Getting ready to take part in a re-enactment isn't easy. The uniform, an authentic reproduction, is handmade of wool and lined in heavy cotton. Enfield musket, crafted in England, is identical to the weapons used by the Confederate Army. Minor's glasses are actual Civil War period frames carefully fitted with his present-day prescription. A tin cup, leather belt, canvas haversack, bayonet scabbard, and rough leather brogans complete the ensemble.
Participants are well-educated students of Civil War history.
They aren't involved in order for the South to rise again. There are no sides, really. Most men and women participate to share the history of this important time in our nation's past with interested adults and especially with children. Re-enactment activities are well organized. Recordkeeping during the Civil War was amazingly accurate, Minor notes.