Would anyone be interested in a free tour of the Petersburg battlefields on the morning of December 26, 2022? I'll conduct such a tour if there's sufficient interest.
I've written a few books on the siege and I plan to be in Richmond then.
My books include The Petersburg Campaign (1993); The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864 (2015); and The Petersburg Regiment (2019). The last won the 2019 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History.
The working title of my nearly finished current project is Grant's Siege of Lee at Petersburg: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road and the Wilson-Kautz Raid.
My idea is to begin in the main vistor center parking lot of Petersburg National Battlefield Park, proceed to the Crater battlefield (July 30, 1864), then down Crater Road to Birdsong Road and take up the route of Barlow's division to its ambush at the hands of Barringer's cavalry brigade on the Jerusalem Plank Road battlefield (June 21-24, 1864) , and wind up on the Globe Tavern battlefield (August 18-21, 1864 at the monument to Hagood's South Carolina Brigade at Stop One of the Petersburg National Battlefield Western Front Auto Tour on the west side of Halifax Road south of Flank Road. We would then return to the visitor center so nobody gets lost and I could inscribe any book anyone wants to purchase there.
Those interested in the proposed tour should contact me by email (johnedwardhorn@gmail.com), facebook, or my blog at petersburgcampaign.blogspot.com.
John Horn
Sorry to learn you will be in the Woke/Antifa/BLM ghetto. Say "hello!" to Little Powell if he's still there.
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