HAMMOND – The South Shore Civil War Memorial Trail’s exhibit, “Region United, Nation Divided: Following Lincoln,” will feature living history demonstrations on March 8-9 and March 22-23 as well as April 12-13 and April 26-27. Re-enactors from the 20th Indiana Infantry Company B will be present for the demonstrations at the Indiana Welcome Center from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
During the demonstrations, re-enactors will discuss a soldier’s life during the Civil War and life at an encampment, share knowledge of the loading and firing of Civil War-era weapons as well as answer questions.
The exhibit, which runs through April 30, features hundreds of photographs, artifacts and reproductions of Northwest Indiana regiment battle flags. Additionally, there is a reproduction of Lincoln’s funeral train and map as well as the Indiana Historical Society’s traveling exhibit, The Faces of Lincoln.
