Arabella Barlow Day: Civil War Soldier’s Encampment & Surgeon’s Demonstration

NJCH is proud to sponsor this event from the Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites.

Arabella Barlow, born and buried in Somerville 200 years ago, was a great-granddaughter of the Wallace and Hardenbergh families of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites, offering one of the “mystic chords of memory” crossing New Jersey history from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

For Arabella Barlow Day, meet a surgeon of the 4th N.J. Volunteer Reg’t and see a demonstration of Civil War medicine. Enter a small Civil War encampment and encounter a New Jersey soldier’s experience of the Civil War.

Historical exhibits and discussion share new research uncovering Somerville’s Civil War heroine Arabella Barlow in New Jersey women’s history featuring Andrea Quinn’s article “My Beloved Arabella” in the latest Gettysburg Magazine.

Admission is free. Come and go throughout the afternoon.

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