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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
As smoke cleared the air it was evident that the Union soldiers were in a retreat.
Amid the cheers, the Confederates gathered in celebration and to care for their “wounded.”
Thanks to the North Texas History Center, the Collin County Historical Commission and the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1588 of Plano, history came to life at [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal
At this weekend’s Ocklawaha River Raid, thousands of people will savor the weather, smell the gun powder and explore the trappings of 1865.
There will be the playing of cards, checkers and chess. There will be food and family activities. There will be musket fire and cannon blasts. There will be Civil War camps and hundreds [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
5th Annual Skirmish at Zollicoffer will be this weekend, November 7-8, 1/4 mile from Bluff City Middle School on Old Elizabethton Road. This is Sullivan County’s biggest Civil War event and was featured in the opening of the movie “Freedom” a couple of years ago.
Hosted by 61st TN Company K Infantry CSA, reenacting group and [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
When Lisa Coffey says she’s into history, she means it.
Dressed as a civilian spectator from the American Civil War era in a brown, hoop skirt and off-white blouse, Coffey was one of about 200 reenactors who participated this past weekend in the Southern Nevada Living History Association’s Civil War Days at Spring Mountain Ranch State [...]
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October 30, 2009 | Posted by javal
Tickets are available now for the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville re-enactment, which is expected to bring about 30,000 people to North Carolina next March.
More than 3,500 re-enactors are expected to participate in the event, which will be held March 20-21 at the battlefield located near Four Oaks.
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October 30, 2009 | Posted by javal
This weekend, Spring Mountain Ranch State Park will be a battlefield full of hundreds of warriors from Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada.
And, no, they won’t be fighting about health care.
The Southern Nevada Living History Association will be hosting its fourth-annual Civil War Days in the Battle Born State and Southwest Invitational Reenactment.
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October 29, 2009 | Posted by javal
Battle plans are being drawn for the ninth annual “The Blue and the Gray” Civil War reenactments organized by the Rotary Club of Moorpark.
The fighting will take place Sat. and Sun., Nov. 7 and 8 at the Tierra Rejada Ranch on Sunset Valley Road in Moorpark.
“Grant Takes Command!” is the theme of this year’s event, [...]
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October 26, 2009 | Posted by javal
Marching over the horizon of Piperton Hills, soldiers emerged through the smoke of launched cannons, took a knee and fired their rifles.
Rebels yelled and Yankees cheered over the blare of bugles and shots of artillery fire.
It was the Nov. 4 Confederate-led attack on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Collierville guarded by Union soldiers during [...]
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October 23, 2009 | Posted by javal
This month in 1863, a Confederate general led an attack on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Collierville guarded by Union soldiers during the Civil War.
A surprise appearance by a Union general, William T. Sherman, and troops aboard a train that Oct. 11 made history.
This weekend, hundreds of re-enactors who take pride in historical accuracy [...]
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October 21, 2009 | Posted by javal
Civil War Re-enactors joined together for a three day “war” Oct. 16-18 on the North Fork Property in Happy Valley for their second Civil War Days, which was sponsored by the Happy Valley Lions Club.
Oct. 16 was education day where eight schools from as far away as Paradise and Susanville came to learn more about [...]
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