Sidebar by Virginia McConnell Simmons
Fort Garland – June 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine
(Drills and baseball game will be at the baseball field south of the fort complex.)
Friday, June 20
4-6 p.m. Opening reception for “Saving the Fort” exhibit with conducted tours.
Saturday, June 21
10 a.m. Parade through the town of Fort Garland, commemorating move from Fort Massachusetts to Fort Garland in 1858.
10:45 a.m. Raising of colors on parade ground.
11 a.m. Welcome by dignitaries.
1:15 p.m. 1st Volunteers Band Concert on parade grounds.
2 p.m. Fort Garland Memorial Regiment mounted cavalry drills.
2:45 p.m. Officers’ Wives High Tea.
3 p.m. Artillery Company of New Mexico drills.
4 p.m. New Mexico Infantry Volunteers marching drills.
5 p.m. Retreat.
7 p.m. Regimental Ball at Mess Hall. (Period dress only.)
Sunday, June 22
9 a.m. Raising of colors.
9:15 a.m. Non-denominational prayer/hymn service.
10:15 a.m. Fort Garland Memorial Regiment cavalry drills.
11 a.m. Artillery Company of New Mexico drills.
Noon, Lunch available from vendors.
1 p.m. Impersonations: Capt. Theodore H. Dodd by Jack Rudder, and others
2 p.m. Officers’ Wives High Tea.
2:45 p.m. Stoney Braxton, Civil War songs.
3:30 p.m. 19th-century baseball game.
5 p.m. Retreat.
