October 2, 3, 2010.  Hillsborough River Raid at Veteran's Memorial Park (Tampa).  The original battle took place at Ballast Point, Tampa.  Sponsored by the Hillsborough County Parks, and hosted by the USS Fort Henry.  No fee for reenactors.  Reenactors may arrive Friday, Oct. 1st after 9:00 AM and can stay overnight in period tents.  Battles with amphibious landings (like the original battle) by Federal troops will take place at 2:30PM Saturday and Sunday.  Park hours for the public are 10:00 AM to 5:30PM, Museum hours (Sat. and Sun.) 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM As the original battle was a US Navy raid against the CS Home Guard and several CS boatmen were involved, we encourage US and CS Navy reenactors to participate as well as army/home guard reenactors.  Free Saturday evening meal for reenactors.  Due to the size of the site, we cannot allow any mounted troops.  Small Sutlers fee (payable to "Friends of the Park Inc."-contact Jesse).  Artillery is limited, contact Lew for registration.  Directions: Off US-301, about one mile south of the Florida State Fairgrounds.  Located at 3602 N. U.S. Hwy 301, Tampa, FL. 33610.  Contact Jesse Marshal at floridawar@msn.com  or Lew Zerfas atgunboat@ussforthenry.com  Call 813-744-5502 or the event information page can be seen at http://www.knology.net/~qed/USSFHevents-veteranspark.htm 

 

November 5, 6, 7, 2010.  26th Annual Ocklawaha River Raid.  NOTICE: NEW LOCATION.  The event will now take place at the Carriage Museum located at 3000 Marion County Road, Wiersdale, FL. 32195.  This re-enactment is hosted by the 4th Florida Infantry, Company G., 2nd Battalion, Hardy's Brigade.  This event commemorates the March 1865 Union army raid on plantations east of Ocala in Marion County and the resulting skirmish with local Confederate forces near the Ocklawaha River.  All branches of service and civilian reenactors are invited and welcomed.  Powder rations will be provided to the first eight cannons pre-registered by October 25.   Firewood and water provided on site.  Sutlers are requested to pre-register; for registration details contact the host unit at the address shown below.  The weekend will include two battles, a replica period homestead, numerous Living History events, civilian activities including a Ladies' Tea and a Saturday night ball.  The event has a new website located at  www.ocklawahariverraid.com    For more information, contact Lt. Col. Keith Kohl at ltcol2ndbattalion@gmail.com

 

November 19, 20, 21, 2010.  Raid On The Suwannee River.  Live Oak, Florida.  Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park.  New Re-enactment.   Maximum Effort Hardee Corps Event.  Usual amenities, plus RV hook-ups (electric and water - no sewer) and cabin rentals.  General store, restaurant, and showers on site.  Battlefield clear of modern intrusions.  Original Confederate earthworks nearby.  This park offers everything a camper could ask for.  Way too much to list here.  Special cavalry information:  Cavalrymen make sure you read all the items about mounted cavalry.  There are some different cavalry requirements at this event.  When you arrive at registration with your horse, you will have to pay a $25 per horse refundable barn stall fee.  At the end of the event (Sunday) if your stall is cleaned, your $25 fee will be refunded.  No picket lines are allowed and all horses must be kept in their barn.  This year the Suwannee River Raid will not give a cavalry bounty of any type.  Remember to bring your own hay for your horse - no hay will be on site.  All reenactors must pre-register through the US Mail.  A special website has been set up for the Suwannee Raid.  You can print out registration forms and find out a lot more about this event at http://www.floridareenactorsonline.com/SuwanneeIndex.htm  Check out the Park's website for additional details at  http://www.musicliveshere.com/content/index.php  Directions: From I-10, take exit #283 and go north on US 129 for 4.5 miles.  From I-75, take exit #451 and go south for 4.5 miles.  Look for the signs - "Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park".  The park is located between I-10 and I-75.  The park's address is 3076 95th Drive, Live Oak, Florida 32060.

 

December 3, 4, 5, 2010.  Dade City Battle.  NEW DATE.  Pioneer Florida Museum and Village.  The battlefield has been moved to the large field behind the museum.  Plenty of room for camps away from the modern vendors.  Great viewing areas for spectators.  Saturday 11:00 AM at the church building Sgt. Eric Steffey and Janet Noles will be married.  Sutlers and Artillery must pre-register.  Directions: One mile north of downtown Dade City, off US 301 at 15602 Pioneer Museum Road.  Florida Museum is a nonprofit organization.For information, check their website at www.pioneerfloridamuseum.org  Contact Robert Anderson at sutler7@knology.net   Modern vendors contact currator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org

 

January 14, 15, 16, 2011.  Brooksville Raid, Brooksville, Florida.  Hosted by the Hernando Historical Museum Assoc. and North Pinellas Scout Sertoma Club.  Your help is needed for the school day on Friday the 14th (over 1,200 students attended last year).  Two battles (2:30PM); one Sat. one Sun.  Ladies tea will be held at 10:30 AM, Saturday (the women put a lot into this tea and I have been told it is one of the best anywhere), Blue/Gray Ball Sat night at 8:00 PM, church Sun. morning.  A $5.00 reenactor fee will be collected at the registration desk (max. $20 per family).  All reenactors will receive a raffle ticket upon registering for a $100.00 gift certificate (five to be given away) to be used at any of the sutlers in Sutlers Row during the event (certificate good for two years).  The winners will be announced at the ball Saturday evening.  Cavalrymen - This year the Brooksville Raid will not give a cavalry bounty of any type.  Remember to bring your own hay for your horse - no hay will be on site.  All horses and mules are required to show current coggins papers at the registration desk before the horse is allowed on the property.  Any and all proceeds from this event are split evenly between North Pinellas Sertoma and the Heritage Museum.  Meals and hot showers will be available Friday evening through Sunday, for a nominal fee.  Due to the incredible amount of artillery attending the Raid, the artillery bounty will be a little different this year.  One bounty per unit ($100) will be given to the first twenty pre-registered cannons only.  Each cannon must participate in both battles to be eligible for the bounty.  Event work day will be held on January the 8th.  Your help is needed with the pre-event set up.  The Raid is held at the Sand Hill Boy Scout Camp on US Hwy 50.  The battle is 10 miles West of Brooksville.  The entrance is on Hwy 50.  Take Hwy. 50 West.  Go through Brooksville, keep going West about 10 miles, and look for the signs.  Web site http://www.brooksvilleraidreenactment.com/

 

February 4, 5, 6, 2011.  Battle at Townsend's Plantation (Renningers Market at Mt. Dora).  Sponsored by the law offices of Clay Townsend, Esq. and hosted by the 37th Alabama Co. H.  No reenactor participation fee.  Spectator fee $5 adults and $2 children.  Living history exhibits, folk music, weaponry demonstrations, authentic camps.  The ladies tea will be hosted by the women of the 37th Ala. Co. H.  Sun. church service, and sutlers.  Usual amenities.  Dress ball with 97th Regimental String Band Saturday at 8pm.  Full scale artillery, cavalry, and soldiers in period dress and weaponry.  Bounty paid for artillery and cavalry.  Battle 3pm Saturday and 2pm Sunday.  This event is North of Orlando on Hwy 441 just a couple of miles from Mt. Dora at 20651 U.S. Hwy 441, Mt. Dora FL, 32757.  As you start down the big hill, look for the Renningers flea market and battle sign on East side of road.  If you are coming down the Fla. turnpike, get off at the new North Apopka exit #267A on the new 429 toll road then turn north on Hwy. 441 and follow the directions above.  Contact: (Sutlers, Infantry and Artillery) Wayne Vaughn at colvaughn@cfl.rr.com   Cavalry contact R. A. Niepert at mayorbob@embarqmail.com

 

February 24, 25, 26, 27, 2011.  The 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Re-enactment Regiment, in cooperation with the Pinellas County Parks Department and Fort DeSoto Park, will host an American Civil War Weekend Encampment and Historical Battle Reenactment at the Fort DeSoto Park located in Tierra Verde on the Southern-most tip of Pinellas County, Florida.  Camps will be open FREE to the public from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. each day. Participants will be depicting both Union and Confederate infantry, artillery, cavalry (limited), and civilian impressions. On Friday, February 25, the camps will be open for tours by elementary school children from surrounding counties. On Saturday and Sunday, camps will be open to the public with ongoing events all day, climaxing with a battle re-enactment each afternoon at 1:30 PM. Other civil war activities will include period sutlers and vendors, a mock military trial and execution, artillery demonstrations, infantry drills, 'ladies afternoon tea', drum and fife music performances and civil war medical demonstrations. A limited number of re-enactor modern camping spaces will be available on a first contact, first served basis. Contact us for your reservation now because modern campers showing up on the day of the event without a reservation will not be allowed to camp. FREE firewood, hay for sleeping, and ice.  Infantry and artillery please pre-register.  A $50 cash bounty for the first 6, pre-registered artillery units, with a cannon (3 Union, 3 Confederate) and $10 cash bounty for the first 10, pre-registered mounted cavalry that attend the event. Sutlers by invitation only.  Information or reservations, contact David Glenn, at (727) 430-8136, email: coa_97thpa@hotmail.com or write: 97th Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., Event Coordinator, 14172 Sharon Drive, Largo, Florida, 33774.

 

March 11, 12, 13, 2011.  14th Annual Battle at Crystal River, FL.  This is a maximum effort Hardy's Brigade event.  The reenactment will be held once again at the Holcim, Inc. property site.  School and living history day is Friday, March 11th from 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM.  If you would like to participate in the Education and Living History Day activities contact Marcie Bruno at mandjbruno@webtv.net   All reenactors who help with school day will receive a free BBQ meal Friday night.  A registration fee of $2 per reenactor nine years old and up to be paid at the time of sign-in at the registration desk.  Wrist bands must be worn by all reenactors nine years old and up while on property.  No four wheelers allowed.  Authentic Civil War Era Sutlers only.  Sutlers, please contact Bill and Diane Micklon attrechuck@tampabay.rr.com for specifics.  Live fire cannon demonstration will be held during the weekend as well as live fire musket competition and mortar contest.  Contact Ray Smutko atray1861@earthlink.net for more information on these activities.  Civil War Battles take place at 2:00 PM Saturday and Sunday with pyrotechnic blasts for effects.  A ladies tea will be held Saturday morning.  There will be an 1860's dance Saturday night for reenactors and guests.  Sunday morning Church service in the barn for reenactors and the public.  Authentic camps for CSA and USA.  Powder ration for all pre-registered artillery pieces. Hay, wood and water on site for authentic and modern camps.  Modern camping (no hook-ups) on site.  Directions: Seven miles northwest of Crystal River along US 19/98, site is on the west side of the road.  Site entrance signs will be on the highway.  From Dunnellon, take CR 448 west, turn north on US 19/98; or SR 40 west to Inglis, turn south on US 19/98.  From Orlando, take the Florida Turnpike north to I-75, exit at first exit at Wildwood (SR 44) to US 19, turn north to Crystal River and follow the signs.  As you pass over the railroad tracks, get in the left lane. go about a mile and turn left into the small one lane entrance road.  GPS position: N28.59.281 W082.38.889  Pre-registration forms for artillery and sutlers are online, others need not pre-register. www.crystalriverreenactment.org  Snail mail to NCCWC, Inc, P.O. Box 640012 Beverly Hills FL., 34464.  NCCW Reenactment Committee: M. Hoffman (President) at pvt-hoffman@earthlink.net Curtis Peters (Vice-President) at curtis.peters@holcim.com   John Porter (Treasurer) at  jlporter@embarqmail.com   Major sponsors include Nature Coast Civil War Reenactment Committee, Inc., Holcim, Inc., and the Citrus County Chronicle.

 

April 8, 9, 10, 2011.  NEW EVENT.  "The Enterprise Raid".  Lanochee in Paisley, FL.  This will be the season finale for reenacting in Florida.  Sponsored by the Boy Scouts and the Federal 4th Brigade.  All proceeds will go to the Boy Scout Camp.  Very nice site with plenty of room to grow.  Usual amenities.  School day will be held on Friday the 8th.  Saturday will include a Ladies Tea and Evening Dance (in air-conditioned dining hall).  Bounty for the first 10 cannons (five Confederate and five Union).  Details website and additional info. to follow soon.  Location: 41940 Boy Scout Road, Paisley, FL., 32767.  Contact Chuck Munson at cwchuck@earthlink.net or 352-669-0291.

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The events listed below were furnished by Bob Neipert of Reenactors Online and reproduced here with his permission.  We will try to do as many as possible depending on time availability and other important considerations. Please check with either

Sergeant Major Eanes or 1st Sergeant Stockwell as the dates draw near for confirmation.