FIRST ANNUAL
BURNING OF DARIEN
COMMEMORATIVE FESTIVAL
Federal troops comprised of the 54th
with the intent to vandalize and burn.
The largely deserted town was undefended at the time.
We will have the 54th Mass, Re-enactors portraying Colonels Shaw and Montgomery and other re-enactment groups that will march from Waterfront Park into Darien on
They will stop in front of the Strain building, where Montgomery will order the troops to burn the town, and Shaw will disagree about the need to burn the town. After force from Montgomery, Shaw will reluctantly order the troops to burn the town.
Remember this will be used for educational purposes to explain why the town was burned and that Shaw and the 54th were against it.
Some of the troops will then begin to light the Memorial torches representing the buildings that we lost
Photos from
Eve Vann, Missy Brandt, Will Wilson &
Leon Watkins
Scenes from the motion picture "GLORY"
(from online source)
The 54th Mass Vol Infantry Reg
Re-enactment Organization Darien, GA
Griffin Lotson Nathan Green William H. A. Collins
Michael Hicks Ernest Ryles Rev. Timmons
Toney Rogers
Confederate Army
Will Wilson
Civilian
Missy Brandt
The 54th Mass Vol Infantry Reg
Re-enactment (So Carolina)
