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If you are an experienced, serious and dedicated re-enactor, it is most likely that you have "hit the wall" with your mainstream unit. There isn't a wall to hit with Company K. The extent of your living history portrayal is limited only by the extent of your research and imagination. There are mainstream reenacting groups who believe that a Civil War reenactment is a place for everyone to "come and play". Consequently, they dress in 19th century clothes and engage in 21st century activities. |
In Company K, we believe that the complete and accurate portrayal of a Civil War soldier IS the play. The highest enjoyment comes from spending a weekend AS a Civil War soldier, not just dressing as one. Company K members also find enjoyment in preparing for each individual scenario. As you assemble your kit and decide what gear to pack before you start off for the event, you are already putting yourself in the mindset of the Civil War soldier. As you pack your knapsack and your shelter half, you are already starting to mentally to travel similar roads and to encounter worries and fears similar to those that the Civil War soldier experienced. While you are at each event, you are thinking like a Civil War soldier in a community of reenactors who are doing the same. Therefore, whether you are using a first person persona or not, you are closer to the full Civil War soldier experience than any of your pards in a mainstream unit. At night, sitting with your pards around a crackling fire, a stimulating libation passing over your lips from the rusty rim of a tin army cup is far more evocative of the soldier’s life than swilling beer from a can and talking about the Red Sox.
We are not "stitch counters". What we ask of our members is that they be willing to portray the life of a Civil War soldier and share that portrayal with their pards during the entire event. If you are the kind of reenactor who is open to receiving the past, who has experienced what is often described as a "Moment" or a "Wrinkle in Time", then you cannot help but appreciate that the possibility of experiencing more "Moments" is greatly heightened when you are in the presence of other reenactors, similarly inclined, similarly focused, and equally open to those experiences. Company K is made up of the "reverent men" of whom Joshua Chamberlain wrote:
"In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass, bodies disappear but spirits linger to consecrate ground for the vision place of the soul. And reverent men and women from afar and generations that know us not and that we know not of, shall come here to ponder and to dream and the power of the vision shall pass into their souls."
We are open to receive the "power of the vision" of the brave men of Company K, 28th MVI and their families, their friends, their community, their church, their fellow workers, patrons and contemporaries and to share it with our own. We invite all similarly inclined reenactors and living historians to join us.
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