Retreat Through Williamsport will bring to life a little-known Civil War conflict

at Springfield Farm

• All day — Horse and wagon rides by Triple R Stables


• 9 a.m. — Camps open, displays open, booksigning begins

• 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. — Tim Snyder: “The C&O Canal and the Maryland Campaign 150 years later”

• 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. — Period-style music concert by the Shenandoah Valley Minstrels (in camp)

• 11 to noon — Jim Plunkett “Free Masons and the Gettysburg Campaign”

• Noon to 1 p.m. — Wagoneers’ Fight re-enactment

• 1 to 2 p.m. — George Frank discusses “The Battle of Falling Waters, July 14, 1863”

• 2 to 3 p.m. — Demonstrations of cavalry, artillery and infantry

• 8:30 to 11 a.m. — Old-fashioned period music barn dance with period-style music by the Shenandoah Valley Minstrels. Free, but donations are suggested. Refreshments available.
 
at Cushwa Basin and trolley barn

• 2 to 3 p.m. — Period music by the Shenandoah Valley Minstrels

• 3 to 4 p.m. — Tom Clemens discusses “War Comes to Williamsport 1861-1863”

• 4 to 5 p.m. — John Schildt discusses “From the Mountains to the River July 4-14, 1863”

• 5 to 6 p.m. — Joe Stahl discusses “Soldiers ID Tags: Where the Soldiers Were in Williamsport”
 
at Riverbottom Park

• 7 to 8 p.m. — Bonfire, with Civil War-era singer and storyteller Matthew Dodd. First-person drama presented by C.W. and Rhonda Whitehair.
 
Sunday, July 15
at Cushwa Basin

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — March to Falling Waters: Join retreating soldiers, tired wagoneers, and local park service rangers while they march five miles along the C&O Canal to the site of the pontoon bridge. Learn from the interpretive program what happened here and along the canal during the retreat. Limit of 100 participants. Transportation back from Falling Waters provided by C&O Canal Association. To sign up, call 301-582-0813
 
at Springfield Farm

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Lazy Sunday: Camps open and in-camp demonstrations begin. Ask soldiers about life in camp.

• 1 to 4 p.m. — Town museum open with exhibits of the town’s history from the 1700s to present

• 2 to 3 p.m. — Scott Hipp discusses “Marylanders in the Civil War”



Carol Beasley, below left, of Williamsport, a member of the Confederate Military Forces re-enactors group, attends an event at W.D. Byron Memorial Park in Williamsport during the 2011 Retreat through Williamsport.