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Category Archives: Reenactors
A reenactor explains the cavalry
Cavalry played no part at all in the attack on Fort Sanders and little enough in the whole Siege of Knoxville. But General Joseph Wheeler’s rebel cavalry had an early role, and that’s my excuse for including this good video … Continue reading
USCT Reenactors
Reenactors of the African-American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C., in period clothing, presumably portraying the wives and mothers of the United States Colored Troops, such as the ones who served in Knoxville.
Seventeenth Mississippi reenactors
Speaking of the Seventeenth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, which, along with the Phillips Georgia Legion, led the principal attack on Fort Sanders on Nov. 29, 1863, it’s commemorated in several reenactor groups. The self-styled Rough and Readies of Company D aren’t … Continue reading
The Union cartridge box
P. Jewell & Sons, makers of U.S. Army Pattern 1857 Cartridge Boxes. The kind probably worn by the Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts and the Seventy-Ninth New York Cameron Highlands who defended the Northwest Bastion of Fort Sanders.
The Ultimate Confederate Button
Only one hint allowed: The button for holding one’s shirts and pants together was not made of plastic. (Scroll to the bottom at the link.)
Black powder
Civil War reenactors, at least in Washington State, are said to burn at least a hundred pounds of black powder in one of their typical blooodless battles. Thus, in this Sesquicentennial of the war, they are lobbying for a change … Continue reading
Reenactor anachronisms
The rifled parrott gun in this mock Northwest Bastion of a pretend Fort Sanders (miles away from where the original sat) is just one of the anachronisms the reenactor community puts up with. The only big guns in the bastion … Continue reading
The knapsack
As usual, the surviving examples of the soldier’s humble knapsack are mainly Union ones. But Confederate knapsacks were similar in design and appearance and, late in the war, were Union as well—confiscated from the battlefield. Interestingly, the soldier’s knapsack had … Continue reading
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Bleak House gets a new historic marker
Reenactors portray Longstreet (left) and an aging Rebel private at the new Bleak House marker. Via Knoxnews.com
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