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Heh, a pard and I were discussing last weekend at Conner Prairie about when this was coming out. On my Amazon shopping list...

I love little details like this:

MAY 9TH.—Orders this morning to draw two days’ rations, pack up and be ready to move at a moment’s warning. We drew hard-tack, coffee, bacon, salt and sugar, and...

I have a cap pouch where the wool lining that helped keep the caps in has fallen out and been lost. It seems like a simple enough thing to find, but I can't seem to find a place that sells it (or at...

Minor English question here - in diary entries from the war I keep seeing 'staid' used instead of 'stayed', for example, "Last night I staid at Mr. Green's house." Was staid taught back then, or just...

I hadn't heard the anchor theory before, but it sounds very plausible. In my mind the biggest clue was that the crew was found at their stations. So whatever killed them, it seems to have happened...

Here's a link to some maps showing travel times in the 1800's, which might be useful when doing first-person conversations:
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I came across this today:

"...Then came orders to load, and instructions for the front rank, —your humble servant was fortunate enough to be in that rank—to do the firing, if ordered to fire, and...

The auction was a failure and the property is back in limbo. I'm a little surprised Parke County didn't step in and buy it for tourist purposes.

I, for one, can attest to that. I was chased out of one at 5pm on Saturday by the septic truck man (to my disappointment, he didn't look like Randy Quaid or declare, "s****ters full!"), who cleaned...

Proof that brevity is indeed the soul of wit.

Similarily, one of the the reasons I do it is an escape from the modern pressures of our hectic 24-hour techno-culture, a short vacation from both...

I did a quick tally of the list on the registration website as it appears currently and I came up with 828 CSA and 825 USA military. Hard to be more even than that!

I found a neat site that has 3D 'wiggle' animations of old photos. Their is a selection of civil war images, including this one. Check it out!

I like apples, although some say oranges are better.

Random item (rough) count:

19 men
12 pipes
1 cigar
5 or so Hardee hats
2 forage caps, "type 1"
1 kepi (gray?)
4 or so beehive hats, most appear to be brown or tan
3 hammers

Does anyone know if there will be a wet plate photographer at Perryville?

Twelve to eighteen dollars for a night's work? A tidy sum in those days, roughly equivalent to $250 to $400 today.

This is in fact, the 41st NY, company C. The photo I posted earlier was cropped from a larger one and I found the original. Here it is:

http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/darkblues62/41stny.jpg...

I saw this photo today:

http://dotcw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Manassas-Va.-Men-of-Co.-C-41st-New-York-Infantry-2.jpg

Notice the fellow in the middle seems to be missing a cap bill. At...

I think it's a matter of historical correctness rather than political. Much of human history is ugly; but if the ugliness being reenacted is historically correct, then we are doing a service and an...

In the Age of YouTube, all it takes it one video to create a cause célèbre. Events are challenging enough without having to wade through protesters on the way to the camps.

That sounds very similar to our modern "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. However, what happened at squad-level may be a different story. Perhaps these things were taken care of quietly, for better or...

Very interesting, but is it indeed clueless, or simply was not considered a big deal? We tend to regard those that came before us as not quite so sophisticated and world-wise as we are, but the...

President Rutherford B. Hayes was struck by lightning during the Civil War?

Flat Top, May 30, 1862. Friday. — A hot summer day. A very singular thing happened this afternoon. While we were at...

I have no plans to 'retire' after the 150s. My sons will be coming on line in a couple of years, so I'd like to reenact with them for as long as possible. Plus, with folks getting out, I imagine...

"It was Sunday we had inspection it was a cold day C. Betterly on guard today he was Col. Orderly today got smoking"

Looks like two days combined into one entry as the Sunday activities are in a...