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Order No. 11
Civil War Re-enactment August 19th
& 20th 2006
It was incredible!
This
was an amazing Production
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This is the schedule of events from 2006
Enjoy!
Historians take you through the Soldiers'
camp sites
at Cave Spring Nature Center then marching their troops
one mile north to the famous
Rice-Tremonti Farm where Union Soldiers enforce Martial
Law !
Join us as we re-create the scenes
depicted in this famous painting "Order No. 11"
by George Caleb Bingham
Click
or Scroll down to the end of this page to view Order
No. 11 given August 25th, 1863 !
Schedule of events:Saturday
August 19th
Photo Courtesy of Larry Short
Then on to Cave Spring Nature
Center ~ 8701 E. Gregory KCMO 64133 ~
816-358-2283
10:00am Soldiers prepare a meal
Photo Courtesy of Roger Wealand / edited
by Mark Wealand
12:30pm ~Military Inquisition
Photo Courtesy of Asterio Pascolini
On to the Rice
Plantation ~ 8801 E 66th St, Raytown, MO 64133
~ 816-358-7423
Sugar Lee and Mary re-enact Sophie and
her friend who offer food and water
to Mark Wealand passing by the Plantation
2:30pm ~Union Provost reading of Order
No. 11. Eviction of family from
Rice Plantation
Photo
Courtesy of Mark Wealand
The Union Troops
Photo Courtesy of Asterio Pascolini
On Sunday
August 20th
We recreated
a smaller version of
Saturday's incredible event!
The
End
The Three Trails Heritage Group wishes to thank all
that made this weekend event
one of the most memorable in the History of Raytown!
Names of the entire cast will be added
as they are released:
Ralph Monaco
Jim Beckner
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Special thanks to:
Roberta Bonnewitz ~ Celebrated local Author and Historian
Larry Short ~ Raytown Historical Society
Grady Manus ~ Cave Spring Executive Director
Three Trails Heritage Group ~ Raytown Historical
Society, Rice-Tremonti Home,
Cave Spring Historic Site and Nature Center
Mark Wealand / Web Site Support
/ along with
Iron Daisy Design for your Web Site needs :
http://www.irondaisy.com/
Civil War Round Table of Western Missouri for their
display during the event!
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General Order Number 11
Headquarters District of the Border Kansas City,
Missouri August 25, 1863
First, All persons living in Jackson, Cass and Bates
Counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon included
in this district, except those living within one mile
of the limits of Harrisonville, Hickman Mills, Independence
and Pleasant Hill and Harrisonville, and except those
in the part of Kaw Township, Jackson County, north of
Brush Creek and west of the Big Blue, embracing Kansas
City and Westport, are hereby ordered to remove from
their present places of residence within fifteen days
from the date hereof. Those who, within that time, establish
their loyalty to the satisfaction of the commanding
officer of the military station nearest their present
places of residence will receive from him certificates
stating the fact of their loyalty, and the names of
the witnesses by whom it can be shown. All who receive
such certificates will be permitted to remove to any
military station in the district, or to any part of
the State of Kansas except the counties on the eastern
border of the State. All others shall remove out of
the district. Officers commanding companies and detachments
serving in the counties named will see that this paragraph
is promptly obeyed.
Second, All hay and grain in the field, or under
shelter in the district, from which the inhabitants
are required to remove, within the reach of the military
stations, after the 9th of September, next, will be
taken to such stations and turned over to the proper
officers there; and reports of the amounts so turned
over made to district headquarters, specifying the name
of all loyal owners and the amount of such produce taken
from them. All grain and hay found in such district
after the 9th of September, next, not convenient to
such stations, will be destroyed.
Third, The provisions of General Order No. 10 from
these headquarters will be at once vigorously executed
by officers commanding in the parts of the district,
and at the stations not subject to the operations of
paragraph first of this order, especially in the towns
of Independence, Westport and Kansas City. Fourth, Paragraph
3, General Order No. 10, is revoked as to all who have
borne arms against the government in the district since
August 20, 1863.
By order of the Brigadier General Ewing, H. Hannahs,
Adjutant
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