Organizations Fight to Save State’s Civil War Battlefields [The State Journal]
September 11, 2008 - 1 Comment
by Sarah Barnes
Some of West Virginia’s Civil War battlefields are scenes of new fighting.
For the past four years, a group of Jefferson County residents has been fighting to save an historic battlefield there, said Edward Dunleavy, president of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association Inc.
“It’s been difficult for the past four years,” he said. “(A developer) bought a 122-acre farm and proposed building 152 houses on it.”
The problem as association members see it is that much of the development will be on hallowed ground that was the site of the 1862 Battle of Shepherstown. The battle took place Sept. 19-20 of that year, two days after the Battle of Antietam — the bloodiest single-day battle in American history with a combined 24,000 killed, wounded or missing.
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Filed Under: History, Local News
Tags: battlefields, development, preservation, west virginia, wv
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Freebird
October 8th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I just found your website. This type of blog is a good resource for the reenacting community. I wish you well in your endeavors.
I am a reenactor myself. My military impression is that of a private with a Confederate infantry unit during the War of Northern Aggression (War for Southern Independence). I look forward to blogging with you.
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