The board
is requesting any persons wishing to volunteer for the following open positions listed to do so by contacting any sitting board members with your request.
Speaker Bureau Liaison:
Club Safety Officer:
Artillery Coordinator:
Publicity:
Persons wishing to volunteer for positions within the corps / brigades (i.e. sutler coordinator, aide-de-camp, etc.) should contact their respective corps / brigade commanders.

SAFETY OFFICER POSITION
Persons interested in the
Equine Safety Officer position
please indicate so by email to acwargray@gmail.com

Dear ACWA Board,
I herein request membership acceptance into your organization on behalf of the 7th Michigan Co. F.
We have familiarized ourselves with both the ACWA Rules, Regulations and by-laws as well as the PACWAR rules and regulations
governing our participation.
We are prepared to provide both mounted cavalry and artillery to the Federal contingent of your organization.
The 7th Michigan Co. F was attached to the Army of the Potomac during the civil war which is further amplified in our information packets being
turned in at this time.
I would like to thank you once again for the opportunity to make this presentation for your review and acceptance and look forward to participating with you in the 2012 season and beyond.
Your Obedient Servant,
Mike Creager 7th Michigan Co. F

Next ACWA Board meeting
will be held at:

Feb. 11th 2012 10am board meeting.

The encampment at Knott's Berry Farm will not take place in February.There has been a change of management at KBF, and there is apparently no interest in having another encampment.

Alas.
So, we'll move on. As some of you may recall, last June there was History Day at the Strathearn Museum in Simi Valley. The folks there were happy to have a Civil War component at this event. They have now invited us to have an encampment thereon Presidents Day Weekend, February 18-19.

The grounds include several buildings, the most important of which is a home, the rear wing of which was built in 1794. Other buildings have been moved there to add to the collection. Check out these photos of the museum grounds that take on the appearance of an historical village:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150214098191705.312882.372623886704&type=1

We are presented with a great opportunity here. We can perform our usual Living History program during the day for the public (including the firing of muskets, pistols, and carbines), and at night, we can have a great reenactor party in the best indoor setting I have seen for a dance at a Civil War reenactment or encampment in my 22 seasons as a reenactor. This rustic, antique barn with a concrete floor is in a class by its own, and it offers a great location for a great mid-winter get together with your fellow reenactors.

You can expect more information to be forthcoming in the near future. For now, however, please place this promising new event in Simi Valley on your February calendar, and put an end to your winter doldrums!

Ed Mann    ( Via Charlie Henry )

Greetings C.S, Marines
and ACWA members
The 150th anniversary of the civil war has presented us with a time of great opportunity. I am experiencing first hand a great interest with the Boy Scouts in our troop to participate in our reenactment hobby. This is a wonderful way to get the youth of today to lay down there I Phones and to engulf themselves in the period which we are portraying. With that in mind, the C.S. Marines, Co. B, is setting up a specific program aimed at bringing scouts out for the day with the ACWA one day membership. We will suit them up, train them, and put them into a battle or two.
With this idea, we are asking if you would like to donate or make available any items you would like; to accommodate a good number of scouts at one time.
Other troops I have spoken to, have expressed great interest in Reenacting as well.
For Co. B, Theo Mattingly is making up quartermaster boxes to keep the gear in. I am creating forms for loaner gear as well as getting names of those of you who are interested in loaning stuff to this program. I am creating a data base with those of you who are interested. This will have your name, equipment you loan, and contact info so we can borrow and return.
The scouts will be requisitioned their equipment. Items will be checked out to each person and then returned at the end of there duty.
Note: This will be tracked stringently.
If you had a child that reenacted and still have the smaller clothes, which they grew out of, perfect. We could use: leathers, shirts, vests, kepies, coats, pants, haversacks, etc. As you are getting ready for Fresno, please take a look and see if there is something that could be used. Please contact me if you are interested. Theo can take items at Fresno too.
Thanks for your support.

Paul Hollidge, CS MARINES Co. B
calsteamer@yahoo.com

ATTENTION!
THE UPDATED PACWR RULES ARE NOW ON LINE
You can read them by clicking here.

ATTENTION ALL UNITS
The PACWAR horse safety tests are now available online at the the ACWA website. Please be sure that any riders who plan on using a horse at an ACWA event must have taken these tests.
Also be reminded
that any participation
on the field is at the
discretion of the
respective
brigade commanders.

3.9 Proxy voting

A proposed ACWA Bylaw Change concerning proxy voting was voted on at
Las Mariposas
April 16th, 2011.

Click on the judge to your right to read it in its entirety.

THE 2011 BYLAWS
OF THE
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ASSOCIATION
are now online.
Click on the running man to read them

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