Civil War calendar for Aug. 23

August 23, 2008 12:15 am

LOCALLY: Battle of Brandy Station driving tour, today, 10 a.m., depart from Graffiti House, 19484 Brandy Road, Brandy Station. Tour focuses on Fleetwood Hill, the most intense and prolonged combat on June 9, 1863. Personal vehicle caravan; $10. 540/727-7718. Book signing, today, 2-4 p.m., Graffiti House, 19484 Brandy Road, Brandy Station. Kenneth Garrett will sign and make remarks on the National Geographic Society's newly released book "The Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal." Free. Make reservations to
Email: jaime@jthg.org. 540/727-7718. "JEB Stuart and the 1857 Cheyenne Campaign," Sunday, Aug. 31, 2-3:15 p.m., Graffiti House, 19484 Brandy Road, Brandy Station. As part of the Graffiti House lecture series, Melissa Wells Delcou will speak about the event before the South would secede when J.E.B. Stuart was almost killed in the first campaign against the Plains Indians. Free; refreshments served. 540/727-7718.

"Living History: Yankees in Falmouth," Saturday, Sept. 20, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Moncure Conway House and Union Church, Falmouth (parking at 305 King St., Falmouth). Guided tours, firing demonstrations, encampment, artifacts display, and after-dark camp stories. 540/373-6122. "John Adams Elder: Fredericksburg's Artist of the Civil War," through Sept. 7. Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, 907 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg. For the first time since 1947, a retrospective of the works of John Adams Elder is on exhibit. See portraits, landscapes and genre paintings of the Civil War and Southern life. On display now is "The Scout's Prize," one of Elder's best genre paintings depicting a Confederate scout returning with his prize, a horse. 540/371-3037.

ELSEWHERE:

"Civil War Quilting," Thursday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m., National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 East Patrick St., Frederick, Md. As part of a summer lecture series, the speaker will be historian Mavis Slawson. Free. 301/695-1864.

Walking tour, today, 2 p.m., Tredegar Iron Works, 470 Tredegar St., Richmond. Weekly series of downtown Richmond talks, tours and tales highlighting the capital's Civil War history. This event features a ranger-guided walking tour of the Iron Works emphasizing the men and machines that armed the Confederacy. Free; parking available for $3 an hour. 804/226-1981. "Gen. Grant's Fourth Offensive Against Lee's Army Remembered," today-tomorrow, Petersburg National Battlefield, 1539 Hickory Hill Road. Living-history interpreters demonstrate what soldier life was like. Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today and noon and 2 p.m. tomorrow. Details: Tracy Chernault at 804/265-8244. Living-history weekend, today-tomorrow, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Pry House Field Hospital Museum, Keedysville, Md. The 31st Virginia Company will be in camp. Visitors can meet the soldiers and camp followers to experience what a Confederate camp was like during the Civil War. 301/416-2395; civilwarmed.org.

"Civil War in the Cinema," Sunday, Aug. 31, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Tredegar Iron Works, 500 Tredegar St., Richmond. Two free films set during the Civil War will be shown in the courtyard. Concert of period music performed by Carson Hudson of Williamsburg at 6:30 p.m. Bring a picnic. 804/780-1865, ext. 23; tredegar.org.

--Compiled by Carol Lee