• Real “Black and White” Civil War Re-enactors
• U. S. Colored Troops/Sailors/Calvary Camp
• (Tents-Guns-Equipment-Cooking and other military paraphernalia)
• Authentic Uniformed Civil War soldiers-sailors
• Black powder gun firing 
• Military stories about Colored Troops suppressing Confederate guerilla activities and emancipating area “slaves” in Mississippi - Louisiana, building, and maintaining Fort McPherson at Natchez

Afternoon and Evening Campfire Stories From:

• 58th United States Colored Infantry Regiment (Norman Fisher - 1^st Mississippi Colored Infantry Regiment - Re-enactors)
• Capitan (White) William H. Hunter of 58^th USCT, Company K (David Dreyer)
• Richard Wright’s Grandfather 58^th Infantryman Nathan Wright (Ralph Jennings)
• 3^rd United States Colored Calvary Scout Alfred Wood, wife and son (Royal Hill & Family)
• 6^th United States Colored Heavy  Artillery Sergeant-Major (Ser Seshs Ab Heter-CM Boxley)
• 6^th United States Colored Heavy Artillery soldiers George Washington GGG father of (Larry Davis)
• White Officer of 6^th United States Colored Heavy  Artillery (Clark Burkett)
• Wilson Brown United States Navy Medal of Honor winner African descent (Lezell Williams)
• Ann Stokes African descent U. S. Navy Nurse (Afua Sarah Dave)
• Catherine Thomas African descent U. S. Navy Nurse Natchez hospital (V. F. Dishmon)
• Amanda Wright African descent U. S. Navy Nurse Vicksburg (     )
• Rosa Gibson Russell African descent U. S. Navy Nurse Vicksburg (     )
• Sisters of the Holy Cross U. S. Navy Nurse [White] (Mary Jane Guadet)
• Laura Haviland White Northern Abolitionist (Constance Holt)
• Eyewitness to Grand Army of Republic Civil War soldiers 30^th of May (C. Randall Jr.)
• Women Relief Corps supporters of Grand Army of Republic (Marie Jenkins/others)
• Milla Grandison  Midnight School in Natchez during slavery days (Jos. Webster)

• Midnight School teacher and Contraband Camp teacher (Arella Bacon)

• Orange Mosby leader of “slaves” Uprising  freedom plan @ Second Creek (      )

• William Johnson wife’s female runaway “slave” during Civil War (Renee Shakespeare)

• Catholic Bishop William H. Elder at “Colored” troops and refugee camps (Layne Taylor)

More to come:

VISIT NATCHEZ UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR SITES

• Milla Grandison Midnight School (“Black” soldiers-sailors-women-children-elders)

• Union Army Hospital Natchez at Forks of the Road (soldiers)

• Forks of the Road Contraband Camp (“Black” children-women-elders-unable men)

• Under-the-Hill Contraband Camp (“Black” children-women-elders-unable men)

• Under-the-Hill Contraband Hospital (Soldiers “Black” children-women-elders-unable men)

• Sick soldiers and refugees in U. S. Hospitals (Pat Gibson, Evelyn Dreyer-others)

• U. S. Colored Troops wives as laborers for Union Army (Carolyn Smith-others)

• Grand Army of the Republic Lodges of Vidalia and Natchez

• “Freedmen” school at Jefferson College

More to come:

Sponsors: Other sponsors solicited and welcome!

• Mississippi Department of Archives and History Historic Jefferson College

• Friends of the Forks of the Roads Society Inc.

• Moving Warriors Ruitan Club

• Worthy Women and Men of Watkins Street Cemetery

• Parson Brownlow Grand Army of the Republic Lodge 23 Women Relief Corps

• Bennie McRae, LWF Network, Trotwood Ohio

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!

Bring children!

Contact Persons:

“Until the lion tells his own story of the hunt, the hunter will always be glorified” 

An equal history commemoration and tourism democracy event