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Chancellorsville :
Lee’s Greatest Victory
Saturday & Sunday May 1-2
Enrollment
fee $300 (Does not include
lodging)
Lodging at the Fredericksburg
Hospitality House and Conference Center
2801 Plank Road (U.S. Route 3) Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Tele (540) 786-8321
$89/night double occupancy
Reservation Code is CWT2 This tour includes a continental breakfast
each morning and a catered box lunch Sat and Sun.
Join historian Ed Bearss
for this unique tour of R. E. Lee’s greatest battlefield triumph.
We’ll spend two days interpreting the key elements of Maj. Gen. Joseph
Hooker’s failed offensive.
We’ll start the weekend off Friday evening April 30th
with lectures at the hotel by historian Robert
K. Krick and Dr. Mark Snell.
Krick is a highly regarded expert on the Army of Northern
Virginia and Stonewall Jackson.
Mark Snell is the executive director of the Civil War Center at Sheperd University in Shepherdstown, WV
On Saturday, with Ed Bearss
we’ll start at Ely’s Ford and follow the lead elements of
Hooker’s vanguard toward the high ground around Zoan Church. From there we’ll visit the site of
the Lee – Jackson
bivouac and then we’ll follow the famous flank march undertaken by the
Mighty Stonewall. Along the way we’ll stop at Catharine Furnace and
stand you in the original road trace used by Jackson’s veterans. Lunch on Saturday will be at Ellwood, where
Jackson’s
arm is buried.
On Sunday, again with Ed Bearss we’ll
vanquish the Dutchmen of Howard’s Eleventh Corps and stand you on the
ground where Jackson
received his mortal wound. We’ll also follow the route taken by Jackson’s ambulance to Guinea Station where
we’ll visit the Jackson Shrine. Finally, we’ll stop at the stonewall in Fredericksburg
where the Sixth Corps broke through and finish the weekend at Salem Church.
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