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Photo: Re-enactors at last year’s Labor Day Civil War event

If the “South shall rise again,” you may see evidence of that at the Labor Day Weekend Civil War Re-enactment, one of about a dozen Civil War re-enactments that take place in California throughout the year. Produced by Northerners from Massachusetts who migrated to California and brought their love of the Civil War with them, the Rivers –Maureen, Kelly, Daryl and Ben, each year for over a decade have produced one of the few, free Civil War re-enactments in California. Held in a beautiful, 350 acre park in Huntington Beach filled with hills, valleys, swamps, brush, and plenty of shaded lawns, you can almost imagine what it would have been like to live back in the mid-1800s as you stroll and see women with babies, soldiers in their hot, woolen uniforms, and nurses tend to the injured and ill in their commissary tents. The event is held on Sept. 1-2, 2012 starting at 10 a.m. each day and include two battles per day. Location: 7111 Talbert Ave., Huntington Beach, CA.  Other upcoming battles this fall include a Family Fall Dance in Woodland Hills on Oct. 13, and a Civil War event Nov. 10-11, 2012 in Moorpark.