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For more information
about any of the Park's events, tours and programs,
call (804) 861-2408 or toll-free 1-877-PAMPLIN.
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Special
Exhibit
Many Thousands Go:
African Americans and the Civil War
Through May 2007
Did
you know that fifteen of the twenty-five African Americans who
won the Medal of Honor during the Civil War did so during the
Richmond and Petersburg campaigns?
Make sure you visit the Park before the special exhibit "Many
Thousands Go: African Americans and the Civil War" closes
on May 31, 2007. This 1,500 square-foot exhibit highlighting
the military and civilian experiences of African Americans on
both sides of the conflict was featured on the PBS program,
Virginia Currents, in November 2006. Click
here for more details about the exhibit. Click
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Breakthrough
Anniversary
March
31, 2007
3rd
Annual Pre-dawn Tour
5:30 a.m.
Join
us on Saturday, March 31, 2007, for a pre-dawn walking tour
of the historic “Breakthrough” battlefield of
April 2, 1865. A delicious, hot breakfast buffet will be served
in The Hardtack & Coffee Café after the tour. Park
Members receive one FREE breakfast per Membership card. Additional
Members, guests and non-members are $8 per person. Space is
limited, so contact Member Services at (804) 861-2408 or MemberServices@pamplinpark.org
to make your reservation today! Reservations and fee required.
Driving
Tours
Explore a local battlefield with one of Pamplin
Historical Park's historians. Each tour is limited to six
people. To participate, sign up at the Admissions Desk in
The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier on Saturday,
March 31. First come, first serve.
FREE for Park Members. $5 per person for non-members.
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White
Oak Road Battlefield Tour:
90 minutes - 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m.
Dinwiddie Courthouse Battlefield Tour:
90 minutes - 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. |
Lecture:
"The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign"
2:00
p.m.
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Exhibit
Event
Fort Pillow
- Massacre?
April 14, 2007
2 p.m.
Brian Steel Wills, Professor of History at
the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and author
of “The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford
Forrest,” presents “Fort Pillow - Massacre?"
about the myths and realities of the April 12, 1864 Battle
of Fort Pillow in Henning, Tennessee. Did a massacre actually
occur? Join Wills as he explores all sides of the controversy
in his presentation. Visitors will be able to participate
in a question and answer session after the presentation.
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4th
Annual Spring Tour
The Wilderness to the North Anna
May 10 - 13, 2007
Follow in the footsteps of soldiers
during the grueling 1864 Overland Campaign from May 4 - May
25, 1864. Based in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia, the tour
will visit sites, prominent and obscure, from the battles of
The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and North Anna. Reservations
and fee required. Click
here for more information. |
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11th
Annual
Civil War Weekend
June 23 & 24, 2007
Join Civil War reenactors for
Pamplin Historical Park's largest event of the year! Visitors
will enjoy music, games, artillery demonstrations, re-enactments,
and story telling. |
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2nd
Annual Members' Tour
War for the Western Waters:
Shiloh to Vicksburg
September 25 - October 2, 2007
Journey with historian A. Wilson Greene,
and local historians on a week-long tour of Civil War sites
in the lower Mississippi Valley. The tour starts and ends
in Memphis and visits Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth, and Brice's
Cross Roads. Non-members welcome. Reservations and fee
required. Click
here for more information.
Click
here to view pictures from the 2006 Members' Tour. |
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11th
Annual Symposium
Infamous Episodes and Disastrous Endeavors
of the Civil War
October 19 - 21, 2007
Join
authors and historians from around the country for our 11th
Annual Symposium. Topics include: "Sabotage at City Point,"
"Blunders of the Vicksburg Campaign," "Infamy
at Fort Pillow," "The Surrender of Harpers Ferry,"
"Mr. Lincoln Goes to War," and "Grants Failures
at Petersburg." Reservations and fee required.
Click here for more information.
Click
here to view photos from the 2006 Symposium.
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