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The Civil War

Tour

3 DAYS

320 MILES / 515KM

GREAT FOR...

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BEST TIME TO GO

September to

November for sunny

skies and autumnal

color shows at

preserved battlefields.

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ESSENTIAL

PHOTO

The fences and fields

of Antietam at sunset.

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BEST FOR

FOODIES

Lamb burgers at

Richmond’s Burger

Bach.

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Virginia and Maryland pack many of the seminal sites of

America’s bloodiest war into a space that includes some of

the Eastern seaboard’s most attractive countryside.

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WASHINGTON,DC

Frederick

Petersburg

Antietam

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Richmond

Enjoy historic hotels,

great eats and

magnificent museums

230 miles

Appomattox Court

House National Park

Where the war, and

your trip, ends

320 miles

Fredericksburg

Deep-forest parks hide

this battlefield

153 miles

Manassas National

Battlefield Park

Wander Bull Run's

bucolic fields

105 miles

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS