Nevada desert is setting for re-enactment
Re-enactors playing President Lincoln read the Gettysburg address and 200 soldiers fought four engagements in a state park just west of Las Vegas earlier this month. Canons fired and cavalry units rode through the dust to the delight of an audience of about 1,500.
Reporter Erin Dostal captured the weekend of desert battles and ordinary camp life in her story for the Las Vegas Sun.
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Linda Wheeler
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November 6, 2009; 5:01 AM ET
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