Return to Manassas

[PieBoy96]

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[cs10thva]

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Hi Chris,
Some good CA fellers are a plann'n to come your way for Return to Manassas(GREY)Hope I can make it!!
Magwood

[ltdan25th]

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I am definately looking forward to this event..

[pvtbordonaro]

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Eliot,
There is a lot of info about the event on a separate thread in this forum: http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...sas-quot/page5
If you can't find what you're looking for there, shoot me an email at beatlefans1@verizon.net
- Joe Bordonaro

[PvtShot]

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Any news on this?

[Jeremy Bevard]

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Stillwaters and Billy Goats,

I know we just got done with Bummers and we are still registering and organizing for Backwaters. But keep this one in your mind and on your schedule.

[pvtbordonaro]

Adjunct Companies

Friends,
Here's an update on the company structure for the Potomac Legion adjunct to the "Return to Manassas" event:

First Company (Color Company): 13th NJ/Stockton Guards, Neil Hobbins commanding
Second Company: 122nd New York, Chris Piering commanding
Third Company: Sally Port Mess, Jeremy Bevard commanding
Fourth Company: To be assigned.
Battalion Staff: Open
Artillery: Mike Martorelli of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery F (a member unit of the Potomac Legion) will be the overall coordinator for artillery at the event.
Cavalry: Open

Things are coming together nicely. If you are interested in joining one of the three established companies, or if you would like to be involved in forming the fourth company, please contact Bill Birney at: twbirney@aol.com
- Joe Bordonaro

[Chip42]

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If Birney and the Stillwaters will be there, then so will I.

[MD_Independent]

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Monsieur Pugh. Want to be a part of a Feral adjunct? And yes, I said feral. By the time we're done, we'll feel almost feral. Brother Bordonaro will be scouting out march routes in two weeks while I'm down in Georgia. Official announcement of the adjunct will be coming soon. Brother B. will also be handling all official announcements so I'll keep my mouth shut, answer questions, and keep working on other related projects.

[Rebel Yell1863]

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This is another event I want to come to next year, I will keep it on the radar.

[pvtbordonaro]

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Pete,
Thanks for the book recommendations. I'm off to the library tomorrow. My local library won't have them but maybe they'll find them on inter-library loan.
-Joe Bordonaro
Friends,
The Potomac Legion (and invited guests) has been approved to represent the 26th New York so we're good to move forward on that! Also, it has been decided to restrict our battalion size to 135 because Joe Caridi will be preparing barrels of salt pork and it will only be possible for him to prepare two barrels. So when registration opens, get yours in soon! And please write in "Potomac Legion" when you do if you want to fall in with our battalion.
Thanks,
Joe Bordonaro
PS Attached is a picture of a portion of Bill Birney's test rail fence.

[PetePaolillo]

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PeePee. That's Joe C.'s department, but I'll be throwing my hand in to help him out when not splitting rails, visiting the site, recruiting, or experimenting with water distribution. My focus will be on literature that will increase our knowledge of the communities the boys we'll be portraying came from. Knowledge of what happened during the campaign is of limited use to the private in the ranks. I'd prefer to see guys reading about the history of the men they'll portray as opposed to the strictly military history of a few days in August 1862. I'm rained out of work today, so I'll be hitting the library and amazon pretty heavy. Anyone know a source for nineteenth century water pumps? Oh, and our impression, tentatively approved by Mr. Anders and Air, will be 26th New York.

Sounds Great Billy Bee!

I found these reads regarding the 26th NY.. they seem like it might be in line with what you are speaking.....Of course tentatively speaking

Further reading

A sketch of the campaign in Virginia and Maryland, from Cedar mountain to Antietam, by a soldier of the 26th N.Y. Syracuse: Master & Lee, 1862.

Bacon, William Johnson. Memorial of William Kirkland Bacon, late Adjutant of the Twenty-sixth regiment of New York state volunteers, by his father. Utica: Roberts, 1863

http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/26thInf/26thInfMain.htm

[MD_Independent]

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PeePee. That's Joe C.'s department, but I'll be throwing my hand in to help him out when not splitting rails, visiting the site, recruiting, or experimenting with water distribution. My focus will be on literature that will increase our knowledge of the communities the boys we'll be portraying came from. Knowledge of what happened during the campaign is of limited use to the private in the ranks. I'd prefer to see guys reading about the history of the men they'll portray as opposed to the strictly military history of a few days in August 1862. I'm rained out of work today, so I'll be hitting the library and amazon pretty heavy. Anyone know a source for nineteenth century water pumps? Oh, and our impression, tentatively approved by Mr. Anders and Air, will be 26th New York.

[PetePaolillo]

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Fred..Thanks for the heads up...I will check that one out

[Gallo de Cielo]

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"Return to Bull Run" by Hennessy would be my recommendation.

Regards,