CIVIL WAR REENACTORS
EVENT SCHEDULE
August 2008 to May 2009
The following are excerpts from the schedule as they apply to the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, D Battery Other events may be added later in the season. This is the basic schedule.
August 31, September 1, 2008. (this is a Sunday - Monday event) Pioneer Florida Museum and Village. Battle of Dade City (near Tampa). Pioneer Day Festival. This is a Labor Day weekend battle. Please do not arrive before 4pm on Friday. There is no battle on Saturday. You may relax and prepare all day Saturday for the battles on Sunday (the 31st) and Monday (the 1st). Battles will be at 3pm on Sunday and at 2:30pm on Monday. There will be no ball. There is limited authentic and modern camping. For Artillery Registration, contact Scott (Bob) Anderson at suttler7@knology.net To get to the event: From the North of Dade City take I-75 South to exit 61 go East on US-98 to 301. Go South on US-301 for 6 miles and the park will be on the left side. St. Petersburg area take I-275 and connect with I-75 to exit 59 go East on SR-52 for 8 miles to US-301 North go through town and the park is on the right. From Daytona Beach take SR-40 West to I-75 South. Orlando go SR-50 West to US-301 South the park will be on the left. Contact: Pioneer Florida Museum and Village at curator@pioneerfloridamuseum.org
September 20, (Saturday), 2008. Blue and Grey Cotillion (Saturday 8pm to 11pm). Pinellas Park Civic Auditorium located at 7690 59th Street North, Pinellas Park, Fl., 33781. All reenactors both Federal and Confederate are welcome. Period correct dress requested but not required. Sponsored by the 97th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A. Beginning at 8:00 PM until 11:00pm at the Pinellas Park Civic Auditorium, 7690 59th Street. The 97th Pennsylvania String Band to provide music. Admission is $15.00 per person or $25.00 per couple at the door. No advance ticket sales. Door prizes and snacks provided. For information, email RADM11@msn.com or check out their website at http://www.97thpvicoa.us Driving directions: From central Florida take I-4 West to I-275 South. Get off 275 at exit 28 (Gandy Blvd. old exit #15). The exit ramp will go left and curve around keep going straight to the Hwy. 19 exit. Go straight across 19 and you will be on Park Blvd (S.R. 694). Go straight west and at the railroad tracks make a quick right. The auditorium is off the road next to the Police Station on 59th St. North.
October 4, 5, 2008. Parrish Train Raid (southwest Florida). The Parrish Train Raid is definitely a one of a kind event. This a small event with two short battles per day, one at 11am and one at 2pm. Well, not really battles but attacks on the train as it passes. The train stops and is boarded by the Federals or Confederates and "captured" or the attackers are driven off by the soldiers on the train. Reenactors in period dress will be allowed to ride the train free. There will be time to interact with the public both on and off the train if you like. Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry and civilians are invited. Confederates will camp to the north near the wood line and Federals to the south near the wood line (firewood and water will be provided). Driving directions: Follow I-275 south until it hits I-75. Parrish is easy to find. From south Fla. take I-75 north to Ellenton like you are going to Gamble Plantation. Instead of turning to the west, turn east on Hwy 301 to the town of Parrish. From Lakeland, go south on Highway 37 (It dead ends in to Highway 62). Turn west or right on Highway 62 toward Parrish. When you hit Highway 301, turn right and immediately right into the Post Office. The train stop is right behind the Post Office. From Orlando, come Highway 17 south to just south of Bowling Green. Turn west on Highway 62 and take it all the way to 301. Preregistration is appreciated but not required. For further information, contact Barry King at king75thovi@aol.com
November 7, 8, 9, 2008. 24th Annual Ocklawaha River Raid. Near Silver Springs/Ocala. The re-enactment is hosted by the 4th Florida Infantry, Company G, 2nd Battalion, Hardy's Brigade. This event commemorates the March 1865 Union army raid on plantations east of Ocala in Marion County and the resulting skirmish with local Confederate forces near the Ocklawaha River. The event will take place at the Marion County 4-H Farm located on Highway 35, just south of the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 464, in Ocala. All branches of service and civilian reenactors are invited and welcomed. Powder rations will be provided to the first eight cannons pre-registered by October 25. Hay rations will be provided for all horses pre-registered by October 25. Firewood and water provided on site. Sutlers are requested to pre-register; for registration details contact the host unit at the address shown below. The weekend will include two battles, a replica period homestead, numerous Living History events, civilian activities including a Ladies' Tea, and a Saturday night ball. DIRECTIONS: From I-75 headed south (from Gainesville area), take Exit # 358 onto Highway 326. Go east on Highway 326, across Highway 27/301/441, to the intersection of 326 and Highway 35 (Baseline Road). Turn right and go south on Highway 35, to the traffic light at the intersection of 35 and Highway 40. Go across Highway 40 and continue south on Highway 35 for five miles to the traffic light intersection of 35 and Highway 464. Go across Highway 464 and continue south on Highway 35 for aprox. 100 yards; the site entrance is on the left. From I-75 north, take Exit # 341 (the Belleview - Dunnellon exit) to Highway 484. Go east on Highway 484 for eight miles, to the traffic light intersection of Highway 484 and U.S. Highway 27/301/441. Go across 27/301/441 and continue east for four blocks to the traffic light intersection of Highway 484 and Highway 35. Turn left and go north on Highway 35 for aprox. five miles; the site entrance is on the right. For more information contact Lt. Col. Keith Kohl at cog4flainf@aol.com
January 16, 17, 18, 2009. The 145th anniversary of the actual Federal raid on the town of Brooksville and the 28th annual Brooksville Raid, Brooksville, Florida. Hosted by the Hernando Historical Museum Assoc. and North Pinellas Scout Sertoma Club. The Brooksville Raid is known as the biggest and the best Civil War Reenactment in Florida. Last year 3,850 reenactors and their families participated in the event along with 24 cannons and 61 mounted cavalrymen. Help is needed for the school day on Friday the 16th (over 1,200 students attended last year). Cavalrymen - This year the Brooksville Raid will not supply hay for the cavalry horses. In place of the hay ration, a Horse Hay-Bounty will be distributed to the cavalrymen. The bounty will be $10 per horse to first 40 pre-registered horses who participate in the battle. The hay bounty will be handled at the registration desk when the cavalryman signs in. If you did not pre-register yourself and your horse, you will not get the $10 bounty. Remember to bring your own hay for your horse - no hay will be on site. All horses and mules are required to show current coggins papers at the registration desk before the horse is allowed on the property. The event will supply tent and sleeping hay to the infantrymen. Two battles (2:30pm); one Sat. one Sun. Ladies tea will be held at 11:00am Saturday (the women put a lot into this tea and I have been told it is one of the best anywhere), Blue/Gray Ball Sat night at 8:00pm, church Sun. morning. A $2.00 donation to the event will be required for all reenactors and adult family members participating in the Brooksville Raid. All reenactors will receive a raffle ticket upon registering for a $100.00 gift certificate (five to be given away) to be used at any of the sutlers in Sutlers Row during the event. The winners will be posted throughout the camps and at the ball Saturday evening. Any and all proceeds from this event are split evenly between North Pinellas Sertoma and the Heritage Museum. Meals and hot showers will be available from the North Pinellas Co. Scout Sertoma Club, Friday evening through Sunday, for a nominal fee. Due to the incredible amount of artillery attending the Raid, the artillery bounty will be a little different this year. One bounty per unit ($100) will be given to the first twenty pre-registered cannons only. The Raid is held at the Sand Hill Boy Scout Camp on US Hwy 50. The battle is 10 miles West of Brooksville. The entrance is on Hwy 50. Take Hwy. 50 West. Go through Brooksville, keep going West about 10 miles, and look for the signs. More information at NEW WEBSITE ADDRESS http://www.brooksvillereenactment.com/
February 19, 20, 21, 22, 2009. The 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Re-enactment Regiment, in cooperation with the Pinellas County Parks Department and Fort DeSoto Park, will host an American Civil War Weekend Encampment and Historical Battle Reenactment at the Fort DeSoto Park located in Tierra Verde on the Southern-most tip of Pinellas County, Florida. The civil war era camps will be open FREE to the public from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm. each day. Participants will be depicting both Union and Confederate infantry, artillery, cavalry (limited), and civilian impressions. On Friday, February 20, 2009, the camps will be open for tours by elementary school children from surrounding cities and counties. On Saturday and Sunday, camps will be open to the public with ongoing events all day, climaxing with an historical battle re-enactment each afternoon at 1:30 pm. Other civil war activities will include period sutlers and vendors, a mock military trial and execution, artillery demonstrations, infantry drills, 'ladies afternoon tea', drum and fife music performances and civil war medical demonstrations. A limited number of re-enactor modern camping spaces will be available on a first contact, first served basis. Contact us for your reservation now because modern campers showing up on the day of the event without a reservation will not be allowed to camp. FREE firewood, hay for sleeping, and ice. We encourage re-enactors to arrive on Thursday, February 19, 2009 to participate in our 'school day' program for almost 1000 school children in Pinellas County. We would like to ask participating units and artillery to let us know in advance if they are coming to the event. We have a $50 cash bounty for the first 6, pre-registered artillery units, with a cannon (3 Union, 3 Confederate) and $10 cash bounty for the first 10, pre-registered mounted cavalry that attend the event. Sutlers by invitation only. For information or reservations, contact David Glenn, at (727) 430-8136, email: coa_97thpa@hotmail.com or write: 97th Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., Event Coordinator, 14172 Sharon Drive, Largo, Florida, 33774. March 27, 28, 29, 2009. The16th annual Battle at Narcoossee Mill. St. Cloud Fla. southeast of Orlando by Kissimmee. Sponsored by the Jacob Summerlin Camp #1516 Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Battlefield is on 150 acres of open and wooded land on the shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga. The event host will be checking coggins papers for horses at the registration desk. There are no sutler or re-enactor fees. Friday, the 27th, is education day which begins at 9:00am; re-enactors are needed to provide demonstrations. A lunch will be provided for volunteers assisting with the school program. There will be a ladies tea and military ball on Saturday. Take Hwy 192 (Irlo Bronson Hwy) to Hwy 15. Go 2mi North on Hwy 15, look for the park sign. Another way to get there (from the North) is to take I-4 to the toll road 528 (Beachline Expressway) go east and get off on Hwy 15 exit (Narcoossee Road) go South on Hwy 15. Another way if you are coming from the Florida Turnpike, get off at exit #244 and go east on Hwy 192 through St. Cloud, then turn North on Hwy 15 (Narcoossee Road). GPS position: N28.16.448 W081.15.020 Contact the SCV Camp at http://www.jacobsummerlin.org/ or Chris Hall at chgalenhall@aol.com for more information, pre-registration at http://www.jacobsummerlin.org/ed2007.pdf