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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  |  Hall of Fame Member

Edwin C. Bearss

Badly wounded by Japanese machine-gun fire in the Pacific during World War II, Ed Bearss spent 26 months in military hospitals, where he spent...
2013  |  Hall of Fame Member

The Rev. Bob Bluford

A B-24 bomber pilot in Europe during World War II, the Rev. Bob Bluford returned home to Richmond, Va., to become a Presbyterian minister, a tireless...
2012  |  Hall of Fame Member

Clark B. Hall

FBI supervisory agent and congressional investigator Clark B. “Bud” Hall became involved in the fight to save a part of Virginia’s Chantilly...
2012  |  Hall of Fame Member

Edward T. Wenzel

Ed Wenzel is one of the originators of the modern battlefield preservation movement. He is a co-founder of both the Chantilly Battlefield Association...
2012  |  Hall of Fame Member

Emanuel “Tersh” Boasberg III

Since the first years of the modern Civil War battlefield preservation movement, Tersh Boasberg has been a tireless advocate for saving hallowed...
2010  |  Hall of Fame Member

Norman D. Dicks

Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wa.), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 2013, was a staunch supporter of Civil War battlefields and all...
2008  |  Hall of Fame Member

Deborah Fitts

As a reporter and writer for the Civil War News from 1989 until her death from breast cancer in 2008, Deborah Fitts covered the triumphs, setbacks...
2007  |  Hall of Fame Member

John P. “Jack” Ackerly III

Richmond lawyer Jack Ackerly was already deeply involved in Civil War organizations in Virginia when he became one of the eight co-founders of the...
2006  |  Hall of Fame Member

Brian C. Pohanka

Brian Pohanka (1955-2005), a founder of the battlefield preservation movement, lived the role of a Civil War officer as a company captain in Duryee’s...
2006  |  Hall of Fame Member

Manuel Lujan Jr.

After representing New Mexico for 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Manuel Lujan Jr. was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President...
2003  |  Hall of Fame Member

Carrington Williams

In the late 1990s, as the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites and the original Civil War Trust struggled to co-exist in their shared...
2002  |  Hall of Fame Member

Jerry L. Russell

Jerry Russell (1933-2003) was the national voice of the Civil War battlefield preservation movement – often a lone voice – before the creation of the...
2001  |  Hall of Fame Member

Donald C. Pfanz

Don Pfanz was a National Park Service historian at Petersburg National Battlefield in 1987 when he wrote a letter that led to creation of the...
2001  |  Hall of Fame Member

Dennis E. Frye

Retired National Park Service historian Dennis Frye is one of the founding fathers of the modern Civil War battlefield preservation movement.