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1jcbrunner
Nov. 23, 2008, 6:28 pm

Coming across a nice YouTube video about a recent reenactment of Cedar Creek with over 4,000 participants (via 2Blowhards which also has a good participant's account), I can only marvel at the progress of reenacting (and recording). Just look at footage from The Blue and the Gray, North and South, Gettysburg and God and Generals to see the amazing advance in quality and quantity.

Regarding the battles of Cedar Creek, which books would you recommend (good mapwork, decision-making focus if possible)?

2RobertMosher
Nov. 23, 2008, 7:53 pm

JC -
My reenacting unit was at that event - re the degree of "progress" in reenacting, I fear that I can only concluded that you have witnessed some great editing. I haven't been to the event in several years and from what I have heard of this year's, I am unlikely to change that pattern.

However, as to map-making, I understand that Make Me a Map may be just what you're looking for.

Robert A. Mosher

3Ammianus
Nov. 24, 2008, 3:28 pm

RE maps: See also Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss, one of my fav ACW books.

4jcbrunner
Nov. 25, 2008, 9:22 am

Thanks, I put the Hotchkiss books on my Spring wishlist, along with Wert's From Winchester to Cedar Creek (1987), Pond's The Shenandoah Valley in 1864 (1885, PD ebook) and Patchan's Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign (according to Amazon, due in paperback in April 09). Patchan's book, as his title indicates, does not include the battle of Cedar Creek. I hope he is working on a sequel (even if Amazon reviews highlight the scarcity of maps).

My quick search has not revealed a full modern battle study of this tactically interesting battle (an Eastern Shiloh: Confederate surprise attack is met by a belated Northern crushing counterattack) with great protagonists (Early, Sheridan).

Re the reenacting. As a pure spectator, an ocean away, I can't comment on the politics and the event itself. I am just impressed by the quality of the video, the number of participants and their uniforms and arms - compared to earlier footage and also to other reenactors.

In Europe, the biggest events are struggling to mobilize more than a thousand participants and suffer from heavily unbalanced forces, e.g. 80% French Napoleonics/Romans on one side. I remember a reenactment at Waterloo where 500 French were "defeated" by 50 British ...