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CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS hold a drill on Stowe Field in Brunswick on Friday.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS hold a drill on Stowe Field in Brunswick on Friday.
Students at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in Brunswick participated in the school’s annual Civil War reenactment on Friday, featuring period costumes, music, marches and other activities. The day was to have culminated with a reenactment of Pickett’s Charge, a maneuver that proved fatal for Confederate forces during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Fifth-grade teacher Holly Greene said this may be the second-to-last year the event takes place, citing a change in school curriculum.







ABOVE, ON THE LEFT, a student on Stowe Field blows through a tube to discharge flour “gunpowder” to replicate the firing of a cannon. On the right, HBS student Blake Austin fans “ether” toward wounded soldier Mason Richardson during a demonstration of Civil War field medicine.
ABOVE, ON THE LEFT, a student on Stowe Field blows through a tube to discharge flour “gunpowder” to replicate the firing of a cannon. On the right, HBS student Blake Austin fans “ether” toward wounded soldier Mason Richardson during a demonstration of Civil War field medicine.
 
 
ON THE LEFT, a HBS student at bat during a game of Rounders, a precursor to baseball played by Civil War soldiers. Above, Hunter Meserve, a fifth grader, sews a plush creature together that he said would have been used to comfort children whose parents were occupied by the war.
ON THE LEFT, a HBS student at bat during a game of Rounders, a precursor to baseball played by Civil War soldiers. Above, Hunter Meserve, a fifth grader, sews a plush creature together that he said would have been used to comfort children whose parents were occupied by the war.
 
 

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