Pilgrims and Pioneers: Civil War Re-enactment- period costumes

Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Civil War Re-enactment- period costumes

This was not a big Civil War re-enactment but there were a few period costumes. The one photo shows a woman and her son together. I talked to her and she said the basic dress is sewn by someone for her and that she then adds the ebellishments herself- this cuts down on the cost of the purchased dress- her son was dressed in wool trousers and shirt and it was very hot that day-but in the war that is the way it really was.

The other photos shows a woman in a blouse and prairie style skirt with a "snood" head covering.