Battle of Bentonville Re-Enactment

From the March 21st Charlotte Observer.

There were 1,100 Union and 2,500 Confederate re-enactors at the 145th anniversary of the battle.

Wes Jones, 58, of the 6th North Carolina Cavalry, "Nobody wants to be a Union soldier. Playing a Confederate is more fun."

Getting enough Union re-enactors is a quite often a problem at events. Sometimes Confederates don the Union blue to even out the sides. The Monday after the battle, I talked with one Confederate re-enactor at the Wayne County History Museum who served as a Union artilleryman.

Peter DellaVedova, 56, of the 104th Illinois, "We lost six of our guys on the way down here because a car broke down." This is partly accurate as many members of the original 104th died on their way to the real battle back in 1865.

Sure Would Have Liked to Have Seen the Battle. --Blockade-R