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[buckandball]

Disregard... closer reading of the event guidelines answered this... darn that "reading" stuff...

[Charles Heath]

Ben, I have that kid-just-before-Christmas thing going on, too. The gear for my 20th TN impression, as pitiful as it may be, has been laid out for about 2 weeks. You know it's some bad juju when a grown man is debating which haversack goes best with which frockcoat. Sigh.

"Say, honey, does this knapsack make my butt look big?" :o

[BrianHicks]

Mr. Craddock has been beside himself.... anxiously awaiting this event.... why... from the excitement in his voice when he we've talked... you'd almost think he was going to his first reenactment ever. :p

[Johnny Lloyd]

Gents, It is all good... think we needed a thread to get the blood pumpin' before the Outpost event.

I have not been this excited since I thought Santa was comin'... see ya'll in Tennessee.

Good stuff ... Johnny

[Western Blue Belly]

What do you mean "thought Santa was comin" ? He still is isent he? Time away from it all at a good event sounds like Christmas to me!

[FarbNoMore]

Right there with you fellas. I scheduled a school program today, to "get ready." I may even go with that same school group tomorrow when they head to Shiloh. 'Good times,' see you guys there.

[Kevin O'Beirne]

Finally packed in Tuesday evening (leaving early Thursday morning). This is darned odd for me: Everything I'm bringing is merely for my own personal use! No loaner gear, no battalion property, no displays for the edumakshun of the public, etc. I am finally getting to use that 2.5-year-old US Army dress hat for either the second or third time.

So, that's how one packs a KNAPSACK, huh? It's been so long since I used one (probably two years) that I almost forgot how to pack the thing. I'm bringing an overcoat and couldn't figure out a good way to conveniently carry the coat and the usual blanket/gum blanket/personal stuff as a blanket roll, so this time the ol' knapsack got hauled outta mothballs and re-commissioned (no cruise missiles, though).

Looks like the air temperature in the wee hours of Sunday morning may be a tad on the brisk side (upper 30s last I checked at www.weather.com). Yanks should be "authentic" and bring an overcoat; after all, this is the late-December Stones River campaign, and if we're on picket it's darned unlikely you'll have a campfire at either your sentinel post OR at the outpost. Mittens are not inappropriate for a late-December portrayal either.

Looking forward to the trip and the event.

[Johnny Lloyd]

Hey Buck... Did anyone "Disregard" this thread? Ironic, huh? -:p

[Hairy Nation Boys]

From what I have heard (even though the site says otherwise This was posted on the ONV site) the time frame we are portraying is October 1862. Not after Stones River.

Someone(battalion staff) correct if I am wrong.

[Terry Sorchy]

Yes Holler you are correct. The event was first portraying a time period of a Post Stones River time frame, but some months ago it was chaged to a Pre Stones River actual October 1862 time period. That kept things much simpler as far as event planning was concerned.
Cheers
Terry Sorchy

[Kevin O'Beirne]

Dang. That's news.

[Spinster]

Regardless of the time frame gentlemen----I have spent the first part of the week about 60 miles south of Spring Hill, laboring in the out-of-doors, improving upon a number of family cemetary plots in the hills and valleys around Lookout.

It is offi-shul-ly fall---brisk, gusty winds, scuttling low clouds, spattering rains, and sudden temperature drops that catch one unprepared. While the weekend promises far less rain than I worked in yesterday, brisk will still be the operative term.

Better be sure you've got your gum blanket firmly attached---that ground underneath you will be dampish.

[hpotter]

I was with Kevin on that one. So are we not portraying the actions along the Nolensville Pike? October v December with the 89th was of course two completely different things. Just curious for 1st person knowledge.

[coastaltrash]

Well, here goes-

The 20th Alabama was dispatched with Breckinridge to Middle Tennessee in October of 1862 to (according to Peter Cozzens) disrupt the attacks of the federal movements and foraging of the area. That should have been changed on the website some time back, as (Terry correct me on this if I am wrong) was changed pre-Vicksburg Life on the Line.

[Charles Heath]

Hey Buck... Did anyone "Disregard" this thread? Ironic, huh? -:p

It's one of those classic "Seinfeld Threads." :D

[Terry Sorchy]

Yup your right Pat, it just never got changed on the site.
Cheers
Terry Sorchy

[Hairy Nation Boys]

Being from Iowa we are use to that type of weather. As a matter of fact we enjoy it when it gets cold.

I have my spoon partner!

[buckandball]

I think this has been the most productive thread I have ever started... :D

See you all tomorrow evening...