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Event type
Interpretive programs, encampments, and demonstrations presented in period impression.
Dates: July 26 – Sept. 24
A half-hour living-history programme at Hartwell Tavern on the men who turned out on 19 April 1775.
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. 22
A storytelling programme including a noon first-person portrayal of Revolutionary War soldier William Jasper.
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. 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
A day of focused living-history programming at Pamplin Historical Park on faith and religion in the armies and on the home front.
Dates: Sept. 19–20
A signature reenactment in which soldiers build the huts the Northern Continental Army wintered in at Ticonderoga.
Dates: Sept. 30 – Oct. 4
The North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) will hold its 154th National Competition October 2-4, 2026 at Fort Shenandoah near Winchester, Virginia. Member units compete in live-fire matches with…
Dates: Oct. 17–18
The Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation's 162nd anniversary reenactment on the battlefield at Middletown, with infantry, cavalry, and artillery in action.
Dates: Oct. 24–25
A signature autumn reenactment weekend at Fort Ticonderoga.
Dates: Nov. 7
A Veterans Day living-history day at Fort Ticonderoga.
Dates: Nov. 13–14
Period attire is required for both…
Dates: Nov. 14
Sponsored by the Sons of Veterans Reserve, Military Department of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Includes the Albert Woolson GAR Monument ceremony, Remembrance Day parade with units…
Dates: Dec. 5
The largest memorial illumination in North America — 23,000 luminaries, one for each casualty of the September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam, line a five-mile driving tour through the…
Dates: Sept. 25–26
The biennial reenactment of the September 1864 assault on Fort Davidson, on the original ground.
Dates: Dec. 19
The annual commemoration of the Continental Army's arrival at Valley Forge on 19 December 1777.