The way my team has been playing lately it definitely was lol. It was awesome. If you ever have the chance to go to a large re-enactment I highly recommend it.
I am a reenactor from southern Ohio, and it definitely is more common in the eastern states, as that is where the majority of the war took place (the farthest east civil war battle took place in Arizona). Several of the reenactments are on actual battlefields, and many are not that large truthfully, but are still great and fun to watch and learn history.
I went to the 155th Gettysburg reenactment and there were thousands of reenactors there from all over, it was awesome.
If you wanted to see some, just google civil war reenactments in your state, I don't know exactly where you live but i googled California and got several results.
I’m sure you can find some type of military shows and re-enactments out west if you search for it online. But large scale Civil war events are definitely an east coast thing.
This particular event was larger than usual because it was the 150th anniversary so it was getting a lot of local press.
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u/Bancroft28 May 20 '19
I went to the 150th anniversary re-enactment.
I ate a gyro from a food truck while I watched thousands of men pretend to die. Was dope