GUNS Magazine March 1958

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Cadets at Wentworth MA reenact surrender of Mulligan to Price after famous battle of the hemp bale '61. .^ t, 'f ,.: ' * ",f f, emy put on ashow drawing visitors from miles away. The first occasion was the historic school's 75th anniversary. The refought battle was a decisive engagement of the Civil War. Some boys wore copies of original Confederate and Union uniforms; others decided the Wentworth cadet uniform looked "antique" enough. The pioneer jump-off town of Lexington (on Highways 24 and 13,41 miles east of Kansas City) in the 1860's was a seat of the South's genteel ante-bellum life, complete with planters, slaves, and mansions. One great home overlooking the river and wharf, not far from Masonic College, was that of Col. Oliver Anderson. In September, 1861, Chicago's Col. James A. Mulligan with 2,780 Union troops occupied the key river port of Lexington to split Southern sympathizers in Missouri. Earthworks were thrown up around Masonic College. Confederate General Sterling Price with 12,000 Missouri State Guard attacked Sept. 18, 1861. Using a moveable breastwork of hemp bales, they forced the Union troops to surrender. Anderson House was the " Rebs" I among cadets wore check bumme !r caps , inconqruol usly c blank-firing Garands to make noise. Skirmish teams have- fife and drum corps. tattoo Young during drummer the hectic beats stake Union hospital until captured by Price. Today, the combat reenacted by Wentworth cadets is to draw attention to the memorial and restoration drive to restore the old house as a museum. Artillery is fired carefully loaded with black powder blank charges. Anachronistic among the borrowed Springfield and Austrian muskets are the cadets' Ml Garand rifles. Shooting blanks, they supply the noise but lack the authenticity important to another group of gun fans playing Yank and Reb. These are the nearly forty competitive shooting teams which form the ranks of the North-South Skirmish at Camp Perry, Ohio. Recent Skirmishes have been the high points in the activity at Camp Perry National Matches. When a double file of men trains brisklv alone " the road from the hutmerits, led by the drummer. boy rolling a natty tattoo on the snare, and the battle flag of the Confederacy whips in the Lake Erie breeze. the Sundav visitors from town sense that they are about to witness a page from history. For all its dress up and make-believe, (Continued on page 54) '
Watching small muzzle-loading brass howitzer being fired at old frame house ' is Frank Straker, self-appointed "Rebel" from South Jerse Ames swords . carried by artillerymen were used in War. Below, line of attle forms by Confederate battle flags as teams engage in stake shoot at Camp Dix, N.J. - , . t
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