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Please note that the Lighthouses and Natural Wonders of the Outer Banks Tour has been cancelled.

Civil War Petersburg
Saturday, October 24, 2009 • 8 A.M. - 6 P.M.

Join historian A. Wilson Greene on a tour of wartime Petersburg, the focus of the longest sustained military campaign of the Civil War during 1864 - 1865, as the armies of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant clashed in a series of battles that led directly to Appomattox. Visit the battlefields that determined the city's fate, such as the infamous Crater, a section of Petersburg National Battlefield. Enjoy a guided tour of the battlefield at Pamplin Historical Park, the location of the battle that broke the Confederate line. After a buffet lunch, tour the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, a winner of national and international awards for museum excellence. Continue on a guided windshield tour of the streets of Historic Petersburg and visit Blandford Church and Cemetery, used as a field hospital during the siege. The church is well known for the exquisite Tiffany stained glass windows donated by the Ladies Memorial Association from 1901-1912 as a shrine to the South's "Lost Cause."

Cost: $120; $95 for Museum Members
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ABOUT A. WILSON GREENE The executive director and CEO of Pamplin Historical Park and the author of more than 25 publications dealing with the Civil War and Southern history, Mr. Greene is an authority on Petersburg. His most recent works include The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion and Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War, winner of the 2007 Laney Prize for distinguished scholarship and writing on the American Civil War.