Civil War Re-enactment Set For Brick School Friday

BRICK, NJ — If you hear gunshots in the vicinity of Veterans Memorial Middle School on Friday, Brick Township police say there will be no reason for worry: The school is hosting a Civil War re-enactment, police said.

In a Nixle alert Thursday afternoon, police said the event is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

"There will be sounds of gun shots during the event," the alert said.

Veterans Memorial Middle School Principal Renee Kotsianas said the program has been held at the middle school for about 15 years and gives the school's sixth-graders, whose Social Studies curriculum includes the war, more insight into the way soldiers lived during the Civil War.

The re-enactment includes presentations on the shelters soldiers used at their encampments, the way and type of foods they cooked, and how they responded to medical emergencies in the field, Kotsianas said.

There also will be a group of storytellers, giving accounts of life during the war, she said, and a demonstration of Civil War firearms, which includes the aforementioned gunshots.

Civil War re-enactors, image via Morguefile