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Honey Springs Battlefield offers a biennial multiday event, which begins with an Education Day for school groups on Friday. Events continue on Saturday and Sunday with self-guided tours through the Union, Confederate, and civilian camps, and reenactments at 1 p.m. Visitors can experience military drills, demonstrations, and living history programs, and take a walk through Sutler’s Row, which features a number of vendors selling clothes, books, souvenirs, and reproduction nineteenth-century military equipment. Visitors from around the state come to see special presentations and watch the battle unfold.Registration for Sutlers, Vendors, and Reenactors is available at Okhistory.org/honeysprings
No registration is required for visitors!
The Battle of Honey Springs reenactment shows the largest of approximately 107 documented Civil War military engagements in present-day Oklahoma. The engagement took place on July 17, 1863, just two weeks after the famous Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Approximately 9,000 Union and Confederate troops, mostly American Indians and African Americans, were involved in the Battle of Honey Springs. Of those, approximately 200 total casualties were suffered. After a decisive Union victory, Confederates lost control of Indian Territory north of the Arkansas River. The Union victory also ensured Federal control of Fort Gibson in Indian Territory and Fort Smith in Arkansas.
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423159 E 1030 Road , Checotah, OK, United States, Oklahoma 74426
