Going to battle : Civil War Reenactment takes place this weekend

Click on the title of this entry to view an article advertising the reenactment in the Freeport Journal-Standard.

New Reenactment Photos from 2008

This morning I uploaded several of the best photos from the Battle of Morseville taken Oct. 4th and 5th to flickr. If you click on the slide show, the picture on the right side or this link, you will be taken to my flickr page for a larger view of the photos. I hope to include photos from last year in the near future. I ran out of room on my camera card near the end of the battle on Sunday afternoon and was not able to get photos of the camps or medical demonstration for this year.

October Civil War Reenactment

A Civil War reenactment named the Battle of Morseville was sponsored by the Northwestern Illinois Friends of the NRA, hosted by the 3rd Iowa Light Artillery and held on the farm of the Pierce family the first weekend in October, 2008 south of the town of Stockton in beautiful Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Rolling farmland, spreading oak trees, and a meandering creek in a forty acre pasture became a scene of battle between the North and South over a small wooden bridge.

Friday evening the reenactors and their families arrived and set up camp. Saturday was a full day of events including a battle, medical demonstration, fashion show, quilt raffle and access to the camps and sutlers' tents for memorabilia. Sunday, in spite of a morning of rain, participants held a church service, battle, and the Friends of the NRA held a raffle, including a .22 caliber lever action Henry rifle, and an 1851 Navy Colt replica percussion revolver.

This is the tenth year reenactments have taken place in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.

Articles on the event can be found in the Freeport Journal-Standard dated October 3rd and 6th.