SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Tentative Daily Schedule

FRIDAY

• 7:00 First Call

• 8:00 Battlefield, Flag Ceremony, both sides

• 8:45 Battlefield Officers Call

• 9:00 School busses start to arrive

• 9:00-12:00 Battlefield - Bob Green "The Civil War in Missouri," Abraham Lincoln
  Sutler tents open, Sutler demonstrations
  Military Camps: Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry, Medical demonstrations

• 11:45 Military Camps Closed so reenactors can eat and prepare for battle

• 11:45 Captured Quartet - Main Tent

• 12:30 October, 1861 Cornstalk Fight begins at the Courthouse

• 1:45 East battlefield October, 1861 Cornstalk Fight Reenactment

Recruiting taking place in the streets with some pro-Southerners recruited but mostly pro-Union opposition, some street shootings of pro-Union men after argument. Courier rides in shouting that Union troops are headed to town from Hamilton. Confederate cavalry head for bridge on Shoal Creek north of town and attempt to burn it to block Union advance. Confederate infantry set up ambush in cornfield. Union mounted and dismounted militia arrives on north side of bridge before the bridge is fully involved. There is an engagement at bridge from both sides. Confederate cavalry withdraw to cornfield. Union militia put out fire, troops and wagons cross bridge and advance on town. Confederates hide in cornfield and prepare to ambush Union troops. As the Union Cavalry passes the cornfield, firing erupts. Infantry and cavalry engagement for about 30 minutes with Confederate retreat scattered and disorganized. Reenactment ends at 2:30.

• 2:45 Captured Quartet - Main Tent

• 6:30 Professor Farqaur and Polecat Annie

• 8:30 Retire Colors

• 9:00 Artillery Night Fire

• 10:30 Taps

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SATURDAY

• 7:00 First Call

• 8:00 Battlefield Assembly, Flag Ceremony, Cannon volley

• 8:30 Quilt Show setup - Nazarene Church basement

• 8:45 Battlefield Officers Call

• 10:00 Captured Quartet - Main Tent

• 10:00 Abraham Lincoln - Courthouse

• 10:30 Bob Welch - Courthouse

• 11:00 Dating fabrics and quilts - Nazarene Church Basement

• 11:00 "The Guerrilla War in Missouri" - Scott Porter

• 12:00 Camps close to prepare

• 12:00 Bob Welch - Courthouse

• 1:00 Thrailkill-Taylor Raid Preview - Doug Jones

• 1:30 The Thrailkill-Taylor Raid on Kingston

Alarm by civilian mounted man that Confederate raiders are headed to town. Alert and panic. Confederate mounted and dismounted raiders enter town from south. Immediately begin to seize civilian men and boys. Women in panic. Raiders ordered to take courthouse. Men go inside, seize money pouch from safe and run out. One or two men go to balcony to lower Union flag. Confrontation from feisty pro-Union woman, Confederates laugh at her spunk, tear down Union flag and toss it to the ground below. She picks up the flag and takes it with her. Thornton orders town torched. While some raiders light torches, others go into stores and drag civilians out. Stores torched. Some Union resistance and shooting of civilians. One man dragged out of store is recognized as a Southern man by one of the Confederates, his store ordered left alone, guards posted outside to protect, the rest of the stores torched. Word comes that Union troops on their way. Confederates withdraw west of town.

• 2:00 Captured Quartet - Main Tent

• 2:30 Abraham Lincoln - Battlefield

• 2:45 Bob Welch - Battlefield

• 3:00 The Main Battle

The reenactment continues. Confederate infantry set up defensive line on west edge of east battlefield facing town. Union forces assemble at cemetery and arrive in town to hear of raid, robbing of courthouse, looting, burning, and murder. Assemble and march west after Confederate raiders. Union and Confederate infantry engage on east battlefield. Battle for 15 minutes there then Confederates retreat across road and set up on SW hill above draw. Confederate artillery already in place begin to fire support. Union artillery in place on NE hill above draw on west battlefield return fire. Union artillery shielded by Union cavalry coming up road from north. Confederate and Union cavalry engage briefly while Confederate infantry withdraws down draw and at base of SW hill below artillery. Confederate infantry heavy pursued by Union infantry with hand-to-hand engagement in draw. Cavalry engagement along road then withdrawal. Cavalry engage on west side of draw then each side withdraws. Two mounted Confederate stragglers caught along road by cavalry and taken prisoner. Confederates retire over hill. Union officers call off pursuit.

• 4:00 Medical demonstration

• 4:00 Ladies' Tea and Fashion Show - Main Tent

• 4:00 Bob Welch - Battlefield

• 5:00 Captured Quartet - Main Tent

• 6:00 Dinner for reenactors and volunteers, music by The Shortleaf Band

• 7:30 Ball on Main Street by torchlight, music by The Shortleaf Band

• 8:00 Candlelight/campfire camp tours

• 10:00 Tattoo

• 10:30 Taps

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SUNDAY

• 7:00 First Call

• 8:00 Battlefield Assembly, Flag Ceremony

• 8:45 Officers' Call

• 9:00 Camps open for touring

• 10:00 Battlefield, Period church service, interdenominational, music by Captured Quartet

• 10:45 Camp demonstrations

• 10:45 Bob Welch - Sutlers' area

• 11:00-12:00 Bounty payments, Headquarters

• 11:30 Abraham Lincoln - Battlefield

• 12:00 Units start to move out to Morris Cemetery

• 1:00 Alternative reenactor activity - tacticals/commander conference/introduction of esteemed judges/tactical scenario setup

• 1:30 Morris Cemetery Dedication/ Bob Welch

• 1:30 Tacticals begin

• 3:00 Tacticals judged

• 4:00 Main Tent - Recognition ceremony

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