Special Events

Special Living History Program at Stone Wall

 

The following are special events scheduled for 2012 at the park or at institutions hosting programs by or in cooperation with park historical staff. For more information, including possible schedule changes due to inclement weather or other factors, please call the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor center at [phone] and/or check the park's facebook page.

For more details on each event, check our Events Calendar.

Note: the list below does not include the park's popular, free History at Sunset programs that occur on Friday evenings each summer. The History at Sunset programs for summer 2012 will be announced here once the schedule is finalized.

March-May, "Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, a Man of All Times." A special traveling exhibit at Chatham Manor, by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

May 19, Mr. Lincoln Visits Stafford and Fredericksburg. Special programming at Chatham and special tours in Fredericksburg to mark the visits of President Abraham Lincoln to Fredericksburg. See Events Calendar for details. Free.

May 26, 17th Annual Fredericksburg National Cemetery Illumination. Our annual Illumination of the National Cemetery with over 15,000 candles to represent the soldiers buried within. The lit cemetery will be open from 8-11pm. Follow the NPS interpreter-led path to hear the cemetery's stories from 1862 (in honor of the Civil War Sesquicentennial) or follow your own path through the cemetery. Free.

May 28, Memorial Day Programs:

Memorial Day Procession, Shiloh Baptist Old Site to Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 10:30am. Recreating Fredericksburg's first multi-racial Memorial Day commemoration in 1871, participants will walk the mile from Shiloh Baptist Old Site to Fredericksburg National Cemetery to take part in the 12pm Memorial Day Commemoration program. Free.

Memorial Day Commemoration, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 12pm. Our annual memorial day program to honor American military personnel who have given their lives for this county. Featuring Reverend Lawrence A. Davies of Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) as the keynote speaker. Free.

June-December, "Lost Photographs of the Civil War." An exhibit at the Fredericksburg Area Museum.

 

Memorial Day Luminaria Program in the National Cemetery