During Labor Day weekend, the Saint Louis University Museum of Art and the historic Samuel Cupples House will host a Camp Jackson reenactment. The encampment will be located near the intersection of Grand and Lindell boulevards, the original site of the Camp Jackson encampment. The event will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, “The Lincoln Legacy: Presidential Years,” displayed at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art.

The camp will be the site of a weekend-long symposium that includes a display of a pre-Civil War militia camp, along with authentic demonstrations of drill and Civil War-era equipment. Both sides of the Camp Jackson affair that took place on May 10, 1861 will be represented — members of the Holmes Brigade will portray the pro-Union home guard, while members of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi (AoTM) will portray the First Regiment, Volunteer Militia, Company A, (The St. Louis Greys).

Admission will be free. Parking will be available on Lindell Boulevard and at Saint Louis University's Compton Avenue Garage. For a schedule of events of the weekend's activities, click here. For more information, please call (314) 977-2666.