CWPT

Perryville Battlefield Expands by 96-Acres
Perryville ranks as one of my favorite battlefields. Given who well preserved it is and the terrain of the land, it gives a really great understanding of Civil War battlefields. It is good to see this acquisition. Sleettown to become part of historic site (Kentucky.com) A 96-acre tract of Boyle County land once used as an African-American [...]

April 7th is 2007 Civil War Park Day
I'm a little behind announcing this, but April 7th is the annual Civil War Park Day. Here is your chance to get out and help clean up a Civil War park. Below is a link to sites needing help and contact information if you want to help out. The Civil War Preservation Trust and the History [...]

2007 Top 10 Endangered Battlefields Map
To "finish" out my posts on the Civil War Preservation Trust's 2007 Top 10 Endangered Battlefields, below is pictorial of where these "at risk" battlefields fall.

CWPT Also Identifies Museum of the Confederacy As At Peril
Museum in Peril: Museum and White House of the Confederacy During the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived and worked in a gray neoclassical mansion on [...]
Additional Civil War Preservation Trust 2007 At Risk Sites
Accompanying today's release of the 2007 Top 10 Endangered Battlefields Report (see: Civil War Preservation Trust Releases 2007 Endangered Battlefields Report), the CWPT identified 15 additional at risk sites. Civil War Preservation Trust At Risk Sites These fifteen additional sites round out our ranking [...]
Civil War Preservation Trust Releases 2007 Endangered Battlefields Report
CIVIL WAR PRESERVATION TRUST UNVEILS REPORT ON MOST ENDANGERED BATTLEFIELDS Former [...]

Civil War Preservation Trust To Reveal Nation's Most Endangered Battlefields
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ — The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) will release an investigative report on the status of the nation's battlefields at a news conference on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The report, entitled History Under Siege: America's Endangered Civil War Battlefields, will identify the ten most threatened Civil War sites in the country [...]

Civil War Preservation Trust Preserves 1,300 Acres in 2006
CIVIL WAR PRESERVATION TRUST RESCUES 1,300 ACRES OF HALLOWED GROUND IN 2006

Rescue of the Slaughter Pen Farm and First Day at Chancellorsville Battlefield top the list of CWPT accomplishments in 2006 (Washington, D.C) - The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), the nation’s largest nonprofit battlefield preservation group, announced today its land preservation accomplishments for 2006. The [...]

Highway Through Wilderness Battlefield?
Why have national parks, if we can run highways through them? Hopefully the board will think better of this proposal. Road To Bisect Wilderness Battlefield? (Preservation Online) A four-lane highway through a Civil War battlefield and national park? It sounds impossible, but next week Orange County's board of supervisors will consider a new road through Wilderness National [...]

Hunterstown Battlefield Is Yet Another Threatened Battlefield
So can or will the Civil War Preservation Trust help preserve the Hunterstown battlefield? Development still threatens battlefield (Evening Sun) The CWPT is reportedly interested in helping to save Hunterstown, the village north of Gettysburg near the site of a ferocious cavalry battle July 2, 1863, the second day of the three-day battle. Hunterstown activists say they've been [...]

Final CWPT Preservation Effort of 2006
I received my last mailing of the year from the Civil War Preservation Trust working to preserve 3 properties. The 3 properties only amount to 23 acres, but the significance of 2 of the properties is 2,250 feet of well-preserved Confederate earthworks. The 3 properties in question are: White Oak Road Battlefield, VA - 1,500 of [...]
CWPT Preservation Efforts Since July, 2006
I recently received my Winter 2006 edition of Hallowed Ground from the Civil War Preservation Trust. The recent CWPT preservation victories since July, 2006 include:

Bentonville, NC - 34.3 acres in September. In July, the CWPT acquired 81.5 acres. This brings a total to over 900 acres saved with the CWPT preserving 600+ of those. Wilson's Creek, [...]

Gettysburg Slots Vote On Wednesday, December 20th!
I just received the following email from Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director for the Civil War Preservation Trust:

To: Friends of Historic Gettysburg On Wednesday, December 20, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will vote to approve or reject a slots parlor at Gettysburg . This is the very last opportunity to [...]

Civil War Preservation Trust Adds UK Site to Civil War Discovery Trail
Just off the presses from the CWPT… CIVIL WAR PRESERVATION TRUST ADDS UNITED KINGDOM SITE TO CIVIL WAR DISCOVERY TRAIL England?s Wirral Maritime Heritage Trail Becomes Second Overseas Site on Civil War Discovery Trail

( Wirral , England , 11/29/2006) The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), America ?s largest nonprofit battlefield preservation group, today announced the addition of [...]

74 Acres Saved at Chancellorsville Battlefield
I failed to post about this "big" news last week. A deal was reached with a developer to preserve an additional 74 at the Chancellorsville Battlefield. The Civil War Preservation Trust will buy the land for $1M. Spotsy board vote brings cheers (The Free Lance-Star) Preservationists rejoiced last night [Nov. 14th] after the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors [...]

Newest CWPT Campaign Targets 170 Acres at Trevilian Station
I just received the latest preservation effort from the Civil War Preservation Trust in the mail yesterday. The CWPT is working on preserving 170 acres at Trevilian Station, VA at a purchase price of $500,000. The Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation has successfully secured a $370,000 state transportation enhancement grant from Virginia, leaving the CWPT with [...]

Slaughter Farm Pen Receives $2 Million Matching Federal Grant
INTERIOR SECRETARY ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION GRANT FOR HISTORIC SLAUGHTER PEN FARM Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne joins with Civil War Preservation Trust to announce $2 million grant for the historic Slaughter Pen Farm on the Fredericksburg Battlefield. (Fredericksburg, Va.) - At a news conference this morning, U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced a $2 million [...]

CWPT To Hold Press Conference on October 16th Regarding Battlefield Preservation
MEDIA ADVISORY: INTERIOR SECRETARY JOINS CWPT TO PROMOTE PRESERVATION OF FREDERICKSBURG BATTLEFIELD (Fredericksburg, Va.) - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne will be the keynote speaker at a news conference to promote battlefield preservation on Monday, October 16, 2006. The news conference, hosted by the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), will be held at the [...]

Update on CWPT 2006 Preservation Victories
I recently received my Fall 2006 edition of Hallowed Ground from the Civil War Preservation Trust. The CWPT recaps the preservation victories so far in 2006: Bentonville, NC - 81.4 acres bringing the total to 562.42 acres saved to date. The CWPT expects to close on another 219.4 acres by year end. Trevilian Station, VA - 170 [...]

Attention All the Amateur Civil War Photographers Out There
CIVIL WAR PRESERVATION TRUST AND THE HISTORY CHANNEL ANNOUNCE NATIONAL PHOTO COMPETITION

Annual contest encourages amateur photographers to embed themselves in Civil War Battlefields (Washington, D.C.) - The Civil War was the first major conflict in history to be extensively documented by photojournalists. Using equipment now considered primitive, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and other “embedded” photographers recorded [...]