Book Signing
Join Vernon at Hastings Book Store in Conway, AR – 1360 Hwy 64W – for a book signing of Civil War Reflections: Honoring the Battles, Soldiers and Spirits. Look for the man in Confederate uniform between 1p and 4p CDT!
Join Vernon at Hastings Book Store in Conway, AR – 1360 Hwy 64W – for a book signing of Civil War Reflections: Honoring the Battles, Soldiers and Spirits. Look for the man in Confederate uniform between 1p and 4p CDT!
THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862: THROUGH ARKANSAS EYES I have walked the part of the charge route of the 3rd Arkansas and 27th North Carolina that is still open to the public and have placed small Confederate flags in Mumma’s Lane to commemorate their valor many times. Since I reenact with the 3rd Arkansas I feel a special affinity with …
THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OF 1862: THROUGH ARKANSAS EYES When Ransom’s Brigade of Walker’s Division joined with the McLaw’s Division at the south of the West Woods, they hit the 5500 man Union Division under General Sedgwich. This was a division in Sumner’s II Corps. The Confederates hit the Union Division in the left flank and their rear and it was …
THROUGH ARKANSAS EYES Why does one get an obsession? Is it a nudge in the right direction to enlist us in our rightful part of the divine scheme of things? I think it has been in my life. I watched the Ken Burns documentary on The Civil War in 1992 and of all the battles discussed the Battle of Antietam …
150TH SHILOH….. SATURDAY EARLY PM It was only about a ¾ mile walk to the Sutler area and the roads were beginning to dry up except for the shaded areas. So it didn’t take long to get there. The Sutler area has everything you could possibly want in the way of Civil War reenacting and then some. You could walk …
The Bloody Lane On September 12-14, 1997, the 135th Antietam reenactment was held at the Artz Farm about 8 miles north of the actual battlefield and just about 1 mile south of Interstate 70. Battle reenactments can’t be held on National Military Parks because it is considered Hallowed Ground. However, the actual reenactment battle site was huge. At the time …