Cry Liberty! Dinwiddie County Musters for the American Revolution
Join the Park as we commemorate the muster of over 500 militia men from Dinwiddie County, Virginia who answered the call at Dinwiddie Courthouse in June of 1775. After forming an active Committee of Correspondence in protest of the Intolerable Acts, before the events of Lexington and Concord, Dinwiddie residents rose to join the patriot cause for liberty. We also celebrate the U.S. Army birthday of June 14, 1775, before the Declaration of Independence was signed and Flag Day.
The day’s program schedule will offer an encampment with American Revolutionary War soldiers throughout the day. They will provide a mock militia enlistment and drill with “stick” muskets for the young and young at heart. A weapon and camp life demonstrations will be offered at specific times. A ceremony will include speakers from the Park, Dinwiddie County Government, U.S. Army, National Guard, a Color Guard and cannon fire salute. Actor and historian, Charles Wissinger will portray Patrick Henry and offer a talk on the life of the founding father and present his “Liberty or Death” speech. Additional outside organizational displays and a related documentary film will also be offered.
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What began in 1991 as an effort to preserve a threatened Civil War battlefield near Petersburg, Virginia, has evolved into one of America’s finest history and heritage travel destinations.
Pamplin Histor
ical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier is a 424-acre historical campus that features world-class museums, antebellum homes, a National Historic Landmark Civil War battlefield, a slave life exhibit, educational programs, and special events. It has been called “the new crown jewel of Civil War sites in America” by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson of Princeton University.
Pamplin Historical Park’s 424 acres encompasses The National Museum of the Civil War Solider, Tudor Hall Plantation, the Field Quarter, the Field Fortifications Exhibit, the Military Encampment, the Battlefield Center, the Breakthrough Trail (and other trails) as well as the Banks House and the Museum’s Gift Shop.
