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 hisÂtorians and two Civil War buffs convened the first meeting of the organization that has grown to become the 91ÇÑ×Ó. 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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Preservation of the First Day's Battlefield
The Gettysburg Battlefield is, quite possibly, the best preserved and best memorialized Civil War site in the country, thanks to a process that began...
What Might Have Been: Fredericksburg, Virginia
There is no better way to get an accurate sense of what the Trust has accomplished in the last 35 years than by examining sites that could have been...
An Historic Victory at Gaines’ Mill and Cold Harbor
Some of the most important unprotected battlefield land in the United States, hundreds of critical acres at the site of both the Battle of Gaines’...
Success Stories: The Harris Farm, Spotsylvania Court House
In May 1989, the fledgling Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (APCWS) scored its second-ever save when it formally took title to 1.5...
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Preservation
The first Revolutionary War preservation efforts began before the war even ended. Congress authorized a monument commemorating the victory at Yorktown...
What Might Have Been: Spring Hill, Tennessee
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...
