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The American Battlefield Trust was formed on the 19th of November 1999 when the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites and the Civil War Trust merged. The organization shortened its name from the Civil War Trust to the American Battlefield Trust on the 8th of May 2018.
Since 1987, the group and its partners have preserved land in 25 states at more than 160 battlefields including Slaughter Pen Farm and Maxwell's Field. The Trust also acquired land at The Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County Virginia during a campaign launched in October 2010.
Federal matching grants for this program were enacted by Congress in December 2014 to support Campaign 1776 which protects Revolutionary War and War of 1812 sites. The primary source of federal support comes through the Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program administered by the National Park Service office known as the American Battlefield Protection Program.
David N. Duncan became president of the American Battlefield Trust effective the 1st of October 2020 after serving as chief fundraiser since March 2000. Robert C. Daum serves as chairman of the board of trustees and is a retired investment banker who sits on executive committees of several major institutions.
The American Battlefield Trust has received 11 consecutive 4-Star awards from Charity Navigator covering years 2007 through 2019. The organization also earned Silver Medal honors in international video competitions in 2020 and received accreditation from the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance in 2012.