Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation

10/19/2026

10/18/2026

🇺🇸 162nd Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek

📅 SUNDAY- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

🕘 9:00 AM — Gates Open
All-day tintype & wet plate photography demonstrations, museum admission, and information tent.

⛪ 9:00–9:50 AM — Civil War Church Service

🐎 10:00–10:30 AM — Sabers, Carbines & Cavalry Maneuvers

🎭 10:35–11:00 AM — Henrietta Bedinger Lee: War on the Homefront

🚩 11:00–11:30 AM — Messages in Motion: Signal Corps Demonstration

🎖️ 11:45 AM–12:45 PM — The Generals Reflect on the Battle of Cedar Creek
Featuring Generals Jubal A. Early and Philip H. Sheridan

⚔️ 1:00–2:00 PM — BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK REENACTMENT: Counterattack! Sheridan’s Ride and the Afternoon
Narrated by Shelly Liebler

🏕️ 3:00 PM — Camps Close to the Public (Sutlers remain open)

Bring the family and experience the sights, sounds, and stories of the Civil War right here on the historic Cedar Creek battlefield!

📸 Photo credit: Kimberly Toney Needles

10/18/2026

10/17/2026

Join us tonight at 6:45 PM for a moving tribute sponsored by Miller's Ace Hardware. This free community event honors the sacrifice of the soldiers who gave their lives during the climactic Battle of Cedar Creek.

🌟 964 luminaries will light up Main Street, one for every soldier who fell in the battle, creating a breathtaking display of remembrance.

🥁🎻 Live Civil War band performing on South Main Street

🇺🇸🕯 Come walk among the lights and help us honor history. Special thanks to our Street Coordinators! 🫶❤️

West 2nd-3rd Street - Tina Haymaker Clem & Katie
East 2nd-3rd Street - Brenda Mangum Miller
West 3rd-4th Street - Donna J Steward
East 3rd-4th Street - Stacie Athey Funkhouser
West 4th-5th Street - Deadra Valexity Baggarly
East 4th-5th Street - Kelly Orndorff
West 5th-6th Street - Abby McAllister
East 5th -6th Street - Charles Harbaugh IV

10/17/2026

🇺🇸 Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation – Saturday Schedule of Events

All-Day Activities

Tintype & wet plate photography demonstrations
Live music by the Susquehanna Travellers
Free admission to the CCBF Museum
Information tent: souvenirs, memberships, schedules, and limited tickets for special events

Saturday Schedule

9:30 AM – Memorial Service for General Greg Bair
10:15 AM – Artillery Demonstration
11:00 AM – Henrietta Bedinger Lee: War on the Homefront
11:30 AM – Cavalry Tactical Demonstration
12:00 PM – The Generals Reflect on Cedar Creek
1:15 PM – Confederate Cavalryman: 1st Maryland Cavalry
2:00 PM – Battle of Cedar Creek Reenactment: Morning Assault
3:30 PM – Union Soldiers Reflecting on the Valley
4:15 PM – Battle of Fisher’s Hill Book Talk
4:30 PM – Wagon Raid (ticketed event)
6:00 PM – Far From Home Candlelight Tour (ticketed event)
7:00 PM – Luminaries of Middletown & Night Artillery Firing
7:30 PM – Activities Conclude; Gates Close

Come experience living history in Middletown!

📸 Kimberly Toney Needles

10/17/2026

We're excited to collaborate with Lauryn Ricketts, NBC4 Washington meteorologist, as she brings a special weather report from Washington, D.C., ahead of this weekend’s 162nd Anniversary Reenactment of the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation!

With thousands of visitors and reenactors, and an incredible weekend of living history ahead, everyone wants to know one thing: What will Mother Nature have in store for the battlefield and luminaries tonight? 🌤️

📺 Tune in to NBC Washington as Lauren delivers the forecast for reenactment weekend! 🤝🫶

10/16/2026

Happening tonight! Troop pick up at the main gate at 5:00 and 5:15. Reenactor appreciation event and benefit for Love In Action LIA. 🤝❤️

10/16/2026

October 18, 1864.

Thousands of soldiers were camped in these fields outside Middletown, Virginia.

They could not have known that before sunrise the next morning, this quiet landscape would erupt into the Battle of Cedar Creek, the last major battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

162 years later, history returns to the same ground.

This weekend, October 17–18, the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation hosts the 162nd Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek, with living history camps, infantry, cavalry, artillery, demonstrations and two days of battle reenactments.

Saturday: Confederate Morning Assault at 2:00 PM
Sunday: Federal Counterattack at 1:00 PM
Gates open at 9:00 AM both days.

Come to Middletown and experience the history where it actually happened.

Visit ccbf.us for the full schedule and event information.