Resources

Membership Renewal | Safety Tests | Field Regulations & Practices
Improving Your Impression | Recommended Civil War Reading

Membership Renewal

2010 Membership Renewal Form

Safety Tests

Members of 1st OVI - 20th Maine Co. A must pass a safety test prior to being allowed to participate in a battle reenactment. Members must retake a test every two years to continue. Click the links below to access the safety rules and safety test.

Safety Rules - updated 5/2008

Safety Test

NCWC Code of Conduct

Field Regulations & Practices

Field Regulations & Practices of the 1st Oregon / 20th Maine Co. A - updated 5/2009

Improving Your Impression

Living History Display & Teaching (I know the page is broken but the content that is there is highly benifical for a first timer)

Authentic Campaigner forum

Recommend Civil War Reading

Fiction | Non-Fiction | Research Articles by Members

Fiction

Corporal Si Clegg & His Pard (Wilbur F. Hinman)

Gods & Generals, The Last Full Measure (Jeff Shaara)

Killer Angels, The (Michael Shaara)

Non-Fiction

All for the Union – The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (Edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes and extensively quoted in the Burns PBS Civil War series)

Attack & Defense of Little Round Top, The (Oliver W. Norton)

Battle Cry of Freedom (James M. McPherson)

Company Aytch (Sam Watkins)

Drawn with the Sword (James M. McPherson)

Gettysburg Gospel, The (Gabor Boritt)

Grant (Jean Edward Smith)

Hardtack & Coffee – The Unwritten Story of Army Life (John D. Billings. )

Infantryman Pettit (Edited by William G. Gavin)

In the Hands of Providence (Alice Trulock)

Joshua Chamberlain - A Hero's Life & Legacy (John L. Pullen)

Life of Billy Yank, The (Bill Irvin Wiley)

Lincoln at Gettysburg - The Words that Remade America (Garry Wills)

Passing of the Armies, The (Joshua L. Chamberlain)

Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah, The – The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer (Pvt. John W. Haley, 17th Maine. Edited by Ruth L. Silliker)

Reflections on the Civil War (Bruce Catton)

Soldiers Blue & Gray (James I. Robertson)

Soldier’s Pen, The – Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War (Robert E. Bonner)

Stand Firm, Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine & The Gettysburg Campaign (Thomas Desjardin)

This Mighty Scourge (James M. McPherson)

Through Ordinary Eyes – The Civil War Correspondence of Rufus Robbins (Edited by Ella Jane Bruen and Brian M. Fitzgibbons)

Twilight at Little Round Top - The Tide Turns at Gettysburg (Glen W. LaFantasie)

Research Articles by Members

The Forgotten Hero (Randy Fletcher)

The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (Randy Fletcher)

A Forlorn Hope: Oregon Civil War hero is remembered 100 years after his death (Randy Fletcher)

Before the OK Corral: How the Civil War brought Wyatt Earp's brother to Portland (Randy Fletcher)

Civil War Heroes Buried in Oregon (Randy Fletcher)

Storming the Ramparts (Randy Fletcher)

The Minister and the General (Randy Fletcher)

The Professors in Pickett's Charge (Randy Fletcher)

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