Encounters with History - Gettysburg Shadows, August 10, 2024 8:00AM

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August 10, 2024 8:00AM

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Encounters with History - Gettysburg Shadows

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Instead of discussing or following an attack, this tour IS an attack – an attack on our conventional understandings of the Battle of Gettysburg. The focus will be on the sweeping command decisions made by commanders – with a new perspective intended to question assumptions enshrined in many of the books we have read. Why did Lee ignore Longstreet? Why did Ewell fail to attack? How did Meade win? The concept of “Shadows” is drawn from the writings and tours of legendary Harper’s Ferry Chief Historian Dennis Frye and his book, “Antietam Shadows.” This tour takes Frye’s concepts, his appetite for challenging convention, and applies these “shadows” to Gettysburg.

This is a full-day outdoor program that will depart from the Museum & Visitor Center at 8:30 a.m. and return at 3:30 p.m., a boxed lunch will be provided. This tour involves short, easy walks on paved paths from the Seminary to Lee’s Headquarters and from the Virginia Memorial out to the “Point of Woods” (east edge of Spangler Woods).

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