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So since I have to graduate school at some point I'm taking the final requirement for my history degree which is a capstone. The capstone involves a 25-30 pg paper on some aspect of Civil War Memory. At first I was going to write my paper on Civil War reenacting and the role it plays in how people remember the Civil War. However, I decided to look at something a little more controversial and changed my topic to how General Forrest is remembered for the role that he did or did not play in the mas… Continue

We all know that all some of us in the hobby forget how to do certain maneuvers during reenactments. I was surfing the net today and came across something that might be of some interest to those who cannot remember how to form company into line or cannot remember how to right face or left face in regards to where the one and the two go. This might be helpful and actually shows the maneuvers. You can rewind and pause and they even mark each man a one and a two. I just hope everyone can count that… Continue