ACWSA members participated in a number of School Days in May. 2016. On May 20th in Milton, WI at the Milton octagon house, Stephen Sherry, Al Bortles, and Gary Van Kauwenbergh hosted a station on Civil War Weapons, talking to over 1,500 students. On May 17th in Schofield, WI, Dick [ » ]
The First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Gray Frock Coat of Corporal Milton Ewen Research Notes On Friday, March 24, 2006, Scott Frank, Marc Storch and Gary Van Kauwenbergh, met with Wisconsin Veterans Museum Curator of Collections Bill Brewster to examine the frock coat belonging to Corporal Milton Ewen of the First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. [ » ]
Click here to watch a short video on the Underground Railway station located in Milton, WI. There’s a city park across the street is where every year Company K of the Second Wisconsin Infantry Assn, Inc., hosts a School Day event where over a thousand students can visit 25-30 stations [ » ]
“Dug-in” is a bit of a tease, but there are actually 140 rebel soldiers buried in the “Confederate Rest” section of Forrest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin. It is the northern-most Confederate cemetery in the United States. Union forces captured 1156 Confederate enlisted men when they seized Island Number 10 [ » ]
The famous (infamous?) Rebel spy Belle Boyd is buried in Wisconsin, just outside of what was then Killborne, but is now known as Wisconsin Dells. I’ve visited the grave site three times, and each time there have been fresh flags or flowers. Pictured are grandchildren Ben and Leah Van Kauwenbergh. Belle [ » ]
Old Soldier Fiddlers performed at the Kenosha Civil War Museums Expo on Saturday, March 12, 2016, and the video of their performance is on YouTube at https://youtu.be/J32zYXIdqH0 The group mixes history with music and humor in a multimedia presentation. This year’s performance features the story of Bailey’s Dam during the Red River [ » ]
Stephen Sherry of the ACWSA’s 15th Wisconsin Infantry “Norwegian Bear Hunters” passed on these photos of team member Mary Borsic’s trip to Chickamauga battlefield, showing the monuments for the regiment their team is named after.
Pat Kaboskey, Gene Hass, Bill Osborne spent the morning of November 6th doing a live fire training/demo for high school cadets from St. John’s Military Academy. They all were able to shoot 5 different Civil War period weapons.
Photos from the 2015 skirmish in Boscobel, WI hosted by the 8th, 15th Wisconsin and 1st USSS. Photographer Pam Kirk.
March 21, 2015 Kenosha Civil War Museum Civil War groups set up display tables and talked to visitor about their organizations from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Civil War Museum in Kenosha, WI on Saturday, March 21, 2015. Stephen Sherry and Dan Christiansen manned a recruiting table and [ » ]