BRINGING HISTORY ALIVE CIVIL WAR REENACTMENTS IN WISCONSIN TAKE PARTICIPANTS AND OBSERVERS BACK IN TIME.(EXPLORE) From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: June 12, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Capital Newspapers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Beth Gauper St. Paul Pioneer Press

COON VALLEY, WIS. -- It was a gorgeous fall day in southwest Wisconsin, and all we could see was heartache and misery.

"Welcome to Virginia 1862," read the sign at the gates of Norskedalen, where pioneer homesteads evoke the Civil War era.

Pushing open the door of a chinked-timber farmhouse, we encountered Nedda Blodgett, who was surprised to find strangers in her parlor but quickly welcomed us in a Souther...