Top 10: Civil War Tourist

Attractions

by: Hannah Marcus, Brittney Darah, Nick Geiger, and Vanessa Lines

Civil War Washington D.C.

Tours•This tour is great for anyone who wants to tour civil war sites in Washington, D.C.

•Travel times from Washington D.C. are relatively short.

• The website also includes the “Tourist choice” option so you can see which attractions tourists like best.

•The tours even tell you what actually happened there.

Gettysburg

•This website is amazing! It’s a great place to find many attractions about the civil war.

•Such attractions include: wax museums, battlefield tours, theaters, and historical museums. It has a multitude of things to do relating to the civil war to fuel your adventure!

National Civil War Museum•This is a 2-floored, spacious

museum with a total of 17 attractions including a battlemap, weapons and equipment, campaigns of 1862, Lincoln war and remembrance, women in war and much more!

"Timeless in its pursuit of universal truths...hauntingly effective...a variety of musical styles" -Weekly VarietyThe plot of the show focuses on the events that took place during the

Civil War, and the impact they had on families of the time.

Characters include: Sojourner Truth, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Lee, and others who tell there horrific stories.

Musical numbers - “Brother, My Brother”, “Sons of Dixie”, “Judgement Day”, “Someday”, “The Glory”, “Virginia”, “Candle in the Window”, and more!

The show’s music was composed by Frank Wildhorn, who also composed the music for the famous “Jekyll & Hyde”!

The show is closed on Broadway as of 1999 and the tour that followed is over, but it can be seen RIGHT NOW at the Ford Theatre in Washington, DC!

http://www.fordstheatre.org/

http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000186 <---hear the music!

“The Civil War” Broadway Musical

Patriot Tours NYC

Civil War Era Tour

This unique walking tour allows tourists to experience New York City as it was at the time of the Civil War.

Learn about important sites, controversial people in the city, and NYC’s role in the Civil War.

Start: Bowling Green

End: City Hall

The itinerary includes: Broadway (the main street in the 1800s, Brewery and Five Points, Tweed Courthouse, St. Paul’s Chapel, Wall Street, and more!

...and the best part is...it’s in NEW YORK!

http://www.patriottoursnyc.com/civilwar.html