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And dang it but wouldn't you know it, the Ordnance Return for the Army of the Potomac for December 1862 has no entries for that unit. However, there's a partial return for their sister regiment the...

Yep. The corporal shouldn't be wearing a sword belt plate (NCO belt as you call it) and the orderly sergeant should be. It's possible that that corporal was a first sergeant at one time who got...

I'm trying to get the following items out of my basement.

1. Set of Federal infantry Sgt. Major chevrons. Never worn, and I'm not even sure how I came by them. Current retail price is $30. My...

OK, 40 is so far in my rear-view mirror that I can't see it, but I can relate how we came to have a squad of soldiers and a similar number of civilians under 25. Several years ago a young woman...

1. B.C.: The Saturday scenario was supposed to be Jackson's Flank Attack and the rout of the 11th Corps. The fact that you couldn't tell whether there even was a scenario is a harsh indictment of...

Regarding #4 - the only thing this event had in common with what happened 150 years ago is that there was a battle called Chancellorsville. Is it really that hard to do a bit of story boarding for...

1. First call.

2. Assembly.

3. To the colors.

4. Forward march.

5. Cease fire.

And actually I did have a bit of a problem. I wanted to register myself and my son in the same transaction, with me as one attendee and him as an additional one, but it wouldn't bill me for two...

Still using the wrong browser? :mrgreen:

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I would love to have seen a private try that on his First Sergeant after having been instructed to cross the color line only at a break between companies rather than between stacks of muskets....

Why would you think so? Why do we continue to mistake absence of evidence for being evidence of absence? Lord help us, not nearly everything a soldier was required to do or forbidden from doing comes...

Nobody is standing between any of them - they're all in front of or behind the line of stacks.

Fort Bliss was an isolated post at the tag end of a long overland supply line. The Regiment of Mounted Rifles often went many months without a resupply, so it wouldn't have been unusual to see...

Those images look like my reproduction .44 revolver, purchased many years ago at Montgomery Ward of all places by my wife as a birthday present for me -- and she didn't pay much more than Gorgas's...

Numbers with the loop are fairly common, as are box plates. Most everything else - branch insignia, letters, etc. - seem to have the pins.

Well, someone flashing their a$$ would certainly spoil my moment. (Too easy a target to pass up) :mrgreen:

We're not an umbrella organization, but we are incorporated, with an elected board of directors that appoints the military commander with the rank of 1st Lt., which is in keeping with what we know of...

I thought I'd remind all of us anyway ... Happy Thanksgiving, fellow re-enactors.

Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation

Save your time and avoid the frustration -- Can't beat the real McCoy, from an original supplier. http://www.bentscookiefactory.com/hardtack.html

Aside from the issue of hearing safety, anything over 70 is not authentic. The standard load for a .58 caliber rifle musket was 65 grains, and we get plenty of pop using that in our reenacting...

There's scale and then there's scale ... We had 35 riflemen registered for MMM ... Did some research and, admittedly with a bit of extrapolation, determined that 35 was approximately the same number...

Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same ... but not quite? My son was two weeks away from his ninth birthday when we started in this hobby. He participated in the 120th of Cedar...

Your first sentence brought back something Schnapps told me years ago at Sully Plantation that went something like this: "There are only a dozen authentic re-enactors in the United States, and nobody...

I couldn't have said it better. MMM was the third event put on by Chris that I've attended -- the other two were September Storm and At High Tide -- and every one has been first rate. Not one of them...

I don't know about you RJ but I've never been anything but a 'streamer' and I'm too old to change now. :mrgreen: But I bet as you look over the images from Julio and others you'd be hard pressed to...