Civil
War Tour's Director/Historian
Peter Gasgoyne-Lockwood's.....interest in
the American Civil War developed when as a teenager he read Stephen
Crane’s “Red
Badge of Courage’. Many years later he was to find himself
living in Virginia. Over the next two years he visited all the
major battlefields. Concerned with battlefield preservation he
designed and published the first in a series of pocket size battlefield
maps. Later he was to meet with the publisher of the Civil War
Magazine and it was through him that he was invited to write a
battlefield guidebook. ‘‘Virginia’s
Civil War Battlefields’ was published in 1995. Battlefield
tours and lectures followed.
On his return to the UK in 1996, he
represented the Civil War Society and led their first tour to
the USA from Europe.
He recently stood down as the President of the
American Civil War Round Table UK and is a founding member of the
Lower Shenandoah Valley Round Table in Virginia. |