How “Hard Core” is the attitude of the MIB towards Authenticity?
The first thing you have to understand about Civil War Reenacting is that due to a recent movement with-in the hobby, units are traditionaly classified as either “Progressive” or “Mainstream”. A lot can be said about both classifications and in fact the debate between the two has raged for many years. The MIB, although probally closer to a “Mainstream” type unit, doesn’t view it that way. We respect both forms of the hobby, and believe that both provide a valuable contrubution to reenacting as a whole. In our opinion, the only debate should not be of “whose form of Reenacting is more authentic or more correct”, but should actually be that of “How do we find the right balance between the two”? We view ourselves as a unit that somehow falls in between Progressive and Mainstream Reenacting. Some call us a Progressive Mainstream unit. The MIB’s approach to the hobby of Reenacting attempts to balance service to the public with providing a 1st Class “Living History” experiance for its member
