[chajin]

Get one made with real wool and to the specifications of the original

I once participated in a CSA reenactment wedding of one of my students almost 30 years ago now, and I was given the uniform of a CSA chaplain; I wore the wool uniform in 95 degree FL heat and humidity, outdoors in the sun, at what was at the time Cypress Gardens (now Legoland). We all suffered through the wedding in the hope of the indoor reception, only to discover that the reception hall A/C was down. (The couple got divorced a few years later.)

[vetvetdoug]

Heat stroke is a reality during summertime reenactments. Makes one wonder how the troops made it back then with the wool uniforms. Forrest beat the Yankees at Brice's Crossroads by blowing them out with heat prostration when they had to doubletime into the battle line. Many battles mention the losses to heat stroke.