Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association
Founded, 1959 -- The nation’s oldest Civil War battlefield preservation organization
P.O. Box 4087, Gettysburg, PA 17325
Registered 501 (c) 3
NEWS RELEASE
Living history encampment this weekend at the Daniel Lady Farm
GETTYSBURG (July 13, 2014) – “Soldiers of the Civil War,” a living history village with first-person
demonstrations and presentations will be held this coming Friday and Saturday, July 19 and 20 at the
historic Daniel Lady Farm on Hanover Road in Gettysburg.
A wide variety of topics pertaining to both soldiers and civilians will be featured, including medical
treatment, and strategy. The civilian perspective will add insight into cooking, laundresses and
seamstresses.
First-person civilian presentations also will highlight the essential roles that the Christian and
Sanitary commissions played in boosting soldier morale and the care of the sick, wounded and dying.
Union and Confederate skirmish lines will clash both days at 2 p.m.
A food and drink vendor will be on-site.
The family-friendly weekend will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on
Sunday. Admission is $5.00 for adults and children 16 and above. Children 15 and under will be admitted free.
Tours of the historic house and barn also will be available.
Proceeds benefit the GBPA’s American Living Education Center at the Daniel Lady Farm.
More information on the American Military Timeline weekend can be obtained by calling GBPA VicePresident Kirk Davis at 717-338-1776 or by email at ALHES@outlook.com.
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The 145-acre Daniel Lady Farm on Hanover Road includes a fieldstone farmhouse begun in the 1820s and an 1842
German-style bank barn.
The GBPA has restored the structures to their 1863 appearance. The two-story house was a field hospital for
Confederate officers and the headquarters of Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson. Confirmed by forensic
investigation, blood stains remain visible on the floors of the house.
The barn was a field hospital for enlisted men. It is marked by graffiti left by soldiers in 1863 and when some revisited
the site in later years. Both buildings display battle scars from the epic engagement.
Thousands of Confederate troops mustered just east of the house for the assault on the Union-held Culp’s Hill.
The GBPA also operates a storefront at the organization’s headquarters at 33 York Street in Gettysburg.
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Media Contact:
Kirk Davis
GBPA Vice-President for Operations
Phone: (717) 338-1776.
Email: ALHES@outlook.com