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Category Archives: Reenactment
Mosby Returns To Lee District for Civil War Sesquicentennial
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal The memory of the “Gray Ghost” is strong in Franconia By James Cullum - Kingstowne Patch The spitting image of Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby, one of the most despised and feared men ever to ride … Continue reading
Spotsylvania will hold several Civil War events this weekend.
Spotsylvania will hold several Civil War events this weekend. By Amy Flowers Umble The Civil War will return to Spotsylvania next weekend. The county will host several re-enactment events to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Spotsylvania. The events … Continue reading
Delaware festivals: Old meets new at Dover Days
Civil War history mixes with modern-day fun in festival, parade MOLLY MURRAY The News Journal DOVER — At the Civil War Encampment along the St. Jones River, the soldiers of the 2nd Delaware Infantry had just returned from a long … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Delaware Infantry, Delaware, Dover, Reenactment, Sesquicentennial, St. Jones River
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Civil War re-enactors remember the fallen at historic courthouse
By Leigh Kelley Times-News Staff Writer Shots from Confederate Civil War “soldiers” rang out on Main Street Saturday as members of several area Civil War re-enactment groups celebrated Confederate Memorial Day with a ceremony in front of the Historic Henderson County … Continue reading
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Tagged Commemoration, Henderson, North Carolina, reenactors, Sesquicentennial
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Suffolk museum brings Civil War to life
By Linda McNatt The Virginian-Pilot Gae Ward stood next to the man portraying her Civil War husband, the Rev. George Williams, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Main Street. Ward said she would have been busy 150 years ago - … Continue reading
What’s the role of a modern day journalist photographing Civil War re-enactments?
by Robert Cohen I’m no Mathew Brady. Or perhaps I am. The father of American Civil War photography came into the fray as primarily a portrait photographer but was best known as a documentarian, photographing the battlefields as they were, peppered with … Continue reading
Fairfield opens local Civil War 150th anniversary events
BY JARRAD HEDES Gettysburg Times Staff Writer It is officially American Civil War Commemoration weekend in Fairfield, with events slated throughout the town today. The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” played loudly Friday night while re-enactors, local residents and dignitaries … Continue reading
A chapter that’s all but forgotten: When the Civil War came west
BY CATHARINE HAMM, MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE PICACHO PEAK STATE PARK, Ariz. - Things hadn’t gone according to plan - do they ever in war? - and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The cavalry officer and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, California, Civil War, New Mexico, Reenactment, West
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Civil War Guide Touts Spy, Life Off Battlefields
From WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — There are battlefields, and then there’s Belle Boyd, teenage temptress and Confederate spy. The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd is the sexier Civil War story and that tourists will want … Continue reading
ANNUAL CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT: MAY 7 - Linden, Tennessee
Relive local history on Saturday, May 7, 2011, when a Civil War event will be reenacted in downtown Linden: the May 12, 1863 burning of the Perry County Courthouse. And on the evening before the reenactment, be sure to visit … Continue reading