Artillery Impression — With the Cannon completed we are trying to gather information to put together a Continental Artillery impression. Mark Hubbs is leading the way. You may ask why Continental? Why not use our current Militia impressions? Well our initial research has revealed Militia did not normally operate as Artillery units. Cannon was a scarce item and those that where available were pressed into regular service. Hopefully more information will follow.
Past Projects
Completed BAR Application— We completed our final application to join the BAR. Here is a link to the documentation we submitted to join. It is in adobe acrobat format.
Cannon Limber IS COMPLETE—Our
artillery commander (I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU PLAY—JUST PLAY IT LOUD!!) Mark
Hubbs has finished his construction of a reproduction horse-drawn
limber for “our” 3-pounder cannon.
(This cannon really belongs to the group of War of 1812 reenactors
known as Jackson’s Lifeguard of the Tennessee Militia.
The Lifeguard site can be found at
http://jacksonslifeguard.homestead.com/home.html) Mark, the possessor of
this fine piece of artillery, and a member of both the Lifeguards and the
Refugees, has been a great help in making sure we will be able to fend off
Tories with much noise and smoke. Ross Rich’s trusty steed, Beau, has agreed
to pull our cannon and be nice and not kick us, and Ross will be producing the
requisite 2-5/8” diameter iron balls for it.
Remember, guns good. BIG
GUNS REAL GOOD! We will post some
more photos of the limbered cannon when Mark gets around to posting them on
our maillist.
Clothing Research and Construction—The
lovely and talented Charlie McCulloh, a Refugee and also one of the members of
the 22nd Alabama Infantry Regiment CSA (http://www.geocities.com/cw22al/)
has undertaken the unenviable task of stitching shirts and pants and coats and
haversacks and on and on. We
continue to try to get definitive information about the Continental uniform
for Georgia troops for future expansion of THE GEORGIA REFUGEES’ impression,
but in the meantime, we (well, Charlie) is concentrating on producing civilian
items right now. In the “Our
Members” pages, you can see some of Charlie’s handiwork in the clothing he and
Terry Oglesby are wearing.
The 1778 Georgia Militia Act and the
Order Book of Colonel Samuel Elbert—The Militia Act has been posted!!!!
After a couple of grueling days of typing gruntwork, we have managed to
transcribe all of the Militia Act (which we had previously misidentified as
being from 1777, rather than 1778) and have posted it over on the Historical
Documents page. We are still planning
to get the Elbert Order Book on here somehow, someway, but it will also
probably involve much cursing and swearing. I
have given up trying to do an OCR of the document, so more hand typing. (Blech!)
Paleolithic Reenacting with Grog the
Caveman—You STILL stay tune for
article series on proper wood for club, and how avoid farby looking bearskin
thong underwear. Me also not
think that bone in nose proper for late Bronze Age.
Other good stuff coming.
Back to Introductory Information
Last revised: January
26, 2003
Copyright 2000,
2001, 2002, 2003 The Georgia Refugees