Reliving the Civil War in Sidney

Civil war reenactors from far and wide descended on the Delaware County town of Sidney over the weekend for three days of living history.

Local filmmaker Jess Vecchione was on hand on June 30 at the Greater Maywood Rural Community Services Center, on the grounds of the former Sidney Center school, to film the action.

This was a good event, one cantankerous-looking fellow in Union garb told Vecchione:

"The rebs, sometimes they're very good, sometimes they're very bad, sometimes they're in between. But today they're very good."

For a place in a state that never saw a Civil War battle fought on its own soil, Delaware County has plenty of Civil War reenactment action. The annual Civil War reenactment in Walton, which takes over the Delaware County Fairground each Memorial Day, is a popular draw for history buffs.