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From the Gates of Richmond
to Appomattox
Sunday thru Wednesday April 13-16
Enrollment fee is $700 (Does not include lodging) Includes breakfast and lunch each day.
Lodging at Wingate Inn Richmond Airport located at 491 International Drive Sandston, VA 23150 Telephone is (804) 222-1499
Lodging is $89 per night plus local/state taxes Reservation Code Civil War Tour
We’ll start the program Saturday evening at 8PM with two lectures
highlighting various aspects of the opening of the Gettysburg campaign. David Ward will discuss
“McClellan’s Lieutenants : The Union
High Command of 1862,” while Robert E. L. Krick will deliver a talk
concerning the high command of the Army Of Northern Virginia.
On Sunday you’ll spend the first of three days with the
distinguished battle field guide Ed
Bearss as he takes you down the Peninsula to Williamsburg,
Lee’s Mill, Seven Pines and the U.S.S. Monitor
Museum. On Monday we’ll cover the operations
known as the Seven Days’ Battles; from Beaver Dam Creek to Malvern
Hill. On Tuesday we’ll visit Grant’s HQ at City Point, cover the
opening actions of the siege of Petersburg,
the battle of Fort Stedman and the famous Battle of the Crater. We’ll also
visit Pamplin
Park Museum
and walk the battlefield of the Sixth Corps breakthrough on 2 April 1865. On
the final day, with Robert E. L. Krick we’ll
follow Lee’s retreat to Appomattox
Court House stopping at Five Forks, Namozine Church, Dinwiddie
Court House and of course we’ll end the
day at the McLean house in Appomattox.
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