2012
Schedule of Events
18th
Annual Student Discovery Day
Friday
09:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
10 -15 min. presentations or demonstrators
11:30
a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Lunch
12:15
p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Skirmish
12:45
p.m. - 03:00 p.m.
10 -15 min. presentations or demonstrators
23rd
Annual Hartford City Civil War Days & Living History:
1861
- 1865
Saturday - Oct. 13, 2012
06:30
a.m.
Reveille & roll call
07:00
a.m.
Breakfast
08:00 a.m. Tribute to living descendants of Civil War soldiers at the Courthouse Civil War Monument
09:00
a.m.
Battalion Drill & /Skirmishing (Pickets)
09:00 a.m. Artillery Drill & Demonstration
09:00 a.m. Medical Training School & Demonstration
10:00 a.m. Battle: ** Shiloh - 1862: The Beginning **
10:30 a.m. Presentation: *** United States Colored Troops and Black History ***
10:30 a.m. Presentation: *** The Life and Times of Gen. George E. Pickett ***
10:30 a.m.
Side Saddle Demonstration
10:30
a.m.
Vintage Baseball game: Champion Hill Toppers verses Buckeyes of
Cincinnati
11:15 a.m. Presentation: *** Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson & Gen. James Longstreet:
From West Pont days through the Battles that we participated in. ***
11:15 a.m. Presentation: *** Gen. Grant and his Wife ***
12:00 noon Songs of the time by Virginia Wesley and Annamaria Crider
12:00 noon Presentation: **** Mrs. Morgan, Seamstress: The Fashion of a Civil War Lady ******
12:30 p.m. Music by the Company Singers
12:45 p.m. Ladies Tea
01:00 p.m. Presentation: *** Lincoln: Civil War Sesquicentennial - Chronicles of the War - October, 1862 ***
01:00 p.m.
Skirmishing (Rotating Companies)
01:15 p.m. Lady's Fashion Show
01:30 p.m. Period Baseball Game: Champion Hill Toppers verses Buckeyes of Cincinnati
01:30 p.m. Side Saddle Demonstration
02:00 p.m. Civil War Era Music played by the Mossburg Strings
02:00 p.m. Ladies and Children Fashion Show Competition: Judging in back of Tent
02:00 p.m. Presentation: *** The Army Surgeon and his Work ***
02:45 p.m. Presentation: * Pres. Jefferson Davis Why the South left the Union and formed the Confederacy *
03:00 p.m. Presentation: *** United States Colored Troops and Black History ***
04:00 p.m. Battle: ** Shiloh - 1862: - The Hornets Nest** (Followed by Grand Review, Gettysburg
Address, and News Conference)
04:45 p.m. Cooking Contest on the Union Artillery Hill
04:45 p.m. Songs of the time by Virginia Wesley and Anna Maria Crider
04:45 p.m. Presentation: *** Mrs. Joseph Davis, sister -in-law to Pres. Jefferson Davis * **
05:45
p.m.
Supper (for re-enactors)
06:00 p.m. Civil War Period by the Tri-County Revelers
06:00 p.m. Presentation: *** The Life of Jefferson Davis ***
06:45 p.m. Presentation: *** The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln ***
07:45 p.m. Artillery Night Fire on the Battlefield. *** Colorful and Spectacular ***
Indiana's Largest Artillery Event. ***
08:30 p.m. Ladies Ball Gown Competition: Judging in Tent #1
09:00 p.m. Civil War Grande Ball: In Field (South of split rail fence in the middle of the field)
Gown Competition Winners (Tent #1)
23rd
Annual HartfordCity Civil War Days & Living History
:
1861
- 1865
Sunday
- Oct. 14, 2012
07:15
a.m.
Breakfast
08:15
a.m.
Tactical
09:30 a.m. Church Service - Presentation tent #1
10:30 a.m. Battalion Drill
10:30 a.m. Side Saddle Demonstration
10:30 a.m. Presentation: *** The Army Surgeon and His Work ***
11:00
a.m.
Picketing/Skirmishing: (Rotating Companies)
11:15 a.m. Presentation: *** Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ***
11:15
a.m.
Presentation:
*** United States Colored Troops and Black History
***
11:30 a.m. Pay Call
12:00 noon Lunch
12:15 p.m. Presentation *** Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson & Gen. James Longstreet:
From West Pont days through the Battles that we participated in. ***
12:15 p.m. Presentation: *** Pres. Jefferson Davis: The Significance of the word Secession ***
12:15 p.m. Side Saddle Demonstration
01:00 p.m. Presentation: *** Pres. Lincoln - The Plan for Colonization of the Negro ***
01:00 p.m. Presentation: Mrs. Hamilton: A Northern Lady Married to a Wealthy Southern Slave Owner
02:00 p.m. Battle: ** Shiloh - 1862: The Ending & Aftermath ** (Followed by Gettysburg Address,
Grand Review, and New Conference)
Other Attractions:
Demonstrators: Blacksmiths//Refugee//Telegraph/ /Rug Maker/Spinner/ Field Hospital/ Candy Maker/ Medicine Show/
and more
Wagon Rides: Take a ride with Mary on her wagon - pending.
Other Things to See: Sutlers/ Camps/Saloon( Ice Cold Root Beer)/ Stockade/and more
Modern
Day Location: Year 2012
Food vendors in Modern area and Period area.
The Marion Salvation Army Brass Band will be performing two concerts on Saturday, one at 11:00 a.m. and the other
at 2:00 p.m. They will be playing Civil War music from the period.
Revision: 4/16/2012