Civil War Reenactors Coming To Mahwah Living exhibit Saturday
will show what life was like for soldiers 150 years ago This
Saturday afternoon, Mahwah will get to witness a living scene
depicting what life was like during the Civil War. The 15th New
York Cavalry, a Civil War reenactor unit, will be camped on the
lawn outside the Mahwah Museum from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, creating
a live demonstration of how soldiers lived during the war. “The
group is doing an encampment, which means they will actually set
up tents, have six to eight people in uniforms, and act as is
they lived in a Civil War era camp,” Tom O’Brien, the Mahwah
Museum exhibit coordinator, said. “The encampments show
lifestyle between battles, what it was really like to live as a
soldier.” The Cavalry will not be reenacting a battle scene.
Instead, O’Brien said, the encampment will allow Mahwah
residents to get a “more realistic” picture of what soldiers did
“most of the time.” The 15th NY Cavalry was a real division that
fought, mostly in upstate NY