9 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
13 people
English
Have the special opportunity to explore one of the country’s most historically significant battlefields—and leave all the logistics and navigation to someone else—on this private, full-day tour of Gettysburg. Following morning pickup from your Washington DC accommodation, travel via private “history bus” to Gettysburg. See a local museum, visit Gettysburg Battlefield, pay tribute at several memorials, and enjoy a more in-depth trip than most other visitors get to experience.
Travel time to Gettysburg, Pa from the Washington, DC area is approximately one hour and a half. Upon arrival, you will visit the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War, see A Film, “A New Birth of Freedom”. and see Cyclorama, a 360 degree painting depicting Pickett’s charge.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Travelers will hop on and hop off at various sites along the actual Gettysburg Battlefield. This time is an approximate culmination of all subsequent stops listed below.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included
This memorial, located on the hill where Maj.Gen. Robert E Rodes’ Confederates attacked from, threatening Union forces. 75 years later, 1800 Civil War veterans helped dedicate this memorial to “Peace Eternal in a Nation United”.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
At this site, Union soldiers held stubbornly against Rodes’ advance. Eventually the Union line from here to McPherson Ridge would begin to crumble.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
On this site, the Confederate army positioned itself on high ground along Seminary Ridge
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The large open field to the east of here is where the last Confederate assault of the battle known as “Pickett;s Charge”, occurred July 3rd.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Lt. Gen. James Longstreet’s Confederate army’s assault’s began here, directed at the Union troops occupying Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield and Peach Orchard and against General Meade’s undefended left flank at the Round Tops.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
As a result of quick action by Brig. Gen Warren, Gen. Meade’s chief engineer, Union officers were alerted to the Confederate threat and Federal reinforcements were brought here to defend the position
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
As a result of charges and countercharges, this field and nearby woods was strewn with over 4,000 dead and wounded
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The Union line extended from Devil’s Den to this point here, then angled northward on Emmittsburg Road. From here, Federal cannon bombarded Southern forces crossing the Rose Farm toward the Wheatfield. By that early evening, Confederate attacks overran the position.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Union soldiers crossed this ground on their way from the Peach Orchard to Cemetery Ridge to retreat as fighting raged to the south at the Wheatfield and Little Round Top
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
This is the point where Union artillery held the line here on Cemetery Ridge as General Meade called on more support to strengthen and hold the center of the Union position.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
After having attacked the right flank of the Union army and occupying the lower slopes of Culp’s Hill, the next morning the Confederates were driven off after 7 hours of fighting
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Union forces here repelled a Confederate assault that reached the crest of this hill
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Site of the most climatic moment of the battle on July 4th. after a 2 hour cannonade, some 7,000 union soldiers repulsed the bulk of the 12,000 man “Picket’s Charge” causing General Lee’s army to begin retreating
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The setting for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It was delivered at the cemetery’s dedication on November 19, 1863
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free