The People’s War day four


MANASSAS to arlington In his Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln expressed his belief that the


Civil War was being waged to preserve a “government of the people, by the people, for the people” – a “people’s war” that often pitted brother against brother. Witness the war as experienced by typical Americans on both sides today on visits to Manassas National Battlefield, site of both battles of Bull Run early in the war; Ben Lomond Historic Site, a pre- war Federal-style home that served as a Confederate hospital; Historic Occoquan, a Potomac mill town that helps illustrate the river’s role in the war; and America’s “most hallowed ground” – Arlington National Cemetery, once Robert E. Lee’s family estate – and his former home, Arlington House, now a national memorial to the Confederate general.


gala farewell event Tonight, all gather for our stately farewell dinner at the National Portrait Gallery &


Smithsonian American Art Museum, a spectacular Greek Revival structure originally built as the U.S. Patent Office. It served as a Union hospital and morgue after Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg; Clara Barton and Walt Whitman nursed the wounded here. In March 1865, it was the site of Lincoln’s second inaugural ball. Narrowly escaping the wrecking ball in the 1950s, it became the National Portrait Gallery & Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1968. The evening includes a reception and private viewing of the America’s Presidents Portrait Gallery. A gala dinner is served in the very same Great Hall that hosted the Lincoln inaugural; enjoy delicacies from the era, a toast by Tauck family members, live Civil War- era music and a dessert buffet... at your own private “inaugural ball!”


Living historians tell the story of Ben Lomond Historic Site, a home turned Confederate hospital during Manassas.


Try to imagine Washington’s elite going out by horse and buggy to “see a real battle” – First Bull Run in 1861 – during your visit to Manassas Nat’l Battlefield.


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Enjoy delicacies and live music from the Civil War era at our farewell gala at the Nat’l Portrait Gallery & Smithsonian American Art Museum.


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