Commemoration of the Siege of Augusta – 1:00 PM

Second Siege of Augusta 1781

2023 Commemoration

Date: Saturday, September 16, 2023

Time: 1 pm

Place: Kroc Center Auditorium

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM. We will conduct the commemoration ceremony in the comfortable 300-seat Kroc Center Auditorium. The ceremony will consist of bringing greetings, a battle seminar by Historian Steven Rauch and wreath presentations.

Following the indoor ceremony, we will go out to the battlefield behind the Kroc Center to watch a mock battle reenactment demonstration to be conducted by our militia and artillery sections firing black powder muskets and six black powder cannons.  SAR, DAR, C.A.R. and other patriotic and lineage societies and chapters are invited to participate in a formal wreath laying ceremony as part of the program.

Participants presenting a wreath need to fill out the following form and return it.

Please check in with Sue at the registration table by 12:30 PM.

Continental, Militia or period attire is encouraged.

To ensure your organization’s recognition in the program and receive a flag streamer, please complete, and return the registration form provided to Sonny Pittman, Event Coordinator, at:
sonnypittman@comcast.net
Sonny and Sue Pittman, Event Coordinators
2202 Holly Haven Court, Augusta, GA 30907-3779
(706) 860-1050; sonnypittman@comcast.net and shpittman@comcast.net