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Tour Itinerary (PDF) Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours | 1 HALLOWED GROUND MANASSAS, GETTYSBURG, APPOMATTOX EXPLORE DATES & PRICES AT STEPHENAMBROSETOURS.COM OR CALL 504-821-9283 504-821-9283 • [email protected] 2 | This Hallowed Ground Militarily, the handwriting on the wall was all too clear. In late November, within five months of the staggering midsummer news from Gettysburg and Vicksburg that Lee’s army had been crippled and Pemberton’s abolished, Bragg was flung bodily off Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, impregnable though both positions had been said to be. and harried “southward into Georgia. With these defeats in mind, it was no wonder that every Sunday at Saint Paul’s in Richmond the congregation recited the Litany with special fervour when it reached the words, “From battle and murder, and from sudden death, good Lord, deliver us.” The good Lord might, at that. For though military logic showed that the South could not win an offensive war, fought beyond the Potomac or the Ohio, there was still a chance that it could win a defensive one, fought on its own territory. It could win, in short, because the North could lose. — From The Civil War: A Narrative (Volume III) by Shelby Foote ” PENNSYLVANIA Recommended Reading Gettysburg Battle Cry of Freedom – James M. McPherson Antietam The Civil War: A Narrative trilogy – Shelby Dulles Airport Foote Manassas Fredericksburg VIRGINIA Activity Level Richmond Although we do walk numerous battlefields, Appomattox there is nothing that is overly taxing. The Petersburg longest trek is Pickett’s Charge at one mile on This tour starts and ends a grass path. at Dulles airport (IAD). www.stephenambrosetours.com Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours | 3 This Hallowed Ground HIGHLIGHTS Tour • Manassas, Gettysburg, Appomattox - This tour is a study of the causes This Hallowed Ground is one of our most behind the conflict and the major memorable tours! It gives you a panorama of battles that began and ended the Civil the major events that began and ended the Civil War, starting with First Manassas, War, starting with First Manassas, culminating culminating with Gettysburg and with Gettysburg and breathing the air of finality closing with the surrender at at Appomattox. Appomattox. The Civil War was the defining event in • Harpers Ferry - We visit Harpers Ferry American history. It was an ordeal by fire that, at the confluence of the Shenandoah according to the most recent historical estimates, and Potomac rivers, where John cost the lives of as many as 750,000 American Brown staged his infamous raid that soldiers and left more than 300,000 wounded— failed to incite a slave rebellion. He casualties higher than all our other wars was captured and hanged there. combined. Stonewall Jackson later captured the town, arsenal and entire Union We study the military campaigns and strategy garrison as a prelude to the Antietam and delve into the causes as well as the people Campaign. who were willing to sacrifice their lives and • Antietam - Antietam was the site of property for their country, whether north or the bloodiest day of war in American south. Who were those soldiers whose hearts history when, on 17 September 1862, were, in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, there were 23,000 casualties. “touched by fire?” How were they trained? Until the turning point at Gettysburg, why did the • Gettysburg - At Gettysburg we study the three days that marked General Confederate officers and soldiers in the East Lee’s final attempt to score a major often tactically outmaneuver, fight harder, and victory in the north. campaign better than the Union generals? And, finally, why did the North win? • Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Wilderness - We Our professional historian will lead the group tour the area of four major and conduct informal discussions throughout battles: Confederate victories at the tour. We can learn from, and be inspired Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville by, the skill, the courage, and the endurance leading up to Gettysburg; then displayed by the generation that brought us Spotsylvania and the Wilderness through the Civil War. In addition to retracing Campaign fighting to keep the Grant’s battles we include education sessions to enhance Union armies at bay. our understanding of the war and people. 504-821-9283 • [email protected] 4 | This Hallowed Ground DAY 1 Welcome Reception DAY 3 Harpers Ferry, Antietam Schedule your flight to the Washington Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Dulles International Airport. The group will Mountains at the confluence of the meet at a nearby hotel where we will have Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, Harpers Ferry a Welcome Reception at 6 p.m. followed by is one of the loveliest places in the eastern U.S. dinner at 7 p.m. This was the scene of John Brown’s raid in DAY 2 Manassas: Confederate Victories, October 1859— a desperate act that hastened Union Disarray the outbreak of war. Brown was hanged for Our program begins with a visit to the treason on December 2, but the raid hardened battlefield at Manassas. Both the North and radical sentiment for he was seen a martyr in South thought that a war would be short. the North and a radical insurrectionist in the Union leaders believed their greater resources South. and manpower would prevail while the Confederates doubted northern resolve. The The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), first battle of Manassas (Bull Run) July 21, September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single 1861 saw the proud but green Union Army day battle in American history with 23,100 facing the better led Confederates who won men killed or wounded. Although neither side a decisive victory. The Union Army retreated gained a decisive victory, Lee’s withdrawal and unpursued to Washington. Innocence and failure to carry the war effort effectively into illusion were over for both sides. By the time the North caused Great Britain to postpone of Second Manassas at the end of August recognition of the Confederacy. It also gave 1862, both armies had gained combat President Lincoln the opportunity to compose experience, but the result was an even more and later issue the Emancipation Proclamation significant Confederate victory. on January 1, 1863, declaring all slaves free in the states still in rebellion. www.stephenambrosetours.com Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours | 5 DAY 4 Gettysburg: Days One and Two DAY 5 Gettysburg: Pickett’s Charge, Lincoln’s Address, The Battle of Gettysburg, lasting The Civilian Experience three days, July 1, 2, and 3, 1863, was Today we walk the field of Pickett’s Charge, perhaps the bloodiest battle and the turning the most famous attack in American history. As noted point of the Civil War. More than by historian James McPherson, “Pickett’s Charge 50,000 Americans of both sides were represented the Confederate war effort in microcosm: casualties. Gettysburg was General Lee’s unsurpassed valor, apparent initial success, and final attempt to carry the war north. ultimate disaster.” Of the 14,000 Confederates who Although nearly two years of fierce attacked, only about half returned. fighting still lay ahead, after Gettysburg the prospects of a Union victory Some four months after the battle, President Lincoln changed from if to when. We will came to Gettysburg to deliver one of the greatest stand at Little Round Top, where the speeches in American history. We will visit Shriver 20th Maine Regiment, led by Colonel House, a museum dedicated to the civilian experience Joshua Chamberlain, repulsed several during the struggle. Dinner will be at the Dobbin Confederate assaults and preserved the House, the oldest building in Gettysburg (1797) Union position at Cemetery Ridge. This and a stopping point for escaped slaves on the action was described by author Michael Underground Railroad. Shaara in his epic narrative The Killer Angels. 504-821-9283 • [email protected] 6 | This Hallowed Ground DAY 6 Fredericksburg–Richmond: The Heroism of Clara Barton–Chancellorsville This morning we will return south to Virginia and visit Fredericksburg – a region of four major battles: Fredericksburg, December 1862; Chancellorsville, May 1863; The Wilderness, May 1864; Spotsylvania Court House, May 1864. Richmond, the soul and Capital of the Confederacy, was the northern army’s main target. The direct route from Washington to Richmond passes through Fredericksburg. Clara Barton, later to found the American Red Cross, won fame and gratitude for her heroic Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville were nursing of the wounded of both sides. We visit decisive Confederate victories. Wilderness and Chatham Plantation, where the “holy angel” Spotsylvania were tremendous but tactically from Massachusetts worked at her makeshift inconclusive battles in Grant’s 1864 Overland “hospital.” Barton had already helped the campaign. After visiting Fredericksburg, wounded at Antietam and Second Manassas. we’ll continue to Chancellorsville, where we Later, she would serve at the Wilderness and analyze the battle, see where Stonewall Jackson Spotsylvania and become supervisor of nurses received his mortal wounds and discuss the for the Union Army of the James. aftermath. www.stephenambrosetours.com Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours | 7 DAY 7 Petersburg: The Confederacy and the DAY 9 Transfers to Airports Antebellum South One morning transfer Dulles Airport. Because By the summer of 1864, the war in Virginia Dulles is a two-hour drive from Richmond, settled into a brutal siege around Richmond you will not be at the Dulles airport until 10 and nearby Petersburg that would last until the a.m., so book your flight after noon. There will spring of 1865. We will visit the fascinating only be one group transfer so if your flight is National Battlefield at Petersburg, scene of the earlier than noon, your transfer will be on- Battle of the Crater. After walking the ground your-own. over which the battle took place, we travel a short way to visit the memorable National Museum of the Civil War Soldier at Pamplin Historical Park.
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