Anniversary Battle Reenactment

 Schedule of Activities

 

GM/Spring Hill Manufacturing School Days

Wednesday, September 29   8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 30       8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Friday, October 1                  8:30 a.m. to 12 noon

Rippavilla and Sutler/Living History Area

Friday, October 1  9:00 a.m.   Gates Open

Activities in Sutler area:

Display:   H.L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship - full size
replica from the Ted Turner movie.

Display:   Confederate Ironclad Ship – a working scale model

Book Authors will autograph and sell their books

Artist David Wright will autograph his special commemorative Franklin 140th Print

Friday 1:00 to 3:00, Saturday, 1:00 to 3:00 and Sunday 10:00 to 12:00

Civilian and military reenactment events (continous) in sutler area 

Tent 1 Tent 2
12 noon

 Opening Ceremony
1:00 - 1:45 pm

 Eric Jacobson
"Battle of Spring Hill"		 Concert: 8th Ga. Brass Band - Director John Carruth
2:00 - 2:45 pm
 Brian Wills, Author
"The Confederacy's Greatest
Cavalryman" (N.B. Forrest)

 Mark Zimmerman
President of Nashville Preservation Association
3:00 - 3:45 pm Mauriel Joslyn, Author
" A Meteor Brightly Shining"
(Gen. Patrick Cleburne)


 David Fraley
Congressional Medal of Honor Participants who fought in the Battle of Franklin and Middle TN Campaign.
4:30 Battle of Columbia

Saturday
Oct 2
9:00 am Gates Open
10:00-10:45 am Ross Massey "Battle of Nashville"

 Concert: 8th Georgia Brass Band, Director John Carruth
11:00-11:45 am Save the Franklin Battlefield Assoc.

 Ladies Tea - Special music "Joyful Harps"
12:00:-12:45 pm Senator Glenn McConnell
"The Hunley Story"
1:00-1:45 pm Rob Hodge
Civil War Preservation

 Rick Revell "The Tod Carter Story"
2:00-2:45 pm Franklin's Charge - A Vision and Campaign for the Preservation of Historic Open Space

 Concert: "Joyful Harps" Elegant period music on twin Celtic Harps
3:00-3:00 pm Mauriel Joslyn, Author
A Meteor Brightly Shining
(Gen. Patrick Cleburne)

 Norm Hill  - US Color Troops in the Battle of Nashville and Civil War
4:00 pm Battle of Franklin
8:00 pm Grand Ball in activity tent with 8th Georgia Regiment Band.
Sunday Oct 3
9:00 am Gates Open
9:00 am Military Camps Open to Public
9:30-10:15 am

Church Service
10:30-11:15 am Rob Lee Hodge - Civil War Preservation

 Thomas Cartwright, Carter House
11:30-12:15 Senator Glenn McConnell - The Hunley Story, slide program/presentation

 Concert: 8th Georgia Regimental Band . John Carruth, Director
1:00 pm  Battle of Nashville


Activity Tent #3

1.      Civil War Preservation Trust

2.      Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association

3.      Safe the Franklin Battlefield Association

4.      Battle of Nashville Preservation Society

5.      Carter House

6.      Carnton Plantation

7.      Franklin Charge

8.      Ferguson Hall & Tennessee Children's Home

9. Rippavilla

10. Joyful Harps

11.. Rebel Yell

12.  General Patrick Cleburne Society – Mauriel Joslyn, author

13.  Alden R. Carter, author  “Bright Starry Banner”

14.  Laura Reagan, author "If You Only Knew"

15. Irvin G. Myers author "We Might as Well Die Here" (53rd
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry)

16. Dr Brian S. Wills author " The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalry"
(General Nathan Beford Forrest)

17. Mark Nesbitt's Ghosts of Gettysburg

18. & 19 The H.L. Hunley - see busts of the crewmen that sank the

 first enemy ship

20. Carolyn Kent, author "How to Be a Better Southerner

21. Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home Restoration, UDC Southern Cross Chapter 2578

22. Sons of the Confederate Veterans Camp #28 (Confederate
Cemetery Illuminated Walking Tours)

23. The Watchdog

24. Tom Gallo, Artist