Food is prepared in small three to five man messes, individually, or as a complete company. There is no rules for this, the men are left to their own devices, and no one has starved, or died, yet. Reenactors start showing up at the event site Friday afternoon, evening, or early Saturday morning. The camps are set up, all the equipment is organized, and all the modern items are removed from the camp. It is now the 1860's.
Camp fires burn, and coffee is brewed.
Saturday morning revielle comes at dawn, and you wake up to find that you are in the army, and subject to the hardships and orders of the officers and NCOs. Breakfast, roll call, drill, details, are the business of the day. A skirmish or battle may develop with the enemy, and some hard marching and fighting are involved. The wounded go to hospital, and the survivors back to camp. Dress parade comes at retreat, followed by supper, and some campfire songs, and conversations.