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I'd like to clarify the IPW cavalry portion if I can. There WILL be a very limited number of cavalry at IPW and I'm sure if any of you are interested in making the trip to west Louisiana in March, you can contact me off board and I can fill you in on the details. I do have the cavalry standards done, but I want to run them by the event hosts before making them public, and even then, I'd post them on the IPW website, not on this forum. For the record, though, the unit being portrayed will be Vincent's 2nd Louisiana Cavalry during the very early stages of the Red River Campaign in the push out of Alexandria and just before the majority of the unit was surprised and captured at Henderson's Hill. If you're serious about coming to the event, and I hope some of you are, and you can't wait a couple of days for me to get the standards posted, you can basically just look at the Confederate Infantry standards and use those for a guideline. The cavalry will vary mostly in horse equipment and weapons. Western and Trans-Mississippi provenance CS issue is the rule of thumb, very little, if any US issue.
Again, contact me personally and I'll be happy to fill in any details.
I can say for sure that one of the reasons cavalry will be limited for this event is due entirely to logistics. The route is long and continuously moving. There will not be a static campsite to stage hay or grain. Forage will be haphazard at best. Five days in the saddle, constantly moving, with little to no forage for your mount is likely to turn some people away. No doubt, both ourselves and especially our horses, will take a pounding.
This event is a trial run for allowing cavalry, and I can understand that completely. Hopefully it will be huge success and event organizers will not be as hesitant next time in opening these kinds of events to mounted folks.
Even with the limited number of cavalry spots available, I'm sure we would love to have you at IPW. Just understand that it is a long event (5 days) and we will have to be completely self-sufficient. Those two things usually turn people off. If you can swing the time off from work, can meet the standards, and can handle the rigors of hard campaigning, then either email me at larry.morgan@tangischools.org or PM me here.
However, I feel that the actual event website discussion board is a more appropriate place to discuss the nuiances of this event. Feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have
It won't be easy, but it should be fun. I promise that at the end of that week, we'll all know if we really want to be cavalrymen or not.
Again, contact me personally and I'll be happy to fill in any details.
I can say for sure that one of the reasons cavalry will be limited for this event is due entirely to logistics. The route is long and continuously moving. There will not be a static campsite to stage hay or grain. Forage will be haphazard at best. Five days in the saddle, constantly moving, with little to no forage for your mount is likely to turn some people away. No doubt, both ourselves and especially our horses, will take a pounding.
This event is a trial run for allowing cavalry, and I can understand that completely. Hopefully it will be huge success and event organizers will not be as hesitant next time in opening these kinds of events to mounted folks.
Even with the limited number of cavalry spots available, I'm sure we would love to have you at IPW. Just understand that it is a long event (5 days) and we will have to be completely self-sufficient. Those two things usually turn people off. If you can swing the time off from work, can meet the standards, and can handle the rigors of hard campaigning, then either email me at larry.morgan@tangischools.org or PM me here.
However, I feel that the actual event website discussion board is a more appropriate place to discuss the nuiances of this event. Feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have
It won't be easy, but it should be fun. I promise that at the end of that week, we'll all know if we really want to be cavalrymen or not.
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