tagged with: Civil War
August 8, 2008
Civil War walking tours in Richmond
The National Park Service has 3 Civil War walking tours remaining this month: Industrial Work Force Tour tomorrow, Richmond’s Civil War Prisons walking tour on 8/16, and Walking Tour of Historic Tredegar Iron Works on 8/23. [via]
June 10, 2008
Sons of Confederate Veterans proposes Davis statue at Tredegar
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is offering to donate a bronze statue of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the the Confederacy, to be placed at Tredegar Iron Work to mark the bicentennial of his birth. [via]
April 9, 2008
Civil War Sampler bus tour – 4/12/08
The Valentine Richmond History Center’s Civil War Sampler Bus Tour will be Saturday, April 12 from 1-5PM. Explore the unique role Richmond played as the Capital of the Confederacy and learn about Chimborazo, Libby Prison, the infamous Belle Isle and the Evacuation Fire. Starting in the city, the tour winds through Church Hill, Shockoe Bottom, the Court End and the canal area, stopping at Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and the Tredegar Iron Works. The tour also visits Hollywood Cemetery and then out Monument Avenue to the battlefields, with stops at Gaines Mill and Cold Harbor.