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I attended a NCWAA training course where the instructor put a rubber glove containing a chicken thigh over the vent and then pulled the primer. The glove flew into the air and when it came back down,...

Thanks for your encouragement. The luminaries are in the evening--we would need folks after 5pm.

Walking tours, storytelling, and luminaries!

Check out the web site: www.MarylandCampaign150.com.

We sure could use the help of some living historians/reenactors for the luminaries. Send me a...

Sir, hats off to you for your work with the Scouts!

I will be camped with Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery in the North Woods by the Joseph Poffenberger farm that weekend. We should have a full...

I bought a cut-away Parrott case shot from this company--it's excellent quality:

http://www.aaamunitions.com/

The good folks at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine will know:

http://www.civilwarmed.org/contact-us/

If I recall correctly, there is a copper ether funnel on display there, so it might...

FYI--the Ohio monument across the street from the Dunker Church at Antietam lists the 7th Ohio and has a rooster on it.

Excellent! Congrats!

Okay--I'm glad it wasn't me! Thanks, Chris!

Great! Let's hope they now correct the error.

Okay, I must need new specs--I can't find where the registration list is posted on the site. Help please!

Write them a letter, George. I just recently had to do that with Civil War Times of all people.

Gotta nip these inaccuracies in the bud!

Actually they did film and interview a woman reenactor for several days, including at Manassas. They chose to cut her out of the "final 3" reenactors they used. They also had an opportunity to...

Definitely GAR Badges. Here's my great great grandfather's:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1377510883585&set=a.1352103528417.2051316.1406273278&type=3&theater

I agree. Contact the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland. If anyone will know about this subject, they will.

I wasn't sure if he did repairs or not--thanks!

I'm looking for someone to replace the sweat band in my forage cap. It's cracked and flaking away. The cap was a gift and I'd like to continue using it. Any vendors out there that will do this kind...

I'll take it--email and PayPal payment sent.

Email sent

"Corporal Si Klegg and His Pard" is written in the dialect common to Ohio at the time, if that's helpful. I would also think that reading letters, especially written by those of a less scholarly...

Registered and ready to go! I can't wait!

You may be thinking of the Confederate insignia for ambulance corps, which was an armband made of red cloth which had "Ambulance Corps" in black letters on a white background. There are several in...

It was an excellent evening--so glad to have the photos to document it. And thanks to Julio for stopping by the Newcomer House as well!

Thanks for the links, Claude. I thought Stephen Lang's speech was incredible. It was great to see you, even if just in passing.

These items are in excellent condition--no stains, tears, or holes.