ORANGE — Confederate re-enactors plan to reconstruct Civil War huts at the country estate of President James Madison.
The soldiers of the Third Regiment of the Army of Northern Virginia will build the structures Sunday in the woods in Orange County where they once stood during the war.
Gen. Samuel McGowan's South Carolina Brigade occupied Montpelier's Civil War camp during the winter of 1863-1864, before the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. Montpelier's archaeology department located and surveyed five Civil War regimental camps occupied by McGowan's troops and more than a dozen smaller winter camps scattered across the property.
When the huts are finished, they'll serve as a permanent base camp for the reenactors.
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