Civil War Trip Tomorrow.... This is the Tentative Schedule

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