The Company 'Q' Dispatches: January 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Grumpy Zouave thinks your hobby is weird.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Geological Survey, Map of New Castle County from 1849

Bible Bullet-Stoppers

Many men during the civil war carried Bibles into battle with them, kept in their breast pocket in front of their hearts. As a result, some were quite literally saved by religion!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

New Year's Eve...Doin' it right!

HAPPY 1864 FROM COMPANY Q!

Reenactor Humor - Printable Snake Oil Label

Just for the heck of it. Put it the label on an old dark-colored glass bottle and fill it with some mysterious liquid of questionable origin. Leave sitting out in camp on a table or something.

CIVIL WAR REENACTING

Dressing like the Amish, sleeping on the ground, wearing heavy wool coats in 100 degree weather, shooting black powder rifles at things, pretending to be a dead person, fighting a messy war over and over again expecting different results, and debating endlessly about issues that ceased to be political concerns 150 years ago.

Follow the adventure of one such "living dead person" as he examines one of our country's oldest pastimes: adults playing Army and recreating the deadliest conflict in American history. For reasons nobody can fully understand or explain, in front of a crowd of spectators and charging admission.

Welcome to the United States of America.