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Preserve 161 Acres at Five Western Theater Battlefield Tracts!

Help the Trust save 161 acres across consequential Western Theater battlefields — Fort Heiman and Fort Henry, Brown’s Ferry/Chattanooga, Spring Hill, and Bentonville.

Step In to History

On May 20, 1864, photographer James Gardner captured one of the Civil War’s most iconic images of wounded Union soldiers at a Fredericksburg hospital. Join Garry Adelman and Kris White at the scene.

Help Save 11 Acres – Nearly Untouched – at Gettysburg!

You can save this land, including the same groves of trees that sheltered troops as the fighting raged near Seminary Ridge on the first day of Gettysburg.

Frenemies in Arms

Our latest edition of Head-Tilting History explore how friendship, loyalty and an ill-fated trip to a brothel affected the outcome of the Civil War.

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