2014 Civil War Travelogue

Welcome to my 2014 travelogue page, commemorating the fourth year of the Civil War Sesquicentennial! (Since these reports tend to be lengthy, they are often in separate HTML pages. Use the links just below to see all the finished reports.)

Here is a reminder about the reason I write these pages the way I do. They record my experiences and impressions of Civil War trips primarily for my future use. Thus, they sometimes make assumptions about things I already know and focus on insights that I receive. They are not general-purpose descriptions for people unfamiliar with the Civil War, although I do link to various Wikipedia articles throughout. Apologies about the quality of interior photographs—I don't take fancy cameras with big flashes to these events. If you would like to be notified of new travelogues, connect to me via Facebook.

Here are the trips I took in 2014:

• March 27–29: Arkansas and Missouri, including Wilson's Creek with the Blue and Gray Education Society
• May 19–23: BGES — Overland Campaign with Gordon Rhea (trip includes ceremonies at North Anna May 24 and some dabbling with Bermuda Hundred and Malvern Hill)
• June 20–25: Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

Here is a list of interesting 2014 trips that I considered, but could not arrange:

• April 24–27: Pamplin Park — Petersburg I
• May 11–15: BGES — Hood Fights for Atlanta
• May 16–18: Chambersburg — Wilderness and Spotsylvania with Robert K. Krick
• May 28–June 1: Civil War Trust annual conference, Nashville
• July 23–27: Chambersburg — Terror on the Border: Summer 1864
• July 24–27: BGES — Shenandoah Summer: Early’s 1864 Valley Campaign
• September 26–28: Chambersburg —Winchester to Fisher’s Hill
• October 3–5: Mosby — Gettysburg, the First Day
• November 7–9: West Coast Civil War Roundtable Conference, Sacramento

If you are aware of an interesting opportunity, please email me, using the link at the left.