GDG- Gettysburg Visit Recommendations

[Bruce Rice]

Devin:

I am just catching up on email after a long 4th weekend.   As a licensed guide, I can offer one additional piece of advice regarding tour bookings.   Others on the list have offered advice on calling in a reservation through the Foundation where you can pick an availability time slot.   If you go that route, be sure to ask the reservations representative to note your particular interest (19th Indiana, etc...).   This information is logged as a "note" in the reservation system and the guide who is assigned is able to view your special interest in advance.

Guides generally really enjoy the specialty tours.  When we have advance notice and can dig into our resource archives to customize, it makes for the best tour possible.  For you and the guide.

Hopefully you will read this before your trip; I see that you start tomorrow.   48 hours notice is helpful for the guides so you still might be able to book a customized Wednesday or Thursday tour with one of the weekday guides.   If not, you can still get a very good tour by just walking up and making a "day of" reservation.

Best wishes and enjoy your visit.

Bruce Rice, LBG #233



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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:56:00 -0400
From: "Devin Poore" <me at devinjpoore.com>
Subject: GDG- Gettysburg Visit Recommendations?
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I've been lurking here for a month or so and decided it's time I ask a few
questions.  I am going to be in Gettysburg next week, Tuesday through
Thursday.  I've never been able to spend more than 12 hours there in the
past, so I want a good long visit, and I also want to do some research for a
project.

In regards to a battlefield tour, does anyone have any suggestions on
reservations or requesting specific types of tours?  I want to go over the
July 1st locations, specifically those of the 19th Indiana.  I'm also
interested in what happened in the town during the battle: the retreat, the
civilians, Union soldiers in improvised hospitals and hidden in private
homes.  Can anyone suggest a tour or museum that would help me research that
aspect of the battle?

Thank you for any help.  I get these emails in journal format once a day, so
it I don't respond immediately it doesn't mean I'm not reading.  Oh, and I'm
really loving the journal and letter excerpts that have been posted, by the
way.  

Devin Poore
www.devinjpoore.com