Who We Are
Lawrenceburg/Dog Walk Battlefield Association |
In 2007, a small band of reenactors held a small informal living history on the Battles of Lawrenceburg and Dog Walk. Based on positive public response to the the event, in 2008, Mayor Edwinna Baker and the City of Lawrenceburg, in conjunction with the Anderson County Burgoo Festival, sponsored the Civil War living history. The success of the living history in 2008 led to a full scale reenactment of the Battles on the weekend of September 25-27, 2009.
The Lawrenceburg-Dog Walk Battlefield Association, Inc. (LDWBA) was founded in the summer of 2009. The Association, along with various community members, merchants and the City of Lawrenceburg, sponsored the 2009 reenactment. The goal of the LDWBA to preserve the remaining portions of these battlefields in honor of those who fought and for the benefit of all future generations. If you would like to help the Association in its efforts or would like to be a part of the annual reenactment, please feel free to contact Robert Warren Myles at [email protected]. |
Website |
All photographs used on this website are courtesy of
Ms. Anne Bevier Goin of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky expect for cover photo and otherwise unless noted. The purpose of this website is to provide information relating to the annual reenactment of the Battles of Lawrenceburg and Dogwalk. All information contained on this page is intended for the use of reenactors and the general public to further the historical knowledge of this important yet, unsung episode of the American Civil War, the Kentucky Campaign of 1862 and the history of Anderson County, Kentucky. This website was created by and is maintained by the Lawrenceburg/Dogwalk Battlefield Association. For all questions/comments regarding content please email the battle committee at [email protected]. |
"Creed of Living History"
"We are people to whom the past is forever speaking. We listen to it because we cannot help ourselves, for the past speaks to us with many voices. Far out of that dark nowhere which is the time before we were born, men who were flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone went through fire and storm to break a path to the future. We are part of the future they died for; they are part of the past that brought the future. What they did--the lives they lived, the sacrifices they made, the stories they told and the songs they sang and, finally, the deaths they died--make up a part of our own experience. We cannot cut ourselves off from it. It is as real to us as something that happened last week. It is a basic part of our heritage as Americans".
Bruce Catton