Spring Campaign
THE 2025 SPRING CAMPAIGN: GETTYSBURG
Our Spring Campaign 2025 tour visited Gettysburg and Frederick, Maryland.
Gettysburg is an essential destination for any history enthusiast. We toured the battleground with Licensed Battlefield Guide Dave Weaver, exploring how key military decisions combined with this area’s distinctive landscape to determine the outcome of the battle. As part of our tour, we viewed the Gettysburg Cyclorama, the spectacular circular painting that stretches 377 feet wide and 42 feet high.
The Frederick area offers its own fascinating Civil War sites. Our group visited the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, learning about the medical innovations necessitated by the tragedy of the Civil War during a guided museum tour led by Dana Shoaf and including some behind-the-scenes looks at artifacts not normally on display.
We also enjoyed a guided tour of the often-overlooked Monocacy Battlefield, where Union forces unsuccessfully fought to halt a July 1864 Confederate advance toward Washington, D.C.
Stay tuned for details of the 2026 Spring Campaign!
Previous spring campaigns:
March 24-26, 2024. Spring Campaign: Fredericksburg. A two-night field trip to the historic sites of Fredericksburg, Virginia, including downtown Fredericksburg, the battlefields of the 1864 Overland Campaign, Spotsylvania, the Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Richard Kirkland Memorial, and the Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery, led by historian and tour guide John Hennessy.
March 27-29, 2022. Spring Campaign: Antietam. A two-night field trip to Harpers Ferry and Antietam, led by retired National Park Service historian Dennis Frye, exploring the place where John Brown tried to spark a massive slave rebellion, as well as the crucial battle that paved the way for Lincoln’s preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
March 24-26, 2019. Spring Campaign: The Virginia Peninsula. A two-night field trip to the historic sites of the Virginia Peninsula, including Fort Monroe, battlefields of McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, and The Mariners’ Museum, led by expert guide Jonathan White.
March 18-20, 2018. Spring Campaign: The Shenandoah Valley. A two-night field trip to the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, including a visit to the historic town of Lexington and a tour of “Stonewall” Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign, led by expert guide Jonathan Noyalas.
March 19-21 2017. Spring Campaign: Petersburg. An optional two-night field trip immediately following Civil War Weekend. We enjoyed a memorable trip to the city where the Civil War entered its final stages, including a guided tour of Petersburg National Battlefield, a behind-the-scenes visit to Pamplin Historical Park, and meals in historic restaurants.