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The walking tour will view St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond. Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are among the political figures who have worshiped there. Image by Morgan Riley. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Confederacy museum guides wartime Richmond walk

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
The walking tour will view St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond. Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are among the political figures who have worshiped there. Image by Morgan Riley. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
The walking tour will view St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond. Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are among the political figures who have worshiped there. Image by Morgan Riley. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

RICHMOND, Va. – Join Museum of the Confederacy Education Manager Kelly Hancock for “War so Terrible: Richmond 1862,” a walking tour focused on Richmond during one of its most transformative wartime years. The tour will explore the impact of this year on Richmond through the use of photographs, descriptions and the city’s monuments. The program will take place on Aug. 18 from 10:30 a.m. EDT to noon. Participants will meet in the lobby of the museum (1201 E. Clay St.) to begin the tour.

By 1862, Richmond, the Confederacy’s capital, had grown into a bustling wartime city. During this year, the city saw the inauguration of the first president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, it became a center of medical care and it opened its warehouses to create makeshift prisons for soldiers, citizens and slaves alike. The city’s population expanded in response to its new political importance to the South. Some of the new arrivals would work as nurses and doctors. The walking tour’s route will take participants past Court End, the Capitol grounds, St. Paul’s, the Stuart-Lee House, Monumental Church, First African Baptist Church and the former sites of the Spotswood Hotel, the Canal Basin and General Hospital no. 5. The tour does not include entrance to these sites.

Advance reservations are required. Program is free for members and $10 for nonmembers. For more information contact Kelly Hancock at khancock@moc.org or 855-649-1861 ext. 121.

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The walking tour will view St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond. Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are among the political figures who have worshiped there. Image by Morgan Riley. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
The walking tour will view St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond. Gen. Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are among the political figures who have worshiped there. Image by Morgan Riley. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.