Battle of Westport 160th Commemoration
October 19 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Big Blue Battlefield Park, 4800 E. 63rd Street
Guided tours based from three locations:
1. East entrance to Byram’s Ford from Hardesty;
2. Center of the field from west side of Byram’s Ford to the base of Bloody Hill
3. Bloody Hill trail loop
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Lt. Patrick Minor living history interpreter and discussion of history of Douglas’ Independent Colored Battery at Battle of Westport
- Sutler living history interpreter
- Camp follower living history interpreter
- Musket rifle display/demonstration
- Civil War medicine demonstration
- Fashion and apparel demonstration
- Living historian soldier interpreter
- Story teller explaining vignettes of traveling on Price’s wagon train
- Period music performances, stringed instruments Ken Shoemaker, John Atherton and others
- Display of battlefield artifacts
