July 04, 2019
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… is that nearly 3 million men served in the Union and Confederate military, and that nearly one in five soldiers, sailors and Marines died of battle wounds or disease. An estimated 8,000-10,000 of…
…, there are around 50,000 men and women who will spend a few weekends each year experiencing the life a Civil War soldier on a campaign. Want definitive proof of the popularity of Civil War re…
…Looking Back Mike Smith Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair S o, it’ s a warm summer day and you put on a wool uniform, carry around a 9-pound, 56-inch rifle, eat hard tack and boiled beef…
…, and sleep in a tent with candles for light. OK, you are either some sort of nut job or … just maybe, you are a Civil War re-enactor with a passion for bringing history alive, well beyond the…
… confines of a book or a photograph. And, you just might be Jewish. The Civil War remains the bloodiest conflict in American history. Military records were very poor during this era, but the best estimate…
… these men were Jewish. Point of interest: Although females could not enlist in the armies of the North or South, a few women did serve, masquerading as men. When burial units did their work after…
… with the Civil War. At times, literally, brothers would be fighting brothers. Re-enactments of Civil War battles are thought to have begun with the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in…
… 1913, when 500,000 veterans attended the ceremony and watched some re-en- actments of battle sequences. During the Civil War Centennial in 1961-1965, enthusiasm for re-enact- ing really soared. Today…
…-enacting? Just go onto the Amazon website and see the Civil War clothing for sale! There are also Jewish re-enactors. I found a really fun, informative article about several Detroiters passionate about their…
… craft in the July 3, 1998, issue of the JN in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. It was accompanied by a wonderful photograph of Mike Ackerman, Jim Delcamp, Leonard…