I just came home from work im so tired i work in a park doing reenactment of the American Civil war!
So you are an American Civil War hobbyist is it? I know a lot about it. They are called living historians. 
That is me! i felt super special but realised that they do reenactments in Canada also!
Yes not only in the US and Canada but there are also reenactors doing it in Europe in countries like the UK and Germany.
But is it not about me i heard from my boss that Civil War veterans recreated battles as a way to remember their fallen comrades
Yes and they also wanted to teach people about the Civil War and what it was really about. It's a good learning process.
But we also need to be very carefull because In 1998, a re-enactor at a Battle of Gettysburg recreation borrowed a handgun that contained a "squib" and shoot another re-enactor in the neck!
the 125th Anniversary reenactment near the original Manassas battlefield, which was attended by more than 6,000 reenactors. That year, "Time" magazine estimated there were more than 50,000 reenactors in the U.S.
In 1998, the 135th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg took place near the original battlefield. There have been several estimates on the number of participants, but it is widely agreed that it was the largest re-enactment ever held anywhere in the world, with between 15,000 and 20,000 re-enactors participating. This
2010). "I had always had a fantasy about doing a big, sweeping saga about the Civil War and Reconstruction," Chernow said. "It fascinates me that there are so many Americans who know about the Civil War battles in intimate detail, but they know nothing about Reconstruction."
Purporters of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, Chernow argues, demonized Grant. His drinking habit, which did not adversely affect his military campaigns, became a central focus of Gilded Age historians. The president was seen poorly