Echoes from the Battlefield, by Barbara Lane
Reviewed by Wade P. Bettis, Jr., J.D.
In JRT Issue 14, 1996
Lane, a clinical hypnotherapist, tells of her experiences in visiting American Civil War reenactment battlefields and camps. Her interest was stimulated by the deep commitment of the men and women who reenact these battles: “One Confederate reenactor…said he was fighting for state’s rights and that the Supreme Court had never ruled on the right to secede from the Union. I was impressed by the level of his historical knowledge…Beyond his words, however, his fervor swept over me like a wave. He was clearly impassioned about what he was doing.”
By their own admission, many of the reenactors are obsessed with their roles as Civil War soldiers. It was … Read the rest