Friday, February 6, 2015

The War Between the States Sesquicentennial Final Year: "North Carolina Fields of Valor"


February 2015 Events:

"Fields of Valor: The North Carolina Campaign -- Generals Hardee and Johnston Meet at Fayetteville"

Saturday, 21 February, Noon-9PM

Heritage Square, 221 Dick Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Infantry/Artillery Encampment, Surgeon, Field Hospital, Interpreters

Generals Hardee & Johnston Living History

“Women and Children on the North Carolina Home Front,” Kelly Hinson

Author Wade Sokolosky Discusses “Fayetteville During the War”

“Fayetteville Arsenal Display” with historian Jack Wells

Candlelight Tours 6:30PM-9PM, $10 Admission

Sponsors:

Historic Heritage Square/Women’s Club of Fayetteville

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission                                               

"Fields of Valor: The North Carolina Campaign – “General Hardee’s Stand at Averasborough "

28 February, 10AM-5PM;1 March, 10AM – 3:30PM

Historic Oak Grove Plantation, Godwin, North Carolin

Periodic Artillery Firing & Infantry Skirmishing

Living Historian Kelly Hinson: “Women & Children on the Home Front”

Author Wade Sokolosky Discusses “Battle of Averasborough”

“Fayetteville Arsenal Display” with historian Jack Wells

Confederate Field Hospital with Surgeon

Tours of Historic Oak Grove Home

General William J. Hardee Reenactor on-site

Sponsors:

Historic Oak Grove Plantation

North Carolina War Between the states Sesquicentennial Commission



March 2015 Events

"Fields of Valor: The North Carolina Campaign -- General Hoke at Duplin Roads – March 1865"

Saturday, 7 March, Noon - 9PM – Free Parking

Historic Wallace Railroad Depot

Downtown Wallace, North Carolina

Artillery & Musket Firing, Many Reenactors

Living Historian Kelly Hinson: Refugeeing Women Face the Enemy”

General Robert F. Hoke and Duplin Planter Gabriel Boney Living History program.

“The 1865 Prisoner Exchange,” author J. Keith Jones

“Duplin Men at War,” Kenansville Armory Camp, NC SCV

Confederate Surgeon & Field Hospital

Narrated Hayrides to General Hoke’s Rockfish Creek historic site - $5 per person

Sponsors:

Greater Wallace Chamber of Commerce

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission

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April 2015 Events:

"Annual War Between the States Living History at Campbellton Landing"

11/12 April, 9AM-4PM Daily

$5 Admission Charged

Confederate troops oppose enemy crossing of the Cape Fear River

Artillery/infantry encampment, relics, interpreters -- cannon-fire all day

Generals Joseph E. Johnston and William J. Hardee will be on-site

1122 Person Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina

(South side of eastbound Person Street before crossing Cape Fear River)

Sponsor: NC Light Artillery, Second Company C, "Braddy's Battery"

Information: 910.483.4469 - 910.483.4469

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May 2015 Events:

"Oakwood Cemetery Confederate Memorial Day Service"

Saturday, 2 May, 2PM

Historic Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina

Speaker: Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman, NC WBTS Sesquicentennial Commission

Sponsors: Col. L.L. Polk Camp, No. 1486, NC SCV; Ashe & Pettigrew Chapters, NC UDC

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