Day 1

Visit Vienna Freeman Store, used as a makeshift hospital and Ball’s Bluff, the site of an important Confederate victory. Spend the afternoon at Gettysburg National Military Park, the site of three days of the deadliest conflict of the war.
 

Day 2

Begin with Sully Historic Site, and a stop at the Old Stone Church in Historic Centreville, a Union and Confederate hospital. Tour the Manassas National Battlefield Park, and walk in the footsteps of soldiers where two of the war’s important battles occurred. Day ends with the Manassas Museum and quaint Old Town Manassas.
 

Day 3

The Historic City of Fairfax is highlighted by a stop at the Fairfax Museum and Visitors Center and Historic Blenheim, featuring some of the best preserved Civil War graffiti in existence. Head to Virginia Hunt Country, known to Civil War enthusiasts as The Mosby Heritage Area – John Mosby, “The Gray Ghost”, was a Confederate legend. Visit the Historic City of Winchester, the site of innumerable battles where the city changed hands over 70 times during the war!
 

Day 4

Visit Historic Downtown Herndon, the site of a successful raid by “The Gray Ghost” Captain John Mosby. Continue to Antietam, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, the site of the single deadliest day of fighting during the Civil War.
 

Day 5

Arlington National Cemetery, a Union encampment that became a cemetery when the casualties pushed all cemeteries to capacity. Visit the Lincoln Memorial and the Freedmen’s Memorial, which depicts Lincoln symbolically freeing the slaves and the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, our nation's only monument to African American Civil War soldiers.

End the day with a visit to Ford’s Theatre, where President Lincoln was assassinated.

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