**Update: This event went very well! A beautiful day and over 30 people showed up for the tour! I'll have a more detailed "report from the field" with some photos coming up soon.
Sorry, this slipped my mind and is a bit late . . .
For immediate release—April 9, 2018
Contact: Terry Heder/SVBF (540-740-4545 office or 540-333-2545 cell)
Battlefields Foundations Offers “Fridays at the Front” Civil War Tours
Free Series of Tours Led by SVBF CEO Keven Walker Kicks off With Waynesboro Tour on Friday, April 13
Following Tours to Include McDowell, Port Republic, Harrisonburg, Page Valley, and Fisher’s Hill
NEW MARKET, Va.—
Join the Shenandoah Valley
Battlefields Foundation on the front lines of history with “Fridays at
the Front” tours. The 2018 schedule kicks off this Friday, April 13,
from 10am-Noon, with a tour of Waynesboro battlefield
sites.
"Fridays at the Front”
are special complementary tours of Civil War battlefields and historic
sites in the Shenandoah Valley. Led by historian and SVBF Chief
Executive Officer Keven Walker, the tours visit well-known
sites and little-known hidden jewels, and cover stories great and
small, from the accounts of huge armies moving across the landscape to
the individual stories of loyalty, determination, and sacrifice
involving soldiers and civilians alike. This year, some
of the tours will be co-led by eminent historians and authors such as
Ed Bearss, Bill Miller, and Richard Williams.
This tours are free and open to everyone. Register by calling the SVBF at 540-750-4545 or by going to
www.ShenandoahAtWar.org. The tours will include:
"The last fight of the Shenandoah": The Battle of Waynesboro
Car caravan tour of sites
related to the last significant Civil War battle in the Shenandoah
Valley, fought on March 2, 1865. A smaller battle with a big impact, it
was the site of Jubal Early's "last stand," saw
the destruction of the last sizeable Confederate force in the Valley,
and allowed Philip Sheridan and his troops to head east to play pivotal
roles in the Appomattox campaign. Tour led by Richard Williams,
historian and author of
The Battle of Waynesboro, and SVBF CEO Keven Walker
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As authorized by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, the
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation serves as the non-profit manager of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields
National Historic District, partnering with local, regional, and
national organizations and governments to preserve the Valley’s
battlefields and interpret and promote the region’s Civil War story.
Created by Congress in 1996, the
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District
encompasses Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Highland, Page, Rockingham,
Shenandoah, and Warren counties in Virginia and the cities of
Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro, and Winchester. The legislation
authorizes federal funding for the protection of ten battlefields in
the District: Second Winchester, Third Winchester, Second Kernstown,
Cedar Creek, Fisher’s Hill, Tom’s Brook, New Market, Cross Keys, Port
Republic, and McDowell.
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ON THE WEB:
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation and
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District:
www.ShenandoahAtWar.org
National Park Service 1992 study of the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War battlefields:
www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/shenandoah/svs0-1.html