Sunday, April 10
• Fly Salt Lake to Richmond, Virginia, landing about 6:30 PM
• Evening lecture/pedagogy session/dinner?
• Embassy Suites in Richmond Tel. 804-672-8585
Monday, April 11
• Petersburg National Battlefield, Grant’s Cabin 9:00AM to 12:30 PM
• Cold Harbor, Gains Mill (12 miles south of Richmond)
• Chimborazo Medical, in Richmond (open 9-5)
• Pamplin Park 1:30-5:00 (plan 3 ½ hours) 40 minutes from Richmond
• National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, Battlefield Trails
• Tudor Hall Plantation-2 perspectives on war
• Gerri Wyatt 1-804-861-2408 $10/adult admission ($270)
Tuesday, April 12
• Tredegar iron Works- 9-11 AM (Shawn Kane, 1-804-771-2018)
• Cannon Talk-National Park Service 30 min.
• Civil War prisons-American Civil War Center-30 minutes
• Civil War Battlefields film, 22 minutes
• Museum of the Confederacy 12:30-1:30 PM (Self-guided)
• (Dean Knight:1-804-649-1861, ext.37)
• Confederate White House two groups: 1:30, 1:45 PM (45 min. tour)
• Educational Program: Medicine, Inflation 3-4PM
• Walking Tour of Jefferson Davis’Richmond, 4-5 PM
• Drive to Washington DC ( Manassas?) (Hampton Inn, Alexandria)
• Evening river cruise on own in Alexandria?
Wednesday, April 13
• Tour Frederick Douglass House in morning
• Drive to Ford’s theater museum, Lincoln’s box 1 hour
• Museum
• Walking Tour with staff- 1 hour
• Decatur House in DC afternoon
• Dinner/lecture at Gadsby’s in Alexandria
Thursday, April 14
• Fort Stevens
• Drive to Lincoln Cottage-tour,
• Lincoln’s Sanctuary discussion with Matt Pinsker
• Lincoln Memorial
• Catered lunch
• Drive to Gettysburg-stops at Harper’s Ferry, execution site in Charlestown
• Antietam in afternoon
• Drive to Gettysburg-evening lecture/pedagogy session
• Hampton Inn, Gettysburg Tel: 1-717-338-9121
Friday, April 15
• Tour Gettysburg Battlefield in morning
• New Center, Cemetery, Willis House
• Army War College tour (Formerly Carlisle Indian School), 1 hour
• Underground Railroad sites on way to Carlisle
• Documentary film Festival in evening
Saturday, April 16
• Workshop on House Divided Digital Resource Project in morning
• Walking tour of Carlisle in afternoon with “augmented reality”
• Keynote address by David Blight in Evening
Sunday, April 17
• Leave Gettysburg at 7:00, drive to DC
• Civil War Encampment 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
8 a.m. Fort opens to the public
• 9 a.m. Roll calls and unit inspections
• 10 a.m. Grand parade and flag-raising ceremony
• 10:30 a.m. Living history demonstrations begin
• 11 a.m. American Bastille or Bastion of Freedom? program
• 12:30 p.m. Battle Cry of Freedom! fife and drum concert
• 3 p.m. Grand parade and flag-lowering Ceremony
• Drive to Baltimore-Fly home
• 5PM, direct flight to Salt Lake
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