Buffington Island
Battlefield Preservation Foundation
Ulysses S. Grant Reenactor, Dr. Curt Fields
Thu, May 15
|Marietta


Time & Location
May 15, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Marietta, 320 2nd St, Marietta, OH 45750, USA
About the event
Dr. Fields is the National Park Service representative for General U. S. Grant. He has portrayed the commanding general of the Union Army in films, posters and re-enactments. Dr. Fields has advanced degrees in Education and has spent time working as a teacher and administrator in junior and senior high schools. He teaches as adjunct sociology professor at the University of Memphis and is now an Educational consultant and a living Historian. Dr. Fields is the same height and body style as the the General Grant and represents a true-to-life image of the man as he would have looked, as well as researches extensively in order to share an accurate portrayal. His presentations are in first person, quoting from General Grant's memoirs; articles and letters the General wrote, statements he made in interviews and first-person accounts of people who knew the General or were with him and witnessed him during…