Re Enactors

THOUSANDS OF CIVIL War re-enactors will relive the three-day Battle of Gettysburg this weekend, and Roy Ashe, of Roy's Clock Shop in Hampstead, will be one of them.It's planned as the largest re-enactment to be staged on the Gettysburg fields, with about 15,000 men in uniform for the 135th anniversary of the battle.Ashe will portray his ancestor William Joynes, who served at age 19 as a private in the Confederate infantry, the 3rd Virginia volunteers known as the "Dismal Swamp Rangers."In his portrayal, Ashe will be a member of the 4th Virginia Cavalry, Company A -- but considerably older, somewhat heavier and more fortunate than the typical soldier who rode a horse.

THE EVENTSMILITARY SCHEDULEFriday, July 3* 10 a.m.: Mortar fire demonstration* 4 p.m.: First Contact: The Great Battle Begins: Buford's stand, Reynolds' 1st Corps, Heth's division, Rodes arrives, the Confederate sweepSaturday, July 4* 10 a.m.: Hood's Advance: the Triangular Field, the Orange Blossoms Fall, the Battle for Little Round Top begins, the Wheatfield* 1 p.m.: Cavalry battle actions* 2 p.m.: The Battle for Little Round Top Rages: Vincent's Brigade...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans will hold their annual memorial ceremony for Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 at the Lee-Jackson Monument, Art Museum and Wyman Park Drives, near Johns Hopkins University.The ceremony will include period music by fife and drum groups and a massed formation of Civil War re-enactors in Confederate and Union uniforms.Refreshments will be served afterward at Shriver Hall on Hopkins' campus.Pub Date: 12/16/97

ANTIETAM - The largest Civil War re-enactment of the year will be taking place Sept. 12-14 on a farm just south of Hagerstown. This 135th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Antietam will draw more than 10,000 re-enactors who will commemorate the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.The battle ended the Confederacy's first effort to invade the North, and it enabled President Abraham Lincoln to shift the focus of the war from states' rights to...

"Howard County's Antebellum History" will come alive inside the stucco walls of historic Waverly Mansion Sunday when 18 re-enactors portray life in 1860, just before the Civil War.Within the 10-room main building on Marriottsville Road, the "militia" will be meeting in the parlor to discuss a declining political situation, food will be cooking on the hearth in the kitchen and hoop-skirted women will be tending to the house."We are trying to educate folks," said Steve Bockmiller, who is coordinating the event, sponsored by the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks.

This weekend, Civil War buffs will have the opportunity to relive a part of that historic time when North clashed with South, as the 19th Georgia Infantry opens its Civil War Encampment on the grounds of the Carroll County Farm Museum.The encampment will begin Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m. and feature activities and scenes for the public to enjoy until 9 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday.Dottie Freeman, administrative marketing specialist for the Farm Museum, said, "This will be the fourth year we have had the encampment on our calendar.

Confederate and Union soldiers filled the streets of Towson last night. They were among the more than 650 Civil War enthusiasts at the Towson Commons General Cinema complex for a screening of the new four-hour movie, "Gettysburg."Everyone was thrilled that Martin Sheen, better known to the group as "The General" Robert E. Lee, joined them and brought his son, Charlie, with him. (Charlie is in town making "Major League II.") The majority of the audience appeared in the film and they saluted Sheen by stomping the floor when he took his seat.

They worried about the Union soldiers encamped just over the hill, but the Confederates first had to battle ants, earwigs and, most of all, the 95-degree heat.Company D of the 2nd Maryland Infantry fought yesterday on the rolling fields of Steppingstone Museum along the banks of the Susquehanna River, and their re-enactment continues today with drills, a cavalry demonstration and a chance once again to change the outcome of the war that still fascinates so many.Members of the company arrived at Steppingstone Friday night and set up a camp that is an authentic replica of Civil War camps.

It's a good thing the day began with a truce. The Yankees set up camp just on the other side of the hill.But that didn't worry 1st Sgt. Rick Barber of the 19th Georgia Regiment, Archer's Brigade."

Her hair in a snood, and herself insulated in stockings, drawers, petticoats, a hoop and cotton dress, Susan Youhn insisted she wasn't as hot as she looked in the 90-degree heat outside the Mount Clare Mansion in Southwest Baltimore yesterday.She was among the 30 Civil War re-enactors who looked and dressed the part at Camp Carroll, a Civil War military village of cotton tents, rifles, cook stoves, supply barrels and railway yard that remains open to visitors today on a hill at Washington Boulevard and Monroe Street.