Civil War Sesquicentennial - 4/28-5/1 2011

The sister cities of Alexandria and Pineville, La., commemorated the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War with a weekend of living history, reenactments and other activities.  We attended several events:

• Kent Plantation House experiencing life on the home front 
• Tyrone Plantation with Civil War artillery reenacters, and story tellers sharing experiences of slaves
• Fort Randolph and Buhlow Historic Site hearing historians share the history of the Red River Campaign, and Union and Confederate re-enactors in a battle on the site of earthwork forts built during the War. The forts were a response to the Union Fleet's Red River Campaign.

It was a very special remembrance of a difficult war.  


 

Churning butter at Kent House

Preparing to fire at Tyrone Plantation

The Civil War Guide to the Red River Campaign of March - May 1864 is described in a document available from this Louisiana College Department of History web page.