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Josh,

I believe that almost all of the answers amount to one theme.
What keeps me going are the lifelong friends that I have made during 19 years of reenacting. We have been rained on, frozen,...

Dave,

We've searched high and low for any evidence of buglers in the Wisconsin Iron Brigade regiments and have nothing to substantiate it. As R.J. pointed out we know who the field musicians were...

To add a little perspective for you, we actually had a woman in our unit who regularly portrayed a soldier at events where her identity had to be concealed. Her son was interested in participating...

Bill,

I would have to agree with Ross.

The fur trade era was long over in most of WI by the time of the the CW so the actual number of Hudson Bay blankets that were regularly available for...

Zach,

Check out the 10th Ten. Known as the Rebel Sons of Erin , its a good unit to check out. http://www.10thtennessee.org/

Here's some more info guys: About piccolos and other woodwinds.

Subject: Re: Question about picollo music that Steve used

Depending on the band and their books, some of the tunes have pic...

Claude/RJ,

We had a period piccolo player in our brass band for many years(unfortunately he sucumbed to cancer a few years ago). I'll have to check on the original scores that we have, but I'm...

Hi John,

Of course having played any type of brass instrument is definitely a plus when playing a bugle. You should be able to make a reasonably good sound from the start but trying to hit the...

Hi,

Sorry that I didn't get back to you sooner. I am also a member of the 2nd WI, in Co A from SE WI. Company E would be a good choice and I know that there are a couple of members of Company E...

If you can be a little more specific about you location and provide a different way to contacted you, I might be able to make some suggestions.

There has been only one time in 17 years that I have been part of asking a unit to leave an event.

Said unit, showed up with 10 members, a Colonel, a 1st Sgt(his wife) along with 8 other...

Bob and Chris,

The Lincoln funeral procession as it arrived in Springfield was actually reenacted in a Chicago cemetery about 12 years ago complete with a band playing the processional. The...

I can get in contact with Bob. He's member of our unit and has taken many period looking photos for me using the equipment described above. He also uses a two camera setup to produce very well...

Sorry it took so long to get back to you RJ.

Kevin and I and Rusty have been talking about this since last year. We are definitely looking at 62' and 63' events and have a decent size contingent...

Hello,

I wouldn't be too worried about age in developing a musicians impression. Most of us are already too old to have been a soldier to begin with so eliminating the fife or drum because of age...

Another possibility would be to go to the north end of the park and walk the cornfield to the Miller farm. Last we were there they had a path cut in the corn that lead right up to the Texas...

I would agree RJ. It does make bugling much easier.

From a brass band standpoint, I'm just not sure that the use of modern instruments accurately reflects what would have been heard 150 years...

There is another reason for the tins that most people rarely think about.

Try carrying 40 + period full weight cartridges in a box without tins and see how much you like that much weight moving...

Hi Rob,

I don't believe that anyone has produced a pattern for any form of the Wis militia uniform.

A couple of years ago the Hard Head Mess did a project to come up with an impression for...

Hi Chris,

Good to see another new Wisconsin reenactor and one who is asking good questions. We will hopefully run into each other on opposite side of the field in the near future as I am a member...

Hi Ben,

I believe that Tom has or has access to a copy of Chandler's because I know we have used the descriptions in our preparation for drill. You might want to send him a PM about that. Until...

Ben,

As RJ, Tom and Rob have pointed out, the main drill manual for the 6th will be Chandlers for the first three years of the war. It appears that the use of Casey's was making inroads starting...

Garrett,

There have been lenthy discussions by many different people in many forums/arenas about the gaiters that were worn by Union troops during the war. During the discussions(some going back...

Hi Pat,

If you can give me a little more information into what type of unit you are looking for, I can give you little better idea of of the units and contact information for those units that are...

Hello,

Is there anyone we can contact for more information?

An email address or event contact?

We have a company that may be interested in attending that is based in LaCrosse.

Scott...