Important Event Announcement - "Bummers"

[pipthelimey]

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Sweet, this is maybe an hour or so from my house. The reenacting gods smile on me at last.

AJ

[HighPrvt]

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Outstanding!!!

Can't wait for this one.

[Kiev Thomason]

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Makes me think of a song by the group Alabama.....Will keep the home fires BURNING!!!!!!!!:wink_smil
Gents thanks sooooo much for the early cheers!I hope that we can live up to your praise.I can speek for all of us when I say that we have been talking this over since the last WIG meeting in Nashville last December and it just keeps growing.
When we get the type of words you gents are putting forth it makes us want to do great things.

This will ROCK!

[bAcK88]

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Will the Federals be able to pillage, plunder, and burn?

I'm there!

Bill

[Eric Tipton]

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I have added the secondary pages for the web site - placeholders mostly for now, but check it out:

www.bummers09.com

I'll echo what Kiev said. We are thrilled to death that we have received the type of support that has been extended so far. We thought that this scenario might be a fun one to do. In terms of specifics, we will say the same that we said for Rich Mountain. Read the history and expect anything to happen... if it did.

[Jim of The SRR]

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I'm looking forward to this. I actually did the Marching Thru GA event several years ago and it was fun. Plus right in my backyard.

Jim Butler
Salt River Rifles

"Sherman: Atlanta's first torchbearer" (from a T-shirt during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics).

[Kiev Thomason]

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Will the Federals be able to pillage, plunder, and burn?

I'm there!

Bill

You will just have to see for yourself!:sarcasticSee ya there Bill

[CARY MEADOWS]

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I'm in Iraq right now and will be home in July 2008. I hope to be stationed on the East coast by then, so count me in. BGR put the hook in me. Sign me up.

Cary Meadows
MNST-I J/4
Umm Qasr Iraq

[CARY MEADOWS]

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I'm in Iraq right now and will be home in July 2008. I hope to be stationed on the East coast after that. Count me in. BGR put the hook into me, so sign me up.
Cary Meadows
MNST-I J/4
Umm Qasr, Iraq

[Kevin O'Beirne]

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Eric,

Just a thought: Wanton destruction is grossly underrepresented in the hobby. (Still looking to see some new experienced through reenacting.)

[redleggeddevil]

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Boy, would I like to be part of this! I have even more motivation than most: Not only am I a reenactor, but I was a Boy Scout camp director for 6 years. Oh, to be sanctioned to do all the evil things I was never allowed to do...

[Mark Susnis]

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Recommend you guys get a copy of Joseph T. Glatthaar's The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolina's Campaign published in 1985. Glatthaar's book can best be described as the Life of Billy Yank on Sherman's men. Chapter 7 is titled "Foraging"...

Regards,
Mark Susnis

[theknapsack]

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I don't know what's happening in 2009 with me, but count me in for now.

[Coatsy]

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Barfus and all.

As one of "those guys" I highly recommend reading some books dealing with Uncle Billy and the Gang's stroll from Atlanta to Savannah. "The Crew" is already doing so.

Jimbo, Haird, and AJ...Yeah an event in our backyard.... Who would have thought?

[Coatsy]

From Uncle Billy....

All, here is something to think on......From Sherman

"Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field, Kingston, Georgia, November 9, 1864

I. For the purpose of military operations, this army is divided into two wings viz.: The right wing, Major-General O. O. Howard commanding, composed of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps; the left wing, Major-General H. W. Slocum commanding, composed of the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps.

II. The habitual order of march will be, wherever practicable, by four roads, as nearly parallel as possible, and converging at points hereafter to be indicated in orders. The cavalry, Brigadier - General Kilpatrick commanding, will receive special orders from the commander-in-chief.

III. There will be no general train of supplies, but each corps will have its ammunition-train and provision-train, distributed habitually as follows: Behind each regiment should follow one wagon and one ambulance; behind each brigade should follow a due proportion of ammunition - wagons, provision-wagons, and ambulances. In case of danger, each corps commander should change this order of march, by having his advance and rear brigades unencumbered by wheels. The separate columns will start habitually at 7 a.m., and make about fifteen miles per day, unless otherwise fixed in orders.

IV. The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather, near the route traveled, corn or forage of any kind, meat of any kind, vegetables, corn-meal, or whatever is needed by the command, aiming at all times to keep in the wagons at least ten day's provisions for the command and three days' forage. Soldiers must not enter the dwellings of the inhabitants, or commit any trespass, but during a halt or a camp they may be permitted to gather turnips, potatoes, and other vegetables, and to drive in stock of their camp. To regular foraging parties must be instructed the gathering of provisions and forage at any distance from the road traveled.

V. To army corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, &c., and for them this general principle is laid down: In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested no destruction of such property should be permitted; but should guerrillas or bushwhackers molest our march, or should the inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise manifest local hostility, then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility.

VI. As for horses, mules, wagons, &c., belonging to the inhabitants, the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely and without limit, discriminating, however, between the rich, who are usually hostile, and the poor or industrious, usually neutral or friendly. Foraging parties may also take mules or horses to replace the jaded animals of their trains, or to serve as pack-mules for the regiments or bridges. In all foraging, of whatever kind, the parties engaged will refrain from abusive or threatening language, and may, where the officer in command thinks proper, give written certificates of the facts, but no receipts, and they will endeavor to leave with each family a reasonable portion for their maintenance.

VII. Negroes who are able-bodied and can be of service to the several columns may be taken along, but each army commander will bear in mind that the question of supplies is a very important one and that his first duty is to see to them who bear arms.

– William T. Sherman, Military Division of the Mississippi Special Field Order 120, November 9, 1864"

Read number 4 and soak it in.... :)