SCHEDULE - All
times are subject to change:
Friday April 17
3:00 Early Registration and Set-up
5:00 Main Registration and Set-up
6:00 Orientation for NCO's and
Officers
6:45 Formation in Parade Ground (Roll Call and Welcome)
7:45 School - Customs and Courtesies (Cpt.
Howey) for all
attendants
Duties
Military Customs
Rendering the salute
Reporting to NCO’s and officers
9:30 Social
10:15 All Quiet
11:00 Lights Out
Saturday April 18
6:00 Reveille
7:00
Morning Formation, Post the colors, and Roll
7:15 Breakfast
8:00 School of the Soldier – conducted by senior privates
- NCO – Platoon evolutions,
firing techniques, paperwork, orders books, Guards and reliefs
- Officers
o Paperwork – Copies of forms, review
forms, who gets what?
o artillery safety – Michael Bettes,
21st Ind. Lt. Artillery
o block drill (Company) – flanks,
wheels, open ranks, guides, obliques, composition,
forming, pass and review …
9:30 Drill
- Platoon Drill (Sergeants and
privates) - marching, firing techniques, skirmish
- Battalion exercises (Officers
(log drills)) – form battalion, evolutions of the line, double column
11:30 Lunch
12:00 School
- NCO – Forming companies, count
off, inspection, guides
- Officers
- Inspection – inspection and
Parade
- Company – Review Company drill
- battalion drill – form
battalions, evolutions of the line, double column, guides
1:10 Afternoon Formation - Company Drill (Forming into 20
man companies) All
2:30 School - NCO & Officers
- Block Drill
- Q&A
- Company drill
4:00 Company Drill (As ONE company) All, Color Guard
5:00
Dinner
6:30 Evening Formation, Retire the colors
7:30 School
- NCO & Officers – Battalion
Drill - form battalions, evolutions of the line, double column, guides
9:15 Social
10:15 All Quiet
11:00
Lights Out
Sunday April 19
6:30 Reveille
7:15 Morning Formation, Set the colors, and Roll
7:30 Breakfast
8:00 School
- NCO & Officer Schools – Recap, Q&A, Review
8:30 Prayer service
9:30 Battalion
Drill
11:30 Lunch leftovers
1:30 Abandon the fort.
DRILL – All officers should be prepared
for the following:
School of
the Company
- Countermarch
- Stack Arms
- By Company into Line (from both
right and left flank)
- On Right (Left) by File into
Line
- Marching in line at both ‘Guide
Right’ and ‘Guide Left’
- Fixed Pivot wheels
- Moving Pivot Wheels
- Right and Left Turns
- Company firing Techniques
- Skirmish
School of the Battalion
Maneuvers
from Line into Column
- By Company, Right Wheel, March
- By Company, Left Wheel, March
- By the Right of Companies, to
the Rear, into Column
- Right & Left Obliques
Maneuvers
from Column into Line
- Left into Line Wheel, March
- Right into Line Wheel, March
- On the Right into Line, Guide
Right, March
- On the Left into Line, Guide
Left, March
- Forward into Line
- Form Line, Faced to the Rear
Maneuvers
in Line of Battle
- Forming the battalion from the
company streets onto the color line
- Battalion, Forward March
- By the Right of Companies, to
the Front, March – by Company into Line
- (X) Company, Obstacle!
- Change Front Forward (to the
rear) on the First (or other) Company
- Double Column – at half
distance, Battalion - Inward Face,
March
- Deploy Column, Battalion –
Outward Face, March
- Battalion firing techniques
The event will be at East harbor state Park, near Port
Clinton, Ohio, on the shores of lake Erie, on July 10,11,12 2009.
We are trying for a mini " mega' event, and would like to see 1000 reenactors. We already have about 300 union
and 225 CSA, with 12 guns and cavalry, and
the commanders will be Tim Perry ANV and Burdell Waffler USV. The battles
will be based on Gettysburg, this
year.
We also have a lot of activities, including living history, muzzle loading
contests, cannon firing contest, artillery night fire, and many more, including
ground charges and a live mortar competition.
A free dinner will be available on Saturday night, and a free breakfast Sun.
morning. A dance will be held Sat. night with the Anonymous string band
playing.
Johnsons Island,
CSA pow
camp, is adjacent to the park, and the director Dr. Dave Bush, will give tours
of the campsite, and the latest archaeological dig.
I know you have already committed to another event this year, but there's
always next year, when we'll have the CSS Hunley exhibit here. I would be grateful if you posted this
notice on any board you frequent, and I hope some Indiana companies will
attend, as we have companies coming from OH,PA,WV,MI and KY, but nothing from
IN
If you, or anybody, needs further information, please do not hesitate to
contact me
Col. Rom Muszynski
romnsoo@msn.com
