Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, initially tried to blame antifascist protesters for a pipe bomb he planted.
Union and Confederate forces faced off in this open stretch of land during the battle at Cedar Creek in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in October 1864. The Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation oversees the site today. HARRISONBURG, Va. — A Civil War reenactor has pleaded guilty to charges that he planted a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield in 2017 and wrote letters falsely claiming that antifa protesters were to blame.
He also admitted writing letters in 2017 and 2018 in which he falsely portrayed himself as part of a group of antifa activists who were targeting the reenactments because they believed them to glorify slavery. The letters threatened violence at subsequent Cedar Creek reenactments as well as an annual Remembrance Day Parade in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
“This defendant sought to intimidate and harm innocent people, and further, he tried to sow discontent by falsely claiming that the attempted bombing was politically motivated,” said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia Christopher Kavanaugh, whose office prosecuted the case.
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