They’ve come a long way from the ironclads, and luxury liners are by far the safest way to cruise through the American Civil War.
American Cruise Lines have launched a history tourist’s dream, a 35-day Civil War Battlefields Cruise.
Where you’ll get to travel in the footsteps of the flower of America from the Union and the Confederacy.
ACS will bring you to every significant battlefield of the Civil War and 13 states.
So you’ll visit Fort Sumter, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Antietam and more.
And you’ll sail along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee River, the Potomac River, the East Coast Intracoastal Waterway and Chesapeake Bay.
All on board American Melody, American Symphony and American Eagle.
In the footsteps
Of course, as much as we’ve absorbed of the American Civil War from our history degree.
And visits to Manassas and military hospitals in Virginia, and Tennessee, Mississippi and the buffalo soldiers in Texas.
There is nothing quite like being guided by someone with family history in the fight.
Davis’s boy
With the theme cruise led by Bertram Hayes-Davis, no less, the great-great-grandson of President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis.
Civil War buffs will get to experience the Anaconda/Vicksburg Campaign, the Western Theater, General Sherman’s March, Union Advantage/Naval Power, the Eastern Theater and the Battle of Gettysburg.
Cruise ship routes are connected via motor coach, with all transfers included.
The Big Easy
And you’ll get the added bonus of a complimentary pre-cruise stay in New Orleans, The Big Easy.
Hotels between your cruise, daily excursions and entertainment and all meals and drink.
And we know from our previous Battlefields and Booze adventures in these parts that the soldiers of the day loved their liquor.
So you’ll leave New Orleans on May 4, and end in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on June 6.
Where, we’d be disappointed if you didn’t channel your best Abraham Lincoln and deliver these immortal lines…
‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’
All of which freedom is priceless though alas for the rest of us you’ll maybe have to dig into the exchequer.
With your cruise through the American Civil War setting you back from $24,700.
