Jonesville:Hell In Lee County

[Haversack]

Hello All,
A few others and myself are planning a campaigner event for 2010 in Jonesville,VA.It will be held on the original battlefield.This will be a tactical style event.We should have a nice sized chunk of land to play on.The event will be held in April,about a month after the LBL-Backwater event in March.The event will be hosted by the Wampus Cats Mess,the Breckinridge Greys,and the Walnut Hill Mess.The Confederate Coordinaters are Luke Gilly,Jesse Parsons, and Chad Wrinn.The Federal Coordinatoers are Shawn Sturgill(myself)and Ryan Halsey.I will post the link to the website once we get it up and running.Please feel free to PM me with any questions.
Thanks,

[Pvt. Middleton]

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Me and my friend plan to attend this event next year. I've spoken to Luke about it some and it sounds as if you all have a heck of an event planned. =)

[-Jesse-]

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We're already getting interest shown for this event,it should be a great event...we def.have the land for it(original battlefield)and plenty of it!:wink_smil

[lukegilly13]

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Jesse and I were able to look over some of the event grounds this past weekend. For you ANV guys that have ever wanted to experience what things may have been like in "The Wilderness"...this could be a an ideal situation....plenty of wooded area for use...and the tree still stands where the confederates surrendered.
We will be back there in June and I will take some pictures of the proposed battlefield for those of you who have never been there.

[Ryan Halsey]

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Yes. We should have a good event planned out. The land is awesome.

[Haversack]

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We are currently working on nailing down some specifics for the event.I will post some more info when we get a couple of things taken care of.

[PetePaolillo]

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Shawn, Thanks much for the email and invite. I am definately interested, please keep me in the loop

[Haversack]

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Ok,
We pushed the event dates back a little because it conflicted with peoples schedules.The tentative event dates are July 9-11 2010.If this conflicts with anyone elses events,olease let me know and we will try to fix things as best as possible.
Thanks,

[Haversack]

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Just to let everyone know,
We are planning some interesting things for the event.I would like to make a lot of it a surprise,but I will post some info later on.

[lukegilly13]

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Just a little bump for the event:
For the confederate side, the union controlled the nearby Cumberland Gap and Tazewell TN. Needless to say, it was NOT the best place for supply lines so pards...gotta live off forage. We'll make sure the countryside is stocked well. Don't look for rations to be issued but expect to be able to forage and actually find things. You were literally the end of the rope so expect to do a great deal of picket duty! Although it will not be cold when we recreate the event, I think it important that you know the extremeties of the terrain. According to Grumble Jones, one of his men froze to death in the saddle on their way to this stronghold. The scrap we are reliving took place on January 3, 1864. You are portraying men on a short campaign, late in the war, most of whom were close to home...literally fighting in their back yards. Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Haversack]

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After talking with Luke,it sounds like the Confederate forage may be better then the Federal rations!You definately won't have to worry about going hungry.So far the event is shaping up to be very nice.It should definately be a fairly unique expierience...

[Haversack]

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All,
We were at the event site this past weekend(June 5-7 2009)for a mainstream event and we went exploring a little.And,to put it simply,there is tons of land.It truly is a great site.We are currently working on gettin commanders lined up and such,but I will post this information when it comes along.

[elcid01]

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Seems this event is gathering interest. Couple of Questions:

1. Whats your desired numbers intent? COmmand Structure? Numbers per side? BN/CO per side???

2. this actual event took place in January 64? And the modern event is July? Explain? is there not a July senerio to portray to make the climate a little more accurate? Sort of like doing Fredericksburg in July. might be off, but this raised the question

3. Logistics, imagine the numbers will drive your food aquired for the event. You are protraying a "forage style event" for the CS side? was this the historical case?

4. What CS/ US unit will be portrayed? Unit histories? Why?

Sorry not to sharp shoot your event and honestly wouldn't mind attending just want a little more information. Undestand this is a year away, but we are starting to look years in advance for events these days.

Cheers,

[Haversack]

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Skip,
1.We would like to have no less than two companies per side.We are still working out our command structure at the moment.

2.Yes,the original engagement took place in January.We are doing this in July for a few reasons:
A)Winter down here is bitterly cold,especially in January.
B)The July date puts us farther away from other events.
Also,they did Fort Sanders in April....


3.Yes,the forage for CS soldiers is accurate.They were at the end of the line,surrounded by Federals and their supply lines had been pretty well cut.

4.The units that will be portrated are the 64th VA(CS),and we are still digging on a US unit,but we are close to finding a good one.

Feel free to ask any additional questions you may have.

[Charlie Newman]

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this looks to be great..i have the seen this field and fought on it a number of times.For anybody that will be attending,It is a site to see.January 3,1864,as Luke says,it was called the Frozen Fight!