By William J. Hamilton, III Death comes before breakfast to the inexperienced Confederate picket. The rigors of simulated 19th. The Confederate defeat left me weary. The always restless cavalry was raiding the infantry camp. Before we could rip our Enfield muzzle loaders from their cases, the horse soldiers were gone, taking with them any prospect of further sleep.
Sharps carbines make a rude alarm clock.
There was some discussion or bringing the artillery up and giving the boys and their horses some cannister shot for breakfast, but the Colonel wouldn't allow it. I pulled on my grey wool uniform and walked out into the chilly morning, contemplating sunrise and a long wait for breakfast. The war intervened. Civil war battle reenactments are of two types. First is the careful recreation of historic battles where hundreds and sometimes thousands of men march along the old lines, recreate the historic charges and fall in the place of the hallowed dead of 130 years ago.