Blast from the N-SSA Past (1974)

[danajhanson]

My wife and I were on vacation a few years back, in Beaufort, SC. We found a used bookstore that had a great selection of Civil War and Shooting/Gun books. Stuck way back in the corner was this old issue of Guns and Ammo. Great issue on blackpowder shooting, but check out the piece on the N-SSA!
Can anyone ID any of the folks in the pictures?
DJH

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[Phil Spaugy, 3475V]

I still have my issue. I wrote to Bill Beaudot to get info on the N-SSA, which helped me get started in skirmishing...albeit 4 years later !!

[Eggman]

This can't be the N-SSA. Everybody's too young!! GO JACKS!!!!!!!

[Muley Gil]

On page one, I believe that is Jackie Venskoke on the far right. Page two is Jack Rawls. I believe thatis Pete Mowitt, Washington Blue Rifles, on the bottom of page four. Jeff Hall, Washington Blue Rifles, is on the right on page five.

Pete Petrone, Washington Blue Rifles (and National Geographic), was the photographer.

[John Holland]

Page 9, don't forget Bernie Mitchell....the Sutler behind the table holding the rifle....My how I miss those icons of the N-SSA!

JDH

[danajhanson]

Anyone know the young'ins...that are probably now in there 40's?

[Tim Lyne]

Page 11:
I believe the Kilt Wearing Cannoneer is Chris Johnson, Thompson's Battery. He certainly cut a fine figure in that.

Ahh, memories....

Tim Lyne
Knap's Batt.
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[Lou Lou Lou]

The fellow on th eleft holding the stake bears an uncanny resemblance ro Bill Heuer. Dennis? Is it him?

[Southron Sr.]

Geeze! What a picture! The 12th Georgia was my old unit. The second N-SSA unit ever founded in Georgia! I was probably standing in line somewhere BEHIND the cameraman!

Those fellas were a GREAT bunch of guys!

[Southron Jr]

I believe I can identify some of the fellows in picture #3 of the 12th Ga. The man standing on the far left, the only one that you can see all of his front, looks to be Leighton Young. Fifth from the left looks like Brannen Sanders, wearing a black hat and looks to have a lighter colored blanket than the rest. Even though I wasn't born until 4 years after this article appeared, I feel fairly confident that those are these men seeing how the earliest memories in my life are of these two men, Brannen is my dad and Leighton has known known me since I was a few days old.

[Bob Huntoon]

The unit in the first picture is the 7th Michigan Volunteers. The fellow nearest the camera is Dave Morris. Dave and his twin brother, Don, were a well known pair in the Northwest Region in the 1960s and 70s. They had entered the Marine Corps together in the Buddy Plan and were both Vietnam vets. I ran into their younger brother, Steve, this past spring at the Kalamazoo show and he told me Don had died the previous year. Don had died several years ago. Many old skirmishers will remember Don as one of the regulars who worked the counter at Mike Yeck's old tumble down shop at Shenandoah many many years ago. There was a time when I knew all these guys by name, but they have fallen away long ago

The photos of the 12th Georgia and the 7th are of them standing their team inspection at the Spring Nationals

Lance Herdegen and Bill Beaudot were our co editors of the Skirmish Line back in those days...

Good times in memory all

Digger

[tkavanagh]

The Louisiana Tiger (aka Co. B., Wheat's First Special Battalion) in the middle on p. 11, is Duane Whitlock. He is in our old (brown coat) uniform.

tk
Thomas Kavanagh
Wheat's Tigers
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