DEDICATION OF ALAN COTTRILL'S  
 MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS’ STATUE
 Saturday, September 28, 2013

Tentative Schedule of Events
This list is subject to change as the event becomes closer
   
9:00 a.m. Sunbury Farmers Market on Village Square
10-2 p.m. Myers Inn Museum Open
12:30-1:30 p.m. Book Signing in the Myers Inn Museum -
Frank Varney Author of "General Grant and the Rewriting of History:  How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War" will autograph his books which may be purchased in the Myers Inn Gift Shop

David Moore, author of William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography will be available to discuss his book which will be available in December.  Moore was in Sunbury for the Rosecrans Statehouse Gala in 2011.  Forms to preorder his book will be available.
1:30 p.m. Entrants Gather for Parade  -  Road behind CVS
2:00 p.m. Firing of the Cannons
2:05 p.m.

Military Parade of Men and Women in Uniform
3:30 p.m. Dedication Ceremony
    Unveiling of the Ohio Historical Marker for
Major General W.S. Rosecrans and local
Glacial Errata
    Unveiling of the Rosecrans Statue
    Program with Remarks by
Colonel Robert J. Dalessandro
  Following Dedication the Myers Inn will be open for Hospitality
5:30 p.m.

Dignitary Dinner by invitation only
7:00 p.m. Civil War Ball at General Rosecrans Elementary School
 Music is provided by the Pocketful O’ Gimmick band who played for a Sunbury reenactment.  Elizabeth Reeb will call the traditional dances.
 Civil War Dress not required
9:00 p.m. Civil War Artillery Night Fire
         

Rosecrans Statue Committee: 
Chairman Bill Comisford, Treasurer Henry Shaw,
Committee Sue Comisford, Rick Helwig, Janet MacKenzie and Polly Horn
 
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(09/01/2013)