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2012 Schedule of Events 

18th Annual Student Discovery Day

Friday - Oct. 12, 2012

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)

09:30 p.m.                               Announcement of the Ladies and Children Fashion Show and Ball

                                                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 ***                          

10:30 a.m.                               Presentation: *** The Life and Times of Gen George E. Pickett  ***     

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 

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