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On Friday August 3rd 2012 the APG will host an all day (0800-1700) tour of two Civil War Battlefields in conjunction with the Fredericksburg Show.
The first part of the tour will start at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec 1862. The tour will highlight the Sunken Road/Stone Wall and the Slaughter Pen Farm. While at the Slaughter Pen Farm we will be presenting a check to the Civil War Trust for the preservation of that site.
We'll continue on to the May 1863 Chancellorsville Battlefield. Chancellorsville is considered Lee's greatest victory and is also known for the wounding of General Jackson. This tour will highlight the Chancellors' tavern site, Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson, Catharine Furnace, Jackson's Flank Attack, Jackson's wounding, and possibly Hooker's last line. We will also visit "Ellwood" the burial site of Jacksons arm and 5th Corps HQ during the Wilderness fight.
Transportation will be by bus starting and ending at the hotel. There will be a $10 fee to help defray the costs of the bus. We are also planning to arrange a box lunch meal and drinks for an additional fee. More on that later.
We are very fortunate to have Mr. Frank A. O'Reilly Historian for the Park as our tour guide. Mr. O'Reilly's is an accomplished author. His latest book The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock, received a 2003 nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Letters. It was released’s by LSU Press in December, 2002, and has won the 2002 Capital District (Albany, NY) Book Award; the 2003 James I. Robertson, Jr. Book Award; the 2004 Daniel Laney Book Award; and the 2004 Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award.
Frank has written numerous articles on the Civil War and Mexican War, and introductions to several books, including Phil Sheridan's memoirs, William McCarter’s My Life in the Irish Brigade, and the History of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. He released a book on the Fredericksburg Campaign titled, Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, in 1993. Frank has appeared in quite a few video documentaries, and has lectured extensively on military history to audiences around the world. Recently, he presented in Oxford, United Kingdom, on the Bicentennial of Robert E. Lee’s birth; and the Sesquicentennial of the beginning of the war in 1861.
He has also served as an historical consultant for the City of Fredericksburg and as the permanent historian for the " Stonewall" Jackson Shrine at Guinea Station, VA site of Jackson's death.
Frank has been described to me as "an all star" by a prominent fellow historian and will lead an excellent tour. If you are attending the show and have any interest in the Civil War or these two battles this tour is a must and quite possibly a once in a lifetime experience.
We're asking that anyone interested please contact us. We are going to need to rent a bus and will have to have a fairly firm number of attendees about a week prior to the event.
For more info or to sign up contact me direct at [email protected]
The first part of the tour will start at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec 1862. The tour will highlight the Sunken Road/Stone Wall and the Slaughter Pen Farm. While at the Slaughter Pen Farm we will be presenting a check to the Civil War Trust for the preservation of that site.
We'll continue on to the May 1863 Chancellorsville Battlefield. Chancellorsville is considered Lee's greatest victory and is also known for the wounding of General Jackson. This tour will highlight the Chancellors' tavern site, Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson, Catharine Furnace, Jackson's Flank Attack, Jackson's wounding, and possibly Hooker's last line. We will also visit "Ellwood" the burial site of Jacksons arm and 5th Corps HQ during the Wilderness fight.
Transportation will be by bus starting and ending at the hotel. There will be a $10 fee to help defray the costs of the bus. We are also planning to arrange a box lunch meal and drinks for an additional fee. More on that later.
We are very fortunate to have Mr. Frank A. O'Reilly Historian for the Park as our tour guide. Mr. O'Reilly's is an accomplished author. His latest book The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock, received a 2003 nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Letters. It was released’s by LSU Press in December, 2002, and has won the 2002 Capital District (Albany, NY) Book Award; the 2003 James I. Robertson, Jr. Book Award; the 2004 Daniel Laney Book Award; and the 2004 Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award.
Frank has written numerous articles on the Civil War and Mexican War, and introductions to several books, including Phil Sheridan's memoirs, William McCarter’s My Life in the Irish Brigade, and the History of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. He released a book on the Fredericksburg Campaign titled, Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, in 1993. Frank has appeared in quite a few video documentaries, and has lectured extensively on military history to audiences around the world. Recently, he presented in Oxford, United Kingdom, on the Bicentennial of Robert E. Lee’s birth; and the Sesquicentennial of the beginning of the war in 1861.
He has also served as an historical consultant for the City of Fredericksburg and as the permanent historian for the " Stonewall" Jackson Shrine at Guinea Station, VA site of Jackson's death.
Frank has been described to me as "an all star" by a prominent fellow historian and will lead an excellent tour. If you are attending the show and have any interest in the Civil War or these two battles this tour is a must and quite possibly a once in a lifetime experience.
We're asking that anyone interested please contact us. We are going to need to rent a bus and will have to have a fairly firm number of attendees about a week prior to the event.
For more info or to sign up contact me direct at [email protected]
