Here are images from the Casini Ranch Duncans Mills, Sonoma County California, Civil War Days reenactment held on September 17, 2004.

If you've never attended a Civil War re-enactment, treat yourself the next time you have a chance.

You'll be astonished and amazed at the accuracy and level of detail displayed by these afficianados, and their painstaking recreation of a defining time in United States history.

You might even discover units (like we did) from armies that may have been comprised of your ancestors.

Here's the website for Civil War Days: http://www.civilwardays.net/