DOVER — One side of the Civil War’s combatants won’t be represented at the 85th annual Dover Days Festival this year, but hopes to tell its story again in 2019.

Since the Mason-Dixon Guards Camp 2183 couldn’t confirm its nonprofit status to Kent County Tourism Corporation’s specifications, the Confederate re-enactors weren’t permitted to take part without registering instead as a vendor.

That wouldn’t work for the Ellendale-based organization, according to Camp Commander Robert Eldreth, since the living history area needed could not fit into the asphalt area that organizers offered for the May 5 event.

“Our display was not conducive to what was being offered,” Mr. Eldreth said. “There would be no place for the tents and everything that comes with the camp scene, so being in a vendor spot wasn’t possible.”