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_civilwar/WestvilleIndex.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]

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

[csabugler]

Any ponies in your plans?

[Jim of The SRR]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[lrbrightwell]

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]

Roger,

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

[Bob Steele]

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]

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]

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]

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

[SCTiger]

Is there any further news for this event? I heard that you were accepting registrations and the fee's. I would have sent a private email, but I feel that others may have a question and this could use a bump.

[Jim of The SRR]

Friends,



On behalf of SCAR, I’m pleased to announce that registration for the SCAR living history program at Chickamauga is now open. The event will be at Chickamauga National Military Park on September 19-21 and will highlight the park’s 145th anniversary observance of the battle. The guiding impression will be the 21st Ohio’s Company A.



The event website is:
http://www.geocities.com/union21ovi/chick

Additional information regarding the weekend will be posted there as it becomes available. You’ll find the registration form waiting for you to download, complete, and submit. Uniform guidelines and photos of some original members of the 21st are available as well.



Our “recruiting” goal is to have (at least) 51 soldiers on line for Friday night and Saturday as this was the actual number of men in Company A at the time of the battle. Numbers in excess of 51 will be used in various supporting roles, such as key members of regimental staff, musicians, orderlies, etc. We can also incorporate another company into the scenarios if our numbers justify it. We have copies of each man’s military service record, pension record (if applicable), hospital records (if applicable), final statement (if applicable), and inventory of effects (if applicable). In other words, we know what happened to each man in the company that answered the long roll on the Chickamauga battlefield. We will utilize this information in each public demonstration to visually show the public the casualties absorbed by this company during the fight at Snodgrass Hill. We will also have a special ceremony to honor the actual men of Company A at dusk on Saturday night . . . the time when the majority of the surviving members of the company were captured.



By providing various scenarios representative of the incidents associated with the confusion of battle, which include troop movements, firing demonstrations, and medical demonstrations that relate the conditions of the field, park visitors will be able to get some sense of the size of the battle, the intensity of the fighting and the stark reality of the minimal medical treatment afforded the wounded before being transported back to the field hospital.



By focusing on the movement associated with the 21st OVI, and specifically the rank structure and number of men in the ranks of Company A, a corollary goal is to provide the volunteer living historians a unique experience by allowing them the opportunity to participate in scenarios that are representative of the events encountered by the entire regiment on Sept 19 and 20, 1863.



Please help us spread the word regarding this special weekend. How cool would it be to honor the men of the original regiment by putting an actual-sized company in the field on the anniversary of the battle???



Please let me know if you have any questions . . .



Joshua Haugh

21st Ohio

[Jim of The SRR]

SCAR’s living history program at Chickamauga is now only two months away and the excitement continues to mount.

The folks at the Chickamauga reenactment . . . which is a separate event on the same weekend . . . have chosen to highlight the role of the 21st Ohio's own Samuel Fletcher Cheney as part of their festivities. We are expecting a decent amount of press coverage too because of the programs we're scheduled to conduct at Chickamauga NMP while representing the 21st.
We have received a good number of registration forms already . . . but we’ve still got plenty of room for more. Please go ahead and register if you haven’t done so . . . and encourage your pards to do the same. Our goal is a 51-man company, as that was the number of men were on line in Company A during the battle. Registration forms can be found online at: http://www.geocities.com/union21ovi/chick

Let me know if you have any questions . . . I'm looking forward to seeing you in the field.



Joshua Haugh

Joshua.haugh@citadel.edu

[Thomas Alleman]

I do want to go, so how are the numbers as of now? Also anyone coming from anywhere close to Michigan or on the way there lookng for a rider, it is a long trip for me to do it alone. PM if you are on the rout of I-75, looking to split costs.

[Jim of The SRR]

I believe Josh stated he has 40 out of 50 to fill the company.

Jim Butler

[Jon The Beloved]

To the folks in town for whatever reason during the Chickamauga 145th,

I know this does not relate to this particular thread and I also know it conflicts with the Federals at this living history AND conflicts with the mainstream/progressive reenactment down south. BUT..

Your post does conflict with this event and thread, if you want to advertise your event you need to go through the process to have it listed in this folder. Please do not piggyback on someone else's thread.

Jim Kindred - Moderator

[jhaugh]

There are a lot of exciting events going at Chickamauga NP on 19-21 Sept with book signings, battlefield tours, Confed living history, a four-gun Federal artillery battery, and a Federal 50-man infantry company. Anyone who happens to live in the area . . . or is bored at the mainstream reenactment . . . would be well served to stop by the park and enjoy all of the park's anniversary events.

To our friends in the 1st Tenn . . . I've forwarded your location up to Thomas' headquarters. Perhaps we'll receive orders to probe your defenses next weekend

Joshua Haugh
21st Ohio

[Jim of The SRR]

Just wondering why y'all couldn't have just signed up with the pre-planned and organized Living History effort at the park rather than start another one??? DECONFLICTION anyone???

Jim Butler