Welcome to the SCAR
SCAR will be hosting three, c/p/h events in in 2010-11. Over five months the volunteers from the SCAR groups will work together to organize and execute three events! Quite an undertaking! We truly hope that everyone will attend and have an enjoyable and historic experience! Volunteers are still needed! Thanks for your patience and support.
SCAR and WIG are co-hosting "Before the Breakout" recreates the life of a man in the 8th Kansas Infantry (Co. A) just after the devastating battle of Chickamauga. Although withdrawing in good order, the 8th suffered 50% casualties at Chickamauga. They retreated to Chattanooga and building heavy defenses around the city. The Confederates would soon arrive and begin building their own works as well. Before Orchard Knob men of the 45th Alabama and the 8th Kansas are assigned to Guard Mount. Their picket posts are a mere 40 yards apart in places. Men weary of battle and the soldiers life call unofficial truces with their enemy. Fraternization begins between the lines. Trading, gambling, drinking, and exchanging stories were the norm. Sutlers and other civilians appear to sell their wares. Officers weary for war and ready to give up their commissions turn a blind eye to the odd socializations. Even the officers visit the sutlers and meet with opposing officers as well.
Ken Giddens commands the SCAR company A at BTB. Please register asap at the event website:
DATE: Sept 10-12, 2010 (be on site by 6-7 pm)
Location: Rome, GA (see website for details)
Event website: http://www.westernindependentgrays.org/beforebreakout/index.htm
Please review all the Dress Guidelines.

"Struggles of Secession": It is October, 1863 in a small, rural, working-class town in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia. The days of hearts beating to the sounds of war drums is gone. Gone are the lavish suppers and barbeques. Forgotten are the long winded speeches advocating secession from the Union. The call to duty to defend home and hearth is quickly replaced by the cries of the Yeoman dying on the fields of Virginia and Pennsylvania and the pleas of their dear ones at home. Vacant as the call to arms to defend Southern Rights are the vacant bellies of the soldier’s loved ones on their own homestead. Too greedy and craven to fight for their own peculiar institutions, the wealthy, Planter class sends their poor brethren to do their bidding. While some men sit home with exemptions seemingly only procured by those of means, the poor Yeoman must join or be conscripted. Even more overwhelming is the fact that the desire for cotton profits replaces the rational and obvious urgency to grow produce for the people and soldiers protecting the South and her industries.
SCAR groups are encouraged to volunteer with SCAR to be on Staff for the event.
DATE: Oct 20-24, 2010 (you can arrive up till 5 pm on the 22nd Fri)
Location: Westville Historic Village - Lumpkin, GA (Stewart Cty)
Event Website: http://www.strugglesofsecession.com/
Event Trailer: http://www.strugglesofsecession.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=21
photos from the 2008 event "Sparks of Secession" at http://www.strugglesofsecession.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=21
"To Prevent the Effusion of Blood": The flash point of the American Civil War is accepted to be Charleston Harbor with the events of December 1860 and January 1861 providing an impetus on the part of the new Confederacy to organize their forces for combat and providing the Federal Government a breathing space until the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
Major Robert Anderson had been sent to Fort Moultrie to take command by the Buchannan Administration in the hope that a Southern Gentlemen would be congizant and respectful of Southern Sensibilities. Major Anderson decided his duty lay with executing his vague orders from the Federal Government. He was mindful of the moves the State of South Carolina made to arm itself and the situation of his command. In his own words, Major Anderson decided to move the Fort Moultrie Garrison to Fort Sumter on the night of 26-27 December 1860 "To prevent the effusion of blood.
The Tramp Brigade is the host unit for this event. Please contact them for detailed questions.
DATE: Jan. 7-9, 2011
Location: Fort Moultrie/Fort Sumter, SC
Event website: http://topreventtheeffusionofblood.com/
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A brave group of SCAR men formed a company in the 57th GA at Backwater. A handful Last Updated (Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:28) Many of us enjoyed the Civil War Historian Magazine during its brief tenure. A new on-line Last Updated (Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:21) The Caudells will be appearing at the "Struggles of Secession - Westville, GA 1863" event Last Updated (Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:22) The SCAR braved rain and cold to participate in the 145th Fort McAllister event. Fort McAllister Last Updated (Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:24) AAR for the 48th IN - Nov 15th, 1864 - Sunday (account of Butler's Bastards)
After marching all Saturday, and not encountering nary a soul to find forage, the men lay down
to a night of sleep fit with twitches in their bellies. With best hopes of the day to come. Georgia brought us some nice weather to begin our trek on this fine Sabbath morning down the ridge road to complete our mission. Passing a fine wagon and some civilians who had nothing to plunder, we moved down the trail again towards a small, cracker, homestead. Being an officer of a foraging dash and fell upon the cabin with great intent to sack it. It was like time had spun about and seemed as dreamlike as a whirlwind of activity stirred about me, which was unlike the military order we were used to within the battalion. The men tore into the cabin with great élan as their inhabitants were torn from their home. The men folk were gathered, patted down and put under guard. The ladies cried out to their Secesh gods as their possessions were emptied upon the thoroughfare. To my right I spy some chickens as well as another private, we fire our pistols at them and one is soon destined for a cook pot. To my left the men find a ham and begin to tear into it like a pack of dogs. I then seek any newly turned ground in their yard for hiiden treasures. My plunder includes two jars of jam and ham. I drank coffee from the Southrons cups and ate beans from the traitors pots this fine day. In the distance I catch a glimpse of a large Secesh fella sitting under a tree and arguing with some of Uncle Billys Boys, but can not hear what they say. I spot one of the civilian men not sitting with the other men and I burst upon him with the full anger that has built upon me fueled also by my hunger of the previous day. I see this poor Secesh man as the cause of all my woes in this war. I draw my pistol and ordered him to sit back down as he was ordered or I will shoot him down. Then as I pass the other civilian men grouped near a tree I tell the Guard to keep them there, an old man calls to me, “Hey There!...Were you in Mexico?”. I am startled and the chaos about is unnoticed and I say to the man, “Yes, I was in Mexico, but I was a much younger lad then.” This poor Secesh man turned out to be Sgt Bruce who I served under in the War with Mexico many years ago. I told the guard to treat him well as he was once a US Hero, but was now led astray. He told me he was now a surgeon and supported neither side. Soon, we were on our way and wished to depart before the smoke and sounds would bring a patrol our way. Last Updated (Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:26) The Salt River Rifles will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary in March of 2010. In 1998, In March of 2010 we plan to have a dinner in Atlanta to celebrate our 10 years. All members and As the SRR approaches our 10th year, our beloved geocities, which has had our site for 10 years I am very proud of the SRR and all the comraderie we have shared over the years has made every Thanks, Jim Butler
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