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NEW MARKET VA.
DeLenn loves to help out whenever she can. Kathy got this great pic of her washing dishes. Not only did she do a great job helping with the dishes, but she was responsible for half the wood we used this past weekend. If she saw the wood pile getting low she and John would go and get more. She has a new dress on and. even tho she is getting big, she still finds time to fall in the mud. This picture was taken May 18, 2002 at a little place called New Market. Va.
Neil was loading up the bags for the battle. Brenda is such a nut tho. She has been very busy making the women matching uniforms for working on the gun. The joke of the weekend was people asking if they were "Dutch" or "German"
New Market, Va 2002. Here is our gun crew for this event. This is one of my favorite events we do. This is an ANV event but without the big event feel. I love the mountains and this was a great weekend. It didn't start to rain till we got our tent up Friday nite at 1:30 pm and the rain stopped early Sat. morning. The temp during the day was in the 60"s and the nite temps were in the low 40"s. We had a little car trouble getting there and it was a little scarry sitting on top of Afton Mt. broke down at 11:30 at nite Friday. It turned out being a broken hose and Neil was able to fix it and the rest of our trip went well. Brenda cooked for us this weekend and she did a wonderfull job, the grits, bacon, eggs and biscuits for breakfast were the best and Saturday nites Spaghetti dinner with a fresh salad and garlic bread were wonderfull.
The battle of New Market was an important battle for the south. Union forces tried to cut off the south by taking controll of the Shanondoah valley, which runns the length of the state of Virginia. It is important farm land which has the Blue ridge and Massanutten mtns. to the east and the Allighany mtns. to the west. New Market's place in history became secure on May 15, 1864 when a superior force of Federal troops under General Franz Sigel was routed by Confederates under the comand of General John C. Breckinridge. After a fierce battle in the mud, and rain, west and north of New Market, the tide of battle was turned by the historic charge of the VMI (Virginia Military Institute) cadets from Lexington, Virginia, who were moved into a breach in the Confederate line at the Bushong House, a mile north of town. The senior class at VMI still partisipate in the anual re-enactment for extra credit. To this day the re-enactment is held on the actual battle field, which is very important to us. Many of our battlefields are gone due to developers, buliding on land which belongs to all of us. Other battlefields are also closed to the reenactor and instead of having say Gettysburg at the battlefield we have to find a farm large enough to host the camps and the battles. New Market is a special place!
This is a pic of the inside of our tent. As you can see we are very comfortable on our weekend trips. DeLenn is looking under my bed for something to snack on.
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