Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

[Jim of The SRR]

SCAR has been invited to host the Federal Living History program at Chickamauga National Military Park on Sept 19-21st, 2008. This will be to celebrate the 145th anniversary of the battle. We will be conducting our LH and encampment at/near Snodgrass Hill. Our civilian contigent under Vickie Rumble has also been asked to handle the civilian part of the program at the Snodgrass Cabin.

We have not yet selected the unit we will repesent, but it will probably be the 89th Ohio or the 22nd MI. We could also do the 21st Ohio (Co. A or B as the other companies had Colt Repeating Rifles.)

SCAR hosted 2008 events:
Sept 19-21, 2008 Chickamauga Federal LH Program (website will be forthcoming)

Oct 17-19, 2008 Sparks of Secession - Westville, 1861 (civilian/Confederate) (a rough preliminary website is at: http://www.geocities.com/scar_civilw...illeIndex.html)

The Chickamuaga website is: http://www.nps.gov/chch

Please contact me or any SCAR rep if you or your group would like an invite to particpate in either event in 2008 (see www.geocities.com/scar_civilwar
for contact info).

Date(s): 19-21 September 2008
Event Name: Chickamauga NPS LH
Location: Chickamauga NMP
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Regards,
Jim Butler

[HighPrvt]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

Chickamauga sounds great. With that, and Pickett's Mill '08 should be a great year for reenacting!

[csabugler]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

Any ponies in your plans?

[Jim of The SRR]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

I would have to ask the park about equine. I only have permission thus far for infantry. I'll check and contact you.

Jim Butler

[Jim of The SRR]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

SCAR has decided to portray the 21st Ohio (Company A and possibly B). We will try to represent a historical sized company. Josh Haugh will have an event website up soon.

Jim Butler
SRR www.geocities.com/saltriverrifles
SCAR www.geocities.com/scar_civilwar

[trippcor]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

Jim,
Sounds interesting. I might event be able to get a colt revolving rifle by then.
Are you going to allow other repeaters?

[Jim of The SRR]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

Tripp,

A Colt Revolving Rifle would be great to bring for a 21st OVI portrayal. We won't any other type of repeaters.

Thanks,
Jim

[Mark Susnis]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

Here's a link to some 21st Ohio primary source documents from Bowling Green State University in Ohio:

http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/civilwar.html

Enjoy,
Mark Susnis

[Silas]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

Pete, you might be busy that same weekend just down the road a piece.

[lrbrightwell]

Re: Chickamauga 145th Anniversary LH

I may be asking at the wrong thread, but as I had just recently visited Chickamauga and took the driving tour through the battle field, my wife asked the following question that I could not answer, " Why are the Union monuments along the battle lines topped with what appears to be an acorn?" I see that most of units involved were from Indiana and Ohio. I could not answer and when I got back to my unit meeting I did not get a real for sure answer either. Thank you for your help.

Roger Brightwell
1st Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, Omaha, Ne

[samarshall]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

Roger,

The acorn was the corps badge of the U.S. fourteenth corps.

[Bob Steele]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

The acorn which you refer to applies to the Fourteenth Corps, commanded at Chickamauga by General George H. Thomas. However, the acorn badge was used by the Corps after, not during, the battle.
Bob Steele

[lrbrightwell]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

Thank you for your help. I thought fight was xxi corps and xx corps. I missed the fourteen. Had to go back to Hardtack and Coffee book where I had missed the acorn. Again thank you for your help.

Roger Brightwell
1st Nebraska Volunteer Infantry

[Jim of The SRR]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

Chickamuaga LH 2008 event website is at:

http://www.geocities.com/union21ovi/chick

POC is Josh Haugh at
haughj1@citadel.edu

More info will be added soon.

Regards,
Jim Butler

[jhaugh]

Re: Chickamauga NPS LH: 19-21 September 2008

The impression for the weekend's activities will be Company A, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the time of Chickamauga, this company had one officer, 48 enlisted, and 2 musicians in the field for battle. Our goal will be to trace the steps of this company and immerse ourselves in the struggle that these men faced during the battle. When the fighting was over, Company A had suffered 35 casualties.

As Company A was equipped with Enfields, these will be the weapons of choice for the weekend. However, some reproduction Colt revolving rifles will also be employed in order to demonstrate to the public the incredible firepower that eight companies of the regiment were able to leverage on the attacking Confederate forces on Snodgrass Hill.

More information will be added soon to the event website (http://www.geocities.com/union21ovi/chick).

Joshua Haugh