Any civil war reenactors/SUVCW HERE?

No worries! The losing side is well represented.

I joined the SAR last year, and plan to be a color guard Continental once the pandemic is over and they start activities again.

I read a lot of his books on Byzantium, but I steered clear of his Southern Victory series. I read a newspaper special on the 100th anniversary of the start, in 1962, about If the South had Won the Civil War and it was awful. Of course, this was just before I learned to not believe anything in the newspaper.

You, know, I'll bet that the South actually did win, but the newspaper moguls spread the story that the Yankees won and the sheep believed it.

Yes. All of the above.

One thing there will NEVER be— re-enactments of the IRISH “civil war.” (An oxymoron if there ever was one.)

Yes, but only under English supervision.

Seriously, the Irish were a big part of the armies on both sides. The North has the Irish Brigade including the famous 69th new York.

My wife had distant cousins in the Irish Brigade. 

Easter 1916.

Several years ago, in Tennessee, I was gonna join the reenactment cavalry of Nathan Bedford Forrest. But I couldn’t afford all of the period correct gear required, and most activities were on Sundays. So I finally gave up.

About 35 miles north of here in Colorado is Fort Something or Other. Built in the 1840s. They have a platoon of costumed re-enactors from the Mexican War. They have a Nine Pounder, too. I used to go there on the Fourth of July for the flag raising and the cannon firing. It was fun to watch. They strike up the band and raise the flag, fire the cannon and drill a little with long old smoothbore Springfield muskets.  Too many Texans and Coloradans, the ones with the big hats, fancy belt buckles and new pick up trucks, refuse to remove their hats during the flag raising, or shut up or place hand over heart. They stand in front of me with their thumbs in their belts or such. I do get it but that is the way it is now. 

No, that is way to the northeast.

I am thinking of Fort Garland. I had a moment of blankness and could not recall the name of the fort or the town which surrounds it. 

They seem to be 45 miles apart.

My childhood was a civil war, 6 boys....brother fought brother.

We went through reconstruction and all get along pretty well now though.


Seriously, my family fought in every war since the revolutionary war on Dad's side. My ancestor by the name of James was listed as a union deserter for decades until my aunt did the footwork, found out he was in a hospital after being shot up and discharged at the end of the war. He quietly went home to live his life never contacting the gubmint, so he (probably unknowingly) was listed as a deserter.

Aunt Ruby was hardcore though, she straightened it all out with a posthumous correction...the dogged genealogy researcher she was.

Mom's side was native American, don't think they took sides.