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Sublime one said
Super cool! That reenacting is a black hole for money. We have several National battlefields (Prairie Grove-and Pea Ridge) by our property, and in fact we have the remnants of a skirmish wall and defensive position on our hill.

Working on the car is cheaper....

I used to joke about how the most expensive clothes I owned were those that while wearing, I would lay in the mud...

The Union Soldier (24th Michigan) impression is about $3,000 worth of kit including rifle-musket.