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The Race to Spotsylvania: From the Wilderness via Todd’s Tavern to Laurel Hill

Monday, October 11, 2010 -- 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

$115 ($100 for payment before 21 Sept)
(Includes lunch, snacks, & transportation)

Sponsored by Friends of Wilderness Battlefield
Proceeds support Phase III Ellwood restoration

Edwin C. Bearss, former National Park Service Chief Historian, educator and premier Civil War Tour Guide, will lead a unique tour that starts with the final day of the Wilderness Battle, discussing Grant’s & Lee’s decisions, routes taken, and skirmishes fought between the two armies as they maneuvered toward Spotsylvania Court House.

Sites visited will be the following points of interest:  

• Spotswood House
• Germanna Ford
• Germanna Plank Road & Brock Road Intersection
• Unfinished Railroad Cut
• Longstreet Wounding Site
• Brock Road/Plank Road Intersection
• Todd's Tavern
• Spotsylvania Court House
• Block House Road/Laurel Hill
• Alsop Farm/Goshen Church
• Stephenson Ridge (Lunch)

Tour includes lunch at Stevenson Ridge B&B and snacks during the day.
Bus departs from the Lake of the Woods lower parking lot promptly at 8 a.m. 

The tour is sold out...to be wait-listed, contact Dorothy Mosso at (540) 412–9437, e-mail dorothymosso@comcast.net