In the individual contests we sometimes wound up competing agains't ourselves as Pvt. Larry"Fig" Newton (24th) barely beat out John Maki (10th) for the most authentic soldier of less than one and a half years experience. Then, "lightening" Bob Talbot, alias 3rd Sgt. Quincy Bruce, beat all comers US. or C.S., to take the speed musket loading competition. There was a tense moment when it looked as if a sgt. from the Union Rifles company was going to win, but Bob's musket went off and the other fellows didn't and that was that. It should also be noted that the Federals, with our own Paul Walter as pitcher cleaned house in the baseball game despite some notoriously mobile bases, players being held by opponents, etc. etc. Naturally we didn't do any of those things ourselves.

The battle reenactment was different from anything we have done this year. Both Holmes' Brigade and the Union Rifles had equally sized companies and as we had our U.S. color and they had their regimental color we were able to put together a color guard and a decent line of battle. Sunday was particularly memorable as a cold misting rain started up just before the battle - exactly the same conditions as existed during the original battle. In addition, Bandmaster Steve Weldon and drummer Romoan Hendrix played us into battle following the lines as we advanced and retreated. An eerie haunting thing it was to hear the faultless music and look down the lines to the flags as our company snapped off crisp volleys and smoke obliterated the scene.