“They will make their own soap, candles, food and all sleep over from Friday night until the weekend celebration ends Sunday afternoon,” Spiroff said. The Sisters of the Union are people who portray what life was like in civilian camps during the Civil War, said Peterson. However, Sisters of the Union from Canton Township in Wayne County will set up tents starting Thursday and are participants in the re-enactment event. The Civil War re-enactment camp is officially open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. The cannons will not be loaded with cannonballs. The members are primarily from Oakland County, Spiroff said. Saturday at an artillery range in Central Park. Members of the 9th Kentucky Regiment Company C will fire four cannons at 11 a.m. Each child will be given a wooden musket and if they run out of muskets the children will be given wooden sticks to pretend they are weapons, she said. “Boys and girls are welcome and there’s no age limit,” Spiroff said of the re-enactment. military personnel killed in action during World War II. There were 650,000 killed in the Civil War - more than any war in American history, including the 416,800 U.S. “This helps the children learn history,” she said, noting more Americans were killed in the Civil War than World War II. Visit Spiroff has been arranging the Civil War encampment for the 17 years that Milford Memories has been held in the western Oakland County community, she said. They can preregister at the camp on Friday between 10 a.m.

The 9th Kentucky Regiment Company C is inviting children to “enlist” with them in the Civil War encampment during Milford Memories. Each child also will receive a “discharge certificate,” after participating in the Civil War re-enactment. “The children will be mustered in, drilled, do marching tactics and mustered out on Saturday,” said Joan Spiroff, of Commerce Township, who is the Civil War encampment chairwoman. “The actual re-enactment of a Civil War skirmish will take place on both Saturday and Sunday around 1 p.m.,” said Peterson. Children can pre-register at the camp on Friday and early Saturday for the re-enactment, said one of the planners, Gordon Peterson of Highland Township. The three-day event is expected to attract 18,000 people.

The 9th Kentucky Regiment Company C is inviting children to “enlist” with the adults in a Civil War encampment and battle re-enactment at Central Park in Milford during the Milford Memories festival, Friday through Sunday. This weekend in Milford, it will seem like it’s the 19th century and the North and South are at war.

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