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Sweet's Civil War Encampment

Encampment Activities

Sweets Welcome

July 27 - 28, 2013
Four Seasons Park
Lombard

Free to the public!

Reenactors: If you're not camping, we recommend the
Stay Inn of Lombard:

Stay Inn-Lombard
‎222 East 22nd Street
Lombard, IL 60148
630. 916.9000

Read about Stay Inn special rates for reenactors. (pdf)

FORMS - download and print (pdfs)

Reenactor Registration form and Guidelines
(deadline 6/3/13)

Sutler Registration form (Sutlers are $20 through 5/31, or $30 after 5/31)

Volunteer Registration form

Why "Sweet's" Civil War Encampment? Colonel Benjamin Sweet, later General Sweet, ran Camp Douglas in Chicago. Douglas held thousands of confederate prisoners during the Civil War, and is sometimes called the “Andersonville of the North."
Benjamin Sweet moved to Babcock's Grove - the original name of Lombard - after the war and was one of the founders who platted this town in 1869.

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View photos from July 2012 Encampment

View photos from October 2011 Encampment