Article: Boscobel event hosts movie shoot; Muskets & Memories Civil War weekend starts today

BOSCOBEL, Wis. - When the 13th annual Muskets & Memories Civil War Re-enactment gets under way today in Boscobel, three film crews will be on hand - taking footage during the battles as well as off the field.

The footage is for a documentary film, "Love and Valor" - based on the book "Love and Valor - Intimate Civil War Letters Between Capt. Jacob and Emeline Ritner."

The book, edited by Charles F. Larimer, the great, great grandson of Jacob Ritner, is a compilation of letters, historical reports and newspaper articles that tell a story of the Civil War, as well as pieces of pioneer Iowa. Jacob Ritner, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, initially enlisted as part of President Abraham Lincoln's first ...

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