Grant’s Overland Campaign

From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor

 Saturday & Sunday April 17-18

 

Enrollment fee is $300   (Does not include lodging)     Includes breakfast and lunch each day.
Lodging at
Fredericksburg Hospitality House & Convention Center located at 2801 Plank Road (U.S. Route 3) Fredericksburg, VA  22401   Tele (540)  786-8321   $89/night double occupancy   Reservation Code  CWT1

We’ll start the program Friday evening at 8PM with two lectures highlighting various aspects of the Overland Campaign. Robert K. Krick will discuss the Army of Northern Virginia while Dr. Mark Snell will deliver a lecture on “Grant’s Lieutenants : The Union High Command of 1864.”

On Saturday we’ll follow the dean of Civil War guides Ed Bearss as he takes you to the battlefields of North Anna River, Cold Harbor and the site of Stuart’s demise at Yellow Tavern.   The tour of the North Anna battlefield will be an extensive walking tour so that you can see first-hand the extensive field fortifications erected be the soldiers of Lee’s army. In the afternoon we’ll cover the operations at Cold Harbor and finish the day at Yellow Tavern.

Sunday morning, with Ed Bearss we’ll start on the Wilderness battlefield following the advance of the Fifth Corps in Saunders Field and then we’ll advance with the Texas brigade across the Widow Tapp field. In the afternoon we’ll cover the bloody assaults of May 10 and 12 at Spotsylvania. Again, the afternoon we’ll be a long walking tour of the field fortifications at Spotsylvania. If time permits, we’ll finish the weekend at the Harris Farm.

 

 

Civil War Tours
2010 Programs

Hosted by
David A. Ward

860-485-3603
www.civilwartours.org
124 Huntington Road       Winchester, CT  06098