Our reception will include food by the Blue Marlin Seafood Kitchen, wine from Gray Ghost Winery, music by the Society Singers, and tours of the Museum galleries and tours of the White House, home of President and Mrs. Davis. Also taking place will be a silent auction with many wonderful and unique items. Your tour begins with a visit to Malvern Hill-site of the final battle of the Seven Days Campaign. North Carolina troops played a key role in this engagement. From the battlefields we return to the heart of Confederate Richmond.
Wartime neighborhoods come alive.
Drive by Tredegar Iron Works and other Confederate industrial, prison, and hospital sites. Tour the Confederate Memorial Chapel, the only remaining building of the Confederate Soldier's Home. Enjoy the quiet beauty of Hollywood Cemetery, final resting place of Jefferson Davis, JEB Stuart and many other Confederate notables, as well as two U.S. Presidents-Monroe and Tyler. Also at Hollywood visit the grave of Henry Wyatt of the 1st N.C. Volunteers, the first Confederate battle casualty of the war. Enjoy homemade pastries, cheese, sausage and grit casserole, scones, fresh fruit, coffee, tea and juice in the Museum's foyer.