Confederates take over the Shriver House in annual re-enactment
The only re-enactment to take place in the streets of Gettysburg
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) - 6/24/2009
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Nancy W. Gudmestad
Shriver House Museum
(717) 337-2800
On Saturday, July 4, from 5 to 9 p.m., Confederates will occupy the home of George and Hettie (Weikert) Shriver just as they did during the Battle of Gettysburg. This time visitors are invited to talk to the soldiers to learn �first-hand� what occurred during those three days of terror in July, 1863. Find out where Hettie took her two girls, Sadie (7) and Mollie (5), and her 15-year-old neighbor, Tillie Pierce, to seek safety outside town only to find themselves deep within the battle lines.
This living history presentation provides visitors an opportunity to speak with Confederate soldiers as they prepare for battle. Watch sharpshooters occupying the attic fire muskets at their adversaries Cemetery Hill and, in some cases, take their last breath before meeting their maker. In the cellar, doctors perform surgery in a make-shift hospital in the summer kitchen. At the end of the tour cool off with a root beer in Shriver�s Saloon while younger visitors have a nurse bandage their wounds (with a small spurt of blood seeping through the bandage) or make whirligigs or church dolls to take along as a memento.
The Battle of Gettysburg encompassed not only the surrounding countryside but the streets of this historic town as well. This is the only reenactment to take place in the streets of Gettysburg - where it actually happened in July, 1863.
The Shrivers� home was painstakingly restored in 1996 and is now open to the public as a heritage museum. Tours offers special insight into the lives of the people of Gettysburg and how the Civil War, and in particular the Battle of Gettysburg, affected them. The story is told through the eyes of the George and Hettie Shriver whose home was just a few months old when the Civil War For additional information on the
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