How I would love to go to that! The closest I've ever gotten to attending one was when we were in the village of Waltham Abbey (Essex?) in England and all the guys were assembling for a battle between the Normans and the Saxons. We saw a bunch of them in the local pub, wearing very authentic chain mail, etc., so I popped in to get a closer look and found myself surrounded, getting my picture taken. They didn't mind a bit that I was old enough to be their mum. To my everlasting regret, we couldn't stay for the battle - had reservations too far down the road to risk being late. If anyone wants Mary Ida's book, let me know and I'll give her a call, to find out the logistics of ordering one. It's in the Orlando Library, but I don't know where else she put it. Interlibrary Loan? Anne C. -----Original Message----- From: Mary A Geary <gearyma@juno.com> To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Harriet GEIGER BARBER~Harriet JONES GEIGER > > >On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 04:49:41 -0500 "Connell" <rconn@magicnet.net> writes: > >> the dau. of J. Martin GEIGER (s. of Felix and Mary) and Emily >> JOYNER. The Battle of Olustee (near Lake City, FL) was fought >> across Harriet and Isaac's plantation. According to the book, he >> was away in the war, so she dealt with it alone, turning her home >> into a hospital of sorts for injured of both sides." > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Ann, > >This is very interesting to me as we are going up to see the reenactment >of the Battle of Olustee on February 19th. It is a week long event in >Lake City >but we are only going up on that Saturday for the battle. Thanks for >posting >this info. To bad the reenactment isn't at the original battle field. >They have it >in a park now. >Mary Alice > - ------------------------------ --part1_33.e7b6cd.25cd96a4_boundary--