Washington DC offers new Civil War Bus tours to tourists and visitors. These three-hour tours include a visit to the newly restored Lincoln Cottage and Abe Lincoln’s summer retreat on the campus of the U.S. Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Among the other stops of the tour are Fort Stevens, the African American Civil War Memorial in the historic Shaw neighbourhood, and the Peterson House, where Lincoln was taken after being shot.
Post – gazette reports that new Civil War tours will be offered on Saturdays: May 24 and 31, and June 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 9:30 a.m. with an admission fee of $42 per person.
Other Washington Walks tours include “Before Harlem, There Was U Street,” “Capital Hauntings,” “Capitol Hill,” “Embassy Row,” “Georgetown,” “Memorials by Moonlight,” “Moveable Feast: A Taste of DC,” and “Duke Ellington’s D.C.”
According to Washington Walks, the tours are sponsored by Cultural Tourism DC and Washington Walks.
Follow the historic roads that took soldiers to and from Washington’s Fort Stevens, where President Lincoln stood on the ramparts as Union forces repelled the advancing enemy. Next take a docent-led tour of Lincoln Cottage, the 16th president’s retreat on the bucolic campus of the Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home.
Take these new Civil War bus tours and have a look at Washington’s rich natural heritage.
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