VIRGINIA
Today: Re-enactors from the U.S. Signal Corps will demonstrate signaling techniques, relay messages and explain the role of the Signal Corps during the Civil War, noon to 4 p.m., Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site, 4301 Braddock Road, Alexandria. Information: 703/838-4848.
Tomorrow: Col. Ken Purks speaks on Confederate topographer Jed Hotchkiss and maps of the Brandy Station area during the Civil War, 2 to 3:15 p.m. at the Graffiti House, Brandy Station, $5. Information: Jim Flanagan, 540/439-3549.
Friday and May 1: Battle of the Wilderness 140th Anniversary Civil War Weekend. Battlefield and house tours, seminar, dinners, auction, authors, artworks. Information: 540/972-4782 (fowb@fowb.org; www.fowb.org).
May 1: The 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery re-enactors will conduct firing demonstrations, set up camp and discuss the tools and skills of Civil War artillerymen, noon to 4 p.m., Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site, 4301 W. Braddock Road, Alexandria. Information: 703/838-4848.
MARYLAND
Today: Musician Gary Schwartz and vocalist Tony DeRosa will perform and discuss music of the Civil War era, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 E. Patrick St., Frederick, 301/695-1864.
Today: The fourth annual Confederate Decoration Day Ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick. The first half of the program will be held in the Francis Scott Key Chapel, the second half at the Confederate Statue. Sponsored by the Maryland Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. For more information, contact Bill Atwell at 301/831-9078.
Tomorrow: The Federal City Brass Band will present a free concert of Civil War brass band music at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts recital hall at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. For more information, call 410/744-7708.
May 12: The Chesapeake Civil War Round Table at Anne Arundel Community College will hear Brian Steele Wills, author of “A Battle From the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest,” discuss the Confederate general at 7 p.m. in the Cade Center for Fine Arts, Room 219, on the Arnold campus. A book signing will follow.
May 22: Historic Surratt House Museum, 9118 Brandywine Road, Clinton, is offering a tour of the John Wilkes Booth escape route. Participants will leave Surratt House Museum at 7:30 a.m. on an air-conditioned coach bus. This trip in time from Ford’s Theatre to the site of Garrett’s Farm takes about 12 hours and is narrated by an expert on the Lincoln assassination. For prices and registration, phone 301/868-1121 (www.surratt.org).
NEW YORK
MAY 5: Actor Sam Waterston will perform Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address at the site of the Feb. 27, 1860, original, the Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 E. Seventh St. at Third Avenue, New York, N.Y., at 6:30 p.m., to mark publication of Harold Holzer’s “Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President.” Book signing to follow. Free.
Information excerpted in part from the Civil War News, Tunbridge, VT 05077, by permission. Information for the calendar may be sent to The Washington Times by fax to 202/529-3298.
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