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Western Campaign
Annual Trip of the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table
June 24-30, 2006
7929 Hunters Path Nikki1942@sbcglobal.net
Indianapolis, IN 46214-1535
Once again, we will take our annual trip with Star of America, and our favorite driver, Noah Young. There must be 40 people signed up to cover the cost of the bus.
Saturday, June 24-- Meet the bus at the Lafayette Square Mall parking lot, northeast corner of 38th and Lafayette Road. Arrive at 8:00 a.m. and depart at 8:30 a.m. We will drive 210 miles, 3 hrs., 30 min., to Springfield, Illinois, where we will spend the afternoon at the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. As on our previous trips, we will have evening speakers in our motel conference room. Our Springfield speaker has not yet been enlisted. Signature Inn, phone: 217-529-6611, is our first lodging.
Sunday, June 25-- Depart Springfield at 8:30 for Cairo, Illinois, 240 miles. Lunch at Mack’s Restaurant in Cairo. One-hour tour of Magnolia Manor, which Gen. Grant used as his headquarters.. Drive 189 miles, three hours, from Cairo to Germantown, Tennessee, just south of Memphis. Evening at Comfort Inn, Germantown, TN, 901-757-7800. Evening speaker not yet enlisted.
Monday, June 26-- Depart Germantown, TN for Corinth, Mississippi, 79 miles, two hours. Tour Civil War Interpretative Center, opened in 2004 at a cost of $9 million, which is a unit of Shiloh National Military Park. Lunch in Corinth. Campaign for Corinth three-hour Civil War tour, with guide, seeing the largest number of intact Civil War earthworks with four or five stops. Check into Comfort Inn, phone 662-287-4421, where we will stay two nights. Civil War dinner at Cross City Grille, served by waiters in CW costumes, amid CW décor. In the evening, Del Horton will speak on preservation efforts in Mississippi and Tennessee, resulting in $10 million allocated to save CW land.
Tuesday, June 27-- Depart Comfort Inn in Corinth for Shiloh National Military Park, 28 miles. Spend the day at Shiloh, with Park Ranger Tim Smith as our guide. Martha’s Menu box lunch on the battlefield. Dinner at General’s Quarters Inn in Corinth. At the Comfort Inn, our evening speaker will be Park Ranger Jim Minor.
Wednesday, June 28-- Tour Brice’s Crossroad Battle Site, 30 minutes from Corinth, where CSA forces defeated Union troops and forced their withdrawal to Memphis. Lunch in Corinth. Tour Corinth National Cemetery, 20 acres in which 5,688 Civil War soldiers are buried, led by Del Horton as guide. Mid-afternoon, depart Corinth for Cullman, Alabama, 116 miles. Check into Hampton Inn, Cullman, Alabama, phone: 256-739-4444. Morris Penny of Jacksonville, Alabama, and Danny Fulenwider of Cullman, Alabama, will present a slide program, giving an overview of Gen. Abel Streight’s Raid across northern Alabama.
Thursday, June 29-- Depart half hour earlier, 8:00 a.m., with Morris and Danny as on-board guides for tour of Streight’s Raid. Our tour takes us from the opening action at Battleground in Cullman County, then dropping southeast across the mountains, through Johnson City, Hanceville, and on to Blountsville, where we will have a box lunch. From Blountsville, we will journey to Walnut Grove, traverse the passage down Sand Mountain, and then enter Gadsden. We will turn northeast through the little hamlets of Leesburg and Cedar Bluff, finishing near the Georgia-Alabama border. Upon returning to Cullman, after dinner, we will hear Morris’s talk about Grierson’s Raid. Second night at the Comfort Inn, Cullman, Alabama.
Friday, June 30-- Depart Cullman Comfort Inn at 8:30 for Indianapolis, 430 miles, 6 hours, 37 minutes. Depending on time difference, we should arrive about 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. in Indianapolis.
What you do NOT need: membership in any Civil War Round Table; prior knowledge of the Civil War in the Western Theater; release form for your parked car.
What you do need: adventuresome spirit; check for $100 as down payment, no later than May 1, and final payment of $450.00 by June 1, 2006.
COSTS:
Star of America 47-passenger chartered bus $168.00
Baggage handling for the week, by Jon Elliott $10.00
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum $7.50
Signature Inn, Springfield, Illinois $44.00
Cairo Magnolia Mansion $5.00
Comfort Inn, Germantown, Tennessee $43.00
Cross City Grille Monday dinner, Corinth $16.00
Comfort Inn, Corinth, Mississippi $35.00
Shiloh National Military Park admission $2.50
Box lunch from Martha’s Menu for Tuesday $7.50
General’s Quarters Inn Tuesday dinner, Corinth $34.00
Comfort Inn, Corinth $35.00
Hampton Inn, Cullman, Alabama $52.00
Box lunch from Rumor’s Deli for Thursday $7.50
Hampton Inn, Cullman, Alabama $52.00
Guide fees and honorariums for speakers $25.00
Xeroxing, phone calls, postage $6.00
TOTAL: $550.00
Make checks payable to: Nikki Schofield, and mail to 7929 Hunters Path, Indianapolis, IN 46214-1535. This price is based on two people per room. If you want a private room, double the cost of the motel charges.
Contact me with questions at Nikki1942@sbcglobal.net or phone 317-328-8782.
FORTY PEOPLE are required in order to cover the cost of the bus, and to get the group rate at the motels where we have reservations. If we don’t get 40 people, I will have to cancel the trip or charge each person more. Therefore, invite others!