A blast from the past
Logan Creighton asks students questions and educates them about Civil War artifacts Thursday during a reenactment at Lakes Middle School. Creighton represented the all-Irish unit, Meagher’s Irish Zouaves, which fought for the North under Brig. Gen. Thomas Meagher.
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Alan Williams, representing a Civil War field hospital surgeon for the Union, teaches students about battlefield injuries, dressings and surgeries Thursday during a visit to Lakes Middle School.
Civil War reenactor Mitchell Black, far left, provides instructions to Logan Trujillo, center left, and Jackson Reasor, right, as they prepare to fire an artillery cannon Thursday at Lakes Middle School.
Students and Civil War reenactors collapse after a cannon blast rips through campus at Lakes Middle School on Thursday. No projectile was shot, but the sound rumbled throughout the neighborhood and gave kids a good idea of how loud Civil War artillery really was.
COEUR d’ALENE — An earthshaking explosion rocked the Lakes Middle School campus and surrounding neighborhood.
Down went students and Civil War reenactment soldiers as smoke billowed into the air...
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