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There's a limit to what organizers can enforce in the heat of the action, but I'm all for giving the staff on each side a half dozen live rounds to keep their people in line. ;)

I look forward to seeing you there. I'll be with the Brady Sharpshooters, 16th Michigan.

Carl Uterhard, writing home to his mother in Germany on June 3, 1863, tried to assure her of his relative safety: "In addition, doctors wear a green silk sash over their shoulders [so they won't be...

My venerated copy of Jack Coggins' book reports 'regulations' as requiring 14 yards between pieces, but I'm sure somebody here has a manual...

It might make a difference today, with older reenactors tending to endomorphy, but less so among men who are all eating about the same and expending about the same amount of energy. And it's easy to...

I think the superintendent's estimate is as good as any. Assume 70,000 men in the ANV, including say 3,500 officers, add 3,000 and more vehicles of various descriptions, and you get possibly 6,500...

"In the Van" was probably among my top three events, and I'd be hard put to pick just which other two rank with it. :)

Two observations, Dave.

First, you're also not going to see a lot of servants and teamsters in the Federal ranks at BGA (or just about any other reenactment). Support personnel are as...

Thanks for pointing this out, Bill!

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Ouch -- and just when I was gonna add "sharpies"... :)

I'll second all the above advice and add that quite often books are a better initial investment than gear. But you don't necessarily have to buy many of them, either. Google Books has free...

Maybe they should just move it next to the statue of the Loudoun Ranger.

Volume I of Lord's Encyclopedia, under the entry for "Camp Equipment," has pictures of a box for company papers of unpainted pine, an officer's trunk covered in canvas, and another officer's...

In my more cynical frame of mind I think it may also be a factor of people wanting to "campaign" in a safe environment. It's good that Unison/Welbourne has become a more or less regular event, at...

There are a couple of hob-nailed soles in this photo: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/cwpb/00800/00888a.tif Unlike the MB&S pattern, these have a single row around the stitching, which makes sense...

I think that's a splendid AAR, a good description of what was planned, what actually happened, and what factors contributed to the result in each scenario. Other commitments kept me from attending...

Scott, I agree with your analysis and conclusions, but I think you're underestimating the age of umbrella organization leaders by a decade. The annual meetings look, at best, like the gerontocracy...

Thank you, John. Camerone is one of the great battles against odds in history. If we accept the Mexican account, then the legionaires were outnumbered only (?!) fourteen to one, and they inflicted...

And people ask why I still write with a dip pen... :)

FWIW, I had problems with the link to PayPal and ended up downloading new security s/w. Then I tried Chrome and got through.

I understand the Foundation has made a statement and we're just waiting for the Anders' version. Ideally both will go up at the same time, we can all chose what to believe, and then we can move on...

Farb that I am, I would just file off the "Made in Hungary" and use as is...

Now that we have a friendly debate going about whether or not soldiers were ever paid in state currency, I'm really curious. I can definitely understand that there would be a preference for Federal...

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