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May  
  • Gettysburg’s Wheatfield - An In-Depth Tactical Walking Tour, May 10, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Jay Jorgensen and Gary Kross (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 - includes lunch.
  • South Mountain and Antietam: A Walking Tour, May 17-18, 2008, Sharpsburg, MD with John M. Priest (Saturday 8:30 AM-Sunday 3:30 PM) $295 – includes 2 lunches
  • The Best of Bearss - Tours of 1st Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg Day Three, John Wilkes Booth’s Escape Route and Chancellorsville, May 25-30, 2008, Leesburg, Virginia with Edwin C. Bears (Sunday 7:00 PM-Friday 6:00 PM) $885 - includes 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 2 dinners - Attend all or any part.
  • 6th Annual Shenandoah Valley Civil War Conference & Tour, May 28-31, 2008, Winchester, VA with Brandon H. Beck, Rebecca A. Ebert, Geraldine W. Kiefer, Jonathan A. Noyalas, Stephen Lee Ritchie and Charles P. Roland (Wednesday 5:30 PM-Saturday 8:00 PM) $395 - includes Friday dinner, 3 lunches and Saturday PM cookout - Attend all or any part.

 
 
     
June  
  • Stonewall Jackson's Valley: Port Republic, Cross Keys, and Lexington - A Walking Tour, June 5-7, 2008, Lexington, VA with Robert K. Krick (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, A Field Tour of Rome, Catania, Siracusa, Gela, Enna, Leonforte, Assoro, Agira, Mount Etna, Messina, Anzio, Cassino, Pompeii, Salerno, Paestum, Ortona, L’Aquila, Gran Sasso, Camp Imperatore and other sites, June 11-22, 2008, (Wednesday 7:00 PM-Sunday 8:30 AM) beginning and ending in Rome, with James Megellas, Robert J. Dalessandro and Father Joseph Orlandi. Registration Fees: $4,795 - Single; $3,975 - Double per Person; includes 11 nights’ lodging, round-trip airfare between Rome and Catania, 11 breakfasts, several lunches and 4 dinners.
  • 3rd Annual All-Star Walking Tour of Gettysburg, June 13-15, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross, John Archer, Susan Boardman, Gerry Eak, Tim Smith and Wayne Motts (Friday 9:00 AM-Sunday 12:00 N) $345 - includes 2 lunches - Attend all or any part.
  • The Clash of Cavalry in Virginia: Field & Walking Tours of Kelly’s Ford, Brandy Station, Trevilian Station and Cavalry sites in Culpeper, June 19-22, 2008, Culpeper, VA with Eric J. Wittenberg (Thursday 8:00 PM-Sunday 12:00 N) $395 – includes 2 lunches
 
     
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August  
  • Stonewall Jackson’s Great Train Robbery - Point of Rocks, Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg, Winchester, Strasburg and “up the Valley” to Staunton – A Field Tour, August 9-10, 2008, Winchester, VA with Arthur Candenquist (Saturday 8:30 AM-Sunday 3:30 PM) $295 – includes 2 lunches & Saturday dinner

 

 
September  
  • The Battle of Antietam: A Walking Tour, September 5-6, 2008, Sharpsburg, MD with Robert K. Krick (Friday 8:30 AM-Saturday 4:30 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • The Hurtgen Forest, the 99th Infantry at the Battle of the Bulge, and Bastogne - A Field Tour, September 4-12, 2008, Monschau, Germany with Charles P. Roland, Samuel Lombardo, Jean-Philippe Speder and Jean-Louis Seel (Thursday 6:00 PM-Friday 9:00 AM) - includes 8 nights lodging, 8 breakfasts, several lunches and 2 dinners $3375 Single Occupancy; $2995 per person Double Occupancy
  • The Waterloo Campaign: The Eagles’ Last March - A Field & Walking Tour, September 12-13, 2008, Brussels, Belgium with Christopher L. Kolakowski (Friday 12:00 N-Saturday 8:30 PM) $695 Single Occupancy; $575 per person Double Occupancy - includes Friday & Saturday nights’ lodging in Brussels, 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches
  • The Three Days of the Battle of Gettysburg: From McPherson’s Woods through Pickett’s Charge - A Walking Tour, September 12-14, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Robert L. Baker (Friday 8:45 AM-Sunday 3:30 PM) $395 - includes 3 lunches
  • Normandy: The Great Invasion - A Field Tour, September 15-23, 2008, beginning in Paris, France with Harold Baumgarten. Robert J Dalessandro, Curtis Cheeseman, Michel de Trez, Dean Armstrong and Darren Moran (Monday 2:00 PM pickup at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris-Tuesday 8:30 AM) - includes 8 nights’ lodging, 7 breakfasts, several lunches and 2 dinners $3350 - Single Occupancy; $2825 per person - Double Occupancy
  • Harpers Ferry, Monocacy, Snickers Gap and 2nd Kernstown - Confederate High Command in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 - A Field & Walking Tour, September 18-20, 2008, Winchester, VA with Scott C. Patchan (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • Rogers' Rangers & The French & Indian War - A Field Tour, September 25-27, 2008, Lake George, NY with Bruce M. Venter and David C. Hinze (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $425 - includes 2 lunches & Friday evening dinner cruise
 
   
October  
  • The Battle of Monmouth - The Longest Single-Day Battle of the American Revolution: A Field & Walking Tour, October 4-5, 2008, Freehold, NJ with Rich Bellamy (Saturday 9:00 AM-Sunday 12:00 Noon) $225 - includes Saturday lunch
  • The Atlanta Campaign: A Field and Walking Tour of Cassville, Allatoona Pass, Dallas, New Hope (The Hell Hole), Pickett's Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, The River Line and Oakland Cemetery, October 9-11, 2008, Marietta, GA with Tommy Barber and Brandon H. Beck (Thursday 7:30 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • The 1862 Kentucky Campaign: A Field & Walking Tour of Richmond, Frankfort and Perryville October 15-18, 2008, Lexington, KY with Charles P. Roland and Christopher L. Kolakowski (Wednesday 7:30 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $495 – includes 3 lunches
  • The Heart of Jackson’s Valley Campaign: A Field Tour, October 18, 2008, Winchester, VA with Gary Ecelbarger (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 - includes lunch
  • Richmond, Then and Now: A Field & Walking Tour of Drewry’s Bluff, Battery Danzler, Beaver Dam Creek, Malvern Hill, Chaffin’s Bluff, Fort Harrison, Fort Brady and sections of old Richmond, October 24-26, 2008, Richmond, VA with Robert E. L. Krick (Friday 8:00 PM-Sunday 12:00 N) $245 - includes Saturday lunch
  • The Road to Cowpens: The Battles of the American Revolution in South Carolina – Winter, 1780-1781: A Field & Walking Tour, October 30-November 1, 2008, Spartanburg, SC with Gary Ecelbarger and Scott C. Patchan (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • Unseen Gettysburg: Part II: A Halloween Tour and Historical Review of “Ghost Sightings and other Unexplained Phenomena on the Gettysburg Battlefield, October 31, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross (Friday 9:00 AM-4:30 PM) $150 – includes lunch
 
   
November  
  • Gettysburg: Sites Seldom Seen on and around the Battlefield, Part III, November 1, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 – includes lunch
  • Ten Days to Independence: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton in the American Revolutionary War, November 7-8, 2008, Princeton, NJ with Jay Jorgensen and William M. Welsch (Friday 7:30 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $195 – includes Saturday lunch
  • The Vicksburg Campaign: A Field & Walking Tour - November 12-15, 2008, Vicksburg, MS with Terrence J. Winschel and Dale K. Phillips (Wednesday 8:00 PM-Saturday 4:30 PM) $495 - includes 3 lunches and Friday night dinner)
 
 
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