Gentlemen,

The Ft. McAllister 2008 Winter Muster and Battle will take place beginning Friday December 12, 2008 and ending Sunday afternoon December 14, 2008. This year’s scenario is much the same as last year, with most of the changes taking place with the program on Saturday evening and Sunday.

This year the Confederate Garrison will be manning the Fort beginning around 6:00 PM on Friday and defending the Fort for Saturdays battle. The Federal Troops will be on campaign during the night Friday and will be doing various activities during the day on Saturday ending up at the Fort for the battle. Following the battle Confederate defenders will play prisoner while the public is allowed to tour the Fort. THERE WILL BE NO CANDLE LANTERN TOUR following the battle this year. After the public has left the Park both sides will enjoy some down time Saturday evening. On Saturday evening/Sunday morning Federal participants will be asked to galvanize as Confederates for a living history garrison program that will take place throughout the day Sunday. The program will end mid-afternoon on Sunday.

All participants are asked to please if possible remain on site for the living history program Sunday.

Those of you wanting to attend the program this year are asked to visit the new event website located at http://www.mcallistermuster.org You must register as a user of the site to access the event registration page and forums (this is to cut down on spam). Once registered with the site please be sure to REGISTER for the event, the sooner everyone registers, the better idea we can get as far as numbers and what we will be able to do for the weekend.

The commanders for the 2008 program are: Joe Blunt, Federal and Clint Stanley, Confederate. All other officer and NCO appointments will be made by these commanders.

The Fort will be providing Hay, Firewood and Rounds for the weekend but will not be providing rations. Each participant is responsible for his own rations or for establishing a mess with other participants. You should be prepared for cold weather and sleeping either on campaign or in tents for the weekend.

Anyone wishing to be a sutler at this event is asked to place contact either myself, Joe Blunt or Danny Brown as soon as possible.

Again the event website is http://www.mcallistermuster.org If you have any questions about the event or problems with the website please feel free to send me an email. Please also forward this message to anyone you think might be interested in attending the event. As always WE NEED FEDERALS so anyone that normally does Confederate that can do Federal for the weekend please do so.

See you in December,

Clint Stanley
Confederate Commander
Ft. McAllister, Geo.