140th Cedar Creek Reenactment.

In case any of my loyal fans happened to notice my absence for a few days, I was down in Virginia for the 140th Anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Creek. It was quite possibly the Best Reenactment I've ever done.

We had several thousand reenactors there, the numbers weren't ever confirmed, but there was easily between 8 and 10 thousand guys on the field.

It rained all weekend, and it was colder than hell, the wind was god awful, we had 3 hours of field drills on Sat. morning, starting at 7am, we spent 11 hours on the road yesterday, from 3:30 pm, to 2:30am this morning. I'm tired as hell, I hurt, and I have a midterm to make up, but it was worth every sore muscle and missed test.

Going into more detail would take up about 9 pages of text right now, and that's probably not a good idea.

I know a few of you are interrested in the Civil War, and even reenacting, if you ever get a chance to get to Cedar Creek in Middletown Va for the battle reenactment, it's worth it.

sounds fun

ive always thought one of those would be fun to see

Zouave Rifles were .58 2 banders. My father's had one for years, a repro remington, and he's accurate as all hell with it, it's range is only slightly less than my 1853 enfield. They're fun to shoot.

Perhaps you're thinking of the 1842 springfield which were .69 caliber smoothbores.

I served on the crew for a full scale 12 pound napoleon one day. talk about awesome.

We've done just about every branch of service until we settled with our current unit, so we have two 3 banded enfields, the zouave rifle, an enfield musketoon (2 bands) a cook and brother carbine, a smith carbine, and a sharps carbine.

Countless pistols too....ever fire a Lematts pistol live? 9 44 caliber rounds in the cylinder, and the 20 ga. shotgun barrel underneath it. What a trip THAT is.