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Chancellorsville : Lee’s Greatest Victory
Saturday & Sunday April 28-29
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
CIVILWARTOUR412 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 27th 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
Shepherd 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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