2025

Year in Review

We kicked off our 29th season with the traditional march in the Westhampton Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade although our brave and footloose First Sergeant did attend the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina that very same weekend. In May, we helped our Confederate brethren in the 30th Virgina with their Bald Hill Schoolhouse even in Farmingville. We returned to William Floyd Middle School for our lone school program this season and tried out a new event thanks to an invite from the 10th NY Cavalry... a historical timeline in Oyster Bay at the end of May. We returned for a second time to Delhi Civil War Weekend upsate to help out the 118th NY although Sunday was a bit soggy. And we performed for the very first time at Queens Historical Society to support a Civil War exhibition. As for the Grange, we were in force for the smaller June event and much grander 17th Civil War Weekend in September that we immediately followed up with a fourth time at the Brookhaven Fair at Longwood Estate. Later in the fall, we returned to Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley, Fort Totten in Queens, and, of course, Remembrance Day in Gettysburg. And we capped off the season with the 8th Annual Civil War Christmas at St. John's Episcopal Church. Sadly, we lost yet another Comrade in Arms, Jim Cuzzo, in March.