5th Company - Washington Artillery
(as the 6th Massachusetts Light Artillery)
Jackson Crossroads, Louisiana
October 8th, 1995
The Washington Artillery of New Orleans - 5th Company
and
The 6th Massachusetts Light Artillery
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Light Artillery Home Page.
Our re-enacting organization portrays both a Confederate and a Federal artillery company, and among its members has available to it a total of 8 cannons, 5 of which are original tubes. We also have a sizable civilian contingent affiliated with our Company made up of women, children, and men, giving our Company a total of more than 100 members.
Words and pictures will tell you only a small part of who we are, what we do at re-enactments, and why we re-enact. Still, they're all we have that we can share with you in this medium to help you see re-enacting as we see it - from the inside.
It's our hope that you'll find articles of interest on our site, whether you are a re-enactor, a prospective re-enactor, or just someone who wonders what all the fuss over re-enacting is about. Whichever category fits you - or even if you fit into no category at all - we hope that you'll learn something new about the War Between the States or re-enacting that you didn't know before. We hope you'll see some of what attracts us to re-enacting, and perhaps will even find yourself tempted to try it on for size.
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