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Civil War Remembrance, this weekend!

The least-expected moments often are the most memorable.

For Brian James Egen, one of those moments — pure coincidence and extreme drama — came during last year’s Civil War Remembrance weekend. (This year’s event begins Saturday through Monday.)

It happened when re-enactors portraying 100 soldiers, weapons gleaming in bayonet drills, marched in precise formation across the Village Green. At the same time, by chance, at least 100 visitors participating as recruits, some with mock drill rifles, also began moving in formation across the green — on course to intercept the soldiers.

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