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'Confederate White House,' Richmond, VA
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The 2009 Roundtable field trip will be
to the Richmond, Virginia area and will include visits to the
battlefields of the 1862 Peninsula campaign, Cold Harbor,
Petersburg, and Five Forks. Other likely stops include: the White
House of the Confederacy, the American Civil War Center at Historic
Tredegar, Hollywood Cemetery (whose famous residents include
Jefferson and Varina Davis, Confederate generals Fitzhugh Lee,
Richard Garnett, Henry Heth, John Pegram, George Pickett and JEB
Stuart, historian Douglas Southall Freeman, Supreme Court Justices
Peter Daniel and Lewis Powell and Presidents James Monroe and John
Tyler), Pamplin Park, the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
and City Point.
Our guide will be Dr. Lynn Sims,
Professor Emeritus, U.S. Military History, University of Richmond
and retired U.S. Army. A Richmond native, Dr. Sims has had a
varied career that included being a historian for the Department of
Defense at Fort Lee, Virginia, serving as Director of the Richmond Bicentennial
Commission and city historian and serving as a civilian instructor
at the Command & General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He earned his undergraduate degree in history from Wheaton College
in Illinois, and his masters and Ph.D. in United States Military
history from New York University. Dr. Sims currently serves as
the VP (Programs), Richmond chapter, Sons of the American
Revolution.
Tentative itinerary:
September 24 (Thursday): arrive in
Richmond, meet that evening with our guide, Lynn Sims
September 25 (Friday): Tour Seven
Days battlefields (1862) from Beaverdam Creek to Malvern Hill, Cold
Harbor (1864), Richmond: Tredegar Iron Works Civil Museum and/or
White House of the Confederacy.
September 26 (Saturday): Petersburg
(the Crater and Ft. Stedman) (1864-1865) and Five Forks (1865)
battlefields, City Point, Pamplin Park (the common Civil War
soldier)
September 27 (Sunday): on your own
- Nearby attractions include: Appomattox Court House, Yorktown,
Mariners' Museum (Newport News), Jamestown, and Williamsburg.
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