Schedule of Activities
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Grant vs Lee 1864 Schedule of Activities |
Reenactor’s Event Schedule
"Grant vs. Lee: 1864"
Saturday, June 5 – Sunday, June 6
Work weekend and bar-b-cue. Help needed to improve entrenchments and camp areas. Shovels, picks, and chain saws needed.
Saturday, June 12
Work day to complete entrenchments. All help gladly received.
Tuesday, June 15
7:00 AM Sutlers and invited staff only
Wednesday, June 16
8:00 AM Registration opens (suggested trips to Clark’s Mountain, Manassas, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Wilderness, and Fredericksburg battlefields). Cars allowed one-half hour to unload… trucks and vans one hour.
11:00 PM Registration closes for the night
12:00 AM "All quiet" in camps.
Thursday, June 17
7:00 AM Registration re-opens
9:00 AM Cavalry ride to Beverly Ford (tentative) Please contact Col. Beachler or Col. Sheppard (Cav.).
6:00 PM Walking tour with noted Brandy Station historian "Bud" Hall on the Brandy Station battlefield (meet at PRIMEDIA tent)
Friday, June 18
9:00 AM Ed Bearss, former National Park Service chief historian – "Yellow Tavern" and "Saunders Field" (activities tent). Reenactors… don’t miss this!
10:00 AM Last vehicle allowed into camp areas (cars allowed ½ hr. to unload… trucks and vans one hr.)
11:00 AM Last vehicle out of camp areas
Gates open to public
12:30 PM Weapon inspections and pass checks for military and civilian reenactors
1:00 PM Troops depart for the "Wilderness" battle areas (non-spectator), no children or civilians allowed to follow the armies
1:30 PM Ed Bearss, former National Park Service chief historian – "Yellow Tavern" and "Saunders Field" (activities tent)
Visit General Grant’s headquarters as he prepares to send his army forward.
3:00 PM "YELLOW TAVERN" battle reenactment (cavalry)
4:00 PM Historian Al Gambone, author of Hancock at Gettysburg…and Beyond, speaks about "Hancock at the Wilderness"
Bob Talbot – Dr. Pierre’s Medicine Show! (near civilian camp)
Visit General Lee’s headquarters as he coordinates the advance into the "Wilderness."
5:30 PM "SAUNDER’S FIELD" battle reenactment… as troops return from the "Wilderness"
6:00 PM Mike Mescher – "Victorian Parlor Games" (activities tent)
7:00 PM Military camps closed to spectators
8:00 PM Dance – 2nd South Carolina String Band (reenactors only)
12:00 AM "All quiet" in camps. Provost makes rounds.
Saturday, June 19
5:00 AM Gates open to public
5:15 AM Weapons inspections and pass checks
6:00 AM "MULE SHOE" battle reenactment
8:00 AM Visit Generals Grant and Meade’s headquarters as they discuss the military situation.
9:00 AM Walking tour with noted Brandy Station historian "Bud" Hall at the Brandy Station battlefield (meet at PRIMEDIA tent)
Visit General Lee’s headquarters as he tries to anticipate Grant’s next move.
Blane Piper – Tactics during the Civil War (activities tent)
9:30 AM Virginia Mescher – Period foods (activities tent)
10:00 AM CAVALRY TACTICS DEMONSTRATION (battlefield)
Visit General Grant and Meade’s headquarters as they issue orders for the army to move again.
10:30 AM 2nd South Carolina String Band performs near food tent
Judy Flowers – Hair Jewelry (activities tent)
11:00 AM Frank O’Reilly, National Park Service historian and author of Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg: The Battle of Prospect Hill, December 13, 1862, will speak about Spotsylvania (activities tent)
11:30 AM 3rd New Jersey Fife and Drum (near dining tent area)
12:00 PM Roy Morris, Jr., author of Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan and Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, will speak about General Sheridan (activities tent)
Bob Talbot – Dr. Pierre’s Medicine Show! (near civilian camp)
12:30 PM BATTALION DRILL COMPETITION ($250 award to winner) on battlefield area
12:45 PM Best-selling author Jeff Shaara discusses new book Last Full Measure
1:30 PM Juanita Leisch – "All Dressed up and No Where to Go" followed by… "Roles for children during the Civil War" both at activities tent
2:00 PM Jeff Driscoll (A.P.C.W.S. staff historian) and Rob Hodge (reenactor/preservationist) – "Preservation of Civil War Sites: 1999" (activities tent)
3:00 PM "LAUREL HILL" battle reenactment (following weapon inspections)
2nd South Carolina String Band performs near food tent
Jon and Suzanne Isaacson – "Victorian Popular Music" (activities tent)
4:00 PM Civil War artifacts display and talk… Robin Reed, Executive Director of the Museum and White House of the Confederacy (activities tent)
5:00 PM Lynn Bull – Cravats -- men’s ties (activities tent)
Visit General Lee’s headquarters as he discusses his next move.
6:00 PM CAVALRY DEMONSTRATION (battlefield)
Bob Talbot – Dr. Pierre’s Medicine Show! (near civilian camp)
7:00 PM Military camps closed to spectators
Catherine Wise – "Female Soldiers during the Civil War" followed by a meeting of the National Association of Female Civil War Reenactors
8:00 PM Danny Stanton -- Dance instruction (activities tent)
8:15 PM Volunteer "guides" for candle light tours please assemble in PRIMEDIA tent
9:00 PM Candle light tours begin (to benefit A.P.C.W.S. and Brandy Station Foundation)
Dance – 2nd South Carolina String Band (activities tent)
Bob Zeller, author of The Civil War in Depth: History in 3-D and leading authority on stereoscopic photography, presents a stereoscopic slide show (PRIMEDIA tent)
11:00 PM Artillery night firing
Brass bands serenade troops from behind entrenchments
Candle light tours end
Site closes
12:00 AM "All quiet" in camps. Provost makes rounds.
Sunday, June 20
8:00 AM Gates open to public
CAVALRY DRILL demonstration
9:00 AM African American Civil War Memorial Foundation (activities tent)
10:00 AM Church services (in each camp)
10:30 AM "TODD’S TAVERN" cavalry battle reenactment (following weapon inspections and pass checks)
Visit Generals Grant and Meade’s headquarters as they plan today’s assault on Lee’s lines.
3rd NJ Fife and drum (near dining tent)
Bruce Stocking – General Hancock interpretative talk (activities tent)
11:00 AM Visit General Lee’s headquarters to hear of his plans for the coming battle.
11:30 AM Noah Andre Trudeau, author of Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864, will speak about the battle of Cold Harbor (activities tent)
12:30 PM Karen Jagiello – "The Family Way" – Birthing practices, North and South
1:30 PM "COLD HARBOR" battle reenactment (following weapon inspections and pass checks)
Juanita Leisch – "Shameless Behavior!" – Scandalous stories of the Civil War (activities tent)
2:30 PM Christine Ballard – Mature women’s head wear of the 1860s (activities tent)
4:00 PM Authentic Civil War Wedding !! Come see Daniel James and Samantha Gorrman of Culpeper, Virginia exchange their vows in a real Victorian wedding ceremony. (activities tent)
Cars allowed in camp
Monday, June 21
12:00 PM All sutlers and reenactors must depart site.
Tuesday, June 22
Clean musket… get ready for next event!!
THANK YOU !
We (Don Warlick and Glenn LeBoeuf) will help out at Bentonville 135th, 1st Manassas 140th (in 2001), and other future events. We enjoyed working with the folks from PRIMEDIA History Group… and look forward to working with them again. The folks from PRIMEDIA took the big financial risks in order for this event to occur. Without people like them who share our passion for good living history, we cannot continue to bring events of this size to the reenactment community. Please feel free to send us your comments, suggestions, and criticisms of any event we help organize. Your opinions matter a great deal to us. Special thanks to the Spillman family for allowing our reenactor "family" to visit their beautiful farm. We hope to be back some day.
Our Future Events
Many of you reading this have supported events Don and Glenn have helped put on since 1991. They cannot adequately express their thanks for your support, guidance and friendship. Below is our short list of plans they are now working on. They will always seek to fight the "been there… done that" feelings among veteran reenactors.
Year 2000 "Chancellorsville" (May) National "Campaign" style event (September)
Year 2001 140th 1st Manassas (Bull Run) held in northern VA
Year 2002 140th "Enemy at the Gates!"
140th Antietam (Sharpsburg) in Hagerstown, MD (September)
The "Seven Day’s Battles" just outside Richmond, VA (June)
"Fredericksburg" 140th near Fredericksburg, VA (November)
(with pontoon river crossings)
Year 2003 Gettysburg 140th on a new, larger site in Adams County, PA
Year 2004 To be announced
Year 2005 140th Anniversary… "The Last Battles"…
Weldon Railroad, Fort Steadman, Five Forks, and Appomattox
PLEASE MAKE THE MAY 1 "Regular" DEADLINE!
add-ons are $11.00 per individual