
DATE: Thursday, September 11, 1997          TAG: 9709100153

SECTION: NORFOLK COMPASS         PAGE: 12   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY JOAN STANUS, STAFF WRITER 

                                            LENGTH:   49 lines

CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTORS LEARN NEW SKILLS AT FORT NORFOLK

More than 100 Civil War Re-enactors learned to shoot off cannons, compete in rowing contests aboard three period vessels and drill in formation during the annual School of the Sailor and Marine recently at Fort Norfolk, on Front Street.

Classes were held on naval customs, seamanship, and drilling, both in the water and out. Re-enactors also got some tips on cooking period delicacies as ``lobscoguese,'' a 19th century-type stew, or ``loblolly,'' a dish of rice, raisins and molasses.

The Fort Norfolk-based training school, now in its second year, is one of only two such re-enactments held in the country.

Sponsors of the event were the Norfolk Historical Society, the Ship's Company of the CSS Virginia, Confederate States Marines Companies B and C, the Larboard Watch and the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues.

The Fort Norfolk-based training school, now in its second year, is one of only two such re-enactments held in the country.

Elizabeth Stanley of Hampton and her daughter, Kara, 9, dressed the

part to attend the Civil War Re-enactors School.

ABOVE: Brad Aultice, left, of Newport News, packs the round while

the loader, Jerry Long, also of Newport News, waits for the next

command from the instructor. They are members of the Norfolk Light

Artillery Blues.

AT RIGHT: Student re-enactor Tom Pinkston, far right, of Virginia

Beach, pulls the lanyard that fires the cannon as part of his

training at the school at Fort Norfolk.