Civil War Encampment

I am so excited to be blogging again.......along the Trails of Tennessee! My blog was not working, and well, life happens. But much has transpired between then and now. For the past year I have been working on a book proposal, with award-winning photographer, Jeffrey Stoner, based on Trails of Tennessee, the song. More about this later as the saga continues to unfold.

My husband, Bruce, and I were shopping for winter pansies at The Farmer's Market near the beautiful Bi-Centennial Mall in downtown Nashville recently and were startled by a loud " KA-BOOM!" across the way. As we followed the sound, we discovered Civil War cannons were being fired during a Civil War Encampment with re-enactors dressed in full period regalia. These period costumes made us feel as though we had stepped back in time. Our conversations were present tense as the re-enactors explained the realities and hardships of war, their water and food in short supply, and the loves, lives and deaths of our union and confederate soldiers............along the Civil War trails of tennessee.



Musicians came along side our soldiers to bring a smile to their faces, a 'tap' to their toes, and remind them of home.

Cookin' up "supper" for the soldiers.

 

This "brick" of black tea was used for medicinal purposes as well for drinking........... along the Civil War trails of Tennessee.