Aug
17
10AM

Civil War Saturday

@ The Fort

Explore Fort Mifflin’s years as a federal prison as the Mifflin Guard becomes our Garrison for the day! Watch the soldiers drill and prepare their camp meals over an open fire. “Enlist” and learn to drill with wooden muskets, enjoy Civil War Soldier Life and Medicine programs. Discover the untold story of the prisoners of the Fishing Creek Confederacy, imprisoned at the Fort in 1864 and decide for yourself if any of them might still be there!

 

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