Running the Blockade-- Some New News About an Old War.
1. SO!!-- Certain folks are making a big deal about the photo of South Carolina Senator Glenn McConnel who was in a photo dressed as a Confederate officer standing next to two Gullah/Geechee re-enactors dressed in what is regarded as slave attire.
I'm willing to bet the two re-enactors weren't slaves in real life and they were recreating an aspect of 19th century life along the southern coasts.
But, yet, some people are too easily offended and make too big of a deal about things even when they should be tending to even bigger problems.
Oh, well. Time to get over it.
2. BENTONVILLE IN MICHIGAN-- The September 20th Central Michigan Life site had an article about the 6th Annual Mid-Michigan Civil War Muster held at Deerfield Park this past Saturday and Sunday where they recreated the North Carolina Battle of Bentonville.
Besides soldiers, there were people there playing the roles of big-name Civil War participants as well as lesser-known. One woman was playing the role of Susie King Taylor, the first black field nurse in the war.
I'd never heard of her, so did some more research which I will write about in the next entry.
Now, You Know. --Old B-Runner
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