150th Anniversary of the Battle of Selma

[Sean Thornton]

[Two Flints]

It would be great to see a group photo of all the Union soldiers with their Spencers . . . Ok, OK, also one of the Union soldiers with their Henry's 

Two Flints

[nactorman]

150th Battle of Selma
Thank You

I hope this message finds everyone well, having dried out and recuperated from last weekend's hard fighting.

I wanted to follow up with everyone and thank you all for making the effort to come out and participate with the Wilson's Raiders Repeater Company at the 150th Anniversary Battle of Selma. I know that for many of you, it was a long drive and quite an effort. I hope that you had a good time in spite of the weather and the somewhat chaotic command/battle situation. I know that I certainly enjoyed visiting with old friends and making new ones.

The Meet & Greet Dinner at the Golden Ranch on Friday evening was, for me, one of the highlights of the weekend. In total, we had 37 Raiders and family in attendance, and much fun was had in relaying the latest dispatches from HQ.   

In total, on Saturday, we had 41 soldiers and 3 officers among the "Raiders." This total does not include several additional orphaned infantrymen who were incorporated into our company for the battles. We fielded an impressive number of repeaters and breechloading weapons. Our company (not including the infantry add-ons) were armed with:

13 Spencers
14 Henrys
9 Smiths
5 Muzzleloading Rifles
1 Dbl Shotgun

On Sunday, we lost a few folks who had to leave early in order to get home, but also picked up a few who had not been able to make it out on Saturday, including a bugler.

I will be working on a more complete after action write-up over the next few days that I will make available along with photos and videos from the event. If you have any pics/vids you would like to share, please forward those to me ASAP so that I can make them available for everyone to view.

Also, I have had several folks inquire about how to purchase one of the Wilson's Raiders T-shirts that the host unit were wearing. I have created a custom checkout on our webstore for them. To order, simply click the following link, fill out the shipping and payment info, and I'll get a shirt off to you as soon as possible. I'm going to make these available through the 16th of May, so please submit your order prior to that time. The price listed in the checkout is my cost - I'm not making anything on these - and includes priority shipping ($17.75 shirt + $6 shipping).

http://veteranarms.biz/wirat.html

That's it for now. Once again, thank you all for coming out and supporting our effort to raise a repeater/breechloader equipped company for the 150th Battle of Selma and making the final battle of the sesquicentennial one to remember.

God Bless.
Charles Misulia

[Cowtown Scout]

Our Unit the 4th U.S. Cavalry had a great time at The 150th Selma and fell in with Wilson's Raiders. We did not all have repeaters but we did have 2 Spencers and 3 Henrys, all the rest had Smith carbines.  When we went up the earth fortification and topped the berm we all went to revolvers and let em have it.  Grin  Then when the revolvers were empty we started back with the long guns from on top the berm. I went as a trooper instead of an officer so I could use my Henry. If you look at the group photo of Wilson's Raiders our unit is knealing in the front row. I'm the 4th from the right with the white beard.

This is a link to our units web site http://www.crew1872.org and this is a link to our photo page https://venturecrew1872.shutterfly.com

This is a direct link to photos for Selma https://venturecrew1872.shutterfly.com/3043

This is a link to local coverage of the event http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2015/04/26/battle-selma-re-enactors-came-across-country/26427221/

Hope you enjoy the photos
Scout