150TH SHILOH….. SATURDAY EARLY PM It was only about a ¾ mile walk to the Sutler area and the roads were beginning to dry up except for the shaded areas. So it didn’t take long to get there. The Sutler area has everything you could possibly want in the way of Civil War reenacting and then some. You could walk …
150th Shiloh… Saturday AM… Continued…. After about 15 minutes, we were ordered to ‘Fall in’, ‘Unstack Arms’, and ‘Unfix Bayonets’. Then we were given the orders to ‘Right Face’ and ‘Forward March’. We then marched over to the Brigade area, formed up with other Battalions, and marched out to the Yankee Camp to portray the first day of the Shiloh …
150th Shiloh… Saturday AM….. As usual I slept about 3 hours before I woke up. Since I never carry any modern conveniences, I had no wrist watch to check the time. I also never wear my wedding ring because it will scar the wood on my rifle and there might be a chance of losing it. So I just started …
150th SHILOH…..FRIDAY PM It had quit drizzling, but the sky was overcast and the humidity was high. Our long sleeve shirts under our wet frock coats were sopping wet. It took us about an hour to get back to our camp. My feet were sore, but no blisters were apparent. I checked out Toren’s headquarters area. He was there and …
150TH SHILOH….. FRIDAY AM (continued) We traversed another small hill doing our best to keep an even line, which isn’t easy with 125 men being shoulder to shoulder. Many times the battle line seems like an accordion. It stretches out and then collapses toward the middle. So you constantly hear men yelling, “Give to the right or give to the …
150TH SHILOH….. FRIDAY AM All of us had rolled our gum blankets and tied them to our packs or wore them as blanket rolls across our bodies. Since we were on the march and almost immediately getting ready to go into battle, we couldn’t go through the machinations of getting them out and wearing them to protect us from the …
Shiloh into Early Friday Morning We were to have pickets during the night, but I lucked out and didn’t have to do picket duty. I ate some more jerky and tortillas. Drank some more water and filled my canteen at the water wagon. I laid one of my gum blankets on the ground; took off my shoes; used my frock …
150TH SHILOH cont… I then traveled to see where the reenactor parking was and got it fixed in my head. Then using the map of the area I finally found the entrance for King’s 2nd Division. It was a bumpy lane, but the Division Headquarters was well defined with a big sign indicated the Headquarters location. I asked one of …
The first thing you have to realize about the Shiloh National Military Park is that the area has changed little since 1862. The old dirt roads that were used for decades are paved, but the growth of the area towns such as Corinth, MS, Selmer, TN and Savannah,TN have not impinged on the Park. Therefore, Shiloh is one of the …
April 18, 2012 by vdut7091 | Leave a comment | Edit I began reenacting in 1994 at the reenactment of the Battle of Prairie Grove, which is located in Northwest Arkansas. Since then I have participated in about 21 major reenactments with participants ranging from 750 to 20,000, such as the 135th Gettysburg. I also participated in the 2nd Red River Campaign in 1999, which lasted …