Encounters with History: Gettysburg Shadows

Immerse yourself in an "attack" on our conventional understandings of the Battle of Gettysburg! Explore the sweeping command decisions made by commanders—with a new perspective intended to question assumptions enshrined in many books. Why did Lee ignore Longstreet? Why did Ewell fail to attack? How did Meade win? The concept of “Shadows” is drawn from the writings and tours of historian Dennis Frye and his book, Antietam Shadows. This tour takes Frye’s concepts and his appetite for challenging convention, and applies these “shadows” to Gettysburg. This is a full-day outdoor program that departs the Gettysburg National Miitary Park Museum & Visitor Center at 8:30 a.m. and returns at 3:30 p.m. A boxed lunch is included. Ticket holders can expect short, easy walks on paved paths from the Seminary to Lee’s Headquarters and from the Virginia Memorial to the “Point of Woods” (east edge of Spangler Woods).