Fred's Reenacting Pictorial Journey
This Ringgold Gap Festival of 2009 PSA describes the event during which a statue of General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was dedicated at Ringgold Confederate Park. The video from which these scenes were excerpted was commissioned by the Ringgold Gap Telephone Company in 2007, was produced by Kim Correll of ferroMedia, and may be viewed at the City of Ringgold official website. Fred portrayed General Cleburne during the Battle of Ringgold Gap, and appears during the second portion of the video.
 Hunting in Sheridan, Texas, ca. 1966. My brother Robert carries a Confederate flag. I have a shotgun.  Toy soldiers bought during the centennial were part of my inspiration to study Confederate uniforms. These figures date to the 1960s.  A childhood steeped in Confederate lore. Our family vacation to Vicksburg, Montgomery, Atlanta, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, ca. 1971.  Texas Hill country, 1972, wearing a souvenir Rebel hat. |  Culmination of many years reenacting: I portray General Pat Cleburne at Resaca, Georgia, 2007.  Some of my expensive Brittons that I cherised as a kid and tossed out when I was in college.  My brother, Robert, and I pretend to shoot a Confederate cannon at Vicksburg.  Cub Scout bugle, and Rebel hat, 1970. |
 My first 'authentic' CSA cap. |  First reenactment group: Terry's Texas Rangers! |
 My parents, and Janna Fay Paxton on our way to the Confederate Ball, ca, 1976. I sport my C&D Jarnagin uniform. |  First Confederate uniform, 1974: a used, high school band costume. I escorted childhood friend, Val Langdon, at Bicentenial celebrations. |
 After college and career, I started reenacting again in Germany, 1985. At Friedberg, 1986, I have just captured a Yankee officers sword. |  My German comrades, Juergen Stritesky and Roland, 1986. I am wearing my trademark butternut uniform. |
 George Ranch, Texas, 1986. Note Les Jensen in his black hat. |  Co. B, 4th Texas Inf, Gettysburg, 1988. We were Texans, New Mexicans, Tennesseans and Germans. |
 Inspired by Jack King, I launch campaigning in Germany in 1989.  Living history for American kids, Ramstein, Germany, 1993. |  German campaigners in the Hunsrueck, 1990.  Red River Campaign 1994, Goulds Texas Battalion (from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Arizona and Louisiana). |
 Some of the Germans and I sing a German song at the 'talent' show. |  Captain Lyons and I prepare for a very cold, wet night on campaign. |
 The morning after the storm. Of a 36 man company, these are the fellows who stuck it out. |  General Jack King: a true leader and an inspiration. 1994 Red River Campaign. |
 Texas Greyhounds, 1999 Red River Campaign. |  On campaign, April 1999, Louisiana. |
 After a week on the Red River Campaign, 1999. |  Pvt. F.R. Adolphus, Texas Greyhound, 1999. |
 Sons Travis and Robert, Sons of Confederate Veterans Honor Guard, 2003. |  Pollards Company, 9th Georgia Artillery, at Conyers, Georgia, ca. 2006. |
 Pollards Company at Hunley Funeral, Charleston, SC. |  Truly an honor to pull the lanyard at the funeral. |
 Son Luke, 'Battery Boy' mascot, Nash Farm, Georgia, ca. 2008. |  Wife, Karen, and son, Luke, at the laying of a headstone for my ancestor Alfred J. Cash, Co. D, 43rd Georgia, ca. 2007. |
 Shiloh Reenactment, 1987. Left to right; Kirk Lyons, Bill Barr, Randel Smith, Fred Adolphus, Kent Hargett. |  Fred Adolphus as General Patrick R. Cleburne for a Ringgold, Georgia television documentary, May 2007. |
In 2009, Duane Clemmons' 7th grade class reenacts a portion of the Battle of Hickory Creek at the DeRidder, Louisiana Living History Day hosted by Speight's Texas Battalion.
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