Civil War Reenactment
Delaware, Ohio

May 9, 10, 11, 2008

Joint Delaware County and City Activity

http://www.delawareco200.com/CivilWar/CW-2008.htm

Weekend Schedule

http://www.delawareco200.com/CivilWar/Weekend_schedule.htm

Civil War Era Remembered with Two Wall Plaques
May 10
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Dedicated by Civil War Re-enactors and Delaware County Historical Society
on Sandusky Street just north of William Street

Plaque One on the west side of Sandusky Street
 Dedication to Honor Frederick Douglas and
General William T. Sherman

          Dedicated to the appearances of African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglas who spoke in Templar Hall on June 6, 1856, and to General William Tecumseh Sherman after the Civil War.

http://www.delawareco200.com/CivilWarPlaques/Douglas.htm

Plaque Two on the east side of Sandusky Street

Dedication of Wall Plaque to Honor the Civil War Troops Trained at Camp Delaware
"Camp Delaware" USCT Commemoration

            Dedicated to the 127^th Ohio Voluntary Infantry company of African-American soldiers who were trained at Camp Delaware.  A famous photograph of the soldiers shown lined up in Sandusky Street in 1864, will be reproduced on the plaque.

Civil War re-enactors group will dedicate the plaques and then march down Sandusky Street to Oak Grove Cemetery. They will lay a wreath at the tomb of fifteen unknown African-American Civil War soldiers who were trained at Camp Delaware.

http://www.delawareco200.com/CivilWarPlaques/Camp.htm

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