Civil War Reenactment

 By some hap chance I was looking for a needle in a haystack during Covid-1984, and stumbled across one that was only 1-1/2 hours from my house! So off 4 of us went. Bilbo and Kili dressed up for the occasion.

 There were even some old buildings to look at. At admissions, they gave the boys some papers to do a scavenger hunt. It was great as they had to learn about each item before the reenactor checked it off the list.

 These 3 ladies gave a great talk on women spies in the Civil War. Maybe I will find the paper on which I wrote some notes...

 giant Lincoln Logs

 The hospital station is one of our favorites, very interesting.   This poor man had gangrene.

 There was a sign that said for $1.00 you could touch the limbs. Well, who wouldn't want to do that? The man told me that the reason he charges $1.00 is because most moms just say "no". HAHA Well, we are hands-on homeschoolers, so naturally we want to touch the limbs.

 These bottles contained items we could smell. Some were nasty like "rotting flesh". Others weren't so bad like gangrene. And then were were other things they used to counter things like rotting flesh. Bromide was used to cure gangrene in case you were wondering.

 We even visited the confederates.

 This house was very interesting. So this side was the kitchen.

 This side was both a living room and a chicken pen. (no joke). Having just had our baby chicks on our front porch, I know that putting them in the living room really wasn't a good idea.

 Upstairs was the sleeping quarters

 Under the house they had their larger animals like the milk cow. Seriously.

 Grant gave a speech

 The thing hanging on the door knob was a slipper holder.

 Civil War songs

 A photo-op with Abe Lincoln and his union soldier

 The big battle (more of a skirmish)

 Complete with canon

 My leftie getting in on the action

 After the battle there was a surgery on a wounded soldier to remove a bullet (ball). But then it was discovered that his gut was cut clear open. Poor guy didn't make it, but had paid for his body to be shipped back so was able to get embalmed.