Corinth IMPORTANT INFO -- Mississippi Valley Brigade

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Date Posted: Thursday, August 25, 06:35:30am
Author: Tom Stuart
Subject: Corinth IMPORTANT INFO

Gentlemen:

This is very important information regarding how your men will check in at the Check In Area at North Corinth Baptist Church when they arrive at the Corinth event.

ALL CSA Participants will check in by BRIGADE. There will be an area clearly marked for each brigade. Cavalry, Artillery, Division Staff and CSA registered Civilians will have a combined check in area.

General Jack King's Brigade, who are "going Federal" for the Corinth event will check in at the CONFEDERATE CHECK IN AREA.

About 40% of the registration forms DID NOT contain correct unit and/or brigade information. This will lead to confusion at event check in if your men do not know whose brigade that they are in. It is imperative that you send each unit in your command information regarding this check in process and make sure that all their men know which brigade that their unit belongs to.

The people running the Check In Process DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT REENACTING. They will not be able to answer questions like "What brigade is the 11th Tennessee in?" Therefore, let me say again - it is the responsibility of the Brigade and Battalion commanders to make sure that each member of your organization knows which BRIGADE he belongs to. In a few cases, we have received registration forms that we have no idea of what unit these people belong to, let alone which brigade. IF you have a participant whose name is not listed with your brigade, ask them to see the FCD officer overseeing registration and we'll find the paperwork.

Your soldier will also need to know his brigade when he arrives at the unloading area at the CSA camps. We are splitting the brigades into two unloading areas to keep traffic out of the main camp area. General Flowers and General Huckabee's Brigades will now unload along a new road that will be between the fence at Davis Yancey Road and the edge of the woods that is General Flowers' camp. General Rambo and General Griffin's Brigades as well as Division Staff, Artillery and Cavalry will proceed up the fire lane and unload in the flat clearing between the North and South Woods.

There will be LOTS of signage directing each brigade, division staff, artillery and cavalry to the proper unloading area.

CSA Registered civilians will proceed to the main site entrance - follow signage to "US & CIVILIAN CAMPS" to their camps and parking.

The camp area will be closed to vehicles at 12 midnight Friday night. Anyone arriving after that will unload at the East Gate on Davis Yancey Road (the gate that has been used for access to the CSA camp area), walk their gear to their proper camp and then take their car to the parking area.

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO PARKING PLAN:

ALL CSA Reenactors will now park in a parking area off State Line Road east (to the right when standing at the site main entrance looking towards the battery) of the main site entrance. After unloading, all vehicles will exit the CSA camp. turn RIGHT on Davis Yancey Road and proceed to the stop sign at TN 22 / Shiloh Road. Turn RIGHT on TN 22 / Shiloh Road and proceed to the second road on the right, STATE LINE ROAD. Turn RIGHT on STATE LINE ROAD and proceed to the parking area.

There will be signs in the parking area asking all to deactivate their vehicle alarm system so that the alarms are not set off by the cannon fire. No one should leave valuables in their vehicle. There will be mounted security patrols in the parking area 24/7. Anyone returning to their vehicle during the event must check in with the parking lot security patrol and show an ID. The patrol will log the name, time and vehicle (by license tag) that the individual visited.

CSA reenactors will walk from the parking area back to the camp by exiting toward the sutler row and following that fence line back to camp. The way will be marked with period signs that say "Chewalla" with and arrow, and we should have sentinels along the route to direct them. (Van Dorn / Price marched to Corinth from Chewalla on the Chewalla Road). This walk is about a mile, so they should unload as much as possible in camp before heading to the parking area. Mounted personnel are urged to ride their mounts in from the parking area.

If you have any questions regarding any of the above, please contact me directly. DO NOT HIT "REPLY ALL" AND SEND YOU QUESTION TO EVERYONE ON THIS EMAIL LIST.

Mike Ventura
Chief of Staff
First Confederate Division

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