Civil War Battlefield Preservation

The Civil War In4 Minutes

VIDEO | Join author and Professor Timothy B. Smith from the University of Tennessee as he talks about the history of preserving Civil War history and battlefields. Travel through 150 years of battlefield preservation history in order to learn how the seven different stages of Civil War Battlefield preservation, from the Reconstruction era to today, helped to save your favorite battlefield!

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