Images of the Columbia Rifles 2000

The following images show the Columbia Rifles and its members in uniform.  To the extent possible the images are free of anachronisms, although a few spectators are visible in some photos.
 

• Oakwood Cemetery
• Loudoun County (Hodge) Preservation March
• Gettysburg Living History
• Mumford
• Brush Creek
• Bentonville

Columbia Rifles members at the Oakwood Cemetery rededication, L-R: Jeff Henion, Randy Elliott, Dave Grieves, John Tobey, Garr Gast, Steve Tyler, Mike Peterson, and Kevin O’Beirne (photo by Maureen O’Beirne)

The re-created Company B, 7th Indiana at the Hodge March 2000, including 20 CR members, plus members of the future G.H. Thomas’s Invincibles (photo by Julio Zangronitz)	Sgt. Paul Irish and Rich Magwood of California, who raised over $6,000 for preservation at the Hodge March (photo courtesy of Paul Irish)	Columbia Rifles members at the 2000 Hodge March, L-R: Harry Connelly, Sgt. Paul Irish (front), Don Williams, Mark Lewis, Andy Metheny, and ____ (photo courtesy of Paul Irish)	Federals at an abandoned farmhouse near Upperville, Virginia at the end of the 2000 Hodge March (photo by Bob Penix)

Columbia Rifles members escort Jeff Henion (center, with sign around neck) to be drummed out of the army for desertion at the Gettysburg 2000 living history (photo by Ray Legere)	The Columbia Rifles marching toward Devil’s Den at the Gettysburg 2000 living history (photo by Ray Legere)	Steve Tyler  (center) and Jeff Henion (right) in the Columbia Rifles bivouac at Gettysburg 2000 (photo by Ray Legere)	Columbia Rifles members relax at Gettysburg 2000.  L-R: Mark DeAngelis, Don “Isaac” Williams (lying on rock), Andy “Zack” Metheny, and Jim “Cletus” Tedford.(photo by Ray Legere)

Columbia Rifles members on the skirmish line at Mumford 2000 (photo by Lori Riker; with anachronisms removed by Scott McKay)	Columbia Rifles members Andy Metheny and George Weymer take shelter from some rain in a hay barn at Mumford 2000 (photo by Ray Legere)	The Federal battalion in the village square at Mumford 2000.  The Columbia Rifles are in the rear rank at the left (photo by Ray Legere)

Columbia Rifles members at Brush Creek Bridge, 2000 (photo courtesy of Kevin O’Beirne)

Columbia Rifles members sitting at the Twentieth Corps earthworks on the Bentonville Battlefield, March, 2000.  L-R: Corporal Steve Tyler, George “Soup Bone” Weymer, Jeff “Sparky” Henion, Sgt. Kevin O’Beirne (front), Jim “Cletus” Tedford (photo by Chuck “Amos” Reynolds)	The Federal campaigner battalion, portraying the 86th Illinois Volunteers, marching through the swamps toward Bentonville (photo by Jeff Henion)	The Federal campaigner battalion at a halt in a cotton filed, approximately seven miles into the march toward Bentonville (photo by Jeff Henion)