Battle of Richmond Re-enactment

2007 Schedule

Friday, Aug. 24

8 a.m.               Registration open for Re-enactors, Sutlers

10 a.m.             Opening Ceremony at Battlefield Park

Saturday, Aug. 25

6:30 a.m.          Reveille

7 a.m.               Registration opens for Re-enactors

10 a.m.             Camps, Living History Encampment open to public

                        Civil War children’s games/Orphie the Ox, Jeff Clagg

                        Wagon rides begin

10:30 a.m.        Civil War medicine, Don Dawson

11 a.m.             Richmond Area Theater presentation, “Behind a Mask”

                        Civil War Tea at Pleasant View Estate, Battlefield Park
                                     (re-enactors only)     (public viewing invited)

                        Civil War storyteller Judy Pierce

                        Book signings until 2 p.m.; Battle of Richmond by Kenneth Hafendorfer;                      The Draw by Ed Ford

11:30 a.m.        Civil War medicine, Don Dawson

Noon               Civil War music, 1^st Kentucky String Band (Mike Grimes, Gene Gatts,                                                   Ralph Marcum)

                        Frederick Douglass presentation (Michael Crutcher)

12:30 p.m.        Civil War storyteller Judy Pierce

1 p.m.              Richmond Area Theatre presentation, “Behind a Mask”

1:15 p.m.          Civil War children’s game/Orphie the Ox, Jeff Clagg

                        10^th Kentucky Infantry Presentation

1:30 p.m.          Gen. William (Bull) Nelson (Robert Preston)

2 p.m.              Battle Reenactment

2:45 p.m.          Civil War Games (skillet tossing, weeping and dying)

3:15 p.m.          Richmond Area Theater presentation, “Behind a Mask”

3:30 p.m.          Civil War Music, 1^st Kentucky String Band (Mike Grimes, Gene Gatts,             Ralph Marcum,)

5 p.m.              Re-enactment Picnic, Social (re-enactors only)

8 p.m.              Re-enactors Ball (featuring Skipjack)

9 p.m.              Artillery night firing

Sunday, Aug. 26

7 a.m.               Reveille

10 a.m.             Camps, Living History Encampment open to public

                        Civil War medicine, Don Dawson

10:30 a.m.        Civil War Church Service, Mt. Zion Christian Church, featuring Frederick                     Douglass (Michael Crutcher)         

                        Wagon Rides open

Noon               Civil War Cavalry Games

12:30 p.m.        Shaped Note Singers, Mike Grimes

1 p.m.              Richmond Area Theater presentation, “Behind a Mask”

1:15 p.m.          Civil War children’s game/Orphie the Ox, Jeff Clagg

                        10^th Kentucky Infantry Presentation

1:30 p.m.          Gen. William (Bull) Nelson (Robert Preston)

2 p.m.              Battle Reenactment

4 p.m.              Break Camps

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