1st Manassas Update

A planning meeting was held on Saturday May 6 and attended by Lt. Col's Tony Zusman & K.C. Meadows, representing the Corps.

The first half of the meeting covered the schedule for the weekend and various other administrative matters. The second half of the meeting was a walk through of the battlefield and camps.

News of importance....

As you all, hopefully, know, the event will be held at the Cedar Creek Battlefield site in Middletown, VA.

We will be camped this time in what is usually the Federal camps. The Federals will camp on the site we occupied at the 140th Cedar Creek event.

The camp site for the infantry will be at the farthest point of the property down the hill from the Chevron station on Rt. 11. We will be about halfway down the fence line.

Artillery will be camped on top of the hill behind the Chevron station.

Cavalry will camp along the treeline at the bottom of the field.

Artillery and Infantry please note....we will be camped in open field so please plan accordingly. The field looked a lot better than the past Manassas field and no poison ivy or oak was observed. Believe me it is already up in that part of Virginia as a bumper crop has already appeared in my flower beds.

Longstreet's Corps infantry will be portraying Colonel Nathan George "Shanks" Evans Brigade. This will include Wheat's Tigers commanded by our own Chaplain Buddy Wheat, who will once again portray his ancestor Chatham Roberdeau Wheat.

For those who pre-registered, we were told that our registration packages with event medallions will be mailed out by the end of May.

Additional information on the event can be found at the event web site.