Campsites open 10 - 6 on Saturday and 10 - 4 on Sunday (Civil War period church service at 9 AM on Sunday).
Units include the Pennsylvania 9th 10th, 11th. Also ‘Buck Tails,’ 19th Ohio Artillery, and affiliated Confederate units
Visit Union and Confederate encampments to see what daily life was like for the soldiers in both armies during the Civil War.
Activities throughout the day:
Scheduled Activities SATURDAY:
10:00 a.m. Dress parade and drill
10:30 Artillery Demonstration
11:30 Little Soldier Battle for children 6 and older
12:30 p.m. PowerPoint program by Dr. John Rathgeb, Surgical and Medical Practices of the Civil War
2:00 Battle Reenactment
3:00 Book Discussion & Signing by Jim Douglass, author of The Bloody Eleventh: A Regimental History, and Born to Serve: The Major A. G. Harper Story
4:00 PowerPoint program by Dr. John Rathgeb, Surgical and Medical Practices of the Civil War
Scheduled Activities SUNDAY:
9:00 a.m. Civil War-era Worship Service at the picnic pavilion.
10:00 a.m. Battalion Drill
10:30 Artillery Demonstration
11:30 Little Soldier Battle for children 6 and older
12:30 p.m. PowerPoint program by Dr. John Rathgeb, Surgical and Medical Practices of the Civil War
2:00 Battle Reenactment
3:00 Book Discussion & Signing by Jim Douglass, author of The Bloody Eleventh: A Regimental History, and Born to Serve: The Major A. G. Harper Story