DEDICATION OF ALAN COTTRILL'S
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Tentative Schedule of Events |
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9:00 a.m. | Sunbury Farmers Market on Village Square | ||||
10-2 p.m. | Myers Inn Museum Open | ||||
12:30-1:30 p.m. |
Book Signing in the Myers Inn Museum - Frank Varney Author of "General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War" will autograph his books which may be purchased in the Myers Inn Gift Shop David Moore, author of William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography will be available to discuss his book which will be available in December. Moore was in Sunbury for the Rosecrans Statehouse Gala in 2011. Forms to preorder his book will be available. |
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1:30 p.m. | Entrants Gather for Parade - Road behind CVS | ||||
2:00 p.m. | Firing of the Cannons | ||||
2:05 p.m. |
Military Parade of Men and Women in Uniform |
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3:30 p.m. | Dedication Ceremony | ||||
Unveiling of the Ohio Historical Marker
for Major General W.S. Rosecrans and local Glacial Errata |
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Unveiling of the Rosecrans Statue | |||||
Program with Remarks by
Colonel Robert J. Dalessandro |
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Following Dedication the Myers Inn will be open for Hospitality | |||||
5:30 p.m. |
Dignitary Dinner by invitation only |
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7:00 p.m. |
Civil War Ball at General Rosecrans Elementary School Music is provided by the Pocketful O’ Gimmick band who played for a Sunbury reenactment. Elizabeth Reeb will call the traditional dances. Civil War Dress not required |
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9:00 p.m. | Civil War Artillery Night Fire | ||||
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(09/01/2013) |