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The American Battlefield Trust is a nonprofit organization that acquires and permanently preserves battlefield land from the American Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. It also operates educational programs, publishes a quarterly magazine called Hallowed Ground, and conducts heritage tourism initiatives.
The American Battlefield Trust and its federal, state, and local partners have preserved more than 60,000 acres of battlefield land at more than 160 battlefields across 25 states. The 50,000-acre milestone was reached on the 31st of May, 2018, with the acquisition of 13 acres at Cedar Creek in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
The organization traces its roots to 1987, when it was founded as the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites. It became the Civil War Preservation Trust in November 1999 through a merger with the original Civil War Trust, and adopted its current name on the 8th of May, 2018.
The 2006 purchase of the 208-acre Slaughter Pen Farm on the Fredericksburg Battlefield in Virginia, acquired for $12 million, is the most expensive private battlefield preservation effort in American history. The Department of the Interior provided a $2 million grant to help fund the acquisition.
David N. Duncan has served as president of the American Battlefield Trust since the 1st of October, 2020. He joined the Trust in March 2000 as its chief fundraiser and helped raise more than $240 million over two decades before succeeding O. James Lighthizer upon Lighthizer's retirement.
The Civil War Trust joined a coalition that included the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Piedmont Environmental Council, and local residents to oppose a Walmart Supercenter approved for land at the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County, Virginia. In January 2011, Walmart announced it would not build on the site, and in November 2013, Walmart donated the more than 50-acre historic site to the Commonwealth of Virginia.