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A Civil War Christmas in Shepherdstown weekend

Location/County: Shepherdstown, Jefferson
December 04, 2014 — December 07, 2014

A Civil War Christmas in Shepherdstown weekend, December 4-7

Presented by the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, the Shepherd Foundation, and the History Department of Shepherd University

Both the Union encampment in front of McMurran and the CSA camp in front of Trinity’s chapel across from the GTM Center will welcome visitors and their questions anytime on Friday evening, throughout Saturday, and early Sunday morning as they strike their camps. They will discuss the everyday lives of soldiers, their equipment, their food, etc.

Public history students will be on the streets, in restaurants and shops, and stationed in the GTM Center. Among the characters they will present are common soldiers from both the North and the South, a nurse, housewives and young single women, and workers of Shepherdstown. The students will actively engage with the public while staying firmly in the 19th century.

Shepherdstown restaurants and bars will offer special menus and or drinks, inspired by The George Tyler Moore Center’s Civil War Christmas. Those places with special menu offerings will have a GTM Center notice in their window.

The students are also writing scholarly papers on a wide variety of subjects which will be available for public viewing at the GTM Center.

Christmas ornaments, toys and games, and musket forms will be for sale at the GTM Center.

Public history students will conduct tours of the GTM Center with an emphasis on the history of the building, the history of the GTM Center, and the work of the Center in the past and today.

See http://www.christmasinshepherdstown.com/schedule.html for full schedule of events.