1875 Reconciliation Bivouac Living History Weekend

Despite almost a decade of post-Civil War of continuous sporadic violence pitting East Tennessee neighbors against neighbors, in 1873 a group of U.S. and C.S.A veterans and their families met together for a week of religious services in a field near Greenback, TN. The following year using lumber donated by local farmers, the veterans erected a tabernacle shed which has been in continuous annual every year since. The 1875 Reconciliation Bivouac Living History Weekend seeks to replicate one of those meetings with a vesper service Saturday afternoon and a period worship service Sunday morning. Saturday will also feature a vintage baseball game in a nearby cow pasture. A sutler's row will provide opportunity for guests to purchase handmade goods with a group of Women's Christian Temperance League ladies marching around the site carrying signs and beating a drum for their cause. History tours of the tabernacle shed will be given hourly. Guests, sutlers and others are encouraged to wear 1870s attire.