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Event Schedule for 2009
of 3dCLD / Iron Scouts
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schedule .... or click here for the archived
schedule (of previous events)
BRIEF: Cowpens (Jan), River' Bridge (Feb), Guilford
(Mar), Ninety-Six/Cross Keys (Apr), Resaca (May), Brattonsville (Jul), TROT
(Sep), Fesitfall/Williamsburg (Oct), Camden (Nov). Nothing
in June, August, or December.
 Cowpens Living History
- Chesnee, SC
*** MAX EFFORT ***
- Dates:
January 17 - 18
- Host/Sponsor: NPS, Cowpens National
Battlefield
- POC: Ron
- Impression:
3d CLD
- Website:
http://www.nps.gov/cowp/
- Comments: Includes the Annual Meeting of the
2d SC
- Last Year's Photos:
Click here
 River's Bridge -
Erhardt, SC
*** MAX EFFORT ***
- Dates:
February 7 - 8
- Host/Sponsor:
- POC: Ed
- Impression:
- Website:
- Comments: If we do this one, it would likely
be dismounted. There is usually a good authentic camp set
up along with the usual mainstreamers.
- After Action Report:
Click here
Battle of Aiken -
Aiken, SC
(information only)
- Dates:
February 21 - 22
- Host/Sponsor: Barnard E. Bee
Camp, Sons of Confederate
Veterans Camp #1575
- POC:
- Impression: Wheelers CS Cavalry
- Website: http://www.battleofaiken.org/
- Comments: We have a good time camping last
year but the battle left much to be desired.
- Last Year's Photos:
Click here
Guilford Courthouse -
Greensboro, NC
*** RAINED OUT ***
Ninety Six Revolutionary War
Days - Ninety-Six, SC
*** MAX EFFORT ***
- Dates: April 4 - 5
- Host/Sponsor: Ninety Six National Historic
Site (NPS)
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POC:
Don
- Impression: 3d CLD
- Website:
http://www.nps.gov/nisi
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Comments: A full schedule of living history activities is planned including musket and artillery firing demonstrations, military camp life, backcountry civilian skills demos, first-person scenarios, period music, 18th century entertainment, tours and much more.
A film crew from “Great Divide Pictures” will film throughout the weekend to gather footage of the event. Amenities will include a light supper on Friday evening for those setting up camp and a prepared breakfast on Saturday morning. The park’s friends group, Volunteers96, will help with the meals. Firewood, straw, water, restrooms and showers will be provided. A discount on bookstore merchandise will be given to those in period clothing. Entertainment on Saturday evening will be music and refreshments at the Black Swan Tavern.
Musgrove Mill - Clinton, SC
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Dates: April
25 - 26
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Host/Sponsor:
Musgrove Mill State Park
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POC:
Ron
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Impression:
McCall's Mounted Militia
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Website:
http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park-finder/state-park/3888.aspx
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Comments: Ron would like to consider again for this year.
We have a personal invitation from the park manager who has
appreciated our impression
at past events.
Cross Keys, SC (tentative)
- Dates: May 2 - 3 (new date)
- Host/Sponsor: SCV Camp #1451, Union County
Historical Society
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POC: Ron
- Impression: CS Cavalry
- Website:
- Comments:
The Union County Historical Society owns and operates the
Cross Keys House
in Cross Keys (SC) where CS President Jefferson Davis stopped
for lunch in April 1865 on his withdrawal southward. They are
planning another event including living historians, tours of the house,
etc. They just announced a date change to avoid multiple
conflicts but this also falls on the observance of Confederate
Memorial Day.
- Last Year's Photos:
click here
3dCLD
Muster - Landrum, SC
- Dates: June 13, 2009, at 5:00pm
- Host/Sponsor: 3d CLD
- POC: Don
- Impression:
- Website:
- Comments: At FENCE, upper field
Battle
of Huck's Defeat - McConnells, SC
*** MAX EFFORT ***
- Dates:
July 11 - 12
- Host/Sponsor: Historic Brattonsville
- POC: Dan
- Impression: British Legion Dragoons
- Website: http://www.chmuseums.org/calendar/brattonsville.htm
- Comments: Plans are calling for the usual
public battle on Saturday and then a closed tactical on Sunday.
Also, Father, Son and Friends will be performing this year at the Jollification Saturday night.
- Last Year's AAR:
Click here
- Last Year's Photos:
Click here
Dancing Under the Stars, TROT
Fundraiser at FENCE - Landrum, SC
*** MAX EFFORT ***
 Talk Like A Pirate (TLAP) Day Party
-
Gramling, SC
Festifall/Walnut
Grove - Roebuck, SC
Prelude to Victory - Colonial
Williamsburg, VA
- Dates:
October 11 - 12
- Host/Sponsor: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- POC: Dan
- Impression: 3dCLD
- Website: http://www.history.org/
- Comments:
Battle of Big Creek - Rogersville,
TN
- Dates:
October 10 - 11
- Host/Sponsor: 12th TN Cavalry
- POC:
- Impression:
- Website:
- Comments: A new event the 12th TN is starting to replace
their old Rogersville event. Terry King will provide
more details later.
Education Day at Cowpens -
Chesnee, SC
- Dates: October
- Host/Sponsor: NPS, Cowpens National
Battlefield
- POC: Ron
- Impression: 3dCLD
- Website:
http://www.nps.gov/cowp/
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Comments:
Revolutionary War Field Days -
Camden, SC
- Dates: November 7 - 8
- Host/Sponsor: Historic Camden
- POC:
- Impression:
- Website:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/413140/
- Comments: Last year, at the last minute, Pat O'Kelley
contacted us with plans to use the cavalry in two scenarios.
If he still has a need for Cav, we should consider this one
since there is nothing else in November for us.
Annual
Meeting of the Second South Carolina Line, Continental Establishment
- Dates: December (TBA)
- Host/Sponsor: The
Second South Carolina Line, Continental Establishment
- POC:
- Impression: None
- Website:
- Comments:
3dCLD Muster/Christmas Party
- TBD (tentative)
- Dates: December
- Host/Sponsor: 3d CLD
- POC:
- Impression: 3d CLD
- Website:
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Comments:
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