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R. J. Samp, November 4, 1998 Do you recognize the trumpet Gustav Schurman received from
Phil Kearney on the cover of the book?
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November, 1998
Tim Fairchild. November 1, 1998
Ah! The blues!
In a follow-up to the trouser topic, Like Company H, Company C has opted to set it's
look towards the 1862 appearance aka dark blue. I tell all new members to get their dark
blues first and get a sky blue later as part of their kit.
Gary stated in an earlier post " the group hardly gets to portray the 2nd
Wisconsin"
I find that troubling seeing my men and I chose to recreate the 2nd Wisconsin.
The Association should consider that by it's size alone, it could act as it's own
Battalion and do the 2nd at ANY event here in the East save a National event.
One of my not so great memories of the 135th of Gettysburg was to see a bunch of
troops go by us wearing bummers and kepis and calling themselves the 2nd Wisconsin. That
brought a bitter taste to me knowing that my family fought in the woods no more than three
miles away and I wasn't allowed to honor him by portraying his unit. As for requesting my
boys to remove their "2" from their hats! well, they made their own minds up on
that one much to my pride.
Don't let our heritage go for the sake of numbers. You are the 2nd Wisconsin first,
not the Black Hat Battalion! It would be wonderful to see the "Grand Ole Second"
Marching at South Mountain Next September. Why not make that our National event?
South Mountain and a living History at the Dunker church at Antietam Battlefield are
our events for September next year so Company C will not be attending Chickamauga.
As always, it was good seeing our pards at Gettysburg 135th and we look forward
to seeing some of the boys at Remembrance Day in Gettysburg November 21st
Steve Bechtold,November 4, 1998
Howdy From Company H,
We of Company H may just may be interested in the march through Turner's Gap. I know
that I would much more than Chickamauga. I am an Iron Brigader before I am a generic
Yankee. You can only do so many first person impressions before you start sounding
silly (in your own head that is). I can probably commit five members without even
asking them.
Who knows we could come close to bringing the entire company (we are still that small -
about 10).
I would like to propose to the Regiment that we support Tim and Company C with a major
push to march over Turner's Gap and portray the 2d this year instead of some other unit.
I would like to see the regiment concentrate on being the 2d, we have the members to
do it. That was and is my vision for the Regimental concept and the main reason that
we way out here in God's Forsaken West wanted to partner up with the rest of you at
National Events.
I think that this is one heck of a possibility. There are those who would not be
able to make the march, this is true of any endeavor such as what we are talking about.
But, perhaps those folks could be waiting just outside of the battlefield area and
join us close in as we move to contact. Just my thoughts and trivial ideas.
Doug Dobbs, November 4, 1998
Bill Styple is a member of my Civil War reenacting unit and
he's written a great book for kids about the life of a 12 year old boy named Gustav
Schurmann. Gus was a real boy and this book tells his story very, VERY
well. This Saturday, Nov. 7, at 3 P.M. C-SPAN will be showing an hour long program,
interviewing Bill about this book and the Civil War in general. I understand that
they will be showing some portion of the battle reenactment as well. The program was
filmed at a Civil War reenactment at Cedar Creek, Virginia about two weeks ago.
(C-SPAN has more information at http://www.booktv.org/children
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R. J. Samp, November 4, 1998 Do you recognize the trumpet Gustav Schurman received from
Phil Kearney on the cover of the book?
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