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

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Ghost tours ?

Mike

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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: GDG- A Gettysburg period newspaper question - post-battle tours


> 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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