Civil War Heritage Weekend in October

Civil War Heritage Weekend 2010
Saturday and Sunday, October 9 and 10,
9:00 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Skirmish 1pm

Norskedalen and Company B 2nd Wisconsin Civil War Re-enactors bring history to life during the Civil War Heritage Weekend held on the grounds of Norskedalen.  Both Saturday and Sunday features drills, skirmishes; Saturday will feature a dusk skirmish while Sunday's battle will be at 1PM. The event will also feature as well as demonstrations  of life in 1863 in our authentic setting.

 

Throughout the day, you can wander the grounds visiting a variety of living history stations where reenactors in complete costume and character share what life is like during the Civil War.  

 

 

 

 

Step into the Engum house and smell freshly baked bread or stew on the woodstove while women in their hoopskirts and children go about their daily chores.   Stop by the artillery and find out how cannon were cared for and fired.  Watch as uniformed soldiers drill, stand guard and skirmsish. Stop by the tents to find out how life on the front was lived, what they ate, what they wore, and why they fought.

 

 

 

 

 

Just before 1 p.m. you can settle down on the hill overlooking the grounds and watch the main battle break out on the field below you as the Confederate troops converge on Yankee lines.  Cannon fire echos off the surrounding valley walls, gunsmoke and battlenoises fill the air as an historical reenactment of an actual skirmish unfolds before you, bringing the Civil War to life right here in Wisconsin.

For a great story about one year's Civil War Weekend Experience, click this link to a Midwestweekends.com article by Beth Gauper.

Drummer boy photo and kitchen photo by Mike Floerchinger