{"id":11234,"date":"2011-04-10T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2011-04-10T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:18:24","slug":"civil-war-reenacting-to-surge-during-the-next-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11234","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Reenacting to Surge During the Next 4 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/decaturdaily.com\/stories\/Interest-renews-in-Civil-War-re-enactments,77905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CivilWarRenenacting.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Civil War re-enactors portraying Union troops prepare to march off a field Feb. 25 in Aiken, S.C. where the Battle of Aiken is re-enacted each year. Photo by Bruce Smith\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11235\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C.<\/strong> \u2014 For thousands of Civil War re-enactors, the next four years are a chance to capitalize on the public&#8217;s curiosity about a century-old hobby that demands such attention to detail that the fights seem almost real.<\/p>\n<p>The die-hards converging soon at the site where the War Between the States began 150 years ago with a Confederate artillery barrage on Union-held Fort Sumter can&#8217;t wait to help others understand why they spend weekends tramping through the rain, sleeping in tents in snow-covered fields, cooking on open campfires and enduring mock battles in wool coats under the hot Southern sun.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re expecting a surge of interest in a pastime that has roots at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913, when Confederate veterans retraced Pickett&#8217;s Charge. Re-enacting took hold for good five decades ago during the Civil War&#8217;s centennial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/decaturdaily.com\/stories\/Interest-renews-in-Civil-War-re-enactments,77905\">Read the full AP article<\/a> by Bruce Smith in the April 10, 2011 edition of DecaturDaily.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. \u2014 For thousands of Civil War re-enactors, the next four years are a chance to capitalize on the public&#8217;s curiosity about a century-old hobby that demands such attention to detail that the fights seem almost <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=11234\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Civil War Reenacting to Surge During the Next 4 Years<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-civil-war","category-reenactments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}