Living history event marking the 151st Anniversary of the Skirmish at Ashley’s Mills. Living historians will be on hand to demonstrate infantry tactics, encampments, cooking, flag/weapons displays. The event is located on the actual grounds that the actual Skirmish took place. This is a free event to the public. This event is hosted by General Robert C. Newton Camp #197 Sons …
The Prairie Grove State Park will commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Prairie Grove, which saw 22,000 troops engaged. The summation of casualties for both North and South numbered about 2700 killed, wounded and captured. The reenactment of the battle is held every even numbered year. All military camps will be open to the public each day and, as …
For a trip back in time come join us in Old Washington, AR, located 8 miles west of Hope, AR on Hwy 278, for Civil War Weekend. During this weekend, visitors can walk the streets of a town touched by the hand of war. There will be interpretations of the many conflicts of the area when Washington was the Confederate …
The 8th Red River Symposium at Washington, AR, will begin its Saturday Agenda with a morning bus tour of the Prairie D’Ane and Moscow Church Battlefields in Southwest Arkansas. These memorable fights were part of the northern part of the Red River Campaign known as the Camden Expedition that began in Little Rock, AR and over 41 days from March …
This is the sesquicentennial of the memorial for David O. Dodd, the Boy Martyr of the Confederacy, in Little Rock, AR. At the age of 18 David Owen Dodd was hanged in Little Rock on 1/8/1864 as a Confederate spy. The day’s events will begin with a march of one mile from the McArthur Military Museum to Mount Holly Cemetery …
Scott Plantation is hosting a day of tours of its village and a reenactment of the skirmish at Ashley Mills, which was a prelude to the taking of Little Rock by Union Forces on September 10, 1863. There will be living history booths featuring Civil War medicine and embalming plus a host of others. This would be a great time …
REENACTING REVISITED It has been 18 years since I first “Saw The Elephant” (Civil War Jargon for going into battle for the first time.) I was so very new to the game. I didn’t know the commands, the maneuvers, or the manual of arms. My uniform was a mismatched combination of authentic uniform and every day clothes. Somehow I was …