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War coming to Cadiz
by The Cadiz Record Email News
This will be the Seventh Annual Trigg County Civil War Days that will include several hundred reenactors from Kentucky and adjoining states recreating the Battle of Dover. Expanded events for the annual spectacle are scheduled for Friday, March 21, Saturday, March 22 and Sunday March 23. Sponsored each year by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1675, the public is invited to bring an item of canned goods for admission to all of the events. Activities will begin with a tour of the camps by various groups of school age children. Reenactors will be encamped at the West Cadiz Park, a site where the battle has been held in past years. Last year the group was moved to the Industrial Park, but found that location not as well suited their needs. While in Cadiz, participants will be dressed in period costume, including the uniforms of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederate States of America. Several Calvary forces as well as artillery groups are expected to participate. On Friday night, participants and visitors are invited to go on a cemetery tour. "We’re going to have a cemetery walk through East End Cemetery," said John Walston, one of the organizers. He says that soldiers will be dressed in uniform and assigned to various graves in the cemetery and will recite the history at each gravesite. "Most of the individuals delivering the talks will be from the Cadiz/Trigg County Historical Society," he said. John Lloyd, another of the event’s organizers, said the group tried to make arrangements for many of the ladies who will attend the event to visit the city’s historic John Street home. The late John Street left the home, as well as its furnishings, to the John L. Street Library. Members of the library board, however, said their policy would not allow them to let a group tour the building without compensation. "We were going to have a tea there and thought the ladies in their period dresses would fit right in," Davis said. Cadiz Mayor Lyn Bailey also made a request of the board to let the ladies visit the home as a token of welcome on the part of the city. Pam Metts, librarian, said the library board had offered to let the visitors attend for $1 off the regular admission price of $5. She noted that is a similar policy used by Adsmore, the well-known plantation house in Eddyville. "The board charges other tour groups and they didn’t feel they could let nearly 100 people tour the home at no charge," Metts said. The tea, one of the new events for the Civil War Days will be held at the Janice Mason Art Museum. Wives, children and others visiting the camps in their Civil War dress will meet at the museum beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. A memorial service will be conducted at the Trigg County Courthouse – burned during the Civil War – beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday. The first Battle of Dover Road will begin at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and will be replayed on Sunday afternoon at 1:30. VFW Post 7890 of Trigg County will host the participants for a dinner at 5:30 on Saturday night and then the public is invited to participate in two separate events. Beginning at 7 p.m. a Ghost Walk – candlelight tour- will be held at the campgrounds. A walkway will be lighted by lanterns that will leave participants through both Confederate and Union camps. Those taking the walk will be able to visualize how soldiers on both sides of the conflict lived more than 140 years ago. Also set to begin at 7 p.m. will be the Blue-Gray Ball, to be held at the VFW building. Wexford Way will play for the dance and the public is invited to join the activity. A nighttime artillery fire is scheduled to commence at dark. Reenactors will be treated to a breakfast at 8:00 a.m. Sunday and then have a 10:00 a.m. church service. Following a second Battle of Dover at 1:30 p.m. the forces will break camp.
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