The Round Table sponsors an annual fall fieldtrip to a major Civil War battlefield. The trip usually takes place the last weekend in October. Recent field trips have included tours of the battlefields of Gettysburg, Antietam, Charleston, and Vicksburg. Past spring trips have included tours of the battles of Galveston and Sabine Pass.
Fieldtrips have deadlines and a limited number of seats. The Round Table sponsors a fieldtrip to Civl War battlefields each year, typically these fieldtrips are scheduled in the fall and the destination is outside Texas. The Round Table also recommends several regional conferences on the Civil War for which you must make your own arrangements. There is one price for members and a higher price for non-members.
2011 Fall Fieldtrip - The 1864 Overland Campaign
Our 2011 Field Trip will be a study of The 1864 Overland Campaign, covering the battles of; The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and Cold Harbor. Our guide will be Frank O'Reilly.
We will depart on Thursday, October 27th 2011 and return on the Monday, October 31st 2011.
COST:
Double Room: $1030.00 per person
Single Room: $1220.00 per person
PAYMENTS:
Initial Deposit of $250.00 due 5/19/12011
Second Payment of $300 due 7/15/2011
Final Balance due 9/1/2011
CHECKS PAYABLE TO:
Tony Matt
15811 Spruce River CT
Sugar Land, TX 77498
ACCOMMODATIONS:
The Hampton Inn
1080 Hospitality Dr.
Fredericksburg, VA
2011 FIELD TRIP ITINERARY:
Day 1 (Thursday, 10/27/2011) Travel:
Houston to Baltimore on Continental Flight #1444
Depart Houston at 10:50 AM
Arrive Baltiore at 2:48 PM
Day 2 (Friday, 10/28/2011) The Wilderness:
Germanna Ford, Grant's HQ Knoll, Saunders Field, Lunch and tour Ellwood Higgerson Farm, Widow Tapp Field, Longstreet's Flank Attack and Wounding Site, Lee's Last Attack on Brock Road/Plank Road intersection
Day 3 (Saturday, 10/29/2011) Spotsylvania Courthouse:
Todd's Tavern, Laurel Hill/Spindle Farm, Sedgwick's Wounding Site, Upton's Attack, Lunch at the Battlefield Exhibit Shelter Bloody Angle, Lee's Last Line
Day 4 (Sunday, 10/30/2011) Cold Harbor:
Carmel Church, North Anna Battlefield Park/Ox Ford, Haw's Shop/Enon Church, Totopotomoy/Shelton House or the School Lunch either at Enon Church or at Shelton House Bethesda Church Site Cold Harbor Visitor Center (rest break), Old Cold Harbor Crossroads (possibly Beulah Church as well), Cold Harbor Battlefield Park--Breakthrough Site, Cold Harbor Battlefield Park--Union Trenches Jump-off for attack, Finish up around 4:00 p.m. to get back to the hotel 5:00-ish.
Day 5 (Monday, 10/31/2011) Travel:
Baltimore to Houston on Continental Flight #1204
Depart Baltimore at 2:00 PM
Arrive Houston at 4:22 PM
For more information please email Tony Matt at Fieldtrips@HoustonCivilWar.com or call him at (281) 277-0203.
Past Trips
Our 2010 fall Fieldtrip found us in and around the Richmond area. We were led on a tour of the Seven Days Battle by Robert E. L. Krick of the Richmond NBP. The trip began on Thursday, November 4, 2010 and we returned to Houston on Sunday, November 7, 2010.
The 2009 fall Fieldtrip took us to Gettysburg from Octobet 22 through October 26, 2009. Our battlefield guide was again the incomparable Ed Bearss.
The 2005 fall Fieldtrip followed the Red River Campaign of 1864 through Louisiana. Dates were October 27 to 31, 2005. Our battlefield guide was again the incomparable Ed Bearss.
The 2004 fall Fieldtrip followed the Shenandoah Valley campaigns of General Stonewall Jackson in 1862 and General Jubal Early in 1864. Ed Bearss again led the tour, which took place October, 2004.
The 2003 fall Fieldtrip went to Shiloh, site of the first great battle of Tennessee in 1862 in which the Union general U.S. Grant fought the Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston - a Texan - to a draw. General Johnston died as a result of a wound he received in the fighting. The noted battlefield guide Ed Bearss, retired chief historian of the National Park Service, led the tour in November, 2003.
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