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Army Heritage Education Center

Army Heritage Trail

950 Soldiers Drive

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

May 20-22, 2011








Map with locations of re-enactment groups noted




Troopers Womack, Crawford and Campbell on station
(Trooper Campbell outfitted as a Negro Seminole Indian Scout)



The Troopers are exhausted but the tent has been raised



Pennsylvania State Senator Patricia H. Vance and Jack Giblin, Event Coordinator and USAHEC Director,
Visitor and Education Services and on right Mr. Bryan P. Atherton of the JLG Corporation



USAHEC Director Lieutenant Colonel Mark Viney, a former Armored Cavalry Officer with Troopers Crawford and Campbell



USAHEC Administrative AssistantTommy Shird with Troopers Womack, Crawford and Campbell



On left World War I Salvation Army nurses Kara Bertoles and Danielle Butler and on right Trooper Womack being served freshly made donuts




On left Major Jonathan Letterman, Union Surgeon and a Union Army General and on the right Trooper Crawford with three U.S. Colored Troops Infantrymen



On left an SFC Grant of the USAHEC and on right two Union Army soldiers



On left two World War I doughboys flank three World War II MPs and on right a young admirer of the Buffalo Soldiers



On left a Delaware Indian from the French and Indian Wars



On right the Toner Family from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania



On left Trooper Crawford with Lisa Lambert of Knightingales Rest Crafts and her
Civil War department store and on right Trooper Campbell with three Union Army Generals



On left re-enactor David Wayne Shuey as Colonel John S. Mosby of Mosby's Raiders, Confederate Army
and on right retired Army Colonel Carter Bertone as an officer of the French Army, WWI.



On right the Smahi Family



On left Union Army troops drilling and on right Confederate Army troops drilling







On left retired U.S. Army SFC Jim Friday as Heinrich Schläger,
Gren. Regt. 31 and on right Lieutenant Colonel Horace Porter. He
reached the rank of Brigadier General and later became Ambassador to France



On left, young Vermont National Guard soldier who returned just days before from Afghanistan



On left General James B. McPherson. He was killed at the Battle of Atlanta, the second highest ranking Union officer killed
during the war and the only commander of a Union army to die in the field and on right 1st Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army



On left, World War I trench, French Officer of the 157th (Red Hand) Division and
an American Sergeant and on the right a World War II soldier of the 101st Airborne Division














On right, 1Lt King, Vietnam Aide Station Nurse






On left the 7th Cavalry clothing a bit much for a young trooper and on right Trooper Crawford left in charge of the 7th Cavalry hooch by Captain Foreso



On left Mr. Steve Braun, Columbia, Maryland school teacher with family



On right a soldier of the World War I French Army standing in front of a World War II Tank Destroyer with a 76 mm gun



On left, Trooper Womack "talking the talk" with two active duty 82nd Airborne Sergeants



On right, all that remains of the Old Glory carried by Sergeant William Harvey Carney during the July 18, 1863, assault
on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on display at the USAHEC.
Sergeant Carney was the first African American whose valor merited the award of the Medal of Honor



We are having way too much fun




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