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Thank you for your
interest in the Southern Piedmont Historical Reenactment
Society, Inc (SPHRS). The SPHRS is a non-profit,
family oriented, historical society made up of people
like you who are interested in preserving our nation's
rich heritage.
The main emphasis of
the society is in portraying, as accurately as possible,
the common NC soldier of 1860-65. The military
units the society represents are the 49th North Carolina
and the 21st Mass.
We are asked many
times why we do what we do. The late Bruce Catton,
Civil War historian and author of many books on the
subject, when asked a similar question on this subject
said the following:
"We are people to whom
the past is forever speaking. We listen to it
because we cannot help ourselves. For the past
speaks with many voices. Far out of that nowhere
is the time before we were born, men who were flesh of
our flesh and bone of our bone, went through fire and
storm to break a path to the future. We are a part
of the future they died for; they are part of the past
that brought the future. What they did-the
stories they told and the songs they sang, and finally
the deaths they died make up a past of our own
experience. We cannot cut ourselves off from it.
It is as real to us as something that happened last
week. It is a basic part of our heritage as
Americans."
By striving
to create a historically accurate impression during
living history events, school programs, and battle
reenactments we hope to give a glimpse of the common
North Carolina solider to the public.
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