Photograph by Richard Barnes
A scene of vendors at a July 2011 reenactment of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, appears historical when photographed on a wet plate coated with chemicals.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Loudspeakers broadcast a narrator's account of the action at the Gettysburg reenactment.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Sweat marks on the photographic plate help set the mood in this view of a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Union reenactors prepare to take to the field on the 150th anniversary of the July 21, 1861, First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia.
The Confederates won that fight, presaging a bloodier war than anyone had imagined.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Cavalry cede the field to a truck hauling away cannon after a reenactment of the crucial Union victory
at the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Warren Swartz depicts Confederate Gen. William Mahone, and Jacqueline Renee Milburn plays Mahone's wife,
Otelia Butler Mahone. You can't "relive a person's life," Milburn says, "but you can give a sense of it."
Photograph by Richard Barnes
Roland Meiers takes a break from his role as a Confederate provost marshal during the reenactment
of the Battle of Cedar Creek.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
A Confederate soldier (portrayed by Andrew Hoisington, standing) and a Southern plantation owner (portrayed by Thomas Tear)
strike a formal pose during a reenactment of the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
In this summer 2011 reenactment of the First Battle of Bull Run, smoke from cannon suggests an explosive encounter.
Photograph by Richard Barnes
The uniform has been shed, but the soldier's attitude remains for this reenactor at the First Battle of Bull Run,
Virginia, which took place in 1861.
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