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Several years ago a friend of ours took his son, a Civil War buff, to Civil War Adventure Camp at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Virginia. The first thing they and their fellow reenactors did was to remove their clothing—except their socks and underwear, thankfully—and all other encumbrances of modern life (no cameras or cellphones, which would only remind the guests of the present time) and put on wool Civil War garb.

This was done in a barn structure that served as a place in which guests also discarded their normal, workaday lives in order to welcome the Civil War experience with its period attire ...

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