Manassas Museum will be holding its annual Manassas Civil War Weekend at the end of August. This will be a free three-day event for the whole family.
The event will open with a keynote address delivered by Dr. Catherine Clinton. The Manassas Cemetery will then present ‘Stories in Stone’.
Saturday will start with a parade, and children will join in games and activities depicting the life of a soldier. Parents will be taking pictures for personalized Stationery and family Calendars. Tours of the Liberia Plantations will be led by costumed guides on both Saturday and Sunday, and a wagon ride will be available to the plantation from the museum.
Artillery, infantry, and cavalry demonstrations will be running Saturday and Sunday. A reenactment of the raid on union rail cars is set for Saturday night.
Tent talks will be divided into four categories – Presidents, Tactics, Woman’s Perspective, and Friends and Enemies. Some discussions will be manned by actors playing the likes of VA Governor Billy Smith, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, William Sherman, Joe Johnston, and Jefferson Davis. The Tactics tent will have Robert E. Lee, Leonidas Polk, Stonewall Jackson, William Sherman, and Artillery and Infantry. The Woman’s Perspective tent will feature Clara Barton, Mary Todd Lincoln, and living historians Kim Forsland and Marilyn Iglesias.
The Manassas Civil War Weekend will be from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm, August 25 through 27, mainly at 9101 Prince Street, Manassas, at the Manassas Museum.
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