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Experience Civilian Life through “Hardships on the Home Front” at Fort Fisher State Historic Site

September 29, 2009 – 2:21 pm

KURE BEACH — Step back in time and experience life on the Confederate home front at Fort Fisher State Historic Site on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Join costumed staff and volunteer interpreters as they demonstrate Civil War civilian activities in the fort’s live oak grove overlooking the Cape Fear River. [...]

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Soldier’s Lives and Artillery Fire of Bentonville Bloody Battle

August 14, 2009 – 4:29 pm

The excitement and challenges experienced by the common Confederate soldier will take center stage Saturday, Aug. 22, at Bentonville Battlefield in Four Oaks during the state historic site’s colorful summer living history program. From 10 a.m.-4 p.m., living historians dressed as Confederate soldiers will show how the men who fought in America’s bloodiest war [...]

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Summer Living History Program: Artillery at the Arsenal

July 13, 2009 – 3:00 pm

Join us as Museum of the Cape Fear sends July out with a bang! Between 1862 and 1865 the Fayetteville Arsenal produced thousands of artillery projectiles for the Confederacy, as well as gun carriages and related equipment. Sunday, July 26 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm Civil War reenactors will present talks on Civil [...]

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