After Yorktown: The Continental Army in the Hudson Valley, George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy Sept 30, 2023

Saturday, September 30 (8:00am-6:00pm)

Led by: Lt. Col Michael McGurty (ret.)

Tour Starts/Ends at: NY State Thruway Park n Ride

Tour Registration: $150.00 (Check or Credit Card)

After the American-French victory at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, George Washington moved the Continental Army back to upstate New York because British forces under Sir Henry Clinton still occupied New York City. Washington’s army encamped near Newburgh, New York where the general established his headquarters. [Read more…]

Grant Faces Lee in Virginia: Part III: The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor and Much More

Tuesday, May 9 (7:00pm EST) – Saturday, May 13, 2023 (10:00am EST)

Led by: A. Wilson “Will” Greene

HQ: Fredericksburg, VA

**All Hotel Accommodations & All Meals are Included in the Cost of This Tour**

Tour Registration: $1759.00 (Check or Credit Card)

Battle of Spotsylvaninia facsimile print by L. Prang & Co.

We hope you can join us for the third installment of our Campaigning with Grant series!  This year, Grant arrives in Virginia with the new rank of lieutenant general and the title of general-in-chief. Grant decides to make his headquarters with George Meade’s Army of the Potomac and plans a campaign to move against Richmond and an inevitable clash with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.  Confederate logistics preclude going on the operational offensive, but the Army of Northern Virginia still possesses power as a counter-puncher.The Union army’s progress toward Richmond is a bloody one. In forty days, the armies meet numerous times in a series of drawn battles. After each engagement, Grant and Meade sidle to their left, southeast, in an attempt to outflank the Rebels, and each time Lee’s veterans are there to block them.  Eventually, the Federals run out of flanking room north of Richmond, leading to Grant’s bold decision to execute a crossing of the James and an attack against Petersburg. [Read more…]

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