Community Free Day
06/19/2010 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join us for a fun-filled day of activities for the whole family, while enjoying free admission to the Museum!
Ongoing:
Lee's Lieutenants and the Federal Generals Corps encampment
Jim Beeghley traveling through the galleries dressed as a civilian with a fife
Victorian children's games
Make your own ragdoll
Children's activity table - learn about signal flags
- 11am-3pm Book Signing with Bob O'Connor - "The Perfect Steel Trap: Harpers Ferry 1859"
- 11am Firing demonstration and presentation by the Federal Generals and Lee's Lieutenants
- 11:30am Use of Plants & Herbs in the Civil War with Thompson's Battery C
- 12:00pm Get Recruited! with Thompson's Battery C
- 12:30pm Songs & Stories of the Civil War with Matthew Dodd
- 1:00pm Firing demonstration and presentation by the Federal Generals and Lee's Lieutenants
- 1:30pm Mary Todd Lincoln presentation with Melissa Rabinsky
- 1:30pm Civil War baseball
- 2:00pm Harriet Tubman presentation with Dr. Daisy Century
- 2:30pm Artillery presentation with Thompson's Battery C
- 3:00pm Firing demonstration and presentation by the Federal Generals and Lee's Lieutenants
All activites are weather permitting and subject to change.
There will be food and drink available for purchase courtesy of Classic Cuisine from 11-3pm.








