Civil War Camp Day

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Photo courtesy of the Office of Historic Alexandria

Learn about soldier and civilian life during the Civil War and enjoy a regimental band concert at Fort Ward Museum’s annual Civil War Camp Day on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Suggested donation is $2 per person, and $5 for families. The event is weather dependent.

The annual living history event features military and civilian reenactors in camp settings in and around the historic fort. The program includes camp life activities, infantry and artillery drills and firing demonstrations, equipment displays, and civilian impressions. Among the living history units participating are the 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. B, and reenactors from Thompson’s Battery, Pennsylvania Volunteer Light Artillery. Special interpretations include a U.S. Army Quartermaster tent, a Union company surgeon, a Northern schoolmarm who interprets 19th-century education and pastimes for children, a display of Civil War camp dioramas, and a soldier in the reconstructed Officers’ Hut portraying the daily routine and living quarters of an officer in the Defenses of Washington.