Calendar

UPCOMING EVENTS

DISTRICT

Monday: Edward Bonekemper III, author of “A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant’s Overlooked Military Genius,” will speak at the Capitol Hill Civil War Round Table, Room 1302, Longworth House Office Building, Independence and New Jersey avenues SE. Refreshments served at 6 p.m., followed by the meeting at 6:30. Free. Contact Don Senese at 703/768-6198 or Valeri Cannady at 301/262-3768.

VIRGINIA

Today: 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.

Today and tomorrow: Battle of Chancellorsville re-enactment and other activities, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. Kelly’s Ford Battle re-enactment and other activities tomorrow, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kelly’s Ford, Culpeper. $5. Information: 540/399-1779 or kellysfordinn@aol.com.

Today and tomorrow: Opening weekend for free walking tours of Ball’s Bluff Battlefield near Leesburg, sponsored by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority and conducted by volunteer guides. Tours at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. tomorrow begin at the parking lot. Information: templehallfarm@nvrpa.org or 703/779-9372.

May 11: The Loudoun County Civil War Round Table will hear Jim Morgan discuss his forthcoming book, “A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry, Oct. 21-22, 1861,” at 7:30 p.m. at Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg. Contact the library at 703/737-7195 for details.

May 13: The Bull Run Civil War Round Table will hear author, tour guide and National Park Service Chief Historian Emeritus Ed Bearss speak on “The 1864 Overland Campaign — From the Wilderness to Spotsylvania” at 7:15 p.m. at the Centreville Regional Library, 14200 St. Germain Drive. Free. Information: 703/675-0702.

May 15: Falls Church Civil War Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave., Falls Church. Activities include spy-story re-enactments, a demonstration of Civil War-era balloon surveillance and present-day surveillance, a soldier’s-life demonstration, a talk by an actress portraying Clara Barton, tours of the Civil War farmhouse, a bus tour of local Civil War sites, and period music. Free. Information: 703/248-5171.

MARYLAND

Today and tomorrow: Civil War living-history encampment from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. at Carroll County Farm Museum, Westminster. $3. Information: 800/654-4645 or ccgov.carr.org/farm-mus/index.html.

May 8: Margaret Wunderlich will present the story of Tillie Pierce, a young girl who sought refuge at the Weikert Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg and ended up assisting the wounded at a Union field hospital behind Little Round Top. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Information: 301/695-1864.

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,” 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; www.surratt.org) is offering a tour of the John Wilkes Booth escape route. Participants will leave the 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.

NEW YORK

Wednesday: Actor Sam Waterston will deliver Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address at the site of the Feb. 27, 1860, original (6:30 p.m.; Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 E. Seventh St. at Third Avenue, New York) to mark the 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.