GDG- A Gettysburg period newspaper question - post-battle tours
Biggsk at aol.com
Biggsk at aol.com
Tue Jan 16 16:21:50 CST 2007
Hello one and all,
Since we have been chatting about wartime newspapers for a bit, it brought
to mind a question regarding something for the Gettysburg battlefield. Let me
set the stage first.
A year or so ago I was asked to speak to the Evansville, In CWRT and, it
being only 2 hours from me, I went up early to work with the wartime newspapers
of the city for the day. I stumbled across an ad from the local steamboat
company dated within two days after the capture of Ft. Donelson (Feb. 16,
1862). The ad offered a tour of the Ft. Donelson battlefield as an all-day
excursion and then listed the times of departure in the mornings plus the rates.
The same company did the same thing after Shiloh in April, although this was
an overnight tour.
My question is, what was the earliest time after July 3, 1863 that anyone
has come across a business entrepreneur offering tours of the Gettysburg
battlefield?
Greg Biggs
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