I am a Civil War reenactor. A group of us were scheduled to do a living history weekend in Raymond, MS portraying the 7th Texas Infantry on May 17. Yesterday we received information that we were no longer welcome to attend the event due to potential negative blowback. Pretty bummed about this turn of events as it was to be a pretty solid event over the original battlefield. Not to mention the Aggie connection as our group has myself, and two other BQs ('82 and '93). We all just got doing portraying the 37th Illinois at the Battle of Fort Blakeley last weekend outside of Mobile, Alabama, which was a very well organized event.

Reason?

Very sad!

Maybe it's time for more s'more schnapps.

The ACW has a decent following in Europe as well. Here in the states, the American Revolution draws a bigger crowd out East. There is a decent sized group doing Texas Revolution, however the numbers are lopsided in favor of the Texians. Large size crowd does WWII as well, and WWI seems to be getting a larger following. Napoleonic reenactments are huge in Europe. The battle of New Orleans draws a decent crowd as well as the battle of the Little Big Horn. My group is branching into the Teas Revolution and personally I am working on a New Orleans Greys impression as well as a Soldado impression. What I'm interested in is not so much the battle events, but if done right they are really cool, I try to stay away from the local "shoot and hoots" and focus more on authenticity based events. There is a really cool event coming up in Virginia in the beginning of May that focus on a Virginia regiment immediately prior to the start of the Overland campaign in May 1864. No battle to be fought, but daily camp life, drill, leisure activity concluding with a 350 man plus sized regiment forming up to march into the Wilderness at the conclusion.

SJWs