Also featuring a presentation on Colonel Allen Allensworth, who escaped slavery during the Civil War and joined the Union Navy. He was later instrumental in the founding of Allensworth, a historic California town financed and governed by African Americans (now a jewel in the California State Park system). Friends of Allensworth President Sasha Biscoe will deliver a presentation on this "seldom heard" chapter of California and U.S. history.
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On this entirely unique, four-day tour, Gordon will conducts hikes along every step of the NPS trails on these two battlefields, interpreting along the way. He'll also take the group to some rarely-seen private sites, to discuss the monumental opening battles of Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Headquarters hotel will be in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Other tours in the hopper . . .— The Flight of the Nez Perce (Spokane to Great Falls)
— The Modoc War of 1872-1873 — The Battles of the Rosebud, and Little Bighorn — Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico — The Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770 |
Gordon Rhea and Dave Woodbury following the Overland Campaign of 1864
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