Encounters with History: Gettysburg Shadows

Presented by Licensed Battlefield Guide Ralph Siegel
Tour Departs the Museum & Visitor Center
Saturday, June 28, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Includes a boxed lunch

Immerse yourself in an "attack" on our conventional understandings of the Battle of Gettysburg! Explore the sweeping command decisions made by commanders—with a new perspective intended to question assumptions enshrined in many books.

Why did Lee ignore Longstreet? Why did Ewell fail to attack? How did Meade win? The concept of “Shadows” is drawn from the writings and tours of legendary Harper’s Ferry Chief Historian Dennis Frye and his book, Antietam Shadows. This tour takes Frye’s concepts and his appetite for challenging convention, and applies these “shadows” to Gettysburg.

This is a full-day outdoor program that departs the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center at 8:30 a.m. and returns at 3:30 p.m. A boxed lunch is included. Ticket holders can expect short, easy walks on paved paths from the Seminary to Lee’s Headquarters and from the Virginia Memorial to the “Point of Woods” (east edge of Spangler Woods).

You may also like the following events from Gettysburg Foundation:

• This Saturday, 14th June, 04:00 pm, Double Decker Battlefield Bus Tour in Gettysburg
• Next Saturday, 21st June, 10:00 am, Summer Living History at Spangler Farm in Gettysburg
• Next Sunday, 22nd June, 09:00 am, Coffee with a Historian in Gettysburg