CANCELLED: "Grant Won't Turn Back!" - The Battle of the Wilderness Tour and Picnic
Sat, Oct 01
|Chancellorsville Visitors Center
We regret that the picnic and tour scheduled for this Saturday, October 1, has been cancelled. Expected effects of Hurricane Ian have us worried.
Time
Oct 01, 2022, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM EDT
Chancellorsville Visitors Center, 9001 Plank Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA 22553, USA
About the Event
This annual event is a highlight of our programming year. The focus this time will be on the relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and newly-promoted Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant during the days leading up to the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-6, 1864). This is the fight that inaugurated the bloody and frustrating Overland Campaign between the Rapidan and the James Rivers. A reporter for a New York newspaper visited General Grant's headquarters just before leaving for Washington on the evening of May 6 and asked if he could deliver a message to President Lincoln. Grant responded: "Tell the President there will be no turning back." No news could be more welcome to the man of whom an Illinois reporter had written some years earlier: "There is no back-down in Abraham Lincoln."
At noon, the Lincoln Group's resident tour guide Craig Howell will give us an orientation briefing about…