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Save Battlefields

Battlefields are part of our national heritage, scenes of struggle and sacrifice where American soldiers lost their lives. The American Battlefield Trust is working to preserve these “hallowed grounds,” as Abraham Lincoln called them, so that future generations can learn from them and can learn to appreciate their hard-won freedom.

Support battlefield land preservation today!

Featured Opportunities

Students visiting Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa.

Opportunity

Send Students to Learn History Where It Occurred

To help fight back against the alarming decline of history education, and ensure our future, we’re doing something very simple: Raising funds to help...

Barlow's Knoll, Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa.

Civil War | Opportunity

Help Preserve 29 Acres at Gettysburg & Second Deep Bottom

We have the opportunity to permanently preserve 20 new acres at Gettysburg, plus another nine acres at Second Deep Bottom that are adjacent to lands...

A rainbow at The Wilderness Battlefield, Spotsylvania and Orange Counties, Va.,

Civil War | Opportunity

Don’t Let Data Centers Destroy the Wilderness

For the first time ever, the Trust is asking you to help us pay for legal representation so that we can take a stand in a court of law. Please...

Vicksburg National Military Park at sunset

Civil War | Opportunity

Help Preserve 32 Acres at Chickasaw Bayou and Champion Hill

See every dollar matched $6.50-to-$1 when you make a gift to nearly 32 acres of prime, unprotected battlefield land at Chickasaw Bayou and Champion...

Civil War | Opportunity

Help Restore History at Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Slaughter Pen Farm & more!

To restore land and history at Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Slaughter Pen Farm and New Market Heights, we must raise $131,000. Please help to finish the...

Civil War | Opportunity

Help Us Save Hallowed Ground in Tennessee and Kentucky

Preserve four valued sites in Tennessee and Kentucky at an astonishing $117-to-$1 match. Help beat the odds — and save more of America’s history — by...