.
Their uniforms, I wouldn't recommend if my life depended on it, leathers, eh, only if your a newbie. My recommendation is the guns and supplies.
They've got NIB box reproductions, and one I can't believe I don't see more of is their Chiappa defarbed M1855 repro. Its still too heavy, and I'm sure has the "Chiappa Curse" with blanks, but at $895 I'm surprised I've never seen one at an event. I aim to try for one soon.
Stopping by their store in Union City, TN is a TREAT!!! One section of a wall filled with original Richmond's and Fayetteville's, a car museum and great folks to deal with. They're prices are a little high, but I ended up buy a slew of Waterbury buttons, (something getting hard to find nowadays with all the Indian made buttons floating around), which are priced online for $12.95 for four, but them having packs of six on their sales floor marked at the same price I stocked up. Funny part is those on the sales floor were actually supposed to be $14.95, but they just charged me the incorrectly marked $12.95 apiece.
Also I've noticed Hardee's and other manuals have either become hard to find, or outrageously expensive around $20 bucks. Dixie still has excellent reprints for a little under $8 bucks.
They also antique ordnance blueprints for CW guns that are very well done. I picked up the ever so hard to find blueprints for a Tredegar 2.25in Mountain Rifle, (my non-history minded blacksmith younger brother was salivating at the idea of using them for fun, thankfully I got a close friend with decades of experience building cannons to supervise us).
Can be a little pricy, not everything they sale CW wise is usable in proper reenacting, but excellent people to deal with online or in person.