Preservation Hall of Fame

Battlefield Preservation

Hall of Fame

The Edwin C. Bearss Lifetime Achievement Award honors those who have been leaders in our nation's battlefield preservation movement, contributing invaluable knowledge and great inspiration.

2018 & 2001 Edwin C. Bearss Badly wounded by Japanese machine-gun fire in the Pacific during World War II, Ed Bearss spent 26...	2013 The Rev. Bob Bluford A B-24 bomber pilot in Europe during World War II, the Rev. Bob Bluford returned home to Richmond,...	2012 Emanuel “Tersh” Boasberg III Since the first years of the modern Civil War battlefield preservation movement, Tersh Boasberg has...	2012 Clark B. Hall FBI supervisory agent and congressional investigator Clark B. “Bud” Hall became involved in the...
2012 Edward T. Wenzel Ed Wenzel is one of the originators of the modern battlefield preservation movement. He is a co-...	2010 Norman D. Dicks Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wa.), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 2013, was a...	2008 Deborah Fitts As a reporter and writer for the Civil War News from 1989 until her death from breast cancer in...	2007 John P. “Jack” Ackerly III Richmond lawyer Jack Ackerly was already deeply involved in Civil War organizations in Virginia...
2006 Brian C. Pohanka Brian Pohanka (1955-2005), a founder of the battlefield preservation movement, lived the role of a...	2006 Manuel Lujan Jr. After representing New Mexico for 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Manuel Lujan Jr...	2003 Carrington Williams In the late 1990s, as the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites and the original...	2002 Jerry L. Russell Jerry Russell (1933-2003) was the national voice of the Civil War battlefield preservation movement...
2001 Dennis E. Frye Retired National Park Service historian Dennis Frye is one of the founding fathers of the modern...	2001 Donald C. Pfanz Don Pfanz was a National Park Service historian at Petersburg National Battlefield in 1987 when he...