See the book "Confederates in the Attic".
But other groups have similar rememberances of battles.
100 000 watch reenactment of the Battle of Borodino, which was fought on Sept 7, 1812.
On September 2, thousands of French and Russian actors re-created the 200-year-old Battle of Borodino, which led to the defeat of Napoleon's forces and a rise in Russian patriotism. Nearly 100,000 onlookers watched the reenactment of the critical battle, fought on September 7, 1812, as Napoleon's forces advanced on Moscow. The outnumbered French forces won the bloody battle but lost the war after being driven out of Moscow by Russian forces after local residents had torched and abandoned the city. Napoleon's defeat led Russian to replace French as the dominant language of the Russian aristocracy. Speaking at the reenactment, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that together with World War II, the Battle of Borodino was "proof of the unparalleled patriotism of our people.
most Americans never heard of it, unless they read War and Peace, or are Napoleon fans.
and then there is this factoid, from Wikipedia:
In Russia, the Battle of Borodino is reenacted yearly on the first Sunday of September. On the battlefield itself, the Bagration flèches are preserved; a modest monument has been constructed in honour of the French soldiers who fell in the battle. There are also remnants of trenches from the seven-day battle fought at the same battlefield in 1941 between the Soviet and German forces (which took fewer human lives than the one of 1812).
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