Re-enacting heated battle

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Posted: August 6, 2012

By Val Van Meter

The Winchester Star

Confederate and Union cavalry re-enactors take part in the 150th anniversary re-enactment of the Second Battle of Manassas on Saturday at the Cedar Creek Battlefied south of Middletown. (Photo by Scott Mason/The Winchester Star)
Civil War re-enactor Sheri Ferguson, of Mifflinburg, Pa., helps Tony Morgan, of Falling Waters, W.Va., cool off with a wet hankie after the re-enactment.
Civil War re-enactors gather near an industrial-sized fan Saturday afternoon to cool off after taking part in the Second Battle of Manassas re-enactment. (Photo by Scott Mason/The Winchester Star)

MIDDLETOWN — The 90-plus degree temperature for Saturday’s re-enactment of the Civil War’s Second Battle of Manassas was historically correct, said Ronald Hawkins as he doffed a cap and wool...



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