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– Reenactment at Minooka! –
– October 15-17 –
Members of the 94th
Illinois Volunteer Regiment and Mackinaw River Valley Civil War Reenactors
are encouraged to attend the “Dollinger Family Farm Civil War Days” at Minooka, Illinois,
Friday through Sunday at Minooka. This event is jointly
sponsored by the Dollinger Family Farm and the Channahon Park District.
They advertise this as the largest reenactment in Illinois. There will be school group tours
all day Friday, battles on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, a period ball
Saturday evening and period church service Sunday
morning.
The Mackinaw
River Valley CWR will be represented by Van Furrh and the U. S. Sanitary
Commission impression. All civilian and military members are welcome to
attend in period or 21st century dress. Please stop by the
Sanitary Commission tent. Bring your cup and enjoy a sip of fresh lemon
water.
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Mackinaw River
Valley CWR –
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Represented at
Princeton, October 9 & 10 –
Civilian reenactors and 21st
century observers were in evidence in Princeton
last weekend at a large gathering of Civil War impressionists. In period
dress were Sarah Jane Edwards accompanied by her father Lowell and sisters
Rebekah and Grace. Dorothy Magnuson joined Sarah accompanied by her sister
Laura. Van Furrh manned the U. S. Sanitary
Commission depot while J. D. Scott portrayed a candidate for the Illinois
Statehouse. Mark McBride and John Walther attended as 21st century
observers. It is reported that everyone survived the
sudden skirmish just north of the encampment, although the undertaker was
observed embalming a young soldier who fell in the action and could not be
saved by the gallant Union surgeons.
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