"Black Hat Baptism" ©1993 by Mike Thorson

February 12-14 Point Lookout, Point Lookout, Maryland.  Event hosted by the Southern Guard.  An excellent site for a winter quarters type event.  Several of us have attended events here in the past.

March 19-21 Backwater 1865, LBL, Tennessee.  Event hosted by the Independence Mess.  Land Between the Lakes is a huge area with minimal modern intrusions.  The scenario is the various engagements in the Carolinas in early 1865.

April 17-18  (tentative) ONV Spring Muster, Galena, Illinois.  Potential return trip to the grounds of the Ryan mansion.

May 1-2 Spring Muster, Greenbush, Wisconsin.  Another event to get the cobwebs out after the long winter.  This at the Wade House site.

May 7-9  Wilderness LH, preservation march. Great opportunity to be at a site that needs some support of its preservation efforts, unfortunately it is over Mother's day weekend.

May 15-17 Hog's Trial 1866, Defiance, Missouri.  The 'sequel' to Lost Tribes at Boonesfield in MO. This is a post-war event, centered around a trial and its effects on a small town.  The Boonesfield site is a wonderful place for events.

June 11-13 Disaffected in Canada, Ft. Wayne (Detroit), Michigan.  Event hosted by our pards in the Sally Port Mess.  Like many things in Detroit, this site could use our support.  Should be a unique opportunity on original ground.

July 16-18 The Fight for Crampton's Gap, near Blanchardville, Wisconsin.  Event organized by our pard Mr. Chmelar.  Nice site in our home state.

August 6-8, Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri.  Event organized by the Hairy Nation.  Smoothbores required.

October 8-10, Perryville Living History.  Perryville, Kentucky.  HHM hosted event.  Portraying the 21st Wisconsin in October 1862.