Florida Reenactors Online News Magazine

June 7, 2008. Blue Gray Ball. (New Date - New Location to better accommodate more dancers). You are invited to join the South Florida Youth Re-enactors and FiddleWorks in their Third Annual Blue and Gray Ball from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Union and Confederate re-enacotrs are welcome. The Ball will be held the South County Civic Center located at 16700 Jog Road in Delray Beach, FL. 33446. Come and dance all your favorites: Virginia Reel, Patty Cake Polka, Broom Dance, Carolina Promenade and plenty of waltzes and polkas including some "new" period correct dances to be taught. Music will be provided by FiddleWorks Civil War String Band - a 20 plus piece live band composed of young people and adults with a passion for preserving America's historic music. Punch and dessert will be served. Please RSVP by May 30 to receive advance ticketing. Cost is $12 per person. To encourage family participation children 5 to 11 are $6 and children under 4 are free. Tickets after May 30 and at the door will be $15 per adult and $9 per child. Period attire requested. Formal attire required if not dressing for the period. Contact Reba Davidson at rebadeba@gmail.com for more information.

July 4, 5, 6, 2008. 145th Anniversary Gettysburg Reenactment. Huge National Event. Two battles each day. 145th Commemorative Medal provided for all registered participants. Massive pyrotechnics for all battles. Usual amenities will be supplied. Separate Confederate and Federal camps. Extensive living history village with presentations all day. Two Saturday night dances for all registered reenactors. Bounty paid for horses and cannons. Registration fee: $20 from January 1st until March 15th. No substitutions after June 1, 2008. There will be no walk-ons at the 145th event. Overall Commander General Allen Baldwin. For registration packets or info. go to www.gettysburgreenactment.com e-mail gac3@comcast.net or Gettysburg Anniversary Committee, P.O. Box 3482, Gettysburg, PA 17325-3482. (717) 338-1525.

August 29, 30, 31, 2008. Chancellorsville, (Loudoun Heights) Virginia. Official 145th reenactment of the Battle of Chancellorsville. This property is a re-enactors dream with period buildings, rail fences, stone walls, breastworks, and of course the road just built for the Antietam event. This is a non-spectator event. The reenactment is put on for re-enactors by re-enactors. The event host is not profit driven and 100% of the proceeds are to be donated for preservation. There are no exotic rules other than the usual rules of safety used at all MAIN STREAM events. There is no rabid event staff to make your life miserable from the time you hit site. Families are permitted to camp on the company streets if they desire. Reenactors will maintain a period impression throughout the weekend and the pace is far less demanding. It is reenacting the way it should be. For photos, driving directions and information check their site at http://www.emmitsburg.net/chancellorsville_2008/index.htm

September 20, (Saturday), 2008. Blue and Grey Cotillion (Saturday 8pm to 11pm). Pinellas Park Civic Auditorium. All reenactors both Federal and Confederate are welcome. Period correct dress requested but not required. Sponsored by the 97th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A. Beginning at 8:00 PM until 11:00pm at the Pinellas Park Civic Auditorium, 7690 59th Street. The 97th Pennsylvania String Band to provide music. Admission is $15.00 per person or $25.00 per couple at the door. No advance ticket sales. Door prizes and snacks provided. For information, email RADM11@msn.com or check out their website at http://www.97thpvicoa.com Driving directions: From central Florida take I-4 West to I-275 South. Get off 275 at exit 28 (Gandy Blvd. old exit #15). The exit ramp will go left and curve around keep going straight to the Hwy. 19 exit. Go straight across 19 and you will be on Park Blvd (S.R. 694). Go straight west and at the railroad tracks make a quick right. The auditorium is off the road next to the Police Station on 59th St. North.

September 19, 20, 21, 2008. 145th anniversary Battle of Chickamauga. Walker County Georgia. Held on the actual ground where the troops mustered for the legendary battle. The property is less than ten minutes from Chickamauga National Battlefield Park. You can wade in the Chickamauga Creek, fight on Lookout Mountain and experience the battle that still stands as one of the bloodiest in U.S. History on one of the last undisturbed battlefields in the nation. This event will feature Saturday and Sunday battles and a tactical. Period and civilian impressions welcome. Contact information 1-800-624-0281 Ext. 326.

December 5, 6, 7, 2008. 2nd annual Battle of Hogtown at Poe Springs, Florida. The largest fresh water spring in the County of Alachua. Poe Springs is 202 acres of rolling hills and woodlands, running along side of the Santa Fe River. There will be a school day for Friday, all who assist with school day will receive a free meal Friday night. Battles Saturday and Sunday at 2:00, Ladies tea Saturday at 11:00am, 1860 Ball, two hot showers per bathroom, firewood, and hay will be provided. Bounty paid to first four cannons. Calvary also will receive bounty. Directions: From I-75 North or South take Alachua/High Springs exit north on Highway 441 to High Springs, Florida, at the Red light turn left on to State Road 41, go thru town, cross railroad tracks, about three hundred yards on right sign stating Blue Springs, Ginnie Springs, Poe Springs, County Road 340, turn right go about two and a half miles on the right. Watch for the signs. For more information contact John McLean at McLeanJGator@Yahoo.com