Re: [DL] Civil War re-enacting

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:55  AM, Jay Gilham wrote:
> I can't give you a number but there are regiments of folks from 
> southern states that portray Yanks.  However there are many more folks 
> from northern states that go Confederate.  It isn't against the rules 
> to do this.  Folks will be on whatever side for a wide variety of 
> reasons.  I myself am born, raised, and still live in central 
> Pennsylvania (Ho Ha, Dodge, Thrust, Parry) but portray Confederate 
> Cavalry.  Reason I chose this is because in the 1860's my family was 
> living in the south and fought for the stars and bars.

 From my limited experience, the simple fact that it can be hard to get 
a strong presence from 'the other side' when they would have to travel 
pretty far distances to participate, so you probably have a lot of 
Southerners in the north and vice versa.

Of course I live in Maryland, so we get a lot of people who favor both 
sides, as I remember.