Battles were staged both Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24, along the Stanislaus River and on the hillsides of Knights Ferry, with the Civil War Days unfolding over the weekend.

Visitors could tour the camps set up by soldiers and their families, visit the mercantile and check out the field hospital, as well as watch the actual battle reenactments. Those battles featured the Union and Confederate troops fighting it out, with plenty of cannon booms and musket fire, exchanged in the reenactment four different times over the two days. In between the battles, the reenactors had the opportunity to share information about what life was like during the Civil War period, and many camped out in Knights Ferry for the weekend.