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Lansford Miners Picnic features re-enactors

Re-enactor Steve Cosby of Doylestown portrays Confederate Colonel James B. Walton on Sunday at the Labor Day Miners Picnic held at No. 9 Mine and Museum, Lansford. The site also hosted a three-day Civil War Living History encampment. Visitors learned that Walton was commander of the Washington Artillery out of New Orleans and served as Inspector-General of Field Artillery of the Confederate States, the highest position an artillery officer could achieve. Cosby said Walton went on to become the second wealthiest man south of the Mason-Dixon Line. DONALD R. SERFASS/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS