Tauck Value Includes:
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – “Early-bird” admission & private, behind-the-scenes experience with an insider at the National Archives
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Keynote presentation on the 36th Congress and causes of the Civil War by a noted historian in Washington, DC
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Filmed vignettes by Ken Burns featuring compelling stories, fresh insights and personal perspectives on America’s greatest conflict, accompanied by clips and images from The Civil War
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Private visit to the Jacob Weikert Farm, a private home that still bears scars from its service as a makeshift field hospital at Gettysburg; meet the home’s current owners
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Private presentation on slavery and plantation life by Leni Sorensen, African American Research Historian for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Private meeting with a Richmond Civil War historian at the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Private concert of authentic spirituals by the gospel choir of Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church
• Guided visits to some of the war’s “most hallowed ground,” including Arlington Nat’l Cemetery and Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields
• Interactive experience where guests “become” a Civil War combatant at the Museum of the Civil War Soldier
• Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted
• 23 meals, service charges, gratuities to local guides, admission fees, taxes and porterage
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with welcome comments by an Archives insider. Then go behind the scenes with an Archives researcher to learn how modern archival techniques preserve both great documents and stories of individual Americans. Spend the rest of the day as you please in Washington. Meals B
4. “BLOODY ANTIETAM” TO GETTYSBURG Heading outside the Beltway into Maryland, stop in oft-embattled Frederick for a guided visit to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Exhibits tell inspiring stories of care, healing and courage in the face of the war’s grim realities, and advances that changed medicine forever, such as the innovations of field surgeon Dr. Jonathan Letterman, whose system for treating battlefield casualties is still in use today. In Sharpsburg in 1862, a little creek gave its name to American history’s bloodiest single day of combat; your guided tour of Antietam National Battlefield includes the story of Burnside’s Bridge. Continue north to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; a Ken Burns vignette offers insights on the town’s destiny as the site of the “high water mark of the Rebellion.” After lunch at a 19th-century Gettysburg inn, begin your experience of this most hallowed ground at Gettysburg National Military Park’s new Visitor Center, with its acclaimed film presentation and a multi-sensory experience in the restored Cyclorama that brings the sights and sounds of the battles that
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Leni Sorensen, African American Research Historian at Monticello Join us in Charlottesville for a captivating, Tauck Exclusive presentation by scholar, living history interpreter and research historian Dr. Leni Sorensen on slavery, plantation life and African American culture in Civil War-era Virginia.
Interactive Experience at The Museum of the Civil War Soldier You’ll have an extraordinary opportunity to experience life in the Civil War through the eyes of a real-life Union or Confederate soldier – hearing his actual words and feelings through your headset, and following his personal story throughout the war to his ultimate fate – during a compelling interactive journey at the Museum of the Civil War Soldier at Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, Virginia.
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EXCLUSIVE FILM VIGNETTES BY KEN BURNS
Throughout your extraordinary journey through the Civil War’s “most hallowed ground,” Ken Burns offers his unique perspectives on the terrible
conflict and its pivotal role in shaping the nation we live in today. Sharing fresh insights to accompany images from his documentary, The Civil War, Ken’s vignettes enliven your travels in Washington, Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Charlottesville, Appomattox and Richmond.
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