Also performing: Blue Water Highway, Hogslop String Band, Hannah Marie Kelley

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Also performing: Blue Water Highway, Paul Childers, Hogslop String Band

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Also performing: Blue Water Highway, Paul Childers, Hannah Marie Kelley

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Partner museums will have displays and more for visitors to see and experience. Presentations by authors and historians will be throughout the weekend.

World War II, which was fought between 1939 and 1945, cost an estimated 85 million casualties both military and civilian worldwide. The United States military casualties amounted to 416,800. While many were thankful for the surrender in Europe on May 8, 1945 the war in the Pacific raged on and was far from over. The battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa during the first half of the year gave a glimpse of the carnage awaiting invasion forces set to strike the Japanese home islands. A planned Allied invasion on the island of Kyushu was set for November 1st. There 500,000 Japanese troops were in position and another 6 million were under arms or able to be called into service. This invasion did not come to pass. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Imperial Japan to accept an unconditional surrender. The terms were accepted on August 14, 1945 and a formal document signing ceremony took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2nd.

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12:00 p.m. Tudor Hall Plantation Tour

This tour will guide visitors through Tudor Hall Plantation where they will see a 19th century plantation and learn about the roles of the farmers, enslaved population, merchants and various products made from tobacco.

1:00 p.m. Tobacco and the Breakthrough Battlefield

The forms of tobacco used by soldiers from comfort to trade will be discussed at the park’s recreated Military Encampment and a brief tour of the Breakthrough Battlefield will follow.

3:00 p.m. Tobacco in the Civil War and Beyond

This presentation will explore the different uses of tobacco by Union and Confederate soldiers and the mythology around it’s use by General U.S. Grant. Additionally, participants will learn about the post-war popularity and the birth of the Havana cigar culture, which persists to the present day.

Focus Weekend Programs are included with paid daily park admission from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. One of “Virginia’s Best Places to Visit” according to the Travel Channel, and designated as a National Historic Landmark, Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier is a 424-acre Civil War campus located in Dinwiddie County, Virginia offering a combination of high-tech museums and hands-on experiences. The Park has four world-class museums and four antebellum homes. The Park is also the site of The Breakthrough Battlefield of April 2, 1865.

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