Actually, "re-enactments" are nothing of the kind. They do not accurately "re-create" anything whatsoever that happened 150 years ago. They are a feel-good, Disneyesque a-historical theatrical fantasy, and subversive of real history.

This from someone who had several lineal G-Grandfathers & G-G-Grandfathers who participated in the conflict, and who has become very familiar over the years with first-person accounts and primary documentation of the Civil War both as an historian, and as an interested private individual.

If you really want to know about the Civil War, read Gilpin's This Republic Of Suffering & then go thru the pension records of CW Veterans (National Archives) to see what they experienced and the legacy of that experience.

Additionally, read any of the several available diaries of prisoners held at Andersionville and Salisbury NC.

Another must read is Lt. Ambrose Bierce's (9th Indiana Infantry 1861-1865). What I Saw Of Shiloh"

There's your Civil War, in spades.

Best,

Greg