Our Annual Summer Field Trip
Saturday August 10, 2019
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 the Rockland Civil War Round Table will be going on a summer field trip to the Civil War Weekend in Historic Richmondtown, Staten Island. The reenactment will be sponsored by the professional Liberty Rifles and will include demonstrations, encampment and presentations. The event will run from 10 am to 5 pm and will be an opportunity to interact with long time Civil War reenactors. The RCWRT members who want to join us will meet at 10 am on August 10th at the main parking lot of Pearl River High School and we will car pool together. It is recommended that everyone bring a bottle of water with them. Please contact us via email to confirm your plan to attend. |
Gettysburg, August 8, 9, 10, 2017
The RCWRT headed to Gettysburg for touring and cleaning our Adopt-A-Position Monument, The 124th NY Infantry Monument on Houck's Ridge. All Photos below by Paul Martin.
Cleaning the 124th Monument with some before and after pics by Paul Martin.
Catching the morning sun behind Col. Van Horne Ellis during our clean-up. Photos by Paul Martin.
The North Carolina and Virginia Memorials
"Peace Eternal in a Nation United": Gettysburg Eternal Light Peace Memorial
Newly restored Lee's Headquarters.
The new Lutheran Seminary Museum.
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President and VP Paul Martin and Peter Reiner on the Culp's Hill observation tower.
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Some artifacts on display in the Seminary Museum.
At James Kralik's Lincoln Train Museum!
On Power's Hill. The Park Service has done a fantastib job restoring the landscape back to original appearance and hauling Cannons up to their July 1863 location. Also cleaned all the monuments, with the help of the RCWRT. These now and then photos show how dense the woods were. and how well the Park Service cleared them to re-create the artillary postions' field of fire. Old photos from our trip in 1998.
At Powers Hill and Culp's Hill, including repair work on the 150th NY Monument, thanks to the RCWRT!
Past RCWRT Field Trips
2013- Gettysburg National Military Park 2012- Lee’s Retreat from Gettysburg, PA and MD 2011-Richmond Battlefield, VA 2010-Booth Escape Route, DC and VA 2009-Manassas Battlefield, VA 2008-Pennisula Campaign Williamsburg/Newport News, VA 2007-Upper Shenandoah Valley, VA 2006-Frederick, MD, Shepardstown, WV 2005-Fredericksburg Battlefield, VA 2004-Washington Civil War, DC 2003-Harpers Ferry National Park, VA 2002-Lexington and Lower Shenandoah Valley, VA 2001-Petersburg Siege and Appomattox Court House, VA 2000-Richmond Civil War, VA 1999-Chancellorsvile Battlefield, VA 1998-Manassas Battlefield, VA 1997-Antietam Battlefield , MD 1996-Gettysburg, PA |