Final Stand Weekend Schedule

150^th anniversary living history and reenactments

June 13-15, 2014

Friday, June 13-Children’s Civil War Discovery Day- 10 a.m.

-Children ages 7-15

-Register at the Mississippi’s Final Stands Visitor’s and Interpretive Center; Parents welcome.

-$5 fee. 

-Shuttle to battlefield, visit camps and stations; meet re-enactors and learn about civil war music, weapons & campfire meal.

-Concludes at 1:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 14 Camps open at 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. and 3:30 until 5 p.m.

-Bethany A. R. P. church will offer a tour and history of the church from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

-Self-guided or docent-guided tours Bethany Historic Cemetery 9 -2

-Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Gen. U. S. Grant will be portrayed all day at their tents

-Park Rangers from the Natchez Trace Parkway will have children’s dress-up stations at the NPS site and    Interpretation at the Tishomingo Creek site.

-Patrick Shell will portray a United States Colored Troops soldier all day at his tent

-8 p.m. Period ball and dance, visitors welcome

**2 p.m. Battle of Brice’s Crossroads reenactment fought on the original battlefield

  Historians and Authors’ Presentations:

-9-10 a.m. Author Ken Knopp, “Horses in the Civil War”

-10 a.m.-12 p.m. Ladies Social and Program by Beverly Simpson, “Why am I dressed        like this?”

-12-1 p.m. “Battle of Brice’s Crossroads”- Walking tour Dr. Stewart Bennett

-3:30-4:30 Roger Hansen- firearms used at Brice’s Crossroads and Tupelo battles 1864

-4:30-5:30 Chickasaw Chief Tishomingo and his home near Bethany- Carmon Horner

Sunday, June 15- Camps open 9:00-1:00 p.m.

-9-10 a.m. Period Church Service at Activity Tent

-10 a.m.- 11 a.m. Dedication of interpretive panel describing action of 12th KY and Capt. Henry A. Tyler by Kennesaw, GA Civil War Center, Dr. Brian Steel Wills

-11-12 p.m. Brent Lokey, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Streight’s Raid

-12-1 p.m. Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Old Town Creek –Author Tom Parson

-**2 p.m. Battle of Tupelo reenactment

**The Mississippi’s Final Stands Interpretive Center will be open Friday and Saturday 9-6 p.m. and Sunday 9-5 p.m. Fee for reenactment is $10 for ages 14 and up.