What would you like to experiance at future events?

[bAcK88]

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I am with you, Paul, but you and I know the minute anyone figures out that the chosen unit wasn't at Gettysburg, the protests will come as fast and hot as the face of the sun...
This might be something that would have to be done regionally. Let the easterners have theirs, and we'll have ours. There isn't a sno-cone's chance in you-know-where that I would commit to a 4-year-running Potomac event, and I imagine that the response from out east would inversely correspond.

Perhaps pick a unit than that traveled to different theaters of War.

For the Federals one could chose to follow a unit in the 11th or 12th Corps, regiment in the 9th Corps, Andrew Smith's boys from the Army of the Tennessee, or the 10th Corps.

For Confederates follow a unit in Hood's or McClaw's Divisions, 1st Missouri brigade, Breckinridge's Division, or Colquitt's or Bushrod Johnson's boys.

Bill

[boozie]

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Float the Yazoo River in a wooden barge, make the landing and push inward to Chickasaw Bluff's.

Doing engineer corps and building a pontoon bridge over a creek or small river and then to be able to march across it.

[Andrew Kasmar]

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Hi,

Doing engineer corps and building a pontoon bridge over a creek or small river and then to be able to march across it.
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Scott Busenbark

Now that sounds cool!!!!!!!!

[CompanyWag]

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3. Lookout Mt. ( although it would be nearly impossible, it would be a cool event.)

Andrew,

Take a look at the pix in the album I posted under my profile for photos of the event I organized for the 135th of Lookout Mountain. We assembled a battalion of 4 companies that followed the assault of the 96th Illinois up the western slope of Lookout Mountain (without trails), traversed under the escarpment to the Craven House site and then advanced to the Point the next morning. The photo ops on the Point were phenomenal. Finished up the event with a bully wrestling match between two companies umpired by the company officers.

Paul McKee

[Andrew Kasmar]

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Hi,

I did not know anyone had done a event up there. Thanks for the information and the pictures. They look very cool.

[Charles Heath]

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Andrew,

I really don't mean to pick on you, but somebody has to say it.

1. As all ready stated by others, I would like to see a Petersburg event.

Happens every year, and sometimes more than once. Go. Enjoy. James Owens would be glad to point you in the right direction. Email him. Like others, I'm sad the Reams Station event and the "Event That Cannot Be Mentioned" didn't materialize, but that is the way the hard bread crumbles.

2. The Atlanta Campaign such as Kenesaw Mt.( I am not sure if anyone has done that one before).

Happens every year, and sometimess more than once. Go. Enjoy. See AC Forum name Harrison Holloway for info about the program postponed from 2008 to 2009 due to flooding. The thread is still in the events subforum.

3. Lookout Mt. ( althougth it would be nearly impossible, it would be a cool event.)

Paul McKee mentioned the last big one. A much smaller event took place a few years ago, and a mention was made recently of a future effort. Find the thread, read it, and get involved.

4. Fredericksburg ( I liked the idea of have a on going battle through the night).

Happens every year. Sometimes several times each year. The event on 15-17 August is begging for help. The event(s) in town with rubber bullets and styrofoam stone walls will likely take place again, and even the most brief and casual perusal of events will pick up on a mid-November Fredericksburg event, or email Kevin or Dusty. It's the end of an era, so if you decide to attend you'll at least be able to say you caught a glimpse at the very tail end.

5. Pilot Knob or Fort Davidson....

Ask Frank, John, or Mitch, as they'd know of any upcoming Pilot Knob or Fort Davidson events.

People often mention events where entrenching is a desired activity, or at least living in earthworks for a while. Plenty of events have this feature, and are heavily advertised (even to the point where recluses, shut-ins, and hermits are well informed), but the question is whether participants would enjoy an extended event of three or four days of this type of heavy phsysical activity or just the usual day and a half? There's a question as it relates to a 2009 event that also includes some road and bridge construction.

Reenactors can continue attending the local encampment and skirmish aka "Ham-n-Yam Festival," whilst pining about something better, or get to the better events and enjoy a higher level of satisfaction.

[Silas]

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Here's a link to the last Lookout Mountain effort, the 140th, as noted in archive.org's "way back" machine : http://web.archive.org/web/200311241...servation.com/ There's some pretty good information linked from that page. It was quite an experience to climb Lookout from the base of the mountain.

Here's a link to the Petersburg area event which cannot be named. Good info on those pages, too.

As for me, I'd like to float downriver on a raft or pontoon boat, disembark, seize some strip of land, and remain their for the rest of the weekend. A scenario like the seizing of Brown's Ferry on the Tennessee River and opening the "Craker Line" is what I have in mind.

[Charles Heath]

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Silas,

The "event which cannot be named," yet has created ill will that extends well into the present time, has a three letter abbreviation, and would be the antithesis of Grant's Final Advance. At least the maps added to the website after the event was cancelled were quite nice, and I do believe the tobacco barn behind the Selma house is still standing.

A scenario like the seizing of Brown's Ferry on the Tennessee River and opening the "Craker Line" is what I have in mind.

The second site visit and walk about very nice, and the question remains as to whether this would be better as an extended play event in 2009 (which already has two) or moved to 2010, which is currently an uncluttered season.

[Dale Beasley]

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You know I often wondered what it would take to twist a railroad tie. That would be a first...would'nt it?

[Michael Comer]

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For Confederates follow a unit..., 1st Missouri brigade,

Wooeee - that one got my attention! You'd cover a lot of ground following the trail of those boys... Pea Ridge and Shiloh (elements that made the brigade were at both), Iuka, Corinth, Champion's Hill, Grand Gulf, Vicksburg, parole camp at Demopolis Alabama, Atlanta Campaign, Franklin, Ft. Blakely. That would be heaven to me I do believe.

[Kiev Thomason]

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What about....
1 )Joe Browns pets
2)Uncle Billy's boys
3)Running rivers and waterfalls
4)Helping save the Wray Collection
5)Taking every dang thing a civilian may own and laughing about it as you run off!

Bummers Registration will open very soon gents!:wink_smil

[Andrew Kasmar]

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Kiev Thomason

Taking every dang thing a civilian may own and laughing about it as you run off!

I have been wanting to do that for a long time!!!!:D

[Charles Heath]

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You know I often wondered what it would take to twist a railroad tie. That would be a first...would'nt it?

Dale,

Splintering would be the crux of the matter, as the torque overtakes the wood fibers' ability to cling togehter. Tell me you didn't mean to say "tie." :p

And they call me "Mr. Typo."

[Steve Acker]

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A construction event where we portray and unit coming up and building works.

1. Arrive Friday evening and begin digging and cutting. Pickets out
2. As the sunrises we all have to live in what we dug the previous night. Pickets out and all day work done below the trenchline
3. Saturday night we again dig and cut and build
4. Sunday we live in what we made until noon then head straight for a shower and a chiropractor.

Seriously that to me is the ultimate event.

Steve Acker

[Soldier Jo]

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