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PHILADELPHIA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, according to a copy of the photo obtained by Reuters. The previously unreported photo, released by the War College to Reuters after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, showed Mastriano in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations, where he worked. Faculty at the time had been given the option of dressing as a historical figure, people familiar...

Look at her! These people are straight up deranged. It really is like a religious cult. Kudos to that security guard and the guy dressed up as Frederick Douglass (who must be turning in his grave).

Gettysburg Reenactment organizer Dustin Heisey wants everyone to know he isn't interested in the politics surrounding Glenn Beck's visit to Gettysburg. He also wants everyone to understand, he isn't giving up on organizing the reenactment either, despite canceling it this year in light of the Beck event. “I think the biggest thing is that we're not quitting or anything like that,” said Heisey. Heisey realizes the decision to cancel the Gettysburg Reenactment for 2020 is garnering criticism, especially after he promised to keep the event going last year when the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee announced it would no longer organize it....

Late Sunday morning, hundreds of Civil War reenactors concluded their battle on a rolling patch of grass 80 miles west of Washington. In normal years, taps would be played and each side would march back to its tent encampments. But this was hardly a normal year. Last week, organizers announced they had received a letter threatening “bodily harm” to attendees. And Saturday, the battlefield had to be temporarily cleared because a suspicious device, possibly a pipe bomb, was found.

The Hanover Evening Sun Local News In the wake of several Gettysburg-area stores making announcements on if they'll continue to sell Confederate flag-related merchandise, the Lutheran Theological Seminary is making its stand. Saturday, the day before a Living History event was slated to take place on the seminary's campus, the administration announced it would be banning symbols of hate speech and racism on seminary grounds, said the Rev. John Spangler, executive assistant to the president for communication and planning. The ban prohibits the display of the flag or flags associated with the Confederate States of America, Spangler said. "The subsequent...

Civil War commemorations and re-enactors are practically synonymous, but as the Gettysburg hoopla began last week, the Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College said very publicly the commemoration would be better without all the men in blue and gray pretending to be soldiers. On June 29, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that said, "Peter Carmichael, a professor of history at Gettysburg College, calls re-enactments an 'unfortunate distraction' from a deeper understanding of the Civil War, including the motivations of those who fought and its legacy." Later that same night, Carmichael quoted himself to me at...

Re-enactors march out of the field after commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Hubbardton, the only revolutionary war battle fought in Vermont. HUBBARDTON – The famous battle did not make much of a physical mark on Hubbardton. “It was hay fields and cow pastures before and it was hay fields and cow pastures immediately after,” said David Bernier, who coordinates the annual re-enactment of the battle. The ensuing two centuries may have changed the rest of the town, but they still made little mark on the battlefield. So, when between 300 and 500 re-enactors converge on it this weekend,...

John C. Jobe Thomas Lord, 73, in his Union uniform during a Civil War re-enactment. The mysterious shooting of a would-be Yankee cavalryman from the Bronx during the filming of a Civil War re-enactment in Virginia in September has been solved, according to the authorities, with the indictment of a latter-day Johnny Reb who, they say, accidentally fired a .44-caliber ball from an 1860 Army Colt pistol that was supposed to be empty. The shot wounded Thomas Lord, a 73-year-old former New York City police officer from Suffolk, Va., and a bluecoat with the Seventh New York Volunteer Cavalry....

<p>Was it the South rising again? Or just a very uncivil blunder on a hallowed Virginia battleground?</p> <p>Either way, Thomas Lord, a Bronx-born Yankee, felt the bite of a rebel bullet in Dixie last weekend, 143 years after the surrender at Appomattox. He was the latest casualty of a national conflict under re-enactment most anytime, anywhere above and below the Mason-Dixon line, although not normally with live ammunition.</p>

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2006 -- Four people wearing Revolutionary War-era clothing are making a 600-plus-mile hike for history that celebrates Franco-American cooperation and friendship. Revolutionary War re-enactors Michael S. Fitzgerald, Rose Morin, David T. Holloway, and David Fagerberg pose for a photograph near the intersection of Rhode Island and Eastern avenues in northeast Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. They are making a 600-plus-mile march that traces the historic Revolutionary War route taken by Continental Army Commander Gen. George Washington and French Lt. Gen. Jean-Baptiste, Count of Rochambeau. The two forces acted in concert and forced the surrender of British Lt....

Sep 3, 2006 — A member of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an umbrella over Wrightsville resident James Lewis on Saturday, keeping the steady drizzle from his tall pointed hood and long white robe with black accents. The robe's an old one. His other one has green stripes added to show his new status as Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Klan, a position he took two weeks ago. Lewis, a Klansman since he was 15, was one of three in white robes who led a group of about 26 Klan members and supporters...

BIG POOL -- Eric Roethlisberger sat in the green outside Captain Wort's Sutler Shop. The sky above him was blue, the air was cool -- quite pleasant for a man whose feet were locked in the wooden stocks used to punish men and women who have broken the law. The former high school government teacher hadn't committed a crime. The "punishment" was all in the name of history and fun as Mr. Roethlisberger and his 4-year-old son, Ben, became part of the living history Market Fair at Fort Frederick State Park, a stone fort built in the 18th century during...

PETERSBURG - The Civil War may be the big draw for visitors to the Cockade City, but a new painting on display at the Siege Museum is a reminder that Petersburg's place in American history goes back much further. To help commemorate the 225th anniversary of the Revolutionary War Battle of Petersburg, historic artist Pamela Patrick White has painted a scene from the 1781 event. The oil painting was unveiled last night during the monthly Friday for the Arts! celebration. White, who lives in Baltimore and is a Revolutionary War reenactor herself, focuses her art on the history of the...

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<p>VICTORIA, TEXAS - Students at Howell Middle School in Victoria on Monday get a peek at Civil War-era life during a history lesson. The program, on the school's football field, ended with the firing of a 12-pounder Napoleon cannon. Students learned about the era's artillery, infantry and dress for women and children. The Sons of Confederate Veterans made the presentation.</p>

<p>As more than 100,000 blacks gathered in Indianapolis to celebrate their heritage, about 20 descendants of Confederate soldiers huddled at Crown Hill Cemetery to remember theirs.</p> <p>The Sons of Confederate Veterans on Saturday honored 1,616 Southern soldiers buried in a mass grave. The men died while prisoners of war at Camp Morton on the Near Northside during the Civil War.</p>

Brandon Kelly watches dad Scott cleans his musket as Catherine Kelly repairs a Confederate jacket under the watchful eye of her daughter, Megan. Photo by Eileen Shomo It took only one visit to a Civil War event 10 years ago for Brandon Kelly, then 5, to become hooked. Brandon came home, said his mother, Catherine, and went right to his closet to find some clothes he could wear to another event, which would make him look like a re-enactor. "He came down with a navy blue jacket, turned the collar up and asked for a haversack (to hold his powder)...

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was many things in his lifetime: Medal of Honor winner for his bravery during the battle of Gettysburg, governor of Maine, and Bowdoin College president. With interest in the Civil War growing in recent years, Chamberlain has gained almost mythic stature, with his image appearing in movies, TV documentaries, on bottles of ale, and even in a stage musical. But somehow, Chamberlain - who died in 1914 and is buried here - had failed to fully capture the hearts of the people of this picturesque college town where he spent most of his adult...