What would you like to experiance at future events?

[James the Haggard Ranger]

Re: What would you like to experiance at future events?

To add to Kiev's Joe Brown's Pets.
A good small event would follow the events in the summer and fall of 1863. The Georgia Militia was sent into Northwest Georgia to drive off or break up bands of deserters and thieves that raided the railroad and farms from the area around Cartersville to near Ringglold, Georgia. The bandits usually called themselves Rangers.
After some small skirmishes and a few Ranger camps destroyed, the Militia gave up. The Rangers, although weakened, would continue their outlaw raids until Brigadier General Wofford brought them to bay in March 1865.
Yes this would make a nice small tactical. You would not need more than 40 or 50 at most per side.

Just thought I add this in for thought.

Thanks,

James Wooten

[Silvana Siddali]

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This may be a crazy idea, but one thing I have always wanted to do was a series of events that were chronologically connected to one another.

For example, let's take local Missouri events. Couldn't we have a militia muster in the spring, right after secession, and have the same guys face their first battle a month or two later? Here in Missouri we often have State Guard or Home Guard events, so I should think it might be doable to have the men muster in around the beginning of May 1861 and do a Wilson's Creek or Athens living history in August. What do you think? Would something like this be feasible elsewhere?

We civilians have been doing something like this for a while, since we tend to take on the same roles in most of our events (for example,we have some of the Boonesfield ladies taking on their usual roles at Marmaduke's) -- but I think it would be great to have that planned ahead of time so that there's a clear chronological progression.

[Silas]

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Forgot about that one and that I had created the above banner. I hadn't deleted it from the server. It's been sitting in cyberspace waiting for another reason to publish it.

[LibertyHallVols]

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Folks,

This has been a very good thread until recently. Let's try to keep it on topic. At quality events, what would you like to see, do, and/or experience?

It is not about what you wish you would see -or not see- at a mainstream event.

[BigRonFH]

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Battalion (or higher) drill with a full (or close-to-full) compliment of troops. With musicians and the whole shebang. Just once, to see a dress parade with the correct amount of men under arms swinging into formation would be a gas.

Ron Hopkins
Co. D, 13th US Infantry
Unity Lodge #130

[John of the Skulkers Mess]

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In case nobody mentioned it:
May 19,22 assault at Vicksburg


John Pillers
TSM

[Soldier Jo]

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Post deleted - Time to attend better events

[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

[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."

[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

[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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.