All,
Fort McKavett State Historic Site, in conjunction with the Texas Historic Commission, will be hosting a 150th anniversary event in November 2011. This event will commemorate the six month period during the winter/spring of 1861-1862 that Fort McKavett served as a Prisoner of War Camp. So far I have received interest from parties as far east as Florida and Georgia, and as far north as Kansas for attendance.
The scenario will pertain to the interaction between the soldiers of Co. E, 1st Texas Mtd Rifles and the prisoners from the 8th US Infantry being held on post. Civilian interaction between the soldiers on post would be appropriate, whether they were travelling on the San Antonio-El Paso military road, homesteaders moving to set up homesteads in the newly formed Concho, Mason, Runnels, or Menard Counties, homesteaders moving back east after continued interaction with indigenous populations, or as part of the family of the post Sutler or the owners of the land the fort was built on. I hope to have a sutler shop set up in the bakery on site.
Being abandoned in 1859, the Robinson family moved on to the post to maintain buildings, etc. but due to the poor quality of lime used in the mortar buildings quickly fell into disrepair.
Squatters moving from the east to the west, and vice versa, took up residence in some of the abandoned and ruined barracks. Several of the barracks on site are in such a position to be squatted in and hold residence in during the event.
Here is how we set up in one of the barracks ruins for an 1868 event we recently hosted on site. I will post more information soon, and hopefully I will get a website for the event up and running.
Fort McKavett State Historic Site, in conjunction with the Texas Historic Commission, will be hosting a 150th anniversary event in November 2011. This event will commemorate the six month period during the winter/spring of 1861-1862 that Fort McKavett served as a Prisoner of War Camp. So far I have received interest from parties as far east as Florida and Georgia, and as far north as Kansas for attendance.
The scenario will pertain to the interaction between the soldiers of Co. E, 1st Texas Mtd Rifles and the prisoners from the 8th US Infantry being held on post. Civilian interaction between the soldiers on post would be appropriate, whether they were travelling on the San Antonio-El Paso military road, homesteaders moving to set up homesteads in the newly formed Concho, Mason, Runnels, or Menard Counties, homesteaders moving back east after continued interaction with indigenous populations, or as part of the family of the post Sutler or the owners of the land the fort was built on. I hope to have a sutler shop set up in the bakery on site.
Being abandoned in 1859, the Robinson family moved on to the post to maintain buildings, etc. but due to the poor quality of lime used in the mortar buildings quickly fell into disrepair.
Squatters moving from the east to the west, and vice versa, took up residence in some of the abandoned and ruined barracks. Several of the barracks on site are in such a position to be squatted in and hold residence in during the event.
Here is how we set up in one of the barracks ruins for an 1868 event we recently hosted on site. I will post more information soon, and hopefully I will get a website for the event up and running.
