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The war of 1861–1865 and the material culture it left behind: collector shows and relic shows, guided battlefield walks and staff rides, infantry, cavalry, artillery, naval and medical demonstrations, seminars and symposia, museum programs, and the anniversary commemorations held on the ground where the fighting happened.
Dates: Aug. 1
Historian Quinton Kirk leads a twelve-stop driving tour of the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, examining troop movements, leadership, and the experience of the soldiers across the three-day…
Dates: Aug. 1
Four artillery demonstrations across the day at Shiloh, firing a 10-pounder Parrott rifle and a 6-pounder field gun.
Dates: Aug. 5
The park's Civil War book group takes up Erik F. Nelson on Second Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks' Ford.
Dates: Aug. 6
A ranger program on Irish soldiers in Union and Confederate service, and the flags they carried.
Dates: Aug. 7–9
Emerging Civil War's twelfth annual symposium at Stevenson Ridge, built around the theme "Partnerships and Rivalries."
Dates: Aug. 7–9
Three days of Civil War medical living history at Antietam, with surgical, recruiting-inspection, and mortality demonstrations.
Dates: Aug. 8–9
The North Georgia Relic Hunters Association's 48th annual show of Civil War relics and antique firearms at the Cobb County Civic Center.
Dates: Aug. 8–9
One of Ohio's largest Civil War living history events, with Federal and Confederate camps, battle reenactments, first-person interpretation, and Hale Farm's glassblowing, blacksmithing, and pottery…
Dates: Aug. 8
An evening program on African American soldiers, their families, and the Kentucky communities United States Colored Troops veterans built after the war.
Dates: Aug. 13–15
The North-South Skirmish Association's annual artillery skirmish at Fort Shenandoah, firing original and reproduction Civil War ordnance.
Dates: Aug. 19–23
Historian Kevin Pawlak leads this four-day Civil War Field University program on Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign, from Leesburg through Harpers Ferry and South Mountain to Antietam, concluding with…
Dates: Aug. 20
Ranger Dr. Tedi Light traces Beaufort's free people of colour through the archival record, the war, and Reconstruction.
Dates: Aug. 20
A program on the United States Colored Troops raised around Washington and the battle flags they carried.
Dates: Aug. 22
A drop-in family program on regimental and signal flags, with a hands-on flag-design activity.
Dates: Aug. 22
Garry Adelman examines the detail buried in Civil War photographs in the museum's Lessons in History series.
Dates: Aug. 22–23
Michigan's largest Civil War living history event, held at Cascades Falls Park since the 1980s, with hundreds of reenactors, period camps, and full-scale battle…
Dates: Aug. 26–30
Historian Hal Litchford leads this four-day program on the collapse of Hood’s Tennessee Campaign — Lyon’s Kentucky Raid, both days of the Battle of Nashville, and the Confederate retreat to the…
Dates: Aug. 29
A program on Civil War hats, uniforms, rank and identity, with reproduction clothing to try on.
Dates: Sept. 5
Artillery and rifle demonstrations on the ground where Lee's assaults broke on 1 July 1862.
Dates: Sept. 5
Four twenty-minute firing demonstrations with a historic 6-pounder field gun, closing Shiloh's demonstration season.
Dates: Sept. 5–6
Labor Day weekend living history event with hundreds of reenactors, Union and Confederate camps, the civilian town of "Reedsburg," and two battles daily in Huntington Central…
Dates: Sept. 18
The National Civil War Museum's annual fundraising gala, with caterers, trivia, reenactors, a silent auction, and a cannon-firing raffle.
Dates: Sept. 18–20
Annual encampment and living history weekend with Union and Confederate camps, demonstrations, and battle scenarios by one of the Pacific Northwest's longest-running reenacting…
Dates: Sept. 19
Zurko's Midwest Promotions' one-day Chicago-area show of Civil War artifacts, collector arms, cavalry swords, autographs, and currency.