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Directions to the event:
House on the Metolius: National Forest Development Road 980, Camp Sherman, OR 97730
Directions from Interstate 5 at Salem, OR
Turn left onto OR-22 E/Mission St SE
Continue to follow OR-22 E 80.3 mi
Slight left onto US-20 E 16.0 mi
Follow SW Camp Sherman Rd and SW Metolius River Rd/NF-900 to NF-980 in Jefferson County 7.7 mi
Turn left onto SW Camp Sherman Rd 4.9 mi
Turn right onto SW Camp Sherman Rd/R F D 1419 0.6 mi
Turn left onto NF-1419/113 0.3 mi
Slight left onto SW Metolius River Rd/NF-900 1.9 mi
Turn left onto NF-980
Destination will be on the right 0.2 mi
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This year's Christmas Party will be hosted on December 7, by the Gattman's--Chris, Sharon and Elly. The Gattman house is located at 432 SW 8th Circle, Troutdale, OR 97060. People can show up anytime after noon, and we'll bust out the chow around 4:30.
Troutdale is immediately off of I-84. No matter which way you come on I-84, take the Troutdale exit, follow it and then take the first right past the truck stop, go up the hill over the railroad tracks, turn left onto Halsey at the Plaid Pantry, turn right and follow Buxton up the hill to 7th and it's the blue house on the corner with giant trees, a Red Baron tri-plane and a cannon in the yard. There will be plenty of curbside parking alongside the house. Chris's phone number is 971-207-2323.
There is a firepit in the backyard and plenty of room for tents. Unfortunately Chris is too allergic of dogs to have them in the house, but the backyard is fenced and totally dog-friendly.
I look forward to seeing everyone then,
CPT Bishop
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A new spring event site near Sisters, OR is being considered. The site is described as "a gorgeous site with a great battlefield, camping and vistas to die for". I'll update this post as I learn more about the site.
Cpt Bishop
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The Site Evaluation Team went to the Sherwood Forest Productions site, located in Sherwood, approximately 4 miles from Wilsonville. This is 30 acres of private land owned by Larry Strickland. The team was very impressed with this site as the owner is very flexible with allowing us to develop the land in a variety of ways. Steve Betschart recommended that Mike Tamerius be the event coordinator for this event. The site would be ready by September 2014. Katy Flynn made a motion, with Mike Heino 2nd, to make Sherwood Forrest Productions a new event site to replace McIver. Motion passed unanimously.
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Greetings fellow Texans,
As we appraoch the 2013 reenacting season, I'd like to remind every one of a couple of items. Your signed NCWC membership form needs to be sent to Captain Bishop (address below) including the appropriate payment for individual ($20) or family ($40) dues, along with a stamped envelope addressed to the membership coordinator (address below).
Company dues are $5 per individual and can be paid at the first event to the 1st Corporal, Ken Church. When you pay your Company dues, you should also update your address/contact information.
Captain Bishop: 6410 NE 41st Ave, Portland, OR 97211
NCWC Membership Coordinator: Anne Tamerius, 11918 SE Division St. #218, Portland, OR 97266
If you have ideas on how to make the Company better, please create a forum entry to get feedback from others in the Company.
I look forward to a rewarding, fun reenacting year.
Your obedient servant,
Matt Bishop
Captain, Co H., 4th Texas Volunteer Infantry
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Is it just me or are the links broken on the home page?:P
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I came across this and found it interesting.
CIVIL WAR ERA SLANG AND TERMSA Writer's Guide for the American Civil war
The terms and phrases I have gathered here are found all over the internet, thus I cannot claim any ownership or even any particular wit for finding them. Therefore, I am simply offering this compilation as a complement to my Old West Slang page and as a small help to writers and readers who may drop by.
Absquatulate - to take leave, to disappear
Acknowledge the Corn - to admit the truth, to confess a lie, or acknowledge an obvious personal shortcoming
Arkansas Toothpick - a long, sharp knife
A.W.O.L. - Absent With Out Leave
Bad Egg - bad person, good for nothing
Balderdash - nonsense
Bark Juice, Red Eye, O Be Joyful - liquor
Beat the Dutch - if that don't beat all
Bluff - trick or deceive
Bragg's Body Guard - lice
Been Through the Mill - been through a lot, seen it all
Bellyache - complain
Big Bugs - big wigs, important people
Bivouac - to camp without formal shelter or in temporary circumstances
Blowhard - braggart, bully
Blue Mass - refers to men on sick call; named after blue pill.
Bread Bag - haversack
Bread Basket - stomach
Bully - exclamation meaning, &'terrific!' or 'hurrah!'Bully for You - good for you
Bummer – malingerer, someone who deliberately lags behind to forage or steal on his own shrift Bummer's Cap - regulation army cap with a high/deep crown, so-called because it could be filled with gathered foodstuffs
Bust Head / Pop Skull - cheap whiskey
Camp canard - tall tale circulating around camp as gossip
Cashier - to dismiss from the army dishonorably
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer - person in charge, or someone who can do anything
Chicken Guts - gold braid used to denote officer ranks
Company Q - fictitious unit designation for the sick list Conniption
Fit - hysterics, temper tantrum
Contraband - escaped slaves who sought refuge behind Union lines
Copperhead - Northern person with Southern, anti-Union sympathies
Cracker Line - supply line for troops on the move
Deadbeat - useless person, malingerer
Desecrated Vegetables - Union, dehydrated (desiccated) vegetables formed into yellowish squares
Dog Robber - soldier detailed from the ranks to act as cook
Dog Collar - cravat issued with uniforms, usually discarded Duds - clothing
Embalmed Beef - canned meat
Essence of Coffee - early instant coffee, found in paste form
Forage - to hunt for food, live off the land; also came to mean plundering enemy property for sustenance
Fit as a fiddle - in good shape
Fit to be tied - angry
Forty Dead Men - a full cartridge box, which usually held fortyrounds
French Leave - to go absent without leave
Fresh Fish - new recruits
Go Boil Your Shirt - take a hike, get lost, bug off
Grab a Root - eat a meal, especially a potato
Greenbacks - money
Grey Backs - lice, also derogatory term for Confederate soldiers
Grit - courage, toughness
Goobers - peanuts
Hanker - a strong wish or want
Hard Case - tough guy
Hard Knocks - hard times, ill use
Hardtack - unleavened bread in the form of ¼ inch thick crackers issued by the army
Haversack - canvas bag about one foot square, which was slung over the shoulder and used to carry a soldier's rations when on the march
High-falutin - highbrow, fancy
Horse Sense - common sense, good judgement
Hospital Rat - someone who fakes illness to get out of duty
Housewife - sewing kit
Huffy, In a Huff - angry, irritated
Humbug - nonsense, a sham, a hoax
Hunkey Dorey - very good, all is well
Jailbird - criminal
Jawing - talking
John Barleycorn - beer
Jonah - someone who is or brings bad luck
Knock into a Cocked Hat - to knock someone senseless or thoroughly shock him
Let 'er Rip - let it happen, bring it on
Let Drive - go ahead, do it
Likely - serviceable, able-bodied
Light Out - leave in haste
Long Sweetening - molasses
Lucifers - matches
Muggins - a scoundrel
Mule - meat, especially if of dubious quality
Mustered Out – wry term meaning killed in action
No Account - worthless
Not By a Jug Full - not by any means, no way
On His Own Hook - on one's own shrift, without orders
Opening the Ball - starting the battle
Opine - be of the opinion
Peacock About - strut around
Peaked - pronounced peak-ed; weak or sickly
Pie Eater - country boy, a rustic
Pig Sticker - knife or bayonet
Picket - sentries posted around a camp or bivouac to guard approaches
Play Old Soldier - pretend sickness to avoid combat
Played Out - worn out, exhausted
Pumpkin Rinds - gold lieutenant's bars
Quartermaster Hunter - shot or shell that goes long over the lines and into the rear.
Quick Step, Flux - diarrhea
Robber's Row - the place where sutlers set up to do business
Row - a fight
Salt Horse - salted meat
Sardine Box - cap box
Sawbones - surgeon
Scarce as Hen's Teeth - exceedingly rare or hard to find
Secesh - derogatory term for Confederates and Southerners:secessionists
See The Elephant - experience combat or other worldly events
Shakes - malaria
Shanks Mare - on foot
Sheet Iron Crackers - hard tack
Shoddy - an inferior weave of wool used to make uniforms early in the war; later came to mean any clothing or equipment of substandard quality
Sing Out - call out, yell
Skedaddle - run away, escape
Slouch Hat - a wide-brimmed felt hat
Snug as a Bug - very comfortable
Somebody's Darling - comment when observing a dead soldier
Sound on the Goose -Sparking - courting a girl
Spondulix - money
Sunday Soldiers / Parlor Soldiers - derogatory terms for unsuitable soldiers
Take an Image - have a photograph taken
Tennessee or Virginia Quick Step - diarrhea
Tight - drunk
Toe the Mark - do as told, follow orders
Top Rail - first class, top quality
Traps - equipment, belongings
Tuckered Out - exhausted
Uppity - arrogantVidette - a sentry same as Picket but usually on horseback
Wallpapered - drunk
Whipped - beaten
Wrathy - angry
Zu Zu - Zouaves, soldiers whose units wore colorful uniforms in a flamboyant French style with baggy trousers, known for bravery and valor
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In the idea of doing the best (or going in that direction) look for 4th Texas possible: - What would be the perfect uniform? Of course variety helps, but all of us in Derbies would look. . . Anyway, Don Hutto got me started last night (now later): I put this to y'all for any input to add to the minimum equipment guidelines. I think you'll get the gist with the list. Popular with 4th Texas:Red Shirts were very popular <full button down and pockets with flaps Ok - Don Hutto (CSA prisioners pix)> Red Suspenders (Boss, was that 4th Texas or CSA in general?)NCO Stripes black ?name? Sombrero (smaller brim than the Mexican) The hat story - Stolen from Train passengers - is a good one to tell.
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Here are the results of the 2013 Company elections:
Captain - Matt Bishop
1st Lieutenant - Chris Gattman
1st Sergeant - Ryan McGee
2nd Sergeant - Joe Burns
1st Corporal - Ken Church
2nd Corporal - Jim Newton
3rd Corporal - Don Hutto
4th Corporal - Sean Burns
Congratulations to our new Company staff.
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happy holidays to all from florence tuscany italy
guido