GDG- A Gettysburg period newspaper question - post-battle tours

[JM]

I have not read the book but the description indicates that it may contain information about earky tours of the battlefield.  I found the following description on the Friends website.

  A Strange and Blighted Land 
  Written by Gregory A. Coco. The more dismal side of the Gettysburg campaign is covered: burials of Union and Confederate corpses, care of the wounded, cleanup of the battleground, early relic hunters, battlefield guides, and a tour of the grim and bloody fields as described by a host of early visitors.

Perhaps one of the Esteemed Members is familiar with this book.


  Joyce Mader

Biggsk at aol.com wrote: Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


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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