American Battlefield Trust

Sarah Nell Blackwell

The Music and the American Revolution Competition

Calling all musicians ages 15-30! Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War and share your talent in the Music & the American Revolution Competition. $3,500 is up for grabs!

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Tommy Kays

Save 23 Acres at Shiloh and a Half-Acre at Chattanooga!

America has waited 130 years for this opportunity to save this land at two Tennessee battlefields. With help from our preservation partners and YOU, we can win this fight!

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Library of Congress

If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Stay Off the Battlefield

In our latest edition of The Nature of History, learn about the heat the soldiers of the Civil War experienced and how they coped with it.

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Rob Shenk

Preserve the Most Important 11 Acres Left to Save at Antietam!

When it comes to choosing which battlefields we MUST save, these 11 acres at Antietam are a “no-brainer.” Help us raise $150,000 and receive our newly minted Antietam Challenge Coin.

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Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield, Dinwiddie County, Va.

Please do your part to seize this amazing $16-to-$1 match to save tracts of hallowed ground on four battlefields & restore land at a fifth battlefield!

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Goldsborough Bridge Battlefield and Monument, Wayne County, N.C.

Our mission is clear: to preserve battlefield land, protecting as much as we can for future generations. Thanks to your support, we've just saved 54 acres at North Carolina's Goldsborough Bridge Battlefield—site of the battle's fiercest fighting—forever.

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