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160th Breakthrough Battle Anniversary Driving Tour
This will be a caravan driving tour to include stops and guides leading the tour to commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the Breakthrough Battle. The tour will begin promptly at 9:00 am and depart from the Park’s Education Center located at 6523 Duncan Road, Petersburg, VA 23803. Attendees will visit Pamplin Historical Park’s Breakthrough Battlefield... Read more »
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Roundtable: The Battles of Appomattox: The Final Fury and the Last to Die
Join Mr. Patrick Schroeder who will present on April 3, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. to the Petersburg Civil War Roundtable. Mr. Schroeder will share the “"The Battles of Appomattox: The Final Fury and the Last to Die.” Civil War author and historian Patrick A. Schroeder was born in 1968, at Fort Belvoir, VA. Patrick attended... Read more »
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Roundtable: The Beefsteak Raid
Join speaker J. Michael Moore as he shares the story of “The Beefsteak Raid.” Moore's presentation will focus on the the September 14 through 17, 1864, Beefsteak Raid led by Confederate Major General Wade Hampton. Hampton's 100 -mile raid behind Union lines included 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen whose goal was to capture Union cattle to feed... Read more »
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Independence Day Celebration
Join us for an Independence Day Celebration as Pamplin Historical Park will offer multiple activities and programs throughout the day. Families will enjoy musket and cannon fire demonstrations. A “Load-in-Nine-Times” program will begin at 10:00 am and highlight the types of weapons used in the Civil War to include a demonstration of the loading and... Read more »
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Roundtable: The Battle of Dinwiddie Court House
Join Jerry Netherland who will present on October 2. 2025 at 7:00 p.m. to the Petersburg Civil War Roundtable. Mr. Netherland will share the “The Battle of Dinwiddie Court House.” The Petersburg Civil War Roundtable (PCWRT) will meet the first Thursday of each month (except for the months of June, July and August) at Pamplin... Read more »
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2025 Symposium Optional Tour
Join Pamplin Historical Park’s Zachary Pittard, Director of Education & Interpretation and Aaron Stoyack, Park Ranger, for a tour examining "United At What Cost: Petersburg in War and Peace, 1781 and 1865." Follow the events and visit sites from the 292-day Civil War siege of Petersburg, while hearing contrasting stories at the locations from the... Read more »
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29th Annual Civil War Symposium: 1865 A Year of Reckoning
The conference will be held on Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19, 2025 at Pamplin Historical Park’s Education Center in Dinwiddie, Virginia and will feature presentations from seven outstanding historians: A. Wilson Greene, Harold Holzer, William Marvel, Dr. George Rable, Dr. Brooks D. Simpson, Dr. Craig Symonds and Dr. Brian Steel Wills. For more... Read more »
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Roundtable: Gettysburg’s Southern Front
Join Mr. Hampton Newsom as he presents on November 6, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. to the Petersburg Civil War Roundtable. Mr. Newsom will share ”Gettysburg's Southern Front.” The three-day Battle of Gettysburg took place between July 1 and July 3, 1863 in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was fought between the Union and Confederate and... Read more »
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Veterans Day Observance
Join Pamplin Historical Park as we offer living-history, demonstrations, displays, and Pamplin Historical Park is offering free admission during Veterans Day Observance, Saturday, November 8, to all active duty Military, Reservists, Retirees, Veterans, National Guardsmen. Pamplin Historical Park will offer multiple programs throughout the weekend, to include; Civil War, World War I and World War... Read more »
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Roundtable: Virginia’s Own Fire Eater – Edmund Ruffin
Join speaker Kenneth Bage as he shares the “Virginia's Own Fire Eater: Edmund Ruffin.” Bage will share the life of Edmund Ruffin, American planter. politician, scientist and activist for secession of the slave Southern states from the United States. Ruffin served in the Virginia Senate from 1823 to 1827 and published works in support of... Read more »
