Live blogging this weekend from Manassas’s 150th Anniversary Reenactment

Posted by Lorin Drinkard / Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Thursday, July 21, 2011

As reenacters grab their muskets and prepare to fight back in time 150 years, to the first major battle of the Civil War – the Battle of Bull Run, we, too, are prepping for this weekend’s historic events and sending our own reinforcements to scout out the troops.

Meet Sylvia Whitman, our guest blogger for Friday and Saturday’s battle reenactment coverage.

Sylvia Whitman is a writing specialist at Marymount University and freelance writer in Arlington, Virginia.  She has ancestors both Blue and Gray.  According to family lore, her great-grandmother was “rolled in the fire by Union soldiers”—a story that led to the discovery that her great-great grandfather, Washington Curran Whitthorne, served as a Confederate adjutant general for Tennessee.

In addition to the battle reenactment (9:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday and Sunday), there will be exhibits, demonstrations and book signings throughout the weekend.

If you can’t make to the battlefield yourself, no worries – Sylvia will be posting and reporting back to our very own Game Plan blog with insider details and interviews straight from the trenches.

For a full list of the anniversary events and how to get to the battlefield, check out the Manassas Bull Run website.

- Lorin Drinkard

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