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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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...
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...
Preservation of the Third Day's Battlefield
In the immediate aftermath of the battle, the focus of those who remained in Gettysburg was on tending to the wounded, burying the dead ? and...
Starting a National Movement From Scratch
Two of the founding directors of APCSW — Dr. Gary W. Gallagher and Robert K. Krick, — recall creating APCWS as well as the organization’s earliest...
What Might Have Been: Chancellorsville, Virginia
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...
Saving Brice's Cross Roads
The battle to preserve endangered battlefield land is sometimes a long one. In 1993, when Brice’s Cross Roads was identified as a Priority I, Class B...