See Train Station; Wills House; dinner; shopping
Hotel: Best Western Chambersburg
Gettysburg National Battlefield
Visitors Center: Cyclorama, Museum and Film
We will use a battlefield guide and explore Culp’s Hill, Little Roundtop, High Water Mark, Lutheran Seminary, Pickett’s Charge, Reynolds death site, Jenny Wade House, National Cemetery
Hotel: Country Inn & Suites in Hagerstown, MD
Day 3 Tour Antietam Battlefield / Harpers Ferry
Antietam National Battlefield
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park @ the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
Museums via Park Service, restaurants, John Brown, Walking bridge, Jefferson Rock
Abolitionist John Brown led an armed group in the capture of the armory in 1859. Brown had hoped he would be able to arm the slaves and lead them against U.S. forces in a rebellion to overthrow slavery. After his capture in the armory by a group of Marines (led by U.S. Army Colonel Robert E. Lee), Brown was hanged, predicting in his last wo
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The Appomattox Campaign, March 29–April 9, 1865, consisted of a series of engagements south and west of the Confederate capital at Richmond that ended in the surrender by Robert E. Lee of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). During his Overland Campaign the previous spring, Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant had relentlessly pursued Lee before settling into a ten-month siege of the Confederate transportation hub at Petersburg, south of Richmond. Grant was finally able to dislodge Lee’s army at the Battle of Five Forks (1865), allowing him to take Petersburg and then Richmond. The Confederates fled to Southside Virginia in an attempt to unite with Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee, but Grant maneuvered Lee into a trap near the village of Appomattox Court House. There, on April 9, the Confederate general received terms of surrender from Grant. In short order, the remaining Confederate armies also laid down their arms