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Eli,

If you'll remember, I didn't! :)

For those of you who registered for the Camp Geiger event and didn't show up. You missed a great weekend!

This thread brought back a lot of good memories. After six years, it's sort of sad to see the number of folks who are no longer participating in the Hobby. By the same token, it's great to see the...

Jim,

You'd have to be dumber then three rocks, not to be able to tell the difference between ten blank cartridges and ten of them loaded with 500 grain lead bullets.

I normally live fire,...

The model 1840 flintlock musket and the model 1842 percussion musket are identical in almost every detail except for the lock mechanism and of course the touch hole rather than a percussion bolster....

All good things the orginial cast mostly did without!

With 500 grains of powder and no wadding, I think the majority of it would burn up after it was blown out of the muzzle! I use 100 grains of powder in my M-1842. A couple of years ago at McDowell, I...

Eli,

I don't think that included the M-1842's. Rear sights were an issue on the Belgian conversions of flintlock muskets.

Wait awhile. The parts will be worth more! :)

Chris,

You are assuming that all Civil War solders wore their canteen on top of their haversack all the time. :)

B.C.

In the big photo, I can make out three, or four guys in the front rank with rifled M-1842's, There were three guys who definitely had smooth bores, to include the first sergeant and the...

Years ago Chris Anders gave me a CD of bugle calls. I was a travelling salesman and played the CD for hour after hour in the car. It was a no-go. I could recognize the calls in the quiet of the car,...

The Spring issue of "Nation Divided", the magazine of the National Civil War Museum, in Harrisburg, has this photo in a large format (17" long) on pages 10 & 11. You can make out a lot of detail in...

The Camp Geiger event, in Whitehall, PA, is scheduled for the weekend of May 17-19. Right now, it looks like we have about 100 men per side registered, but there would be room for some more in the...

Mike,

A number of my people had the same concerns. I told them not to worry about it. I was sure that was going to be one of those "rules" that weren't going to be enforced and I was correct. I...

Tom,

From an earlier post: "People just aren't willing, or able; to fight the land, insurance, logisticial, government regulation, and financial battles." It's far easier to put on an adjunct,...

I commanded the First Battalion, ANV. For both Jackson's Flank Attack and Hazel Grove, we were the far left of the Confederate line. (The Federal right.) The Federals to our front did an outstanding...

Some of the people who complain about events ought to try to put one on. It might change their world view a little! :) If anything can go wrong, it will!

So why did the thread get shut down? Did somebody think that nobody will have anything to say about the event, good, bad, or indifferent, more than 48 hours after it ended?

My Battalion was on the far left flank of the Confederate line for two of the three scenarios and we had a ball. There was room to maneuver and the Federals to our front played the game very well. I...

I've been a battalion commander in the ANV for the past ten, or twelve years; but I also swim in the CPH side of the creek from time to time. I've already announced that I will not accept a...

I'm no expert on Federal canteens. I would assume Bill Hoover got his documentation from "Civil War Canteens". To turn things around, other than the shape, what's the documentation that these are a...

Bill Hoover is now selling a North Carolina tin canteen with a "star" stamped on both faces and a tin spout. There are three examples of this canteen in "Civil War Canteens", on page 131. Two...

Hey,

They probably wanted to be able to sell the weapon in the People's Republics of New Jersey, New York, and California! :) God forbid you have a hidden serial number!

If that's the...

So, did everybody survive the new campsites?