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A new poll question! Let's do some market research. How did you first hear about The Authentic Campaigner?
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64Word of Mouth/Friends42.19%27CW Reenactors Forum7.81%5Google/Other Internet Search32.81%21Facebook0.00%0Twitter0.00%0Link From Another Site9.38%6Other - Please Post7.81%5The poll is expired.
Last edited by Eric Tipton; 06-14-2014, 06:49 AM.ERIC TIPTON
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Re: How Did You First Hear About The AC?
An ad placed in the civil war historian back in the day. Man do i miss that magazine.Bret A Stewart
44th Tn co K
Pop Skull Mess
"Get there fastest with the mostest" Nathan Bedford Forrest -
Re: How Did You First Hear About The AC?
While doing research several times an AC link was one of the top hits for my question.Louis Zenti
Pvt. Albert R. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-W.I.A. February 15, 1862)
Pvt. William H. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-K.I.A. February 15, 1862 Ft. Donelson)
Pvt. Simon Sams (Co. C, 18th Iowa Inf.-K.I.A. January 8, 1863 Springfield, MO)
Pvt. Elisha Cox (Co. C, 26th North Carolina Inf.-W.I.A. July 3, 1863 Gettysburg)
"...in the hottest of the fight, some of the rebs yelled out...them must be Iowa boys". Charles O. Musser 29th Iowa InfantryComment
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Re: How Did You First Hear About The AC?
In 2004, three years in the hobby, I was bored at work in the winter missing the hobby and craving more. I searched for civil war forum to see if I could get a fix. This place came up.Comment
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Doing research for my impression. Since someone tried to sell me polyester... I was like that did not exist back then... HUMMM..Thank You,
Brent Dacus
The AC Admin
The Company of Military Historians
Member, Civil War Preservation Trust
Are you reading? I still am...Comment
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Re: How Did You First Hear About The AC?
Hallo!
With the rise of the Authenticity Movement of 1998-2004, and the rise of the "message board" fora.... I saw the birth of the AC and said "This is for me!"
Learn, grow, progress, evolve, share!!
CurtCurt Schmidt
In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt
-Hard and sharp as flint...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
-Haplogroup R1b M343 (Subclade R1b1a2 M269)
-Pointless Folksy Wisdom Mess, Oblio Lodge #1
-Vastly Ignorant
-Often incorrect, technically, historically, factually.Comment
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Hairy Nation Boys were listed as one of the few Authentic Groups when this site was first created by Paul. I have been posting/ reading on the AC since it was created in the late 90s.Nathan Hellwig
AKA Harrison "Holler" Holloway
"It was the Union armies west of the Appalachians that struck the death knell of the Confederacy." Leslie Anders ,Preface, The Twenty-First MissouriComment
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I don't remember how I heard about it, but it was an e-mail list.Andrew Grim
The Monte Mounted Rifles, Monte Bh'oys
Burbank #406 F&AM
x-PBC, Co-Chairman of the Most Important Committee
Peter Lebeck #1866, The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
Billy Holcomb #1069, Order of Vituscan MissionariesComment
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Lee's Authentic Reenactors' Message Board, back in the day. Lee White, I miss that board.Pat BrownComment
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Learned about the site when I was doing research when I was first getting into reenacting and was under the impression that all uniforms and gear were alike. I was a bit off in that theory.Justin Sanders
9th Texas Infantry
Red River BattalionComment
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Google took me here and I haven't looked back since. This is by far the best site for research I have ever found. Combine this with LOC/photos, and that's all I need.
While still quite new to this hobby, I witnessed different men wearing very similar articles but one looked authentic while the other looked "undone" and "not quite right" and I didn't know what the difference was as the articles themselves looked the same. I always heard that the best way to spot counterfeit money is to become intimately familiar with REAL money. I applied the same logic to this hobby and tried to create a "memory" by looking at thousands of original pictures similar to the impression I wanted to have. Combine that with the attitude and research on this forum, and you can't go wrong. Thanks to all those who manage this website and we all should donate just a few bucks a year to this forum to keep it going. Thanks!Steven Dacus
Casper, Wyoming
11th Ohio Cav (6th Ohio Cav: 1st Bat)Comment
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Re: How Did You First Hear About The AC?
I stumbled across the predecessor to the current A/C back in 2000, my second year in the Hobby. It was linked on some group's webpage, but for the life of me I have no idea what unit that was. :) What I DO recall was staying up until the wee hours of the morning for the next several nights, reading every single article. That was a revelation.Chad Teasley
"Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender to an enemy."
Lt Col James Autry, CSA, May 1862Comment
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Google search at work one night. I was just getting into the hobby then, and I would not have been able to tell you the difference between campaigner and mainstream. This site saved me from a life of bad impressions.Your humble servant....
Sean Collicott
[URL="www.sallyportmess.itgo.com"]Sally Port Mess[/URL]
[URL="http://oldnorthwestvols.org/onv/index.php"]Old Northwest Volunteers[/URL]Comment
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Re: How Did You First Hear About The AC?
I clicked a link on Morris & Company Historic Clothiers. I was very new to the hobby and starting to realize there definitely was a difference in impressions as far as authenticity was concerned.Jeffrey Quigley
The Tater Mess
Black Jack Battlefield
Lone Jack Historical Society
"Col. Pate" said Stuart, "You have done all that any man could do. How long can you hold this position?" "Until I die General" answered Pate.
General J.E.B Stuart to Col. Henry Clay Pate, moments before Pate was killed in action at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, May 11th, 1864.
Henry Clay Pate, Militia Captain of Shannon's Sharpshooters, Battle of Black Jack, Kansas Territory June 2nd 1856Comment
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When I was new to the hobby, I stumbled across AC doing research.Frank Siltman
24th Mo Vol Inf
Cannoneer, US Army FA Museum Gun Crew
Member, Oklahoma Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission
Company of Military Historians
Lawton/Fort Sill, OK
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty.— Robert A. HeinleinComment
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