Ox Hill Battlefield Park, Chantilly, Va.
Kelly Schneider
Preservation History
Americans' evolving effort to safeguard their battlefields
In 1987, a Civil War academic scholar, five National Park Service historians and two Civil War buffs convened the first meeting of the organization that has grown to become the American Battlefield Trust. But this is just the modern incarnation of work begun before the Revolutionary War had even ended. Learn more about the how efforts to save hallowed ground across the centuries.
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What Might Have Been: Spring Hill, Tennessee
There is no better way to get an accurate sense of what the Trust has accomplished in the last 30 years than by examining sites that could have been...
Success Stories: The Harris Farm, Spotsylvania Court House
In May 1989, the fledgling Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (APCWS) scored its second-ever save when it formally took title to 1.5...
Three Decades in the Trenches of Battlefield Preservation
Adapted from the foreword to Fighting the Second Civil War: A History of Battlefield Preservation and the Emergence of the Civil War Trust. Thirty...
A Good Marine
Clark “Bud” Hall, a former Marine and FBI agent, championed battlefield preservation, notably the Brandy Station Battlefield, and helped form modern...
Preserving Kentucky's Civil War Battlefields
Many battlefields of the Bluegrass State are blessed with outstanding management and advocacy groups to their protection and interpretation. The Civil...
Preservation of the Second Day's Battlefield
On the afternoon and evening of July 2, 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac engaged in an awful struggle...
