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
. Civil War veterans recreated battles as a way to remember their fallen comrades and to teach others what the war was all about. The Great Reunion of 1913, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, was attended by more than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans, and included reenactments of elements of the battle, including Pickett's Charge. 
Modern reenacting is thought to have begun during the 1961–1965 Civil War Centennial commemorations. Reenacting grew in popularity during the 1980s and 1990s, due in large part to the success of
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