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Banks Grand Retreat in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana in March 2007. Four days of marching and skirmishing isolated from the modern world. "No whiners, shirkers, or weaklings."

Phil...

That's a great little paragraph. A bacon badge and a hardtack bruise - those are both wonderful. Does the hot scalding water imply that they were boiling water to fill their canteens?

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Trusting Craig Barry's hard-earned reputation in all matters Enfield related, I looked at the Pedersoli Enfields on the websites for Cabela's and Dixie Gun Works. Craig said DGW is a "little" more....

"Wrap up in" works fine for me. Sorry to have detoured this "for sale" thread.

Phil McBride
The Alamo Rifles

You are using the proud Texas flag as a floorcloth, like to walk on? Really?

Phil McBride
The Alamo Rifles
Lockhart, Texas

I also have an order placed with Ben Tart, and after reading this thread sent him an email for an order update last night. I placed the order three weeks ago for an in-stock jacket blank to be...

I'd guess more like half of active reenactors will make it to one or the other Gettysburg, making the total in the range of 25,000 to 30,000 or even more of us wackos. I've long wished there was a...

Will, Thank you very much. Do you have access to any ordnance records from Granbury's Texas Brigade in '64 during the Atlanta campaign?

As an aside, the day after the fight at Pickett's Mill in...

Gosh, Will, I would love to see one or two of those brigade ordnance records posted.

Phil McBride

I gotta ditto Mr. Shaffner in his post:

I proudly do both, though as I age I have less and less sympathy for Lost Causers. People need to stop whining and be glad they didn't lose a civil war to...

I'm a member of the Alamo Rifles out of San Antonio, with members also in the Austin area, a hundred miles south of Waco. Our primary impression is the 6th Texas which was a part of Granbury's Texas...

The Red River Battalion in Texas has been practicing the 3-part Rebel Yell for a year or so now. Personally, I do best with the low short barking part of it. But I try the other higher pitched yelps...

My copy of The Unfinished Fight was a Christmas gift from my wife from my wish list - with a little extra info from me on how to buy it. I've read most of it by now, and heartily congratulate Craig...

Holy Cow. Those folks are into the little bitty details, for sure. Keep going, BGA. I've made hotel reservations for my wife and daughter-in-law so we manly men from Texas can fight all weekend. So,...

I don't wear vests because I reenact in the south and am overweight and sweat a lot. But think of the 1860's: Inefficient indoor heating, lots and lots of time outside and exposure to the elements,...

My outfit was the Red River Battalion which bivouaced Saturday night at the lunette as the 2nd Texas Infantry, worked with pioneering tools to improve the works on Sunday morning and defended its...

Mr. Schultz, Two of my friends - a brother and sister - had an image made by you this past weekend at Raymond, and it is a terrific tintype. Well posed, well lighted, well tinted just a wee bit, and...

From Silas Tackett way back in this thread: "Over in Confederateland, we had the 37th Tennessee acting as provost guard for the weekend. They did a great job of policing the "no engine" zone of our...

Yesterday was my birthday and my wife gifted me with one of the Tennessee Blazing Star coverlets. The repeated squares design and the tan-dark red colors are quite fetching. The cotton-wool blend...

Julio,

You some real fine action shots along the rail fence. I especially like the one of the yank standing on a fence rail, shaking his fist, with all the dead Rebs lying below him and his pards...

My goodness. It certainly is graphic proof of the huge irony of our dependence on an Italian supplier for the single most necessary and single most expensive product we must have to participate in...

I was at the event, but not the AP Hill march. I really enjoyed the march photos to get a sense of it, especially crossing the wide Potomac at the ford. I was in one of the early Reb battalions to...

Nic, this is excellent news to some of us Texas reenactors. I've visited both the state park and the National Park at Arkansas Post, and am really pleased this important Trans-Mississippi battle is...

The Austin-American Statesman in Austin, Texas carried the article this morning - Sunday. I am now even prouder to tell my friends who may read the article that I attended MMM last weekend.
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In my neck of the woods, or prairie, down here in Texas, each stripe is a separate piece, and sewing on six of them is a project. Of course, we were citizens of a deprived state with few luxuries...