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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.
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