FIRST ANNUAL MIS-LOU BLACK AND BLUE CIVIL WAR
LIVING HISTORY ENCAMPMENT
(GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC “30th OF MAY” DECORATION DAY CELEBRATION)
| WHEN: May 31, 2008 | WHERE: |
Mississippi Department of History and Archives’ Historic Jefferson
Military College 16 Old North Street (off U. S. Highway 61 North) Washington, Mississippi (Near Natchez) 601-442-2901 |
| TIME: 12 noon Until Nightfall | Free Admission - Ya’ll come! |
***** See and learn living history and local accounts of “The Black Experience During the Civil War” and the Freedom Summer of 1863 for the first time since the United States occupied Mississippi and Louisiana 145 years ago *****
Afternoon and Evening Campfire Stories From:
More to come: VISIT NATCHEZ UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR SITES
More to come: Sponsors: Other sponsors solicited and welcome!
Other people needed for: Story telling, singing, drumming, researching, banjo-piano-horn musicians Other Civil War period needs: Clothing [U. S. Navy, Calvary, artillery, infantry] (dresses, bonnets, servants, field hands), blacksmiths, cooking utensils, tents, guns, etc. Wanted: Other “Black” and “White” U. S. re-enactors. More local descendants of United States Colored Troop & sailors (see list on sign at Forks of Road)
Descendants of United
States Colored Troops & Sailors and folk of all racial types to come and
have cookouts! ********************************** FIRST ANNUAL MIS-LOU BLACK AND BLUE CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY ENCAMPMENT
PRESENTING THE “BLACK” EXPERIENCE DURING THE CIVIL WAR
HISTORIC JEFFERSON MILITARY COLLEGE WASHINGTON MISSISSIPPI
MAY 31, 2008 12 NOON
PRELUDE to FREEDOM SUMMER OF 1863 SELF-EMANCIPATION
After 143 Years of Chattel Slavery in Louisiana and Mississippi
ASSEMBLE: ACT 1. “I WAS ENSLAVED BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR”
Captain Orange Mosby David Williams, General Scott-Alfred Mosby (Took Union Army General’s name) Jamal McCullen, 58th Colored Infantry Regiment, Sergeant-Major Norman Fisher’s Re-enactors, Nathan Wright Patrick Shell, 6th Heavy Colored Artillery, George Washington aka McClain Larry Davis, James Wright Ser Seshs Ab Heter-CM Boxley, Wife of 6th Heavy George Dent Carolyn Smith, 70th Infantry soldier Alexander Harrell Bernard Temple, 71st Infantryman Lenell Ford, Catherine Thomas (Land Hospital Natchez) Vivian Dishmon , Rosa Gibson Russell (Land Hospital Vicksburg) Jessica King, Amanda Wright (Land Hospital Vicksburg) Vickie Green, Alfred Wood Scout 3rd Colored Calvary Royal Hill, Alfred’s wife Ava Hill, Little Bob Trey Hill, James Lucas Andrew Robinson, Wilson Brown, Minister Lezelle Williams, Ann Stokes (Navy) Afua Sarah Dave, Cicely enslaved female of William Johnson’s wife Renee Shakespeare, Milla Granderson Josephine Webster, Students of Milla Grandison’s Midnight School Josephine Webster, Patient in Marine Hospital Evelyn Dreyer, Patient in Forks of the Road Hospital Pat Gibson, Monmouth Home Plantation cook Thelma White, Grand Army of the Republic Veteran Mr. Clarence Randall Jr., Women Relief Corps Grand Army of the Republic Marie Jenkins, Finder of Civil War Family Members Antionette Harrell
ACT 2. “WHERE WAS I AND WHAT I DID BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
Abolitionist Laura Haviland Constance Holt, Captain William H. Hunter David Dreyer, Bishop William Henry Elder Layne Taylor, Chaplain Hiram R. Revels Darrell White, Captain George Reynolds Clark Burkett, Lieutenant H. A. McCaleb 6th Heavy Alton Bonds, African Methodist Episcopal Church John Brice
ASSEMBLE: ACT 3.
APRIL 12, 1861 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BEGINS
Alabama Secession Declaration Don Veste Mississippi Secession Declaration Tommy Jackson
SECOND CREEK FREEDOM PLAN SUMMER OF 1861
Dozens of Second Creek area enslaved persons led by ringleader Orange Mosby planned to self emancipate themselves by destroying the White Males, capturing the white women and joining the Union Army at New Orleans in the summer of 1861. Their wives and girlfriends were involved. They organized their leadership in military rank and file fashion. Also very similar Self-emancipation freedom plans were planned by enslaved folk in Natchez and Jefferson County in the summer of 1861. Adapted from book Tumult and Silence at Second Creek (Jordan)
Captain “O” (Orange) Mosby and General Scott
Intermittent
VISIT:
Fort McPherson, Army Hospital Forks of Road, Freedmen School, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) founded April 6, 1866 as social and welfare organization for Union Veterans (“Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty”) GAR Parson Brownlow Lodge No. 23 Vidalia (building extant) and John Alexander Logan Lodge No. 24 Natchez, 30th of May or Decoration Day established in 1868 to pay tribute to dead fellow veterans, now Memorial Day, Women’s Relief Corp of Parson Brownlow Lodge No. 23 Vidalia (Formed by women in support of Grand Army of the Republic), Millie Granderson’s midnight school, Hospital Nurses, Military soldiers & Navy sailors, Enslaved Runaways, Vendors
ASSEMBLE:
ACT 4.
WHY I RAN AWAY IN THE FREEDOM
SUMMER OF 1863 (Informed storytelling time giving audience a description of thousands of Enslaved people who self-emancipated by deliberately running away from their places of chattel- Enslavement to Emancipation Proclamation Freedom behind United Stare Army lines during the War)
All characters listed in Act 1. Except: Captain Orange Mosby , General Scott-AlfredMosby and Cicely
ASSEMBLE:
ACT 5. WHAT I DID DURING THE CIVIL WAR (A retelling of the war time roles, stories and events which occurred during the war from Multiple Perspectives of enslaved, freed, abolitionists, officers)
All characters listed in Act 1. and 2. Except those in Act3.
Marching Song of the First Arkansas United States Colored Troops
Finale: Sojourner’s Battle Hymn
Auxiliary Resources Stations Presenting Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Wilson Brown VFW Post, Natchez National Historic Park 5th Heavy Flag, Historic Jefferson Military College
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Thanks for your efforts, time and energy making it possible to educate ourselves and the public of the self determination and self emancipation roles, actions, and involvement of enslaved and non-enslaved persons during the Civil War which helped save the Union of the United States and destroy the institution of chattel slavery. For the first time in the history of what is called “America” mass freedom was realized by African descent people forced brought to America in chained captivity and enslaved.
All the role players, actors, re-enactors, All participating Members of Friends of the Forks of the Roads Society Inc., Jefferson College (MDAH), Natchez National Historic Park, David Slay, Renee Shakespeare, Bennie McRae, Sharon Heist, David Mosby, J & M Digital, St James AME Church, Natchez Gamberi Feed.
Financial contributions from: B & K Bank, Preferred Transit Waste Disposal, Johnson Maintenance, Jerry Lyles, Broadmoor Water Utilities, Food Vending by Soul Heaven. Contact Persons:
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