2020 tour lineup: Apache Wars, Billy the Kid, Custer's Last Stand, Grant versus Lee


I'm excited to say that Gordon Rhea has signed on to guide a four-day battlefield tour next September that will generally follow the course of action in his monumental pentalogy from The Wilderness through Cold Harbor, and the initial assault at Petersburg [LSU Press].

Over the last 23 years I have facilitated group tours of a great many Civil War sites—from the well-known to the obscure—but I've never attempted the entirety of the Overland Campaign in a single outing. I have pestered Gordon literally for years, and am gratified that he did not block my email, and that his schedule eventually opened up enough to allow him to settle on some dates. 

Though each of the unspeakably bloody battles in this complex campaign warrants a multi-day tour of its own, we are crafting a meaningful and coherent itinerary to do justice to the subject over four full days (following an evening talk to set the stage).
I hope you'll consider joining us. This is going to be a fantastic tour. You've got plenty of time to catch up on your reading.

Here's the latest flyer for 2020 tours. It's going to be a fun year, traipsing across Arizona on the trail of Cochise, tracking the brief life of Billy the Kid in New Mexico, a return to Last Stand Hill in Montana, and the great Grant-versus-Lee adventure in Virginia.





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